skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is what puzzles me most in the article. Unless one phone that can handle Whatsapp is used by several people I do not get what they are trying to achieve here. AFAIK Whatsapp Web needs to have a phone online and is not provided as a standalone web service.
> An ecommerce, a newspaper or a blog should have no reason to execute client side code to render.

The main reason is advertising, which is ultimately how this web content is paid for.

But there could be alternatives. We could create static img elements that could securely and discretely record whether they were viewed by a human (to prevent ad fraud). We could support simple animations and interactivity in a secure, resource-friendly way. And we could allow these to be disabled by user agents (e.g. epileptics).

Could newspapers exist without online advertising? Possibly, but only in specialised niches. Consumers have shown that they will always seek the cheapest, most accessible forms of information - even when provided by highly biased, unreliable sources.

The danger to killing online advertising is that it creates a world where the only people who can afford to publish are those with other interests - plutocrats, politicians, churches - and who will inevitably bankroll news only to further political ends.
I doubt the diet soda is going to be much better for you. Seattle seems crazy. Banning plastic straws. Sure wouldn't want to live there, maybe visit but they even want to ban people from driving gas and diesels into the city! So I guess skip them on the road trip across the country once they do!

Electric cars are all about control, limiting freedoms and are gimmicky. The new Tesla you have to use the touch screen to even open the glove box! Even the AC is touch screen based - which I think is unsafe compared to a tactile physical knob.

http://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-other-major-world-cit... - wonder how huge of a fine they'll give to tourists just passing through.

I really think these local governments are out of control. I really hope the feds step in and do something to them using the Commerce Clause to end this nonsense. I think there are certain things cities should be prohibited from regulating.
Primer, if you want a bit of a mind-bender.
> non-turing-complete language like HTML

I would be careful about that: It wouldn't suprise me if HTML with CSS (at least with all the new things like animations) is turing complete (it probably is).
> too small to matter,

Matter for what, exactly? Case in point, there's a distinct physiological difference between me, a guy who has lived at almost sea-level altitude for his entire life (I'm in my late-30s now) and a guy who has lived in La Paz, Bolivia, at 3,000 m altitude: I won't be as able to physically perform at that altitude as he is, and that matters (for example if I were a professional footballer and I wanted to win a match against the Bolivian's guy team most probably I would lose, even if I were Messi, one of the best footballers ever). And I could add countless other differences between different groups of people from all over the world from the sports' world alone. That wouldn't make me a racist because I don't believe in races, but I believe (based on my past observations) that there are indeed differences between the 7 billion humans inhabiting this planet.
The pro and con sides could both be argued. That just goes to my original point that "ethical" and "wrong" are subjective determinations here.
Akira is one of the greats. It’s essentially the story of post-WWII Japan retold as a sci-fi story.

Idiocracy (2005?) was a cult film for years and has recently become less obscure.

Anything with Sharlto Copley in it is going to be good. Or at least his role in it will be good. What a great and under appreciated actor.
Oh. Sorry about that. I copied the title first, pasted it to the form and then copied the link. Apparently I copied the wrong link
Agreed. The article was pretty opaque.

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Reading a random person rant about scientifying stuff, should perhaps be evenly distributed across siblings; until you realize that writing style does give away a lot about the person writing it. You can write a decently performing classifier that predicts gender (and several other demographics) from stuff they write, even from tweets, and chats. It would be stupid to think that people do not pick up the demographic clues in writing, and set their preferences accordingly.
I have to be honest, I think the experience that BT were clear and communicative would not be a typical experience, and EE themselves admitted their customer service just completely fell apart last year.

The split between Openreach and ISPs in the UK has been very helpful for increasing competition in the UK and avoiding the malaise of regional monopolies the US found itself in, but the one time it presents clear issues is when something goes wrong with the line. The ISP has very limited diagnostic options, and a customer cannot speak to Openreach directly despite the fact it's their cabling that's usually at fault. So you're stuck playing Chinese Whispers with the engineers looking at the problem and offshore support, normally with the consequences you'd expect. And the perverse situation where ISPs have to tell customers they will be charged several hundred quid for a visit if the Openreach engineer decides that the ISP supplied router is at fault rather than the line (O2 quoted that line at me once when I was looking out of the window while a bunch of roadworkers looked on at the steamshovel they had just wrecked putting it through a main power line and all our fibre. I was fairly confident the router was fine...).

I had a terrible experience with Sky recently, when my line started to fail and drop intermittently, something that has happened multiple times before to me in this property, likely due to weather damage to the poll. Sky tried to charge me £50 for an Openreach engineer visit despite them not being charged by Openreach for this. Meanwhile they're trying to charge me for an ISP service they're not providing. I told them to sod off in no uncertain terms.
How does one do this? I found no relevant setting in privacy badger's settings, and even though dnt is disabled in my browser's settings, I'm still sending the dnt header with privacy badger on (after disabling Privacy Badger my browser no longer sends it, so it's definitely Privacy Badger).
Possibly the only movie I have seen where diagrams help!
I wonder if the fact they are Indian is relevant here, especially given the timing of the influx of critical posts. It may be a difference in cultures and values. It seems like an absolute non-issue to me as an American, but I may be in the minority.

From my perspective, the tweets were not a mistake. They certainly weren't done with malicious intent to the tweeters, and they all for the purposes of marketing (with some meme humor mixed in). Isn't this pretty run of the mill for some twitter marketing campaign?
Interesting that the name "America" is only used for (a part of) Brazil. This appears to support the consensus that America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, who first explored South America.

Shame. As a Welshman, I quite like this version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Amerike
It also has no TCP/IP stack from what I remember.
I have so much respect for that guy just looking at his achievement.
Fantastic ideas here! I love your peaceful, holistic approach to an industry that is so often dominated by stress, last-minute planning, and local optimisation at the expense of the whole. Thanks so much for sharing.
Locks are just propaganda anyway.
I'd second this, and would recommend looking up the Heinlein short story "All You Zombies," that the movie was based on. The film was a very accurate adaptation.
Some random categories:

- Classics: Forbidden Planet, Solaris, Stalker

- Dystopia: Brazil, Gattaca, Children of Men

- Action: Verhoeven's trilogy of Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers

- Space: Gravity, Sunshine, The Martian

- Robots/AI: Ex Machina, Her

- Time travel: Looper, Primer, 12 Monkeys
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> This is not possible, and the history of Haskell, Scala, and to a lesser extent OCaml, is precisely the evidence for it.

Then how do you explain the existence of e.g. Idris or Dotty?

> In practice, most uses of HKTs or even term-level HOFs are just bad workarounds for

> (0) The lack of a proper hierarchical module system, allowing type components to be shared by fibration.

They don't feel like a workaround. They feel like a nice way of modelling my problems that has the properties that I want. Maybe there are other ways, but if those other ways work then why aren't we seeing them in industry?

> Do you actually verify them? How exactly do you verify Scala programs in the absence of a formal semantics for Scala?

Any verification method has a false-negative rate. I use a combination of trusting the compiler's typechecking, sticking to the scalazzi safe subset and enforcing with linters etc., manual review of recursion (limiting the cases where it occurs as far as possible) and fast and loose reasoning.

Maybe I'm missing something, because there always seems to be some disconnect in these conversations: as far as I can see any method that lets you associate logical deductions to your program and mechanically verify that those deductions are legitimate is verification, and I can certainly do that with propositions-as-types in the Scala type system. I don't verify the faithfulness of the compiled code, but many verification systems don't do that either. I don't have a proof of soundness, but plenty of verification systems don't have that.

> “There is no largest class of recognizably terminating programs.”

Sure. But not all recognisably terminating programs are important or useful. To form a terminating language we have to have a finite limit on how many levels of nested 'eval' we can do at compile time, sure (though I see no reason we can't form a parameterized family of languages and pass the "depth" as a compiler argument). That's irritating, but it's a big jump to "unacceptable"

> One thing that I find useful, due to my current job, is numerical linear algebra without array bounds checks at runtime. Have fun doing this in Scala.

"Without array bounds checks at runtime" is not a real requirement. The real requirement would be something like "using x amount of CPU" or, ultimately, "at cost of no more than $y". FWIW I did numerical linear algebra in Scala in production at a previous job; the benefits outweighed the costs.

More to the point, there's nothing fundamental about Scala that makes it impossible to incorporate linear algebra without array bounds checks at runtime into the language. Yes the current implementation doesn't do it, but that's a contingent fact about the current implementation, not something fundamental.
This is the guy King Crimson was talking about.
> The amount of dedication Terry shows for his project is beyond what you see anywhere else in the software dev space.

I'd say Linus Torvalds shows at least the same amount of dedication to the linux kernel.
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How can you handle more complex scenarios without knowing your before tax salaries?

For example, working two jobs.
Yeah but TempleOS also lacks networking so the house is also in interstellar space completely isolated from burglars trying to steal your stuff.

It's a very interesting design, I recommend to atleast play a bit with TempleOS.
Believe you missed American Graffiti. (1973)

THX1138 is pretty special. I'm still trying to find a version without the typical Lucas retroactive CGI spliced in.

Fun fact: there's a scene in the movie (no spoilers) that was filmed, sideways, in the then-unfinished BART transbay tube. If you've seen the movie I bet you'll know which scene.
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C'mon I didn't like this movie at all but downvoting it is rather unfair.
May I suggest a social construct ?
I thought the recent film "Arrival" was really good.
>wisdom in its design

Design choices in TempleOS are basically made by rolling dice.
If you combine index masking with a branch that should still be Ok. For example, if you do `if(idx > arrayLength) return undefined else array[idx & mask]` then the CPU can only predict "return undefined" or "array[idx & mask]", none of which can cause any harm.
AFIAK it needs to go to the 'real' phone first, then it sends from the device. It would still use a load of data (unless they are using WiFi, but I don't think penetration of fixed line broadband is very high in India).
Terry has been writing on TempleOS (and the previous iterations which were mostly name changes) for about 15 years without pause, even Linus takes breaks.
Yes, but if you've already got a proper phone why not use that with the SIM from Jio. Surely the whole point of JioPhone is for users that have no other phone as it is so affordable?

Can't make heads or tails of this :)
> suburban hell-holes that are Atlanta, or parts of Houston

And yet in those places there are no housing shortages and normal people can actually buy a house without waiting for the equity fairy.
Are there any other goods taxed after quantity rather than a sales tax? It seems complicated.

EDIT:
Ah, cigarettes and alcohol (in the US) apparently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_...

https://www.cbo.gov/budget-options/2013/44854

And healthcare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excise_tax_in_the_United_State...
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I'm not sure whether I understand (or trust) this analysis.

- If I buy an house and resell it within a year, barring extreme circumstances, I'm probably a real estate investor/professional; maybe it's the fact that I was able to buy a property which I felt was underpriced, then maybe I did some minimal "rejuvenating" modifications, and sell it at a premium.

- We don't see the negative data; how many properties were on sale and were not sold? We're very likely to introduce a bias, otherwise, because I suppose very few people would sell at loss, hence we see few sales at less than purchase price.
You raise an interesting point!

Maybe everything should have access to everything, and then you keep your _real_ secrets, like encryption keys, on dedicated hardware that locks away the key to the outside world and only does signing. Like a Trezor bitcoin wallet or secure enclave on iOS.
Link has nsfw material on the side.
> Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person to completely understand?

I think the answer to this is yes. But at the same time, I think we're kind of messing up because children today don't have the same kind of systems a lot of us grew up with -- ones that boot instantly into programming consoles with easy ways to make sounds and draw graphics. Terry's vision to create a modern system like that is deeply good, I think. Personally I imagine something more like booting into a console that understood Forth and/or Lisp, and had what we now consider to be reasonable resolution and number of colors... but Terry is building his dream, not mine. Also, God provided a specification to Terry.
Looking at the graphs in the article the difference between oldest and second oldest is much bigger than between subsequent ones.
Windows 9x has process isolation, but has no concept of permissions thus any process can do anything that is provided by the OS API (which includes reading and writing memory of other processes, injecting code into kernel and such things). This means that it is very unlikely for misbehaving process to compromise the integrity of OS itself or other processes (modulo the fact that such process can confuse some other OS component, eg. window manager, such that the system becomes essentially unusable).
In your example, the difference between the high altitude person and you would be too small to matter if you weren't a mountain climbers or professional athlete. So for most people altitude differences are to small to matter but they do matter to certain subgroups.

The analog here from Scott's article is that he mentions that this skew towards first-borns might be STEM specific. A 1.5 point difference in knowledge based (creative) careers might matter. But most people work in training based (vocational) careers, and a 1.5 point difference might not matter there.
None mentioned "The man from Earth" yet. It is unusual, but exceptionally well made.
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He has a donate button on his homepage. I wonder if that brings in something? Anybody here who ever used a donate button on their website and can tell something about it?

How does one even receive 'donations'? Is that like getting paid? Do they have to create an invoice for tax reasons? How is it taxed?

It would be nice if there was a number, how much is donated per month. I can imagine donating something. Depending on how much cash flow there already is.
Both good points (although the second one could be handled through a meta refresh I guess). But I'd like to point out we were discussing where javascript is absolutely needed, not where it's convenient.
In fact, if you do a careful study of history, many of the best artists have "serious mental issues". The question is, how do we define "serious mental issues" and "art"? I don't think its a coincidence that people with off-the-charts creativity are mentally different than most other people. If your thought process is that far removed from others in regards to art ("creativity"), then it only stands to reason that your thought process would be very different from other people in other regards, too.
I wish there was a cure for his and his family's suffering. Irrespective of him being a genius, he deserves to receive the medical attention he needs.
A guesser answers the question: what encoding did they actually use?

FTFY answers the question: What horrifying sequence of encode/decode transforms could output this sequence of bytes in UTF-8 that, when correctly decoded as UTF-8, still results in total gibberish?

In other words...

The problem fixed by an encoding guesser:

1. I encode my text with something that's not UTF-8-compatible.

2. I lie to you and say it's UTF-8.

3. You decode it as UTF-8 and get nonsense. What the heck?

4. A guesser tells you what encoding I actually used.

5. You decode it from the guessed encoding and get text.

----

The problem fixed by FTFY:

1. I encode string S with non-UTF-8 codec C.

2. I lie that it's UTF-8.

3. Someone decodes it as UTF-8. It's full of garbage, but they don't care.

4. They encode that sequence of nonsense symbols, not the original text, as UTF-8. Let's charitably name this "encoding" C'.

5. They say: Here teddyh, take this nice UTF-8.

6. You decode it as UTF-8. What the heck?

7. Is it ISO-8859? Some version of windows-X? Nope. It's UTF-8 carrying C', a non-encoding someone's broken algorithm made up on the spot. There's no decoder that can turn your UTF-8 back into the symbols of S, because the text you got was already garbage.

8. FTFY figures out what sequence of mismatched encode/decode steps generates text in C' and does the inverse, giving you back C^-1( C'^-1( C'( C( S )))) = S.
I really liked "Passengers". I never understood why it rated so poorly on Rotten Tomatoes.
I broadly agree that we americans consume too much sugar but I'm worried that many will find drinking artificial sweeteners as detrimental as I have. Somewhere I have a link to a source article with references to the study behind this article but alas, I'm not finding it in my Pinboard - https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/....

What about all our other over-sweetened junk foods? What about all our fried snack-foods?
> HTML (or whatever standard we come up with) can be expanded to add the needed features

I think it is hubris to think we can ever build a spec with all the needed features.

> JavaScript is used to lock us in, exactly what the web shouldn't do.

While I agree the web shouldn't lock us in I would like to understand how you think JavaScript does that?
Good point. At least sugar is natural instead of a bunch of man made chemicals.
I know it's pointless to discuss about personal taste, and movies are a great example and reminder of that. But to me Sunshine characters looked like a bunch of Big Brother contestants, spending their time in petty arguments, making trivial mistakes, and dealing with mostly imaginary physics, until Freddy Krueger shows up. And how do you solve an existential threat like the sun shutting down? But with a huge bomb, of course. As usual.
If lack of doors was standard, everybody would see the open frames, and culture would adapt to them. Weaknesses in computer security are much harder to spot. Spectre has been possible for decades without mainstream attention. It's this lack of understandability that I think is dangerous. Many people will assume systems are secure just because they don't see an obvious way to exploit them, and because the complexity has grown far beyond what will fit into a human brain there will undoubtedly be non-obvious flaws. Is weak security really better than no security? The "no security" model really means "socially enforced security", which is playing to human strengths. It's much easier to understand than figuring out the full consequences of speculative execution.
Yeah, that's pretty perplexing to me as well.
Let's not romanticize mental illnesses and lack of responsibility and guidance.
Why should anyone use it if they readily admit you should use Git instead? That seems like a pretty negative commentary to start the introduction off to your project.
The UK is the most frustrating place to live sometimes. The English speaking world has a shining example of how to not fuck this up in NZ, yet they keep doing the opposite. Against all sorts of lobbying, the NZ govt. forcibly separated our telecom monopoly provider into a retail and a wholesale company, then they put a whole bunch of money up for competitive tender to build a national fibre network. And it works, it honestly fucking works.

I've got Virgin in London and it's a piece of shit compared to what I had in NZ. In theory, I have 200mb down, but the uplink is bullshit because they convert to cable for some unknown reason. I also rarely see the performance that a 200mb connection should have. In NZ I had, in the first days of fibre, 30 down 10 up. It was always this speed, the fibre terminated at my house and was more responsive and reliable than what I have now in the UK.

Here, the govt keeps kicking around, getting conned by the industry as they promsie to upgade things, to be better. It's such a joke.

For reference these are real plans, with reliable speeds, with FTTH: https://imgur.com/a/8JeV7 (divide amount by 2 for £, take off 30%ish for USD)
I don't disagree. Findings are definitely interesting, promising and worth further investigation!

I preach cautiousness in the name of finding the objective truth.
One should be careful when testing a specific group of people.
Excise taxes on alcohol are based on quantity (of pure alcohol) not price, at least in the UK. Ditto tobacco. It's not that uncommon.
fuck google. evil crap.
I suggest watching "timecrimes" or "predestination" for those who like their temporal paradoxes done right.