skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should these companies be entitled to the value of this data in the first place? The only reason they've gotten away with it this long is nobody understood what they were doing.

If you catch a child doing something they aren't supposed to... Say sneaking chocolate you hid in your closet, when you aren't looking, and you don't catch them doing it until a week later; are we seriously going to entertain that the right action on catching these misbehaving children is to let them keep/continue to reap the benefits of their ill-gotten gains? That's what allowing the continuation of this metadata collection sounds like it amounts to to me.

This pervasive invasion of privacy is not normal, never has been; nor should it ever be.

Not breaking the capability for companies to engage in surveillance capitalism represents an implicit acceptance of the nullity of Constitutional protections through indirections facilitated by Third Party Doctrine. That is not okay.
For several years I ran a 64bit kernel with 32bit userland.

That way I was compatible with games and most other things without having to deal with increased memory usage and compatibility hacks.
Your claim is that I'm deliberately obfuscating terminology in order to… help someone on Hacker News understand why lists and finite structure are useful in Prolog? Push an agenda to kick Prolog out of the logic language club? Stir up animosity in the language crowd of HN? Sorry, I'm not following.

Doesn't the simpler explanation, that I made up a term that tries to capture the idea I'm trying to communicate, and didn't define it precisely because it's an HN comment and not a research paper, make more sense?

(Not that "theorem prover" is the correct term. That describes a tool, not a language.)

Can you propose a better term to describe a language for expressing logical statements than "logic language"?
I was able to upgrade from Lubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 for my 32bit IBM Thinkpad T42 using do_release_upgrade. It’s not downloadable on the website, but I think for 18.04 the build is still there.
I wondered about trolling too. There are examples in the comments of people taking it at face value. If it's not trolling then there would be something to learn from it for sure for successful trolling.
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I am quite sure you are right this is corrupt putinism. Putin's economic system is crony capitalism. The laws mean nothing, it is all a matter of who has political corrections and pays the biggest bribe.

That is why there is so little technological innovation in Russia, in spite of its being a huge developed country with a highly educated workforce (except, of course, for hacking). People with ideas know they will just be stolen, so they either leave them undeveloped or move to another country with real rule of law.
I work there and I would feel bad if I could repro that issue, but it seems like a totally normal link for me, having checked chrome, firefox, and safari :S

On mobile, clicking that link opens up the mobile app (which sends the browser with history into the background), but I assume that can't be what you're talking about...?
You forgot to add "for Linux/BSD".
The influencers start doing it because of a desperate need for validation too. When they get paid, they feel validated.
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Follow up thread here[0] that discussed how Facebook's "Advanced Matching for Web" works.

[0] https://twitter.com/thezedwards/status/1204965655482527744
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There are plenty of female lawyers and doctors who aren't main characters in television shows, and where being a lawyer or doctor is not a defining characteristic of how feminine they are.

The same cannot be said for the legion "quirky female hacker" characters that exist in many TV shows.
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You can add in Fast and Furious 6+ (lol)
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How do we know this site is not tracking us?
As a non-biologist, am I the only one who had a claim like this raise my eyebrow in skepticism?

What does it mean to be a separate species if you're interbreeding in a significant way?

What does it mean to have n٪ Neanderthal DNA if that DNA is found in a significant proportion of "modern humans"?
> As opposed to the current 1/3 legacy, unclear percentage propped up by wealthy parents, elite prep school system that consistently and efficiently finds the best students.

This is a (despicable) feature. Harvard isn't trying to find the most capable students, they're trying to find the students that will most succeed. And they deny that they know there's a difference.
As much as I hate the idea of government surveillance, I think Google is absolutely not at fault here. They followed a narrow set of warrants to the letter [1]. However, I hate that private companies are legally allowed to collect this much information from us citizens. Even worse is the rare times that a company makes it optional, they are allowed to make it opt out. Letting this continue in the era of ring cameras, smart speakers, and home DNA tests is almost certainly going to inspire malicious actors (please remember that the Nazis used secular census data collected to track down Jews). This is a legislative issue, plain and simple.

[1] > The requests, outlined in two search warrants obtained by Forbes, demanded to know which specific Google customers were located in areas covering 29,387 square meters (or 3 hectares) during a total of nine hours for the four separate incidents.
Laws and budgets are set on different time-scales; there is never 100% alignment between the cost of enforcing the law and the availability of the budget required.

In fact, most of the time, there's very little alignment, because there's no incentive to have those things be aligned. Sometimes even disincentive: there are laws on the books nobody wants enforced, and a culture in policing of enforcing the letter of the law, not the spirit—but one can always choose to not enforce a law one doesn't agree with by just making an informal agreement that certain crimes (of basically equal severity) take enforcement priority, such that those crimes nobody sees as crimes just get "de-prioritized" to the point that they're never enforced at all.
Very cool. How does it differ from Cassowary?

https://cassowary.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
What bullshit. Virtually all successful programmers fell in love with the machine when they were young and would program for free. And surely you noticed this.
I will!
To take a perfectly rational conclusion and call it sexist is quite a deriding trick, isn’t it?

You’d need to try really hard to disprove different interest of men and women, as literature suggests differences from a very young age, even before those children have chances to meet their peers.

You’re just giving alternative explanations, which given the left side of the chart are much, much less likely. The economic argument also doesn’t make sense. STEM jobs may be among the highest paying ones, but certainly are not THE highest (not to mention the amount of effort compared to different high pay jobs).
Having worked in a large company that is famous for its feedback culture, I think the type of feedback culture you refer to is hard to scale. While I think it helps people improve, I’ve mostly seen how feedback is used to hurt people.
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> I am not a physicist, but one can definitely come up with thought experiments about testing the multiverse.

No you can't, because it is logically impossible. If you can experience effects that it causes, it isn't a separate universe. To test it, you must observe effects caused by it's existence that would not be expected to be present if it did not exist. Ergo, you cannot test the existence of other universes.

> One could imagine creating a universe in a lab "from nothing" since there's a hypothesis that the energy of a universe could be zero

Sure. But you can't ever observe that you have created it (or, more precisely, you can't ever observe anything that would distinguish what you have created as another universe, only as an object in our universe.)

Not that, even if it were possible to observe, creating universes in the lab would in any way test multiverse-based cosmological speculations.
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I just don’t get hooks. People say it’s an easy way to keep your lifecycle events close to the functionality they’re dealing with, but in the end it’s just a clusterfuck of function calls in the render method.

As far as I’m concerned, dealing with all your lifecycle events in one or two functions makes it much easier to reason about what is going on.

Because hooks look so much like magic, people treat them as magic and when they don’t work as expected, they have no clue why (adding more hooks to solve the problem!). I feel like Reacts’ surface area to shoot yourself in the foot has increased fivefold since the introduction of hooks.

The only thing I found really compelling about hooks is the ability to write shared functionality to include in multiple components, but practically I still have to find the first time I actually need that.
I like that it looks like Node.js http module. But I'm too scared to use C with pointers and malloc, so I'll stick to Node.js. I'm however jealous of people that are competent in C, assembly or any other low level systems language.
you have no privacy, it is an illusion. your civil liberties are already stomped flat by government yet people want to hand them even more authority and control over their lives.

get the priorities straight, government is first and foremost the issue when it comes to privacy and civil liberties. corporations are beholden to what politicians threaten them with in lieu of campaign donations and favors so take offense and aim at the right group.

it isn't corporations doing their best to end privacy in communications and once that is gone through encryption back doors and bans nothing else much matters.

put it this way, the politicians and their sycophants sure have done their job in getting people to look behind the wrong curtain. give them more power they say, trust them they say, fbi I say, nsa I say..
Far better? Lol nope. In the C world the OS distributions and the general nastiness of shipping libraries outside of an OS distro at least turn away the newbies who think that the world needs yet another module that pads a string to X length.

The hardness of C is its weakness but also its strength. C programmers at least tend to know basic programming and OS management skills while JS programmers... oh hell I'm happy I got out of the mess that is "modern" frontend development.
I'm sorry, are you having an argument with someone about jackdaws in a parallel universe?

If you want to have one with me, you've got to...ease into it.
Take a close look at Arne Toman's Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG. Those rear lights normally scan easily as an MB product, but Arne masked them to match the rear quarter panel, which at a distance makes the E63 look like a... Honda Accord. Now that's what I call a disguise.
I wonder if there is some sort of placebo-like effect that quite a few programmers tend to like this music that was used in a movie glorifying someone like them.
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Payment is far too complex and abstract to contemplate building in at layer 3 (IP) of the network stack. Even in some idealized alternate history it would have never worked, and probably still couldn't work today.
You're not only catching a child sneaking chocolate. You're catching a child who are legally told by the police to go get the chocolate and hand it over, or else the child will be expelled from school.

Again, the question becomes: can you fix the child's behavior without fixing the fact that they are legally required to follow the police's words with no recourse?
Ok I figured it out, it's Mozilla's Facebook Container plugin. Sorry HN doesn't let me delete the comment any more. This one is not your company's fault, though I still think you should feel bad.
Pretty cool. You might consider adding some of the more popular vanity names that bitly runs for big sites. Like nyti.ms (New York Times), wapo.st (Washington Post), etc.
Now I just gotta find a friend that wants and can travel.

Awesome concept though, I actually have a few international friends I would love to share this with.
You're right. "Header only" libraries are an anti-pattern in C and the fastest way for me to close the tab when considering a new library. Just put it in two files and it's still dead easy to incorporate into a project.
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That's actually really fascinating. Is there anywhere one can find out the hardware/software specs used at such places?
If you're willing to switch to a different input method, fcitx supports Unicode search: https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Unicode

I mostly use it for trivial stuff like proper Unicode arrows → instead of ASCII ->, but I think it's pretty cool to have the option to type any Unicode character I want.
You’re correct. Good point.
> Companies who make such investments often view the money they've paid for the development of this software in a similar manner to how they would view the investment into any other asset - which is to say that the expectation is that it will continue to function for years.

“Any other asset” is not informative. When my company buys me a laptop, the assumption is that it will continue to function for three years. When they buy me a chair, seven. When they buy a building, thirty.

That’s an order of magnitude difference in depreciation schedules. The two problems here I see are:

1) Nobody in the accounting department had any clue how to do this in the 1980s and 1990s. So their cost projections were badly inaccurate, and they didn’t have realistic depreciation schedules.

2) The contracting firms are not incentivized to do maintenance and don’t even know how to do it in the first place.

> As nice as backward compatibility is from a user convenience perspective when this feature comes as a result of a static kernel Application Binary Interface this trade-off is essentially indistinguishable from increasing time-preference (or in other words declining concern for the future in comparison to the present).

This absolutely is distinguishable. Backwards compatibility is a complex tradeoff, no matter who you are (OS developer, app developer, end user, etc). It’s as complex as opex vs capex (and probably more similar to that tradeoff).
Or you can just use classes? Where writing these dependencies is actually formalized?
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> $1000 in tickets an hour

In SF, that would be 2 tickets. A red light ticket, or carpool lane ticket, is $490.

Does Seattle have similar fines?
I always wonder why we just assume STEM are an attractive field to be in. Because if it is not attractive, then why would we want to force more women into it?

Maybe we should not be asking why there are so few women doing it but why there are so many men doing it.

Almost nobody who studied physics ends up doing physics.

Both men and women will do unfulfilling jobs if they need the money, but when it comes to investing into a career, women will more often choose one that leads to interesting and fulfilling jobs, while men tend to select for "return on investment". Men are much more likely than women to invest into an career that only has unfulfilling but well-paying job prospects.

I view this is a defect in men, not a sign of oppression.
Men are the victim of reactionary gender stereotypes and think they have to study something that will lead to them being able to provide for a family.

Look at, for example, container ship crew or workers on an oil platform. Clearly both genders can do those jobs, but almost only men will actually do it. Oil workers are getting paid exceptionally well. Not sure about container ship crews, maybe that was not a great example.
Incentivisation is a problem that's faced by many decentralized technologies.

For example, one of the problems with Ethereum's Whisper protocol (decentralized messaging) has been that nodes aren't incentivised to process messages. There are other problems too and some efforts are being made to generally improve the tech[+].

[+] https://vac.dev/fixing-whisper-with-waku
Congrats on your fist paying customer! Good luck.
if all my friends are using Whatsapp...
if all the phones come with google apps that track me

Do you see the difference?

The cost of changing can be "social gravity" (Whatsapp, WeChat, Telegram... depends of country and environment) a cost of learning something new (from Windows to Mac or any Linux distribution)... but it shouldn't be structural enforcement via no alternative given at a reasonable price. That is called Android and Google but wait, the trend is Facebook now so lets just focus on if Instagram and Whatsapp merge a little more or less... Dump dump dump dump dump!!!
Ryugu’s history has been weird
What do you use it for? Any major issues?
Or require email verification if logging on from more than 1 app.
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When I lived in a second floor apartment, I trained the crows to sit on a particular spot of the fence below my balcony.

First, I would just throw nuts for them (they liked cashews best). Then, I gradually shaped their behavior by only throwing nuts when they were standing on then fence, then eventually only when they were standing on a particular spot of the fence.

Took about 3 months, was pretty fun.

Then, they started cawing to ask for nuts. They were in the right spot, why wasn't I coming out onto the balcony to give nuts? Had to ignore them for a while to avoid reinforcing their habit of demanding. Crows have no concept of weekend mornings being sacred sleep-in time and I didn't want to piss off the neighbors.

I'd like to train crows again, but I'm not sure of a good way to avoid them becoming demanding again. Also, they were much more comfortable picking up nuts when I was stuck on balcony, they seem fairly wary when offered food on the same level as a human.
> Sure, but it seems more than a little convenient that the male-chosen professions seem to generally pay significantly more, on average, than the female-chosen ones.

They don't. Most men have to work in order to earn money and attract a partner. You think all of us love sitting in open offices, following our Scrum Master? Of course not, we just don't have the luxury, as do women, to follow our 'passions' in lower paying jobs. We can't marry a breadwinner too easily. We don't receive subsidies from the state, unlike women who are a net tax loss. We aren't able to attract a mate simply by being young, as can women, due to biological differences between genders.

In Scandinavia, where salaries are progressively taxed and women have tons of opportunity to do what they want, women still choose not to sit in front of computers all day. Why the hell would they if everyone's salary is essentially equalized, regardless of whether you're a part-time teacher, social worker or a talented computer engineer working 60/hours a week. All salaries are taxed down to a median $75K / year, with the same health insurance, subsidized parental leave, etc.

Thus, Scandinavian women follow their 'passions' which is what most Western women do, as we see from their choices in college majors, all of which are unarguably 'easier' but pay less. If society were to equalize my salary at $75K year whether I coded all day or worked for a charity or NGO or a music teacher or artist or actor, I'd dump my programming job as fast as I could.

Look at India or China where far more women are into computers - they don't have the luxury of following their passion in dance or writing, because they don't have as much PRIVILEGE in their societies as do women in the West.

* http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/25/average-iq-of-students...
Librem 5?
>law is equal to everyone

I understand the goal of this sentiment, but this is not how most societies work. Equality under the law is the proper ideal, but it's not at all how things work. There are a lot of reasons for that, from bias to lack of resources. But whatever the particular reason may be, most people only notice and complain about inequality when they are its losing side.

Make no mistake about it though, from the police at the bottom of the stack, all the way up to how the judges rule on cases at the top of the stack, the legal system has never been equitable.
> To further complicate the matter, the idea of a "bad" environment is relative.

I see no relativism here.

As a description of your past experiences it was ostensibly a productive, functioning environment where every single member of every single group was comfortable communicating in that style.

As a general prescription for the most productive behavior for groups it's a poor model. As you point out, adding a single member with a different disposition can quickly turn the thing into a toxic environment.

Also, that model suffers from the same issue FLOSS projects do-- namely, it's hard to get any numbers at all on how many people never join up because the communication style isn't welcoming to outsiders.

Anyhow, if you posted this on Twitter I'm sure your description would quickly become transformed into an ostensible prescription by its algorithm as it got distributed for maximum outrage. But that's a problem with anti-human digital platforms, not a sign of ambiguity in what constitutes a productive work environment.

Edit: clarification
From my experience with mount, smaller blocks composed in higher order functions which except/use parts depending on config maps etc. are key to leveraging it. It's amazing to have an app built up of composable dependencies which just click together depending on your codes dependency tree though. I found the win was thinking about what exactly was needed for each part of the app and then not fighting but embracing that tree.
You can run it yourself, and audit the source if you like: https://github.com/simonfrey/unshort.link/
The user-agent header was a huge mistake.
I was pretty excited too.

I even installed it with floppies on a laptop.

I wasn't concerned with anything the article was about at the time. It just felt like the PC OS world took a jump into the future... even if the reason I mostly felt that way was the UI and etc.
If you are talking about the most capable of success, there is no difference. The fact that the rules of the game which determine success isn't what you'd prefer (or what I'd prefer!) is, well, not principally Harvard's doing.

I think the problem is that you want Harvard to favor those who would be most capable of success, if the rest of society other than the individual and Harvard were (your version of) ideal.
I took for granted that the right way is in first and with the handbrake on, because with a typical FWD car, I believe the handbrake stops the rear wheels and the engine's inertia stops the front wheels.
https://terminal.jcubic.pl/ is fairly good, but somewhat older and out of fashion.
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Ah, that's the TypeScript variant of the error that I posted. Same meaning.

Again, my opinions are formed from doing this for a living, and honestly I've spent much more time in my career working with templates than I have with JSX. I've built non-trivial applicatons with PHP, RoR, JSP, Django, Mustache/Handlebars, Angular, Vue, yada, yada, yada. This is coming from an informed opinion, not thoughtless favoritism. Not sure what else I can say to you.
If the world is silent, then not listening to anything is better (for my programming).

In the noisy clusterfuck of sound our open office is, listening to music is a soothing balm.
If it's actually p2p, you don't need petabyte scale. You just need to store what you post, which for most people is megabyte-to-gigabyte scale.