skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just financial advantage, all deceit where you intend to gain from it is fraud. Money just makes it more obvious what the gain was.

Are there grey areas? Sure. In particular there's a passive sort of deceit in which you let people assume things that you know aren't true, to your benefit. Mostly the law holds that it's their mistake for not asking, and anyway they'd usually be far too embarrassed to make a fuss if they realise their error.

I don't see that here, the plan was explicitly to trick the RIR into giving them resources they were otherwise not entitled to. Those resources were for everybody to share, they're stealing from you and it's appropriate to prosecute for fraud.
I view it the opposite way: We underestimated as a society how many people were feeling bad. Addictions to alcohol is horrible, but their harm doesn’t scale. With social networks, we suddenly see what we chose to ignore before: The swathes of MGTOWs, Incels, doubters, we also see the swathes of “scientific studies” which were provably wrong, the lies of the medias when you compare the scientific study and how the articles spin them.

We should rather treat it as a brand new society with new balances, like after Gutemberg’s invention of the printer, which enabled communication and gave birth to Martin Luther, the accession of Bible translation to masses, the accession of The Encyclopedia, and more generally, the Humanists.

And maybe, just maybe, we should have taken better care of so many people we’ve put in such horrible situations that content binging becomes better than their life. Rather than assuming they were just crybabies.
Just a side note, but please, use a comma to separate two dependent and incomplete clauses, not a semicolon or colon.
Java Coding Problems
They both break what you were trying to do, and the fact that they do it in slightly different ways really isn't worth making a long pedantic argument about.
Seeing this made my day. There's something calming about seeing C used so...hmm....elegantly?

Well maybe that's not the right word. But the minimalism of it is soothing.
> You can ignore Thatcher, since she was the head of a bankrupted, hapless country (Britain had food rationing for 9 years after WW2.)

She became Prime Minister in 1979. Britain was probably over the nine years of food rationing by that time... 34 years after the war ended...
It's not changing quotes in the code. It is adding quotes. You have to delete them, not search-and-replace them, and it doesn't matter what kind of quotes they are, you have to do the exact same thing.
> read API docs for anything I’m unfamiliar with

One of the differences i've noticed between myself and some of the junior devs i've worked with. I would usually use the official docs as my first resource, and they would use stack overflow instead.
Trophy Hunting Can Place Unnatural Stress on Wild Populations
JSON Web Token [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Web_Token
Filesystem UID mapping for user namespaces: yet another shiftfs
iOS Performance tips you probably didn't know (from an ex-Apple engineer)
Free lending app for windows and Linux
>Who the hell copy pastes code into their program without first examining and understanding what each step is actually doing, how and why the pieces fit together as they do, and how it works as a whole to solve the problem?

Almost everybody at some point or another?
Open source nvidia driver leaves quite a lot to be desired. In my setup it crashed/locked up at least weekly.
This is called Baptist and bootleggers effect. Facebook benefits, government benefits while we suffer.
Because of the context, I'd assume "Project Manager", basically a low-level manager of sorts.
Media coverage as a risk factor in suicide
Her Blog Post About Uber Upended Big Tech. Now She’s Written a Memoir
To crib from the man himself, dystopia is here, it just isn't evenly distributed.

Neuromancer is about cool people doing cool things, cyber-samurai hackers and razorgirls and space rastafarians, criminals and outcasts, and it's not surprising that techies would fetishize the image of the anarchist cyber-cowboy. But how dystopian would the setting be for most people who aren't criminals getting mixed up with the mafia and paramilitary black-ops groups?

We supposedly live in an Orwellian techno-fascist nightmare of omnipresent surveillance and thought-control now, but most people don't feel the boot stamping on their heads. Is that because they're just sheep whose minds are dulled by fluoride and the adrenaline burn of social media, or because it isn't stamping on everyone?
There's a criminal fiction book to be written here. Disgruntled Google employee ends up playing both sides, as the man supplying the classification algorithms and also selling 'backdoors' to it. Only a rogue loose cannon dev ops can stop him.
Bezos launches $10 bn fund to combat climate change
This is a difficult hypothesis to prove by virtue of the fact that if we didn't think people were feeling in certain ways this pre-FB, then it was presumably because we didn't have accurate data. It follows that if we didn't have the data then it's difficult to say whether FB et al tapped in to something that had yet to manifest itself in a subset of people, or had yet to become visible to society. Nevertheless, it's an interesting point that I hadn't really heard put this way before so thanks.
"re-writing a system written by 7 team members + architect, taking half the time"

Sure, but are you saying this is about individual productivity or had you considered it might be the costs of coordination?
I can’t upvote this enough. I’m putting it on a teeshirt. :)
> biased towards he or she who made the so-called effort of dressing to look the part

Anecdote: my wife is a psychologist. They are taught to observe how a patient presents him/herself at an appointment. Is her/him presentable? What about personal hygiene? Does he/she take care of him/herself? These are characteristics that say a lot, and should be taken into account when meeting someone. There is a difference between taking care of oneself and trying to appear like something else by wearing branded clothes, or to appear like something else by dressing like a 60's hippie (or whatever).

> And I would pick a reliable, self-aware, well-rounded, face tattooed, green haired and barefoot colleague

Me too. But the first 3 are characteristics you wouldn't know for a while. In the meantime you have to work the hiring with what you see. Unfortunately, it's like that.

I also believe that the worst and most dangerous people in the world walk around in expensive suits, behave correctly in public and never say a bad word.
Later bedtime linked with obesity for children under 6, study
This is a ridiculously complicated tutorial.

Sure, S3 works if you're deploying it as safest as possible and want to pay for it too and do this on a recurrent basis, but otherwise is too big of a fuss for a personal blog, I use GitHub pages for over 4 years now with no issues, my own domain and SSL.

The simplest is surge.sh, period. If you don't need a domain, a web platform and just want to deploy from your CLI, surge.sh is the solution. It's good when you want to show off a static website to someone outside your sever. Even the switching to a premium plan is done from the CLI.

Other solutions are: Netlify, ZEIT Now, Aerobatic or Render.

I frequently use this list from this GatsbyJS wiki to check for static website hosts, I recommend it: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/deploying-and-hosting/
That's what they mean, using it.
Split Keyboards
Reminds me of TSB (UK bank) that asks, in addition to username and password, for three characters of a string when you sign in. Which is stupid because you can’t do it in your head easily. You actually need to see it written down somewhere when they ask for the 3rd, 11th and 15th character of that “memorable information”.
It‘a not weird. It’s just a username.
I disagree. FB has enriched my life at many ways, when my father was on deathbed I realized how much he used fb to just keep track of me every single time he remembered me. We spoke daily but I did not know he used facebook to "be with me".

I do understand your criticism but it is in the same line as how christian priests opposed education for peasants. They argued that if the ordinary massed could read it would mean they will read stuff they are not supposed to read. I am pretty sure similar criticism has be forced on TV, Cellphones, Comic books and what not.

I would say relax, this too shall will pass and even bigger distraction would take over our lives.
“Four thousand dollars!” gasped the CEO. “All you did was walk over and push a little button on the side of that machine. Can you give us a breakdown?”
The consultant jotted on a piece of paper and handed it to the CEO.

“Pushing button: $1
Knowing which button to push: $3999″
The waterfoxers will flee WF like hostages and come back to usenet, like on SQLnetNews
What People Don't Understand About Tesla
> I've spent the last few months toying with the idea of a venture studio

Me too. :)

> and the economics are hard to swallow for some founders and for later-stage VCs...

Can you elaborate on that a bit? What model are you considering and what constraints do you see?
Thanks. I’ll give that a try as I’m still not happy with my PDF generation from headless CMS.
yes, the fallback is done on the server-side based on the accept header
there sure are more weasel words in place about these crucial issues than hard facts!
How on god's green earth does that "cast doubt" on anything? That makes absolutely zero sense.
from the perspective of sustainability the uncontacted tribe is more civilized than the ancient Romans or chinese
This cuts both ways, smart and competent people might also not like to work with you or any project you've worked on.

I have no real insight into your personality and ability (but neither do you about GF).

Competent people who want or need to fix some dysfunctional monstrosity committed by a coherent group of less able developers are not necessarily welcome, even if they don't have pathological personality traits. All the more if they are not parachuted in to fix something, but e.g. some new starter not high up in the hierarchy. Consider that few people take kindly to being told (if only by implication) that what they've done is garbage, but obviously the world is full of garbage software.

I've seen this time and time again. Long-term diplomacy can sometimes work (assuming the company and individual have the time to spare), but they'll usually need some higher up backing or fail miserably/leave/get-fired.
I'm not sure about that, there are diminishing returns on extra hours. If you work long enough hours then it will start to have a detrimental effect.
What good is applying formal verification software to have proof that part of your input behaves properly, but edge cases are not proven? This is already what test cases do.
That just demonstrates that ads are not web-specific, but actor-specific, so that adblock technology should work at the OS level^, like firewall and antivirus. This would shift the problem to bad adblock vendors, but at least we could have few okay-today options to choose from.

^ not gonna happen for most platforms, as it’s walled gardens all the way down, but hopefully some day it will become obvious that adcrap tech stack is a wrong foundation to make computers and their economy.
The GDPR however is about the information being stored being specific for the requirements, but more the consent for information to be stored and the option to not have information stored.

Also the time for which that information can be stored. If it comes from public sources, there needs to be a proven reason why its stored there, and if it is not required, it must be removed.

I wasn't sure of any good example of 'Public Information' from the article..
"Plain" compilers are just translating from one notation to another, so they aren't.

But optimizing compilers that analyze your code and find that portion of your code can be rewritten to make the produced executable more efficient? I'd say it sound a lot like AI, yeah. I woulnd't be shocked if someone told me "gcc's -O3 option uses AI techniques".
Very much yes. If you have time to go through all posts to make sure they're about chess, you have time to go through all posts to make sure they're not libel.

Maybe the model for internet forums should be nonprofit private clubs, rather than profit-making enterprises. If all members bought equity and a voting share in the administration of the forum, there would already be legally established means of determining liability for acts committed within the club. Is collective ownership of a commons such a crazy idea? You could still make your money as a subcontractor of the club providing technical services for hire, but instead of being a (benevolent) dictator for the users, you would be subject to the users. Shifting ownership would shift liability.

The essential ethical problem of the current situation, even from the days of people complaining that Youtube's primary business was illegally sharing copyrighted contet, is that liability was being shed to the users while all profits were going to the owners. Maybe that should just not be possible in future.
Hello.

The investor provided talent could be a good approach to provide more relevant and needed support. In reality on many occasions I have had to question what the hell is going on:

1. I have come across many of the talent, where what they lacked in talent was compensated by strength of personal connection.

2. People just sprouting some inspirational fluff, and whose attitude is I am here, listen to me, do as I say, don’t question, without even getting into the trenches.

3. Then they start talking about the sacrifice and hard-ship, when they have no real comprehension and haven’t walked that path.

4. As for getting paid in equity, that is between startup and whomever, although I personally don’t like it, and won’t do it.

5. You can’t come in and work with early stage startups and charge them what you charge more established startups, and certainly not what you charge VC or family offices.

Drop your rates man, and come correct. There are enough leeches on, and vultures hovering around, startups and founders.

Cheers, Ace.
Well, for a long time there was no SameSite browser support for cookies, CSRF was a vulnerability (excluding STP and other techniques to avoid it).
what about sending and receiving email?
Well - all I can say is that it works for me!

More seriously, I think that it can be challenging to define the "game" or simulation that a DRL system (or any RL) system depends on. Clearly for things like go the game is preset, for the real world, perhaps less so. People have used it vs physical systems like robot hands though.

Also, one of the charms of DRL is the cheating that the agents discover, for example catapulting each other over barriers or blocking doors. But in real world scenarios scams that break the rules of the game (imposed by law or physics) are useless, so you have to rewrite your simulators to remove them, and start again.
At least HN isn't designed to keep you addicted (sorry, engaged) :)
I’m always amused that with JWT, there never appears to be any separation between JWT-the-storage-format and JWT-what-I-do-with-it. JWT as a storage format is great indeed. If you pin the signing/encryption algorithm. Otherwise you shot yourself in the foot, which is bad, yes.

Everything else isn’t JWT. Sure you can use it with OpenID/OAuth/whatever. Sure you can store them in cookies. Sure you can use them with or without sessions. But how is any of that related to JWT specifically?

One of the articles says with JWT I have to re-implement session management. Just use a different framework then. Sessions with cookies are also not magic.

Another article basically says you don’t need OAuth 2.0 with access tokens and refresh tokens. Very true. Also not about JWT.
While HN is full of Javascript enthusiasts who would never dare mentioning anything negative about the language making praise of JWT probably redudant, even if the token mechanism and the language are complete separate issues, I have to state that I also think JWTs to be helpful.

I mostly use them in IOT voice enabled devices that get their time limited authorization to access popular voice services through such a token. Voice enabled devices suck, but that is not the fault of JWT. I think without JWT being that common already, we wouldn't have a situation where a devices need to sign requests against voice services and we would have additional security concerns.

It is a given that you can use a complete different token or other cookie mechanisms that work just as well. But I like them to provide at least some common ground. Even if there is valid criticism about the implementation.

Authentication != authorization should always be mentioned on the topic of JWT. And yes, they are often abused to do things beyond their intended scope. I would think this to be a user error.
Unfortunately, we've set up all our systems - governance, markets - to work through fighting. Politics, business and negotiations all work the same way: every side fights for their immediate short-term interest. One team wins this battle, other team wins that battle, and it goes on and on, until the cost of fighting outweighs any marginal improvement any side could get - and a "compromise" is reached.

I think it all comes down to the fact that we don't trust each other at scale. Because I can't trust that you'll approach searching for solutions honestly, that you'll optimize globally, I have to fight for my own interest at expense of rationality. For the same reason, you end up fighting for yours.

It's ridiculously wasteful, and I think most of humanity's problems stem from it. I can't think of a way out of it, at scale.
If you know which algorithm to use or how to find one, then you can accomplish things with even greater multipliers. But empirically, people with many years of experience that have seen everything aren't valued so maybe it just isn't that valuable.

Maybe coordination problems just drown out individual productivity most of the time. Or, looking at it another way, if someone senior (as an IC) hasn't found their way into a position where they have leverage ("impact") already, then they don't have the only (meta-) skill that matters.

But then again, when you won't pay people enough to retain them and "Leslie" happens to be the most productive and abhor interviewing, then maybe you end up with literally one person replacing ten.
The easier data science is, the more a business wants a domain expert doing it instead of a freshly graduated PhD.
Upvoted for the emdash (—) shortcut: Shift+Option+Minus
You are leaving out a LOT of the story in this post. Such as his connections with both the Russian state and the Trump campaign, or his person history of sexual misconduct and awful behaviour towards women.
If anybody is interested I have a database of roughly 4B IPv4 addresses for sale:)
The area where I can see a VC's network adding a lot of value is 'person who built sales operation for growth company in related market'. That's not necessarily someone that's easy for a startup to hire, especially pre-Series A. On the other hand anyone if someone's output is aspirational pitch decks and market-scoping, at least one of the founders is already good at that to have got the VC interested, and by the time a startup's challenge is scaling operations the startup has cash to pay for the expertise.
As far as I understand, he quit his public life when someone hunted down and published his real name and address. He removed his website and github, which contained his various writings, some of which had names with "tutorial" or "guide" in them but all of which were at least 80% works of literature and at most 20% works of technical documentation. Not sure I would call it "ragequitting".

Virtually all his works were archived by fans and can be read for example here: https://viewsourcecode.org/why/

A few years ago he published a sort of absurdist goodbye (as a live-updating printer spool) which Steve Klabnik collected into a 95-page PDF here:
https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE

His blog contained many small snippets of code that were definitely meant to be consumed as poetry, they are easy to spot because of all the colors and shapes and sometimes animations:

https://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/

But my own experience of learning from him how to experience code as poetry mostly involved around using Camping in production for some small side projects and needing to explore some bits of its code because of practical reasons:

https://github.com/camping/camping
Thank you, a very interesting story with a lot happening, told with only a few sentences.
I don't like this blanket statement ..

I would use whichever googles first and most relevant results are. Also what the issue is matters.

I don't always go to MDN for javascript issues.

But if I want to know why something is the way it is, I will.
To be honest, it's the same in research. I'm an AI researcher, and was before the current boon.

AI in research, as best as I can judge, means "Solving a problem where there isn't a simple polynomial-time algorithm which produces a predictable answer". I once heard someone say "Problems are AI until we know how to do them".
If you have a compiler that can write a correct program from examples of the desired output, definitely yes.
Nowadays any thinking outside the box, unorthodox, are considered conspiracist.

My summary to the above is

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.

If the first three point as known fact ( along with the fist part of point 6 ) were not worthy of consideration and be called a conspiracist then we can call it we agree to disagree.
The worst part is that they solved it in the "edge" branch (the one you need to use docker on WSL2)... because they switched to Electron
> Except that your example is only “great” because Slack is reimplementing text input- another thing that maybe should just be handled by the system.

But this won't allow you to have a consistent emoji across platforms, neither do server-specific emoji. Besides, I found typing :emojiname: is much easier than finding emoji in emoji keyboard.
Could the bird be a cassowary? Those still live in Australia today.
(Just to the guy bellow: yes it does. Fb kills our pristin human interaction and replaces it with their ads.)
This is what they used to remove Bojack from Horsin' Around :O
Yeah, it's quite nice. The only thing that bothers me is that it doesn't do bounds checking.
What applications do you use DRL for ?
> I wasn't sure of any good example of 'Public Information' from the article..

A decent example would be online reviews. When someone leaves a review on Yelp or Tripadvisor, they're making their name, avatar, city location, interest, opinion on a subject matter—all public.

Now there are websites that scrape these reviews and display them on their own property with their source attributed to the original review (Google and Agoda are examples). And there are web applications like Podium, Yext, etc. which help companies manage their online reviews by scraping them from all the business' listings.

While a user can delete their information from the original data source assuming that the original data source obliges with GDPR, they may not be aware of what other parties have scraped and stored this information in their databases without explicit consent.

Another relevant example could be publishing info on LinkedIn and having it scraped by companies like HiQ.
"trade off technical debt against speed of execution"

eh? The most important thing I think I've learned is how to trade speed of completion and flexibility and comprehensibility versus putting too much effort into avoiding technical debt and speedy execution.
Movfuscator [0] (which expands on the paper) managed to find a way to jump using just mov - by using a faulting mov.

[0] https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
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