skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you were replying I edited my previous post (grandparent of this one) with some text ("[Edit: ... ]") at the bottom, but I'll also reply here.

I think you would find many in agreement with your interpretation of Marxism and of Christianity -- ranging from "social gospel" Catholics, to progressive/activist Episcopalians in the US and UK, to Thomasite Christians in Kerala voting for the local honest-to-goodness Communist party complete with hammer-and-sickle flags.

To your Acts 4:32-35 quote, you could also add the end of Galatians 3, or the miracle of the loaves and the fishes (say, Mark 6:31-44).

That said, your interpretation is a departure from Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, and it sands off some sharp edges.

Mainly, I think you discount violent revolution too much. Historical Marxism wasn't only about a "spiritual revolution" that would lead to voluntary sharing like that described in Acts 4:32-35. It was about classifying people socioeconomically and dealing with them accordingly -- using violence.

I actually agree that religion often spurs social "revolution" and material improvement. But I don't think that's what Marx thought, or how either Soviet or Maoist Communism has worked. You say that Marx' "opiate of the masses" quote refers only to "Pharisees", but, in light of the whole development of dialectical materialism (a system of morality that actively rejects the spirit), the dismissal of "sentimental bourgeois morality" in favor of class-interest calculations, and the dogmatic enforcement of state-sponsored atheism, I disagree. Granted, you might blame Lenin rather than Marx for the worst of this stuff. But the fact that there's some overlap with Christianity doesn't mean they're the same thing.
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can FIDO2 be implemented for day-to-day use right now, such as email access? sms 2FA and authenticator are built-in to most applications, so it makes it easy to use.

and how do you do estate planning? I'd like to give my family access to all of my private keys for everything when I pass.
To be fair, Chrome has been really restricting access. The past year or two, they've gotten really fine-grained. You have to ask for every permission, and even explain to the reviewer why you need it.
A very good point indeed.
Firefox works for everything I need and want to to except my time sheets - and I do a lot.

A fork would of course need to be kept up to date with the base (until everyone switches :-).
> Wouldn't the type of concurrency or parallelism affect performance?

That's what I'm saying: almost certainly not IF the best concurrent solution to this problem is to chunk of the work and feed it off to a bog standard thread pool. Pretty much every language---even C---has tools that make this pretty easy to do.

And I don't see any reason why a dumb thread pool wouldn't be the best answer to this if parallelism were allowed. Like, the fact that Go has goroutines is just not going to help with anything for this kind of work-load. Goroutines help in more complex concurrent situations.

> but concurrency / parallelism IS much easier in some languages vs others (did I misunderstand what you wrote?).

When the extent of the parallelism is a dumb thread pool with no synchronization between them, then it's pretty easy to do that in just about any language.
We had some AWS network issues today too...
Sure, in a creepy time erasing histories that were hitherto possible kinda way - but not in an event notification hopping gallactic distances without any form of medium kinda way.
We need alternatives to these arbitrarily managed stores and other walled gardens. This isn’t the first time either Google or Mozilla took down extensions they disagree with:

https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-rejects-free-speech-bans-f...

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-chrome-web-store-bans-disse...
Mh, do you really want to play down the possibility of unknown long-term consequences?

Check out this:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.23.432474v1

The Spanish Flu has led to a „sleeping sickness“ epidemic years after it ceased.
I think you can allow people to choose to use PTT or not. However if someone doesn't use PTT the user needs to be aware of their mic sensitivity to ensure that background noises are not impacting the call. Examples of this are dogs barking or power tools being used nearby and even breathing into the mic.
If you haven't already, you might want to start looking at those 'live threads' for popular tv shows on reddit, and try to message those users to try your app.

Kind of a tangential thought - it would be kind of cool to have crowdsourced 'prediction markets' for the tv shows - i.e. people guess what's going to happen in an episode or season.
FYI, 'ye olde' is actually using the letter 'y' to represent an Old English 'thorn' character. The thorn character represents the 'th' sound. Printing presses gained prominence in non-English speaking regions earlier than in English speaking regions. The 'y' was substituted for the 'thorn' due to some amount of similarity in shape.

Thus, 'ye olde' would be pronounced 'the old'. 'Ye' is just a different form of 'the' from a time when 'y' represented 'th'.

So, 'the ye olde' would be read as 'the the olde'.
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This feels overly cynical. GitHub is a major Git contributor, as is their parent company Microsoft, both supporting use cases that either directly or indirectly benefit their users. And in GitHub’s case, their product is tightly coupled to Git. Why shouldn’t they want to highlight changes that may be useful to the readers of their engineering blog?
> Did something recently happen to Eskom to make them incompetent?

Demand for electricity consistently went up over the past 20+ years, with no matching increase in generation capacity.

Maintenance of current power plants hasn't been great either, and the supply/demand situation is precarious such that if any one of the power generation plant is offline for maintenance, there are likely to be compensatory blackouts somewhere.
I imagine it having uses very similar to Veles or cantor.dust, which use various 3D mappings to help you recognize patterns in binary data. This one just runs in a 2D terminal, which means you can use it more places more conveniently, though it has fewer pixels at its disposal.
> All that is overshadowed by the fact that most people straight up don’t have anything interesting to say. Think of the average person. Do you expect them to wow you with what they are working on even once a month? Chances are, most people will post pictures of their lunch or repost a stupid meme that they finally discovered. Twitter sort of solves this by letting you follow leaders in their fields, but still the SNR is so low that it’s really difficult to find meaningful interactions and unless you are one of those leaders nobody gives a crap about what you shout into the void.

Imagine the implications of actually believing this, because if you thought hard enough about it, you probably don't believe it. For example, if you truly believed this, you must think most people straight up don't have any friends. I mean, why would anyone want to be friends with someone who straight up doesn't have anything interesting to say?

Like, do you think the average person, hanging out with their average friends on a regular basis is just mind-numbingly, dumbfoundedly bored? Why do you think they keep hanging out with all those average people? You think they derive zero meaning from their interactions with anyone who isn't a "leader in their field". The dim view you have on humanity blows my mind. There's meaning to be had all around for these average people.

This is exactly why average people hate the proverbial elites. You (ostensibly elite) view them as worthless plebs whose social interactions with their friends are so worthless, they don't even deserve the chance to share them online. Only so-called leaders in their field should be allowed to interact publicly online. Their interactions are the only ones with meaning in your view.

When I'm on FB or Instagram or Snapchat, and I see the plenty of average people I know interacting, I see all sorts of wonderful, meaningful human interactions. Today, my old high school math teacher posted a joke image of the side effects of the COVID vaccine which included hugs from his grandchildren. His son replied about how he can't wait for him and his grandson to be with him again and many of his friends commented about how touched they were. Who gives a fuck if it's a cringeworthy, stupid meme they discovered? It was a wonderful expression of humanity from completely average, nobodies.

There's so much wrong with social networks, but the plebs having no meaning and nothing interesting to say isn't one of them.
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At least pre-Covid, I presume that the general contract for professors does not include an agreement to be recorded, their job duties include giving lectures to students but not (without specific amendments) preparing recordings for public distribution. IMHO it might be the case that if a particular professor really wants to, they can refuse to be recorded (or refuse to allow arbitrary redistribution of the record beyond the students to which the lecture was given) without any legal ability for the university to push them to agree to that - while in this site most of GDPR discussion refers to its application for websites, in reality most of GDPR enforcement has been in the non-web world and especially for the employer-employee relations, including things like surveillance cameras in workspaces and the validity of nonnegotiated clauses in employment contracts regarding employee privacy rights; so the employer pushing a contract change "agree to be recorded or stop working for us" might not be legal. The specific details matter, of course.

Some examples of actual GDPR enforcement cases for mishandling of employee information:

https://www.complianceweek.com/regulatory-enforcement/german... - general video surveillance of employees;

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/hm-fined-352m-for... - one of the biggest GDPR fines, for tracking various (IMHO clearly unreasonable) private data of employees;

https://dataprivacymanager.net/725000e-gdpr-fine-by-dutch-dp... - collecting employee fingerprints in an inappropriate manner.

https://inplp.com/latest-news/article/EUR-150000-gdpr-fine-i... - employer asserting that a "consent" form that they forced all employees to sign counts as actual consent.

I'm not saying that this necessarily prevents recording of lectures, but it also doesn't seem to be the case that you can "just do it" without properly accessing the legal aspect.
Chipotle is already $8 a bowl pretty much
It looks like it is almost all keyboard interactions. The space bar is also broken, and the up/down arrow keys select the next/previous paragraph rather than scrolling the page up or down. Not only that, but the content is loaded by JavaScript, so disabling JS results in a blank page.
This is what you are looking for: https://campfire.gg/
There hasn't been a viable solution proposed for those.
> since it outsources verification of human entity to the phone companies.

That's not the reason phone numbers are used. They are used, because they are something you have in addition to something you know like an SSN or password. This is two factor authentication.
So again, if social media is a commodity, why does it matter if someone gets kicked off a particular network?

You can't have this both ways.

There are no free speech right implications at all for this, a judge would throw the case out.

FB and Twitter don't pay their users because they're providing a service that their users value for free. Frankly if that's not a good enough deal for you, don't use it. I try not to, they're a waste of bandwidth IMHO.
Google Authenticator ?
The only reason he got paid at all IMO was the widespread exposure the original article got. When you find something this significant you’re almost obligated to do a song and dance and tell the world about it, so you can get the attention you need and be paid.

Frankly for an introvert with no public online presence or audience that’s just not very appealing. There’s easier ways for software developers to make $10k: just wait for two paychecks.
It does depend on locale. In US cities where there's some density the postal worker will usually leave their truck (which is often a regular, non-custom, mid-size box truck) at the end of a street, fill up a wheeled bag, and walk to several buildings with the bag to drop things off, before returning to the truck and moving to the next location.

But in most suburbs (which is a lot of the US), at least where there are mailboxes at the curb (and not mail slots on houses), the postal worker will just drive from mailbox to mailbox, dropping mail as they go, never leaving the vehicle, only getting out of their seat when they need to add more mail to the box sitting next to them.
Fight battles you can win. Your way results in transit nobody rides (because it isn't useful to anyone ) and proves you hate cars, which gets you voted out and your taxes repealed.. if you give them their parking lot there is at least enough that some people ride while you wait the 20 years or so it takes to redevelop the area. Once the area is developed take away the parking lot for more valuable uses.
I'm not OP - that they explicitly mentioned this:

>> The supply side was woefully mismanaged and didn't nearly keep up with the pace of the growth in demand.
The most recent post says the work on the address bar has barely begun, and I don't see where it says they will remove anything.
That's what I meant by not having as many site-facing features. But, as someone who has written and used quite a few very usable sites when HTML4 and CSS2 was the norm, maybe it's not really a problem; and writing simple code and not trying to trendchase is good for both accessibility and browser diversity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25915313

It's not about the tool but how you use it...
> That's the "don't listen to real people. Imagine people instead" defense.

It's not a defense. I'm invalidating the argument that the vocal users are always right. I'm not claiming that this automatically means that what the project owners think instead is correct.

Figuring out how best to make everyone happy is more complicated than this. Claiming it is simple ("just listen to the vocal users!") is a fallacy.
https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/Docs/benchmarks/500.perlbench_r...

Among other benchmarks. But Perl is the first one in their suite.

EDIT: SPECjbb is the Java benchmark suite: https://www.spec.org/jbb2015/docs/designdocument.pdf

SPECjbb is a ~2 hour benchmark simulating a high-throughput Supermarket backend.
When cell phones first became big, probably 10-15 years ago at least, there was a website for my area I lived in at the time (southern Illinois) that would list texts and people could vote on the funniest ones. There were some really private messages that would hit the top (obviously phone numbers weren’t displayed.) So it used to be people had the assumption that texts were public, because for some carriers they basically were.
That's fantastic. Hopefully a few coffees as well, from that amazing write up. :)
The language here confuses the truth.

They banned people from taking a vaccine that is very safe and effective.

Give people a choice.
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You’ll enjoy this then

https://youtu.be/wgj-s46Mpyc
Singapore is "multi-ethnic" in the sense that it broke off from nearby Malaysia in order to have a Chinese majority city state, and adopted explicit policies to try to manage the Malay and Indian population in order to ensure that it is an ethnically Chinese run government. You can listen to some of Lee Kuan Yew's speeches to see how multi-ethnic it is, and what he thought of the US approach to diversity -- e.g. "multiculturalism will destroy America." (https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/02/13/singapores-...)

The "integration" policies you refer to are there to limit non-chinese representation -- in the US we would call it a gerrymandering-support policy. Singapore also has an immigration policy meant to attract successful entrepreneurs, with no citizenship path for cheap labor, only temporary work visas. It does not accept any refugees or political asylum seekers. Being born in Singapore doesn't make you a citizen (no soil-based, only blood-based criteria).
Can you give an example of such a theme?
Way better than in the article, but still, I like my results better.

The problematic elements are thin black lines. On your image the lines are aliased, visible for the lines which are close to horizontal but not quite. And for curved thin lines, results in visually non-uniform thickness along the line.
Wow. It never occurred to me that such a thing was even possible. Glad I dial in with my phone and use it's mute instead.
Yes, but herd immunity makes it possible to protect the total population from a disease including the ones that cannot get vaccinated, such as children or those with contraindications.
news article: http://www.sci-news.com/physics/smallest-gravitational-field...
Thanks for that. Even if those jurisdictions are not using fast breeder technology, I think they're still pretty good evidence that nuclear proliferation is low risk.
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Agreed!

I don't think the goal should be to maximally facilitate social interaction anymore. We've proven there are enough bad actors that it poisons the well.

So, given the above, how can we still enable some interaction? How can we get the value out of crowdsourcing without creating an opportunity for toxicity?
> It is completely unacceptable that the default level of access has become "everything."

Even on Android (and I presume iPhone) where apps ask for/document their permissions requirements, most people just say "Yes" and move along. Most people have neither the time nor the expertise to critically evaluate whether or not an extension needs any of a dozen permissions.

I sympathize, but I have no idea how you can realistically solve this.
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Agreed: for most of my day to day tasks, emacs is performance enough, subject to the constraints of my CPU vis a vis interpreting the underlying lisp...but I do find myself actively avoiding a long line of JSON blob, because of the reliable repeatability of emacs locking up and becoming unusable on a long line.

It’s not enough to stop me using emacs, but it is enough to make me go out of my way to avoid it (and to grumble about).
I've stopped using extensions altoghether. And I used quite a few back in the day, even made a couple myself.

"Hesitant" doesn't convey the level of fear everyone should feel after reading "Has acess to: All data on all websites".

Same applies to apps, of course.

By the way, I think a pi-hole is safer than an ad-blocker extension, but I'm not sure. What would I be opening myself to if it gets hacked and my DNS server is now the enemy?
There are many ways to retire early. Entrepreneurship, investing, hitting the jackpot at a startup. This FAANG focus may actually be detracting from your goal.

EDIT N> I see I might have misunderstood your post. You've been working on leetcode while at school and at your first job? Therefore the gap between the end of your first job and now is not five years? Okay, that's great! So ignore this part...

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Think of the opportunity cost of not making (I assume) decent money as a programmer at the start of your career. With five years of programming experience on the job, you might have been able to land a team lead or high-level individual contributor role, with all the compensation and marketable skills that come with. Extra disposable income invested in low-risk equities like index funds over the last five years would have had a huge return.
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Or, for that matter with a few years experience on real projects at real shops, you would have the skills that might actually get you into FAANG now.

This is actually making me a bit angry at Leetcode for possibly misrepresenting the utility or importance of their product.

Given all that you've said, I would suggest getting out there and getting any programming job that isn't losing you money to build up your finances, resume, and network. You had one bad experience -- don't let it define you. People get fired because their manager had a fight with their partner the night before. There's a huge amount of random noise, and FAANG, leetcode scores, even performance reviews are not a particularly strong reflection on you or good estimators of your future prospects.

This school -> leetcode -> FAANG pipeline simply isn't how the real world works. Sorry!

EDIT> Social skills are learnable to at least a competent level, and the number one way to get contacts is to work more jobs. I used to be too shy to hand out my business card -- now it's super easy. A friend of mine is neuro-atypical and has massive social anxiety, but has worked as a bartender in the past -- all just scripts and social "macros".

EDIT2> Good Luck! Don't give up on programming, but take care of yourself, and maybe take a break. Maybe work on a coding project that you find interesting but that has no goal or ulterior motive.

EDIT N+1> It was typical when I graduated to do anything and everything to get 2 years of professional experience, and then to go for your desired job. The experience outweighed any other concern w.r.t hiring. So I definitely wouldn't give up after one bad experience. Also, I suggest you recalibrate your expectations to work up to FAANG by getting jobs at other companies first. It's almost certain that real on-the-job experience will count for much more than scores on some programming site.
Facebook doesn't get a free pass from me, I'm just pointing out that Facebook made at least an attempt, publicly, to combat insurrectionists / hate speech while Parler advertised as a safe space for the same.

These are just the facts, interpret them as you wish.

IMO:

Facebook (and YouTube, and Twitter) could and should do a lot more. The more they do the more likely it is they will be legislated out of existence and I'm not sure how they strike a good balance there. I also think Facebook in particular could do better but doesn't want to in order to keep engagement up - yet they want the good PR they can get for banning hate speech. They're trying to have it both ways and are awful. That's still different than Parler where the entire reason it exists is to push radical viewpoints without governance.
I always thought pilots were taught “aviate navigate then communicate.” Don’t fly into the ground. If safe then figure out where you are in relation to your destination. If safe then talk.

My issue with OODA and other decision frameworks is that in complex situations a lot information we get is noise, misunderstandings, or lies. Separating the wheat from the chaff takes a very long time. During the meantime, the best thing to do is to minimize risk in case the info is true. Only if we are certain the info is real, should we perform a complete course correction.
Also he was pretty charasmatic. Not all scientists, even famous ones, are.
Don't forget that you could feasibly use a 280W 64-core processor to replace a dual-socket 2x205W 2x28-core Intel box with 8 cores to spare. Obviously, there will be performance deltas based on specific use cases, but this should help frame the comparison.