jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> This ban seems to heavily take advantage of the current moment, as it's obvious that he has tweeted worse things in the past.

I don't blame them. Would you rather ban a vindictive US president or an outgoing, lame duck US president in his final days of office? Besides, regardless of how you feel about him, he's one of the main reasons Twitter is still relevant today. If they banned him sooner, they would have lost a ton of traffic.

To be clear, I am not for or against Twitter. I'm just making sense of their rationale.
To be fair, much of the problem starts with the exact brand of whataboutism you display in your comment.
Not true. I haven’t been contacted yet so they definitely haven’t reached the bottom. :)
Can we not do this sensationalist rhetoric on this forum?

If you feel like you got a bone yo pick with a current state of internet, post about a technology that addresses the problem so that people can become aware of it. And save the virtue signaling for reddit/facebook.
Policing in America is a mostly modern invention, and the first public full-time police force is less than 200 years old: before the police, towns would typically have a night watch made up of citizens who volunteered for certain nights and certain times, and industry would pay other citizens to protect property and commodities. These paotection jobs typically didn't pay well, and mainly employed a segment of the population who might otherwise be criminal.

The rise of the police was a consequence of economics peculiar to 19th century capitalism, the first public police force was created in Boston only when merchants convinced the public that the expense should be born by all for the common good, and in the South the public police force evolved from slave patrols as a necessity of maintaining the slavery system.

The public police force continued to spread throughout America, particularly in the West, in 19th century only as businessmen began to fear labour activism and required a militant police force to end strikes.

The public police force before the 1930s was not only a new idea, but it was entirely a weapon of political power and terror: police forces were chosen by the leader of the ward's winning political party, and would ignore that political leader's own street gangs as they intimidated rival voters. It wasn't until 1929, after the Wickersham Commission, which noted such gems as "the inflicting of pain, physical or mental, to extract confessions or statements... is widespread throughout the country", that a push for professionalism and the independence of the police force began in America.

The consent the average citizen has given to be policed and the satisfaction she should have with the current system is very debatable.

Would the night watch have enforced the war on drugs to such a violent end?

Do we really need to have squad cars looking for speeders, or can citizens just report dangerous drivers to the DMV?

Was it not easier to pay off erstwhile thieves a wage to 'guard the property'?

Perhaps our consent to the police is just a manufactured consent, as our economic system was only able to survive by creating a force capable of quelling our collective dissent?
except for the old USSR-taught folk who can't let go of their waterfalls.
Maybe a people mover or a monorail, since an elevator won’t be practical :)
Is there a reason why price caps on .org can't be restored?
Mulvad seems to be a good option.
Well seeing as I can't find an optimization in CLISP for changing the underlying div instruction, I'm assuming this is going to run the same. Is this correct?

My only point here is, I guess, that a thunk (0 argument function) acts a similar way. If we had need to call two instructions (or increase bitwidth) this might suffice:

def floor(n, d = 1)
[-> { n.div(d) }, -> { n.modulo(d) }]
end

p *floor(10.3)
#<Proc:0x0000558aeacdbc00@s.rb:4 (lambda)>
#<Proc:0x0000558aeacdbbd8@s.rb:4 (lambda)>

p floor(10.3).first.call
# 10

p *floor(10.3).map(&:call)
# 10
# 0.3000000000000007
Read the book. Worked for me.
I’m not a web guy—- this should be safe from php vulnerabilities I would think, because there is no db and it’s just taking advantage of very limited/basic features of php right?
Open source website design looks like it hasn't been given any love since 10-15 years. Apple you can do better?
This is extremely ugly. They got rid of ESNI because it was an incomplete solution possibly exposing the connection target anyways. So they decided to encrypt the whole client hello message, calling it ECH (encrypted client hello).

However, to make it work, they need the server's public key out of DNS. To get that, they didn't rely on preexisting TLSA records intended for this purpose (partly because it wouldn't work in some cases, TLSA can either contain fingerprints or pubkeys). Instead, they defined a whole new DNS record type to publish those keys. But those records, called SVCB, don't just publish keys. They are an amalgamation of SRV records (this service called "something" is actually at that host and port), CNAME records and a list of key/value-properties with associated priorities. If you think you might know that one, yes, it looks almost like all of DNS inside DNS again. Just another Meta-DNS, because all those RRs aren't fancy enough already. Or maybe Cloudflare just wants a way to put all their internal routing info into DNS somehow.

Anyways, I'll wash my eyes with soap now...
I’m not sure why you are not able to understand this. Disrupting legislation is not the same as disrupting the machinery by which we hand power from one executive to the next. Google “self-coup” or “autogolpe” to see how this is not exactly an uncommon action by would-be tyrants.
You make an argument against trusting exchanges but your proposed alternative is trusting the hardware wallet company.
Exactly, that's why cannot block somebody on the first access. Even prosecutors will understand this.
"RAD will continue supporting their game industry, film, and television partners, with their sales and business development team maintaining and selling licenses for their products to companies across industries - including those that do not utilize Unreal Engine." - the article

How long this will last is anybody's guess, of course.
I think it’s more that they were all waiting for someone else to do it first. Twitter did it and now the rest will now that the heat isn’t on them.
that's the point - it isn't facebook, except it is.
That's a good article, but these strategies should be thought-out BEFORE your app is launched. In fact, way before, like before you even start writing code.
You correctly point out, between indie film-making and bootstrapping.

While I'm no film-maker, I can see how a film actually gets made and re-made during editing.
One thing I would add to this (especially the gamers don't pay for stuff outside of games and their hardware) is that gamers don't have a lot of pain points that can be served by a scrappy startup.

They have communities (NeoGAF, Something Awful, Quarter to Nine, Penny Arcade) where they connect with like-minded people. There are usually so few in most towns that its easy to find local gamers if you want to (hobby stores, mostly) but usually gamers don't. Most of their gaming friends are online, and don't need a face-to-face.

What gamers want is new, shiny, and strongly entwined to the walled gardens being run by the console manufacturers. Unfortunately, those walls means the only people able to innovate effectively in the space are those very same console manufacturers.

If something cool was to come from doing a startup for gamers, it would need to lean heavily on APIs from other games, and having recently studied this (to be presented at [1]), while there are some read-only services, there's certainly not enough out there to start doing anything interesting with. I am not even sure that the data you could get from them would necessarily be of value. Gamers are interested in their data, but there's not a lot you can tangibly create from that data, unlike say being a poster printing company that uses the Flickr API. And if they don't click through ads, what are they going to buy?

I guess I'm a big naysayer as well, but I just don't see the obvious pain points that a startup could serve gamers. My gut feeling is there's lower hanging fruit in the web app sea.

[1] http://fdg2010.org/Main.html
Wasn't this exactly what Rupture tried to do?
I reckon if you could fashion a site quickly enough that would work on the iPhone and iPad, you would have a winner.

There's a large swathe of the population for whom http://www.pogo.com is the beginning and the end for games, and I would be the intersection between them and the iPad is going to get bigger and bigger.
"My original point, long ago, was that ... it's absurd to "look down on" the artist"

Fine, granted. In the general case, judging personalities is boring. That's not the point I've been arguing.

"As for the critiquing of art, I don't say that nobody should say their thoughts on it. But your thoughts are not the final word on anything. If you say 'that is horrible' and I say 'it moves me', then it has value to me and none to you. For one of us it is bad art, for the other it is important."

So you think it's impossible to make objective judgments of art. I disagree.

"As such, I don't say that all art is "good art", even though you dishonestly put those words into my mouth."

Like art, your comments are difficult to correctly interpret. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
You may be interested in the commentary about this movement here: http://www.raphkoster.com/2010/06/03/what-ux-can-and-cannot-...

I largely agree with the overall, albeit crotchety, sentiment: "Just pay them". That said, http://fold.it is ingenious.
Um, I'm a musician and web developer, I do both professionally.

The web is a massive avenue for selling music, and is what most independent musicians use most frequently to promote themselves.

I couldn't agree less with what you're saying here. It's absolutely ESSENTIAL that web developers take an interest in the Music Industry, especially since so much of it has moved to the web.
Looks similar. I'd never heard of Rupture before but it's funny to see that Fanning had a similar notion. Not something I'd have expected.
Yes! This could work! Lots of ancient literature refers to something similar so the idea has been there for millennia.
But, the switching/control equipment is substantially more complicated, voltage conversion is hard due to transformers not working at DC, and you still need to suffer inverter inefficiencies to convert things to AC for domestic use.
Firing people to weasel out of paying their unvested options is definitely shady. When those employees were hired, did they tell them "Oh, by the way, if your unvested options wind up being worth a lot more than your fair salary, we're going to threaten to fire you to avoid paying."?

If someone had $1M in unvested options, and you ask them to renegotiate for $200k and keep them there as an employee, that's really tone deaf. Do you really think that employee is going to give their best efforts after you just cheated them out of $800k?
Please also consider pushing Twitch "Let's Plays" as well. We have a lot of programmers watching!

I agree with what you're saying about video advertising CPMs, though it is quite possible to make a living on Twitch once you add in subscriptions at $5/mo.
Is chroot the only protection against a hostile process?
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/personal-attack.htm...
Maybe I'm too old, and stuck in the mud with the pre-ICANN intention of the original TLDs, but does it seem odd to anyone else that they host their network services on .com and their corporate information on .net?
Are you pro or con them? Seedy techniques are never fair, just seedy.
You're correct, but it is different. There is no free way to accept payments. I personally pay with a 2% cash back card myself. I just hope people have a full picture of the costs and benefits of each approach. Crypto transaction fees are expensive but there are also a lot of hidden costs of the credit system.

https://twitter.com/maxfield_wall/status/1287097229220536321

I lived in Taipei for a year and almost all transactions there are cash, debit, or bank transfer. You can do a bank transfer to anyone instantly for pennies. Really puts the ACH system to shame. Some things are better than getting 2% back.
BTC is not anonymous. In theory, it is possible to track all the transactions.
That the main reason why others crypto like Monero or Dash had emerged
It hasn't though, the rate of gain for the wealthy has increased.
My other vehicle is a 60s Royal Enfield, which operates at the other end of the reliability spectrum.
The fed should use a more comprehensive bundle of goods to measure inflation. Home prices, is a good example.

Once they do that, inflation numbers will read much higher. By some accounts, home prices have increased by over 10% since this time last year.

A healthy society needs room for social/fiscal mobility, which becomes increasingly difficult when asset prices are inflated relative to median income.
It's not just finance though. The trade agreement between the EU and the UK only covers goods, but the UK economy is 80a% services...
Minor implications, perhaps. Much of what was done to reach this point was just making LLDB not fall over miserably on Windows. Like, to compile.. Or to not crash on startup for example :)

Anyone who decides they're interested in making Rust programs debuggable with LLDB will be able to benefit from this work by not having to do it. Also a core debug loop is going to be the same on Windows no matter what programming language is being debugged. I don't know what Rust's generated code looks like, but presumably it will be able to reuse the core debug loop and symbol reading code to some extent, although it will need to deal with ABI specific differences, put in its own expression evaluator, and things like that.

TL;DR - Someone from the Rust community will still have their work cut out for them, but if they're so motivated then they at least some of the work done here will benefit them.
Would be very interesting to see if they also integrate it in Visual Studio, and have a similar development environment to R Studio
I will say, that as much as Myers-Briggs exploits the Forer Effect, that I did notice a few trends, e.g. that I cannot stand folks in one particular group (and no doubt they cannot stand me, either!). And it did seem fairly good at distinguishing extroverts from introverts (assuming arguendo that such a distinction is meaningful).
No it does-- er, nevermind. :D
That video was neat, but it looks entirely like underpowered archery. Was it really guns that made people not care about this kind of thing (fast archery on the run)? Or was it simply more powerful longbows that meant archers would shoot from further off?

On a related note, in this video he catches an arrow out of the air. But that air must have been moving relatively slowly. There was a Mythbusters years ago where they investigated the myth of ninjas catching arrows, and determined it was impossible based on the time it took for a martial arts master to close his hand (measured with a high-speed camera) vs the time it took for an arrow to pass through the air. But this was assuming longbows fired from a castle wall. Those arrows will be going significantly faster than the ones seen in this video.
Sinopia is great. It is a good idea to run your own npm repository anyway; not only do you have some protection from tampered packages (in combination with shrinkwrap), but you can also publish your own minor bugfix updates and private packages, without having to rely on GitHub URLs.

You're also insulated from npm and GitHub downtime - win-win-win.
The fact that someone would target GitHub for a massive DDoS attack makes me sick to the stomach.
I consider this an unfortunate decision. Actively censoring "misinformation" regarding election irregularities will achieve the exact opposite of what (I hope) is intended here: to prevent harm.

Trump has already been successful in creating the image of a rigged election in the minds of his supporters. He has been working on this for at least a year. This already happened. It can't be undone by censorship.

The only thing that censorship will achieve is to further the "us versus them" mentality. Instead of visiting YouTube, where maybe 0.1% of the content is right-wing conspiracy talk, they will retreat to some "free speech" media site where every other channel is crackpot hour.
It seems that YouTube's about page already has false information. https://www.youtube.com/about/

> We believe people should be able to speak freely, share opinions, foster open dialogue, and that creative freedom leads to new voices, formats and possibilities.

> We believe everyone should have easy, open access to information and that video is a powerful force for education, building understanding, and documenting world events, big and small.

> We believe everyone should have a chance to be discovered, build a business and succeed on their own terms, and that people—not gatekeepers—decide what’s popular.

With the events that occurred in the past year, these statements are completely false.
Process is one of those things you have whether you think about it or not. It's up to you collectively to decide if it is BS or not, too heavy, too light, etc. I'm not suggesting everyone has the influence to change process much at the place they work, but they idea that there is a single "thing" called process and some places have it and some don't is just dangerously misleading.

It is true that process tends to naturally scale with org size and longevity because communication becomes more complicated with this scaling - but that only gives you a bit of a lower bound (i.e. if you go below this, you start shooting yourselves in the feet)
I'm running the 5300M, that might explain why.

I can imagine that when it came to configure the machine the decision was `Put more RAM in it, he's a web-dev, doesn't need a fancy graphic's card!`

Which I don't as I'm not going to gaming on my work PC, but if that 15W is pushing it above the thermal limits of the chassis, then that would have been a decent upgrade.

I'd prefer it without a heavy-lifting graphics card in that case, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
In my view, what is fundamentally an antitrust issue is getting improperly framed as a first amendment / free speech issue.

1) Any private company (or person) has the right to determine what speech they tolerate, amplify or disseminate

2) No company should be so big that their assertion of that right dramatically changes the national conversation
still wizardry for a lot of the elder generation I think
I've been using the same Middleman + Slim setup as a static site generator for 7 years now. Still outputs HTML+CSS for speed but with some nice writing features.

Version everything in your Gemfile, use rbenv, and and you're set.
Having read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology) , a few thoughts ...

Classical psychedelics like LSD tend to impart hallucinations which are reinterpretations of familiar objects: hearing a song in the sound of flowing water perhaps, rather than a disembodied voice dispensing commands; seeing a cloud as an intricate organism dripping with lacework skirts drifting in the eddies of an invisible current, rather than a creature standing in the middle of the room with no basis at all in reality.

Furthermore, it's generally pretty obvious to those involved that what they're seeing is an "hallucination"; the deliriants, such as scopalomine, are another story, and an altogether more terrifying class of drug.

Bicameralism's emphasis on bona fide auditory hallucinations, especially disembodied voices issuing commands, is quite distinct from the subjective experience of most psychotropics; the inhibited self-awareness and metareflective capacity described by the article - the "zombie mind" - is almost the opposite of a trip, where every perception seems saturated to the point of overflow with deep, often autobiographical, meaning.

What you're suggesting bears some similarity to the writings of Aldous Huxley:

""One explanatory model for the experiences provoked by hallucinogens is the "reducing valve" concept, first articulated in Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception.[7] In this view, the drugs disable the brain's "filtering" ability to selectively prevent certain perceptions, emotions, memories and thoughts from ever reaching the conscious mind.""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen#Psychedelics_.28cl...

In summary, I'd suggest that it's quite possible that inter-hemisphere communication is increased, but certainly so is the way the entire brain functions.
Seven years earlier, a team from the University of Illinois won an Apple competition to "design the computer of the year 2000". Their design? A tablet.

http://cs.illinois.edu/news/2010/Jan26-1

Note Stephen Wolfram standing stage left. Oskee wow wow!
I think that the semantics behind the question implied end goal, as in is the ultimate goal of writing a bash script simply to write a bash script or is it something more, something beyond that? One would almost certainly reason that the answer must be the latter, yes?
> Engineers and technical people are cynical generally, but I agree. It comes out especially for crypto. Some of it could be jealousy. Watching “normies” make millions doing nothing more than buying early.

Except we aren't normies, a lot of us may have non CS backgrounds, but we have the World's best cryptographers, and some of us with some relevant tech backgrounds, particularly found in the Anarcho-Capitalist/Crypto-Anarchy/Cypherpunk crowds from the early days, also grew up n the internet. I learned how to solder from hacking and modding playstation, gamecube, and Dreamcast consoles and sold ripped copies of those games to fund my first startup in HS in fact. My friends online hacked DirecTV for fun on their time off and introduced me to what zero days were when I was in the 8th grade!

I was browsing newsgroups and IRC since the early 2000s and spoke to software engineers at many mega corps, and even met a few who worked in the auto industry in my early teens at meetups or drifting events.

I honestly think it's because we ushered in a paradigm shift that makes them question if they wasted their time/life entirely and we are incredibly vocal about that, not because we want to brag (most times) but because we want you to apply your Human capital and skill set to this movement as we need so much more infrastructure to make it become what we all think it can become as its still possible to be incredibly rewarded for doing so.

But many, especially here, have these delusions think they were meant to be Musk, Chamath, or Dorsey if they kept pluging away as a lowly foot soldier on a H1 visa at a FAANG: it was just a matter of time until their unicorn idea let them get to that table. It's really just sad to me, but I saw it with my own eyes so many times I cannot deny it. Hell, Chamath has even said in his recent podcast what he did is entirely unobtainable anymore, which is why he works in the spaces he does.

It's really sad, Bitcoiners as a whole are generally collaborative, and super generous people with their time and crypto (we gave so much away!) but all we ever get from the FAANG types is jealousy, scorn and resentfulness; we may be brash in our demeanor and are often very anti-Silicon Valley (even for those of us with roots there) but that is just our culture. A lot of us were channers, too. I heard it several times before I joined and posted on BTF in fact.
I hate how short sighted are some physicists when they say there is no way to simulate universe on a computer. We couldn't simulate freaking spreadsheet on a personal computer until 40 years ago. Quantum computer is just one of many computers that human civilization will invent and use. There will be all sorts of different computers with different powers and use cases.