skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems kinda brutal to just stop writing, but I guess there's a bit of a dogpile for writes on this file, does dhcpconf let you specify DNS servers kind of a 'layer up' from resolvconf?
Thanks for pointing this out! I'll add it as an issue on the repo.
Probably the same things that enabled them to amass that amount of wealth in the first place.
Is selling or buying drugs a "victimless crime" when people's lives, families and communities are destroyed by said drugs? What exactly is a "victimless crime" then?

Your characterization of the recent killing of Mr. Brooks is incomplete. Brooks fought against the police and fired a taser (a deadly weapon according to the Atlanta DA) at the officers giving him chase. They were absolutely justified in shooting him.

The problem we have in America is that many people think it's ok to fight the police. Almost all publicized police killings in recent years are a result of suspects resisting arrest in a violent manner, escalating things to the point where force is required to control them. Of course this doesn't fit the narrative, so it's ignored.
>> Server side JavaScript? That’ll never catch.

Server side javascript didn't catch on the first time around because you couldn't create threads. Because in the early 2000's, all technical interviews asked about Java style multi-threading. At some companies, the first round of technical interviews was a very, very detailed discussion about the Java threading model. If you didn't pass, you didn't get to round two. So everybody wanted to use threads.
Yea I just mentioned that in another post, I'd love to see studies like this that try to analyze police and biases towards minorities.

Are you aware of any?
it's not like he has a bank balance of 171b. it's mostly his ownership in Amazon, which he isn't going to just sell away.
HN has been oddly eager about conspiracy theories over the last year. That Navy UFO story (and various other articles from The Drive) got more play than I would have expected. More recently, the TikTok "reveal" from a reddit comment.

Does HN post monthly user numbers anywhere? I wonder if there was a demographic change, or if I'm just imagining it. Of course, it could just be the world changing; the world (or perhaps just the US) does seem to be more engaged with conspiracy theories and inflammatory agenda sharing these days.
In my experience this eventually happens to most iPhones. I know it doesn't fit with today's aesthetics but those older phones with rubber caps or sliding doors effectively prevented this issue.
Value types are coming, EA are available and virtual by default has long stopped being a problem thanks to StrongTalk optimization regarding de-virtualization across shared libraries and call caches.

That "better performance" isn't reflecting in market share.
Ask HN: Programming Languages that fit this criteria
I'm looking for a language that:

- is statically typed

- supports algebraic data types and exhaustive pattern matching

- does not necessarily promote an OO model

- has garbage collection

- compiles to a single binary

- has support for web development

- bonus: is not tied to an existing VM ecosystem (JVM, .NET, BEAM)

Basically Rust with a GC. Is there anything out there like this? Is anyone working on something like this that I could contribute to?
The bizarre scale of super richs (400 people in US)
https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
Your Firework Smoke Could Be Tainted with Lead
You're confusing systemd (the replacement for init) with systemd (the replacement for init, dns, syslog, login/getty, grub, your home directory, etc).

Both are called systemd but one is actually only a single module of the other.
I usually just add it to either netplan or cloudconfig, whichever is active.

Both of them have yaml syntax though, which is imo extremely unfortunate for this kind of configuration.
I think you have kind of answered it there in your own response. It is indeed obvious from a moral standpoint. Why you chose to put moral in quotes is kind of interesting to me, it's not inherently a less valid standpoint, hell, I would argue it's a more valid standpoint than many.

But fundamentally, yes, this is an argument about two things:

1. Inequality is at what many would consider to be unacceptable highs [1] and historically when that has happened in the past violence has followed, therefore I think it would be better that we had the conversation about it now.

2. I think it is fair to ask questions about what kind of moral and ethical lines have been crossed in order to reach a net worth of $171 billion dollars.

We as a society are within our rights to take moments like this as a time to stop and ask some questions about if "the system" is working in a way that seems fair to some or fair to the majority and ideally even all. I'm not offering an answer on that one just prompting a moment of reflection.

[1] https://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2017/article/never...
To be fair to Poettering, someone accused the systemd devs of being on Google's payroll, if I were him I'd be annoyed as well.
the more i grow up the more i emphatize with Poettering.
the topic is optimizing an arbitrary metric among a group of people with diverging goals and objectives many of which hidden[1] or with far reaching consequences that are impossible to know fully.

that quite literally requires reaching compromises in place of whatever optimal mathematical solution may exists.

[1] including people that might want a certain solution to be implemented _and_ fail. they do exist, especially in older groups where the power structure is fragmented and the dynamic dysfunctional.
If you are already being followed by someone, surely it doesn't matter if you "act suspiciously" by e.g walking in circles.

What are they going to do? They are already following you? Follow you more?

For what it is worth, there are enough crazies and phone zombies in any major city that pretty much anything goes anyway..,
He earned it? And what about all the people who work and worked at Amazon and built all of it?
This is a breakdown of some issues many people have with Google's Privacy Policy for their DNS.

Temporarily Logs (2 days):

- Google logs the IP address of every device sending a DNS query.

- For DNS-over-HTTPS, logs Content-Type & Accept HTTP headers

Permanently Logs:

- Client's autonomous system number

- User's geolocation within 1 km^2 and 1000 people.

- Timestamp

- Requested Domain Name

- Request Domain type

- Transport Protocol

- EDNS version, option

- and a few more, essentially everything but your IP address.

This is enough permanent information to successfully identify the vast majority of people even if they never permanently log your IP - and that's just by itself, not including if you use other google services. Other services such as Cloudflare DNS or OpenDNS provide a higher degree of privacy and can even be faster than Google's DNS.

Google's DNS policy: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

Cloudflare's DNS policy: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns...

OpenDNS's policy: https://umbrella.cisco.com/blog/privacy-policy-update
The paper is half for giving a technical overview of the issues and part new analysis based on datamining old certificates. The issues have been mostly fixed, compliance violations however are still badly monitored.
“Software is not limited by physics like buildings are.” is dead wrong. Information transfer is bound by the speed of light. We are light architects, and L1 cache vs a remote call to a server hundreds of miles away matters.

The architect’s role is to design for data flow and compose functionality so it can be swapped out. Great new book on that: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0136524036/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_u...
Nope, I figured that. He's still absurdly rich though.
OK, but the definition of "food insecurity" used at that first link includes, at the "low food security level" people whose "quantity of food intake and normal eating patterns were not substantially disturbed".

I don't think you're doing any favors to the cause of food security by suggesting that people starving in America is a big issue, or implying that anything like 1 in 9 people are in that situation.

I think the honest answer to the question "is there anyone starving to death in America?" is "virtually no-one". I'm sure there are cases of parental mistreatment where children have been starved to death but they're not from economic causes.

The broader question of "are there people whose health or development is affected because they cannot afford to eat healthily" is different, and important, but let's not pretend people are dying of starvation because primarily because they can't afford to eat.
I really don't like these kind of headlines and honestly I'm not sure why it's even posted on HN. What is here to discuss?

His wealth comes from his company and to brag about morale, justice and society usually ends up in fights.

I don't know Jeff, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't care much about money, like if it's $100B or $172B. From my point of view, money is only a way to make his visions come true. For me that is Blue Origin.
Would the same be true of javascript? If chrome didn't come with V8 in it, would it be a lot for the average website?
Uh... RedHat is owned by IBM.
Yes, of course, the criminal side is well understood. Except, of course, the massive wiretapping without a warrant part.

Gun sellers have been pretty safe from prosecution for selling a gun that gets used in a crime. Why not encrypted communications companies? That's the distinction I wonder about. (Hopefully using the 'g' word wont further derail the conversation)
Land and property taxes are absolutely passed on to tenants. If the tax is higher than the rent that can be extracted, that just means you have improperly priced the land/property. You can prove it by trying to sell the property at which point, no investor is going to buy the land for a price that won't be profitable so the price will fall decreasing the effective tax until it is profitable to rent it out when factoring in the taxes.
Could you give more details about these tests and why the tests can't be modified to set DNS/NTP?
I think without Sci-hub I might have just said "fuck it" and never read certain papers from smaller journals that I later wound up citing

One thing I would do a lot with Google Scholar is find a highly-cited, somewhat recent (past decade or so) paper and then click into its citations to find the very most recent related work. IIRC this interface was chronological so there was no big-journal bias and I found a lot of stuff in random journals. Low-friction quality-filtering through SciHub was very helpful for me in this process.

I worked in a theoretical field, so it's actually possible to assess the quality of a paper just by reading it. If you're doing something experimental you may have to lean on the big-journal filter a little bit more.
Eh, I'm fine with it. It's mostly stock, not Dollars. He couldn't actually turn that in to $171.6B in cash.
Well, Bezos is putting billions of his money (not amazon's) into space industry (Blue Origin), that's nice
Have you ever heard of the giving pledge? Where wealthy people pledge to donate at least 50% of their wealth to charity?

Jeff Bezos is not a member of it, but his ex-wife is.

Have you looked at the amount of good Bill Gates has done in the world?
Owning something does not mean that you have zero responsibilities associated with that ownership.

I may "own my home", but I still have to pay property tax on it.
PGP is supporting many more. Should they ban PGP?
Actually google is one of the few organizations out there with real reproducible builds. If they gave you the sources and the program image, you could prove the latter was derived from the former.
They just say “sure” and pretend they don’t care.

Or they actually don’t, because they do nothing of consequence on a computer.
Edit: Nevermind, not getting into this today. Have a great weekend! :)
There are a whole spectrum of options between unchecked capitalism and communism.

I'm just asking what kind of guardrails if any might be appropriate moving forward now that we can see for ourselves how the current system is working for everyone.
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what is not normal is he is not paying much taxes compare to his wealth! He is selling around a $1B of Amazon shares each year and if he doesn't deduct anything he is paying 15% capital gain on it. That's 1/1000 of his net worth, I am pretty sure we all are paying way more than that. How is that fair?
And also the taxes supposed to be progressive, rich supposed to pay more, our dream here is to have the rich pay as much as a teacher!
This is fine. However one thing that is not clear to me is why after telling for decades that startup time and memory usage does not matter, Java world is promoting Graal native so much.
just FYI: you're arguing with someone that spent a year attempting to move to the EU because the UK voted to leave (from his own comments on this site)

everything the UK does is automatically bad
I don't know what that is though, hence my question.
We have had app teams whose Spring Boot application leaks memory at a rate that meant we needed to do app restarts once a month, even once a fortnight on occasion. Investigation is then hampered by half of the conversations we have being along the lines of "well we're using Spring Boot so it can't be our problem" and the other half are "it's Spring Boot causing the leak."

The dev team refused to accept responsibility as though they hadn't fought tooth and nail to use Spring Boot in the first place.
But it’s verifiable for your counterparty. If you’re on Encrochat you know that your counterparty has no GPS in their phone.
Permanently? Just change the encryption. Something fishy?
Was it really recently? Last time I used MySQL was 2018.
That depends...

Arguably, we are long past that point, as seen from Marx’ perspective of the 18th century: the entire economy of his time, i. e. agriculture and industrial manufacturing, covering the essentials of life, is today easily accomplished by about 3% of people working in agriculture, and probably a similar number in manufacturing.

But so far, we have chosen (and also accomplished) to reinvest capacities that were freed by automation into increased consumption instead of less work.

Considering the decreasing marginal utility of increased consumption (your first $1000/mo keep you alive, the tenth $1000 are wasted on a jet ski you will use twice), at some point working less should become the preferred option.

Alternatively, we might run out of the opportunity to choose work. This is what people mean when they mention competition by machines and AI. When driving and accounting and phone centers and retail are all automated, will we, yet again, come up with meaningful roles that are accessible to most everyone, but cannot be performed by such technology?
not true. it's a huge country and there are so many reasons why people decide not to emigrate particularly with the visa hassles worldwide and evolving startup scene in India.
It's really hard to grasp. Maybe this way: it's more millions than most people have dollars.
Society, humans, hell , mammals value others who provide leveraged value to them in a not linear fashion. Programmers should be able to graps this.
Why don't you actually listen to the podcast before making a judgement.

Honeypot operations are not unprecedented. Israel's most famous spy was involved in honeypots and orgies successfully targeting the Syrian military and government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen

On top of that there so many red flags:

- Where are the trading records or sec filings for Epstein who along with Madoff was one of the star hedge fund managers?

- How did he make his money considering he had only a single major client and previously was a private school teacher?

- How did someone who was supposedly worth 600 million live a lifestyle of a multi-billionaire with the largest private residence in Manhattan, a private island, and multiple private planes?

On top of that why were there so many strange circumstances around his prosecution and death? Nothing was standard about any part of it. Acosta himself was told to "back off" because "Epstein was above his pay grade".

Epstein was uniquely involved in parties gathering everyone across politics, finance, science, and industry, as has been repeatedly asserted, and his house was bugged heavily as has pretty well documeted.

Not to mention Ghislaine Maxwell's own father was a Mossad agent.

But I guess you have all the answers and we are all wearing tinfoil hats.
Then her death will also help promote Bill Gate's COVID-19 vaccine. Two birds, one stone.
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Sad to see, and a great museum.

If interested, the last exhibit is by Raven Kwok - https://twitter.com/ravenkwok
That was an extremely good thing actually, because it incentivized more people to stay home knowing that they could be financially secure. Slowing the spread of COVID is the goal. Prioritizing means testing in this situation out of some sort of sense of pragmatism is deeply twisted.
It’s /etc/resolv.conf, and systemd overwrites it,
Network Manager overwrites it (like every 10 minutes),
dhcp overwrites it, etc. What do they overwrite it to?

I still haven't understood where is the definitive place to set dns nowadays.

/etc/resolv.conf is routinely touched by stuff like NetworkManager and other stuff. Systemd-resolved config seems like the correct place, but I'm not sure how that plays with network-manager.
This makes it worse. For all those conditions to be met, it would have to be a conscious choice on the part of the user/administrator. And then systemd decides it knows better and resolves using 8.8.8.8 anyways?
ESTI EN 303 645: Cyber Security for Consumer Internet of Things [pdf]
Somehow I think they would still be a memory hog if written in C, better not mix the capabilities of the tooling with the skills of those that use them.
10 years in, and I still deal with it on a regular basis (I wrote [1] a little bit about this the other day). Hopefully it goes away one day, but I suspect it won't.

[1]: https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/10-years-of-software-deve...
People have been trained to justify these capitalists for whom we place on pedestals, while at the same time disparaging the common worker for some perceived lack of "merit" and "effort".

As programmers, we encourage open source work with little to no return on the effort when compared to how these projects are utilized. Amazon is a fantastic example for how it abuses this effort and the community.
I think the "gatekeeper" of Macromedia/Adobe is a bit of an overstatement; the proliferation of open SWF player projects shows it wasn't an obfuscated or challenging format. Additionally, they partnered with Mozilla to write the the JS engine for Firefox, then ES4 got scrapped. Adobe, having already built and shipped it for Flash, rebranded it as ActionScript 3. But it literally was a JS engine (what was supposed to become JS, anyways) and meant to be shipped in the most "open web" browser in wide use!

Also, before Atom and VS Code, Adobe worked on Brackets, which was a text editor built with web technologies (pre-Electron) with a lot of the same goals.

All this to say… it still wouldn't have been my preference (I love "View Source") but there's plenty of evidence they made attempts to engage the broader developer communities and do a fair bit of work in the open.
Nice, I really hope the project continues to develop. If we can combine functional programming patterns with the power of static typing on top of OTP, that would be a paradise to work on.
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yes, and he would have been able to close it again, instead he wrote this:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/12499#issuecomment...
If the wealth gap gets him elected, of course he’s gonna do the best he can to maintain it.
Hungary.

The whole outsourcing to India was a disaster. Made additionally worse by Java developers trying to write C++ (pre-11 too), so memory leaks everywhere. Fun times :(
>MarsMission

I'd join that movement. The modern web is such a disappointing mess.
Right, and there's no possibility to do research/testing anonymously anyway.
You use your personal e-Signature/ID card to logon to government sites, your logon is always tied to you.
People create wealth all the time without (the prospect of) being paid billions

Just look at some great FOSS projects: Linux, GCC, ...
By that metric there's a few macro nations that are "not a nation".
Discrimination charges at Pinterest reveal a hidden hiring problem
Seems interesting, but security flaws were in a countable (small) number of cases. Is this a general issue?
You realize that Bezos didn't built Amazon on his own, right? There are many, many people who worked for that company (and many of these in this very forum), and all they got was a monthly salary. They own nothing. We are living in the alternative. Most of the people who built Amazon don't own anything of what they created.
BeWelcome.org isn't new, but is a community where people can stay in each others' houses for free.

It's like CouchSurfing, but with no membership fee. There's no obligation to host. I just joined BeWelcome in May, but the community is very active.

It's run by a non-profit "association" in France called BeVolunteer (same structure as Wikipedia/Wikimedia). I see potential to start other projects within BeVolunteer, say BeBook, BeChat, BeMail. The real-life and online community of BeWelcome would encourage me to build code that people actually want to use. The network effect of hospitality exchange is powerful, and the legal experience of BeVolunteer is reassuring. For now I'm just discussing this idea on the BeWelcome forums and here on HN, but I see precedent (Wikibooks, Wiktionary) if dynamic people want to get involved. There's no money in it, but there is great kindness, and well-connected members!
In reality the nature of drug dealing would make it tricky to implement a cell structure. If you look at the IRA, implementing it meant in theory it was very hard for one cell to know another and only certain parts would supply arms, intelligence etc. This resulted in a drop in attacks for a long time because of the difficulties in keeping to that. Though it did of course decrease infiltration for awhile. Until the UK found the weaknesses and targeted those who had permission to oversee and deal with everything - the internal security section and leadership.

Drugs is a much more dynamic industry where are some points there is a need for a lot of contact, travel, managing big groups of individuals...Not that it couldn't work that way but it would be very hard when people are out making money all day rather then at home in a dissident sense waiting months/years until a short/fast operation.
Swift? Maybe?
This is one of the coolest sites I’ve ever seen! I love every part of it!
Urban legends and conspiracy stories have always been popular in hacker and Internet-centric culture. There is nothing new under the sun.
Give it a few years and either Amazon won't be worth as much OR this is hyperinflation and we have bigger problems to worry about.
Precisely, but Bezos doesn't own something that's his, it's something that's everybody's, so definitely not the same.
It's not specific to programming, though. For example, even after completing new buildings, I've never seen a school reduce the number of "temporary" portable classrooms they use to teach classes.