skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gently, I would suggest that we are neither original nor should we find our identity in material goods.

I wouldn't be so gentle; I definitely think we are harmed by finding identity in material goods. It's destructive.

As for originality, I would modify the goal: don't try to be original. Instead, aim to stretch your mind to think things it hasn't thought before. If you get so far that you do think something original, great! If you don't, at least you've expanded your horizons.

> While libraries have librarians making selections, they also allow for a free-range wandering over the stacks, rather than keeping you in one specific area of "you may also like". That is something worth thinking about, and, I think, solvable.

And I'm glad to see we've come to roughly the same conclusion, even if that makes us "not original." ;-)
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Visionary / Niche. Variously.
How often is the threat data updated? Any way to truncate the response to just what we want?
What a jackass I am.
It's fair though to assume that the CEO knows the company metrics better than all of us.

I'm assuming these 1-hour blog posts do move their metrics in a meaningful way and the HN thing was just banter.

Also, the term "quality" is highly dependant on context. I wouldn't compare it to "The New Yorker," but rather other similar companies' blog posts.
Doesn't happen maliciously in practice, also can be very handy when you need to attach a little extra data for the ride. If you need extra assurance there are techniques to make the instance "very" read-only.
Hopefully this is the first domino that ends all this crap. Myself and everyone I know has been getting hammered with spam robo-calls for the past year or two with no signs of slowing down. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
The problem is that synthetic blockchain assets are an idea where we already have a significant history of competent, serious people misjudging the tech and making unrealistic promises. Hence, you can't just argue away problems by claiming the devs are "competent and serious".

That said, I agree Preston's writings should be taken with a grain of salt: he's a curmudgeon at heart and provides value to the community from that perspective.
There is no functional vs. object oriented
The more expensive games (or bundles) often. I think this breaks the theory that people give more consideration to software purchases, as I would probably give more consideration to spending $60 on drinks.

I think it's more about expectations. Many people expect phone apps to be free (no matter how good they are), the fact that paid apps are the exception calls for exceptional consideration when deciding to buy. On the other hand, people don't expect computer games to be free.

Although I think games may also be an exceptional case, in that they're thought of more like artistic works (like films) than as software.
when we can make web pages, and entire sites without once actually using something a human can disassemble and reverse engineer ... this will be the end of the open web.

truly the complete dead end of it.

Unless maybe I'm missing something. Is a disassembler for WASM a thing yet?
13. It's a market for lemons [1]. Schneier wrote about it in the context of security related software, but it equally applies to bespoke stuff like CRM or SCM.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/a_security_ma...
It's all fun and freedom fighting games until countries start blocking legitimate IPs and disrupting the interwebs: https://gizmodo.com/russia-blocks-millions-of-amazon-and-goo...
Author gets her ancient Facebook account hacked.

Person in control then sets new name, profile picture and makes two friends ("one in the Ukraine, one in Tanzania").

That's all.

There is nothing to suggest this being related to what the media stupidly calls "Russian Trolls".

End of story.

In other words, total rubbish of a weak attempt of exploiting the TEH RUSSIANZ boogieman by making up a story.
W for Web server, behind seven www proxies. /s
TL;DR A dormant FB account gets highjacked, but the amateur thief forgets to change the email associated with the account. This allows the owner to deactivate the account.

I doubt the authors conclusion about russian troll though: a FB account highjacked by somebody using Cyrillic can be utilised for various purposes.
"Russian" + "Facebook" in the title sounds like something about political content, while there's nothing in the article about that.
Undervalued refactoring/modernization of legacy code, not necessarily implementing a whole new stack. Just paying technical debt.

But some think that if you stop providing features or fixes at the fastest pace possible or if you stop to refactor you're just wasting time or slacking off.
I'm glad something is being done and it's being reported. But it's only one guy, and there's an epidemic of these annoying calls. My elderly father gets dozens of them a week on his landline, and I get a spoofed number at least once a day, from an exchange very similar to my own.

It's funny how freedom of speech is considered in light of for-profit stuff like this (in the Bloomberg article it was the misleading nature of the calls, not the calls themselves), but not with regards to stuff like hate speech and political speech.

In an ethical world, it would be time for a flip: heavily regulate the commercial elements of speech.
> it's just a waste of resources for the end-user

Frankly, it's not a problem of the language, but the browser. As far as I can tell, none of the popular browsers offer a way to limit resource usage, even though users would clearly benefit from it.
If women don't date down, then the higher they go, the fewer men there will be, its lonely at the top.
Most of the design tolerances of the Model 3 are already better than any other car in the world. Soon, they will all be better. This is not enough. We will keep going until the Model 3 build precision is a factor of ten better than any other car in the world. I am not kidding.

I’d settle for precision beating their previous janky models with a nearly 50% recall rate.

Our car needs to be designed and built with such accuracy and precision that, if an owner measures dimensions, panel gaps and flushness, and their measurements don’t match the Model 3 specs, it just means that their measuring tape is wrong.

Right, and if their “autopilot” kills them, they were using it wrong.

There is a very wide range of contractor performance, from excellent to worse than a drunken sloth. All contracting companies should consider the coming week to be a final opportunity to demonstrate excellence. Any that fail to meet the Tesla standard of excellence will have their contracts ended on Monday.

This whole letter reads like a puff piece intended for fanboys and stakeholders to pass around and fantasize about, but three weeks of meeting goals shouldn’t give anyone a head this big. This is from the same guy who just realized he couldn’t automate everything he wanted to, and who the NTSB just booted off a death investigation. The last thing needed here is grandiose talk.

Instead of trying to leap from being marginal to the greatest ever, how about trying to meet reasonable goals, safety standards, and work with the NTSB? Instead of trying for Ferrari-esque panel gaps, just do better than the Model S and meet basic industry standards within class.
I've frequently wondered why, in this day and age, telcos are permitted to provide telephone service without any guarantee whatsoever of the originating phone number being accurate.
CRUD alone doesn’t provide much value to an average company, the real value comes from managing and automating the workflow, which is of curse the expensive part of developing software because it requires full knowledge transfer from a company that likely has never stopped to understand their process to developers that have varying grades of familiarity with the domain
David, I think the Clojurescript Quick Start guide (https://clojurescript.org/guides/quick-start) is a wasted opportunity. I don't think new users want to wade through a page full of compiler flags when Leiningen + template is the default for most of the Clojure(script) community. This merely adds to the impression that Clojure(script) is for experts.
Economist Bernard Lietaer proposed a currency similarly based on a basket of commodities called the Terra back in 2001, but could never get it off the ground. Would be interesting if this turned out to be equivalent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_(currency)
Isn't it just the cost to mint a new coin that has to be proportional? As in, it can cost more than a cent to make a penny but each penny is used in more than one transaction.

I understand that the transaction cost is also quite high with Bitcoin but that isn't intrinsically necessary (like the cost to mint is).
couldn't you just solve this problem by joining a workantile? They provide a sense of community.

However, if you don't want to pay for one, then the library and coffee shops are alternatives. Sure most people come and go, but after staying at a spot for a while, you will notice who come more regularly.
I love PG's description of development in the Python Paradox: "You push blobs of source code around the way a sculptor does blobs of clay."

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
> You mean like the "Random" links on Wikipedia and Reddit?

I consider clicking the random link on Reddit analogous to firing a gun into a bookstore, or randomly flipping channels on a TV: no discernment whatsoever, and very shallow, very often completely worthless results. 99% of the time I click random on Reddit, it comes up with complete garbage, IMHO, to the point I don't use it anymore. Meanwhile, the best subreddits I've come across have been "curated" by recommendations.
been there, tried it
You sound like you're agreeing, not contradicting; or is this a regional difference in the meaning of "speed", which I understand to mean "methamphetamine"?
Apparently here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725493 Certainly not a productive comment.

A quick scan of that users's history seems to indicate fairly reasonable stuff:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xiphias&next=1582220... (among others)

Given a lot of other reasonable posts, (apparently) one low value comment seems to be able to get a user shadowbanned. That strikes me as a bit excessive.
> In a dynamic language all values, including expressions, share a single type - a union of all possible types. In a static language you can limit which possible types a value may hold. A dynamic language is like if you cast every single type to Any in a static language.

No, you're thinking of a weakly- versus strongly-typed language. Python is dynamically and strongly typed - values have a definite type, but a variable can be assigned a value of any type.
Network Wide Ad Blocker
Look for older (relative to tech) companies.

My current employer was founded in the 80s and still uses cubicles.
^ Russian troll
Ah, this is one of those undocumented HN features!
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Thanks to digital, it's substantially cheaper to make a movie today than it was just 10 or 15 years ago. From the film and cameras to the editing process to the effects to the distribution. Distribution is now actually risk-free -- just upload to YouTube if that's what it takes. Probably the only thing that hasn't changed is how much lenses and actors cost.

And we got the added bonus of removing nasty chemical film process from our lives!

So why are movie budgets higher? It's gotten so easy to make high quality content and distribute it that you have to out-spend/out-spectacle the others. Netflix, HBO, 400 hours of Youtube uploaded per minute is what you're competing against!

Software has a lot of similarities. There are a million apps in the app store. Cow Clicker won't get it done anymore. So while it's gotten cheaper and easier, there is more competition. This requires people to attempt larger/more difficult/less-well-defined things than before. This is true in consumer and business software.
In my experience, people who proudly evince callous indifference to the suffering of others are usually one or more of a) privileged, b) sheltered, or c) quite young. In other words, naiveté. Rarely is it due to actual, willful malice. So yes, I meant it.
Sure, but the original quote about 15% of couples having dual degrees also looked at the whole population. What you’re saying is true but isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison in this case.
there's a human readable version, you can read more about it here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst...
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>Besides, there are languages like Go which have dynamic types (interface{}) and which are considered statically typed languages.

And C# has a var type (dynamic) and Dart has gradual typing.
Two questions on this:

- What if @janeschmoe mostly tweets about USC and her work there? Even if they are not officially saying, “this is an official twitter account of a USC professor”, her activity could cause people to think the account is official

- Does merely mentioning your employer cross the line? Not mentioning this could also be kind of sketchy if, for instance, @janeschmoe starts tweeting “USC has the best professors!!!”

(Totally just asking for a friend)
Agreed. To this I'd add that the switching cost is highly dependent on perception. Costs are almost always as much about perception as they are about reality.
It's pretty strange that the term used is 'Russian Troll', when there's next to no evidence that Russians were involved, as well as no evidence that the compromiser's goal was 'Trolling'. This article has basically no content and just seems like clickbait.
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There's not really much reading on this- You simply can't take 10 assets that are worth less than $1 individually (because of guarantor risk) and mix them together to create an asset that's pegged at exactly $1- This is not a problem that can be solved by "diversification".

For other history on synthetic assets, read Preston's posts and also Vitalik's posts such as https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/03/28/schellingcoin-a-minimal...
I don't think that's strictly true. When the last bitcoin is issued, "mining" per se will cease. But "miners" will still be rewarded by transaction fees.
And what if it's a decision between both goods? Does good purchased beat good home-grown, or is that a matter of which costs more?
So using CSS, one can fingerprint a browser and communicate that information back to home base by programmatic inclusion of font A or font B. This inclusion triggers the download from the respective URL, thus giving that URL information about the user.
I can't vouch for the security of any place you've worked in the past 20 years.

But suffice to say, it's very common for Chrome extensions to be able to both modify any content on websites you view and read data you enter into them. Both adware and spyware is prolific on the Chrome Web Store, and it's the number one infection vector I see.

Controlling extensions is downright basic competency for network security. With regards to Chrome, I currently operate an outright block, though obviously we can whitelist extensions as necessary. (One thing Chrome does particularly well is their ADMX templates: It's easy to blacklist and whitelist extensions, and install them compulsorily for users as well.)
>Why should it be any different now?

Right now propaganda is exploiting the edge between old media and new. Apparently a lot of people have trouble telling if a news source or comments from fellow citizens are real. They're used to a world where faking a news story or getting a shill close to you took a lot of time and effort so 'trust by default' made more sense.

>Why does it seem like everyone is up in arms over just Russia?

Because you're probably viewing western-based news sources? People tend to focus on things that affect them and this is affecting the west right now because that's who Russia is targeting. Nothing magical about it.
Misread as "circus", nodded.
The trend towards fewer burials and more cremations is likely to continue
The Darknet has many recipe books for cannibals, often with disturbing (but almost delicious) photos of the resulting meals.
Quick and Dirty Python Logging Lesson
So how well will Proof of Stake be able to solve the ecological and mining cost issue, here, for the cryptocurrencies that moved/are moving to that?
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The author of the OP has an article about DAI too: https://prestonbyrne.com/2018/01/11/epicaricacy/

Doesn't seem so hot to me, and what happens when the bot runs out of capital?
I propose that the more wages stagnate and the COL increases, the more people are going to stick to dating and marrying people in their own socioeconomic class. I think there will be a threshold in which there is a clear choice to made between romance and lifestyle between two socioeconomic classes (barring the ultra rich). i.e., dating someone in a lower class than you incurs a higher cost that will have a significant impact on your financial plans (retirement, housing, edit: children, etc).
Bitcoin is fundamentally wasteful because the energy expended to facilitate a transaction is a function of the network's size rather than the number of transactions that need to be processed, it's hard to think of a less efficient system.
There are a few options to use them without declared types, but for some reason there was a noticeable reluctance to document them, perhaps due to types coming back into fashion.

For example you could set the type to object, typing.Any, ... (Ellipsis), or None, etc.
That's just a lot of hand waving.

People throw $5 in the busker's hat as they are casually walking by without a second thought.

Yet they have a hard time paying for a $2 android game that keeps them entertained for many hours.

Of course it's their money and they have the right to decide how to use it but it's also just plain odd and unfair to suddenly treat $2 as if it was $200 when it comes to software.
Agreed, that has to be it. Apparently there is some sort of law suit or something going on about the cancer causing properties.
> sustainable synthetic blockchain assets are possible

Want do you have in mind?
Nicely juxtapositioned with the Independent's ad for their Facebook Bitcoin group. Facebook groups really are the antithesis of the Internet, being closed and unindexable.

Anyway perhaps these no-decline 'permission' screens will cause a few people to reconsider their presence on Facebook. After all the company's Chief Privacy Officer endorses it! “People can choose to not be on Facebook if they want"
It does look like a really interesting avenue of research. I see a lot of statistical "evidence" presented as justifying interventions without even hesitating to consider if they've got it the wrong way around in terms of causality.

It seems it will be focused on large scale products out of necessity because of the availability of structured data and public disclosure.

There is one preliminary paper linked in the article, which I haven't read: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3172876

It is really interesting to see ways to establish causality without a randomized controlled trial, since in a lot of circumstances an RCT is impossible or unethical, and because for many decision making purposes you need to evaluate interventions, not just relationships.
Is immutability of a contract not the entire point? What security does a decentralized smart contract offer if its implementation can be totally swapped out?
Their lobby is powerful, and the ideology of many in tech leans to libertarian and away from regulation.
The ability to preserve “view source” has been a first-class consideration of wasm since the beginning. It’s effectivly
the same as JavaScript in this regard.
Creative Linux routing to preserve client IP addresses in L7 proxies
>In English:

...(proceeds to use latin)...
We need to build housing for people who don't yet live in the area. In the current setup, where zoning is decided at microlocal levels, homeowners have far more power than future residents.
Not necessarily. At a minimum you need access to the sensory environment of the subject: Teens on Twitter are more easily radicalized when their timeline consists largely of terrorist propaganda or war front reporting on civilian casualties. Facebook has done experiments where they changed the sentiment of the timeline for a certain user and saw a significant sentiment change in future posts by that user.

Besides, the average human is not able to set a password, and their brains are open to all sorts of attacks. Cults, terrorist organizations, and multi-level marketing schemes abuse these weaknesses to get their followers to do things that may not be in their own best interest.
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> Is a disassembler for WASM a thing yet?

Yes, it's part of the standard toolkit. See https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt and specifically the "wasm2wat" tool.
The crazy thing about stable-coins is that they're really trying to replace/disrupt fiat money, more so than normal cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum.

"Normal" cryptocurrencies are way too volatile to actually be a store of value, as of yet, so stable coins really do fill a void and have one of the features of a fiat currency such as the U.S. dollar, that of relative stability.
Except that if you read to the end it wasn’t her school it was another. So she’s cunning as well as nasty.
Fine if you have the option. I shared a house with a Java developer for a corporate bank and he didn't have the choice. His laptop had to be able to log into the corporate intranet and serve as his sole development environment. There are millions of Java developers using Windows so what's your point?
> Race conditions, deadlock, data corruption can cause bugs that are complex to debug.

> Rust can address all these problems, and more.

Rust does not prevent deadlocks.
If by “software” you mean bespoke custom software developed especially for you, the reason it’s expensive is probably mostly because of bad development practices.

If by “software” you mean off-the-shelf proprietary products, the price you pay for it is entirely an arbitrary construct chosen by checking what other market players charge for similar software and seeing what buyers are prepared to pay. Absolutely no other considerations go into pricing a software product, since the software is literally free to produce, plus the cost of packaging.

(I could, for completeness, as a clarification to the latter point, mention that the cost of hiring programmers etc. does enter into the equation at the start of a proprietary software project, but once the cost of development has been paid, it’s a sunk cost and no longer relevant for making any pricing decisions.)

See also:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
I prefer suburban living to city living. But I'm really glad to see the revival of cities in the US, particularly the one I live just outside of. The professional, upper middle class people who are moving in are rehabbing old housing stock and neighborhoods that had been decaying for decades, and it's good for everyone, in my view -- even suburban property owners such as myself.
>The original runtime was about 60kb in size, that's still unreasonable to add to a library

What? What kind of bubble are you working in?
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I agree with this statement if you consider BigQuery's on-demand pricing, but at a given scale the $40,000/month flat rate becomes competitive.