skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing SPJ refreshed very fond memories for me :-).

I accidentally stumbled onto Haskell in my masters course. On the first day at university I attended a trial class of functional programming[1] course and instantly liked the way professor taught. However, I didn't take the course then and forgot all about it. The next semester I took compilers course and approached that professor for my masters thesis. During a meeting he gave me couple of options one of which was in functional programming domain. This time I took the plunge and went all in. Took the FP course and the professor who taught FP became my thesis advisor. The next two years were the most intense and intellectually satisfying years of my life. Not only did I learn Haskell but also built a compiler for it. I still get goosebumps remembering the rollercoaster ride I had in those two years.

During all that, the book by SPJ [2] became my constant companion. The book was actually out of print but my advisor had a book that was signed by SPJ himself :-). And I promptly photocopied it so I have it with me even to this day.

Suffice to say Haskell, lambda calculus along with SPJ and my advisor have had a lasting (and continue to) influence my life.

[1] https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~as/fpcourse/fpcourse.html

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
People are burning gigawatts of electricity on creating "proofs of ownership" which aren't actually proof of anything other than a massive expenditure of electricity.

In other words, wasting extreme amounts of energy that could have been put to productive use, to generate in essence a glorified MD5 hash, which points to a URL that could be deleted or changed at any time in the future.

It is the ultimate in pointless and useless conspicuous consumption, so of course people are going wild for it.

And the world burns for it.
Some groups were a bit too territorial, yes, but that wasn't generally the case. You would chase other writers to steal their supply, or because they would have painted over your own stuff or were guilty of some other kind of disrespect. You would chase non-writers, like track workers or passengers to have time to finish your piece or take pictures in the yard. Etc.

Someone else in the thread mentioned throwing rocks, it was actually a shared hobby and a universal one at that.
Try to read HN in Firefox on iOS, on an iPad 12’9.
It’s impossible to read due to the tiny text size. You can’t zoom text in Firefox-iOS either… combined with no dark mode it’s a terrible user experience.
Windows 10's broken search is on Microsoft.

When you can download a freeware tool that will find any file in the system instantly after maybe a minute of indexing you know the file search is not the problem here.

Just a month ago the only reason I could start a recently installed MS Office package on Windows 10 was its tendency to list newly installed programs first in the start menu. It did not show up anywhere else, could not be found by the search and Word could not even be set as default program for a file because the OS didn't seem to know of its existence.
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Anyone who wants to share investment insights and ideas can start their own space. In return, you will get:

1. Exposure to reach millions of active investors.

2. Compensation as contributors can set recurring subscription plans for their content.

3. Validation Healthy debate by fellow investors on your thesis.
Same with roughly the same package volume annually over 8+ years. Literally the only thing lost was due to a historic weather event and Amazon still took care of it.

Maybe with commodity household goods it’s different than with higher value items or with electronics.
If it’s security or privacy related that should be driven by your own threat-modelling and risk assessment. Not left to the fate of what the community decide. You’re the experts after all and that’s what people using your service pay for and expect.
The NYT is extremely sectarian. They have been doing exactly what they now critizice for people in their right for a long time.

And it is impressive what we are seeing today with corona and Wuhan lab, all those media were basically calling lunatics to those that believed in the Wuhan lab hypothesis,licking the boots of their Chinese masters, now suddenly it is ok to believe that.

It is a huge problem for them, when looking back you can see clearly how much they were lying:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1396769717805780994

Since facebook and google bankrupted press media taking their Ads money, you basically can't trust them anymore, they sell themselves to the biggest bidder.
Maybe we need a service were we can all upload our online merchants screenshots of products and prices, that can then tell us if particular customers have been segmented into the pay more forever bin.
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At 1:42 mark of the news broadcast[1], a snapshot of order details shows Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC for both a $398 memory card and $6,498 camera.

[1] https://youtu.be/N-boHgrQ6QQ?t=102
Count me too, I've thought it to be a TV for a minute if I didn't know the sites and their citation (PetaPixels) are for photo(video)graphy. But then item weighs just 1.4kg is no way a TV.
Tried talking to a dolphin?
It was the reviewers "Approve" button for a submitted patch. The options are/were (approximately) "Reject", or "Clowncopterize"
never thought of this but this is has been my experience exactly, lot of past bought cheap version of item disappear from the amazon own search and I either have to get them from the reorder interface or straight up use google to search the amazon's item page and buy it coming from the direct link.
It happens in the UK too.

https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/nm1mm1/i_got...
Deafening? The only one who will suffer hearing damage is the rider.

Next time get your decibel meter out and you will probably find you are just as offended by bikes within the legal limit. You sound like that type of person. Probably live a very sheltered life with no real problems.
> A very small fraction of logins get the CAPTCHA challenge. We, and other services, face unrelenting brute force attacks on our login endpoints. If you are seeing a CAPTCHA on login, chances are that something about your connection is suspicious to our system.

IME CAPTCHA will make your internet use unbearable if you a) are from a non-Western geo-location or b) you use a VPN. VPNs like the service you provide, which a fair number of your email users probably avail. It's fair to say a smaller number of "internet users" get CAPTCHA hell (which i also doubt), but I wonder if the ratio of Proton* users actually skews the other way.
No, if you buy an item on Amazon.com then it's on Amazon.com to make sure you have a good experience. As a customer I literally don't care who is fulfilling the purchase, I'm making the purchase on Amazon.com and my money is clearly going to Amazon.com according to my bank statements. If they decide to work with unscrupulous 3rd parties then that's on them, not on me.
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Sure, I don't think it's good tech, and I don't like it. But I don't like a million things people do, and I don't try to make some convoluted argument that their weird activity is a matter of public concern.

> And the world burns for it.

Please support this with data. It doesn't literally burn for it; fires are down, what, 90% from a century ago?
I order electronics from Newegg (which is starting to feel Amazon-like with third parties).

I generally use Amazon as a search engine to see what exists, look at reviews, then buy locally and physically if at all possible. Especially books, after they folded, spindled and mutilated too many books and their replacements.
Kind of feel my day to day problem is that I am too content with circumstances where others would not be content. Sometimes "suffering" can motivate change. If you are content with everything why not just lie down and die? I don't mean you personally I mean in general. I respect mindfullness and Buddhist ideas but I think I am more naturally toward the equanimity side of spectrum (at least emotionally speaking) and this results in inertia which results in existential angst when I see years go by and I don't accomplish anything.

I appreciate your heartfelt comment and I will check out the book.

If I lived in 1221 I would probably be a monk or something...lol...maybe I can still be...I don't really have the religion though...kind of nice the idea of having a life with few worries that inertia today will lead to future pain.
> Especially curious to hear from folks with a background in physics

I believe these to be early trisolaran probes; their aim is to intimidate Earth's leadership into stunting the technological progress of the planet by investing resources in Blue Origin and ULA. This will prevent humans from bringing up effective orbital defences in time.
Don't weaponize their digital past! /s
True, it is developed by Microsoft and available as a service on Azure. It is also open source, actively maintained and improved, and it's a PG13-compatible Postgres extension that adds both distributed database capabilities and columnar storage. :)

https://github.com/citusdata/citus

(Citus engineer)
> this product has basically no relation

Sure it does. It synthesizes video from text.
> For security reasons, we can't say too much, but some truly massive residential IP botnets have appeared in recent years and can make millions of attempts per day

Ah yes. All those insecure IoT and unpatched/unpatchable routers that are discoverable on shodan and ultimately end up joining giant botnets. They are a plague not just to ProtonMail.

TBH, I’ve never seen a Captcha. But then I’d tend to use your service via mutt/bridge or the iOS app. And I have MFA enabled.
I once read an article suggesting that reading computer code does not activate the regions of the brain that are involved in language processing:

https://news.mit.edu/2020/brain-reading-computer-code-1215

This may indicate that the sampled programmers did not program in the way it can be done for example with declarative languages, i.e., primarily as a linguistic activity where we describe what we know about the task.

I also like the description in Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur:

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

The feasibility of this approach may depend on the programming languages one uses.
You can sell Saas or create opportunities in other niches. Web-dev with clients seems like a headache. You'll be catering to their desire for the latest trends and buzzwords, returning you to some of your dislikes.

As to minimalism, page speed is a ranking factor.

Concerning introversion, challenging yourself with sales will help you out of that. Once you understand this process you might better appreciate the opportunities available.

If you're looking for change, challenge yourself.
Yea, i do this too. It’s a setting in iOS, you can auto delete iMessages after 1 month/1 year/etc.
I wonder if they have looked into property based testing in any language which has solid libraries for it. Like the obligatory Haskell examples but also in more widespread languages such as Python, which has the phenomenal Hypothesis library https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/

Which allows you to build up the kind of what if scenarios, and also has the primary purpose of allowing you to build the sorts of “simulation space” primitives that they are talking about. “I want to test this code with the first argument as odd integers divisible by 7 and the second argument is random days of the week” and Hypothesis will generate dozens to hundreds (how exhaustive it runs is configurable) of scenarios and run them through the code, which basically does offload the kind of mental simulation debugging the author is talking about.

I’ve driven complex Django installable apps to better than 100% test coverage this way. I had already hit 100% test coverage but the property based testing discovered so many more un-handled behaviour branches that it really elevated the overall code quality to another level. I try to use it for all my Python testing whenever I can. Once you learn (and it’s not super hard to learn how to use it for the basics) it it really isn’t hard to use at all for basic testing.
Amazon arrived in force kinda recently in my country. My parents are amazed by it and started making expensive purchases...

And now are surprised at how shitty their delivery is.

The worst case was when they bought some medicine for their dog and a expensive screen to use in their business.

The dog medicine arrived on a friday, I was present and heard a car horn, went to check, and it was a random normal car, a lady climbed out, said it was a delivery. when I said I was son of the person that made the purchase, she just shoved the package through the gate opening and drove away, didn't even said hi or bye or whatever, didn't check my identity properly, didn't take a signature, didn't even tried to deliver the package safely, she almost threw it at me.

Then saturday my parents had a meeting with someone, and left, but on that day the city hall sent some workers to do some work on the sidewalk.

Seemly Amazon deliverd it to these workers, Amazon claims they delivered, and claims some dude we never heard of accepted the delivery, we believe the dude in question is some random city hall employee that was doing sidewalk maintenance.
Do you mean Facebook is running a fork of Phabricator, or what?
I mean, is it just the obfuscation of the privacy policy? If the user was told up front would that still make it malware?
A bit tangential, but can anyone in the know of UPS inner workings explain why the applicable tracking number[1] would reflect a "Shipped" status 3 minutes before "Label Created"?

https://www.ups.com/track?loc=en_US&tracknum=1Z9X26374278728...
TROLOLOL!! The NYT has been one of the primary weaponizers of people's digital pasts for years and only now is beside itself because it happened to a fellow journalist on the "Blue Check correct" side of a hotbutton issue? Give me a break.
I took a couple years off after a job to finish my Ph.D. During that time, I lived in the mountains. I spent the days hiking and mountain biking, and the evenings (when I wasn't exhausted) working on research and writing.

Depending on how this return to office goes, I still plan on spending most of my time in the mountains. Hiking is a release of anxious energy for me, and a chance to truly be alone with myself and my thoughts.

Mountain biking on the other hand forces me to concentrate on something different. If a negative thought comes into my head while biking, I will crash. So, it's kind of trained my mind to try not to be so negative.

Aside from gaining additional hobbies, I don't check my work email or IMs after 6pm, period. I also do not respond to emails on the weekend (even if I choose to do work).
For a working out of how things like homes and steam engines and boats might work in a 2D world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planiverse
> they properly secure books to a bit of backing cardboard (with shrink-wrap and/or rubber bands, usually) and then mount the backing cardboard inside of the packing box so that the books don't slide around and get damaged.

That's how they used to do in France when they started (15-20 years ago): a base cardboard plate at the right size for the box, the stuff stacked on the cardboard, and both united by a shrink wrap. That was both simple and extremely effective, or otherwise said: great.

I don't know why they stopped. And I don't know why nobody else copied that system.

(I used to order from 2000 miles away, now I don't order books from Amazon no more, except second hand foreign language books I couldn't get otherwise.)
I’m in the same boat as you. I’ve had a couple of misorders, but they were 3rd party sellers.

And I love the ability to take items back to our local Amazon depot without having to box the item. Just give it back to them and they handle all the shipping.
Chiming in here as well; I always trust Amazon to refund me if something is missing or broken without any hassle. A lot of other retailers always gives you a hard time even though they are at fault.
They have a huge problem with counterfeit but again always easy to get your money back.
Another place people never post with their real name: the voting booth. Hence the big shockers: "How did XXXX win?" It's because nobody who thought that way ever said so out loud.
When did they make the switch? I've mostly had Yamato same-day in Tokyo or remote areas like Okinawa.
Amazon Japan is incredible. I ordered a Japanese book from them and it arrived the next afternoon (to the UK!) Another time I was in Japan and I needed a specific bluetooth keyboard for the tablet I was using, delivered to a convenience store pick-up point in the deep north of the country in the middle of winter, ordered with my UK credit card, and no problem, it was there the next day. I can't imagine the amount of organisation both of these things take.
Yeah they should really teach that at school: There are only a few things that are true on food packaging and they are government regulated. The rest is baloney and should be ignored. Oh and for next week prepare an essay on why some still thing small government is a good idea.
I significantly scaled back my online presence this year. I deleted accounts, scrubbed information from my public profiles, and left many communities.

Despite my very bening post history, I don't feel safe participating in the discussion anymore. I don't fear being cancelled, but I am terrified of Internet lynch mobs. They know no due process, no measure, and no limits.

I've dealt with a lot of direct and personal harassment after being very active in a community. I pulled the plug when someone falsely accused me of sending them creepy PMs. It was quickly debunked by stellar mods, but it made the community way too dangerous to participate in.
This is kinda funny. About 5 years ago or so, the prevailing comment was the opposite of yours. ("I go to Best Buy to compare widgets, then order the one I want on Amazon.")

But I'm in the same boat. A lot more often I'll find myself looking at things on Amazon's site, then seeking out the manufacturer's own site, or another retailer, to make the actual purchase.

I just don't trust Amazon anymore. So much rebranded Alibaba shit on there, or counterfeit hazards.
I have had problems. I use this thing called keepa.com and it tells me when the prices of hard disks fall.
So over the past year I had tried 4 times to buy and three times I didnt even get the order.
So I was told "well because you didnt get it,we cant send a replacement so get a refund "
the last time I bought a 5tb external disk and I got, I kid you not, a 500 GB internal hard drive that was patched with tape. When I complained, I was told to get a refund because, again, cannot send you a replacement.

They really do not honor their prices if you get a good deal or a slip up.
I think the issue is more generally with being somehow "off" from most people's common schedule. I started waking early a few years ago (around 5 AM) so I could be able to exercise, shower, etc and be out the door at 7 AM in order to avoid rush hour.

This worked well mostly, especially since at the office my boss was OK with me arriving and leaving 1-1.5 hrs early.

This was great for going shopping, as shops here close fairly early (7:30 - 8 PM usually) and leaving work at 6:30-7 just doesn't leave enough time.

But then, that means everything shifts. I'd have to be in bed by 10 PM to not feel tired in the morning, which means having dinner around 7. Which means if I want to see friends or other people with "normal" schedules, I have to "stay out late" which messes with my rhythm.

As I'm not particularly social and don't go out too often, all in all this works out fine, and avoiding rush hour for the commute is absolutely worth it. But the point is this isn't "free".
Thanks, I’m going to try this. Wonder if it’s the cause of my neck issues.
The absolute worst thing about instagram is when you tap the search icon, then tap the search input, your keyboard is automatically hidden by Instagram right when it pops up, so you have to tap the input again. The purpose is to get you to choose one of their recommendations rather than what you intended to search for.
My interface to gpg is just to append .gpg to a file extension in Emacs that is all, the rest is handled automatically: it will ask for passphrase/present keys, etc.
The open box thing is a huge issue. I bought probably 5 things last year >$100 sold as “new” that just weren’t. Returns have always been easy, I live near an Amazon Go and they even have an attendant that helps. But not being able to trust that a new item is actually new is…shitty. I would never buy electronics from Amazon, just get it for the same price at Best Buy and wait a couple more days (plus they often have same-day pickup available, which Amazon can’t compete with). Target is another good option for the same reason. Always keep in mind that everyone will price-match Amazon.
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I want to point out that Vox only labeled the edits and tweeted about it after they were caught red handed stealth editing their deception.

The other "usual suspects" were all attacking lab leak theory in 2020, including CNN, Washington Post and the NYT.

Washington Post's chief fact checker called it "debunked".

These people are quite literally controlling the flow of information, given their secret contracts with Facebook and their influence on Twitter, YouTube and other platforms.

Corporate media needs to die before they get more people killed (NYT lied about WMDs in Iraq and thousands of innocent people died, nobody was fired).
It’s a real thing [1] - although you might think they were counterfeits on arrival if you weren’t aware of this service

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-Print-on-Demand-Guide/b?ie=U...
Smaller classes and teachers who aren't checked out moderate bullying.

It's expensive because you have to pay for a lot of good, motivated teachers, but it works.
The term "dark pattern" is a bit of a misnomer and too soft. How about we just say what it is - manipulation, misdirection, and sometimes outright fraud.
What would be the societal consequences?

Ownership is an integral part of free societies and is immensely important for our economic system, which doesn't work any other way. People are not motivated to do their jobs properly without incentives, that's basic human nature and systems that tried going against this have failed every time in history.

In a capitalist system, you can have more central authority and planning, but it will lead to inefficiencies and corruption by design. The only way you can sustain such a system then is by increased oppression and censorship of the ill effects. China is a perfect model for this. It works well, granted, at the price of freedom. This is basically what they're steering western countries too as well, only with the billionaires in charge instead of the CCP.
Isn't this more or lesss what the EU's "right to be forgotten" initiative was about? To my knowledge, GDPR also contains legal provisions that let you enforce deletion of your data.

How usable this is in practice when entire industries depend on preserving that data is another question...
>Systems that lack forward secrecy are by design incapable of preventing archives of eventually-plaintext messages.

That is not what is being claimed here. Unless you add extra security in the form of something like a strong unique passphrase for the archived messages then an attack that gets the private key also gets the archived messages. In general, if you have a more secure method for protecting the archived messages you could of used it to protect the private key. It is effectively the same problem.
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Point is, it was a worse day for the 6 dead people and their families.