skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said this better than I did below. You are right. I emerged from college an eager guy who went straight into a production environment. First gig?

"Oh, we see you have Perl, awk, sed, Bash on your CV.. We need you to write some code to get this and that data from the server logs and then spit it out in this and that format, but we don't want this particular info."

I about crapped myself the first day on the job. Fortunately, my team lead knew what he had asked for and coached me through how to be a useful nix admin. This led me to being more interested in coding than setting up nix boxes and getting them to talk to databases. I fell in love with regex stuff and still love it. Perl and Python are still my go-tos with regards to this. I still write small (25-30 line) programs in awk. Sadly, I have a job now where they all love PowerShell, so I've been "forced" to use it for certain Windows tooling tasks. Learning Go on my own now. I find R and F# fascinating and might take this on in time.
Rankings are pretty bunk...more important stat is the 40% admissions rate. That is on high side for large national public universities. Compare this to Cal and UCLA which are both around 17%. Again, if you had all the resources in the world to prepare for the SATs because from birth you went to the best school, had private tutors, SAT prep, etc. there is almost no reason why you shouldn’t be able to get above the median score for SATs for UT Austin, which should be enough (save a few edge cases) for getting in.
Yes, amazing looking aircraft. Never seen more beautiful lethality in an airplane.

I've always thought it was a shame the YF-23 wasn't developed into the role eventually filled by the F-35. It had a lower radar cross-section than the F-22, could supercruise faster, had better range, and with the deletion of the afterburners (not necessary for the revised role, especially when you can truck along at M1.8 without them) it could have opened up a lot of space for additional weapons storage.[0] And it was a long way to being a developed aircraft. Could have been finished much more cheaply than the F-35, no doubt.[1]

[0] Not sure of the CG shift implications, though.

[1] Not sure if those savings would have been eaten up by higher operating costs.
Hmm, that's surprising. It has a dodgy foothold in mobile, Amazon (and possibly also Google?) has it beat in cloud services, Google Docs has taken a chunk of Office's territory, Chrome OS is overtaking Windows in education, Mobile+Apple+Chrome OS are swallowing it in personal computing and (I believe) gaining some ground even in enterprise. It doesn't seem like Microsoft has dominance in anything but desktop OS right now.

It's just a general perception, as a casual observer, that Microsoft has been ceding lots of territory lately and not really gaining much.
I don't reall yget the point of your article ? You seem quite dogmatic and don't even discuss other hypotheses.
I think you and GP are discussing different A-12's. GP is referring to the Lockheed A-12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12 and you are referring to the McDonnell-Douglas A-12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_A-12_Avenger...

Don't even bother trying to figure out US military naming schemes.

I suspect that the reason the A-12 and the B-2 looked alike is that there is enough similarity in mission that the best shape ended up that way. (Or as an old friend used to say, "aerodynamics can't lie.")
Fundamental good practices.

In poker terms: you can't judge by winning or losing, only by whether your decisions were +EV or -EV.
> we are in no way faced with a growing trend of violent leftists

Ever heard of Antifa? BANM? Or maybe Red Brigades? Red Army Faction? Sendero Luminoso? BLA? Japanese Red Army? Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam? There were dozens, probably hundreds, violent leftist groups. I don't know if they shoot up mosques, specifically, but why this specific mode of terror is your sole concern? They certainly did shoot, blow up, hang, cut off heads, poisoned and murdered by other means many people. And that's just terrorists, wait until they get the real power of state coercion... then the count goes to millions.

You mean there's no active leftist militant group in your town right now? Good for you. You may want to familiarize yourself with recent history and wider world though, to get a bit more complete picture than the current news cycle.

Oh and btw, the guy that shot up the mosque was very concerned about the environmentalism and thought China is a model country. Should we start deplatforming environmentalists and those who like China?
Aren't little bits of debris in LEO going to fall back into the atmosphere and burn up pretty quickly, though? Not an expert here, but I think there is enough atmosphere left at standard LEO altitudes that thrusters are needed semi-regularly to keep these things in orbit. Granted, some debris may get launched into a weird elliptical orbit that takes them farther away from Earth for a bit, but then won't they come right back into the atmosphere at perigee and burn up?
I'm going to respond to this comment because my response is just kind of in general to the whole conversation this spawned.

In what way is facebook more of a public space than hacker news, reddit or any public forum, message board or website where users can sign up and post content?

You couldn't post a bunch of white nationalist comments here or on most other sites without getting banned.

Why would and should facebook be treated differently than other websites? Having a large amount users and money doesn't suddenly make them a public entity. The fact people use their real names and identities doesn't(they're not the only site that does this). Them tracking you across multiple websites and aggregating and selling your data doesn't either.

What is it about facebook that causes people to have this misconception?

If this were ISP's, DNS providers, even hosting providers really shouldn't be able to(as far as i'm concerned, but that's a different discussion and does happen), but facebook doing this is the same as any other website that allows user discussions and user content setting rules.

There's an internet outside of facebook. People making the choice to reside entirely there doesn't automatically make them any different than other websites.

It's the users that choose to give them this power over things by using their service. Though...i know not entirely not entirely...pre installs on phones and things like the free data facebook messaging in the Philipines puts things outside.individual users control sometimes. But that's on poor government regulation and other phone manufacturers.

And...i'm not a big fan of facebook. I find them shady and greatly distrust them. But, part of that is because I understand they're a shady private corporation with zero obligation to the public. Pretending otherwise is unhelpful.
Beautiful! Liberty or death
Of course Apple have stopped selling the SE which was the only phone they had for people with smaller hands than the top decile. Extra choice is clearly not the reason for their loss of direction.
I've migrated signal from 3 different phones, along with history and crypto. Signal supports backups that are movable.
How is that an assumption? The post is very clear that this is targeting white nationalism/separatism/supremacist. Black nationalism, Jewish nationalism (ie, Zionism), etc, are all perfectly okay.
Believe he also had to be convinced by Rich to support the boxy F-117A.
> We've seen white supremacy being legitimized at the highest levels

"White supremacy" is extremely vague. Please define the term in a coherent manner, noting the attributes which must exist for something to be considered white supremacy. Thanks.
The filesystem is doing the right thing here by accurately storing the original point in time when the photo was taken (or at least it was before you shifted it). If two files were modified simultaneously then they should have the same mod times, even if the changes occurred on opposite sides of the planet. The problem is all in the presentation layer; you want your file explorer (or 'ls') to display the times in their original timezone, not the timezone you're currently in. There is an EXIF tag for the time zone offset but support for it appears to be limited. The original timezone could be inferred from the EXIF location data, however, if you have that enabled.
then precisely what would you say, to the scientist with children to feed?
What is the biggest existential threat to this company today?
That's not the information I've seen. From what I've read a fully-loaded takeoff and climb would burn so much fuel, far more than a typical profile, that it would still not have been able to break records set by the migs.
That is an excellent observation. People and societies are more or less very similar all across the world. The details might vary but the main motivations are more or less same.
You're equating someone asking for a cake for their same-sex marriage to hate speech? Are you kidding?
Not a poker player, but I think you don't focus on realized results, you have to focus on expected results. What is gone is gone.

Let's say you play texas hol'em, you go all-in with AA in the first round and lose. The expected payoff was positive even if you have lost. And if you were given the chance to play again, you should keep playing the same way.
> Do you ever wonder when we'll build something so daring that it will finally eclipse this project?

We can't do that kind of engineering anymore. Computers have made us ... lazy? That's not really the word. With so much computing power at hand, we just don't have the pinpoint focus that it would take to make another SR-71 and not hobble it with over engineering and feature creep. Or even just being able to let go of a nagging problem. For example, a proper sealant couldn't be found to keep the fuel from leaking so they just said whatever and let it leak fuel until it warmed up. Nobody would do that today.
> Should anyone be forced to pay for someone else's speech that you don't agree with?

Facebook isn't an "anyone" - it's a thing.

We can decide to do whatever we want to these things - they exist only because we permit them to. They have no natural rights.
As GP said, you focus on making the correct decision given the circumstances. You can’t be results oriented because the results involve things out of your control. Which means it’s possible to win after making a bad play, and to lose after making a correct play.
How much tax are you going to get when Amazon shifts to HQ2? Bezos deliberately started Amazon here in Washington because there was no state tax.

I’ve been an Amazon employee and I’ve paid a lot of taxes here and have seen the government waste that money. Our property tax has gone up by hundreds of dollars a month and our schools, roads, and police forces are still in disarray. I don’t mind paying tax as long as it’s ised effectively and efficiently.
Check how this guy solved his parking problems in NYC using Twitter and Python
I'm still having a hard time understanding the difference. From Wikipedia, as you suggested:

> White nationalists say they seek to ensure the survival of the white race, and the cultures of historically white states. They hold that white people should maintain their majority in majority-white countries, maintain their political and economic dominance, and that their cultures should be foremost. Many white nationalists believe that miscegenation, multiculturalism, immigration of nonwhites and low birth rates among whites are threatening the white race, and some believe these things are being promoted as part of an attempted genocide.

And the same paragraph with a few substitutions:

> [Sunni militants] say they seek to ensure the survival of the [caliphate], and the cultures of historically [Islamic] states. They hold that [Islamic] people should maintain their majority in majority-[Islamic] countries, maintain their political and economic dominance, and that their cultures should be foremost. Many [Islamic] nationalists believe that miscegenation, multiculturalism, [and] immigration of [non-muslims] are threatening [Islam], and some believe these things are being promoted as part of an attempted genocide.

ISIS may be comparatively more violent than white nationalists[1] but as far as ideology goes I struggle to see "two very different things" as you've suggested.

[1] At this moment in history at least - the Nazi party certainly fits the Wikipedia definition of "white nationalist".
I had this issue some time ago. My grandparents had some pictures their friends shared via CD. They asked me to show them and print them, but neither me nor my wife had a laptop with a CD drive with us..
What makes the political aspects of Islam any less extremist than White Separatism? It sounds to be like Facebook has brought down the banhammer on the non-violent part of that as well.
Process and decision-making. Confidently make the correct decision every time and trust that your edge will pay off in the long run.

This is the #1 thing I learned from being a serious and competitive Scrabble player.
It's interesting that this seems to mirror our experience with Cloudflare's Rust implementation of QUIC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19019150
Alt-right hate speech is increasing because you've got a lot of people angry at the current state of economics, and a political party that is in half-in-bed with the alt-right, that keeps making promises that they will fix all those economic problems.

Without deplatforming, the situation would be far worse. With a better economy, the situation would be far better.

You're in a sinking ship, and there's a few people desperately using bailing buckets to get water out. You point at the bucket brigade, and say: "You are the reason the ship is sinking."

No, they are the reason the ship hasn't sunk, yet.
Unfortunate that Cloudflare didn't just contribute time to the first party wireguard-rs client. But it's their wish to do what they want with their engineers.

Nonetheless, it's great that Wireguard have a path to a solid user space implementation that others could build from.

Jason Donenfeld's post about this surprised me when he said the go implementation is flaky. Is the health of the non-kernel parts of wireguard not great? The macOS clients work really well for me.
However, Facebook even now is ok with white people advocating for seperation. They claim there is a connection of white seperatism to white supremacy that made them ban it, while not banning other groups like the Basque from wanting independence.

Basque is a political state in Spain defined by geographical boundaries, not an ethnic identity. Basques can be white, black, or brown.

Facebook is okay with voters wanting self-governance. This is not even remotely the same thing as white nationalism. If you can't see that, you're clearly a troll and there's no point in further discussing this with you.
Well, there is the book called "Skunk Works" written by Ben Rich. It's very good.
Just want to say thanks for sharing all this.
> 2. Inventing drugs gets more expensive.

1. You're assuming drug research gets more expensive, but in some ways it actually becomes easier, ie. with better computers we can ensure some clinical trials have a higher success rate with computer modelling.

2. Your original claim was that they become unreasonably expensive, which is a stronger claim than just expensive. Furthermore, this expense would still be incurred by any other entity that does this research, so you're not saving anything in the end.
https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/blob/master/en_US.md

A "996" job refers to an unofficial working pattern (9 am - 9 pm, 6 days a week) that has been gaining more popularity. Serving a company that encourages the "996" working pattern usually means working for at least 60 hours a week.

TLDR; A protest going on right now of developers in China. ICU means Intensive Care Unit.
Why is this better than giving employees a $1200 higher salary and saving on the $6/mo fee? I understand that people are irrational and like benefits like this, but is there a tax benefit too?
Fake news much? This quote related to people defending and opposing confederate monuments, not white nationalists. If you read even one more line of the quote, it becomes immediately clear:

“You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists,” Trump said. “The press has treated them absolutely unfairly.”

“You also had some very fine people on both sides,” he said.

Surely you can see, that "neo-Nazis and white nationalists" is one category, but "other than" is another, and "also very fine people" does not relate to white nationalists - it specifically excludes white nationalists, mentioning it as distinct group. That is immediately clear from reading just two lines of context.
> literal nazis

Are "literal" nazis only who this new rule will be applied to? The accepted definitions of both "literal" and "nazi" seem to have drifted significantly in the last few years.

> not getting literally booted in the face. Unlike what they advocate for.

Funny, this type of story about people advocating for literal violence against non-whites is extremely common on the internet, I've heard it recounted I don't know how many thousands of times in the last few years, yet I've literally(!) never once encountered an actual instance of it anywhere I browse. Ironically, I have encountered hundreds of examples of violence being advocated against white people, although in the vast majority of cases the proponents themselves were white.

Could you possibly provide any examples of such statements on relatively mainstream sites, and also note whether you encountered it organically or found it via a google search?
Well kind of. At least with how it works in the US. The first 2am is PST, the second 2am is PDT. so while they look the same, they're actually different times still. That said, rendering this for a user is still a pain depending on the UI.
"But that runs both ways. Not only do I think that almost all (to borrow a mathematical term) speech should be permitted, but also that the onus is on the speaker to make themselves heard or to find an audience. No company or platform owes them anything."

Thank you - that is very succinctly put and is a reasonable and actionable standard that I hope more people will subscribe to.

That being said, I can't imagine how difficult and frustrating it will be for facebook (and others) to police any kind of definition for "white nationalism" which seems very vague and open to all manner of misinterpretation.
One of the authors, David Cenciotti, also has a nice aviation (primarily military) weblog [1] and made some interesting speculation about that stealth Blackhawk [2].

1. https://theaviationist.com/

2. https://theaviationist.com/tag/stealth-black-hawk/
Keybase affiliate here.

Correct: forward secrecy isn't on by default. We think there's a trade-off here. With forward secrecy, your old messages won't be visible on a new device, but users want this since Slack (and others) make it seem natural. However, you can opt-in to forward security on a per-message or per-conversation basis.

The report says "device and server compromise." Decryption keys never leave the user's client. What they mean is if: (1) the server's stored data is compromised; (2) your phone is also compromised; and (3) the messages weren't marked ephemeral; then the attacker might be able to read past messages, even if the user tried to delete them (i.e., did Keybase really delete the ciphertexts?). This line of reasoning is correct and one of the primary motivations for key ratchets. I don't think the report is claiming that users need to trust Keybase's server in general. They do need to trust Keybase to delete messages that are marked deleted, which would mitigate the attack above if conditions 1 through 3 are met.
as a person of color, I would be very grateful if facebook can also ban material offensive towards Whites as well as hate literature towards white -- and this should include translation of non-English messages/materials in long run to weed such things out.
I want to be sympathetic to this sort of thing in the general sense. I really do.

But... I'm not at all sad that Daily Stormer has trouble staying online.

Free speech means you're allowed to say whatever you want. It doesn't mean that anyone has to give you a platform to say your piece. It doesn't mean that people can't react negatively to what you say. It doesn't mean that there are no consequences to what you say.

Assuming there is reasonable diversity in your options for platforms[0], and yet you still can't find a place for your speech, maybe you're just an irredeemable asshole and should change your views[1].

[0] The current availability of this is certainly debatable.

[1] Maybe you're not and you actually are being unjustly oppressed and censored. But I don't believe that's the case with the Daily Stormer.
No, it just creates options... in this case, one of them is paying someone to make it work and make it reliable so I can focus on the things that make my product different and special. Regardless, I wouldn't be in business without free and open source software...
> Microsoft is a relative underdog now (among the tech giants)

lol
Palantir lands first major US Army contract ahead of IPO
The ground crews, I'm told, hated this plane because it leaked toxic fuel everywhere while on the ground and was otherwise a pain to deal with.

These sorts of stories are what impress me about programs like this. No commercial product could ever be so expensive, so difficult, so wildly impractical. The military are practically the only ones who can do things like this, because the need is so great it justifies all the craziness. I work at NASA and we do crazy things like sending robots to Mars, but that seems tame compared to the insanity of something like the SR-71.
I like the idea behind Tile, but there've been so many times where the tile I had was sitting within 3 ft of me but my phone couldn't locate or ping it.
Or at least "do you share board meeting slides at the following employee all-hands"
If that's what people believe, it's brilliant! Part of the strategy of Apple's resurrection was making people think they were the little guy; the hip, cool alternative for people who "think different." Now Microsoft can play the same game.

As of right now, MSFT market cap is $895B and AAPL is $888B. Some underdog!
I used to work in the semiconductor industry, and I left to get a PhD. Unlikely I'd go back. The PhDs we had were a statistician and a materials characterization engineer. The former was ignored and then fired because he kept telling people that their statistical procedures didn't work, and the latter spent a ton of time doing TEM sample prep.
And of course as long as you agree with FB's determination of who is a Nazi and who isn't, it's all fine and peachy?
Plastic Plates, Cutlery, Cups to Be Banned in Europe as of 2021
> An information object is "on the web" if it has a URI.

I think that TBL is very incorrect here. If that statement is accurate, then most of the non-web internet would have to be considered "the web".
The medieval solution is pulley and rope at the top of your tower
Property and sales tax are necessary in Washington in lieu of an income tax.

If you live in Seattle, schooling, roads and even the police aren’t that bad (compared to other cities), heck, you can choose to live in Bellevue where all those things are better (though at the cost of being boring). In general, taxes get used pretty darn well in WA, at least compared to other states.
Microsoft used to be a boxed software business, now they're transitioning to saas. It's really that simple.
At this point, I'd just settle with set top boxes (is that what they're called still? The DirecTV, Dish, etc. digital ones) that had a button to locate the remote.
Some of us like ROOT :)