skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“In some ways, a perception hack is the flip side of what happened during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

Four years ago, the Russians waged a major interference campaign that included hacking Democratic Party emails and creating false social media accounts to exploit political divisions. Despite the broad scale of the Russian effort, it received only modest attention before the balloting.”

I get confused when something like this is posted in the middle of good content on a (generally) trusted source. Factually correct, like saying Einstein was a Jewish physicist. Depending on the author and tone, though, you wonder why the mention...

The queasiness for me sits with the words “major” and “broad”. This is an American election so needs to be measured against American past practices.

So, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 is no suffrage for women or slaves, 8 is involvement in Iranian and Central American political affairs in the 1900s, 5 is the poll tax in the South, 3 is gerrymandering of election districts or Watergate, and 2 is the editorial policies of press conglomerates. Where do the reported Russian activities sit?

By this, admittedly arbitrary scale, from what has been released to the public, my personal call is a 2, maybe 1. “Major” in the shrieking world of fringe or DNC political operatives (not NPR, hence the issue), “minor” to “trivial” compared to what we have done to ourselves and others. Annoying as a act, more concerning as a precedent.

Not an issue to brought up in an otherwise good article...
I am so sick to death with the statement that "capitalism isn't working." We don't live in a capitalist economy, we live in a corporatist economy.

Almost all the negative aspects of this current economic climate come down to:

[1] Government misspending/policy at the behests of 'special interests' and

[2] Monopolies that go untouched.

When you realize that the government creates 9/10 monopolies, and that the remaining aspect of the equation is both fiscal corruption (at worst) or incompetence (at best), you realize that more government (socialism - event 'democratic') IS NOT the answer.

True capitalism is responsible for much of the innovations, competition and successes of the 20th & 21st centuries. Sure there are aspects that it needs to answer for, and be held to account for - but that should be/is baked into the capitalist model.
Contrast with Word 6:
https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/c3a2c2b3-c2a2-c692-2615-11...
I appreciate how much of the interface was written for this tablet (I can even SSH into it over USB-C), but the OS still seems pretty locked down, which is sad indeed.
One of Notions worst features is their "automatically created account" nonsense. Sometimes I attempt to log in with the wrong email, and all of a sudden I have a new notion account, and need to fumble my way through the 'getting started' wizard before it lets me log out (at least on mobile).
Bluetooth keyboard?

Or try this?

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/28045/is-there-a...
I agree with you on all these points! However the "market" behaves the way it behaves (in general), and we need to try to avoid the 99% of it.
This reminds me of the minimum wage dispute.

Society steps in to bargain for workers if it believes the typical worker’s decision making is actually harming society.

E.g. taking 7$/hr jobs without benefits depresses wages of local workers, etc.
Imagine how an environmentalist from the 70s feels!
This author maintains that fountain pens are amenable to cursive, whereas ballpoints are better at printing. Thus, the demise of Palmer method and Spencerian script and the preponderance of printing.
link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/ballp...
Matrix skin FTW!
MathML support in Blink is under active development.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=6606
> What GP means is that the stack traces will often just point you to React’s runtime code.

I very rarely run into a case where that occurs, and almost never that doesn't involve ignoring one of the ESLint warnings that CRA sets up in its default settings.

Now, getting the stack trace to only point you to some part of a component library's code seems more common.
> in California if traffic typically travels above the speed limit on a certain road, the speed limit there must be increased.

That's generally true everywhere, because it's the only answer that makes any sense. We know from lots of experience that even with heavy enforcement, just reducing speed limits doesn't have a big effect on actual speeds. About 10% of drivers rigorously follow the signs, the other 90% drive what's comfortable. So the practical answer is to design roads to be uncomfortable at high speeds. Makes them safer for cars and people both. Just reducing speed limits is a feel-good non-solution.
Show HN: Developing a game using the tool I made
As the author, I can tell you I only tried to use data that the government/quisi-government provided. I wanted to use the "policy" makers data.

Few clarifications,

> Gun deaths per gun owner is more useful, and plotted against the number of guns per owner might be useful

I did cover that in the section titled "Homicides per Firearm Owner, United States

https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#Homicide...

By state, there is no correlation or slightly inverse (i.e. more gun owners, means less firearm related deaths).

> Parkland, Columbine, Las Vegas, Pulse all involved easily accessed guns. The data shown here does not discuss mass attacks, ie. number of people killed per event. They could have been accomplished with other means, but likely wouldn’t have.

To be frank mass shootings are an outlier in the scheme of things. Statistically, they make up <1-3% of firearm related homicides, depending on the year.

It's a trapping IMO, probably to propagate a political agenda (as mentioned in the conclusion section). If we cared about discussing the problems, we would instead discuss the racial aspect of homicides (irrespective of firearms). Alternatively, if mass shootings were the focus, then the root cause of mass shootings (depression, isolation, etc.)

For reference, mass shootings are incorporated in the "rifle" statistics, which are fraction of how many people are killed by knives, handguns, etc. Further, look at what is happening in France, knife attacks in churches have the military being dispatched.

Finally, my whole motivation in writing this article was to cite it in future discussions. A colleague of mine argued that "Americans can't handle guns". While, I think that statement is not provable (i.e. "one death is too many" could be the argument). I pointed out, that the majority of the population can handle firearms, but a small population account for most deaths. It's also irrespective of wealth, gang killings or firearm controls - as far as the data indicates.
On Twitter go to:

Settings/Privacy & Safety/Muted/Muted words

You can put in all your political
words like “Trump” “Biden” to remove from your feed

This has improved my Twitter 10x. IT people can be so annoying on Twitter, they basically all have the same political stance.
I have a lot more respect for the people who just tell people to vote.
But it does mean that you don't know that your first statement is true.
> for proving you know something without revealing exactly what it is

IMO more useful description, at least for developers the math-inclined, is that they allow you to take a function f(x, y) = z and create a very small, easy to verify proof that this expression/computation is valid for a given x and z and an undisclosed y.

If you imagine a function like isBlockchainValid(latestHash, allTransactionsEver) a snark would let you prove that x=latestHash, z=true is a valid solution to isValidBlockchain without the verifier needing allTransactionsEver.
Much the world is in the grips of multiple overlapping political crises, many of which have existential consequences for the communities they impact.

Expecting people not to talk about these crises is like expecting Europeans living through WWI not to talk about all that ugly trench warfare business.
>One problem is that clients hate it

I've seen this personally as well. Especially with non-Software clients, the psychology you're battling seems to be that "they're ripping us off" since most of the work you're doing isn't happening while you're earning money.
yeah a story to teach people obedience to the "authority"(i.e. father or religious leader) even if the authority is treating you like shit. Stop bitching about unfairness/inequality! Your reward is awaiting you in a parallel universe!
Could be that the lesson is that the person who never picks up Twitter or works at Facebook in the first place is never celebrated because they were never lost to begin with (in this context). But the person who quits Twitter or resigns recognizes a sort of lack of direction, and that is what is celebrated. Not the person. The process
I believe you're right, but you must realize that your statement is similar to that some communists make: "real communism/capitalism/whateverism has never been tried yet," i.e. the No True Scotsman fallacy. The fair question to be asked is, "How can we restrict the state to prevent bastardizing capitalism and falling prey to corruption?" Capitalism seems to be much more resilient to it than communism, but we need to figure out how to further strengthen the state against this, because it's clearly slowly failing.
That isn't all that good compared to AU and NZ.
NZ = 5 per million and Au = 35 per million.
NZ has a population of 5 million and AU is 25 Million. Hawaii is 1.4 million.
Same source.
Let's be careful when we say "society" does such a thing. It's not all members of society. It's more accurate to say that interest groups that would benefit from restricting economic freedom, such as unions, advocate for these changes, even if the changes are worse for society overall.
Hi everyone. The other day I was here showing how my tile Editor can be used to create a "city builder" [1].

Now I have decided to create a small game using the tile editor. Please watch the video if you're interested in this.

1 - https://victorribeiro.com/tileEditor/?example=01

2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgwEhCJnL-4
> I don't think you've adequately proven your point.

It's not exactly controversial, so what else needs to be proven? You asked why things are as they are, I say it's because we implemented rules governing how we drive and walk on roads to create predictability and therefore safety. Don't like that cars seem to have more free reign? Change the road design, change the rules. But there are good reasons we have the system we have now.
This was my experience (You do it to improve your life...), and I'm very glad I did. It's almost the same feeling I had when after quitting smoking for a month, almost elation - I had really done it. The space that twitter occupied in my life was in amazing disproportion to the actual point of it. "Cred" doesn't come in to it.
Exactly. I could see a PI saying "well, you'll finish your PhD in 5 years if you're lucky and most of your experiments are successful. In the meantime, could I get you to spend 6 months writing up all these unsuccessful experiments? You'll get zero credit for it and it will delay your PhD. Thanks!"
I think the only way this could succeed would be by doubling as a good TV that can rotate 90 degrees with no hassle. How else do you convince people to set aside a space in the hoe for the occasional sales rep to talk to you.
Gotcha; seems I may have misinterpreted your original post.

I do think that the 2->3 GB update was meaningful; I believe that using a web browser like the Firefox ESR version on my current Mobian version can eat up some RAM, so the extra GB actually difference for more compute-intensive tasks, but there's diminishing returns past this point for most cases. I personally agree that using 'need' to describe modern flagship specs is probably a little strong.
Sure, I will work on it
Idk, I would be happy to pay several hundred dollars each for a couple of the games I’ve played over the last few years. I sank like, 100+ hours each into The Witcher 3 and Breath of the Wild, and I paid maybe $25 and $60 for them respectively. Considering that’s 2-4 movie tickets, or 1-2 entrees at a Manhattan restaurant, the value per entertainment seems remarkably high even at $60/ game.
Tried a real keyboard with no luck on an iPad. :(

Sucks, was excited to try some games. :/
This is the most spot on comment. This is field- and technique- specific, but animals approved in a grant and animals that end up in the paper are, in my experience, extremely unlikely to be the same number. Even in an experienced lab with well-oiled technical expertise, there's nearly always a fraction of animals that go to pilot experiments (i.e. didnt work), have some confound, or just didn't work. And by didn't work I mean didn't even get far enough to count as negative data, e.g. if you're trying something very technically demanding or new.

Jumping to the conclusion that negative results aren't being reported (which is indeed its own big problem) from a difference in animal number suggests lack of understanding of the process, but perhaps formal accounting of research animals differs by country.
Classic AJAX calls, not the REST API.
I never knew MMS was a big deal in the US. I don't know why it just feels so, quaint.
This Uber driver died of Covid-19. Proposition 22 will sway his family’s fate
It's hosted on a dedicated server: a typical Apache, PHP + MySQL environment. Currently, there are around 50 premium users.
You really think he's ready to give up that power?
> it seems to me that the thing to do is to extend your language until it can.

This depends on what you mean by define. If you mean a unique model than this is impossible. The reason is compactness theorem (every theory in which every finite set of formulas has a model has a model). The basic idea is to add constants and introduce axioms stating they are different. This will allow models of, say reals where there are plenty of reals that are not real reals (sorry for the pun, I could not resist). Nonstandard analysis takes it a bit further and makes it a bit more precise and useable.

If you mean you want to deal with (naively) definable reals only then intuitively there are only countably many of those that you can define (by formulas, etc) and you are missing a huge chunk of the real line again.
Subjugation via wages below a base level of quality of life is not freedom. This is dressing up economic serfdom as such. Let’s be careful of people who would argue for such “freedom”.

It has been demonstrated that unions strengthen earning power of labor, and that corporations have a long track record of abusing the H1B visa program.
Here are a couple of theme music options: https://youtu.be/ZjcQhpg3_UI https://youtu.be/vMfmi9Qg3HE
I am not aware of strace/gdb/ldd working alternative for Windows. Still should look into strace looks really powerful
I only know her from the song.
I hear what you're saying and I also can't stand the namecalling and political infighting that tends to happen in some open source communities. Unfortunately I doubt a display protocol is ever going to fix that.

On that bug, that problem seems to go deeper than Wayland and I don't know if there is any way to fix that in all cases on Linux due to the nature of SIGSTOP. I know you may not answer this, but wouldn't that also affect X too? Or does it have some other way it deals with it?
The claim was: “one of the most unstable times in history” in reference to the present day.

You can make an argument that maybe this is a bad time in human history, and I would still disagree, but far less so than I would disagree with the claim I was replying to. If you can make the case that compared to just a decent sampling, doesn’t even have to be the entirety of human history, just a good sample, that today actually sucks, I’ll be impressed.
No, the point is tediously clear, as with most religious parables. I merely disagree with it.
Can you provide more details why you don’t want to live in a world where everyone is more or less equal?

I think Varoufakis is trying to paint a future where the gap between rich and poor isn’t as wide as it is now.

Do we need billionaires for our society to function? Is having 100,000,000 USD not enough?
Make that 2. I knew about the effect for years before I learned who she was.
How many last straws is reddit up to now?
Why? Is censorship in free society going to help? How?

HN should terminate your account immediately. See? It works both ways. Don't play with fire.
If you don’t want Microsoft knowing what you do use Linux. If you’re in Windows the store is the way to go for installing software.
Between those two, young in a good time for sure. But really, just young in a time. Essentially none of the issues we face today are new in the last 20 years. You were just less aware of them then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999
We have to recognize there are some winners and losers from these changes, and that all decisions like this have trade-offs.

In this case, there will be fewer startups, maybe this is good for society as a whole though?
New “Speed Demonoid” Spaceship in Conway's Game of Life
I think TLA+ is great, but the way in which you try (here and elsewhere) to downplay its inability to verify implementations/executable code by dismissing an OS kernel and an optimizing C compiler as "tiny programs" make you sound like a zealot at best.
At worst you sound like a snake-oil salesman when you acknowledge seL4 and CompCert, and then immediately assert that "we can't just choose to verify a program".
I've never had this problem, what is the use case? I've only ever used /usr/bin/env or /bin/bash, and can't think of a reason to do anything fancier. You would be hardcoding the full (presumably non standard) path to the interpreter right? Why not just add it to PATH and use env?
I'm not super familiar with compiler and processor design, but why do I want the processor to do this optimization instead of the compiler?
> Attorneys are smart people

Attorneys are usually people who went to three years of law school and then passed the bar exam. Possibly many years ago. I have found that their most distinguishing characteristic is that they didn't quit law school.

They tend to be smart in the exact same ratio as any other college graduate. That is to say, some attorneys are smart.
Hi thanks for the heads up. Will remove this article then.

This site is owned by me and I ain't no marketing folks from Bali. I just like to curates articles like this for other founders to learn from.

And no, not depressing at all. I'm having a lot of fun doing this. :)
Unsuccessful "growth strategies"? I will look into that !
Porn has a way with these things my friend.
“How can society and public policy encourage more startups founded by those who would’ve previously been underpaid employees?” is a great question.
This story is why people celebrate when someone beats addiction but don't give a shit about your day job. Everyone loves a redemption story.
There is a gaping hole in this assessment.

Logins.

My workflow on any app is:

1. Attempt to register
2. Find out I already have an account / I wait for a registration link that never comes
3. Find the “Forgot password” link, often buried.

Multiply this friction by 3X to 5x on mobile devices.

It’s a challenge with many issues, but the go-to design patterns for the most impactful interaction a user will have with a platform is totally broken.

Just this week my son had to drop a class and re-add it due to issues with his username. The issue? The one he had wasn’t recognized on login and when he went to create it he got an error message (unfriendly of course) that it already existed.

Agree with the premise, but there are definitely sink holes in today’s UX/UI.
Yeah, if you look at the old manuals, they almost spend more words explaining how to sit, position the paper, and hold your arm than how to form the letters.

Hint for lefties: move the paper around until it is at an angle that doesn't cramp your wrist.

For some reason everyone's instinct is to align the paper with the desk, and then contort themselves around it.
Oh hell - this is politics not mathematics. We as humans are being outclassed in a digital fight with tech companies. We need to have software on our side individually. But we also need the political environment for that.

A generation or two ago most of the western world fought wars over the spoils of the industrial revolution - and built a political-economic environment that benefitted individuals and shared the wealth more so than in hundreds of years.

The countries that do this again for the digital revolution are going to benefit as much as the west did last time.

It might not be us.

Writing the software to guide our lives is the easy part. It's not about social media - that's just the obvious part. This is going to be about all parts of our lives - banking software that considers your long term budget and stops you buying the crap item on amazon.

Software that sits down each evening and reviews how you spoke with your wife / child / co worker

I am going to have to put this into a book form to gain any traction - plus it's 1 am so I am likely not making best sense, but this is so inherent in the technology it just seems obvious as a next step. We will be guided by technology - we cannot possibly absorb all the information in the world so something will curate for us.

The political challenge of the 2-C is defining what does the curation and on what terms. Facebook optimising for engagement is wrong on all counts. What is right is politics not algorithm.
Even just assets in general or access to resources.

He makes a good point about equality in merit but people often misread the scales on what a meritocracy should be.

It's not what you do produce, it's what you can produce. And in this egalitarian world, people who need access to resources should not have to hurdle to get them.
Maybe not quite 1995, I’m seeing more of an unholy alchemical mixture of Aqua and Windows 98. Windows 98 was an iteration of Windows 95 which was heavily inspired by NeXTSTEP. Aqua was the theme Apple eventually slapped on the WindowServer that replaced Display PostScript when they renamed Rhapsody née OPENSTEP née NeXTSTEP to Mac OS X.

The long and the short of it is, this is why incest is bad.
Thank you for those links. In particular, Orcutt's writing process makes a lot of sense!
Tales from the Blockchain: Our Mainnet Stalled; This Is How We Rescued It
Concurrency is hard - this was a great investigation into the bug using TLA+ by the author which suggested simplifications to the code in addition to the bug fix.

This reminded me of another reader/writer concurrency bug posted by Tom Cargill in the c2 wiki caused by surprising behavior of Java monitors, which Hillel Wayne showed how to discover and then fix using TLA+ at https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/augmenting-agile/

We were able to reproduce and fix the same bug using Coyote as well, and documented our experience at https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2020/07/14/extre... I was pleasantly surprised at the finding and was definitely heartened by our experiment where we were able to reproduce the bug in actual working C# code without the need of an additional modeling step. While TLA+ is undoubtedly very powerful when it comes to modeling and catching concurrency bugs, I do hope tools like Coyote get wider adoption and are implemented for more languages so bugs in critical infrastructure code can be caught in a scalable and repeatable way while staying within just one language for implementation _and_ testing.
I think this is a good point. I was definitely not correct in saying that no one believes that.

That being said, in the context of specifically the <1% that is the solid capitalist class, I think most don't believe this deep down, though some delude themselves into thinking so.