skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the human condition I guess. We take things for granted. Like the stability we've grown up in, so much that we're willing to sacrifice our inheritance [a stable and mostly fair society] chasing windmills.

The notion that this is a “stable and mostly fair society” is not self-evidently true. And I suspect that if the question were surveyed, the results would differ dramatically across identity groups.
>Clearly Signal has improved privacy compared to other messaging platforms as has been proven by subpoenas by law enforcement.

Secure systems are not built on trust. They're built with math and with facts.

Their goal isn't based on what tptacek said just because tptacek said it, either. If I'm wrong and privacy isn't their goal, well that speaks volumes on its own.
The ability to get your children ahead in life is what gives many parents purpose in life.

Don’t go so far that you take that away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
Rust or C++ were easiest when I tried it last.
It's too much to expect users to read all the agreements they sign with a fine tooth comb. If we were to do that then we would also expect business transactions to slow down considerably. That is why there are laws against egregious hidden clauses in contracts. There are also cases you can make when it's clear both sides had differing understandings of the terms of a contract regardless of what they actually signed on paper. In other words, there are legal grounds for this guy to sue based on misrepresentation of contract terms.
Thanks for the feedback! Added a little note that it only takes two minutes :)
What you should wonder is if this model is desirable in any term.
Agreed. Short questionnaires are always a pleasant surprise.
"I still use KitSplit today, but not as much as I used to."

Did KitSplit give away his principles too?
I was on a bit of a Facebook diet and considering getting rid of it. Then I got a 3D printer and joined a few Facebook groups focused on owners of that printer, and it breathed new life into my Facebook experience. It can be a great information exchange and community, once you just get rid of all the friends and family stuff on it.
Fortunately, code reviews improve quality of incoming code: both original coder and code reviewer learn how to code better during code review.
It's not merely that he didn't do everything right.

This is a victim that still uses the service and doesn't seem to have bothered to get the insurance he's now been very clearly warned he needs.
If you mean like a bad habbit i agree.
/pol/ may be the most salient and influential political forum on the internet (a recent study showed /pol/ produces the most reposted content seen elsewhere online). To describe it as “right wing” is like saying YouTube comments are right wing. It’s unmoderated, not right wing, there’s a big difference (see /r/the_donald if you want right wing). That said, these days it’s full of shills shilling shills. I prefer to hang out on the other, more apolitical and better moderated 4chan forums like g, tv, and o.

Addendum: to say /pol/ isn’t 4chan is both true and false but it’s kind of weird and unfortunate you felt obligated to apologize for using 4chan because /pol/ exists. Just because /pol/ tolerates witches doesn’t mean 4chan’s a witch site for witches populated entirely by witches.
Awesome. I buy everything in a cleared cookie browser so nobody was getting a dime of affiliate money from me anyway. Definitely going to set this up as my default.
For the same reason a grocery store doesn't charge you more for milk just because you're rich: if they did, you'd simply shop elsewhere.

You know what happens if you raise your tenant's rent because you learned they have more money now? They move, and now you're losing money as you are trying to find a new tenant.
Smalltalk did not implement the message passing at the lowest level as an actual message between processes. It predates the actor model (which was inspired by it), which operates at a somewhat higher level than Smalltalk 'messages' do.

Smalltalk at the lower levels is a lot of very elegant hacks to give an outward appearance of one mechanism while being implemented in a very different manner. That is also one of the main reasons why it works as a VM, the kind of functionality required to detect the primitives at speed so that functions can be called that do the real work is hard to implement natively in a way that it is still efficient.

The top levels of Smalltalk are as elegant and simple as LISP, but under the hood Smalltalk is decidedly less elegant to make it work on the hardware available at the time.

Of course none of that stops you from implementing the Actor concepts at a higher level than Smalltalk objects and there were (are?) some efforts to do just that.
One factor is that it’s really hard to find loyal henchmen to perform hits who won’t later blackmail you or squeal to the police in return for a plea bargain. You need an organization to enforce loyalty down a chain of command, like any crime syndicate, and it’s hard to keep that a secret.

It’s better to apply your energies to creating things.
>making a walk-out with the implied threat of quitting, an effective tool.

Unless Google employees are addressing one of the elephants in their house, can any internal criticism of the company be seen as more than showmanship?

Andy Rubin is safe to target. He's already gone, and accused of something uncontroversial to hate.

Show me a walkout over Dragonfly and I'll show you a news story.
Yes, I have calculated and paid tax on all gifts that I have ever given in excess of the reporting threshold (i.e. none, because I don't give away gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars).
> "...why is that too much to ask? "

because it's bloody hard to create civil, thoughtful communities. HN is interesting since the general user base seems to have learned to self-moderate, buuuut, it has made HN a pretty dry place (boring maybe?).

I have found some absolute hilarious gems on Reddit. The wit and humor of some users really catches me off guard sometimes, but the issue with Reddit is that there is just so much low effort garbage to sift through to find anything interesting/funny. Reddit seems to have converged on to a low effort meme-fest for the most part. I've gone to the effort to customise my sub-reddits to match my interests, but each community seems to very quickly become a repetitive echo chamber, so there are not many new/unique POV to explore. For example I sub to /r/Australia and it's basically the same content re hashed over and over (NBN sucks, Libs suck, House prices suck, magpies are annoying, here's a picture of a Kookaburra etc.)

So Reddit isn't really for me any more and I spend little time there. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I find that I get more out of just sitting in the sun and letting my mind wander.
Put some electrical/duct tape over it and give it a try. I'm interested in what you'll find.
Apple isn't doing this because they want to acquire Qualcomm. They don't like having their biggest competitor in their supply chain but there's few viable modem vendors.
If the only way to watch local businesses is to join a global centralized network that snagged 335 million international users, something somewhere is really broken.
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I fully agree with your assessment. Note that I characterized KitSplit's actions as a clear violation of criminal law, if they had ocurred in my state. Certainly if KitSplit is criminally liable, there's also a sound civil case against them.

But without the record that he had but didn't keep of the assurance he was given that illustrates what the "understandings of the terms" were, he won't get past first base.
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By the way, I found out about her from reading George Washington's biography. She wrote the poem below for him, after which he invited her to his official residence, met her as an equal and entertained her.

"Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side,

Thy ev'ry action let the Goddess guide.

A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine,

With gold unfading, WASHINGTON! Be thine."

(Full poem can be found here)
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/his-excellency-general-washi...

According to the biography's author, it showed Washington's capacity for growth. Previously he had been an avowed racist!
I recently muted every Twitter account that wasn’t either individual people tweeting about their lives (predominantly in the “hilarious quotes from small children” genre) or NBA news. Man was that a relief. Twitter can be absolutely toxic but if you never read replies or follow randoms and you curate carefully, it’s fine.

I think a huge feature for that is “mute”. Being publicly observed to follow a Twitter without actually seeing its content is, shamefully enough, important and useful a lot more than you’d think.
Rust has a pretty great WebAssembly story:

https://rustwasm.github.io/book/

Learning Rust at the same time as Rust+WebAssembly might be a bit of a reach, though.
Yea it did but editing the original comment makes it boring.

I looked up the percentage swings caused by CEO deaths and it's actually not that big and not always a definite drop. So it wasn't as surely profitable as I thought. A murderous whitecollar sociopath probably has tons of other lower risk crimes he can commit instead. A typical insider trade would probably make him more.

Also I am not really sure hitmen exist outside of movies... I can't verify this without putting myself on some list though.

(Hello FBI! This is just morbid hypotheticals. I am not advocating serially murdering CEOs for profit)
I'm extremely glad that I was of the generation that only saw iPhones after college. The instant connectivity of social media is nice in some aspects, but I can't imagine growing up in this environment.

People just aren't designed for this kind of supersaturated communication, the overwhelming need to share and show-off against the whole world, the complete lack of privacy, and the fact that nothing is ever forgotten. It's definitely not healthy, and I think the worst is still to come.
Pretty good list https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs
> The success of democracy is exactly the possibility to effect change without shouldering grave personal risks

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this sentence, because it so succinctly expresses something I find absolutely immoral. The gamble without a downside.
Your reference to "embedding the complexity into the code" makes me think of the first half of the "Out of the tarpit" paper where they discuss accidental vs essential complexity. It sounds like your "embedded complexity" is essentially "essential complexity".
A billionaire has as much to lose as almost anyone else. You don’t perceive wealth as “more to lose”.
This one struck a little close to home as less than three weeks earlier I had met them at a fundraising event. At the time I really didn't know who they were but the names came back when the news broke a few weeks later. They just seemed like a nice couple in the admittedly very short few minutes I spoke with them.
The full text of the cases is available. For example, here is a query for the full text of Illinois cases, which are available without a login:

https://api.case.law/v1/cases/?jurisdiction=ill&full_case=tr...

Full text for cases other than Illinois and Arkansas is limited to 500 cases per person per day, which is why we don't include it in API results by default.
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It's a partial spec.
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I'm not jumping to conclusions. For a product to have millions of users and no long term, outstanding, unfixed issues in their repo I don't seem to see the validity in your claim. Claiming it's Signal because your WhatsApp works is, obviously, jumping to conclusions.

Can you provide any issue you've submitted from years ago that hasn't been addressed? Please post it, I'd like to see.
is exempt from the normal original source rules.

It's not. But if you want something fixed/looked into, your best bet is emailing the admins. They're super-responsive.
There have been various actor related developments in Smalltalk and others on YC will have far more knowledge :-)

But Distributed Smalltalk (John Bennet et al) - late 1980's dabbled with actor like constructs. JOhn's thesis is still worth a read.

Actalk originally by Jean-Pierre Briot has been around since 1989 (and has supported implementations for Squeak and Pharo thanks to Serge Stinckwich).

TOny Garnock Jones - Squeak Actors (https://tonyg.github.io/squeak-actors/) is (I think) the most recent implementation (and is lots of fun to use).
Gotcha! I've been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks for making it!
Finally closed this year. Wish I'd never joined. 57 ftw, so this isn't only "young" users.
Thanks - got it.
The area of Singapore is 278 sq miles, approximately the size of 17 miles square. Whatever policies that work in such small high density places won't work in larger countries. However, one can try to decentralize as much as possible; such decentralization may not work in large countries either.
From what I have heard from people living there most people seem OK with it.
As others have said, make it a choice. Most users will just click through various screeens and use their phone numbers, others may want to use an email or some other identifier instead. iMessage lets you do both for example.
You are missing the point. For a society to work, it's members have to perceive it as somewhat fair. The naive idealist would demand equal opportunity for everyone born. But we humans want to use the means available to us to directly improve out children's opportunities. Our freedom to do so makes our society inherently unfair. Especially when we expect those "investments" like education to pay for themself...

The interesting question is, like always politics, how to balance those trade-offs for bests outcomes.

Yes, that means both giving parents the chance to help their kids while also not having a disillusioned crowd without perspective demanding to tear down society in favor of whatever promises to be better. And yes, that requires some degree of wealth redistribution like decent public eduction.
> Basically this entire article comes down to the fact that agents of KitSplit lied to his face in a direct chat, and he wasn't savvy enough to keep a transcript of that chat.

This is a very easy mistake to make, especially since many companies try to do the majority of their negotiation over the phone or in person. I 100% agree with you that you should demand paper evidence of all of this stuff, but I don't see how that precludes feeling bad for people who haven't learned not to get burned yet.

People aren't wired by default to think this way, and our society by and large makes no effort to train them to think this way. Quite the opposite, companies put a lot of effort into teaching people to trust them implicitly instead of reading fine print and seeking clarification. I think it's reasonable for people to mess up on that. Author probably thought, "A ton of people use this service. If my scenario wasn't covered, somebody would have noticed and complained already."

Which I sympathize with. I read TOS agreements, I make 'unreasonable' requests about not agreeing to things over the phone, I reply back to leasing agreements and ask questions about terms. People think I'm weird for stuff like that, it's not at all common for normal people to approach contracts that way. There are times I wonder if I'm just a weird paranoid person, and then stories like this come out.

> I had this guy’s info and pictures, so I tried filing a police report for the stolen equipment, but they told me the same thing: it’s not a criminal matter, it’s a civil matter, and my property was technically not stolen.

Absent KitSplit's reaction, this alone would be worth sharing, since this wasn't immediately obvious to me. It's not just a dispute at this point, the thief is outright gone. How can you file a civil suite if you can't find the person to serve it to them?

Does it really still count as fraud after the person skips town and starts hiding from you?
The problem here is that the buyer is dead and knowledge of the basis may be lost. It could be written down in a safe place, but not known to estate's executor.
What taxes are they dodging? I'm sure they're good at working things to minimize the amount they have to pay, but that's pretty much everyone on their tax return.
The only con I've been able to find is a) it only works if you remember to start shopping at smile.amazon.com, and b) the sign up process funnels customers to picking the larger and already well-known non-profits -- it is possible to pick any registered 501c3, but find and setting the smaller non-profit is fiddly and requires special knowledge (tax ID number) to complete.
Do you mind elaborating on those, or providing a link with more details?
If you bought a round of Dalmore 62, then yes, otherwise, no because only gifts of more than $15k per year per person incur the gift tax (and technically, you would pay the tax, because the tax is on the giver and not on the recipient).
> If it really only happens 0.02% of the time

That may be the problem right there. It most likely happens far more frequently so they can't insure and they can't self-insure. So the loss of good-will is small in comparison to the loss of funds. A broken model with sufficient marketing money behind it is indistinguishable from a working company right up until the moment the whole thing comes crashing down.
I am right now in Singapore for a visit and personally I don't have the feeling of a very clean city. There are some things that drive me crazy as a european. I went to a hawker with some Singaporeans and we got new disposable chopsticks for every dish. Wich means I ended up with three pairs of chopsticks. All plates were disposable. Either of plastic or styrofoam. Like in the article we didn't clean our trays, a cleaner took them the second we finished eating. I asked the Singaporeans how they feel about all the plastic and they just replied that's just how it is. Especially, that you get a plastic bag for every two items in the supermarket drives me nuts. Even when I am holding a backpack directly in front of the cashier he starts packing the items faster in a plastic bag than I can say anything. They even have watered sponges for their finger tips so they can be quicker with the plastic bags.

Needless to say, that all the trash ends up somewhere. Maybe not so much in percentage, but you will definitely find litter every few meters. The difference to my hometown in Germany is, that the litter there stays for years but also not so much new litter per day is produced. Maybe the Singaporeans should place more public trash bins or get some moop bags.
Yes, it is, but the Mach layer and BSD layer were fused into a monolithic kernel before NeXT Step turned into OS X. In OS X, HFS (and presumably APFS) are in the BSD layer.
But...but freedom.

It's aggravating to see how many Americans think individual freedom should absolutely and automatically trump every other concern.
These days it feels more and more like <50% of the downvoted comments are trolls/jerks, and the majority are just people who might disagree with the hivemind.
Does it? I’ve managed to search by name for them.
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It is available. Go to any law school library, look on the shelves.

But that doesn't mean that private entities who via their own labor, digitize it, are required to give your their resulting digital datasets.

All the more reason to be thankful that these folk are doing exactly that, and giving us tools to get at the data.
Why would you want to protect the identity from the recipient? Unless you wanted to enable spam.
I'm sure you realize there are people out there that are starting out or are just new to this? There's no need to add to the confusion, we already have enough of it in this industry.

Product names are either unique (for branding) or have some tangential matching definition. Serverless is none of those. Vague, inaccurate, nondescript. It is of no use.

This is like NoSQL all over again, absolutely meaningless in every aspect and adding to years of
I deleted my account out of frustration early this year.

Discussion is simply not important. Demonizing opposing opinions is very important though. Very much an anti libertarian echo chamber.
I believe they already have this (it's called "imputed rent") and are considering getting rid of this[1].

[1] https://lenews.ch/2017/08/24/a-swiss-parliamentary-commissio...
Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C
Indeed. When I use Firefox dev tools to open Facebook I see over 300 requests. 300!

Many of those are loaded over the same HTTP/2 connection. And a lot of those are cached.

But that's still a lot of TCP connections to multiple servers opening up and every bit of added latency slows it all down.
What I found really interesting when I there earlier this year was that the ethnic Chinese complained quite a bit about the strict laws, but the ethnic British or Malaysian didn't seem to be bothered by the plethora of laws, the didn't really seem to interfere with their daily life
They failed with watson,
They failed with Bluemix
They .... with Redhat.

I don't think that's a good move from Redhat perspective.
The same company that threw James Damore out for his scientifically backed opinion saying that misogyny isn't tolerated? They're a soulless entity that doesn't give a shit about people.
Not really a con, but I don't believe you can use Smile with the mobile apps. Unfortunately, as more of my purchases have shifted to mobile for convenience, this means less for Smile.
> There are far, far, too many ads. But the ads are at least more tasteful than on most platforms.

It’s all shit but this shit is shinier!
I would strongly suggest changing the name.
"Ves pene" means something pretty much NSFW in Spanish.
Besides that, nice job! Keep it up.
I would guess Russia.
I’m no expert, but didn’t Carl Hewitt’s work on Actors (1973) predate smalltalk by seven years or so? Or was there smalltalk before smalltalk-80?
Philanthropy is certainly a more direct way to contribute to a good cause of your choice than via taxes.
On Social Media, No Answers for Hate
Every story needs two sides, I think Google didn't predicted that employees will be against the company policy. Well it's a two way highway and using everything to barricade themselves against an employee isn't the most constructive way of a dialog and change of policies.
He loves writing about IBM. lol. Very insightful analysis as usual.
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