skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realize that this would come across as senseless bashing.

My main complaints against TCL basically center around the everything-is-a-string mentality and the corresponding lack of type safety anywhere.

A more minor objection is that I strongly dislike the syntax for numerous reasons, such as

- Comments aren't like any other language and have numerous gotchas, e.g., you can't use mismatched {}s in a comment within a proc,

- Whitespace is relevant in surprising ways, such as requiring Egyptian brackets for procs/ifs, and I constantly forget line continuations

- Using foo for lvalues but $foo for rvalues, while sensible, is a constant source of typos...

but, of course, you do get used to it. Mostly. But the comment thing really irks me.

I will certainly agree that you can do worse. TCL is surely a fine alternative to awful shell languages (bash, C shell, etc.)

But in the realm of dynamically typed scripting languages, I'd absolutely nominate Python or Ruby as a much more reasonable and sensible for your everyday programmer, and Lisp's S-expressions seem far more elegant if you insist on a unifying principle like everything-is-a-...
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Not only does lpolovets really reply to cold emails, he also makes warm introductions to other VCs after meeting those cold emailers.

Source: personal experience
Right... this sounds like a really strong possibility. Why didn't I think of that. :)
Well first, Buffett still buys lots of shares in public companies. His first few decades were almost entirely public companies. Second, any investor running an investment fund can make offers on private businesses, and get the same tours.

Its not an informational asymmetry, it's what you do with it. Walter Schloss is another great example. Beat the market by 5% a year for over 40 years, did it buying exclusively the doggiest public companies. He was the ultimate cigar butt hunter. His advantage wasn't information Wall Street didn't have, it was his willingness to use information Wall Street wouldn't, to invest in opportunities they would not.

Buffett does have one informational edge, his experience and judgement. He knows how value works, he has total confidence it works, and he never panics, even when down 50% in 2008. He never leverages himself in a dangerous manner, never gives someone else control over his decisions.
Just curious, have you considered therapy for your crash? I'm in a similar situation and am wondering if therapy could help.
I fully hear you about the 'focus' ... but again, a lot of tech work is reading, trying things, meetings, etc. etc.

If we 'only wrote code' I might agree that 1/2 days would be max.

FYI - for the the same reason professional orchestras don't 'rehearse all day'.
The periscope company will just CNC it out of a solid block of titanium then.

Microsoft wouldn’t want their business. It’s a relatively small amount of money for very large amount of pain in the rear. And even if they did want DoDs business, DoD wouldn’t deal with them directly, instead they’d subcontract them through one of those giant contracting companies with “Federal” in their name.
Perhaps you should add https://fiatcoin.net to the list.
Ahh, that completely changes the meaning. It's basically just like credit card processing in that case, but just for Android Pay (and probably Apple pay if/when they adopt the API). The transaction description/line item thing makes a lot of sense from a user perspective (granted, I am not, and do not intend on becoming, an Android Pay or Apple Pay user).
> providing no way to wipe it

sudo nvram -d fmm-mobileme-token-FMM
I worked on three OTF-funded security audits a few years ago (though not of Signal). No spook crossed my radar at any time. I'd have been very surprised if any had tried to pressure us at that work; you can read Bamford or the Snowden stories to get a better idea of how they seem to work.

(Despite having some security experience I'm not a cryptographer, and I feel kind of silly speaking up here. But the FUD is even sillier.)
Often the "communications problem" is that people have low reading comprehension, and cannot type.
Keybase is a truly exceptional product and this feature especially solves a big problem for my company. Thank you for all your work on this.
> DoD wouldn’t deal with them directly

Why wouldn't they deal with them directly? They already do!

I understand being cynical, but you have to admit you're making a satire of this system, no matter how ridiculous it is in reality.
FYI, they literally try to do that. HDCP is DRM between displays and video output devices.
So then make it not illegal?
The deadline for retailers getting on board with chip readers was October 2015. Gas stations pushed back and got it moved to 2020 because of the high costs (according to them) associated with swapping out card readers attached to pumps.

The way I understand, after the 2020 deadline, gas stations will be liable for fraudulent charges (or at least associated fees).

Also, I've had my debit card skimmed twice in the past 3 years. A smart gas station (or chain) would pay to put chip readers in NOW and advertise that feature. I'd got there exclusively.
In the second image here [1] there's a security seal on the payment closure as a whole; I'd imagine a simple security seal along the side of the card scanner intake would thwart most would-be card skimmers, no?

At that point the employees could just make it part of the standard inspection and it'd be more obvious to customers if they were missing.

[1]: https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/learn_tutorials/6/9/4/Gas_Pu...
This stuff is really the ultimate technical debt. Fixing it seems to provide zero benefit today. But there is a significant chance that one day it's an extinction event (or just a billion-dollar blunder, if you're big enough to survive it).
Very few credit cards are chip and pin, they're mostly chip and sign. And I don't think I've ever seen a gas station with a chip reader, so the chip's not really doing you any good if you're just swiping anyway. I believe the gas stations were given a longer timeframe to convert.
GP's comment is a perfect example of the heuristic that the phrase "value-added" means that someone wants to fuck you over hard.
Check out the Open Source Society University's Computer Science learning path:

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I doubt that would go over well. He could have simply stuck to asking for proof before paying and that might have been the end of it.
Touch ID though. (edit: I see what you mean. I didn't see parent didn't mention Touch ID)
I would say that even in the case of tickets, you can instill futility with the fines.

Many Americans spend basically their entire adult lives with outstanding fines against them, if only because it's not possible for them to ever pay the cumulative fines + subsequent punishments. Throw on issues like bail and you've built a system someone can fall into and never get out of
I’m not being cynical, I’m speaking from direct experience. Satire, as it turns out, is not quite as inventive as government bureaucrats.
Here's a question. What if based on this hack and others, someone decides to publicly post all the details they are aware of. So basically I can go on a website and look up all the hacked SSNs and the person and their information associated with that. How will the US cope with that?

The reason I ask that question is that it's definitely not gonna happen. But it's arguably a lot better than the situation right now where we have a few malicious actors who do have that information. If the data was completely public I feel you'd have a huge effort to fix the problem bwcahwe your neighbor can look up your credit worthiness. Yet I think the situation right now is worse because we won't have that effort to fix the problem yet 95% of the people who would have caused you problems have that data.
Here's hoping it's a joke. ;- )
Sure, it will have a different effect, but that is due to external factors which can also be regulated in a similar manner. In any case, these are far more pragmatic methods than trying to find every single SARM molecule that pops up.
Surely there isn't that much room on a sub. I've heard horror stories of how cramped they are.
I actually don't see how using the browser would provide any practical value. If you pay for a streaming service you might as well just watch the legit DRM'd version. If you're watching a pirate stream you might as well stream from a pirate who cracked the DRM on their side.
Hard to imagine a competent security review would not point out "Your entire database is accessible directly from the web server and you have no verified plan or demonstrated capability to deploy security patches to the web server within a reasonable timeframe"
It's true. But private investors made much bigger profits. If the Fed struck Warren Buffet's deal, the national debt would be smaller.
This map provides a pretty good guide, and I've found it to be fairly accurate as to orders of magnitude even if its data is dated:
http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html

To get truly dark skies you'll have to drive 5-6+ hours from SF. Much of the Sierras don't cut it anymore, and Mendocino NF gets lots of light pollution from the central valley, or too far north can have too much water vapor in the air.

Places I've been to within a 7-8 hour drive of SF with super-dark skies:

Central Nevada in the Humboldt-Toiyabe NF units (e.g., North Toiyabe Crest or Table Mountain), or pretty much any place in central Nevada.
Northern parts of Death Valley.
Warner Mountain range in Modoc County, CA.

Further afield:

Great Basin NP in Nevada.
Jarbidge Wilderness in Nevada.
South-central Utah (e.g., Capitol Reef NP).
Gila NF in SW New Mexico.
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I was skimmed at a gas station last winter. I pay with cash now.
As it should be. I hope the DRM folks will ignore IPFS until it's too late.
Possession and use should remain legal in all cases. This is pretty basic privacy and body autonomy rights.

Distribution can be regulated.
There's also "msconfig", present in Windows 7.
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> decriminalization of all nonviolent drug use and possession

What is meant by nonviolent drug use?
The option of there being no DRM was realistically never on the table, as much as people would've liked it to be.

Way back in the 2000s when HDTV was getting off the ground, the networks demanded that all recording devices support a "broadcast flag" that would allow them to prevent recording. CBS in particular said that unless this was legally mandated, they would refuse to broadcast in HD. Instead we called their bluff, and they backed down because it turns out they don't hate money: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/dtv-era-no-broadcast

Sure, media companies would prefer a world where everything is DRMed and all computing devices are locked down, and if we hand that to them on a silver platter they'll take it. But I don't believe for a second that they can't survive without it.
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/produce-the-note-defe... for some more detail. But it was, initially, a good strategy if you were being foreclosed to demand the person filing the motion could prove they held the note.
Thanks, this looks like a fantastic compendium. Will be looking through it.
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Here in Australia its pretty much 100% chip and PIN or contactless payments (paypass). Has been for a number of years now.

I don't think anyone swipes cards unless there is something wrong with the payment terminal. Even vending machines are tap and go.
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The article specifically mentions that Lockheed is handling the integration.
> Can you point to these Stac-M3 results and maybe at least mention that language? I wasn't able to find it.

That makes sense, since your background isn't in high performance computing and you can't use google:

https://stacresearch.com/m3

The first item on the list is written in an interpreted language.

> This is not just an opinion, it's scientific and objective fact.

I've just demonstrated two counterexamples, so it's clearly not "scientific and objective fact". Indeed I've never met anyone who even thought Rust would outperform an experienced C programmer in programmer speed, program runtime, and low program size.
How did the orchid originate and evolve?
Personally, I would like to see a lisp replicating tcl functionality, in other words an alternative surface syntax that could reuse existing pure tcl libraries or at least be able to transpile them to this lisp.
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Just curious if they wrote the IDE in assembly (my instincts say not, but they do make assembler). The login is giving 404 https://fresh.flatassembler.net/fossil/repo/fresh/fossil/rep...
imo, less generational and simply forward progress in human factors, engineering and design.
appear incredibly simple*️
It'll be interesting to see if testosterone, human growth hormone and steroids will also be legal to use and posses outside of professional sports
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Neat, but I don't think this is going to help them sell more hardware.
Why? You're not responsible for fraudulent charges and now you're out on points / cash back.
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"drinking & driving doesn't necessarily hurt others--unless there is an accident as a result - but until there is an accident -- innocent till guilty of an accident while influenced."

Do you agree also with the statement above?

My view is that most of the externalities of drug uses should be managed by taxation, not forbidden. But there are some externalities that require more brutal coercion than just taxation.
Intimidating people into submission so that they do not report on valid criticism isn't just "capitalism", it is unethical behavior, Cersei.
I fail to see how it's easier to control for biological variation and physical preparation than it is to control for PEDs. And if one is going to have rules controlling one or the other, I personally would lean towards considering PEDs as a variety of equipment: some of which is allowed and some of which isn't. I can see one arguing that the athlete's body is equipment. I'd say that's generally not how people think about it, and reasonable people can disagree.

What's your goal in this thread? From what I can tell, it's just an exercise in the Socratic method. Is there an actual position you're aiming for?
Hi! I thought the response string was rwasa's fault :)

Question. I've just started to become interested in learning/messing around with assembly language under Linux, and fasm seems like a really attractive option - as and nasm are both tied to gcc (nasm indirectly), and fasm skips all that (and produces slightly smaller binaries too!). fasm also seems compiles itself in less than a second on my really old machine as well, and fast iteration time is one of my favorite features.

Linux-specific assembly-language documentation is kind of rare on the ground though; for fasm in particular, there's literally hens' teeth and dust bunnies. It's very possible to piece things together, but if you have absolutely no idea what you're doing it's a bit intimidating.

HeavyThing is practically a tutorial in and of itself, but I must admit my hesitancy to lean too heavily on it due to its use of GPLv3. I certainly respect the use of that license (and understand the many reasons it might be used for such a unique project), but I'm only tinkering around myself at this point so would likely want to use MIT, CC0 or similar, and would feel a bit conflicted about the predominant thing I learned from being from GPLv3.

HT is on the list for sure, but I wanted to combine it with other sources of info. You seem to be one of the few people out there actively using fasm for Linux development, so I figured it couldn't hurt to ask if you had any other high-level suggestions.
Legalize.

Why should we funnel money to illegal drug cartels to fuel their crime and violence by decriminalizing drugs?
The IDE is indeed written entirely in assembly language, as is everything from the webserver up (JohnFound, author of FreshLib/FreshIDE also wrote a fastcgi layer to interconnect with rwasa from my own goods). Everything there is assembler.
I know that comment seems superficial, but when I saw the Windows 98 style GUI, I actually thought that perhaps this was an abandoned project someone was bringing up for nostalgic purposes.
I don't really see any new threat from WebAssembly. Isn't the only threat that the same malicious code can run with better performance than JavaScript? As far as I can tell, WebAssembly doesn't provide any additional access to native system features like this DRM spec does.
I've been reading the bio of Musk and it discusses that they progressively replace COTS as much as possible, building and designing in house because in the end, THAT is cheaper.
The Musk biography is a pretty good source for that question. From what I remember, SpaceX produces a rather extreme fraction of its parts in-house (something like 80%–it's been a while). What they don't create themselves, they often source from the consumer market. They avoid the tradition space industry supplies wherever possible because they have had success with off-the-shelve parts available for a fraction of the costs.

I believe the book gave a radio module as an example. It was available for $120,000 at "space-rated" quality, but they bought something at RadioShack for around $3,000, and later replaced it with an in-house part that was smaller/lighter/more power efficient.
Violence isn't the only crime one can commit on drugs. Neglect and carelessness can also be criminal acts in some circumstances.
That will only be slightly more difficult than blocking today, technically.

What would be worse is that there's a plausible text-DRM coming up next, which would make altering contents of webpage illegal, hence making ad-blocking unlawful.
If you were to pick only one and don't mind a flight and a (super long) drive from Phoenix, Albuquerque or El Paso, Gila NF in New Mexico is the place to go. As I recall, driving along the northern fringe on route 59 I experienced probably the biggest lightless vista view I've seen in the lower 48 states, even compared to many wilderness areas in, say, Kings Canyon NP or elsewhere.

This is on the other side of Gila as well:

https://sites.google.com/site/cosmiccampgroundinformation/
Since we don't understand the nature of consciousness there is zero evidence to indicate that mind uploading will ever actually be possible.
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Discipline can be structural and social. You still do better with a checklist; otherwise you're limited to a memorable meme. Or were you making a joke? (Sorry if you were)
I still don't get why all credit cards have magstripe when we have chip&pin for decades. Yes, I know it's required by a standard, but I see no justification for that. I have never used magstripe , but it's right there on my every card and there's no way to disable it (I've asked my bank for it), unless you deliberately destroy it (scratching or similar manner).
It's a struggle getting non-privacy minded people to change to Signal.
I've never been to the US but I've heard that "everything" is so far apart from each other that people need cars.
Here in Washington the chip readers are sometimes taped over... nearly always in, you guessed it, gas stations. They have the hardware but it's disabled.
I have just completed my website https://www.camerasforpros.com which collects mentions & reviews of Photo Gear from Reddit and StackExchange in one place. More than cameras and lenses, I am surprised by the number of unexpected accessories I discovered through this experiment.

Before this I did a word exploration site https://www.niftyword.com . It has been steadily growing helping quite an handful of people, but is not a revenue pulling niche. Currently makes enough for server costs and a monthly dinner.
Hello, I decided to build note.delivery because I often want to share notes between my computer and phone without affecting the formatting.

I also wanted to familiarize myself with a frontend framework. I am a very experienced Go developer, but this is my first webapp built with vuejs (or any JS framework for that matter). Honestly, as a full-stack developer, I used to feel like frontend was something I had to 'endure', but vuejs somehow managed to make it quite enjoyable.

I'm always interested in teaming up with intelligent and like-minded people; not necessarily for note.delivery, but it would be ideal to begin with a small-size project to see if we are a good fit. As for note.delivery, I see several potential revenue streams, e.g. by including user support, allowing customers to store their notes on an account, or obtain the ability to write notes that only they themselves could delete, or to let notes automatically delete after X amount of time, or let us post a physical mail on their behalf without anyone being able to associate that mail to them, etc.

Ideally, I'd like to find someone who's great at marketing, selling, or have good connections. I'd also love to team up with a talented artist (for game dev). As for fellow developers, the ideal partner would be someone who's great at building scrapers, or capable of building great native applications.
Start simple and hook fasm in with a "normal" gcc/g++ project... I wrote a page[0] ages ago on integrating C/C++ with the HeavyThing library and a good portion of that has nothing to do with my library specifically and is a great starting point to mess around with assembler on a Linux platform. The only other pointer is the "call PLT" format for calling externally linked functions from inside your fasm objects but that is the only tricky bit IMO.

https://2ton.com.au/rants_and_musings/gcc_integration.html
That makes a lot of sense.

I could combine this with viewing gcc's assembly output, as well!

Thanks :D

Edit: This page is ridiculously comprehensive. Wow.
I am not very athletic myself so it was pretty clear that I would never be a top athlete no matter how much I trained. Sometimes you just have to accept things. I am fairly sure that I will never be a top mathematician either. Another limitation I just need to accept.

If everybody dopes the naturally talented will still win.
> Why not just simply ban cars from cities in general?

I think you're over-interpreting your parent. In some cities it is feasible to go without cars. There's a lot of space between cities and a lot of smaller cities and towns where that isn't feasible, at least not currently or without a lot of additional infrastructure.
I'll point out that, unless you have data suggesting otherwise, for all we know those two groups of people on HN have no overlapping members.
From the words in your comment, you don't live in the United States. The reason payment cards the world over still have a mag stripe is because, until a few years ago, chip cards were simply not a thing in the U.S. so the facilities for reading them simply didn't (widely) exist. Therefore, cards from other countries had to have magnetic stripes in order to work in the U.S.[0]

Even today, two years after the supposedly "drop dead date" for switching to chip cards, 40% of my transactions are by swiping.

0 - There are other reasons, like some ATMs reading the magstripe to ascertain whether a card has a chip and then prompting the user to leave the card in place. I've only encountered older ATMs that do this but it is another reason. But the most common one is that outside-the-U.S. issuers want their cards to work inside the U.S. if a customer of theirs travels there.
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