jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It depends on the scale of property damage - lives aren’t worth infinite amounts after all. I would say damage in the millions is automatically equivalent to murder. But it doesn’t even have to go that far. Destroying someone’s small business (as an example) is also tantamount to murder - if a person pours years of their life, taking time away from their family, experiencing great stress, taking risks, and surviving via sheer grit, and then sees all of that destroyed by rioting black bloc hooligans in one short night, they would be utterly devastated. That’s a human cost and it is comparable to murder because someone poured their life into building that business.

Then there’s collateral damage. Much of the rioting in the last year was criminality in service of a political goal. That is the literal definition of terrorism. These actions create fear in political opponents and aim to achieve political goals outside our legal process. That has a human cost.

But if I had to simplify it, life is a period of time. And time is used by people to acquire or create property. Therefore when that property is stolen or destroyed, it is taking away life.

A more comprehensive opinion: https://fee.org/articles/vandalism-is-violence-destructive-r...
So? Why should WhatsApp "understand" the web?
I'm curious how you're breaking down the work and if you only take full time devs or are bringing in hourly contractors for different pieces. Do you think you'd have better luck finding good devs if you broke it down like that?
Do you mind providing me with some examples of civilized honor killings?
we don't necessarily have to restrict anything. start by pricing in the cost of cleaning up after <activity>, and see what happens.
Parent comment seems to suggest the same thing.

Ban the collection of data for targeted advertising. Instead the only data that targeted ads can use would be provided by the user voluntarily. Not collected. No checkbox for consent.

If user wants the advertiser (say Google) to know something - they need to enter that in on a form.
Both stories do not have plenty of precedence. The original story is conjecture - as told, it's never happened. My story (we can add, "and was not punished in any way", for clarity's sake - I thought that was implied), however, has happened many, many times.
"They should be focused on getting money and resources to the people who do the tech and running interference for them to help prevent them from being sabotaged by political opponents."

Can you suggest some effective mechanisms by which "political opponents" have been able to "sabotage" their efforts? Do these people get depressed when they hear an eeeevil Republican saying what they're doing is wrong, or even evil?
I don't understand callous contempful comments against Intel's manufacturing capabilities. There are incredible people making things possible fomr both sides in one of the most advanced manufacturing processes in the world. I've worked inside a fab and I can tell you that the industry is much more appreciative of each other's competitors than the outside fanboys who are largely pissed off at the executive decisions (lawsuits , etc).

This article is about TSMC's technical achievements and your comment has not added anything to the discussion, time and again I see this rooting for "underdog" behavior all too the same (just flipped the sides) from 2006. I wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22515546

If you'd like to know what goes into shriking a process node from lithography standpoint, I implore you to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gMdGrVteI

and be in complete utter awe... Tell me if they are "Sitting on their asses"?
I'm taking a free online course called English for Journalism, created by the University of Pennsylvania. It's pretty good so far.
Maybe you misunderstood me.

It's only a joke because the concept is absurd. Like if he referred to lizard people, I'd know it's a joke. Except he actually believes in a deep state, so for him it's not a joke.
Most are circuit configurations, the code is generic, this is why the title I used to submit it was "PIC Microcontroller Circuits", not Microcontroller.

Usually the original title should always be used to discourage clickbaits, however, in cases like this example, I think it's justified to add relevant context. Unfortunately, the moderators overcorrected it and removed circuits.
Russia too now
>> The average age of fatalities in Italy is over the median life expectancy of an Italian man

And that is probably because they give preference to younger people. If they did not, they'd likely have fewer fatalities overall, but slightly more fatalities in the lower age ranges. Someone made the tough call that if you're 80+ you are "already dying".
It is really too bad it doesn’t include the ability to read said catalogued books.

That said, I wonder the catalogue could be exportable to a web-based option like omega.org, which is self hosted.
Worth noting that iOS HFS+ already had some non-standard features [hacks] that Mac did not use like encrypting files with different keys based on the data protection level—that APFS provides —so it makes sense to upgrade iOS first, which can readily leverage such functionality, and it not necessarily a direct result of it being the "vision for the future".
That Steve Jobs like money?

(I didn't vote you down but I can understand...)
A favorite story of mine. Nine billion is not as large a number these days as it was in 1953.
The debasement of money is also a factor in both stories.
There may be much going on with emacs, but so far it fails to move ahead. The project is just improving the old strenghts, but not fixing the old fails. And as time moves, they start to hurt more and more and more until they break.
Is everything perfect where you work? If it is, I want to know how can we apply?!

Most likely, you aren't agreeing with all what your company does. There has to be some decision, either in management, or in product direction, or anything, that you disagree with and you tried, or will try, to change that. Is the solution simply to quit and get another job? Do you simply quit because improving that part is too complex? Or do you persevere because you believe in the company and think it can become so much better?
> there's nothing "responsible" at all about independent researchers disclosing information to the public only on a vendor's schedule and terms.

Right, so the reason we disagree is that we have different understandings of what "responsible disclosure" means. From Wikipedia:

> In computer security or elsewhere, responsible disclosure is a vulnerability disclosure model in which a vulnerability or an issue is disclosed only after a period of time that allows for the vulnerability or issue to be patched or mended. This period distinguishes the model from full disclosure. [1]

And full disclosure:

> Full disclosure is the practice of publishing analysis of software vulnerabilities as early as possible, making the data accessible to everyone without restriction.

Nowhere does it say that this is done "on a vendor's schedule and terms". On the contrary, unless there is some other agreement in place, the discoverer can publish any time they like; and so in reality control of the schedule is always at the discoverer's terms.

This is recognized in the XenProject's Security Response Process [2]:

> When a discoverer reports a problem to us and requests longer delays than we would consider ideal, we will honour such a request if reasonable. If a discoverer wants an accelerated disclosure compared to what we would prefer, we naturally do not have the power to insist that a discoverer waits for us to be ready and will honour the date specified by the discoverer.

Google Project Zero typically report a vulnerability and say, "We're telling everyone about this in 90 days, hope you're ready."

That is my expectation of "Responsible disclosure". If SEC Consult waited 18 months, it's either because 1) they had a contract with Fortinet of some sort, or 2) they were convinced that waiting 18 months would cause less harm to people than zero-daying everyone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure

[2] https://xenproject.org/developers/security-policy/
A recruiter recently emailed me about a startup whose “Series A was backed by Khosla” like it was a good thing! I actually replied to him that this is a show stopper to me. Few years ago I did not join Theranos after looking at their board.

Do the “right” thing - especially here in the valley, if you work in tech you have a lot of choices
With all respect to you as someone who is likely commenting in good faith, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. I have mental health problems that are all but solved by the medication I take, and I also have extensive experience with hallucinogens. Without the medication, I am as you describe: anhedonic, with a flat affect and little patience for, well, life. Hallucinogens also have exactly zero dulling effect, and the "glow" aftereffect from them is not a numbing, either. On the contrary, it's a deep and abiding understanding of place in the universe and sense of self. YMMV, obviously.
Mortal Republic is not about the fall of Rome. It's about the fall of the Republic, or the transition from a republic (oligarchy) into an empire (monarchy). Rome in fact reached its largest extent about a hundred years after the fall of the Republic, under the emperor Trajan.

When people talk about "Rome's fall," they're usually referring to the decline of the western half of the empire which happened 400-500 years after the fall of the Republic. The reasons for this fall are debated, but it's likely due to some combination of plague, invasions, elite infighting, and a lack of rules about succession leading to constant civil wars.
There's a word for this in economics. The 'normal profit' is the 'wages' of the entrepreneur and risk-taker -> the return on the money invested or put at risk, and the time and effort of the entrepreneur to build the business. Nothing immoral about that.
James, you may want to read my comment again. I said nothing about "the downfall of the independent design industry." Independent designers aren't going anywhere, but there will be far fewer of them.
You don't check ssh fingerprints?
> I had expected the OpenBSD crowd to be out in force talking up the operating system but they've been surprisingly subdued

The OpenBSD motto is "shut up and hack". Look at the work that is being done recently with libressl, openssh, the new httpd, signify, static PIE, xorg privilege separation etc. etc.

They're letting the code do the talking.
As another poster said, you can query the Vantage Vue (and VP2) directly, but the $295 LAN interface he mentioned is not a necessity. A cheap USB to serial adapter can be used to make a homebrew interface [1]. Beware thought that Davis has some newer firmware versions out there that blocked this hack, but some guys smarter than me figured out a workaround. The latest writeup on how to get around that is here [2].

[1] http://madscientistlabs.blogspot.ca/2014/02/build-your-own-d...

[2] http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=18110.msg235399#msg23...
I used the phrase "almost surely" because there are occasional counterexamples. It is hardly normative that in an area of science where 95%+ of the scientists believe something and have that belief backed by evidence that they are wrong. It does happen.

It is also true that natural questions are generally natural to the people who study that area. Thus it's something that they've thought of. It is highly improbable that an amateur is going to ask a question or make a point that hasn't at least been thought about by the experts in that area.
Also covered on the Software Development Times: http://sdtimes.com/sd-times-blog-updating-posix-poses-proble...
Here is the comment I submitted to the article on Danah Boyd's blog:

I disagree that 4chan is a community of hackers for one simple reason: to me a hacker is someone who gets things done. 4chan and other sites that focus on memes are attention diverters, full of people who jump from one lol to the next.

In contrast a hacker is someone who is willing to focus time and attention on one thing until he excels in it. The 4chan mindset is not a long term, viable one, because the lulz distract from any real good that can be done. Sure you can pick through the porn, rubbish, and hate in 4chan and come up with examples of great things being done, but if you look at real hackers, such as the internet entrepreneurs that are creating web startups at http://news.ycombinator.com you see many great things being created with little rubbish, not a few great things mixed into volumes of lulz.

I don't look to 4chan to create long term internet change. They are great for creating laughs, but the next Facebook, the next Twitter, the next great internet technology will not arise from them. It will arise from true hackers who still hack in the traditional sense, by writing code and coming up with innovative technological ideas.
Separated at birth? http://www.vendr.com & http://vendder.com
His views of scientists in the media are outdated - apparently he hasn't watch tv since he was a teenager.
I have wondered, in a consciousness transfer scenario, if we can really ever ascertain whether the consciousness is actually transferred or, as I fear is the case, a new consciousness is created and the old one lost.

I assume someone has written a long treatise on the subject, but I have not considered the subject pressing enough to actually research it.
Lots of confusion in the article, given a very complicated subject with widely divergent opinions and the attempt for journalistic non-bias.

One thing that clears up some confusion is the important point that the word "Singularity" means different things to different people. http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/schools
Non of those stores are anywhere near me. Sure for any given type of store, you can probably find one somewhere in the world, but that doesn't do me any good if the nearest store is a 30+ hour drive away. There are plenty of opportunities for someone willing to take a successful concept and move it to a market where nothing like that exists.
When I've sent a laptop to AppleCare, they're very explicit about the possibility that they won't return the same drive, and that you should backup your data. That said, they've never actually taken a drive from me. So Winer's claim that "they take the old drive" isn't well researched.

Beyond that, Winer straight up doesn't know what they do with the drives; it's pure speculation. What he's really saying is that he doesn't trust Apple. If that's the case, he should take it to an independent Authorized Apple Service Provider that he does — it's just that simple. [Edit: not only can you still get AppleCare coverage at independent providers, but you can easily negotiate with a technician to keep your drive. At the place I worked, the drives that customers abandoned we took great pleasure in destroying!]

Further, when Winer says, "If Steve thinks it's confidential, maybe he should take some steps to protect the info?" — is that not exactly what he's doing?
The first and last words of a title should be capitalized.
I think that says more about how one should manage or protect their money than about Apple's repair policy. If losing your computer would bankrupt you, you're doing it wrong....
On a somewhat related note, here is a man with a bionic eye:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1424807
Laundry pile needs random access!
The article is plainly written and well written and allows people to decide for themselves what the intentions of Scott Siskind may be.

Contra to the insinuation that Cade Metz smears Siskind by unfairly associating him with Nick Land, Metz's article lays the evidence and allows readers to infer what that evidence may or may not mean.

For me, the concluding 3 paragraphs of the article sum up what Slate Star Codex (now "Astral Codex Ten") may be

> I assured [Kelsey Piper] my goal was to report on the blog, and the Rationalists, with rigor and fairness. But she felt that discussing both critics and supporters could be unfair. What I needed to do, she said, was somehow prove statistically which side was right.

This is ad absurdum at its finest. Proving whether an idea is correct using statistical analysis makes sense for many empirical matters. But proving whether proponents of extreme views (e.g. in the article, the idea that women are biologically not as capable as men to work as programmers) by using statistical analysis is a moral failure driven by scientificism. (I'm going to decline rehearsing the debates about whether women are biologically or culturally inhibited from programming.)

> When I asked Mr. Altman, of OpenAI, if the conversation on sites like Slate Star Codex could push people toward toxic beliefs, he said he held “some empathy” for these concerns. But, he added, “people need a forum to debate ideas.”

This really sounds unfortunately like John Matze's position on Parler. Slate Star Codex is not the same kind of gathering ground Parler was, but given the next paragraph, the comparison is not inapt.

> In August, Mr. Siskind restored his old blog posts to the internet. And two weeks ago, he relaunched his blog on Substack, a company with ties to both Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator. He gave the blog a new title: Astral Codex Ten. He hinted that Substack paid him $250,000 for a year on the platform. And he indicated the company would give him all the protection he needed.

If Slate Star Codex is somewhere self-described "Rationalists" can civilly and safely debate whether intelligence is statistically correlated to race and gender and these are "[t]he People Inventing the Future", then it's not surprising Horowitz would seek to protect that forum under the shelter of Substack.

However, it's slightly alarming to hear that Altman defends the promulgation of such ideas because "people need a forum to debate ideas". Too many of these ideas seep into the discussions even here on Hacker News.

Failing to object to immorality and immoral arguments cannot be corrected only by rationalism and statistics because Nature, at its core, is amoral.

Many dumb people are moral. Many dumb people are immoral. By the same token many smart people are immoral, too.

The real problem is when you realize that many smart people are, in fact, both immoral and dumb.

The article's last paragraph gives the lie to the controversy that has raged in tech circles surrounding publishing Siskind's name.

> In his first post [on Astral Codex Ten], Mr. Siskind shared his full name.
I love this keyboard and really miss having an USB-hub on it, such an underrated feature. Anyone know any good modern alternatives?
Like the news articles that have done nothing but gather random tweets from people? Journalism has become a joke of itself
> learned a lot

I've learned to not write my opinions down where someone can use them against me again, or say them where they can be recorded. - Zuck, probably
> CPython Developer in Residence

Can someone explain what this means?
So I just tried this for TeaRounder (my solo project I've been working on in spare time for a while). I did an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign for it a few months ago, so I can compare them from a project founder view.

Positives:
-It was 20-30 times quicker to upload to ptwi, significantly less daunting and was hassle free. I literally did this in five to ten minutes, immediately after seeing this thread. Ks felt like an ordeal, and took the best part of a week to get set up, including multiple drafts, setting up screenshots just to fit their layout, filling out a spreadsheet that wasn't really aimed at the kind of project I had - not to mention their system for verifying payment details and getting checked for fit with their rules (they tell you to allow a certain amount of business days for someone to check it, and don't really make it clear that that's only done if they're automatic system flags something up)

- your website name makes my intentions more clear. With Kickstarter there's often this impression people have, that the campaign is the main or only source of funding for a project, which can be downright harmful to projects. I remember a game console Kickstarter getting lots of flack for asking for an amount that people thought wouldn't be enough to make it work. When you only need a little bit or nothing at all, it's not helpful to have to inflate the amount you're asking for, on an all or nothing form of funding. (To me now, crowdfunding is basically a "vague acquaintances and people in the same online communities as me" round)

Negatives:
1)I couldn't change the amount I'm asking for in total. It might be because I'm on mobile, but even with zooming in, it didn't seem like that was even an input box. $1000 is way more than I need to prove that it's worth continuing on that route. I'd be happier doing $200 but on just a few days of the ad being live, since the next stage is only really a $5 per year thing. (Edit: 5$ per year is roughly what I'd want to charge each user for a basic level subscription)

2) the message about paying $10 to show I'm not a spammer. That is shown once the page is live and it's rather confusing. I don't know your brand and in my experience in the UK most companies that check if you're real by taking money and then refunding do £1, so being asked for $10 on that basis makes me nervous. Makes me question why there wasn't a captcha, or email verification, or restriction to one upload. It took me writing this up to realise posting projects to ptwi is anonymous. That also explains using cryptocurrency and having to save a specific link to administer the page. Feels really odd but kind of cool.

3) I've never used any cryptocurrency before, and I also wouldn't want to have to explain how to use it to people I share the link with. Ideally I should be able to just send the link to people with a short warm intro and leave them to it

Here's the shareable page that I got:

https://provetheywantit.com/project?public_token=pub_EDJsmGx...
That's so easy to game this system - people will send "hey" to 10 non-hot people, just to be able to afford a proper message to one attractive person
+10000 (super biased) for avgolemono -- one of those foods that I despised as a child but came to love as an adult.
> That line sums up this entire site. Talking about workers rights is politics, and we can't talk about that.

This place is full of politics.

> Let's just invent things and concentrate on that shall we?

I wish! But, for better of for worse, that's not what you'll find here.
SMS can be intercepted and read by essentially every country in the world and many criminal groups because of how flawed the protocol is. While smaller countries can't do mass ingress and automated analysis, they can still input your number into a system and then see what you text.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/19/ss7-hack-...
I think you haven't seen some of the creepy or horrible stuff that some men say on dating apps. Some of the women I dated would tell me about them.

While you can't guarantee a good date, you can at least eliminate the worst and unsafe-est dates by a little messaging.

I dated for a while on various services before choosing OKCupid and sticking with it. I talked to and dated several women before I met the woman who is now my wife.

That included some chat up front, then picking a safe, public location to meet and do something. I'm lucky to live in Orlando, so it was very often a theme park. If either of us were unhappy, we could just go our separate ways and be done. (Thankfully that never happened to me.)
I... I do?
I loved this article. Really hits at the problem we're trying to solve. We find these 6 questions helpful to ask if you should (or shouldn't) volunteer your skills overseas: blog.movingworlds.org/6-questions-to-ask-yourself-before-volunteering-overseas/