skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patreon is not a basic service. Patreon is a private company, with no monopoly to speak of.
The timelapse video of the actual drive is here.
(https://vimeo.com/306969319)

This is the link to their company website.
(https://pronto.ai/)

I found their soundtrack choice very ironic because around 1:05 in the video, the artist says "it could mean jail."

I find it hilarious because he avoided jail by invoking his 5th amendment rights during his trial with Waymo vs Uber.[1]

[1] (https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/30/ubers-anthony-levandowski-...)
I'm a latecomer to HN and I remember wondering at first how such a 'basic' site could possibly be so popular. After a while, it was clear that something was really very right about the design of the thing, but I hadn't ever bothered to put into words just what that was. Now I don't have to.
Spritz won't work for books with illustrations. It's a complete no-go for photo-books and children's books, for example.
Gives me a Privacy error on chrome. >.<

This server could not prove that it is cant.stopdatamining.me; its security certificate is from *.gridserver.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection
IANAL, but is that seriously a legal risk? The guy would have to explain he stole it.
> Welcome to Bandcamp of books, comics and magazines!

I'd be wary of using that phrase directly on your home page. That's definitely making use a of trademark you don't own - seems like a quick path to some legal trouble with bandcamp?
I agree. I also would prefer not to use state machines if I wanted coroutines (i.e. algorithmic code with traditional control structures interspersed with coroutine yields). Ideally you need both.
For a SF take on hell, see "Surface Detail" by Ian M Banks. This takes place in his Culture [0] universe, and details how various societies maintain virtual hells, some specifically to punish (now dead) citizens who previously uploaded their personalities into their society's virtual spaces.

[spoiler]

One of the characters in the book is an alien female who has hacked into her society's hell to expose its horrors to doubters in 'the Real'. She becomes trapped and (long story short) becomes an angel of death whose special gift / eternal punishment is to be able to release from hell one trapped soul per day. Unfortunately, every time she does this, she takes some of their pain upon herself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture_(series)
Maybe rather than spending on government projects they could lend to promising startups in the space eg the MIT SPARC one https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/280265-mit-plans-new-fus...
The only reason one would share their empathy for these people is to garner sympathy. That is what I took issue with.

Let's try this again,

You said you haven't found effective ways to do anything about it.

How about you stop calling them friends for a start.

Secondly, say something. You're literally the only one who can.

Don't just sit there and try to justify their shitty actions so you can let yourself off the hook as if you tried but couldn't do anything because you know, what about their lifestyles.
Placebo has never worked for me. So as someone who gets sea-sick, it's pretty damn important to me that a product which intends to operate based on the placebo effect be identified as such.

Not everybody is healed by lies, after all.
Giraffes just silently went to the list of endangered animals facing extinction
For an oil fire in the kitchen, use baking soda.
> ... "to essentially build a new Internet that _they_ can't attack".

This refutes any dialogue and is used mainly by people profiting off ideology (on all sides of arguments, not just right wing). Make sure 'you' belong to a special group and point to everyone which is not part of that group as bad and make sure the active followers feel the same way by making any claims needed (lies included).

I'm wondering when he starts selling vitamin supplements on the "new" internet. Just to give an example.
You're repeatedly arguing that Apple employees are prisoners in their jobs because they only work for the 4th or 5th most impressive looking company to have on one's CV instead of the first? Do you not see how ridiculous that sounds?
it's surprising and sad how 'average' the thieves all seem to be; i expected to see somebody down on their luck, not a guy in a lexus or with a $2000 bike in his room. im trying not to jump to conclusions about humanity. please help.
In my youthful interactions with police, the sense I got was they were sure the knew the _law_ correctly. They didn't think they were always right outside of that, but they thought they were always right about the law and the events that unfolded (they might have been giving events their own interpretation to which they assigned certainty).

Now, of course, this is typically the meat of the matter when interacting with police, but I'm pointing out that outside of this space, in my experience, they did not presume more knowledge than your average person.
I always wanted to visualize this as well ;)

Is the goal here visual debugging and management? Where I can simply click on a node to alleviate pressure / restart ?
> it's not quite a fair comparison

Mass is mass. It’s a perfectly fair comparison. If we were talking about people, sure, that would be unfair.
Can you not make delay slot a dependent item to retire?
The difference with TypeScript is that TypeScript is able to statically disallow usage of such private values, at compile time.

JavaScript is not static, you don't have a compiler that can protect against access, so you need info that is preserved at runtime.

`#count` in this case is a different name than `count` and via this naming convention it's able to protect access. I don't get the point though, since people already use underscores as a soft mechanism for protecting access to private stuff and in a dynamic language like JS I don't think you need more.

I also think the TC39 proposals are doing more harm then good and they should just stop changing JavaScript. Just leave it the way it is, thanks.

"Promise" for example sucks, in spite of receiving early feedback, because TC39 is run by certain individuals that outright reject feedback that doesn't comply to their world view.
It's not merely a different key; it's a completely different _type_ of key. I'm not sure how it's implemented internally, but `this.#foo != this['#foo']`.
Yes but that's because the security footage didn't provide any actual information on the thief. Whereabouts, identity, etc. The GPS location of the thief, clear footage of the face, should be a slam-dunk case for a DA.
If the BFR happens they'll be unstoppable. Not because of what that rocket is but for building a company that's capable of producing something like that whilst operating a normal ongoing launch business.
> Right now the only thing that seems clear is that dependent typing adds significant mental burden on the programmer to more thoroughly specify types, and to do so absolutely correctly.

I'd say that's backwards: rather a dependently typed language relaxes a huge restriction that most programming languages have, that only certain things can be used as types. Any program that's valid in language X is also valid in a dependently typed version of language X (e.g. most Haskell functions translate directly into Idris as long as they don't rely on laziness).

Dependent types make it easier to encode properties that you care about into the type system, i.e. rather than the programmer having to get them right, the compiler can check them for you. Far from burdening the programmer, it lightens your mental load.

> All of the examples I've seen are about "index of a list is guaranteed in bounds". That is such a minor and infrequent bug in practice that it does not justify the additional complexity.

Most code is in terms of domain-specific things, and so the types you use are also domain-specific. In my experience every code bug (as distinct from "behaving as specified but not as intended" bugs) boils down to "we thought x, but actually y" and can be avoided by making more precise use of a type system. If you have bugs that hit production, you can probably avoid them with better types. If you avoid production bugs by using tests, you can probably replace most of those tests with types and they'll become more concise and easier to maintain. But of course the specifics of what types to use will be specific to your domain; examples like list indices are common because they're one of those rare types that virtually everyone uses.
Google’s AI Guru Wants Computers to Think More Like Brains
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Amazon uses dummy parcels to catch thieves - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46552611
What is a joke?
This rant would have been exactly the same if he had just discovered Perl5. It's got way more quirks than Python, but you deal with it, because the language is super useful.

The one valid gripe that wasn't quite there is why doesn't Python (or any other language really) manage its modules like CPAN? CPAN is amazing. It's ancient and dusty and missing obvious modern improvements, but it's still way more useful than anything else.

Searching through PyPi is pretty awful. Look for "yaml versioning" and get 10,000 projects to wade through. CPAN is hierarchial, so not only can I find what I'm looking for, it even exists on disk where I expect it.

Because of all that, a few other things happen. The low level modules are older, exposed to more users, so people find them first, improve them over time, and this influences and improves new code. Not only are there these great examples of quality code for comparison, but code reuse and extending is way more common than entirely new modules.

Testing is also really rigorous. CPAN testers framework tests across all Perl releases and computing platforms, continuously. Perl module build instructions are converted easily to Makefiles, making it easier to build and test on other platforms if you're not familiar with Perl conventions.

Most modules also provide real in-line documentation, not just one line describing what a function does. Perldoc usually gives you a real man page for any given module you're looking at, whereas Pydoc gives you a bare list of method calls and objects that maybe the author added documentation to, but often not. Which am I supposed to use, for what? Might as well go read all the code...

...oh, and unrelated, but using regex's in Python is kind of horrifying.
Unlikely unless the circumstances are exceptional.

You can sue anyone for anything. That would be a very uphill lawsuit in normal circumstances (the thief is being negligent by trying to open a package in a moving vehicle and any harm is a result of that negligence). When you add in the fact that the package is stolen it's highly unlikely to succeed. However, I write this from a US perspective. If self defense case law is any indication I suspect that the thief may have a case in the UK.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18683230
They are focusing on intellectual content here, and the obvious way is to do it by invitation - if you are an Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) personality, acknowledged as such by existing members you'll get to play, otherwise you won't. This is quite different from how Voat, 4chan etc. work. At the end of the day, all worthwhile Internet spaces rely on moderation of some sort, and even HN is no exception.
So in this figure, do you exclude Dragon weight for resupply missions? And even then, it's apples to oranges, because Space Shuttle was a manned spacecraft which brings millions other requirements into place. So the only fair comparison in this case would be to compare manned Dragon cost per kg of cargo to Space Shuttle's cargo.

There are much more efficient systems for only carrying stuff into space and dropping it there. The Space Shuttle example makes no sense if this is what you care about.
> if I'm testing a screen capture program with a C library called "libscreencapture.so", i would call my program "screencapture.c" and compile into "screencapture.exe"

author must be running an unusual OS.
Obviously. But this is not the type of books I read (or write) often. I also feel like picture/children ebooks books don't make much sense, I prefer to buy these in hardcovers.

By the way, there is another speed-reading aid technique which can fit children books - beeline (gradient-coluored text). But I'm not sure how can it affect children learning to read.
The important distinction, then, is obligate garbage collection. Can I write a substantial program that does, and needs, no garbage collection of any kind? In C++ and Rust, yes, trivially, every day.

The distinction matters because without obligate GC, you get the benefit of destructors (or in Rust, the Drop trait), and have the tool for resource management of every kind, usually written "}". Reference counting GC is rarely used in well-designed C++ and Rust programs, simply because there is rarely any need for it. Reliance on shared_ptr or ARC is recognized as a disease of forced Java converts.
The difference is that when you type example.myVar = 400 you are setting a property names "myVar" on the object to 400. When you type example.#myVar you are trying to set example's private field to 400. The intentions are distinct and it is not costly to determine at the call site what you're trying to do.
I used to look at things this way, with a "just filter out the rudeness" mindset. However in practical terms I think listening to somebody's rudeness does have a really big cost (to estimate: how much would you need to be paid to make it worth your time to listen to rudeness for an hour?)
I wonder how much time it took to get all these thieves? We get less people stealing our packages in NYC.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181218151517/https://www.wsj.c...
And many of those people were driving pretty nice cars! It wasn't exactly the homeless stealing packages to feed their family.
It's in the first minute of the video. The police don't care.
Sure, we can go down that path. And Amazon could deny its marketplace to felons, but it's not the right thing to do as it's not their place to make that judgement.
They said at the time that their timeline was five or six years until a working prototype.
Colorado has 697 sides and is really not a rectangle
Whose idea was it to toss the decidedly non-stealthy F-15 into this mix? A sop to Boeing? This would be a great platform for getting our Keynesian stimulus, pity it has to always be military spending and not money in average Joe's pockets.
What's the version where, every time you complete a row, it just zooms out so the row isn't complete any more?
If you look at the intellectualdark.website, GP description was pretty much on the spot IMHO.

The people there, like Jordan Peterson, Sarah Vaughan, Sam Harris, Dave Rubin, Lindsay Shepherd and Claire Lehmann are definitely not alt-right, not only by their own accord, but also by my personal reading and viewing of their work. Have been following that site, and so far spotted no white supremacists, racists, bigots etc.

EDIT: First sentence was contradictory.
Just label the box with "DO NOT TAKE IN A CAR"
Booby traps are illegal
5 Reasons You’ll Be Asked to Cancel Sprint Retros – And Why to Say No
Home Alone
You're very confused about the spectrum of possible political positions that opposing misogyny and racism makes someone a "leftist".
> Declare facial recognition inadmissible

Does England do that?
Google Doodle celebrates colors of artist Paul Klee
Best part about this was the list of foundational books. Good choices!
Related: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/viral-video-shows-man-getti...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/viral-video-shows-man-getti...
i dunno, 4 free iphones is probably worth dealing with glitter and fart spray for a few minutes?
> it's fruit of the poisonous tree

Not a thing in England.
> extreme leftist corporations.

What an oxymoron.
If you are stealing the parcels, you gotta have to do it casually, or you'll look suspicious.
How could you possibly be considered responsible for the impact something of yours has after it's been stolen?

Because that impact was your explicit intention when you designed and set up the device.
If it can be shut down, it was a fail from the start.

Edit: Just in case it's not obvious, I consider vulnerability to takedown as a backdoor.
Most Crowded Trade on Wall Street Is No Longer Going Long FAANGs
Objects in JavaScript are just maps, so technically speaking if they disallow "this[#foo]", it's just a cheap trick.
Those who don't learn frameworks will be damned to write them.
> To me at least it has seemed obvious for some time that the UK government wants to emulate China in this regard. So they see China as a "role model" to be followed

I may be overly cynical but it seems to me that China is the most honest country involved in governmental mass surveillance. They never tried to hide the intent behind their decisions whereas western nations always bring up false pretenses to eat away at their people's rights and freedoms. The most pathetic of all being "terrorism". We're all headed in the same direction, it's just going to be achieved through different means.
How can we tell if we've been helped by a placebo?
> Yes but that's because the security footage didn't provide any actual information on the thief.

No, as he stated in the video, the police said it just wasn't worth their time.
Designing Errors with Kotlin
>Python has smoother installation than Java and GCC

How so? With java you can get your distro version from the package manager or just download a tarball and setup your PATH. Maybe install maven. GCC and build deps is as simple as a xxx install build-essential/build-base and you have a C compiler for C89/C99/C11.
Liquidation events do happen every so often, but finding someone with the connections to connect a seller and buyer requires a strong network and a substantial net worth.
Hackers use Memes on Twitter to secretly send commands to malware
How is this relevant? Peanut butter isn't spoken like "peanut, butter" it's spoken like "peanutbutter".
I agree with a number of these but I really don't understand #4. If you want to know what's in a module then 'import foo; help(foo)' in your interpreter will give you it. In C you can't just grep /usr/include because you might be importing form somewhere else.

And in C everything goes directly into your main namespace, the equivalent of 'form foo import *'. And even with single letter renames you can just quickly check at the top of the file for what the rename is, 'gg<c-o>' in vim and probably similarly easy in most people's editors. And really importing common libraries as single letters should be by convention in a codebase.

I really think that Python's import story is one of my favorite things about the language and it's something where I'm often comparing other languages to Python and finding that they're coming up short.
ye, it`s right
The Canadian Do Not Call law actually publishes your number for political parties, pollsters, and charities giving them approval to call you. So, yes, being on the do not call list will actually increase the number of calls you receive.
I am the main author of the paper, I am glad to see such an interesting discussion aroused on our work.

In general, to address the concerns about the validation of the information found in the certificate, I remark that we targeted only syntactic checking: that is, we just verify that the format of the IP address or the DNS names is compliant to the X.509 specifications. Instead, the validation of the information retrieved by the parsing can be done by an application built on top of our parser. Therefore, a URI/DNS/IP address is valid if it is compliant to the syntactic format described in the standard.

Regarding the specific example, I run our parser on that certificate: since the IP addresses in SAN have the correct format, they are correctly recognized. This certificate provides an example of a bad DNS name: indeed, it contains a DNS name starting with *. Although I could expect that this might sounds reasonable, such a Domain Name is not allowed by X.509 specification.
You can't really do good design if you have to remain backwards compatible with the entire internet.
Sure, maybe they intend that. But that puts them pretty much immediatly in the dark web. Tor server because no hoster wants a crowdfunding page for extremists. Bitcoin because no way credit card companies are gonna partner with you

Thats gonna cause a non-negligible drop of users and revenue
Deliveryplannerapp / https://deliveryplannerapp.com

Based in Gijón, Asturias - Spain

It's a SaaS app to optimize your last mile delivery parcels routes. Also customers can track their parcel.

Implemented in Java + Spring Boot + JSF and the actual planner algorithm in Common Lisp. The JSF part communicates with Common Lisp using Protocol Buffers over TCP sockets. The Common Lisp implementation is SBCL.

At the moment I just finished the planning algorithm and I have yet to get the tracking UI done before releasing to the public.

Next project will be a roster planning app, another SaaS, done entirely in Common Lisp using this excellent Weblocks fork: https://github.com/40ants/weblocks
I've seen ELF executables with .exe suffices (as well as .run, .bin, no suffix, etc etc, I'm just waiting for someone to name one .com). This was done specifically to distinguish them from a directory of the same name.
So, I've have listened to quite a few of Jordan Peterson's talks to understand what was going on last time there was a controversy around him. I'm part of one of the demographics that was really angered about some of his conversations. After actually watching the content, I have seen nothing to worry or get mad about.

How could anyone think that "intellectual dark web" is any accurate to describe him?

There's nothing secret about what he does. He has podcasts, public talks and university classes that he uploads to his youtube channel.

It seems that the only way to create controversy around him is to clickbait stories and not actually listen to or describe his actual content.

Other than a profile / link aggregator called "intellectualdark.website" that hosts his profile, I don't see any relation at all.

Am I missing some details? Anyone has the full explanation?

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Edit:

This is about the article's full title: “Top Patreon creators, of the 'Intellectual Dark Web,' say they're launching an alternate crowdfunding platform not 'susceptible to arbitrary censorship'”.
True, but with additional footage and in some cases, the location of the perpetrators homes, I would hope they would be able to do more.
IANAL but my understanding is that it's generally illegal to have any kind of "booby trap". The concern (and also legal test) is whether or not it would be likely to spring on a first responder. If you have your house fill with knockout gas whenever someone enters and a fireman needs to kick in your front door, you're going to jail. Someone entering illegally such a burglar still can bring a suit around a booby trap (but could also still liable for prosecution for their illegal entry, etc).
Why can't the public/private distinction, if denoted with a "private" keyword instead of a # be preserved and enforced at runtime? The difference between `private count` and `#count` is purely syntactical.
Here in the USA, everyone is litigation crazy, so an enterprising lawyer would probably happily file a suit against the maker if someone was injured because of it.
LLVM - http://llvm.org/docs/
not exactly harmless if it gets you in the eye..
I don't understand why the delivery people just leave packages on porches? Why not leave somewhere safe and out of view? Or leave it with a neighbour?
Futilitris!
Some similar is hinted at in Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, also the ending of A Colder War by Charlie Stross.