skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lightning network is a joke tbh. It’s just gonna be a few large payment processors acting as banks (it can’t be decentralised cos the routing will just break.).

As the original post said BCH and Monero are real world ways to transact right now.

Although I figure long term the whole cryptocurrency space will implode (due to greed, infighting, technical problems etc.)
Autoconf requires GNU m4 at build time and POSIX sh at runtime. It also requires all the standard UNIX command-line tools you would run from the shell.
Automake requires Perl at build time and Make (preferably GNU Make) at build time.

A stock Windows system doesn't have these tools. Cygwin and MinGW/MSYS provide these, but you're using stuff which is non-standard for the platform and which if you need to integrate with other libraries and tools, end up being incompatible.

If you want to use MSVC, the Autoconf/Automake support is poor. Generating output other than Makefiles is possible, but limited and quite the undertaking.

CMake supports all these other use cases out of the box. Which is why it gets used. It works on every platform, and with every compiler, build system and IDE of note.
Thinking back to myself when I was younger.. I think I would have valued being presented some options and being allowed to choose. So for example, explain Python and Java and why they are different. Let your child come up with a reason for choosing one. We might think Python is more fun but they might not.
When you have no arguments, divert.
Discussions like this feel very American to me. From a European exaggerated POV, everyone over there wants to either be a victim or fight against discrimination towards a group they are not part of, which always feels like people just seeking attention or making yourself feel good like a white savoir, without solving an actual problem.

At least you actually asked women about their opinion on this image. Fwiw, I just sent the image to my family group and only got two replies so far which were both just a confused "huh why?". To be fair, both are not in CS or even engineering.

Again I think this is due to cultural differences. The image doesn't contain nudity or suggest anything sexual to us over here. It's a woman with an attractive face. A prime example for the difference in perception is how (gun) violence and nudity are perceived in Europe vs the US in movies or games, it's pretty much reversed.
Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform
Annoyingly, the main reason Parler (and similar services) became so extreme was because the mainstream communities, organizations and platforms kept censoring conservative thought and thus driving them elsewhere. Then you end up with an echo chamber formed partially around the dislike of an outgroup... Radicalization inevitably follows.

If people and institutions had just been more tolerant about allowing conservatives to make themselves heard the polarization and alternative reality could have been avoided (as conservatives would have been much more exposed to non-conservative ideas and counterarguments rather than entering a purity spiral. The opposite direction purity spirals of the american right and left are scary).

Banning Parler is just a bandaid, the end of this route is the banning of uncensored and unmonitored communication between people.
> Add to that a surprisingly under-the-radar company culture which has avoided any major blow ups despite its community wielding so much leverage over the world's education and having to make a lot of difficult calls on a daily basis.

That's because Wikimedia Foundation is quietly focusing on the tech and keeping the site up and running while mostly letting the community govern itself.

The few times the Foundation tried to override the community, it didn't go well.
Insofar as freedom of speech is "a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction", it cannot BE limitless.

Just like every freedom, it must be limited by others' freedoms. As the saying goes "your freedom to swing your fists ends at my nose." So it is with speech. You should be able to speak your mind, but if that speech causes someone else harm, then that person's right not to be harmed must be weighed against your right to speak.

Maybe we shouldn't allow private entities like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, etc decide where those boundaries are. I don't think capitalism is a good fit in this case.
> CTO: Yes, of course. Right away.

If it's the best reply they can come up with, they're not competent enough for the position.
An insurrection is when "The People" rebel against their Government. Participants in that specific (failed) coup were not "The People". For a very close example, you can read about the failed 1981 Spanish coup d'Etat attempt here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Spanish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

It's uncanny how similar these events were:

> Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero led 200 armed Civil Guard officers into the Congress of Deputies during the vote to elect a President of the Government. The officers held the parliamentarians and ministers hostage for 18 hours, during which time King Juan Carlos I denounced the coup in a televised address, calling for rule of law and the democratic government to continue. Though shots were fired, the hostage-takers surrendered the next morning without killing anyone.
In this case, I'm actually not so sure free speech was suppressed.

Businesses have free speech rights in addition to individuals.

Let's take a shop owner as an example. This particular shop owner does not support Trump. They have a community notice board on their shop where people can post things.

Of course they are not going to let a Trump supporter post a MAGA sign on that board. It's their business, they can decide whats allowed there and what isn't. Forcing them to display a MAGA sign would be essentially "forced speech" which would also violate their rights.

That doesn't prevent anyone from making MAGA signs or posting them in other places, so the free speech of those people wasn't violated in any way by the shop owner refusing to display their signs.

Therefore I think Amazon, Apple, Google and the other companies shouldn't be forced to convey messages on their platforms they don't agree with, otherwise it's violating their rights.
The first COVID news spread over wechat, while the chinese government was still claiming that there was nothing to worry about. So yes we needed twitter and its alternatives to know about it.
I only realised 'him' was in reference to Donald Trump after reading your post. Before that I thought it was poor English.
Indeed. And studios are rapidly adopting the use of JPEG2000 lossless as a replacement for their mezzanine master via a similar standard called IMF (Interoperable Master Format). So yes Hollywood is very well committed to j2k and has been for over a decade.
My gut gets nostalgic, that is the problem :D
Agreeing with the article.

Hard work works, especially in 1st world countries.
I know that hard work alone would not make anyone successful. Luck plays a lot of factor as well, but the harder you work in general you increase the chance of you encountering turning point(s) that lead you to living a comfortable middle class life in 1st world country. Be rich (i.e, billionaire)? Maybe not, but not everyone can and should be rich.

Of course no system is perfect, and you can't save everyone. There will be some people who fall through the cracks. But to setup a system such that no one will ever fall through the cracks is giving diminishing returns while taxing to the whole system.

Rich people will always be with us, so does poor people. So does ignorant people who thinks pandemic is a hoax, so does lazy people.

I grew up in a 3rd world country. Competition and social mobility in the USA is relatively way easier compared to my home country. Or I should say, a piece of cake, really. I'm not obsessed with hard work, but I'm not lazy either. I'm willing to Leetcode for 3 years, failed many interviews to finally got into a high paying tech company. Leetcode for 3 years non stop is way way way way easier than hauling bricks all day.

I know what a hard work is, and I also know what useless futile hard work looks like. I worked through low paying jobs such as cleaning service, deli worker, laundry worker.

My most back breaking work was cleaning an entire restaurant who got shutdown by a health department by myself. I only lasted 5 days. I had to scrub rat poop of walls and floors kneeling down with bleach everywhere by myself (yes that was minimum wage). The next back breaking work was an 18 hour shift non stop working at a deli during Christmas/New Year in a really busy touristy location.

And like the author. My single mother was the one that pushes me through many educations. She said "I can't give you anything other than education, the rest is up to you".
The war on drugs was also a resounding failure and society slowly turned against it. Almost all the legalization movements are grass-roots and push their ideas through ballot initiatives. There is a strange disconnect here: voters generally vote for legalization, if they have a say, but elected politicians are afraid to do the same because they worry about their electability.

I think that need to communicate without external interference is at least as strong in people as the need to light up a joint. Even in China, where controls on communication are very strong, people manage to find a way to circumvent the limits. Much more so in other autocratic regimes, such as Iran.
> you should not refuse to deal with it

One the contrary, it is perfectly fine to ask for enough time to be able to accurately assess the situation.
It would be cool if you can implement a light node (just enough to download files) in a browser extension, so people browse Skynet directly.

Otherwise, if people mostly use web portals, then it's not really free and decentralized, as people are essentially at mercy of portals they use. In fact, if application code itself is served through a portal, it is less secure than normal web.
Why would you bring zip ties to pillaging? Were they prepared to fix the lectern in case it slips from their hands? Or more likely they were prepared to take hostages? The crowd was chanting their wish to hang the vice president.

You are right. It was a disgrace and a very unserious attempt, but the aim was clearly a coup.

Winds don’t have aims and goals. That crowd went there to stop the process of congress affirming President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. That’s what makes it a coup attempt. If only successfull and well organized coups would count what would be the meaning of the term “coup attempt”?
Do you still have freedom of assembly during covid?
It can happen with the autotools.

The reason it hasn't been seen recently is that there has been no significant development of note for the past 15 years.

Even so, it's still common for the distributed config.sub and config.guess to be outdated. That's the price you pay for embedding stuff in each package, as opposed to requiring the build tool to be provided on the build system just like all the other tools.
One of the images includes the hashtags #executethemfortreason #deathtotraitors #fuckmikepence. However, you can search #executetrump on twitter right now and find tweets of a similar nature advocating executing trump. Would these tweets on twitter justify a similar reaction from AWS? I realise the example tweet from parler is probably the least bad in the set of offending tweets but it was included nonetheless.

This whole banning of Parler looks like a bad faith exercise where those with different political opinions are held to stricter standards.
>The error is rather an amiable one, for it springs from humility. The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator.

>The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. It has always therefore been one of my main endeavours as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.

It is often amazing actually how approachable some of the classic books are.
Did you read the article? He specifically says: "Most important, the application gave me a few starting points. Of those, I still had to consider the team dynamics, existing teams, personalities, seniority, potential, personal situation, future needs, …"
It's hard to ignore Twitter and Facebook. They're mega-platforms with many uses beyond politics (business, hobbies, family, etc).

Whilst on there for non-political purposes, you can't in practice 'choose to ignore' the political speech you'd prefer to avoid, as it's made everybody an activist with a massive megaphone. Activism is shared and retweeted into your face relentlessly.

If Big Tech as a whole has decided to wage war on 'red team' ideas (or other competing ideas, such as Unity 2020, banned from Twitter), there's a risk that they could transform a bad 2-party political system into a single-party monopoly, where the voters have no power at all.

Things weren't good when old media (TV/newspapers) had all the power+influence. But at least there was some sort of balance. And if a new newspaper appeared, it couldn't be shut down entirely in <24hrs by the competition.
Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads
So if I get this right.

An organisation told an engineer to fire someone.

He built some software that told him to fire himself.

He then fired someone else based on Role & Salary parameters.

Then gives advice on treating people like adults when firing them.

Does anyone else find this whole thing macabre and absurd?

( I'm not being negative - Im not against the great / funny article and an attempt at a novel approach, the whole thing just seemed completely unethical dystopian and useless -
highlighting what a hard problem this is to solve - I would do no better - infact I would have been the problem - I think I just wouldn't fire anyone ).
I don't think analytical thinking has anything to do with political leaning, I'd argue that the US higher education system particularly the humanities is a breeding ground of idealogues.
I would say the tendency of education to lean left is largely due to left leaning people being more attracted to working in academia.
Teacher creates ingenious exam question to find cheaters and catches 14 students
The anti-Semitic rhetoric we see from certain groups is “free speech” that is likely to at least make Jews feel unwelcome in certain spaces, and potentially force them to conceal their religious and racial identities for fear of violence. See also the anti-Muslim rhetoric.

These are in large part motivated by racism but much of the language used is religious and about religion.
Well, obviously "education" is already a political term and will be defined as required. The way I mean education is in a holistic sense. Education is about learning to learn, learning to think for yourself, learning about history and science in an as-unbiased-fashion as possible. But the learning about yourself and how to think for yourself is the key. In countries with that sort of education you'll have less problems with free speech to begin with. Because first of all there are fewer people who come up with unfounded conspiracy theories and second of all fewer people who fall for it - because they learned to think for themselves. But it's gift that keeps giving ... third of all there will be less division in society because it will be a fairer society to begin with. Education is based on a fair society, leads to a fair society and stabilizes a fair society. But if a country is at a point where a Betsy DeVos is appointed as secretary of education - well, good night ...
I can partially understand this, as my family is from ex-USSR country (also went through repressions on one side) and we all shudder at the mentions of 'socialism' and 'communism' too. However it doesn't take a lot of research to realise that the modern Western understanding of those terms and actual things that the modern socialists want are in no way comparable to the realities of mid-20th century. In USSR socialist and communist ideas were subverted to facilitate repressions and totalitarian society. Modern socialism is basically Sweden or Denmark - no gulag there.
I don't even understand what you mean by western influence. The worst thing western nations did is physically invade nations through wars. Providing internet services is in the "lets sit in a circle peacefully and share things" bucket. It's about the furthest you could go from a war.

>I think this illustrates how unbalanced and agenda-driven these media and social graph services have become who bring in foreign values to local elections.

Considering the existing rulers fail to live up to their responsibilities that's not necessarily a bad thing.

>This interference used to be called neo-imperialism not too long ago by the same people who now advocate for these narratives.

The countries who accept them can often be more successful than those who refuse them. Hong Kong is a pretty good example. Democratic values and capitalism forced down the throat of people. This became a threat to the authoritarian regime in the Chinese mainland and the rulers have to make concessions to their population. They built special economic development zones and simply copied the ideas that worked out in Hong Kong and were compatible with Chinese values at the time. Western investors suddenly had a reliable business partner in Hong Kong and a large "proxy" workforce that was manufacturing goods on the mainland which got shipped to Hong Kong and could be sold to the west. The story ends with China becoming a world leading economy, not because of the west but rather because the west forced the government to listen to the people.
In what world would leaving an already weakened company without a CTO be a desirable outcome?
Self-citations are often hard to avoid (in particular in more formal academic writing, in which you want to establish the delta of your current work wrt. your previous works). It is striking, however, that the author exclusively cites himself. This is kind of weird, because it makes it look like the line of work is not related to anything anybody else is doing (lacks relevance).
Advertisement on Youtube is as irrelevant as it has ever been.

After the "Adpocalypse" where the money you could make from advertisement significantly dropped for most creators, they recognized that relying only on Youtube is a bad idea and diversified. Since then other avenues (Twitch, Patreon, merch, ad placements) have become their primary sources of income.

For mid-size creators Youtube ads are not enough to make a living from it and for big creators with low production expenses (e.g. gaming videos) that _could_ make a living from it, it's not a significant portion of their income if they diversified (and most creators that haven't are not on the platform anymore).
Generally, to be interesting for anti-trust legislation, a company does not need to have absolute control of the market. It needs to have just enough not to worry about competition. Which is a position where Twitter/Facebook are. They tend to acquire all interesting startups that could threaten them.
> Because if you are weak (and being poor is a form of weakness), then you are at the mercy of those who are strong.

That's the point. And the only way out is anarchy. Not the anarchy which lets ring your alarm bells of democratic turmoil, riots and revolution. But in the sense of a system where no one reigns over another.
What do you think are the problems with the regular page?

I just skimmed it, and it seems to me like high-school level math is more than enough to understand what the page is saying (at least superficially).

I get the idea behind simple.wikipedia.org, but more often than not it's just a dumbed down version of the main article that uses worse English (which is obvious, since it presumably has less contributors than en.wiki, but that doesn't help your average reader)
I don't know what about QAnon do you mean. It was a serious problem here. It's not even about the topic itself, it's about the comments under the posts.

https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/pro-trump-anti-covi...
I like the idea of an IDE distinguishing between scope types with colors, lines, or rectangles. Just this week I had to scroll up a few pages of C++ to check how deep a line is in scope. It would have been useful to see that the scope was: namespace, class, method, lambda block, for block, if block, if block.
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Not sure how everybody does it but I usually feel lost navigating in big threads like this one with ~3000 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706993

So here is my attempt to solve it with flamegraph. What do you think?

You can load another thread by appending #thread_id to the end. For example, here is the graph for this very thread:

https://trungdq88.github.io/hn-big-threads/index.html#257138...

I'm not sure why GitHub doesn't load the page when the "index.html" part is missing, but I have to go now so I don't have time to check it, maybe later.
Trying to keep as many jobs as possible despite the company's dire financial situation?
> Annoyingly, the main reason Parler (and similar services) became so extreme was because the mainstream communities, organizations and platforms kept censoring conservative thought and thus driving them elsewhere.

I would argue the opposite: the reason those sites became so extreme is that the mainstream sites restrict so little but the very extreme, that the population looking to escape the mainstream sites is very extreme.
It's an interesting argument. Without having read e.g. Plato's Republic myself, is the novice likely to learn as much or more from reading a direct translation as they are from its Wikipedia page and some commentaries?
If we are going down a path of moderating based on 'truth' we are editorializing. This is good, but we need a way to pick who does this for us, and a way to see what others think is truth.

I think a fediverse is a great way to achieve this. Much better than Twitter containing most of the mainstream and anything else being relegated to 'free speech' places that get overrun by unacceptable content.
Now with the "buy a disk" modifications to lenpeg, the endgame can only be to destroy the universe during compression and do the "let there be light" if no universe is found during decompression
We all can agree situation and potential solutions are complex beyond imagination, but there is one place, one long term action that could solve most of this to some degree - proper mandatory education, based on proved science. Learn kids critical thinking, rather than raise another obedient generation who doesn't think for themselves and picks up a narrative from some place and then just sticks with it. Learning more soft skills at school (at which most teachers suck, but that's another topic), psychology, why people behave as they do, biases, how our childhood affects us all etc. I think generally our schooling systems globally need big rehaul, but for topic discussed, I can't imagine what I mention it wouldn't bring some improvement.

Teaching with current level of science as hard baseline is already a place where some western countries like US fail (ie evolution vs creationism topic).

I don't think the change I mention is in direct interest of many governments, so its more like a pipe dream and an additional burden on parents to drill this into their kids.