skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't actually think that your comment negates my point, do you?

The point of the sarcasm is to emphasize that if you already cannot do it with trillions then you certainly are not going to get it done with billions.

It's a simple argument that stands entirely on it's own.

You first need to provide convincing evidence to the contrary rather than just saying things like "imagine if we gave even more money to something that we already give money too ..."

Is HN devolving into 3-year old logic? I swear the last couple of years have been bad.
Just an opinion -- "I'm surprised that no one ..." is becoming a cliche on HN and could be avoided. :-)
I didn't mean it quite literally, and specified that I'm not suggesting that police had something like this in mind. My uneducated guess is that police were after something specific relating to other information that they already had. That's generally how police investigations work.

That said, the one relatively broad concept where "we" consistently do better than random guesses is ad-tech, which is where the bulk of private efforts to this effect are concentrated currently. The premise here is quite literally "every data point is predictive of behaviour," behaviour being stuff related to the goals of advertisers.

It's not a huge leap to suggest that fb & adwords' system can be used to predict crime, insurance claims, HR-related stuff etc.
They need to start being sunk.
Well I use a an actual Shure dynamic mic and unless you get close 3 inches or so it pics up nothing - this is not you crappy laptop mic or 19.99 headset.
A little bit of everything all of the time
If using Django there are tools like django-docs (https://django-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and the recently released django-sphinx-view (https://noumenal.es/django-sphinx-view/).
Definition of Y Combinator in Computer Science
Sure. But you could say the same about a lot of recent web platform features. Native apps work best for some business cases, web apps work best for others.
The speak until spoken shit some one mentioned.
What does that even mean? I've pretty much gotten away with using JS for just about everything for the last 4 years. The evolution of a language to make it compete with other languages isn't necessarily "shoehorning". Am I not a true developer because I like JS and haven't found a need to write code in something like Rust?

EDIT: Do you mean that it lacks certain features without a runtime like Node or the browser? For instance, it doesn't have a language construct for opening files like Python or Ruby. If so, I don't think that's a good argument.
The better route would be to eliminate the methods that allow injustice. For example, instead of delegating decision authority to a politician retain all decisions as a popular vote in a basket of decisions put to voters at a certain tempo, say weekly. Voting for a politician has too high latency between voter decision and effective decision.
A browser-integrated password management API could make for a smoother transition to a future automated auth technology based on public keys, like WebAuthn
Not just a factory, but the primary issue with desal is that it takes a ton of energy, so you’d also need a power plant…
Any changes to BTC require broad consensus of all participants (nodes/miners/users/exchanges/etc).

No one can unilaterally make changes, when they try they end up with forks like Bitcoin Cash. Just take a look at a change like taproot which almost everyone agrees is a great change, the rollout has been very conservatively done despite not being controversial at all.

The flip side of that is Bitcoin is very hard to change which frustrates many of the people who go buy altcoins, but that's a feature, not a bug.
Can't see it.
Ah! Yes, thanks for sharing. I should've guessed this existed for Emacs as well. I played around with implementing a similar concept like this in Vim, in 2019 (link: https://github.com/sharat87/roast.vim). Unfortunately, while I love Vim as an editor, I couldn't do a lot of features that I wanted. So I moved to the browser and built Prestige :)
Same issue in Chrome.
Postcode – VSCode extension alternative to Postman
Ask HN: What is the current situation on Freenode?
Are there statistics on the number of channel who migrated and those who did not? What else changed?
That’s a small sum for many nation states but good to know we only have to worry about nations or conspiracies. Do you have a link to more information about this?
Bypassing an Outlook Dark Pattern
OK, but I'm saying the burden of proof is on who think that simulation is possible. It's not at all obvious that it is.

As far as I can tell, the idea was basically made popular by movies [1], and there is no science behind it. All the science I know of points the other way -- simulating anything is incredibly hard and slow. It requires approximations and shortcuts to make it work for specific cases, and it doesn't work in the general case.

(Maybe some alternative model like quantum computation will be different, but we're MUCH much further there. I think "adding two small numbers" is still an issue for state of the art quantum computers.)

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Here's a nice example from a few days ago, trying to represent even a tiny part of the human brain in a computer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27362883

[1] I think this is more literally true than you might expect; IIRC the published papers in philosophy liberally reference The Matrix, maybe because it attracts readers.
https://woodcutmaps.com/ is pretty nice too
> Go to any American supermarket and look at the labels, I bet a majority of them are made in China.

A great deal of our overall consumer products are, but most of our consumables come from the US or Central/South America.
Mapping the Eurasian Century
these rules are kind of a joke right? I see top comments breaking them all the time, i guess dismissing comments as "sjw and woke" is permitted on this site
Two providers that I know of are Sentinel vpn and Mysterium vpn.

They‘re like tor where anyone can run their own node, but unlike tor there is a financial incentive to run them because they come with built in payment processing solutions via cryptocurrencies.

Some people are skeptical of cryptocurrencies but I consider this to be an excellent use case:

Securing coordination between actors that don’t necessarily trust each other through market incentives.

This would incentivize people to run their own nodes and it would be less like tor where most exit nodes are allegedly run by intelligence agencies.
> Most real-world programming requires handling of side effects somewhere, so such programs have parts which are not referentially transparent.

That's not correct though. Look at Haskell (or even stricter Idris). This is real world application code that can do whatever Java, C++, ... can do, but it is pure functional and hence doesn't contain any non referentially transparent parts. Just because an application is written in a pure functional style does not mean that it cannot e.g. write into a database when it is executed.

Of course many languages don't even allow to use a fully pure functional style. In that case, a more or less big functional "core" is the closest one can come to a pure FP style.

> I didn't go into immutability in my other response because you can use mutation inside pure functions, as long as the effect doesn't leave the function.

Sure you can do that and sometimes it is even the best practical solution. And the function might even be referential transparent - but your whole application is now not pure functional anymore, because a part of it is not referential transparent anymore.

Hence: if an application has to satisfy the criteria of being "pure functional" then every expression must be referential transparent and hence no mutation can be used.
And maps of cities are like histology slides.
> For the upcoming POS Ethereum chain (which is still being worked on!), the current cost is around $15 billion.

Just curious, do we have an idea of how much Buterin himself holds?
That’s kind of missing the point. There were 400 Chinese vessels turning off their AIS to illegally fish. Even if they were turning them off less frequently, the sheer numbers are far more damaging than 9 Spanish ships.

When you have that many vessels you don’t need to turn them off as much because you’re catching everything that moves in a far shorter period of time.
That reminds me of the Iron Maiden 747, piloted by their singer:

https://simpleflying.com/iron-maiden-747/
Not sure if NHS has this concept, but in other health systems, the NHS equivalent (an economy that operates a health system o.b.o a government) is a set of service providers, with data custodians at the edges. Custodians hold accountability for health information privacy, where service providers are accountable to a custodian. It all rolls up into these entities. Health admins tend to forget that the relationship they are scaling is between physicians and patients, and it is not the government managing the vetrinary system for a person farm. This health system as proxy for public policy issue is dangerous.

If you see my previous comment on this thread about objections to data collection, an opposing view of another health tech and policy expert would be really valuable to the discussion.
Very powerful. Thanks for finding and sharing.
Also, both MS and Apple nowadays make it pretty easy to keep rolling backups to an attached a USB HD.

Not to mention that, with Cloud this and that, local hardware is pretty fungible and easily "reincarnated" in a replacement device
> The money actually going for care is pretty minimal.

That is literally the point.

Welfare = Welfare bureaucracy + Welfare Benefits

This is true of everything the government does. Government = bureaucracy + benefits, with a larger percentage going to support the bureaucracy than in any other organization or context.

And even if you increase money for benefits, the same (or sometimes larger percentage) goes to supporting the bureaucracy of those benefits.

It's not hard.
It's rather commonly used as a metaphor for classes (synonym: templates), I've seen that multiple times. More recently Urbit's Hoon language used the word for type-assertion functions [1], though I'm very sure that its choice is mostly due to its idiosyncratic naming convention where each class of words have the same number of letters.

[1] https://urbit.org/docs/hoon/hoon-school/molds/
I use something very similar for a very long time already in vcode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
It actually struggles to hit 30 FPS in most GC titles still. Accurate emulation between vastly different platform stacks generally does not care about the raw performance ratio rather how "lucky" some of the hardware functionality can be efficiently mapped.
Swift is not a language that enforces code to be pure functional though.
I downvoted you, and I'll explain why. In my recollection, the very first "politicization" I heard of Covid's origins were politicians insisting that the virus was man-made. Politicians, mind you, who had been repeatedly clear that they were not particularly interested in figuring out the truth in what happened, but assigning blame.

So then I saw the unfortunate (and this is where I agree with part of your sentiment) response from media and the scientific establishment insisting that this wasn't possible, instead of stating the truth, that is "we just don't know". Note these are similar falsehoods that the scientific establishment took early on in the pandemic, saying "masks don't work for the public", instead of saying that "we're scared there won't be enough masks for hospitals, and we don't know how effective masks are by the general public."

Finally, this statement by you is downright laughable:

> And we shouldn't forget the astonishingly sudden about-face by the media (almost all of whom work for companies who also sell their entertainment properties in China) who routinely called COVID the "China virus" or "Wuhan virus"

I recall quite clearly one particular American president calling it "the China virus" and virtually every mainstream US media outlet calling him out for racism. I don't remember any member of the media establishment calling it the China virus.
What do you mean a "small country"? Argentina is 8-th largest country in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
With some vpn providers you can look them up in court records to see if there are any mentions of them keeping logs.
The data transfer isn't necessarily straightforward though, and in the worst case can take months: https://www.carersuk.org/forum/support-and-advice/all-about-...
> From the Swift docs regarding closures

What makes you think Swift only supports functional programming?

> I would have used Haskell doc reference

And if you would have, you would have disproved your own point. In Haskell, closures cannot mutate state, because mutable state is not part of the language semantics. It's modeled explicitly via monads.
As a very light reading of the article will tell.
Keep in mind that that is not the only possible environmental impact. In order to extract such large volumes of water, ecosystems may be damaged.
I don't think violence is a good option. Also consider there are likely the working poor on the boats, even systems of slave labour.

Far better would be to catch them, fly the crew home and and auction the vessels.

In Australia they do similar but burn the boats as these tend to be smaller vessels made of wood. The thought that you'll lose your boat for a catch if fish is a huge deterrent.
This is a pretty good summary of the lab leak hypothesis: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...
Evaluate it on its own merits. Personally I think it's incredibly compelling, but there are certainly many smart people who disagree.
It's not clear from your comment. It implies that it was not made by anybody on your company, but it doesn't assert it (and there are plenty of cases where one would google about something somebody nearby had developed).

And the GP is not missing your point, you are missing his. He is trying to point that if it was an internal development maybe your language was indeed rude (that really depends on a lot of context to decide). If that's the case, your manager may not be wrong.
Does China even posses the ability to project power that far in any major sense?
We've had 10 years of crypto economy, and yet, to this day, there has not been a single 51% attack on any major coin.

In the same time preiod we have seen mutiple hacks again banks, governments and the military.

The proof is in the pudding
Agreed - a "least hassle" route would be better.

Google maps has sent me on some really werid routes with endless turns left, right right left right right right left left right left etc etc vs just staying on a main road with only one or two turns for only an extra couple of minutes minutes more

I'd be more than happy to stay on the easy main roads and turn once or twice rather than hack through the backstreets just to save <5% distance/time
Yeah, they are wizards. I love reading emulator source code. It's helped me have a better understanding of electronics. I still don't know anywhere near enough though...
> I just hope that WebGL, WASM etc are not going to be abused

Unfortunately, it is too late for that.

For example, 50 % of sites using WASM are using it for crypto mining: https://www.dimva2019.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2019/0...

In addition, WebGL is being used for browser fingerprinting.

Also, the implementations of both WASM and WebGL are quite complex and thereby greatly increase the attack surface of browsers. Just a few examples for vulnerabilities:

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-2041...

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=webgl).

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-1502/
There is no Nobel Prize in economics.

There is a group that hijacked the name for their own prize, whom the Nobel committee has no contact with. They are, of course, economists, so any merit in their prize is only as much as economists' at large.

The which is, let us say, disputed.
Interesting perspective, I hadn’t thought of it that way before.
I once experienced a waiter holding raw meat (to be cooked at the table) over the drinks while serving, unknowingly letting it drip into the glass. (But as I didn't want to find out if it would life-threatening or not, I didn't try the drink.)
Hey, yes, this was very much an inspiration when I started off (as can be seen by the same `###` separator lines. Thanks for sharing!
Comlux bought it from Aeromexico in their bankruptcy, but it looks like Piñeyro might be leasing it from Comlux.
The internet does not like humor sir
Does he have problems with Asian customers? (4 is the unlucky number)
I see a lot of people saying that there aren't a lot of attacks that having a 51% enables. I'd like to understand that a little bit better. Are there markets where you can short-sell cryptocurrencies? If so, mightn't you be able to turn a good profit by shorting one of these smaller coins (say Quarkchain at $30/hour with a market cap of $116M), then launching a 51% attack for a week or two, in the hopes of tanking the coins value? That would only cost you $5k per week.
Thanks.

You typed enough interesting stuff here for an above average blog/whatever post. Consider doing and submitting it.
An example of using IPs to combat abuse is Wordfence. It's a WordPress plugin which blocks traffic from known abusive IPs. A quick glimpse at the "live traffic" for one of my websites reveals several IPs within the last hour that have attempted to access the site which were blocked.

A site I was repairing after a hack fortunately had server logs which included IP data. That IP allowed me to identify the specific exploit used.

So, there are definitely uses for IP data in security terms.
Why is this even here? Crude, primitive piece of Putin propaganda
Can you not just not write the documentation, even if it resides in the same repository, and then later make a commit to update it, as a separate task?
Ruby is a better Perl; it's closer to Perl than e.g. Python, it has fewer footguns but is also very expressive. It also has alternative quotes, backtick, shellescape etc. for ad hoc shell integration though you're better off learning IO.popen and others to take the shell out of the equation.
> now you need to send all of the surrounding html over, when only a small table or form would need updating

No, you don't. For something like the upvote button on HN you can do an ajax call with a line of javascript. In the context of the conversation this is very far from bloated SPAs.

HN is a good example: each thread page consists mostly of comments. Reusing the same DOM across different pages would do very little.

Gmail is another: the default UI is a heavy SPA. The "plain html" mode is not. And it's faster.
So random. Was just reading about Wu's Algorithm. Drawing pairs of pixels and shading based on distance. Old school techniques are fast. New school AI-upsampling is what they used to dream about ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaolin_Wu%27s_line_algorithm
It's on the master branch right now if you can build it. By the sounds of it, they're rolling it out into the next release.
> a re-visit of structured programming.

God I hope so, probably the worst time I have teaching junior developers is helping those who have only used for-each write a loop with a useful invariant and not a garbage fire of breaks/continues.
What can Argentina even do about this? Seize or sink some ships to make an example?
People learn at different speeds, and intelligence + natural talent is a huge factor when it comes to learning this stuff. The two most talented programmers I know have quite different backgrounds: One is your archetypical hacker - started coding as a young child, demo-scene by the time he was 13, and got headhunted before he could enroll college.

The other guy didn't write a line of code until he was 21, after switching majors from econ to engineering - three years later, he was getting offers from FAANG companies and quant/hedge funds.

But, I do think that if people consistently work and study programming for 10 years, then most will have a solid grasp afterwards. That means doing actual constructive work almost every day, for 10 years - doing work that either challenges you, or teaches you how to use the tools.

Being an expert (or highly competent) programmer is not only about knowing CS-theory at heart, and being able to translate that into working code - it's also being fluid with the tools. And, luckily, becoming good with tools doesn't take much more than time and effort.

You could be the worst programmer in the world, but given enough time, you could learn every nook and cranny of some language and its ecosystem.
> I disagree with the author on the point of standups - they're not big-picture strategic sessions; they're about short-term, tactical planning. What work are you going to do today? Are you blocked by anything?

This has always been my problem with standups: they feel a bit too much like micromanagement.
I wonder if there is a css query to detect computer shell color, a la night mode detection.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47240039/how-to-detect-n...
Software engineering as an industry generally lacks professionalism. Particularly amongst startups.

Being a professional means doing what you say you’re going to do, doing it well, and doing it honestly.

In my experience, expecting passion for the product instead of professionalism for the work has always turned out to be a badly managed company. The best companies I worked for expected professionalism, not passion.
Is it even possible to boycott China at this point?
That's not accurate. You can definitely buy hashing power for BTC on NiceHash[1]. Bitcoin is just SHA-256. The more likely explanation (given that this is the crypto space) is that the author is a BTC bagholder.

[1] https://www.nicehash.com/my/marketplace/SHA256
Couldn't you get additional power from various cloud computing places?
Types of Blogs
Amazon Unbound review: how Jeff Bezos engulfed and devoured us all
I'm genuinely curious when all of this will catch up to us. I spend a relatively large amount of my spare time keeping up with myriad of ways we are destroying our environment, the fact that our ecosystem is in deep danger is without question.

At the same time, while I am anecdotally aware we are experiencing a range of shortages right now, it never seems to quite show up in our economic data.

Take for example the FRED data on global fish prices [0]. When you look at that chart you see nothing particularly interesting. You can pore over all of the commodities charts and if that was all the data you had you would soon come to the conclusion that nothing obvious is wrong with our environment (at least from an economic standpoint).

To be absolutely clear, I'm not questioning that something is wrong, I think we're in major trouble. But I am still genuinely surprised that this peril doesn't present itself in any economic data I can find. Any insights into when we will feel this our how/when this environmental destruction will become visible in our economic data would be appreciated.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSALMUSDQ
I don’t really have an opinion one way or the other to offer on your concerted campaign comment or the origins of the covid 19 virus but my understanding is basically this…

People postulated

Trump politicized

Others kept researching and found important facts

There was internal fighting and dissension throughout various entities about whether or not to pursue these inquiries

Certain initial assessments may have been tainted by the biases of their authors

And we’re in the stage now where the inconsistencies, biases, and details are all coming out in this steady trickle and things are snowballing a bit.
There's a good writeup here: https://project-evidence.github.io/
What's wrong with the link? :-P

> "Unconfigured Simplecast Domain
You are seeing this page because your website is not configured properly."