skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To an extent they're used as a post hoc justification, but they also play a motivating role (especially if we take the words of Islamist terrorists at face value).

Absolutely. But that is what I was saying, that religion determines the exact flavor of conflict, but the root causes are rarely religious. If it was different (if the Middle East was Christian and Europe was Muslim for instance) the Middle Ages would have still been a violent chaotic time for Europe, and the Middle East would have still been a violent chaotic time after WWI.

> It's also interesting that the only time that the doctrine to action causal path is contested is in the cast of Islamist terrorism

I think largely it is because it is so often been used (especially in the post 9/11 era) as a shoulder shrug “well that’s just how Muslims are” excuse. In this very thread, people have said that the post invasion Iraqi chaos was due to “10,000yr of cultural baggage that needs mopping up” when it was directly a result of the US failing to have any plan for post invasion security after collapsing the government. The picture is often painted that these issues in the Middle East are unsolvable because it’s all because of Islam and they have been fighting for 1,000 years and that’s not going to change. To use your Nazi example, it would be like looking at Germany during WWII and saying “well they are religious anti Semites. That’s why they fight and they will always fight and we can’t change their religious beliefs so that’s just the way it is.”

Of course I know you aren’t saying this, but enough people are that I feel it needs to be contextualized. How people understand the situation in the Middle East effects what strategies we support in dealing with the Middle East. If people keep believing that the situation is caused by religion (something we cannot change) instead of economic instability, proxy conflict by regional and global powers, power vacuums from collapsing dictatorships, etc., then it will continue to hamper our foreign policy. Even terrorism is primarily a small number of globally focused jihadists infecting and coopting local causes and grievances.

> Another example of the causal role of doctrine was when Christians cherry-picked parts of the bible in support of slavery. If the Bible was less self-contradictory in this instance, it's easy to see that it would've been easier to eliminate slavery faster than it happened.

Even this I think is overblown in its influence. Many Christian countries gave up enslaved Africans much easier than the US. If the Bible was silent on slavery, I think it would have still gone very similarly for the US. Slavery was propping up the plantation based economy of the southern States, the 3/5th voting rules allowed for the less populated southern states to have outsized electoral power compared to the northern states, and the rapid expansion West (and the proposed rules on slavery for incoming states) threatened to upset that Southern power. In other words, I think people put too much stock in religious justifications, when underlying structural reasons are often what really shape things.
Crony capitalism.
You seem more uptight about it than I am. I didn't see it as anything so formal as "plagiarism", I just thought it was rude and ungrateful. If digging up work from 2014 is easy, you must be more organised than I am.
The advantages of fly-by-wire are too good to pass up, so that leaves the question of how to design an FBW system.

A high school teacher of mine in the 1970s predicted an accident like AF447. He framed it this way: the 'American' approach is to implement FBW to always do what the pilot inputs indicate, whereas the 'French' approach is to do the right thing, and override the pilot if the FBW 'knows' better. That's an interesting cultural cultural consistency as well!

So, the 'American' approach is better if the sensors are not working as expected, and it makes the software simpler. The 'French' approach is better if the pilot is wrong, but both the sensors and the software must be working perfectly. Everyone makes mistakes, and all software has bugs. What to do?

(In reality, some 'judgement' is needed by the software, even in the American approach.)

EDIT: That said, some of the design choices in the Airbus FBW are baffling, such as making the control input the average of two different inputs. I like to think AF447 is less likely to have happened in a Boeing ship, although the ulitimate cause of the crash was a pilot making what amounts to a beginner mistake.

Don't miss William Langewiesche's article!

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...
Thankfully Reddit removed the post for my own safety. I hate seeing both sides of a conversation.
> Why are you making moral judgements on a business decision?

On what planet are "business decisions" not bound to moral judgements? That's one of the craziest things I've ever heard.
Because you are not a customer, you aren't paying. Instead, you are the product of facebook. Their business model is to sell your personal information to advertisers
Maybe you should respond to what I wrote instead of telling me "what I sound like".
I'm trying to suss out the state and/or nature of "trust and safety" within online media, particularly for larger plaers. This includes just what falls under the description, or what other areas or labels apply --- old school general reliability and security, fraud, technical attacks, and the like, to computational propaganda and bullying.

Borodaenko's article is a good overview, and frankly among the best accessible written documents I've found, though it doesn't come from large-scale expeerience (from conversation with the author).

There's a summary of Facebook preentations (though no papers or slides themselves) here: https://engineering.fb.com/2019/12/13/security/fighting-abus...

Del Harvey's 20114 TED talk gives a taste of what dealing with issues at scale (500 million tweets/day in 2014, closer to 800m/dy now):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mAvSoNUgMno

There's a number of previous HN articles, most concerning Twitter and Facebook:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I'd be interessted in other large social networks' activities and experience: Youtube, Reddit, Imgur, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Zoom, etc.

The question beneath this is "what is the book on online trust and safety, and if there's not one, what should be in it?"

Elements of T&S, domains, threats/risks, tools, goals, limitations, interactions, etc.
Technical error blamed for PM's Biden tweet glitch
Yeah, for rich text you need to wrap a UITextView, there's currently no other way to do that. Also, if you have a large amount of text, TextEditor won't cut it either.

Even displaying rich text (non editable) is a wee bit tricky and severely under documented.
It sounds a little low, but not unheard of. Standard option pools are generally between 10-20%.
I'm not saying the market share is decreasing, I'm saying that many people are moving away from Apple. This is purely anecdotal, but I don't remember any people I know moving away from Apple 10 years ago. I think the story is very different today in the pro user space.
Change the way you think about New Year’s resolutions for success
So why didnt they label posts about russian collusion with no evidence in 2016,2017,2018, or 2019. And no the possible obstruction from finding evidence which was the “smoking gun” of the mueller report is in fact not evidence. It turns out innocent people have lack of evidence too.
You comment is a bleak reminder that the universe forces us to make our own rules.
I remember watching Contact and then reading the book and thinking I would like to visit the arecibo telescope on day. Didn't know they gave mini tours.
This is absurd nonsense. Did you actually attend school in America?
That's very neat, especially because it takes the demo idea and turns it into a tangible artifact!
It does reach a point that living is worse than death.

Had a similar final. Intentionally became a lunatic at ER.
Refused to take prescribed blood thinner, which is a quick death for me.
They finally listened and gave me a different one.
Life drastically improved after that’s.
Amazon’s Trucking Ambitions
The [Removed] usually means the moderators removed the post, not Reddit itself.
And even if you do secure it, if Joe McCitizen can't understand it, it does you no good.
TCP and UDP over HTTP
Computers make it very easy to centrally modify/control information. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes it's a terrible thing.
establishing a DSAT metric is still powerful. Lifting a key feedback metric from "this is bullshit" to "this is ok" is something you can sell management on
I fail to see how this is sensible in the slightest - you then have to re-write the code if you want the application to scale. Otherwise you are wasting memory, trashing GC, spawning all these extra threads.All awaitable operations like network requests, disk reads, etc, should be async. Why would you write potato code?
Glad to have helped him!
Wow, imagine creating an account just to troll a guy who you have disagreements with.

Get a life.
It has to do with supporting the winners that are actually going to return money to your investors. They are refusing to fall prey to sunk cost fallacy, which is a good thing.
extensive changes to the gc exposed an application issue that was complex to address. and no way to rollback the machine to net472.
We use an inkjet because we need color. My wife is a teacher and prints often enough that the ink never dries up.

What you need if you want to print ink often is an inkjet with CISS (continuous inkjet supply system). You used to have to hack these together with third party gear (which I've done), but now the companies sell their own models. Take a look at the Epson EcoTank products. We've have one for a couple years, and it works very well. Ink is cheap and lasts a long time. And no way the printer can tell if you're using third party ink or not :)
Savvy investors include non-dilutive clauses when they know money needs to be raised, but good luck trying to negotiate this as an employee. It’s also not too bad if the dilution occurs at increasingly higher share valuations and help compound growth (see TSLA).
If you had a second stealth account to join discussions Im sure its plenty stimulating. But even just reading might be enough. HN is full of lurkers who spend an insane amount of time here.

edit: Im not saying the moderators have stealth accounts!
I don't disagree with your point. I simply got the impression from throwaway0a5e's comment that they were saying that these issues weren't worsened by quarantine but they originated from quarantine.
Beyond hacking, there is a reason to do polls in person. It is also a protection against people being coerced or selling their vote. When they are at the polling station, no outside force can exert any influence as the vote is fully confidential.
I don't really consider most WWDC videos documentation. They're usually just marketing videos which show off the new features. Even the more in depth videos are rarely more than a shallow introduction.
Not a quote, just an Asterix reference- the savage tribes fighting off the (Holy) Roman Empire. Would be unseemly to make it in English.
You mean you can't figure things out from
"public Session getSession(String, String, String, String, String)"?
The positive PR/social value of walking away from it is worth vastly more than the money. You're talking a tiny percentage of the fund value – if having a reputation for a willingness to do the "founder friendly" thing helps you get into competitive rounds in the future, it's absolutely worth it.
In an unfortunately rare case of reason conquering madness, a VW exec (Oliver Schmidt) was extradited and convicted over the diesel emissions scandal, instead of the engineers taking the brunt of the punishment.

We expect name brand products to indemnify their vendors to an extent. Consumers don't want to chase down the guy who made the screw that failed and caused a bunch of excess deaths. You put the screw in the assembly, you took most of the profit margins. So you get the lawsuit.

If you want to go and sue your vendor to recover damages, that's between you and the vendor. But the class action goes to Acme Inc, not Acme Screws and Fasteners.

Similarly, I'm not getting a mansion. I can barely get you to buy the servers we need to make half of what you say not a blatant lie. I'm not the one who should be punished when they find out about it. I'm not the one lying to people's faces while I pocket their checks.
If developers invest a lot of time in getting to know the product, chance is they will be more dedicated to it, so that they don't feel they lost so much time. This is another predatory tactic of this company.
I actually very specifically chose the butcher example, and no there isn't. At the end of the day, a butcher, like a software developer can be trained to be good. Initially a butcher would ruin meat and cut into profits by incorrectly making cuts. Over time the butcher can and will get better. Far fewer mistakes towards the end of the career. Same with software engineers. After a point this comparison breaks down, but at least up to here it's comparable. Self taught or not, many educators have proven that good engineering can be taught and practiced. Over time everyone gets better if they care enough. Not everyone can be Donald Knuth, but no one's looking for Donald. Most start up founders just want competent engineers.

Moving on to your second point about entitlement. Of course the founder is entitled to 50x the payout. You seem to be severely discounting risk. Did you see this founder's list of other failures?[1] They can pay themselves whatever they feel is right. They took the risk, failed multiple times, and finally got lucky. Of course they can reward themselves how they see fit. There are so many founders who never see the reward and end up with worse careers because they only kept founding companies rather than choosing a "stable" career. To me it seems like, in your view, the guy who didn't take the risk founding companies and got to join a "sure" job by joining a rapidly growing startup gets to be rewarded comparably to the guy who started something, working, spending years not sure where it was going to go. Why would anyone take the risk of starting a company? I'd rather join a fast growing startup if my reward is quite comparable to the founder's. Low risk, high reward.

[1] https://joshpigford.com/projects
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O how the mighty have fallen!

If you haven't ever done it, take a browse through the Inside Macintosh Volume I pdf here. https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/

All API documentation should aspire to be this great.
All I can is congrats and im jealous. This is the exit ive dreamed about
Four parts: 1) the bulk of returns are the few best performing investments, 2) there are material fixed costs in carrying an investment (partner attention, conflict management, admin overhead), 3) it's a way to get proprietary insight into a new space, and 4) there's value in founder relationships (deal referrals, recruiting). Large funds write small checks to get an early view into promising companies that are too early for bigger investments. They are aware that many won't out but they believe they are better served getting in early & divesting most vs waiting and having less information or access.
Next on the list: error handling. Which is absolutely not a problem, and works very very very well as is. Then again, one can hope that maybe by 2025 :)

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437#issuecomment-51203...

https://github.com/golang/go/labels/error-handling
There is no point in continuing this conversation. You deleted your comment so it is both no longer relevant and can't be referred back to for further critique. Although the fact you deleted it after already posting it from a throwaway account would seemingly show that it was a comment that you weren't willing to stand behind.
It would be good to clarify that this article (and quanta in general) is about the theoretical side of cryptography, which often has little overlap with applications of cryptography, especially when you're at the cutting edge of theoretical research like this work is.

However, that doesn't mean that iO isn't useful for tasks that you might care about. For example,

* deniable encryption (https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/454.pdf),

* better constructions of post-quantum NIZKs (which can help with ensuring that a remote server is behaving honestly),

* proving results about the hardness of finding Nash equilibria (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7354468)
Seems you had no or almost no contacts with it in the age ranges it affects worst.
I would understand this kind of posturing on Facebook or Instagram, where at least you have pictures and videos to back up your flex on your followers. But why do it on an anonymous forum where no one knows you nor will remember your username after the few seconds they read your comment?
Thanks for the tip, I may have to try this next time mine gets low. Do you know if this applies to most toner cartridges?
Right, that's the sadness of it. IRC clients were lacking, and the "auth for free" that came with AIM/Yahoo (and now Facebook) made the difference.

It would have been 100x simpler to create a compelling GUI client for IRC (back in the day, they sort of exist now), than to build an entire new protocol, server infrastructure, and GUI client to support a branded and controlled chat. Never mind multiple competing and incompatible versions of same.

Conflicting interests, obviously. But as a technology, "chat" did not improve materially between 1990 and 2010 or so.
Anyone taking a startup job on a 50-60% of a normal salary without several percent of the shares is doing themselves a massive disfavour.

Most of my startup jobs have paid market rate. The shares and options have compensated for the risk, not a lower salary.

I'm sure some accept lower salaries, and certainly the salaries won't be comparable with the very top end of the market, but most people don't work in the top end of the market.

A startup that tried talking me into a massive cut without offering me basically founder-level share amounts would be an instant red flag.
MRR - Monthly Recurring Revenue, in case anyone else is wondering.
> It’s much easier to go over something and declare “this makes sense” than it is to come up with that something in the first place.

Obviously, but that’s not what we were talking about. We were comparing memorization to understanding, not inventing to learning.

If you’re good at math, you should be able to re-derive any formula or procedure quickly (up to, say, constant factors) without having to memorize it (after the derivation has been explained to you).

If you run into a problem that you can’t solve because you didn’t drill the steps hard enough, you don’t actually understand the problem. This isn’t necessarily your fault - many math courses teach by symbolic manipulation without the conceptual grounding required to actually re-derive the symbolic procedures yourself. Few students will seek that understanding on their own outside of class, in which case they’re stuck with memorization.

> the reason for Russian/Chinese dominance in certain areas of math was due to how those areas benefitted very much from rote practice.

I think this supports my point - these “certain areas” are small. There is a relative paucity of mathematical/physical innovation from China (especially per capita!). The west still dominates mathematical invention.
I'm 33 years old and assume I have a case of "long haul covid." Physical symptoms are a chronic shortness of breath & exhaustion. I get winded just talking on zoom. Pre covid I could run 3 miles no sweat.

On the mental side I've also noticed effect: mostly depression, and it is totally correlated with the physical symptoms. On days where the shortness of breath is acute so is the depression.

But here's the interesting thing: I'm not worried about the depression at all. In my late teens/early twenties I suffered from extreme depression. Thanks to {reasons} and {intervention}, I managed to overcome it by my late twenties, but it was a solid lost decade for me.

I certainly wish I hadn't had that experience, but the silver lining is that I feel like I have practice with it. I hadn't felt depressed in years, but when I felt it on account of covid I was able to observe it and say "huh. I guess being sick made me depressed," which is vastly different than just being depressed without the ability to observe it.

This has resulted in the realization that one can practice and train to deal with some mental health issues, and I feel like it's a skillset that I have now mastered. I didn't expect to have to use it again but here we are.

As a young father, I hope to somehow pass this skillset on to my children without them having to go through the same experiences I did, and I wish that it were better woven into the fabric of our society. All societies teach some soft skills simply as part of their mores, taboos and worldviews and ours (western, american/americanized) IMHO fails utterly in this regard.
I make all my expensive electronic items with my AMEX. AMEX has been treating me well over the past 15 years. If a company shutdown my access to it product, I would request a charge back through AMEX. Usually, AMEX accepts my request with in the same day, no question asked.
As someone who moderates and has moderated content involving a whole lot of users, it can be taxing and sometimes mind numbing when people don’t follow the rules and you get spam. I’m sure HN has spam detection and removal in its ever improving code, but there would still be a lot to handle manually when it comes to guideline violations. In my experience elsewhere, there may be cases that aren’t clear cut as to whether they’re appropriate or what the writer intended to convey. Especially on a forum where people from different cultures converge, there’s a lot of space to misunderstand and be misunderstood.

At the same time, being able to read and learn from other people’s thoughts is always a stimulating experience. It gives opportunities to develop better mental models on certain things and also be able to explain certain things better to others.

So yeah, there are pros and cons, but I wouldn’t want to do this without a few other people who can take the workload and provide a break when it gets too tiring and exhausting.
It’s because engineers don’t want to write documentation, and if you don’t force it this is the result.
I agree that these mechanics will always play out at scale, unless users are in charge of moderation/curation/governance.

Successful cases in point:

Discord: Closed bubbles, users in absolute control of entry and moderation. Still going strong.

8chan: Open bubbles, users in absolute control of moderation. You also had conservative alt-right and LGBTQ communities, cleanly separated, mostly just ignoring each other. Only got killed by "black-swan" events and the subsequent pressure from press attention.

Tumblr: Organic user-powered curation via likes and reposts (vs Twitter/FB style "AI" algorithms having their way), you had LGBTQ, neo nazi, porn/conservative communities existing in parallel with effective but organic and moving boundaries. Only got killed by external pressure from advertisers.
I'm using Roslynator:

https://i.imgur.com/cWs1M77.png

and I have some naming rule

https://i.imgur.com/iPwNj5b.png

So I basically have to type IOptions<T> Name and use ctrl+. twice in order to generate private readonly property and initialize it and add using to IOptions
Explaining foam in the absence of soap: It’s a tension gradient