skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could put the entire thing in the context he framed it in:

> I was living in Wellington, New Zealand when Margaret Thatcher died. Some people I knew threw a party at Hotel Bristol, a pub on Cuba Street. I knew nothing about Thatcher, but I assumed she must have been pretty bad if friends of mine were singing “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” in her wake. Today, activist still literally piss on her grave1.

> Years later in Seattle, I worked with a British woman who grew up under Thatcher. She was horrified when people celebrated the death of someone who was an inspiration to many young women all over the United Kingdom. In the past few years, I’ve become increasingly more aware at how conservatives will simply state the facts, or praise what they appreciate, when an ideological adversary dies.

If the author hung out with a bunch of people and observed this happening, and then later talked to a British woman who gave him a different perspective, can you at least see why that bias developed? I mean ... his friends threw a party when a prime minister they probably weren't even alive for died.
This is better. I always equated web 1.0 with “before web 2.0”, I did not know of Berner-lee’s description. There were lots of dynamic server apps between 1.0 and 2.0.

For SSO, the link does a good job presenting various pros and cons. I don’t think it backs up the articles dismissal.
The original design was great, but it just didn't work. They had too many issues trying to source hardware and decided to pivot to more off-the-shelf components.

That's the short version; here are some highlighted blog posts that document the trials and tribulations:

https://mycroft.ai/blog/mark-ii-update-delivery-timeline-and...

https://mycroft.ai/blog/mark-ii-update-january-2019-current-...

https://mycroft.ai/blog/mark-ii-architecture-change/

https://mycroft.ai/blog/mark-ii-update-revised-architecture/

https://mycroft.ai/blog/real-companies-ship-product/ (here's the pivot to Raspberry Pi)

https://mycroft.ai/blog/mark-ii-update-january/

https://mycroft.ai/blog/mycroft-mark-ii-july-2020/ (here's where they decide that the thing has to be a box instead of a cylinder)

https://mycroft.ai/blog/mark-ii-update-october-2020/

https://mycroft.ai/blog/redesigning-the-mark-ii-part-1/ (here's the final design)

For what it's worth I'm intrigued by a screen. Theoretically it shouldn't be needed but if they want to have a reference device that can be used in multiple industries, it's better to have it than to not have it.

But that series of posts is why I'm still cheering for Mycroft despite everything: Clearly this stuff is hard, they've been out there trying hard, taking lumps, fighting off patent trolls, putting in the work. If they don't succeed, I'm not sure who else will pick up the reins and do any better.
Correct. Be careful about sharing a document in progress, notes, or just simple thoughts in text. People will pick it apart word by word. Why? It is the culture Amazon created. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it's a waste of everyone's time.
I think this is an interesting question, and I'd be curious to know the answer, too.

That said, I might push back on the idea that CG problems don't have this kind of regularity. They give the example of a point being either on a line determined by two other points, or to one or the other side of it. They say that you need to know this information exactly, which is combinatorial.

It's not so clear to me that you really do need to know this information. For this example, you could represent the line as a zero level set, and then the query above is answered by the sign of the value of the zero level set function evaluated at this point. There is some latent numerical error here, but this problem is well-conditioned in the sense you mention above.

I think it would be interesting to see whether it's possible to build a library of CG routines based on a "fuzzier" level set conception of things.
It's not just men who are ending up in the NEET vortex. The pandemic really seems to have taken the best years away from some of the generation coming of age around now who seems to have spent the past few years holed up at home on discord. I recently met a 20 year old girl who was calling people who don't watch anime "normies" with literally no aspirations other than being a camgirl. I am friends with another age 24 who is in an extremely similar position, literally just sounds like she smokes weed plays video games and watches anime with most of her time. I think it's important to realize that this demographic is probably way wider than the typical idea of who ends up in this position. These are (outside of their agoraphobic habits) very attractive young women.
Packed boolean arrays are an entirely different thing; as a matter of fact they are arrays, not a primitive data type.

The boolean primitive data type is a standard in modern languages. Take any language: Rust, Go, Zig... and C99 (kind of).

In C89, a project may use enums. Another macros. Another ints.
Thanks a ton for the comment. Got any tips on how I might easily implement the top 10?
I was reading about a dam demolition in Washington a while back and the bit that really helped me wrap my head around it was this:

Salmon are one of the primary pipelines to transfer calories from the ocean inland.

Those calories—by that I mean a shorthand for "nutrition"—naturally get washed from land out to sea by stuff dying in rivers, rainfall, etc. Without some engine that cycles that material back into inland areas, you don't have a functioning cyclic sustainable ecosystem.

Salmon get eaten by bears whose poop feeds plants that are eaten by herbivores. An incredible amount of the natural world in salmon areas depends on this pipeline running. When you stop the salmon, you stop the entire circulatory system.
I guess he's talking about project loom (fibers, go style concurrency) which IMHO is a much better solution than async/await, but yeah... took some 10 years to arrive.
Hanami is not a micro-framework, it is composed of multiple gems though, so if you remove them all you're left with a core of the framework that doesn't do anything except providing an API for plugging in components, configuring them and managing their state.

When it comes to differences - Sinatra is not as feature rich and it's got a less powerful plugin system. Roda has a completely different router using so called Routing Tree, which Hanami doesn't have (it's got something more akin to what Rails has) but it's also highly extendible through plugins, so there is similarity there. A huge difference is that Hanami ships with a very powerful code loading system that supports automatic dependency injection mechanism.
They matter to people who aren't Utilitarians (like me!). I'm much more interested in motive than I am in outcome (although I like Good Things, just like everyone else).

Here's a hopefully intuitive framing: actions are built on outcomes, while institutions are built on motives. It's hard to imagine a consequential derivation of fundamental and inviolable human rights, for example: there will always be cases and circumstances where a consequential view of morality enables you to engage in casuistry to suit the occasion. I'd much rather build (and live under) practical moral systems where things stay right and wrong.

(To be clear: motive itself is not the moral object, in my view. Motive is merely the thing being questioned. The moral object is the moral law.)
And in my town and many in the US. The clubs are named "Football Club" while the majority of society calls it soccer. There's simply no other way to distinguish between the sports other than using the term soccer. I'm open for any suggestions that don't also involve changing the name of the most popular sport here.
I joined Lab 126 just before we launched the original Echo. After I was "disclosed" on its existence and got one to try, we'd all talk about what we did with it: Laundry timer, alarms, music, weather...

A decade and 25,000 Alexa "apps" later and that's still just about all that anyone does with it.

The Alexa team are (were?) absolute zealots about "Voice UI" and insisted that the entire world was going to be run by voice. You couldn't convince them that voice interfaces weren't the perfect solution to every problem. They were under this delusion that Alexa would become so intelligent it could just figure out what you wanted without you needing to specify - as if HAL level general AI was just around the corner. Every user interface would become voice based. Absolute zealotry.

Combine this with the Rube Goldberg-esque back end where for years literally any "speechlet" implementation had the chance of bringing down the entire service and it's unsurprising this is the result.

I was fired a year or so after I came up with a method for interacting with Fire TVs and Echo Shows which solved the "voice cliff" problem by cutting out the round trip to Alexa and wasn't based on magical thinking. My product plan that I had prototyped and worked on for nearly a year was rejected wholesale.

Obviously, I'm extremely bitter and biased, but I swear to you it was that sort of stubborn cult-like thinking which lead to this headline.
Recent and related:

Apple sends DSID with iPhone analytics data, tests show - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33695937 - Nov 2022 (111 comments)

Proposed class action alleges that Apple tracks users despite privacy assurances - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33593455 - Nov 2022 (191 comments)

App Store on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app to Apple - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520775 - Nov 2022 (190 comments)
If what you are saying is true, I would expect those forces would affect men and women, Americans and immigrants equally and that doesn't seem to be the case. Eberstadt says it's really just American-born men who have dropped out.
The Independent Women's Forum (IWF) is a conservative American non-profit organization [1]

the IWF grew out of the ad hoc group "Women for Judge Thomas," created to defend Clarence Thomas against allegations of sexual harassment and other improprieties. [1]

The IWF has been described as "a virtual 'Who's Who' of Washington's Republican establishment."[1]

FactCheck.org labeled the IWF ad "a false appeal to women's fears", finding that the IWF ad relied on "old statistics, faulty logic and false insinuations[1]

Over the years IWF has received funding from Altria, Phillip Morris International, and vaping giant Juul. Without disclosing its its tobacco funding, IWF has defended the vaping industry using Juul's own talking points. [2]

"Being branded as neutral, but actually having people who know know that you’re actually conservative puts us in a unique position. "[3]

IWV made $67,242 in independent expenditures aiding Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin with calls and independent voter outreach in November 2012, after Akin claimed on August 19, 2012 that rape victims couldn’t get pregnant because “if it’s legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”[2]

"IWF has repeatedly defended right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh,[24][25] including supporting Limbaugh after his misogynist comments towards Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke on his show in 2012.

A report by The Nation and the American Independent Institute found that Limbaugh gave about $273,000 to IWF in 2007, making him the group's largest donor that year. The report noted that in later years, "donors to the IWF began cloaking its contributions by running them through the right-wing's biggest donor-advised fund, DonorsTrust," making it difficult to know how much Limbaugh may have contributed since then."[2]

Independent Women’s Forum President Sabrina Schaefer offered to help American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) legislators “sell” corporate-backed alternatives to paid sick leave, equal pay, quality childcare, and workplace flexibility in their home states in a meeting with ALEC in July.[2]

As of September 2020, Heather Higgins, chairman of the Independent Women’s Forum, is a gold circle member of the Council for National Policy.
Council for National Policy. The Council for National Policy (CNP) is a secretive, Christian Right organization of funders and activists [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Women%27s_Forum

[2] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_...

[3] Lisa Graves, Kim Haddow and Calvin Sloan, Independent Women's Forum and Independent Women's Voice Use “Independent” Brand to Push Right-Wing Agenda to Women Voters, ExposedbyCMD, August 17, 2016.
Note that this is a follow-on project from the earlier Dettrace system, which was applied mainly to reproducible builds (as in the academic paper, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373376.3378519, and presented to the Debian Reproducible Builds summit):

- https://github.com/dettrace/dettrace

And one cool part of it is this Rust program instrumentation layer:

- https://github.com/facebookexperimental/reverie

It's good for building OS-emulator style projects or tracing tools.
my desire for udp is for out-of-order delivery for low latency game networking, nothing to do with smartphones
I don't think it is a universal shift yet (or even a Universal shift, either), just something I've noticed a few times now here and there.
I have never had issues with merge, unless rerere was enabled. I've had some extremely surprising results recently with it enabled and I finally disabled it for good.
I disagree. The problem with Null in my opinion is that it is the default and can easily be created accidentally.

There's nothing inherently wrong with an "absence of value, value"

Optional.empty is not null, it's no-value
I got through 3 new lenovos with windows 11. One purchase but returned 2 due hardware issues. Installed windows about 3 or 4 times
Thank you for the better link!
The trend seems to correlate with drug use in society. Not sure which is the chicken or the egg, but from personal observation of people I grew up with, I'd say its worth examining drugs as potential causation.
Saying "Effective Altruism Is about Getting Rich with a Clean Conscience" is the same as saying "Vegetarianism is about breaking into animal shelters and letting all the animals out".

What a rude and erroneous way to summarize a complex movement comprised of so many different activities and points of view.
VSCode, with Vim emulation. I almost never want for Vim stuff that doesn't exist in the Code plugin. I generally am happy with Code's autocomplete and plugin ecosystem.

Really feels like the best of both worlds to me.
Agreed. I'd want to be a customer of that bank.

Banks should be on the offense against fraud by default.
I'm curious: do you think Apple is exactly as invasive as the companies they compare themselves to? Or are they not as invasive, but still not as non-invasive as their marketing materials claim?
In Preview on Mac:

CMND+R = rotate right

CMND+L = rotate left
"Rotating is hard!"
The corporations create your toothbrush, give energy to your computer, and created the phone you use.

Companies create exactly what we people need.
> Based on the cheapest instance that matches my own PC's specs

I wonder how much comoute and ram you need for the routing part.

When I worked on a maps stack (no routing and cloud) we would only provision a big compute instance for importing data and seeding (pre-caching) the new tiles. The server itself could be less powerful, though you might have to pay extra for more hard drive space.
>You have one life, if you don't wan't to live it as a forced laborer, why should you? Why would you?

Because until recently in history, the choices for most humans was work or starve. And nowadays the choice is work or take advantage of the generosity of others. And note that said "generosity" is usually collected under threat of violence via taxation.

So if you feel morally ok taking advantage of those who actually do work, you do you. Just don't be surprised when those who do work resent and despise you.
Just a heads up, this source is a conservative think tank according to Wikipedia and just...looking at their articles.

Upon visiting the site, a popup window was sent my way that was trying to toss a transphobic article at me. If you search for "transgender" on their site it's full of anti-transgender and TERF articles with titles like "‘Women’s Bill of Rights’ Introduced to Counter Transgender Ideology."

Now onto the article itself...

Again, it's really obviously a conservative-slanted article, even including a random dig at Nancy Pelosi for...ya know, the standard reasons.

The article is making the argument that this new fangled society is disincentivizing work. Ya know, the same "nobody wants to work anymore" line that we've heard from capitalists for decades and decades. [1]

The article is basically slapping us in the face with the Protestant work ethic, very unscientifically connecting the lack of a need to work with drug use and "despair."

Apparently, this negative side effect of degenerate drug use only applies to men. Undoubtedly these authors have no problem with the close to 30% of mothers who are stay at home parents, but I guess the 7% of fathers who are stay at home parents are at home taking drugs and looking at screens when they should be out digging for coal and hauling logs.

I do wonder how this concept of despair applies to the non-working members of the ownership class! Let me guess, they worked their way up with their bootstraps and earned their wealth?

Doesn't this entire idea fall apart when you think for five seconds about retirees? Under this philosophy, how do they have a happy life if they aren't working? Is everyone 65+ just sad all the time and doing drugs to cope with their despair? Weird because every piece of demographic information I can find talks about how retirees are the happiest age group.

You want men to work the "dirty" jobs they used to work back when "America was Great"? Pay them! If these jobs are all left open, clearly the companies that have these job openings don't need to fill the roles all that badly, because otherwise they'd raise the pay rate.

You'd think an economist like the one engaged in the conversation would understand supply and demand!

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymo...
LGBTQ night club shooting in Colorado Springs
I didn't lose anything in FTX (nor do I have any crypto invested beyond some BTC change from a long time ago) and I agree with OP 100% (except the "life, or worse," I'm firmly against the death penalty but totally fine with letting him sit in a cell in Terre Haute for the rest of his life).
https://archive.ph/YqO5V
One reason (at least to me): All is about lie.

I don't care much anything the social media or government (together with their law) did, because i know, they're not capable of doing the right and fair things to the people. They just know how to make the most profit as possible from the system as they have the right to do so.

So, that's the end of the world, some day.
Risk was a preferred game both while I was in school and for some time afterwards in our ski house, etc. It definitely appealed to people who weren't broadly into board games--and certainly not hardcore war games.

I always liked it. There are some potentially annoying dynamics like how cards dominate so much in the end game and basically force you to go for it at some point.

I've played Catan on a tablet. It's OK but I seem to keep coming back most to Carcassonne for that general class of game.
> I don't think they know what functions are?

It's a long time since I tangled with x86 assembler; but as I recall, ENTER and LEAVE were specifically for functions, and I'm not aware of any other use for them.
Maybe it's the crawling? Crawling is demoralizing.
I have a pretty high bar for requiring parents to helicopter parent their kids, but this sounds like a good example where it really should be required.

Either the article is overblowing his autism, or else the parent should have understood his autism required a lot more observation of his behavior. I'm not a parent so I don't know how modern parents handle dealing with the internet with their teenagers, but I certainly know that it is a Thing that you have to worry about. It would seem very obvious to me that if you have an autistic kid who is getting on the internet that you'd need to be worrying about everything that they're doing.

I'm sure he was getting groomed by trolls in internet chat rooms, that he thought were "cool", and this is a good case of where the parent really needs to be more concerned about what friends their kid is hanging out with, and they need to not just plug the kid into the internet as a babysitter.
>An Echo Dot is $25

Yup, price point is solved for the "just timers and some music" people, but now you're stuck in Amazon's orbit.
I expected an article about the actually idle capital class, who really do live entire lives without working (or only working glamorous jobs that are more about contributing to their social status than doing actually necessary work).

Instead it was "the uppity and lazy lower class is now refusing work for poverty wages; we need to saddle men with children and debt or we won't have cheap labor off of which we can profit".
He does. It's an interesting read and contained lots of surprises for me.

Here's the section that I think answers your question:

> Who’s paying for this? Well, again, if we look at government numbers, it looks like it’s friends and family, meaning girlfriends, other family members, and Uncle Sam. Disability insurance programs pay some benefits for more than half of these unworking men, it seems. Disability benefits do not provide a princely income, let’s be clear about that, but they do allow for an alternative to life in the working world, which is exactly the opposite of the original, and I think quite noble, intention of disability programs, which is to provide for people who couldn’t take care of themselves, couldn’t work.
I did this. Founded a bootstrapped startup with wife, kids, mortgage, that eventually and unexpectedly led to a life-changing exit.

The key is that I didn't jump into it full-time right away. I first transitioned from a full-time job to a successful freelancer/consultant where I continued to get paid for writing code, but controlled my time and commitments. At first, I did this full-time and out-earned my previous employment income. As the startup itch grew stronger, I started spending more (unpaid) time on the startup and less on clients. My income dropped significantly (to about 30-40% of peak earning - ouch!) and it was a big sacrifice and gamble. My wife had some part-time income and maternity leave income during these times, but nothing too crazy - I was always the major breadwinner.

My wife and I also were on the same page about living within or below our means. We always earned significantly more than we spent and could tolerate major reductions in earnings and still not dig into savings. That's not to say we earned a lot, but that we were smart & frugal with money and did not have $$$ lifestyle preferences.

Also helpful that I live in a country with universal healthcare. If my family's health insurance was tied to my job, I would never have become an entrepreneur as I am very risk-averse. Keep in mind, all that happened above was a gamble that I took. I got lucky with the outcome (through a combination of skill, luck, and timing). There are many scenarios that could have played out, some that would not lead to success where I would still be bitter to this day about the career and financial sacrifices I made. I took the gamble and won, but it could have easily gone the opposite way. What I do know is that my wife would have supported me in any scenario. How I myself would have handled the mental impacts of "failure", I'm glad that I don't have to find that out...
Ok, I see that. Many thanks for the insight.
What's a succinct definition for Web3/3.0/etc that I can tell my mother in law in 20 secs? I don't actually know what it's meant to be.
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