skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when Snowden initially did what he did, I had a conversation with some coworkers about whether he was a hero or a traitor for releasing that information. I, personally, concluded that he was a bit of both, but, on balance, I considered him more heroic than traitorous. These days, I've shifted my opinion even more toward "heroic."
Right. Studies:

https://www.usgs.gov/news/disappearing-beaches-modeling-shor...

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/201...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037838391...
You're absolutely right. The only problem with art is that art doesn't produce what is actually needed for survival (like food or practical engineering solutions), hence promoting Haskell outside of art/research is ultimately a fool's errand. But damn it is pleasant.
The contractor mentioned in the article is not doing the same job, but is instead a vendor (the vendor term is only mentioned in passing in the article).

Google classifies contractors that work via an external agency as vendors. Most vendor workers at Google have roles which don't exist as a full time role at all and vendor contracts often even prevent vendor workers from being permanently hired. Cleaners for example are often vendors.
>What really puzzles me about Apple fans and it's userbase is that they do not care. They simply do not care at all what's being done to them.

I'm not really an Apple fan, per se, but I do own a macbook and the reason is this: It's not worth my time to switch to Linux. I have a core i7 Thinkpad that I also run Debian+KDE on, and the user experience is much worse, to say nothing of track pad quality and battery life.

I'm a parent and I'm not a software developer in my professional life, which means every minute spent figuring out why Linux won't do $thing properly is a minute not spent on more important things.

The opportunity cost of using free software is just too high for my use case.
> But “agile methodologies” are by themselves a subversion of the ideas on the Manifesto

I think that varies quite a bit from methodology to methodology; certainly, the ideas of the Manifesto operate a higher level than methodologies, so the idea that a canned methodology is a solution rather than a starting point is contrary to the Manifesto, but aside from the potential that the methodology will be treated that way many of them are in other respects consistent with and actively supportive of the ideals of the manifesto.
Months ago, everyone talking about this hypothesis was denounced as an evil right wing racist conspiracy theorist, mostly because the people who came to that conclusion were generally right wing racist conspiracy theorists. What does this say about the appropriate credibility update for right wing racist conspiracy theorists?
If the vaccines produce anti-bodies to the virus in question, they will most likely work for a random strain.

When the body naturally produces anti-bodies (because of a previous infection), it makes sense for the body to also protect against some of the future variants which it expects to see... so, same goes for anti-bodies produced because of a vaccine. They'll work against most random strains.

I would be much more worried about the strains that will evolve out of the vaccinated population, which will obviously be immune to the vaccines. Give it a few cycles of this and we'll have a bunch of strains which are immune to a bunch of vaccines, very similar to the flu vaccices, except I think there's going to be way too many strains for coronavirus.

Since coronavirus is way too common in mammals (compared to say, the polio virus) and has a lot of variants and strains, there's no way that the anti-bodies will last long (if they did, our bodies would be full of anti-bodies for everything that exists at all times, making us succeptible to way too many auto-immune disorders). The anti-bodies will last a few months at best (because that's how long the body expects coronavirus pandemic to typically last).
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Palantir has a bad rap everywhere. It is a big surveillance stock. Do you know the story of Monsanto? The other companies you mention all have the redeeming qualities that you mentioned but Palantir doesn’t. Facebook isn’t all wonderful but they did give ReactJS and other really nice web technologies to the world. Palantir has given what?... nothing. Palantir’s performance from here can be more like Uber’s.. which is yawning compared to heavy hitters like PACB or SQ.
What would be a safe way to opt out, though? One that people can't easily be tricked into taking, to installalwate? I don't think Doctorow has thought that through.
7 days using only keyboard shortcuts: No mouse, no trackpad, no problem? (2011)
Yes to case-by-case, and in this case, Hacker News being a somewhat representative demographic of the Tech sector, it is rather unfortunate that it lacks the noted diversity.

It's not ok to suggest that the Tech sector, being one of the most important industries for gaining financial independence and making an impact on the world, must remain the white male bastion that it is.
So, why did my first account get banned?
So when you stopped exposing yourself to propaganda, designed to grab your attention by riling up your emotions, you started getting less stressed? OK.
That always did strike me as reckless. It reminds me of 1950s and 1960s atomic testing: yes, there is value in the knowledge gained, but the method of gaining it was a bit YOLO.
Don Knuth's 2017 Christmas lecture featured a way to count how many ways a rectangle can be subdivided into rectangles [0]. It got its own entry in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences [1].

[0] https://youtu.be/BxQw4CdxLr8
[1] https://oeis.org/A285357
Oh the Route 53 team had the same half joke as well. DNS really is a good match for fast globally distributed reads and slowish writes to a hierarchal k/v store. Lots of customers have figured this out to better (or worse) effect.

Source: Principal at AWS, worked on route 53 for a few years.
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> I'll agree that there are some cases where a lack of diversity doesn't indicate any weakness in the community, but that is not the general case.

Do you think that e.g. a forum about child-rearing populated almost entirely by women exhibits “a lack of diversity”?
That is public spending on healthcare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
I think the idea of using PDF/A is that you only have to maintain a single file that contains all the content, without external dependencies like pictures or fonts. It also supports ways to sign the file, to protect its integrity. At least it's how I understand it.

Edit: following the link on the parent's profile, there's a few explanations (in https://www.lab6.com/0):

"""

PDF makes a stand against the churn.

I’m publishing this document in PDF because:

- PDFs are self-contained and offlineable

- PDFs are files.

- PDFs are decentralised.

- PDFs are discoverable.

- PDFs are independent of browsers

- PDFs and a PDF tool ecosystem exist today

- PDF is an open standard

- PDFs are part of the web

- PDFs are page-oriented

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> RGB lights on your hardware that sits inside an opaque (maybe with transparent sides) case, which itself placed usually out of sight.

No but people that want this don't have opaque cases, and are the 'unusual' ones not placing it out of sight.

FWIW it doesn't appeal to me either, I don't think I have any RGB, but I do have RAM styled like fighter jets or something, purely because it was the cheapest match for my criteria at the time (Corsair 'Vengeance' I think).
I should have been clearer: that is public spending on healthcare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
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How is someone so highly educated so ignorant of basic science that they should understand for their field of work? Sad times. Right wing propaganda has released brain worms into the population eating us like a prion-disease.

> according to co-workers, Mr. Brandenburg had brought a gun to work on two prior occasions.

>Last month Mr. Brandenburg told his wife, who is in the process of divorcing him, that “the world is crashing down around us,” according to a motion she filed last week asking for sole custody of the couple’s two daughters, 4 and 6, after she learned he was under investigation in the incident at the hospital. She said she feared his reaction if he lost his job.

Sounds like he was pretty unstable all around.
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I don't see any evidence for the speculation it was lab created (or modified into it's current form) except for an acknowledgement that the capability to do so exists.

I don't doubt the possibility of such a thing occurring, but I just haven't seen any evidence to support this.
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>with provisions and updates there is no reason not to give the people who invent things short and clear monopolies on their ideas.

The lack of a monopoly creates competition which accelerates innovation and leads to cheaper, higher quality products for the consumer. The person who invents a product should simply be one competitor in the market, they can have the first mover advantage, but shouldn't be allowed to control the market entirely.

If we believe in the FOSS ethos that no one has the right to own software, even if they write it, then why would this only apply to software? Why not to all forms of intellectual property? Why do I have a moral right to fork, rewrite and redistribute Firefox but not Star Wars or Pfizer Pharmaceuticals?
Maybe you don’t know but negation of a harmful thing isn’t the same as threatening it.
Hopefully it's in FAST mode.
Or a VM with snapshots / non-persistent storage.
I think the standard recommendation is Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!, available for free online.

If you want to master the monad, try the Monad Challenges.

http://learnyouahaskell.com

https://mightybyte.github.io/monad-challenges/
Ye I believe so. They have like a picture of Britney Spear and an drug addict with the text "You can't believe how the celebtrity looks now" but no Britney if you click the article. I have seen it on Forbes looking over a shoulder without adblock.

I guess they do click scams via bots too?
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I grew up in Lanikai. During the 1970s my friends and I played football on the beach fronting the 1500 block of Mokulua Dr.

In 1991 there were nothing but rocks facing the ocean at the same place.

In 2004 rocks were being imported to shore up the new McMansions, and the beaches had mostly disappeared west of the 1200 block.

The erosion was said by the elders to have been predictable because of all the local intervention with the constant ebb and flow of sand.

I regret to observe they were probably right.
I mean at some point, they could cross the line into warlord territory if other institutions decline too much.

It’s a dark world fantasy extrapolation parallel to ‘the handmaids tale’ or even
‘qanon’.

There are hints at the realities being described, but we really aren’t anywhere near them being accurate.
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So as is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions, it requires a lot of extra time and effort.

Getting those guarantees at compile time is very, very, very hard. Even ADA Spark struggles to verify seemingly simple stuff [1, 2]. It is much easier if you trade compile time for runtime verification, which you can do in C# (but not Mono) or via code comments in Java [3].

WRT subtypes: language designers have plenty of motivation to try and push every non-core feature into a library. Programming in Ada kinda sucks because there are soooo many reserved keywords. You are also stuck with bad design decisions forever, like with Java's Date API [4]. Since it's relatively easy to use the newtype pattern to achieve what you want, it probably doesn't factor into the core language design.

Which is to say that I largely agree with you, but the people paying for new languages have a different set of priorities. Making a cat video database go faster is very lucrative, but it's only with the rise of cryptocurrencies that there has been significant funding for high-assurance programming languages outside of defense and aerospace.

[1]: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/09/07/provers.html

[2]: https://blog.adacore.com/using-spark-to-prove-255-bit-intege...

[3]: https://www.openjml.org/

[4]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1571265/why-is-the-java-...
> One day you will want to do something with it, and on that day the risk of a 20% fluctuation is a big problem you’ll have to deal with.

A 20% daily fluctuation is not a problem if you made 1000% on the value you stored on the past year.
The WebView2 runtime is going to be shipping with Windows soon. I imagine an app using it will be about as resource-hungry as a browser tab.
> And if you don't cherry pick a time period which contains a market crash?

This chart covers January - November and includes an almost 50% drop in march. And it is still not as volatile as e.g. TSLA.

>stocks represent a real stake in a real company which may generate real cash. Crypto is thin air and trades on the greater fool theory alone.

There is no such thing as "real cash" - you can exchange Bitcoin for dollars like you would with stocks.

The reason Bitcoin is worth as much as it is, is precisely that many Bitcoin "hodlers" are not selling, because they understand that Bitcoin has a fixed supply while the USD continues to inflate, which increases wealth inequalities and enables government to spend money with less democratic oversight. The rich get bailouts they use to buy up stocks and real estate in order to protect themselves. Poor people who can't afford this and who are sick of this are the ones buying Bitcoin.
"No, the new Arm MacBook Air is not faster than 98% of PC laptops"

The piece with that headline is about the only thing that has been audited and found to be false.

Search for commentary anywhere on that piece and you’ll find it has been completely debunked.
every time engineering salary discussions come up something like this gets posted. We made the company $xx millions and we only get a tiny fraction of it in pay. As if the company should pay engineers whatever they make. What about:

1) All the other things that goes into making that money. Like sales, marketing, HR, etc.

2) Supply and demand. Doesn't matter if you made the company $xx millions, what's your market value?

3) Risk. If you and your team doesn't make the company money, should you not get paid?
How dare you make a joke on HN, especially a joke about physical appearance. HN is only for serious comments or very nerdy "jokes".
You can’t force demographics. People are going to navigate to and participate in the things that interest them. There’s nothing unfortunate about that.

Maybe you’re really thinking about unnecessary gatekeeping or something? THAT is unfortunate.

But it’s vital to recognize the difference between these concepts. One is immoral, the other is not.
I heard a lot of people discussing this possibility including liberals and leftists, but there was and still is a taboo against discussing it publicly. Most of the public articles I saw on it were sensationalistic pieces from far-right news sources, and I flagged those. I upvoted one sanely written scientific paper on the subject, and posted this because it was also not sensationalistic.

The problem is that if we discuss the possibility or the suspicion in public, a lot of people are going to run all the way to it being a certainty. This could lead to some fairly destructive geopolitical consequences with the worst case scenario being a world war that could kill far more people than the virus. It is prudent to be careful and maintain a high standard of evidence just like we should in our justice system: "innocent until proven guilty."
One one hand a broken clock is right twice a day.

On the other hand, a lot of groups are quick to assign anything that doesnt fit their work view to some kind of alt/fringe label, so it's best to take that label with a grain of salt.
You are forgetting the importance of open hardware, in ideal world we shouldn't need to install Libreboot to fight proprietary drivers and firmware that can be turned against you any second.
I would like to have read that book before I made peace and decided that spectacular success is THE best revenge.

Like the old Jewish saying: "Living a good happy life is the best revenge"

Still, it needs a read but for pure entertainment. I will add it to my wish list
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Are we really going to be willfully ignorant of the fact that it's $57m CAD over 15 years? That's $3.8m CAD per year. Come on now. Let's not try to exaggerate the numbers here.

I also don't see how shared.com is any different than buzzfeed.com. Is the deciding factor the number of things listed in an article? Like whether the list is of 8 things or of 38 things? What's the difference between those two sites?
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I got 22.5 hours on Lethis: Path of Progress. Its only sin in my eyes is that it makes a great impression of being a reskin of Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (which I thought was the most refined of Sierra's old city builders) meaning it doesn't really offer anything radically new.

There are a few touches here and there, particularly the use of steam - you need to build a network of pipes to transfer steam in the places where it's needed (e.g. factories that produce automata that you need to run the service buildings that will attract a bourgeoisie who will pay the most taxes, similar to elite housing in Emperor). But in general it's a game that stays very, very close to the Sierra formula. Even down to walkers starting to get lost as you build more new buildings, leaving swaths of your city without essential services and causing them to cycle between the lowest and highest possible house quality periodically. Exactly like good old Sierra games!

Which is fine by me, I'd probably not like it as much if it was indeed radically new. Weird, huh?

That said, I would sure like to see a genuinely new take on the old formula that didn't also trample all over what made the old formula work.
The fact that you are using a made up exaggeration doesn’t help your point.

They don’t in fact make exaggerations like that, otherwise you’d be able to quote a real one.
> Unlike in the U.S., in China, being rich doesn’t protect you from being punished by the government.

That's great, I wonder that others think of this.
Personally I have found it to be quite accurate. The smaller the company you work for the likelihood of 'flexibility' in your role increases. Those companies just don't have the headcount to have a full suite of engineers so rely on people dipping their toes in other tasks to keep the machine ticking along (e.g. frontend devs handling deployment).

With a larger company you will typically find they have already hired specialists to handle very specific tasks. You can always do some things but more often than not the rigor of corporate structure says "If you need anything done in dev ops, please speak to _Bob_ and he will sort it out".

Jumping from the challenge of constantly adapting to different tasks to being there to only do a single 'role' can be quite jarring.
I don't expect too much criticism of China in this thread. Too much Chinese money in SV startups for most people to risk it. I expect underhanded comments deriding the US instead as is typical in threads like these.
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As the CCP and the civilized world ramp up their war I hope we can snag some good defectors. Part of me is terrified; if they can't get control of a 3rd rate power like Russia God help us with Beijing.