skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember Zara was once in the spotlight due to their clothes containing toxic dyes
No mention of the role the media plays in repeating, repeating, repeating.
Great read, thanks for sharing.

This is a great case for GCP.
Wouldn't programming, writing, music, and art as careers basically be gone overnight without copyright? Who is going to create a book, video game, or movie when they can't sell it? Programmers would be the best off of those I guess, but only because they would have the option to move all code server-side to stop piracy.
Here's an example from one of your own projects, where code that works fine on normal input has a buffer overrun on malicious or corrupted data:

https://github.com/quelsolaar/HxA/issues/4
Of course it isn't. Of course it's a mathematical abstraction.

This project required high performance, high throughout, distributed computing with exabytes of data.

The person applying for the job should illustrate they can deal with that and knows when to ask what kind of question.

If they think chalkboard algo analysis is the end of the game, that they can just pack up and go home, not looking at the actual hardware specifications and capabilities, the real world implementations and costs, and just blindly trust the mathematical abstraction without any type of evidence, analysis, testing, or considerations of a system as complex as the physical hardware they are using, then good luck.

For example, if there is a "slower" implementation that's embarrassingly parallelizable and trivial to distribute, those are actually important factors.

If they have a "slower" implementation that also allows for a quicker mark and sweep or cache invalidation, those are also actually important.

If input data can be tightly characterized, that's actually important, it changes the real world expected results.

Bursty and continuous traffic are different problems so average throughput is insufficient for characterization.

This guy disputed all that. Basically the midterm I took 20 years ago as an undergrad when I 18 at the University, that's it. That's all of HPC.

By the end I was just giving him the college freshman level answers and he was genuinely surprised as if he thought I didn't know it.

Again, last I heard, the project is still on the rocks.
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My mother is very anti-abortion while also being a die hard straight ticket Democrat. Not all Catholics in her social circle are the same but many are. I can't say she has a political social circle, so maybe she is able to balance her beliefs because she isn't called on them. The issues her and her friends care about tend to be about extending entitlement programs, public education, assistance to immigrants, and things of a similar nature. For these the Democrats are much more inline with their views than Republicans, which is probably how she and other Catholics like her justify supporting the pro-choice political party despite being strongly against abortion.
Whatever you do, never ever pretend to be somebody you are not or fake praise when it isn’t sincere. Smart developers will instantly loose respect for you and write you off as personified BS.
I normally avoid these political threads on HN, so made another throwaway.

I and friends have for a few years discussed the idea of freezing all gun and abortion laws in place for 20 years as a means to declawing the US parties' stranglehold on dialogue.
> Was it right wingers engaging in the "mostly peaceful protests" that led to dozens of deaths and many more injuries, over a billion in property damage, and lasted for 6+ months?

It was in many cases right-wingers (in some cases, IIRC, specifically associated with and motivated by the Boogaloo movement) committing violent acts concurrent with the actually-peaceful protests. They weren't actually participating with the protests, though.
> And then the other articles would lament socialism with bated breath.

FWIW there is a line of reasoning in which neither of these is inconsistent.

The strongest opposition to socialism is really opposition to central planning, with the consequent inefficiency and corruption that tends to imply.

Giving everybody a uniform amount of money is about the smallest amount of central planning you can have and still be said to be doing anything. The decision of what to do with the money goes to the individual rather than the party apparatchiks. It's something you can do (help people) without doing the thing you don't want to do (give power to bureaucracies).
I remember DCOM! I was a WIN32 MFC C++ Windows app developer from 1990 to 2000. I forget which person at MSFT finally ended up admitting "The Registry" was a mistake, but I think it was Gates?

It was right around the time when WAR/EAR/JAR files in Java were showing the power of having everything packaged and self contained. Meanwhile MSFT was stuck in DLL Hell for decades. ha.
Neither Signal nor WhatsApp compare to Telegram in terms of client quality, reliability or customisability.
The main benefit of constructing objects and tying them together via DI is to allow polymorphic handling of responsibilities.

It is more complex than simply "I just make an interface and make everyone agree on that interfere". Everyone agreeing on the interface to use is very unlikely.

The underlying data in different implementations will be different. This is something Golang fails terribly at because it doesn't have polymorphism.

This is, I believe, why there are so few DI systems for Golang, and most of them are of the sort you are referring to as silly.

The way Golang works, and the reccomended patterns for Golang are somewhat anti-DI.
> I would much much rather go blind than deaf.

I used to say this too, but I'm sure, whichever you chose, you would regret the decision. Make sure neither isn't an option first...
> there are a few different perspective/camera quirks coming together in these videos which can (apparently) trick even well trained pilots.

How does that explain the radar readings?

"The tic tac – so-called because of its rounded shape and white colour – was caught on video as the US Navy attempted to identify a series of objects spotted on radar flying off America’s west coast in November 2004. ... The sighting came during a fortnight in which the USS Princeton had noted unknown aircraft intermittently passing across its radar systems off the US west coast. The contact was considered so inexplicable that the system was shut down and restarted to check for bugs — but operators continued to track the mysterious object afterwards."[1]

"Witnesses included highly trained military personnel—among them several deeply experienced radar operators and fighter pilots—who at the time of the sightings were at the controls of arguably the most advanced flight technology ever created. And yet none can explain what they saw."[2]

Does Mick West, a "science writer, skeptical investigator, and retired video game programmer"[3], know more about the issue than "highly trained military personnel—among them several deeply experienced radar operators and fighter pilots"?

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ufo-tic-tac-flyin...

[2] https://www.history.com/news/uss-nimitz-2004-tic-tac-ufo-enc...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_West
You're misattributing that quote. It comes from a letter Obama received from a woman when he was president (by his telling).
I see, good point. If the deposits are there already then it’s no loss to put them to work like this.
That jumped out at me too. cURL is one of the most ubiquitous libraries out there. It's worth keeping its dependencies to an absolute minimum, even if it means having to rewrite a function here and there.
There are many travel startups now which specialize in organizing these trips to north for foreigners. I can’t think of a name but should be easily google-able.

If you want to go cheaper, search for rent-a-car services in Islamabad.

You probably wouldn’t be scammed or put in danger either way.
Yes primarily to build a mobile app but I want to be able to have a web version as well. I guess I want to understand what the overall experience has been using Flutter with Amplify as that seems to be the winning combo, although I am open minded.

I've used React/Redux before and couldn't help but feel that it was over-engineered sort of like micro-service architecture but to each his own.
Apple doesn't do normal programming documentation these days, so I don't expect something that in-depth.
^^^THIS^^^

Especially given that malicious JavaScript can now make DoH toward their distributed command and control centers.
Cost, complexity, not available from the provider who is donating their space/network
So, the author implies in the article that he is not very experienced with logic design, and it certainly shows, but i.m.o. most egregious error is the use of EPROM.

I was involved in embedded design in the late 80s/early 90s and as soon as Flash memory became available, we switched all our product lines over within a year, even though the cost was still 10x higher. UV erasable EPROM was THAT much of a pain to deal with.

It blows my mind that the author was still using EPROM after 2000.
> This begs the question - why do people pick and choose their religious dogma, but not their political dogma?

Interesting possibility: Religion is a protected class, politics isn't. So people fear viewpoint discrimination (i.e. getting canceled) for diverging from the dominant political party, because that isn't protected, but not for diverging from any given religious doctrine, because that is protected.

Maybe we just need to declare the political parties to be religions. In a way they are. And it's in the same way that caused religions to be protected to begin with, isn't it?
Public companies are driven by what their executives want, insofar as their owners aren't paying attention. If they were pure paperclip maximizers they would switch businesses more often, but you don't see coal plants selling fentanyl out the back.
First order: people want to be seen as having the correct opinions, so when the definition of correct changes, they change what they espouse.

Free speech used to be popular.
This pattern is unfortunately non partisan and goes much deeper than the current culture wars. In the past we were not doing business with people due to the color of their skin, we've done it due to their sexuality and now we are doing it due to their political views.

Well this probably isn't the first time people have been sanctioned like this for political reasons. I think in every totalitarian government that has ever exists, left or right this sort of thing has happened.

There is something about human societies that is tricky to get right. We want freedom for everyone to live life as they choose, to do with business with whom they choose. But we also have to have a society where everyone is free to have access to the same basic services.

Online services are new and uncharted territory but they are becoming increasingly important.
You have freedom of speech. Make your own platform. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of social and business repercussions by others. You don't get to use a private companies business to forcefully host your content.

Repealing 230 means you don't get an opinion on the net anymore. The threat of legal repercussions are a lot more censoring than twitter. Content will still be made by companies and they'll still continue whatever information manipulation they're up to.

Perhaps it's not the 'sjw children'. Maybe it's that your position is wrong and others arent going to put up with it. There's social repercussions the same as anywhere else.
>And yes, I run a network too. No. I don't give a darn what my users do with it as long as the servers are up and fine, and the global riffraff stay out.

You don't care if your users get hacked? Would you mind telling me what company you work for?
I'd take these living costs with a grain of salt. I can say from my own experience that in Bangkok you can live for about twice less quite comfortably. Well but better to overestimate than to underestimate and realize that you can't support your living.

On the other hand, staying in Thailand as a remote freelancer for a long time is pretty much impossible. Not to mention the difficulty of getting visa now along with all the extra expenses due to covid. Also, due to covid, most of the features such as nightlife, street food, and markets are non-existing now.
I think the power users are actually just perpetually annoyed, find software features to assign it to, and then we end up with reverse causation.
I'm with thayne above on this one.. Protonmail just offers secure storage on their system but they still see the external incoming emails unless they're PGP encrypted. They make that easy, but still. PGP didn't take off in 30 years, it's just too complex. Tools can help that but the weak point is its key management.
You would be surprised how bad peering and back haul networks are still today. A normal business line here in the united states can still see sub 10Mbit/s going even out to hosters like OVH or Hetzner in France / Germany. For large projects like this, its always a good idea to have global mirrors if you can help it.
I have noticed this with Republicans after the advent of Trump. Suddenly things like close ties with Russia or moral transegence, major criticisms of past democrats, either no longer mattered or were suddenly a good thing, i.e. maybe Russia is our friend after all, and character doesn't count that much. It was very strange, especially trying to persuade fellow Republicans that this was happening. I found history started getting revised after the fact, and it felt like maybe I lived in an alternate timeline.
While that may be true, it does not make the headline any less inaccurate and clickbaity
Thank you for making Synapse happen Arathorn!

I have given you flack over the Synapse migration path for server operators over the last few years, but this Signal outage brought home how important it is that Matrix is a more than suitable replacement for Signal among my family and friends, and how smooth it has been to run my Synapse server over the last year.

You and your team are doing an awesome job!
Who is actually surprised by this? They(as in Big Tech) just deplatformed the US President. Even the official POTUS twitter account was not safe from having its tweets deleted. You think you're safe? You thought they couldn't use this power against anyone else? So many people have shown themselves to be bootlickers in the last few years and they will get what's coming to them.
A bunch of quotes can be found on the Wikiquote page on Feynman [0] together with the proper references, but these two stand out:

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”

“Once I asked him to explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin-1/2 particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics. Gauging his audience perfectly, he said, ‘I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it.’ But a few days later he came to me and said: ‘You know, I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we really don't understand it.’“

His book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! also has a couple of anecdotes where he solves people's problems by asking them questions and trying to understand them. Unfortunately I read this some time back and the exact page numbers escape me.

Generally, if you search for Feynman Technique you'll find anything in the direction of "explain it to someone to understand", but I think there is a lot of misattribution going on here. Like Einstein, people love to stick his name on things.

And finally, an indirect, but in my opinion well-summarized reference to the way Feynman learned, was in the Richard Feynman section of Lex Friedman's 118th podcast [1].

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#Quotes

[1] https://youtu.be/U_6AYX42gkU?t=452 (with exact starting time)
You still need to account for the leap from party to community. Unless you are active in politics in a capacity that needs party support (such as running for office), you don't really care if the party ostrizes you, as long as the community does not.
You seem to be implying that a company should not know what kind of web requests are coming from its computers.
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Most of those people are still fighting global capitalism though. Six American tech giants, more or less, having a global monopoly on media discourse, advertising, and payment processing... Well, that's exactly what they were warning us about. I'm not a fan of Donald Trump, but the fact that half-a-dozen mega corporations can effectively silence the American president is frightening.
Decades of transparency and trustworthiness.
Thanks, I had already tried everything in there, but since posting I saw people suggesting unplugging the HDM and plugging it into another DP port. That actually worked, but the end result was very buggy and flaky, unusable in practice. I'll try again in 2022 when GPUs might be back in stock.
You have no right to use others private property.
The problem is that s/mime and gpg are too complex for end users. Especially the key management, the encryption itself is not the issue.

s/mime is expensive in terms of certificates and difficult to set up. GPG's trust chain based on key signing parties has never taken off outside the crypto geek community (Don't get me wrong, I'm one too!)

Perhaps a "let's encrypt" approach to s/mime could work though. I could see that happening. It would indeed solve a lot of issues.
To be able to write what Beethoven did, and the amount of it, I would say he had this ability too. Can't really say that wanting to hear better while he played is a sign that he didn't. What's a scientific understanding of music if you can't hear?
So instead of only getting the patent when you yourself have a working implementation, you sit back and wait for someone else to solve your problems for you so you can jump on them and call it infringement?

And these aresupposed to encourage invention?

Yeah..... No.
James Clapper is still a free man despite lying to Congress and the American public, so I don't see why anyone should trust a word anyone says from any US intelligence agency.
Well, as someone who recently switched from Cinnamon to Gnome:

- There's no hibernate button. You can hibernate... by running "sudo pm-hinernate" on terminal.

- There's no session save, like, really.

- pm-hibernate sometimes fails without a single error message. Turns out it would refuse to run when the kernel was updated, OK fine that makes sense, except that the error message is redirected to /var/log/something and hidden beneath hundreds of lines of noise.

The only nice thing about it is that fractional scaling mostly works, which is nice, because I happen to have one 1080 and one 4K monitor. I'm sorely tempted to move to KDE but then I couldn't figure out how to make fractional scaling work there.

It's a total mess.
Is it unusual to be able to play back music in one’s head and hear it almost exactly the same as hearing it aloud?

When I imagine music in my mind, the sonic qualities all seem the same as what I heard or hear, though sometimes I’ll mentally edit the arrangement intentionally or unintentionally.

I’ve also noticed that when I use my voice to sing melodies for compositional purposes, imagining the melody and singing are basically the same thing or have the same end result. On the other hand, using synthesizers and messing with patches usually leads to things I wouldn’t have always imagined in my head.

I’ve never asked anyone about any of this before, so I never realized others might not experience the same things. Sometimes I wish I could switch subjective experience for a day with another person to get real perspective.
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Can you elaborate on what you think the current state is?
Correct, because copies may place all copies onto the same disk.

The point of copies is belt + suspenders: you both have your typical raid protection as well as two individual copies of the file so if one copy becomes corrupted the second can be referenced.

Additionally it's useful in the case you have a single disk (like a laptop). That way if you end up with a corrupted block you can still recover your file.
By real world I mean code running in production and making someone money. Or a popular open source package. And I'd be interested in which company or project that is and if they have a writeup.
I think it is precisely the development of WASM as an alternative first class citizen to JS that has the potential to create a new lingua franca.

As for what we might one day build on top of it, I'm not sure the ideal language or languages exist yet. I do think there is the potential to have something that retains the relative ease of access that languages like JS, Python and Ruby have offered, but with a much better type system, and perhaps designed with the kind of API-heavy and event-driven programming we use on both the front and back end of many web apps in mind.

I suspect that to break into such a huge ecosystem, it would need to have almost transparent interop with JS so in the early days it could use the existing libraries, though I would also hope that many of those libraries would immediately be obsolete or would soon be replaced by native alternatives anyway given that most of them are relatively basic by general programming standards.
It's worth noting that this study focuses on two Danish parties. It's honestly not clear that the magnitude of these shifts is consistent — see, for example, https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/797kzj/comment/do..., which convincingly argues that the American parties have different willingnesses to shift in order to follow party orthodox.
In this context what's V?
Yes, you can try to bend that reed in the wind, but mass welfare and social assistance is fundamentally, straight up socialism.

There is a completely unambiguous divide on that issue in the regular political context - Democrats are 100% on the side of more personal stimulus, and Republicans entirely on the other side. That war plays out like clock work every budgetary period.

Trump's last minute monkey-wrench was really interesting for a whole slew of reasons beyond the scope of this, the flip-flop was crystal clear among the commenting proles.

The evidence, is of course that 'large stimulus checks' had been pushed by the Dems for months (!) leading up to the final negotiations, and nobody thought they were a good idea until 'Trump Said It'.
If the headline read Twister Shuts Down Twitter I wouldn't miss it.
I’m not here to debate this specific claim of phishing, but this is just factually false, _especially_ for applied / practiced humanities. Here are two examples of well respected authors / journalists who are more senior than associate prof at Harvard’s FAS...and this was on just the first link in my first search:

Teju* Cole, Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing (an endowed professorship, no less! With only an MA and mphil!) https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/teju-cole

Michael Pollan, Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer and Professor of the Practice Non-Fiction (also a professor of journalism at Berkeley! With only an MA!) https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/michael-pollan

HBS likewise has business practitioners without phds on faculty. Their expertise is of value regardless of on-paper credentials.

These are two very well respected writers. Often, in more research oriented disciplines, the “experts” have phds, by necessity. But especially for applied humanities like creative writing and journalism, the experts w the most experience quite often _do not_ have doctorates, and that does nothing to diminish their expertise or professional credentials.
I have successfully hosted a Matrix server on the cheapest Hetzner VPS for like $3 and it was super smooth...