skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an aside; I put it in parentheses. It's not an argument. It's a meta-comment on how difficult it can be to use words with precision. I'm trying my best to handle a difficult conversation with civility and grace. Are you giving me the benefit of the doubt?
Because in practice it circumvents all the campaign finance laws that tried to somewhat level the playing field between candidates backed by the super rich and those not.
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Omniscient debuggers like this are a godsend, and too few and far between. Thank you.

When I was designing a complex, topology-transforming graph / search algorithm in C#, I had to cobble together my own "Algorithm Debugger" to fix some particularly tricky defects. My algorithm emitted a series of messages as it ran, which triggered viewport updates in different tabs, showing coroutine state, intermediate graphs, searches, etc.

It took me a month to write, and it was mired with bugs. Starting with Algojammer I probably could have knocked it out in a couple days.
Thanks for backing me up.

I'm such a skeptic by nature. But this messes with my head, and other developers at my office, too.
There isn't a trick. Resentment is what you feel when you kill yourself over a lifetime to achieve what someone else has given to them. All I can offer is "don't think about it to much".

disclaimer: Just as resentful as you are. I paid for college by enlisting in the military. Glad I could do my little part to keep the country safer for people like her...see? There is that resentment coming on again, it's such a tricky bastard of a feeling.
Poverty traps are relevant, but they're usually more than a day's pay. The temptation to cheap out is always there, but being stuck with the bad route is mostly relevant to big-ticket items. Bigger than a cell phone, which you can get used or with a zero-interest payment plan among other options.
The biggest failure in FB afaiac, is the complete package of utility to truly connect people with tools.

For example, they could have created workspaces for people to create teams and collaborate and build things, manage communities and projects have real facility to build create and run organizations with Facebook being the profile glue and communications channel.

They have had less-than-mediocre efforts on all of these. And their system stinks of every kind of digital fraud you can imagine from inflated and fake metrics across the board, to data breaches and leaks, a UX that is labrynthian etc.

With the money And resources they have, why don't we see the fruits of Vision that could be available to them.

Their cell phone was a flop, their engagements feel cancerous and they are basically a new-money-elite building moats around old-boy-exclusionist thinking.
Great. That means that if you're after a specific piece of information, and you don't waste time clicking on "ooh shiney" stuff on your way to find that piece of information, you get flagged as a bot and treated as hostile.

Why do we want this version of the web again?
The page you linked is dead, but /r/itslenny is a real sub and it's glorious. Thanks for that tip!
So... that means that the restauranteurs, skilled tradesmen and everyone else should be bearing the burden, and not the extremely profitable tech companies?

I don't know how you arrive at that logic.
You need to read more into the news. It's actually a reason to get unexcited about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771
I always thought of SNAP shares as 'baseball cards'.

In the baseball card mania of the 90s, it was said they go up and down in value as the player does well and poorly. But, hey are completely devoid of inherent value.

I'm told SNAP shares would still get you some % if the company is bought, but I figure if someone does by SNAP they'll just purchase the voting stock from the founders and leave SNAP out there hanging around.
These are easy to get around though. It might depend on the State, but in Oregon, in order to actually get ticketed by those stupid things, the image of the driver in the car must match the picture of the driver the car is registered to. So if you're married, just register your wife's car in your name and hers in yours. The pics will never match, and no ticket. If you have to go to court, you can show the judge the pic and it's clearly not you driving, so no ticket.
S/he's updating the phrase "written in stone" for the internet age.
There is a massive value. It means that all SP500 tracking ETFs ($SPY, $VOO etc) have to buy your shares. It's a huge boost to your share price, especially with the rise of passive investing.
If there’s too much manual work, you aren’t using enough layers! ;) Seems the smart approach for a... “focused” AI would be to manually label a bunch of nsfw bits and use that to build a censor bot that auto-detects and censors the of-interest regions. From there you can generate a large corpus of censored-uncensored pairs with which to train the decensor bot.
Trouble finding qualified techies? Retrain the ones you've got
My recollection is that MS did confirm that Windows 10 was chosen for some vague mention of technical reasons, which most people latched on to as being explained by the "Windows 9" check.

I have seen code in the 2010s that did explicitly check for "Windows 9" as a means to check if it was running on Windows 95 or 98. That doesn't mean that the code would actually work on those systems (it could well be a prelude to saying "your system is too ancient, we don't support you"). But such kind of cruft tends to last a very, very long time without active maintenance.
Painting the lens black might be a better balance of quick and effective.
Because 'playing today' is money now, 'studying' is investment for an unknown return.

Some people play the long game and it never pays off.

Kind of a wasted life then, no?

The issue is to try to understand the risks, and know what activities benefit whom. If you like working, and derive self worth and identity from it then great. If you don't ... it might be hard to justify working 80 hours a week until you're 65 to do what exactly?
Last time I drove 94 from Chicago to Milwaukee..it feels like it mostly is already.
Play the "AI" -> https://rjsteinert.github.io/four-in-a-row-game/

Simple reducer -> https://github.com/rjsteinert/four-in-a-row-game/blob/master...
I am careful about what I let get out on the Internet. I’m more concerned about being embarrassed about some of the juvenile arguments I got in using my real name on Usenet back in the day than what I post on FaceBook.

Any company that wouldn’t want to hire me because they find my bleeding heart libertarian pro-capitalist views offensive is not a company I would want to work for. Hell they would probably be confused about where I stand on most things.
It's all contractors being sub contracted to other companies. If they laid off 10% of their workers overnight it wouldn't matter because it's the normal cycle of contracting.

There can be no growth because contractors don't scale. They bring a fix percentage of their day rate.

There could be some products with great people lost in a corner of IBM. However, they will remain a negligible fraction of the company and they won't have the power to turn it around.

If AWS/Microsoft makes a new product or service, they can roll out instantly everywhere and capture clients. If IBM does something new, they couldn't begin to sell it, they'd sell you a contractor.
Also, those protests weren't about corruption. They were mostly about labor policy.
FB will prioritize timeline posts of your contacts that you have the most messages exchanged with over Messenger.
Abuse exists, so there is then demand to prevent it.

Your anger would be better directed at the bad actors who ruin things for you, like how you need to buy a lock for your door. How much time in your life has been wasted by slotting a key into a hole? Ugh, doesn't anyone know this isn't the world I asked for?
I think he means "written in ink" in the sense that something you post cannot be erased, much like how if you write something with a pen, vs with a pencil.
Just my trollish 2 cents, but I'd rather someone express it from a book depository window. If you vote them out, they'll just find another place to attach their lamprey politician jaws to.
They're referring to social media being permanent, no take backsies. Everything you share is going to be on the internet for all time
> With the arts, a student may be accepted to an arts program without a scholarship and find herself $200,000 in debt before realizing she isn’t going to be able to get a real paycheck with her arts degree—at least in the next decade.

We need the government to stop backing these bad loans. Any bank that makes enough bad loans will eventually fail, so they try and avoid it. I'd rather see someone say "Well, you can borrow $50k for an arts degree because that's all it's worth" ... Then we'll start to see the market fulfill college options at reasonable prices for artists.
And then it got too big for IBM to pay a fortune to stop taking its pie?
SSH is harder to secure than TLS, I admit.

Sometimes security doesn't matter, though.

Picture a "web-app" like an APT package repo host. (I know the reference impls of ALT hosts are essentially static-site-generators, but ignore that, and imagine an impl that's a web-app with dynamic business logic to expose the relevant routes.)

Such a web-app can be served over plain HTTP. Not even an MITM can exploit an APT client, since it looks for specific files on the server and then checks those files' signatures against a local GPG database.

What would be wrong with having this web-app also be an "SFTP-app"? Or an "FTP-app"? Or even a "telnet-app"?

In all these cases, it'd just be a virtual filesystem being exposed over a wire protocol where the security of the wire protocol is immaterial.

That's more in line with what I was picturing, here. You know how (public) S3 files can be retrieved over HTTP, but also over BitTorrent? Picture adding SFTP to that, as another option. That kind of API.

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For the situations where the service would benefit from security, though, you can still just obviate the need for relying on SSH's security specifically.

For example, you can expose your SSH server only over a VPN. (I know a lot of people do this, though I personally find it to be more of a hassle than just correctly configuring SSH.)

Or you can expose your SSH server behind an stunnel instance, thereby reducing your configuration work down to just "setting up a TLS-terminating load-balancer", that can then be shared between HTTPS and SSH traffic.

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Or, if it's just that you don't trust the Erlang SSH impl, you could just hack up OpenSSH to act as an "SSH terminator", forwarding the SSH-channel flows out of each SSH connection, as regular (auth-headered) TCP connections to your backend. Sort of like an fCGI server for SSH. I'm pretty sure the only reason nobody has done this yet is that no language (other than Erlang) has batteries-included support for speaking the server-side of SFTP.
for some value of "usually"

corporation tax: 30% in 2008, 19% in 2018

zero rate band of income tax: £3000 in 1990, £11850 today (the increase is more than double that of inflation)
No. NO interaction with the Internet.
This was the straw that finally made me delete everything. For a few days/week I was getting text messages for notifications even though I had them disabled and had even deleted the app (deleted app out of the frustration you mentioned). I couldn't escape it.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/16/17022162/facebook-two-fac...
I'm not at all surprised that the only (at the time of this comment) response that isn't just "refocus your hate at something else" is the one that's down-voted
I mean that the apps didn't pretend to be banking apps. If you don't mind being warned that non-banking apps don't have EV certs, you wouldn't have minded being warned about these apps and have just installed them.
I'd be okay with it, if it stopped all these shootings and bombings, but that doesn't seem to be working out too well. :-(
Wearable bulletproof jackets make much more sense to me than a handgun for practical defense.

I have lived in Oakland for the last 5 years, in nice areas. During that time:

- Brian Bore, a 30 year old data scientist was walking home from a bar just down the street from where I lived at the time, and was shot dead. They never caught the murderer. [1]

- A couple blocks away from my office in downtown Oakland, a woman was shot by a stay bullet during the day, [2] and teen's funeral was attacked and a 16-year old girl was killed. [3]

There have been other incidents as well, for which I do not have news sources: My S/O at the time was held up at gunpoint and his wallet and phone stolen. My morning coffee place had a mugging at gunpoint at 10 AM on Saturday morning (I arrived a half hour after it happened).

Our city is plagued by gun violence. It disturbs me greatly.

However, I don't think getting a gun myself makes sense. I have no problem with a gun for protection, but the kind of gun violence we face in this city is not the kind that is easily solved with a pistol. When someone has a gun trained on you and is trying to mug you, a gun of your own is not likely to help with that situation. If you're hit by a stray bullet, that's another situation that a gun of your own doesn't help with. And for just drive-by shootings, or whatever happened to Brian Bore, a gun of your own doesn't help at all.

A lightweight bulletproof jacket makes a LOT more sense.

Consider me an interested buyer. I wonder how light it is -- the jacket in the video looks pretty hefty.

1. https://abc7news.com/news/former-nasa-scientist-fatally-shot...

2. https://abc7news.com/news/innocent-bystander-hurt-in-oakland...

3. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Downtown-Oakland-rush...
But you'd have to reach the lens. The wires might be handier...
Most of the new technologies from the RH side work on Debian (systemd, SELinux, udev, dbus, PulseAudio) or are now the default. You would get a newer kernel (3.10 —> 4.4) and software, as well as a larger repository.

More importantly, though, there are no corporate sponsors for Debian. Canonical supports Ubuntu, but not Debian. If that matters, you’d need to look elsewhere.

Your needs for HPC are probably different from the norm, though, so maybe none of this matters. The biggest thing is that the gap between Red Hat and the rest of the Linux world is closing and every distro is becoming more similar to what you’re used to.
Your argument is seriously that it should not be ok for people who are in an embassy to engage in speech?

Is that seriously what you believe? Do you not see how absolutely ridiculous it is to criminalize political speech?

This is political speech that we are talking about here. I cannot think of a single thing that is more important to protect than political speech. It is quite literally the most important human right in existence, because if you don't have that right, you lose the rest of them.
I'd be surprised if you could find enough A players to staff the model at the present payscale. Sure, you can argue that a more successful entity can generate more profits, but there's diminishing returns to that effect. Furthermore, there's going to be a lot of egos in the room if all you have are A players, and that's not necessarily sustainable in the long term, either.
Comcast is a better example of a family owned business.
Ah, you're right, Conscientiousness is the wrong word. (Though, to be clear, either way, I'm not talking about the lay-usage, but rather the specific definitions of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits as jargon.)

I meant to refer to the Big-5 trait of "Agreeableness." Emphasis mine:

> [Agreeableness is the] tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others. It is also a measure of one's trusting and helpful nature, and whether a person is generally well-tempered or not. High agreeableness is often seen as naive or submissive. Low agreeableness personalities are often competitive or challenging people, which can be seen as argumentative or untrustworthy.
Eh. When you realize that FTP supported opening two control channels to different systems and having them do a file transfer without involving the client, it makes more sense.

It was also possible for the client and server to fork off data handling processes for the data channel and continue to use the control connection without needing async poll/select loops.

Anyway, it wasn't insane. At the time anyway.
Compare yourself to people who you are much more advantaged than? For example, were you born in the United States, or Western Europe? If so, you already probably had a lot of advantages compared to someone in say, Sudan. Did you grow up with parents, especially ones that cared about you and tried to help you improve your life? Lots of people don't have that.

The trick is to look down sometimes too, you're probably more fortunate than some people, should they resent you for it? (the answer could be yes, in which case your resentment is perfectly reasonable, but so is someone else's resentment of you)
Note I wrote my father in law when he had gone too far down the rabbit hole and legitimately worried about the poison it spreads around his demographic:

I left Facebook when I read some press release about it being designed from the outset to make you feel bad because it keeps you engaged; hoping someone agrees with something you liked or shared and the dopamine hit it releases. I don’t like feeling manipulated and manipulation is facebooks modus operandi. All to track everything I do around the internet to sell me ads for $12/person/year in revenue.

I left Twitter for basically the same reason and when I’d stick on the site refreshing it all day hoping someone noticed the well thought out point I spent 3 hours putting together only to realize no one cares. Leaving both after about a week feels like when I have taken breaks from caffeine. It sucks at first but after a week, you feel refreshed and clean. I’m sure drug abstinence feels similar.

My father went down the rabbit hole of Facebook and shares political crap constantly, flooding peoples news feeds. There’s a feature on Facebook that lets you silently unfollow people so they’re on mute. Everyone of my family members who are Facebook friends with my dad have done this to him and don’t see anything he posts. He’s shouting into a black hole thinking the whole world is paying attention while in reality no one is.

He has said things that the man I grew up with would never have said and Facebook/ talk radio is to blame. We’re all vulnerable to it, which is why I try and stay away from it.

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/dont-believe-lies-just-people-...
In addition it also says the PAC and politicians cannot work together. Yes, that's a valid read of the situation. But it's also naive. What Citizen's United is in reality is a loophole that allows politicians and monied people to wink at each other (without explicitly saying anything). The whole point of one person one vote in democracy is to prevent the sort of power that money and resources can bring in. A limitless amount of money pouring into elections ruins democracy. If that means a restriction on speech in a very narrow sense, so be it.
I was born in America :-)

I don't recall ever hearing the word, but it appears a lot in books I've read, even recently written ones.

"indefatigable" fits what I wanted to convey better than "tirelessly". From the Cambridge English Dictionary:

"always determined and energetic in trying to achieve something and never willing to admit defeat"

Iain has had a plethora of reasons to abandon the project, and nobody would have blamed him. But he's persisted in the face of little encouragement, less support, and lots of complaining. It's a massive achievement. Indefatigable is the perfect word.
Newer LCD displays will forgo the diffuser for mini-LED FALD backlights.
uBiome – The Largest Human Microbiome Dataset
Maybe look into fractal compression and genetic algorithms.
Discrimination aside, isn't the UK providing the favorable tax haven to begin with (Double Irish)?

Also, how is revenue classified? If someone buys ads on Facebook do you now have to count and prorate clicks based on where the user comes from?

And now with GDPR (or whatever the equivalent is in the UK) What if the user does not accept tracking where they come from? Then there's the clause that says the business must track the minimum needed to comply with tax law even if the user does not opt in. So there goes privacy.

Seems like there are a lot of laws that contradict and negate each other. What a mess.
I hate Recaptcha.

In my experience using Firefox and not being logged into a google account results in a very long if not impossible chain of captcha challenges.
Hold on. Who says the sites using CAPTCHA are also the sites that have an ad based monetization model? The other day I was logging into newegg to order something and I was presented with reCAPTCHA, for which I had to solve 4-5 challenges before letting through.

Looking through the documentations for reCAPTCHA v3, it wants to load a script from Google's servers. As an end user I do not want Google to track me across the web, on other people's property. Thus I want to block this HTTP call. This discussion is pretty orthogonal to "Ad"block, given that all sorts of places have a CAPTCHA implementation.

The cynical side of me thinks that Google's doing this such that a convenient side effect is crippling the user experience for those who uses content blockers/custom user agents to impede its adoption. Even without a cynical motive, this side effect seems to be conveniently ignored, which hurts users. Suppose another non-ad based company were to create such a system, I'd imagine they would want to explicitly work around the problems of blockers/tracking such that the website owner can get a more "true" metric of "suspicious" users as this would likely lead to more sales/engagement/whatever.
I'm using Facebook every day to search for affiliate marketing websites and niche sites that I can buy.

There are a ton of groups with website exchanges. It's also great to find virtual assistants and content writers. We also have a group for our city where things like cars, couches and other stuff gets posted. The same for jobs, models and other topics. I can hire a bunch of people, buy websites and trade stuff just using Facebook.

I'm 20y/o, so I guess I'm part of the relevant user group.
All I can say is that it's still very useful. I never comment or like anything, though. I'm basically using it for business.

I don't think that I would use Instagram or Snapchat in the same way. I recently bought an Instagram account with 10k followers to get into this stuff, but I don't see the value of it (yet). It feels shallower than Facebook (which is pretty hard).

edit: When I think about it - Facebook gives me easy access to a lot of people and services. Does somebody know any alternatives (hiring people, trading stuff and websites, local groups) when Facebook's user base leaves the platform?

edit2: Reading through the comments - am I the only one who uses Facebook as a means to do business? I thought that more people on HN would use it for that.
I know people talk about him playing 5-D chess or whatever, but the only remark I've heard from him about high level chess was demonstrably false. He said that part of why America needs to be made great again is because there are no American "grand chess masters" (sic), when in fact there's nearly a hundred American grandmasters (putting the US at #2 in the world, which is about the best we've ever been by that metric).

He has also released pictures of himself purportedly playing chess, except the board is in an impossible configuration.
Just looking at the gaming section I wonder how much subreddit popularity leads sales or vice versa.