skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I think FAANG know better than to try to do something like that. They are already getting closer to regulatory action to limit their influence and some politicians want to see them be broken up.

And that's just in the US, if they pull something like that in the EU it's almost certain there would be new laws put in place to inflict heavy fines.
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It might not be as empty as it looks. Maybe it’s just got a really big dark sheet over it. Astronomers don’t consider the possibility of ginormous dark sheets in space.
No I really dislike Paul Graham and I find his writing style to be extremely grating. I wouldn't have said anything but you asked. I guess I'm in the minority on this one and I'm a hater in general.
not OP, but I've tinkered with game development before, mainly for game jams, and Godot was by far my favourite engine to work in.
>If I recall correctly there is a process called massive volume reduction by which you filter out “uninteresting stuff”.

So all you have to do to avoid surveillance is to make a bunch of connections so the system gets overwhelmed and ignores you?
because gamedev programmers are getting slowly shadowed by "scripters" since videogame industry is VERY lucrative, it attracts plenty of non-programmers

and you are exactly doing what a scripter would do:

"baahhh programming is daunting, can you give me some interface where i can click on things pls?"
I mainly use an Amex charge card that functions like this, don't spend money I don't have, and only don't use a debit card for things because our financial system is very insecure and don't want to give the number out because getting my money back is a lot harder than just calling Amex and reporting the fraud.
Voids aren’t empty they just have less stuff in them.

There’s galaxies and things in there.
This is magical and cool.

As a web dev generalist, I can usually understand how most things work under the hood.

But playing with chrome.browserless.io breaks that. You're streaming the web page in a <canvas> element, but how can I highlight text? When I load a youtube video page are you literally proxying the video through your infra, through <canvas> pixels to my browser?

Who dictates what IP the headless chrome is assigned to? Do you have a lot of IPs? I noticed on some pages I'd get the CloudFlare captcha which makes sense if browserless has to cycle through a limited set of IPs where other people have been using it to scrape another cloudflare page.
This is known as the multiple-endpoints fallacy, where you deliberately pick the outlying data point after the fact and ignore all the mundane ones.

Another example is when you see reports of some county experiencing a once-in-500-year flood, trying to establish the shock value of how unusual and terrible a catastrophe that is.

But if you're observing 500 such counties, then every year that will happen to some one of them. You just never notice the 499 data points where it didn't.
It's pretty much not enforced. And a replacement card is $500+ and months of wait, so I don't blame anyone for not carry it.

My friend just carried a copy of the card - not sufficient to meet the requirements of the law, but probably enough to satisfy any initial inquiries until you can get your physical card.
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It's the future, but with latency.
Some of my non-geek friends in a friend circle with quite a few geeks of different flavours call this "geek butt sniffing".

I've been accused of it often, when I meet someone new (who's a geek) and we do what in my head is the "geek subject matter negotiation", where each side narrows down domain expertise and experience by doing a breadth first tree search across all shared geek-domains, followed by a depth first search down the tree paths with significant crossover.

One recovering-geek friend says we're going "Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch" at each other before deciding on a conversation topic and speed...
I would like to see this data collected and published.

Data you send out over the internet unencrypted doesn't have an expectation of privacy. Yet lots of people assume stuff like this is private.

The only way to close the gap is to publish the data so everyone can see exactly what they and others are inadvertently telling the world.
I've been using Vim regularly for the last six years and I still learn new, basic things.

Thanks for that.
Probably more in the domain of god - if you believe in that sort of thing - than aliens.
Are you suggesting I don't know how to use a mute button? I don't even know what to say there. To reproduce, get your router to drop the conntrack entry. It's not hard at all. Again, it shows your status as muted but still sends audio (because the control and data streams apparently have no sync at all?).

The month long outage was in 2018 and there was permanent data loss on top. It was a swell time.

> there's the competitor to slack that you'd never need or likely ever use.

Yeah, that's WebEx Teams. It's what we've been using since 2018 and is 99.9% of my WebEx experience. Someone below even said WebEx Meet is discontinued? I would wager that you're the one that's not super familiar with WebEx.
Gosh. So crazy to read about again. Thanks for digging up that link!
> How do you get one when you're abroad? No idea. You probably don't.

You go to your embassy wherever you are and notarize a document that authorizes a trusted party within the country to deal with the bank (and forward you the plastic). If you don’t need cash, you can issue a non-physical card with a click and use it via Apple Pay.
Ah, sorry, when I said "they" I meant a user of a .kz email address, not the service provider.
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What you're saying is mostly what has happened already except the work has just been done outside the X server. The features in X that people don't use are already considered deprecated, and factoring the legacy parts off into a separate code module is essentially what XWayland is anyway.

If you added all those things as X extensions, it would essentially be the same thing as Wayland, because clients that wouldn't use them would still be broken, and every graphical program and toolkit would still be need to be updated to use them.

Your suggestions for dbus would work for some applications but would not really work for other things that a message bus handles like multicast, global message ordering, and resource accounting. Plus GNOME and KDE adopted dbus specifically so they could get away from having to pass around random sockets in folders everywhere. I assume by "put-it-in-the-kernel-because-performance development ideology" you're referring to kdbus, which was an alternate implementation not made by the original dbus developers, and is now a dead project and is not really a thing anymore. Please don't get those things confused. Of course the reason they could do that is because dbus is also just another protocol with a reference implementation, and you could make another implementation that works closer to what you describe and maybe gets 80-90% of the way there depending on some changes in the kernel, for example I saw a hacky dbus fuse filesystem a while ago: https://github.com/sidorares/dbusfs
No, this is the way a market normally works. You have a supply curve, and a demand curve. As you go lower in price, the demand curve rises, and the supply curve declines. So you have low price, high demand, and low supply. This is completely normal when the price is too low.

The difference in this case is that the press is showing sympathy to those who won't pay the price and then complain about the missing supply. That doesn't happen in most markets.

Why is the press listening? Because the people complaining are people that the press normally listens to - banks and big, big businesses. It seems that many such businesses would rather complain, publicly, than pay a market-clearing rate. Well, I don't have a lot of sympathy, to be honest...
Congress then really outdid themselves by focusing all legislation on telephone calls (as if anyone younger than 60 even cares about that part) and leaving the internet snooping untouched. Really fantastic misdirection.
Ever go into work on Friday and "the system is down"? You can't get anything done, because the tools you use to do your job aren't working, and the fix is out of your hands. Your coworkers are all affected, too. First people are frustrated, because they have tasks deadlines, and those tasks won't get done and the deadlines won't be met. A few are really freaked out and start calling bosses and getting VPs to yell at other VPs. But soon, most people in the company realize that everybody else is in the same boat, and nobody will be meeting their OKRs this week, and the status reports probably won't be filed.

Then they relax.

If they're in offices, they group up, maybe in the break room. A rousing game of ping-pong breaks out.

Remote coworkers ping each other on Slack. Maybe a few start a round of Among Us. Bread dough is kneaded. Kids get a little more help with their schoolwork.

Everybody takes a very long lunch.

By 2pm, people realize the entire day is gone. Almost everybody has left or signed off by 3. Some roll out to bars; others go home to their kids, or to their gardens or garages or battlestations. Everybody beats the traffic.

Come Monday, the system is fixed. People are a little stressed out, since there's so much catching-up to do, status reports to be filed, widgets to be tracked and poked. But everybody agrees that was an amazing couple of days, and they got lots of rest, and it sure was nice. And hey, I had this great idea over the weekend—
Now is time to remind people the benefits of having a free and open WiFi network...
Different pronunciations - if you're going to kay-row, you're going to Illinois.
I feel like Lua solved this problem a long time ago and did it with a language fast enough for game logic and easy enough for children to learn. Although the s-expr people would justifiably argue scheme/lisp solved it much earlier.
There was a time in the recent past where musicians waning in popularity in the United States frequently found fame in Japan. Would the author accuse Japan of "Americanism"?

The way we perceive other cultures' pop culture often doesn't line up with the way they perceive their own pop culture. I don't see why there's anything wrong with that. Speaking for myself, I tend to listen to music with no lyrics or with lyrics in languages I don't understand because it lets me program without becoming distracted.
Snooping is what your neighbor does.

Surveillance is a whole other level.

When your ISP is logging your every move for a year. And making it available to the government. Regardless of country, that's not snooping. It's surveillance.

The fact that some of you accept snooping as being legitimate description simply proves my point about candy-coating it.
I almost got caught by a similar issue when booking travel to San Jose California when the travel web site prioritized San Jose Costa Rica (SJO) over SJC.
I do agree on services sharing banned users data, for safety or compliance reasons. But this should be limited to a set period of time, because the person you were 10 years ago grew up from who you are now and will be in 10, 20, 30 years from now. We all grow and hopefully learn from mistakes.

An implication of this “banned users” data sharing is that this data exchange must be overseen by regulators, to enforce equal access to competitors to this data and also that companies drop people from the “banned users” database after some time, not penalized for life except in rare cases.

I would argue that most users’ petty behaviors that lead to banning do not deserve to make them pay for it the rest of their lives - and that there are rare exceptions who do deserve to be banned for life because certain users’ behavior is so egregious.

Also, consider cases for jurisdictional banning and global banning. Some behaviors are not allowed in certain countries. Take a gay couple kissing in a car in Saudi Arabia - should this couple be banned? If so, just if attempting to use services in Saudi Arabia, or globally? These are serious and important considerations.
> generally avoid C-c for copy in terminals

Absolutely. But it's not cruft. It's the original meaning of the character, and the standard method of generation.

Ctrl+C is just like any other keypress which maps to a standard ASCII representation.

The error is in reusing ASCII chars for GUI actions. This was an obviously-bad idea in 1985, and it has never become a better idea.
Pitchfork editorials almost always skew more political than musical.
I think this too, but at the same time the reality is a tool like Terraform is really complicated to implement well, and, importantly, it always has to work. All the time. There are really high standards for this, and in my personal experience, alternative solutions like NixOps don't quite stack up in reliability or broad utility versus Terraform. The design is good in theory, but it needs just a huge amount of work to be trusted.

For the most part, I provision things with Terraform and then instantiate the servers with NixOS/Nix itself, and this mostly works. For bonus points you can use Nix to generate the HCL that Terraform reads in (because Nix can write JSON, and HCL is just JSON in a trenchcoat) if you want to put some veneer on it.
I doubt there's anybody who uses the term "open source" that didn't just read it in the latest issue of CTO Monthly who'd argue against code under the AGPL being "clearly open source".

Being on Github doesn't make a project open source. Having a way for other people to easily contribute doesn't make a project open source. But being licensed under AGPL 100% does make a project open source.
Fun story - i still have the first credit account I got when I first went to college (originally cosigned by my parents with like a $400 monthly limit, eventually became solely my own and with a proper credit limit). Many years later (after getting a much better credit card that became my daily driver) I used that first card a couple of times for whatever reason and completely forgot to pay it off until six months later, when I paid it in full. That account is now still (> 8 years later) restricted with available credit of $0, but remains a favorable part of my credit score by being my oldest available credit line by many years (the non payment dings appear to have dropped off from my credit rating) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[edit: i just checked and that card currently has an available credit of $-0.05 which I guess means I'm giving the bank a $0.05 credit line!?]
I don't know, i think the mentality here is that the government is spying for you, not at you. Is it different in the us? And is that because all revelations revolve around the fact that citizens are being spied on?
It's the same idea behind "guns don't kill people, people kill people" juxtaposition. The idea is that both play a role in the problem, not just one scapegoat. People tend to point fingers, but there is always a statistical correlation, between both entities catalyzing fuel to the fire.
Having worked for several tech companies in the valley, this is absolutely the case, calls are made all the time that screw a small number of users to unblock progress.
And if you decide that the edit made it worse after trying it?

Its better to have each post be owned by someone and then have a ranking system to sort the most liked versions.
Do mainframes run inside hypervisors these days? How
Do you get new parts?
“But it wasn’t long before the more ludicrous faction of conservatives found a way to dominate the screens again. It looks like they’ve learned a few lessons from the Trumps — outside of how to commit tax fraud, rape, bribery, or how to get pissed on by Russian call girls.”

The whole article was just clickbait for a mean-spirited mishmash of hyperbole-laden attacks on all non-leftists with none of the introspection or nuance it accuses the other side of lacking. It made no thoughtful or meaningful contribution to the national conversation, and didn’t even get around to addressing the question posed in its title.
>Another somehow found themselves stuck in a secured employee parking garage.

Note to self, if in a secure area of a government facility without permission pretend to be a German tourist.
You've left the context out of your position.

This is a couple ISPs in bed with the government. Under what conditions is that good surveillance?
> When your ISP is logging your every move for a year. And making it available to the government. Regardless of country, that's not snooping.

But that's just not true in British English.

I don't know anything about you but your comments imply you're not British? If so, you'll just have to accept you don't know the meaning of these words in written British English.

You're mistaken. I don't know what else to tell you?
Cancel culture ensures we basically have that already... How many times has an undesirable been unpersoned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube within hours?
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Or St Petersburg, Florida.

And on the way back, not to Minneapolis, KS!
High demand but the pay is at the Government pay scale.

The other way of reading the situation is: There's nobody interested in working in COBOL at the suggested rates.
Nothing. I don't think it is Orientalism, to me that implies dehumanizing or infantilizing Japanese people or fetishizing their culture, but city pop and other vaporwave genres just appreciate the aesthetic. It has a particularly nostalgic quality for a lot of Westerners who grew up with Japanese media.

And Japanese culture does the same thing with Western pop culture, Western music and English.
False. The outbreaks did not coincide with those protests with guns. Would you blame the BLM protests which were far larger? The last and largest outbreak based on cases seemed to coincide with the holidays. Perhaps you should blame Dr. Fauci for telling people not to wear masks during the first outbreak?
Kubernetes is just middleware, it's not a full distributed operating system like, e.g. Amoeba or Inferno. It was never designed from the ground up to expose a meaningful view of the whole cluster to application developers or to those managing the system. As a result of this history, it also features a significant amount of incidental complexity.
The spoons in the video aren't measuring spoons, they are flatware.

Estimating, I would say he is using between 1 and 2 measuring teaspoons when he does a spoonful. So probably start with 1 tsp if you aren't sure more will work and go up from there if you feel like it. The video you've linked is as much a sketch as it is a recipe anyway.
>This time last year we had no idea how difficult it would be to control the virus.

There we plans and procedures in place, which were actively subverted by multiple levels of leadership, across the planet, for political reasons.
magit is the best git porcelain (interface) that I’ve ever seen. I’m a longtime emacs user, but even if I wasn’t, I’d provably use magit as my git interface
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Because it seems every day I read about some software hack draining away all the information on a "secure" computer. "Secure" software is a fantasy. Hardware switches are secure.
I’d like to see them try to find the domain when ECH becomes standard
>Look, every OS has to choose its defaults. They give you the option to change it through the defaults command

Yes totally, now let's use the same argument to change next mac release keyboard to Dvorak or Colemak layout. Look, you just need to go and change it in language setting! (to its credit both options, Dvorak & Colemak keyboard exist in Mac by default) The reason Mac doesn't do this, is ofc because strong majority of people are used to the QWERTY layout.

And I know how to change it, it was the first thing I did. and No you did need to restart apps/computer. (it even says that in your link!)

My point is that keyboard shortcut is a muscle memory thing, no point in lamenting over it too much if one shortcut exist in the next system, albeit another place, if it's same behavior (looking at you Alt-Tab). But how the input work is another matter; makes no sense to me to remove the steering wheel of a car and replace it with a flight stick, especially when there's already cross-platform apps that make certain strong assumptions about the users platform. (keyboard, mouse, certain keys such as copy-paste is reserved, etc)
Have you read the article? It's far from being a "pitchfork editorial."

edit: i'm dumb.

someone please flag this comment so dang will see it and prune this subthread.
FWIW, I used to work for a background check company and they operated exceedingly ethically. If there was a hit, for example, they would reach out to the given agencies and confirm that it was actually that exact person before reporting the results.

Far as I understood it, that was exceptionally rare in the industry. Not sure how prolific their customer base was or if they're still active.
The 10x Software Engineer is a symptom of the tech industry's tendency to quantify everything.

You don't see people talking about 10x doctors, 10x engineers or 10x musicians.
That is truly nasty stuff. Stuff like this is part of the reason i try not invest too much of myself on the 'net and obfuscate as much as possible (i'm not really a marshmallow).
In practical terms, 99.9% uptime means no more than ~44 minutes per month of downtime (~9 hours per year).
Processing (https://processing.org) would be a good place to start, especially if you want to illustrate and play with math concepts visually. You can even make games with it.
AFAIK DRI3 is also Linux-only and is not supported on any X server outside of Linux.

In Wayland those tasks have been split out into libraries. The details of the protocol IPC is handled by libwayland, the input is handled by libinput. Screen multiplexing is specific to the compositor and not really something you can farm out to a library, which is the same as composited X where the compositor process takes over the entire screen and handles all the rendering.

It would be interesting if someone combined an X server with a Wayland server like you described, but I don't think it would be useful. A lot of your legacy applications would still be broken, for example no old clients or window managers are rendering using DRI3. If you want to design an extension for client isolation, the problem there isn't that X doesn't have that but that the existing methods don't really work well. My suggestion there would be to talk to any desktop environments to find out what their requirements are, if they haven't already committed to switching to Wayland already. (i.e. GNOME and KDE already have their solution for this in Wayland) It may be that an additional X extension is unnecessary for what the other desktops require.
>The definition of "matter" keeps shrinking the closer we look.

True.

>It seems that we can never truly know what reality is made of at its lowest levels, and all we have is essentially our own subjective interpretations of what we perceive.

How can we say that with confidence, though? What if we're just still scratching at the surface of fundamental physics? What if in 3,000 years we have much more than our subjective interpretations and do pretty much understand what's going on?

This feels like a little bit like a "God of the gaps" type argument. It's fair to say we likely don't truly understand the fabric of reality, the universe, and matter, but it doesn't necessarily mean we can't or never will.

>Naturalism is just the idea that there is no supernatural process at work. I'm not talking about naturalism.

I think many people interchange "materialism" and "naturalism", even if it may not be correct.
Don’t know if I really buy the “piracy is the only option” line any more. It was for years. But you can now legally pay for the content you want, you just don’t like the price.
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