skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's next to impossible to opt out of various entities (data brokers, internet companies, merchants, etc.) vacuuming up as much information about you as they possibly can in order to monetize it.

If you're unfortunate enough to have used Facebook, the situation gets worse since Facebook's anti-privacy settings are a continuing nightmare and they routinely deceive their users and misuse personal information (for example collecting phone numbers for 2FA and then using them as keys to connect you with advertisers.)

Quitting Facebook does nothing to remove their tracking assets from the web, or to regulate their partnerships with data brokers and advertisers, or to remove the contact lists that they've ingested from people you may have interacted with at some point.
This is why I always close all cabinets and only open one at a time.
Nope, it's dumb. No white goods or appliances (including HVAC!) in my house should ever depend on an internet connection.
Think about this is way -- if others don't have no other marketable skill other than coding, it makes sense that your off-beat skills are recognized and the coding skill award goes to your co-worker -- otherwise you might end up hogging all the awards :-). I think someone awarded "funniest slack gifs" would be a beloved person of the group.
> systems that are developed by one person are way way clearer and simple than systems developed by multiple developers

Brooks called this "conceptual integrity":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#Concept...
In order to remain impermeable during exposure to liquid, wouldn’t a paper straw have to have some kind of coating? If that coating is plastic, then it would be no solution to the problem for which plastic straws have been criticized: microplastic pollution in the environment. If the coating is wax, the Wikipedia article for wax paper[0] suggests that there are often environmental issues.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_paper
Perhaps an ideal scenario would be to have a single 'super' developer have relatively free reign, under the condition that she can explain the code/architecture to others effectively also.
What does it use to random images?(retoric?.)
"McDonald's is being called on to stop its roll out of paper straws in the UK and Ireland, amid claims that they "dissolve" in drinks."

"Petition creator Martin Reed started it a week ago, complaining the new paper straws dissolve as you drink them.

"Many social media users agree, with some claiming paper straws are "horrible" while one says it is like "drinking a milkshake through an empty toilet roll tube"."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-48038130
Last time I checked federal student loans do not require a credit check, collateral, or co-signer.
Your recollection is valuable, and thank you - but contra a large chunk of the rest of this thread, the article was very clear to me that it was "our erlang was crap erlang and we didn't know how to make it not crap so we switched" which is totally reasonable and didn't seem like a negative towards erlang at all. I've supported rewrites from a language I liked more to a language I liked less for similar reasons, and what Ankur did seems like an entirely sane decision.

But even if I didn't need the clarification, the additional data was awesome, so my thank you remain sincere :)
> How will you move from this objective description to the actual experience of these feelings and states of mind?

I'm sorry, but that question still sounds to me exactly the same like "how many fairies can dance on the top of the needle." It's a thing of your imagination: for me, you just imagine that there is anything more than the electrical and chemical reactions, and there isn't anything. You are just using empty words that mean something to you, but not to me. Just like fairies don't exist, but many believed.

And I've already written enough how I consider that, what you believe is "something special" just an emerging property of these electrical and chemical reactions, produced in the humans by the evolutionary forces, not different to what any other animal has in order to function. Including the worms.

I know too much math, computing and physics, that I do believe that I can actually write a program that can give exactly the same answers like you do here relatively easily, because you give that little actual arguments. Moreover, I know too much math, computing and physics and have too much experience that you can't convince me that something like that is not possible, as I saw how with my own hands I can replicate a lot of "emerging properties" that were just "uniquely human" only some decades ago, and now there are programs that do that, today. So the computation can explain everything, no need to invoke anything beyond that. Everything is information, which can be stored and processed in many different ways. The physical laws are completely consistent with and sufficient for all the computation needed for all the emerging properties that we observe.

If somebody would believe you, he would have to consider impossible most of what we already produced since we have the computers. Including the, simple as it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

which is, as you can see: "undecidable, which means that given an initial pattern and a later pattern, no algorithm exists that can tell whether the later pattern is ever going to appear." That means that there is no shortcut for it, you have to compute it to see what happens in some future moment. What your claim boils down to is that "you know" that "what happens in the future of Conway's Game of Life can't be explained by the statement 'you just have to compute it'." Which is obviously false. So for me you are just confused by the fact that some emerging property is undecidable, and attribute that property to something coming from "outside."
I run NTP at home, using an inexpensive USB GPS dongle as the time source.

Unfortunately it's technically challenging to create a configuration to use it in a meaningful way, especially when the system reboots.

Really what you need is a process to bring up the GPS, wait until the time is up and reliable, then set the hardware clock and launch NTP "correctly" (without falsetickers and all the other ntp convergence nonsense)
You can get excellent performance in Python, but at the cost of dev effort – a very deep understanding of the interpreter (and replacing some loops with Cython) would do wonders.
Relationships run into the danger of co-dependency if young people have baggage while transitioning into adulthood. In a lot of ways, the baggage can be multi generational and gets heavier.

I don’t know the answer but monogamous relationship is suitable when children enter the picture. It’s a whole different ball game now.

Digressing a bit, I am fond of beckoning the monogamous nature of our bird friends. It is very expensive for them to gather resources to raise their young(aka perpetuate their species) and monogamous bonded pairs have a better chance of a surviving brood. Perhaps in times of restricted resources or hard to access survivability resources, monogamy is the best answer.

Consider apes and big cats, they have completely different social structures. They conserve energy when the alpha leads the pack for food. The alpha also gets the pick of his ‘harem’, as it were..And they are not monogamous. So there’s that.

I think that while we like to believe that we have access to free choice as human beings, we are not that far removed from our mammalian cousins. Having said that, we are also finding ourselves in a situation where resources are becoming scarce(exponentially increasing population) and mating choices are restricted due to individual’s place on the economic and social hierarchy.

I am compelled to pick serial monogamy over poly or true monogamy. Our biology compels us to obey the brain chemicals. To disregard that is an enormous act of will against nature. Unless we deal with the pesky problem of religion, values and morals along with our resource constrained hierarchical world, hypocritical forced monogamy is here to stay.

In a lot of ways religious morality induced monogamy has paved the way for pair bonding and successful child survivorship statistics....so from the gene POV, monogamy must be winning in some way.
The standard gives compilers leeway to handle “undefined” behaviour however they want.

The original purpose of “undefined behaviour” was to deal with the myriad different platform behaviours of the era (remember at that point in history 1 byte was not necessary 8 bits).

At some point the compiler writers decided to extend the effect of that to “if this behaviour is undefined in the spec” then we are allowed to treat the code as doing anything at all - so we went from this may do different things on different platforms to “the compiler can emit code that does something other than the clear intent or the platform specific behaviour”.

This change in mindset from the compiler devs has been necessary to improve performance in the spec benchmarks, and other micro-benchmarks created primarily to justify the arbitrary definition of “undefined behaviour”.

To give an idea of how capricious the compiler devs are they implemented optimizations that ended up breaking spec (it has undefined behavior), and so rolled those optimizations out. Yet when they literally add security bugs to code that has been secure for a decade, their response has been “well you’re relying on undefined behaviour”.

The whole nonsense can be summed up as a (according to the insane definition of “correct” used by the compiler writers)

Struct {char c;int i;} a,b;

Bzero(&a, size of a)

Bzero(&b, size of b)

If (something) return memcmp(&Zaki, &b, size of a);

Return 3;

Could legitimately be optimized to a function that just returns 3. Because the writes to padding in bzero aren’t uneeefined, as are the reads in memcmp. Therefore the memcmp is undefined, and the compiler can assume undefined behavior cannot occur, therefore that branch can be removed.

Whether the compiler does do that today isn’t relevant: the definition of “correct” used by compiler developers is that that is valid behaviour from them.

The reality is that modern c/c++ developers need to treat the compiler as an adversary, because of a nonsensical definition of “correct code generation” assumed by the compiler writers.
That's a heuristic, not an argument. The fact that you can get an entire Windows-competitive OS for free, and its source code, is too good to be true, too.
I don't like the idea of Telsa building a profile like that. It's violates of a lot privacy concerns to me.
This is the thing that blocks me from, for example, emacs. I really want to use it, but I really don't want to spend a few weeks learning how to use it.
Hype in Tech (2017)
Fair enough! I just can’t make all my hard work open source.. I’m trying to build a business. There’s a time and a place for open source, and I’d only be helping my competitors as an indie developer.
Wells Fargo directs users from the Bill Pay service into Zelle - and is aware that booth sides are business accounts and that payment is for commercial services.
And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5732472 from a couple years later.
They were very heavy shoes, made of low quality materials, glued together with cheap glue that often peeled before the soles wore out.
Sodomy is a fancy term for homosexuality at times. One could be charged with sodomy for having gay sex when it was illegal. Which wasn’t all that long ago in Canada
Fred Brooks agrees with that. That's what he says in Mythical Man Year, referring to prototypes:

"Plan to Throw One Away"
And then what when everything has become skyscrapers? I think it’s perfectly ok that not everyplace wants this end result.
You should learn to break by "stomping" the ground instead of sanding down your shoes. Dragging your foot on the ground to brake should happen quite rarely, when it would be dangerous or really tiring not to.

Although if you live in a place with tons of really steep hills like San Francisco, 3 months is probably par for the course.
That just begs the question. Young people today are not less racist because each generation magically improves. If they're less racist, then there had to be a mechanism for it.
If only there were some kind of reusable coffee cup that did not suffer from such issues.
>Passing laws that make victimless behaviour illegal should be criminal. Let's make that a constitutional law...

I'm for metalaws so long as the punishment isn't just some mild sanction. I have always been a fan of heavy metalaws.
Student loans dramatically improved my credit rating.
> Since then, right-wing figures like Alex Jones and Tommy Robinson have been banned from some platforms, but remain on the web. What's the company's view on figures like that still being around?

Curious that this is the first thing he thinks about, not for example jihadists that are everywhere on the net too.

Wait no it's not, its' exactly what you expect from the Fake News media that spent waaay more timing talking about Christchruch than Sri Lanka.

THIS IS WHY TRUMP WON.
I was going to say "because we said so", but this is a far^N more interesting comment. Elegance is a very useful criterion in many areas of mathematics, science and art. Stating the obvious, I know, but still.
Thanks for this detailed response! You made me realise the flaw in my reasoning :-)
Have your read the username?
do not take exercise advice from people who do not do it themselves.
Then the reporter seriously misled me about what you said, and I apologize. I'm curious about the real breakdown between marketing to students and hospitals, overhead and executive pay, and instructor pay, but I can understand if you don't want to reveal that.
> The problem is not smart appliances, per se, it's the centralized and vulnerable way those smarts are being implemented. Because it's in the manufacturer's interest to compromise my own security and autonomy.

Ding ding ding. Most things could be easily implemented without adding external dependencies or impacting privacy but there's no coin in it.
Telling Palmer Luckey’s Story Is Complicated
For security reasons I can’t, but I wonder if somebody could make a SFTP wrapper that uses the 1MB API.
Have you had a proper security review? I don't think you would have made that mistake with user-websites being able to log out the user if you had designed with security as an important objective.

Like, it's OK that you didn't, but maybe you should check that your entire public API (all microservices, UI, etc) will really be secure.

You will probably struggle to get a secure interface while user content is served from the same domain as your UI.
There were a few decades where paper straws were the standard.

When plastic straws were first introduced, people complained that they were too light and wouldn’t stay down in carbonated drinks.
Is the parent actually being highly incorrect?

Anti-semitism was highly popular at those times (e.g. Poland, Russian Empire, US).

Nazi party were also popular in Britain (at that time) and other countries.

Why would Weimar Republic specifically outlaw their nazi propaganda?

Am I missing something, or is that specific paragraph related to only a short period of time?
Feral hogs are a significant problem for farmers
in more than a dozen US states, causing about $1.5 billion per year.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/ope...

https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/feral-hogs-in-oklahoma

https://newsok.com/article/5580633/oklahoma-announces-a-reco...
If you’re talking about Silicon Valley that was converted from fruit groves to sprawl and a job center then how was that the result of density? In terms of density it’s not much different to many areas.

The focusing is done due to a whole host of reasons but certainly encouraging jobs to spread out is not a bad idea for a number of reasons - including having options and livability
Does anyone know Alan well enough to answer the question "will he ever publish a magnum opus designed to explain the distillent of what he's learned"?

That might be worth reading if he can make it explainable to mere mortals. I know he has some videos and articles, but I'd like something to spend the next few years slogging through to get a better understanding of why he thinks everything is a turd. I fully understand the issue of our current operating systems, programming languages, and tools being a steaming pile of garbage, but I don't think that is what he's really referring too. He thinks we should be seeing much further than that. I can't disagree, but there is a lot I don't fully comprehend.
You need to really know the stats to understand them.

Big Midwest corn operations are like oil. They rake it in when prices are high and crash hard when they fall.

Smaller family operations from 100-1000 acres are all dying or dead now. In the 1970s, a 50 acre dairy operation was a viable business. Today, forget it.
Macs are slower than PCS, here is why
A few past related discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Normalization%20of%20Deviance%...
You're going to end up with a shit signal to noise ratio for the people who visit the site for the automotive, origami and cooking boards.
Surely plastic waste is a local problem for only some places? America has no shortage of empty land for landfills, but perhaps India or Singapore has more of a struggle to put it all somewhere. I live in a country with plenty of wasteland close to my city, and the landfills are well managed to prevent leaching, but people are still really passionate about not using them for plastic. Nobody seems to be able to explain why except to refer to the Pacific garbage patch, which isn't caused by us because our landfills are on land and not spilling into the sea (except that one time when a flooded river broke one open).
Equally, I know a cyclist who started running red lights because he was hospitalised by somebody whose defence was "but you're a cyclist and you stopped for the red light, how was I supposed to expect that?"

Not defending bad behaviour here, just observing how it can be incentivised.
"Terrible"? Come on.

Sometimes we are way too harsh and pedantic on each other. Instead of trying to help each other grow, we call our fellow engineers out for making decisions we disagree with.

This service is offered for free, and new routes can likely be added without trouble. It isn't like this is a choice that actually impacts anyone. It's merely a matter of style.

The only thing terrible here is the way the criticism is being offered. So I'm offering you feedback.
>they are in long-term stakes, wrong since these companies do end up impoverishing them.

Are they though? Walmart has a negative impact on local small businesses but is it made up for by making goods available at prices they would otherwise not be leading to increased purchasing power?

As someone who grew up somewhere that local authorities were able to exert control over who did and didn't do business I am all for the "race to the bottom" that high volume, low margin big box stores represent.
- Wasserman has a book called "All of statistics" that gives a lot of the background required to understand modern machine learning

- Hastie is a co-author of two machine learning books, one is "Elements of Statistical Learning" which is very comprehensive, and "Introduction to Statistical Learning", which is more approachable by people without too much background in stats.
I'd imagine America's forced reeducation camps in Germany after WW2 would count as deplatforming nazis
> It was never a question if top down rules on speech work, it's if it was a desired.

I don't agree, a lot of people seemed to think the Streisand effect proved that you can't control speech / content on the internet once upon a time.
"Zombie post resurrection trickery with timestamps" is on the nose.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and my answer to saurik above.
Maybe you are familiar with Spoon Theory? Disabled people who are up in arms about straws typically argue that it's yet one more burden on them when they have too many as is.

I'm not well versed on the straws issues. But let's talk about the California bag ban for a minute.

I've lived without a car for over a decade. I also have a compromised immune system. Disposable plastic bags are cleaner than reusable shopping bags.

I almost never buy trash bags. I use my shopping bags as trash bags.

I don't feel guilty about needing and wanting plastic shopping bags for convenience and germ control.

The bag ban presumes you can just stick your stuff in your shopping cart, take it out to the trunk of your car and drive it home. It is a burden for poor people, pedestrians and folks using public transit. There is no limit on rich people paying the extra 10 cents per bag to have all the bags they want.

It's based on an assumption that you have a car and money and will not give up your car. It actively punishes serious environmental activists actually willing to live without a car.

Getting more people to walk would do more good, imo.
What security reasons?

You can totally have a secure sftp endpoint on your filehost.
What is self-worth worth if it's not attached to anything though?
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I don't understand what you mean. I'm contrasting the credit reporting system with gossip, and saying that one of the differences is that anyone can gossip while only relatively tightly-controlled entities with avenues for recourse can affect your credit score.
There is quite a lot of randomness of what gets to the front page of HN. I'm curious to understand better why some days it doesn't make it but then on one day it does. I believe there is nothing wrong with reposting something, as long as you aren't spammy.

This post was actually pretty interesting to read and I'm glad it finally made it to the front page.
If you read the article even closer, you'd see that it's part of an international collaboration that includes nearly all of the advanced industrial nations, including the US. The entire point of ITER is to be a stepping-stone to commercial fusion power in the next few decades. As always it is certainly interesting news when Chinese mega-experiments are on parity with the US or Europe, but so far big fusion reactors are like Top-500 supercomputers in that respect - dual use technologies whose economic value is marginal at best.
> There were a few decades where paper straws were the standard.

That still doesn’t answer the question I raised in my post though. Where the standard paper straws wax paper?
mostly plimsolls, citisneaks or something like that.