skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Github's DNS likely will serve up a different IP for github when there is an outage. I can't talk about the details but GitHub and the rest of Microsoft use a global load balancing system that works through DNS.
I follow your line of thinking, but what's missing from it is that repl.it isn't unique at it's core. There are a ton of "multi language repls", many of which existed before repl.it, before Amjad's jsConsole, etc.

What repl.it is doing that is unique is the amount of investment into all of the "extra" stuff around it.

The "number of languages" thing isn't secret sauce either...clearly once you have the base repl working, iterating more languages is pretty straightforward.
Ignoring is in general the worst thing you can do, if they do anything more it looks bad on you in court.

I do agree with those who say get a lawyer to send your response. However you should still do the research yourself - to the best of your ability. You can save yourself some expensive lawyer time by knowing the basics and having a potential draft (be careful: make it clear that you do not have any emotional ties to it so the lawyer is free to tear it up) of your response.
I'm going to write one that bypasses Google AMP pages in favor of the real thing.

Will probably also write one for personal use that bypasses basic paywalls and GDPR prompts.

I have traffic to most known Facebook servers blocked on my Mac hosts file, perhaps I can't get to hosts on iOS but an extension would be the next best thing.

Finally, there are a couple bookmarking websites like verygoods.co that rely on antiquated bookmarklets that no longer function with modern browser privacy settings, I'd like to try to reverse engineer a replacement, but I'm unsure if that's possible.

"barely any usable extensions on desktop safari" I'm quite fond of 1Password, Cascadea https://cascadea.app, and KeySearch http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/keysearch/.
It's a language for a reason, there's a grammar, parser, lexer, ast. What's the problem?
I used to take Piracetam to improve my focus. I didn’t actually notice any improvement. Has anyone noticed an improvement in mental acuity after taking Piracetam?
The term 'Slave-labor offsets' comes to mind when reading your post. I agree that it is disgusting that the public unknowing funds human suffering.
So Warren Buffet and others should wait for the government to increase their tax rate and then they can pay more taxes? And this has to happen because if any one of them pays more taxes before the others they are at a disadvantage?
Stabel: A pure, concatinative programming language that targets WASM
No, the more wealth doesn't mean the "more you can make". A majority of people own homes, for instance. And these homes usually go up in value. But no tax authority comes to your house and starts taxing you on how much the value of your home has increased. You pay taxes on the profits when you sell your home, not when you sit in it. Same thing goes for shares in companies. In both cases, the home and shares, owning something that has increased in value doesn't mean you have a stack of cash in your hand. You might once you sell your assets, at which point you pay taxes in both cases.
It may not be. In fact, I'd suggest discussing the idea of validity in relation to opinions is probably fraught with peril itself. That said, any opinion which is more close to the unbridled truth is generally more structurally sound (and maybe that's a good hallmark for "validity") than opinions which are more sensationalized.

"Grey opinions" are essentially the opposite of sensationalized. I'm not the original commenter, but if I read them correctly, I believe they mean that the least sensational and most deliberate opinions are more likely to fully account for the truth of the matter (and hence be "more" valid) than those opinions which sensationalize.
Love the idea. I was thinking about creating something similar (without any knowledge on how to achieve that, I'm not a good programmer) for music creation and especially collaboration.

When writing a song with someone else, this can become really handy, as we sometimes don't know if some idea might work.

I would totally be a customer (if its not bound to a monthly payment). But as of now, it's lacking linux support (why do I have to be that special unicorn all the time?).

By the way: BandLab has something like this integrated already, but I want to use my own DAW.
If by "hired" you mean kidnapped and made them decide between killing their families and them or paying them to secure their networks then you are correct.

Drug cartels over here are terrible.
And so the ACLU gets worse and worse via evaporative cooling of group beliefs.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...
+1. I would even pay to watch you code this.
I question the ascertain that humans were doing "GET /" or "HELO my.fq.dn" on any regular basis. There were mail clients from the very beginning for example:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email

Perusing document-based information was also done via clients, first with Gopher and then with the WWW: either GUIs like Mosaic, or on the CLI via (e.g.) Lynx.
lol yes. facepalm

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http://cascadea.app is a similar app for MacOS, I wouldn't be surprised if the author takes a crack at porting it.
There’s two halves to payroll tax. One paid by the employee that is deducted from their paycheck. The other is paid by the employer and counts as an expense against revenue.

Employees do not get to deduct the second half from their taxes. It’s considered to be paid by their employers.

(Unless you’re self employed.)
This is a game theoretical idea that shows how to address under- and overvaluation of property. How to refine it into a practical system is an open question but I'm sorry, I just don't see how your example of inheritance of a Beetle scuppers the whole thing.

Property taxation being used to unfairly seize objects of mere sentimental value seems an easy to problem resolve compared to the problem of imposing property taxation at all. The real reason land value tax hasn't seen much use in any jurisdiction is that it massively advantages the common person above the wealthy landowner, so there are huge structural pressures against it.
They sell your assets if you don’t pay the principal though, which would trigger capital gains.
Sorry to have to ask.Could you please show a Wikipedia-like intro to Upmem?

It may be a simple typing problem, but Wikipedia doesn't seem to have it.
That's cool, but unless we're talking about some sort of progressive inheritance tax, it's not just about filthy rich people, but all of us.

For example, if I die, why shouldn't I be able to pass my house onto my children? Real estate is really goddamn expensive, so do you expect me to force my children into debt slavery just so they can afford a decent place to live?
> we can’t precisely measure life satisfaction, but we can quantify GDP per capita, which as we know can be easily faked.

So the problem worthy of note with GDP is veracity of the figure? Not an economist, but I thought the problem was that it doesn't illuminate important aspects of the economy we'd want to know-- e.g., whether there's an increasing income disparity in the given nation.
All you need is 5 fonts
Leveraging the Different Types of “Clouds” for Development
“Continue this thread” links don’t depend on JavaScript at all.

“View entire discussion” couldn’t be implemented perfectly with <details> in its present form, but you can get quite close to it with a couple of different approaches.

I think the infinite scrolling of subreddits is about the only thing that would really be lost by shedding JavaScript. Even inline replies can be implemented quite successfully with <details> if you really want.
The Abode of Madness. The long history of no man’s land
>I'm not getting any funding for a startup, for much of the same reasons.

I hate to ask why you believe this, because I see VC money being thrown at borderline low-lifes with mediocre ideas. There are so many "angel investors" on Twitter of companies I've never heard of...

The SV bubble can warp your brain, but an outsider's tip is to focus on your idea before you start worrying about funding it...
We have that in Italy too, but at least that means that ripping CDs or DVDs is entirely legal. It's actually called private copy contribution.
The Productisation of Music Rights
Here are two robust techniques that I haven’t seen actually employed in production for maybe fifteen years:

① A submit button or link targeting an iframe which is visually hidden. (Or even don’t hide it. If only seamless iframes had happened, or any other way of auto-resizing an iframe: relevant spec issues are https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/555 and https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1771.)

② A submit button or link to a URL that returns status 204 No Content.

(CSS image loading in any form is not as robust because some clients will have images disabled. background-image is probably (unverified claim!) less robust than pseudoelement content as accessibility modes (like high contrast) are more likely to strip background images, though I’m not sure if they are skipped outright or load and aren’t shown. :active is neither robust nor correct: it doesn’t respond to keyboard activation, and it’s triggered on mouse down rather than mouse up. Little tip here for a thing that people often get wrong: mouse things activate on mouseup, keyboard things on keydown.)
The big problem with those DMGs is that they only work on one OS. This is one thing where PGP encrypted files shine.
Makes me happy to see system tools being written in typescript!
I strongly agree both with respect for the half-baked-ness of the language and with the "it's probably the best out there". Ultimately, these tools should have a static/yaml-like "assembly language" that describes the state of your infrastructure without any of the DRY. There would be a diffing engine which would figure out what changes need to be applied and apply them accordingly. Users could use some vanilla programming language to generate that yaml in a DRY way; then the Terraform folks don't need to badly reinvent a programming language.

I know they also have a CDK, but I can't tell if it properly solves that problem or if it still forces us into Terraform idiosyncrasies (i.e., if I rename something in Terraform, it will try to delete the corresponding resource and recreate it, and I think that absurd behavior remains with the CDK).
I mean being able to reliably convert HCL↔JSON.
i think you really didn't get the message, did you?
maybe read it again, carefully, and then edit your initial post
There is more time for a background check that way. There are many ways to work around the difficult US entry requirements if an attacker is determined, but if something like this bypasses the process attackers will go for that: boats are cheap.
I would assume the author of that comment was using "grey" to describe an opinion that is more nuanced and carefully considered. A black/white opinion would be hyperbolic or simply expressed to provoke reaction.

So if that's what a grey opinion is... then yeah. That's more valid. Especially if you value conversations aimed at exploring some reality rather than performative shouting matches.
WhatsApp is trivially compromised to law enforcement already if you have backups setup which most people have for message recovery and switching phones. The backup is not encrypted with a private key.
I've used both - with having to use CF to create a particularly gnarly and sprawling environment. I constantly ran into limitations hidden behind cryptic or unrelated error messages. It was infuriating.

Terraform syntax is definitely not sexy, but it's a robust piece of software, and in fact, can be used to learn better Go techniques.

A total aside, but people who claim Golang is easy are full of it. It's an extremely hard language to write well at scale, and Terraform is a good example to study.
Golden Rice however addressed a problem that couldn't be addressed in other ways (not without much bigger strife), by providing a decentralized, locally viable way of addressing the vitamin shortage that all other options failed at.

(Of course we could just do it by force, but that has other issues)
Yep:

.button:active {
background-image: url('/some-reference-thats-actually-a-tracker');
}
Wonder what the story is behind these two...

User-Agent: bender
Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass

User-Agent: Gort
Disallow: /earth
> "in ROMANIA which is a third world country"

Classic.

No matter how powerful the infrastructure or skilled the local personnel, some countries are doomed to be put always in the same bucket by certain people from certain other countries.
I wouldn't be surprised if that outcome is intentional. Apple has been pretty transparent (through their actions) that they don't want FaceTime and ichat to be cross platform.

It could be that this exists as a piece of evidence in an anti-trust fight.
An opinion you state because it benefits you is an opinion you hold.

That you don't _really_ believe it matters to nobody but yourself.
The two being open source is an apples to oranges comparison.

Here’s one issue we’ve had with these repos:

https://lwn.net/Articles/295406/

Then there’s things like NPM that’s broken quite a few production deployments in spectacularly public ways.
I don't use other contexts that require frequent sign-in procedure on my Mac.

To be honest, since I stopped using a Windows machine I almost completely switched to Apple's own keychain. That said, I still have the LastPass because it is easier to use for storing private data that does not strictly conforms to the "username and password" convention.
Content blockers do work for 3rd party browsers AFAIK. I use Firefox on iOS and to my understanding Magic Lasso content blocker is what’s blocking the ads. I think that since the Firefox browser is really safari and the blocker is implemented at a lower level, the content blocker just works.
Wealth becomes a proxy for power, freedom, liberty, and so forth in our society.

The most obvious example is that the very wealthy do not have to work. Their wealth snowballs at some point through investment vehicles and others manage their wealth. At that point you can do whatever you want with your life.

You and I on the other hand may not have that option. I'm in a high income bracket relative to most,, but I still rely on my labor (time), even if I live frugally. I have to spend a large portion of my life working to remain solvent in society. I could reject society and go out into the woods as a survivalist or become homeless but that's not a very desirable life for many to live.

To your example, let's say the offense is a speeding fine. If I get a fine for speeding, depending on the state and speed, you can accumulate these indefinitely. At some point it's just a fee to do something you want to do.

Let's assume that you can't speed indefinitely though, let's say it's a wreckless driving offense, well for me I'm out of options--after a ticket or two I'll lose my license to drive which is critical to my livelihood. I'll go to court for repeat offenses because I'm the driver.

What if I'm really rich and I hire someone to speed for me: a driver? As a passenger I have no legal responsibility, it's the driver. I could cycle through drivers willing to speed for me whenever they lose their licenses for wreckless driving. If I pay them enough, I guarantee you'll find drivers willing to speed regularly for you. The money goes back into the economy, sure, but using wealth, I've passed risks and liabilities off to others and inherently can do things others in society cannot. I've got you to trade your freedoms to drive to my desire to speed. Wealth has been used as a proxy to give rights someone otherwise wouldn't have. This is one silly example but there are many rights and laws that have no sort of co-conspirator offense wealth can buy away. We realized this with murder which is why you can be charged when you pay someone to murder someone else. Not all laws have these catches, buying co-conspirators rights.
> The trouble I see is that authority then always accumulates to that node.

This is why you want the node to be purely abstract and outside of anyone’s control.

> the value of a unit there is still tied to American financial policy

Indeed. This is why you don’t want something backed by USD.

> And if we shifted to a completely imaginary currency, then we'd need consensus on the value of that currency, and whatever form of consensus was used would then have authority over the whole network.

I don’t think this claim makes sense. The consensus for a pure asset like bitcoin comes from marketwide supply and demand. This doesn’t create “authority” over the network any more than physics creates “authority” over the strength of gravity.
This DE is just incredible, I think we wouldn't have any advances in other - even comercial - desktop environments if it wasn't for the feeling

"oh, our not-KDE desktop environment can't do AT ALL what KDE does uneventfully, we need to catch up with these guys"
Would be interesting to know what these fail over patterns are. As DNS takes a while to propagate, I thought DNS records already indicate fail over addresses.
All valid points. I do miss some sort of guidance every now and then on some repos. The most difficult bit starts when multiple forks have different features one wants to have in their own fork.

It would be awesome if there was a way on github to say "give me the upstream with this repo cherry pick, this repo cherry pick". But that might be pretty difficult to implement.
Do you think it's the model and the data that's novel? That's exactly why AI is failing.

How about starting with a problem to solve? You don't need anything but a pen and paper. Gotta start somewhere.
It really speaks to how little PG understands the realities of being an employee, rather than a founder or "visionary" or some such high up idea person.

I enter into employment with an employer, and the terms are laid out in a contract, possibly based on an agreement the company and a union.

My employer gets to call the shots during the working hours, as specified by the contract. For anything outside of that, they have no say in what I do, and the less they know about it, the better. Work is something I have to be compensated for, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.

I bring very little of my private life into work, just what seems reasonable for general interactions with my colleagues and talk about random subjects over lunch. I'll talk about a recent concert I went to or a nice restaurant, and that's it. We can have a beer at the Friday bar and some small talk, but colleagues != friends. We have a professional and cordial relation, not a friendship.

Conversely, I also don't take my work home with me. My phone and laptop get shut off completely at the end of the work day, and they do not get switched on before I am at the office again (or around 8 when WFH).

My time is mine, and that is non-negotiable.
Electrons advance into the desktop space means that MS has to put resources into enhancing the performance of Chromium on their platforms anyway, so really even if they wanted to carry on with Trident/EdgeHTML they'd end up competing with themselves.
That comment is entirely unhelpful, and a net negative with the condescension. If you think someone misunderstood, help them by restating the idea in a way you find more understandable.
> Many will ask about the ethics of publishing such private data. We are doing so — quite selectively and carefully — because we believe it serves the public interest in fundamental ways, allowing readers to see patterns that were until now hidden.... We believe that disclosing the identities of billionaires who paid little to no taxes in years their fortunes grew by billions of dollars will help readers understand the magnitude of the tax advantages the ultrarich enjoy... Our publication of this tax data comes at a possibly pivotal moment in America’s long, often contentious debate about the fairness of our tax system

So it's okay to encroach on the privacy of private individuals as long as it serves a political purpose? To try to drum up support for higher tax rates? They're not even saying these individuals used their money to manipulate the tax code, but are merely beneficiaries of income with preferable tax treatment.
Is there some sort of condom-like proxy service like anonymizer.com that will proxy a site while logged in, but just sending back the stuff I want to see?

I think I’d pay a few dollars for this for privacy preservation and saving various annoyances.

I use various blockers but this kind of stuff gives me random negative feedback so I’m always in very, very mild dread of the next stupid thing. Being relieved of that dread is actually what I want to pay to prevent.

Comically, paying the actual source won’t work because even if you pay, they keep layering on crap to get more money. Paying once I think makes me a better target because an existing customer is easier to get more money from than a potential customer.

So I’d pay a third party, but not the original party.
The engineering against natural reproduction is something required by, among others, Greenpeace in order to prevent spread and replacing of naturally occurring ones.
I usually give Google shit for copying everything Apple does, but I sincerely hope that they (and Microsoft) copy this feature. I'd love to have extensions like Stylus and Microsoft Editor on my phone. Plus this would open up a massive audience of users, which would hopefully further inspire developers to build interesting and useful extensions.
Firefox on Android or Chrome on a Chromebook with detachable screen seems to be the only way to get it on a non-Windows tablet.
Aka customized (and backdoored) Android firmware.
I don't believe that's an accurate representation of the point the author of the article was trying to make. I believe that their point was that we should not pile on with mobs, believing that popularity or trends of the moment are correct (letting social media think for you) and instead perform our own analysis of available information or better yet avoid contentious situations altogether.

Their point wasn't really about the author or the book, or the situation, it was a meta-analysis of the fact that many of the later participants in the mud-slinging online were reacting to the furor on social media, rather than to the original situation. If you analyze this more expansively, it's just an observation of the well understood sociological trend of reactionaries and counter-reactionaries.