skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talking with developers who started their career in the early 90's, it seems to me the two biggest changes in software development over the past 30 years are:

- the rise of easily shared open source libraries and applications (supported by infrastructure like CPAN, Maven, and Github)

- crowd-sourced documentation (blogs, forums, and Stack Overflow)

It changed not just the way an individual programmer interacts with the code, but the way programmers work together.
Questionable library design is something of a speciality in Cambridge. Ask the lawyers...
TikTok's Rival Kuaishou Joins Open Invention Network
> They care only about price, which is why manufacturing moved overseas in the first place.

I was under the impression that most of the money saved that way went straight into the companies' (offshore) accounts and CXO's pockets.
If it's being used as a weapon, that sounds like it should be protected under the second amendment.

I imagine guns and knives are the most popular choices for subduing kidnapping victims, and they're explicitly legal because they can be used in that way
PyTorch builds the future of AI and machine learning at Facebook
Nix's IPFS support is for everything in the Nix store, which is world-readable and in which NixOS places no secrets. Options for managing secrets in/with Nix projects either encrypt them in the store or never have them touch the store (encrypted or otherwise).

Mutable state like database contents, including their password databases, don't go in the Nix store either.
Isn't this like banning cash to stop muggings?
While I absolutely condemn how Belarus handeld the diversion of said Ryanair flight, I am not so sure it's a sensible idea to poke the bear (Russia) even further.

I have no idea what the endgame of Putin and his vassals might look like, I do have a feeling that setting up another USSR is not enough for them.
Naive indeed. I flew to meet a company we had just acquired and I personally promised them that nothing would change. Even though I believed it at the time of course it didn't pan out that way and to this day I regret saying that.
I hope one day we will have a Nuremberg-style trial for all those friendly chaps who orchestrated (and profited from) this pointless life-destruction machine called war on drugs
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Not sure the fourms are caused by acquisition.

I do see the UX experience being more thick, less favorable signal to noise happening due to acquisition. There may be editorial conflicts of interest too. I do not notice at present.
> few people want to admit to or have grown up without tragedy.

Did you indeed mean "without"? (Or did you mean "with", as in: "few people want to admit to have grown up with tragedy"?)

(Not a native speaker, maybe I'm missing something)

If so, I wonder, what are reasons people want to tell others that they grew up with tragedy?

(I wonder what "tragedy" means in your text, eg an alcoholic parent or getting beaten or ... A grandparent died? Quite different things, the word can mean)
Unless they were globally banned, companies could secretly and illegally pay ransoms in them anyways.
Emails Show Fauci Determine Potential US Role in Funding Coronavirus Research
> This is the only thing I agree with. It is unlikely that a BR would collude. They have no reason to.

Which is the fundamental argument here. All this talk about how bad orgs behave this or that way is not relevant considering that they were exceptionally thoughtful about how to separate the hiring decisioning from firing decisioning.

I think we can all agree that Amazon does a lot of shitty things, but the concept of introducing a BR deserves praise.
On the other hand, people with money become the target of every charity, every entrepreneur, every solicitor with a sob story, and every scam artist attempting to carve off a piece of that. In addition they get assaulted by waves of paparazzi, star-struck groupies, and people wanting to be their special friend.

Naturally, purely out of self-defense, they try to shield themselves from this and are highly skeptical of any unsolicited charity pitches. That does not mean they don't have the same charitable impulses as anyone else. They just go about it differently, like going to charity $$$ per plate dinners, etc.
Republic looks to be some form of VC funding. The whole point of a SPAC is to take a company public without filling for an IPO.
I feel like this argument is akin to "back before cars, I used to walk all the time, and I was in much better shape." There's nothing to stop you from going and doing it again!
> Ban cryptocurrencies.

This is meant sincerely, not glibly: How? How can cryptocurrencies be banned in any meaningful sense?

We can "ban" them in a legal sense ("Use of cryptocurrencies are illegal after 1 Jan 2022"), great. But how can they be practically banned so long as computers themselves are not invaded by governments to observe every detail of their operation and private overlay networks are still technically feasible?
> companies to pay secretly and illegally instead, something which cryptocurrencies enable…Ban cryptocurrencies

In what world does a ban on paying ransoms get wantonly evaded while a ban on cryptocurrencies does not?
How do you fake BigDecimal with BigInt? My immediate intuition would have a 3-tuple (a, b, c) which would construct the decimal with a representing the numbers before the decimal separator, b the number of zeroes immediately after the decimal separator, and c the numbers after the zeroes. e.g. 1.000054 would be represented as `[1n, 4n, 54n]` and 3.14159 as `[3n, 0n, 14159n]`.

Is there a better way?
I do see the similarity.

I also agree that among many of them, there's an 'impressionistic' approach to presenting their work. Handwavy, you could say. But that's not to say their work isn't the expression of deep and clear philosophical insight.

There are notable continental philosphers whose presentation is tightly-argued; Hegel and Kant come to mind, but there are many others.
> Would anyone dare to say about literally any other group "If I were x I wouldn't be able to live with myself because..."?

Muslims. Since 9/11 the West has demanded that all Muslims publicly decry the actions of other supposed Muslims for actions they had no control or influence over. If they don't, they risk being labelled extremists themselves.

Externally, we monitor them because of their religion. They end up on watch- and no-fly-lists for sharing a name and skin colour with somebody else.

I'm not comparing, it's not a competition. It's all awful.

And yes, it's a crying shame HN can't face frank discussions on racism.
Well.. The CPU is multiple generations behind anything else on the market. Power management is basically non existent. They've only recently managed to get cameras working sorta, but not really. It was sold as a customer device, not a damn development platform. They started crowd funding in 2017, and so far have only delivered less than two months worth of devices to customers. Purism is violating the law on a daily basis.
"Banning doesn't work, they'll just do it secretly. The solution is to ban something else that's even harder to stop."
Agreed: there is clearly a double-standard regarding subject torso nudity in the US, but I don't think that's the difference in the example under discussion (Olympia vs David).

For the NSFW issue (i.e. coworker glanced and reacted badly to what you were viewing), this is just a matter of realism, plus a high sensitivity to what might offend other people and women in particular.

But I also don't think it's entirely about the "different standards to which women are held", which I perceive you to mean female-as-subject. In some ways it's more about male-as-viewer:

As sibling comment points out, when a male views a nude female, it is frequently assumed to be lecherous, or at the very least have prurient motivations.

When a female views a nude male (or female), it is assumed to be incidental, art, or accident.

This is also a double-standard, but honestly it cuts both ways.
Yeah, I think they just mean without the conveniences of the NixOS module system. You can definitely bundle config with an app and store it in a repository's shell.nix or a flake or whatever.
SPACs take companies public. Once a SPAC merges with a private company like SoFi or Virgin Galactic, the combined entity's shares can be traded on the NYSE or Nasdaq like any other stock.

With platforms like Wefunder and Republic, there is no mechanism to take a company public.
What can we learn from watering backyard about productivity and throughput
Here is a reason, unikernels.
Preface: I know you act in good faith.

I don't think it's fair to let one person call people racist for being snooty about classical music, but lecture the person who finds that offensive and inappropriate on its own.
Do you have anything to back up these claims? Easy to claim that they have "horrible safety practices" and "are an injury factory".

Also, you can't really say they push order workers...they simply push all workers to be similarly productive. You can claim that's unfair, but to make a different productivity goal for older works would be discrimination and illegal.

I know at my company we had a huge push for safety improvements and it came from asking people to report anything...even the slightest twinge of pain was reported and we hired a physical therapist to be onsite to treat anyone that might have early warning signs before they become a major problem.
Early 2020 Emails Show Fauci Knew Coronavirus Was Potentially Engineered
Not american, no dog in this fight, but I highly doubt the average "psychonaut" will be in the streets. Eating a few grams psilocybin would rather have the person rolling around in bed, talking to his pillow or have deep introspection, or zone out on the couch and watch cartoons, or play some musical instrument.

The image you mention are people who are legit in trouble and in need of help, they might be abusing substances, sometimes several types at once, they might be sleep deprived, dehydrated, confused and don't know what they are doing and need medical/psych help. They might be in the middle of psychosis (it's absolute hell). Taking meth then heroin then some weed then some more meth over a 3 day period will have anyone running around in the streets - people need to respect the power of these substances (or rather, the thin line between feeling normal and madness).

There is a massive difference between 5 friends in the woods consuming psilocybin, playing drums and staring at the clouds for 5 hours in peace, than people running around naked and losing their minds.

The real bad stuff: heroin, meth, other opiates, mixing drugs.

The semi safe: cannabis, mescaline, psilocybin (lsd, dmt, salvia = risk for average folk).

And then I'd totally recommend a calm, safe environment, preferably out in nature. Simple musical instruments to play with. People who you trust an can hold your hand if you get stuck. It's that simple. Don't do it in public, crowds, noisy places with too much lights (well maybe a music festival, but still avoid them) or do it with intentions of getting high or for fun - rather try to use them as tool to commune with your deeper consciousness and get aligned to it. It can also be worthwhile to consume them in a ceremonial/ritualistic setting with a shaman person that can help you navigate certain aspects of it. For your first few times don't do it alone.
Cognoa Receives FDA Marketing Authorization for AI-Diven Autism Diagnosis Aid
Such valuations are most based on future revenue.

Depop already makes solid revenue and showed growth of 100% last year.
Stackoverflow is still struggling with revenue.

It is not about how many users you have, or how much value you offer to those users. But all about how much money you make off them.
It's interesting that they have a much higher valuation (and from some cursory research, moderately more users) than Depop, despite (AFAIK) being completely obscure in the US/UK.
What do you mean by if?

I'd assume they're already on psychedelics regardless of whether they're legal or not.
Would it? For some businesses, the reality is going to be that paying is necessary to continue to exist. What happens when that option, as crappy as it is, is off the table?
Can we go after these decision makers for negligence, then?
How are you going to sell customers tickets remotely without an internet presence? How are you going to field customer service complaints or general inquiries without email? How are your employees going to do work at multiple sites without VPNs? If you pitch "lets do everything by phone" you will be laughed out of the room.

I agree that things should be kept off the internet unless they absolutely need to be there, but realistically companies need to have internet connected services to be able to do business.
I think this get things backwards. Philosophers (save maybe Austin) generally reject the authority of a definition. In the analytic tradition, words are just pointing at things or concepts, and a definition is a heuristic or shorthand.

Fighting over the definition of "exist" is exactly trying to take the concept(s) the two are thinking of, and decide whether they are internally consistent. If they are, all the better, they needn't even be the same, but if they are not internally consistent, then the concept is clearly wrong and not worth discussing.
I think the parent commenter is attempting a sort of sarcastic criticism of Amazon for not following some progressive orthodoxies.
In most places I've worked in, you've both been told the safety rules and then encouraged to do things in ways that aren't safe. The most common way of doing this is to not give employees enough time to actually do the safety stuff. If you get caught, well... OF course you got hurt, you weren't following the safety rules. Were you on drugs?
Fauci Colluded with Mark Zuckerberg on FB Covid-19 Information Hub Emails Show
I don't mind them lobbying for it. What confuses me is when a corporation cannot find middle ground. Why do you go from one position of testing people for cannabis and firing offenders to the next of lobbying for legalization?

Why not just stop testing? The only explanation I can muster is they want to sell it.
Are you sure it is being confiscated? He will have a claim then.

What can happen is when your credit card / other payment providers cuts you off is that you go out of business. You might fail to provide services to users - so they do a chargeback / ask for a refund from payment provider.

So when a payment provider is shutting you down, they usually want to hold onto some money to be able to handle those refund requests. Very common in travel situations as well.
They banned enormous denomination bills to prevent this sort of crime.

By "Ban" I mean they no longer make them, and possibly destroy them once they get circulated back to the central bank. They're still legal tender.

See also 500 euro note...
(edited to clarify "ban" meaning)
Wow, that was excellent, thank you for linking this
Minassian Media are the WMF's PR consultants. Mr Minassian's wife is a producer on The Daily Show. This being so, it seems highy unlikely to me that the interview would have been cut in any way that would have run counter to your and your PR company's wishes.

Still: Do you recall what you said in response to Trevor Noah, when he asked you, "The downside of it means you often struggle to have enough money to keep Wikipedia up and running. So ... is that true and how does it affect you?"? Would you mind sharing it here?

People who donate to Wikipedia are indeed generally motivated by gratitude. They would feel this gratitude whether the banners evoke a sense of financial emergency or not. The Germans (the only ones, I believe, who do their own banner wordings rather than translating the WMF's) have demonstrated that it is possible to achieve adequate results without evoking this sort of threat.

Now to evoke such an illusory sense of threat to Wikipedia's independence in Latin America in the middle of a pandemic, when the WMF was already nearly $50M ahead of its overall year goal with three months to spare, seems unconscionable to me, whatever the focus groups say.

Do you not think that people reading this exchange will find your attitude towards readers disrespectful and exploitative? Are you not saying, in so many words, that they're not capable of understanding what you would: that they, unlike you, need to be manipulated?

You appear to be saying that as long as readers, donors, don't know they've been tricked, but rather feel inspired, enriched by having given, everyone's needs have been served: theirs to feel good about themselves, yours (the WMF's) to have more money.

This may all be true: but it's manipulative. The idea that this sort of thinking should guide the management of such a widely used source of information as Wikipedia, which purports to be about informing people about reality, is unpalatable.
You can imagine it just being easier to code indiscriminate attacks where they only review the results to pick who it is worth collecting the ransom from.

Unencrypting for vicitims in the US that couldn't pay would just add more exposure risk to them of getting caught, so they would have no incentive to actually do it. It would take a large bit of money out of the system, but it seems like you need all countries to coordinate and that one country doing so on its own, enforcing a no pay out rule, won't have much effect on non-targeted attacks.

How many of these attacks are fully automated in the initial attack/encrypt phase vs. human operators explicitly working to more fully infiltrate a target?
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If you really want to be rich, don't work hard; either inherit, or get other people to do hard work. Working hard is easy, hundreds of millions of people do it, the trick is getting the hard workers to give you a percentage of what they earn, and scale that model up.
M&A activity has already blown past the $2T mark in a record-breaking
Psychedelic pharmacology pretty much ensures that the vast majority of people will not become physically addicted to the substances, as opposed to substances like nicotine, alcohol, opioids or amphetamines.

5-HT2A agonism induces a rapid tolerance, making it difficult to dose many times in a two week period. A second dose or more within that period will have vastly diminished returns.

Psychedelics can be addictive in the same way Magic: The Gathering can be addictive, but not so much in the same way that physically addictive drugs are.
I can only hope we in the EU can buy from the US without some ridiculous extra fees.

In the past 10 years, it became cheaper to buy the same products from China than the US, which is in part due to US shipping companies (DHL, UPS, FedEx) dramatically scaling down their overseas shipping business.

I could get a 5KG box of electronics in a week for $50 ten years ago. Nowadays, there's only USPS, it takes two weeks and still costs more. Kinda sad.
Fauci was told in February of 2020 that the Wuhan Virus looked engineered
I use 30-6-20(after 4 cycles) pattern. You have to find yours through trial and error.

The goal is to not switch context. Social media is awfully bad in this.

If in work, I reply to Slack messages or message from family/friend- if any. They know to call in an emergency and not expect immediate reply to messages.

I have found drinking water and taking a quick stroll being the most effective pomodoro gap actvity. Although it is not always possible.
ML/AI

Crypto/DeFi
Russia made the first move by not permitting Lufthansa flights for the month of June. Germany only answered.

Russia just permitted Lufthansa flights again, though, so it's old news.
Apparently Stack Overflow already owns a majority stake in Prosus. This is going to get interesting ;)
I have given up on participating on SO because more often than not I am told I don't have enough reputation to do something (I don't know if it's commenting or giving an answer or giving an upvote but there are some questions for which answers are wrong or need some updates and I can't participate. So I just don't by default. I think I can't upvote on some stack and I find this weird).
Just like with alcohol, if your recreational substances interfere with work performance, you're much likely to be laid off. I imagine this is especially true with Amazon and their notoriously tough work conditions.
The contrast from bookstore to single site Q&A is exaggerated, but I was around before Stack Overflow. The problem was not just that there wasn't a single (popular, highly active) site, and not just that you had to sift through search results. It's that if you didn't find your answer, you didn't know for sure where to post your problem, and actually expect to get answers. You might post it on a personal blog or forum, and then wait a very long time to see if a response would appear. Often it would not (or it was something you already tried or something else that didn't work), and you'd be on your own, and if other people were lucky, you'd document the eventual solution (but often, you did not.)

Stack Overflow gave you a central place for you to ask questions, and (within a pretty reasonable time frame) start to get suggested solutions to try and consider.
Yeah I'm pretty interested in future research. It always bugs me how most harm reduction or drug "facts" are basically pseudo science that just gets repeated over and over with slight modifications from anecdotes

I'd really like to know if this is bullshit or not lol https://www.bluelight.org/xf/threads/what-is-wrong-with-the-...
So what kind of contract for consideration did Alice sign with a free software project? Your hypothetical feels very hypothetical.
I think you might be giving Spolsky a bit too little credit! I remember the days before SO as well, and while you might luck out by finding your answer in some obscure niche blog, there was a relatively high chance that that error message you were staring at wouldn't have an accessible solution online (or at least not one that Google could provide). You could really just get stuck on a problem for a day, or never find the solution at all and have to work around it otherwise. SO was really a night and day change in how readily accessible it made programming information.

And I really did find myself buying a lot more programming books than I do now. When's the last time you picked up a book just to learn how to use a language - just the ins and outs of the syntax? I used to do that all the time, and then I immediately stopped when SO became popular because I could just google for what I wanted and SO would always tell me.
The only way I'm aware of it is prominent users/moderators having changed their display name to things like '<original name> - Reinstate Monica'.

Or maybe I also saw an HN thread about it, but mainly that. (I still see them.)