skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I have watched these headlines, I have constantly been frustrated by the lack of analysis of what's really going on beyond the data point.

Which industries lost jobs? Are the losses temporary due to lockdowns or a sign of an accelerating recession? Which regions lost the most jobs? Which income levels are most affected? What percent of jobless people are being covered by unemployment? And so on.

A single data point is useless click bait. Who is building the Tableau dashboard and having an economist write weekly economic analysis for the general public? Without good information, our democracy is rudderless.
This is the picture that played out across Spain and Greece in the early part of this decade ((We're a 1/5th part through "this decade, wow)

Sudden, elevated incidents of economic catastrophe leading to a massive decline in economic output and the underlying opportunities available to a few generations of intelligent people. This led to a significant decline in wealth creation relative to the rest of the emerging world in these nations.

Unlike the United States, they did not have the massive power of the worlds biggest military underwriting their currency and had to rely on the graces of the EU and IMF, who, frankly, displayed why bureaucratic lethargy is widely despised.

Make no mistake, this is going to remake the economy in ways very few of us can even begin to appreciate. How we, as a nation handle this sets the balance of power in the world for the next half of the century.
People always act as though companies are somehow entitled to highly effective advertising. I'd prefer a return to those obnoxious ads, they were low-tech and everyone learned to ignore them.
In my mind, this strongly constrasts with the words [0] of WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. He says they want to own roughly 5% of the WordPress market, and instead of growing their share of the pie, grow the pie itself.

[0] https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/matt-mullenweg/
>Personally, I'd rather see a more aggressive AGPL where REST calls are considered linking and trigger virality

Please don't compare a license to a virus. In any case, my understanding is that the AGPL does cover this and is why it exists. If it didn't cover this it would be useless.
And this is something not clear at all in the advertising campaigns of Apple.
You can diversify in the stock market (in fact for most people investing in funds it's the default), you cannot diversify in your housing investment.
Interesting. Perhaps you're right of disagreement. Yes, the world is definitely filled with two sorts of thinkers along this axis we're alluding to, that's for sure.

My analysis: A focus on "challenge" is the framing someone takes when they're more enamoured with the infinitely wide possibility space around any system (* raises hand * guilty), while "solutions/actions" tend to be valourized when someone is more interested in the point of collapse of the possibility space, where possibilities condense into reality.

Both are the right and wrong tools at the same time imho. Too much of either is dysfunctional. I'm certainly dysfunctional in some situations with my predispositions, but superhuman in others. I assume there are also some places where you feel maladapted (though perhaps your neurotype doesn't translate this into uncertainty of your values, as mind does).

Honestly, I feel much of the work of a holding societies together is sorting out ways to allow these two types to work together, and reciprocate value between their styles. It's a tension that exists in all systems at all levels of organizing matter (eg. brains navigated this with lateralization into hemispheres), and society isn't special.

We're both wrong and right, and just need to at least see that as true, and maybe not try to claim too much authority for our own camp. (Maybe ubiquitous social welfare IS claiming too much authority.)

Anyhow, thanks. I appreciate your perspective, and it humbles mine.
That's interesting - I just completed book on Jim Simon/Renaissance (The Man Solved The Market). One of their early advantages was having a person who was just focused on acquiring and cleaning data. I expect that advantage has largely gone away at this point due to wide availability of market data but I thought it was interesting in the context of this article.
Not sure, ultimately it's just a bit of a silly side project. It's a shame it would get flagged.
There is obviously some legitimacy to the notion the rules are applied unfairly.

It's invariably about 'fine lines' 'gray areas' and 'shifting sands of policy and situation'.

In that context, I don't see Kap's statement quite as a call to violence, even though it may be, it's veiled just sufficiently that I would personally give it a pass.

Certainly 'resistance' is within bounds.

'Revolt' I guess would be the complicating term.

The real question is ... why would Jack Dorsey give a very wealthy athlete $3M? I would hope you meant to day 'Colin's Foundation' or something like that which is hopefully focused on legit social justice, and not, for example, perpetuating lies about elections?

Finally, to my point about 'shifting sands' - I think the context of a President using the legitimacy of his office to make very serious false claims, which have very serious implications, and who's further incitement at last materially contributed to an 'insurrection' on Capitol Hill ... may very well have been a 'new context' in which the policy might materially change. It probably the behooves Dorsey & Co. to start to think about their new defacto policy in the context of other actors, so as to be fair.

Edit: Dorsey's donation was indeed to a Kap led foundation, not to Kap himself, here [1]. It seems there's legitimacy to the cause, that said, I can't help bit grin at the large image at the bottom, with Kap's 'Che' style self-branding effort.

[1] https://www.knowyourrightscamp.com/
That looks to be fan art from the video game/book Stalker/roadside picnic (specifically a bandit) used for advertising whatever you'd actually get in the mail. If you reverse image search it a couple different variations of the image will pop up, a lot of which are less than reputable looking stores.[2][3]

[1]https://danielkquemist.artstation.com/projects/lVx8Ne?album_...

[2]https://www.nikiluwa.com/products/mens-tactical-hooded-jacke...

[3]https://www.blaroken.com/products/mens-tactical-hooded-jacke...
Those aren’t necessarily contradictory titles. Large OSS projects require funding, or they run a serious risk of stagnation. If there are massively profitable corporations using OSS and contributing nothing back, or even actively competing with the project, then a more profitable business model may be the best thing an OSS project can do to ensure its longevity.
No, people sell BTC to get Tether, in which case, what did the previous BTC owner buy if it's not backed up with USD?
> They're able to do so because they have less worry about surprise medical bills, paying to care for their elders, saving $200k for the kids' college, etc.

I think that makes up a large part of the difference. In the US, those things are pay on use. In Europe, they're done through taxes that everyone pays.

If you don't have kids, that can be a substantial difference. I do not, so I don't have to pay into a college fund, or pay for healthcare for kids, or private school, etc, etc.

I think once you take it as a given that you pay for those things one way or another, it evens out a bit. Probably slanted a little bit towards more pay in the US, but not by nearly the gap between a single 20-something SWE in the US vs the EU.
Is this because the Wordpress market is huge (almost every website)? Whereas Elastic, Mongo, etc market share is not as huge?
I certainly don't claim to know what the author meant when those words were written. What I know is that Apple serves and represents an influential minority of the personal computing market, other manufacturers are unveiling new machines that run on Intel, and even Apple hasn't put out a single high-end machine with ARM. I personally haven't been forced onto ARM; I bought an Intel Macbook Pro after the M1 release.

You're absolutely right that the challenge is to get developers to build software that doesn't just depend on Rosetta 2. But at present, a developer has to think about users on x86 Windows, x86 MacOS, ARM MacOS, and Linux (ignoring ARM64 Windows and a few other OSes). The ARM MacOS devices at present are lower-end -- 2 TB3 ports, etc -- and less likely to be used by the customer cohorts that are the most profitable for software developers (except maybe the big-ticket names like Office, Photoshop, etc). I run x86 Mac and I still can't run all the APIs and software that I want to use. M1 would be totally untenable for me. For example, I use a brokerage whose software runs on Windows, but they have a cloud version that runs on Citrix Receiver. That used to work for me on Mojave, but I haven't been able to get it running on Catalina.

I don't think Apple has solved the chicken-and-egg problem, not even within the Apple landscape. If anything, Apple has made the problem more pressing and relevant by introducing a two-year cliff.

As Ludacris says, "tomorrow's not promised today." It's unwise to treat every large market segment as massless. Forced market shifts and state changes can be a neat trick when Apple pulls them off, but eventually they'll hit an immovable object. A two-year timeframe is an eternity for PCs and semiconductors; moreover, demand is astronomical at present, but the term structure of that demand is anything but predictable right now.

Apple is going to be supporting x86 Mac well past that two-year timeline, so even if ARM Mac takes over on schedule, developers are going to have to build for both setups for some time to come. I don't think that's particularly prohibitive if you set up your abstraction layers and work on one shared core before tailoring it to fit your supported platforms, but it's definitely added work and more planning.
I wish European companies would offer stock options as part of their compensation package.

The only European company that offered me something similar was SAP and it was a ridiculous one time 9k EUR.

The American 4-year vesting system is much more attractive. But somehow EU startups won't do that.
Hardly surprising, the US strategy has been lockdowns (good!) but without consistent aid to people and small businesses (bad!). The stay home and don't spread idea is a good one but needs to be backed up by actual assistance or aid. Pitiful amount of assistance from the federal government. We had one round of adequate funding right as this started and then basically nothing else. Money ran out, Congress was deadlocked and only aid we got was piggybacked onto a normal spending bill.
>I actually came up with this myself just playing around with NetBSD. You will probably not find anyone advocating disabling swap.

Actually I saw recently some discussion exactly about that. I think many people would be glad to do it if they new how. It is not easy when you relatively new in the area. It is not too complicated but a lot of information and it is not obvious what is important and what not, so you read all and get overwhelmed easily.

>I do not run X11 anymore. I stay in VGA textmode. Doubt anyone would want to do exactly what I do.

I do exactly what you do, simply because x11 is not working on Pi with TV I have and I have nothing more since MBPro has simply died. (if you wish details, see here ”how“: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778247 )

>If you study how NetBSD's install media are created that will teach you almost everything you need to know. Happy to walk you through it though if you want to try NetBSD.

Thank you very much. This advice is already precious, because it helps to orient yourself in tons of info, and now I would know where to start digging. I would love to try once I’ll have equipment and time. I really wish to encourage you though to write down this process, I am sure there are some people who are desperately looking for this setup and how to achieve it properly, bothered with many questions. This guide could also be a good practical introduction into a NetBSD by the way.

>Chromebooks are claimed to be 100% safe from certain types of attacks. The developers came up with this silly "whitewash" gimmick. Their motivation for a disk-less-like system is to force users to store personal data in the cloud. Ugh.

it’s a shame really and done for wrong purpose. I never considered Chromebooks seriously for that reason.

>Well, the disk-less systems I have been creating for recreational use long before Chromebooks existed are just as safe. Probably safer because I do not use a graphics layer or a web browser with Javascript interpreter.

What I really like about it is the ability of fast recovery, which gives more freedom for experiments. I love it.
This has been observed in Californian cities.
This will never happen. Cigarettes are still being advertised and sold.
Well, shit, I'm in the wrong business.
Deradicalization in the Deep South
LeCon's work wasn't groundbreaking; he was saved from oblivion only by Moore's Law. LeCun stood still doing the same thing for decades. But when wave after wave of faster hardware arrived he was finally declared successful.

So if you want to credit success to dumb luck, or to stubbornness, or insanity (as Einstein said: "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." then LeCon is your man. I don't know of any quote where LeCun says something to the effect of: "Well, I knew the hardware would speed up and then my neural net software would work exactly as I designed it to and manifest AI. So I waited twenty years."

IOW It wasn't the LeCunn's surfboard(his software) that handed him success, it was the wave(advancing hardware speeds):

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/race-make-ai-chips-everything-...
and ie6 in win < wine < wsl < win < linux stack will still perform better
How is Jack Dorsey suddenly pulling strings at Apple, Google, and Amazon?

What does Amazon care if Twitter does well? Are either Tim Cook or Sundar Pichai secretly holding significant shares? “Big tech” could collude to make more money (like the time Apple and Google reportedly did to reduce labour costs), I’d certainly buy that. But I don’t understand what is in it for these companies to collude to crush Parler, a company none of the platform companies that removed it compete with.

Twitter’s stock is down since purging one of their largest draws to the site.

Isn’t the simplest explanation here that people are covering their ass? And the examples the article found with 3 retweets are basically a neglible threat?
Now the BuzzFeed article can be cited by other journalists/opinion writers and politicians when they weave the case for banning Y or Z. That's the same path that transformed run-of-the-mill rifles into scary "assault weapons."
OK, but wait. 2.9BSD is from like 1982. And I think SLIP was later than that, and PPP was definitely much later than that. So you don't have a "pure" 1975 machine; you're using later software. What does "support" mean, then?

If you're allowed to use software that's later than your hardware, then you can write a stack for almost anything, so the idea of a machine "supporting IPv4" becomes kind of meaningless. You need 576 bytes of memory for a packet buffer, plus your program. Any mid-sixties mainframe, maybe even older.

If you do count the age of the software in deciding what's "supported", and you require that the TCP/IP stack run locally and communicate with modern computers without translation, then you'll have a hard limit at about 1980 or 1981, since the TCP and IPv4 protocols weren't defined until then, and there was therefore definitely no software.

You could allow using NCP as a "legitimate Internet precursor" to TCP/IP, but if you do that there's no real reason not to just allow serial terminals as "legitimate precursors" to NCP. So 1980 or 1981 seems like the limit for a "pure" system with its own software.

If you allow software newer than the hardware, but limit yourself to not writing that software, my guess is that the oldest thing would be a KA-10, which is a 1968 computer. RFC 801 says that as of 1981, there was a stack for TENEX, which you could run on a KA-10. You could at least do Telnet, maybe FTP. That's assuming you can find another old computer to gateway whatever ancient serial protocols it was using at the physical layer.
the hindsight is not about what we should "ideally do to fight the pandemic regardless of everything else". But if people really wanted it (for economic reason for start, you know poor people like being able to eat)...
Drawbacks I see are:

1. no static typing. With typescript having taken off, and now even python and ruby becoming more and more feasible to use in production with static typing, switching to a new dynamic language is a hard sell for me.

2. limited ability to take full advantage of some of its unique features in many cases. The runtime and the included OTP library/paradigm has some really cool features with its approach to processes and concurrency with the actor model, and features like hot code reload. But IMO the industry and popular best practices have evolved in a different direction that make these things less compelling. Code deploys are a solved problem in any of the major vm/container runtimes, with blue/green deploys, canary builds, feature flags, etc. all quite easy to use, so hot code reloading isn't that compelling as a language feature anymore. There are tons of ways to orchestrate multiple instances of a services from Heroku to Kubernetes, and APIs built on Protobuf and GRPC, GraphQL, or json REST APIs, are now pretty standard for communicating between different services, or using message queues, kafka, cloud pub/sub, etc. Also the paradigm most developers are familiar with is stateless app servers that store any state in database or cache layers, which has a lot of benefits.

Erlang and OTP seem to kind of mix all of these paradigms together, and if you use all of its built-in ways of doing things you are really striking out on your own from the common "best practices" that more developers these days will be familiar with. A lot of common tooling and cloud hosting providers don't support Erlang OTP style programming natively. It can certainly be used successfully, I believe Whatsapp as one famous example was originally all written in Erlang, but I personally don't see a whole lot of justification for most apps to do this. Of course you don't have to use any of these features, but then why use a language if you're not going to lean into its unique strengths?
> So is Google going to throw them out of the Play store? What's the argument for banning one social media and not another. Where do you draw the line that manages to keep Facebooks app available, while still being able to defend the removal of Parler.

Probably something like S/N ratio. Even though there was insurrectionist and para-insurrectionist activity on Facebook and Twitter, it was a far smaller percentage of the total, and they are more effective at moderating it (once it reaches their awareness). Parler's whole raison d'être was to capture people who got kicked off Twitter for posting that kind of stuff, so it stands to reason its proportion must have been far higher there.
Not really, why? An interpolated rasterization is a just a particular case of vector graphics representation.

As long as the represented objects fit well in the rasterized distance field (of a fixed resolution), you can sample the level curve to an arbitrarily high resolution, just like any other kind of vector graphics.
It's good this is getting attention.

While there maybe encryption in transit of messages, the encryption of messages at test is effectively defeated when the messages are at rest in icloud.

I am curious, is it possible to do an icloud equivalent backup without using icloud? Perhaps with a different backup app, nas, etc?
Yet SPX is still hanging out at all time highs.

I don't understand how professional short sellers made it through the past few years. Everything from economy, social structure, and climate, all going to hell, but the stock market seems blind to all of it.
What he is doing is certainly not easy. I can understand why people would pay for it. I'd use it as a form of rubber duck programming, but with an actual person that you have to at least act like you are trying to make understand.
From README —

Likewise, please do not send pull requests which compromise manual usability of the file. This includes the [EICAR test string](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file), which can cause the file to be flagged by antivirus scanners, and files which alter the encoding of `blns.txt`. Also, do not send a null character (U+0000) string, as it [changes the file format on GitHub to binary](http://stackoverflow.com/a/19723302) and renders it unreadable in pull requests. Finally, when adding or removing a string please update all files when you perform a pull request.
Just because the media has cooking articles doesn't mean it isn't propaganda.

At the time of the Iraq war everyone who cared to look into it knew the whole thing was absolutely fake news. If I knew it was fake, and all the people involved in the massive anti-war movement (in the UK at the time) knew it was fake then it wasn't much of a stretch for educated in the know journalists of the NY Times or other major media outlets to know. WMD, yellowcake, links to 9/11 etc. Completely fabricated propaganda was spread and promoted by the MSM.
I came to this thread interested in the discussion, but I feel now like the homer simpson meme retreating into the hedge.

Maybe I'll come back in a few hours, but for now I'll stay away.
DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
Yep. Maybe they'll object to the acquisition a year later after Google has safely 5x 3-AZ replicated all the heart rate, sleep and location data from millions of people. Apparently Google is simultaneously a monopoly due to the market power they gained using data but yet safe enough to trust with pings every minute from people wearing a watch all day. Its nuts.
Yes, quite a few developers left our investment bank and went to work for our suppliers (of trading software), stating they'd rather work somewhere where they're seen as value creators rather than a cost center.
Oh had no idea who that company was lol. Was going to look it up.
If what you only say is, it is backed, without proof, how hard is it to imagine to get down voted?

If you have a proof to back your claim, feel free to share to get the upvote you're looking for.
Nice post. The info is in https://blog.thea.codes/the-most-thoroughly-commented-linker... (by the same author)
The option to enable full zero knowledge encryption should exist for icloud.
If you turn off Messages in iCloud then your messages are included in the regular iCloud backup. This is documented here: https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/messages-mm0de0d4528d...
Just wanted to say thanks for your work on Elixir. It’s been very useful and fun to use for my home grown projects.
OCC forcing banks to lend to gun companies, oil drillers, controversial cos
Protondb.com is a fantastic place to see if a game is supported on Steam through Proton. Since it's all open source, proton can also be used outside of steam.
I think this whole thing comes from a place of generalized loneliness and lack of genuine human contact between people. Technology's other edge has enabled physical isolation quite a bit.
> government response to worsening Covid-19 pandemic hurts businesses

Fixed the title. Unfortunately we don't have to be where we're at. We knows who's most vulnerable, we know how it spreads (low airflow crowded spaces), we know who's been vaccinated and/or who's had it. The fact that any organized response, even at the city or state level, across both blue and red states, shows the ineptitude of these appointed officials. In many ways the "hey we're at least doing x,y" is worse than doing nothing at all.