jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>> Greenwald has been posting some antimigration articles messages using language that skims very close to hard-right wording

>That’s an inflammatory claim, that needs direct quotes/links to be taken seriously. But lest it be forgotten that there has long been an acceptance among traditional left-wingers (including Bernie until it became unacceptable to too many of his followers) of the need for some immigration controls in order to protect the most vulnerable workers, and historically the loudest voices for open borders are Laissez-faire/social-Darwinist libertarians, most notably the Kochs.

Maybe in the context of what counts as left in the US. But the socialist left movement was always an international movement (I give you three guesses what the anthem is called).
Regarding some of the Greenwalds words:

"Current illegal immigration – whereby unmanageably endless hordes of people pour over the border in numbers far too large to assimilate, and who consequently have no need, motivation or ability to assimilate – renders impossible the preservation of any national identity"
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2005/12/yelling-racist-as...

Calling immigrants "hordes" is quite definitely language that is what I consider "hard-right". It dehumanises people and tries to instil fear and a violent counter-reaction.

>> Maybe he doesn't neatly fit into the (American) left/right schema

>I think this is quite false: he fits into the traditional left/right spectrum as a bona-fide leftist. It’s the mainstream Democratic Party that has moved towards corporatism and militarism.

The mainstream democratic party was never not corporatist and militaristic. There has not been a change. However, I'm interested what in your eye's qualifies Greenwald as a bona-fide leftist (whatever that means)

>> regularly on Tucker Carlsson without ever seriously criticising them

> What would it change for him to criticize them; to try to impress the people who would still hate him anyway? Carlson gives him airtime and the opportunity to express his position to an audience of people whose minds he might be able to change about a few things. Why waste that opportunity with token criticism?

Funny, he does criticise the NYT and many other media outlets though. But you're not wrong, he can express his position to an audience, but he's not trying to change minds, he actually agrees with much that Tucker Carlson says. That means he agrees with the agenda of a billionaire who has been using his media to clearly push a neocon, hard-right agenda worldwide. Considering that Greenwald is somehow building this persona of a media critic who points out the "agenda" of mainstream media, it is somewhat contradictory to go on those shows without a word of criticism and without blinking an eye.
(I'm not a proponent of the 0% corporate tax, fwiw)

If you are running the SaaS from Monaco and only selling things in the US, isn't it right that you'd only pay sales tax?

It's the mismatch when work is done in one place (for some definition of work), but profits taxed elsewhere that's the issue, as I understand it.

0% corporate tax and higher individual income tax works as long as a company and its employees have to use the "full stack" of taxes, and can't mix and match across borders.
Except all governments offer the creation of corporations, it is literally a shopping catalogue offered by every jurisdiction.

These jurisdiction brands are in competition with each other and they need to stay more attractive than the next.
As opposed to people experiencing trauma and failing to meet the challenge?

I guess no matter what backgrounds we have, we have our own ways of failing.
Aren’t the work accounts, paid accounts? The TOS only restricts having multiple free accounts.
I'm not sure I understand. The absolute number of positive test cases is a best guess, a temperature gauge, no absolute truth. The true number of cases is unknown and estimated to be 1.5-3 times the number of positive cases (from sero-prevalence studies).

Contrary to popular belief policy decisions are not made on cases alone, but percentage of positive tests, hospital capacities, fatalities, test & trace capacities etc. taken together.
I don’t remember real devs around me who would say that programming is easy. My colleague comes up to me and says "you know, mate, programming is easy", something like that? Politicians/media "experts"/programming advocates/managers can say anything, that "programming is easy", "No code/VR/AI/Zettelkasten is a thing", "developers, developers, developers". It's just words from outside. The same if I suddenly began to talk about how easily we can defeat the problem of global warming, for some reason (maybe because I have an outdoor thermometer). We just need to cool down the planet slightly, you know. Plus some events to draw attention to the problem (open up our refrigerators for an hour someday?)[0].

P.S. Ironically, the author also writes about piracy[1] (how bad it is, copying is stealing, her personal story about how he stopped, etc), but has removed the Hugo[2] copyright from footer (can be explained) and even meta info (?). I am not a lawyer, this is probably not a violation at all, but obviusly not a good tone.

[0] https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/impostor.png

[1] https://dorinlazar.ro/adio-piraterie/

[2] https://gohugo.io/
I do not believe dev is relevant here, Sir. Let's dare to be different<3
> but on the other hand it also sucks to only see your teammates exclusively on zoom

Doesn't bother me
Here's one way I look at it. I don't need or want the simplified local development environment. As neat as "runserver" might be, it actually creates a problem, because going from there to production feels like the difference between driving on a lazy country road on a beautiful summer day to driving in the middle of one of the most chaotic cities in the world in a storm.

My humble suggestion would be that this form of easy local development should be deprecated in favor of creating a server-based local development model that translates 100%, without friction, to production servers.

Simple example, I do all my web development work either using a Linux server VM on my Windows machine or a Linux server on our network. These days, running a VM with whatever flavor of Linux isn't a problem for anyone. Django could, out of the box, come with such an arrangement for local development. Perhaps in the form of an Ansible script.

I would want to see at least two development scenarios supported. The first would be as close to bare metal as one might want to get (say, Linode) and the other should be setup to work on something like a GoDaddy multi-hosting VPS.

This would allow for frictionless transition from local development to production deployment for a huge class of sites. Anyone doing anything more complex than that would have the time and maybe even the engineers to devote to designing and deploying a complex infrastructure with multiple kinds of servers, load balancing, etc.

Bottom line is, I think "runserver" is a neat trick but it likely ends up causing far more frustration than might be obvious. I have spoken to a number of people who tried Django, liked it, and moved on in frustration when they hit a brick wall when they had to figure out deployment.

I like to say that people don't go to the hardware store to buy a drill bit. What they are after is a hole. It's the same with websites. Nobody needs a Django website. Nobody. There are a bunch of alternative technologies out there. Which means that if Django makes "getting a hole" difficult, people will just move on. They don't want to become experts in manufacturing drill bits, they just want a hole.
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I deal with this in my day job as well. Many datacenters will have mitigation appliances such as Arbor Peakflow, Cisco Guards, IntruGuard, etc. For attacks that are throwing garbage to unused ports, you can block these fairly effectively by having your datacenter block these ports at the router. Just ask your datacenter's support for a service such as this, usually their SLA specifies a time limit for how long your site may consume mitigation services for free. Your datacenter will probably start nulling your IP at around 1gbps inbound (varies, might be lower)

Some DDoS's are easy to block via iptables- attackers who aren't very clever will have the same UA on all of their bots, and they are easy to block via a combination of tailing your domlogs, and adding bad ips to an iptables listing. Many don't set a user agent, making it much easier.

Floods that consist of holding open http server connections for long periods of time can be combated by throwing MaxClients to something large (about 5000) and setting keepalive to something low, like around 5 seconds (if you're using Apache, similar probably holds true for other http servers).

You can usually use string blocking via iptables, but these will still hold the connection open until the client times out, and you might have to resort to the above in conjunction (raise MaxClients, etc.). Usually, I try to mitigate via IP addresses before string blocking.

Rarely will I see an attack that will require a nullroute upstream. If you're worried about those, you will need to seek professional services. In most cases, you can mitigate at the server level easily. Also, ngrep is your friend.
This is essentially welfare

Yes, and? The point is that we're already providing welfare, just often in a convoluted, inefficient, and counterproductive manner. The unfortunate fact is that some people can't provide for themselves. We can either ignore them, establish fifty government agencies to "help" them, or give them money. Option 1 isn't on the table, and 3 makes a lot more sense than 2.
Google "waiting for superman".
OTOH, what is the "sense" of so called "working poors"?

"slavery" comes to mind.
Good advice. My favorite down times and introspection times are short meditation periods when I first get up and in the late afternoon. A key to good meditation is not worrying if you can't always clear your mind or random thoughts occur. I live in the mountains in Central Arizona, so short 20 minute walks by myself on the trails behind my house also form what I call walking meditation. I also find sitting outside for 5 minutes, again not thinking directly about work, helps me get a good perspective on whatever I am doing that day.

When I lived in San Diego I had a window office looking out over La Jolla Cove and I found a few times a day using 10 minutes with my door shut, looking at the ocean helped.

The subconscious mind is a powerful problem solver. I believe this is why it is common to wake up in the morning with an unsolved problem, worked out.
Is "earn" any harder to write than "deserve"? "Fire" is really easy...
How about tin foil underpants?
This is in the webpage of a professor at my university. His class was entertaining, and he is clearly really smart, but he scared off most of the students by asking them questions about the material, and teaching only the minimum necessary.

These problems are really cool, and seem to cover a lot of ground from silly list manipulation techniques to dynamic programming.
I'll absolutely consider coming out to launch conf. In a few weeks I may call to try and get in on the Shark Tank portion of twist as long as development stays on track. Thanks for the advice, I'm a huge fan and follower of your career!
every step forward in modern relational DBs for reliability is a step backwards for operations and the simplicity of the model. If you're steeped in the ecosystem and know how things "used to be" you don't see how insane things actually are. Forrest, trees, etc.
What problems, precisely? Sure, it would prevent current CAs from selling sub-CA certificates without coordinating with browser vendors. That's the point. What's a legitimate use case for doing so?
What exactly? They broke into a building and wandered about a bit. They didn't take any politician hostage, didn't burn down the building, etc. They were like unruly children.

Aren't you shocked to see thousands of cars burned in France over NYE? About seeing the American riots last summer?

It's blown out of proportion. This Trumpist crowd was disorganized. They didn't have a plan, didn't have leaders, didn't have demands or any credible way to win. Life goes on.
> Never before in human history have we had privately operated for-profit organisations with so much power and influence over the running of countries.

Newspapers have always had this power, the difference now is it's on the internet instead of print. Once TV's became common place the evening news also had this power. This has always been how things worked the difference now is the reach is larger and the turnaround time is faster.
HN comments from a previous submission of Guido's pre-PEP, "The Theory of Type Hinting": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8775638
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It really isn't.

There are cultural institutions (museums, galleries etc.) who have a public interest in making the world aware of, say, science or art history or whatnot. Their mission lines up neatly with Wikipedia's mission. If the Louvre or the Computer History Museum were to pay someone to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the topics their museums cover, I'm not sure how that would be a problem.

Or indeed, imagine this hypothetical: Bill Gates chucks twenty million dollars into a fund to pay some select group of Wikipedians a not-much-above-cost-of-living salary to generally improve Wikipedia's coverage of, say, medicine, science and humanities topics.

A non-hypothetical example: a friend of mine ran a contest on Wikipedia to improve articles about video games. Whoever improved the most articles in a particular period of time would get a few new games sent to their Steam account. That's paid editing, albeit for PC games rather than money. The motivation of the guy who ran it? He likes video games.

We have paid open source software development models: bug bounties, crowdfunding etc. That's not anathema to producing software.

With clear conflict of interest statements and an editorial checking process for paid editors, there's a way to do it without it being sleazy or shilling.
I mentioned this in the Poker thread. (If I had time right now, I'd consider implementing it.) I would like and would use a DNS service that 1) did not keep any record of my queries and 2) would not propagate government takedowns (e.g. by ignoring updates with NS:ns2.cirfu.net.
The origin of the term is quite interesting. From the wiki link:

The term robber baron derives from the medieval German lords who charged nominally illegal tolls (tolls unauthorized by the Holy Roman Emperor) on the primitive roads crossing their lands or the larger tolls on ships traversing the Rhine—all such actions without adding anything of value,(see robber baron) but instead lining one's pockets to the detriment (added costs) of the common good.
Perhaps we can extrapolate from this how the first AI will behave. This empirical iterative approach towards optimization by its creator engineers will be baked into its ‘DNA’. The way it optimizes human happiness might be unexpected and we might be as puzzled as these analysts. I hope we know what we are doing in terms of AI development. This iterative approach can quickly lead to dangerous outcomes.
What percent of current US CO2 production is 730M tons?
If you're living in another country and you don't want to get deported for embarrassing that government with observations about how they're catastrophically screwing up, but you still want people to know you recognized the catastrophic screw-up as it was happening, then you might publish a cryptographic hash of your observations.

But since many lives are at stake, you'd only do that if you believed the government was so impervious to public exposure of their screw-up that nothing you publish could get them to change course or mitigate the severity of the impending catastrophe.
I guess it lets Nature say they always link to the papers they discuss while minimizing outbound traffic to competitors. Ugh.
The early models even had free unlimited worldwide 3g connectivity. Which of course was too expensive for such a cheap device, but shows that offering car connectivity really can't be so costly.
Of course not, they can't tell the race of the inhabitant.
No :-) but I had to read it to find that out.
With the oil spilled in the Gulf, the US could be powered for approximately 4 minutes.
I am curious what percentage of the food acquired in this manner was packaged, e.g. canned, jarred, or wrapped in plastic, and from major brands. Any preserved/processed food from major brands can usually be found at discount if you look hard enough, since it has a long shelf life (from the processing), and there's usually lots of it in stock (from the large brand).

The picture from the original lifehacker story shows lots of major corporate brands, e.g Kellogg, Mission, Skippy, Quaker Oats, Place, Wheat Thins, and Kraft.
http://lifehacker.com/5560305/eat-well-on-just-1-a-day

While it's great the author was able to include some fresh produce in his diet, since accomplishing that on an ultra-low budget is quite admirable, it still looks like this feat was pulled off thanks to the quantity of waste typical to mass-produced, processed food.
I thought part of the problem there is that, while they declared themselves independent, nobody would recognize their independence, thus they were still effectively under the laws of the area they were in.

If Iceland, an already-recognized nation, decides to do this, trying to get things shut down without their consent could / would be seen as an attack, and it becomes a far larger issue than simply enforcing laws within your jurisdiction.
It's even shakier than that because what does the amount of energy currently spilled have to do with anything? Presumably they have planned to extract several orders of magnitude more oil from this well than what has spilled.
I neglected to mention the assumption that failures in different executions of the process are independent.
It's an interstate complaint. I believe only the FBI has the ability to followup on it in the first place.
Yeah, I tried that about 5 minutes ago.

They answered my questions like they deleted my linode: as fast as possible. :(

I had no idea my bank card was going to expire while I was down here; I´m kicking myself.

The only thing that bugs me is that their support emails said that they DO warehouse some linodes, if there´s "some indication" the person will pay.

Wah? Gah! It´s an expiration. For personal accounts, there has got to be data out there that shows that expirations are sometimes a surprise to the CC holder, like when they happen on vacation.

Meh. I´ve got my repos. I´ll probably even set up at linode again.

I see they´re advertising their backup service on their home page. Hmm.
> Here’s why – complicated corporate tax rules will let Aol write off the full purchase price of Bebo if they declare it worthless and abandon the asset.

...yet another perverse outcome of overly-complicated, micro-managed tax codes. The law of unintended consequences strikes again! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences
Can we have "rebalance?"

After that, can we have defragmentation?

Let's make the best of both worlds.
Do you trust people?

Youtube is full of human examples - start here as an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwL7S--E5oQ - and note that it ranges from minor fender benders through some very serious injuries and destruction.

There are lots of examples of not being able to stay in lane, pulling out, not seeing stopped traffic, not paying attention to surroundings. Humans can't even get the trivial simple things right in broad daylight.

A 9/11 of deaths happen on US roads every month.
Thanks :D Plugin support is already in the works! (I should probably list that under features...)
People always quote that Franklin thing but please remember that was wartime propaganda. Franklin himself was later heavily involved in creating the United States Constitution and governments are essentially trade offs between safety and liberty so it's clear he wasn't an absolutist.
Cool stuff. Two semi-suggestions.

1) The paragraph symbol threw me off for a second. It may be a good idea to have a small explanation at the top for how line breaks are handled.

2) I seem to manage better at typing tests when the paragraph of text to be typed is on one area and the input box is in another. Not sure if this fits the model, but it could be a configurable option.
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that sounds much better.
Then no support should be provided for these forks. Caveat emptor unless you use the official client.
If my own hobby python projects are anything to go by, there aren’t even folders ;-)

I have a friend who taught herself R for her research and it was basically one big procedural codebase.
Hi Folks, I'm Ger the developer of Snap Search, we are looking for your feedback on our app, both the idea and execution :-), there are certainly some rough edges but we have found it works well with products and RL visual information (Posters for concerts, museums, billboards etc.). Simply take a pic, wait for it to recognise and then tap one of the speed dial buttons or ask a question about the image.
The wins, unfortunately, tend to be random, as a result of the sorry state of our environmental law. The people at the EPA don't target oil pipelines for rerouting due to beetles instead of focusing on whether fracking is polluting groundwater because they care so much about beetles, or because they've already won on everything more important. Industry takes examples like this to show "look at how out of control the EPA has gotten!" because bystanders thing: "gee, I care about the environment, but all that work to protect a few beetles is a bit much!"

But that paints a misleading picture. The EPA goes for the beetles because the Endangered Species Act is one of the few laws with bright-line rules that hasn't been watered down over the last 30-40 years. That makes it a good tactical hammer. They've got a limited budget, and they need to hit things like this that are a slam-dunk in court instead of broader issues that could get mired for years in debates between expert witnesses and thousands of reports being thrown back and forth.
I work as a support engineer and I often say "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. My job is to explain magic." I had this same realization as you a few months ago when I was learning about DeFi and Eth proof of stake.