skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not opposed to erring on the side of caution where things are evolving fast and we may not have enough good science. What I'm opposed to is making political statements like this because it can easily backfire, especially when society is already very polarised.
You don't need the EU, they are probably more infiltrated then Japan, just listen to the german/french discussion (Germany believe that Europe can't have it's own army without US support...because of "nuclear"...France is pissed)
Yep but that doesn't say that they won't rate limit, or what the rate limit is.
> No, the company should investigate and have evidence, one way or the other, beyond just the complaint before any kind of final action, though there are some interim precautionary mitigations that are might be appropriate, often.

No, the company isn't equipped for this and this is the role of the police and judicial system.

> “Innocent until proven guilty” is a maxim of criminal law; a company treating potential harassers as if the company were either the state enforcing criminal law or, worse, as if it could act only following the state enforcing criminal law will eventually find itself in quite deep civil liability for harassment.

That's why the company isn't enforcing anything and delegating the task to the competent authorities.
In this case the police.

Many people have been victim of wrongful firing and huge damages to their personal life due to rash decisions being taken by companies based on a single complaint from someone.
CUDA, C++ and Fortran dominate, not Python

Any language can glue to those libraries, including R and Mathematica, and anything with a proper FFI.
The article is nonsense.

Society is a conspiracy between groups of people. The fact they don't document their schemes doesn't vanish those conspiracies.

Nobody who has looked into COVID-19 can say with certainty that it isn't a bioweapon. Wuhan has 3 virus labs (China has 40), including one that's world famous with published virology papers. Yet no vaccine was developed in the past 18 years since SARS-1, speaks volumes.

What were they doing for the last 2 decades?

When experts are asked whether COVID-19 is natural or engineered, the answer is always, "I think it's 50/50 at this point."
Changes to inflation result in potentially sharp transitions, which creates an implied uncertainty about a future outcome. By definition, climate is not characterized by sharp transitions; it is very slow on a human timescale.

The argument "against climate change" is more so an argument against immediate action. It's a silly argument since prepping for climate change involves R&D into ultimately more profitable energy solutions, like nuclear, electric, solar, etc. People are deterred by the cost of change.
You're not the only one, there are some really big companies out there that rely on Flash and Flex.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/221408-sars-efiling-...
That's an interesting point. I haven't found consistent source about it. I relied on the English page of Wikipedia. If you have a solid source that would invalidate, please sent it to me and I will ba happy to update the article. In the meantime, I will keep that blurry definition https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000359000/...
I’m not sure how these stories being conspiracy theories before there was evidence is an argument against conspiracy theories turning out to be true.

Without evidence there’s no proof that something is true. But without evidence on the contrary there’s no proof it isn’t true either.
And yet, there is a pretty intense car aftermarket (minus the now sudden shift to having DRM on engine components). I think you are conflating "able to be modified by the hand of the owner" with "able to be modified at the direction of the owner": the intrinsic complexity increase leading to the former sometimes being unrealistic doesn't imply the latter is as well... my mother didn't build her kitchen cabinets, but she definitely directed the process, and she did not need permission from the company from whom she bought her house.
Ask HN: Best Novel about Coders?
Hello fellow coders,

what is the best novel about coders you have encountered? "The Bug " by Ellen Ullman left an lasting impression on me.

What novel about coding has influenced you?
That's not true. Based in Germany, my mom still had, and I believe still has, a SIM in her phone that doesn't support tethering.
Most developers don't even care that much about their work, their sites just silently break without Javascript.
You forget payment processing 3%

Sales tax, ca 20%
It also goes along with purging people representing a different perspective than "The Cure". That there's no real plan other than being puppets to billionaires, doesn't phase these groups. That their leaders are willing to seed chaos, destruction and war, for political gains and power, seems also to fly right by.
A conspiracy theory is something that the other political side believes in, but which your side rejects fully. This goes both ways.

Right-Wing:

- 5G causes Corona: clearly untrue

- vaccines cause autism: clearly untrue

- the state is controlled by a colluding elite cabal: hard to disprove

Left-Wing:

- there is a conspiracy by men to oppress women and make them earn less money, resulting in the Gender Pay Gap: clearly untrue

- because capitalists exploit the working class, communism results in the best overall outcomes for everyone: clearly untrue

- can't think of a hard-to-disprove one: anyone got ideas?
Ye. Many conspiracy theories are probably conspiracys to discredit conspiracys. It is funny how even the term conspiracy has something cracy over it when it surely is very common ...
Use Brave. I've just used it since the Friday last week and it's already stopped over 10k ads and saved me 400 MB. In one week!
> It is troubling enough to see these ideas on social media

I think the attempts to censor conspiracy theories are far more troubling. They are works of political fan fiction or at worst someone's erroneously held opinion. Sometimes they even turn out to be true. Censorship is completely indefensible in any case.
"Conspiracy theorists" rejects logic and facts that do not support their theories. They believe some authority more than reason. It happens that official point often stands for a reason.
https://archive.vn/KwDAk
How do we teach adults to seek the truth? How do we get people to not share stories just because they want to believe the story is true?
> really has nothing to do with the rendering part of a game engine.

I disagree here, it depends on how you are going to implement animation. For example, if you're using shaders to manipulate vertexes - that's rendering engine land.

> Physics simulations (fluids, soft bodies/deformables, breakables) are also unsolved in a real time environment.

Yes - and again, depends on where you draw the line between physics and rendering engine if there are code-crossovers on the GPU. You could say architecturally, ok - this is the GPU engine in a very simple case.

> Networking is tough; games have strict latency requirements, and perform all sorts of tricks to minimize bandwidth usage.

Yes - totally agree with you here. This is a deep problem. For this kind of game you probably want a deterministic physics engine so everyone is seeing the same thing (running local physics simulations etc.).

> Input (as you mentioned) is tough too, albeit solved for the most part by now.

Agreed, but it's solved well by specialised 3rd party tools mostly. For example, in the Unity Engine control disconnects etc are still an issue in the base library. Rewired is one solution to this.

> It's also worth mentioning that this is all work needed for a game _engine_ you still need a game on top of it.

Yeah. Managing gameplay logic - again - how does this all come together.

Anyhow, I'm glad they are giving it a shot. It will be interesting to see how it all comes together.

I'd like to see a project actually where someone makes a twin stick shooter without any kind of engine at the lowest level we can get to right now without too much hassle (e.g. GLSL, direct to TCP/IP, maybe FGPA for server). That would be super cool.

EDIT: Just for clarity, I'm not trying to start an argument with you - I suppose we're drawing straws on how to delineate functionality. And further, I don't see a clear game design from this group to start with. If it's just simple shapes like Geometry wars then art pipeline becomes simple - if the physics part of things is simple as well (a little momentum and friction), and the net side of things isn't battle Royale requirements - then it's not rocket science. I guess my point was that GPU programming had a very steep learning curve for me, and I started way back in the dat on 3DFX hardware (I'm not super bright when it comes to paradigm shifts). I think one of the things I didn't see was their idea on what hardware they aim to target and what the game design was in more detail. Back in the day engines were written to satisfy game design - but the most complicated parts of the engine were on the GPU side. Anyhow - respect. You've obviously got some background here as well ;-)
Yeah, plus large swaths of land have grown irreligious in relative short timespans (< 100 years), indicating that religion is pretty vulnerable in the memetic war.

Even in the Islamic world the number of secret atheists is growing. [0][1][2] It is not too hard to become disillusioned in faith if you witness entire countries pulverized in the name of God.

[0] https://insidearabia.com/the-rise-of-atheism-in-morocco-and-...
[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/1/atheists-in-...
[2] https://thearabweekly.com/iraqs-growing-community-atheists-n...
I have no issue with this as a business decision, but this particular decision is a barrier to adoption for a lot of people. Hopefully it pays off for AdaCore.
If cost were the only factor in a purchase decision, 90% of the economy would cease to function.
Well, it's getting philosophical now. We do not have a way to experience the true nature of the coin. We can only experience an "image" [0] of the coin and we summarize all "images" of that object into knowledge.

[0] by image I do include your vision, but also hearing, feeling and other methods of perception.
Franchises also take 15%+, and that is excluding card processing fees and chargeback costs. In a highly demanded location, it’s possible you’re paying a percentage of revenue to the land owner, the franchisee, the card networks, and of course the various governments.
>It is easier to create chaos than order

Conspiracy theories are about creating order where there is chaos.

It's a story of a secret goings on that explains unknowns.

It's more scary to know that no one is in control and that things happen because of random chaos. It is comforting to believe that there is a secret reason behind the chaos.

There are not conspiracy theories that have a secret group of people increasing chaos and confusion for its own sake (except possibly the discordians!)
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It's interesting to think about the fact that, now that Macs are starting to be differentiated more by hardware (again, due to Apple Silicon) than software, Apple might actually allow more tweaking/low-level access to do interesting stuff.
After witnessing the head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases blatantly lying to people and admitting it, I wonder why there are not more conspiracy theorists in the US.
The true alternative to an app store with 30% cut is simply an open mobile standard OS that allows users to do whatever they want with their hardware and software. Just like with PCs, but on a smaller form factor. On PCs you don't have app stores or any of that kind of bullshit, yet you still have plenty of free software, lots of powerful paid software, which you pay directly to the creators.

Why can't people see that mobile phones are just a different form factor of a computer?
So I'm a conspiracy theorist and at this point I have no hope of stopping to be one.

Simple example that resonates well with current situation - when covid broke out I was spending a lot of energy ingesting everything I could. To my surprise, the vast majorities of predictions made by experts did not come true. I remember back in April-May-June media would predict that cases will skyrocket in two-three weeks and everything will go to hell. But it did not; in "two-three weeks" someone else would again say "we are two-three weeks away from disaster". No one ever retracted their pieces or issued a correction, everyone just forgotten about predictions that never came true. Most of my friends are happy to keep on listening to such experts. The media are happy to promote the experts further.

So how am I supposed to not be... heavily sceptical when we don't held opinion makers accountable for what they say?

(I know what I'm saying is not 100% related to article, but I just want to see through media bullshit, and need to vent somewhere.)
I think this happens in many cultures, actually. Here's a Father Ted clip that lampoons the Irish version of this same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk3ds-VFKBs
All modern software has an undo option. Why doesn't the filesystem?
I read "I couldn't find libraries that did most of what I needed and I couldn't be bothered to contribute said libraries"
IMHO I think with competition the app stores would see fees drop significantly because they’re not really providing that much value. The fee on the roblox side I’m not sure about. I wonder what they do for that 24.5%.

Whoever’s running the game servers, moderating the game, providing new content to keep the game relevant, etc. is doing a lot more to earn their cut, right?
Looking at the code, Shumway seems amazingly complete vs. Ruffle. Ruffle has only a tiny skeleton of AS3 support (only the VM opcodes and some of the MovieClip class), while Shumway seems to implement a huge chunk of the library classes.

Maybe using wasm Rust with WebGPU acceleration will make it faster than Shumway. Remarkable to me how much effort must have been put into Shumway, though..
Sorry, I was speaking in metaphors to physics. You are correct in this perspective.
I always tell liberals who advocate for suppression of "misinformation" that they are attacking the very roots of liberalism and that they actually may tear it down. Without personal freedom, liberalism degenerates into a "status quo preserving mechanism", and status quo is subject to severe outside challenge in every economic downturn and every conflict of values on Earth.
At this point, honestly the only YC startup they seem to be romanticizing is Airbnb. I've only heard of a few casual mentions (from Michael Siebel I think) of Brex or Segment or any of the other startups.
Scalpel was made to do this. It works great. Has for years.

https://github.com/sleuthkit/scalpel
> Without evidence there’s no proof that something is true. But without evidence on the contrary there’s no proof it isn’t true either.

You are arguing that the conspiracy theory label is unjustified. But if the proof for your theory is primarily based on absence of proof to the contrary, then it would rightfully be labelled a conspiracy theory.

Even if a conspiracy theory turns out to be true that does not make the label unjustified.
The US is also the most geographically blessed nation on the planet.
>It is interesting to consider how profoundly obsolete such devices are these days

Do you know how many of those "obsolete" in my case VPN devices i installed? Hundreds...from CheckPoint (Israel) to Zyxel (Swiss) and Sonicwall (USA).
I am surprised GitHub project kanbans don’t get more attention. They are easy to setup, great for tracking activities and allow “threaded” discussions inside each issue. Why would you use Slack for your team if you have GitHub with this free option?
There is a lack / something is missing.
"people on the right wing give less to charity to the poor than people on the left wing."

"Capitalism does not make the poor richer."

Both could be disproved with stats, but as it's politics it will be argued and so it's not easy to disprove.
More direct democracy could help.

In a R/D party system, you "buy" a party wholesale, with all the opinions and policies that it currently holds. Some of which are repulsive even for you.

MJ legalization was almost entirely achieved through ballot initiatives, because both R and D elected politicians were afraid to touch it.
Of course, nobody seems to remember Android 4's design language, Holo, had a light and a dark theme. For the exact same reason too: the Nexus phones were pioneering OLED displays.
It's interesting that the top distribution channels charge exactly the same 30%.

One would imagine that they would try to compete and start offering lower rates to undercut rivals like Epic (which is much smaller than Steam/Apple/Microsoft/Google as a distribution channel) is doing.

The situation here is like all air major travel companies charging exactly the same for tickets for a given route and then justifying that by saying they offer a great value to customers.
It just illustrates how natural the concept is. I don’t mean that in a bad way; it’s such an elegant solution and I would not be surprised to see other implementations before MacOS 9.

Anyway, Growl did much more than that, and I don’t think there is any doubt Apple’s current implementation owes a lot to your design.
Making unsubstantiated claims would go against science and be anti-scientific. That can and will be abused. It's almost impossible to validate a negative, while it only takes one good sample to start questioning a positive.

The problem isn't media or science not being open or not mostly telling it as it is. While there's always some bias, the problem is people overstuffed with information overload and seeking quick-fixes in social media and authority-based sources claiming fantastical mythodology. It's a House of Cards, and also inspired by that very series by those seeking to take advantage for own gains.
At the consumer level, I would be surprised if even 10% of people cared about the seller’s expenses.
> Of course its far fetched to say 5G causes corona, but I would say it’s only unlikely it influences it.

That's a popular strawman or a fake argument. People weren't saying that 5G causes corona. It was more about how corona is used as a distraction while 5G towers were being put up illegally (while people weren't allowed to be outside to notice), and how it is powerful enough to track chips in humans.
The contention is absolutely reasonable. It’s in fact currently the subject of major litigation from Epic Games, and there was also a notable US House report on the same subject.

That doesn’t mean it’s settled, or that the opposite argument isn’t also reasonable, but it’s certainly a valid controversy.
+1, works well with Edgeium + uBlock.
Right. Or now NDN. Plus some other similar ideas.
The kitchen analogy was not too long as the people who need to read this didn't come into the article agreeing but need to be convinced; if anything I could see the article needing more analogies, but I felt this article struck a good enough balance that I could see recommending it to people who insist on "opinionated software" to seed an argument.
The CIA conspired to make it easier to sell weapons and foment war in Syria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore

They used Obama's image to make it more palatable to the resistant Western Europeans...
.NET on Apple Silicon?
Aren’t the fees for foreign exchange rates brutal with PayPal? Why not just get a couple prepaid credit cards and use those? The only way I can see the benefit of PayPal is if you have it linked to a credit card that you use like a short term 0% interest loan.
> A conspiracy theory is something that the other political side believes in, but which your side rejects fully.

Not all conspiracy theories have political stratification. In fact, what is often incorrectly considered the Ur-conspiracy theory--the JFK murder--has adherents of every political descriptor under the sun.

You've got people thinking the once-communist Oswald was working on behalf of the USSR or Cuba. To which people would reply that the CIA would never allow a former Communist back in _unless he was willing to work for them_.
When the post start with appeal of authority(blog post, nonetheless) and a humble brag, the likelihood of non-thought-out content seems to be greater.

Seems like most of the points are quite shallow, and I especially have trouble with his description of genius.

He seems to conflate genius and elitist.

>geniuses understand complex things, they design complex systems that no one understands. Their loneliness makes them unique masters of their subjects, thereby nurturing their self-esteem. Knowledge remains in their heads and their presence becomes necessary for every decision.

In my experience, these are more often a pretender that comes from being the "big fish in the small pond" with self-esteem closely tied to the performance, and often nothing more than a facade to hide a underlying self-esteem problem.

Almost every person I've met that have showed "genius" qualities, (and 10 years later, shows in their track record) have been incredibly humble and spend a lot of effort explaining their thoughts, solutions and products to great length. At least at one point in their life they understood that behaving like mentioned "genius" by the author, leads to nothing and is a unproductive (pseudo-intellectual) behaviour. Even in academia.

So the authors point of "Professional > Genius" is not really a university issue. If anything should be something one experience in a university, through peer interactions. Maybe the top1% might go out without this insight, but sooner or later this will hit you. Not something one needs to focus in college, though.
That's not the point of this. This is not about disabling JS as a user of websites.

Heydon is a developer, and an influencer of developers. He's saying: web development is now absolutely obsessed with JavaScript, and it in no way has to be. The basics, HTML, CSS. That's what's important.
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I still build my own PC's even though on a similar cost/benefit basis it would make sense not to perhaps.

Thing is I build PC's for both gaming and software development and frankly for that goal the delta between build it yourself and someone else building just on price is pretty large but there is also the fact that if I build it myself I know exactly which parts are in there.
Thanks for that information, never heard of data diodes before.

Crazy, that such a seemingly simple idea was only realized as recently as 2015.
Three is a special kind of nasty anyway.

They used to proxy all traffic and the only way to get out of their stupid slow proxy was to go to the shop with ID to get on an "18+" list.

They said it was because of some UK law but I was in Ireland. So not applicable. And other UK based providers like Vodafone didn't have this stupidity.
Authority is who you decide to be. If I only believe my local cultist, that is my authority and nobody else. This is in the hands of the people themselves.
The response to this way of thinking is "we didn't know stuff we know now back then", "we learnt things as we went along, and updated our models, advice, warnings"

The mask thing is hardest to justify as the whole of Asia was saying they worked back then and the reasons given for why they said "they don't work" back then is "well they had to lie because we didn't have enough masks to go around and we didn't want you to panic" which admits a lie.

Then back then they said "masks do work, but we don't have enough" which implied they were lying initially but can be explained by saying " we didn't know the full facts" again.

So an outsider might see these messages as a kind of benevolent way to effect behaviour change amongst PPE shortages and to stop panic, and another sees behaviour modification as lying and manipulation common in conspiracy theories.