skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love all this stuff coming out.

My entire stock thesis is that the renewables mafia have infiltrated halls of power politically, economically, and technically.

Certainly....the media.

My gamble on all of this is that we'll consume more natural gas/kwh than would be expected.

I'll be closely watching $TELL, $FCG, $HYLN, $SD, $AR, and Torix(midstream company - OTC markets).
Cursive has a repl powered debugger just put your breakpoint there use the repl to trigger the call then use intellji's debugger to step through

If you want to run expressions in context just use the expression editor like a normal repl

Something I haven't tried yet is redefining functions at debug time can't see why it wouldn't work though
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Captcha is likely being triggered by Cloudflare. We have heard this feedback in this past and have listened but it's always a tricky balance of fighting abuse/bots and presenting an extra step for the user.
I look at the average, which is about 10% for the sp500.

https://insight.factset.com/sp-500-reporting-net-profit-marg...
One can also argue data width is the size of cache lines, which nowadays often are larger than registers (and might even be different in the various caches, but I don’t know whether such architectures exist)
This says more about you as a person than I think you understand.
It's fine with 3%, 76% or 1000%, as long as competition is allowed.

I don't see that for Verisign, they're just rent seeking off domain. Their profit should probably be capped AT&T style back in their monopoly days with heavy regulation.
It says to email abuse@matrix.org to get “unblocked”, what control do they have to do this?
My comment on the GCC lwn article saying I hope GCC had consulted with lawyers beforehand was downvoted; not sure why. From this article:

Without a clear, organized mitigation strategy to assure that FOSS contributors keep their own copyrights, a project (such as GCC or glibc) that switches from a standing “(nearly) all copyrights assigned to a charity” model to a plain Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) or naked inbound=outbound contributor arrangement will, after a period of years, mostly likely to have copyrights that are primarily held by the employers of the most prolific contributors, rather than by the contributors themselves.
Very long in this context means 100+ years
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Yeah... my intuition was/is it wouldn't make a big dent, but an interesting thought experiment.

That said. I think the small renewals are the part that makes holding onto these domains for years possible...

Random example. 20 years ago I had a one person local IT consulting side-gig. The domain was a not very useful, active less than a year and grabbed by a speculator as expected when I let it expire. It's been parked many places for years by various folks, current parking pages quote says they might be able get it for me for $120 [1] -- I could care less but if someone with less tech experience wanted it for their new small business they would likely bite.

Is there a economic mechanism you recommend to prevent this sort of thing?

[1]https://www.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?isc=GPPTCOM&utm_so...
VeriSign – The Misunderstood Monopoly
Anyone can use any DNS servers they want. These ones are run by the US Government because the US Government created them.

It would be almost trivial for a country, or group of countries to set up their own root servers and mandate that operating system vendors include them if they want to continue selling in their country. Then if there was something hosted on their servers everyone wanted to get to, it would spread outside of those countries by demand.

...But it isn't even necessary now with all the extra TLDs. If a government or organization wants to start a non profit TLD that just charges the bare minimum, they can do it without fragmenting themselves.

edit: In about 2004 a group of friends and I ran our own servers with SOAs for our own TLDs that we replicated to each other. It had a total of 3 useless websites, and 5 users, and only lasted a few months, but it was neat.
I think it's entirely the result of trying to get deals with the major record companies to allow YouTube to continue to exist. In it's early days YouTube completely ignored copyright, and the music industry had all the cards when it came to negotiations.

The settlement is inspired by the DMCA, but goes beyond it.
How do you engage in an intelligent debate with an evil company that is not interested in an intelligent debate?
You could claim that it’s more humble. They acknowledge that they are not yet there.

Also - Amazon has used similar wording with regards to their most famous principle (customer obsession). “ Our vision is to be earth's most customer-centric company”
Perhaps the 5G prophecy hasn't been entirely fulfilled yet, but I am super impressed by what we have so far. Here in Sydney on Telstra in a pretty low density suburb I am getting 400mbps down while indoors (4/5 bars reception).

The other day in an area with 5/5 bars reception area I got 1164/89mbps, while indoors, which is incredible. Latency is between 10 - 20ms.
> tries so hard to be a hit piece

I read it as a puff piece / apologia. YMMV.
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> we of course need to markup on top of that to cover our processing costs, overhead to offer great support, mitigate abuse, etc

Why "of course"? Cloudflare is able to provide domains transfers and renewals at wholesale rates.
Dear god that's a stretch of the word "researcher" if ever I've seen one. Yes, that article would take some "research" (as in, finding stuff) but nope, the person writing it wouldn't be a "researcher" for it.
They'd be a journalist. At 9to5 or such probably.
Yes, thank you! As someone who has been through painful open source license audits at largish companies, whenever the topic of copy/pasting from StackOverflow comes up, the hair on the back of my neck stands up. When you copy/paste code from a web site, how do you know its license is compatible with your company's software, and you're not exposing your company to legal risk? This product seems to automate that carelessness, unless somehow the code that it produces is licensed in a way that's compatible with every other software license out there.

EDIT: Oh, and it looks like there was a whole previous discussion [1] about this yesterday!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27687450
This is a gross mischaracterization of the call for accountability and legal repercussions.
What you are saying applies to current school systems too. So many of my teachers were full of shit...
Sadly I think it also promotes (overt) envy and crab mentality. Many people use their safety to pull others down rather than try to excel. It pains me to say this, and I wish it wasn’t so, but it seems to me that people only accept meritocracy when there is some kind of external threat…
Are you saying that I'm not allowed to suggest improvements to society if I participate in society?
Israel cybersecurity firms raise record $3.4b, 41% of global sector investment
It's tea.

Early European civilisations kept their water safe by making it lightly alcoholic - Early Asian civilizations just boiled their water to make tea.
https://archive.is/KAY41
> but it's much harder to "lobby" people to vote for something that is not in their interest

I don't think that's necessarily true. In the US look at how many relatively poor states consistently vote for right wing parties when they would likely get better healthcare, education, jobs training, and other social assistance programs under a more left leaning party.
Does Wikipedia allow for the embedding of Youtube videos? It'd be nice to embrace an existing library of video content.

The reverse relationship exists - Google readily displays Wikipedia content for specific searches.
Pardon my ignorance, but how is lobbying legal? Isn't it actually funding and nominated people for incentives, unlike a true democracy. Isn't it effectively quid-pro-quo?
He listed 4 things that happened together

Quality affordable digital cameras
Internet for everyone
Search Engines
Portable screens

I think he missed one, the channel/subscription model that YouTube still supports, where you can push content about a very narrow subject, and a large enough audience to make it worth everyone's effort, can meet.
*dire
There are many lectures and conference talks from university professors who are at the top of their field on YouTube. You might be able to find better content than what's available in your local university class.

For example, Robert Sapolsky's lecture series on Human Behavioral Biology at Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...

Stanford and MIT both have lots of lectures on YouTube.
Personally, I just have multiple. I also enroll my devices (phone, laptop), so there's a good bit of redundancy.
The developer in me says life and our society are like open source software. A gigantic piece of code constantly being rewritten and growing exponentially over time. Too much for anyone to truly grasp in its completeness as time progresses, but also not purely spaghetti code, so you can always break it down into smaller components one can eventually understand. Of course, like the author argues, you can use this software without ever caring or wondering about its inner workings. Or you can try to make contributions. However, there are no contribution guidelines for life. "Usefulness" depends on everyones' individual definition (improve the kernel or code readability) and "capacity to act" doesn't age well (I started hacking with jQuery). A contribution can be anything that may leave an impression on someone - a single person or any amount of people, a good or (for sake of completeness) a bad impression, something forgotten after an instant or something passed on for generations in some form or another - legacy contributions that eventually also get rewritten over time. Personally, I don't think the results matter as much as trying to make these contributions. After all, not all merge-requests make it into production code, but they are all worthy efforts of trying to improve small parts of the software of life and move our society forward.
The title is a bit strong too, but maybe that’s what you were going for.
I suggest contrasting Century Of The Self (the documentary) with Propaganda (Edward Bernays' book). Century makes him out to be somewhat of a villain whereas after reading Propaganda I got more of a sense that Bernays was tapping into something powerful and hadn't thought of all the shitty second-order and third-order effects of his methods. Still shady no doubt but less of a villain IMO. It also helps to "empty the cup" and remember that they lived through this stuff in realtime whereas we bring all of the baggage of subsequent history. For example in Century they talk about how Bernays associated cigarettes with female empowerment. For me I bring all these judgments of how terrible that was precisely because I know how terrible cigarettes are for health. But they had much less of an idea that "cigarettes = bad" back then. Of course the general technique of associating identity with consumer products is still problematic and that's probably the core idea that Century wanted to get across.
Why Web Browsers Are Free? How Browsers Make Money?
> All the AIs that exist today operate by fitting data. And to be able to perform a useful task it has to have well defined parameters and fit the data according to them. I’m not sure an AI that operates outside of these confinements have even been conceived of.

Such an AI has absolutely been conceived of. In Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom goes over the ways such an AI could exist, and poses some scenarios about how a recursively self-improving AI could "take off" and exceed human intellectual capacity on its own.

Moreover, we're already building such AIs (in a limited fashion). Deepmind recently made an AI that can beat all Atari games [1]. The AI wasn't given "well defined parameters". It was just shown the game, and it figured out, on its own, how to map inputs to actions on the screen, and which actions resulted in progress towards winning the game. Then, the same AI went on to do this over and over again, eventually beating all 57 Atari games.

Yes, you can argue that this is still a limited example. However it is an example that shows that AIs are capable of generalized learning. There's nothing, in principle, that prevents a domain-specific AI from learning and improving at other problem domains. The AI that I'm conceiving of is a supersonic jet. This AI is closer to the Wright Flyer. However, once you have a Wright Flyer, supersonic jets aren't that far away.

> To make an AI that outperforms humans in any task has not been proven to be possible (to my knowledge) not even in theory. An airplane will fly faster, higher and with more cargo then a flock of geese, but a flock of geese reproduce, communicate with each other, digest grass, etc. An airplane will not outperform a flock of geese in any task, just the tasks which the airplane is optimized for.

That's fair, but besides the point. The AI doesn't have to be better than humans at everything that humans can do. The AI just has to beat humans at everything that's economically valuable. When all jobs get eaten by the AI, it's cold comfort to me that the AI is still worse than humans at, say, enjoying a nice cup of tea.

[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/01/974997/deepminds...
I don't think so. I'm currently in a 2800 square foot home full of stupid shit like a formal living and dining room that get hardly used. But it's trendy, "everybody wants it" and so that's all you get unless you are willing to be your own general contractor and oversee building a completely custom home. The only people benefiting from two story houses or formal living room/dining rooms are the builders and realtors that get more for money because of the padded extra square footage.
I'm getting ready to relocate - and I will more than likely be targeting an older, more reasonably sized home this time. Ideally I'd love to find something with good bones that just needs updating - drywall may get cheap again someday - if it does rip it off, run all the networking and other cables I want, upgrade the insulation then re-drywall. Get a better than "new" house the way the vast majority of them are half-assed constructed to minimum code :p
In the end, it's under ICANN's purview and in this case, also allowed by a decision made by the Trump administration in 2018. Verisign has a Cooperative Agreement with the US Government. The gist:

"The amendment repeals Obama-era price controls and provides Verisign the pricing flexibility to change its .com Registry Agreement with ICANN to increase wholesale .com prices. Specifically, the flexibility permits Verisign to pursue with ICANN an up to 7 percent increase in the prices for .com domain names, in each of the last four years of the six-year term of the .com Registry Agreement. The changes also affirm that Verisign may not vertically integrate or operate as a registrar in the .com top level domain."
I have the opposite problem with YT, I’d really like for it to offer me great suggestions so I could sit back for hours and watch, instead of having to actively search for new content. The problem is the recommendations are really narrow. Want to watch a video on how to make cheese? I hope you like being recommended every video from that channel and every other cheese making video for the next 30 days. I feel like it doesn’t look holistically at my viewing habits to provide something that fits me.

Maybe I watch stuff like that mixed with Australia nature docs and C++ videos. What do other people that watch those things watch that I’d find novel. They should also try to get rid of repetition, especially in music recommendations.

Does anyone know if there are alternatives to the native YT recs that operate over YT content?
I am essentially a self-taught EE thanks to the internet. There is no shortage of engineers posting educational content, and no shortage of extremely knowledgeable engineers willing to directly help you with problems. I've done dozens of projects and even brought one to market.

I guess the flipside, in my experience it doesn't count as anything in the professional world. Since I back doored engineering, I am currently the technical lead on two projects at my job, both of which have vacant engineering lead positions - making me the defacto engineering lead. So I do the engineers work for technicians pay ($19/hr). I am also the only technician in the engineering dept. as opposed to the lab.

I should have just stuck with programming 20 years ago. Sorry this is a bit of a rambling tangent I went on. Maybe a warning to others that a degree is often more important than the knowledge the degree brings.
Hagiography.
No, libraries are not exempt and should not be gold plated. The Mars rover does not need a kitchen sink just in case.

YAGNI, KISS, the parsimony principle, the Unix way, DRY, and many others are all universal reminders to not build bloated, overengineered crap.
Yes I agree. In some respects it's quite a malicious, misanthropic read. I encourage everyone to take a look, though.

I also think that more and more, I disagree with the book's outlook that people are more or less like putty and can be bent into doing anything you want - I've come to see people as strong in their fundamental convictions yet open to things they don't have any fundamental disagreements with. And more than willing to let you guide them in the direction of things they already wanted. Sort of an Adam Curtis outlook I guess.
Homoiconicity is an ill-defined concept. If you take every subjective feature from it, all it implies is that you are able to cut your code into well defined AST structures (what all languages have, but for some it's easier than for others).

So, yeah, anything people do with Lisp could be done for any other language, it only requires more complex tooling. How much more complexity depending on the language, and it varies from "barely perceptibly more" into "that's completely not practical".
Loss leader.

The markup from legacy registrars is probably excessive, but with Google, Cloudflare, etc getting into the game, they can likely offer wholesale pricing to support the rest of their (very) profitable product lines.
They designed the system very safe for themselves. Worse it gets for them is losing a job. They gotta earn as much as they can, for as long as they can.
So if you are going to blow the whistle it ought to be a large company unlikely to declare bankruptcy. Not sure how that helps the investors.
I like the way this piece highlights the network effects involved in the art industry. The primacy of “politics and intrigue” over aesthetics or craft, is so sad to me. It’s good to see some of that truth make it’s way to the surface, if only unintentionally.