skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I have no idea, I just know it was required to even continue the application.

Everything about the undergrad process seems designed for a 17/18 year old kid who spent the last 4 years grooming themselves for that specifically.

It makes sense of course, as that’s probably the majority of people starting undergrad, but it does suck for anyone else, especially since the system is very bureaucratic and inflexible. See: how the financial aid system determines your dependent status, hint it’s not what the IRS says. It was pretty akward the first time I v tried to go back, and informed adult who had been on my own for some years at that point having to call up my father and see if he was willing to give me all sorts of sensitive information because despite have it paid my own since 18, the education system related me “dependent”. The only logic behind your status is if you’re under 24 or not (with leniency only for extreme situations such as being an orphan, homeless, or having both parents incarcerated)
And yet, for most of history, people didn't want to fight the enemy at all. Their biggest motivation was protecting each other.
Menus were short because they had to fit on the screen of a classic Mac (342 pixels) and the pull-down operation used to require holding the mouse button. I think by Mac OS 8 you could click to open a menu and yhey could probably expect at least 480 pixels if not 600.
Snapping/alignment, gesture.

The alignment, it don't even support snapping, place two windows side by side properly is just like impossible, and the + on window go fullscreen unless you hold opt.

You can't just swipe to switch between window. You can only swipe between desktop.

I'd wonder which part in mac's window manager actually works well (compares to other desktop manager)?
Checkout the guides: https://guides.rubyonrails.org

Even just a "Ruby on Rails Tutorial" search on YouTube will get you going, too, if that's more your thing.
If you use a trackball you have actual momentum to help keep the cursor moving (and no mouse surface to worry about). I usually use pointer acceleration anyway because I find it’s more comfortable for me now to make smaller movements, but in the past I’ve used a flat profile and just flicked the trackball when I wanted my cursor on the other side of the screen.
This makes me realize how much I miss the old (spatial) Finder.
> There doesn’t seem to be any good definition of what constitutes either gender

Gender can refer to two different things:

“Ascribed gender”: what bucket (or buckets) of the set labelled “genders” by society does society at large (or, in certain contexts, some defined subset of society other than you yourself) put you in.

“Gender identity”: what bucket (or buckets) of the set labelled “gender” do you yourself feel you belong in.

There is no objective set of traits defining boundaries of gender buckets, no objectively correct number of gender buckets, and no objective need for their to be any set of buckets labelled “gender”. It is all path-dependent social construction that varies by social context and individual.

(“race“ works the same way as “gender” here.)
…unless you are the one making tots today and you really love the work.
> A simple example would be to say that extra policing of certain ethnic groups would reduce crime rates. Purely empirically this might be correct, but there is a broad consensus that this is also morally wrong.

Historically, the solution to that conundrum would be for each ethnic group to be responsible for policing their own. We still see traces of this in the modern notion that due process requires a trial by "a jury of one's peers". Someone's "peers" back then would've been not just any fellow citizens, but people actually sharing the same general background as the accused. Disputes between groups would've been solved peaceably, through monetary restitution and the paying of damages; but punishment was strictly an internal matter.
As if people ever leave their social media. First, Zuckerberg has given people a reason to leave facebook time and time again, but hardly anybody left. Second, twitter's main attraction is that all the media, most importantly, the established and influential media, see twitter as a source of press releases and hands the most raucous twitterers an enormous extra platform. They, and their followers and foes, will not give that up lightly.
One of the reasons for why Apple disallowed third-party browser engines is because Mobile Safari alone is allowed to use a JavaScript JIT, ostensibly for security reasons. This is why Firefox on Safari uses WebKit, and why Chrome must rely on iOS's stock webviews rather than Blink's own JIT. Mobile Safari has this via the dynamic-codesigning entitlement.

Further reading:

https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/02/23/jailed-just-in-time-co...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22401146
CS and EE are very different fields, there's lots to learn in each field.

My curriculum was a blend of EE and applied maths/phys: I made carbon nanotubes in a lab, used quantum tunneling microscopes to look at atoms of gold, used VHDL to write games and generate the signals to display them in VGA, used control theory and electromechanical models to make a webcam rotate and move to track a face via PID, applied Kalman filters, etc..

But at no point did I learn how a compiler works, how linting works, what are fundamental differences between main programming paradigms, what data structures to pick for different kinds of problems, what are the fundamentals of an OS, how to be comfortable with LISPs, etc..

Once I was out of the academic environment without a PhD or a strong specialization (and just struggling to find any work), it was much more valuable to know binary trees and SQL than all of the EE stuff. So I was on the other end of what you experience, where at one point we covered without gaps quantum physics/chemistry --> barebones CPU, yet I wouldn't have known how to make something robust with it afterwards.

And obviously, despite doing 'some' applied mathematics, any mathematician would look at what I did and probably roll their eyes at the amount of convenient assumptions made.

There's just so much to learn out there that most of what we do in our lives is rely on abstractions, and it doesn't even have to be specific to computers: most people can use a bicycle without being able to draw a functional one[0].

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/3059089/it-turns-out-its-almost-...
wait for the acquisition to happen and then use the same methods you'd use to get an interview at any other company.
Also we have newer ways of processing grain -- so windmills are really not the solution they were 100 or 200 years ago. Most of them are made of wood though -- so they are pretty eco when they decay.
Why is this relevant? You probably know that Ubuntu is the most popular one. It should be enough to only offer this one.
> Are you saying we are born with that knowledge?

Some of it, yes. Some of it seems to be encoded in our genes. It may also be culturally acquired. Furthermore, there exists a priori knowledge, without which you can throw away most of mathematics. Given a set of mathematical axioms, you can derive truths through deduction and pure reason, independent of experience.

> That certainly requires empirical evidence to confirm

Most people do not require such confirmations; they go about their lives without it.
Great question, I'm definitely going to check out some of the other books here.

For me:
1. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. It's a very challenging book (currently 2 years into reading it with a couple of friends), but really helps demystify the different layers of the stack.
2. Coders at Work. Really interesting to hear how they think about programming (and their differing opinions from each other). I found the audiobook really good
Not specific to the HTTPS issue, but useful for older browsers on lower-powered machines:

Youtube creator and classic mac community contributor Sean/Action Retro has been running a proxy called FrogFind[0]. The project uses the Firefox "reader view" algorithm to serve stripped-down web pages for older machines. It's great for G3 and older machines that expect the web to be a bit more 90s. It really reminds me of using Google in/around 1998-99.

[0] http://frogfind.com
Are you learning Rails from decade-old material? Because a lot has changed since then.
I would imagine it ends up with a similar monthly payment overall though. If I'm home buying and not paying cash (Almost everyone), then I'm looking at the monthly payment at X%. So if mortgage rates go 3% -> 5% I would guess that what people are willing to pay drops a bit as well. BUT I'm not sure that has happened in practice yet.
For anyone looking for neovim specific plugins, check out a curated list of plugins here: https://neovimcraft.com
SpaceX is investing heavily in two projects (Starlink and Starship), both of which swallow huge amounts of money.

They are definitely not profitable now, but by choice.
How long does it usually take for first-party packages to be updated, e.g., https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/caddy/caddy/ ?
Drawing with Drones over the Salt Flats of Bolivia
At least those pyramids are still standing, but most software projects that are not open sourced end up completely wiped out of history in probably less than 20 years.
Not sure you can separate the two. An underlying presumption is that if power/control is acquired, that allocation of the spoils inevitably follows and that everything will fall in line.

I'm not disputing your statement per se, just that I think it's more of a splitting the difference than much else.
I guess it's like any other collectable, just way WAY more expensive. Though I'm not sure what's lost by wearing it?

"Such market conditions have presented a dilemma for collectors who actually want to show off their popular models, knowing the message that will send to other connoisseurs. “If you wear them, you’re an idiot, ” says one collector. “Either you paid five times retail, or you bought it retail and you’re too stupid to have flipped it.”"
The worst thing about JQ is printing out several values from an object at once. The syntax is so bad I have to look it up on SO every time.
I think people going to college for filmmaking is different from being a streamer.
As a bit of a conspiracy theorist myself, I would have to disagree. I'm honestly thankful when a presumed conspiracy is verified and adopts mass support. The Snowden leaks are a great example. People forget that pre-2013, USA mass surveillance was a conspiracy theory. James Clapper lied under oath to downplay the scope of the surveillance, and anyone who suggested this was a conspiracy theorist. I was considered a conspiracy theorist among certain friend groups. WMD in Iraq is another example that was very frustrating.

Powerful people have conspired to commit crimes all throughout history. It seems we need a new word to describe this, because I guess conspiracy means something different to most people.
Suit yourself.
Thank you, the suggestions of "Just move" are wild to me. People create a whole life with friends, kids, family in a location and saying "Just move" to afford a house is ridiculous.
spitting nonsense
Apple has ~57% of smartphone marketshare in the US.
I would love it if you could include the game lunatic fringe in this.
In another comment, parent said he/she is from Romania. Any other Romanians want to comment on this "occupied by NATO" claim?
Nobody is talking about stated reasons, the question is what grounds Google would have to object on if they chose to. That means it's speculation.
Yeah because the immense cost of hiring back 10 million worker that business owners laid off can't fall on business owners.

Can you blame them for thinking the workers would be desperate to come back for wages that were already too low to cover exploding housing and healthcare costs?

And don't you dare tell me the businesses are the ones raising the prices, they are not. The prices that other businesses publish are what causes prices to go up and business owners are powerless.
For the same reason Microsoft wasn't.

There are only so many letters you can use to make a word and some companies had to be dropped.

The original meaning was a term to describe the big tech companies.
Sounds like a great time to do some housekeeping/tech debt/quality of life improvements in the codebase. Not sure if that counts as product updates
They could continue work in feature branches, it just won't be pushed into the production branch unless it's a critical fix approved higher up.
> The PulseAudio that is one of the factors that drove me off desktop linux in 2013? :)

Yes that one :)

It still sucks if you have to get too close to it and work around some of it's uh... things. But during normal usage, "it just works" these days and has been for a long time.

I'd still easily pick it over audio on windows. Also it's on the way out, and pipewire, which is replacing it is way more powerful again, while being drop-in. Let's see how long it takes for pipewire to be really stable though. But imo windows and OSX cannot compete with pulse, and certainly not with pipewire.
Six months to do nothing but clear the bug and cleanup backlog, shore up infrastructure, and document? Sounds like an engineer's dream, tbh.
Twitter updates their product? Good to know -- I hadn't noticed.
I read Masters of Doom and I really like it, I don't know why but after a couple of pages I wanna rush to the computer and write some code.

Sometimes Silicon Valley (tv) generates the same reaction on me.
Secuirty can't be breached if no one can log in...
Tesla is profitable and SpaceX is currently pouring all their resources into two futuristic megaprojects with high upfront costs, so it's understandable that they aren't "solidly profitable" at the moment.
> but I literally HAD to do it.

So much this. I realized I want to use my computer as a tool to perform work and consume entertainment, and not as a hobby in and of itself.

I used Debian sid for about a decade and later switched to Ubuntu for a few years before biting the bullet and buying a Mac around OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I'm extremely thankful for my Linux years, as I gained now-invaluable information about low-level system issues that I use nearly every day at my job. But I don't think I'll ever use it as a desktop operating system again.
If you were a few thousand kilometers tall, would the cells in your feet age at a different rate than those in your head?
Setting up VSCode takes 2min and has 0 issues. You have nothing to do beside installing the official Go plugin.

Debugging etc ... juste works out of the box.
My experience with Labrador Retrievers is that they will eat anything, on the assumption that if it doesn't agree with them, they can always puke it up at 3AM.
> The quote implies that the spending is harmful.

I don't think it does. It implies that overspending is harmful, while implicitly acknowledging that some level is spending is necessary for law and order.
Quest in SLO.
I have no idea where you'd get the notion that profitable companies don't need to borrow money for large capital investments.
>one line item would have been building compilers, which is difficult to even maliciously twist into working on weapons

How so? Your compiler produces a binary, binary gets loaded on a chip inside a weapon system. Is that not working on weapons? That wasn't so difficult.

I get the overall point, military spending as a huge funnel of free money to be thrown at research, of which not necessarily all would end up in actual combat ready systems. But you don't know which of your research would the uniforms throw away in government labs and which they would put on assembly lines and send to the field. Compilers are extraordinarily essential pieces of software that lie downstream of literally any source program, so even if your compiler was a research toy, it can be scavenged for that one algorithm or tricky data structure that can increase the efficiency of production compilers that produces the binaries that animate the killing machines on the field.

For example, here's [1] an article about how formal verification helps unmanned helicopters be more resistant to cyber attacks. I didn't even search for it specifically for this comment, I had it on open tabs for 3 days.

[1] https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231372-formally-ver...
We've notified the package maintainers, so it's in their hands now. It's not automated, it needs a human to do it.
While not a substitution for scientific study, I always knew this.

When people are comfortable themselves, they tend to be more kind, understanding, and altruistic.

I also suspect that this is also a long-term phenomena as opposed to the short-term implications featured in this study.

When growing up, I have seen those people become altruistic, helpful, and have more bandwidth for other people’s mistakes first who started earning comfortably first.

My theory is this- being socio-economically comfortable with peace in mind makes you more tolerant, altruistic, and kind overall.

Thus study mentions only "empathetic" people. But I think this goes beyond them.
Book Review: A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Pragmatic may be worth exploring. The 50% cut is really high compared to rest of publishers, and I believe that 80% of my sales came from their reputation and marketing.
The whole point is that saying mythsticism is equivalent to science is attacking the process not the people.

I always get bristly when this sort of idealisation of indigenous knowledge/systems/religion etc is used. The consequences of religion/mythsticism were/are almost always worse than science. In case of the Maori, they were used to justify genocide (the first thing tribes from the north island did when they acquired guns was to go south and wipe out other tribes for some perceived offence from the far past).
Unfortunately this is a normal event in the history. Every N years a powerful bloody disruption happens. It's like diffusion, or better to compare with an earthquake where a long stress rises sufficiently to break through suddenly at once. The best is to identify where the next dangerous stress is rising and act smartly, persistently, and efficiently.
and on top of that we printed record amounts of money for defense. We are flooding military contractors with money further driving demand for labor and materials.
Even 4chan is moderated so I think it will be interesting to see how Musk thinks he's solved the moderation problem. I'm confident he would have listened to counsel and not waded into that cesspool without having some sort of new moderation idea that he thinks will work. He says he's a free speech absolutist without ever defining that. He can't rely on the law, because people are free to say all kinds of awful things without breaking the law. 4chan gets away with hate speech every hour of the day.

Edit: This just in, he just defined it and says he will rely on the law.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376
I sense that we ultimately want the same thing: higher quality of life for workers. Unfortunately for these workers, technology has devalued their role. It's untenable to force the company to continue to employ these people despite having a cheaper solution that serves their customer needs.
Unless, of course, security was already breached and that is why no one can log in.
I wonder how many of these are counterfeit.
OMFG Photoshop 3.0, I learned on that! Even bought 4 MB of ram for $400 to run it on my PC. Damn!
Nobody (in English at least) uses SI prefixes for currency though?

£1M (happens to have the same shorthand, but) is never called 'a megapound'.
Bill Gates: We can make Covid-19 the last pandemic
I've seen the more directly tech version of that:

Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is Bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via Alexa! I love the future!

Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

I'm definitely on the second half. We still have a Nest, but only because I've not convinced myself that the HestiaPi will actually run our system properly... and I can't get parts for it.
Is it really?

I have only personally been through one acquisition personally but I do follow the game industry acquisitions. In those cases the companies have continued to largely operate as if nothing is happening until it actually closes.

If for some reason the deal doesn't close it is a huge risk to the company to not continue to operate as normal.
Not only are such questions not scientific, but they use the same words with different meanings. This is why it is important to be clear when communicating.

Morally wrong is to be opposed to what is good and virtuous. Scientifically wrong is to be demonstrably false.

To your last point, it gets more interesting when the topic is "Increased police presence is necessary in geographic areas experiencing high crime rates"

What does necessary mean here? What does" right" or "wrong" mean in the context of this situation? Does right or wrong change with the nature of the crimes being committed, or the nature of the people committing the crimes, or the nature of the victims? Is it right to not increasing police presence because the perpetrators are predominantly of one race, even if the victims are also of that race, as are the police themselves?

How do you achieve consensus- empirically or otherwise- on such a simple statement when no two people may be using the same words the same way?
Seconding Keycloak. It has a steep learning curve to get started, but it's rock solid for production use.
So if I wanted to refer to a group of them, would they be called 'Masters Chief'?
Huh, I was thinking the same thing about a related problem: compressed static maps by solving sparse matrices: https://docs.rs/compressed_map/0.1.0/compressed_map/

To get a concrete bound though, you'd probably need to know what is K.
Exactly what I posted. I have no idea why, but while I wait to copy somethign to USB stick Finder show that copy popup and dont let me do anything else.
Earl Grey Color Scheme
Early astronomy was indistinguishable from astrology. Is that "science" too?
Not when the term was coined in 2013. It's honestly outdated.
Hotline was amazing! I remember downloading software mostly.
Yes for three reasons:

- There's lots of RoR jobs.

- They keep improving it.

- What RoR taught me made me a better architect in every other stack.
- It took them about two years to replicate Clubhouse, which was built by about 4 engineers in far less time

- They killed Vines, and then proceeded to lose on short videos to TikTok a couple years later with no response

- Their Substack competitor is a joke that nobody uses, and also took years to produce

This is not an organization which ships products! You don't have to be a Harvard MBA to evaluate the output of this organization. The ratio of employees to product development is not in line with any other major engineering organization.
Words like "some customers", "degraded performance", and "increased response times" are frustrating in situations where it's clearly not doing anything useful for anyone. They aren't technically untrue, but they are not helpful.
> Military expenditures of those periods were coincidental and not necessarily causal

Resource and knowledge flows that were direct consequences of military expenditures and the empires they built were essential in both cases.

> The causality may run in reverse.

The causality absolutely and unquestionably runs in both directions; in both cases the economic revolutions were processes fueled by an fueling military-expenditure-dependent empires.
Bay Area / startup engineering culture is an absolute dysfunctional mess. No consequences, either you land the next funding round on promises of scaling up or just jet off to the next job before any of your decisions matter. One of the main reasons I was happy to leave.