skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marx would say that religion is the opiate of the masses, but so would Jesus say that. In fact, Jesus predominately preached to religious leaders called Pharisees. Are you familiar with the common atheist adage "Jesus would have been a Marxist" or things to that effect? I'd argued it a lot in the past because it's funny and great for challenging capitalist Christians who believe in Supply Side Jesus (courtesy of Kenneth Copeland and Joel Olsteen and people like them).

Well, I would flip that adage and say that "Marx was a follower of Jesus." They overlap enough that it's not uncommon to go on r/atheist and see people saying "Jesus would have been a Marxist" so I think it's fine to flip it this way.

It's possible Marx was just targeting the Pharisees of his time. Or he liked what Jesus' had to say on matters of cooperation and economics enough to base a secular worldview on it. :)

I don't see how serious study of history would lead one to think religions reduce the impetus for "revolution" or social improvements. The printing press was a revolution and it was primarily driven by the desire to mass-print Bibles so that the clergy couldn't just interpret reality for everyone. (Look up the Gutenberg Revolution).

In any case, I'm not sure what the difference is between "we are all children of God" classless consciousness and the idea of "class consciousness." Because on Marx's worldview, things should trend towards a classless society. You may be interested in Acts 4:32-35 which is the economic model followed by the first church.

32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. 33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all 34 that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35 and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.
We're shooting for 200+ although it's going to take some R&D to get there. And yes! But that's also in the future – for now we're focused on nailing one menu.
In Australia it's mandated you're sent a message before rerouting or migrating to another provider. Surprised this isn't enforced in the other countries, it costs next to nothing to implement and is just an additional step in the account migration process.

I'd love to see companies allow for opt in additional security measures, like banks or telco's calling me - having a verbal password to confirm things, that level of security seems to only be available to VIPs.
It is almost always the case, at least in some point of everyone's life. In a lifetime, every human being can find happiness and joy in life.
Probably more like 300Wh/mile. A Tesla Model 3 gets 4miles per kWh and that’s measured at higher average speed. At 3.3miles per kWh and 1.3kW for a typical L1 charger (literally just any standard 120V outlet), the average 45 mile range (13.5kW) would be charged in just 10 hours. With probably 14-16 hours charging each night, that's plenty to replenish greater than average usage as well. Put a 300 mile range battery in there, and you only need to charge once a week. (And note that the old Grumman LLV only had like 13.3 gallons and atrocious 10mpg, so that'd be like double the range and less frequent fuelings/chargings.)
> we can't assume that it was for the right reasons

But what are “the right reasons”? This one is a moral dilemma that has no solution. “OK, let’s kill these 50 people so that that those 5000 could live.” No one in their right mind can propose that.
At Mozilla (and this was 10 years ago), you couldn't minify or modify any library. (There were ways to include binaries, but it was complicated.)

In this case, they flagged a pattern of unicode that Google felt nobody with good intentions would be using. Turns out, Lodash used that string for something, hence the blocking. It had nothing to do with obfuscation, but rather a good-faith attempt to block bad things.

Similar to how you might trigger heavy ratelimits on a request like `wp-admin/index.php`, since it's clearly a bot trying to find vulnerabilities.
The magic of it is it just keeps on working. All those big changes didn't cause any instability for even once.
Actually, You Are Rolling Your Own Crypto
I honestly wonder what goes on behind Reddit. It's been pretty terrible since the beginning. I don't mean to be insulting to anyone in particular, I know how projects go, and I love the site. But speedy or well done, it is not.
Note: he lists his address as living in Latvia.

Still I’d give him more for the significance and PR. But these things tend to be fixed rather than subjective for a reason.

https://github.com/tostercx
I mean that you are listing to half of the night sky at once. At least that what I understood from the wikipedia page.
What I find extraordinary is that none of the developers who play the game never bothered to fix this problem.

If I was a developer at Rockstar and played this game I would have have spent my own time to fix this problem just so that I didn't need to sit around and wait every time I played the game.
That sounds like an excuse. They’re already using vehicles today. There’s no good reason that 90% of these can’t be electric.
Thanks! I'm curious -- if it's not weird to ask, does your property tax bill happen to separate out how much is due to improvements and how much to ground rent?
Lots of requests for open source. Can I ask which parts of open source you’re interested in?
>(And) probably increased their CEOs annual salary and bonuses.

Please don't post this kind of cynical speculation unless you have something to back it up.
I would follow my plumber on Twitter before I would follow Piers Morgan.
The correct response in his case was civil disobedience, cracking open every last detail of what he was being put through, and counting on the rest of us to come to our senses.

It's sad, but there really is no other way to reasonably confront tyrannical overreach. If you play by the rules and refuse to be non-compliant, you also sacrifice the one weapon an overreaching Administration has to fear: the Truth.

Now in a more naive mindset in my life I'd say go to the press. Nowadays though? It's a hard call who to go to to get the thumbscrews turned on those in power.
At the bottom of (almost) every HN page is a link titled "Legal" which contains the privacy policy: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

(I don't have any relationship to HN)
I don't believe that letting someone struggle for a day is a better learning experience than just telling them what they need to know. Sometimes it might be, but I feel it is more likely just unnecessary struggle - resulting in the same or a worse, bodged, end result.

And, I am 100% sure that providing education is better than letting them struggle. If you don't want to tell them the answer (and I haven't fully understood why not), then pointing them in the right direction to discover the answer is certainly going to be more helpful.
There are different definitions of livability. Evaluating NYC in the same vein as, say, Nashville seems pretty much impossible.
Alternatively, just limit office space and thus local jobs. Except that’s not what local residents want.

SF is doing everything it can to maximize home prices while minimizing rent and property tax increase for current residents. Which is arguably exactly what’s in current local voters best interest.

Democracy working as intended?
This is akin to that guy buying a whole-page ad to complain about his ISP recently, resulting in enough shame to trigger action. It's a bad look for Rockstar considering the income that title generates and at most it was a few weeks worth of dev time. Very interesting to watch the public reaction to this in comparison though, seems to be a lot more sympathy for Rockstar than for ISPs.
Why would they care? The game made > $800 million. Players loved the game despite load time issues.
You know, it sounds to me like a real pain point that could add customer value if it were addressable. As such it suggests that if someone were bright enough to come up with a solution to curating these sorts of things you could add real value that an enterprise customer would pay big money for.

It has billion dollar startup written all over it.
Job-hunting is stressful and humiliating enough. Now robots judge our résumés
Repairs on a Volvo 240 may cost more than the car is worth but the total annual cost is many times less than replacing the car. And it's more reliable than modern >$40k cars.

Ikea also practices fake environmentalism by using non-standard parts in their light fixtures while not providing replacement parts.
Windows user here: secret chats are not supported on the desktop client at all.

That's my only gripe. The rest of the app is incredible, and absolutely the most delightful app I use every day. I cite it often as an example of a native app that beats the pants off of anything Electron-based, it's just so damn fast.
The article isn't about your neuroses, it's about a specific chain reaction of sea life. Soothing your guilt with anticonsumptionism doesn't solve the questions raised.
Well those two paragraphs you quoted have similes in them, hyperbole, slang, and characterization.

Sure, my off the top example is lame but that’s not my point. You’re saying that they’re rarely used, almost never, yet those paragraph you quoted have plenty of similes and other literary devices.

I’d argue that you can’t recognize literary devices so that’s why you’re confusing what these people are trying to say. Yes, you do need to make an effort to come up with original and interesting similes and metaphors, but they are not to be avoided
I disagree. You can create mechanics around the network that reduce the amount of toxicity.

Ephemerality being a big one. If there's no history, there's less of this cached aggression potential by raging over words said in the past. Ephemeral constructs focuses the conversation to the now since whatever current context you're in is fleeting.

Internal fragmentation (siloing) within a larger network being another. Silo might be a dirty word right now but I think combining ephemeral spaces with more siloing can help reduce the "bad things".
> Fun fact, if you want to reduce the price of houses, increase the supply instead of instituting rent control and hoping for spooky action at a distance.

That doesn't work either, though it may slow the rate of price growth.

If you want to reduce the price of housing, tank the local economy. It's the only thing that works. Supply side policy is neutralized by its own effect on accelerating/decelerating economic growth, e.g., the attack you suggest doesn't work because reducing the growth of the cost of housing in the short-term accelerates local economic growth which creates upward demand-side pressure on housing, and eventually there are limits to supply in any geographical region (and even moreso in any commute time radius, since density shrinks the radius for any given time.)

If you want to reduce the ratio between median wages and the cost of housing (which is probably more important than nominal or even real housing prices), attack the distribution of income.
In my humble opinion, at the end of the day anything that is a valid crime must have a victim.

So if you find a victim, you should be able to trace backwards to find the criminal.

It's just lazy crap policing to expect everyone to accept their security being compromised so you can dragnet everyone, including the vast majority who are innocent of any crime, and expect to sit on your ass and have your job done for you by google alerts.

This kind of dragnet surveillance of the entire populace was impossible (without unlimited manpower/funds) until very recently. It was not impossible to find criminals before smartphones/encryption, and it's not impossible now.

The authorities have so many more ways to catch criminals than at any time in history, but they still want more.

I don't want to live in a world where my every move and conversation is tracked and stored in a database forever.
Huh. I would have picked Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, and Don Herbert. I guess I should start a rival Facebook group.
There were many in the past but the social media platforms slowly closed their garden for them, not sure if they are still a thing. I remember hootsuite, tweetdeck and the likes.
> I’m not convinced emacs performance is that bad.

In my experience with modern hardware - a gaming PC - Emacs is noticeably sluggish compared to most other editors in a few specific ways: particularly syntax highlighting. When is the last time you used a different editor?

> whatever happened to remacs?

It's still there: https://github.com/remacs/remacs/wiki/Progress

As far as I can tell, its goal isn't to change anything about the core design though; just to re-implement the core in Rust.
I’m pretty shocked at all the defending of the game company here, honestly. Highly visible bug, affecting high percentage of users, relatively simple fix. I take pride in the software I wrote and would be personally very embarrassed if I caused this AND didn’t fix it for years. I guess companies don’t have feelings and can’t feel shame but I would personally feel shame as a supposed professional!

There are a lot of excuses for why this wasn’t fixed but no great reasons.
A read-only copy in a different DC could be a simple and still acceptable option.

And a status page would be nice.
Negative Externalities of Index Investing
help-script(){ "${EDITOR:?vi}" "$(which "$1")"; }

I don't actually use that but the point stands -- If the script is simple enough, you don't need a --help; comments in the source work just as well.
Kind of an interesting idea. I wonder if it might be better applied to specific legislation. For instance, for every bill that passes, all the legislators that voted for it get a share that's tied to that bill. Anyone who voted against it gets a sort of anti-share.

Decades hence, an opinion poll is run on the popularity of the legislation. If the net approval rating is positive, the people who hold shares get paid, in proportion to the popularity of the bill. If it's underwater, the people holding anti-shares get paid.

One could even give a legislator proportionally more shares or more antishares in inverse proportion to their share of the vote. For instance, if you were Barbara Lee who voted against the bill that allowed the U.S. to fight the war in Afghanistan, she'd get the same payout if her vote was in line with future public opinion as the entire rest of the House together would get if allowing the war was popular by the same margin.
Ansible licensing? I must be missing something! Do you mean Ansible Tower? Ansible is free and OSS. It has AWX which is the Tower equivalent but free.

Yes. Ansible is a framework with plugins. Just like Django or Ruby on Rails.
are you sure he's a wealthy executive? and if they are, the bronners totally deserve it. Dilute dilute OK!
Reminds me of a Windows installer I working on many years ago, that seemed to take a long time using CPU but otherwise not doing any real work. Turned out the SDK we were using tried to update the progress bar every kilobyte or something like that, and our near-gigabyte sized packages filled the message loop with a bunch of pointless updates (30.001% -> 30.002% but both displayed as 30%).

Once the vendor fixed the issue it shaved a few minutes off the install time that had previously just been a UI glitch (processing the large backlog of progress bar update messages).
Kinda wish there was a 3rd gen 7282 equivalent, for those of us just building their home servers. 2 sockets with <$750/CPU was kinda the sweet spot there.

(... really need to replace my 2×E5-2630v2, it's getting quite old... but I guess a 2×7282 will do.)

[Ed.: nevermind, hadn't read to the "idle consumption" graphs yet... nope, I'll stick with Rome ...]
Did you seriously forget that we're a year until Covid and it didn't disappear last summer?
> [...] there's no guarantee that RDRAND won't revert to the -1 behavior after the check runs, perhaps after a VM migration or resume from suspend or what-not.

Author here. This is true and is an issue with some CPUs (breaking RDRAND after resume), but every call to RDRAND is guarded[1] by a check that it works.

[1]: https://github.com/json-c/json-c/blob/041cef434afe0d0c6da8b6...

Edit: Ah, I just realized you stated "after the check runs" and you're correct, there's no way that can be guaranteed.

Edit 2: Well, if RDRAND returns a value json-c can't use (-1) it won't be used.
Somehow, no one in SF has realized this: that they can institute rent control... and increase housing supply... at the same time.
This is very unscientific, not the least because the cause of the problem is acknowledged as unknown (this is how the scientific method works).

But we will be shamed for this change in creative ways, nevertheless. A good crisis must not be wasted, unlike starfish.
Sure, if you frame something as "Hero worship of scientists as a class as being the holders of truth" then it sounds really bad.

In reality, it means stuff like "You should not buy homeopathic cures because it's exactly the same as water."

I'm OK with science being the arbiter of truth when it has evidences.

Edit: Also, in my opinion, Hawking's A Brief History of Time is one of the best books that explained basic ideas of cosmology (and how it is worked on) in terms that laypeople can understand. If that makes him worthy of a special mention of criticism, I don't know what to say.
It's been fewer than 24 hours since this happened, and they send him an email immediately with steps to fix it.

It sucks, but remember that Chrome Extensions have basically unlimited power, and Google is doing their best to protect users.

[EDIT: And it's resolved! The extension is back]
It is a deep irony that the pantheon of scientistic atheism pop culture referents you talk about inspire exactly the kind of religious authority you describe. I find this is often an unfortunate byproduct of folks who jump from a religious upbringing to atheism without doing the necessary self discovery in between.

After all, what's most beautiful about science is not the people involved in its discovery, but the vast majesty of nature and reality. The people involved would always tell you that they themselves are merely vehicles. So I always end up wishing that these pop culture distillations of science would focus more on the nature side of the story and less on the people. Is it just the nature of the beast of pop culture to do just the opposite?
Millions of doses administered to mostly senior citizens, whose deaths may not arouse suspicion or further scrutiny, who are at greater risk from COVID than any vaccine side effect.

The equation changes when otherwise young and healthy individuals are at risk of serious complications, even if exceedingly rare.
Yeah, I also admin a few topical groups of 10-40 people with a few friends, and the level of engagement I've gotten is insane. I've never had a long-term group chat with so much content sharing, long-form opinions, etc, and I credit Telegram's UX and desktop clients for most of that engagement.

In many ways, it reminds me of the Web 0.x days on which the HN crowd so frequently reminisces.
Yeah, can't believe it took this long, considering it's potential in treating PTSD.

e.g.

https://www.insider.com/army-vet-with-ptsd-magic-mushrooms-p...

https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/johns-hopkins-sci...
How large does a repository need to get to run into this issue?
>Loss at sea is difficult, because locations are often uncertain and documentation is sparse.

When found, not safe.

People are now predating these sites, to get valuable pre-nuclear-bomb scrap for use in detectors. Divers are reporting that official war-grave wrecks are being destroyed by scavengers.
We have been in this position ourselves - I really do empathise and live with the same fear.

The removal process ought not be automated, unless it's a serious violation that can be detected algorithmically with high confidence.

The algorithms detecting violations are clearly buggy as hell. Our take down also made little sense, and we had to resort to support, which is itself a nightmare. There are numerous similar stories a Google search away.

Extensions are growing to be a fundamental part of the browsing experience- Google ought to invest more into improving the ecosystem.

Scaling the human review process should protect both users and developers.
I've been doing the same thing but around live TV. The goal is each show is its own community that essentially forms and disperses as the shows are live and then end.

https://couchmate.com
The data in this editorial is already out of date.
What are they thinking, they say they assume no one uses this feature, maybe they should actually get data on that? If you don't uave telemetry for it, then add that first. At least do a poll.
Thanks! Fantastic reply.
There are many, many confounding variables. Not all miles driven are qualitatively the same. I.e. driving 1000 miles on winding, narrow New England roads, is qualitatively very different from driving 1000 miles on a grid in sunny Phoenix.

The issue I have is the assumption that FSD will ever be an economically attainable goal. Basically FSD requires AGI applied to driving domain. Nobody is making investments based on an assumption that AGI is 2, 15, or 30 years away, so why should they be making investments on the assumption that FSD is closer?

Even if at some point FSD is technically feasible it remains to be seen if it will be economically competitive with human drivers and if it will be actually safer. Many people enjoy driving, myself included, and many people are very safe drivers.

Speaking of New England how does FSD react to a deer jumping out of dense brush 30 feet ahead of the car at night. First it has to recognize the deer as an obstruction. Then it needs to decide whether to brake and maintain line of travel or brake and try to evade the deer while maintaining control of the car.

How does FSD identify black ice at night vs. wet pavement. Experienced human drivers can identify ice by the "feel."

How does FSD know what branches in the road after a wind storm are safe to drive over and which require braking and navigating around?

What about a limb hanging down into the road way?

How does FSD know where to drive on a back road with no lines on it?

How does FSD react to a plastic bag in the road? What about a rock that is similar colour and shape?

Etc.

Nothing about FSD is simple or close to being solved.
So you want your ISP to offer the Facebook Package, the Twitter Package, the Slack Package, the Discord Package, the Instagram Package, the Tik Tok package, and with any of them you can get the AOL package? Sort of like the opposite of net neutrality? Plus do you really want Comcast to have control over what most people see as news via social media? The same Comcast that is very politically connected and regularly lobbies state and federal legislatures to blatantly advance their own interests.
Yeah but you still used a simile, you just used one that you like more, more fitting to the time.

But you’re still using a literary device to increase the clarity of “struggling against the abuse of language”. What these guys are arguing is that there is no use for similes. You should say: “People struggle against the abuse of language” and leave it at that.
I used to grab Eatsa every day for lunch. It was really the only customizable, healthy, affordable, and fast lunch options around. It was packed all the time too. I was super bummed and surprised to learn they shut down. There's definitely a market for this.
There's no question they've sabotaged their webapp in favor of the app where there's no adblock and they can send push notifications for profit. Been a user since 2009 and still use a ton for everything, but it's quickly grown more painful by the day.