skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why wouldn't you take the word of the well credentialed expert that did the actual investigation and pronounced it suicide?
A couple years ago, I spent a little bit of my free time working on a debugger for Project Oberon 2013:

https://crussell.keybase.pub/junk/oberon-debugger.png

When you enter debug mode, the sidebar to control the debugger appears, and the system shrinks to a picture-in-picture view, which can bee seen in the lower right, while the main viewport is overtaken by a readout/log of the executing machine instruction, optionally interleaved with the corresponding line from the original source (if you load that module's debugging symbols).

I ended up scuttling this approach, because the graphical nature of the debugger made progress too slow. I started over with a GDB-inspired, CLI-based debugger shell called `rewrd`. It was my first proof-of-concept for what I've been calling "homologous UIs", which can run equally well when invoked directly in the terminal or when double-clicked to open (which causes it to run in the browser).

https://crussell.keybase.pub/junk/rewrd.png

I took the guts of `rewrd` and made a proof-of-concept for a homologous build system derived from Peter De Wachter's Python-based build scripts that can be used to generate a disk image suitable for use in the Oberon emulator.

Here's a demo, running once in the browser, and then the same script running from the command-line:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUpd70Mu0Ek
I help run a digital political agency (with partner(s)). Still thinking through this but a few initial reactions that might provide a different perspective:

- I haven't found a lot of utility in Twitter outside of reaching really specific insiders/decision makers. In terms of direct response FB is far superior and FB also wins with targeting, reach, and the persuasion/recall studies we've done as well. That is to say TW doesn't get much if any of our client's budget. Seems some larger 'brand name' candidates get better direct response. Point is it's a small fraction of our digital spend, and I would guess far less than .5% of twitter's ad revenue.

- what about paid 'influencer' or social marketing ads? e.g. I pay person XX to post organically. Or the much larger problem of bots/fake/gamed content.

- TW seems to be (I can't quantify though maybe others can) to be either totally inept at reducing fake/gamed content at worst complicit because they need the growth from fake numbers. This seems like it has much larger impact than paid political advertising and should be the first thing to get serious about. This seems like if the goal is to lose weight cutting your nails probably isn't the first thing to do.

- I had a strong reaction reading Dorsey's tech points saying ML, micro-targeting are 'powerful and very effective for __ advertisers.' But to me it seems odd to make a differentiation that it's ok to use these 'extremely effective' tools to profitably 'target and force people to see their __ ad' while blocking political speech (to help this point I left political/commercial blank, try flipping them). TW will happily 'force people to see' ads for alcohol, sugar companies, etc and the point is it works, whether selling a politician or product or Disney if the tech is dangerous for politics why isn't dangerous for commerce (or where is the line in dangerous commerce)? IDK I think I have a different perspective on the fundamental importance of political speech than this group. But this seems like an odd argument to me. To that point of drawing political lines, what about a company advertising to sell copies of a racist book on replacement theory, which has been shown to correlate with recent rise of dangerous white nationalism (mass shooters buy the book) and externalities like electing Trump?
I think both / either work in this context, though it seems obvious the inmates running the asylum was the intention now you mention it.

I think inmates would be a good dysphemism for the legal department too.
My point exactly. It's unfair to criticise a language on the grounds that it doesn't do what no other language does.
Yeah, "political" is a weasel word like "extremist." A view I like isn't political, it's just common sense or settled science, it's the other guy's views that are "political."
.. but not on the internet, which produced the current disaster.
Tangentially invoking a hot-button issue like the first amendment is at best a tactical error in that it distracts from your actual point. In this case, your analogy is flat wrong because the first amendment actually does have lots of grey area (I mean, you can choose not to recognize the USSC's interpretation as valid, but it won't help). In response to your underlying argument about special cases being bad: tough. We don't have a choice. A finite policy can only ever be an approximation to justice.
The only reason Harry got into Hogwarts was because he was born a wizard (likely inherited from his parents). Based on the way he was treated by his peers, I’d argue that he was one of the most privileged students at the school, apart from Malfoy.

The only real oppression Harry experienced was the abuse he suffered at the hands of his uncle and aunt. Plenty of rich kids suffer this sort of abuse from relatives. That doesn’t mean they didn’t still have an advantage in college admissions.
The concern is about categories, not magnitudes, though.

A better analogy would be a certain tax rate for "cars" and another lower one for "trucks" so as to not harm blue collar small businesses. We would start seeing more personal vehicles designed to be "trucks" even if they weren't used for large hauls or some sort of business purpose.

And, of course, we already see exactly that happen to car designs.

The argument is that the incentives are there to follow the letter of the law and abuse the spirit, putting less onerous personalities at a disadvantage.
This is wrong. He also said issue ads would be blocked.
Ronan Farrow also did amazing investigative journalism on Epstein and revealed the extent of Joi Ito, MIT and some of Bill Gates' relationship with Epstein.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-univer...
Paprika. Often has a Black Friday sale if you think it’s too expensive.

It can also scale recipes up and down.
> Apropos of all the other things going on in this case - which lets be honest, were getting plenty of news play - why is this article odd?

Because when it came to this story, most people, who are not paramedics would expect a lot more investigative information around Epstein's story besides the fact that his dead picture leaked to some dark web site full disgusting images.

Let's say they followed up the article with another 5 or 10 analyzing the flight logs, unsealed court documents, tried to interview his associates, looked at all his properties, see maybe other inmates heard anything that night. But it didn't happen, it was mostly dropped and instead they called FDNY to ensure there is investigation into the leaked pictures.
this is nice. Great choice of track too! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=137&v=K-AmcJhqV7...
It's so hard to strike a balance between inclusion and 'eternal september'. Managing a community is incredibly hard work. I don't really know if I can think of a way to be both inclusive and preserve the value of a community indefinitely. It seems that at some point you really need barriers to entry to keep things sane.
> For example, XAML does an excellent job in declaring your UI.

JSX does a better job.

I hate XAML, it doesn't add anything except verbosity over just using C#. The original goal of XAML was to allow bindings to multiple programming languages and to allow designers to use a suite of amazing tools to finished designs off to developers for implementation.

What ends up happening is developers write XAML, then they write C# to back up what XAML can't do, then they have a complex build stage to shove all this crap together, but instead of XAML just being transpiled to C# it has its own run time thing that hosts compiled XAML files.

JSX by comparison is a trivial transformation to JavaScript. It is easy to read, and it does not try to replace JS control structures.

In fact you could probably trivially transform a JSX syntax to ANY C type of language, I know there is a proposal (implementation?) for a JSX-like to Dart.

The sheer awesomeness of JSX is hard to describe if you haven't used it. It is like something asked "what is the simplest, easiest to understand templating language we can possibly create?" and out popped JSX.

My favorite part of JSX is how it doesn't try to have control structures in it. Everyone else gets this wrong and adds some sort of string types DSL to their templating language.

JSX doesn't do that. If you want to map over an array and spit out a bunch of elements, you just do so in JavaScript/TypeScript.
Given the pretty terrible experience that all social networks are on mobile, this should make Twitter slightly less awful. With the election coming up in the UK I can’t imagine Facebook being remotely usable for the next few months.
Well, she’s out of a job by the end of the year it looks like, so I guess she’s preparing to live on the ads and the book sales?

Still, I don’t think Hossenfelder is a reason to be this salty! Just post links to some other physics blogger that contradicts her and move on. That’s how Lubos is handled and it works ok as far as I can tell (I can’t actually tell very well on account of all the ignoring of Lubos I’m doing).
If I buy a tool, the only person preventing me from breaking the law with that tool should be me.

Otherwise it’s not my tool, it’s in service to the manufacturer, the government, or some shade in between. Those aren’t good tools, because they can only be used for certain purposes, in certain circumstances.

I prefer tools that do exactly what I wish them to do, for better or worse.
go mod vendor is what you are looking for then
Plus, you need a server (ie. obtain one, set it up, and maintain it). With Access you just host it on the team's shared drive.

In a large organization, getting a small server when you don't work in IT is not simple at all.
This move will increase scrutiny on the ICYMI algorithm. Does it pick up tweets on one side of the aisle more than the other? Do people know how the algorithm works, and can they game it to increase distribution of their political tweets?
Thanks for the feedback! I just put in an update that makes it much easier to capture the crystals and ore.
I'm skeptical AF. How do you determine what's "political"? To use AOCs example, would ads supporting the Green New Deal be considered "political" or "environmental advocacy"? How about ads supporting Black Lives Matter or illegal aliens or ads against ICE?

Targeted to a particular audience even the, on the surface, non-political ads can become strongly political.

If Mueller's investigation is to be believed, that's mostly what "election interference" efforts did: they trolled the left with propaganda from the right, and, the same time trolled the right with propaganda from the left, portraying both sides as unhinged idiots to each other.

No need to be super creative or anything, just stir shit up and sow discord. Do this long enough and heavily enough and you'll permanently damage the United States.
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I'm conflicted about this, my gut agrees with you but I don't want to because I'd like to hold on to the idea that it's possible to include and bring value to everyone.
> No I claimed you are incompetent because you can't deal with a `.lib` file that contains the output from more than one source file.

None of the work I do cares about the actual output artifacts. I care, almost exclusively, about the representation of the build graph itself. That work cannot be done if I don't have a build graph to analyze, which I don't if you do things like glob files together.

I've seen the simple act of untangling a globbed dependency to the various isolated files reduce the size of an output artifact by gigabytes.

> any language that doesn't have those features is not a mature programming language

You're calling literally every language that doesn't use the c-linker an immature language. Which may include c++17-with-modules, though I don't know that for certain.

> javascript

Javascript doesn't do what you're talking about though. At least not if you do any fancy precompilation/tree-shaking to your js at compile time. If all you're doing is copying the files, then sure, but as soon as you want to do useful things like, for example, run a typescript or closure analysis on your files, or generate js from typescript, or compile and minify your js, it will get a whole heck of a lot faster when you use more isolated build targets[0]. I know because our JS teams went to a lot of work to make js builds faster by taking advantage of this information.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20975227
Government can't just "decide to be a bad actor", the system wouldn't let it. If they could do it, they all would do it a long time ago (and many have indeed tried, from Watergate to now Trump). Bad actors need to be able to control the regulatory bodies and media first before they can consolidate their absolute power - and the power to censor anyone is one of the necessary steps to get there.
Can you export data with either plan?
Even their handheld video cameras require online activation. It’s madness.
That's not a bug. It's supposed to feel like a treasure hunt.
Those moonshots are in the budget and excess cash doesn’t have anything to do with a lack of moonshots.
And Guido is currently one of the five members of the steering council.
There are places where there are no speed limits. The autobahn for one.

Arguing against 'the optimal boundary is impossible argument' assumes you agree with his base axioms, that things like money are more important than the exploration of other principles. These are not slippery slope arguments, but the very base of politics itself. Why have any rule.
> I say "your" civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it became our civilization.

But the question shouldn't be, "are new interfaces making us dumber?", it should be "what are we doing with this cognitive surplus?"

If you aren't putting that surplus energy somewhere then it'll begin to go away, retired or not.
I did not implement export yet but I will probably have it in the premium plan

It is in the pipeline of immediate features
Mercurial represents history as a DAG. You can implicitly create unnamed branches and explicitly create named branches. Committing to a named branch records the branch name as part of the changeset.

Extensions are just how Mercurial commands are implemented. The extensions for editing history are included and supported. The default configuration is just very conservative.
Consider that the reason they don't want to use their brains is that they don't seem to work effectively, but they don't want to admit they have some cognitive decline.

Like not wanting to go to a social function because you find them hard, one might say "I'm tired" or offer some other excuse because putting your failing on show is difficult too, the moreso when you're already smarting from a knock-back (being confronted with another failure).
People not thinking things through, which, yes, means working them out from first principles, are why we have so many stupid and broken laws, policies, regulations, etc.

> Yep, exactly the kinds of dickheads you don't want polluting our information streams with their bullshit. Out with all of them!

I'm sure you'll be shocked and outraged when a story lands in a few months because someone you like is protesting this policy.
While this is a possibility, North Korea does have motive in looking to gather nuclear program info via hacking.
No, it doesn't - it was a federal prison and the NY DoC has nothing to do with it. And no, even if you buy into the idea that he was killed, there is no collusion needed to make it a plausible narrative, you just have to have the strangulation done competently enough to look like hanging.
Peter Thiel. No, not because he is a Trump supporter, but rather because of his Philosophy that you don’t have to support every plank in a parties platform to support the platform. Too often it seems we’ve become an all or nothing society instead of agreeing to disagree on something’s while working to find common ground on others. Obama talked about it earlier today regarding people’s need to elevate their own sense of self-worth by chastising others on their indiscretions, stating, “That doesn’t solve the problem”
Definitely my best stock pick of the year.
Are FAANG considered good quality here? Certainly some of the fault here lies with Catalina.
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That doesn't mean they're doing it fairly. It just means that people have accepted that certain voices are silenced.
North Korea is actually a very apt analogy, because ~85% of people living in Sparta were chattel slaves... Who were, as part of a Spartan citizen's right of passage into manhood (And, in addition to that, as a fun annual holiday), were hunted, and killed for sport.

Actually, even North Korea sounds like the worker's paradise, in comparison.

(And no, this state of affairs was not common among Mediterranean city states. Athens and later Rome had a ~50% slave population, and (legally) considered killing a slave to be murder.)

As for staying alive through brute force, I may observe that your city-state may be able to stay alive more successfully, if it didn't spend most of its time warring against its own enslaved people. Which is what the Spartans did. (Hint: Hunting your slaves for sport does not endear you to them... In a state where 6 out of 7 men are enslaved, and two thirds of the freedmen hate the guts of the ruling class.)
Dbase3 and Clipper here.
The old internet is still there, it's still growing. It's just covered in a thick layer of corporate shit sites. All you have to do is be the change you want to see. Start hosting your website from home. Code it by hand. Don't use any javascript frontends. It's a good time.

As for finding others, well, HN isn't a bad place to start. Just install an RSS reader client and every time you find yourself enjoying an article check the site to see if it has an RSS feed. In fact, do this with every web interaction. Pretty soon you can completely decouple yourself from content aggregators and start perceiving the web as a community again.
Python 2 to Python 3 breakage is the worst thing that ever happened to Python. Even simple things like retaining the print statement (which could certainly coexist peacefully with the print() function) would have made things easier.

It's not too late though. We could add better backward compatibility into Python 3.
Can’t help noticing this is an anagram for Cerci D. Villain (the D presumably stands for Diabolical).
Ethnically Chinese is often used to mean Han, both in English and Mandarin.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/19/health/prison-suicides-massac...

General prison suicide rate is 20/100,000, which is almost identical to the male general population rate in the US (21.1) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...)

I didn't quickly get data on attempt/completion in prison, but the attempt/completion rate is the general pop is ~30 attempts/completion, and the completion rate is dramatically driven up with access to firearms. (https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/) I'd expect to see a lower completion/attempt rate in prison, not a higher one, given the monitoring and reduced access to methods.

I stand by my statement- something is funny with the way they reported that data.
Couldn't help to respond to this just to provide a contradictory opinion on Parisian restaurants and nightlife. I personally am a big fan of the quality of food, service, and fun to be had in Parisian establishments and I find them to be significantly better value than London and New York (where I live).
This problem has been addressed in conventional media for a long time, nothing new here.
Switzerland is much smaller than the US, and absolutely jam-packed with gorgeous areas that would work with with drone photography.
It is also relatively easy now for independent individuals to create "professional" websites that look and behave like commercial ones - professional templates on some hosted CRM system with dynamic features (ads, shopping baskets, comment systems etc) just a few clicks away. Wix, wordpress, shopify to a certain extent, disqus etc all make things pretty easy and decent looking.

They may not be as "kooky" it as "characterful" as they used to be any more which I guess is part of what people are missing.
That, and a working DejaNews, before Google bought and sank it. I made a two-frame (as in <frame>) browser for it and revelled in the sheer abundance of information it provided. Enter Google, exit stage left DejaNews. Progress.
Perhaps the better link should be this one, which defines "political content", and covers both "political campaigning and issue advocacy advertising"

https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/restricted...
When the Old Internet was a small part of my life, it felt huge. The New Internet is a huge part of my life, and feels small.
Exactly, to get professional IT resources you need to demonstrate a business case, go through many decision boards and budget allocations, defend it for months, and be ready to be pointed out if it doesn't reach its promises.

So in the end people hack it in Excel or Access. No need to ask permission, no budget issues, no blame if it's not great.
> a particular large internet company

https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/ ?
I disagree with this claim.

You shouldn't modify code in a programming language you don't have sufficient familiarity with - at least not code that you depend on.

C has shortcut boolean ops, so "if (have_peace_treaty || launch_missiles() == LM_SUCCESS) cross_border()" would not launch missiles if you have a peace treaty.

C++ has shortcut boolean ops as well... unless you have overloaded "operator&&". So the same line in C++, depending on the types involved, might not short-circuit and start a war even if you have a peace treaty.

In Pascal and Python 3, evaluating 1/(1/2) gives 2. In python 2 and C, you get an integer overflow (with differing semantics). But 1.0/(1.0/2) gives 2 in all cases, even though 1==1.0 is true in all languages mentioned.

And "if (0.3*3 == 0.9) all_is_well(); else apocalypse_go_to_bunker()" might also surprise you if you are not aware of how FP math is implemented (in APL/K/J, all_is_well(), but not in any other language I'm familiar with).

The only example I can think of that could bite you is when shadowing an outer scope -- which is just as much a problem in C, Python etc. Some compilers warn about it, some don't, I don't know if Nim does.

In practice, Nim choices put it in an amazingly sweet spot.
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