skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A HOA certainly doesn't seem to be about community. Community would be about embracing differences and respecting each person's right to live as they wish.

HOAs seems to be more about using bureaucracy to control others and force them to do what the person with power wants. There is a classic quote “There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

I think the dark side of individualism is that it can create the mindset that other's success comes at your expense, which pitches people and groups against each other, and makes differences a threat and not a strength. It also also discourages people from acknowledging their own limitations, because if someone is smarter or better than you then they will be more successful, and that means you lose.
> No, the problem here is very real - rust doesn't have a reasonable c++ interop story, which means you have to rewrite potentially very large amounts of code at once and hope you don't regress anything. At the same time you have to continue normal development work, which is necessarily still C++, because again, you can't adopt rust in small sections.

This was a somewhat more accurate summary a few years ago (though saying "you can't adopt rust in small sections" ignores the fact that Firefox among others did just that), but the cxx crate has made huge strides lately, and it's much more feasible now to interoperate at a deep level between Rust and C++. (In fact, dealing with this interoperability constitutes a large part of my job nowadays, and thanks to cxx it performs swimmingly.) We're even starting to talk about advanced features like seamless C++ async/await support in cxx.
I grew up in a Protestant home (southern baptist church, 3x/week + youth activities). I have nothing against religion and I like religious people, I just don’t have strong faith anymore; the older I get the more skeptical I get of everything.

It always makes me grin how much secular political issue adherents act like religious people. You can just listen to the language (“climate deniers” etc., “the end is near in 12 years”, etc.) to tell that they are in the throes of religious fervor. I truly believe there’s something by wired into our brains to support this mode of belief, and that rationality is the exception in humans.

The problem is that religious people (including the secular ones) are not open to rational discussion critical of their beliefs. They may be polite enough to hear you out but they’re just waiting for you to take a breath so they can butt in and correct your apostasy. They already KNOW the one TRUTH and if you don’t agree on all points, you’re a heretic and nonbeliever.

You see articles from time to time how “climate deniers” should be shunned and shamed and punished for their heresy[1] (just search for “climate deniers list” or “should climate deniers be punished” or pick your issue). Same thing for lots of other issues like abortion rights[2], or gun control[3].

Christianity has had 2000 years and reformations to knock off the rough, anti-social edges. Religious doctrine has been tempered with social controls and moral codes that largely (though not completely) prevent demonizing your enemies.

Far left ideologies have a century of murdering tens of millions of people that didn’t agree with them or in some cases just didn’t cheer loudly enough.

When it comes to not murdering me or putting me in re-education camps, I trust devout Christians way more than I trust climate activists or gun control advocates or (insert advocate for secular left position here).

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/should-climate-change-deniers-be-pr...
[2] https://www.liveaction.org/news/slate-hopes-watching-jessica...
[3] https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/09/la-times-writer-real-es...
Did he? I don't think he forgot anything: hot tubs are "intrinsic virality". And your comment is a proof.
This, so much this. Can you please make my boss understand?

For whatever reason he just always needs to have everything solved 'now'. Most of the time, the best answer is to wait a bit. Probably this latest most important thing actually isn't all that important. And if it really is, the waiting will have brought on a much more "clear" solution.
Call me weird, but I’ve been fascinated by elevator logic since I was a child. I had a math curiosities book that dedicated a chapter to it and after reading that I was hooked on knowing more.

I wish my knowledge of JavaScript was more than “programming language that’s not Java” so I could actually play this.

Could anyone recommend an online introduction to JS so I can attempt to play this?

I’m more of a bash guy.
See the following image for the full email chain, by the way:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20805886-epic-v-appl...

Forwarded message from Tim Sweeney (not part of future conversations):

- In fact, Dropbox wasn't even visible on the first page. Google bought the top search result, and Apple put its Files app ahead of Dropbox in line. For the search: "Dropbox".

Matt Fischer (VP App Store):

- Also, who green lit putting the Files app above Dropbox in organic search results? I didn't know we did that, and I don't think we should.

Debankur Naskar (App Store Search and Recommendations product management):

- I think the Files app was manually boosted on the top for the query "Dropbox" during last WWDC. We are removing the manual boost and the search results should be more relevant now (change will take effect in a couple of hours). Also, FYI, the quality of some of the keywords in our 1st party apps are not very relevant and hence search results are getting impacted. We are auditing those and will clean them up.

Matt Fischer:

- Debankur - I wasn't aware that we were boosting the Files app and would like to know how that happened and who requested it. In the future, I want any similar requests to come to me for review/approval.
It's written by a German company, and in German, Rome is spelt "Rom".
It is an acquisition funnel strategy for YC. Their main source of income comes from YC startups. This platform is just to attract those startups/founders.

The jobs section you mentioned, that is only for YC startups.
I see the example you related, and by using it as a proxy... It seems that you are saying that religious beliefs aren't really valid because they aren't based in reality.
30+ year olds are working. In rural areas working in farms with their parents. In urban areas employed in some other job.

It's true that we are supported until we finish education, however. Which I think is a good thing.
There are at least two forms of rationality – epistemic rationality (aka theoretical rationality), and instrumental rationality. Your comment doesn't clearly draw the distinction between them.

In the context of discussions about the rationality of religious belief, we are primarily talking about epistemic/theoretical rationality, although non-epistemic rationality does sometimes come up (for example, Pascal's wager).

Some people think epistemic rationality can be reduced to instrumental rationality, but the philosopher Thomas Kelly wrote what is (to me at least) a pretty convincing refutation of that viewpoint: https://www.princeton.edu/~tkelly/papers/epistemicasinstrume...
You should check out Katie Davis Majors'[1] story for someone who took the plunge early, and never regretted it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Davis_(missionary)
Not a very flattering picture.
> I think it has a lot to do with the multi party system.

Is Australia really a multi-party country. Seems like Australia, much like Canada, has two major parties at the federal level who take turns governing the country, and a bunch of smaller ones who have no power and no chance of ever getting into power.
The other factor here is how much rent goes up on an annual basis.

In many places in California, I understand rent has gone up, on average, over 20% — each and every year for the past couple of decades.

How many investments in this world can effectively guarantee a > 20% APY?

That’s way better performance than the stock market.
We're seeing some pushback both, politically as well as in the corporate/business world. Some companies are starting to detach from social justice issues and politics in general from taking over internal discussions. American society is recognizing the dangers of this and starting to swing the pendulum back to the center politically. More democrats that I know (atleast in SV) are aware of the compliance culture (see Wuhan virus lab origin issues where it was impossible to discuss this in 2020 without being silenced). Here in SV, many are bewildered about: https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-leftists-try-to-canc...

I'd like to see America that takes a solemn look at social justice issues and provides appropriate remediation for them, but at the same time I don't want the entire media sphere taking over the discourse with their wokeness (see NASA's PR channel, Github master branch naming debacle, etc.). Twitter and Instagram are a cesspool of social justice issues without any nuanced and objective discussion. If this continues, 2024 elections are going to see a huge backlash. This is coming from a liberal who voted for the democratic party for all elections so far.

Aside from political power, the thing that worries me the most is the Academia. Universities have become so deeply entrenched in issues that professors and academic professionals are afraid of speaking out, conducting research that could offend someone and constantly in fear of being cancelled, losing their jobs and reputation. This bothers me deeply.

I am curious how this is viewed internationally, especially in Europe. Most countries in Europe were in lock-step with US during the BLM protests.
> But replacing small isolated components is not a very interesting option.

I seriously disagree. Again, I mentioned things like JSON parsing which deal with untrusted data but also are too performance sensitive to move OOP. Chromium's own security guidelines explicitly states that you should never mix memory unsafe code with inprocess code with untrusted input.

I strongly believe you'd get significant returns by incrementally replacing components like that with Rust.

> Every single decision on what language to use for a component in becomes a hard to reverse

This is purely an organizational issue in my opinion. If the decision were made to follow the guidelines their security team has laid out, there is no question or slow-down. The guidelines are very competent and clear; memory unsafe, untrusted input, in-process - pick one at most.
I am very interested to read about the evidence behind this. Do you remember the doctor's or podcast's name?
Muslims agree on who God is and who are his prophets.
Why would anyone do a silly thing like work with integers smaller than the register size of the machine?

Yet, even C gets this sort-of right, in an obsolescent way. When integer types narrower than int are manipulated in expressions, they promote to either int or unsigned int (whichever can represent the original type's value range).

So for instance, this doesn't overflow, unless sizeof(char) == sizeof(int).

char mid, high, low;

...

mid = high + low / 2;

Reason being that this is actually doing something like:

mid = (char) (((int) high + (int) low) / 2);

(When sizeof(char) == 1, we are almost certainly on some DSP chip, where char is wider than 8 bits possibly as much as 32. Portable code using unsigned for array indexing would not assume that it goes beyond 255.)

It would be useful in a C like language if the declaration of a custom integer type could separately specify promotion semantics (possibly that it has none).

I would make it the default behavior that all integer values promote to the widest available type in their signedness. (E.g. the thing that corresponds to intmax_t or uintmax_t in C).

If someone wanted to optimize around that (due to the widest type not being the fastest, say), they could declare a custom type that promotes to something narrower, or doesn't promote.
My grandfather was saved by Sugihara together with the rest of the Mir Yeshiva (Rabbinical College). I am forever grateful to him.
I think the case for plant behavior being emergent from a combination of factors not all under its control is easy to call a fact, but it is more challenging a notion to claim that consciousness is for a fact emergent (much as I am inclined to agree).

As for tautology, I am claiming that we are attributing intent (a human characteristic) to an object. I think I used the term correctly. That behaviors of objects should not in general be allowed to be equated with human behavior leading to therefore imply human-like intent. I think this is a good idea in science.

In my case I was trying to forward the idea of these two being at a different scale was a differentiator. And that the ants therefore were better candidates for such human like behavior than a plant.

However a studying biology major set me straight on that and introduced what I think is a better criteria for looking at these systems. She said the underpinning work focused on these colonies establishing communication mechanisms. And while anthropomorphizing systems is frowned upon, in this case that might be an overly strict rule. After all both communication and conscious intent are both associated with humans.

In computer science we fearlessly anthropomorphize with our names (actors, agents, managers). Why that should be not be frowned upon, but disallowed for plants therefore seems less and less obvious. So I think my concerns are unwarranted.
I wonder what the timeline will look like as each thing gets broken. This is only talking about the privacy of the wallet. There's the hashing to compute the next block, when that's broken the chain is no longer secure.

So the important thing is the timing of these events, when they happen, who knows first and for how long.

If asymmetric cryptography is broken, it won't only be Bitcoin wallets we have to worry about, we'll have problems everywhere to deal with.
Apple is the largest taxpayer in the US. (and incorporated in California instead of Delaware, which presumably means higher fees)
> fucking people whom you have not married,

This is false, it says don't covet your neighbors wife.

> working on Saturdays

This has been shown time and again to boost productivity immensely to say nothing for mental health.

You seem to have a bone to pick but don't understand the thing you're arguing against.
Yes. ß,å,ø,æ,ŋ,€ too.
If I search for something and its found, I expect it to be the first result. Not an ad for its competitor. I hate the manipulation of rankings that interfere in this way.
It's happening on TikTok probably to a greater extent than by 'Professors'. TikTokers have 10000x the audience and they make powerful, emotional appeals to whatever their cause.

Edit: when you want to change behaviour, do you hire professors? Or Influencers? Regular people do what Footballers and Pop Stars say to do, not what they read in journals.
Wait, the American woke leftists are too far out for the French? (But it sounds like the problem isn't their position, but their actions or method.)
Being able to add new features without greatly expanding the attack surface is important for security. When new components of Firefox have been written in Rust, there have empirically been far fewer security problems to shake out than when they've been written in C++.

Is Rust of more limited benefit when it's only being used for certain components as opposed to the entire codebase? Sure. But is it still worth using for new code? Frequently, yes.
The Enterprise Eats Software
This is one thing I've never understood. If all the money is loaned out to the limits of fractional reserve, more money for interest can only come into existence by printing more.

So we basically always need to print money.
> 1. Publically degraded Erica Albright on her breast size publiccally--because little Marky got his ego bruised.

I can't find any mention of this; in fact, it seems this person (Erica) only exists in the "the social network" movie. There seems to be a "real" Erica, but I found nothing about snide comment from his side.

> 4. Publicly stating his customers were stupid in trusting him with personal information.

I'm pretty sure he did so privately; that's not better, though.

> 5. Printing up "I'm CEO bitch!" while he was swimming in money.

That's a bit childish maybe, but if he enjoys that.

> 9. Does the usual wealthy boy 501c3 tax dodge.

I have yet to meet someone who likes to pay more taxes. Most of the people reading this are part of the most wealthy people of the world right now and yet they minimize their taxes as well. I can't blame anyone for using the system to their advantage; it's the system that is faulty.

But anyway. All of these don't picture him in a good light, sure, but overall none of these are absolute "killing blows". We have politicians with a criminal record that makes Zuckerberg look like a poster child.

As I said in my original comment: I don't think he is a particularly good guy and I don't want to defend him. But when you compare him to the overall political elite, that small smear is really not the end of the world.
From the site it looks like GitHub works; is that not the case?

I’m definitely not using Google for auth if I can avoid it.
But this thread is not about other people, I haven't said that it was ok if Spanish or some indigenous people's were carrying out violence or just the British carried out violence.

I have made a statement that the British Empire is absolutely / objectively bad - what's the comparison aiming to do?
such a good point! I understand the previous comment better too. Thank you!
The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything by James Martin is autobiographical and tells about his experience going from a Wharton MBA, accountant at GE making a lot of money to becoming a priest; sitting in a hot room in Haiti with bugs inside to take care of the sick and poor.

It really hit home with me because it was my dream to get a Wharton MBA. Then he says his balance would be higher at the ATM every week but it felt very meaningless. There’s also an interesting side story about the psychopaths (my word) in management at GE.
It gives you access to your machines from across the Internet.
I use this font in many places, and it gives people 2-3 years my junior nervous twitches. They associate it with events like "thing has gone wrong, time to reinstall windows".
> Vox and others stealth-editing articles, people yelling at you if you don't blindly believe the CDC/WHO

These two things are the opposite of each other. Would you prefer Vox not edit articles?
From what I understand, the Carmelites differ from some other Christians because they do long contemplations. I often wonder if their contemplations are basically the same thing as my (Buddhist) meditation. I suspect they are, but that we just have different metaphors about what's happening. Anyone interested in this possible overlap between Christianity and Buddhism might check out the videos of John Butler, an English man who has contemplated/meditated for decades.
Windows is getting close to macOS in that regard. Specifically, both browser and OS are arbitrarily marking installers as malware, scaring users. Even digital signatures don't help.

The only reliable workaround is publishing through Windows store.
Yes, iCloud certainly does compete with Dropbox. But Files doesn’t. You didn’t use the Files app to upgrade your iCloud storage, you went to Settings or a web browser.
I started in physics before switching to CS. I'm glad the ECE department is good, because the CS department was terrible.
> Ability to set elevator as "full". Even if abused by a single person, still better than multiple wasted stops.

I'd add a couple of sensors (one for volume and one for weight) to let the elevator itself determine how full it is and act accordingly.

I would also still have a "full" button for people to press, but not have the button actually do anything, except maybe light up.
Why do you say they’re degrading the experience?
You actually OWN your device and should have the right to do what you please with it. This analogy is poor.
I definitely agree the terms are not exactly the same, but I am not sure what a better term is. In order to not tread on “colonialism” or “genocide”, I prefixed it with the word “cultural”, hoping that strikes a more precise and nuanced balance.

Let me try to explain my reasoning. In some countries, explicit colonialism was done away with successful independence movements, but was replaced by softer forms of influence and propaganda that lingered on. For example Western education systems (with textbooks from Western publishers) or significant influence from churches or the introduction of multinational corporations have led to generations of children of former colonial states hearing/experiencing/living one version of history and culture, which isn’t their indigenous history and culture. Because national resources and people’s time are consumed by these structures and influences, there isn’t space for any other influence. This is especially harmful to cultures where their traditions are passed on orally or through daily multi-generational living. Social media takes that further because it is addictive, and is another time sink and intervention into the “information stream” people would otherwise receive.

If people living in some country persist but are stripped of their indigenous values and culture and worldviews through these soft mechanisms, they aren’t really the same people that they replaced any longer. Think of Tibet for example, where more overt re-education efforts have changed younger generations and disconnected them from their traditional Buddhist culture. Sure they may be the genetic descendants and inheritors of the past Tibetan people, but they increasingly reflect Han Chinese culture, and not just politically. These cultures go away, potentially for good, when this happens. The culture being replaced by outside powers is what leads me to apply phrases like “cultural colonialism” or “cultural genocide” in these instances.
Humans have much longer lifespans than other animals, so it must be an advantage for our descendants to have us around. Presumably this is because of grandparents providing childcare.
The fact that computers can't do sentence grammar and meaning right now doesn't tell us anything much about similarities or differences between humans and neural nets. It just tells us that training a neural net purely on a big corpus isn't enough to derive semantic meaning and makes it hard to work out grammatical meaning. No human has ever tried to do that either, everyone comes at text with some real-world experience. So we don't know how well they would do at it. Probably terribly.

It is reasonable to believe that written language is easier to train on a neural net that is trained on both images and words so it can form visual links between words. Maybe that takes more computational grunt than we have at the moment. The failure so far proves nothing.
As a jew who has studied the talmud extensively I would love to know where the sources for this whole comment are. I've never seen anything even close to this anywhere in the talmud or any history book on the roman empire or jewish history.

> Palestine in the wake of the third revolt

Oh... now I see you're gaslighting and re-writing history. Your sources will be the same ones Mahmoud Abbas used for his "thesis"
If I criticise a portrait, am I not criticising the painter?
> The reality is, at least for programmers, there isn't enough local talent to go around.

Exactly: local talent. Because they want their damn talent to come into the office. And if they refuse to do so, they might as well get non-local talent.
I want an app to disable mouse acceleration altogether (not just scrolling) in macOS. The mouse acceleration on macOS is just bonkers.
Probably familiarity with and the relative ease of Electron?
I think that's new-ish, I'd have used it if it were an option when I created my account.