skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's not like he leaked or mentioned it accidentally. Brian's intention was to out them and likely maliciously. It's an asshole thing to do.
Does the data show that left wing extremism should be ignored because there's not as much or it's lower intensity? Why do many people seem to have a hard time condemning political violence in all forms and by all parties?
Their MAUs and DAUs exclude insta and whatsapp. Bottom of page 4 of their 10Q.

I wonder if there is sort of the uncool factor going on. People might "use" FB but it's not cool to post very often or admit to it. 1.56B DAUs, that's 20% of the planet, if you include whatsapp, I think it's staggeringly more. Either they are somehow lying about their numbers and risking potential shareholder lawsuits or it is like shopping at Walmart or eating at McDonald's where the "cool kids" never admit to it but very clearly a good sized chunk of them still do. Lying about the numbers just seems sort of silly to me.

It's odd, none of my same age friends post much on FB; it's vacation brag pictures, various life events or children's milestones sort of stuff. At the same time, messenger might be the best way to contact many of them, better than SMS.
This may come across as glib, but the answer is "if you like the paid text editor more." If you're being paid to program, you're probably making enough money that the cost of the editor isn't a meaningful issue -- so you can judge on the functionality, the ecosystem, and the perceived future.

I've bounced back and forth for years post-TextMate between Sublime Text, Atom, VS Code, and most recently MacVim. (Every year or two I really try to make Emacs and Vim work for me out of some sense of principle; so far neither one has really stuck, although counterintuitively Vim comes closer. Yes, I've tried Spacemacs, people, don't @ me.) But what I actually get paid to do is documentation work: huge trees of Markdown files we treat like source code. And for reasons that I'd have to spend a lot of time trying to elucidate, BBEdit just works better, for me, for that purpose than anything else I've tried. Paying for it and keeping it up to date is absolutely worth it for me.

When it comes to programming, including web development, this gets to be a murkier question for me personally -- but I could absolutely see someone who's learned the ins and outs of their favorite editor just sticking with it through thick and thin. TextMate certainly seemed like it was going to go to the great editor farm in the sky for a while, but it's still actively being developed (as GPL 3 software, no less).
I think the biggest question from all of this, including the fascinating comments on this thread, why is Elon Musk and OpenAI talking about the singularity at this moment in time? We aren't there, we don't have anyway of knowing when or if we'll ever be there. One thing that is real, AI is buzzing with excitement but nobody knows why.
No. My point is that language designers should try to implement different paradigms with mainstream syntax. This if they are interested in making their languages mainstream, which might not be their goal.

The script should do without the ands, the commas and the colons. The end of line should be the and, or what the language understands to be the end of a statement.

By the way, the dot or the semicolon after the end look really redundant.
I basically agree, but at the same time, companies compete hard over speed and benchmarks, so it’s not like performance isn’t on their radar at all. And yet the bloat problem exists. Maybe they’re focusing too hard on low-level benchmarks (JS execution, 60 FPS rendering, etc) and ignoring overall app performance.
Or even stand some distance from the door and shout "THIS IS THE POLICE, EVERYONE GET OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP" through a bullhorn; it's going to be much less disruptive to everyone than a flashbang through the window, and the officers can still be hidden behind cover in case of actual criminals wielding guns being present.
It's OK we'll get minimum guaranteed income as long as we don't question anything they want to do. No doubt they will be benevolent overseers, like great chairman Kim.
If the cold gas thrusters on the new Roadster are powerful enough, that car could straight out pull some Speed Racer Mach 5 antics!
Well, the inventor is listed as Stephen Wolfram ... I mean legally it wasn't him but in practice...
Drive less, and use public transit more, a relatively modest proposal. Vote out the blatantly vote pandering politicians pushing fossil fuels. Endorse those pushing solar and wind, plant billions of trees. These are a few of my favorite things. We are already F’d from pre-existing emissions - don’t go YOLO!
I spent a year making a replacement for our internal notes system composed as a custom Lotus Notes application. It feels so good to be free of it now.
I feel sick to my stomach. I give tips specifically to the drivers, yet those companies took a cut without even telling the drivers. A so-called high-tech company behaves like a rogue restaurant owner. How low can we go?
What to do?

I'd suggest... you know... following the rule of law.

Basically, the whole presumption of innocence thing.

A call is a great reason to respond... with inquiry.

Guns ready sure IN the event and inquiry leads to life and death situation... but that should be after the fact of an inquiry:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

It's not up to me to find solutions that don't violate peoples rights. It's up to the people wanting solutions. Just because you have a problem doesn't put you above the law.

Same goes for everyone under the concept of rule of law. As someone who is dealing with a US Naturalization, the rule of law as a concept is drilled in hard. Shame people born with the right don't understand it.
I don’t read their bullshit anymore because it’s become so disgustingly preachy and evangelizing since the 2016 election.

It’s really brought out the worst shit from people who were supposed to be on the respectable side of the fence. Instead, it’s now this repellant secular moral panic, and it’s just fucking unreadable, unwatchable, you name it, and I don’t want it.

It was disappointing to see Fox News emerge at the close of the Clinton administration in the late 1990’s, and we had one really bad 24 hour news channel on one end of the political spectrum throughout The Global War On Terror. But now, instead of just the NASCAR red state ‘murica subculture, all other factions have adopted the same tactics, and almost no useful media source exists anymore.

It’s like Fox News correlates to Korn or Limp Bizkit, and now we’re in the nu metal period of media outlets, and just blaming a presidential administration isn’t any kind of excuse for such tantrums and egotism. It’s all really shallow and petty.
Now you just need health insurance in all 50 states.. maybe build up association health plans that cross state lines by industry, etc. The lack of health insurance for small businesses is such a devil, and keeps so many people from even trying to go out on their own. Really our only options start at about the 5 employee mark, and even then the rates are often not much better than the individual market (which is more than a house payment in many states).
I’m in a left leaning jurisdiction, and the labour board doesn’t do a very good job of investigating these complaints.

And if they do award you back-pay, it may still be on you to follow through on collecting.

There is big structural barriers for the system to work in favour of employees that aren’t being paid properly.
> While it's depressing, what alternative is there?

For starters, how about, instead of 60% of the working age population working 40 hours to make ends meet, (with the other 40% mooching off them, through welfare, family members supporting eachother, etc), how about 80% of the population working 30 hours a week?

It would create the same amount of wealth, but would distribute it a little differently.
If you can, make sure a carbon tax is imposed across all industries, and make sure it is enforced.
We are talking about functions, not data.

In that sense, copyright = data, and encryption = functions.
The God of Gaps doesn't explain me.

Or you.
Was the most popular car in its class,as it unloaded years worth of demand.
This week an armed man was shot by police in Switzerland. One detail in the newspaper reports that stood out for me was that the investigation of the shooting was immediately transferred to an out of state police department, and that this is apparently standard practice for police use of weapons.

In contrast to this, in the US, there appears to be practically no accountability for the police: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/07/18/cop-who-...
Something is up. I haven’t seen this much scientific woo and pseudo-philosophical nonsense on HN at one time before. Unless this is a part of the community I’ve never noticed before.I think I’ve read at least 3 posts that end in “because quantum physics”.
>That’s the correct lesson to learn from surprises: that the world is surprising.

That's a mistaken analysis. Not surprised.
No,not really. My comment was solely to depict the way I see these delivery drivers.I have nothing against rich people having businesses or expensive cars.
Since you happened to use marbles as the analogy, I think you may find "I am a strange loop"[1] and the concept of simmballs and the careenium[2] interesting.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop
[2]https://philosophyandpsychology.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/the...
Probably not way ahead but definitely ahead. Waymo has hundreds, if not thousands of fleet vehicles driving all day, every day around various parts of the country too and they can also check when people took over or when the brakes were hit. I think Tesla's approach is a little neater and nicer but that's just an opinion.
For one single data point, I currently live in Southern California, am paid just barely six figures, and receive overtime at 1.5x pay. I believe all of my coworkers who are software engineers also receive overtime (there are about 50 of us at this company).
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IMO the best thing we can do to help the poor is fix the housing price insanity.
Yeah, I agree with the sense of mystery you talk about. To me the two great, and linked, mysteries are why matter, space, time, etc. exists at all, and why some part of it experiences it in a self-aware way. They're both meta-questions to me, that probably can't be answered from within the universe by observing it, just like how one of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems says arithmetic cannot prove its own consistency from within. I know that's playing fast and loose with math metaphors, but it's an analogy not a rigorous proof.
That quote has no substance still. In the thread he proves that he can inspect some data logging routines in his Tesla, how does that lead to “shadow mode does not exist” is a mystery.

It is an obvious thing to do and the ‘shadowing’ aspect would not be particularly challenging tech, why the disbelief?
I wouldn't call the mapping necessarily arbitrary. The causal/information processes that your nerves connect to may have some mathematical structure that distinguishes them.

There's the symmetry theory of valence which proposes that symmetric (in some strict mathematical sense) processes feel good, and vice versa with bad qualia.

But this is only one of many subproblems: https://opentheory.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Eight-Prob...
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What world is that? I don’t believe that happens often enough in my world for police to come in guns blazing.
It's a good mantra--just not a wish that is applicable to the foundation of XML as a tree/document thing that self-describes its encoding and is capable of including its own signature within itself. I mean, it gets crazy complex, but the alternatives sort of require going on to some message format that isn't XML. One of the design goals of XML is that you could zip an XML document along through different systems, one of which supports only UTF-16LE, the next demands UTF-8, the next demands ISO-8859-1, and each could do the right thing. I mean, it's almost inconceivable that all the systems involved in such a quagmire would actually do the right thing, but they could, in theory. I'm sure you're already dreadfully familiar with this having looked at XML-DSIG.

OTOH: base64(jsonString(envelope)) '.' base64(jsonString(claims)) '.' base64(sig) works fine for JWT, because JSON has a very much limited choice of encoding (one option, zero alternatives!) and a JWT has no requirement to still be JSON on both sides of the transformation. It's just an opaque 7-bit-safe string to any party that doesn't know what the contents are.
Hostage taker: “Nope, there’s no hostages here, and no you can’t come in”

Police: “Well, thanks for that. Have a nice day”...

Police don’t bust in and start opening fire, so your description of how this works is simply false, and removing their ability to respond to emergencies is absurd.
He was using "ripped up" as a positive term, I assume synonymous with "Shot up" or "went up". You're agreeing with him, both of yall are saying Tesla has massively underperformed the market
The "43 Group" comes to mind. https://vimeo.com/64299989
> The universe, whatever is visible to me, is absolutely too grand and too well engineered to not have some sort of intelligence working behind it.

I think everyone can appreciate this viewpoint, but it's an emotional, visceral reaction to size- and timescales that are literally incomprehensible to the human mind. The complexities of nature engage one's sense of awe and strongly suggest the existence of an intelligent agent in some people, but this belief says nothing about whether that's actually true.
Android has supported multiple independent user profiles for a few years now, including an ad-hoc Guest one that erases stuff when no longer used.
But you have. It means even if you refuse your passwords elsewhere, only the website that was compromised is compromised.
We're not working for the algorithms we're working for the owners.

Fresh paint on old tale.
Appreciate the feedback, thanks!
> For the moment, replace "swatting" with bona fide criminals behind the door. If the swat teams ended up killing some of those criminals that wouldn't be evidence of over-aggression on the part of law enforcement.

Yes, it would. Our police are not, as the saying goes, "judge, jury, and executioner." Those "bona fide criminals behind the door" are only accused of a crime and are entitled to a vigorous defense and day in court. They are definitely not to simply be gunned down in response to the arrival of the police.

Yes, if those people happen to do something threatening that requires lethal response--like shooting at the responding officers--then the officers are entitled to defend themselves. But police officers simply happening to show up where criminal activity is occurring does not give those officers license to "kill some of those criminals." That is over-aggression on the part of law enforcement and, sadly enough, is one of the major problems we're dealing with in Seattle in relation to our police, petty crime, the ways our police force have reacted in the past, and how to balance the competing needs.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20519122
You are talking about data, so following that logic, what would be made illegal would be implementations not algorithms.

Math can be represented in a variety of ways, but the pattern being described is immutable.

What A.G. Barr is insinuating is not that we make implementations illegal, but that we make the use of algorithms categorically illegal.
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On the contrary, it’s a problem that I would like to work on but lack the bandwidth to do so at the time being. Just because I don’t have the bandwidth to work on it doesn’t make it unsolvable.

Theology lacks proof. I’m happy to believe in God if there’s proof. It should be easy to prove the existence of a singular being with unlimited power, no?
I think part of the friction is the "disruption" part; a lot of the tech culture is exclaiming how they are going to change the world and show off their responsibility by only buying desks made out of reclaimed plastic or whatever, so when such "socially-conscious" companies actually end up not disrupting shit and instead do business as usual it irritates people to call them out on their hypocrisy.
They increased cash by increasing their accrued liabilities. Accounting tricks.
> we'll never be able to make it so that the delivery driver and the corporate executive have the same standard of living, unless that standard is consuming gruel in a formless concrete cube somewhere.

You moved the post from "delivery drivers" should get a fair salary to "everybody should have the same salary". The question is if delivery drivers should have a fair salary that allows them to have a decent life.

Do you agree that "delivery drivers" should get a fair salary?
Income disparity is natural I agree. Every time someone in history has tried to remove the gap it's ended in horror. But I don't believe those at the bottom shouldn't be able to get a better standard of living than they have now.

Throughout history, raising the standard for those at the bottom usually makes the richest richer, but I'd argue that's a worthwhile tradeoff.
Being able to test your code out in the real world and dark launch a feature gives Tesla a ridiculous advantage. No other company has the infrastructure to be able to do that. Plus they can even tell if the decision the neural net made was wrong because I assume even Tesla knows you got into an accident. And this over thousands of cars. The speed at which they are collecting data is unprecedented.
> So we essentially arised out of (nothing, at this point)

Think about that for one second, if you can ever comprehend what this "nothing" is.

There was something before you, and Einstein got it with regards to the fact you can't understand that.

We're getting closer.

Rest easy.
This. I have had a Facebook account since the days of needing to be invited and yet I have posted a status update on the site less than 10 times. I barely even check on my newsfeed.

But there is hardly a messaging platform as ubiquitous as Facebook messenger. Not everyone uses it as their main messaging client but almost everyone has one. Having an active Facebook page and group has also done more for my online business than any ad marketing. And Facebook marketplace is like Craigslist but better in almost every way.

I don't care if people make a Facebook account or not but there is certainly value in one, even if you don't care about the "News Feed".
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Why did you interpet what I said as meaning there is no distinction between different forms of matter/life?
I agree that it becomes the new password, but it prevents your own site becoming a contributor to credential stuffing attacks - if you don’t have the clear password transmitted to your systems, you can’t leak it accidentally in logs or through poor DB practices.

I wonder why PAKEs haven’t caught on?
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You and the parent comment are in agreement, I think you misunderstood their comment.
> Tipping makes servers actually care about doing a good job.

I find tipping makes many customers treat "servers" like faceless servants, making them feel like prostitutes forcing fake smiles and gritted teeth at bad behaviour.

In a non-tipping culture you learn to treat waiting staff as more human. Arseholes get kicked out, not "smiled" at.
I wonder to what extent it would be effective/useful it to cross-reference SMTP blacklist databases. As in, resolve a URL to an IP address, and then see if that IP block is "spammy" in the e-mail sense.
The model 3 is a better car by many accounts, what’s the disappointment exactly?
>> was what this guy did against the rules? How can you argue creating fake identities and reserving seats for non-existing passengers is not?

Because prior to purchasing the pass, he asked about having a non-human companion and AA offered up Yo-Yo Ma and his cello in a separate, reserved seat as an acceptable example. Because the CEO had written a personal letter thanking Mr. Rothstein and promising to continuing to honor the program. Because every non-human reservation he made was accepted and booked by an AA reservation agent -- not an internet booking or 3rd party travel agent.
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Yeah. Promises that "The future is going to be amazing" has been used time and time again throughout history to get people to accept going through troughs (of sorrows), waiting for futures that never come (or come only after they've entered retirement age). Can't believe we're falling for it again.
I am excited about Nova. It's such a pleasure to use a real Mac app whose UI is fast, consistent, and predictable.
> I was a user of Textmate for Mac for years .... But it wasn't updated for, like, a decade

Still a Textmate user, it was updated 16 days ago.

Honestly I'm so close to moving full time to Windows on all machines for performance reasons, Textmate is the only reason I use a MBP for my laptop.
Hmmm interesting, if you have some time I'd love a PR. It would be a nice feature to have tbh
Because it is a bit stupid from the writer to complain about it, you don't need to know the absolute cost of things, just the relative cost a specific procedure can be done. He brings an example for the amount of people operating a boring machine, it is just obvious that less people means less salaries, you don't need to calculate the absolute cost, just find if there is a way to reduce the amount of workers. Same goes for regulations, it seems like in other countries there is less litigation and more common sense applied, you can just compare it to being strict and going to court for every stupid thing and see what's better.

The HN crowd is actually right here, when you got a too complex system that you can't calculate you need to go with your gut feeling and everybody actually know what the problems are, someone should be courageous enough to just make the necessary changes without a stupid research to back it up, in an ironic way doing this research is actually the core of the problem itself.
> I'm going to interpret this as charitably as possible: Are you attempting to bring attention to the fact that doxxing is rarely prosecuted, even though it's illegal and there's boatloads of evidence that it is in fact a form of violence? This is the only way I can imagine this question being raised that doesn't assume you're trolling.

This is a genuine question, but is doxxing really illegal? I recently read that posting someone's social security number is not illegal, so I'm finding it hard to reconcile the two notions.