skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This type of condescension is precisely why I am glad I was introduced to the field of ML/pattern recognition/statistical learning (whatever you want to call) through a course from the CS department rather than the statistics department.

I have always felt course offerings from CS are more approachable/amenable to beginners in this area. Maybe anecdotal, but statistics depts. have a gate-keeping attitude , a sense of 'oh you don't know the math already? too bad, we are not for you'.

P.S: Approachable/amenable does not mean it cannot be rigorous or you have to cut short the math. You just built up gradually rather than throwing math books in people's face from the very beginning.
You seem to be mixing up presumption of innocence, the right to your own opinion and the concept of defamation, largely ignoring the latter.

I can have an opinion that HN user geofft is a <insert horrible thing>. This is my right. However, I cannot go to other people and say that geofft is a <insert horrible thing>, particularly if doing so causes you harm, for example economic/reputational.

I have a hard time seeing how such a list does not cross that line. Except of course if the accusations are true, but they must then be proven to be true.
Hence, you look at distributions - not averages.
The better the "mod" tools the higher the quality of the modifications and additions. Also the simpler the game the easier it is to make such modifications. Many of the minecraft mods were vanilla level quality.
in germany, you can still see the impact on whether CS emerged out of math or EE in the curriculums. When you have a lot of low-level programming, operating-systems, designing hardware etc. the departement was born in EE. If the emphasis is more on math, they teach you an abstract view on "computers" (the turing machine/lambda calculus as the foundation of computing) and view processors as just an application, it came from the math-departement. It's probably the same in the rest of the world.
> That's how sovereignty works. The state has the monopoly on violence.

A lot of modern states aspire to this. Many don't. It is not a current or historical requirement of "sovereignty".
> But to say the crypto community is started by "white men"

They didn't say that; they said it is predominantly being evangelized by white men.

There's a significant difference between the claims.
A good PM, almost by definition is kind of a mini-CEO. Their job is to push the product forward in a way that serves the company’s business interest. Product management is not engineering, design, sales, or marketing, but takes all of those into account.

Maybe you’ve never worked with a good PM?
Sure, you could spam me on the internet, but this person was talking about offline harassment.
It's not like the mod scene is dead. The big game mods have migrated to indie development through Unity - if somebody made Counter-Strike today, it would be a Unity game because the tools are so easy to use and productive compared to the old Hammer toolkit. And as for modding in general, you just need to look for the right games, where it's still thriving. Minecraft, FTL, Sins of a Solar Empire, Stellaris (and other Paradox games), Elder Scrolls all have varying degrees of active communities (some have aged less poorly, others are still alive and kicking - but all of them have fantastic mods that make it worth playing these games over and over). Even SoaSE, whose population has really dwindled, still has a handful of total conversion mods that are still in active development (one of which is arguably one of the best Star Trek mods out there for any game).

The industry has definitely changed, but I don't feel like there are less mods or less people interested in making mods than there used to be.
I think that you’re fundamentally describing BitTorrent, which allows very wide distribution of large files with very low bandwidth costs. If one’s only goal is hosting videos with minimal bandwidth usage, BitTorrent (and maybe a scheme to prioritize uploading to peers that upload more themselves) works perfectly, and there exist browser plugins to enable in-browser torrent streaming. The problem, of course, is that there’s no way to monetize that, but honestly the vast majority of YouTubers don’t make any money anyway.
In this case, if both dispute, then Alice gets the money back after 30 days.

As I said earlier: this is insufficient for a serious car purchase. But it IS a sufficient mechanism for Steam Games (if "Bob" is Valve/Steam, then Bob can simply revoke access to that game).

Amazon and Ebay also work on this mechanism. Not on Blockchain... but these companies overwhelmingly side with the paying customer (in this case: Alice)... leaving the business owners / service providers at a disadvantage. But Ebay also has a customer-review system attached, so people can tattletale on each other if a particular customer becomes abusive.

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So in effect, you have a "cheap" default policy (in this case: Alice always gets the money back in 30 days by default) for the Escrow, but then you still have to create a review mechanism to handle the various cases of abuse.

If 30-days is insufficient, then 60-day or 180-day return policies exist as well. The point is, anything you can imagine can be the default escrow policy. You can even lock the money away forever by default (IE: FORCE Alice and Bob to work together)... if you really want to go there. Alternatively, the Escrow can have the policy of "We'll only email you the key once you win a court case", if they really want to integrate into the system of law / courts we already have.

That wouldn't be fully automated, but it'd be relatively effort from the perspective of the Escrow business.
I do remember despising "skinz" in the late 90s, for taking away my control of the color scheme and all the other reasons this article describes.

While that went out of style, little did I know it was going to get worse in other ways. Now the OS itself and recent browsers go out of their way to prevent the use of dark themes by hard-coding colors everywhere.

We work in a darkened studio (color accurate) environment and are negatively affected by your fucking enforced white backgrounds! It makes me even angrier when I remember having better control in Windows 3.1 in the early 90s.

I use MATE now but the gnome3 and firefox-aping-chrome disease still shows through the cracks. Very recent products have halfheartedly added a bit of dark theme here and there but still don't seem to get that what we had twenty years ago was just right.
Discourse around technology is interesting. I've been reading a lot of essays on technology, digital media, and the digital humanities over the past few weeks.

The upsides of the future seem to get perpetuated a lot more than the downsides. In one of the papers that's at the forefront of my mind, the New London Group's "Multiliteracies for a Digital Age" essay, they call out the good -- more collaboration, more opportunities for a utopia, etc. While they do mention downsides, they kind of get drowned out.

People want to be optimistic -- there's a bunch of core human ideals and one of them is that things will improve. As such, technological downsides and pitfalls either get called out and responded to by tin-foil-hat types, or just fall away until it's a bit too late (thinking randomly of Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" here...)
Are there no protections for male founders, or rank and file employees?

Perhaps founders with body dimensions that are less than Terry Crews?
No, not really. Redux itself _is_ already small - if you strip out the safety checks, it's less than 100 lines [0], and you can see the core concept in less than 25 [1].

Part of the issue is that people use the word "boilerplate" to refer to many different things, such as writing action creator functions, writing immutable update logic, calling `connect()` to generate wrapper components that talk to the Redux store, etc. Everyone seems to have a different thing that they are concerned about.

The "starter kit" package I linked tries to address several of the most common concerns, while still keeping Redux the way it's meant to be used.

[0] https://gist.github.com/gaearon/ffd88b0e4f00b22c3159

[1] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-ta...
While RISC-V continues to grow, there are still gaps that may limit where RISC-V is used in designs https://semiengineering.com/risc-v-inches-toward-the-center/
USA doesn't go around giving loans to build infrastructure in countries that have no realistic way of paying them back, then leasing said infrastructure back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magampura_Mahinda_Rajapaksa_Po...
I have worked in healthcare related systems before that needs to be HIPAA compliant, even for those systems public disclosure of a vulnerability is not a requirement. No software is bug free, and many seemingly benign bugs are security vulnerabilities.

Try and name one company that reports all their bugs (security/non security) discovered internally.
Good stuff. One concern with Callisto though: What stops a serial perpetrator from reporting himself (using an alias) to be able to identify anyone else who has reported him?
Another good source, if you want a necessarily subjective, but I think sincere inside view, is the tell-it-all by famed former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis Adults in the Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment.

It's a bit technical occasionally, but really riveting and full of drama (unfortunately not fictional).
Right, I agree. I assumed you were referring to swatting etc as mentioned in the article.
>I know FBI agents happy to bring charges for matters this trivial.

Just curious, what does one need to do in order to network with FBI agents and have them divulge what they're willing to charge people with?
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Yeah, and they changed the behavior of the back button on Android to make it impossible to go to the previous video!
It seems like this should be a temporary problem. Won't landlords eventually get tired of not getting any rent?
You asked if it was mandatory to implement this in the kernel because Linux is a monolith. I pointed out that FUSE exists, and allows filesystems to be in userspace. I answered your question. As to some of the silly decisions made by this project? I can't speak to that.
>Let us know how you get it through airport security.

How you get it through what now? Private aircraft don't deal with that. GP did specify "billionaire", and at that level at least fractional ownership in private long distance transportation is not a reach either.
That's kinda the whole point of PeerTube: the people watching your video also become peers in the WebTorrent swarm so no one party ends up eating 100% of the bandwidth cost. To use your example: if "if a million people want to download my videos in 4K" then you will have a LOT of peers in that swarm. The more peers in a swarm the less likely _any_ PeerTube instance will have to serve _any_ video content at all.

TLDR; popular videos are the most likely to have little-to-no bandwidth cost for the content creator/instance admins.
Procrastination hack: change “and” to “or”
> Belgium has been slightly above 50% IPv6 traffic to Google for quite a while now

That sounds like percentage of traffic to me?
It looks like someone hid all the data points in the sheet and Google Sheets isn't giving me an option to unhide. Am I missing something?
It's a picture of a power station, the cooling towers are just the most noticeable feature.
Anyone want to take bets that those senators are using OS/email systems that have security vulnerabilities bugs that will be fixed (announced or not) over the next 12 months? Do they have sufficient logging/security that they will be able to demonstrate that their communications were not compromised?

I don't have confidence that their staff don't have direct access to their accounts, their passwords are remotely strong, or they have any real OpSec. Hopefully, they have been forced to use something resembling 2FA.
I think this has some merit. I’ve seen ratios from 3:1 to 10:1 engineers to PMs at companies I’ve been at. I could imagine the ratio going even higher.

Edit: this does raise the question, though: where do product managers come from? What does the career path of a PM look like, including what happens before they become PMs?
Patreon is part of the SV mafia.. They're just as bad w/ arbitrary censorship.

Bitcoin is a better use case for PeerTube imo.
The latter-day Half-Life and early-to-mid Source engine mods... such a good time. People were cranking out all kinds of crazy stuff, pushing those engines to their limits and then some. Garry's Mod kept this going for awhile too, with people making crazier and crazier custom gamemodes and maps... man I miss those days, there was always cool new stuff to discover, communally online with others.
It is not. Gasoline ICE typical thermal efficiency is ~20%, large power generation turbine is 35-40%. Also, to refine 92 octane gasoline takes about the same amount of energy as it releases when burning.
Hmmm - wants to discuss porn, uses a self-signed certificate for their site...no thanks!
Where? I have been doing inside sales for 3 years. Looking to move.
I find this post to mainly explain a worldview in a very broad manner without getting into specifics.

I doubt it can lead to a constructive discussion. People that also have a worldview with a negative view of the effects of technology on society will mainly just agree in mostly broad ways.

People that have an opposing worldview will state their own beliefs, mostly in a broad way.

But because this is not a specific issue but rather a worldview, there is almost no possibility of constructive discussion where someone really gains insight or changes their mind. Everyone's already made up their mind on this broad aspect of their worldview. That's just the nature of beliefs.

Another aspect of this is that any perspective is largely about seeing farther and farther forward into the future. It is quite literally like looking into the distance. Since it is impossible to clearly see things that are far away, it is quite easy to have a disagreement about what's on the horizon or beyond in any particular direction.

But the landscape is so complex that blanket statements about good or bad in any direction have little utility. In my opinion.
It was a pretty bold claim lacking evidence but your analogy is way off base. His claim has one missing step, while yours is a journey of a thousand miles.
I would imagine the attorney that gets involved would not divulge the identities of those coming forward to each other.
I don't view those statements as racist or sexist, but I do think that calling a technology racist and sexist by citing a few white male benefactors is incredibly lazy and ultimately damaging to the goal of bringing equality to all.
Ideally companies/platforms would provide first-class support for them, and even urge the users to choose their own after they sign up!

Wil Wheaton isn't a platform, he's a private user, and it's not entirely unironic that he "got" what he was promoting for others (being de-platformed)...
The same picture is used to illustrate a coal power station elsewhere:

https://international.thenewslens.com/article/81575

It seems to be a coal station in China.
Yes, I didn't capitalize it, but I did spell out OTPs in my original post.

Here's the part where CompSci people lose me:

> If I want to send you 1GB of data, we should not require 1GB of shared secret random data.

I agree if the data is something trivial like video but it doesn't follow to me that OTPs shouldn't be used for something as critical as code updates for autonomous vehicles control systems.

> How would you do 'code signing' with an OTP?

We don't take anything away. We don't discard our normal cryptographic methods of encryption and code signing. We simply layer them. That way if the cryptographic method is flawed, or the keys compromised, an attacker would also need to compromise the OTP.

Just as structural engineers layer their defences for structural collapse, I fail to see how introducing a OTP presents a serious burden to autonomous device makers compared to the stakes involved. It makes class-attacks far less relevant because the OTPs would need to be breached too.

Even if our OTPs were solely used for the cryptographic signature (as opposed to the whole encrypted code update) we would still be leagues better in the event of a compromise. I know we shouldn't need to, but mistakes keep happening. I know we shouldn't trust physical security over cryptographic security, but if we're layering them how does it hurt?
I don't think this has been mentioned on this thread yet: If you live in a place where air pollution is a concern, one solution to this issue is to buy a HEPA air filter. These filters are designed to trap a significant quantity of precisely the types of particles that air quality studies examine (2.5-10µm coarse dust particles and <2.5µm fine particles).

> "To qualify as HEPA by industry standards, an air filter must remove (from the air that passes through) 99.97% of particles that have a size greater-than-or-equal-to 0.3 µm." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA
Thank you so much. I love my physical copy but can't always take it with me places.
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"...he predicted 48 of the last 4 recessions..." https://www.jstor.org/stable/24563227?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
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Some truths are directional, rather than universal.

Maybe "ignore competitors" is the former.

Example: "carbs are bad" is directionaly true but not universally so (at least I would posit it is directionaly true for the modern American diet)
A Facebook page is different from a Facebook profile in the way it's presented so most likely the messages are made available through different mechanisms. I guess they are suggesting the particular hack didn't directly give the attackers full access to the users' profile pages (including messages) but when it comes to Facebook pages the messages are directly exposed.

With FB and Google getting free passes (as in no penalty that hurts) after this kind of incident I don't see them doing much else beyond the minimal diligence.
Hopefully self-preservation - why call attention to himself (or herself)? Unless they had more sinister intentions to intimidate previous victims or worse. But even then, reporting yourself to the watchdog wouldn't be worth it.

I think this is a great thing for YC to be doing.
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You've clearly missed the point of the story and kind of reaffirmed the pitfalls of being the CEO of a company with any amount of public success.

First, it was a fail if felt your primary responsibility is to the team, shareholders and just general commitment you often set out to as a founder fulfill in building something that people love and use.

Being fired from something you believe you tried your hardest at doing right is brutally painful to self-identity. The quality of the food you eat after word at best distracts you from some of the pain and nagging "what-ifs."
>Biased based on your opinion...

All bias is based on opinion.

It's possible for everyone making a comment, including you and I, to be biased. In fact, in any political argument the chances that a commenter is unbiased are vanishingly small.

You have your bias. Kodablah has his/her own bias. There's nothing wrong with that. It certainly doesn't negate either of your arguments. Kodablah's point remains just as valid to consider.
Great stuff and obviously anyone with 2 brain cells gets it. However, how do these stats play to the population at large? The SF corridors of tech have a couple slants that are interesting, but it's very polar when it comes to population of male/female ratios. Am I not correct? Plus a foundation of gaming / influence from our male dominated demographic can be unfairly deemed unsocial which may be the pattern of socially unacceptable behavior.

That's in defense of culture, but also noting its obviously unacceptable behavior towards woman.
I feel it was a huge loss that he no longer holds talks in any capacity. We get a detailed and incredibly interesting blog post from him like every 12 months, but otherwise, nothin'.
As an example of this, there are many explicitly "new grad" SWE positions in companies of all sizes, but new grad PM roles really only exist at large tech companies and even then are rare in comparison.
Fixed width fonts are used for programming because of cargo culting. I tried programming in serif fonts only after a HN comment suggested it (would never have thought of it myself) and it's fantastic. Very readable. They were right.

And you can still manually format code, serif or monospace.

Proportional or monospace font choice is orthogonal to formatting.

(Edited to be more specific)
Design rule for non-designers I like: Don't use center alignment (unless you know what you are doing)
While "The Guardian" published this, it did so as a signed commentary piece, by Nouriel Roubini (which further appears to have come via a syndication service, 'Project Syndicate').

Such pieces are not the publication's opinion any more than a "letter to the editor", and papers will publish many contradicting opinions this way.

So it's not really accurate to attribute quotes from this article to "The Guardian". Only a very few, typically unsigned (or signed 'the editors') commentaries in a publication are officially the outlet's house opinion – and these often contradict or reference-but-highly-qualify any differing signed opinions (like this Roubini piece) they've separately published.
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This reminds me of a huge problem with Steam, which is the size and frequency of updates. For the very small number of first party games, like Half-Life or Counter-Strike, updates are cumulative smaller files that contain changes. So if there was an update to a game, it might be 1-2 GB. For the vast majority of titles on Steam, however, an update requires a full download of the latest version. So for most games it is a 25 GB or 50 GB download. Developers want to stay on top of bugs, so for an infrequent gamer playing on a weekly or monthly basis, opening Steam means queuing up 100 GB of downloads and a long wait to actually play games.

The fact that this hasn't been solved yet shows that Valve isn't willing to invest in fixing it either through new technology or cooperation with developers, which is really sad.

Optimistically, something you're describing for Parsec would be possible, but maybe it isn't realistic.
But wouldn't it make more sense to not have rotary knobs since they are so confusing with a point and click interface?
More Facebook user data leaked or "stolen"? Must be a Monday.
>I take it that the group that's in the room is collectively too scared to kick them out or to stop their violence.

No, the group that's in the room supports them, but also considers them strategically unreliable and a bit mentally unstable. Yes, your average urban socialist group does sometimes co-organize with Antifa or anarchist black blocs, to some extent.

>It is violence. That's how sovereignty works. The state has the monopoly on violence. The cops are acting on behalf of the state. All others who break it are either illegal instigators, or exercising the right of self defense.

Which makes it amazing how often the cops downright falsify their reason for hitting or shooting someone!
Too bad BMW dealers don't accept Tether. At some point you want to cash out, and who knows if this will be around in 50 years at all?
Exactly my situation. I need the pay bump to get us to mortgage free in the next three years or so, at which point I hand in my resignation and seek a programmer job again.
Ever heard about Brave or BAT? https://github.com/brave