skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm genuinely of the opinion that Greenwald was compromised somehow right around the time of the Snowden revelations. Before then, he was an acerbic jerk writing with moral clarity about the persistent overreach of the US security state. His writing had crunch and specificity, and his targets were all over the political map.

But post-Snowden, he took a hard partisan turn. He'd enter regular tiresome disagreements where really the only argument was over who was being more hyperbolic or hypocritical. And he... ignore stuff you're really expect he'd care about. He spent years flogging the media for overemphasis of Russian interference because it was a "crazy conspiracy theory" but I swear he never once said a peep about Q. Really, if you knew nothing about the guy's history and just read his 2016-20 writing, you'd just figure he was an oddbally high brow Trump fan.

And very notably: this was true ONLY in his writing about US policy. His Brazil stuff was widely regarded (by others -- I don't speak Portuguese nor am I an expert on Brazilian politics) as just as good (and acerbic) as his earlier work about the Bush administration.

Maybe it's just branding. Maybe he figured he'd do better career-wise selling his work into a right wing market than he would continuing to criticize everyone. But... that doesn't sound right to me, because he's not exploiting typical right wing audiences nor using right wing platforms to do it.

Something happened to Greenwald c. 2013-14
Phones, like food and water, are considered "essential" by the US government and provided for free to citizens who can't afford them. The definition of "essential" grows every year. AFAICT you need a FB account to apply for a job at FB and to look up some business' address.
> a smaller number of organized militia types compromised of former and active duty military and law enforcement

I haven't seen anything about this. Can you share a link - especially pictures or video? I'd love to learn more. Thanks.
This is a common theme in my workplace. Especially with everyone working remote and odd hours these days. We use both email and Slack, but most conversations tend to be asynchronous regardless and I frequently wonder why we even have an instant messenger.

That said, I find that even if a message is asynchronous, it is much easier to track conversation flow via slack than email. Reply chains and indentations get messy and become an eye sore to navigate. If I write, "Hey, did you do that thing?" and don't hear "Yep, it's done" for a day, I can more easily see the flow of thought in Slack.

Though, I would appreciate a more standardized practice around, "If Slack says you are available, we can expect you to respond relatively quickly" than seeing a green dot and not hearing back for hours or a day.

I still hate "Hello" and "Hi" messages though. It baits a response without putting in any groundwork for me to understand what a person wants. Just say what you need.

> Them: "Hello"

> Me: "What's up?"

> Them: "Are you available now?"

> Me: "Yes... What do you need?"

Flows like this make me come off as an asshole because I'm annoyed by the tedious nature of the conversation. Tell me what you need so I can know how to respond.

> Them: "Hey, when you have minute, can you take a look at the database?"

> Me: "Sure thing. Can do in about 15 minutes"

^ this is way easier to work with for me
You can use QEmu snapshots to start a VM in under a second (but more than 125ms).

I used this in 2009 for an IRC bot that safely evaluated arbitrary shell commands for demonstration purposes, and a fork thereof is still chugging along to this day.

https://github.com/geirha/shbot
May I ask why you use firecracker, especially when you already have Docker images in your registry? Do you need root and/or a kernel in your containers for your application?
And much of the work in the USA is done by foreigners or even outsourced to other countries.;)
I think he is completely right. Journalism today looks more like advocacy.

Free-speech liberalism are at odds with the political establishment. The liberal camp has been decimated recently with the rise of both the authoritarian right/left.

From my perspective, what is happening in the US right now is somewhat similar to what happened in the Latin American countries in the 60s and 70s.

I'm very happy I discovered https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
It gives me access to articles written about the same subject from both perspectives. What I think it super interesting is how journalists omit certain facts to further their point of view.
Glenn’s shtick as a writer has been to deliberately avoid hewing to the meaning of words that make useful cudgels.
Not of anything, though.
As long as the structure of his brain (at an appropriate level of detail--- how much is enough though?) is preserved for the duration of his ice nap, why couldn't something like a continuation of him be reconstituted some time in the future?
Replicating GPT-2 at Home
As one of those old timers that don’t like Java’s Generics, they are what caused me to stop wanting to use Java. IMO they are terrible for code clarity. Though I prefer loose typed languages in general.

Now they’re invading Golang. I’m happy they’re taking their time.
But if the court proceeding where the charges are stated against a newly arrested person aren't open I'm saying it's a secret court.

They have this sort of thing in some countries like China where the government arrests someone and nobody knows why.

It's not a great thing.
"Whose records do we trust" is a problem that's thousands of years old. [1] In practice, the answer is "we both keep records and compare when there's a problem". It's not clear to me that having a single shared database solves more problems than it creates.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39870485
Gradle is only a thing in Android circles, thankfully.

Legacy code is everywhere on the world, only a selected few get to work on shiny things from scratch. Even cool startups eventually turn into legacy.

I wonder what technology used at enterprise level, doesn't suffer from those bullet points.
Probably because he's starting to call out hypocrisy on OP's team instead of the other team.
Can we have graph tree of our searches please?
+1 for the Pilot Frixion, but I'd specifically recommend the Clicker version.

The cap on the capped version covers the eraser during use.

Why on earth didn't they just put the eraser on the cap?
>Over time artifical meat will be a disaster as far as nutrients go, saying that you can "grow good meat that can compare to natural meat and has all the required nutrients as natural meat" is arrogant and shortsighted,

indeed. then we will do the rational thing and learn to live without an excess of animal protein. it is simply not necessary to consume so much in excess as we do right now.
My wife has a Waterman that we refill with Pilot G2 refills. Just have to shave a bit off the plastic cap.
I'm a fan of Stephenson's work but I couldn't finish Fall. Such a waste of paper.
Greenwald is a nut job.
Hello, IRMA lead developer here.

Since then we have mainly moved from smart cards to a mobile app [0], and focused on getting the IRMA server and frontend software production-ready and developer friendly. Additionally we have worked on connecting existing institutions and companies on IRMA; you have to have parties that issue and verify IRMA attributes before the project can be of use to end users.

As to development, we have a public roadmap here [1].

[0]: https://irma.app/

[1]: https://irma.app/roadmap.html
Raw video footage doesn’t have an agenda. You have clearly decided for yourself what the footage means to you. Good for you.
> Facebook and Google and Twitter, and Silicon Valley in general, from the beginning was not to censor. They began to censor because journalists demanded they do so, in part because journalists are authoritarians

There's the headline quotation right there and I gotta say it does not make a lick of sense to me. Journalists didn't drive this at all.
Please study this comment and thread to see how ad hominem attacks completely distract from the critical issues being discussed in the article.
It was brought by Smalltalk and C++ developers, but I guess 25 years later many don't get that part of history.
How is the ban implemented? It doesn't sound realistic and the article doesn't share technical details.
Lauren Southern is a nazi.
It is and it isn't. There are professional athletes who start doing their sport at 7. If you start at 29, you'll quite probably never make it to the top. At the same time, you could surely make it to the top of an orthogonal career, such as one of the top coaches.

On the other hand, things that mostly stretch your mind, such as science disciplines, you can do well in your 70s, 80s, or possibly even 90s. If you start at 29 with studying physics, you could get on top of your field by 45-50, leaving you quite some time to enjoy your top of the field.

29 is fine to start with most things I'd guess, especially if you've got experiences you can bring to your new career that others might not have.
> 3 and 4 are easy

But 2 (scale) makes this solution to 3 and 4 expensive / impractical.
Can we get this flagged right now (see last sentence about people needing to be killed)? This is exactly the kind of rhetoric that is going to get people killed. Not cool.
I see it the same as robbing billionaire and giving half the proceeds to poor people. Just because you’ve done some good doesn’t absolve you of wrongdoing.

If we look at the Wikileaks case, Assange decided to release tens of thousands of documents without redacting the names of people, explicitly putting those individuals in harms way.
What's good about forcing women's sports to allow men to compete?
I never used and never plan to. Don't need bytecode magic that my IDE can do for me.
I was alive, and consuming news in the 90's

In the 90's the bias was shown in the stories they choose to cover and what they choose to ignore not in the coverage itself

this is still true today but now in addition to this bias there is almost zero "strait" reporting, everything has political commentary mixed in, some more subtle than others but it is still there. Even in places like APnews where it is more subtle
"Serve in an administration" is a fairly common phrase, I believe is the only important additional context needed.
Several countries have managed to eradicate the virus with very few deaths, so it’s clearly possible.

All politicians that valued profits over lives have blood on their hands, all over the world.
Stupid Patent of the Month: Storage Cabinets on a Computer (2016)
Depending on who it is, I generally leave them hanging. If it's important they'll add something soon after. If it's not, or they can get an answer elsewhere, they'll just forget they messaged me until I eventually reply at a time convenient for me.
Most of those are turboprops at least. In the sense of number of flights e.g. Kenmore Air, anyway.
It's a YABA (Yet Another Bloody Acronym). :)
This is fantastic, thanks for sharing it!
Lol at "both perspectives". As if there are only two. And no one raised hackles at alternative perspectives. They were raised at alternative facts.
>How else would you lazy-load a database of (say) 32GB into memory, almost instantly?

By using an existing database engine that will do it for me. If you need to deal with that amount of data and performance is really important you have a lot more to worry about than having to use unsafe blocks to map your data structures.

Maybe we just have different experiences and work on different types of projects but I feel like being able to seamlessly dump and restore binary data transparently is both very difficult to implement reliably and quite niche.

Note in particular that machine representation is not necessarily the most optimal way to store data. For instance any kind of Vec or String in rust will use 3 usize to store length, capacity and the data pointer which on 64 bit architectures is 24 bytes. If you store many small strings and vectors it adds up to a huge amount of waste. Enum variants are also 64 bits on 64 bit architectures if I recall correctly.

For instance I use bincode with serde to serialize data between instances of my application, bincode maps almost 1:1 the objects with their binary representation. I noticed that by implementing a trivial RLE encoding scheme on top of bincode for running zeroes I can divide the average message size by a factor 2 to 3. And bincode only encodes length, not capacity.

My point being that I'm not sure that 32GB of memory-mapped data would necessarily load faster than <16GB of lightly serialized data. Of course in some cases it might, but that's sort of my point, you really need to know what you're doing if you decide to do this.
Nope, not that at all. That would be putting words into someone's mouth. Harris has made no comment on Sex Work/ers, nakedness, or the like.

Running a quick ddg search returns:

No results found for site:samharris.com sex
I dunno, who do you think he was saying was the sleazebag? I don't see the "ammo" here-- neither Turner and Clinton are Jewish.
Haha I can understand why that bothers you of course, but I find it amusing that I feel exactly the opposite way. I would usually much prefer that someone try phoning me or (of initiating a call on slack or zoom) that go through the "hi, time to chat? When is good, etc?" Slack has icons to indicate availability, if mine is green, I really wish people would just call.
This already happens, most of us just don't live in the neighborhoods where it happens. That's the unfortunate reality of today's America. It's also the reason that these techniques will be employed in a ubiquitous fashion in tomorrow's America.

If we wanted to stop this, the time to complain was years ago when the practice was started in the drug war. Or even recently, when the practice was employed during the BLM riots. Any attempt to stop it now brings howls of racism. Causing police departments and other law enforcement agencies to double down on insisting that they use it on everyone in their attempts to prove the people screaming racism wrong.
No leaked videos are even necessary. It should be obvious to any critical thinker that CNN is the Democrat version of FOX news with a small amount of viewing.
Interestingly, there was an ancient Greek / Roman equivalent: amphora (pottery vases) with bumps that fit into standard cargo racks in ships.

The first picture in the Wikipedia article is what I mean: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphora .
Are paywalls really what open source needs?
Great interview with Larry King focused on his interview style: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/larry-king/id124844662...

Some great stories in there including one about how in his early days he would play a game with his producer where he’d go in blind and try and figure out who his guest is. I guess this helped him develop his “average guy” style. While series is worth a listen if interview styles is of interest.
For the millionth time: the number of bots tweeting about something doesn't imply a lot of people are actually seeing the tweets.

Also, afaik all the botometers are crap, so studies based on them are also crap.
Regarding performance, I wrote a bit about this a few months ago in a post comparing different workload isolation techniques:

https://fly.io/blog/sandboxing-and-workload-isolation/

Two useful links from my Pinboard research for that post:

A person at Red Hat optimizing QEMU boot time:

http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/paper.pdf

An Intel deck talking about qemu-lite:

http://events17.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slide...

(The other thing to follow up on if you're interested in the background on this stuff is kvmtool).

In both cases, a big part of the answer seems to be eliminating BIOS overhead; getting rid of oproms appears to have been the single biggest win for Intel. But the Red Hat article also finds lots of overhead in QEMU itself, and both pieces talk about kernel config issues (for instance, scrubbing the kernel you boot of subsystems that have expensive initcalls).

By comparison: Firecracker is purpose-built in Rust for this one task, provides no BIOS, and offers only network, block, keyboard, and serial device support --- with tiny drivers (the serial support is less than 300 lines of code).
Well if they are leaning on the reputation the Swiss as being neutral or otherwise more trustworthy, then it's relevant.
Without a VM to call its own, unless we start talking about ART or the failure of Kotlin/Native memory model.
I swear by the Uni-Ball Jetstream (SXN pen, SXR refill) for its smoothness and great contrast (black color).
Tip if you're looking for a quality pen as branded swag/supplies for your business:

When you find a pen from another vendor/restaurant/etc that you LOVE, take a few minutes to find who ordered them and get the same supplier/SKU. They'll gladly share that info in my experience.

Bulk pen quality is so over the map, even when it claims to be the same model number, I've found it to vary among suppliers.

All that being said, I've lost who we got ours from and can't recommend one myself!
FB is not a phone, it's a website that you don't have to visit.
> the trouble there is that the really fun case is to do this over the network with http (say to solve Python dependencies, to extract the metadata from wheel files) in which case this method doesnt work

If the web server can tell you the total size of the file by responding to a HEAD request, and it support range requests then it will be possible.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Range_requ...

Or am I missing something?
Tesla has accused an engineer of downloading about 26,000 sensitive files
1.0.2 was the most stable and lasted the longest
Putting my tin foil hat on real quick. Just wait until they implement AI into all these sensors to "predict crimes", turning life into Minority Report. The interesting part is its the common people who will naively go along with it to feel more safe while at the same time further imprisoning themselves.
Because it's profoundly selfish--you _might_ buy yourself more life in some unspecified future, or the same money today could definitely save and/or improve many, many lives now.
What kinds of things do you post about?
Red Hat is making its money by selling support. The more obfuscated the system is, the more $$$ they make.
Because of multitenancy. It isn't safe to run jobs from different customers alongside each other in namespaced OS containers; instead, we give every customer instance its own VM and its own OS. This is the same model that Lambda and Fargate use (of course, that's what Amazon implemented Firecracker for).

I linked to a blog post we wrote about the rationales here, upthread.
TRS-80: a TRS-80 running a custom Associated Press ROM
The Boston Globe’s Fresh Start Initiative
fantastic!

best for me:

"Public ceremony and visibility is super important to some leaders.
Some were super enthusiastic when the president came to visit. They asked me if I wanted to be present. I couldn’t have cared less."

"Some of them (not all, not even the majority, just some) think it’s a privilege to be working for the government, and they tend to treat you like a doormat. I lost the the count of the times I told them to f** off."
"
This just tips the discourse more in favor of those running the bots. Also, since most of the world is governed by democracy, a key requirement is to have informed citizens so they don't vote for policies based on misinformation. One may not wish to use twitter (myself included), but a significant amount of the world population does.
By that description, apparently ‘rollerball’ pens are the default where I am. The staple experience all through my youth was of having to doodle with the dry pen for a few seconds before it begins to emit ink properly (my language even has a word for this act). Spare pens or cartridges were a must, in case the first one just gives up.

Then I discovered oil-based Pilot pens: those can lay around unused for months or years and then will write as soon as I need that. So after moving out, I bought a couple dozens of them and sprinkled them around the apartment and in my backpack. Never even knew if anyone else makes pens with oil-based ink.

I did, however, encounter one of such pens leaking. But one in about fifteen years seems pretty good.
Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months
Hi, I'm 19yo. I bootstrapped a SaaS in March last year together with a friend (he does sales, I do engineering). Currently we are at 250k ARR and growing fast. (Based in Netherlands).

I'm sharing this because I'm looking for people who went through a similar situation. I went from "coding in my bedroom next to my university study" to "doing technical interviews with senior engineers" and "enterprise sales to c-level people" within a year. I do like to push myself way beyond my comfort zone (it's my go-to strategy for learning new stuff) but sometimes it is quite overwhelming. Sometimes, when I can take a step back, I realize how insane this situation is.

Luckily I have supporting parents and peers, who try to advise where they can, but none of them have experience running a fast growing company.

Anyway. If anyone has had a similar experience, please share. If you know a community/network with similar people, please share.
Thank God. I had 39 messaging systems on my phone, I didn't like the odd number. Now we're good. Until next week.
Just shorten that to syn
Hey y'all, creator of siuba here--happy to answer any questions!

One piece of context I try to bring into discussions is that the way I test and develop siuba is by livecoding data analyses for an hour [1]. I encounter a lot of arguments like "X is possible with pandas", but when I sit down with analysts in realistic settings (e.g. time constrained) it turns out X works in more limited ways then they thought [2][3].

I'm a big fan of pandas though. It's what siuba is built on!

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/c/chowthedog

[2]: https://mchow.com/posts/2020-02-11-dplyr-in-python/

[3]: https://siuba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer/pandas-grou...
Murder Running Through He's Brain, He Confesses
Agreed on the design of most grocery store in the US. Most people can't stop in quick on a normal daily walk, because the inherent space-inefficiency of cars means a long detour to hit multiple stops, whereas with walking it's an easy in-and-out grab.

However, even when patiently explaining this difference, it is a mental leap too far to consider any change. Not only is it the physical design of the stores and car-only infrastructure, a lot of it has to do with package sizing and pricing structure, as another poster pointed out; smaller quantities get massive markups in US stores, for no good reason other than once they've got you in a store, you're fairly captive and they want to extract the maximum amount of money from you so that you don't end up elsewhere.

Until people experience it, and realize that having a five person family is no challenge at all for this style of life, it's hard to give them the picture.
Larry Niven wrote an excellent series of short stories on the same premises decades earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatlander_(short_story_collec...
I think most people would disagree with you on the point that Toyota software is “light years ahead in software and updating”, but there is some subjectivity here.
It was interesting to me to learn recently that Larry King was in business of making infomercials. Including one where he was supposedly tricked: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-disinfomercial-how-la...
Somehow Java attracted more than its fair share -- way more -- of programmers who wanted to believe that software development had all been figured out, the right answers were known, and the only thing that remained for the profession was to be faithful to the true answers and priggish towards anyone who had doubts. That was a really weird time, especially in retrospect when we think about what the "right" answers were back then.