skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean this is a country that made Donald Trump President. So why is it a mystery what type of men populate the rest of
the food chain.

There is no dearth of douchebags in positions of power and responsibility. And they are happy to over ride "HR processes" not because they are incapable of recognizing another douchebag, but because they think the douchebag will be effective.

The problem with cancel culture is it doesnt address that belief. All I see is "cancelled" ppl and various douchebags afraid of being cancelled getting together and supporting each other reinforcing their "victimhood".

Sooner or later enough of them aggregate at one spot or the other and create new issues for everyone.

The only way to deal with douchebags especially in the corporate world, is to be more effective than them in delivering results. That makes the story simple.

Cancel culture just complicates it.
why are you committing packages?
You've forgotten the paradox of tolerance: you decide which tolerance is the right kind of tolerance, so you only tolerate the things you already agree with.
> It's a beautiful piece of prose that really stuck with me

That’s what stuck with me most. I kind of knew where the content was going, but this felt really nicely written.
Aaand? I think that's news at 11.
Here waiting for the announcement of a canvas based browser.
The guy wrote a literal NYT/WSJ bestseller, a justifiably noteworthy book about the tech industry. It was covered in the tech and mainstream press extensively. He's a well known public figure, not an anonymous engineer.

I don't see any reason to doubt that plenty of people at Apple had heard of him and read the book, other than a self-regarding faith that people you disagree with can't possibly know something you don't.
Increase the Performance and Life of SSDs
Make it big, get it up out of the water.

The larger your ship is the more efficient it can be, and the less of it in the water the less energy is needed to push it.

So make big big ships with really really big sails. You want the ships to fly with just the keel in the water to steer against the wind.

You might think I'm joking or talking nonsense, but look up Alexander Bell's cellular geodesic kites, and Bucky Fuller's "Cloud Nine" floating city.
> I consider how much we depend on useless, arbitrary tasks to prove ourselves. I consider how much we depend on these tasks so we can say, at the very end, we succeeded.

This made me think of tech interviews.
Man, all the WHO bashing comments are getting downvoted pretty quickly, except:

- WHO took a _long_ time to declare a pandemic when member countries were asking for it.

- WHO actively discouraged international border closures for containment.

- WHO took way too long to declare aerosol transmission even when countries had identified it.

In a global scale event like this, there's no individual country who should have been the shepherd. It should have been the WHO, comprised of all its member inputs, really showing the lead here.

Each individual country owns responsibility for their own preparedness, no doubt or question about that, but the WHO needs a re-organization big time.
What is our advantage against the big players?
It took me almost 10 years to find out that I have Rhinosinusitis (confirmed by CT scan as well), most doctors wanted to send me to psychologist. Mucus goes to my airway when there’s air pollution, which makes it very hard to sleep, and of course it decreases my mental capacity and well being significantly as well.
He’s an author with a published book and a Wikipedia article. I’ve known about him for like five years. This isn’t some no name person.
Objectively, Covid-19 was a preventable disaster.

From all around the world, the issue was governmental competence.

Almost every government in the world did not treat the issue with the due amount of urgency.

Almost every government in the world screwed up on airborne transmission for a good while.

Almost every government downright minimized the issued and wasted precious months of time that could have been used to ramp up testing, set up contact tracing, and organize the initial lockdowns to be more effective. My country still doesn't have an effective contact tracing system with people employed there complaining of massive dysfunction, over a year in.

It's not for lack of power either - almost every government in the world has already assigned themselves a tremendous amount of emergency powers during pandemics and in general, from the authority to lockdown to mass surveillance.

Yet very few used this authority effectively. The governments that claimed not to want to use these powers by respect for civil rights overwhelmingly... Still reserve those powers to themselves and abuse them in ways that don't help.

Why is it that governments are so competent when it comes to mass surveillance and repression but completely fumble the ball in cases where governmental power is genuinely helpful and where the argument for them being justified is so much stronger?
Becoming a CEO does not magically make your responsibility to society disappear. Shareholders are an additional thing you need to worry about, not the only thing.

> stop vilifying people for making money

Why? They're doing it in a vile way.
I'm really curious how many diseases will mysteriously become a lot less common once we stop driving ICE vehicles and perhaps cycle and use public transit more.
And what is your point here? Because it is absolutely a hysteria.
While you're definitely correct, I enjoyed working with Komodo IDE which was (is?) built around XUL even up to a few years ago. A neat API for extending and hacking around on it, with quite nice discoverability. I'm sad to see it go, but it makes perfect sense as to why!
Your position is illogical. The question "can this person do the job" can be a resounding, objective "yes", for someone who, say, also happens to embezzle cash from the company. If that's the "only thing that matters", then the thief should keep the job and continue stealing.

Especially if you want to defend some unpopular position, you have make sure you don't have logical holes in it, like universal absolutes that succumb to easy counterexamples.
It’s possible to describe the nature of an action without describing its form
Yeah, if only the organization meant to give accurate epidemiology information hadn't first denied airborne transmission, then denied mask efficacy, and then espoused 6 feet distance bullshido.

From the speed of spread of covid, it was clear that it was airborne. I don't need a PHD in epidemiology to not mislead the public.
I made that phrase up, though Baudrillard would probably have somewhat agreed - at any rate, he was a cultural critic, so he wasn't interested in the geopolitical causes of events, and more the "semiotic" causes, so to speak. I can't think of the right word here, I am not a sociologist/media studies major, but it's something like, How do the cultural symbols prevalent at the time and the media in which they are expressed form our notion of "the thing that happened."

Yes, there is one way of answering the question, like you say, which is, Saddam invades Kuwait for oil, and the US has to take action to restore the geopolitical balance in the area. For a post-modern philosopher, the interesting tack is more like, "The recognition by the administration of the opportunity to turn this into a show worth watching about American heroism is what drove the sequence of events."

edit: grammar
other stuff might require require rewriting history
If you couldn't read the (short) article closely enough to determine the author's pronouns, maybe hold off on implying they are either mentally ill or a bad writer.
If it helps, men are full of shit too.. I m not even joking. Am I misandrist now and should lose my job?
The author dismisses finding the actual CRC routine pretty quickly, but debugging the app to find the relevant routine would be my first approach.
So first of all, I think the US-lead world order is much overhyped.

Second, yes Trump accelerated some things, but deep changes that caused Trump more than they were caused by Trump have been having more effect on international relations far long. Don't forget all the same complaints about not funding the state department were made in the Bush years.

Trump is a bad, don't get me wrong, but this seems like trite hawk Democrat thinking to me. It's precisely the nature of the US-led order in recent years that free trade agreements, IP laws, etc. etc. were more easily done than tackling issues of high global importance like global warming and Covid.
Stoicism is actually what sent me down this path of thought. Something I read, and I wish I could recall, emphasized that the stuff of thought and reason is a fleeting, tenuous, unpredictable thing and prescribed a number of ways to compensate for that.

I was really struck by how true that is and how practical the advice was. Digging deeper into stoicism, I discovered that the dichotomy of control presents a world in which we have a laughably small amount of control over anything at all - including most of the components which make up our ‘selves’. What remains is all that we can ever utilize in order to be virtuous people. There’s not much there to work with, but in its isolation, it’s somehow immense and incredibly difficult to manage at the best of times.

Like you though I find value in several religions and philosophies. Some of the most valuable things I’ve learned have come from a few of them. I’ll have to look into the Hindu Vāsanā - thanks for that.
My guess is that this comes down to browser support. A canvas based solution probably has pretty wide support today while these new CSS features will be subject to the long tail of browser versions.
I hope we get rid of cargo ships that burn matter. But sails are too high maintenance to be scalable.

Last year, as an experiment I've launched a tiny solar-powered boat ([1]). Ultimately, it was too small and underpowered only making ~900km ([2]) before dying.

I hope to build a bigger drone boat next, hopefully with an ability to move up to 1 tonne of cargo. Apparently, it's possible, but (unfortunately) requires very delicate engineering.

For bigger boats solar does not seem to scale. It appears that nuclear is the ultimate future for megaships.

1. https://imgur.com/a/eKlLCNg

2. https://storage.googleapis.com/samofly/track/index2.html
Yea I'm pretty sure I have a dotfile tool I haven't used for a few years.

Between hourly snapshots and maintaining the same install for many years across many machines its all kind of a waste of time to me.

It's way easier for me to clone a drive or restore from backups than fuck about trying to reinstall everything how I like it.

I haven't installed Linux for years. Is it easier than dd yet?

I guess maybe if you use multiple Mac's or something it's an issue?
Giant sea lizard fossil shows diversity of life before asteroid hit
Astronomy: Discovering the Universe with cutting-edge technology
I don't understand non-C programmers and their seeming utter inability to understand that C programmers are very aware of C imperfections and how to effectively deal with it, while being equally blind to the flaws and complexity in their own environments.

I learned C as a first year undergrad.
Another good example of this is that musicians will often deliberately work to get parts of pieces fully in muscle. For fast sequences, if your brain has to get involved, you've already missed a few notes.
https://twitter.com/sfpelosi/status/1147657745253855233

It sure was convenient for a lot of the richest and most powerful that their little Epstein problem went away.

Hopefully there is at least one person with the tiniest shred of a soul left takes a stand one day and spills the beans. Maybe it will be Melinda.
"Why is it that governments are so competent when it comes to mass surveillance and repression" Are they? It seems alot of it is just ordering competent companies to do it for them
> But, as you can imagine, manually linking dotfiles quickly becomes laborious and error-prone. One solution is to create a script that links the files for you, but I think there’s a better way.

Yeah I have no issues doing this. I can count on any machine having bash and git, and I don't have to relearn how the tool works every few months.
Yes it was preventable. If China didn’t suppress early reports of the virus (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation_by_C...), or if they didn’t downplay the severity of COVID-19 (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/world/asia/china-coronavi...), or if they voluntarily shut down their international ports (https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-china-us-flights-4300...), then a global disaster would have been much more preventable. Likewise if the WHO didn’t just spread China’s misinformation from their platform (https://www.businessinsider.com/who-no-transmission-coronavi...), other nations could have taken action sooner.

And if it does turn out that gain of function research in WIV, potentially funded by the US, led to the leak of an extra infectious coronavirus, that will have been another way in which COVID-19 was a preventable disaster. And for some reason the WHO’s delegation to visit Wuhan included Peter Daszak, despite very obvious conflicts of interest (https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/02/world-health-organization...), so we may never get a trustworthy answer on that possibility.

This report mentions exactly none of that. It is a ridiculous farce, and the WHO is not to be trusted when it comes to a global retrospective on what went wrong.
I don't know where you live, but I'm used to power outages a lot more than gasoline outages. As evidence that is not just a delusion, I notice that you can buy gas powered electric generators in the stores.

Do you see electric powered gasoline generators anywhere? It would certainly be possible in theory.
You'll probably do very well at getting rid of people you obviously deem unwelcoming, but you're likely to welcome a lot of passive aggressive behavior unawares.
Agree, a lot of webapps can just ignore. Suppose you have a 10 min refresh time. Logout just deletes the client-side state and in 10 minutes the user will be "hard" logged out since their token hasn't been refreshed.

Similar security to "abandoned session" which is of course what a very large % of users do instead of "logging out".

There is risk of cloned session, but there's no law saying non-banking apps have to care.

This has the nice property that if you're forced to, adding a cache to store invalidated tokens with a ttl of 10 minutes is an incremental enhancement.
NixOS would probably suit you well then, the "installer" even generates the initial config file you to use for build your machine.
How to find company for the activity in two minutes?
This is a wonderful story, I love the writing style. Learned a ton about CRCs and enjoyed the journey too.

I also love the site as a whole -- it looks to be hand written html (proofs too!) without even so much as a css stylesheet.
The WHO absolutely did take a long time to declare a pandemic and certainly did fumble the ball on aerosol transmission.

However given what we now know for sure we can safely say that border closures without an eradication policy (strict lockdowns and mass testing until the cases are undetectable followed by contact tracing) would not have changed anything.

Which is what the models that WHO epidemiologists had used to give the guidance that airport closures would not be very effective used as premises and found.

We know that by the time the border closures were suggested the virus was already definitely already in every country. From then on an extra five or six cases a month don't really affect the trajectory of the epidemic much at all.

Unless you go for an eradication strategy. But in Western states that waited until deaths started mounting to lockdown and then opened back up mostly before they went to zero we can confidently say that airport closures would not have been a factor in avoiding the disaster.
I've provided data in my article of many instances where people got JWT wrong, including an example from Auth0. I wouldn't call myself a security researcher, but many who are have also said this.

Your comment that it's 'actually pretty easy' feels pretty reductive. If you're really making this argument, I feel it would be good to provide some evidence.

I've been doing this for a while, and in my experience a large group of devs would likely not be able to explain public key cryptography, despite having ownership over features and/or applications. This is not just about you and what you find easy, this is about the entire community with a huge variety of experience levels.
Your face will be so red, when 10 years from now, something your wrote on HN will be deemed unfit for the current social mores.

We will discuss actions and consequences again from an amusingly differing perspective I am sure.
Time travel debugging is actually the more common historical term for the technology along with replay debugging specifically for the record-replay based variants. Reverse debugging as a term is really more of a GDB-ism and even there the term only really started gaining steam when rr produced a reasonable backend with GDB reverse debugging commands as a front-end. Also, frankly, the original GDB reverse debugging backend was entirely non-viable since it resulted in something like a 10,000x slowdown [2] during execution which made it essentially useless for anything other than actual toy problems. This is entirely an artifact of the implementation rather than any technology reason as most of the early solutions listed in [1] were somewhere between no slowdown for hardware-based solutions and 2x-100x for software based solutions.

[1] http://jakob.engbloms.se/archives/1564

[2] https://undo.io/resources/6-things-time-travel-debugging/
Their business model has the most to lose if this trend continues. So it is understandable why the ceo would take such creative liberties to paint the picture.
Bioweapon? A new strain of virus that can mutate to unknown properties, and to which virtually nobody have immunity?
It was covered in the tech and mainstream press, yes. Did any of that coverage indicate that it was so shockingly offensive nobody should ever hire him, as these employees claim to find obvious?
In a matter of speaking, he is as a moderator on HN.
The author is detailing the problems wrt git-lfs, why they are problems and how those problems are overcome in a similar technical solution in a similar VCS. I think the original title is fine
I don't invest in diamonds (I had to buy a few, but that was an investment of different kind), and I don't really invest in the stockmarket either for the reasons you mentioned.

I can make enough money to live comfortably through work, admitedly I would be a lot safer if I had more, I prefer investing in realestate that I can potentially monetise by renting and I can leave to my children. It's probably not the most efficient but I don't want to spend time and effort on investing in to stockmarket, crypto or w/e - I chose SW development because I like to build things that solve problems and be creative - at this point crypto/stocks feel like the exact opposite (initially I gave it the benefit of a doubt but at this point I'm almost certain it's a bubble built on spreading bullshit)
Was thinking the same thing.

But… although I do 100% drink the Elon Koolaid about "us" colonizing Mars, I really doubt that humans, as we know them today, are the creature that is going to be there.

It will instead be some planet-specific tweaked versions of us and other creatures, eventually in a different substrate even, as opposed to bags of meat.

When you think of it that way, the possibilities for mental health are just a sub-problem of the larger problem of aligning AGI.

I said I drink the Koolaid, and the above may sound out of line with what Elon has been saying about making humans multi-planetary.

But if you read between the lines of what he says, I think this is already his view; he just doesn't say it the way I did above because (I think his reason is) the freakout factor is too high. It is consistent with what he does say. Lately he has been saying "make life multi-planetary" and "make consciousness multi-planetary" not just humans. He still says humans too but it may be a loose usage of the word humans, and I don't doubt there will be a transition period with some homo sapiens. Long term, not so much.

OK that kind of got far afield but the point is mental health is going to be a different equation by that point. Maybe harder actually, but different.
The most annoying thing about those junk mail is that it actually distracts me from focusing on really important notices.
Well, you're definitely right that competent companies help a lot, but the government still does a lot of technical work in Five Eyes countries and in countries like China and Russia that have very strong mass surveillance too the government does a lot of the job.
What happened to the last WeWork CEO?
100% nix with home manager, throw it into a repo and I'm done. Use across several machines. It's a dream

https://github.com/NelsonJeppesen/nix-lifestyle
That's the whole premise of git-annex: not distributing content but distributing what machine has the content. If you just want to get the content you have to hack git-annex, probably by reading the manifest, to get the url and download content in a third party process
I actually haven't read RuneLords but am looking for something to unwind with before sleep. Would You reccomend?
Sour grapes are also one of those fairytale things.
"I'm not saying it was aliens... But it was aliens."
An once of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

How can we make money selling this idea?
I love it. Thanks for sharing. I felt like I could relate to the many job interviews I've been on lately. I made me thingk of my fear of change and reshaping myself. Even for me posting a comment on is a form of change from my norm - F the fear. the fear is over.
There's a rule in politics and senior roles where your job is to not be the news. Apple didn't have a choice in this case. This guy's book was irritating, and it sounds like he crossed some personal lines outside of it. Examples of how awful other managers everywhere are guilty of the same and much worse don't justify anything he might have done to someone either. However, mobs cynically and disingenuously exploit this "don't be the news" convention. They're the stopped clock that found a vulnerability to leverage on this particular day and his conceits handed them the scalp they were looking for. He made himself the perfect straw man.
So, Point: mob, but I don't think there is any moral high ground in this story.

The real issue is it looks like Apple has fair weather leadership, and it has made their brand vulnerable to scandal. They're at a stage where a single well timed joke or meme could wipe out billions in market cap. I like their products and a lot of what they do for privacy and security, but this episode suggests their leadership is misreading the zeitgeist and has lost sight of where growth comes from. It's not fun to defend personalities I don't like, but they're only principles when it's hard to apply them.
> the inherently moral right for one to make exclusive use of unclaimed matter that they appropriated and reconfigured into more valuable matter.

And what gave them the right to appropriate it in the first place? What is inherently moral about claiming something that was previously unclaimed?
Maybe I am missing the point. What is the alternative this article proposes then?... Also, Git is not central so how can you ever integrate large file support without a separate server?
Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace (2004)

http://www.theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/f...
> If you drop backwards compatibility, you can get a lot of headroom for better performance.

Microsoft tried that with the Surface X and failed
git gc doesn't rewrite history, it packs objects in your local repertory into a pack file
It tracks the changes fine. It’s just that it doesn’t make sense to track changes in a binary.