skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How. The. Fuck. Is. This. So. Difficult?

We are in a pandemic. How we handle this does not change how we govern ourselves outside of a pandemic. It doesn't even change how we govern ourselves during a pandemic. We aren't talking about forming a world government. We aren't talking about expanding the federal government's powers. We aren't talking about Hunter Biden, the pee tape, the impeachment, chem trails, or mega churches. Put that out of your mind. Try to think like this isn't US politics because that's clearly clouding your judgement.

A centralized entity coordinating a nation-wide effort to distribute the vaccine, testing supplies, and PPE is normal. What exactly would go wrong there that the states couldn't mess up. By your logic, the FDA and the CDC shouldn't have been approving the vaccines. It should be left up to each state, no? Because what if the FDA got it wrong. Better let 50*2 smaller, less well funded agencies decide individually than one well funded agency, right?

How could the states possibly do better than a national strategy for handling the pandemic.

Note: national strategy != central government. National strategy does not expand any powers. The federal government already has all the powers it needs. No new laws would need to be passed. No new powers granted. It's literally using the resources already there for what they are meant to be used for: responding to an emergency. Why do you thing agencies like FEMA exist?

I'm done with this topic because it really seems there is a number of people here willing to bend over backwards and give themselves a cranial colonoscopy just to not blame the current admin for its utter failure to do its most basic job. If you really think this is going better than the ebola outbreak, a disease much deadlier and more contagious than COVID, then I can't do anything to pull you out of your alternative reality. That is on you.
Anybody wanting to understand inflation vs. the CPI index should familiarize themselves with the concept of "hedonic adjustment" -

The Chapwood index offers a good alternative view as to the actual cost of living - https://chapwoodindex.com
Like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
I really like the idea of the faces IF you select them to be in your bio and they are like verified to have been your teammates or something. It's a nice easy way of having references built into your resume
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What are the numbers since '86 when the controversies started? Probably about 1%? Have they issued corrections for them?
If your options are either to have no money or bags of money, you’re in a casino. To play the stock market well, you need an investor’s mindset not a casino mindset. I say this with 12 years of investment experience and 20% CAGR. Odds are, your risk management and portfolio are not well risk/return adjusted. It’s important to many people that the world they retire in is the world they want to live in. Most millionaire investors say it was harder to get to $100k than it was to get from $100k to $1M anyways. Often, if you make it that far, you can make it the rest of the way through the same compound interest.
>Instead the code sat untouched for decades as the limit slowly became more and more unreasonable.

My projects likely won't span decades but when I know I'm putting in some opinionated value I leave behind a comment like:

// XXX picking 32gb because it'll probably be 5 years until we have >32gb hard drives. Change this when the world changes!
You can do both.

PIE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_code#Posi...

Obfuscation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscation_(software)#Obfusca...
You can argue against the merits of this game or call this clickbait, and that's okay. But someone that blithely points out that there is in fact code, not even realizing the game exists, is missing the point.

There is a big difference between disagreeing with a point versus not realizing the point is there.
They also passed one particularly important test in the form of Donald Trump storming off mid-interview, so they can't be all that bad - the man is genuinely braindead.

The one with Fauci where he reveals he has to have security is genuinely disturbing.
Que the photos of minorities staring into space. is this writing "art" or "news"
> It's certainly possible now if it wasn't then; people like Michael Feathers have done great work charting paths out of an accumulation of garbage code. But at the time of JWZ's resignation letter, Martin Fowler's book Refactoring had been out for all of 3 months.

Nothing has fundamentally changed between now and then. Sure, the information may be more readily available, and we can argue that it's unfair to judge Netscape by today's standards, but even so, I think the article you linked makes a strong argument that technical debt did not kill Netscape, and that their approach to managing it did. This is why it goes on to discuss other, more successful approaches.

> In particular, Netscape was faced with a choice: they could either do a total rewrite quickly, or take much longer to do a slow rewrite while still pushing forward, but at a much reduced development speed.

Were they actually faced with this choice? The article you linked points out there are at least 3 reasons people choose to do rewrites. This is one of them ("architectural problems"). Even still, the article's argument is that this is a false dichotomy, and that there are better alternatives.

I also think "total rewrite quickly" is an oxymoron and a bit disingenuous. Your article points out it took them three years. In my experience, they typically take full-blown products at least two years - if they are successful at all.

If you are worried about Microsoft beating you because you are slowed by technical debt, you certainly need to be worried about Microsoft beating you because you didn't ship anything for three years. That is the entire point the article makes. The very first sentence reads:

> Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long time in the Internet world. During this time, Netscape sat by, helplessly, as their market share plummeted.

I find your next point surprising, given your citation:

> There's little reason to think a slow cleanup would have been any better than a fast rewrite for Netscape.

The article you cite makes this exact argument:

> You are putting yourself in an extremely dangerous position where you will be shipping an old version of the code for several years, completely unable to make any strategic changes or react to new features that the market demands, because you don’t have shippable code. You might as well just close for business for the duration.

It then goes on to list alternatives, including a "slow" rewrite, during which time you can still ship code.

None of this is to say that too much technical debt can't slow you down to the point that you cannot keep up with your competitors - but it is certainly not the argument your citation makes. Its argument is tangential, and related only in the sense that technical debt is presumably what pushed Netscape to make the decision it did.

I have to say, I am fascinated by our difference in takeaways from this article.
It would be good to put that server behind a service like Cloudflare - even the free tier. It would still be a ZX81 webserver but at least requests for files that could be cached would not hit the server... And everyone could visit this little experiment.
given the lag time in knowing the outcome, sometimes I really wonder about the things we optimize for. Is drinking Almond milk and excising smokers from all facets of society really changing anything if people born in 1935 are doing so well as is? does the era of cheap food and polluted supply chain really undermine the strides made so far in longevity and quality of life?
Conceptually sure, but in practice is there actually a place where open source developers for apple products gather?

On a related note, do you guys know of other, lesser known, websites where specific niches of developers hang out? I mostly stick to github and rarely I'll go to sourceforge and gitlab but I haven't noticed patterns of specialties in their users.
In the past I knew some semi-private German communities for reverse engineering but recently (2010+) it seems everything is getting more and more centralized and you can't find those kind of places anymore. I'd love to find some small communities of passionate people, not yet overrun by the mainstream crowd.
Ah, I see. Not sure what the OP was pointing out there, but perhaps it was the interviewer's laughing not being befitting of a journalist?
This confuses me; the core of HTML is relatively unchanged since its inception and static HTML is fairly secure. PDF is notoriously complex and has had many security issues associated with it as a result. Regardless, if it's content you're producing I'm imagining it can be done securely with either format?
Yes, they do. Phone companies attempt to block SMS spam.
I think you're being deliberately dumb.

Is it reasonable for you and these other employees to work from home? If yes, do so. If not, go in to work and practice social distancing.

Try to apply some common sense, and a 'reasonable' test - that's what the law uses. Don't look for 'but what if' for the sake of it, and don't try to armchair-lawyer it - work towards what the intent that is obvious to any reasonable person, using your own intelligence to achieve this.

Law like this isn't code - it isn't a set of 'if, else' conditions. It asks if you were acting reasonably. Could you look a magistrate in the eye and explain your reasoning?

Please try to act reasonably rather than quibbling.
“you're still just trusting them to protect you and hoping they don't take advantage of it”

That is exactly what Apple’s customers are doing.

It actually a pretty normal feature of modern society to trust institutions or businesses not to take advantage of particular powers they have.

It’s really bizarre to call a business a ‘warlord’.

The converse, where we can’t trust any institution or business and we must all be fully equipped to individually defend our own interests on our own is a lot more like a warlord situation.

That said, I agree that the centralized model is bad and we need to develop technology that is both secure and decentralized.

But currently no such technology exists.

Everyone has to trust someone.
> becoming a capitalist yourself--which is fine, but by definition not everyone can do it

This is where I was disagreeing in the comment above; I think the barrier is now so low to entering certain markets (eg. SaaS) that it's meaningless to talk about some of these concepts in terms that are artefacts of the 19th century. I also think that there are far more people who don't want to do it than who want to do it but are prevented from pursuing a more entrepreneurial lifestyle by their economic circumstances.

Datacenters are complex and expensive, but it's now very cheap (in some cases free) to rent resources in them, because they have been commoditized, so I don't think it makes sense to talk about them as a "means of production" that the dispossessed masses have been alienated from achieving their productive desires through. Free Software is another area over the last few decades where barriers to entry in technology have been removed. I doubt that there are too many budding entrepreneurs who are put off solely by the fees to license certain non-free codecs of private datasets in cases where these are the only codecs or datasets that could be used for their business idea.

Exceptions to this that I see would include regulatory moats that big incumbents are happy to help build, and a more general tendency for governments to favour regulating private enterprise and then to show partiality towards larger businesses in an attempt to simplify the resulting administration.
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Yes, it's definitely a luxury for many. I did find that setting up a dividing screen (made of basically hanging cloth) tricked my brain into believing a particular kind of one-room apartment was two, which helped a lot with keeping focus.
The experience I have had on large, REPL-driven development is that continued development is assumed to also work under REPL-driven environments, so debugging or supporting them begins with "try typing X into your REPL." Many of the distributables I have seen also maintains REPL interactivity as part of the live deployment solution, with similar debugging solutions. While this may not be unilateral, "ship the deployment environment" seems to be a running theme.

I'm interested in your experience in avoiding this, and the process you used.
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This is why Change Management is the main tenant of principles like ITIL
"Facebook decided they don't want to be a part of this type of content distribution"

I still see lots of these types of ads on Facebook, just from different publishers. Are they broadly going after it?
> What if the ‘shit’ you mention was capable of self organization and self-modification and self-evolution towards goals, and through techniques, that may confound your senses?

What if we could see how phenomena draw projections in the fourth dimension and reveal that the same underlying traits of these self-modifying and self-evolving entities? a.k.a. we can play imaginary worlds infinitely deep.

But the bottom-line of the previous comment was that people are conceptually-reasoning beings, and we can build and refine meaningful ideas and abstractions that help us to properly orient ourselves in the world. The proof of that would be the fact that you and I are interacting here on HN, and neither of us comprehends the full complexity of the systems (and relations between them) that provide us this ability.
I just want to say this is a fantastic idea, and as another commenter said, it would be great to eat linkedin's lunch.

My only feedback I guess would be to make same wish I make about just about any project these days, which is compatibility with activitypub. Do you have thoughts on the promise of a project like this to work on that kind of protocol?
Oh "they" can and will dream up stuff like this and then hash it over and over again, even though there was a post about this just yesterday how rehashing things over and over is pretty pointless.

Even if US intellegence is pinning it on Russia or it was someone else, there's no way we're going to know about it right now.
Also their infra (or at least part of it) is available in public on github https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-puppet
You end up rebuilding transactions, foreign keys, MVCC and similar features on relational db's? If so you're probably doing way to much work.
Mobile phone companies can "moderate" a customer or user from abusing their services. Also, traditional phone now includes VOIP, video chat, etc.
At least some kernel log messages imply that the M1 might support ECC:

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/12/09/what-happens-when-an-m1-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23483715
I think my main gripe with these platforms is that an anonymous random person can accuse a specific person of anything without any corroborating evidence and destroy that person’s life with impunity —especially when responsibility gets diluted via retweets, mob mentality, etc.
All other than mRNA are crap methods to all vaccines
I'd appreciate it if you kept arguments to the topic on this thread. Looking up other topics and condemning people for their opinions is not cool. It's becoming a large problem in a lot of online forums. All of us have a lot of different opinions and they vary. This isn't Reddit.

> SANS isn't some secret government group

I understand that, but the video/livestream they released at the time was Unlisted on YouTube and had a watermark saying it wasn't for general release. I realize they didn't intend to have it up permanently and am familiar with the roles SANS has in the security industry. I was just commenting on the video and things I think they got wrong.

> Finally, just a tip: if you want to sound like you know what you're talking about

No need to be insulting. I've heard them called Command and Control servers before. I don't currently work in security; haven't in years. I'm just speaking as as developer/sysadmin.
Beautiful. Good work. For software engineers involved in building UIs, I think there should be embedded iframes or some such thing showing their portfolio.
Does Lincoln Lab count as MIT? Is it really a "school" per se?

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

It'd be pretty surprising if no one was attempting to spy on such organizations

I don't know what Tsinghua does but I can imagine a top school doing similar government-funded work anywhere
True.

I'm not American, but I think that two points are relevant to the discussion

- few people in American history have been prosecuted for leaking classified documents, the most simple explanation is that it would mean revealing even more classified documents during the trial

- journalist can’t be punished for publishing info that was obtained illegally, as long as the journalist didn’t do anything illegal

Assange is accused of helping the leaker to obtain the documents illegally, which is illegal.

I don't know if that's true or not, but that's what DOJ is charging him with.
I use a screen reader already. It is sad that you're so selfish that you can't imagine minorities would be willing to give up quality of life to improve it for the majority.
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In other words, he failed to comment his code adequately.
What are the card checks?
If a bookstore promoted a libelous book to millions of people, then yeah, I'd expect them to be as liable as the publisher and author.
Haskell is so full of great ideas. But they are well hidden. What worked for me is sitting next to a grad student passionate about Haskell. I would explain a concept in English and he would tell me the Haskell term to Google.
>What are the numbers since '86 when the controversies started?

Without the exact number of episodes that have aired since then, I cannot answer that question.

>Have they issued corrections for them?

It seems to me that you only skimmed the Wikipedia article to get a total count of controversies and to determine the dates around when they occurred. It would probably do you some good to take just a few minutes to read through them so that you better understand the nuance of them, the actual severity of the issues, and whether or not they issued corrections, retractions, etc.

In fact if you had read through them, you'd have noticed that the last one isn't a controversy about any aired content at all but is rather an internal issue, so there have only been 13 controversies.
A few more error dithering algorithms are seen in https://tannerhelland.com/2012/12/28/dithering-eleven-algori...
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> Yes the current Taiwanese government is truly one of the world's finest

World's finest in what regards?

Have you seen what the conflict resolution[1] they chose in parliament meetings?

> and the US governance one of the worst.

Are you also aware that United States has almost 14x of the population than Taiwan's? The governance of 330 million people coming from many different backgrounds and ethnicities around the global vs. 98% of homogeneous Han Chinese[2] are an order of magnitude difficult?

I am afraid your anecdotal doesn't tell the full story.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40640043

[2]: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/ethnic-groups-of-taiwan....
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I wrote up my comment just to point out some of the weaknesses I have identified in REPL-based development, and how to watch out for those pitfalls as a program scales. For what it's worth, I agree with your sentiment, and believe REPL-based development should always be an option. I have a lot of success using REPL-based "prototyping", even in python, where I will quickly try/test something at a REPL before scaling it up, and having that utility to try/test/experiment quickly is often invaluable (especially if the standard build time is on the scale of minutes).
> If what you are communicating needs to be guaranteed to never be crackable, you only need to use the oldest and most secure way of communicating before the days of internet and computers: short wave transmitted one time pad codes.

I'd say using a dead drop is probably even older and more secure. I don't think it'd attract any extra attention unless you're already being followed.

A numbers station is really only useful to a particular use case that seems exclusive to nation-state spies: you don't care who knows you're transmitting, but you need the message and the location of the recipient to be absolutely secure.
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Similar problem to what happened on the New Jersey coast (moving sand, non-moving mansions). Except in that case the rich beach house owners lobbied the federal government to spend hundreds of millions to bail them out. Wouldn't be surprised if we see a similar dredging effort paid for by the federal government in Hawaii.