skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're Building a Calendar for Work
Since when is UNC-CH not a great university?
Yeah, I never understood this either. If electrical lines, or phone lines offering dial-ups can be laid down, and the major cost is digging, then why can ADSL or Fiber be laid down too?
One thing I saw at a company I worked for, although it's tangential to technical concerns and more of an anecdote, were political ones.

A small team of sysadmins was maintaining a set of very large queries that had grown organically over time, to the point that some of those queries where 20,000 lines.

As you know, database queries don't scale as gracefully as code in size, because there's no modules, namespaces, classes, and so on. It's easier to distribute different parts of an application to different people/teams than it is to distributes parts of a database query.

Only those sysadmins knew the queries ins and outs and could evolve those queries to the ever-changing business needs. They had an internal monopoly, which gave them a lot of political power over the organization and became a problem over time.
This, along with what others ITT said, makes me think that the document in question is fictional. Flagged the OP post accordingly. Need proof that this is in any way connected to KGB at all.
I think the Steve Jobs presentations are great, but it's hard to really apply learnings from them because he had such a cult of personality along with the Apple brand itself. If you're just presenting some analysis results to a director and a few people, yes, Steve-Jobbs-ing the presentation is going to look like cargo-culting even if you manage to pull it off technically.

For those of us that do pedestrian presentations (ones that DON'T need a "producer"), I think its helpful to watch and analyze presentations from peers who are well-practiced, as well as watching those who flopped.

I like to watch AWS re:Invent and the chaos computer camp presentations because there are a lot of them, with wildly varying levels of presentation skills. It's easy to see what works and what doesn't work and that's helpful.
I think once they got to the point of forming an actual union (which, at Google, has a historical risk to job security) the "slactivism" potshots became inarguably unwarranted.
If you argue against censoring Republicans on HN, you'll get downvoted.

We should oppose censorship of any form. We have a legal framework to deal with terroristic threats, child porn, and libel / slander.

This year has shown the incredible power FAAMG yields with deplatformization, but they've been using their power to cave to authoritarian regimes and belittle minority populations for awhile. It all has to stop.

Big platforms should be common carriers. If content is illegal, tell the FBI or get your lawyer to sue for damages.

Similarly, if an American company can't operate overseas without trampling on basic rights and civil liberties, they shouldn't be doing business there.

I'm a liberal and side with Stallman and the FSF. Censorship, monopoly power, and fascism are bad. Don't defend the instances of it you like. It's all bad.
If we got to that situation, that would be the result of far greater problems than having or not having a particular app.
Afaik, Mozilla didn't release any Firefox version with their new rendering engine. They just declared it a failure without any attempt to make it run.

I know, because I've been following its news and was eager to try anything that Mozilla declared beta quality. I just am not willing to go search for a hidden code repository and compile it myself.
Homebrew was nice up until they packed it with spyware and then subsequently forced full tree clones† down the users' throats. It still might be useful for some people, but it certainly fell by the wayside. What a shame…

†) As a result, Homebrew grew literally hundreds times larger and became unbearably sluggish.

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PS: I'm wondering what drives some people to downvote this very comment… Stockholm syndrome maybe? ;P
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The community also produced Pakistan's first Nobel Laureate, and the first Muslim to receive a Nobel for science. Upon his death, the Pakistani government defaced his gravestone to remove the word "muslim".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam
I heard this on Lex Fridman's podcast a while ago. This is Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on “storytelling”:

Lex Fridman: Microsoft has 50-60 thousand engineers. What does it take to lead such a large group of brilliant people?

Kevin Scott: … (snipped)... One central idea in Yuval Harari’s book Sapiens is that “storytelling” is the quintessential thing for coordinating the activities of large groups of people once you get past Dunbar’s number. I’ve really seen that, just managing engineering teams. You can brute-force things with small teams, but past that things start to fail catastrophically if you don’t have some set of shared goals. Even though this is sort of touchy feely, and technical people balk at the idea that you need to have a clear mission, it’s very important.

Lex Fridman: Stories are sort of the fabric that connects all of us, and that works for companies too.

Kevin Scott: It works for everything. If you sort of think about it, our currency is a story. Our constitution is a story. Our laws are a story. We believe very strongly in them, and thank God we do, but they’re just abstract things, they’re just words. If we don’t believe in them, they’re nothing.

Lex Fridman: In some sense, those stories are platforms.
Jobs was a textbook narcissist. Absolutely by the numbers. But unlike most narcs he was actually good at some things, and he used those talents to create a Steve Jobs Memorial Corporation - i.e. Apple.

The narcissism was the source of his drive to be the most amazing monkey in the room. If he'd been a normal human he wouldn't had the laser-like focus on creating a narrative about being the guy who made everything he touched game-changing, immaculately crafted, and insanely great.

If you happen to be a narc you may have similar motivations. But it's unlikely you also have the talent.

Which leaves a question - is it possible to be a billionaire wo makes game-changing, beautifully crafted, insanely great tech without being a narcissist?

Arguably the 60s/70s crop of tech companies came closest. CEOs like Ken Olsen had a paternal attitude and an interest in employee welfare and development. DEC were insanely great in their own pre-Internet way, so he must have been doing something right. But there was no worldwide media attention, and the market was almost exclusively fellow grad-level professionals who were more impressed by substance and less by showmanship.

As soon as you open that up and create commodified mass-market products the level of attention goes up a few orders of magnitude, and a self-absorbed rock star attitude is more effective market fit.

Non-narcs just don't care about that kind of attention, and aren't driven by a need to create it.

Which is non-narc CEOs may be millionaire successful, but don't have the unhinged drive needed to be billionaire successful. And they won't have the kinds of followers who need the reflected glow.

And that's why the top of the tech tree is full of people who have these personality issues. They're unusually effective in some very limited areas, and a cocoon of money protects them from consequences. But they're still... limited.

A real game-changing genius would be able to negotiate the attention and rock star challenge to do everything they do without paying the price of narcissism. But those people are not just vanishingly rare in general, they're actively cancelled by current corporate culture.

And this is a bad thing, because we're going to need effective but healthy management over the next few decades. And it's hard to see where that's going to come from in this culture.
Also cricket and baseball quite frankly.
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if you wanted to psychologically manipulate westerners... you might try leaking a fake "psychological manipulation training manual" that causes them to cast doubt on ordinary everyday interactions.
In 2009 a Labor government planned an Australian "National Broadband Network" (NBN) which was to serve 93% of Australians with direct fiber connections, the remainder to be covered by Wireless and Satellite.

Unfortunately in 2013 the coalition government won power and immediately set about to destroy the NBN.

It has since has been widely reported that this was at the behest of Rupert Murdoch who saw that his Cable network would be threatened by a high-speed broadband network.

Whatever, do your own research. There have been thousands of words written on this.

Here's just one:
https://theqlder.com/2019/05/11/how-the-liberals-sabotaged-t...

And here's the very detailed Wikipedia version:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_National_Broadb...
Do we have any idea when this was written and how sure we are it is genuine and unaltered?
There are some interesting features in Disqus's "import comments" feature. Most of the fun has been closed. But yeah, for vanilla purposes the criticism is deserved.
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That's why you have to use SimCity 4 Deluxe with Network Addon Mod. It's a whole new game and it's actively developed since 2004, with developer momentum picking up.

https://www.wiki.sc4devotion.com/index.php?title=Network_Add...
Note that content in question here is, in fact, illegal in Pakistan.
Homebrew is great!

I love it.

My only complaint is that I never remember 'brew upgrade' from my 'brew update'. which is which.
Andriod is open in the sense that you can sideload apps independently of the play store, you just have to enable it.

So in such countries the movements with banned apps should post step by step guides for their followers of how they can enable sideloading and install the banned app.

On iPhone you have to root your phone for sideloading, so that is a closed system for the average user, but on Android there is an option for that, so no rooting is required:

https://www.howtogeek.com/313433/how-to-sideload-apps-on-and...
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My late father is a psychiatrist. My wife is a medical resident. What you said is fairly accurate. Both my wife and late father say if someone shows up with acute mental problem, you prescribe lithium-based meds, sleep-inducing meds and/or in extreme scenarios, shock (ECT) therapy. For mild forms, it's one-on-one therapy (most listening what the patient says). Psychiatry, as it is now, is more of an experimentation than it is a science.
Lisp - hot code reloading for Lisp

(just kidding)
Syndicated (no paywall) :

https://investingplanner.com/2021/02/cyber-chief-chris-krebs...
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That's exactly what a jail is.

Police suspects you have committed a crime, holds you in jail until trial or until you pay bail and may never end up releasing you even if you are innocent.
We definitely do not. It pretty much all gets lumped under the First Amendment: you're allowed to say any s### you want. About the only limits are inciting people to violence and libel, but both of those are held to really strong scrutiny and it's very hard to prove.

There used to be a thing called the Fairness Doctrine[1], but it disappeared a long time ago, and it was very limited. It only applied in the domain of public airwaves (the government could make your license contingent it), and it never applied at all to cable or the Internet. It's still "illegal for broadcasters to intentionally distort the news"[2], but cable news isn't broadcast.

There is an often cited case[3] that the media is legally allowed to lie. That's not what happened, but the story doesn't make the media look great. (The fact that it's a Fox affiliate is also conflated with Fox News Channel, which it isn't; the two are related but this story as generally reported is wrong.) What they did eventually say is that the editors have the right to do pretty much whatever they want, including firing journalists trying to blow the whistle.

So basically there's nothing in the US preventing outright lying. That's octuply true when it comes to something they can consider "opinion", but it's up to you to notice when something is opinion. As the judge put it recently[4]:

"Whether the Court frames Mr. Carlson's statements as 'exaggeration,' 'non-literal commentary,' or simply bloviating for his audience, the conclusion remains the same — the statements are not actionable."

Note that the only reason this came up at all is because it would be considered slander against a person. But since it's "opinion" it can't be slander. Other falsehoods just don't even get subjected to that level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

[2] https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/broadcasting-false-info...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Akre

[4] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...
All international law is effectively diplomacy (politics) that has been pre-agreed.

The current status quo (as I understand it) is that the US Gov is unlikely to allow a private company to breach international law by making unauthorised transmissions into another country. It would be a brave foreign policy decision for the US Gov to decide to permit that.

A logical response from Russia or China (or any other nation with the capability) would be to start shooting down satellites. They would have reasonable grounds to do so, and I think it very unlikely that anyone wants to start a space war.
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How do the video recordings happen? It still looks like this important feature was forgotten in Jitsi?
Ideally they'd be required to have some evidence that it's not just random data. Unfortunately, I don't think we can assume the real world is ideal.
Apple did sort of half-officially supported MacPorts, precursor of Brew.

Nowadays they don’t want to touch anything GPL so that might be it
The latest edition is being rewritten with a chapter on how to handle crank calls from victim. Being James Bond these days is fucking hard man.
So.... always send armed men to any potential encounter? Not too bright.
They're a private company guys.

I thought you were all ok with private companies doing what they want.
Some people have interests in doing such things.
Is there a way to predict which SPACs will merge with which startups?

It seems like if you had knowledge of this and you could predict a highly profitable business merging with a SPAC, you could get in at the ground floor for incredible and almost immediate share price growth.

I wouldn't invest in 23andMe, but I would invest in Stripe. Which SPAC will it merge with?
Relevant github repository:
https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

I'm very fascinated about these kinds of things, although I understand zero of it. I believe this folder has some magic:

https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/tree/master/stage0
Just did the same, and likewise here. I wonder if it's just a product of A/B testing or, more alarmingly, that person has malware injecting ads into any websites they browse which then Privacy Badger proceeds to block.
But your claim is built on certain assumptions that there is a certain path to get in based on “stats”. Sometimes you can improve your chances because there are other paths to get in. I don’t know if it’s still the case, but years back schools were clamoring to get veterans. I know some who were accepted to prestigious schools despite relatively underwhelming “stats” had they applied straight out of high school.

I’m not saying military service is for everybody, just that there are more paths than the well-worn templates most people attempt to emulate.
Yea for real. That was my exact thought too.

Make the population see conspiracies everywhere and question everything. Even if they don't do it in practice (i.e. you still go to the doctor even though on Facebook you reject all the science) it'll have a wide scale detrimental effect.

What a world
Oculus has already put in a ton of research effort into replicating facial expressions in VR. You don't need a full helmet for that, but you _do_ need at least a few cameras pointed towards your face: https://uploadvr.com/frl-multiview-face-tracking/

There's a full lecture on the subject here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpdX9jkhv2U
Or pretty much any of Enid Blyton's books. As you say, probably an exaggerated view of childhood independence in upper middle class(?) England (and certainly there are American examples as well although boarding school is a less prominent feature), but not something wildly fantastical to many readers.
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Will definitely second math articles (some, not all) having a "X is the result of X'ing" circular definition antipattern coursing through them.

But I suppose that's an epistemological question, as to whether an article is a definition or an educational method.
Totally right. Remember that capital doesn't have a nation. Companies registered in the US have to comply with US laws.

But a legal entity in Pakistan have to obide by those rules. And if it's profitable - they will.

Replace Pakistan with any other country name, the argument doesn't change. It's the law in that jurisdiction.

You can't really mix and match the legislation you like and don't like.

No idea if the particular law is just, but that's not the question. The question is - is it profitable to abide by it?
The strategies described in the CIA field sabotage manual read almost like a detailed description of the corporate culture.
Firefox Quantum did massively rework the browser engine and is presumably what the parent is talking about (multiprocess support, new CSS engine, various other bits and pieces)

I assume you mean Servo, which was a research project from the start and never intended to be a new production engine, but did produce side products like the CSS engine that are used.
>So it's up to Google and other international companies to decide which laws are diabolical, which laws are bad and which can be tolerable?

Why not? They, like anyone else traveling or doing business internationally, should decide which countries should be avoided. They can use whatever opinions or judgements they want. It is possible for a huge international corporation to have some sway on a country by not doing business there. But that's not always a bad thing. I'm more afraid of bad governments never suffering from bad decisions than this slippery slope.
Your shadowing comment depends heavily on location. In large portions (and heavily populated bits at that) of the world they'll be visible all night for 1/3 to 1/2 of the year.
Humboldt and Jefferson wrote several letters to each other.

Jefferson to Humboldt:
"...[your work on south america] comes out too at a moment when those countries are beginning to be interesting to the whole world. They are now becoming the scenes of political revolution, to take their stations as integral members, of the great family of nations. All are now in insurrection. In several the Independents are already triumphant, and they will undoubtedly be so in all. What kind of government will they establish? How much liberty can they bear without intoxication? Are their chiefs sufficiently enlightened to form a well guarded government, and their people to watch their chiefs? Have they mind enough to place their domesticated Indians on a footing with the whites?"

Complicated and interesting!
Over the past year, the graphic illustration of most peoples' blind idiocy and superstition has been a bit much to take it all at once. The best thing is that I no longer care what anybody thinks about pretty much anything. The worst thing is the inherent unchecked nature of such eccentricism.

It's why I've turned off most of the WWW now. Even an "enlightened" place like HN is mostly a bag of predictable tropes. The WWW (not the internet in general) has proven to be a trap, it's almost real enough to seem authentic. To a careful reader, there's little difference in value between the typical "top comment" and the weird rant of an off-kilter Waffle House patron. And there's no point in analyzing an endless stream of ephemeral rants from randos. That's the WWW now!

I can't wait to log back in next week and see this guy at -1.
The catch is that international law prevents satellite to satellite links to bypass any country.

To be issued frequency allocations within each country, the satellite communications must be routed via multiple ground stations within that country.
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I would be interested in evidence that "mundane" activities were directly connected with the decline of the program, but I think you're inserting modern biases of race into the public sentiment of the 70s. I don't think people looked at golf explicitly as a "rich white man's game" in a pejorative sense, nor do I think the people that would, were pulling the strings in Congress or NASA.

My understanding was one of "Okay, we beat the Soviets to the Moon, now what?"
Hackernews threads seem to be overwhelming against most censorship so you may be preaching to their choir - the silence on the censoring of some hard left groups is a little disappointing.
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Just let it go, I came across bitcoin when it was valued at 5-6 Cents, I had spare $500 and wanted to long-term invest $100 into it, I even created my cold wallet, But later it slipped off of my mind and I lost opportunity of having 1500+ BTC.

Do I regret ?, I don't know.

I just let it go.
More on Unix domain socket channels in JDK 16, by the author of the feature: https://inside.java/2021/02/03/jep380-unix-domain-sockets-ch...
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You would have to destroy every copy of the blockchain to achieve that.
thanks for this, I just replaced my mlocate. absolutely unreal. seems io_uring makes all the difference.
Any particular Chaos Computer Camp presentations you'd say are some of the best?
Or they could introduce a colonization / planet skipping progression (actually I'm pretty sure there's a mod for that already), where you can load some basic resources and your engineer into a rocket to fly off. I mean what little story the game has is that you're an engineer that crashed on a planet, it would make sense that you want to get out again.

They could add different planet types (like a water/island world, train world, restricted/small world, variants like that), or increase the difficulty and challenges as you progress to different planets. I'm pretty sure this already exists as a mod though.
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One thing I always love to do whenever this site is linked is click on the "back to top" rocket button at the bottom. Such an amazing little easter egg.
Can you point to a few examples just to make sure we are talking about the same thing? I use wikipedia for math, physics and engineering topics frequently and generally do not have too much trouble understanding it, possibly with a few cross-referenced articles.

I have seen occasional weird writing, but this is usually either some esoteric subject or just an initial writeup on a narrow topic -- that is, an inexperienced author trying to fill a void, not someone staking out territory or looking for recognition. Just my experience.