skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can never have eavesdropping and privacy at the same time. The best one can do is installing mechanical filters, but those cannot be privacy-preserving and constitute effective censorship at the same time. There is no solution to that, there is no middle ground possible without dropping the law of the excluded middle, which make all concepts and words meaningless and thus does not represent a "win".

E.g. even using homomorphic encryption does not solve anything. One could use that to scramble messages containing certain words, but that would only be detectable to the receiving party, and then they could just work around the wordlist, e.g. by communicating in ones and zeroes. And that new form of communication would not be detectable my the middleman until they hack the endpoints using a side channel, so the middle-man will happily pass on this new type of messages indefinitely.

You're conflating scamming with exploiting code vulnerabilities. They're similar but the former is social code and the latter is computer code.

You're also slandering the crypto community; this is part of the reason why we don't yet have user-friendly crypto, and effectively live with massively compromised privacy through the banking system, which is also the main reason surveillance capitalism has been implemented worldwide and is now even set to take over India.

Please try harder, you make Nazi's look reasonable in comparison. Please don't lend the current fascist uprising in India credence just because you're salty about nerds on Twitter.

Edit: please provide me with feedback re. how I'm not adding to the discussion because it is certainly non-obvious to me.
Hi, I'm not that great with goals, but let me write down a few:

- stay at the same workplace for 1 year, OR
- start startup #2, OR
- be accepted for the London School of Economics, or a comparable degree, OR
- start a VC analyst job

- work on my reading list, finish the books I have at home. 2 books / month

- work out! I've put in less effort than I could have, and I'm in the golden years of my life (26). I'd like to be hot, at least for a short while.

- finish my BA, which I've been postponing for too many years

- I'm pretty happy with my mental health so far, but I don't want to slip back

- kiss a panda

- fuck around with investing

- travel to two countries I haven't been before

- create 12 very high quality youtube videos on development economics
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> Once again Seth Teller (rip) gets slighted in the name of mythbuilding around Id Software and Carmack -- zero mentions in Masters of Doom, zero mentions here (at least some prior art was mentioned, progress I suppose).

Could you say something about his contributions?

> Perhaps the 2020s will be ready for a measured history of programming without all the Great Men gloating.

Not to say that the history of programming isn't important (if it has any place at all, surely it's here on HN), but I think that there's a lot of other history to purge of the Great Man fallacy before we get to programming. Can I quote Howard Zinn's wonderful "A people's history of the United States"?

> The idea of saviors has been built into the entire culture, beyond politics. We have learned to look to stars, leaders, experts in every field, thus surrendering our own strength, demeaning our own ability, obliterating our own selves.
<org-name>.github.io/<project-name> content usually goes to a separate branch in the repository, named "gh-pages" (although this is configurable): https://github.com/gchq/stroom-resources/blob/gh-pages/get_s...
It's well written and pretty much spot on. The difficult thing with advice is that one first needs to figure out where one is in the spectrum before determining whether it's applicable - i.e. overweight people could benefit from eating less, underweight people could benefit from eating more.
Exactly. The whole point of Go is to fix the issue with Python where you have to have all the right libraries installed wherever you intend to run.
His email service, cock.li, has a very lax content policy, only disallowing spam, illegal content, or general abuse. This has attracted many ner-do-wells (in addition to the plenty of legitimate users like myself). Additionally, he offers addresses on domains such as: goat.si, cumallover.me, horsefucker.org, cocaine,ninja, nigge.rs, hitler.rocks, rape.lol, and nuke.africa. All of these are obviously intended to create offense, which, if his recollection of the events are accurate, is indeed what happened.
try rust
That's already 30% off for free, now run that through upx [1]

1: https://upx.github.io/
I've been mulling over getting off caffeine (two cups of very strong cold brew per day) to hopefully improve energy levels, and make getting off sleeping pills easier.

Interesting anecdote, but those withdrawal symptoms seem a bit exaggerated for one cup of coffee per day.
I have taken breaks from coffee repeatedly over the past two years or so and, at least in my case, the worst of it passes after 48h or so. The two days of headaches are pretty debilitating for me, but I feel like I have a bit more respect, in lack of a better word, for coffee as a psychoactive drug. The whole world is actively hooked on caffeine and we all seem unaware of it.
Is veganism as good for you as they say?
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Freedom House is state-funded, US propaganda that has gone so far as to buttress the white supremacist state of Rhodesia, far right politicians in Latin America, and engage in “clandestine operations in Iran.” They have zero credibility:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House

Eastern Europe is complicated because of the kleptocratic influence of both the US and Russia in the region, various civil conflicts, again rising ethnonationalism. Taiwan’s local trajectory is better from the KMT days, but is largely premised on elite exploitation of workers and resources in mainland China, which has put the country on a deeply unstable economic and political trajectory. Still not seeing a great record of progress versus reversion here.
Is it just me or something like that runtime.pclntab shouldn't be included in production builds at all?

I mean, it makes all sense while you're developing and testing, but it should be reasonably possible to strip it out from production build binaries, and instead put it in a separate file so that if you do get a crash with a stack trace, then some external script can transform the program counters to line numbers, not have it embedded in every deployed binary.
Switching to green tea for a few weeks before getting fully off of caffeine helped to alleviate headaches for me.

After a year or so of no caffeine, I started working in an office where they have one of those Starbucks machines and the temptation of delicious iced coffee from freshly ground beans was too much for me to withstand so I started back up again. There was no decaff option for iced coffee unfortunately.
Beorg for mobile.
Can you tell me more about Jesse Ventura?
If you want to build audiobooks on a budget, give us a try:

https://auditus.cc
How would prediction of the future allow an economist to become ultra rich? The maximum profit you can obtain from arbitrage is fixed, it does not grow as you add more market participants. Therefore as you add more and more experienced economists you would expect them to get average returns or worse.

You may argue that if only a single person is able to predict the future then that person could have all the arbitrage profit for themselves. Although this is possible in theory the problem is that you are talking about a non restricted group of people called "economists" who all share a similar education background which is the exact opposite of a single person with exclusive advantages.
And gauge whether it’s more efficient than “FinTech”. IMO there’s still a lot of efficiency to be had with centralised finance but with modern tech and good UX.
Being an Electron and a Go developer, I'm not complaining too much about the size of Go executables. Electron backed softwareon the other hand...
Don’t Mess with My ‘Sacred Values’ (2013)
UPX compresses the binary and introduces a decompression step on startup, so you run exactly the input binary

Stripped means that the compiler does not include debug symbols.

They are completely different - you can use either or both.
Your opinion is valid, but your reasoning is circular. You're basically saying there's no way there is a hell, so there isn't a good reason to avoid hell.

The argument is that a life fully wasted on false assumptions is still better than an eternal hell.

The same reasoning can be used to discount all sorts of black swan events, including programming becoming unviable some day, if we want to come back on topic. Pascal was basically arguing for respecting the ultimate black swan event, with the understanding that infinities skew any pragmatic calculations.
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GitHub flagged account with a repo containing kernel mode attack/driver
Org mode has a diary feature so the git repo not strictly necessary.
> I guess I'm not as good because I couldn't get into a CMU-tier school?

That's not my suggestion, any I'm sorry if you took my post that way.
While I am not a fan of nor am advocating for "common core" standards and testing in the US, however...

The results of those tests clearly show that what we expect students to be able to accomplish is already way more than what they can accomplish (given current teaching tools and practices).

For example, at the moment (2019 results) only about 35% of students are "proficient" in math. Reading is the same.

It seems unlikely that any attempt to compress or accelerate education is practical given what we know/practice today.

Ok overview common core of results:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2019/10/29/nat...
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OK, yes. Applied mathematics has the same sort of gap between model (axioms) and reality as between specification and actual requirements.

In both places people confuse the two, and sometimes make unjustified claims for the second from justified confidence in only the first.
> > You also don't address their main evidence

> What main evidence? Their main programming? The main programming of both is left leaning, and when it comes to discussing elections and US politics, is incredibly partisan.

The second half of the sentence you quoted tells you exactly what main evidence. If you're going to abridge quotes to take away their key meaning and then attack them I'm not going to both doing the research necessary to argue with you.
It's not uncommon for me to go without coffee for a few days if I'm traveling or just out of coffee at home, but I've never never experienced caffeine withdrawal symptoms. How many ounces of coffee did you drink daily and for how long? I typically have 2-3 ~8 oz cups per day.
> Did you give or receive any books for Christmas? If so, were they physical books, or electronic ones? I suspect that, while many of us have exchanged real, printed books as presents, eBooks were far less popular, and unless you give a voucher, they’re almost impossible to give as presents anyway. So why have eBooks failed so miserably, when other media such as movies and music now sell and rent so well online?

Huh? You can't give digital copies of movies, music, or games as Christmas gifts for exactly the same reasons. What is this paragraph supposed to have established?

> eBook readers are still incredibly primitive, and won’t even let you refer to two or more sections of the book at the same time. You can’t photocopy them, copy quotations, or do anything remotely advantageous.

Kindles have supported copying quotations since at least 2010.
I don't think that it's only the dating market that is an oligopoly, it seems that most verticals are dominated by a few key players who have managed to create a standardized system for consistent delivery.

In my personal experiences I find myself having unexpectedly interesting conversations with a myriad of people, many who may not stereotypically raise my curiosity. I think looks can be deceiving, and this is an attempt to remove that factor to give a chance to anyone who you would find interesting.

In stating this, it's true that you may lose interest in someone after realizing a lack of physical chemistry, but I think the opposite also holds true where you lose interest in someone who's very attractive because of a lack of compatibility. Maybe the best relationships stem from friendships that develop into deeper understanding and compassion.

I think we're heavily focused purely on appearances, and in doing so neglect the other important features that define our uniqueness
You are forgetting a important detail here. If BSP was already succesfully used in games by a pioneer, you would be right.
The question is, to recognize an algorithm and apply it, with the proper changes to a novel field, being the first to recognize this, in my experience at least, is not for the average intelligence.

We all have trouble with tagging someone a "genius", because its not clear what this is, or if we are using this too much and in a wrong way (and i think we do)

But i also need to remind you about the early nineties, and how hard was to get into information, papers and research, compared to now. Also the limitation of the computers back then forcing people like Carmack to use very clever algorithms to thrive. We always need to take the context people were in to properly estimate this kind of things.

By the way, he did not just solved that, but a lot of other hard problems with different, successful outcomes.. So its not just because of the BSP he have this level of recognition.
We want to provide an easy interface to quickly deploy decentralized services. Compared to alternative languages, the overhead to do so is much smaller with Clio
> Do you never click URLs in emails? Of course you do, when you're confident the sender is reputable.

Nope. I go to the sender's URL manually and look for what it is they sent an email about.
Cheers. When you say "the correspondence behind analogies and narratives", which column is analogy and which is narrative? I hope I'm not being really dense or ignorant here, apologies if so.
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Let the Roaring 2020s Begin
This can be easily proven that the extra latency can be noticed by doing a reaction test and recording the screen
Your math is off. Even if you take the 11-bit estimate (if you use something like diceware you get 13 bits), 10 words give you 110 bits. Meanwhile there are 95 ASCII printables, 16 of them give you a maximum of 105 bits, and usually people don’t use the full range (ambiguity, especially painful to type, etc.) & don’t generate a uniformly random string, which means you’re getting fewer than that. Even 95 is an optimistic estimate.
Low reproduction costs seems like a 90s thing.

If you are building proprietary, not-for-sale software, then low reproduction costs have nothing to do with excess value. Ditto if you're building cloud-y/online services.

On the cost side, too, software comes with extremely high maintenance costs that are often not accounted for ahead of time. These are so high that there had better be enormous excess value in the production and use of software regardless of the relevance of reproduction costs.

The real value of software lies in making the impossible possible.

Automation -made possible in the extreme by software- is extremely valuable. Even beyond automation, there are things humans simply cannot do, and even things that mechanical devices alone simply cannot do as well as software-aided ones.

It's hard to put a price on making impossible things possible.
The Benefits of Coding for African Children
I started making my own bread from einkorn.

The primary reason is that I have someone in my family who has a terrible allergy to gluten. They can eat this wheat since the gluten is different in some way. This was a life-changer.

The flour is expensive so I started buying the wheat berries and I mill them myself, its really easy, and the freshly milled flour is so much better tasting than already milled.

I use this countertop stone mill: (NutriMill Harvest)

I use this bread machine: (Zojirushi Home Bakery Virtuoso)
Does the Pony language do something similar?
The BOFH is largely a funny and positive character. In the end the character is pro-sysadmin, not anti-sysadmin.

As a physicist I also would not be insulted by the characters in the "Big Bang Theory", but strangely enough some are.

I guess it comes down to having a sense of humor.
Consider the scale at which they operate... How could they possibly turn a profit given the number of people who use their free and paid services, and the number of people who are pissed off at their business practices? I know I want to call and harangue them at least once a month... Imagine if every single Gmail user could do that. They would crumple over their own tech support costs in just a few years.
...except that people tend to use there words with reversed meanings too :| If a programmer wants to sound fancies he/she uses the term "software engineer".

Also, separating "building" from "maintaining" (when "maintaining" means more than running / scaling / securing, and also includes adding features) is a a recipe for disasters! The builders/creators start creating unmaintainable messes because it's not their job to maintain them.

I don't think these kinds of distinctions help in software... we need different ways to look at the problem...

Also this lack of separation is kinda what makes software dev a cool field to work in... I love the hacker mentality and if it ever fully dries out I'm gonna quit working in this field and move to a fresher/younger one.
I don't know. Literally two days ago Bing let me find things Google couldn't/wouldn't. Google, in my mind, has become a.. safe space.
Yes but when running a long-lived application on a lot of data it's typically important to keep the executable small both so it can be "hot" and to leave more room for data. At scale this could be even more important, not less, than for a smaller operation.

Of course the real (i.e. explicitly stated by Pike) driver for go was the assertion that inexperienced new hires write poor code and so the harder it is for them to get into trouble the better, even at the cost of other issues.
In case with Samsung, EU authorities can forbid selling their products in EU.
Thank you!

> the ECS equivalent of "your language doesn't have multimethods" problem in OOP ... you solve that by creating a Component composing other Components.

I'm not sure about having solved that, but yes, a component may check its entity for other components to inspect and/or modify, even add/remove components from its entity, or add/remove entire entities from the scene (like a ShootingComponent asking a PhysicsComponent to simulate recoil, and spawning bullet entities.)

If a dependency is missing, a component alters or omits parts of its behavior or silently skips its frame update.

I'd really like to try the SwiftUI idiom in games, where the code is a declarative description of a scene, that an engine can take to construct the actual scene using whatever architecture it wants under the hood.

I also wonder how far you could take SwiftUI itself for making games without using any other framework.
You seem to be thinking that just a few visits isn't enough.

But if interstellar travel is hard, then the best solution to exploring another star system is to colonize it. One trip there, plant the seed of a new civilization, and let it expand in place to explore everything.

A very long lived civilization doesn't have to do this very much in order to colonize the galaxy. It can wait for other stars to come near on their own to make it easier. Stars in our area are moving relative to one another at about 30 km/s, with some much faster. If these colonized systems also decide to spread when other stars get close to THEM, then exponential growth can fill the galaxy in 100 million to a billion years.
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This is a very pragmatic/practical approach to dating, where you're not messing around and you're looking for specific qualities/traits to be fulfilled.

The next steps can be to assess the other person's appearance, style, etc. It's kind of like Tinder inverted where analysis comes before photo.
Specifically, this is a result of the imprint laws in germany, which require you put up contact data. An E-Mail Address is optional but if you put it up, you need to respond to incoming requests (mostly of legal nature). The automated response wasn't considered by the court to be sufficient.

Google ignores it because they can afford to.
I have to wear readers for ebooks (and all screens) no matter how large I set the font because I don't want the text blurry.

Most of the time, text on paper is better. The exception being very small text on glossy paper (Norman Friedman, Naval Firepower).
This must be unique to your "tropical/subtropical humid climate" because surveys consistently show the vast majority of books bought by high school kids are print, not electronic.

In addition to data, I'd also like to offer some counter-anecdotes: I have a large collection of printed books to which I'm still regularly adding, I know many other people who do also, and I can only think of a couple of people who've told me they've stopped buying printed books and do all of their reading on the Kindle.
The most urgent goal for this effort is usefulness. Geek trend box-checking has to come second.
Pure functions are memoized. They always return the same results so why not memoize? There's an option to disable this. It's currently being discussed in our telegram group: https://t.me/joinchat/B0kZo0kVldfXldTDqz95XA
That was interesting. How long did it take you to get so burnt out? I feel like I might be lately, i haven't done any interesting personal coding or learning in probably around a year and a half now. I used to really enjoy hacking on stuff and learning how it all works. Lately I just don't care much. Ive only been working for maybe 4 or 5 years, my third year of professional work was particularly shitty.
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Our culture holds print books as sacred objects. Talking about the environmental impact of books is like talking about the environmental impact of churches, or music halls, or war memorials, or grave stones: it doesn't even make sense to talk about it because people don't imagine those things at the level of costs and impacts, they are inherently worthwhile.

If you propose printing less books, or even worse, destroying existing books that nobody reads to recycle their paper, you will quickly have a pitchfork-bearing mob at your door calling you a book-burner.
Wouldn't they remove regular Bitcoin and ethereum wallets too if they were trying to control payment flows
Possibly, but also possible you are prematurely overestimating the constraints and limiting the abilities and knowledge of a civilisation presumably hundreds of years ahead of us at a minimum.

Countering your other reply, I acknowledge physics limitations like the maximum speed are unlikely to change, but see no reason for similar constraints on progress in self-replicating intelligence (apart from our current understanding of technologies involved like AI, which IMO is vastly overhyped).

By "machine intelligence", I meant AI (a term I don't like), but see no reason why it should be constrained to metal chips and boxes as it might be using our current technology.