skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greetings!

I would say that expect is quite a different beast entirely. I think of expect more as an interactive scripting language. Something you might use in place of bash to write a small script that requires user interaction.

Run is more of the tool you might use to organize your expect / bash / etc. scripts and easily invoke them.

Pretty much every dev I know has used makefiles as a means to organize small, non-build-related, scripts and shell wrappers. Run hopes to be a better tool for doing that.

Thanks for the question - I hope that helped - Please let me know if you have any other questions or comments.
The trolley problem as usually posed is contrived, but the "swerve instead of braking" problem happens more frequently than many people think.

Consider driving along an undivided highway. An approaching car veers into your lane. You definitely want to swerve, rather than brake and risk being hit head-on.

Of course, we can contrive a situation on top of that, like a group ride of cyclists to your right, so swerving will take them out...

But that is besides the point. I am just saying that there are cases where braking is not the safest thing for the occupants of the car.
you don't vpn ?
Yeah I was confused by that and maybe the article could have clarified this in relation to the Church-Turing thesis.
Didn't they alsow have more than 64k classes in Android once and break the JVM?
What are great local shows in your area on PBS?
Can't wait to argue with all the car owners that say owning a car will help protect them against crime and car accidents, as well.
> If you drag the mouse quickly, the pointer will travel a greater distance for the same mouse movement than a slow drag. This helps move the mouse quickly and then adjust position.

IME, mouse acceleration is one of the bigger problems for people who rarely interact with computers. Not sure why it's turned on by default so often.
I believe that's his point
Can you decode this Twitter conspiracy account or are you weak minded?
Nuclear fusion won't be free energy at all. The plants will still cost money to build and operate. If you're only counting fuel cost, then solar and wind are already free energy. Even conventional nuclear fission is also almost free by that standard, and indeed people used to imagine it would be "too cheap to meter".
Are you playing dumb or just trolling?
Are the first two panels new or the last ones he previously ever did? Certainly self referential.
someone must specialize to produce the automation.
I think the less banal example is what's happening under the covers... basically tracking a person/profile through search (via google search), web browsing (via google analytics), using mail (via gmail), apps (via google play), calling/texting/more (via android), navigating (via google maps), etc...

There's only one game in town when it comes to knowing who someone is, where they are, what they are doing, who they associate with and how they behave.
I think you're both right that the risk is low, assuming it's a build script that is to be run locally by a developer.

Code tends to get copied and pasted, and can easily sneak into other programs. Programs are integrated in ways which weren't originally intended. It's not a secure coding pattern, and that's why I mentioned it.

During security reviews, I would be focusing on more risky vulnerabilities, but I still review and flag findings in build scripts. I'm more concerned with build scripts downloading content over HTTP, or missing security compiler flags, but I digress.
> Total estimated profit from this scheme, between 2015~17:
> Defendants’ trades in advance of the announcement generated profits that exceeded $3 million.

That was actually just the take from one earnings announcement, not the entire scheme. It says elsewhere they cleared $7m in the first year.
A "right to repair" is insufficient but a good start.

As you say computers in vehicle are nothing more than holding consumers captive for a guaranteed revenue stream for the lifetime of a product. The first incident that got me thinking about this is Tivoization. The problem is getting much worse and regular consumers are unaware it is happening.

As I said "right to repair" is a good right to fight for. We need a "right to own". I recognise and acknowledge there is significant overlap.

This is why I would never buy a Tesla.
New York Times v. Sullivan was a defamation case. The 1st Amendment protects your right to show reckless disregard for truth or falsity, unless you're slandering someone.
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You're the second or third person assuming I'm advocating against stocks. Why do people keep assuming this from my comment? Nothing in my statement suggests owning stocks is a bad idea.

I own stocks. My wealth portfolio is high in stocks. This has little bearing on my comment. I'm not recommending against stocks - in the US I've not found a better investment (real estate is worse).

I'm simply pointing out that the notion of ownership in a company via stocks is very different from what most people imagine. You own almost nothing, and you have virtually no control over the means of production.
I'm so glad linux usually contains reverse engineered drivers that are open source so everything just works out of the box with logitech.
What if people started software companies tailored to those segments and sold to them as customers, instead of trying to get hired there?
I’m sorry, but I disagree. A measurement process is mathematically speaking an operator which acts on the wave function in Copenhagen interpretation and the collapse of the wave function is a projection onto the eigenfunctions of this operator. What would you be missing here? Instead of “measurement is just entanglement” I would claim “measurement is just an operator”. Since entanglement and operators can only be defined mathematically, I don’t see the point choosing one over the other.

Besides that, there is one point I don’t get about many worlds and entanglement theories: assuming that “measurement is just entanglement”, there are many possibilities how the observer gets entangled with the wave function it observes. How is it decided which entanglement (or which world) is the one we actually observe?
There's a little bit of Kibo in everyone.

You were probably an influence and working on the same magazine I would presume a sounding board for his own humour.
Expect is designed for an entirely different use case, it can "talk" to other interactive programs following a script.
Run is intended to act as a replacement for using Makefiles as scripts (and is super awesome at that too). Basically, you'd find yourself using Expect inside a Runfile.
Actually, most of the time we say "in the cloud" rather than naming a specific hosting provider. Definitely Amazon has the first mover advantage and accumulated reputation first, but it's hardly unassailable.

Still... I think the bigger problem isn't whether or not Google plans topull the plug or not, but that it has a reputation of pulling plugs to such an extent that people factor that into a decision of using their services.

When it's something as big a choice as a cloud provider that can cast a long shadow over their offerings.
> ByteString and LazyByteString - this represents array of 8bit characters

Not exactly. ByteString has no relation at all with text or characters. It represents a sequence of bytes, AKA binary data.

I imagined I would hear complaints about too many text types when I made that question, but it sounded like the GP had a different complaint.

The library mess is real, but it's improving quickly and it's a bad reason to decide Haskell is a bad language to deal with text. It's throwing a lot of great stuff out just because of a minor inconvenient. And by the way, one of the best things on Haskell is that you can defined a lot more text types. For example, my current project has types for internal identifiers, HTML, HTML form values, JS, and SQL, they are all text but I can always be sure things are properly encoded.
what if the extrapolations from the past are wrong? Perhaps people don't work on faster airplanes because they don't need faster airplanes, but instead they want to avoid traveling altogether. sci fi ideas from the past are nice, but they were based on linear extrapolations from their contemporary reality -- faster horses indeed. imho the primary focus of innovation at this time should be biotech for life extension , eradication of disease and hunger.

Faster roads in an increasingly remotely-connected world does not seem very forward-looking, instead the world needs faster networks , cleaner cities, the ability to become independent from megacorps, and decent communities that can be enjoyable to live in. economists or technologists often claim to know what people want, but maybe they 're not being observant of what makes people unhappy
Jack Ma is on the record that this is nonsense:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/alibabas-jack-ma-denies-beijing...

Of course, conspiracy theorists would say 'of course he would say that'.
NYC "lost" on shoveling $2.8B in subsidies to Amazon.

As for tax revenue, Amazon pays about $200M total in annual US state taxes, and negative federal tax in 2018. There's no way this would have ended up a profitable deal for NY.
That's a pretty long passphrase, so someone would have to have put it in the word list directly to ever guess something that long. Would be fun though.
I love Larsen.

Similar but darker and weirder was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Kliban

Nice essay - http://www.thepaincomics.com/Kliban.pdf

Just as funny to me.

Do a web search for Kliban without "cat" for a taste.
I read hacker news via someone here's project:

https://www.fullhn.com/

(I don't load the embedded third-party stuff)
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But that is exactly the trolley problem! Brake and 1 occupant is at risk. Swerve and the cyclists at the side of the road are at risk.

So the decision to swerve is the trolley problem either way. You know the cyclists are there, and swerve because the occupant is valued more. Or the car doesn't know if cyclists are there, swerve and these possible/virtual cyclists are sacrificed for the occupant of the vehicle.
From what I've read he knew he had permission from the record label, and knew he didn't have Coolio's blessing. I wasn't there, but it seems unlikely that if he immediately had turned around like "wow I didn't know" the so-called beef wouldn't have lasted years until they made nice.

From: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bp/coolio-did-not-want-w...

>Coolio said when Weird Al initially requested to remake the song, he said, "No," but later realized that, due to the fair use copyright laws, he could not stop the production.

>Coolio later reconsidered Weird Al's proposal. "I sat down, and I really thought it out," he told the students at IPR. "I was like, 'Wait a minute.' I was like, 'Coolio, who the f—k do you think you are? He did Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson didn't get mad.'"
Its not always regulatory capture. I tried to get my TV fixed a few years back at some third party repair shop and they still wanted a minimum of $200 to maybe fix it vs me buying a new TV for $300. There is no regulatory capture for TV set repair... just the expenses for the repair shop to stay open.
You're not wrong
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reminds me of https://github.com/tj/robo.

Great job on releasing this. I was just thinking about all the scripts in my makefile. Separation of concerns. I’ll be giving it a try.
I bought a Samsung Galaxy tablet from Best Buy's secondary (opened packaging or complete returns) inventory that has been absolutely flawless. I was never a tablet person ("if it doesn't fit in my pocket, I want a damn keyboard") but I've ended up using it every damn day.
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By that same logic, throwing someone in jail for insulting the President wouldn't be a violation of freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech does indeed mean freedom from consequences for your speech - at least governmental consequences.
That's fair. I'll concede on that. You're right.
You can't really see sea level rise on a map because most of our developed sea shores are already at least a meter or two above water. It's not going to change the shape of the coastlines near cities or other developed places, which is where it's important. Instead, it's predicted to increase the frequency and severity of flooding.
It is in this case.
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> earned directly through equity sharing.

That's because the business that is giving you some equity as compensation is underpaying you, and instead choose to pay with a cheaper alternative (cash).

The fact that the business is able to pay you such high cash rates means that the business is very profitable. I'd argue that the business is extracting some 90-95% of all the value you create, and leaving you a tiny bit (which is still high, and therefore, you get a good salary). But look at the people who owns the assets you create as part of your job - their networth is growing tremendously - much more than yours is through enumeration. This is only true because you are underpaid relative to the value derived from your work.
Nobody sent these signals. It was a minor discussion a long time ago. The billions in investment and growth of the platform are the exact opposite signal.

You seem to be reading this as if the CEO just announced that they're not sure about GCP anymore.
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Thanks moedersmooiste, Mattermost PM here. Would be curious to hear more about your LDAP issues. We have many organizations who have deployed with LDAP, including with group sync to teams and channels.

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It doesn't matter what I should do, it matters what a random firefox user who finds themselves in a coffee shop is doing.

Some of the public transit I've been on disagrees strongly with VPNs because they do heavy traffic shaping and VPNs fall into the "make this really slow" category. Reasonably so.

I also disagree with this advice. For myself and the vast majority of people $5/month is not worth it for the negligible difference in security and privacy over https, and DNS over https. This becomes even more true with encrypted SNI.

In fact, a VPN is largely worse privacy wise because "random coffee shop internet with random MAC address" is pretty anonymous unless you sign into anything over http.
“essential piece of computing history” just sold for $43,750
> The fact that all you need to penetrate their system is an email address and a password is more than enough to demonstrate the depth of the problem.

You do realize that is true for the default account for 99.9% of all web services? They do support basic 2fa (SMS based), which is not the best (Webauthn would be a lot better), but one of the biggest complaints in the article is easy brute-forcing, and they support fixing that. Some of what they suggest is even downright wrong and bad practice (like blocking certain user-agent headers). The only legitimate feature they suggest that I could see is rate-limiting based on IP, but even that is not always a good idea (since you never know how many legitimate users share an IP).

Perhaps a better title would be "Ring does not do enough to advise their users on how to secure their accounts". The actual content is FUD and I'd bet that basically every VMS with a web API would have the same "vulnerabilities" in a default setup.

Source: Having worked on security for similar systems.
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The flip side of this is induced demand. If you create a better option, more people will use it, more overall trips are taken, and more value/tax revenue is generated indirectly.
the elites seem to be throwing money at anything they are told will make them more money, i dont think they can claim a higher moral ground. and to be fair, software is still the most impactful tool, for any sector. It's unfortunate that the major companies make money from a trivial sector (ads), because that leaves little incentive to work on harder problems.
Do you work for AWS PR team? You keep shilling them everywhere...
How does "option to make messages automatically disappear after a set period of time" and "open source" fit together?
Any inaccurate perceptions users have are Google's fault anyway. They name every product "Google {{service_name}}" and do nothing to differentiate which services have real support and which ones only let you yell into the void.

The whole point of branding is that people expect similar levels of quality for products under the same brand. Google wants the positive effects of using it's name on everything, but leaves it totally up to the end user to figure out which services will deign to let you speak to a real live human when you run into trouble.
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reddit did it. I think this very forum did it too, see e.g. the whole nickb thing.
Yes. An interesting effect of this is that subsidizing bio fuels makes climate change worse because it takes away from other renewables.
> There's a reason all of the big western companies left China.

Are we on the same page, here?

Name two.
Iran, China, and CIS countries are the ones I have in mind. Which ones are you thinking of?
"Silicon Valley" is used in the title to describe where the IT Administrator that the article is about is located.

Similar to "Florida man"
I work for a PBS station. There are many bureaucratic hurdles, but distribution is actually one of the things we do best.

As some others have commented, the local/national split works well for PBS and NPR. The model is similar to how local broadcast affiliates work (like your local ABC or CBS station) but is more mutually beneficial.

I can try to answer any specific questions you have, if you want.
It's possible, but the reputation management people also worry a fair amount about getting caught astroturfing or running bot nets. There are a lot less risky ways of accomplishing the same goal- pushing positive stories, honestly responding, using SEP techniques to get ahead of negative news in search results, etc.
Interesting. Worth following the development on this one.
“Confident will play out in your favor” ...

Do you mean you’re confident this choice will be a decisive competitive advantage vs. having gone with AWS or Azure?

Or simply confident they won’t be gone before you have options?
At some point you should maybe sit down and figure out how much your car is costing you each year. And get back to us.
This is something I've been puzzling about for a while. Marketing is evolving every generation but human perception/brains is not. People get PhDs in this stuff. We don't seem to be building better defenses, either biologically or culturally, against the ever improving marketers. There's no telling what the end result will be, but I'm not looking forward to finding out.
"Thinking Fast, and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, I am in Chapter 12.

"System Design Primer"
https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer
From the article:

> The group [which included Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Alphabet chief financial officer Ruth Porat and then-CEO of Alphabet Larry Page] even talked about—and eventually dismissed—the idea of leaving the market entirely

It's sounds like shutting down GCP at some point is definitely a possibility.
As recent grad student, I can relate this comment. Unless the school provides competitive compensation to attract US citizens to pursue PhD, it does not make sense economically for a US citizen to not enter industry instead.

I trippled my compensation by deciding to work in industry.
Here is a nice video on the city: https://youtu.be/Qu203JDnwq0
As far as I am aware, having Viacom channels is the exception rather than the rule for streaming cable providers. Along with Youtube TV, Hulu TV, Playstation Vue, and Fubo TV also do not carry Viacom channels.
That is interesting, I wonder how enforcement of that works on a product that does not have a clear chain of custody back to the manufacturer.
> but do they work 15 hours a week instead of 50?

no. If they automated a part of their job, and yet is unable to contribute new value (in the form of other tasks completed), then they will either be made redundant or their pay is lowered correspondingly. Workers are unable to reap benefits from value derived through their automation if they don't own the equity of the business they are working in.
>Google’s problem remains its reputation for turning things off.

I'd put it this way: Google has a reputation for turning things off, but its _problem_ is an inability to stop doing that, to commit to its users/customers. In other contexts this could be written in terms of addiction.

If I were Sergey and Larry, this would be the thing I'd be retiring over, and I'm not sure Suchar can change it.
I haven't checked yet, but I'd think you may be able to get access through public library membership.
great work.
I'm doubtful if cloud would be as profitable business in 2023 as it is now. Race to the bottom is already in place and only bound to accelerate further. This is like Microsoft determines to win the phone market in 2015 when iPhone peaked up the steam. By 2015, the smartphone market is changed dramatically.
If it's used in a small company, one of the users will also be deploying and administering it and integrating it with whatever else the company has. So things like what it's written in, matter.
Such a strange concept that we say that insurance can't be rated according to significant risk factors.
This is a great project, and I will be using it to both replace old scripts and make new ones.

Also, if you give me a week (I might be able to do it today or tomorrow tho), I'll submit a PR for an Archlinux PKGBUILD.
It’s missing the Weather Channe and that’s a huge miss.
I haven't looked into that, but in my anecdotal experience the problems are:

1. There is simply less money in that line of work because it's tied to government grants.

2. The Physics field (which I have direct experience in) is dominated by old people with PhDs. They're very smart people, but also tend to be stubborn, and (again generalizing) are not too keen on listening to the opinions of people who don't have a PhD.
I don't want to comment much on these threads because I am a googler and anything I said will be taken with pile of salt. But about your [2], from the thread it looks like Microsoft is doing the same thing -

> Microsoft’s Office365 will make a similar change in October 2020.

> https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/end-of-su...

So read of that what you can.

And I don't even want to comment on killedbygoogle.com. I don't see many Google Cloud or paid products there. And there was a similar Microsoft site posted here couple of weeks ago.
>hamper the economy.

what a bs bottom line
Not until his conspirators hang
Every company wants to be number 1. They don't stop making money and exit the market just because they aren't.
Non-democratic, non-free China's economy has been growing 5 times faster than democratic, free India's.

This is despite both countries starting from the same, largely rural, highly impoverished starting point 60 years ago.[1]

So, yes, they'd rather be the absolute leaders of a faster growing economy, than the non-leaders of a slower-growing one.

[1] China was even worse off, actually, since it spent the first half of the twentieth century torn apart by civil war, European colonialism, civil war again, a brutal Japanese invasion and occupation, and then some more civil war, followed by two decades of self-inflicted political purges and repression. India only had to contend with two of these problems!