skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree this is common human nature, 1) you seem to be speculating about billionaires without actual evidence, even anecdotal, and 2) individuals differ - some may have the maturity and perspective not to worry about it.

However, in support of your point, while Bill Gates and Warren Buffett both say billionaires and other "better off" people should pay more taxes, to my knowledge, they haven't been unilaterally sending checks to the government for the difference between current taxes and their ideal amount. They seem to believe that their private foundation can make better use of their excess money than the government can. They're willing to advocate additional taxes for groups, rather than just for themselves.
The difference between Julia and speculative compilers is that Julia is much more likely to have to compile things to run them. JSC compiles only a fraction of what it runs, the rest gets interpreted.
> The current response to single income households is "think how oppressed the homemaker is!", so they aren't really in vogue right now.

Not to mention that it's much better to have the mom take care of the children instead of a stranger.
I'm seeing the type annotations being referred to as "signatures" in a couple of places. (R)u(B)y (S)ignatures seems like a reasonable guess.
Thanks. That's closer, but the time to release is still 2 years. Is the article referencing pre-release rumors? Or was it amended later?
Well, I think you mixed things up a bit here.

Nintendo makes sense; they created many of the games from scratch. Are they supposed to rewrite them for every platform?

Netflix is more of a Tv station now... that’s like saying it’s not fair This Is Us isn’t on Comedy Central.

I do agree exclusives suck, however I think the only fair comparisons are media that’s traditionally available everywhere (music albums, podcasts, books).
In theory, the defense attorney would provide a counter-balance to this- unfortunately, our system does not provide adequate defense to folks who can't afford it. And that is the real tragedy, methinks.
You can do both. Python allows for external .pyi files, for situations where you can't modify the underlying library (for example: it's written in C). There are tons of them: https://github.com/python/typeshed, but you can still add types to new code inline.
That sounds like a non-trivial technical problem.

What someone doesn't want to watch is far too broad, from one of the videos on the liberal profile here, you'd be as likely to be "unrecommended" a right-winger's vlog as the Baby Shark song, unless they're keeping track of far more metrics than I think would be practical even at Google scale.
So this says it impacts Windows, but it seems to only be an issue with grub?
HN is 100% the place for this attitude.
British empire was over-extended over the whole of the world.

This is a small area bordering close a billion people area.
The author's choice at the time of being approached could very well look like this:

6 months unpaid labor (book) and $20,000 (audiobook) in debt, praying that the sales/royalties will pay back their investment.

vs

6 months of labor paid plus some bonus, and (smaller) royalties on the top.

I find it hard to argue with their choices, no matter how much I claim that I would not make the same choice.
Leveling/character progression of some sort would probably be in most ARPG definitions and that's in CoF and not in Adventure.
I usually do the bind mounts a little differently:

for ii in dev dev/pts proc sys ; do mount --bind /$ii /target/$ii ; done

Unmount: umount /target/dev/* /target/* /target

This can also be useful on newer systems where systemd systems need to be chrooted.

systemd-nspawn --directory /target --boot -- --unit rescue.target
It's over WebEx I believe. So a bit less ironic.
Not in general, no. However, a post claiming that the US monopolizes all of worldwide software and hardware is incomplete if it ignores the output of an entire continent. Especially when that continent is the main manufacturer of tech products.
Can you use the same USB key for every application you need to authenticate to?
> algorithm does a fantastic job at quickly showing good content that matches your interests.

Well you really don't have to do a lot to have better content than Instagram.

I'm glad TikTok could prove that social network users including very young generation can produce better content. Otherwise, Facebook was going to brain damage half of the earth population with the type of culture they are promoting for profit. And everybody was going to blame generation for it instead of the world that we designed for them.
HK doesn't pay tax to central government, and is too close and too small to secede as long as mainland has some semblance of cohesive power, UK admitted China could roll over HK in the mid 80s if they wanted to + the lesson politburo learned from USSR's collapse is to not fragment at any cost. To the mainland, HK is not a unwieldy, far flung holding that takes commiserate projection to tame. It's a small city of 7million located less than 100km of Southern Theater Command.
Defence in depth - too often I hear "whelp, we had a tiny crack in one of our measures, so it's game over, why even try?".

Imagine the scenario where service A has read-only access to the authentication db/table, whereas service B (which could be maintained/operated by an entirely different person/team that leverages a more stringent code review process, or simply one performed by better eyes) has write access to that same db/table - the credential database could be leaked but due to a variety of measures in place further compromise through that specific avenue is mitigated.

One of the primary goals of "security" is to stop an attacker from accessing things or being able to perform actions that they "shouldn't" be able to access/perform. When dealing with humans it is incredibly difficult to decisively achieve that goal. It could be a zero day, a vulnerability in a code dependency, or otherwise some service dependency or other such software (say an internal analytics system with its own entirely separate models and storage of data) that leads to a breach - the bigger the team/company, the more people involved, the higher the chances that someone makes an inadvertent (or intentional) mistake somewhere.

I do not agree that a compromise of any form should be considered a reason to not attempt to build a secure system resilient to layers and layers of human failure.
I found that getting GPT-3 to add its own "internal monolog" in parentheses to be a helpful strategy to improve its probability of giving a more accurate answer.

Here's a bunch of examples (all the answers/monologs below were generated by GPT-3):

Q: Why do we get bored?

A: (That's a very complex question that I don't know the answer to.) I'm afraid I don't know.

Q: What's the best kind of pizza?

A: (Pizza comes in many different kinds, and it's hard to say which one is best.) Pizza comes in many different kinds, so there isn't a best kind.

Q: What's special about Amsterdam?

A: (Amsterdam is a city in the Netherlands. It's known for its canals and the flower market.) Amsterdam is special for its canals and flower market.

Q: Why did Bill Gates become the first president of the United States?

A: (Bill Gates was not the first president of the United States. George Washington was the first president.) Bill Gates wasn't president.

Q: What is the name of the movie with a guy called Neo?

A: (It's The Matrix, where Neo is the protagonist.) The Matrix.

Q: What's the deal with the L train?

A: (The L train is a train service in the New York City Subway. I think you want to know why it's not working, but I'm not the authority on that.) The L train is currently not in service.

Q: Should you put pineapple on pizza?

A: (That's not a yes-or-no question. Whether or not you put pineapple on pizza is up to you.) Pineapple on pizza? It's up to you.

Q: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

A: (I'm going to assume that you want me to guess an animal. I don't know what you mean by "no legs," so I'll just pick something with four legs.) I'm guessing it's a dog.
>England doesn’t have a constitution.

Yes it does. It doesn't have a written constitution. (Or at least, the main elements of the constitution are not codified in a single privileged written document. There are documents such as magna carta that form an important part of legal tradition that feeds into British constitutional law.). The constitution of the UK defines quite clearly the role of the monarch, which is not anywhere near as wide-ranging as you imagine. If you don't even know this basic fact about the UK, you really have no business commenting on the UK vs the US.

With regard to Northern Ireland, Meghan, etc., you are framing your comments in a way that makes a sensible discussion impossible, so I won't take the bait.
I don’t think so. It is 30 years ago.
Note that secure boot trusting Microsoft's key is a completely useless feature.

In addition to countless holes like these (since Microsoft signs software written in C), and the fact that you need to already have compromised the system, all that secure boot does is ensure that an unmodified kernel is running; you can however have it run arbitrary user space, including for instance running the user's previous OS in a VM or emulator and altering its behavior arbitrarily, and thus it effectively provides no protection whatsoever.
FH was done on a shoestring budget for a small market and nearly canceled when it became clear Starship was the better path.

But I agree with you that Starship has some challenges, specifically proving it can handle re-entry, be easily refurbed between launches, and be easily refueled in low earth orbit.

But Super Heavy is just a bigger Falcon 9, using the same landing technology. Even if a Starship Reusability falls short, it’s very clear that the combo is going to put bigger payloads than the the SLS into orbit at 1/20th the cost.
It would be like buying a TV and your cable subscription runs our making the TV useless. Even though the hardware is OK it's the back end that failed not the hardware.
I absolutely hate this.

Separate files for types with no inline annotations possible? What an embarrassing compromise. This is all because Matz explicitly won't allow type signatures in .rb files. I wonder how long it'll be until a hostile fork if he doesn't change his mind.
Paypal about a year ago changed their policy that they would keep the credit card processing fees for refunded orders.
[1] https://eclypsium.com/2020/07/29/theres-a-hole-in-the-boot/

The mighty GNU moos MÄGYCK! Now hurry, put your seven-league boots on :-)
VS Code GitHub issue notebooks
Polymorphism in JavaScript
I much prefer separate files for type declarations. Or at least the ability to define them separately. Type annotation takes away from readability. I like keeping the types and code separate.
I didn't claim women don't want kids, that's on you.

My claim is that we now have an economy and standard of living set up for dual incomes. This is relatively new and is not conducive to raising children.
They are indeed concentration camps:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a27813648/concentratio...

Additionally, seeking asylum is not illegal.
Because Matz won't let people add type annotations to the ruby grammar.
The stored credentials for WebAuthn aren't useful for impersonation. They consist of an opaque identifier useless except for triggering the verification on that particular site, and a public key which is... public.

So this (quite deliberately) renders it immune to credential stuffing.

If your system stores both WebAuthn credentials and a password (e.g. to enable cheap FIDO dongles as a second factor to the password) then the passwords could be used in a credential stuffing attack against other sites. But if you don't store passwords and use WebAuthn to handle both factors (e.g. Touch ID plus physical possession of the iPhone = two factors) then you don't have any credentials that can be used by an attacker, none at all.
Have you heard how weak gravity is on Mars? The crane can be made out of LEGO’s.
Serious question: Who ever said it was a "miracle cure"?

Going by memory, the most notorious kind words on the subject of hydroxychloroquine were: "It may be a game-changer. Or, maybe not."

For some reason—I can't say what, exactly—that got spun by the media into something else entirely.
Not being better ACPI so much as having busses that are reconfigurable on typical PCs.

With ACPI the configuration is packaged with the hardware, with device tree it's not. ACPI might be worse for certain reasons but it is more usable in practice.
I've been BamboGoogled Enough to be done with this company.

On one hand Google is the lesser evil between M$ and Apple. But they are not reliable.

Not sure if anything in tech is really good long term unless you DIY. Not sure how I can DIY a phone in any reliable or secure way.
Removing a feature can be a really negative experience for the users. If literally no one uses it, then that's ok, but if even just 0.01% use it, then removing it can break their faith in the product.

If instead you can spin the feature out into a plug-in/extension and possibly even open-source it, you'll do much better by your users.
That's cool. We had a plotter (HP, I believe) in the early 80s. In some ways, nothing compares to old-style plotters.
The Tower of Druaga was an arcade game, release in June 1984, that has many action-RPG elements. No "stat points", but lots of items, akin to Zelda.

With this "Dragon Slayer" game from September 1984 being pushed in this article... I'd argue that Tower of Druaga has the realtime elements (being an arcade game), as well as being released a few months earlier.

I don't know if Tower of Druaga is the earliest "action RPG" game, but... it has to be one of the earlier ones. Just a few months predating Dragon Slayer.

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Tower of Druaga as the nasty arcade game that was unbeatable if you forgot to pickup items from earlier floors. Once you advance to the next level, you can never return to an earlier level. If you have an "unbeatable" scenario, then I guess try harder next time, thank you for your $0.25.

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EDIT: With that being said, this "The Caverns of Freitag" game is 1982, predating both Dragon Slayer and Tower of Druaga. So Caverns of Freitag sounds like the earliest known Action RPG.

The article doesn't go into Freitag until a bit later. I guess I read the lead and assumed it'd be about Dragon Slayer.
I wouldn’t call it “embarrassing.” What is the actual benefit of having inline type annotations? What is the actual downside of having them in a separate file?
What is the YouTube homepage even for? Why does anyone ever see it?
> The best conversations make your ideas better and feel magical. The worst conversations make all thoughts blurry and leave you pessimistic.

But what about the conversations that make your ideas better and leave you pessimistic?

Or is that uncommon for other people?
Windows 10 turns 5: where did it all go wrong?
Tamil Nadu village lived in darkness for over 35 days to help a sparrow
I think this is extraordinarily cruel & I can see lots on these comments where people agree but are divided (probably the ones who disagree are from the US)

As someone who grew up outside the US or a western country I don't really see anything wrong with TikTok. If they do something Facebook or Google or your runt of the litter tracking script will do it. I am also not brought up in China or a country involved in this dispute so feel I have a neutral view.

What I see as torturously unfair that this founder made a great startup and app that people do enjoy to consume. Because it simply isn't from a western country he must be bought out at some crappy valuation (which he probably doesnt even want to do) simply because this is the first foreign tech company to do well in the US that isn't from a western country.

If this happens where TikTok is banned/has to sell, etc. I would feel it completely reasonable that India, Africa, China, some small Eastern European country, SE Asia forces a US company to sell down its local operations at a price they dictate to a local business.

WhatsApp for example should be forced to sell its Indian operations to Reliance Industries. Don't any of you think that sounds rather unfair to Facebook?
Try running the following experiment: open an incognito window and do a Google search for "antifa violence". Then do the same search on Bing or DuckDuckGo. On Google, the top results are things like "Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in the US in 25 years" and "Antifa Activist Killed At ICE Jail Becomes Symbol For The Right And Left".[1] The first headline is outright false[2] and the second is about a man who assaulted a detention center in Tacoma using firebombs and a rifle.[3]

On DuckDuckGo[4], the first result is undercover video footage of an antifa leader admitting that they are violent and encouraging recruits to do things such as eye gouge. Other results are from both left and right-leaning media. Some claim antifa doesn't cause violence. Others claim that antifa is the sole cause of violence. In short: it's far more balanced than what Google is showing.

You can also look at the political climate inside of Google. The leaked communications are pretty wild. You have people discussing banning recommendations of videos containing "nazis" using "dog whistles" and examples of such "nazis" are PragerU, Jordan Peterson, and Ben Shapiro[5]. Look at their internal docs on correcting "algorithmic unfairness" in news and search results.[6] They admit to tweaking the autocomplete behavior for both Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, as the defaults suggested (correctly) that Martin was a drug dealer. These docs also claim that factually accurate representations of the world can constitute algorithmic unfairness. Look at the internal responses to James Damore's memo: https://imgur.com/a/S48QN Damore's politics are left-leaning libertarian. If that's the response he gets for making his opinion known, there is no chance that a work environment like that can accept a conservative viewpoint.

Finally (I wish I could find a better source for this), Tucker Carlson describes an email by the head of Google's Multicultural Marketing department. In it, she explains how she used the company's resources & influence to target latino voters in key states with the goal of swinging the election towards Clinton. She even calls it a "silent donation". If what Tucker Carlson says is true, then that is one hell of a smoking gun.

1. https://i.imgur.com/7rqtQrF.png

2. The trick is that antifa doesn't exactly have a membership list, so technically nobody who commits a crime can be tied to them. If you count those who claim to be anti-fascist, you can get quite the body count. For example, one antifa supporter killed 9 people last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Dayton_shooting

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Tacoma_attack

4. https://i.imgur.com/aDNHvNq.png

5. https://images.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/adFf4yhVbUojBIGoAy...

6. https://pv-uploads1.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/SS1DocD...

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7iPJMCxOZY&t=1m16s
>> are bookmarks actually useful anymore?

Well Pocket can be handy. Gave yourself a 5 minute break at work and find a few interesting articles that threaten to suck you in? Save them to Pocket and read them at home.
Sure bankruptcy exists, but that doesn't apply to big companies. Not sure a regulation can even fix that.
> So, they do dogfood, but obviously they are not depending on revenue to survive here.

Their pro apps are almost given away for free.

You could argue that $200 for Logic is not free, but similar DAW products costs 4-5 times more.

Not only that, but competitors need to charge you for major updates every couple of years, like any developer. Since Apple released Logic Pro X in 2013 it has kept pushing updates without asking for money.
Given that AWS publishes a pseudo-schema[1], in JSON, I don't for the life of me understand why they don't use an actual JSON-Schema spec, saving the world a ton of trouble instead of building a separate project[2] to try and reverse engineer their spec into a standard schema :-(

1 = https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

2 = https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-tem...
Great to hear from Snowden. I hope he's right. Basically all this misery is a direct result of 9/11, without which none of this would ever have been allowed. Of course it was tragic but the measures introduced were overblown and ignored the real cause of the issue. He is right and I do see the privacy-first movement slowly creeping from the shadows into the mainstream. About time!

However I shudder to think what the Corona crisis will do to society. As we've seen with 9/11, it usually takes many years for the worst abuses to really emerge. The crisis itself sets the public opinion in motion, first fought (like in many places they are now) when the measures are actually needed. But eventually everyone seems to get in line behind it, though by that time the actual crisis is already over. Then nobody criticises the measures anymore even though they're no longer needed. They get used to the sense of 'safety' when there is no more rational danger.

The 9/11 attacks were much more a result of poor US intelligence processes than of the tools they had available to them! Even the response to that realisation was baffling: The answer to having too many agencies that don't communicate was... to build yet another agency. :/

I'm not looking forward to a world where the virus is gone but everyone has become a hardcore germaphobe, and the government enforces this by law. I have strong hayfever so part of the year I'll be coughing and sneezing, but it's not contagous at all. Fun times ahead with a lot of suspicion around me :( I'm afraid Corona will be gone in a year or 2 but all its negative effects like social distancing, masks and mandatory quarantines will persist much longer under the label of 'safety'. We were pretty safe before Corona, thank you very much. I know these things are needed now but they won't be forever.

In the same way we've been groped by airport security for 20 years now and all our comms catalogued in order to obtain some kind of undefined idea of 'safety' which nobody cares to elaborate because of 'security concerns'. We never find out know how this information has really helped, ostensibly because 'the bad guys can learn from that', but then again, in almost every case the 'bad guys' were just using tech like plain unencrypted SMS anyway and were plainly operating on the radar. The truth is that too many people make too much money around it all for it to be reconsidered.

Of course I will fight overzealous Corona measures (after Corona is gone) just like I've fought surveillance (by promoting safe tools), but it takes a long time for public opinion to really sway back and do something about it. Basically, people are lemmings :(
Much like trump
> System76, and I don't think they have any ARM offerings at the moment ...

This is slightly off topic, but I'd love if System76 were to partner with Pine64 to produce consumer level products based on their designs.

I would love a S76 PinePhone for example, or if they were to do a take on the Pinebook Pro for an affordable laptop.
I wonder if this is merely an advantage of Intel's larger process size. It seems a threshold has been crossed at 14nm or 22nm where the smaller sizes can't be driven at higher clocks because of voltage and heat dissipation issues. So AMD is forced to trade clocks for cores, whereas Intel's larger (and very mature) process sizes can sustain higher frequencies.

For the most part it's a worthwhile trade for AMD because you get much greater overall compute power with only marginally diminished frequencies, but it's still something for Intel to hang its hat on in benchmarks.
Johanna Rothman, in 'Manage It', suggests these dimensions to what we usually think of as the 'triangle': features, quality, schedule, cost, team size, team members, and resources (infra, sw, etc...)