skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a company that was contracted to do an expansion for a computer game called Age of Empires II. It was more or less my first job out of university, and I was tasked with expanding the UI and JSON file loading so people could make maps and art for custom campaigns. I wasn't very familiar with the game before starting to work on it, so I was kind of going in blind.

It wasn't "critical" in the sense that it it required a high service uptime or anything, but I've seen people create lots of neat little stories and scenarios and share them online for other people to try. [1][2] It's fun to have worked on something that let people express themselves.

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=13839...

[2] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=19281...
Hi! Just wanted to say this is an excellent readme, and your Boemska website is equally great. Very impressive – kudos to you and keep up the great work!
Could be bad design, or could be good shared-space / privacy-focused design. Letting someone else yoink a connected input device in a hypothetical coffee shop or office with 50 people nearby is a recipe for annoyance or even for privacy-invasion. (Even if it only lets you grab devices you've previously been paired to, that's still an easy thing in an office where a lot of the equipment is more communal.)

My recollection is that the magic keyboard / trackpad insta-pair if you connect them via wire. Would plugging them each in to a lightning cable for a second to switch their allegiance work better for you than manually unpairing? Obviously it's still a hassle.
It's quite unfortunate that so few lawmakers take lead on opposing mass surveillance (Ron Wyden and Ran Paul come to mind). This issue is without doubt way more important than most issues politicians choose to demagogue about ("cancel college debt", e.g. Sigh).
Yeah okay I’m sorry that I was astonished by that. I don’t know how you made the connection between putting a little style in a README and Black Mirror. You went there very quickly and I didn’t have much to contribute other than surprise. I meant no offense.
>God I wish we could Manhattan Project this shit.

Interesting point of reference: the Manhattan project cost around around $25 billion in today's dollars. The US government spent at least $6 trillion on the coronavirus response, which could buy 200 Manhattan Projects. Coronavirus will kill around a million people this year at most; air pollution kills around five million per year (and sea level rises could kill a lot more).
For now. Encrypted SNI is in development and will eventually be used by devices and apps that want to do this sort of thing and hide what they're doing.
That’s my point, resources are probable sources of economically extractable resources. It’s mostly a long term vs short term question, so limiting things to reserves vastly underestimates availability in 2040+.

Even resources is an underestimation as again it’s based on economic assumptions that are quite flexible. New technology for example can change what’s considered economically feasible.
I agree with your broader point. Dark and light come with connotations. What I've found in my life is that if things look black and white, you aren't close enough to see the shades of gray. By playing into the good and evil tropes, I think we run the danger of oversimplifying the situation.

People who understand the full breadth of options certainly have an advantage. That, to me, is orthogonal to whether or not people are moral. Just because you know that you can do things doesn't make you evil. In fact, from a philosophical standpoint, I'd argue there's more virtue in knowing the evil and choosing not to do it than there is in ignorance. And from a business standpoint, there are generally non moral reasons for acting in what look like moral ways.
I teach CS to freshmen. The author keeps telling something is "a wrong question", but I feel that he is tackling a wrong problem. The problems shown here are rather syntactic/superficial - it's mostly a matter of language/tool proficiency. The real problem I commonly see among students is to systematically verbalize a thought that you're initially unaware of - e.g. take the binary search for example. The idea can be easily understood, but realizing that a range can be expressed with two numbers (high & low) is hard. Another example is to enumerate all permutations of given items. It's easy to imagine what are the expected result for a certain input, but it's not easy to describe the systematic process - it'd require some mental leap. These are what many people are struggling with, and something we still don't know how to teach.
Is there a way to make people care?

Personally, I think, for United States it does make perfect sense to redirect, say, half of the military budget onto solving real homeland security issues: climate change, sustainability, ecology, pandemics. There might be enough budget there to address climate change [1].

It'd be a risk to spend less on military, but considering that the United States has nuclear weapons and allies, is it a risk really?

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02460-9
This pleases me more than it should! Cool stuff! :o)
I am sad your comment is camping at the top of the discussion.
Serious question: are they? I know they've made a lot of acquisitions over the years, but I don't recall any widely-circulated stories of "Salesforce takes beloved thing and destroys it". The major open-source-friendly company I know of that Salesforce bought was Heroku, and a lot of people seem to use Heroku without even knowing that they are owned by Salesforce (and have been since 2010). It seems like it's too early to say anything definitive about what their purchase of Slack is going to change, although Slack has been making itself quite enterprise-focused all on its own.
I feel I should note that it's $49 each. Since the pair is presumably getting similar battery wear, it's likely that this is in-practice a $100 fee.
could have stopped at "milton friedman was wrong"
Most of the complaints about AWS are not about license compliance and source code release, but about money and competition.

AGPL doesn't solve the AWS problem, which is that Amazon will take the project your open source company wrote and soak up all the money to be had offering that project as a service and they will do a better job of it, while still complying with the license.

A related problem is that Amazon have enough engineers they can just look at your proprietary or source available project and just clone your programming interfaces on top of a new project (and if you are unlucky, open source that, killing your market entirely).
Not really bribes, just go to the Taihe Hospital in Beijing and pay to be vaccinated. The Chinese are more laid back about regulating stuff. https://time.com/5902646/china-covid-19-vaccine/
>so few lawmakers take lead on opposing mass surveillance

There is even a bigger problem underneath it - US government institutions were also proven (on numerous occasions) to unlawfully spy on citizens without any repercussions.

No amount of law will rectify the issue unless the law gets enforced.
Kinda hard to read, too. My eyes jump over it, the sentence stops making sense, and I have to pause and reread.
"x is not in the depixers file. This incident will be reported."

https://xkcd.com/838/
https://www.pushbullet.com/ sounds like it fits the bill
imho we are still riding the peak of inflated expectations when it comes to Bret Victor stuff.

I'd rather see focus in making our current batch of tools way better rather than looking for direct manipulation methods, A.I. assisted no-code environments, novel user interfaces, retro-futuristic hypercard-excel mashups, etc etc</grinch> :-p

To be fair "seeing" doesn't necessarily mean drawing vector graphics, any advance helping reveal hidden structure of a codebase or generate better documentation would also allow us to better "see" the working of the code... I'm all for that!

I hope things like model driven development get a second renaissance at some point, without the burden of UML, the sad XML reputation, "extreme programming" BS and such.

One project I like that's futuristic, and yet has reasonable goals, is Unison [1].

1: https://www.unisonweb.org/
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Yes it would be worth it but don't rush the purchase and inform yourself beforehand. Definitely check out /r/telescopes. An 8 inch dobsonian reflector telescope is recommended so much that it has become a meme, but it is rightfully recommended!
This comment resonated a lot with me. Here's something I was thinking about recently:

1) I also started programming very young, maybe eight or nine years old.

2) My first language was Python and I still program in Python today, the programming language with the motto "there's only one way to do it". At some point I had to write Perl for a summer job and it's TMTOWTDI attitude and many symbols nearly broke my brain, I hated it for most of the summer.

3) I used vim and then emacs for a very long time, and recently started using Visual Studio Code and Pycharm. This made me realize that one of my favorite features of any editor was actually the minimap VSC provides on the side by the scrollbar (which Pycharm does not by default provide). Not having it, having it, and then not having it again made me realize I utilized it a surprising amount even though it's a seemingly trivial feature compared to, say, code completion or syntax highlighting. It was just very fast for me to jump around a large file by clicking on the minimap; I knew where to click to jump to the function or class I wanted.

4) I am a vicious style guide zealot. I got poo-poo'ed once by a coworker for submitting a large commit where the only changes were renaming things to snake_case. But the code just looked wrong to me, I had to do it. I write C/C++ in K&R style and find it difficult to read code not indented as such.

I was sitting on my lunch break and all these things kind of crashed together into a great epiphany - maybe the reason I program in this specific way is because the code has to look a certain way in my head. Like I'm literally imagining a sort of minimap in my brain and if the syntax, conventions, order, spacing, etc. are wrong it screws up my very visual model because it literally looks wrong. The more rigidly the code follows the rules, the more visually consistent it is and the easier it is to structure.

Your comment makes me wonder if there really is some semi-visual, semi-textual model that certain programmers form of their code, which is ever-present but really hard to express in other ways. I also wonder if this is a common thing, and if it helps or hurts when programming.
Edgy empty points are easy to score. I think this site tends towards more reasoned arguments. Can you please articulate in what ways you see Obama (or Clinton) as having had a presidency that was worse for America as compared with Bush or Trump’s legacies. Clinton maybe fucked up the free trade agreement a bit and hurt some important constituencies within the Democratic Party that were pretty important? Sure. Is that bad for the Democratic Party? Sure. Was it bad for America overall, long term? I don’t know. Obama misspoke (or potentially even lied) a few times about the implications of the bill? Sure. Is America better off with the ACA? By all accounts very much so. Was Obama more of a war hawk with drones than I might have liked? Sure. Was he as measured as he could have been? Maybe not. You ask others they’ll say he was too measured. Pretty difficult spot to navigate.

Trump and Bush? Two major wars, 1 recession, 1 near major depression. And that’s just what Bush accomplished.
Why not MPL?
My favorite thing about the skin color emojis is that no one ever chooses the white ones. All white people and many POC use the yellow ones and the rest of the POC use their respective skin tones.

Says a lot about racial dynamics in 2020 Western culture in a very succinct way
This is great, thank you!

I'd love a tool like this for generating animated SVG clips of a web page, it'd help immensely when creating walkthroughs. Video recordings do work, but it's a mess working with different encodings to make it look ok. Not to mention, with SVG such walkthroughs could actually be made interactive...
I’m sure they work as well as any other AirPods pair to PCs and other devices: just the same as any other Bluetooth device.
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The script could be tied into the global onload event, so that it will only attempt to parse the JSON after the page has been fully loaded. Likely the HTML block is just placed at the bottom of the JSON for aesthetic reasons.
> Are you saying most conservative Catholics fetishize poverty and suffering as much as Mother Teresa did?

I doubt they meant that, but not many have any idea how terrible a person she was:

> “There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion,” Mother Teresa said. “The world gains much from their suffering.”

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mother-teresa-saint/2
So was Java. Until it wasn’t.
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and vastly misunderstood.
Wow that sucks. Live living in a cemetery. Is it like that in all of Europe?

In NYC I heard two dudes screaming at each other over walking into each other by accident then yell at each other over who was going to back down from the fight then yell at each other over all apologies about who was more sorry about the whole incident then actually fought over who was going to buy lunch for all the drama

I miss NYC all the time
SXML and SXSLT did that in scheme and were really rather good fun.
I think someone just re-invented XSLT.
PADI does 40m IIRC, with its deep diving components. Other certification organizations are different.

Mauritius had fantastic diving, but the sites tend to start at 25m. I think I saw 60m sites listed among the well know locales, although the deepest my divemasters went the week I was there was 46m (deeper would need more complex decompression stops and multiple tanks for more than a minute or so at the bottom). I think NAUI was the predominant body on the island at the time.
yeah, that is nice tool. I downloaded the open source version and it has a whole lot of features as agile tool!
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Can you comment with links pointing to his support for neo-Nazis?

I can agree that some of the people and ideas he aligns with are creepy, but Nazism has a meaning, and critiques like this need to be accurate and evidence-backed.
> Obviously the XSLT didn't actually print catalogues, but we did turn them into some format that I forget now (maybe PDF!) that we could just send straight to the printers.

Was Adobe FrameMaker involved?
I found https://github.com/Armin2208/Windows-Auto-Night-Mode to be better for auto-scheduling.
Don't know if any GCs use it, but if modifying the pointers is not possible then one alternative is Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm[1] which uses constant storage (two pointers).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Floyd.27s_Tort...
great! finally a search engine that will give me mainstream news sources and the official washington or brussels consensus on facts.
And some brands have started doing just that. But that's not the point - Amazon or Walmart doesn't prevent me from buying the products directly from the producers / manufacturers or from some other third-party. Apple does precisely that with its app store and ios platform (and soon will do with macOS).
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The AGPL is a fine license even for Corp use. Prove me wrong.
I don't quite like this answer, because it simplifies a lot of things about correlations which are just not really accurate.

> Corrleations are meaningful because they indicate how strongly variables can predict other variables.

This is not wrong per se, but may be wrongly interpreted.

1) I think it is important to stress that the reverse is not true. If a correlation is 0, it does not mean the variables are independent. It means they are linearly independent. There are a lot of things out there which are very much linked but not with a linear relationship.

2) This is only true if the correlation was done properly. For instance, correlating non-stationary variables will spuriously yield a high correlation, giving a false impression of link. The classic example is trying to correlate stock prices between themselves. An other example of spurious correlation is when not enough points are given to get an accurate result. Looking at tstat, r2, etc. is as important as looking at the actual correlation coefficient.

3) You use the word "predict" here, which I don't quite like. Correlation can predict outcomes only in the case where you have proven that past information will continue to occur. This is not always the case.

> A positive correlation between two variables means they tend to move in the same direction.

This is misleading also. The variables tend to move in the same direction _relatively to their mean_! I can plot you very different looking curves that are highly correlated just because their mean vary differently. Especially because of potential outliers.

> And it turns out that a strong positive correlation can be a good place to hunt for possible causality, such as hunting for something that causing both variables to change together.

I tend to dislike that thought process. It is very tempting to infer causality from correlation. Especially when automating correlation at scale is affordable, so generating spurious correlation is easy.
To me correlation is more a way to reinforce a hypothesis of causality that is already suspected. It won't give you the direction, but may hint you that you are on the right track.
I mean, correlation should not be a clue to discover causality, as there are too many false positives. Correlation should be an intermediary step in studying a potential causality.
While Fabric is certainly cool and I'd love to dig into it, not having any inclination of the pricing makes it impossible to know which client-base they are after.

I'm guessing those that have grown out of Magento/WooCommerce or even Shopify and Ecwid. Which means enterprise pricing, ie. custom quotes.
Islam has solved this problem over 1400 years ago. Zakat is a form of wealth tax that applies to money over a certain minimum amount. For currencies, it's 2.5%. So if you have $1M sitting in your bank account for 1 year, then by the end of the year you owe $25K to charity. Different percentages apply to other wealth/estate (like farm produce or cattle).

It's an extremely fair system, that does not punish people from making high wages (there is no income tax in Islam), and pushes people to invest into the economy. It also does not inherently cause inflation like today's fiat money. It's quite sad to see that humanity keeps refusing to learn from the past.
You may also be entertained by my http://github.com/shadowcat-mst/App-plx/ project which has a script that produces a documentation page that's both valid HTML and a valid perl bootstrap installer for 'curl | perl -' purposes.

An example of the output is at http://trout.me.uk/perl/plx.html (that one's actually served over http, it's a demo, please don't blindly run it).
Not enough output.
> This issue is without doubt way more important than most issues politicians choose to demagogue about ("cancel college debt", e.g. Sigh).

I feel like if you asked people whether it's more important to them to cancel college debt than to end mass surveillance, the results would not tilt toward the latter.
Canceling > $1 trillion in debt isn't exactly a small issue either.
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Literally a walking cliche but may as well own it.
Totally concur, replace Apache with MPL. In fact, Apache should come out with a new version that is Apache+MPL.
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Not sure about byte distribution, but the entropy chart is going to be finding encryption keys.
There's probably a good chunk of people who want neither covid nor the vaccine. Life's messy like that.
I think if we’re keeping score, we have to strictly count the stuff that had lasting impact. Case in point, the Patriot Act was up for renewal just this year (20 years later). We still have not unequivocally withdrawn from the Mideast (almost 20 years later). Free trade, well, it changed the world totally (for better or worse), and should not be understated as an aside of the Clinton administration. ACA had a lasting impact (one of the few positives). Trump was unable to pass any lasting legislation (taxes can go up and down if we try to count that).

In a sense, Biden could be a very consequential President as he will operate similar to Clinton/Bush/Obama, and I sense the country has forgotten how a determined executive branch can have you talking about stuff they quietly championed 20 years later (as we are doing now).
How is this any different from a totalitarian state?
Thats wrong too. If you use an unmodified version of AGPL software, or just host any modifications in a public repository like github, then you aren't in violation of AGPL, even if the rest of your stack is proprietary and your service paid. How does it prevent SaaS?
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Thanks for spelling it out like that - I think I might see the bigger picture here now. DoH (which incorporates DNSSEC under the hood) to protect the name lookup. IPv6 to provide unique addresses for every single service you connect to. The complete removal of SNI (as a security threat) and ESNI (as unnecessary complexity).

Pi-hole type filtering is then implemented based on IP blocks instead of DNS queries. Any unrecognizable IP address is default denied. Tracking, analytics, and ads could still be proxied by a remote host, but that can already happen anyway.

Of course, your ISP (or VPN, or anyone else along the network path) could employ the exact same approach to determine the services you connect to. Which leads me right back to DoH being largely pointless and Tor or similar being a hard requirement for actual privacy. Unless I'm missing something?
All of the responsibility without any of the authority.
I note that Qt 6 will not be in Debian any time soon:

https://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/2020/08/stepping-down-as-qt-...
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2020-Augu...
Drone attacks on wedding parties are what I use to differentiate Trump from Obama (and Bush and Clinton). I think the issue in your framing is lumping trump with bush when in reality, obama and bush are more alike (whether it is the merciless killing of people expressing sovereignty against an invading army or bailouts of wall street and wall street alone to the tune of trillions of dollars). Contrast that to Trump (who I am not a fan of) with zero wars started (despite ample opportunity in yemen) and a covid bailout that directly went to the people.

Again, I did not vote for the man but facts matter, please don't get fooled by the same agenda even if executed by two (or three) different administrations with technically opposing parties.
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Wonder how many of those signatures are suddenly going to light up as existing tools used besides FireEye.
So then what happens in the scenario I laid out? You just fumble around every time Charlie responds to Bob and Alice gets confused?

That’s reasonable for you?

I mean it’s ok if you want to just say what they’re doing sucks. But I’d find your position more compelling if you could offer a reasonable alternative.
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