skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying something is superficial and too clever is not a counter argument, but rather a reaction, I think, to it being radically different from what you're used to. I'm not saying it's necessarily better, but maybe approach things with an open mind.
I wish every wifi network just had a 64kbps always-open connection that anyone could use. But I guess we can’t have nice things unless it’s a pay-product by a telecom.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115607

Satoshi Nakamoto = Craig Wright (wrote white paper) + Paul Le Roux (who created Encryption 4 Masses aka E4M, and TrueCrypt)
YC leads $50M Series B in Mattermost as open source Slack alternative
Looking at the description in the article:

> This team discovered that at any given time there was some unused capacity in our network that could be used to temporarily enable faster connection speeds. PowerBoost was born.

TurboBoost notices there is additional thermal/power headroom, and boosts until that headroom is gone. PowerBoost seems very similar, except it's based on using unused capacity. The tapering is necessary, because PowerBoost uses up that excess capacity. The network tapers users off after the boost so there is excess capacity for other users to have a higher boost.
Um...

police busting down your door for uploading a video kind of is censorship.

But yeah, I'm now starting to see why more and more people are just wanting to go to the censor and police raid system. A lot of this stuff people are uploading just doesn't belong in a civilized society. What started off as maybe just content on making non violent jokes about blacks or gays has morphed into showing children being disemboweled and videos of little old black or jewish ladies being gunned down in their place of worship. It's just gone too far.

Probably just have to file it under:

"This is why we can't have nice things"
That only works in a perfect world where the public makes a collective risk assesment that is accurate. In reality, that does not happen.

A single person might use Libra because it is useful for them, and one more user of Libra will not change much. However, it is difficult to assess the risks that could come with FB having control over millions of people's transactions, and then factor that in your individual decision. And that assumes that people know what can go wrong with monetary policy, which is far from reality.

To make an analogy... "If a country's citizens chose to use opioids for pain management, it must be because they found it useful, and the country should not have permission to prevent it."
Malpractices at Rocky Flats Plutonium Facility Near Denver (2014)
But did MS go for the name curl or did they choose a brand new name for their implementation?
Pair Programming: A Perspective
You're telling workers that it's their fault being abused by a crappy employer when there are many reasons someone might not be able to leave a job, but are accusing someone who's pointing that out of gaslighting you. I think that, itself might actually be closer to gaslighting.
His family was getting attacked by a group of ransom seeking criminals the last years of his life who believed he had a substantial coin stash, so he kept a low profile and may have donated without telling anybody. He did write once he gave to his family as inheritance 'a lot of coins' without saying how much it was. It's unlikely he was Satoshi, the early code was full of security problems.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd

is-odd 831,460 weekly downloads
I'd definitely agree with that, and think that is what esoterica is missing. I don't think it is reasonable to have a strict binary line between public and private, because there exist many gradations. If I am in my home, I can reasonably expect that nobody is going to be watching through my windows with a telescope from a hundred yards away. If I am at the White House, I can reasonably expect that my every movement is going to be tracked. If I am at the grocery store, it is somewhere in-between. People can see me, what I am buying, and what I look at, but that is transient information.

This transient information is the category that modern surveillance is destroying. I think this is a useful category, as it allows for less stress of interaction, as each interaction is only relevant for a few days. Previously, it decayed over time as people forgot, or as tapes were overwritten. Soon, we are going to need mandatory data expiration policies to maintain this category of things that are public for a short time, and private afterward.
Context matters: it's this kind of thing that was used to promote the massacres of the Rohingya. Or consider the various things that are posted about Syria. Pictures of atrocities without clear attribution of those responsible just make the situation worse and provoke reprisals against the wrong people.
Relevant: Blue and Orange Morality

> https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueAndOrangeMor...
You use obfuscation software for instagram? Im intrigued
Personally, I wouldn't go that far - just that I would think anyone doing this kind of job would need a lot of training, active support and monitoring and probably periodic breaks to do something else and decompress. Probably long term health care coverage as well.

Would that be expensive at the scale required by Facebook? Very.
> If it was exploitative, then presumably the users would not choose to use libra.

So apparently no one does meth, or gets involved in pyramid schemes, or buys ridiculous ICOs.
I guess the secure solution is to carry around your own X-Ray verified lightning-USB dongle and high voltage fry any dumb cable you find yourself needing.
Dipping into whimsical analogies: this is a digital abattoir where the meat = content.

Now, as before, no-one wants to see how the sausage gets made. Especially those selling it.

Can't kill demand or bear the visceral truth. So instead we'll pretend the seedy underbelly doesn't exist. Paper over dissonance with ethical codes and platitudes.

Not new. Just a context shift in production of sustenance for the collective, insatiable gaping maw.
> there's a local unicorn called Maimai (脉脉) that's increasingly popular as well.

Let me guess, it's a shameless local clone that gives all user information to Chinese military intelligence?
IEEE History Center Interview with Adele Goldberg (Xerox PARC)
You're aware that Facebook owns Instagram and Whatsapp right? It's by far the number one social networking company for people under 40.
But politicians that make decisions like this are more rational and have access to more information, benefiting in the long term ? Let me doubt it
> But go try to borrow money, and the bank will ask, "Why don't you just... use some of your fortune."

Actually banks are much more likely to lend you money the more money you have.

The ones with no money, they're the ones who have a hard time.
I see it as a combination of that and no incentive to review the code you require. We live in a “I need it to just work because everyone wants the dream of tech seemlessly working” age. This will probably become more and more common as the market opens up and the easier jobs (work?) become more and more blue collar. JS lends itself well to entry level devs that just want to write code and not understand needs or how an application works and why code is needed...and the exacerbation continues.
How do objects removing branching from an algorithm? It may not be there as an if-statement, but (unless I'm missing something) you'll still conceptually have a branch.
This kinda of thing (see: the "left-justify" fiasco) seems unique to NPM. Why is that? Python packages are very easy to import as well, but you don't see this kind of madness in most python programs.
Do you care to expand?
How is it different from USDT and other stablecoins in that respect? Must USDT be stopped?
Both! It's right there at the beginning:

>But had his managers asked, they would have learned that Speagle had a history of anxiety and depression, and that he might not be suited well for the role. No one did.

Perhaps when he realized he was going to be viewing graphic content for the entire workday- he might have reconsidered whether the job was right for him? The framing is clearly trying to pin the blame on the company and/or facebook and while they definitely misrepresented the job (and the company sounds like they committed a lot of workplace violations in general),no one was forced him to be there.

And then he got laid off, he didn't even quit on his own.
I wouldn't use it but I can see why this might happen.

The correct solution would be process.platform === "win32" but if you aren't familiar with Windows then you might not realise this includes 64 bit Windows or Windows Server.

If process.isWindows() existed in the standard library nobody would be concerned about it.
Only if they dole out libra-bux
Of the top of my head: embed the XML as a pchar, sign only that; and the insert the signature as another XML value.

Then you only parse the outside XML, extract the inner value and validate the signature, then you validate the inner value as-is, so no XML changes will undo the signature.
Low trust in vaccination 'a global crisis'
So just like in Black Mirror's Be Right Back... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2290780/?ref_=ttep_ep1

Although it wasn't just for the sex.....
Python has a standard library.
The World Now Has Three People Worth More Than $100B Each
It's a niche market, but I could imagine flash event coordinators really using this. For example, you could get photographers to a secret promotional beach party quite efficiently without triggering an untimely paparazzi bat signal.
If Facebook repeatedly permits copyright infringement on the same video, they might get sued by the rightsholder, which might be a very wealthy company with experience enforcing its rights in courts.

In they repeatedly make a $30,000/year employee view 15 seconds of the same child being beaten to a pulp (...the minimum time they are obligated to watch each clip before rendering a judgment), the employee will just quit after their health declines past a certain point.

So while the technology could be applied to both contexts, there's probably a lot more economic incentive to apply it to the first context than the second one.
Sarah Stewart Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer
It’s only a zero-sum game when their network is at 100% capacity. If they were playing games to optimize usage at peak times I might not care (although they should increase capacity in that case) but when they do this at 5AM it’s clearly bullshit.

I don’t understand why you’re carrying Comcast’s water here. Nobody else does this nonsense. My FiOS connection is a gigabit all day every day. This isn’t a clever bit of network management that gives them an edge. It’s a clever bit of marketing which also allows them to cheat on speed tests.

“The tapering is necessary, because PowerBoost uses up that excess capacity.”

What the heck!? The network isn’t some kind of battery. There’s no buffer that gets filled up after 20MB on a TCP stream and they have to slow down to let it drain. I know you’re smarter than this.
Can't police raid someone in another country. Not that the police are particularly interested:

> Under the policy, the [animal cruelty] video was allowed to remain on Facebook. A manager told him that by leaving the video online, authorities would be able to catch the perpetrators. But as the weeks went on, the video continued to reappear in his queue, and Speagle realized that police were unlikely to look into the case.
Edit: Parent was edited, previously suggested "Java-style exception specifications". As far as I know every language with "throws clause"s has the kind of problems I describe below though.

Three major problems: they interact inconsistently with generics, you can no longer take a function's result and store it as a value, and you still can't tell whether a function might throw by looking at the point where it's called.

A good version of exception specifications would be lightweight syntax sugar over either (in the same way that a good version of async/await is a lightweight syntax sugar over futures/promises). But I'm not aware of any language implementing that; I guess once you have working Either there's not enough value in providing an alternative syntax for it.
and you see the other madness there, in which parts of stdlib are absolute garbage so you will always install requests and lxml anyway.
Depends on the newspaper. Long before there were clicks, editors (driven by their publishers) strove to get more readers by coming up with headlines and stories and other elements (such as cartoons) that they couldn't find elsewhere.

In the United States sensationalistic headlines were part of the "Yellow Journalism" trend in the late 1800s - this is how Pulitzer and Hearst got their starts. Britain perfected the art of the tabloid headline, so much so that it exported some of its best writers to Australia and the United States, which is how Rupert Murdoch was able to expand.

Advertisers used similar techniques, leveraging current events and sensationalism to grab eyeballs and customers. A few years ago I found this example (https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2016/11/a-history-of-cli..., scroll to the bottom) in a regional newspaper in western NY while doing genealogical research. It was from 1904.
Evidently 'adnam [1] (adnam@sdf) [2] is Adam Hayward [3].

The bike in the pic is a Dahon [4] folding bike.

Adam's freeshell site [5] contains a password-protected link to his CV (request sent).

Here's an archive of his Bristol University Information Technology Society (BITS) homepage from 2002 [6].

Adnam is "a nickname given to me by some mates in Cambridge" [7].

And here's the analog site stat logs for requests from Tue-08-Feb-2000 15:16 to Mon-08-Apr-2002 13:09 (789.91 days). [8]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5639997

[2] https://sdf.org/tour/sdfers/gen.cgi?adnam@sdf

[3] https://www.flickr.com/photos/adnam/16677188/

[4] https://dahon.com/bike/

[5] http://adam.freeshell.org/

[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20020201220147/http://bits.bris....

[7] https://web.archive.org/web/20020211221929/http://www.bits.b...

[8] https://web.archive.org/web/20031112001318/http://www.bits.b...
I don't think you understand the relationship between FreeBSD and MacOS
Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?
Postman raises $50M to grow its API development platform
> Florida law does not require employers to offer sick leave, and so Cognizant workers who feel ill must instead use personal leave time.

It seems that Facebook and Cognizant are not the only ones completely failing at protecting their people (employees, contractors, citizens).
Even the guys on our Node team joke that the node modules folder is abhorrently large. More massive than a black hole is the most common meme.

I think there's two things going on here. One, Javascript has taken Don't Repeat Yourself to an absolutely insane extreme. Python claims "batteries included" and Java boasts "there's a library for that", but it's at a higher level than stuff like is-windows.

Most libraries are large and include a lot of functionality, and something like is-windows would be found inside a larger dependency like system-utils. Similarly, a Java dev would import Guava, not immutable-list and and multiset and multilist.

Second, I think many Javascript devs see themselves more as plumbers than developers. The goal seems to be to stitch a bunch of dependencies together to achieve the desired outcome, rather than developing the desired outcome.

I've seen plenty of people rip FileUtils.writeStringToFile out into a standalone utility class, because they didn't need all of commons-io as a dependency. In order to do that, you need to know how writeStringToFile works, and be able to fix whatever breaks when you separate it from its ecosystem.

Devs that pull in is-windows don't have that kind of ... curiosity, I guess is the right word. There's no desire to see how is-windows works, or to see if they can improve it. It does what they need, so they include it as a dependency and move on, end of story. The overhead, and more importantly the security issues, involved just aren't a factor.

I do wonder if the short lifespan of many UI projects is a factor, too. If you're just going to rewrite the UI in six months, there's no reason to make it efficient or maintainable.
That information shouldn't be in the type, because it makes functions pointlessly non-interchangeable. With try-catch, a superset of that information is preserved in the stack trace, and functions stay interchangeable.
Is this just JS entry level devs bringing in is-windows just because?

I have my doubts about that. I suspect it is more a question of what other packages they bring in... that for some reason use is-windows.

I think that is a difference and points to a different set of folks who for some reason, use this thing.
The 'Like' doesn't mean what you think it means
> For example, moderators need to make judgment calls that distinguish between offensive uses and artistic/journalistic/parody uses. There are many cultures and in-groups on Earth, which makes this harder than it might seem at first blush. Not all nudity is obscenity, not all hate speech is blatant.

In these cases I'm not sure it really matters. Over-moderation is going to win overall and I don't think moderators are going to get into that much trouble for being slightly over-zealous. I could be wrong but I feel like after a week of being on the job you'd get the hang of it.
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We might get a case study in this when Cyberpunk 2077 launches (possibly early next year!). CDPR, initially hesitant to reveal to the public the gameplay slice they produced for the media at last year's E3, eventually caved and released it with a prominent disclaimer watermark across the top of the screen:

"WORK IN PROGRESS - DOES NOT REPRESENT THE FINAL LOOK OF THE GAME"

As well as having similar messages reiterated by the narrator throughout.

Previously CD Projekt Red was roasted for perceived "downgrades" in The Witcher 3, notably in lighting which CDPR had to change to accommodate the day-night cycle in the game.

That said, hype for Cyberpunk 2077 is incredibly strong right now. We'll get to see whether players really do take disclaimer messaging into account when the final product launches, no doubt with "downgrades" evident in many facets of the game.
Reminds me of Black Mirror's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
I don't think this is just about vaccines... it's about a general rejection of science. When 25% or so of the population simply rejects science as some sort of greedy conspiracy, it's very hard to manage society in a scientific manner.
> this paper suggests that with a control it's not too scary to default to shown.

I’d rather have password masking be the default everywhere.

Consider for example lecturers using the computer in a room full of people, prominently displaying their screen on the projector for all to see. Or anyone in a business meeting for that matter, using a projector or sharing their screen through teleconferencing.

If you are fast at typing you could type out a lot of your password before catching the fact that everyone is seeing your password.

And if you are a hunt-and-peck typist you might be slow but you might also be looking at the keyboard the whole time as you are typing out your password, and therefore not catch the fact that everyone is seeing your password.
I'd argue that having the function process.isWindows() would be a bad design. You'd then need to add process.isMacOS(), process.isLinux(), etc. You can do a switch statement on process.platform.
This is really cool. Since reading about Masters of Deception, Legion of Doom
And other legendary hacker groups with a thirst for VAXen in the late 80es, I have always wanted a VAX machine to hack on.
A billion is not much once you get to Pentagon scale budgets and is probably cheaper than going to war with Iran.
Nixon also didn’t do all of the legwork behind going to China. But he was the person seen making the deal.

But as far as Apple, who do you think was more effective? A random CEO who was at Apple for less than 100 days talking to random people at Microsoft or Jobs being able to call up Gates directly - someone who he worked with for both the Apple // plus (AppleSoft Basic was written by Microsoft) and with the introduction of the Mac - Gates was on stage at the introduction?
> I'm curious, what extensions are missing?

There are a couple I sorely miss. Disable Ctrl-Q died, and so did Toggle Animated GIFs. Now I have to keep an extra tab open with a warn-on-page-close handler to prevent Ctrl-Q fat-fingering from killing my session. And I've just disabled video/GIF animations entirely, instead of using the cool extension which let me start/stop them on demand.

I also used to have a cool cookie exporter extension, which was useful in combination with wget for scraping sites that required a login. I admit I haven't searched for a replacement, though, so maybe there is one.
>If it was exploitative, then presumably the users would not choose to use libra.

Unless one actually believes in the existence of homo-economicus and also has never previously encountered a history book, I have no idea how someone would draw such a conclusion.
> maybe just content on making non violent jokes about blacks or gays

The nonviolent "jokes" have a habit of escalating into real violence. If you let enough people post N-word rants without consequence and with validation from their hateful peers often enough they will egg each other on until eventually someone burns down or shoots up a church.
And now they have three problems.
It's a bit more than `process.platform == "win32"` but the bulk of it is boiler-plate for the insanity of multi-standard JS module definitions.

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-windows/blame/master/ind...

If you go read the code, you are doing more than most JS developers do when they pull in a massive sequoia of dependencies.
It lends some credence to investors if they fall under his spell.

I don't believe him though.
Right, but you "get it back" on the condenser surface, not in the fluid that needs to be boiled. At it is exactly the temperature gradient that you need to maintain, so cooling the condenser surface with the to-be-boiled fluid will work only to a point. There are systems that cool the condenser with the water before sending the water to the heater, but the rate at which heat flows is much slower than the rate at which the water must flow.

That's the problem with heat. It is not a source of energy. It is a store of energy, often one that simply needs to be disposed of.
I believe (like many people) sentient/intelligent life to be intrinsically valuable, and the suffering or extinguishing of that life to be bad.

Our own species suffers and harms itself far too much already. I like to think that we're doing relatively well, solving problems and navigating bad Nash equilibria and local optimizations with social systems and technology to make the world a better place. In as little as the last century, we've made huge strides in solving problems of hunger, illness, education, freedom of expression, and more. Even with the huge efforts needed to escape our heavy planet's gravity well with chemical rockets, and the limited habitability of other planets in our system, we're exploring the possiblity of colonizing other planets.

To imagine that this is a hopeless fight, even at the best of odds - that sentient/intelligent life is not only unable to succeed but is actively continuously exterminating itself across the universe - is a ghastly, horrific, tragic nightmare.
This is the one I wanted to point out. At least it adds a few type checks.