skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really interesting to read the letters near the end of the article. It's tempting to let Feynman off easy with "Well, those were less enlightened times".

Which they were. It's uncomfortable to read the more conspicuously sexist and even misogynist bits of Feynman's books, but you can kinda knuckle through them and hope that people will put them in context.

Still, those letters show that by the 70s, it had been pointed out to him. His four-word reply is genuinely insufficient. Even if he didn't want to change the works, he at least owed her a civil reply, if not an explanation. That's disappointing.

And it sets up why you know that some people won't read the more problematic parts of his books with context. Consciously or not we'll emulate our heros, and there's a lot about Feynman worth emulating. You can't directly connect the inappropriate behavior Behmard experiences with what people read from Feynman, but the "less enlightened times" are today. Both Feynman and the modern harassers have been told about it and dismiss it, and people take that as a sign that it must be OK -- so it continues.
Yet that seems to be precisely who they're targeting.

The only benefit Firefox now has over Chrome is a vague political notion of not using Google-made software, something that there isn't enough call for in the real world to drive significant marketshare. Their real differentiation was sacrificed on the altar of ease of development, and now what we're left with is an also-ran, in multiple meanings of that term.

Worse, an also-ran that's doing increasingly arational things, almost as if they're wildly groping about for the mythical marketshare.
A significant chunk of my work involves no use of algorithms, statistics, or math. For the most part, my days are filled with one thing: cleaning up data.

If more firms took an educated, standardized approach to their data, I would do my job significantly faster, and the company would have access to their data-related products in far, far less time. Firms I have worked for, overall, refuse to do that.

Instead, such notions are treated as toxic- and I am too, by the associative property. They think I'm making extra work ("You want us to stop copying Powerpoints into Excels and put data into a whole new Excel that stops me from pasting in whatever I want? But I already have it in my own Excel!"), or they think I'm automating someone's job away to be replaced by a robot. This makes getting support from both employees and leaders near impossible.

It could save firms millions a year in reduced labor costs alone to not have entire teams of people sitting in basements fixing problems with data. However, data scientists are sold on what math they can do and what algorithms they can write, not on what processes they can improve.

It's, frankly, hell.
I don't know too much about Telegram but isn't it encrypted?
Best investments of the 21st century:

1. Peter Thiel, Facebook, $500k

2. Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, $1m

No matter who wins the next election, Thiel and his buddies are guaranteed more contracts. Welcome to the new American plutocracy!
Stability for enterprise customers is priority #1
Normally I’d ask you for some kind of proof, but I know you won’t be able to output any of it.
Was there something about TikTok recently?
> (1a) If at least two of the queries resolve to the same IP, store the IP as the "fake redirect address".

From reading the source, it actually does a HTTP HEAD chasing redirects, and records the origin of the final page, and uses that as the redirect address. So even if two hostnames yield different IPs, if they end up redirecting to same hostname, it will be detected

> (2a) if the two queries resolve to the same IP as the first one, we have a fake redirect. Don't do anything. Otherwise, show the "local domain" hint.

What if an ISP uses multiple IPs in the fake redirect, and alternates over those IPs in each successive response?
No. Firefox vs Chrome is a completely different comparison than Wikipedia vs Encyclopedia Britannica.

The first two are browsers; software, the second two are stores of knowledge.

Browsers have been free for the longest time now, they are a commodity; the 'for pay' browser market died a long time ago. Possibly that was a mistake but that's where we are now and the parties that supply browers (Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, Google to name the bulk) all try to win marketshare because they benefit from having more users. Putting up a barrier will automatically play into the hands of the opponents.

Wikipedia is a free and much larger alternative to EB, which historically was very expensive. If Wikipedia goes away there is no longer any incentive for EB to have a free tier, which is the one thing they can do to erode support for Wikipedia a little bit.
It is not its own reputation that this particular attacker is able to defend, it is the reputation of anonymous attackers in general, which depends mostly on how other attackers behave, not how this particular attacker behaves.

So the incentive to keep its promise is only weak.
Bribes? Uh, I mean, the cost of establishing positive relationships?
For the adventurous, see the page source!
In what universe does someone need to be introduced to the union of two sets and to transfinite induction simultaneously?
I was confused by that as well. Maybe that number includes the engineers contracted out to customers?
Telegram has some distinct features that makes it quite good during protests:

- location based chats, you see people around and can start a local group. So you can easily get in contact with other protestors around you.

- Broadcasting channels

- Not by default, but you can creat encrypted chats, with auto destruction

- Since a few days, encrypted video calls

- Not owned by Facebook
I mean surely that depends on the crowed you hang around with. Majority of people I interact with use PHP primarily. Anecdotal evidence isn't great at identifying trends.
Exactly, if you could replicate that perfect state information from real world sensors, then this become much more impressive.

Or introduce noise into the simulated state to reproduce real world sensor capabilities.
Your example is similar to a WordPress developer saying they adopted modern PHP - sure, they were on PHP already. But at least Vimeo still wanted to stick to PHP so that's one positive point.
Are they marketing directly to local law enforcement agencies? I can imagine if they organize a lot of conferences or sales retreats for police and FBI officers then this is going to be very expensive. A lot of this is also going to be lobbying which is not too far removed from bribing.
Listening now, thanks.

https://open.spotify.com/album/7cDLEVoIhkfKqaiKAPp7vL?si=0pF...
Yeah, but their investment is a lump sum, while you can get out at any time. I do get what you mean, I'm just setting a sort of baseline standard, that you're off by 15% on way or the other doesn't really matter, it's about that you're getting an offer that's in the ballpark of being fair.

I don't think that the option greeks are very relevant, especially not in public companies as they have very different dynamics.
My company and I have no interest in supporting Firefox in the future and yes, I still feel betrayed when they dropped XUL. Many people did.

Even with WebExtensions, the Firefox extension review process is substantially lacking compared to the kind of developer experience I get with Chrome. The exact same extension takes a few seconds to release on the Chrome Webstore, vs. the laborious process I have to get through when releasing on Firefox.

The last straw for me was when the Firefox Extension reviewers asked me to provide a full-size package so that they can compile the extension themselves to compare if it matches the one that is submitted and if the output differs by some characters due to, let's say the order of the keys in a dictionary, though, it gets rejected. It does not matter if you have been supporting this extension for many years. It does not even matter if you are shipping the same code to Chrome and Firefox as well.

For companies that develop desktop-grade applications using web technologies, the only natural choice is Electron. It is stupid, for sure, because it forces developers to ship large binaries but what are the alternatives. QT? GTK? Please. The most popular non-native desktop applications are either based on Electron, Java, or some custom UI framework.

XUL had the chance to be the better cross-platform UI, and it was for some time until it was killed and with that, it lost an unmeasurable amount of developer time and future loss of productivity and a chance to be an actual alternative rather than a copycat.

As many others already pointed out, Firefox is Chrome, except that Chrome is still faster.

The demise of Firefox will hurt many at a personal level but frankly, it will hardly have any effect on the world because at the end of the day, WebExtensions are portable and Chrome is the pioneer in this space.
It was reported that Telegram was the only thing that somewhat kept working when the internet was down country wide.

Also, I installed Telegram for the explicit purpose of following the events in Belarus directly from sources. By doing that I noticed that apparently the local press in my country have done the same, as it seemed that most of the updates in online media have come from the same Telegram channels. So, it has also served the role of information dissemination beyond the borders of Belarus at a time when journalists working there were harassed and sometimes imprisoned.
> as soon as a platform that was not US-controlled gained a foothold in the US, we'd see a crackdown from the establishment

Telegram is not US controlled. There is no crackdown from the "establishment". Except if you meant only in situations where there is widespread unrest? If it is not relevant to Facebook here in the US in the first place.
Death Gate
WordPress accounts for approximately 60% of all websites, PHP accounts for approximately 79% (knows server side sites). So I would say it is particularity popular.
At least we know now that a $100B will get you a high speed train from Bakersfield to Merced in 10 years behind schedule.

I think though that California has an extreme case of NIMBY-ism which makes much needed projects like these so much harder then then should be. I’m sure similar projects in Texas between Houston and Dallas would be far easier to complete on schedule. Similar with the Cascadian corridor between Portland OR, and Vancouver BC. Although I see the Pacific North Western politicians capitalizing on this project for a few decades to win a few more election before this projects gets a go-ahead.
That's because "tuin" which sounds exactly like Town means something totally different in Dutch (garden)
There was also a very large Telegram channel where they were doxing riot police members that were participating in attacks on demonstrators. It was extremely efficient infowar since it was their home addresses, family photos, wife's cellphone number...
OT but if it helps you, Whatsapp does actually allow you to send messages to yourself (sort of)! You can create a Whatsapp group with you and one other person in it, and then remove them from the group. The result is a group with only you in it that you can use to send messages to yourself.
I don't remember any sci-fi story with a jump drive mentioning this issue. There is one book, IIRC, Cassini Division, where a devastating attack is carried out by dragging one end of a wormhole at high speed to capture icy asteroids and launch them at a high velocity from the other end against a planetary target.
Is there language to differentiate between wireless earbuds connected by a cable and those that have no cable?

I have found that I hear everything the cable rubs against quite loudly, and it gets quite annoying. This is particularly so during the half of the year one wears extra clothes to stay warm - hats, scarfs, jackets.
Things I Learned as a Software Engineer
I'll be blunt here, but I really do mean this in the spirit of constructive criticism: I hate the name. It's not related to Git in any meaningful way (why not "VimDuck" or "ZshDuck"?), and at first glance I'd assumed it had something to do with Cyberduck. Also, it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue: "hey, wanna hop on a Zoom?" flows better than "hey, wanna GitDuck?" Finally, the name pretty much limits it to only developers. Zoom was in a great place to capitalize on schools that were moving to remote classes, but "Zoom" doesn't really carry any semantic baggage. It would be awkward to explain to my boss why I wanted our company to your product for a business meeting, even if it's the perfect tool for it ("what's a git? What's it have to do with ducks?").
Just saw this. I'll take a look after work :D
So did you pass the interview?

EDIT: downvoted. Guessing you didn't and that's why you're salty. Kek.
Reading this has reminded me of the vice video on the UNICULT, love it.

I've watched "The Perverts Guide to Ideology" three times, each time I get 5-10-15 minutes in and the next thing I know I open my eyes and the credits are rolling. I love Žižek's work, but this documentary has a way of slipping me into an unknowing coma each time I've attempted a watching.

You know the word Fantasy is not that far of from sounding very similar to Phantasm, theay have the same etymological root, so it's not that far fetched:

>From φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phántasis) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from φᾰντᾰ́ζω (phantázō, “I make visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine”).
>From φᾰντός (phantós, “visible”) +‎ -ᾰ́ζω (-ázō), verbal adjective of φαίνω (phaínō, “I cause to appear, bring to light”).
>From Proto-Hellenic pʰáňňō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰh₂nyéti, from *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”).

> But if our fantasies are essentially the present moment, do we just have nightmare circling nightmare?

Sounds like your ouroboros nightmare hasn't had it's line drawn and isn't the right dream to take you beyond... people love nightmares, they're really easy to market and buy, it doesn't take a "whole hell of a lot" to imagine the end of awl life on earth, you can practically do it with your I's closed, even if you are Aphantasic like me.
Signal was given $50M by Brian Acton (WhatsApp co-founder), I think they will be fine for a while.
The UIUX is horrible. The devs are cool and the wiki is really good though.
You can do it on Telegram chatting with the "Saved messages" pseudo-user.
I'm pretty sure Signal at least doesn't encrypt at rest on your phone. So the drive would have to be encrypted as well, which is not default on Android
>"1. As Munger said:

“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.”

Be wary of views coming from people who are not free to speak their minds on the topic at hand, because of their existing incentives.

2. Favour views from those who get paid for being right, discount views from those who get paid for sounding right."
fyi for anyone who doesn't know, youtube-dl will let you download videos from various sites, including reddit, twitter.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/
I wonder why is it that folks in Hong Kong, xinjiang and Tibet can’t effectively work together using telegram to start a massive nation wide riot. There are so many Folks in those regions who are oppressed (millions) and they are being organ harvested, forced to work in factories as slave labor, held in concentration camps, disappeared without trials, and tortured for democratic ideals.

Or these folks can coordinate with protestors in other parts of the world, to raise awareness and stop consumers from buying from a dictatorship.
people who work in games also read HN you know.
I certainly care about having proper multiprocess support, and that was an important reason for letting go of XUL. Given the choice, I'd chose what we have now.
Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine News: Doe Supercomputer Gets 400k AI Cores
Obviously, I don't know what's going on at Palantir besides what I've read, but I know a few things about Finance.

A tax loss isn't necessarily all bad news. If you have a tax loss in one year, you might be able to use that loss to offset profits in future years, to minimize taxes for your business in those years. This technique is called a tax loss carry forward because it takes a tax loss in one year and carries it into a future year.

So, what they might be doing is using this as an opportunity to "throw the baby out with the bathwater," as the saying goes. Show a bunch of losses prior to IPO (setting expectations low), then show gradually improving operating results. Investors love this kind of "story" because the potential for stock to go down is less then if they were to show a booming business right off the bat.

Finally, just to make a point about investors not necessarily being worried about a company showing losses, all you have to do is look at Amazon, who for years showed loses.
Uhhh how did it work when the internet went down ?
> I really struggle to understand why we need bureaucrats imposing their idea of what a market should look like on an fairly efficient market.

Because, that's not the argument. The argument is the precedent it sets. We've seen companies utilize weak independent contractor regulations in the past to take advantage of individuals (most specifically, the Dynamex case that lead directly to this), despite many of them not knowing/not complaining. This is why California is so hard on independent contractors. I would prefer a state strong on worker's rights than vice versa.

> From my experience the drivers are perfectly aware of the costs that go into driving so I really don't buy the exploitation argument.

Your anecdotes don't mean anything, sorry. We have vast evidence that companies will take advantage of worker's in an independent contractor situation to their benefit. We have evidence that Uber had requirements in it's worker interactions (route penalties, hour requirements, etc) that do not fit independent contractor ideals.

> Seems like a loss for everyone except bureaucrats.

The bureacrats gain nothing.

> Also don't see how it's realistic to expect them to be able to adjust to this on a dime.

I can only assume you don't live in California. This isn't on a dime. They were notified over three years ago. The FTB and legislature have been on them about it constantly. The law was introduced in 2018-12-03 and signed into law on 2019-09-18. I know operations can be slow, but two years should be plenty of time, considering how fast they were able to adjust to failing markets like Germany that they ultimately lost anyways.

> Although large, California is still a minority of their revenue.

It makes up 16% of Lyft and Uber's users. It has the highest valued rides, lowest effective overhead (driver retention, driver acquisition, passenger acquisition) and most effective mileage.

But you're right, they should give up their most established and profitable market or California should shut up. Because you talked to some people.
> "extreme tail risk" scenarios, like climate change

Climate change isn't a "tail risk". It is a hard wall our civilization is approaching fast. If we do not solve it, it will undo the conditions we depend on to live.
thank you for saying that and for the game link. i think MUD should stay as meaning a multiplayer text adventure. you and this whole thread gets me inspired into making a MUD.
A designer used AI and Photoshop to bring ancient Roman emperors back to life
Lambda School raises $74M for its virtual coding school
Not by default, no, because that has UX implications (e.g the chat will only be available on one on your device instead of being synced between all your devices). Though it’s quite easy to start an encrypted chat, and you can decide to have auto destructive messages.
How does attacking Facebook dismiss the fact that Telegram has your raw conversations and can monetize them?
Sounds like unix filesystems should not allow files named starting with an “-“.
Air Combat will be very different in the future. I don't believe dog fighting will even be a thing.

AI, Stealth Technology, Hyper Sonic platforms, Drone Swarms, Satellite Warfare, etc seems to be the way things are going.
It's great to see articles like this. but I encourage people to treat things like this, and the other thread making rounds about how all the stars that have been made are most that will ever be made as having a chance of being correct at 0.000001%. Not that this percentage isn't an amazing breakthrough, but just don't turn this into - the debate is settled in 5 years.
I wasn't hosting the blog. It was on webfaction.

> infinite number of websites built in PHP and never got hacked!

If I look at the logs of my webservers and scan for bots trying to exploit some vulnerability, I would guess that 80%+ of the URLs would indicate a PHP-based webapp. So, yeah, there are many that never got hacked but there are certainly a good amount of PHP apps that have some vulnerability. Should we blame all the developers who were "doing it wrong" or should we at least make sure that the language is not facilitating such shots-in-their-feet?
I heard about PHP is really just used by wordpress and drupal to keep its popularity ranking these days, and new projects seldom adopt it based on google trends, is this true?

The new PHP7/8 is certainly exciting, is it too late?
I think games are the best way to depict this, on a higher level. Once your child can understand the concept of

Input -> System -> Output

Then you can show them example of modelling different activities happening around you.

What i have learned as my own is you need an underlying concept to model the systems.

For example : Elon musk use physics and break down everything based on first principle thinking, i resonate more with Input -> Compute -> Output.

So i try to break everything into such a model and then try to understand the processes..

Most of the things happening around us can be aligned to few principles...

Most of the social media is (Virtue Signaling, Rent Seekers, and Funnel)

You need to understand these things in order to identify them. So yeah you have to teach all the basic principles.

Economics (Just what is transaction and what encompasses an Economy) and little bit of Psychology and so and so.

Idea is that most of us are just machines with emotions (which are itself a product of hormones).
Well it's server software is closed-source, so you would never really know who has a backdoor.

There are much better options than Telegram if you want real security. Signal for one.
As someone who works daily with GraphQL, it's neat to see other people talking about this.

The tools for client-side state management with GraphQL are really powerful, but require a lot more involvement than something like a standard state management store, IE an action that calls your GQL endpoint and stores the data in state.

async function fetchUsersAction(state) {
const users = await gql.getAllUsersQuery()
state.users = users
return state
}

I generally set up a regular client-side GQL library (urql, Apollo) and use this kind of pattern for store state.

This approach has worked well for me in a number of fairly decent-sized apps, and it seems to be a pretty common one.
Please direct me to the comprehensive list of "valid" ideologies. Also, if you can get me the methodology for deciding what ideology is considered "valid" I would greatly appreciate it.
Unfortunately all the company-wide aliases have someone who has to approve each message.
Apple and Google are very vertically integrated and the combination of the two basically own the mobile market stack. While Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have their own bubbles, they don't own the whole gaming market. PC gaming is a huge and relatively open market.