skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only an ad hominem if I say he's wrong because of who he is. This can't be an ad hominem if I don't actually address the argument he puts forward, which I did not do (for better or for worse).

The content I've added is, "This article is hard for me to read because of its tone." Agree or disagree, I found it difficult to get through, and hard to see what Glenn was trying to point out as a result of the tone he chose.

Am I not allowed to comment on an article's tone?
Some random observations...

PHP

Impressed by PHP's performance - it makes an entrance at position 20. If you exclude Javascript, the next interpreted language is Lua at position 81, then Python all the way down at 206. Ruby makes its first appearance at 255.

Julia and Nim

These are both new, modern languages that tout their performance as a benefit. It's a shame they did not take part in the benchmarks.

***

Regardless of what you think of the benchmarks, the rankings do affect people's perceptions of languages and frameworks (both positive and negative). For example, I don't use PHP, but these benchmarks tell me that PHP has leapfrogged over Python and Ruby in the performance stakes for web development. And not just by a small margin, but by a significant difference.
i thought this was about interviewing employees, not being interviewed. these posts are exactly whats wrong with how we hire engineers and why i no longer do it this way - its become like the SAT Prep industry that made the SAT meaningless.
The domain names can be reused. 3 days after the domain names are created, both the domain name and the feedback comments are hard deleted. Since it is a hard delete, there's nothing that stops the domain name from being reused again.

I thought about this a bit and I can see this being confusing and possibly dangerous though. For example if somebody shares a domain they created, and 3 days later somebody visits the domain but it's a totally different domain.

Thanks for pointing this out! I will think about some ways to solve this.
I've been thinking about this a lot. I created Ponder so that I could quickly create drafts in my browser. Then I planned to move them to my blog (Markdown on GitHub) when I'm done.

I need more than 10 drafts (the current limit in Ponder), but I feel like I'm getting close to a solution that works better for me. I also want to be able to edit across machines (Mac, Chromebook, Phone), so I need to make the app work online.

Anyway...

https://ponder.joeldare.com
> Your example of Israel is the most troubling because they have the highest proportion of vaccinations, but their statistics of cases/deaths are not falling as fast as the rest of the world

Care to cite a source? I see the Times of Israel disagrees with you.
Very succinct, I might use this quote for other discussions!
More than just that, as far as I can see, there is no reason this only applies to social species.

If it benefits the pool that x% of members have a trait, even full sterility, then the genetics will result in x% having that trait, as long as the benefit continues to exist.

I'm not sure what an example mechanism might be for some mountain cats or spiders or whatever that the species benefits from 4% of their members being sterile, but I see no reason that there couldn't be one, and it doesn't require the unfortunate exhibitors of the trait to preserve and occasionally produce the next exhibitor of the trait.
>Edit: I've been planning to subscribe for a while. I do now.

>Do it if $5 is pocket money for you. If not for this then for something else he have done.

Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten to after the mess at The Intercept.
It's great to see someone being able to dictate success on your terms and not by a career ladder imposed on by an imaginary committee.

Importantly she acknowledges that this is not all roses and fun (which makes it a proper job).

So kudos to her for taking a demotion in the minds of career ladderists but in reality this sounds like a great way to managing opportunity costs properly and having fun while getting paid.
Honest question: Is it possible to answer this without knowing how life occurs?
> It seems to seriously scare some folks that there are places where they cannot deplatform whoever they want for anything.

If it's really possible for "some folks" to deplatform "whoever they want" "for anything", why is this power not available to me or anyone I know?

I know it's glib, but... come on folks. The anti-anti-anti-cancel-culture hyperbole is officially out of control. It should be possible to have a legitimate conversation of whether or not Lorenz is correct about Andreesen, and whether or not the accusation constitutes behavior that should be condemned, without resulting to this kind of culture war screaming.

If you really want good journalism, do you really believe the stuff you quoted from Greenwald qualifies? "Stasi notebooks", really?
Regardless of substance, journalists should have enough integrity to not title an article "Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot?".

"Misinformation" is among the list of grossly overused words in online discourse. It has no meaning, other than to exist as the boogyman.

"Hot Spot". Another sensationalist phrase used to scare readers into thinking anyone that even slightly disagrees with their point is out there somewhere planning another attack.

The title also points to the continuation of painting tech as evil. As if "Private Messaging Apps" have anything to do with the primary concern, "Misinformation". It's a poorly written article with an even poorly written title. If you don't think articles like this are written specifically to inadvertently call for the censorship of more voices, it's going to be hard to find common ground.
The photo on https://news.klm.com/world-first-in-the-netherlands-by-klm-s... seems to imply it was a B737.
really sorry since this is off topic, but could not find info in your profile to send a message. could you tell me the service.
Just wonder price wise, if I signed up for the free and then switched over to paid it would be $249 for 5000 MAU.

Compared to say Auth0, which would be $114 for 5000 MAU.

The only difference is profile, and Auth0 mostly covers it by allowing you to easily store metadata.

I am not sure I understand what makes Clark worth 2x Auth0?
> ...my fellow video game enthusiasts got their panties in a bunch and started a hate machine against her...

It's really hard to resist the temptation to fight in the mud isn't it? Flippantly casting aspersions like this one is so easy.
He literally quit The Intercept because he was furious that someone tried to give him edits. He said that he founded the site with the explicit agreement that no one would be allowed to edit his words.

EDIT: Resignation letter here: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...

"The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week"

You can click through and the article in question was Greenwald attempting to give oxygen to GOP propaganda about Hunter Biden.
Journalism doesn't have to be boring.

It is not a requirement. It doesn't even always have to be unbiased. But it should stick to the facts, something he does if you can ignore the witty parts.

Besides, that decision was made after reading more of the post, not just that part.
I presume you mean there are cases where registrar's have "seized" a domain. Would be good if you had an example, because I sure can't find one.
This is the exact thing that wasn't working and which necessitated me sending various test files with particular encodings to a colleague.
Ironically, it turns out that paint drying is an incredibly complex and fascinating process. Whether it's acrylic, latex, oil or resin-based paint, there are some deep things happening in there.

I actually once got a job (partly) by discussing the chemistry of crosslinking polymerization in oil paint with my future boss.
One side of it is deplatforming, but the other side is protecting more vulnerable family and community members.

The fact is that there are pied-pipers of disinformation on these platforms leading vulnerable members of our communities down rabbit-holes to who-knows-where. Normally we would address this with in-person confrontation but I think people are struggling to find the tools to protect their friends and families.

People are being preyed upon and the victims may not be the ideal rational individuals that we aspire to.

I'm not trying to say that censorship is a good thing, just that the tools that we may have once used to protect our communities are not adapting to the new environments.
Apple's moving to the M1 chip for desktop/laptop Macs. That's going to make the target look more like top-end Mac hardware… and the iPhone.

The latter isn't a niche market, it's a 'not high-end' market. But that could evolve, I think.
I maintain my statements are neither false nor are they being made purely for rhetorical effect.

I do think context and implication do need to be taken into account when evaluating the authors statements. The authors present this article as if they were making an actual vaccine. They talk about how you too can make one. With strong implication that its likely to do something. Admittedly, they do talk about follow up, but its follow up that by their own admission is not likely to show anything, and that's after having an incredibly rosy view of it, to the point where i don't believe anyone could reasonably call it a follow up.

As far as healthy discussions go, i would say that assuming the people you disagree with are arguing in good faith and while they might be mistaken, ultumately believe their premises and not simply intentionally making false statements to further their rhetorical point, is important too :)
> Regardless of substance, journalists should have enough integrity to not title an article "Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot?".

How about this one:

"The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows"
There is also a need to recognize that a lot of this science just doesn't work (to the extent that it is often presented). The right way to phrase a lot of the conclusions of these experts, at the state of the art, would be 'in my expert opinion, it looks like it might be their DNA/fingerprint/hair/teeth', not 'in my expert opinion it is [...]'. Because even the state of the art is often about at that level - probably closer to 75% accuracy than 99.99% like it's often treated. Especially on real world, partial, corrupted samples.

And to emphasize again, I'm talking about the state of the art without the biases being discussed. The biases only compound this problem significantly.
"Always read the fine print, but don't bother with the EULA" - Rudy Giuliani
I show my ID to pick up my order from Home Depot. I’d suppose Facebook would be trying to prevent someone else from accessing your account, like Home Depot is preventing someone from taking my order.
my bad, here is the archive: https://buttondown.email/ipobrief/archive
He comitted suicide less than 24 hours after the cash was out of his account. Not giving a email reply within 24 hours is not what i would call negligence.
I used to be a free speech absolutist, but after seeing just how a massive number of people can be convinced of some seriously dangerous but factually incorrect political ideas off of nothing more than memes, it changed my view. It was time to admit that social media wasn't a simple town square. People engaged with millions of other people need to be treated with even more checks and balances than a journalist with a fraction of that engagement.
> he's never been very adept at objectivity or impartiality.

> I'm honestly surprised more folks haven't seen through his shtick yet

In these you attack the author rather his points.

Being hard to read for you doesn't discredit the article's arguments either.

I'd rather hear what you dislike about the points being made rather than how they read, because the former is more important to having an actual conversation.
I mean, you gonna stick up for the guy that just got banned?
Google is Google. They hire _VAST_ numbers of people straight out of college. It's practically a pipeline for them. I am not saying that neglecting referrals from professional contacts doesn't work for Google, but rather that it's commonplace and "good enough" for other places.

Moreover, from the point of view of an individual rather than the employer's performance metrics, it's generally better to make a human connection if you're just talking about the chances of getting hired.
From a substack? That's perfectly fine by my standards. You hold Glenn Greenwald's newsletter to the same standards as the NYT?
Didn't note the similarities with a cursory glance and saw hardware was indicated in the PDF that appeared to meet OPs requirements. Sorry about that.
> they say that the fact that it is deflationary and can not see inflation is a good thing, when it is actually a bad thing. There is a reason the target inflation is at ~2% almost everywhere. We need inflation to keep the economy going.

Looks like it is instead the author who has a misunderstanding of basic economics, in the seminal paper in monetary theory, Optimum Quantity of Money, we find “optimal monetary policy would involve a steady contraction of the money supply at a rate sufficient to bring the nominal interest rate down to zero—is one of the most celebrated propositions in modern monetary theory.”[1]

The reason we target a small inflation rate is chiefly to try to keep the nominal interest rate 0 and secondly because it doesn’t risk a deflationary recession. Israel for instance often targets a negative inflation rate [2]. But due to apprehension and perhaps some politics, many nations follow something similar to the Friedman K-Percent rule [3].

> they say that it's a currency, when it's not. It is not accessible to everybody (not everybody has access to internet).

This being true would imply to Zimbabweans the Sterling isn’t a currency since most don’t have immediate access to it, yet the British are happily using it as so. This is not a good nor mainstream criteria for a currency. But either way, in today’s day and age, money is already indisputably digital. Yet just like one redeems physical dollar at an ATM he may do so with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Cash.

The only good point is volatility but that can be fixed and is not inherent to the blockchain cryptocurrency technology.

[1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157344980...

[2]https://www.statista.com/statistics/375241/inflation-rate-in...

[3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman%27s_k-percent_rule
"He who battles with monsters must take care that he does not become one..." - Nietzsche

Social media incentivizes controversial takes. Real people tend to be more in the middle. Never confuse social media for real life.
> has mutated into the unhinged and corrupt prosecution of deviance

You realize all those criticisms apply very well to this very piece, right? Just read it again. The hook from the lede paragraph invokes, literally, an:

"[...] unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance. It is half adolescent and half malevolent. Its primary objectives are control, censorship, and the destruction of reputations for fun and power."

I mean, the point is well taken, but the call is coming from inside the house.

And, FWIW: the whole thing is about how Taylor Lorenz dinged Andreessen for using the word "retarded" on a call. And it turns out, I guess, that someone said it, but not Andreessen. Is that really worth this screed?
Yup, I agree this is the better solution. The monolithic "one account rules everything" approach just increases the user's vulnerability.

It's largely what made Facebook's forcing usage of their account for Oculus users so ass-backwards.
>Being “right” but unconvincing because of abrasiveness is just screaming into the void, or worse, into an echo chamber. If he can’t create an article that wins people over with reason then why write the article at all?

Good question. Perhaps the answer is that we're beyond convincing at this point. A product of dispersion. We Americans all drifting apart economically, politically, and in how we perceive reality. As to where that leads us - likely chaos.
Nice. If you could also add the ability to charge subscriptions from users and manage their subscription plans this would become a no-brainer. Also your pricing model could become very lucrative—you could charge a percentage of the revenue.
It shouldn't take 10 lines an hour should it? I don't have experience reviewing professional code of this size, so please correct me if my assumption is wrong, but that number doesn't seem right.
Obviously, performance generally isn't the main criteria when choosing a framework. I would argue that your "software that scales" isn't important either in most cases.

I don't care much about performance either, especially compared to documentation, but that does not mean these benchmarks are useless. For instance, comparing similar frameworks can show big differences which illustrate different software architectures. Among the Nginx/phpfpm/Mysql fullstack-with-ORM frameworks, Laravel has roughly 8% of the raw stack capacity, while the other mature frameworks can do 2× or 3× more. I suspect this reflects Laravel's abuse of magic (calls to non-existent methods are redirected at runtime to other objects created on-the-fly, and so on). This may not be the real cause, but such a poor performance makes me suspicious about the complexity or the quality.
> They want to be a dev. Sure, they need to learn git, python etc. But these are not that hard at all. The harder part of being a developer is communication, making hard decisions, showing leadership. Things a director should be pretty damn good at.

This is really only true if you already know how to read and write code. For the vast majority of people, communication skills are easier to acquire than developer skills.
when its ready, I'll be happy to try it. That said, the BEAM codebase is around 30 years old and indestructibly stable while being pretty damn fast. Its going to be awhile before anything with teh same goals catches up.
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure this was squarely a mistake. I'm not sure you can even assign journalistic quality controls to a personal twitter.
To me the interesting part is when you can read the benchmark source code and learn about a high performance feature for the framework or language you’re already using. That’s happened a few times for me with Go, for example. I hope more high performance enhancements are added even for frameworks that would appear near the bottom. That’s what keeps this relevant to me. :) Well, that and knowing roughly what the performance ceiling is for raw socket HTTP in various languages ;-)
> the tools that we may have once used

There were tabloid magazines full of "fake news" sold in supermarkets throughout my entire childhood. People would shake their heads and laugh at the silly headlines, but nobody, ever, talked seriously about censoring the tabloid newspapers just because they didn't believe what they were saying.
Still has a bigger market share than Linux, with people that actually pay for games, and all major engines support Metal.

Whereas GNU/Linux, even with the massive amount of games targeting Android, hardly gets to see them.

Same applies to Stadia, which is mostly GNU/Linux + Vulkan, with Google sponsoring Unity and Unreal as well.
somedays I feel that, in the final analysis, everything is just linear regression.
Stadia works amazingly well which was actually surprising. Playing Cyberpunk 2077 in 4k with just a controller and Chromecast stick is frankly amazing.

Consoles are great if you play enough, but I found that every time I could squeeze an hour here or there to play, the Xbox needed to update yet again for 20 minutes, and by then something else has come up and I am out.

Stadia lets you jump in and out, no updates as far as I have seen, and just magically works.

Disclaimer: I don't work for Google or any of the game studios and was actually skeptical they could solve the latency challenge.
I do think Greenwald should follow the standards he wants to enforce on fellow journalists, yes.
I would use syntax case and introduce unhygienic bindings. That is the deal with all low-level hygienic macro systems: hygiene by default. Break hygiene explicitly.

In syntax-case that would be (datum->syntax syntax-object-where-i-want-to-introduce-binding 'not)
going to start doing this!
In 2010 I slipped on ice in London and broke my leg. I was out of action for a few weeks. Because it was hard living alone and being on crutches, I moved in with my Mum for quite a while. I was lucky it was just a leg but it definitely changed the course of my life (health-wise, for the better).
Good idea! It definitely would be undesireable for random people to jump into domains if the domain creator intended to only share the domain with a small intimate group.

Maybe something as simple as a generated password displayed upon domain creation will suffice. Will add this to the feature requests.
Nicely put, maybe also: "Because no raindrop thinks, it's responsible for the flood."
FWIW, we use Atreugo (#15 and #21 in this round) for most of our applications, and it does everything we need.
170,000 lines of Matlab code for a project is not a good sign. Unless they’re also including the source of various Matlab toolboxes which are already tested by the Mathworks.

It’s such a high-level language it’s hard to imagine what the hell they’re doing with all that code. It’s probably mostly useless cruft from GUIDE.
> The actual semantics of when the combination of gcc, ld, and glibc will try to turn CET on are not documented, as far as I can tell.

Yes. And a complicating thing is here there's no loader or normal initialization code, because PXE is freestanding and invoked directly by the BIOS/EFI. CET is -probably- off...

And yes, are there any dependencies between the init code changes and GCC enabling CET and GCC builtins?