skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about we don't dogmatically prohibit other adults from engaging in some class of voluntary interactions with each other. And singling out one non-essential activity for a ban, because it consumes electricity, is unprecendented. It's nothing more than using environmental concerns as a pretense to stamp out an activity you personally don't like for other reasons.

As for what they've delivered for society, I admit it's still mostly just limited to speculation, but real promise is now being shown, in the following ways:

* hundreds of millions of people potentially being empowered to earn income by sharing in the revenue their social media content generates, via community currencies, like the /r/CryptoCurrency ERC20 token, Moon [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].

* people living under repressive governments being able to escape their capital controls and survive [6]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l9dye7/i_so...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kqrikd/sold...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/n371id/how_...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ly79uw/as_a...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l9bdtn/guys...

[6] https://twitter.com/Codiox/status/1375876968390909956
Plausable but I do not imagine that to be the case. It was recently updated and Matomo has a self-diagnostic includeing "File integrity", it has no warnings. Its also on its own small droplet, so somewhat isoloated.

The Google Rep was clear it was not allowed also (though perhaps misinformed).
I don't think this is valid comparison. If you are trying to compare software on a plane to application, then airplane software is not attempted to hack into due to it being generally well isolated from outside networks.
If you are comparing physical build of systems in a plane to software, then hacking of software is equivalent to bird or drone running into an engine or a laser attack or hijack attempt... Which while we know do not happen often, but lets say if a lot of money were to be made by doing so, I'm sure the frequency would increase.
How fantastically different to my experience. I graduated 2010 in Australia, and we were just entering into the pre-cloud age. A lot of us expected to either move to SV or just work at local consultancies for banks or insurance companies (which I did). 10 years earlier, I would have gone to work at Sun!
And I thought it was fun when a colleague who publicly belittled me on a somewhat regular basis for scripting (“we're not programmers!”) triumphantly showed a blog post he’d found to solve a problem he was having.

A blog post on my blog.

In fairness to him, it was still on a domain that didn’t identify me at all, though the “About” page had my name on it.

He then proceeded to launch up the chain of command to get me in trouble for publishing company secrets on said blog.

I promised to only write it outside of work hours and not to directly copy any code (scripts, one-liners) I wrote at work, and that was the end of that.

There were other less-antagonistic instances of others in this large company finding solutions on my blog, which says something about the value to the company of posting generic stuff like this on publicly-searchable platforms instead of an internal-only SharePoint or Confluence instance, and definitely instead of the PDFs our senior management insisted on for all documentation.
Hacker One's business model is creating a pen for all the whistleblowers (security researchers doing bug bounties) so they are trapped inside it and can't escape unless they want to lose their ability to get paid in the future.

It's a classic Monopsony.
Just ban cryptocurrencies.
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> I will design it for the average user rather than the power user.

But do power users or average users drive purchasing and ensure market share?

I was at a company that tried to switch to Google Cloud over Office 365. Know what saved MSFT? The Excel and Word power users. Average users had no opinion, but the power users all wanted Office.
Where has ANYONE suggested lab leak is the 'truth' or they have a smoking gun. The news does not exclusively report on COVID either.
IT security is hard, very hard, and a lot of the commercial products used by most companies are terribly insecure. The fact is our IT infrastructure has grown much faster than the global pool of talent who know how to effectively secure it.

So faced with a deficit of expertise, and a constantly changing IT security landscape, it makes perfect sense for governments to support and co-ordinate cyber security efforts. We need to get maximum benefit from the resources we do have and that mans pooled effort, clear best practices, strong security standards, etc.

Personally I see an additional significant benefit coming out of all of this. If governments and politicians skill up in understanding the seriousness of cyber security at a national level, hopefully they will come to understand the deep folly of insisting on backdoors and secret keys to everyone's systems for security and law enforcement agencies. Politicians keep talking some really dumb crap on this topic, but if we can get them to take the security of businesses and citizens seriously, I'm hopeful this will change.
> Is there some objectively fair remuneration calculation [...]?

Lopsided power arrangements will always be grossly unfair to one side and generous the other. In this case it's Amazon vs the Precariat. Moreover, the two sides (and everyone else) will always have a very different idea about what is fair.

The best way to address this without directly getting into the vast grey-area of "what is fair" is to limit the political power of corporations and then address labor laws and union formation.

The sad thing is we've been through this before.

There's a reason labor unions came into being. Do we really have to wait until labor conditions for workers become the 21st century equivalent of Industrial Age steel mills run by robber-barrons? Can't we learn from history?
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I wonder when the people that pushed for lockdowns will get what they deserve as well...Fraudci in prison!
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Right. That’s the point - they are both conceptually the same thing, testing via automatically generated inputs.
I don't know about this particular wording, but from my point of view here is what happened:

At first the loosely defined right-wing were panicking about the virus. Myself included, although I wasn't really panicking, just getting myself mentally prepared that this might possibly be the second black plague that could wipe out a similar percentage of the population. Meanwhile the loosely defined left-wing was ridiculing it, laughing about it, saying that there is no evidence that the virus is dangerous and calling people fearmongers and racists (?). And then everything switched. As it turned out, the virus wasn't as nearly dangerous as I initially though it'd be and the left-wing suddenly started acting like we're all going to die.
> This is a global pandemic that came out of China. In the worst possible case, Fauci hid the fact that an org he's involved in donated a minuscule portion of its budget to the lab from where the virus leaked due to incompetence.

> It's not like he took the vial home for lulz and dropped it on the subway. His role in the origin of this thing is so small it's irrelevant.

By dissuading an investigation into the cause at the time, he might have shot down our only chance of ever knowing for sure. I sure as hell don't trust China to be truthful about it. There's no incentive on their part.

> The only thing that's up for discussion is that he may not have been 100% correct during one of his many public statements, hardly something that can be held against him considering the shitcreek the whole world is in.

He's been spreading mixed and misinformation for months and possibly lying to Congress. Many give him the benefit of the doubt by saying that he either did not know or he did it in the interests of the public as a whole (ex: We need the N95 masks so let's lie and say nobody else does). Neither is acceptable to some of us.

> Personally I'd give the guy some credit for everything he's done right, I mean he's been at it since 1968.

Past good behavior doesn't get you out of a trial. At best it's a factor during sentencing.

> What is there to gain by nailing him to the cross, or pointing out his income and book deals?

The book deal looks like a last minute cash grab before he gets sacked.
Elon Musk is becoming the most hated person in the crypto world
So it's onward to 1970 ... (You all remember Concorde?)
> I never understood that concept.

No problem! It certainly doesn't make sense if one approaches it from a Western Christian mindset. I am not trying to imply that is how you are approaching it, rather I mention this because Judaism often gets compared to Christianity, but I think they are quite different.

It is better to think of Judaism as a tribe. Membership to this tribe is mainly given under two conditions: through matrilineal descent or through religious conversion. Some subgroups within the tribe have different membership conditions like recognizing patrilineal descent, others may not recognize conversions done by other subgroups.
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The person wants to include JS from a company that shipped malware. Concludes that you can't use Google Analytics competitors.
When Nokias were a thing, 15 years ago, all computer interfaces were much inferior to what we have today, not just mobile app downloads. Phone hardware was super basic. SaaS wasn't a thing even. Facebook was a hip new thing, only 3 years old. It was a different world not just because of Apple.
I would call that “flow layout”.

HTML includes a version of it, TeX and DTP apps use various versions of it.

Edit to add: I don’t know the details of TeX except that it uses a hierarchical “box model”. I suspect it’s fairly similar to HTML before flex-box. HTML flex feels like a refined version of Java AWT layout managers (a more successful evolution than Android’s painful variant).
I don't think anyone is advocating for the dissolution of Israel. While the Syrian government is doing appalling things to its own people, I don't think we want to use "We're better than Syria" as the bar here.

The Israeli government and its people need to take a hard look at what it is doing, whether they'd like to be subjected to it by a foreign military power, and how they'd react against it. If they wouldn't like it, and if they would react violently against it, then I believe we'd have a lesson to learn and understand what Palestinians are experiencing and why a more peaceful solution would be a more constructive way to move forward. Some of the pain points can be immediately addressed.

And Germany was, in fact, dissolved into two smaller and very different countries for a long, long time after WWII. Their own wounds and the memory of the horrors they perpetrated, and the lesson that very normal people can do unimaginable evil is a tough one to learn, but one we must learn nevertheless if we decide to be better than our ancestors.
> The closest genetic match is only 3.8% similar.

How did you come by 3.8%?
I have a set of hand-curated bib files for the papers of interest in my field, version controlled and using a consistent key scheme. Then for a particular paper, use bibtool to extract a subset from those.
On the other hand, I've had the same mindset my entire life ("thrown my name in a hat just for fun" when possible) but never ever won anything in 30+ years. But when it comes to the rest of my life, I've been very lucky when it comes to everything from work, personal life, relationships, health and more.

Do try it out and see if your luck replicates to other things, worst case scenario you tried and got experience :)
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Intentionally talking about about the years obsolete WebGL 1 feature set as "WebGL" while proposing WebGPU would be pretty iffy. If the issue is that WebGL 2, an incremental update to WebGL 1, doesn't have 100% user coverage after 4.5 years, WebGPU is going to be much farther off as it's not even fully specced yet.

But since the article didn't say anything about webgl versions, it seems more likely that the author was just unaware.
Yes, but Honda has always been an innovative company. Comparing Toyota to e.g. Mazda, or the smaller Nissan, or Mitsubishi, or many other Japanese brands puts Toyota generally in the middle of the pack in terms of innovation, but far ahead in quality.

Subaru is a bit of an outlier. Great quality with huge exceptions (NA head gaskets, problematic CVT), and that terrific flat four.
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It’s not surprising. The lab leak hypothesis was one of several obvious and logical hypotheses, but it’s the only one that we were consistently told was Dangerous and Disallowed Thought.

Even if it turns out to be a false hypothesis, it’s outrageous that it was treated the way it was for so long, with such vitriol, and with such unanimity before any real investigation had been done.

I’ve got no dog in this fight, but the way this hypothesis was treated gets my libertarian hackles up.
> Beyond the laughs, there is a product lesson in this tweet. It is an example of a product design principle: “convention over configuration”, aka “make the easy things easy, the hard things possible”.

I don't know if the author is trying to use this as an example (since you can customize the behavior) or a counterexample, but the situation describe me of pasting in Word is a bad example of this. It's not even generally possible to paste from another word document and completely match the source formatting 100% (including stuff like text boxes) because of how pasting interacts with the terrible style system.
wow, egypturnash was spot-on with that observation. You're toxic. Long-winded and clearly fairly intelligent, but toxic nonetheless.
It’s not inaccurate so that’s good, and don’t see it being misleading either way
You obviously have no idea how much control and influence the Chinese government exerts over its citizens. I really don't know how people can still be so blatantly naive about how communist parties operate and how they maintain power over their citizens.
Source? I cant see anything..
This seems to be an old issue with Matomo javascript that was resolved? See below:

https://forum.matomo.org/t/adwords-campaign-rejected-for-goo...
Literally any new variant has been called by its origin in the last year:
-kent/brit variant
-indian variant
-california variant

What are you on about?
This is the approach murex tries to take. It breaks POSIX compliance without remorse but retains compatibility wherever practical. This means it can have some of the flexibilities of Powershell (typed pipelines), the flexibilities of IDEs (events, better auto-completions, etc) but still works with all of your everyday command line tools.

My ultra long term aim is to integrate the shell into a media rich terminal emulator so using the command line will have the speed and precision of a TUI, the power of an IDE but the rich content of a GUI.

I'm a loooong way off achieving that but the shell is already usable and has been my primary shell for ~4 years now. And I welcome any and all feedback on the current and any future builds.

At some point I'll publish a paper with my ideas.

https://github.com/lmorg/murex
Depends what education.
I can definitely say that's what I understood outlets to mean, that it could have come from the lab in both contexts.

I guess I don't quite follow with how people would think that it being a weapon that spread intentionally or unintentionally is the base case.
Perhaps IDEs and shells could converge?
Why do you need one of the two major platforms if not for apps? Without your parking app available for example on iOS would you still pick the iPhone? Or would you settle for Google and Android? Without third party apps the iPhone would just be a feature phone with a very nice web browser.

Now there's probably people that get away entirely with just the built in set of apps but I bet that's eroding day by day as more and more things require or are greatly simplified by apps, like banking, parking,eetc .
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>How about we don't dogmatically prohibit other adults from engaging in some class of voluntary interactions with each other.

No, as long as it has drastic side effects that affect others.

>hundreds of millions of people potentially being empowered

Poe's law strikes here hard.
The bigger a company, the more disposable its employees. When you quit, you lose 100% of your income, but when Amazon fires you, they lose 0.0001% of their productivity.

This is why I am in support of unions in general.
I said "sort of". The point is that NFTs shouldn't be compared to CD copies, they are more similar to something like the musicians original handwritten music scores in that there's only one of it (and it doesn't confer any licence rights to the buyer).
Recently, I have been looking at the Factor language http://factorcode.org. I think I would like to have a shell based on that.
Pretty much. jlos is claiming that college educated people have a monopoly on certain thinking patterns, isn't that extremely elitist?
Definitely worth burning tons of coal.
The article recognizes that interop and backwards compatibility with existing systems is important for adoption and it does not try to impose a new clean room replacement. This is IMHO a good strategy that has proven itself in other contexts.

For example Kotlin/Clojure/Scala all started out focusing on interop with the base Java/JVM technology. They provide a new layer of modern language features that is still compatible with all the existing code without forcing a rewrite. Over time these new languages get adopted, some older libraries get a modern equivalent and that helps these languages to branch out into other areas: e.g. Kotlin Native, multiplatform and ClojureScript.

A similar thing can be seen with Typescript. It started as a type layer on top of JavaScript, making it easy to interop with old JS code and over time lots of pure Typescript library equivalents have popped up. Now that the Typescript ecosystem is flourishing we see technology like Deno that slowly moves Typescript away from its JS base.

For a post-POSIX shell to be adopted widely I think it will need to use a similar strategy.

Edit: re-reading my own comment, I might have just advocated for an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy.
This is so woke, presuming you know better than others around you. You should become a politician, so that you can force your enlightened beliefs on others.
If you interpret "the mind" as "my mind" then yes, it can't be more obvious.
AKA support doing the entire work, and pay attention to what defaults you choose. Don't stop at the first part.

He also says that your flexibility should be enough to fit the target audience, and not much more because you should focus on delighting that audience, not on broadening it.

I actually didn't like the article either. The means he pushes are known to not be very effective, and he makes a completely one sided analysis of a cost/benefit situation. But I think you are focusing too hard on the trees and missed the forest.
In Spain for example, there is historically no such thing as a Computer Science degree. Before the implementation of the EU-wide Bologna Process (mid 2000s), 5-year bachelor degrees were classified into either ordinary “Licenciaturas“ or “Ingenierías“ (=Engineering), with computing being an engineering degree (“Ingeniería Informática“) and treated as such. I'm not sure how it works now, but I think it's still a degree in engineering at least by name.

In my opinion, this being the only option has had a lasting negative impact on the IT culture in Spain, with many people who worked their way through (i.e. suffered their way through) getting their Computer Engineering degree feeling defensive about "professional intrusion" from people who work in the field without having taken Computer Engineering at university. However, being as I am one of those intruders, I am of course biased.
And rational approach is minimize the amount of cars on the road. Contrary to cryptos, there are certain applications where cars don't have real alternatives - like deliveries to small shops and restaurants, or for tradesman.
'geofft upthread has a good point about assigning blame: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27389537.

Perhaps it would've been easier for the scientists involved in gain of function research to remain unbiased, if they weren't fully aware that anything but total denial will make the world think they're responsible - as a profession and individuals - without as much as shred of evidence to support it.

> People have an idea that “trust the experts” can replace all the messy, gross, and often wrong processes we have developed to deal with the fact nobody can be trusted.

I observe the opposite. People seem to have the idea that experts are always in on it, or out to get something out of a crisis, and thus should be ignored. The alternative is, of course, to listen to whatever uninformed opinion piece confirms one's worldview the most. I think we'd all do better with trusting the experts more - they may be wrong, but they're also in the best position to discover and correct that. They may be also right. Most people - including journalists, pundits and bloggers - are not capable of telling whether experts are right or wrong. So trusting them seems like a better bet than trusting random opinions (unless yourself you have enough familiarity with the field, at which point your own interpretation may be valid too).

C.f. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
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> My hot take about most dynamic languages is that they are a poor fit for startups who have intentions of being long-term businesses

I don't think that's fair to say. There's plenty of long term businesses running at scale using dynamic languages. That's employee and load scale too.

Dropbox is ~13 years old, has ~4 million lines of Python and operate at crazy scale. I ended up talking to one of their ex-engineers last month about how they build and deploy their set up at: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/82-dropbox-gives-you...

Then there's Basecamp which is one of the oldest SAAS apps around using Rails and GitHub too which isn't quite as old but definitely falls into the long term business category.
I agree. It's a structural weakness.

Human stories about conflicts of interest, ideological takes focused on confluency with grander theories, politically factionalization and such make the better story. Hard positions make better stories than skeptical ambiguity.

That can't be helped. Most people are going to read the compelling story, so that will be what major publications print. We do need some sort of journalism that doesn't do this. Someone needs to research and investigate this without populist considerations playing a role. Not instead of what we have, in addition to.
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