skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not particularly, in my opinion. Look at any group derided, not by the scientific community, but by the laymen who accept scientific consensus; Antivaxers, climate change deniers, YECs. They raise one or two, often valid, objections to the current state of affairs and rather than getting a reasonable, coherent explanation for why it's the scientific consensus, they're mocked, again, by laymen who really couldn't answer their questions anyway. They questioned the divinity of popular science, and as heretics, deserve to be burned. People are reasonable and logical by default. We form our beliefs from knowledge and experience, and these groups are no exception.
What exactly is the difference?
I am left puzzled by the strong skepticism and even downright hostility I often see. I don't think any current cryptocurrency will take over the world and replace existing financial systems like fanboys argue, but they are trying out highly desirable features in real-world environment. I am certain many of them will eventually become widely adopted.

Even the basic requirement of all transactions being digitally signed is a huge step forward, especially when paired with hardware wallets[1]. It's crazy that we're still typing plain-text credit card numbers into inherently insecure computers, hoping that we'll be charged the correct amount (I recently wasn't), and that no keylogger or sketchy merchant steals or accidentally leaks the information.

Sure, dealing with digital keys and long hex addresses is clunky like sending email in 1984[2], but I feel there's a lot of real innovation thrown out with the bathwater when the whole sphere is called pointless Ponzi and so on, which is particularly odd to see in a forum dedicated to startup culture.

[1] https://shop.ledger.com/pages/ledger-nano-x

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdbKz5CyhA
That's for analysis such as "Saudi support amongst crongressmen is eroding" that you need to remember that the author is nowhere near competent enough to be trustworthy on that.
Aha! I read further, Active Authentication is also disliked because the exact feature this blog post relies on prevents deniability - and that's a Privacy no-no, so some countries like Germany explicitly do not want it.

With Active Authentication you can basically show the passport a nonce, and get the passport to give you signed proof that it saw this nonce. As a result you can show other people that nonce, and the signature, and they know it was a real passport.

But alternative schemes avoid this, you and the passport perform a dance in which either the passport is genuine and you get the answer you expected, or it isn't and you don't, but you don't get a durable proof you can show to anybody else as output.

This latter scheme works more like a physical document while also defeating cheap "clone" attempts and so privacy-friendly countries have no reason to use Active Authentication.
I've heard the same; that would mean that AWS employees in general would stand to lose a decent amount of equity, depending on where they are in their cycle.
There's libertarians, and then there's libertarians. Thiel is a huge fan of Hans Hermann-Hoppe, who writes things like:

"In a covenant concluded among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private property, no such thing as a right to free (unlimited) speech exists, not even to unlimited speech on one's own tenant-property. One may say innumerable things and promote almost any idea under the sun, but naturally no one is permitted to advocate ideas contrary to the very purpose of the covenant of preserving and protecting private property, such as democracy and communism. There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and expelled from society. Likewise, in a covenant founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin, there can be no tolerance toward those habitually promoting lifestyles incompatible with this goal. They – the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centered lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism – will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order."

This quote is from Hoppe's "Democracy: The God That Failed", which Thiel has referenced before. The overall thesis there is that economic freedom is the cornerstone of libertarianism, and it's fundamentally incompatible with democracy, so libertarians have to explore other options. It specifically promotes monarchy, on the basis that a monarch is more like a business owner with a vested long-term interest.

You might argue that this isn't really libertarianism - indeed, many libertarians don't consider Hoppe to be one. This is basically proto-neo-reaction, at the point where it still hasn't explicitly rejected libertarianism altogether. But regardless of where you draw the line, this all is the evolution of Murray Rothbard's strain of libertarianism, after it moved away from social liberalism towards paleoconservatism - it's not just some random people coming and declaring their politics to be "libertarian" out of the blue. Nor is there any shortage of ex-libertarians in NRx circles, so it's clearly a common path, not unique to Thiel.

Needless to say, the libertarian paradise described above could use something like Palantir to implement the "covenant".
How is this data not covered under COPPA? Most people I know that play Roblox are under 13 years old.
Casino airflow doesn’t explain the low rate for residents who don’t visit or work at Casinos.
GKE on Google Cloud has a robust interface and is very usable in my experience.
I really couldn't. E.g., I've hired a number of programmers who are terrible at self-promotion. And even many of the ones who are good at it talk about specific, verifiable, repeatable skills.
It’s almost always bad as a new guy to come in and start refactoring.

There are lots of weird if checks to deal with a vendor that returns bad data over the api every Sunday night. Your new clean code is going to crash and burn in all of these cases.
Which is very unfortunate, because it means it'll be far less effective.
Why is the title of this "disillusioned with technology" and not "disillusioned with the tech culture"? This is a very sketchily edited title (although not surprised as it is complaining about VC behavior and this website is owned by a VC firm).

Technology has well proven its worth. There is more money than ever in it. The problem is that anything that has a bunch of money it will absolutely attract the worst of people. That is your VCs, and your corporate politicians, etc. as the writer is complaining about.

These people literally provide almost no value to anyone else but themselves. They are parasites on our society. They subconsciously know it and thus they require the style of culture they drive and thrive in.

But, any cultural problems in tech can be blamed on no one else except the people who honestly enjoy creating and engineering. Why? Because it is our fault for not getting more aggressive and smarter in taking back the culture. There are now more PhDs and programmers than there ever has been in the history of humanity. There is no excuse any longer to allow this.

And also, can we quit with the bullshit of just calling all complaints about the industry a type of "burnout"?
This reminds me of when I worked on a public policy project for a biotech company. Our product didn't fit in the current Medicare policies, so we decided to approach Medicare and suggest a solution.

Medicare spent months just digging into the laws and talking to their lawyers just to prove they actually had the jurisdiction to change the policy. That really blew me away. One of their bigger concerns was "this might not be our job".
I mean, surely given how embarrassing it has been for PRC, I wouldn't expect 新華 to be excited to publish it for the public and the world to see. And yes, in China especially I expect the party to know about bad news, particularly bad news generated at state institutions, before the media is permitted to report on it, and I expect that reporting to be partial if it ever comes.

In fact, I am suspicious of anyone who knows anything about this and claims otherwise.
An History of Nvidia Stream Multiprocessor
The docs list "process supervisor" as a use case. What does that mean exactly? Can it function like upstart/systemd?
How so? You're an anonymous identifier in this system.
That's just it: I don't want to see that kind of change.

Edit: Changed "we don't" to "I don't". I don't want to claim to speak for anyone else but myself.
Yes, REBOL was created by Carl Sassenrath, a fan of Lisp, who after writing much of the Amiga operating system, wrote Amiga Logo and then REBOL.
Even those first two can have fairly foreseeable negative effects, though. Not necessarily net negative, mind you, but negative. If (e.g.) American soldiers have less tedium in their downtime (e.g., because paperwork is automated) and are safer (e.g. because their body armor is better), it could very reasonably lead to missions or even whole wars being undertaken that would otherwise be unconscionable. It's kind of like boxing gloves or football pads - on the face of it, it makes things safer, but because everyone knows it's "safer", they're willing to push it further.

Not judging your decision (although I personally prefer not working for defense/defense contractors), just pointing out that "it only makes soldiers safer!" isn't an ironclad rebuttal.
Prices are pushed by consensus
I mean the most delicate part, a male part in the usb-c port itself. Naming is hard >_<
It can make sense. It's also better for longevity of the work.

I'm surprised Jeff is offering his videos for free too though...that seems like a perfect candidate for a paywall to capture some of the value created from the books he's giving away. Of course I don't know the whole story and realize it's a personal choice -- but, in any case, this is exactly why giving a book away for free can be so powerful.

I'm planning to launch a book marketplace that offers books for free if downloaded via P2P while charging a small fee for direct HTTP downloads.

https://100millionbooks.org/librery/
I'd love to see this tested with the new MBP. My 2015 13" MBP behaves as you describe, you pretty much never hear the fan unless you are pegging the CPU. But on my 2018 13" MBP the slightest load will get the fan going and it's terrible.
I think the theory is "there are few enough we didn't notice."

There's other weird effects going on -- some countries that look really really similar have vastly different experiences with the virus. (Canonical example is DR and Haiti, although the situation is dynamic enough no-one knows if that'll last.)

My takeaway from the difficulty in measuring this thing is that there is pretty high variance in transmission. Some carriers spread it REALLY well. Some carriers spread it poorly. With a lot of variance it matters a ton to figure out what is the deal with high-transmission situations. My take so far is we have some clues but no certainty. (Seems to spread in public transit and healthcare environments more rapidly, but slower than you'd expect in schools and prisons.)

It'd clearly be a gigantic win in terms of intervention policy to understand this better, and we simply cannot do that without extensive contact tracing so we know what's going on. They're doing a pretty good job of this in China, HK, Taiwan, South Korea. As nearly as I can tell we're doing a dismally poor job in the US and Europe.

You read papers that have diagrams of restaurant tables and bus seating charts from China. In the US it's hard to get stats on aggregate nursing home vs non-nursing home fatality rates. Maybe it takes some time for these papers to come out, but I don't see evidence that high-quality pre-pub contact tracing data is being relied on to develop policy responses.
Me too actually :(
Also, people with the flu probably wait to get home to seek care, so Vegas may only be able to account for its own population, and any severe cases that couldn't travel home first.
When you make a comment you are acknowledging that you are entering information to form part of the public record. I've not examined the specific FCC form but I would almost guarantee it clearly explains that your comment and likely metadata around it are protected in some ways by the Privacy Act of 1974 and explicitly not protected in other ways.

These logs could form the basis of a legal record generated by the executive branch of the government and even if they weren't they are likely subject to a legal hold as a result of on-going legal action.

Records in the government sense are very important to form an open trail of policy decisions and overall function of government. Deleting them accidentally can get you a firm slap on the wrist while deleting them intentionally can put you in legal trouble (and worse if you're doing it to cover-up wrongdoing).

The National Archives (NARA) holds on to all the various records generated by the functioning of the federal government for various time periods based on the content of the records. As to payment - costs are incurred in part by the generating agencies and then the taxpayers funding NARA.

Further reading: Privacy Act of 1974, [1], FCC's Comment Filing System System of Records in the Federal Register [2], Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (more towards only collecting necessary info), and FCC's Website Notices [3].

[1]: https://www.archives.gov/about

[2, Word .doc]: https://www.fcc.gov/omd/privacyact/documents/records/FCC-CGB...

[3]: https://www.fcc.gov/general/website-notices
I absolutely love async communication. I’ll look for writing competency when interviewing at my next job. I’m bogged down in meetings enough as is. Phrases like “hey let’s talk voice” is abused heavily.

I’ve been to meetings where the topic was to discuss what to do in our next meeting. Absurd.
On the Diamond Princess Cruise, they found lung damage in 54% of asymptomatic cases. I would call that a cause for concern.

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryct.2020200110
Principles of Program Analysis isn't the Cousot's text, but it does make significant use of abstract math. In particular, it uses tools from order theory[0] to describe many program analysis algorithms as finding fixpoints of functions between lattices[1].

This is useful because it reduces many program analysis design questions to questions of which lattice to use. It also allows you to compare algorithms by comparing their lattices, which makes it easier to see how algorithms are related.

The cost is that this approach will be pretty alien if you don't have experience with abstract algebra or related fields. If you do have that experience, I don't think it requires mathematical maturity beyond an undergraduate level.

[0] http://matt.might.net/articles/partial-orders/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_(order)
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My takeaways on the fundamentals of leading an organization; a course offered by edX, The University of Queensland.
It's strange to me that recursion wouldn't just naturally fall out of any language design that has a call stack. Even if you forbid the current procedure from calling itself, it could achieve the same thing by having two functions call each other.
Yes and I noticed this robot can jump completely off the ground. Pretty nice!
Would you rather nothing be done? This is potentially a big deal way to automate at scale that has no precedent. It's impossible to say this will/won't work, as it's never been tried.

Perfect is the enemy of progress.
Sometimes it's easier to make the change by going after people whose actions implement the policy, rather than those who establish it.
> The only effective recourse is to make them collecting or storing the data illegal, but good luck with that, seeing as even when it is illegal they do it anyways (see: Snowden).

So, basically "screw rule of law, people are gonna do it anyway, so let's make money off it!"
The metaphors are just how we explain it to people so they can understand.

We've known for a long time that brains don't work like computers. They they are analog systems with weights and thresholds.

But that is hard to describe to a layperson.
Great news. Only a few days ago I was trying to figure out ways to use minio to use backblaze as mattermost cloud storage which needs to be s3 compatible. I expect that will work straight now. Have anyone already tried this integration?
> However, I also believe you are responsible for the consequences of the technology you create.

I agree with this to an extent, but at the same time, technologies you develop can go well beyond what you intended them to be. Do you think Ritchie knew C would be used the way it is today? It is used in UAVs, smart missiles, and more. Building faster algorithms also means faster weapons. Everyone working at SpaceX is directly or indirectly working on missile technology. You can do this with practically any technology, even as simple as building a better screw. Building materials that are stronger, lighter, and cheaper reduce the prices of homes, but it also has applications in war. Studying diseases and vaccines directly impacts biological warfare research.

It is easy to say you're responsible when you're working on things like smart bombs. But it isn't easy if you're researching fertilizer. The thing that arguably has saved the most lives yet how many lives have bombs and bullets taken?

> Personally, I would rather avoid that by not working on that category of technology at all.

So what I'm saying is you're working on that tech, just how removed are you? I also don't think there's a cognitive dissonance. You can be pro putting nitrogen in soil and anti explosive nitrates. But saying the two aren't related is naive.
Comment periods for draft laws certainly do have an impact. It's basically an opportunity for people to weigh in on the law and get a pulse check on how onboard people are.
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>CI systems are awesome when they are working.

>writing good tests is really helpful for me

I'd wager it's partly generational. If you came up in the agile world, then you likely see the upside but not the down since there's no reference point for the latter. Because, of course it's cool that these CI build processes kick off at commit points (or whatever). And, of course, the near instantaneous feedback that something is broken is more efficient than awaiting a nightly build. OTOH, we were much more cautious about the code we checked in because the stakes were higher and you didn't want to be the heel who broke the build. "Move fast and break things" was not a thing. Instead, "be thoughtful about what you're claiming to be good code" was the ethos.

But, this is not an argument about efficiency or whether these things can be made to work. The argument is about the cost to the developer of all of these things in sum, and the philosophy they serve.

Likewise with TDD. I'm not arguing that tests don't help code quality and I've heard others say they like writing them. YMMV and all that. But, it's more load on the developer and I've definitely seen it overdone.

So, again, without the reference of a "saner" world then you don't likely have the context to fully appreciate these costs. I see them, though, and frequently hear them when people complain about burnout. It's not CI/CD or TDD or whatever that's the problem. It's that these things are frequently used less as tools and more as the instruments of a philosophy that plugs developers in alongside them as just another part of the never-ending pipeline.
This is also the problem encountered in the development of blockchain
I think building modern software is not programming any more. Now is about putting together libraries and open source plumbing, doing a bit of customization then testing, testing, monitoring, then figuring out why things aren't working.

I remember writing a lot more simple stuff. Whole applications with maybe a handful of libraries. It was great.
It's hard. but also easy. letting go. like dropping a cup from your hand.. it falls. but it's hard. so hard. the easiest thing in the world. to let go. is also really hard.

so you have to work at it. retrain you brain.

they have a system for this. it's called meditation.

and i need to do it more.

it's all about, whenever thoughts and feeling come up, bring your awareness back to the present moment. maybe by focusing on your breath, on the empty space around you, on a point. you will fail. again and again. mind will drift. keep bringing it back gently. that's all meditation is. sit there in stillness and bring your heart and mind to be in the present.

eventually, this happens even when you're not in sitting there meditating. so the past hold less sway, you walk away from it. remember, those thoughts and feeling, they are yours, but they are not you. you are something else.

your are what watches. so, just observe. but to do this, is so hard.

I also discovered, even meditation is not a cure. if there is karma you need to address, unfinished business, conversations which need to be had, something incomplete, you need to work that out and take some action. meditation is good for giving you super powers, and letting go of (parts of) things that are already complete, but which for whatever reason, your brain and limbic system has overconsolidated.
Good idea. It could be replicated for languages as well.
How many people will be saved? If a single person's life is saved by remdesivir ot any of the drugs commercialize by the private sector, that's a life that will have been saved because of patent incentives. If a single person's life is saved by modernas vaccine or J&Js vaccine or any of the others, those are lives that will have been saved because patents made the investment into those technologies by the private sector possible. We dont have a model right mow that works better than the public/private hybrid model we have right now where both the public sector through the NIH etc and the private sector through biotech and pharma work together to develop new innovations and save lives. Cut either of those two out and the system collapses. Cut taxes and the public side, basic research and preclinical through the NIH and the very important regulatory role by the FDA, collapses. Cut patent monopolies and the private sector work, pre clinical development and clinical trials and manufacturing and distribution and drug discovery, collapses.
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That just detects if it flares back, right? What is being done to keep it from the ltc facilities?

This is like watching for a spark in a firework store, while you start letting active smokers back in...
What about Uruguay made you feel that way? It's the first place in South America I plan to visit, so would be interested to hear any stories!
The REST API for dynamic updates is attractive. Was it influenced by Envoy? Are there any influences/overlap with Envoy? Is Caddy overlapping in the space of Envoy in any notable way?

I will say that getting started with and learning the configuration landscape of Envoy is quite painful, so the simplicity and approachability of Caddy has always been attractive.