skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's crazy that even on the 'fast path' there are so many checks being run over and over. Provides an interesting alternative to the JavaScript Core article from a couple of days ago https://webkit.org/blog/10308/speculation-in-javascriptcore/
Thanks, that was a very interesting read!

I know paracetamol also works to some extent for emotional pain, and perhaps anxiety and physical pain share some neural and developmental pathways.

Do you feel any physical pain?

How about empathy?

I've always had a profound disliking for people without empathy, and for good measure -- those people usually are psychopaths or narcissists, but if they are compassionate but just don't feel empathy, it's ok, I guess... though the nauseating feeling in my stomach that I first got when I was maybe 5 and I saw the reaction of a child I struck and robbed of his sunflower, just as instructed by my older cousin -- that is so fundamental to me, that it seems inconceivable that you can become a decent human being without it.

I caught myself hoping that at some point in the article some professional would point out how the lady is in fact flawed in some major ways.

As in you can't have your cookie and eat it too, while the rest of us are struggling?

I also wish the article elaborated more about why the daughter thought the lady was in fact horrible -- was that feeling ongoing, or just something in her adolescence, or just the same nagging feeling I have -- that there MUST be something terribly bad about someone without empathy.

Take for instance the story of her bipolar husband that died(killed himself?).
Most likely she indeed could not have prevented it.

BUT maybe.... someone feeling empathy and not feeling reciprocated, would over time feel they are interracting with a robot, not with a human being.

I know I feel that way when I talk with my father and I know he's very low on the empathy scale -- the whole interaction feels so very fake and scripted after a while -- I can read his emotional states, I know what he wants, what he wants me to say, what his fears are, what his intentions are, but it is absolutely not the other way around.

Overall my father is a good person -- a very good and hard working doctor, contributes to charities and so on.

I wouldn't get my bad feelings about him if I only knew and spent a couple of days in my life with him as a writer writing an article about him, but I sure do as someone who wants a genuine and deep connection with him, just like the lady's daughter probaby did with her mother.
AFAICT, Sweden's figures have only dropped so much because they had been so high before, and remain higher than its neighbors.

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countri...

That makes the headline very misleading, much like cheering about a company's stock rebounding while ignoring the precipitous fall that had preceded it (sometimes called a "dead cat bounce").
Maintaining relationships has nearly nothing to do with luck and everything to do with doing those things that are required to maintain relationships. Those come naturally to some people but for others they are learned skills that require some focus and effort. But if you fail it's almost certainly not because of bad luck, but rather because you decided that it was too much bother.
FWIW, I think the commentary around pricing is totally valid. Ergo keyboards are absurdly expensive; not everyone can drop the necessary 2 to 400 USD to acquire one of these. I don't know the economics but I'm sure part of it is driven by demand; there's a lot less people concerned with ergonomics than there should be, so no one's really incentivized to figure out how to mass produce these.

I would love it when an entry level ergo keyboard could be had for under 50.
I've had both and the kinesis def feels more solid. The Maltron probably came up with the original design, and they're great for that, but the keys of the Kinesis feel better/sturdier. I've had to resolder connections in the Maltron several times; luckily its easy to do... they're just unshielded wires going everywhere!
I understand "cancel culture" to simply be a form of mob-enforced group-think. It's "intolerance of intolerance" taken to an extreme. If you say or do something (or said or did something in the past!) that runs afoul of the mob, the mob "cancels" you (tries to get you fired from your job, kicked out of github projects you contribute to, membership revoked from organizations you participate in, your business boycotted/destroyed, etc. - essentially ruin your life as much as possible without causing bodily harm). The end goal of cancel culture is to "send a message" to other people that do similar things and get them to conform to the prevailing group-think of the mob.

Maybe you were religious and voted against gay marriage in the past. Maybe you used a politically incorrect term on Twitter. Maybe you donated some money to the wrong political party. Maybe you just didn't kowtow to the mob's latest demands. All of these things can ignite the capricious maelstrom of the mob, and once you are a target, they will pursue you with righteous indignation until you are "cancelled"
One of the most talented developers I ever met was an English major. This was about ~20 years ago. The C code this guy produced was unbelievable.
I'm sure he'll be fine. They'll let him stir in jail for a few years to break him of the notion of ever doing it again, then he'll get picked up by a three-letter agency and recruited to do the same kind of work for them as a condition for getting out of jail early.
The third person has been identified in an Ars Technica article [1].

1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/florida-teen-arr...
The movement towards eWallets is a better UX than a pin, as the device is a witness factor (chip) while the device-level auth (passcode or <body part>Id) represents similar proof as a pin. The added benefit, here, is that users can order online with as much safety as at a terminal (Maybe I'm missing a nuance or two here?) and no terminal is necessary.
> hen nations have knowledge of unethical government campaigns using related corporations

NSA has pretty bad records of spying all over the world, and all US companies have to work with US judicatory system under the court permission. In that convention, all over the world should have blocked US companies.

> I don't see how this is similar to treating black people

Because their skin is black, not because there is evidence of any law breaking, they are treated differently.

I don't want to get into uighurs talk, "reeducation camp" could as well be a more restrict boarding school under different context, but this is not related.
> Today’s announcement proves that cybercriminals can no longer hide behind perceived global anonymity

Anyone know what the loose end was that got these guys busted?
Demanding a "deeper, more consistent, and prolonged commitment than in the past" from people whose profession you've already made more difficult is pretty galling.

It may be the case that their careers were going to get more difficult anyway; nevertheless, Ek is in fact one of the main drivers and beneficiaries.
To be fair, there were a lot of CVEs because part of the sandbox in Java was capabilities-based, and the Achilles' heel of capabilities is that if you can see it, you can use it, and feature factory work has a bad habit of accidentally making things visible by exposing some parent object in an attempt to be helpful.

I did like the permissions inheritance model quite a bit, but the hybrid ACL/capabilities system was always a bit schizophrenic.
you can hate someone but not act or let it bother you. its just that its super easy / common for people to let hate affect their life. Hate can also be channeled in a positive healthy way. I got out of a shitty life situation by channeling my hate towards my studies and self improvement to get the financial and logistical means to leave.
I tried TikTok, I don't think it is as great as what others told me. The content is very repetitive.

I think imgur has better variations.
I forgot about Hackers and Painters! Pretty sure there's a copy on a bookshelf here somewhere...

Interesting quotes. Reminded me of a conversation I had with some local artists a while back who were staunchly in favour of their kids going into STEM because the humanities don't have a direct application to industry any more. They didn't want their kids wasting money on exploratory education, or in pursuit of the arts which they saw as a dead-end. I found that really sad, but it stemmed from an acute awareness of the direction industries like music are going.

Historically, the sciences emerged as areas of philosophy, but they've since become detached from those roots. Those roots have a grounding effect, a sense of the greater context of human life, that's missing in the culture around STEM today. I see echoes of that in the rationalizations made by Spotify's CEO: Who cares if the album is dead? Get with the new program, whatever the cost; it was inevitable anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Polyester_Prince

Wikipedia shows it was banned from being published in india. Interestingly, the citations are pointing to a 404 page. From bit of googling, I can find post from wire [0].

Interesting edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Polyester_Pri...

Btw, you can find listing of many banned items on amazon. That doesn't mean they are not banned or illegal. Plus, it seems that book is from international sources because 30k is a huge amount in India. That's more than the average salary here monthly.

0] https://thewire.in/books/the-unhappy-prince-how-dhirubhai-am...
Time for FG to invest in local reporters and hire them for original content ie original news reporting and also get some royalty out of it :)
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I hear this a lot, but I've never understood it. Do most albums have 1 or 2 stinkers? Sure, but I still don't skip tracks. I enjoy music the most when it's in the larger context of an album. I like anticipating my favorite songs and I like the transitions between them, even if it's just silence.
conservatives like running on the idea that government is broken or needs to be parted out. Then they get elected and make it so via budget cuts and hiring freezes while pumping more money into Defense.
>>> It's orders of magnitude easier to make working software than it is to make a hit record.

That couldn't be further from the truth, it's extremely easy to make a hit, large labels consistently release hits again and again.

It's all about distribution and marketing network, not about the music.

Sames goes with tech, good luck trying to make a product and garner any amount of traction, whereas the same product released from microsoft/google/aws would get millions of eyeballs right away.

Thinking that good has much to do with success is a recipe to be disappointed. Go spend some time promoting your creations instead of trying to make them better.
https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/alg8az/anyone_exper...
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=927066
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> I dont think he has enough buck in the bank to buy an entire country.

give it some time
> I wish more people, especially tech CEOs

Well, you can't really blame the tech CEO here... Spotify charges people what they're willing to pay to listen to music. I think it's a minor miracle that they've worked out a way to get people to pay anything for music considering how easy music piracy has been since the internet came along. (Not taking a moral stance, just stating a fact).
The Art of Monitoring [1], covers most of these stuff in a unified manner.

You are introduced to some basics (push vs. pull monitoring), then proceeded with simple system metrics collection (cpu, memory) via collectd, then goes to logs ingestion and ends up extracting application-specific metrics from jvm and python applications.

I highly recommend it, even for seasoned professionals.

[1] https://artofmonitoring.com/
I'll be happy to see those examples.

But anyway, that's besides the poin. Why should a university professor be cancelled because after his research he says he has evidence that sex is a biological construct and not a social one?
If they were dumb enough to waste such a high value target on a small scale bitcoin scam then I wouldn’t be surprised if they were dumb enough to perform the malicious actions from their home IP address.
China does not block US apps.
> How much does GPT do? How much turf beyond chatbots and automatic journalism does it cover?

The real answer to this is that we don't really know just yet. People are still finding ways to represent problems as text completions and feeding them to GPT-3 and seeing what comes out. However there is a hard limit for GPT-3 specificially, and that's its context window. IIRC it can only be prompted with & generate 2048 "BPEs" in total (smaller than a word, but bigger than one character). So in your prompt you could give it a handful of tables, some with outliers, some without, and some metrics after each table concerning outliers. Then the last part of your prompt is a table you'd like the metrics for and let GPT-3 fill it in. Does this work? The answer is a strong maybe, lol. But you're so limited in space that for some use-cases it's more likely you'd need to wait for later iterations of this approach that raise or remove the length limitation.
What CC/Merchant system do you use? Have you looked at Stripe’s anti-fraud system?
"This knowledge is valuable in itself. It will make you a better, more well-rounded person, who has a richer life." That's a completely reasonable statement.

"This degree is valuable economically. It will lead to you having a well-paying job that will lead to you being economically successful". For many degrees, that statement is false.

The problem is that, when we talk about the value of a college education, much of the time we're talking about the second statement. But that statement is true only of some degrees, not of all of them.

Is the first statement still true? Sure. But is it true enough to be worth going deeply into debt for, without an economic payback for the degree? That's much harder to claim. And many people think that they're getting the second benefit from a degree when they're getting a degree that only provides the first, and they feel like they didn't get what was promised.
The ability to have an auto scaling auto distributive compute mesh, I’d say. Once a company builds that they can add POPs as fast as they can spend (or raise) money.
Right, everyone knows about the Laffer curve. It's hilariously simplistic.

> I think lawmakers supporting tax cuts try to claim that tax revenues are not sensitive to tax rates because it would be convenient if true when trying to pass a tax cut.

The point of the chart going back to WW2 is to show that it's a little more complicated and we can't draw conclusions either way.

And circling back to the original point of contention, spending is not function of GDP, or in theory it shouldn't be. Spending is a function of population. So if federal tax revenue increases even after a tax cut, but deficit increases, then the culprit isn't necessarily the tax cut, the culprit is the spending increase.
She builds a masterpiece of JavaScript around Yahoo YQL which she uses until Yahoo stops being relevant and YQL is abandoned. Undeterred she finds an abandoned PHP proxy and beats it with a rubber mallet until it functions as a YQL replacement. Satisfied she continues maintaining a single page web app designed around a single undecorated HTML form so plain looking that everyone who sees it asks "How can you have been working on this project for ten years and it still looks like crap?" She hosts her source code on an abandoned wiki farm instead of GitHub and never changes her profile picture. Same blue wig for a whole decade, yeah!
I love the discussion about what's the future abstraction for serverless, and love where cloudflare is headed. Can wait to see what's next. A couple questions.

Any plans to support web-sockets terminated in the isolate(not just proxied)?

Any plans for a local development? Some open source locally run-able or low volume self host-able stack that mirrors the global stack would I think really help dev workflow and adoption.

edit: just poking around their blog saw this. https://blog.cloudflare.com/making-magic-reimagining-develop...
Kevin Mitnick seems to be doing just fine now.
You're getting it totally backwards here. The supplier commission is how much of the card's value BriansClub is paying to the supplier:

"On average, BriansClub paid suppliers commissions ranging from 50-60 percent of the total value of the cards sold."

High demand + low supply of these cards means that the suppliers are getting a better "price" when selling them to BriansClub, the middleman.
I think Facebook has proven sufficiently that playing it straight is just not in their DNA. I'd also assume they'd rather find a novel way of staying shady than change their monetization scheme.
>While Nvidia has a vastly superior product to AMD

Which product? It can't possibly be their GPUs you mean because that would be hilariously wrong. That is like saying a Lamborghini is a better car than a VW because it has a higher top speed.

To me -and to many many buyers- AMD is the superior product. To most Intel has the best product by far (business laptop, Chromebook, etc.)
I've been looking for this episode that covers when Krushchev visted, but it seems the only way to get it is to buy the DVD.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/cold-wa...
Not a single person seem to think that it is odd that we can simply order a foreign company to sell their business to an American company.
Agreed. Some people are motivated by wanting to have a significant positive impact on the world, and they're fine if that makes me a little less happy overall. I think that's great - especially when it's someone who has a lot of privilege/power. We should be encouraging that over pursuit of happiness/pleasure.
Didn’t the hack need internal access? VPN maybe?
>Sometimes even after you forgive someone you're still going to continue to live in hurt.

No, that would not be forgiveness. Forgiveness is you overcoming the negative emotion.

>other times you can move on and not forgive someone and not be hurt anymore.

That would be forgiveness.

>Simply I don't associate myself with that person anymore

That would be a lack of reconciliation. Reconciliation is not a requirement of forgiveness.

What you are describing is either excusing or pardoning.

>Moving on is part of and a prerequisite for forgiveness, but not the other way around.

There are multiple ways to move on, including forgetting.

I am generally a descriptivist. I acknowledge there is a second definition of forgiveness that is incompatible and mutually exclusive with the first, and that many people commonly use the word that way. That second definition however does not invalidate the concept of Forgiveness, with a capital F. It doesn't erase the first meaning of the world. I am not going to call it "misuse of a word" but the word is being used extremely loosely to describe other concepts that have other defined words. In this case, precision and clarity are required in conversation, and using definition two to have a conversation about the meaning of the concept in definition one, becomes a circular argument.
Sure assembly is overkill for most tasks, but Python's performance is so poor that you can sometimes write a brute-force double loop on C++ and have it outperform anything in native Python.

Sometimes raw performance does save developer time, because you don't have to worry that much about algorithm. :)
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Yes, it's a monopoly, but that doesn't mean it's bad per-se. People are freely choosing to buy iPhones and there are alternatives. If the situation on the App Store was so bad, there wouldn't be enough good apps and perhaps people would choose other devices. No one is forcing any company to publish into the App Store.
I work in the credit card industry. It's more complicated then that. Depending on who has EMV enabled correctly greatly shifts the fraud load. But banks can and do pay a huge part of the fraud which is passed on to consumers in higher interest rates. Merchants pay "cashback" by some definition but it's fungible. If there were no cashback that money would go directly to the banks and the end user would have lower interest rates.
The ARM company is not just about the instruction set architecture. The ISA wouldn't be interesting at all if no good processors were built with the ISA [0]. For RISC-V to succeed, it requires a company that builds some good processor designs for it - for smartwatches, smartphones, tablets, laptops desktops - and licenses that to others. That company (one or multiple) does not (yet) exist, and is not easy to build.

[0]: Which is exactly why SPARC, and with one exception Power is dying, and why RISC V is yet to deliver. Nobody (bar IBM's POWER line) is building good processors with those ISAs that make it worth the effort to use. Nothing to do with the ISA - you just need chips people are interested in using.
Of course it exists. It has always existed. People have been ostricised for holding "unacceptable" views for all of time. That hasn't changed. What has changed is which views will get you ostricised.

And don't think even now there is only one side to this phenomena. Some are growing a catalog of infractions by the left but you would surely find yourself in hot water were you to tell your conservative boss or coworkers that war is a crime against humanity and all soldiers are therefore criminals (not my view but an extant one).
This so many times over. OOP encourages clever implementations, I believe. That is, when I and others use it, I often think about how clever it is. Until I need to debug it and fix it. Then I start cursing.
Parent also said that law enforcement will investigate all wire fraud. My experience shows that is false, and that is independent of the ACH point.

See my downvoted follow-up reiterating this obvious point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24009403
Call me old fashioned, but being forced into public service after being made a felon for a non-violent crime seems like a terrible outcome no matter how you slice it.
Hitting a 17yo with 30 felony charges feels a bit steep to me.

Also should any repercussions be considered against Twitter that a 17yo was able to gain access to the private messages of potentially some of the most important individuals in the world?

If a 17yo could do it, I'm sure a nation state could do it.
My friend's kids, ages 9 and 11, are both obsessed with TikTok along with most of their school.
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"1. What "bullshit" degrees people are talking about? Are they the liberal arts studies? If so, as a society do we not see value in the fine arts?"

I don't see value in graduating with 6 figure debt for those degrees. In the words of Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting:

“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
It's been forever that I have used Inheritance in OOP. Perhaps Python has spoilt me, but 99% of my thought process automatically pivots to composition when thinking in terms of OOP.

And more towards how to name libraries, what functionality to put functions into and how to name my files.

OOP is just a tool to organize code. People give it too much thought sometimes. I did too.
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That’s fair.

I was about to write how that’s a special case, but then I remembered that Microsoft is also making their own chips for Surface products.
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Simple they should both be banned for violating the terms of service.

That said as much as I think that that professor is a door knob that should’ve been fired instead of promoted I also don’t think that she has nearly as much impact as the fucking leader of the KKK on social media.