jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A lot more would be revealed by contrary examples, either yours or those you greatly prefer, stylistically, over The Economist.
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Do we need a webbrowser base proxy for WhatsApp to Signal (and other chat platforms)?

Run it on webbrowser at home / cloud instance and proxy msgs but drop all FB trackings?

Any pro/con to this approach?
There's Gemini, which I prefer to use over Coinbase. There's also Kraken.
But why another walled garden and not distributed Matrix?
To coin a popular phrase, "reality has a liberal bias."

When one side of the partisan divide has willfully abandoned all pretense at adherence to facts, to protest that people call them out for this, while not calling the other side out for something they're not doing in any meaningful sense is...well, it's frankly absurd, and smacks of the same kind of party-over-reality logic that the aforementioned side is operating on.

It doesn't matter if 9%, 49%, or 99% of the people choose to follow someone who spits on facts when they don't get him everything he wants: the people asserting that reality is still reality are just as much in the right, no matter who or how many dislike it.
Sounds like the perfect case for a new captcha system. Generate a random phrase to search an image for, show the user those results, ask them to select all images matching that description.
Read about the "halvening", which is an important factor here.

The amount of bitcoins rewarded per block halves every certain amount of blocks, making blocks harder to mine and therefore makes coins more scarce and expensive.

The last halvening happened in May 2020, the next one may happen around March 2024.
This was at least very, very close to what they term an "auto-coup" - a coup by a leader who lost an election, thrown in order to remain in power.
Jabber was an open Federated protocol, before Matrix.

I am absolutely in favor of open protocols, but they are not a guarantee against needing to change ecosystems in the future.
> Simple but not 100% foolproof, you can mutate your source code and verify the changes propagate.

If I was evil, I wouldn't have a totally separate source tree and binary that I shipped; I'd have my CI process inject a patch file. As a result, everything would work as expected - including getting any changes from the public source code - but the created binaries would be backdoored.
The Signal outage was SIX DAYS?
First of all, I am calm.

Second of all, there's nothing crazy about what I said. By their own admission they've designed the apps to be addictive.

Would you tell your friends "go ahead, shoot up. have a great time!"? Would you tell your family? What I think is crazy is that we tolerate companies that make products like this.

I guess greed is a powerful force.
> The diagram alone is more than enough of an argument to dissuade me from giving this a shot right now - it's simply too complicated and too much to manage for the amount of time I can dedicate to it.

Yeah. I have a basic home server and I feel like even with fairly modest needs/desires (Jellyfin, Deluge, Zoneminder, some kind of file syncing, I gave up on photos because my whole family uses Google for that), it's hard to find a reasonable workflow/setup that covers it all. It was basically down to partitioning by VM (proxmox) or partitioned by container (docker), and I went with Docker + Portainer, but I'm not really happy with it; even basic functionality like redeploying a Compose configuration has sat as a feature-ask for three years [1].

Maybe I'm wanting it to be something that it just isn't, and I'd be happier with microk8s and managing the apps as Helm charts. But is that just inviting additional complexity where none is needed?

[1]: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/1753
I would bet, although it's very difficult to identify, that not a single long term successful investor is a pessimist. Much like startups you need to be very optimistic to succeed like Elon.
It's not interesting at all.

When the government created undischargeable-in-bankruptcy loans for 17 year olds to get them into debt for life so they would need to be pliant, obedient workers for businesses owned by the 1%, on whose behalf did you think they were doing it?

The students'?
There were probably too many things lost from "our" (n-1th generation) childhood too. Things like marveling at the first TVs, playing with unspent WW2 ammunition, etc. I'm sure each generation has its own things that they miss and think are detrimental to have lost, however I'm not sure that overall it's worse for the current generation. Hard to say. Growing up, I certainly would have loved having near infinite amounts of programming help available for free, instead of trying to decipher something from a 50-times photocopied manual. I guess some things get better, some worse, change is the only constant.
It's basically what I've done, though have not automated it yet.

It even prepares the expression snippet for me to paste directly into a CloudFlare firewall rule.

That's how I got to quickly identify and ban almost 2000 different IPs.

If they continue to expand the IP pool I may need to automate it though.
Because going through all that just to listen to music is bonkers
That's exactly why phone companies are bound by extra regulations. They are deemed core infrastructure and private censorship from phone networks would effectively be public censorship.

If CloudFlare or Gmail became the only way to communicate online, they would certainly fall under the same regulations, but they're not even close. You can still host any legal website you want and email your family any legal content you want.
While I totally agree that Rust is a great language the point I got from this article is more about how fast NodeJS has become over the years, the work done on V8 is astounding!
The uninformed have been saying this for years, the truth is those sarsen stones aren't available in Wales, they exist very close to Stonehenge in other parts of Wiltshire, and Oxfordshire
I think it is worth pointing out that there is a cultural factor in the ordering of the reasons - in the UK, the most important item in a list is often placed last.
For example - a work colleague drops by. You discuss multiple things. On his way out he says "And by the way ...". That last point is the real reason he came to see you.
I have fond memories of playing multiplayer Atari ST games on a "LAN" comprised of a bunch of MIDI (and occasionally RS232) cables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI
Grocery stores are satisfied almost entirely by domestic freight carriers (this could be said to be one of the definitions of a grocery store); in non-expedited domestic shipping, rail+truck are far-and-away the lowest-overhead carriers, with air not even entering the picture. Air (and sea) are for international and/or expedited freight, neither of which matter to shipping cabbages or cereal.

If grocery stores sell faster, and so requested more resupply, you'd just see more 18-wheelers on the road and more freight-trains passing through. Neither "infrastructure" of which is operated anywhere near its capacity.
Startups who can offer Technology, Solution, Idea, Patents and even Mentorship support to solve the Corona Crisis problems under the following categories :

1.Remote Work & Remote Education
2.Stabilizing Affected Businesses
3.Generating Awareness & Behavioral Change
4.Protecting Most Vulnerable Groups
5.Personal Hygiene & Protection
6.Medical Systems & Support
7.Social Communities
8.Open Category
A couple of years ago I loved SFCs in Vue. Now I hate them with a passion.

The approach only works for very small components, not for real world use cases.
Both are possible in Haskell:

factorial 0 = 1
factorial n = n * factorial (n - 1)

// or:

factorial n = case n of
0 -> 1
n -> n * factorial (n - 1)
Url changed from https://tailscale.com/blog/remembering-the-lan/, which points to this.

There was a small thread back in January: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22173983
Same, up here in North East a lot of things are showing as available for next day delivery still. Also got a parcel today that I ordered yesterday.
Dictatorship isn't efficient at all. Dictatorships all experience gross levels of corruption and resource misallocation, often to levels that result in their entire economy collapsing. Meanwhile capitalist free market democracies surge ahead with huge GDP gains and cutting edge technology.
If your VC isn't plumbed all the way into your editor, you can't tell changing a typo from deleting and re-typing the whole file when it comes time to create a delta.
Lovely, thanks! I'm going to give it a whirl. :)
that one link that will save the world
Sorry, that certainly wasn't my intention, and I'll be more mindful in future
and please Luqtas, adopt any poor children at early age and let them eat books and consume any type of scientific podcast and feel how they build up!
It has been reading a bit sensationalist. The brain cancer stuff too.

They are doing a nice job of though hyperlinking evidence to back up the claims. Where else can I find similar work? Can I trust them more or less?
> You know, stuff that actually kinda matters, and can improve people's lives.

Are you arguing that social networks don't improve peoples lives?
Well clearly this is all in the name of feeding aliens to the poor. Or just getting literature enthusiasts to read about neutrinos :]
Yeah - my whole architecture is based on simpleDB....
"Also django has all the batteries needed to run as a server"

Last I knew, this is not true, and glancing back at the docs for Django it appears to still not be true. It ships with all the batteries for a debug instance of a server, which is meant to help developers work with their Django apps without having to go through a full "deploy to Apache, restart" cycle every time they change anything, but the debug server is not at all intended for production use. Production use requires a dedicated webserver like Apache or nginx.

If this benchmark used Django's internal webserver, it's entirely invalid. If it didn't, it ought to say what it did use.
Even a slight increase in survival chances is worth a shot.
I'd have to argue that an architectural drawing is not very detailed. And even if it is, the builder takes plenty of latitude in constructing the building. For example, the way that builders pick nails isn't by accounting for humidity levels or type of wood they use (older pressure-treated wood can corrode certain metals faster, same as newer wood can corrode others.) Instead, most of them just grab what they have, so when nails start failing after a few decades that's not their problem. Not like the architect said to use all galvanized nails everywhere.

But I digress. Here is how bricklayers and programmers are similar: they commonly work in the vacuum of their own workspace, without awareness of the environment that impacts their projects. So once the projects are launched, they're impacted by things that weren't accounted for.

If the foundation is too weak, the brick wall will sag. If nearby trees grow too close to the wall, the wall will bow inward or outward. If someone builds on top of the brick wall and doesn't reinforce it over 8 feet, the inspector will condemn the work. The bricklayers are paid to just lay bricks, so they won't care about the nearby trees, they won't care about the foundation, they won't care about what you put on top of the wall.

Programmers will build the project to spec, and come launch time, not account for a particular load signature because that was never their concern. Seen that time and time again. Substitute foundation for baseline server power, trees for amount of interrupting processes and meddling managers altering the original program at random, and you have a pretty reasonable comparison to bricklaying.
Thank you, that was a great explanation.

For what i've been using java for it's never really bothered me. When there is need to use primitives it's almost always in the form of a list where you can just use an array instead to avoid the boxing/unboxing.

The risk of null pointer exceptions when implicitly unboxing objects are more annoying..
NASSCOM http://www.nasscom.in/
"Most reviews give a bell-shaped curve of star ratings;"

Not true now [1] and not true back then [2].

[1] http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1134743
[2] http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/eclstabus/1670r.htm (Fig. 1)
I like that they've actually thought about deployment as well as the web stack itself. Too many frameworks leave that out.
To put your salary in perspective, it would be reasonable (not great) in most of Brazil, but terrible in São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro.

So you definitely got a bad deal.
Both Google Docs and Apple's iWork apps are free in the browser.
with regard to snuffing out terrorist plots, this (in my mind) needs to be a collective effort. Government is not the only entity that should be responsible for preventing terrorism. The way I see it, it's the only way to keep governments from becoming the omniscient creatures they strive to be. By making it a world-wide collective effort to work to prevent terrorism. The moment you make it entirely the government's problem and responsibility is the moment you (for humanity's sake) have to relinquish your privacy.
That's a great and well-reasoned argument that is clearly relevant to the current scenario.

Oh, wait, no, it's not. Your German Shepherd isn't planting bombs underneath the neighbours' porches in case they decide to rob your house.
Obviously, it should be called Wolfram's law.
I'm not going to pretend I know when CS:GO was ported, but for a very long time (until the crate update) it was easily the least played version of Counter Strike.

I think it was ported to Linux before it was successful, but I can't be sure.
I got a license for home use from my company for a one time payment of under $10.

So millions of people probably have a deal that's even better than what you're asking for.
This tells you nothing about number of people that would die as a result. Remember what happened to global trade when 1 ship was stuck in Suesz?

It takes a couple dozen nukes to destroy all large-scale deepwater ports in the world. Global Trade is crippled. UK and Japan depend on food imports, so people there starve.

It only takes a couple dozen nukes to destroy most oil refining capacity in the world. Czech republic has enough gas to last 6 days
Good logic. Never sell anything ever because the price might go up.
How can we create new incentives to discourage this behavior and to encourage infrastructure projects that provide jobs as well as create superlinear value?
> mks.io/ac2

This is an interesting setup. What stops someone from creating a PR or fork with the answers?

Also, what kind of answers are you looking for from a candidate? When giving interview advice after seeing things like this, I'm not sure if "the" answer involves data hiding. Would that go beyond what you expect of a candidate? If not, I can appreciate how hard it would be to juggle the various incoming skill levels.
Webjars don't supply externs so I don't see how this could possibly work.
Some S40 nokias do have whatsapp, so I guess it's available through an update or the ovi store.
Agreed – it's possible and for simple tasks such as stripping an analytics cookie it's workable but for anything more serious you'd want something like https://github.com/lkarsten/libvmod-cookie
I look forward to this being back-ported to Python 2.x so that it might get used in the real world.
Take a look at the University Techical Colleges in the UK, eg for Life Sciences:
http://utccambridge.co.uk/

Or for Computer Science:
http://www.utcreading.co.uk/

Or for Mech Eng & manufacturing:http://www.derbymanufacturingutc.co.uk/
If you cant find a way to make money on a billion dollars going though your service you are doing something wrong...
Have a comparison between the twitter predictions and the bookmakers odds. Have a 'Place Bet On This Match' link with referral link embedded on each one.

See if there's any affiliate programs you can join as well where there's a "Free £10 bet on any world cup match" and you get a %.
That's what I've just done too... well, a .gif. The white text of Google now looks terrible.

It's really ugly no matter what now. I don't think I'll be visiting the home page again for a while... might set up one of their custom search boxes on a page of my own so that I can avoid the home page.
> but having a free, physical button that magically reorders trash bags or detergent or paper towels placed in the very location where you would consume such things? magical!

I don't get it. I keep tens of such things in my kitchen alone (paper towels, napkins, dish sponges, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, etc, etc). Does anyone really want a bank of these buttons lined up inside each cabinet? Wouldn't it be about 1000x more convenient to just have an app for this with all my Dash buttons running on the little computer that's always within arm's reach?
I'm guessing that the people using this, and order-everything-online are relatively price insensitive for the types of things this appears to be targeting. Saving $0.30 or even $1-2 probably isn't going to make it worth it for me to reconfigure or find a new brand.

It's also self-selecting: if you ARE searching for the absolutely lowest price, or are price sensitive, you're not the right target audience for this kind of tech or company :)
I thought the first ending you had was gold...

(Very rough Paraphrase)..
It sucks in this business when our knowledge base starts becoming obsolete, and we are sometimes tempted to think of reasons we don't have to learn new things, and also why no one else should either.....
> "Kubernetes is the biggest quality-of-life improvement I've experienced in my career."

Just wait until the developers discover Google App Engine, Heroku, or DigitalOcean App Platform.
They also have ReFS - new filesystem in NT Server.
That is indeed a major problem, but it's still better than Facebook, whose incentives are never aligned with their users.
Because YAML is an abomination that uses spaces for logic, there isn't any other way if you need YAML at the end ( like you do with Kubernetes).
Fuckin' let 'em. I'll pick Apple over Facebook eight days a week, and if Facebook takes their ball and goes home, well, even better since it'll finally get me to completely pull the plug on their platform.
Drugs affect behavior. Drugs that historically were assimilated via elaborate cultural mechanisms -- such as alcohol, beer, harvest, festival, +folk remedies for overdose -- are part of the societal matrix and accounted for.

No one really (really, outside of comical personalities) ultimately cares about "tight control [over others'] consciousness". People who care about societal order care about 'understood' phenomena and pervasive cultural mechanisms to sublimate its effects. Even assimilated drugs (again alcohol) still cause societal ills, even with literally thousands of years of usage experience.

A drug that makes you bliss out is perfectly fine for you, but a society of blissed out slackers could be looking for future trouble. That is really the legitimate basis for minimally thinking about the wide spread use of drug X (that affects behavior). That should not be controversial. Our modern additional factor is that there are for profit entities that also produce "medicinal" synthetic formulations that offer individuals some form of chemical psychological relief and pleasure, and thus present the possibility of distortion of facts around other, natural, drugs.

Whether the effect of a drug is primary or incidental is irrelevant. That the 'effect' occurs is the only thing that matters. I remember this previously famous electronic music artist who lived in the basement of the building where I lived as a student in W [109]th in Manhattan where he could score Heroin on the sidewalk. He was a Heroin adddict. He was intelligent and articulate. The Columbia English major girls kept him company. We had interesting conversations regarding addiction. His two main points were, that Heroin finally gave him relief from the un-ending pain/sensory-input of the body. He had an elaborate theory regarding that benefit. His second point was regarding the harm of Heroin. His take was that all negative effects of heroin were secondary and related to maintaining the usage, not the drug itself. I.e. if you were rich it was not a problem drug. You raided mother's purse only if you were poor so let's not blame Heroin. :)
Well, that is kinda the point. Popper's job wasn't to tell scientists how to do their job, because they were already doing it. Popper's job was to put the scientists' jobs on a firm theoretical footing, because if scientists want VLTIMATE TRVTH then "it works in practice" really isn't sufficient.

Popperian falsificationism doesn't succeed in that, which is pretty much old news. (Start with Lakatos and Kuhn and work forward from there.) It's also not really a problem, because philosophy, like science, works as a series of successive approximations. That kind of hypothesis revision works well enough for the scientists to do their work.

The problem that that the article describes is that a lot of people don't recognize that. HN is full of people who claim to subscribe to falsificationism, without being aware of the limitations. (Even weirder, they'll often describe themselves as "logical positivists", even though the actual LPs were specifically against falsificationism, and were criticized by Popper... and they quit when they realized he was right.)

Even that wouldn't be a real issue, since (as you note) science does work pretty well despite its flimsy theoretical foundation. But it reaches a real problem when people claim both "it works in practice if not in theory" and "falsification is VLTIMATE TRVTH" at the same time.

In particular, it leads to a kind of over-reliance on the foundations of science. It misses the kinds of human judgments that go into knowing when a project fails because it was wrong versus failing because you screwed up the experiment. It leads to over-application of incomplete scientific models, where people will claim "... but it's SCIENCE" when they don't know the limitations of the domain.

Science is so important, and scientists so good at it, that it's really tempting to dismiss the theoretical problems. The article does an OK job of pointing out some of the issues involved. It's actually pretty interesting stuff: the epistemology of science didn't end in the 1950s and in a lot of ways it's more lost than it has been at any time since Hume.

Most scientists have no problem ignoring it, and are probably more productive when they do. But when they don't ignore it, and get it wrong, it can lead to real-world problems.
Aren't the Greek symbols used in math void of implicit meaning? You're taking a meaningful English sentence and replacing its letters with Greek letters while making it extremely difficult for people with disability on screen readers, those two things are not the same.
A fallback should not silently start disclosing your Personally Identifiable Information (IP address in this scenario) to an unrelated third party. It's the law (GDPR).

In the face of failing or missing primary DNS, the system should loudly complain about it, then get authorization from the user to fall back to a default DNS server.