skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lot more obvious for those categories because the money rolling in with barely any negative consequence strengthens their view beyond anything that a counter-argument can counter.

Unlike normal scale issues where you may be convinced (or even see yourself) you were doing wrong even with the best of intentions, with successful founders and CEOs that's nigh impossible. They genuinely cannot acknowledge this because even hard numbers will look like "it needs a small tweak but my vision and implementation are still great".
Or https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/chromiums-reduction-o...
> "The problem is that apparently ads don't pay enough..."

ads pay plenty, just look at the size of google and facebook (granted, they've together largely consolidated the online advertising market, but it's still huge). greed is the simpler answer here.
I tried MacPorts. Then I tried brew and stopped using MacPorts. Maybe I just don't use my computer the way you do?
Which bugs? I wasn't under the impression that exploiting memory safety issues was the dominant type of bug to gain an advantage in multiplayer games, but usually logic errors or some kind of broken script, corner cases in nested control structures, that sort of thing.

I can see an argument that Rust could also help prevent those as it is a higher-level language and has a few language features to prevent some of the logic problems, but not that many?
I feel like this conversation has gone entirely sideways based on someones' random unrelated anecdote.

What does this have to do with the police showing up when you call 911 instead of a few social workers (who can't actually commit anyone)?

This program is far far more likely to deal with homeless people than people with insurance that can cover multiple days in a facility.
So is this functionality just "gone"? I remember one of the original reasons for this functionality was to know if you were on an ISP that performed any kind of DNS hijacking (I don't fully understand the why of it, but that's separate), and I'm curious if that's still available and if so, where are those queries actually going now?
I TAed the class for a while in undergrad and it was one of the few CS classes with a textbook that really actually helped and augmented the lectures/homework.

The one we used was Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser (not hard to find a pdf online).
this sounds like the start of a dystopian book :(
Robert Jastrow wrote a book titled "How to Make Nuclear Weapons Obsolete" and quite a bit of that happened with the application of cybernetics and advanced technology to war.

For instance there was the old doctrine of holding back a Russian invasion of Europe with small yield tactical neutron bombs. Then weapons like this were invented:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-97_Sensor_Fuzed_Weapon

A stick of those dropped from a B-52 will do more damage to a tank division than a single 1kt warhead. Similar sorts of devices were demoed but not fielded for use on land (think of a vehicle that can fire and control hundreds of anti-tank missiles from concealment with no detectable radio signature made from off-the-shelf parts)

Progress on lasers has been steady like progress in semiconductors, sometimes I am shocked at how easy it is to buy a dangerous laser. There have been very good laser weapon demos since the 1990s the main practical problem has been moving away from dangerous chemistry to fiber laser modules that can be integrated with the rest of the weapon and duplicated to increase output. These are being fielded now against drones.

There are handheld anti-personnel lasers that will heat the outermost 1 mm of your clothes to 20,000 K which has an effect like a flash bang and also makes an electromagnetic pulse that directly stimulates pain sensations: it can knock you down (e.g. with the impact of expanding plasma) and discombobulate you pretty bad without causing much tissue damage.

Word of it got out and the fear that people would use it as a torture device shut it down.

If SDI failed at anything it was replacing the Space Shuttle.
Yep, I have to agree. I started using a mac about 11-12 years ago. Homebrew was new. At the time MacPorts was the "defacto" package manager and Homebrew was the "new kid on the block" or "experimental" one.

I started with Macports and it never did what I wanted it to. Packages were broken and it required me to do a lot of stuff that I didn't understand. A friend told me that he had recently done all the same installs on Homebrew and it was easy. So I gave Homebrew a try and the exact same packages installed easily and quickly. Homebrew has only gotten easier to use since then.

Maybe I am just not doing anything complicated enough with Homebrew to run into the issues other people have had, but my experience with Homebrew has been a breeze. I really don't have any complaints. I'd maybe prefer if packages were Python instead of Ruby, but at the end of the day that really doesn't matter.
Idk, I think it’d be fun to know who my ancestors were. Not for any kind of ancestral pride that you talk about but just because it’s neat. If you don’t get it you don’t get it, that’s fine. There’s lots of other things that people find interesting or meaningful that I don’t and same the other way around. It’s like that for everyone.
I think too many people don't understand that the $VGAC shareholders only get 11 % of 23andMe. At 19 USD that's a valuation of nearly 8 billion and completely overvalued - I wrote a blog post about this: https://blog.m5e.de/post/on-the-23andme-and-vgac-merger/
I'd say I always found it strange how Ahmadis are universally persecuted in Pak, but a dozen way more funnier sects thrive. You constantly see some weird pirs, and "faith healers" on TV in Pakistan.
Parler was not used by the rioters. Nobody who was arrested planned anything on Parler, but they did use Facebook and Twitter.
How I read my Facebook messages over the years
I have a Facebook account but I don't want to install the Facebook or Messenger app.
This is how I read my messages over the years:

1. First I read them on m.facebook.com.

2. Then, some years ago they disabled access to messages on m.facebook.com, so I started reading them on mbasic.facebook.com.

3. After some time, loading the inbox now takes 5 seconds where it used to be instant.

4. Recently access to messages was disabled on mbasic.facebook.com as well, so then I could only read them anymore on facebook.com on desktop.

5. Just this week, I posted something on Marketplace, and I noticed that messages that originate from the Marketplace do not show up.

So the only way that I could read these messages was to install Messenger on my phone, and disable AdGuared becuase otherwise I could not login.
(It's uninstalled again)
You left out the entire generation of developers who are totally disconnected from how systems work and think that "it runs on my machine" should be good enough.

Brew has lowered the bar enough that lots of folks simply don't have a clue how to deploy anything and worse, don't have a clue how to troubleshoot when something goes wrong in production.

Obviously it's a double-edged sword. It's good to not waste time configuring your workstation, but ultimately I'd argue in brew's case too good to be true.
Thanks for dropping by Troy! Like you mentioned, we are very focused on the in-app piece as being the gateway to other features (notification preference, asking for permission to push). We believe that our customers shouldn't have to think about channels and how to orchestrate the notification flow. That's something MagicBell should figure out for them.

I am super impressed by your execution and hope to catch up in person once this pandemic is over. It is indeed great to see good solution in this space :)
I really hate the way all SAAS Platform developers are all staring at each others graphics thinking foolishly that their customers prefer they look the same. They have this really corny unoriginal cartoony look. Apparently they never stopped to consider that everyone still uses Craigslist #1 even though it looks like it was coded in Visual Basic
Once the SPAC has identified a company to buy, investors in the SPAC get a choice to either stay invested or get their money back with interest. So it's only a blank check initially, but not once it matters.
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-08/spac-m...
I noticed several fingerprints without JS in my account when I browsed the results. I suppose some of the fingerprinting works, but even after waiting a minute my screen didn't work with the JS version.
Thanks again. If the pubs were open (we're locked down and drinking alone in our homes/park benches etc atm), I'd happily buy you a few ales - but probably bore you with my conversation. Cheers :-)
> As my daughter once mentioned to me, Jeff Bezos wakes up every morning and decides not to end world hunger.

World hunger is a distribution problem related to the shape of the global politico-economic system, and the politico-economic systems in the places experiencing the most serious hunger; the problems in the latter are the main short-term problem, but they are anchored by the problems in the former which tend to make solutions both difficult and temporary.

Jeff Bezos is rich, but not “overthrow the international politico-econonic regime and institute a just world which would solve the problems creating hunger durably through simple amplication of wealth” rich.
Yea, I think it’s a consistent view to think that dealing with people is hard, and knowing that one would also find it hard, or even harder, to deal with oneself as colleague or employee
DeepSource (YC W20) Is Hiring a Head of Marketing
My understanding was that SPAC shares came with a warrant that could be exercised for shares in the acquisition target, rather than transmuted directly into shares. After the management fee, market premium and exercise cost are you really coming out ahead? Am I misunderstanding the mechanics?
Cool, I'll try it out. What's the business model? Sell premium snippets?

"Looks like you're trying to do an intro... and yours kinda sucks. We have a proven intro, click here to upgrade!"
Whether hypersonic weapons are evolutionary or revolutionary isn't presently knowable or based on any meaningful measurement. Cleverly written guesswork.
Terrafugia Transition flying car cleared for takeoff
Anybody looking for the actual source code, it’s here:

https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren
Very much this.

Not to mention, "sorry, <XYZ> Health Insurance won't cover you because you show a slight genetic predisposition toward fingernail cancer. Good luck."
Well I'm glad we're in agreement there's no objective measure of value of these workers.

> if those types of workers vanished, Amazon would not have any value.

I disagree, in a world with only higher wage workers, a business like Amazon's would be even more important since they have such a focus on automation. Look at what happened during COVID. A lot of low wage work was shut down and who took their place in the economy? A few large companies.
I'm sure they fall into the same trap that college == success.

The trades are excellent careers. The issue is see with those careers is that people in the trades don't look ahead. No one wants to haul roofing shingles at 45 or crawling under houses at 50. A master of their trade commands a high hourly rate and should be looking at teaching opportunities, running their own shop opportunities, safety opportunities, or general project overview.
Check out akismet, it works for wordpress and is likely all you need to divide spam from ham during moderation.
seriously, this is a common problem online for some reason.

Why do so many people try to act as if implication isn't a thing in online interactions?
The answer matters to people who write games in C++, or anything in C++. They want to know that Rust can handle/be productive in various domains.
They managed to get TikTok out of the country. IMO, China has just as much influence in India as the US, if not more. They recently banned Internet access in several parts of Delhi ( the capital ) as well, during the farmer protests on Republic day. This did not even make the news. I know because I live here.

Moreover, the bulk of the population won't really be affected by a Twitter ban - they aren't on it, and make most of the voter pool.
The Second Coming of Star Wars
Yep, especially the Nasdaq CEO's suggestion to halt trading so the big players can "recalibrate their positions" (groan):

https://investorsnews.net/2021/01/27/nasdaq-ceo-suggests-hal...
Yeah, my takeaway from his telling of the story was that he is someone I would give a Strong No to, and not because of anything related to his CS ability. The fact that he wrote that after an unsuccessful short tenure at Apple where he ran into the exact same problems as he would have at Google yet still thinks Google should have hired him just reinforces that.
Show HN: Kubernetes CKS certification practice scenarios
Tape libraries often have multiple drives and it's possible to write parallel to them.
Yes, in the US at least, wikimedia has been very effective. That doesn't seem like "most markets" to me. In fact, not so much the rest of the world at all, and even in the US, now does not seem like the time to stop and let that decline.
Apple and Google put themselves in a position where they became a part of the problem. If they ran open platforms where they don't have to power to ban apps this would never have happened.
Apple disputed an order in court and won lawfully? Seems consistent.
My knowledge is many years out of date, so I might be wrong.
Let me show you a few more GreatFire Analyzer results:

CNN: https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.cnn.com

Die Zeit: https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.zeit.de

Le Figaro: https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.lefigaro.fr

All currently accessible.

So I think you are being overconfident in your assessment of the situation for foreign media outlets in China. Some are blocked, some are not.

I also disagree with your suggestion that Chinese media shouldn't expect the same freedoms as everyone else just because China doesn't guarantee freedom of the press. There's no reason to copy them in that regard.
Why? Earlier investors always get better prices before opening to the public, in exchange for helping the company go public.
I've flagged your post for being unnecessarily hostile while also being ignorant of the type of features that 23andMe has. Maybe you're thinking of ancestry.com?
does this patch existing class instances, if you modify a method for example?

I cobbled together something similar a few years back using the reload stuff from ipython and a script I think GuidoVR wrote that I stumbled on. I like to debug on the cli (pdb++), I made it autodetect changed modules and reload those whenever i entered the 'reload' command. For me having to decorate things first would be a no-no.

My helper worked really nicely for some projects but broke with others. Well done on getting something out there.
I agree that the cargo cult is real and abuse of the "SPA" paradigm has never been higher! But that is orthogonal to the tool.

React does make front-end web dev not suck. It may not always be the right tool for end-users, but as a developer? C'mon. It's never been so ergonomic (and plain simple) to build a complex UI.

I googled stimulusjs[0] and you know what? From a development perspective it looks like it sucks compared to React. I'd rather just write vanilla JS than that hot garbage. Is the bundle smaller? Didn't bother to look, probably. Is it faster? Didn't bother to look, hopefully.

I get it! "Our job is to deliver value to the customer blah blah...". Engineering has costs as well. From training to velocity to, yeah I'll say it, developer happiness, you can't just ignore these costs. Working in a shitty, homegrown codebase using these niche libraries is a recipe for turnover.

On the other hand, if you are just whipping a some simple pages here and there that probably don't need to be looked at ever again... go for it! Your future self will cringe a little bit when you open up the source to change something simple years down the line (I know I have!), but at least those interactions are fleeting.

[0] I apologize for my crassness if you are somehow involved in the project.
What would they have done differently if they hadn’t forgotten about the design segment?
Some video production companies use tape for archiving. If internet speed isn't fast, it can be the only realistic and cost effective option.
You should be ashamed of the embarrassingly disingenuous characterization of the court packing proposal. “Court packing” refers to expanding the court to allow a president from one party to appoint new justices to change the ideological makeup of the court. You know this because the very phrase “court packing” originated in a proposal to do just that: https://www.history.com/news/franklin-roosevelt-tried-packin...

It absolutely would destroy the rule of law. The Senate Judiciary Committee, controlled by FDR’s own party, had this to say: https://constitutioncenter.orgblog/how-fdr-lost-his-brief-wa...

> By June 1937, the Judiciary Committee had sent a report with a negative recommendation to the full Senate. “The bill is an invasion of judicial power such as has never before been attempted in this country. . . . It is essential to the continuance of our constitutional democracy that the judiciary be completely independent of both the executive and legislative branches of the government,” the report read.

> Its conclusion was even more direct: “It is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.”

Even the mere threat of court packing effectively gutted separation of powers and federalism. Today, a federal government of “enumerated powers” is a dead letter, all thanks to FDR.
> last mile consumer experience is awful

Interesting perspective. When we used labs similar to LabCorp in the past, the last mile was our physician (who we like!). I'm curious what part of the last mile is negative with traditional labs?

> if you own the customer relationship

I'm not sure any testing provider is ever going to be in a position to own the customer relationship. The physician and healthcare team will by definition always be closer to the customer.

Also I should have noted above: I don't have to worry about Lab Corp or my doctor selling my health information due to HIPAA compliance. That may be generational; perhaps younger generations will not care about this aspect of privacy.
I can't speak for others, but what I was defending is the right of a private entity to determine who can and cannot be on their platform [0]. You can admonish them for it, boycott them for it, or even hate them for it, that's your right.

I'm against this whole concept of people feeling entitled to access to a platform just because that platform is big and popular. If you have a problem with what they are doing then stop using them and stop promoting them. They have power because they are popular, so take that power by making them unpopular. If you are unwilling to take even these small steps then clearly you don't even care that much about the issue, so why should anyone else?

And I also personally reject the idea that these places [1] should be 100% uncensored. I've seen what the uncensored places look like and extremely few people really want that. There is a reason those places are not popular. I will not accept any argument predicated on the idea that all censorship is bad, which is pretty much entirely the argument against Trump deplatforming.

[0] Only because they are not a monopoly, no matter what people claim. The fact that there are so many big players in internet communication is testament to that.

[1] That is, communication channels not owned by the government. The government has to respect the 1st amendment, no one else is beholden to it.
Thanks for catching that typo. Pushing up a fix now.

We see traction with early and later-stage companies, but the bigger orgs take their time to launch since they usually need buy-ins from at least a few people - developers, designers, and product managers. We got some interest from big enterprises, but I need to get better at working with them over the long-drawn process!
How will you measure infection fatality after the pandemic is over? You will still need to know the number of infected (including the asymptomatic) before you can arrive at a meaningful number. Or do you mean that infection fatality can be calculated once you assume that 100% of the population has been exposed to the virus? IFR would still be based on assumptions, I think.
I've been hearing about this game for a while now, I'm very glad it's making progress. I'm going to start following the blog as I'd like to try it out myself. I'm also glad that it's written in Rust, as I would very much like Rust to succeed as a high performance programming language :)
Because they are focusing on games.
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I’m asking because I’m doing some career development work and I’m trying to find problem spaces that I truly find interesting. So every problem sent my way is truly helpful right now as it’s exposing me to a wider range of problems than I would just think of myself. And the more exposure I get, the better. So don’t hold back. Be creative! Try to stump me! I’d really appreciate it.

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I emailed the authors a while back when I found out about the second edition, asking about the differences. They stated that the hardware platform and software stack specifications are unchanged.
Launching OSV – Better vulnerability triage for open source
A former IBMer told me a story about working at some large US government tape library with a tape robot that was essentially a powerful industrial 6-axis arm with sensors on top of treads. It did a good job shuffling tapes until someone accidentally messed up one of it's guides, after which said robot proceeded to crash through a brick wall.
Just like how everyone assumed that Virgin Acquisition was going to buy Virgin Orbital (both owned by Branson)...but instead will acquire 23andme instead?

As it turns out, you really can't connect the dots between SPAC owners and the company the SPAC will acquire.
Currently it requires X11 server running, please see https://github.com/McCLIM/McCLIM/wiki/Backends; as of fontconfig, since the next release we are going to use cl-dejavu to not depend on hardcoded paths. Before that you should put dejavu ttf files in C:/Windows/Fonts.
It would be affordable if you are using it for your job and actually getting paid.

Also - nobody is saying there won’t be a consumer device.

Only that they don’t have to start there to be successful.
Remember 3D holographic data cubes? I was promised, in the mid-1990s, that we'd have them by 2000 and that they would have "up to" 100 times the storage capacity of a DVD.
Isn't it coming back from midnight Friday - https://thewire.in/rights/jammu-kashmir-internet-4g