skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That implies that money isn't really the way into politics, not that politicians are easy to buy.

I don't think they are so hard to buy, but the currency you need isn't $. It's votes. $ are only useful in so far as they are means of getting votes. The $ you give them doesn't go into their pockets, or at least not in places discovering a bribe means someone ends up in jail. So what it is used for? The only use I can see is to earn more votes, by advertising, databases of voters, party machines and the like.

Votes can be delivered in other ways. The media can choose to spin it's stories one way or the other, which gives them an inordinate amount of leverage. In a state that employs a lot of people in coal mining, an employer intimating "if you vote for X, you get to keep your job" can have much more sway that a measly $43k.

Google's problem is they are a capital intensive, high wage, and consequently employ bugger all people for each $ they turn over compared to low wage enterprises that employ a lot of minimum wage people. Also they don't editorialise, and they don't advertise, and they are geographically dispersed. If a coal mining corporation swings the votes of 1,000 employees they could change the outcome of an election, but Google, despite employing vastly more than 1,000 can't do that. That leaves two options - lobbying and $ donations, which as you observe aren't that effective.

What has just transpired in Australia is an excellent example of what happens when Google does find the will to flex some real political muscle. I wrote about it here [0], but put briefly the newspapers decided to use their waning political muscle to get the Australian politicians to force Google hand over money from the ad revenue they generate from search. The pretext was very weak, so weak they could not define the sorts of activities the newspapers must be paid for so the proposed legislation literally named Google and Facebook, and demand they hand over $ to the newspapers. Capitalist cronyism at it's best.

I guess the newspapers thought they could deliver votes and Google couldn't. The politicians definitely thought so, as they floated a draft bill and it was at it's second reading. But it crossed some line for Google, the line that normally stops them from editorialising on their digital properties. They publicly threatened to shut down search in Australia and ensured it was broadcasted on every news channel in Australia, they put a 1/2 page banner on they search page (something most Australians see at least once a day) saying the same thing. Australian's read the sub-text: all your gmail.com accounts and emails, all your Google contacts, all your Android photos and a whole lot else besides is under threat.

Or at least that's my reading of what happened. In any case last Friday which was only a few days after that, the Prime Minister announced Google was being much more reasonable. As far as I could tell, Google's position hadn't changed at all from 6 months ago and they hadn't donated a single extra $, but they had just demonstrated they could shift a lot of votes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26043954
The reason for that fine print is:

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_...
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How about the boot sole hardening and then splitting, exposing the bottom of the foot with each step? I had that happen to a ski boot once.
Yeah, definitely. It's a phenomenal virtuous cycle for AWS.

I think that honestly, the biggest sell for a lot of newcomers is gonna be "you don't need to know AWS!" -- in my (very limited!) experience, if you want to do X with AWS, you're gonna need to learn how to do W, Y, Z, and maybe A and B with AWS too.
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mau usually means logs in once during the month, if you have 20% mau that's 25k registered users. $250 / mo to manage a site with 25k users doesn't seem that bad.
Makes me wonder if there was a lot of thought given to ethics when planning this study.

If we've learned anything, we should know that people will be terrible enough to want to "cure" homosexuality or detect it before birth, like trisomy 21, if it ever will become possible - and research like this will lead to that.
It's shiny and new, but the privacy policy stinks. It reminds me of Google's shady practices.

"8. Disclosure of Data

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide:

...

Other cases. We may disclose your information also:

to our subsidiaries and affiliates;
to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business;
for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information;"

--https://clerk.dev/privacy

Who are these "subsidiaries" or "affiliate" companies? Data brokers?

From a company perspective it might be worth it to shave the 2-3 months to develop and perfect your own system. But from a user perspective, you are selling them out. Most people may not notice, but do you really want to risk the legal exposure or PR nightmare if their affiliate companies abuse this user data, or perhaps a subsidiary company leaves the data unencrypted in some db instance.
What's your job?
From the article, not relying on any other unnamed sources which can't be vetted:

> Later that night, at 3:26 a.m., the company sent an automated email demanding Alex take "immediate action," requesting a payment of more than $170,000 in just a few days.

They did not say, "one leg of your trade is now $170k in the red". After all, apparently that leg was $700k in the red. No, according to the article (which may be misleading, but I'm just trying to tl;dr it not run an independent investigation), Robinhood claimed that the customer needed to send them $170k immediately with unspecified consequences for failing to do so. If the debt could in fact be covered by other positions in the account (which is what the article says the customer's lawyers say), then Robinhood's claim is a lie. The customer did not need to transfer $170k into the account, there were other actions he could take.

You say he should have known that he had other avenues. Indeed, I acknowledge that explicitly in my original comment when I point out that the customer knew that what Robinhood had told him could not be true. But because of the knowledge imbalance he apparently came to doubt his own knowledge and believe the lie. That is why such a lie is particularly heinous, just as on the other case I mentioned.
It's also not clear that it hurt. He could've collapsed standing at a kitchen counter that same day if he hadn't gone on the same walk. It's all speculation.
There are two very similar galaxies here.
I've heard of a gravity lens making a star look like it's two.
Is it possible a gravity lens is making a galaxy look like two?

https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=211.0715&dec=81.6327&lay...
Recalls uselessaccount.com

https://web.archive.org/web/*/uselessaccount.com

Which has apparently been hijacked by something blog-like.
I don't get it, mate. Email is like the easiest. Get Fastmail, pre-pay for three years, go into settings, use import from Google, bam, Calendars, contacts, email is all sucked in from Google and also email and calendar sync configured.
Maybe they need to rewrite them in rust?
Thanks for the input. For me a bare-bones blog needs to support simple-to-use images, that is auto-resizing images with link to full etc without a ton of hoopla, syntax highlighter for code and some tex-ish thing for math.

From what I can see Hugo does seem to have a lot of that these days, so I'll try that.

One immediate issue is the highlighter not supporting my language at work (Delphi/Pascal) but I assume it being Pygments-compatible means I should be able to add that without much fuss.
Nope, satellites on orbit have thermal protection from the sun's radiation. It's also harder to dump excessive temperature without matter around. IIRC space suits expel some finite amount of gas to get rid of extra heat.
Again, I'm not trying to attack you, but you're going to learn one day that the public is tired of constant character attacks. It looks to me like you're going to learn the hard way, when nobody pays any mind to a word you have to say one day.

Side note, that link you linked to is not "holocaust denial", and I'll prove it, I'll quote it directly for you: "Noam Chomsky famously defended a French professor against attempts to have him fired because he questioned Holocaust orthodoxies. People understand Chomsky found the ideas repulsive but academic freedom sacred. That's the noble leftist tradition I support." I don't know how you can interpret that the way you framed it when you linked to it, but I'm beginning to doubt that even you genuinely believe the arguments you're making.
> I mean, sure, it was fine when they were cancelling Bari Weiss, because he was on board with that

He literally calls out Kyle Chayka for trying to shame Substack for hosting Weiss in this very article. Greenwald was no fan of Weiss but I've seen no evidence that he was in favour of her cancelling.
Lol, 2017 : "initial" run ? More like 4th or 5th run... (I've lost count.)

And yes, "overthrowing the system" was indeed heavily discussed all the previous times, here's one example :
https://m.slashdot.org/story/144938
Also remember how the creation of bitcoin was spurred by the 2008 financial crisis?
Maybe introduce a Moderator role to the multi-user projects?

That would require the project's moderator to clear the newly posted issues (whatever is possibly a spamming route there) before they propagate. As this is an additional friction point, some bad actors may be intercepted there (say, trying to clear a million issues at once or other equally ridiculous actions).

Of course, by itself it won't stop someone from clearing a single issue to a million of "users". But may still help in id'ing such actors.
You could set up an integration to automatically reject a branch called 'draft', if you really cared to.

Edit: this is easy, in fact: you make a copy of your 'publish' branch on the publishing site, call it 'draft', and then protect it.
Do you mind plugging them? Great idea, by the way!
its like trying to get into the roxbury.
I'm not trolling. I'm genuinely curious. I've always thought of languages just as tools and have never been fanatic about a particular one. I personally like C and Java but have no problem using other languages if they are the best for the job.

I'm really curious to know what makes rust so special? Mind you that I know nothing about it.
I think I've read about Josephson junction superconducting transistors in the mid-80's. And it wasn't in a cutting edge journal.
Seems to me that the real issue is lack of security, not the fact this system exists at all. Eg Every cell tower has remote access protocol and we rarely hear about those being hacked.
This link works for me (EU): https://www.tampabay.com/news/pinellas/2021/02/08/someone-tr...
Anyone is free to submit a paper to ISO and ECMA, provided they are willing to champion it.
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I've very clearly made a distinction between the two scenarios, but if you need me to draw it for you in crayons, it is a "no".
>I would argue that it ought to be criminal negligence

I would like a thorough analysis of everything you've ever learned that led you to this conclusion, and if we find one mistake in your lifetime of learning then this is also criminal negligence on your part.
In the US calling someone a retard is considered very tame compared to calling them a nigger or spic, etc.

Yes, calling someone a retard isn't polite, but it's nowhere near the level of offense of the other words.

Not all insults are created equal and that was the point the other poster was making. Putting it in the same category as the other words is a bit much.

It's like comparing Harvey Weinstein with that drunk asshole who slapped the waitress on the ass. Neither are good, but they also don't deserve to be described as equivalent.
How am I stubborn. I'm literally asking you to show me evidence. I am allowing you to present your perspective with evidence.
Why would 11,100 be recognized as a valid value to begin with?
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> Do it if $5 is pocket money for you. If not for this then for something else he have done.

But what if in a few years Greenwald falls (further) from grace and you find yourself in hot water for having financed him? Better use a prepaid card.
Hosting Gitlab hasn’t been a huge time sink for me and I’m a one-person show who is conscious about my time. I set up automatic updates and haven’t SSH’d into that machine in about a year.
https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

(I discuss it on my https://www.gwern.net/Search tutorial and use it every once in while eg to make my mirror of 'Climb Mount Improbable' https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/selection/www.mountimpro... or 'Hard Truths From Soft Cats' https://www.gwern.net/images/hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.c... )
I don't really agree with this. I think the internet is just starting to look more and more like real life.

My grandmother, born in a house without electricity, is on Twitter. My aunts and uncles, who would previously have watched argumentative current affairs panel shows on TV (which were never pleasant or even-handed, even decades ago), can now join in the brawl in the comments sections online.

The young people argument is a bit too loose for my liking too. Are you talking about teenagers or people in their thirties? I'd also directly challenge you on the assertion that young people have more free time and are more obnoxious than older people. I'm not sure that stands up to scrutiny.
There's nothing at all in the old DOJ settlement that imposes anything like this.
I remember research on asynchronous (or clockless) CPUs. Philips had an asynchronous ARM demonstrator.

Where did that go?
Basically all of them these days.

Somewhere someone convinced us all that "Authentication/Authorization" are hard problems that we should leave to third parties.
I feel like rust has some good sweet spots right now. I care about these but maybe not everyone else does.

- Parsing untrusted inputs. nom[1] is a joy to use, and lets you kind of effortlessly and fearlessly process random input from wherever and turn it into useful data structures. If your data is very regular or in a standard format, then serde[3] is very hard to beat if it just boils down to 'derive(Deserialize, Serialize)' on your Rust struct.

- Bulk data processing. rayon[2] makes pegging your machine easy if you have a lot of work do to, and the Rust semantics around thread safety, data ownership, and explicit copying make it kind of trivial to reason about how your data gets from input to output and tuning it to be crazy fast.

- Generic systems language. Maybe this one is personal, but I find it's more productive to write generic cli applications and whatnot in Rust over C, ruby, or python. There are some nice libs to make part of this pleasant (structopt[4]) but this really boils down to reliability. Because Rust makes it obvious where things can fail so I can deal with it I have way higher 'just works' outcomes in Rust than other languages. I might spend slightly more time making it compile, but I spend basically zero time debugging runtime failures and this is kind of indescribably amazing.

[1] https://docs.rs/nom/6.1.0/nom/index.html

[2] https://docs.rs/rayon/1.5.0/rayon/

[3] https://serde.rs/

[4] https://docs.rs/structopt/0.3.21/structopt/
How can a question be wrong?
It depends on how you look at it, we could very well be alone right now. Humanity is fairly recent and modern human history fairly short. There could have been dozen of other advanced civilizations on other planets just 1 million years ago and we most likely will never know about them. Or dozen advanced civilizations in 1 million years in the future long after we have collapsed. When you add time to the equation everything is possible, a few million years is a lot for us but nothing for the universe
The same goes for a cause we'd consider purely environmental, such as an illness caused by an infection. There will still be lots of associated genes with small effect determining how resilient a person is to the infection. Twins share environmental causes from early stages of development (like an infection during pregnancy) so that angle gets potentially confounded too.
CommonMark solves that problem! It's a precise standard for Markdown that multiple implementations are converging on (Pandoc, etc.)

CommonMark is a Useful, High-Quality Project http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/02/14.html

At the bottom of this article I note one incompatibility I encountered with the reference CommonMark vs. markdown.pl. But I just fixed those and have been using it for 3 years, and it's been great.

----

The key point is to have a diversity of implementations, so you don't get locked into one, which may go away in 10-20 years. In 10-20 years, I'm very confident that there will be CommonMark renderers available.

(Even apart from the fact that the reference cmark implementation I use is extremely compact C with no dependencies. C will outlive Perl -- the Lindy effect at work! http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/philosophy-design.html#... )
We don't need monocultures.
Yeah I think the whole “need to reboot to get to a clean state” is maybe a bug not a feature.

It is certainly possible to build systems that can run for years or decades.

I’m guessing that persistent memory will require us to think about changes to state in memory are more like ACID in databases. We should think about rollback instead of reboot.
I don't think people do see it as a store of value though - they see it as an appreciating asset, as proven by the linked article and Elon investing to "maximize returns on [Tesla] cash". And very few people are using it for spending.

So what does that mean?

Rising prices -> More new investors buying into the currency -> further rising prices -> more new investors buying into the currency.

What happens when the price eventually plateau's and stabilises? Well we know that particularly Bitcoin isn't a good currency to actually use in daily transactions, so people are going to want to take their Bitcoin winnings and do something with them.

So they withdraw -> prices drop a bit -> people withdraw more -> prices drop a lot.

It's bounced back before, but eventually the bounce back won't happen. There can only be so much new money pumped into the bottom to the people in the top - it's all a zero sum game, and the rich people at the start were just paid by people who joined later. As all pyramid schemes say, 'if you start now you won't be at the bottom of the pyramid!'.
While these reporters no doubt identify with the left, and I certainly don't, this "I can't handle people talking about things in places where I can't hear and record them" attitude is one of the least progressive mainstream ideas in recent memory and is not something I associate with progressives at all. Feels a lot more like small-mindedness.
Vsauce just released a video about it https://youtu.be/zHL9GP_B30E
that's not true. trolling does not get upvoted here. HN users are usually above the mob mentality. You're just defining it as trolling because you disagree with the upvotes. You are enforcing your own personal opinion here.
Wait until you hear how long it would take at a rate of 2 lines per hour, as long as we're just throwing out random numbers.
No that's fine, I think we're actually in agreement. I want also want the two disassociated! It just seems like whenever deplatforming comes up like this people's gut reaction is to say that its bad in absolute terms and that getting rid of the very worst who do real harm is the same as silencing political views you don't like. I absolutely do not want to give off the impression that I approve of the WSB scaremongering. They're a vulgar bunch but it's all in good fun and self deprecation.
Love that it was a “hacker” rather than a bored teenager or some casual idiot, or even a disgruntled former or current employee. Invoking the hacker term I guess is supposed to make it absolve gross negligence in even the most basic security practices. It makes me sad to think this spin actually works.
Most of these benchmarks are insanely optimized. The code is rarely idiomatic. There's also a few frameworks in there that just wraps C libraries to get good scores.

I wouldn't use TechEmpower as a reliable source for checking framework performance.
A currency that fluctuates in value by 4x in a single year doesn't seem like a great store of value.
Not OP, but:

- Presumably, engineers building customer-facing applications

- Google G Suite can be a fine SSO solution for internal apps, but isn't the thing you're going to use for your customers

- I'm not sure how to answer this one. Surely it's quite obvious how a beautiful user experience is valuable? Your customers aren't comparing your experience against your competitors, they're comparing you to the best experience they have seen to date in any space. Companies who don't invest in their experience (and by extension, their visual design) will fall behind.

- At a surface level this may appear true, but in practice people often significantly underestimate the time involved in building a high quality and secure authentication system. If all you do is throw an email address and password in a table, then sure. But you're going to have sign up, log in, forgot password workflows (and emails) at the very least. Then, if you're actually trying to protect something, you're going to have password complexity requirements, brute force protection, 2FA (authenticator, sms, etc), security notifications, browser fingerprinting, etc - to name a few.

I'm still not sure how I feel on the outsourced authentication concept, but certainly not because building your own auth is free or cheap. Just because it's such a critical part of data that it might be worth eating the cost for (but I'm not sold necessarily).
From TFA, the problem was not the $700k margin call, it was the lie that a $170k transfer was needed to make the account whole. You're conflating two different issues here.
Sure, because “do passwordless emails” is just a snap of the finger away, right?

The point is that doing auth properly is hard. Sending an email might be easy, but creating and managing the session in a secure fashion is hard, even if you’re “just doing passwordless email auth”.
Definitely flaking out. I had the tab open on a monitor, it said I got disconnected then I got booted to the end of the queue.
Correct. sin and cos was merely an example.

Every real AD system has a primative for sin and cos.
but they do not have every single operation you might ever implement (else what would be the point),
and it is unlikely they will have every operation that involves any approximation.
(Though there is a good chance the might have every named scalar operation involving an approximation that you do, depends how fancy you are.)

I mean I maintain a library of hundreds of custom primatives.
(one of the uses of this post was so i can point to it in response to people saying "why do you need all those primatives if AD can just decompose everything into + and *)
I'm having the same thought as OP today after reading about Andrew Spinks from Terraria. The main point to me isn't that I expect Google to ban my accounts and get me wrongly caught up in their support web (although I have generally low trust in them as a company, not as low as many people here), it's that if that were to happen, my life would be irrevocably boned. I mean I've had my gmail addresses since 7th Grade. Literally EVERYTHING I have is tied to them.

To me, paying a small yearly fee for email where I can actually talk to human support is like buying Fire Insurance. On the one hand maybe my house never burns down and I'm just throwing money away, on the other hand if something bad ever does happen, thank God I did it.