skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"this is so right that I am justified in destroying property, people to get it done"

I do not think that this is necessarily a sign of something "haywire in the mind". The powerful use this logic all the time, and yet it is not a mainstream view that ordering an air strike, for instance, is clearly a sign of mental illness.

Perhaps it should be.
I know a medium sized French-American multinational. You've probably not even heard of it. A decade ago they had multiple products that had several million lines of code. Their entire platforms probably had 100 million. I can't even imagine how many contributors they had, the oldest project was started in the 80's and it probably had 1000 contributors over time, at least.

And again, that's for a middle size company you haven't even heard of. FAANG, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM for sure will have stuff dwarfing that.
It reminds me of that Instagram thing, you look on Instagram and see beautiful people living perfect lifes and feel completely inadequate in comparison.

Then you look a little deeper and realise most of them are pretending, they're photoshopping their selfies, renting their expensive cars for a day and taking their selfies on other peoples property.

HN can be a bit like that, you can feel completely inadequate compared to these super-geniuses doing everything perfectly, when really you're doing ok.
Pro tip: Don't use print functions/statements.
Yes, phones request a particular (plain http) URL from Google or Apple, which returns a 204 response. If they don't get a response, the network is assumed to have a connectivity issue. If they get redirected due to captive portal, they detect that and can prompt the user to log in.

https://github.com/leoleozhu/android-captive-portal
> Which part of this is not a net win for privacy?

The way google implements it all of it!

Google will assign you a Id, sure this Id is shared with others but on a It/Statistic scale it's not that many others. Furthermore every website you and every add on it gets the Id.

If you combine that id with other identifying information you can easily extract from a browser without needing any permissions you get a pretty close to or maybe even fully unique id!

In the end while it seems to be an improvement on the first look it actually makes deeply privacy invasive tracking easier, not harder.

EDIT: At the same time it allows google to pretend to be good in front of law makers. And potentially hide behind things like "our AGBs require that you don't abuse the Id" (which given that it's send to anyone independent of weather or not they agreed to the AGBs is stupid, and also even if every one did agree to the AGBs common abuse of the android advertiser Id without consequences shows how well that works.)

A proper federated ad system doesn't provide a way to unique identify you to advertisers. It lets advertisers provide a selection of labeled add slots and the browser then pics one of them without any information besides the choice ever going to the advertiser. This (oversimplified presented approach) still can slightly be abused. But is one of the few ways you can have personalized ads without a absurd invasion of privacy.

> Genuinely - what's stopping Firefox from implementing this and sending a set of data that's either chosen by you in UI or setting it to empty?

I haven't looked at the tech but most likely it might involve certificates, drm, and legal agreements which would make it impossible for a cooperation to do so.
I think how well you can get "into the zone" while being physically active depends partly on how physically active you are to be begin with. If your body is not used to cycling or walking on a treadmill, then you're going to find it difficult to multitask when doing that activity.

I have used a bike desk for more than a decade. I have no difficulty getting into the zone; in fact, I find the rhythmic motion actually helps.

You can get far more exercise while you work than you can in your free time, simply because time spent working > available free time for most people. It all depends on how long and how much you exert yourself. Based on my desk's power meter, I burn about 1200 calories/day while I work.
This is more akin to lossless compression than the transcription of a territory onto a map.
Not everything has to be done with machine learning you know.
Well, according to the article he was active on Parler and MyMilitia.com, and was at the protests in Washington on Jan 6th, and complained that the insurrectionists didn’t go far enough. I’m not sure what else you’re looking for, exactly.
there is also Enviolo's NuVinci continuous variable transmission
Authoritarian Regime Slaps One Hand With The Other
I suspect depends a bit on what you're doing... but for me and the things I tend to work on, I tend to get scared by "big" projects that won't be "done" until some far off point in the future after loads of work, so my motivation is kept up by:

- Getting something "out there" + "working" as soon as possible. Even if _really_ rough, buggy, ugly, can't scale, only works in 1 case, needs a code change to work in any other etc...

- Keep it working with every change

- Every change is small. Potentially, teeny-tiny

Examples:

- Forking a project from GitHub. Have something working straight away! I've done a few project that literally have no lines of code in common with the original, except perhaps the license [so not appropriate for all projects]

- Releasing a website with whatever it is really early. Even if unstyled, no documentation, but does a tiny sliver of what you want it to do eventually. Then iterate, releasing the new version every single change.

- I think some people suggest avoiding tests in early stages of projects, but for me... some high-level tests on the "public facing" behaviour really helps give me the feeling that it's working as changes are made, and I'm never stepping backwards.

Things to avoid:

- Long running feature branches where lots of things are broken

- Refactoring without some sort of externally-facing feature in mind

- Low level tests of implementation details

- Working too much on "behind the scenes" stuff. You probably don't need a really fancy CI system that supports 100 developers deploying every day... [But: enough of a system for _you_ to release often is good]
> I wonder, does such a person share a lot of characteristics of his mental state with someone who on the other side of the political spectrum

This sounds like the "horseshoe theory":

"In political science and popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, closely resemble one another, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together."

It's no surprise that "[t]he horseshoe theory has been criticized by those from both ends of the political spectrum who oppose being grouped with those they consider to be their polar opposites [...]" by the way ;)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory for the full article.
> These viruses are a threat to all humanity. I just want us to fight them better and help everyone.

It would be more accurate to say: these viruses are a threat to the current socioeconomic and sociopolitical status quo.

Take air travel for instance. It was key to spreading this and other pandemic viruses. Yet no one is questioning air travel. Note: I'm not suggesting it should be shut down, only that the idea of international flights being normalized should be revisited.

Looking at Forbes latest list to the richest people in the world tells us 2020 was a great year for wealth redistribution (from the bottom to the top). It was a great year for the status quo, for the globalists. As for the rest of us? 2020 was not so good.

Ultimately, the virus is a symptom.
I don’t understand why this is downvoted gray. “We’d like to dual source a Wi-Fi SoC product” — fine, just build two completely different hardware and software to go with, with matching aesthetics and features.

There’s no way around it, there’s usually no pin-compatible alternatives in embedded like there are for Core i7 and Core i3. That only works in consumer PC.
See https://github.com/leoleozhu/android-captive-portal and https://success.tanaza.com/s/article/How-Automatic-Detection...

If you could return valid internal DNS entries for these domains, and serve up a 204 to the right requests, you should be able to stay online.

You need to ensure you don't do it for every possible domain - I believe Chrome also tests random non-existent domains too, to ensure it gets back the expected error.
> data collection needs.

There are no "data collection needs" there are "data collection wants". If they asked, people would say no. To pour so much effort into manipulating people into letting themselves be monitoring and just tracking people without their consent is straight up abusive.

They asked "Hey can I have this data about you?"

We said "We´d actually rather you didn´t."

End of discussion. This is not complicated concept. Informed consent is not a complex theory, it´s possible for a class of 2nd graders to grasp it.

I don´t need new and improved ways for this dystopian garbage to be more convenient to me.

I need it so stop.
The problem is that far-right extremism is by far the biggest violent threat, a multiple of Islamist extremism or far-left extremism. This applies not only to the US but most of Europe as well.

Feel free to check out any of the pieces below

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/27/in-ameri...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/domestic-terrorist-gro...

https://cco.ndu.edu/PRISM/PRISM-Volume-6-no-2/Article/839011...

https://www.europol.europa.eu/activities-services/main-repor... (p. 11)
Well, with the ideal technical leadership, you start off with a monolith and clearly delineate boundaries inside it.

Then as the project grows chunks just get carved out.

Though real life is much messier.
Why?

Work should be balanced between creating new code and maintaining existing code. And managers should value both.
The willingness to use violence against people or property seems like it would be a further leap. Operating outside of the mainstream ideologies isn't necessarily a slippery slope. Reasonable people should be able to disagree without using violence.
Consider the bit at the end of this blog post:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180326-00/?p=98...

Bonus chatter: In a discussion of Windows source control, one person argued that git works great on large projects and gave an example of a large git repo: “For example, the linux kernel repository at roughly eight years old is 800–900MB in size, has about 45,000 files, and is considered to have heavy churn, with 400,000 commits.”

I found that adorable. You have 45,000 files. Yeah, call me when your repo starts to get big. The Windows repo has over three million files.

Four hundred thousand commits over eight years averages to around [130] commits per day. This is heavy churn? That’s so cute.

You know what we call a day with [130] commits? “Catastrophic network outage.”
Is there something similar for macOS/iOS?
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Languages you must know #5 (APL)
APL is a "language for thinking".

Ken Iverson went way-off-the-reservation of programming languages by introducing a symbol for each operation. Each operation is array-based. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to introduce any examples due to the symbol issue. But look at wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

Languages that matter will change the way you think. APL really pushes the "need to think" by casting everything as array operations. Unlike FORTH and Lisp, you really need to "carry your problem" to the language.

Normally that would be a problem. But we're striving for the "Why" and "What" level of understanding. This is a language that will really challenge your thinking.

For a mind-expanding experience look for anything by Aaron Hsu. For example,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A

Aaron talks about "obesity in programming" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDqx1afGtQc
He discusses the difference between "essentially hard problems" vs "accidentally hard problems".

If you wanted to do something like write a spreadsheet, this is the perfect language.

APL shows you that "thinking" in a language changes WHAT you can think.

APL is a "must know" language.
> there must be something that goes haywire in the mind to think that "this is so right that I am justified in destroying property, people to get it done"

I’m not sure that this guy is mentally unstable, simply because he made a very bad decision.
Despite what a lot of people think we had covid here in NZ too, people died - but like China we did a nationwide lockdown and people actually took it seriously, people only went out to buy food for 6 weeks. The government opened its pockets and made sure people, could live and still had jobs when it was over, and the economy was ready to be restarted.
Something that only works for huge sizes isn't scalable by definition. Scalable means it can scale up or down
> Conversely, if we built our cities the way we build our software, you would need to enter the shop through the special garage, and exit through the roof to walk a wire to get to another custom made building from scrapped containers to do the checkout.

I live 1.6km from my office. I drive 9.2km to the office. Cities aren't as straightforward as you might think.
What, exactly, is a preventative check, if not a discussion with your GP about your current physiological status? Given the time described (15 minutes), and the lack of immediate diagnostics, it sounds exactly like what I would expect from a check-in with my doctor here in Canada.
The only other option I could see counting as a preventative check is a physical, which would be more involved than what was described.
Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Tech. sees commercialization by 2030
Changed jobs to work in green tech, working from home.
Switched to vegetarian diet about 4 years ago.
I'm very mindful of car usage and prefer bicycle whenever possible.
Avoiding plastic bags and always choosing products with less packaging.
I prefer locally sourced food and avoid online shopping (still some way to go here).
Almost all orthodox churches, except the Finnish and maybe Estonian, celebrate Easter in the Eastern way. The correctness of this approach is confirmed every year by the Holy Fire, which doesn't follow the new calendar!
A good magician never reveals their tricks.
More or less.

I enjoy research and design. Thinking about architectures is fun.

I enjoy implementation. Writing code is fun. I enjoy doing in-place documentation; especially as I am usually the poor schmuck that has to go back and refactor or fix.

I really like solving problems; whether bugs, or vexing UX/mental model issues. I'm an extremely proficient troubleshooter. My first job was as an RF technician, so I have been solving problems my entire adult life.

I enjoy creating a software infrastructure, for others to build upon; as opposed to "an app." I've written software that lasts decades, though with a vastly different face. That's kind of a cool feeling. Watching someone take my basic undercarriage, and add a hot rod motor and chassis, is wild.

I enjoy creating documentation. I'm pretty prolix. I was trained as an artist, so I can do fairly decent illustrations, as well as prose.

I enjoy creating localizable software. I've been dealing with different cultures my entire life, and love to explore our differences.

I enjoy creating accessible software. I deal -almost daily- with folks that have various types of challenges, and they help me to keep a focus on what's important.

I enjoy pitching the project. Having a product that is in very good shape at pitch time, makes this much easier.

I enjoy releasing a refined, polished project.
It’s only wrong if you fail. If you succeed you were a “revolutionary”.
I’m glad to see this b/c I had a good experience with the RPI3 on FreeBSD but a terrible experience trying to get the RPI4 running on FreeBSD. I think I will still have to use a dongle to run the RPIs on FreeBSD which isn’t great but hopefully the overall setup will be easier
from someone who has had the opportunity to talk to such people, they share:
1. lack of ability to separate fact from fiction in information they consume.
2. lack a desire to build, create, or problem solve in general.
3. Parent and society issues in that they carry open emotional wounds in general mental terms.

Also note, that extreme-ism in dogma whether it's religion or political philosophy seems to attract such damaged people.

Mt own HO is that we suffer in certain parts of the world from more of this due to lack of real mental health infrastructure to alleviate such things.
> I simply don't understand why people use hardware RAID controllers. Anything above JBOD is asking for disaster.

Have you ever worked with decent enterprise hardware?
He was posting on MyMilitia.com about blowing up Amazon data centers to retaliate for "disrespect" shown to his tribe. Left wing extremists don't post on MyMilitia.com. They post on derrickjensen.org or whatever.
Well, many churches use old calendar dates in their church calendars, on websites etc, at least in parallel to the new style. I suppose this might be more common in the diaspora.
There's a place for everything. My cpap machine has the loudest clickiest physical button of anything in my house, much to my wife's displeasure. I wonder every day why they put a heavy clicky button on something you use in bed with a sleeping partner.
It is easier than ever to deploy software on a small scale. It sounds like your security team is failing to provide a suitable platform and you chose the wrong cloud provider for sending email.
I'm on a few dumb software patents and they always start with "a server configured to..." given how close software patents are to ideas.
I recently got the book "High Conflict" - it goes into this question in some detail.
Earlier discussion of media reports on the cases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26502064
I think there's crossover but I don't think those two groups are motivated by the same thing.

My observation is that far-right activists tend to feel that they're being deliberately stabbed in the back by the powers that be, rather than seeing themselves as collateral damage. They're also significantly more likely to be paranoid, and they perceive their targets as you would an invading army.

Far-left activism isn't like that. They don't perceive The Man as sadistic, they perceive him as disinterested. "Nobody cares about global warming" vs. "they're deliberately raising the temperature of the earth to hurt me." I also get the vibe far-left activists often engage in activism for fun. It's an exciting mission to break into the farm with your friends. They almost always do it in groups, whereas you're more likely to see jilted right-wingers plan solo attacks like this guy.

(I'm not trying to paint the far-left as better here. I think they're often quite dishonest about their motivations, whereas the far-right is extremely up-front, pied piper gurus aside. I think that's one of the reasons paranoid schizophrenics gravitate more toward the far right, although it helps that their narratives are more about conspiratorial persecution.)

The demographic distributions are also different. Almost all far-right activists are male, whereas vegan & climate activists are mixed.
I’m curious about what documentation is lacking? I’ve been collecting technical documentation on the RPI4 because I’m trying to understand the platform well, and maybe I’ve come across something that can help?
Not to trivialize any of the politics but to me the key takeaway is if my revenue relies on aws, I should seriously consider multi region.

Given enough time, there is bound to be a disaster at some point. If all my data is in one data center, ...

I don’t know enough about aws so I think I need to study this a little bit more.
moebius strip would describe this more accurately than a horse shoe
This is actually a very easy problem to solve with minimal design : Just find a way to isolate the knobs from the main cooking area. Like this but with induction : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gas+hob+&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=imag...
There’s a company called L-Tek in Poland that’s making pretty sturdy ones out of wood and sheet metal. After shipping and everything it worked out to like $350. Not too bad if you’re serious about it.
You're welcome, I love your books — and Replit.
Glad you like the list, what are your books?
BiDirectional WebDriver Protocol
It’s a matter of billing. A preventive visit does a set of screening and evaluation of results.

If you say “my knee hurts lately”, then that’s separate as the physician will do an evaluation that is separate from a routine physical.

And it’s not just the US. I have family in Canada and they were told maximum of 2 complaints can be addressed as they can only bill for a certain amount of time. Beyond that the doctor is working for free. Another separate appointment is needed.
I have good results with AdGuard on iPhone (functions as content blocker in Safari).

It's not perfect and difficult to customize but works well for the most part. It even gets rid of YT video ads (mostly anyway)

I also combine it with NextDNS
How to center content with HTML and CSS
Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy
> Linux kernel incorrect computation of branch displacements in BPF JIT compiler...

...can be abused to execute arbitrary code in Kernel mode

to complete what has been cut off in the title.

Ironically tough, running user code in the kernel was kind of the original idea.
Thanks again, much appreciated.
I don't see how this one district in eastern Texas can be such an outlier without some sort of oversight. Does no one find it absurd that all these patent cases go here, that the results are so consistently in the favour of the plaintiff, etc?
"For example, a site can opt out of all FLoC cohort calculation by sending the HTTP response header:

Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()"

https://github.com/WICG/floc

Added to proxy config.

http-response add-header "Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()"