skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The banking crisis is a very different situation from a bad product launch. The banking executives knew exactly how bad things could be if the subprime markets failed.
With all due respect, if this is the best the anarchists have (and this article is from a respected individual and is decently written), you're fucked. These critiques are not new or without response. The problem is, this is 1000+ words of arguments about human nature, special pleading, etc, with NO sources. They describe known phenomena like control of the agenda and never call it that, I'm not sure if that's because they aren't aware of that term or they just fon't feel like attributing hundreds if not thousands of years of research before them. It'd be like if someone cloned Signal and acted like Moxie didn't exist.

Cite something, anything that scholars who study politics and democracies have written, don't put forward these vague critiques with nothing backing it up. Many arguments that seem intuitive are wrong when faced with evidence, and this article and anarchists in general seem to forget that democracies have certain features (and misfeatures) that are responses to real world situations.

Anarchism is a political ideology that's never met the real world, like a lot of ideologies on HN and elsewhere. This might convince the random Internet reader, but it's not going to convince anyone who has studied the topic.

Here's a few politics 101 cites that are decent:

https://www.amazon.com/Models-Democracy-3rd-David-Held/dp/08...

https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Its-Critics-Robert-Dahl/dp/...

https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Second-Robert-Dahl/dp/03001...

https://www.amazon.com/Future-Freedom-Illiberal-Democracy-Re...

Could tech people stick to what they are good at, or at least acknowledge the wider world of experience when they are making arguments?
In interviews with rapists, student pursues not-so-simple question: why?
It's perhaps less interesting as technology than pure machine-generated text, but I find it fascinating creatively. In practice it's a collaboration where the machine provides absurdity, and the human writer shapes it into a form that humans can easily read and enjoy. Traditional machine-generated text often has too many sharp edges to work as surrealist humor.
Or more likely, if alien UFO visitation is real (a huuuuge IF), it’s more likely that programs like this have existed since the 1950s, and are now deeply entrenched within the government as “black programs” with unlimited “black budgets”, and likely some connection to the pentagon etc.

The countless stories and admissions of former military and intelligence officers blowing the whistle on deep shadow governments always sound so crazy, but the sheer number of them over time is... disturbing. As a skeptic to conspiracy theories, I don’t know what to make of it.

In any case: The pentagon shutting down a new independently started investigation group (in this hypothetical world where alien UFOs exist) would totally make sense, as it would be redundant to the extremely secret programs already in existence and only a liability for possible interference. They also wouldn’t be able to tell them why they’re shutting it down or cutting off funding, because th secrecy level of such a thing would go so much deeper.

It’s hard to believe this has any credibility at all, but if this NYT article is genuine and the claims of real progress made by a small and brief program are real, I don’t know what to think to be honest.
That’s ClojureScript, not Closure. Yeah, they were both poor name choices.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08361

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08045
Stop blaming the victim for her perpetrator's actions.
I just want to say thank you for engaging here!

Mozilla fucking up like this still feels like a friend fucking up. It's frustrating and disappointing precisely because I expect Mozilla to be better than this.
Bitcoin and the test of fire of “Tulip mania” proof
>viewing the web as a lost cause or irredeemable is not the same as saying it has nothing to offer

I disagree - if it has something to offer then it's not a lost cause. A lost cause by definition isn't worth saving, or even engaging with.

> 'leaving the web' also doesn't seem very pragmatic, at least until something better is available.

The comment I replied to earlier suggested that the only reasonable solution to the web was to fork it or start over, with starting over being preferable. I'm merely suggesting that someone should actually get started on that.

Or maybe revive Gopher. I hear that's still around.
I used to commute from Redlands (60 miles east of LA) to downtown. I rode the Metrolink train. It cost $26 round trip and was 4 hours per day. This was better than driving which I also did. I could work on the train (Ruby on Rails, on Rails). However now I WFH which is far superior.

We did only pay $1450 per month for a 2bd/2ba townhouse though.
This completely. For example, if you approach the US government through a solicitation with really any half-reasonable suggestion for processing enormous amounts of data, and you'll get a contract. Go take a look through the US government's business solicitations: Every agency wants an AI because they're being buried by data they can't process. If you wanted to collude with elected officials and funnel government dollars into your business, these kinds of solicitations will get you the funding with few questions. And if you fail, well, so has almost every other business that's tried to solve this problem.
This is a great example to use when people claim they don't possess musical talent. Or believe that the only way to enjoying creating music is going the traditional route of studying an instrument.

Grab a guitar or piano and Garage Band and lay down a track with just one, two or three notes. Then layer on top of that another track with one or two of those notes and a new third one. Rinse and repeat. You're almost guaranteed to surprise yourself.
I'm primarily remote as well. I bounce between the Bay Area and the mountains, depending on time of year. That said, lately driving reverse commute down 680 towards San Jose in the afternoon, I see all those people doing what you yourself mentioned avoiding -- multi hour commutes. In the Bay Area, heading towards Vacaville/Fairfield/the Central Valley, there isn't a real viable non-car option.

So much time lost.
If they had telemetry then they had to have pretty good idea of what that thing is in order to decode said telemetry or even recognize its RF emissions as telemetry.
At least on train you can nap. I wonder why Cherry does not.
I think that is entirely disingenuous. The banks have been borrowing from the Fed and lending to the Treasury for a profit.[1] The taxpayers have essentially recapitalized the banks. Now we are in a trap of low interest rates trying to edge our way out. We’ll see how it goes.

Free markets would have let the banks fail. Instead we’ve created a world with champions for free markets for trade, free markets for labor, but protected markets for capital. Absolute self-serving hypocrisy. FDIC was designed to protect the little guy. The bailouts protected the richest americans and excellerrated the growing inequality in this country.

I believe in capitalism, but 2008 was the crony variety. It still angers me thinking about watching the crying pundits talk about risk on monitors next to Americans taking real risks in Iraq. The bailouts were bipartisan fraud at a grand scale and epitomize the corruption of establishment politics and the revolving door between government and the private sector. But sure, “americans got paid back with interest.” Believe it if you want to.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/are-banks-borrowing-fro...
I thought all Anarchist now just called themselves Libertarians?

As a Punk Rock Kid I had Anarchist showing up at shows trying to get people to join the movement. Then all the way through the 90s it go crazier. I can;t tell how obnoxious and violent things got. Now 20 years later they are all Libertarians now. It is safe to say I am not a anarchist nor libertarian but I am amazed how many people fail to see the history of anarchy and libertarian thought.

Anarchy falls into self-serving narcissism.
> powerful men pressure women into sex and then seem to genuinely think it was consensual

So, does it solve the problem if it became a rule that men in more powerful positions (but with no direct business relationship) should wait for a woman to pursue them? Or should people only ever date at the same power level? If the answer to the first is yes, wouldn't it help quite a bit if it became the norm for women to do the first move, or at least to so around half the times? There are cultures where this it the norm, but I can't comment on whether their dating life is 'healthier' or whether there is less sexual assault there. I reckon it would be an interesting, albeit very difficult to control for, social study.
> crypto-punk-decentralized-liberatrians

Woah, nice strawman
I agree with most of what you say, and I'm sorry I should have been clear that I don't think your comment is without merit. In truth, I am reacting more to the general direction I see in PL discussion on HN (which is what I should have said but was too lazy to find other examples).

> To take it further, I'm pretty sure if you only absolutely only wanted features for manipulating things

I feel like lisp fits this bill to some degree. Being the AST itself it is "without syntax" to some degree. I wonder if you dislike Lisps? I can't really tell you what this means with regards to our discussion I'm just curious.

> And I, too, like programming language and I feel what makes a language as such cool/useful/etc is that you express a computer's action in a compact, elegant and clear fashion for one's fellow human beings.

Definitely! I would never suggest that we should entirely ignore how the syntax affects our ability to read the code but, to borrow the lisp example again, I don't care about typing lots of parenthesis if I'm otherwise effective.

Again, your earlier comment is not unfounded and I appreciate where you are coming from.
You could turn the question around: who has a need for some people to be seen as intrinsically bad, and to what extent do we indulge that urge?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15897811

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931231
The other option will be to generate a new key pair on the new device, and then add the public key to an account via an already registered key.

Add key for <user@website> at <utcmillisecs>: <new_public_key_goes_here>;<sign>
too much simpsons?
Please be civil. From the HN guidelines:

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
One of the reasons I stopped eating meat was the that the industry itself is traumatic to the humans who process the animals and I wasn't comfortable participating in that economically.

So, I was happy to see that I don't use any of the services listed there, except a bit of YouTube. If I could avoid that one, I would too.
I was a very strong supporter of Mozilla in the early days when it was a scrappy nonprofit dependent on donations of time and money from its users (I proudly gave them both). Today's Mozilla by comparison comes across as bulky and wasteful and to have lost its way. It doesn't in any meaningful way depend on code contributions from outside the organization anymore. It is opaque and unengaged with it's users compared to the old days -- remember the success of the spread Firefox campaign?

I'm not sure what the solution is, but from outside, it seems like Mozilla should become a much leaner, more focused organization. Move out of that cushy building on the SF waterfront to somewhere where your neighbors are ordinary people, have employees want to work for you because they believe in open source and and the open web, not for the trips to Paris and the fat pay packages. Trim down management and all the other fat that has accumulated over the years. It won't happen, of course.
I'm just one DevRel engineer on a layover; I'm not the right person to answer those broader questions. Not trying to be dismissive, just trying to engage in the areas where I'm most able.
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No, it is rather vague what the original article means by "won’t mess with your underlying OS". And your "underlying OS won't mess with it" is equally vague too, IMHO. Providing some examples of "mess with" will be helpful.
> It's perfectly possible to cooperate with companies that otherwise disrespect privacy in a privacy-respecting way, believe it or not.

Yes, and the Google Chrome versions for Enterprises and Education have the exact same contractual clause that Mozilla has w.r.t. Google Analytics.

So either you trust this clause, or you don’t – in both cases, you need to trust Google.
I presume these are supposed to be survival rations. In a survival situation, I damn hope you're on a reduced calorie diet.
Syncing private keys seems like a somewhat risky thing to do.

I'm leaning towards generating a new key and something like this:
Add key for <user@website> at <utcmillisecs>: <new_public_key_goes_here>;<sign_with_current>

Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15943546
put the jigsaw together by haphazardly cutting off all the tabs that wouldn't lie flat and filling in all the empty spaces with glue
If drugs are legalized—truly legalized—the need for “gangster types” diminishes and all that is left is supply and demand.
Robert Bigelow doesn't believe "something unexplainable" has been happening in our skies - he believes the explanation for those things is alien spacecraft. He isn't interested in seaching for truth, he has an agenda.

It's also disingenuous to skip over more plausible explanations, including hoaxes, the memetic effect of UFO culture, classified military aircraft and disinformation campaigns, and misidentification of other mundane aerial phenomena, to assume that anything unidentified in the sky is likely an alien spacecraft.
Seems kind of silly to ignore that javascript enables much more robust user interfaces. It can and is used poorly or maliciously, but it's used for far more than cosmetic or financial reasons.
Even worse, it sounds just like an underground highway with streetcars and trams.

But as it runs on skates, do they want everybody to input their routes first? And clearly, it's going to cost so much now than surface highways, but economics is lost here, for people are convinced that a maglev train in a pneumatic tube will cost 6 billion, but a high speed rail will cost 80 billion. The name Elon musk is like magic to dispel any economic sense.
Public transit at commute-hours crowding levels is a vigorously and overwhelmingly repulsive place to be. Getting away from squeezing into standing room on the 110dB screaming-in-your-face jerking, putrid interior of BART and onto my own feet has been incredible for my mental health, even though the end-to-end time is similar.

Tried the Transbay buses also; I can barely stay standing since the drivers seem to rapidly alternate between slamming on the brakes and flooring it. At least the acceleration curve on BART isn't designed to kill you.
I very much enjoyed (and even laughed) reading your response.

It’s very concerning to see people talk so positively
about anarchy. Another word for anarchy is “nihilism”, which is its philosophical twin.

Neither of these words are used a lot today, but “nihilism” you’ll see mentioned a lot in the build-up to WWII.

Am currently reading the below book, which argues in its final chapter that a German invasion of Poland is imminent and is the next course of action Hitler will take. It was published in May 1939 in German, and translated in August 1939 to English. Germany invaded Poland on September 1st, 1939.

The author is very clear that for all their flaws, capitalism and democracy are very reformable. And that a dictatorship of Fascism or Communism will dazzle with early successes before descending into violence both internally and externally.

The Revolution Of Nihilism: Warning To The West
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1258001071/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_RZCn...
Raising an interesting question: can a website owner (use the law to) ban google from accessing their website by any mechanism other than their crawler in order that google doesn’t find out?

Sure, obviously limited utility just like “the right to be forgotten”s flaw of diffing USA internet from EU internet to find specifically what people want forgotten, but shenanigans interest me.
When was Product Hunt ever relevant? It's been a joke from day one as far as I can see. Just more inward looking, meta navel-gazing crap. Like you say, the intended audience is not real users anyway.
There are thousands of websites mining cryptocoins. I recently posted a tweet that went viral in Brazil - it showed that one of their government sites was mining coins - and draining 360% of my notebook's CPU power:

- https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/928681468024500224, https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/928705663060074496

Since that day, CoinHive has been removed from a lot of sites:

"In the 10/15 run, there were 1,040 mobile sites with the CoinHive Javascript embedded. In the 11/15 HTTPArchive run, this has dropped to 759 - a drop of 27%!" -- Rick Viscomi

- https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/the-performance-impact-of-...

To find all of these sites you can dig into HTTPArchive with BigQuery:

#standardSQL
SELECT
page,
req.url,
REGEXP_EXTRACT(LOWER(req.url), r'(cnhv.co|coin-hive.com|coinhive.com|gus.host|load.jsecoin.com|miner.pr0gramm.com|minemytraffic.com|ppoi.org|projectpoi.com|azvjudwr.info|jroqvbvw.info|jyhfuqoh.info|kdowqlpt.info|xbasfbno.info|crypto-loot.com|coinerra.com|coin-have.com|minero.pw|minero-proxy-01.now.sh|minero-proxy-02.now.sh|minero-proxy-03.now.sh|api.inwemo.com|jsecoin.com)') library
FROM
`httparchive.har.2017_10_15_chrome_requests` AS req
JOIN
`httparchive.runs.2017_10_15_pages` AS pages
ON
req.page = pages.url
WHERE
REGEXP_CONTAINS(req.url, '(cnhv.co|coin-hive.com|coinhive.com|gus.host|load.jsecoin.com|miner.pr0gramm.com|minemytraffic.com|ppoi.org|projectpoi.com|azvjudwr.info|jroqvbvw.info|jyhfuqoh.info|kdowqlpt.info|xbasfbno.info|crypto-loot.com|coinerra.com|coin-have.com|minero.pw|minero-proxy-01.now.sh|minero-proxy-02.now.sh|minero-proxy-03.now.sh|api.inwemo.com|jsecoin.com)')
GROUP BY 1,2,3
I said what was using disk usage.

App telemetry, defender, compatibilty, etc.

>Frankly this sounds like it's getting into "respect mah authoritah" territory.

Yeah, it must really suck to have the burden of being able to delete files that aren't in use on your machine that you own, run, and paid Enterprise edition for.

What possible use could a professional system administrator need for changing files on a machine... except the exact use I just mentioned.

If you can't understand why having admin file access is important, then I suggest you never try Linux (or... Windows 7... or any IT job) because you will be horrified by the potential control you have over your system.
If you're providing electricity to charge people's devices, it's a loss.
You inserted the word "random" into the OP's statement in order to support your position. Your employees will ALWAYS have a better understanding of the state of affairs of projects they are developing, simply because they are the ones developing them. You cannot fully understand the complexities without doing the work yourself. Not factoring opinions about a product from the employees who are making it is incredibly irresponsible, and makes those employees much more likely to find an employer who will value them as subject matter experts.
It may at least affray the WiFi costs.
apart from the fact that mozilla has standards it (supposedly) holds itself to, firefox is a beloved tool. It's not a piece of content, it's a tool. My content can be messed with, for sure. My tools can not.
With all the right criticism, if we try to be constructive, I think this is an opportunity for a change. Mozilla/FF might not yet be Google/Chrome and we can change the course of the future of FF

Let's not be fundamentalists - people make mistakes, and we can give Mozilla a chance to fix it and be 100% transparent next time.

If they can't make it without these tricks, then they should say that it's not the FF we are used to and want, and they can share the user space with Chrome. But if it's not like that, then great, let's do it together
Did you work on side projects or work work?
Absolutely. The "preppers" are idiots. You can't survive more than a couple of weeks, at best, completely off the grid without extensive training and preparation--certainly not in an urban or suburban environment.

The big one that people never seem to realize is that gasoline goes bad much quicker than you expect.

However, Katrina cracked the shell of the idea that the government will help out competently in a timely fashion. You may be on your own longer than you think. And planning for that is simply sane in areas like California (fires and quakes), the Gulf Coast (hurricanes), or the Northeast in winter (ice storms).
Incresing telent of school girls
Doesn't sound the same as yours, but I saw the "triangles in the sky" in the late 90s in Australia. I came home from work at about 1am, and noticed three lights up in the sky moving at the same slow speed in a triangle-ish formation (For a while I thought they were connected, but then seemed to move independently, and just looked... odd). I watched them for a couple of minutes go across the sky, then had to go and wake up my parents to show them and prove I wasn't imagining it. I tried to take a photo, but this was the 90s and my night-time SLR skills were bad ;)

20 years later someone described the exact same thing on /r/astronomy and I remembered it. I spent a weekend "researching" it and there were lots of article and sightings but no real info (I was pretty intrigued at that point!). Then someone replied on the astronomy post that it was "Maybe the NOSS satellites."... I looked them up, and yep - it was exactly what I remembered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxN2ieE8N9A