skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on my experience, you are correct, as is the calling out of the xenophobic response by Berkeley. Can we not talk about this in an open and civilized manner?
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> "thinking about the chapter I plan to write" when I form the sentences, but that quickly becomes impossible because I can't keep more than a few sentences in my head.

I mean, I doubt I could keep more than a few sentences in my head without any mistakes, although if I were to mentally rehearse more than that they would likely come back to me to some degree as I went to write it out. As you form the sentences, is it like silently talking to yourself (how I'd describe my experience)? Or something else?
Hey, thanks! Yeah, my main talent is translating written information into symbolic/visual content/mental models... One of my goals is to allow people who have different brain styles access to the same models. Particularly in biology, where the prerequisite to understanding is to first learn a bunch of jargon - I think this is totally unecessary and shuts a lot of brilliant people out.
The ability to be an anonymous troll has enabled the microminds that inhabit trollspace. The loss of accountability did it. Since the first days of the web this disease has festered - look at how many people have been harmed and hounded to suicide on FB and similar. Private chat circles where all are know have the inherent ability to defeat this - I belong to a number of them. I have no wish to troll, and I do not, but if I did the admins would soon kick me out. China deals with this with strong reles on ID that limit the true anonymity that enables trolls - does it work over there? I have no direct knowledge as I am not a mamber of any. The ability to create throwaway accounts on FB will make this hard to control. I suppose they could make each person allow new contacts as well as deny offenders would work - it would add a threshing aspect and multiply traffic as these trolls created new logins, begged their way into acceptance by a person, then offended them and got the boot.
I think FB thrives on the unhindered traffic, protecting people would reduce their cash flow = will not do it unless large goverment stick used - as in China. I handle it, as I learned, by total non engaging trolls. As they say:- dot not roll in the mud with pigs, you will get dirty and the pig likes it!!
No offense to pigs intended,,,;)
Open source isn't magic. Closed source isn't a black box.

Reading bytecode is trivial. Reading decompiled binaries is even not so bad. Hiding some tampering of the protocol in closed source clients is not that much easier than hiding it in open source clients. Especially if tens of thousands of engineers have access to the whatsapp source and change history and a deliberate backdoor would be international news.
Because lightning was available long before USB-C and there's no reason that hundreds of millions of customers should have to switch to new cables and throw billions of old chargers, wires, and accessories into landfills?

When USB-C is superior for using on phones, then I'm OK with it. But right now it's just exchanging one plug for another because a bunch of bureaucrats say so.

Does this mean in 20 years we'll still be stuck with USB-C instead of something better because just Brussels says so?
1. Existing iPhone users already have a bunch of Lightning cables (I probably have a dozen) but would have to buy a bunch of USB-C cables. That would be annoying, expensive, and wasteful.

2. Lightning is not a standard like USB-C, but is (subjectively) much nicer, as others in this thread have pointed out.
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Oh I used to like that one where it looked like a pencil sketch will the main arteries and intersections and roads you had to turn in to.

One thing it was missing was landmarks i think.
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Another related (possibly identical) question: How do we stop polarization/toxicity (or general negative attitude) IRL?

One possible answer: Disconnect, ignore, and avoid it while at the same gravitate towards positive, solution-oriented actions/people.

Stop banging your head against the wall, it's not going to work.
throwaway because I don't want to DOX myself

I'm working with language development where we're deploying a custom language built with another custom language.

>who's actually using these languages, and in what contexts?

Compare it to using C in 1970 or Ruby in 1995. It's people who have a real problem they're trying to solve for which existing tooling and widely used languages are a poor fit - as well as people who genuinely enjoy developing their own PLs that have their own ways of doing things.

>Where does the build complexity/hiring difficulty/lack of tooling tradeoff make sense

With VC money, anything is possible...

>build complexity

Fairly nil. Contemporary build systems are language agnostic, and the steps to make one that functions good enough are well known and can be thrown together in a week or so. Not to mention it's become increasingly common for "widely used" PLs to fallback on things like python scripts to handle builds.

>hiring difficulty

It's actually a fantastic way to weed people out and find good candidates. In my (limited) experience, people willing and able to learn a new language (or have a few under their belt) are generally the exact kinds of people you want to hire anyway. Code switching between languages on a daily basis is a fantastic skill, and leads to good developers and mindshare, helps create a diverse technical background.

>lack of tooling

This is a legit problem, and one that a lot of folks stumble on. But luckily building tooling is a great way to dogfood your language - and it's never been easier to integrate with various tool frameworks via standard protocols.

But that said - every company just getting off the ground lacks tooling. For language devs it's a language server, debugger, disassembler, and what have you. For your bootstrapped startup it's build systems/procedures and code review, ERPs and CRMs, etc. Building your own tooling is a part of the growth of a business, tech or otherwise, it's just that when you work on a custom language you have to build some different tools than a SaaS might.

I'll throw one more in though that's the biggest hurdle - wheel reinvention. Stuff you take for granted in any language or have great packages for are the biggest blockers to being productive. But you do the ROI math and decide if it makes sense, so hopefully your lang has good FFI.

Also worth mentioning - if you're working in an esoteric language with heavy contribution by your own team, you're probably doing it because you have a lot of work that looks nothing like putting together a CRUD app or developing a backend for your latest API for your SaaS idea.
Rethinking the PC: Why virtual machines should replace operating systems
The suppression of speech you dislike is a much clearer indication of fascistic behavior than that of the people vocalizing such speech.
Micro USB would be kind of mediocre. But if the rule had been in place 20 years ago, cell phones today might be featuring SCSI connectors.

And of course, all laptops would be mandated to have VGA connectors, eliminating a ton of conference room presentation guesswork.
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> unless their core business presents a clear, imminent, and obvious danger to the public

I think Facebook hits those marks.

There's also the point about corporations: corporations are an invention of the government, only exist because the government approves of their existed, and (technically, although sadly not done anymore) can be disbanded when they act against the public interest. You can't separate corporations from government.
> I think we need age limits.

Ageism is not an acceptable solution. We complain about this in tech all the time. Why would we find it acceptable in politics?
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Indeed, the text only speaks of a "common charger" without specifying further, so I'm somewhat surprised you make the claim the directive speaks only about one sub-part of the charger.

To me things appear thus: the EP passed a directive that states mobile radio equipment should have a "common charger", sensibly letting manufacturers decide how to solve the interoperability problem. Apple then argued "well, it's not explicit that you should be able use the 'common charger' without an adapter" and continued making phones that can't be charged by equipment made by others.

This join resolution isn't super clear about it, but does indicate that: "common charger" really ought to mean you can use the same charger for all similar devices.
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I agree in general; but at some point don't we hit diminishing returns? If I were to say, "18.4 exabytes of RAM ought to be enough for everybody", that'd be basically correct, even future-proofing for the craziest sci-fi holodeck use cases we can imagine, right?

But the legislation doesn't lock into something that might happen in the future. It locks the future to what we have today.
Signal is no better from Telegram because it doesn't allow anonymous usage without a phone number. And Telegram has relatively lightweight native non-Electron apps.
Are you planning to answer any questions?
True, but you can imagine how mainstream media reports those. They put everything in a pot labeled "hack" and push it forward.

One thing they (mainstream media) failed to mention is they were indeed victims of sim-jacking as well, if ever by simple link phishing. That was througly described by the victims themselves at Congress investigative sessions.

Sadly, in Brazil the current mainstream media is mostly biased towards the previous government and all the people that was arrested by the Car Wash Operation. They won't openly say it ever (in here they're not as transparent as US ones, for example - and the Operation is probably one of the most popular events ever in the country's history), but the ones at mainstream media that won their place last 20 years' government just want their corrupt politicians back in power.

To say the victims there were hacked because they clicked suspicious links by their own will it's not only convenient, but what they actually want the broad population to believe.
No, I’m not saying that “taxation” is theft, but the undercurrent of raising property taxes on people who have been living in their houses for years is that the land could be better use by “more productive” tech bro’s than old people and if you raise the taxes enough, they would be forced to move.

Those same tech bro’s would hate it if they were taxed on unrealized, illiquid wealth.

But, yes there are plenty of jurisdictions that give property tax breaks to senior citizens.
Snark isn't really necessary.

It's fine that you think he's guilty. It would be great if you had salient responses to the specific claims of the article.

Do you think the article is wrong irrespective of your feelings about Assange? If so, what?
>Cultures have no inherent worth

peak nihilism. Then nothing has inherent worth. we choose whats valuable. Culture is valuable.

>people adopt it because makes sense economically

that depressing. A restaurant on every corner is also good for the GDP but I'd rather cook a meal with my family and friends.
What exactly is or was strong immune system response to treatment Kathy Sierra got? Cause weev later became basically folk hero for a while before he managed to be forgotten.

The just roll it off, ignore the trolls collective strategy back amounted to enabling and whitewashing weev.
How many ex-IT students become politicians?

Old politicians with no IT experience are being replaced with young politicians with no IT experience. Age limits don't improve anything here.
Well said, especially: "...is shallow and wearing off your, now deprived from depth, mind."

Modern social media seems to me a lot like fast food. You feel good while eating it; it fires off a lot of pleasure-seeking receptors in your mind and body; and it's addicting. But then, like with fast food, you feel the crash.

The problem with the internet is that the crash is mental, not obviously physical, like gaining weight would be. In the past two months I'm realizing that the constant, jittery nature of social media is genuinely affecting other aspects of my life. I used to love hanging out with my friends and family, watching movies, playing video games, and reading books. Lately I've been finding that I want to do none of that--all I want to do is lie down and scroll through YouTube. The irony, of course, is that while I'm doing that, I wish I was doing something else.

It's a weird cycle I've found myself in that I'm trying desperately to break now.

I want to consciously pay attention to other things, specifically my friends and family, my work, and "meaningful" leisure e.g. good films, not instagram pictures.
I can attest MySQL 8.0 eats up emoji characters with no fuss.
No, it's not MIX. I believe that MIX will never fly, because it requires support by a participant's server. So unless all server developers will implement it, XMPP users will not be able to use it. Also, it puts too big emphasis on compatibility with old MUC, which is beyond saving.

Our approach does not require anything from a participant's server, and it does not even require a specialized support by a participant client: a reasonable fallback is provided for legacy clients, even if a participant is connected using 2 clients, one of which does support the new standard, and another one does not. It was achieved by clever dancing around how message carbons work and allows to sync clients nicely.
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I do lots of programming outside of a work setting and I still appreciate good library and tooling support. And even if the programmers at a company are expected to be able to jump around, combining multiple languages makes building and interop more complicated.
Exactly this. On Usenet there were still moderated groups, because there were assholes that were willing to start flame wars. The term "flame war" came from Usenet, as did "trolling". The original meaning of "trolling" was making a post that provoked a huge number of responses, be it good or bad. Now it has morphed to meaning you say something shitty.

> That's a purely American phenomenon

This is wrong. Europe turned nationalistic and right wing much earlier than the US. Look through the last 10 years and it's been something they've struggled with for the entire decade and earlier.
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Well right now, if you are not fully locked into the Apple ecosystem, you require two cables. That's quite a waste, no?

We're quite lucky no PC manufacturer managed to get as big as Apple is today back in the 80s-90s. There's no way we would have universal RAM, universal Keyboards, universal Video Cards, etc, etc, today, if that was the case.
Catalan does have grave accents, and they use the same keyboard layout, so I guess it makes some sense.
It's no longer close to the hardware
The USB flavors and so many others have a little plastic tongue on the female side which I think is the source of the alignment sensitivity and fragility issues. Lightning, headphone jacks, and RJ45 have a purely concave port which I much prefer.

edit: and if there has to be a weak point it should be on the cable side, not on the port side.
It’s the same concept. You want to tax illiquid unrealized wealth that may force people to sell the underlying illiquid asset to pay taxes.
Agreed, it's definitely a spectrum - there are times I'm reading and I can definitely hear myself vocalizing. But, when I get really deep into a book, that voice almost completely goes away.

Another interesting note is that I have a VERY hard time reading poetry in my normal reading style, and have to stop and pretty much sound it out in order to comprehend it.
One issue is that the vast majority of our writing education is intended to teach language skills more than it is to teach effective communication of ideas. You get points for writing with rhythm, provoking emotion, using interesting new words.

Writing for sport and writing as a means to transmit an idea are very different practices.

I took one class in technical communication in college which was radically different than any English/writing class I had taken before it. I had to throw out a lot of my academic writing habits and focus on brevity and clarity above all else.
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There's no way to prove that any client hasn't tampered with a protocol. Halting problem and all that.

But reading closed source code isn't hard. Most of whatsapp on android is implemented in dalvik bytecode, which is basically like reading source without good names or comments. And there are piles of professionals who are very skilled at reading decompiled binaries for the native code in the app. The idea that oss code is easy to verify and closed source code is impossible to verify is just bogus.
Nothing was fair or legal so far, abuses everywhere but you expect that the special US court (see article who is part of that)will be fair in a secret trial. Btw the article mentiones that after the UN person asked clarification on some illegalities on the rape related procedures the investigation was dropped and no response was provided. Also is mentioned that UK is using solitary confinement without any reason, nobody that escaped bail is treated like this but Assange seems not to have human rights in UK.
It's called emphasis.
You can add Beef to that list: https://www.beeflang.org/

I've actually enjoyed playing around with Beef, the dev basically took C++ and gave it the syntax and core library design of C#. Here's a page from the guide just to give an example of the look and feel: https://www.beeflang.org/docs/language-guide/memory/

Note that despite the appearance, there's no GC, no ref-counting, explicit manual memory management, and so on.
> why on Earth people would prefer laptops over large dual monitors, full sized keyboards, ... and so much better performance and cost effectiveness.

I think I'd struggle to bring that around meeting rooms all day. I have a monitor and keyboard to plug in on my desk, of course...
People with depth of knowledge that can use advanced tools are also human!
I mean people are still working until they can't but that time period is getting longer and longer. Partly out of boredom, partly because retirement is a pipe dream for a lot of people. But the end result is the same, the higher level jobs are rarely if ever vacated so committing to those fields with the goal of making it to the top is unrealistic. Combine that with the boom in working population, more educated, more gender diverse now with woman a much more significant portion of job seekers and you get the current status quo. Highly paid, very safe job fields are the ideal option for the young. It's certainly no easier to make it to the highest levels in safer fields but you will be far better compensated along the way as you try and likely enjoy a better quality of life too.
Which country are you (or your company) based on? Which countries are you selling to?
Pretty much any government does the same- try not paying your taxes. Harassment will follow.
Why? The resolution states that the commission should make sure the standard can be updated as technology develops:

"[...] the Commission, without hampering innovation, should ensure that the legislative framework for a common charger will be scrutinised regularly in order to take into account technical progress; reiterates the importance of research and innovation in this domain to improve existing technologies and come up with new ones;"
Back in the day the ability to render an insect or plant in an elegant and expressive manner was a real skill people with an initial were taught, or self taught these skills - llok at the old bird and plant books from those days. Now we have photoshopped digital pix, we have gained as well as lost...
A similar thing is happening right now in Brazil. Ex-policemen are forming militias that supposedly "protect" the population in cities like Rio. If you don't pay them, you may very well be the target of "bad people".
I don't think you fully understand the scope of what section 230 protects against. Even running an email server could put people at risk of being held liable for crimes, if users were to use that server to coordinate criminal acts. Revoking section 230 essentially mandates total surveillance of user activity.
> I am not a whatsapp fanboy, but I strongly doubt that these flaws were designed, and to call them "backdoors" is hyperbole.

Well after listening to the Darknet diaries podcast regularly, and reading about Stuxnet, I'm pretty convinced nothing is outside the realm of possibility and we doubt these things at our own peril.

The Telegram author may be biased, but learning these facts is still useful. I'm in the same boat re: Signal - want to use it more broadly but can't get others to....
Why would it need to be Free? Surely a license for modifying the code has exactly nothing to do with being able to audit it. They could distribute the source in a different manner if you really really really need to be able to see it in order to audit it (professionals don't).
OP isn't explicit about it but he's effectively F.I.R.E'd. These are projects to keep the mind fresh in what is early retirement. If that weren't the case building an actual business requires a lot more time, energy, resources even as a solo founder than what I'm getting from the blog post.
It has some friction in spots, but I like it a lot. A little configuration made it fit how we work. It does the job.

However, I hear other companies like the configurability too...and their crappy processes were so easily configured that it became a crappy tool for their poor developers.
How do we manage spam under this idea? What happens to email server security maintenance?
What does "deeply flawed" mean? Is there any proof Telegram has been severely compromized over the last years? It appers not, thus in my opinion it is impossible that Telegram's approach to crypto is "deeply flawed".
I always refer back to http://rexegg.com/
Not a tool as such, but a good reference if you know how it works and just need to refresh on syntax.
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That's anywhere...at least I have a reliable check until I don't...and I have reasonable hours.

Didn't have either of those before.

Also, if I get canned, I can find another job...there is a LOT of work out there for what I do...
Nim could always work without a GC, and it’s getting better at it all the time. Most of the standard library does depend on GC availability, but this is being worked on.
> Why shouldn't Facebook exist?

I don't know if Facebook should exist or not. The way it operates, though, harms nonconsenting others (meaning people who don't use Facebook). That needs to stop one way or another.
Yup. When the State wouldn't help communities who needed protection, the Mafia families stepped in to serve that purpose. Of course, that's not to lionize them, but it explains why and how they came to power.
Hey hn, this the team from Narration Box. We are extremely excited to be launching on hn today. What originally started as an ebook to audiobook conversion product has finally been shipped as a full SaaS product (both B2C and B2B). You can edit and design your speeches and audio online and the generated narration is of near-human level of realism. It's like having a real narrator but without breaking the bank. We have right now over 100 voices across 20+ languages. Give it a spin and let us know what you think.
How so, taxes are meant to fund the government and services they provide. Everyone who lives in a jurisdiction either consumes those government resources or we as a society have decided that it was in the common good to provide those services (ie education).
V should probably be in that list too: https://vlang.io/