skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Nabokov set about perfecting a brand of English that had not existed before and has not been seen since.”
A wonderful essay by a writer who understands what the Russian Revolution actually
overthrew, unlike most Americans, who only know the Soviet version. Contains
a reproduction of Nabokov’s U.S. immigrant ID card, with the word “without” entered in the space for
nationality.
Australia passes social media law penalising platforms for violent content
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis - The Power of Self-Learning Systems
Good read. Some thoughts:
- Add throttling at nginx level
- Proactive monitoring and alerts needed
- Should fool the attacker into querying a fake endpoint
The Ruby buildpack shown in the example installs Node.js for you. A developer doesn’t even need to be aware that it’s required to precompile assets.
This shows what's wrong with neo-hacker news. Actual scientific studies are downvoted and guessworks and 'anecdata' are upvoted.

Truly jumped the shark.
Incentive structure should be modified in academia
People say Safari is terrible because Safari is the last to support useful web features. They only just added support for a non-royalty-encumbered video format. If you are not directly affected by these issues in your own applications, that's fine, but if you care about the web platform in general, it's hard to ignore how terrible Safari is.
Love this. I’ve been using the readme driven development and press release driven strategy. Git message driven commit fits right in!
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git stash actually changes what's on the filesystem though (i.e. you cannot randomly open up something that is stashed in an arbitrary text editor).
My Chihuahya at ground zero. Obelisk is in the background. :)

https://imgur.com/a/5Q0PDkV
Imagine setting the agenda on a per reader basis. Newspapers set the agenda for their entire audience. Facebook sets the agenda for each personally identifiable reader, or specific groups of readers. Facebook tracks what each one reads, when, etc. Having billions of non-anonymous web users all visit the same website, tracking and recording everything they do, coercing them to supply all manner of personal information, then manipulating what they see based on the collected data, this is a propaganda machine with power equally as incredible as the media.
I agree, for that level of integration you want a "gameplay scripting system", whereas Lobster is more of a general purpose programming language that happens to be a nice starting point for simple games & engines. I don't think in its current form it is a great language for a large AAA team anyway, because of its heavy reliance on type inference and lack of separate compilation.

The language could of course be adopted to these use cases, it simply hasn't, so far.

Doing simulation on a separate thread from main/rendering is something it is already set up to do (multi-threading uses separate memory spaces so it is easy to ensure there's no data races between the two).
I saw that part of the video too, and although Larry looked like he was having a fun moment, I think he was also quite insightful.

IDEs help people write programs, but to language developers, an IDE might be the easy and less elegant way out of a problem in the design of the language.
I don't think there are any evil companies. people are people, and they are pretty much the same everywhere. I think big tech's mistake was trying to pretend they were somehow better and is now getting called out on it.
TikTok- New direction for influencer marketing demands by storm
> But, on social networks, people mainly shared videos of violence from the police

It was actually both.
+1 for git stash
-- but I don't like the idea of eliminating the staging area.
Yes, all the time. Stage individual hunks or individual lines in `git gui` to clean up history or avoid commiting debugging hash.
Link to the Github issue about folders in the API: https://github.com/spotify/web-api/issues/38#issuecomment-39...
Good point.
I actually made this with game serialization needs in mind originally: https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/
The price wouldn't be $35,000 a pop if they could easily be farmed.
Even if it is, emergent properties can't be deduced from their precursors. The whole is greater (or lesser) than the sum of the parts.
Completely agreed. Libspotify/libcspotify was one of the most promising parts of Spotify’s API, and it was left to die in a hole, with promises of revival, but no actual intent.
So first: if you're willing to spend the night in Socorro it's pretty easy to do both. Trinity is about an hour drive and it takes about 2 hours to see it all (it'd be an hour but you have to wait for the shuttle to the house and back) then it's 2.5 to 3 hours to the VLA (don't speed through Magdalena, rez cops love to post up there) so you can be there by early afternoon.

That said. The Trinity site is some plaques, a shack and New Mexico scrub land; the VLA is (if in a close configuration) a dramatic sight, some plaques and New Mexico scrub land AND if it's an open house: the chance pick the brains of operations people.

That's the big difference, open house VLA you can talk to people who's lives are the VLA; Trinity you can talk to people who volunteered to keep tourists from doing anything stupid.
If you are so hungry you need to steal then you'd steal food, not exotic inedible animals.

I hear the same argument about ivory poachers being poor people faced with no other choice but it's simply not true, the amount of money gained from killing one animal is 20 years salary, it's not a choice between going hungry or not.
There was a time when Spotify was the underdog—a scrappy music startup fighting the good fight trying to legitimize streaming. I remember jumping through hoops to get a prepaid European debit card and using a VPN just so I could sign up for Spotify back when they blocked US users from using it.

Spotify isn't that company anymore. It's a public company that isn't profitable and now has to answer to investors every quarter.

They are trying to build a moat around their business. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they shut down API access entirely. Their investment in podcasting is another example of an attempt to put a walled garden around content (i.e. public radio).

Spotify isn't little. Sure, it's not as big as Apple… but literally no one is. Spotify is a $25 billion company that doesn't care about you or artists. They care about finding a way to be profitable. That means putting up walls and ramping up ads.

I think what pisses me of about Spotify is how they still want to pretend like they are the small startup, full of designers with their cute hand drawn graphics, being bullied by evil corporate American shills. It's all bullshit. They are just as corporate now as anyone else.
On the other hand, being a contractor also means you don't need to be as invested into the maintainability. If it gets too bad you can simply stop working on that project. You don't need to select for solutions for the long term.

Not saying it's strictly that way, just different trade-offs.
It seems just about every "data breach" like this turns out to be an S3 bucket left open to anyone, or a MongoDB instance left with default settings/etc... With how easy it has become to vacuum up such huge amounts of data, this type of "breach" really needs to stop :(
Are You at Risk for Empathy Myopia?
Thank you for "son of a biscuit"! Best pseudo-swear since "Shut the front door".
> Today @heritage will critique gender identity @UN_CSW because powerful nations are pressing for the radical redefining of sex. If they can change the definition of women to include men, they can erase efforts to empower women economically, socially, and politically. #CSW63

There are many other people who are saying the same thing about gender identity. It's strange that Vox describes this as "a particular cause for concern". It's not about "dehumanizing" trans people, it's about self-identification not being a valid basis for a law. If the Equality Act passes as written then the addition of gender identity would effectively remove sex as a protected characteristic.

It doesn't look like this board was a very good idea if the members were not okay with the first sign of disagreement. Will Google's actual AI projects even listen to this group at this point? It reminds me of AMP claiming to have a community driving the specification when in reality Google is just going to do whatever they want.
Indeed, the first step is to get all of the regulatory approvals to 1) construct and 2) operate the facility.

Due to the simplicity of the reactor design and facility, and the low power it will operate at, it should take about 18 months for each of these approvals, and both can be (mostly) done in parallel. I anticipate production starting in 2024 or 2025. There are a variety of things that can speed this up or slow it down, but this is my best projection to date.

The Advanced Test Reactor is regulated by the Department of Energy, which is way more stodgy than the NRC can be, so I definitely appreciate the importance of navigating the regulatory environment carefully. It can take ten years if done horribly wrong.
When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear too
That would indeed be problematic. Because fallout.

Maybe there are small tactical devices that would be clean enough, if detonated far enough above the ground. But I doubt it.
I can't agree with this. This is a mistake that the BBC has been making recently, thinking that all viewpoints are equally valid and deserve equal attention. I strongly believe that that is not true.
I'm assuming he means 'all the working people besides startup types who now have to compete in rent and cost of living'
this is a story 1) that has nothing to do with its title, and 2) is about a team who WORKS AT GOOGLE got 600k chrome extension users in the first few week and how they “secure” the app from their own company learning your password.
Haxe can translate to an impressive set of languages and platforms, so if that is your main need, I'd say, stay with Haxe.

Haxe and Lobster are very different programming languages however, so you may prefer one over the other purely for the language design.

If you like portability, Lobster already runs on 3 desktop OSes, 2 mobile ones, and the web, using either VM, C++ or soon WebAssembly modes. While not as extensive as Haxe it is pretty good :)
There's no fundamental reason that housing is inelastic.

It's relatively inelastic, but not over medium terms, especially in a place like the United States that mostly has lots of room to build things.
This analogy might make a little more sense if musicians never performed live and your audience didn't care if you cut and paste everything together from large libraries of sound samples.
Andrew Hejlsberg:

Maybe I'll just add, with language design, you know one of the things that's interesting, you look at all of us old geezers sitting up here, and we're proof positive that languages move slowly.

A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that languages move at the same speed as hardware or all of the other technologies that we live with.

But languages are much more like math and much more like the human brain, and they all have evolved slowly. And we're still programming in languages that were invented 50 years ago. All the the principles of functional programming were though of more than 50 years ago.

I do think one of the things that is luckily happening is that, like as Larry says, everyone's borrowing from everyone, languages are becoming more multi-paradigm.

I think it's wrong to talk about "Oh, I only like object oriented programming languages, or I only like imperative programming, or functional programming".

It's important to look at where is the research, and where is the new thinking, and where are new paradigms that are interesting, and then try to incorporate them, but do so tastefully in a sense, and work them into whatever is there already.

And I think we're all learning a lot from functional programming languages these days. I certainly feel like I am. Because a lot of interesting research has happened there. But functional programming is imperfect. And no one writes pure functional programs. I mean, because they don't exist.

It's all about how can you tastefully sneak in mutation in ways that you can better reason about. As opposed to mutation and free threading for everyone. And that's like just a recipe for disaster.
Yup, this style of programming I use all the time in Lobster.
WRDS is a fantastic resource but it's not cheap
"Assume a perfectly spherical cow of uniform density"...
Glad we at Cloudflare could help!
Because that doesn’t give google a chance to steal more of your data..
That's an interesting thought, especially if a breach is because of negligence, or a repeated pattern, or both.

For instance, consider Facebook, I'd imagine their response and actions for remediation would be quite different if such a law would exist - as for Facebook it's a repeating pattern.
I dunno about this one essay, but let's all remember that Flash Boys is a very bad book that gets almost everything wrong.

Read the extensive rebuttal for all the details:

https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-...
Also Also: feel free to stop by the New Mexico Tech physics department, they might not admit it but they're all willing to shoot the shit about telescopes and bombs at the drop of a hat.
Anders Hejlsberg also made the point that types are documentation.

Programming language design is user interface design because programmers are programming language users.

"East Coast" MacLisp tended to solve problems at a linguistic level that you could hack with text editors like Emacs, while "West Cost" Interlisp-D tended to solve the same problems with tooling like WYSIWYG DWIM IDEs.

But if you start with a well designed linguistically sound language (Perl, PHP and C++ need not apply), then your IDE doesn't need to waste so much of its energy and complexity and coherence on papering over problems and making up for the deficiencies of the programming language design. (Like debugging mish-mashes of C++ templates and macros in header files!)
A good idea, but you better invite the Chinese and Russians, or they might get suspicious of our motives.
I just looked into that Logitech issue, it's interesting to note that contact was made with Logitech engineers in September. The engineers provided assurance that the issue was understood and would be fixed. Months pass... updates were released, none of which contained the security fix. December arrives and finally the vulnerability is made public, picked up by the media, and Logitech releases a fix within days.

It's a familiar pattern. If a large company were a biological organism, one of it's main pain signals would be negative PR. Prod the beast in other ways and it doesn't respond.
> Knowledge can be gain through [...] unproven datapoints

I'm sorry, I don't see how that's possible.
Could you explain please?
Why not just block all visitors with user agent curl?

Let me just say, that's a really dumb DDOS attack.

Edit: one other thing, we spell it psych and not sike.
Fatman earrings? Is she still your girlfriend?
Thanks for that list. If I'm not mistaken, Buildah and Bazel skip Dockerfiles as well; not sure of the three you just named.
First time I've heard about a production use case. Care to share any details?
Worse website
Your emphasis on ethics is telling - you suppose there's just the one correct version? And diverse opinions are wrong opinions?
You're not wrong, you're so right. The author of this app described it as the technique you use in highschool to ask a girl out. Direct communication, although difficult, will get results.
Fallout is highly controllable, not necessarily that big an issue in an airburst.

Keep in mind that the idea is to avoid setting off even more of them in anger. Right now it's considered deeply taboo to drop a nuclear weapon on an enemy. In another generation, a nuclear conflict will be considered drastic but nothing all that horrific. The generation after that will have fewer inhibitions. The generation after that will have fewer members.
Modern Babel
Well, every time Lobster surfaces somewhere, I am always surprised how quickly people can superficially reject it because of some syntax issue, so yes, I agree, using predictable keywords where it makes no real difference matters. I've already made quite a few such changes.

The name.. I think people will quickly forget about the original meaning. Think of all the languages you know, and how you associate the name with the language, not some snake, a musical note, degraded iron, a french philosopher, etc. Some of these names are actually pretty silly.
Its a horrible UI, and insanely expensive. GMAIL is a joke. I know there is a massive anti MS circle jerk, but I'm paying HK$97.00 (12.42 USD) user/month for Office 365 Business Premium. And it's SO much better than gmail will ever hope to be.

google products are clearly written by people fresh out of high school. They are utterly devoid of features and functionality that MS had developed 20 years ago. It's so sad the lack of desktop integration, alerts, rules, and being able to utilize external data in 'sheets' and other nonsensical toy apps.

But we have a generation that grew up on 'free' crap and they honestly don't know any better, and MS is far too inept to market anything.

Also it's so nice to not be the ones with the 'old and out of date' office installs, or doing bids with big companies and not being able to open their XL sheets. I can't even fathom trying to compete using children's toys like google anything.
Starting an argument with the assumption that some view points are valid and some are not seems like a bad way to go into a discussion. Of course, on settled arguments where trolls abound, it does not reflect well to give a troll the same platform as the expert -- but this is not the case on all matters. There are still many fields (say, AI ethics) where consensus has not manifested.
Hah, that would be a pretty good fit, yes.
I don't doubt that not having the staging area would make it better for new users, as it is certainly conceptually simpler to just commit everything. And for those who's revision control model is always linear commits of what's in the working copy, it really is just added work and complexity. But it enables other workflows (that I personally happen to use a lot) that are easy with staging and /very/ inconvenient without.

So yeah, feel free to leave it out of your implementation; it doesn't seem like something that'd fit into the plan9 mindset anyway. But it is removing a very useful tool to some people.
Is there anything you deeply care about currently? Are you optimistic everything in the future brings improvement?

While it may seem irrational for people to pine for past things like internet sites/services, it is not the service itself, but the experience and environment it was consumed in.

I guarantee you will pine for some things in your future, because some experiences or parts of your environment now are likely better than similar things at a future point.
> "I think IDEs make language developers lazy." -Larry Wall

Larry also considers Laziness one of the three primary virtues of programmers, so maybe he meant the above as a compliment.
You are awesome. Good work!
That seems like it would make low income people even less likely to upgrade.
You're assuming that you know what "the" ethical position is, or at least that Google does. If that were really true, AI ethics, and indeed ethics in general, would not be an issue, and there would be no need for this board. Everyone would just consult the ethics authority to tell them what was ethical.

Do I need to spell out the problems with that?
Sounds like everybody on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_lists_of_cults

As far as I know, among them, Falun Gong and The Church of Almighty God was making false promise about their ability of "getting people back on their feet".

I don't know why people here are suddenly on fire when saw me put Falun Gong and cult together. In China, we use word "神棍"[0] to describe someone who fake their supernatural ability and pretend to be the messenger of god. And the word was come out before CCP even a thing, that alone can tell you something does it?

[0] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%8D%E9%A8%99#%E7%A5%9E%E...
No screaming red banner, but each bucket does indeed get marked with large orange rectangle that reads “Public”. It’s easily noticeable.
In my limited experience, a lot of the open buckets problem comes from the fact that access to * is the path of least resistance vs a proper IAM and bucket config.
When feature work is on the line ain’t nobody got time for that :/
Why can't we have a buildpack for a Database but Docker would be fine?
MUNI Bonds Data
But unless you know exactly which viewpoints are or are not valid and do or don't deserve attention, your belief has no practical value. And if you actually do think you know that on a subject as difficult as ethics, I would strongly advise you to re-examine your belief.
The bigger question to me is why did everyone suddenly change to using their real names when gmail invites were no longer a thing and it opened up?
Paywalled. Anyone got the text?

Does the article mention Henry George or land tax?
A new calling convention for CPython
See the English README for the Github repo here (explains the cause):
https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/blob/master/README_EN.md
This was a fascinating read, I hadn't heard about his thing with Pasternak or how they thought that the Soviets 'leaked' his novel; nowadays it seems sort of odd to see exporting culture as something furtive. Did regimes used to try to prevent their nation's literature from spreading, or am I misunderstanding something?

"We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, by the very act of brutish routine acceptance, we undo the work of ages, the history of gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats. What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read, but at the miracle of it's being readable."

- Pale Fire
While not a status statement as it used to be, one element is the "I was there" thing: being able to tell others later that you were there for the opening session of X blockbuster/defining movie...
Another thought--one of my biggest challenges with speaking to investors is the fixation on the regulatory process because it can be onerous. Interestingly enough, because this project is much smaller and simpler than a power plant, it is actually a much more straightforward process than it is perceived to be.

The NRC has two guides for licensing non-power reactors: NUREG-1537 Parts 1 and 2. Part one lays out the format and information required in a license application, and part two is the review guide that the NRC uses to evaluate the application. So really, all of the questions AND answers are published. A prospective applicant just needs to say what they're doing, show how it meets safety criteria, and prove they're doing what they said they'd do when they build the thing.

It's obviously much more complex than that, but that's the gist of it.