skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I guess that's what I'm getting at: is it really rational to assume that it's a zero-sum game? The history I've studied indicates it is not, at least until the totalitarians show up. But the antidote to totalitarianism isn't better totalitarianism, it is refusing to look at your neighbors as politically binary.
I should move.
He is the definition of a modern-major-general-driver

BTW this hn post appears to have been shadowbaned
After the Trump election where I interestingly enough found myself agreeing with a lot of the critique of the current political system coming from both Sanders and Trump even though I would normally consider myself part of the liberal political spectrum (pro-abortion, against the death sentence, couldn't care less if gay people get married etc)

I started digging into things I had taken for granted such as Breibart being this racist place that only does fake news, Ben Shapiro probably was pretty extreme because he was alt right etc, Milo was a racist homophobe, Bannon was a white supremacist etc.

It ended up being a 6-month journey where I actually sat down and listened to what they had to say, which luckily is now possible because of the long interview formats that's been popping up on youtube like Joe Rogan, Dave Rubin etc.

And I must say that while I am still pro-abortion, pro gets married to whomever you want etc. I have a much better appreciation for what people I disagree with actually are saying and I can listen to it and actually argue without shaming them simply for being on the "wrong side". None of those people were the moral monsters I would normally read about whenever the alt-right was described. They were mostly people who actually could argue for their positions, positions I didn't always agree with but at least now understood better.

I have personally experienced now being shamed and people trying to go after my business simply because of some of my comments, even on HN.

The real danger of misinformation is the one we create for ourselves when we listen to what others say and interpret that.

I like the term strong-manning instead of straw-manning i.e. trying to position the argument of whoever you are debating in the strongest possible position rather than trying to go after their morals as the first thing.

In other words, most misinformation is the way we interpret things ourselves, not what was said or meant.

I would encourage you anyone to try just once in their life to take the "other sides" arguments seriously, hear them out and then figure out what exactly you disagree with them about and whether it's actually as much as you think when all comes to all.
"Tech will always need to act in a quasi-governmental manner, making judgments on political speech and operating teams in parallel to the U.S. intelligence community,"

No, absolutely not Alex.

The fact that these massive tech monopolies are so powerful that it's now just taken for granted that they are pseudo-governmental entities should be a wake up call for everyone. It's high time we start talking about anti-trust and the breakup of Facebook, Google, Amazon, and maybe others. This is completely unacceptable.

Our laws are woefully out of date, they were written when the only foreseeable damage from companies this large and powerful was pricing abuse. The damage they have caused is far more extensive and severe than that, we need new laws and aggressive anit-trust/anti-monopoly stances to undo this damage, hopefully before it becomes too late to stop them at all.
If you use Bitlocker, there's a high probability that the crypto is nonexistent or so flawed that it can be trivially be cracked: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/flaws-in-popu...
Typed-Html: Type Checked JSX for Rust
Techstars Co-Founder Jared Polis Is Colorado’s Next Governor
No deal would be a huge buying opportunity.

Even in the worst case scenario, the UK is almost certainly not going to collapse. I mean it’s survived way worse times.

It might take a beating, but it’ll figure it out.
Disaster Capitalism:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/04/disast...
As someone who works in the industry, the article was a 30,000 ft view and didn’t do a good job of digging into the issue.

Regardless, it looks like the drug does reduce pancreatitis attacks, but only by 50%. So it certainly doesn’t “cure” the patient.

The clinical trials were also quite small, so possibly the national payers said “$1M is reasonable if you do X, but you don’t have the data to convince me you can do X.”
Certainly information conduits and platforms can change the way that they operate.
However, if some government entity can decide what voters are allowed to know, it has become the new sovereign and the form of government is no longer democracy.
Yeah especially if you are generating 400 in USD as the INR value has been dropping lately

On a serious note 400 USD us probably good enough for a fresher (to be honest its way more than average) but its quite less for a mid-level engineer.
Classic NYT. Falling prices is a "crisis"
A great sale is here 50% off on this day harry up
"Fk business"

- Boris Johnson, June 2018

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44618154
That was not really a crisis, that was a shake out. The article really focuses on the Texas instrument computer. They basically bungled it, everybody knew that software was key for having a popular computer, and yet they do not take steps to make sure there was lots of software available for it... indeed, they discouraged it.
> Loon balloons are helium, and helium gas is famously hard to contain

It's not like there are any better options? The only two practical lifting gases are hydrogen and helium. Hydrogen leaks even more than helium and is flammable, even though it is much cheaper and abundant.
Using Swift Playgrounds, Pythonista, Continuous and similar apps is not much different than booting up my Timex 2068 and coding away in the realm of Timex Basic.
Smartphones aren't nearly as good for being productive as desktops and laptops, though they're pretty good at consuming content. I think this shift away from desktops and laptops indicates a shift away from productivity.

Yes, a lot of people watched too much TV, but at least they had the capability of doing things like image editing, building spreadsheets, etc. Smartphones can do those things, but it's so awkward that it's more likely that you're not going to bother, so you're more likely to just consume content instead of create it if you don't own a desktop or a laptop.

Personally, I'm not really nostalgic over traditional computers, but I am a little nostalgic for stuff created by hand instead of filled in with a template.
But AFAICT the glibc dogma is based on the premise that it would be impossible for a large, complex project to have backward compatibility without making regular changes to the extant interfaces that it provides.

Yeah well tell that to the engineers of HP-UX, IRIX, and Solaris, because all of those managed to produce libc's which were backward compatible. Sun Microsystems even legally warranted Solaris and therefore libc, they were that paranoid about backwards-compatibility.

That's not the issue. The issue is that glibc is developed by people who are not and never were system engineers and instead of learning from the masters, asking them how to do it correctly, or sticking with BSD when its situation was dire, they just decided to re-invent the wheel.

One does not simply re-invent glibc from first principles, especially so if one does not have the requisite insights and experience, which they didn't and they still don't, and most likely if they haven't by now, never will. GNU developers are a lost cause. Just look at how long it took them to "discover" versioned interfaces with linker map files, something Solaris system engineers have been using since the early '90's of the past century, and everything becomes crystal clear, if one knows the Red flags. That's one Red flag right there, "late in phase and unlikely to ever catch up".
As a Zen Monk, my answer to “What does it mean?” would be: “If I tell you, I deserve 30 blows. If I don’t tell you, I deserve 30 blows. Now, tell me: Why did I say so!”

Zen Monk Alain M. Lafon, headmonk of Lambda Zen Temple of Glarus, Switzerland
https://zen-temple.net/zen-temples/lambda-zen-temple/introdu...
Ah yes, I hear you
But JRM and other cronies are going to make a ton of money so of course they don't give a f https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/jacob-rees-mogg-line-...
The author is a well-known (on the twitter-sphere) pen-tester. Despite the childish gif memes and dramatic trimming, I don't think he made it up.

But I agree, it seems strange that he didn't succeed.

When corporations hire pen-testers, the set-up is that their CIO/CSO has full knowledge of what is going down and when so that they're prepared to intervene in the unlikely scenario of the pen-tester getting caught.

Knowing the mentality that is common amongst c-level suits, however, it would not be surprising if the suit tipped-off his IT guy in advance. After all, wouldn't catching the well-paid pen-tester look better to the other suits than being utterly pwned and paying for privilege?

The CIO might have successfully "kobiashi-maru'd" the whole exercise. Not saying that happened here, but if large corporations are capable of horrific security breaches, I think they're also capable of trying game the system to avoid things going sideways.
If you understand tech well enough that you can spar with them then yes.

I have built several products with freelancers. My primary area is design but I understand technology well enough that I can help solve potential problems I can even code a little (mostly php, javascript and scripting like css and html) I can also look at lover level languages like objective c code and understand kind of what is going on.

If you are building something technically complex I would say you are much better of finding at tech-co-founder or at least have some friends in the tech business you get advice from.

If you are building simpler things then you should be fine with just running it yourself.
I'm not blind, but I have a blind PhD student.

One useful thing seems to be using an auto code formatter and requiring the code is always autoformatted. Manually ensuring indentation is right is very awkward, just running clang-format, or whatever, is simple.
I assume you bang these out and go for quantity to help build a backlog for new fans to dig into and fresh releases to keep getting new content for existing fans. Do you spend much time editing the stories after you write the first draft? Or is it pretty much just a single fast second draft that cleans up the first draft a bit and then push the book out there? How many words do you aim for for each book? What do you do to promote them?
As a former freelancer myself: here's what i hate about clients:

1. Know what you need. Don't go to a freelancer assuming he understands, or cares, about your product as much as you do.
2. Be clear on every single functionality about what you need. If there's something you did not define, the freelancer will mostly always choose the easiest to implement and probably most unwanted option
3. Have a wireframe. Always use a wireframing tool to make a "flow" of how your app will work. If you can't use mock up tools, use powerpoint, but please have something ready
4. There is nothing like a cheap, or expensive freelancer. It's mostly all experience and knowledge. What you want is someone who can make what you need, and has done similar work before. A good question to test out someone's basic tech knowledge is to ask them if they know the difference between, hashing, encoding and encryption.
Haha, thanks, I guess that's one place where Dependabot shows its side-project roots - I just want as many people to use it as possible, and am less fussed about capturing the biggest share of value.
We need a proof of stake blockchain system to verify information where the highest stakeholders are the most trusted sources.
>History shows that, lacking a crystal ball, you're more likely to lose than win.

Does it? My gut feel says 50/50
The style seems fairly normal for public stories from that type of work.
There are people actively analyzing the differences between binaries (they are able to characterize all sorts of things, not just whether there are changes, they do it for all apps in the big app stores).

That doesn't really help Joe User, but it's possible to do it.
THEAtlantic making a last-ditch attempt to get into this years player haters ball
A keyboard connected to nothing is a more creative device than a smart phone.
> I'm convinced that most of the pain with error handling stems from programmers ignoring the consequences of an error.

This is one of my favorite empirical studies of software: Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures: An Analysis of Production Failures in Distributed Data-Intensive Systems (2014)[1] It says that, indeed, many catastrophic errors happen because of ignoring the consequences of errors when the handling code was either empty (explicit ignore) or just logged the condition, even when the language enforced error handling. A simple tool they wrote to recognize it would have prevented 33% of the catastrophic failures they'd studied in Cassandra, HBase, HDFS, and MapReduce. So even when programmers are forced to explicitly respond to an error, they handle it with what amounts to a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I speculate that it's because psychologically we don't want to think hard enough about what to do when things that seem exceptional happen.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...
I like the sound of this, but aren't you basically arguing against the existence of biases?

E.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism

Seems to me, honestly, like a fair hypothesis for our tribal behavior. Moreso, to be honest, than the majority of people "understanding it to be a zero-sum contest".

Do you think that's too cynical?
It could be said though, that a lot of the leading Bremainers have strong connections to government jobs, no? What I'm saying is, if the Brexiter's dayjob has "corrupted" them, the same could be said about their opponents, no?

I doubt that most British people in finance were Brexiters, but rather Bremainers. And so it's not the job that tainted them, but rather the job they chose suited their personal traits.
> What's an example of typical application code that will behave differently with the mitigations on or off?

Pretty much any application where there is limited execution time budget. If it takes too long it's considered broken, unusable, undesirable etc. Any realtime-ish stuff.

Ad bidding, video processing, audio processing / messaging, industrial control systems, robotics, general signal processing, logging systems that will now be overwhelmed and drop messages, databases that will experience timeouts and retries, scientific computations that will now take weeks more to run and potentially screw up other projects.

But hey it's a great time for Intel. Hey, psst, over here, I got a faster later gen CPU for you, for an easy price of $999.99 to bring you performance back to where it was last week.
I was always told to make sure you keep extra of any kind of material like that around. A handful of extra tile, some extra wood flooring, some carpet that we pulled out to replace with wood floor at one point, even some extra molding just because why not?

Worst case scenario, it sits up in the attic and the 15 minutes spent taking it up there is a waste, best case scenario it makes it so that a single cracked tile or a deep scratch in a wood floor isn't as big of a deal. And I have found that I pretty much always have at least some left over normally anyway.
Well, people wanted the same computers at home that they used at work, at least many did. For a while, when businesses were using computers like the TRS-80 line, people would buy them for home also. But when the business world standardized on the intel-based PC, that's what drove a lot of people to buy those for their homes also. So they could do work at home, and use software they were familiar with.
Lack of people interaction, working remotely can be lonely. I used to think that working in an office was unnecessary but sometimes I miss the unproductive conversations I used to have with my co-workers.
17 US Shale Firms Form $100M Permean Strategic Partnership for Texas, New Mexico
I'm not sure that two of the world's richest companies investing is great sign of confidence. If their investment comes to nought, it wouldn't make a dent in their balance sheet.
>For developers who want to tinker, they can use different means to discover projects. I don't need to see the language or tech name in the file every time I use it just so developers can discover it.

Well, if you do see it, it hurts you how?

>To me it signals lack of creativity. The problem of these projects seems to me that they have no reason to exist (beyond playground for the developer) other than "a tool written in that language"

Well, to me "a tool written in that language" is quite important. As a developer I don't just care for the tool's functionality, but also its hackability, portability and ecosystem.
If you define the word “capitalism” to mean “unregulated free market” then policing fraud is indeed an infringement in that market freedom.

The analogy breaks down when you realize the claim to legitimacy of the US government rests on the sovereignty of the voter.
> I've never heard of "write anywhere" before but it sounds interesting. What is/was this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_Anywhere_File_Layout
It’s not that simple, because there have been many attempts at educating and things haven’t improved.

There’s evidence that awareness of biases makes one more susceptible to them, and that intelligence is also correlated with a higher susceptibility to bias. Intelligence and education give us tools to strengthen the form of our argument, and that enables us to better hang on to bias.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/why-smart-peop...

Also, giving people evidence that disproves their core beliefs tends to strengthen those beliefs, until a certain tipping point, so incomplete education may actually be worse than no education.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/

Fixing misinformation is a hard problem. It’s not just a matter of getting people into contact with facts.
This generation didn't throw out their equivalent to the TI home computer. The same kind of people who were inclined to buy a TI in '83 are buying the RaspberryPi today. More computers are sold today to a wider variety of people that were ever sold in 1983.
My favorite was using GP to evolve a soccer team that outcompeted the handcrafted competion and won the Robo Cup championship in 1997.[1]

I still wonder why GP never got to be as popular as NN's (aka the currently fashionable "deep learning").

Was it just that GP's didn't perform as well? I find that somewhat hard to believe, as Koza's books are chock full of impressive results, and there are hundreds more papers on them.

GP's also have the virtue of ultimately being analyzable and understandable, at least in some cases (I'm not confident enough to say in all cases). That is a feature that NN's seem to lack, and it's becoming a big problem for some critical systems where life, important decisions, and/or ethics are involved.

[1] - http://www.genetic-programming.com/hc/lukesoccer.html
That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It's true that law and ethics aren't always aligned, especially in authoritarian regimes. But basic things like integrity are essential for any human society.

Also, I'm not convinced that growing up in the former Soviet bloc necessarily means that honesty isn't the best policy. If everyone around you is corrupt, being the one dependable person around is a differentiator. Maybe I'm being naive, but it seems like that reputation could have some real world value to you.

By the way, it doesn't matter what your classmates are doing. Comparing myself to the average was horribly destructive to my college education. It turns out, everyone around me putting in average amounts of studying and getting average grades ended up getting average jobs with average pay! The one or two people in class that always aced everything, about whom I thought "well I don't have to be as good as them" - those were the ones who ended up having a real shot at grad school or dat $100k Facebook new-grad signing bonus. It's just like when you move from high school to college and suddenly you're not the smartest person in the universe anymore. Your cheating classmates are bozos - stomp them with harder work and keep moving up. Don't sink to their level.
Mr Stamos is unhappy with Russia, mentioned repeatedly. Their "activity" needs to be "dealt with".

AIPAC, "America's Pro-Israel Lobby", isn't worth a mention. Israel apparently does nothing that needs to be dealt with.

Are you Americans on this forum grateful that people like Mr Stamos decide for you which countries should have influence?
Using other peoples recommendations and making affiliate dollars off of them seems unethical to me. It's not even your content.
I wish I had more than one vote to give you sir, but alas, that is not how democracy works. People need to listen to one anothers concerns and avoid demonizing entire groups of people from the heinous acts of a few.
I guess with such a generous definition of "passive income", anything is passive income.

I mean I'm still getting paid for the features I wrote for my company's software two years ago!
How did they even notice Powershell?
I guess should have being more specific as in educate people to identify misinformation campaigns. The alternative of giving government powers to sensor information looks even less reasonable.
Are high heels a public resource that women are abusing to the detriment of everyone?
I'd rather have that than the UK dystopia.
>productive

That's an interesting word choice and something tells me "productivity" is highly subjective.

For example, can you code on a smartphone? Yeah, but not as productively as on a desktop.

Can I manage my sales team's day to day from my smart phone? Absolutely and that might be a great choice as managing sales probably doesn't lend to being in one place for very long.
I'm exaggerating a bit to make a point (my actual view is slightly less Stark) that I think gets brushed off or overlooked too easily (but is important)

I think the reasons are more multivariate than a single psychological principle. But yes, in-groupism is a component I do think. But that is a component against the backdrop of societal and geographical sorting among a whole set of preferences and values e.g. (can predict a lot more about you if you are blue or red because we've all sorted ourselves) as an example of another component.
Who would be watching that slack channel with a dozen of pictures per week? Or would the bot be spamming the pics in #general?
I think if people can clearly identify even the more obvious misinformation campaigns by foreign powers targeting them that would already help a good bit.
Thanks, that looks quite interesting. I have already found a book I might like.

> I'm adding recommendations and products daily.
Do you add the recommendations manually or do you use a crawler/API to copy the comment? How automatic is it?

Finally, I have two suggestions: You're only selling to people in the US. Maybe you could also add links to other Amazon domains (or use a service like geni.us)?

And how about linking back to the comment thread? Sometimes, a comment only makes sense in its context, and I couldn't find a link back.