skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should really find the comments I made on the thread before jumping to any conclusions about whether I disagree or not.

The point I'm trying to understand is that you are basically saying "I am not getting because I don't want to and it is within my rights to not take it", which is totally fine. But I am failing to see how this is a "principled" statement. It's like saying "I will smoke a pack of cigarettes in my bathtub because I am free to do so". Claiming any "principle" stand there is based at best in circular logic.
You missed the most important point. It bears repeating: an informed populace is the basis of democracy.

A misinformed populace acts to destroy democracy.
> Medical reason is not the only reason for it to be legitimate.

I agree. I could also understand not being able to afford a mask.

Somehow I suspect that's not the case.

> You too are selfish for forcing other people to wear mask.

Disagree. Is it really that selfish to say "Hey, please endure some temporary mild discomfort with no lasting affects, in order to protect others?"

> Very much Yes

I have no words for this. You are either the best troll I've seen in a while, or are -- imho -- a ridiculously childish fool who is both weak, and hardhearted.
The article you are commenting on did not propose any new laws, nor did I in my comment. Did you mean to reply to somebody else or to comment on another article?

I don't think the government should require tech companies like Google to support free speech. I think Google should support free speech because it's the right thing to do. I believe the author of this article feels similarly, just as the editors of major American newspapers did from about 1600 to 2005.
No, that would be the basis for the US to stand up its own video publishing platform. Forcing YouTube to host content it doesn't wish to is "un-American".
Just set stuff on fire I suppose.
[0] isn't mine.

I've only commented on the phone company analogy.
The person I replied to asked what the business value was, so I explained that the [business] value comes from having a dedicated person who understands the context in which the issue is being worked.
"I should probably turn off WiFi."

I recommend it. I schedule my router to shut down the wifi during the hours I should be sleeping. It's not so much a distraction thing as it is just a health precaution.
A vast majority of the people who immediately recognize these YouTube videos are fake also went to public school. Something like ninety percent of America goes to public school, you can cite them as a vast majority for almost any American activity and probably be right.
I sort of agree with this, except that I don't think it's square one. The ability to change config without rebuilding your artifact is one of the advantages of separate config files, and using an embedded language like lua wouldn't remove this advantage.
Where could you move that has more freedom of speech and press than the US? Asking for a friend...
Nope nope nope nope.

Generally, it’s the state where you work.

It can be complicated when you live in one state and work in another.

But the location of your corporate office is absolute irrelevant for where an employee pays taxes.
> There really is a physical object corresponding to the pipe, and the "|" refers directly if tersely to that object.

By that argument, there really is a physical object corresponding to the desktop. That, too, is made up of pieces of memory.

> It consists of an actual physical medium with various attributes

Not necessarily. I mean, yes, ultimately it does because we live in a physical reality. But ultimately even I start think about a filesystem in my head it exists on a physical medium, my brain.

Are the trees that modern filesystem usually consist of nowadays actual trees growing in my computer, or are they metaphors? Named after their biological counterpart because they roughly look and act like them in very specific aspects? Like a desktop, or a window?

Are the "folders" or "directories" that you interact with in your shell actually those pieces of objects, or are they a metaphor?

> The CLI is not a metaphor - it's an abstraction. It removes details that you don't need to know about (mostly), but provides you with a way to operate directly upon the objects (concepts)

I don't see the distinction. The desktop provides you with a way to operate directly upon the objects/concepts of the OS. In both cases, there is usually a multitude of abstractions before you reach any actual physical object.

> the way that the kernel of macOS isn't responsible for most of the way that desktop functions today [...] leaving the kernel to deal with the same sorts of objects you'd describe with the CLI

You mean the same way the kernel is not responsible for the way the CLI functions?

Why is an open() system call (which can refer to numerous virtual, abstract, immaterial things) more "real" when the piece of memory it has been passed has been collected through a multitude of abstractions and maybe originated from a sequence of keystrokes on a keyboard via USB, than if it had been collected through a multitude of abstractions and maybe originated from a sequence of mouse movements via USB?
It's accepting issues and PRs: https://github.com/simonw/datasette
What a stupid argument. "Child pornography and obscenity are banned, therefore democracy does not rely on free speech, therefore we don't need free speech at all." Obviously "free speech" comes with the colloquially-understood fact that it doesn't include child pornography.
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Do all technical advances make you feel sad? Why hang out on Hacker News then?
You’re right, I should have said allegedly hacking. Unless you’re claiming there is some doubt that she should have had access to that system to send that message, then yes it is hacking. Plain and simple.

I run a SaaS business. As part of logging into that company my users send their username and password to my servers which my servers see in clear text.

Just because it would be absolutely trivial to save all those passwords in clear text and use the 50% of them that are re-used credentials to login to my customers’ accounts doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be illegal to do so.

The complexity of the hack is irrelevant. Whether you have the correct password is irrelevant. Whether it was authorized access or not, and whether the perpetrator believed it was authorized access or not, is what matters.

And as part of the process to determine that, serving a warrant on the home of the IP address of the person who performed the action is appropriate.

And waiting at the door for 23 minutes while making multiple phone calls with the homeowner to try to serve the warrant is more than reasonable. It’s frankly how I would hope they would treat me in the same situation if for some reason I refused to come to the door. (Plenty of time to destroy evidence, that’s for sure)

They haven’t even charged her at this point. It was serving a warrant as part of the investigation! What, you want them to not investigate? This is bizarre-land politics and disinformation campaign territory.
Oh, feel free to run with any ideas of mine if they strike a chord. I'm not competent enough to tackle making a whole DE just to satisfy my curiosity at this moment.
Is Android itself a good decision? Apps aren't as strongly sandboxed, much more data gets collected (by Google, but that means an account compromise is much worse than it would be otherwise), security overall is worse.

I remember when I had an Android phone and I took a peek at Google's personal-data dashboard at one point. It had a line drawn on the map tracing my every footstep for the past several years. Vacations, commuting, visiting friends. Everything. It was neat at the time, but is a nightmare scenario for this kind of thing. You can disable some of that, I think, but Maps will constantly bug you about turning it back on.

At the very least I'd steer them away from installing any apps that don't come from major global corporations. There's a ton of malware on the Android store, especially games, and it's not hard to imagine some of it collecting data to sell on the black market.
GoLand: A cross-platform IDE built specially for Go developers
When companies cease to grow because they no longer innovate their only option is to find other ways to increase profits. This usually means mining the low hanging fruit of reduced taxation. I doubt Larry will be moving to Texas.
20 keywords, but what about EscapeString, or SpringContextIntegrationTest? A program can use a lot of English words.
I35 and mopac certainly seem worse than my experience with all types of Bay Area morning commutes while working as a consultant.

That being said it is common advice to avoid 35 at all costs. It is always terrible as it only has 3 lanes through the core urban area.

As for urban driving, I think SF is easier because of its grid system but I usually take a Lyft so can’t really say.
> Free speech and freedom of the press are over. America is done. Nothing special about this place anymore.

Given that you can still say and print pretty much anything you want, I'd say this is a little over the top.
Ah yes that was a slip up. You're right, it should read the "space of all differentiable functions," or maybe "all complex differentiable functions" for extra precision.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18220020
I have never had the opportunity to try this method but after much theory crafting and many useless pointing meetings and much statistical investigation with negative correlation between "complexity" and "time to completion" I can only think that this is the correct way to get velocity.
Same boat. Tough to hold out given these incredible reviews!
Maybe because it's not an axiomatic fact. There has been niche radical internet communities for ages. It has only been with the radical communities coming into the mainstreams ones (reddit, twitter, and facebook)that the radical communities exploded.
I really wish we could choose between libraries and sheriffs...
I think there's a couple of options. First if one was to consider the US government a charity they would have a zero star rating on charity navigator; for tax dollar collected versus put to good use. So starting with the end in mind and measuring the result would be the alternative.
Web developers don't just use 1 or 2 mobile devices they own.

Bringing Gecko to a new platform is much harder than wrapping WKWebView.
Good web design and content. This is useful. It's mostly basics but even those can be very helpful to have on a single page. Thanks for the resource!
For Intel cores "there are still five decoders in play. These decoders are split as one complex decoder and four simple decoders, and they can supply up to five micro-ops per cycle." vs. eight instructions per cycle for Firestorm. https://www.anandtech.com/show/14514/examining-intels-ice-la...
I appreciate your counter-argument. Let me address intent first, then risk.

I would argue that intent might be relevant when assigning legal consequences, but not when assessing the damage caused. If I catch a case of COVID, I’m not somehow less likely to die or suffer long-term effects because the person who gave it to me didn't intend to do so. Nor can I pay my hospital bills with their good intentions. And if they engaged in reckless behavior such as attending super-spreader events or failing to wear a mask, I have to question how good their intentions were in the first place. It sounds like the drunk driver who says “But I didn’t intend to run over that pedestrian”. Maybe not, but their gross negligence allowed it to happen.

Now for risk. I agree that we can’t eliminate risk from our lives entirely. But I hope that's not the litmus test for whether to take any prevention steps at all, especially if the cost of taking those steps is minimal. Take your example of getting behind the wheel of a car. It's likely that sooner or later, if I drive long enough, I'll get into some kind of accident, even if it's just someone rear-ending my car. I can't prevent this entirely, but I can mitigate the risk by getting regular maintenance on my car (i.e. new brake pads so I don't cause a fender-bender), refraining from driving drunk, keeping my auto insurance policy current so that I can pay out in the event I'm at-fault, etc. Wearing a mask is the public-health equivalent of getting new brake pads. It won't eliminate the risk of spreading COVID entirely, but that doesn't mean I'm going to throw my hands up and admit defeat.

I would further argue that people are less-than-great judges of just how big a risk vector they are, because of the delay between when someone catches COVID and when they present symptoms. I've heard it can be up to two weeks, during which time that person is unknowingly exposing others. Because of this, and given the potential life-or-death consequences of catching COVID, it seems insane not to err on the side of caution.
Considering this was an almost surgical removal of an unpopular President without a total rejection of the President's party, I feel pretty confident in my statement, but who knows, anything can happen between now and 2022 and 2024. It certainly wasn't the blue wave anybody thought it would be this year, nor in 2018.

One thing I'm not holding my breath for in 2022 is seeing the Democrats in the House leverage their decreased majority into a larger majority, or even retaining the House considering mid-terms are always a bad time to be a member of the President's party. That, and after this past election there is a net increase in the number Republican trifecta States, an increase in the number of States under Republican Governors, and redistricting season will soon begin.
> I don’t get updates and notifications about channels I’m following like I should

This sounds weird, like a configuration or permissions issue. Those basic features work flawlessly.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041295
It goes far deeper than that.

These companies have absurd amounts of proprietary information on everything going on in the world, and it's near impossible to compete. You are right, they will generally just buy you out, but if you don't accept, they will buy out your competitor and then your competitor will suddenly have access to all your customers (and many more), your potential customers, your usage numbers, data on your employees, your financings, et cetera.

It's not a fair fight, and it is the way it is because of ImaginaryProperty laws.
Right. The actor matters a huge amount. We all agree on that.

But if you run a forum and say you will not allow any view to be expressed therein that you don't agree with, you aren't in fact "allowing people to make up their own minds"---unless by "allowing people" you just mean not actively harming them for expressing views in other places, or something equally wild.

Another way of saying it is that no one would say you are "tolerant" if you only "tolerate" behavior you agree with.
Abstractions aren’t illusory, they are definitions that ideally make things easier to reason about.

A pipe in the Linux kernel is a real thing. The name is metaphorical because it’s supposed to evoke the image of things flowing through it but that’s where it ends. A Linux pipe makes no effort to pretend that it behaves like a physical pipe. But it does abstract the implementation details about how data is sent to and retrieved from it.

An email program where the user is shown sheets of paper and envelopes is an illusion. The underlying implementation now has to modify its behavior to fit the physical properties of paper and envelopes to some degree. Letters only have one destination, CCing and BCCing now means copying and sending bundles.
Personally I don’t consider Apple one of the shitty ones, but I didn’t want to get off-topic.
If curious see also

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9831429
Worse policing also leads to more incorrect clearings.

Who knows how many murders were incorrectly pinned on husbands or wives, or known petty criminals, or tramps? The same technology we use to find murderers can also exonerate people.

We also tossed out a lot of bogus methods based on pseudo-science and learned a lot about the reliability of witnesses; and all the modern technology exposed many expert witnesses as charlatans.
This is simply false. I’ve lived in California, been hired for a California company, allowed to work from home, and moved out of state.

The moment I left California the state I paid income tax to changed.

Think of it this way: all of the government services I use are in the state I reside in. I use literally $0 in California services. Not police, not fire department, not roads: nada.

California had a reputation for being very strict about whether you are a “resident.” But it’s not infinite.

Once you’re gone, they can’t tax you.

There are some exceptions for people who live near in a neighboring state, but work physically in California.
Agreed; I received my new m1 mba this week and it is _nice_. Anyone reading who is on the fence, I don't think you'll regret getting one (and I say that as a cheap bastard unix greybeard in general, heh). Cool-running, quiet, good keyboard, gorgeous display, insane battery life, it's just a phenomenal machine. :)
Maybe procedural grounds was the wrong word but this is a good example of what I meant.
"I don't want to see the evidence that may disqualify votes because it will disqualify other votes." is basically the logic. It seems weird to me but I'm not a lawyer so I could be wrong and this is perfectly normal ruling from a judge.
Not only yes, but fuck yes.

We could have knocked this way down by wearing masks. As a long distance truck driver I see few people wearing masks, mostly counter workers who want to keep their jobs. A few truckers who want to get into the store, a few more "civilians." I see a lot of freedom fighters daring anyone to say something to them.

California is about the best I've seen.

I always wear a mask except when I'm in the truck, regardless of signs, and regardless of whatever a state's rules are at the moment.

Since we're not going to wear masks, the vaccine is our only hope.

I want to prevent my infection, for myself obviously, but equally so that I don't spread to anyone.

If a problem is discovered ... I'm old, and I've lived long enough. I'd be happy to contribute that bit of data.
90% of my search queries, particularly the ones I make from my phone, are really dumb.
I don't see why this justifies downvoting me, when I have no idea who this person is and their only submission I've seen is extremely scant on anything befitting the title of their post.
...it’s a marketing tactic.
it's explained by the crackers in a YouTube video. It's a pretty basic substitution encoding, except one letter of the alphabet can be encoded by a variety of symbols.

It was difficult to solve because the cypher has three different sections, and they're intended to be read diagonally, but each section also has some additional minor ad hoc rules.

https://youtu.be/-1oQLPRE21o
There seems to be a lot of "there seems to be" talk in the comments. I have yet to see one comment actually calling this move a violation of the first amendment.
Thanks for the correction - most of what I know has been gleaned from reimplementing AVM2 in Rust for Ruffle, so I suppose I might have a bit of a Flash-centric attitude.
In Austin I can go golfing on Christmas Eve and play outdoor basketball that afternoon. Yeah, it’s hot in the summer, but 96 isn’t oppressively hot and by the time you’re out of work at 6pm the weather is in the low 90’s.
I like Apple's approach of having more narrow vector units rather than a few extremely wide ones. Narrower vector units are generally easier to program and easier to support on small cores (like the efficiency cores). It's a good tradeoff for cores used outside of niche applications that do a ton of numerical calculations.

Compare this to a design like AVX/AVX2 that has wider 256-bit vectors, but almost always forces the programmer to treat them as two 128-bit vectors glued together. All because Intel realized they had to power down half of each vector ALU to save power at idle.

Of course, the future is hopefully more flexible vector ISAs like SVE. AVX-512 is not too bad either today, but Intel seems almost pathologically opposed to making forward-looking decisions (what about when they want to double the vector width again??).
They aren’t going after the same demo though. The market is big enough for both of them to exist. The path for Discord is a lot more hazy than Slack imo.
Or I could argue that I could ultimate find the capacitors and transistors for anything else we're talking about here.

Except if they're just transistors because the representation of the pipe is sitting in static RAM for some reason, or in the fluctuation of a magnetic field. Or all of the above at the same time (caches, page files). Which one is the "real", non-metaphorical representation of the pipe? The one in the cache because it's being worked on by the CPU? The one in memory because its lifetime is longer?
Very much agree. It honestly shocks me that more people don't recognize this. I think as humans we just tend to forget stuff over time, as we go, and as our perspective changes.
I'm not sure what your point is? As we seem to agree values change.
Why is inflation targeting pernicious? To the extent that currency is a replacement for bartering, a positive inflation rate is a mechanism for enforcing a sort of temporal locality in that conceptual bartering. Why is that bad, or else what other functions is currency serving where inflation targeting is undesirable?
The theory is that when passed through morse code and reversed...

. -.-. .. -.. .- .-. .- .--. = ECIDARAP

can be rearranged to

.- .-.. .-.. . -. -.. -.-- . = ALLEN (DYE)

Since the primary suspect was Arthur Leigh Allen, some thought that the mis-spelling of "paradice" might have been his "signature."

I have no idea of this could be true or is a stretch.
Oracle is relocating to Austin, Texas
Yep, given the URL :)
This is not a good idea for the uninitiated and is on par with rolling your own encryption algorithm to send highly sensitive data around the world.

For the price GP mentioned there's a dozen vetted opensource commercial options in the bottom half of that range.
$currentjob switched to Teams 7 months ago, and I still miss Slack every day.

The only ones who I haven't heard lament the switch are the ones whose budget Slack used to (and o365 does) cone from.
This is one of the reasons I'm staying in CA. It is a rude awakening when you get the employee contract and it claims ownership of all your ideas and output produced at home. Good luck making a startup in those conditions.
You realize the poster you are responding to is the creator of D? And has spend his career writing compilers? I'm not sure he needs to have someone explain what a context free grammar is.
I think it's an important consideration what happens to other platforms but I don't agree it's obvious that the net effect of the bans will be negative like you are implying. I think it's pretty disingenuous to say that the problem is that people just "don't understand" your argument.
Ask HN: How should an ISP prove to a consumer they do not spy or use data badly?
I have ties to an American telecommunications company and one question I heard raised to leadership was how to prove to customers that spying and bad data handling was not present. Internal procedures are prone to non-trust. I'm curious if public procedures and checklists / verifications by a third party for the FCC standards (to be written) would be appropriate? FCC is a trusted government body. I don't think there are standards /tests and scoring around privacy, data protection, and standards to follow. Should there be? GDPR happened for the EU, California has some sort of protections. what would the standards look like? What protections would be put into place?