skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He wants the points for arguing that it's the right thing to do, but without the risk of finding out it wasnt
So you argument is that we wouldn't have GitHub if GitHub didn't exists?

> GitHub is the one that won. I don’t see how things would be much different if some GitLab version or another SourceForge won out that market share.
This is fantastic. Way better than the Algolia search which seems to be the most "official" one. I love that you cached the article content too.
Tried to find an article from earlier this week, no dice.
https://hndex.org/?q=open%20source%20security
https://hndex.org/?q=openssf

Great idea, I appreciate how fast it returns results! Just needs more more control over the search parameters and figuring out why articles like the example I posted above aren't working and you got yourself a nice HN search.
My dad should have married her. Same story except Spartans instead of Wolverines and he went into Defense instead of IBM, and he’s older and still rockin’ Siri on his AppleWatch.
gmail is still nice. I wonder when they are going to "work" on that.

i stll giggle at my ignorance thinking they wouldnt do youtube and search.

i really mis search, it was such a nice product. Now it is so bad that internet natives who could slap together a website in 20 min dont understand when i ask them why they have no website of their own. "you mean like a resume?"

they are right of course. no one would ever find it.
Cutting the Seattle police departments budget by 50% would be the perfect way to provide an argument for Trump Republicans that the alt-left/Antifa are out to get you .

This combined with the portland protests will get Trump re-elected and keep the GOP majority in the senate.

This is what you call a diversion from the real issue which is COVID, that republicans have not managed well at all.

The CHOP was a nightmare that was not shut down soon enough. There were armed gangs patrolling the entire thing who would try and make you delete cellphone footage. There was also rape/Iv drug usage/trash all over. I was literally there back in June.

That is NOT what I want to deal with on a daily basis.

We need to hire more police and private security to stop the crazies, make cal Anderson a gun free Zone and stop the chaos.
Very unlikely.
a) There will be a huge price difference between fibre optic connection packages provided by Jio and that of the satellites
b) Still a long way before they make it available for high density areas like that of India.
Anybody remember "Lady in the Water"? That was M. Night Shayamalan's attempt to get back at mean critics with a mean critic who meets a bad end.
Not only that, it discourages the use of government services which the taxpayer has to pay the fixed costs of regardless.

Suppose you have some litigious plaintiffs filing unmeritorious cases and then losing every case that goes to court but extracting settlements from defendants who do the math and realize it's cheaper to pay them off than to fight and win in court. If you dump a bunch of court fees and other costs on anyone who demands their day in court, more people settle (or the unmeritorous claims can extract higher settlements) and it makes the scam more profitable. Meanwhile the victims aren't a large enough voting block to get it changed on their own, and now the taxpayer isn't feeling the bite of the expense and the judges aren't feeling the wasted time in their courtrooms, even though the number and extent of people being victimized is larger.

And it's the same thing for any of it. By the time the taxpayer is paying most of the cost of operating a subway line, better that usage not be discouraged through fares so that the line sees 90% utilization instead of 60%, because you're paying the fixed costs to run it either way.

Which also makes it so you don't have to waste a lot of money on infrastructure to collect fares, which means that not only are you getting more for your money, the overall cost to the public ends up being lower if it's 100% taxes than if it's 80% taxes and 20% fares, because then half the fares aren't being wasted on fare collection.

If the government is going to pay for something then it should pay for all of it or not at all.
Here’s a graph which speaks to exactly this topic - the R value charted versus two axis; social connectivity, and herd immunity.

Both are equally important pieces of the puzzle. They work together to get R below 1.

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1291860668342079490?s=21
It's very much 'by design' in the currency... Anyone who accepts an incoming transaction should wait the necessary amount of blocks to verify that transaction, and for large amounts of $$$'s, one should wait longer. The waiting time should be at least the cost of 51% of the hashpower for the value of the transaction.

Clearly some exchanges weren't following that rule!
Right, exactly. They don't want employees talking about market share or dominance at all!
I don't think we're going to know in just 10 years. Maybe 50, or 100.

For myself, I definitely sense that we (collectively, or nation by nation) could have followed various pathways (and to some extent, we did). The "right" answer was (and is) not known, and we had a choice between erring on the side of caution over the damage caused by the disease versus that caused by economic disruption.

For now, I'm still in favor of erring in the direction of caution over the disease impact, but will concede that history may judge things quite differently.
Some states like Illinois are struggling because of their spending during the last economic expansion. Bad behavior needs to lead to negative results or you'll just get more of it.
I suspect "Please do not imply that another commenter is a neural net" will be one of the next items added to HN's guidelines.
>At least they actually have to dissent before being put in jail,

I mean, can't you say the same about the US? All you have to do is not commit crimes.

edit:

>China does not kill by drone extra judicially outside their country. I don't have to be afraid of clear skies.

A few comments down: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/the-disappeared-china-r...
Java is slightly more complicated. It can make assumptions about the code (even if it can't prove they always hold!) and specialize some things but not others.

Generally, the jit can specialize the code making assumptions about the real type under interfaces/polymorphism, which types the generic parameters will be, or even which target virtual dispatch will always hit.

But for the objects themselves, it never specializes layout in any way (short of removing an allocation entirely).

... I think. I'm no expert in this, ask chrisseaton.
also sounds like Unison
Awesome platform! Few months back, I also started developing one such platform but did not complete it. You can try publishing your platform on ProductHunt.
you can have compassion for an enemy and still defend yourself against them, just like you can run from an earthquake and not have hatred towards it. As you said, everything arises from an interdependent network of causality. that means everything that is, is what is. western materialism, buddhist wisdom, it all exists. to truly overcome the notion of "self" is to accept all of this. there is nothing "wrong" with any of it any more than there's something "wrong" with any other natural activities like earthquakes, planets crashing into each other, supernovas, owls eating little mice, you name it, and of course, our egos, as paradoxically nonexistent as they are are from this network of causality too. the whole thing is all one as are all of us. We can decrease our suffering by meditating on this truth. but it doesnt mean our physical manifestations need to be stupid.
Isn't this basically what people do in emacs? I'm a vim user myself, but I regularly entertain the idea of trying emacs for basically that reason.
>The CCP could have all the data they want on you but there is almost nothing they can do about it because an ocean and a military separates you, outside some fringe cases.

Not yet, but they recently passed a law that says otherwise.
They just used Uber as an example. Do you think demand for writing is higher now than a year ago?

Lots of restaurants started no contact delivery and low contact pickup. Do most people avoiding restaurants care if a pizza portal would be a little safer? Or are they trying to save money and lose the weight they've put on?
I've been stepped on by a horse and my total time dealing with horses is probably less than an hour.

Besides, I'd expect a professional cowboy to know how to protect himself from horses, just like a professional driver is going to have fewer car accidents.
Amazing. I’m actually building this exact thing now at https://GitHub.com/sritchie/sicm for that book, and working on a port of https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils to Clojurescript to power this exact style of interactive textbook in the browser. I’d love to talk more if you’re interested in teaming up, or talking about any of this in more detail.
I use a PC keyboard and Xfce.

setxkbmap -option ctrl:swap_lalt_lctl

I change Cycle Windows to Ctrl+Tab in the Window Manager. I disable menu Alt keys where I can.

I use AutoKey for Terminal so that it works like Terminal in Mac OS X: Copy and paste and other Application shortcuts do not require using a shift key. Alt+C is the kill key (control-c) and all the rest of the Alt keys work like control keys in the terminal.

And yes, despite the non-trivial amount of tweaking and customization, I could never achieve the same level outside of Mac OS X.
Ok? And America and most of Europe and Russia would have very much liked to not ever have a second world war at all. Russia lost over 16 million of their own people ffs.
Could one automate this 'as a service'?

Imagine a webpage with a box to paste a transaction you want reversed. It will quote you how much it costs to undo that transaction, and if you're happy you pay that amount.

The service would make money if multiple people wanted transactions reversed over the same time window, since the 51% hashpower cost only has to be paid once, even though you get paid twice.
>And for the most part, elected executives do operate independently under the framework of law

Rule of law is a thing. Trump and his organizations are currently under investigation in the state of NY.

> without directly involving democracy process.

Are you aware of how a representative democracy works?
It's more or less explained in 1.2. A system is "sound" if it's consistent AND can only prove true things.

To see the difference between sound and consistent, suppose you have a formal system A which you know is sound. You can then (by Godel's construction) make a proposition G that says A can't prove or disprove G. We know that G is true because A can't in fact prove or disprove G, by construction.

Make a new formal system by taking the axioms of A and adding the negation of G, that is, B=A+not(G). B is consistent but not sound. It's consistent because A can't prove G, so adding not(G) as an axiom can't possibly lead to a contradiction. And it's not sound because it can prove a falsehood, namely not(G) (granted, it's a very easy proof, since it's an axiom).

Scott Aaronson calls systems like B "self-hating" [1], because they "believe" they're not consistent (even though they are).

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=710
That’s partly because Google doesn’t rule the Play Store with as much of an Iron Fist as Apple does. For better or for worse.
Ok but what'd they do with rest of it?
I’ve posted this in replies but I want to put it as a top-level comment as well.

Here’s a chart showing the effective transmission rate (R value) as a function of “social connectivity” and “herd immunity”;

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1291860668342079490?s=21

I think what you can find in many examples across the globe is that without an innate geographical advantage or well-established cultural protocols, you cannot reduce “social connectivity” enough with an immunity of 0% to keep R below 1.

For most peoples and places, it’s only through a combination of reducing social connectivity and increased immunity that R will ultimately fall below 1.

Interestingly, both factors do not necessarily only move in one direction along the axis over time, and neither factor can be entirely controlled, even given an effective and widely produced vaccine.

I can only pray that at least immunity is quite durable, lest we find ourselves in a repeating cycle of R cresting well above 1.

At least until an effective vaccine is available, there is a massive cost to pay to push R downward, regardless of which axis you choose to push on.

And the next time someone laments why did we lockdown if only to end up with so many cases, I think for most countries the only answer to get to R below 1 is actually that “you need both”.
The worst part is how they are inspiring the next generation of tech gangsters to behave this way. I seriously doubt Tim Apple could be this moronic and still be brilliant on the process side. The fail idiots will be fine in retirement, really. But in the meantime the kids are thinking this is the way to make my crumb-based startup into the next two trillion dollar company just like Steve Jobs did.
Interesting! Appreciate the info
Pseudo-Epidemics: Why COVID-19 is guaranteed to never end
Did you click the link? There's a Group Product Manager explaining that it's a huge amount of work, they want to do it, and can't do it now. After the lead eng on the feature gave a detailed description of the work involved (20 teams were sucked into it).

Every engineering org has things like this – features that they know the customer rightfully wants and should have, and seem to the customer to be simple, but in reality bring your eng org to its knees.
> The Google software stack is custom end-to-end, down to a customized Linux kernel and a customized C++ compiler.

Are you really suggesting that the existence of an RSS aggregator hinges on custom linux kernels and C++ compilers?

> all three still have an internal platform that is widely used.

And your point is? None can afford running two divergent platforms simultaneously.

> No, the "excess capacity" part is a myth. It's a pervasive myth, especially about AWS, but it's not actually true.

Citation needed. (Also I didn’t say only excess capacity, also economies of scale.)
have someone else put the dump behind a paywall.
I meant creating a web component based widget library and sharing that for use on anything from desktop GUIs to web sites.

Sciter’s approach is pretty much the same approach used by web components (combining css/html/js to a single reuseable element). Unfortunately it isn’t 100% compliant with browser based web components and hence Sciter based widget libraries can not be used for web sites or vice versa.
As someone in the Midwest, this seems pretty biased to me.

I make right about $100k, which is pretty competitive for the area from what I can tell. It's possible I'm just getting completely fleeced, but I think that's unlikely.

But then again, I guess you can just play the "No true Scotsman" game and argue that I don't count as a truly great developer.
Interesting you should mention Snowden. The phrase that haunted me from that first interview with Snowden is "turnkey tyranny". The powers of the US security apparatus and its FAANG deputies are vast, unparalleled. My belief (I may be wrong) is that Five Eyes are still far and away the premier intelligence superpower, with China a distant second (or Russia, I don't know).

The difference is that China actively abuses the powers it has, restricts its citizens on the internet, surveils their legal rights (not just their borrowing status a la credit ratings) with the state-controlled social credit scores, and continues to track apostates who emigrate abroad. It's China that is working on the model modern tech-enabled concentration camp for ethnic minorities in Xinjiang (although the word genocide would be hyperbolic here: We have no evidence of extermination or of plans in that direction). Moreover, the CCP has gone in the wrong direction under Xi, away from a stable oligarchy that was progressive in certain areas, and towards dictatorship and lockdown.

If a true totalitarian ever controlled the US security apparatus, such a tyrant could turn that turnkey. (I'm not talking about Trump, who might try some unconstitutional tricks, but when he's defeated in court, tweets something nasty about the judge, then abides by the ruling). Right now, however, the US still has restraint, has checks & balances, which are imperfect but let's not underestimate them or be ungrateful. Similarly, although things are fraught with traditional US allies like NATO, it's not like the US is leveraging even a fraction of its sigint supremacy in, say, agricultural trade negotiations with France.

Point is, US & allied capabilities are scarier than any other country by far, but the way that China (and Russia, though overhyped) actively use their power in practice is way more insidious. The media has educated people to call out "whatabout-ism" when they see it in the Trump crowd. Let's call it out when we see it from the fascist CCP and their apologists.
Why would a good European dev work for $100k when they could get $300k?
To be clear: My understanding of the kernel scheduling problems Linus talked about were basically that modern OSes do a very good job and people run into problems by trying to work around them. This is because the kernel will still move on doing it's job even if you don't coordinate with it. For example: when using lock-free queues you'll still get long, unpredictable pauses in your thread because it will still naturally get timesliced into a context switch eventually.
This is cool as always, but in case anybody is seriously contemplating using it: this list is infamous for its complete uselessness for anybody actually trying to learn. It's mostly recommended because of 't Hooft's name, but it doesn't reflect how he actually learned physics himself, nor how anybody ever has, really.

It's been "under construction" (i.e. completely abandoned) for two decades. Half the links are broken, and the ones that aren't tend to be whatever the top Google hit was in the 90s, not what's pedagogically best. If you're serious about learning physics, there are many much better roadmaps, like Susan Fowler's list (https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-l...).
This pension-funding question comes up a lot, but I think it's a total distraction from the larger debate about the profitability of a public mail system. If we're debating whether, I dunno, a bake shop is a viable kind of business, the fact that the bake shop in question promised devastatingly large pensions to its employees decades ago is obviously an important fact about the state of that bake shop at this actual moment, but it does not tell us much about the general viability of bake shops, which is the thing actually being argued about.

It's like asking if a family can live on $50k a year but then stipulating that oh by the way in this family the father gambles 90% of his earnings away at the casino on payday. It doesn't really answer the question.
Do you know of a general-purpose newspaper / news site that does this well? I thought of LWN when I read this, but of course I'm not going to use them as my primary source of general news.
The only things I liked about my early 2000s Toshiba laptop were the physical volume control knob and manual wifi switch. Software controlled volume seemed so stupid in comparison. I still think laptops should have both if these switches as well as a physical camera and microphone switch. You can't ( realistically) hack past an air gap.
Because next to them is another good European dev who would be happy with $100k.
https://www.bizapedia.com/va/anomaly-6-llc.html
I mean, maybe he can help fine tune GPT-4 to dynamically output the dynamic JS every time Jira page is loaded. Probably would have less bugs/more features. Also, depending on how they sample the code it could be a new experience every time you load a page! Exciting!
I’ve found that for an object-oriented web component API, you end up with less flexible rendering — yes, redux can one-way bind attributes, etc., but you’re missing half the reason why you’d want to write code that way, how React schedules and renders to make immutable one-way data flows relatively cheap/quick with little to no persistent state. (Note, less code is less work, but caching and diffing DOM can also be less work...)

Things might have changed, but it’s easier to recreate web component features in JS than it is to convince people to use a two-way object-oriented API that’s mostly stringly-typed unless using JS. If the problem we’re solving is we want a faster web, bake in and follow top JS libraries such that how they render is part of the spec. I’d be very interested to see what a React scheduler would look like if implemented in C++ on top of the browser’s scheduler.

I really like parts of web components, but... I’d also like to see a Chrome experiment where JSX and TS is baked into the browser to natively solve the “stringly-typed” problem the Web Components spec has. Maybe that’s going too far, or maybe we’ll end up shipping these features as “modules” that can be toggled on if compatible.

I think it would help the web move to where developers are to include native understanding and support for semi-“proprietary” solutions given widespread adoption. For example, ES Modules are great, yes, until you have to start building your own vendor modules because somebody shipped a Webpack module as dist, for example.

Just as Babel lets us try new syntax earlier, so too could third-party libraries popularize new browser-native APIs as loadable modules, maybe? (My assumption being that integrating with existing C++ is cheaper than writing scheduling and DOM update logic in JS, but the JS is cheaper to ship, so some kind of browser-module-loading-with-JS-fallback is the only way we can have performance wins for existing approaches while still shipping new versions of features given how fast JS syntax and preferences change?)
>This is simply guity by association

You reap what you sow. When the CCP has great influence on the activities of chinese companies, it's only reasonable for foreigners to be suspicious. By the same token, it's only reasonable for Russia/China to be suspicious of backdoors in Microsoft/Intel, for instance.

>Then there is guilty by association on China/CCP, based on their association with communism.

This is getting into strawman territory. There's plenty of reasons to hate the CCP that doesn't involve "communism". Human rights abuses and the lack of civil liberties, for one.