skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, though I think we need to diffuse the sentiment via organic cultural osmosis rather than relying on ivory towers to indoctrinate for us (not effective).

Alan Kay frequently laments the direction of the computer industry, calling computing "not-quite-a-field" and "pop culture". From an interview in 2012:

Quote:

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> Kay: [...] [I] happen to believe in history. The lack of interest, the disdain for history is what makes computing not-quite-a-field.

> Binstock [interviewer]: You once referred to computing as pop culture.

> Kay: It is. Complete pop culture. I'm not against pop culture. Developed music, for instance, needs a pop culture. [...] The big problem with our culture is that it's being dominated [more by] pop-culture content than it is for high-culture content. I consider jazz to be a developed part of high culture. Anything that's been worked on and developed and you [can] [sic] go to the next couple levels.

[...]

> [Kay continues]: [P]op culture holds a disdain for history. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you're participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future — it's living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from]. [sic - brackets in original]

---

It's a great summary of the programming fads that have come to characterize tech culture and how disappointing it is for anyone who is trying to navigate this field with some intent and presence of mind higher than fitting in with the crowd or cashing in on a perceived gold rush.

It's also just a great memorialization of the concept of pop culture in general; pop culture is about a feeling of belonging and community, and engaging positive biological responses associated with social approval and community. It's something that people do to give themselves that rush of praise, and then retroactively try to justify. After a couple of years, no one can understand what anyone was thinking because they were just rationalizing riding the tide.

And, IMO, it aptly describes not only the React phenomenon, but also Kubernetes (aka "shared hosting"), Docker (aka "static linking"), etc. Also IMO, big dollar players stoke this negative culture because it's profitable for them.

It's not necessarily that these technologies won't leave their mark, it's just that they're not the revelations people pretend they are.

Regardless, suspicion is always warranted when people insist that the contemporary is novel, in computing or practically anything else.

[0] http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit... \ archive: https://archive.fo/DkQOc
That's actually pretty fast. Starting the JVM, grabbing the memory for the heap, and then exiting takes one tenth of a second.

Things like this are why all the "Java isn't slow" articles miss the point completely --- 100ms to do nothing useful, on a presumably quite fast machine, is ridiculous.

For comparison, 100ms is roughly the time it takes to grep an 18MB file:

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/12/08/2000x-performance... (look near bottom of post).
That is the special, black keyboard that comes with the iMac Pro machines. The only way to get one is to order an iMac Pro, at least for now.
Oh, are you thinking the KASLR bypass is actually the main problem, because it allows targeted rowhammer? I'm not sure if that's really true, since a KASLR bypass would give you a virtual address, and rowhammer would care more about physical addresses.

But in any case, the KASLR bypass is not the main vulnerability here. KASLR is widely seen as too leaky to be really useful. Linux would not rush out a >5% performance hit just to fix one of the many leaks.
Mainly as a spec for the whole program. It saves time on designing code, when management can communicate what exactly they need done rather than just give a vague story. There's usually a lot of this back and forth going on about what the app really intends to do.

It helps a lot in clarifying contracts too. For example, if there is no internet access, the contractor might just want to let it show a vague error pop up, but the client might want it to show a cached version.

Making testing easier and reducing bugs is just a nice side effect.
The job description says the backend is written in python. Where does Haskell fit? If hired, could I program in Haskell exclusively?
It's more like a tsunami of Running Balances vying for event horizon. I'm not sure how this is ever supposed to be "consistent" unless you're talking about full historical nodes, in which case yes definitely, but non historical nodes are able to prune transactions after a while. Still a lot to dig out of this gem of a paper, any error in interpretation is my own.
> the specific feeling that the agency is not a force for good.

There are a mixture of feelings about the agency. The same can be said of the CIA and FBI. And this is nothing new.
AMD doesn't exactly do an amazing job of avoiding gotchas in their CPUs. They have a bizarre idea of what writing zero to a segment register should do (resulting in info leaks that were only recently fixed on Linux), their demented leaky IRET is even more demented than Intel's, and their SYSRET's handling of SS is downright nutty.

OTOH, Intel's SYSRET is actively dangerous and has resulted in severe security holes, and Intel doesn't appear to acknowledge that their design is a mistake or that it should be fixed.
New Intel bug?
I think they are a victim of their own success. They had a good thing going, especially when the DC region was basically an army of clerks and was affordable. They made a little bit more than than average Federal employee and had nice benefits and retirement — a good gig.

Now there’s no way to pay a government employee market rate without a scandal. The public views government employees as conniving sloths, but doesn’t understand that they pay 3x for a contractor (including sales, legal, compliance, risk premium, profit).
It was an unnecessary wedge in the discussion and should have been ignored.

This happens too often "In group C, people are suffering... well group A has it worse than group B of the Cs so..."

So what? The whole point of the article was about how we could use machines to enact a dispassionate efficient system to ease suffering.

Instead, the response (OP) was emotional and divisive, effectively calling for a pissing contest of which gender has it worse, and a defensive reaction to the possibility that one's failures are their own, not just their successes.

The three points in the article: education, joblessness, and welfare were written without assigning blame. The reader may assign it, but the author seems careful not to.
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Is this a side effect of customizations created by admins?:

> Last commented: 1 year, 13 weeks ago

> There are no comments yet on this issue.

Maybe a large part of the hate is genuinely about the default configuration and UX.
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What’s with HN linking to paywalled sites?
I find "beyond compare" to be a very good merge tool. It's not free, but not very expensive either, and works well with git.

(I'm not affiliated with them in any way)
> I'd say that there is whole another kingdom of AIs that are apex predators. Armies.

States, more explicitly.

The insight that human organizations can be seen as superorganisms (and perhaps superintelligences) is right, and applies to states, businesses, municipalities, churches, etc.

But the whole point of the insight isn't to be generally suspicious of these semi-alien systems that are generally more powerful than individual humans. It's to think more carefully about how to program and limit them, just like with AIs.

One of the nice thing about at least one of the two state AIs in that cold war you were talking about is that people did/do think about this and we've ended up with a system fairly-well designed to operate with broad user input. It's possible it could use some improvement but it's probably better than a broad segment of constituent humans is prepared to take advantage of.

Business AIs are generally pretty good at taking advantage of that, though. In fact, there's a credible argument they're exploiting features of the system to heavily influence the first tier.
No need to "clone".

A wooly mammoth is just an elephant that spent several generations in colder than average weather.

Evolve the wool to insulate.
> We have content-based prioritization with QoS and if the Title 1 classification went ahead wouldn't the FCC be in the position of regulating those QoS standards which as you point out, are managed privately at the moment.

The Internet as it currently exists has DiffServ markings, the meaning of which is not clearly defined, and the markings themselves are not reliably preserved end-to-end. In practice they are not usable for connections passing through multiple networks with different owners. The markings could be set by the endpoints to request what amounts to content-based prioritization, but the markings aren't tamper-proof.

There are no other QoS technologies that are available and supported on the public Internet. ISPs may be doing things behind the curtain, but there's no transparency or control available to their users. Recent years have brought a renaissance to the QoS technologies available for users to deploy in their own gateway routers and new congestion control algorithms to use on their own endpoints, but the former isn't being adopted by ISPs and the latter can't be.

However, those new QoS technologies have shown that need for DiffServ-style QoS on the public Internet is largely fictitious, driven by ignorance of the advances in QoS methods since the early 1990s. It is now clear that outlawing ISPs' use of discriminatory DiffServ or port-based QoS rules can be justified on purely technical grounds, without even bringing up the business conflicts of interest involved. Content-based prioritization rules don't hold the record for best-performing QoS system, even when the rulesets are carefully curated.
WaitWaitWait... Nasa had its peak funding during those Moon landing years. We've let that equipment dryrot, switched to new versions, run those into the ground, slashed the budget repeatedly (and again over NASA's climate change research), privatized everything possible, let the best engineers retire, underpaid and underutilized their replacements until they left...

And somehow we have the gaul to wonder "why is going to the moon not working?"

Its almost like we're asking for something for nothing. Scientists and Engineers need to eat too. We need to buy new hardware. Train new people. If we wait too long, Musk will buy Cape Canaveral. We've already let Houston get turned into a museum rather than a launch pad.

I dont care how much you're gonna blame bureaucracy for this - this is poor leadership at the helm of our nation to gaslight folks this way.
Portfolio theory. 1 investment succeeds, 9 fail. The one that succeeds pays for the rest. That's why they are "top allocations".

The question is, how many of his investments worked out? If the ratio is less than most, then it's mostly sheer luck with the really good ones.
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> It doesn't scale well

in every circumstance.

Just because ISPs love to skimp on upload speed does not mean that it is reasonable to do so.

Infrastructure is reactionary. If users need more upload speed, they will pay for it, and ISPs will update the infrastructure accordingly.

> Also, connecting doesn't work with NAT, carrier grade NAT and firewalls. They need a client-server model with a server that is accessible.

That's another arbitrary issue caused by overbearing ISPs. There is an awful lot that people would be able to do if they had reasonable control over their ports.

ISPs - especially the 6 massive incumbents - build the absolute minimum infrastructure they can get away with. That is simply their fiscal incentive. We shouldn't be afraid to give them new incentives.
The earliest I can recall being exposed to the concept was this 2013 blog article: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...
No, I don't think that a jail sentence is morally equivalent to abduction, and I don't think that a DUI is morally equivalent to thievery.
He has a point, he was just snarky about making it.
Me too, but it's still possible to encounter conflicts during rebases. This tool might help with those.
From the FAQ:

> "Are paywalls ok?"

> "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds."

> "In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

In this case, sibling comments have already described ways around the paywall:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16056066
70% of the NSA's budget goes to private defense contracting firms:

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/private-contractor...
Because you only said "magnets" so I debunked your proposal by subsets of the set "magnets" -- first tackling the permanent kind, then electromagnets.

in the broad direction of using a material isolation or some kind of electromagnetic shield.

Water would work as a shielding material. 6' of lunar or martian regolith would work as well. As for "some kind of electromagnetic shield" note that a huge electric charge would be relatively easy to establish, which would repel particles of like charge. However, this would cause particles of the opposite electric charge to rush towards what you're trying to shield, so that particle flow would have to be managed with a magnetic field. This has been discussed and researched since at least the 60's, actually. Managing such particle flows would involve a whole lot of engineering research and not an insignificant amount of power.
Only occurrence of the word "punch" in the article:

> if someone gives you racist or sexist abuse to your face you can complain (or punch them). But it's impossible to punch a corporation

I can't imagine what you think is controversial about that.
Makes one wonder just how much money people are willing to spend to find that plane. Not every mystery is worth unlimited funds to resolve.
It implies that too much of a thing can be dangerous which isn't always the case.
with luck, mentioning NSA on your resume results in an immediate trip to the discard pile during applications at most tech companies.

if you're going to invade privacy on a massive scale, you better be ready for the consequences.
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See also: Jet.com before it got bought.
They beat amex at their own game. That’s a big deal.
I'm digging my Thinkpad T570. This bad-boy has two batteries!
At the far end of the scale, here is a 20 bytes Hello World, nearly 6 orders of magnitude smaller:

https://www.gnostice.com/nl_article.asp?id=225

The difference in abstraction level is amazing.
Connecting to multiple proxies
You have glossed over and simplified how contracts and billing rates work, your synopsis is not accurate.
Right, if you innovate too quickly you end up with major security issues like root login with a blank password.
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There are actually about 61 billion XRP sitting in the 'basement'
Somiibo's proxy browser module
There is no moral obligation to pay additional taxes beyond the minimum that tax law permits.
Some people are genuinely patriotic.
> We grew up poor because of my mother's infidelity...

No, from your description you grew up poor because your father abandoned you, and his legal obligation to support you, as retaliation for your mother's infidelity.
Yeah, "SJW" basically means "outspoken anti-bigot," and using it as an insult says a lot more about the speaker than their target. Kinda like "intellectual" and "cuckold".
That’s just one type of consulting. If you pay T&M for a guy in GSA schedule or whatever, they’ll bill him as a Architect level 12 at $250/hr. Or a higher scale for a different position.

The employee’s compensation is more about the number of pimps^H subcontractors between him and the contract.

Another example are service based contracts where the government pays a fixed price for delivery of one or more outputs. Those outputs might just happen to align with what particular employees do. These things are generally aligned to make the contractor more money vs the employee. But the employees are well compensated, and the overall deal is good enough that they don’t lose a lot of talent.
It is a loaded term. It doesn't belong here, anymore than announcing women are all bitches belongs in civil discourse.
I absolutely agree. To be clear, I'm not endorsing the attitudes I described - they abhor me.
I don't really care if the government is in the business of "propping up the profitability" of the entertainment industry. If the laws were changed to reduce or eliminate copyright protections, I'd be fine with that.

I do care about rule of law. If copyright laws are the law of your land, I think that is sufficient reason to follow them, even if you are actively working to get them changed, either because you don't like them specifically or because you don't believe the government should be engaged in unnecessary activities. I don't believe that the existence of copyright law abrogates a fundamental right or denies a fundamental need, so I don't believe there is a legitimate basis for "protest" non-compliance.
It's not ridiculous. Some countries (and States, iirc) require that speeding and red light tickets have to be issued to the driver of the car, so traffic cameras capture both the licence plate and the driver's face.

Similarly, if I torrent pirated media in a Starbucks, should the store be charged?
I tried an Impossible Burger last week, and it was very good. I could not distinguish it from good beef. It's plant protein with heme, a sort of lab-grown blood. A few places in the Bay Area now serve them. Worth trying.

I think fake meat is having an electric car moment, where there is suddenly a product every bit as good as the previous technology, just more expensive. When the price comes down, real meat will seem gratuitously cruel and unsustainable.
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My mistake - on rereading the article, I see that while there was one example of a refusal of consent being ignored, the activity being reported is, in general, consensual.
To be more precise, smaller zero-dependency Java apps --- the practice of bundling the app.jar with a JVM, into one file you can download, unzip, and run immediately, has been around for probably as long as Java itself.
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2 batteries? How did I miss this one? What kind of realworld battery life are you seeing?