skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and I seriously doubt this person would appreciate being on the other side of “radical honesty” and all that junk. When people don’t appreciate me acting like an asshole it’s because I’m misunderstood and they’re being haters. When others do it they’re just being assholes.
Why do you need a DSL. Go already does the things you describe with so little boilerplate that I don’t see what value a DSL could provide to justify its own complexity.
I think the right move is to defer judgment until the charges come out, but it’s a real possibility. Computer crimes are notoriously vulnerable to selective prosecution depending on how much the prosecutors don’t like you; in most states, Florida included, any unauthorized access to any computer system can be charged as a felony.
Being technically visible to the naked eye does not mean they are easily discernable. It's like how the Galilean moons are technically visible to the naked eye, but Jupiter's overwhelming brightness makes them nigh on impossible to see except in specific circumstances.
What a crappy attitude that leads nowhere:)

Think about it like this: "employer-mandated fun creates opportunities for me to expand my network and connections which help me make more money. As an added bonus, I might as well enjoy it."
>they will actually be more likely to follow his lead

Good leadership is less about convincing people to follow you than it is about being able to lead people in the right direction. David Koresh was highly charismatic and convinced a lot of people to follow him, but I doubt anyone would consider him a "good leader".
The first two bulletpoints are spot on. After bulletpoint 2 everything started getting dumber and dumber.

We are basically back to the early 20th century but without the propensity to kill each other (yet). People are showing a complete lack of rationality even when facing the most basic problems. They are willing to believe anything as long as it plays into their biases and doesn't hurt them in the short term.

The solutions don't require any meaningful sacrifices. The sacrifices are insignificant compared to the benefits.
No, please no. Make sand-boxing an optional feature the user has control over. Sort of like containerized tabs in Firefox. Not all apps have legitimate reasons for accessing your hard drive, but I'd argue that 90% of them that do, really need to. Let the user decide.
I've seen so many startups, first thing they do once they get that VC money, they move to a flashy new office, add top of the line coffee machines, craft beer on tap, fridges and catering, hire masseuse, team building coach, lease some supercars or executive cars, get some graphics designers, spend days on photo shoots praising their future product, take teams to fancy restaurants, find and fly business class to every possible conference in the tropics, meanwhile developer salaries stay the same or get cut, as company is in a "growth stage". Then people who did the most work and feel most exploited leave, they get replaced by young and energetic Udemy / boot camp taught developers and once the money gets close to run out, they get on a crunch to convince investors to pour even more money, whilst the board is thinking where to build their next house.
The resin fillings don’t last nearly as long. You’ll need a replacement down the road. I’m going on 40 years or so with my mercury filling.
Clubhouse – An audio-based social media app
grandmasters typically play a small number of (recorded) games per year, would it be possible to train a neural network on lots of games to recognize what were likely moves of a player from a small number of games - so that you could have a computer to work with that would prepare you for a match with a grandmaster?
USB-C can’t charge nearly as quickly as a high power proprietary charger. In use USB-C needs to supply power for both charging and operating the laptop, so what might take 3 hours to charge with USB-C might take 20 minutes to charge with a dedicated connector.

That’s not to say every laptop’s proprietary charger will supply noticeably more than 100W, but many examples exist.
New measurements of the sky's blackness
Amalgam fillings do offgas tiny amounts of mercury. Of course, this is a controversial topic and there's a lot of misinformation around, so do your own research. Personally, I came to the conclusion that the one amalgam filling I have is ok but too many would cause potentially toxic buildup over a lifetime so I'll never get another.
I also have a theory that the Titans were the gods of Neanderthals.
I've observed that frugality is one of the least important values for startups and for founders. The vocation of an founder is to find product market fit and grow revenue. Frugality can be a useful tool for growing revenue. But without product market fit, it's a premature optimization, and a seductive one.

The graveyard of dead startups is littered with stillborn corpses as a result of founders who focused on frugality to feel productive rather than engaging in the necessary user research and product experimentation to validate product-market fit. If nobody wants to buy the thing you made, it doesn't matter how cheap you can make it. You won't survive long term.
Unfortunately if anyone were to have their laptop and emails searched with an eye towards coming up with probable cause to make an arrest, no one is safe.

Just as it’s realistically impossible to not break driving laws while behind the wheel, giving pretext to a traffic stop, the same is true if you give people looking to get you a huge swath of your life.
I would say, do not underestimate the value of art. The article described an artist that made is own paint from the pigment. He painted a depiction of an ancient bird, its absolutely beautiful. This use was not a waste of resources and will in fact last much much longer than any screen made in 2021.

Its arguable that using precious resources for products that last less than 20 years, in many cases less than 5 years, is a true waste.
Intel Codenames
Just Funnin’ – the infamous “Cowboys” section of the Lucid book
Right, but that they are ever visible to anyone means that the story could just as easily be inspired by the rarely-seen 7th sister, rather than the last-seen-100k-years-ago 7th sister.
To anyone interested in this genre, I would recommend Fitz Hugh Ludlow's The Hasheesh Eater.[1]

I found it far more readable, interesting, and entertaining than De Quincey's Opium Eater, by which it was inspired.

[1] - https://archive.org/details/66640730R.nlm.nih.gov
I’m largely in agreement.

Perhaps harsh, but while I’d love to hear more from the guests - I find his interview style insufferable and his questions usually irritating. So much to the point that I avoid stuff he’s in.

A lot of the philosophical questions show he hasn’t read the AGI stuff, Bostrom, Yudkowsky, etc. and it’s frustrating to listen to someone who isn’t aware of some of the basic ideas.

I get a strong sense of bullshit too which makes it hard to listen to because I have to second guess everything. It feels like listening to sophomore undergrad philosophy.
How to run a Linux distribution in a container
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWicxjR7fz0&feature=emb_logo

tracing and blocking QQ/TIM from reading browsing history.
I _am_ talking about free speech in general. There has been in shift in how mainstream media and politicians (and companies) view free speech. Some newspapers and politicians are even calling for the abolishment of the first first amendment. Unimaginable 10 years ago.

Case in point:

>The 2018 guidelines claim that “the ACLU is committed to defending speech rights without regard to whether the views expressed are consistent with or opposed to the ACLU’s core values, priorities and goals.” But directly contradicting that assertion, they also cite as a reason to decline taking a free-speech case “the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-aclu-retreats-from-free-exp...
Thanks for your clarification. I wasn't able to make head or tail of the title without reading your comment.

/s
on site at a client fresh after they started upgrading people to USB-C/thunderbolt MBPs/Airs...

Very quickly meetings started with question of "who has a laptop with real HDMI/DisplayPort? We would like to start in 15s instead of 15 minutes of fighting with dongles..."
Paper Review: Statistical and Combinatorial Analysis of the Tor Routing Protocol
The State of Florida has handled the case in a Hollywood-level of bungling, thuggish ineptitude. Both sides in this case are dirty. As an active Floridian, I've followed the Covid numbers closely, and at first her story was deeply worrying. But her actual data arguments are idiotic. She doesn't understand data analysis at all. Meanwhile the State acts like the Mafia. Ron DeSantis has been one of the dumber governers we've had, and that's saying something. Regardless of her, I'd love to see him impeached over this.
They didn’t fix the insecure directory creation when media is mounted?
And tech people tend to be much more willing to spend time&effort "optimizing" their choices to fit their values than the average population. At least for "small to medium" choices - not sure about raising children.
Some others that you might enjoy:

Mindscape (deep dives on various topics, host is a theoretical physicist): https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

Brain Inspired (AI & neuroscience interviews): https://braininspired.co/

Thesis Review (interviews with researchers about their PhD thesis): https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/podcast.html

Machine Learning Street Talk (discussions & interviews about ML): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLtBahI5DMrt0NPvDSoIRQ
This is a funny question.

What separates successful people and companies from the rest is "investing in the right stuff and ignoring the rest."

Your whole success depends on your ability to identify that which gets the bulk of your resources and that which gets nothing.
No , what we need is basic common sense. Too much of anything is bad and as a nation we have a historical tendency to take things to extreme. We need to understand and acknowledge each other’s point of view and realize there is a sane middle path based on due diligence and rational investigation.
It works together with icon packs you installed as an app. I use Whicons, it has lovely monochrome icons for most sites I use.
Also, i use another one program, with which you can find out here https://blog.mspy.com/get-7-days-mspy-free how to track a cell phone location without them knowing easy!
Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook
My general thought on silly security certification requirements is that I wonder if they're necessarily silly or just covering rare (but catastrophic) events. For example, my whole company had a great laugh when a client required us to have a Pandemic Policy in 2019. In 2020 we stopped laughing about it.
Parler's CEO was interviewed by Megyn Kelly on her podcast a couple days ago, and if what he said is true, AWS is not being truthful. Of course we don't know who is telling the truth, but Parler is asking to release all the correspondence between the two companies, and AWS will not consent. It could very well just be standard legal best practice (since there is a lawsuit in progress), but it does give Parler some credibility. As soon as there is evidence I will re-evaluate where I can stand (not that it matters of course, but to me personally it does :-)

Among the big mistruths from AWS alleged by Parler, Parler does do moderation. They have a company principle of not surveilling every single thing their users do and vacuuming up data on them (which I would think most on HN would praise).

They have a group of about 600 moderators that review and take down reported posts. Over the last couple months given the in flux of new users and violent content, they did develop some machine learning tools that would identify potential violent posts and send them to a moderator for pre-approval. AWS told them that wasn't good enough. So Parler said, "how about we just use AWS Rekognition, your own product?" To which AWS said, "no, not good enough." I wonder, what is "good enough" to AWS? They clearly don't apply the same standard to Twitter.

He also talked about how just a week prior the AWS rep was doing the standard AWS rep thing of, "we love you, what can we do to get you deeper into AWS ecosystem?" Per Parler's CEO, Amazon had previously been satisfied but suddenly after the capitol riot, nothing would satisfy them.

It's remarkable to me how much disinformation there is out there over this. Although after the CentOS disinformation fiasco, I shouldn't be all that surprised.

I hope they release all of the correspondence soon so we can know who is telling the truth. It is a matter of great consequence in my opinion.
lately grandmasters play a huge number of recorded games per year online
> there’s no fundamental value in a tool vs the other

> I will use the best tool available for the job

The article is pointing out that the way you decide which tool is best depends on values that you have, which is certainly true whether or not you consciously think about or recognize those values.

Describe your decision process for selecting the best tool in a given scenario, and the values you use should become clear.
I don’t think the SLS has been on anyone’s realistic roadmap to space tourism for over half a decade. Private companies like SpaceX and to a lessor extent Blue Origin have blown past NASA in that department.

This shows nothing besides how broken the politics around NASA are, and how Congress is optimizing for a totally different thing than getting people into space cheaply and safely.
I feel the issue with a lot of this advice like "don't care about what other people think about you", "be yourself" is, it tries to free people from one extreme (caring too much about what other people think for example) by talking about the opposite extreme.

It is helpful to have awareness about how your behaivor and actions may affect others, depending on the situation and your relationship with them, and how they may perceive or react to it. I find the key is to have and develop values you consistently act and live by so even if someone reacts negatively or different from what you expected, you don't feel this means you did something wrong or need to change something about yourself.
They have her ip address [1]. It is super easy to prosecute with her ip address marked on the sent message. I feel bad for her, but, why hand the prosecution so much (use a vpn)? This is like driving drunk with your headlights off. At this point, she will have to plead out.

"An affidavit for the warrant claims that an unauthorized message sent from a state emergency management account on Nov. 10 was traced to an IP address associated with Jones."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/09/raid-f...
I guess this makes sense, but DRYing up my object graph assembly doesn’t seem particularly important, and when it gets excessive I’d just create helper functions. This way everyone who touches my code (including the poor souls who operate it downstream) don’t need to understand my DI framework (how the DSL files are loaded and mapped onto code) for even the slightest debugging.
Perhaps some day we can just present from our phones and even use them as a pointer at the same time.
Do you live in the middle of nowhere, far away from any light pollution? If not, your inability to see more than 6 means nothing about what someone 2000 years ago would have been able to see.
The dramatic decline in camera sales has been discussed a few times on HN, here's a random google result:
https://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/dont-look-at-this-graph-sho...

Cameras are rapidly turning into a niche product, it makes no sense for any laptop manufacturer to include an SD card reader at this point.
All my presentation materials are in the cloud somewhere, I don't need to bring a computer anywhere these days.
Do you need to type a disk encryption password into a Bitlocker-branded screen before Windows boots? Or alternatively are you required to insert a specific USB stick with a key file?

If so, you are using one of the more secure configurations. If not, you are using the less secure (TPM-only) configuration.
Inefficiency and algorithmic complexity is imo not necessarily the same all the time.

For a beginner, inefficiencies like allocating in loops and the like (which can often be optimized) are not that big of a problem, since they only change a constant factor. On the other hand, O(n^2) and it’s supersets can be problematic when applied blindly.
I don’t remember the exact situation but I recall a GUI app that listed some options in a drop-down menu. But on each click, they managed to call a function with O(n^2) complexity and you don’t need many elements to get a big number that way, so the drop-down visibly froze the UI (I guess it was an older framework with no separate thread/just bad code that worked on the main thread).

Of cource relax and enjoy programming, but I think reading up on algorithms can be fun and useful for the long term!
It's reality. They do reusable Falcon Heavy flights at 90 million right now. Good chunk of that cost is second stage and fairings that are expendable.

Starship is designed to be fully and rapidly reusable.
I also have a 'fun' story - got locked out of my old account (old phone no. 2FA). I owe them $1.61 so they keep pinging me. I've offered to pay using my new account or that they can just send me a link / bank account no. whatever so I can pay. No can do. I have to log in for that. My only option is a notarized document sent to them. Well I don't want to pay that dollar THAT hard... :/
They probably said the same things about cargo planes once.
Because there are millions of people with zero income at the moment, or a reduction in income. Easier to just inject fiat into their deposit accounts to increase monetary velocity.
I wonder if this was left on purpose for law enforcement or corporate spies and if there are more vulnerabilities like this. Seems like it's better to just stay with good old TC.
I tend to let other people "master and config" VSCode and then I just go download their extensions. IMO that's the beauty of VSCode - critical mass
All she did was be good at her job and tell the truth.

What "truth" do you think she was exposing? The original dispute that caused her to leave her job was a boring technical dispute about whether to automatically publish data from PDFs or to have it reviewed for accuracy first: https://polimath.substack.com/p/a-long-one-about-the-florida.... Despite insinuations from various irresponsible media figures, there is zero evidence that Florida is falsifying data.
You make a great point. A very popular protocol or standard is never fully replaced. Either it continues existing next to the new thing (IPv4/IPv6) or gets an update while still having to deal with backwards compat (HTML, CSS). Whatever the case is we'll still be dealing with email in 20-30 years from now.
Is there a way to standardize your fixes for others, e.g. through a pull request to teh neovim plugin?
I'm guessing it has more to do with culture.

A lot of big long-standing organizations develop an internal culture of being more focused on not fucking up than on achieving success. Paradoxically, this leads to more problems, and more of the costs associated with them. People stay in their swim lanes, and nobody has each other's backs. The more you keep your head down and try not to get involved, the less you can be blamed for.

L. David Marquet digs pretty deep into this phenomenon in his book Turn the Ship Around! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158601-turn-the-ship-a...
This also resonates with me. He sometimes doesn't know the things which should be known even to a CS undergrad!!
No it’s not. You’ll miss the forest for the trees if you waste a second wondering if you should cut back on office snacks instead of how to grow your business.

Money is extremely cheap and easy right now.
I'm sorry that your matrix-related experience was less than ideal. I have heard of smaller numbers of people encountering issues (no denying that), but yet a greater number are still active...so i don;t know what to say...and it certainly isn't my job to try and convince or convert to towards it if you're not really interested.

> ...documentation is confusing, the spec has been changed less than a year ago IIRC and different clients a at different stages of implementation.

An opinion on confusion around documentation is too subjective for me to comment on, and i'm not sure if you're referring to user doc or developer doc or sys admin doc. Regardless, many folks seem to be building plenty of clients, bots, bridges, services, etc. using the documentation. So i'd at least say the dev. docs seem to be sufficient for many devs. While i do wish there were many more examples used in the dev docs, i have found them to be quite helpful and informative...but again, this is subjective. As to the spec being changed, actually i believe there is quite some acceleration around this, and i feel that is good in these early days...I feel like we might want a dynamic spec at least to get things as best as possible...and then years later, slow things down to avoid breakage - but maybe that's just me. Finally as far as the numerous clients, i think this is a good thing too. Let there be plenty of creative attempts at "getting this right", i say! Diversity is a good thing, and for apps/clients too! ...and much like the presence of numerous email clients, many users might just have different preferences, so its great that the underlying protocol (and associated specs) allow (if not encourage) that. Yes, eventually, after dust settles we might all congregate aroiund a small number of clients that are the "best"...but until then, it is still early days! I for one am enjoying my journey in the matrix world! (Caveat: I am not at all affiliated with any matrix project nor corporate entity, nor client dev. team, etc...I'm really just some random fan boy of matrix.)
Agreed, definitely took a turn for the worse, unfortunately.
Or just don't use proprietary garbage.
What I do care more about is how the country that has almost anything it could wish for will find a way to stop tearing itself apart from within.
> That said, if you’re a regular entrepreneur or business owner, the script is flipped.

The problem is that regular entrepreneurs and business owners still must share the market with venture backed startups. You're always one pivot away from some hotshot startup or bigcorp going to war to take away your marketshare by forcing you to address that "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" -- in order to compete with VC-backed startups, you need /more/ than just frugality. You need actually better execution -- execution which more effectively serves market demand than your competitors.
Magsafe, was great unless you had a 5 year old laptop. After the 50th time you had a small magnetic rock get lodged into the plug and scrape the laptop's magsafe port enough, it stops being magnetic.

I can't agree more on replacing the touch bar.
The mobile sandboxing parent comment mentioned lets the user decide: an app that requests permission to access files triggers an OS dialog asking if the user wants to allow the app to access them.
Yeah, right because we never been there before.

class IntList {
private List objList;

public add(int elem) {
objList.add(Integer.of(elem));
}

}

Rest is left as exercise for the readers that never used Java generics, or C++ templates.
My point is that the parent post was talking like people were advocating violence against Mike Pence and that's why it was trending, but that's not true.