skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for Bell Labs in the 70's (78 - 81) it was really cool and fun. I was a recent masters college grad and they moved me around the country working on a bunch of interesting special projects, from swapping out cord board systems, recording data on cross bar systems, taking interesting data on old IMTS (old wireless) to get data for HC-MTS (later became AMPS wireless, 1G for the uninitiated). It was super fun. But I was working on a special project in Seattle and simply fell in love with the area and requested a transfer to the local company and never left. But, thank you Bell Labs, I think some newer companies like Google try to replicate what was happening back then. But it was pretty special. I hope someone does, not sure Google or others have quite captured it. Anyhow, thanks for the fun pics.
Yes and also Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality.

https://archive.org/details/inventingrealit100pare

A quick video discussing both Chomsky and Parenti:
https://youtu.be/unKNNiYQFp4
Yes, I understand your comment perfectly and just tried to explain it's not a rational argument in this case. BAT has never been tried, same as the global minimum tax.

The situation is we have a tax system that's broken. Apart from the multinational corporations practically everyone agrees on this part. Now we have to find a way to fix it in an ever more globalized world, a situation which we never had to deal with and for which there is no proven solution for that reason. Whatever we do will be untested. The question is which is the better idea and why?
There were any number of $50 MIDI interfaces for the Amiga, and I had one. The ST had it built in, which was very cool, but they’re not very complicated devices.
I don't care. I just read.
Stack Overflow and Copilot are similar. Usage of both routinely violates licenses. Stack Overflow content is licensed under CC-BY-SA. Terms [1]:

* Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

* ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

In over a decade of software engineering, I've seen many reuses of Stack Overflow content, occasionally with links to underlying answers. All Stack Overflow content use I've seen would clearly fail the legal terms set out by the license.

I suspect Copilot usage will similarly fail a stringent interpretation of underlying licenses, and will similarly face essentially no enforcement.

[1] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
But do we know the age of the top 1%? Maybe there’s a lot over 70
I agree with the paragraph at the end:

> Now you know how to escape the attention-draining, empathy-killing, critical-thought-suffocating siren song of the algorithms.

The only way I got my sanity back to cut out everything that's not RSS. I still use HN's algo, but everything else goes to NewsBlur. I'm trying to quit the HN algo, but can't do it yet... mainly because the content is actually interesting.
> I didn't say they were doing a good job, just that the alternative would have been to let the platform turn into a complete cesspool of bullshit and hate.

Here's an example of this happening[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Just downloaded it and tried it out. For the instructions it has, you can tap a part and it lights up the bounding box for that piece in the original image.
"And yes, that causes different kinds of problems."

"It took a record 225 days for the Dutch to get a government" (https://qz.com/1112509/the-dutch-took-a-record-long-225-days...)

"Dutch government resigns over child benefits scandal
PM Mark Rutte will stay on in caretaker capacity until general elections scheduled for 17 March" (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/dutch-governme...)

"Dutch talks on forming coalition government still deadlocked (June 22, 2021)" (https://apnews.com/article/europe-government-and-politics-79...)

The Mainstream Right, the Far Right, and Coalition Formation in Western Europe, Kimberly Ann Twist (https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/etd/ucb/text/Twist_be...)
I don't know what's with payroll management software (low-hanging government contracts ? Inter-agency factionalism ?) but every time I hear about a nationwide software-inflicted catastrophe somewhere, it's one of those.

In France we've had to deal with LOUVOIS, the payroll software for all the armed branches, being an unending train wreck. There were quite a few families of deployed soldiers who had to deal with near-bankruptcy because of it.
If there is a house shortage - prices will go up - the problem with the dev job market is that's its a market for lemons. You cant tell if someone is a good dev unless you yourself is a good dev.
Not really. Lotus Notes was an MS-Access system that would attempt to do database synchronization between a server copy of the database and the local client. It was built in an age where road warriors were expected to take their laptops with them, be able to enter sales data, then have that automatically merged on return to the office. In a dial up age and before wifi, this gave unprecedented tools to those who needed to work away from their desks.

The problem was that it has serious scaling issues, and when you move mail to it (and remember it has to do the synchronisation step when you return) it can bog down both the server And the client. It was far less efficient than, say, pop and imap.

IBM took a bet that they could make Notes scale to the entire org in the mid-to-late ‘90s, and it took many years to get there and much pain along the way.

Any large and crufty system can start to have problems as they grow older but “fixing notes” wasn't a programming issue but a design one.

In todays terminology, it would be the equivalent of a replicated/distributed MongoDB with the designated “master” on the server, with a cached full copy of that database on your laptop (which isn't permanently connected), while allowing writes in both partitions (ie sacrificing consistency for availability) and then hoping when you connect it back up again that it can figure out the bidirectional sync and resolve any conflicts that occur.

And then on top of that build a mail client which stores one mail message per row (including all attachments) along with status bits (read, important, replied etc) and hope to heck it all works.

Lotus Notes “synchronization” was the step you did after docking your thinkpad just before going to get your first coffee of the day, because hopefully the latency would be hidden by the brewing time.
it is probably just the beta that are black so MS can see if posted errors screenshots belongs to a release or beta build.
That's crazy, I never heard about that program. The CIA did a decent cover-up after the fact.
Should incorporate this technology in some kind of wearable device that scans the floor as you walk and warns you before stepping on a lego.
How exactly did the DNC "kneecap" Bernie's campaign?
There's an absolutely fantastic site (http://www.copyrighthistory.org/cam/index.php) with a dataset of old primary sources on IP.

When I read the constitution, "Section 1. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8" stands out to me as weird. They provide a justification for why they have these laws—"To promote the progress of science and useful arts". Why do they need to provide a reason, whereas most of the text is based on a set of "self-evident" truths?

What I found, thanks largely in part to the site linked above, is that Copyright and patent laws provided an amazingly cheap method of central intelligence for our early government. They got a copy of every book and every new invention for free, delivered straight to them! They didn't need a CIA or NSA. Everyone would just send them their most valuable stuff. Now the world has changed. That setup provides no real value to the government anymore. At this point, information and inventions are a deluge.

So I don't think it ever was much of a boon to the progress of arts and sciences, but I do think it was a dirt cheap way for a new federal government to keep it's pulse on the state of the world.
Skimmed the whole article

Still have no idea what this number means

Presumably it is 'a lot

But... how much a lot?
The presentation mentioned below in the thread is not bad.Sounds like its the one you were referring to, but for complete madness and awe I recommend to watch this one:

"115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go" by Dan Tentler

https://youtu.be/hMtu7vV_HmY

There is a point where they find a large Dam in France with water gates control available in the Internet. They use the US Embassy to contact the French government department responsible and urgently do something about it.
They are told: "Not right now, we are currently on holidays..." :-)
Love to see other flow based applications. Fluxion (https://fluxion.app) was my baby for a long time.
Would it be "dissonant" if a skydiving company advertised one of its values as prioritizing safety?
When I try to use UHT milk, I usually fail in making yogurt. But that may be because I do 6.5 hours and he's doing 18 hours. Perhaps you need to go so long with UHT?
OpenZFS 2.1 is out–let’s talk about its brand-new dRAID vdevs
Serna XML Editor
That was an amusing characterisation of someone you disagree with. Here's another:

"Communism good, police bad, the problem is police not crime. And Black Lives Matter."
> DDoS

Buy DDoS protection. Maybe put DDoS protection providers under the umbrella of net neutrality.

> most ISPs don't "allow" home hosting on personal plans, so you have to pay extra

And? If you want to stand on the sidewalk with a sign, you have to buy some cardboard. If you want to hand out leaflets, you need a printing press or a laser printer. Seeding a torrent is free, as is shouting at the top of your lungs on a sidewalk (and with the latter, you may be busted for "breach of peace" or some BS like that).

> hosting on any other platform once again subjects you to extra rules to restrict your speech

That's kinda the point. If you host your own platform, such as a PhpBB board, you get to make your own rules.

You've pointed me to the NAP, but from a libertarian point of view I don't see any argument to allow someone to use my property against my will - even if it's to exercise their "free speech". It's not free for me.
I'm not sure what you consider "the story at hand", but this conversation was kicked off with "One of the most unfortunate things in the past 6 years is that support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks became a partisan issue". The explanation for why support of Assange became partisan is because Assange's actions started having partisan bias. That is extremely relevant to the conversation at hand in my book.
Why did you switch from scalding regular milk to UHT? 18 hours is a long time to make yogurt. I do the scalding, let it cool in a fridge for an hour, and then make yogurt for 6.5 hours. This works for non-UHT milk (doesn't for UHT).
T430 Ivy Bridge (i7-3840QM) checking in - still kills it as a daily development system.
It’s another method of cost transfer. Rather than pay drivers better or in a way that allows them to slow down you incentivize them doing hints that put others at risk.

There’s a probability of an accident happening. And a probability of it causing a lawsuit and a probability of Amazon having to pay a settlement and a calculation of what that cost is compared to the savings of overtaxing drivers.

Bezos’ background at a hedge fund seems highly relevant to all this.
Conditions are ripe for repeat of 1970s stagflation and 2008 debt crisis
debt fully voluntarily

If you can vote, you can read contracts.

IMHO, we should raise voting age, precisely because of things like this. And because many entering these agreements today would be considered underage, more scrutiny would be expected.

But, until then, voting is a golden standard.
Your comment is great and more observant than most everything in this thread. The answer is freedom, when women have lots of choices they don't choose to play with things as often as men.
The following list of links literally took one minute on DDG. However, you should know this already, since these reports about her anti-democratic shenanigans were the only reason that Clinton lost to Trump. [EDIT:] The whole premise of this thread is that there must have been RNC emails that would have harmed Trump's campaign as much as the DNC emails harmed Clinton's. One could simultaneously feel that the DNC emails shouldn't have harmed Clinton's campaign, but one can't simultaneously feel that the emails did and did not harm it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/23/487179496...

https://time.com/4422715/bernie-sanders-dnc-apology-leaked-e...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wikileaks-dnc-bernie-sanders_...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/25/debbie-wasse...

https://www.newsweek.com/clinton-robbed-sanders-dnc-brazile-...
As the response above stated: by the taxpayer. All forgiveness would be tax paid.
All those times? How many times? Thrice?
There are sources in the description. It seems legit:

https://www.cbc.ca/archives/topic/the-duplessis-orphans

What I've read so far is horrible :(
Doesn't this describe 90% of the SV SW companies?
> Any one dollar plain yogurt from the supermarket works fine

A surprising number use additives to thicken them, and as I result I found I got better results from ones labeled Greek or acidophilus. I have no idea if there is any science behind this claim, so YMMV.
Just stop mowing?
Maybe slightly less than AGI.

Parsing intent in a programing context is easier than others. Also most the code is written to be parsed for a machine anyway. So with ASTs and all other static and maybe even some dynmaic checks it should be possible.

We already some of it with type detection , intellisense etc

It is hard set of problem with no magic solutions like this with years of development time needed. That approach will not happen commercially, only incrementally in the community.
Wow, right out of the song: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot . . . They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum, and charged the people a dollar and a half to see them. Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?

We know what not to do and sleepwalk into it anyway.

Joni Mitchell: https://youtu.be/94bdMSCdw20

Counting Crows: https://youtu.be/tvtJPs8IDgU
Super impressive. With a young LEGO builder who has cranked through every set and every instruction booklet he gets his hands on, I recently delved into the world of MOCs thinking that’d keep him busy, but even with sites like Rebrickable (which is awesome!), the instruction options are surprisingly limited.

How are you sourcing instructions for Brickit?
I’ll give it a shot over the weekend as I have a few use cases for similar functionality in Yugabyte. This is pretty exciting stuff at the right time!
Are computers ready to solve the Collatz conjecture?
This is not good. It means aurora store will probably break and it'll be necessary to log in with a Google account into the play store :(

I install all my apps with aurora to cut down on data collected about me by Google. I don't log in with a Google account at all.

For F-droid it's a lesser problem because they require open source software anyway and make reproducible builds to APK themselves. The problem is just that it's really hard to live with only F-droid apps :(
"remote" has a lot of different meanings to different people; there is "remote, but we expect to see you in the office every now and then", "remote, travel to the all hands meeting required/expected", "remote, but most people are in the office so remote workers will be at a disadvantage", "remote, USA", "remote, $set of countries" (RH). "remote, employee in $country, contractor elsewhere", "remote, AOE". Only the last class of remote appeals to certain groups of folks, look up the #vanlife hash tag, or the tech nomad trend. Probably the person you responded to was thinking of "remote, AOE" as the only "real" remote job.

I found GitLab's documentation about how their employment stuff works quite interesting, they strive to have most people employees of GitLab itself, or one of its subsidiaries or affiliated companies and only resort to contractors when they cannot yet do that.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/employment-so...
> Copyleft literally can't exist without copyright

A miracle cancer cure literally can't exist without cancer. Exactly! That's the point. Copyleft is a temporary treatment for the cancer of copyright. When we get rid of the tumors, we don't need (or want it) anymore.

The free market can solve the NDA problem. Our tax dollars should be used for more important problems than deciding whether adults are keeping secrets between each other.
> Prominent, respected virologists have been questioning gain of function research for a while

The quotation you cite from Lipitsch doesn't validate your comment.

He wasn't "questioning gain of function research". He was calling for greater oversight over gain of function research and for more initiatives to try to limit the damage potential of zoonotic spillover.

If anything, Lipitsch was upholding the value of gain of function research, because he believes scientists should do everything possible to try to prevent pandemics.
Don't pee in someone else's bath
a good ssh/SFTP reverse proxy / load balancer. yes I'm aware ssh doesn't have a host portion, I'm sure there's a way around this.
The most interesting part is that this game has not been flagged by the USA as an issue of foreign intelligence. I thought the placement of staff and personnel was supposed to be a much guarded secret.
The idea that journalism shouldn't be "partisan" is a bizarre American fantasy, not an international standard.

From day one, Wikileaks had a stated policy of trying to achieve "maximum impact" for their publications. For instance, the same claim is also made at the release of the Afghan War logs in 2011: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/wikileaks-file...
https://youtu.be/ty62YzGryU4
No luck needed. The EV cert works great.
> With some add-ons you can apparently eg find undoable changes for only some region of a buffer, etc.

This is built into Emacs (no add-ons needed). Calling undo with a region selected undoes changes only in that region.
I have always found this theory questionable because the shrinkage happened somewhat uniformly across disparate human populations. There's no reason that every significant human subpopulation would suddenly evolve more efficient brains at the same time.
Oh, the Duplessis Orphans are a completely separate and just as tragic catastrophe of Quebec history :(

That said, yes we do actually know about the MKULTRA Montreal Programme, because of testimonies. We just don't know what more there was, and there is certainly more.
Given the argument here around nation and state and what it means, he also is in the middle of a series on what made Rome Rome and the definition of Roman. - https://acoup.blog/2021/06/11/collections-the-queens-latin-o...

The ACOUP blog is frequently posted to HN, and after a previous post I started subscribing and being a patreon supporter.

So, vote of support here for Bret and his content.

His content is pretty wide ranging, thoroughly researched and documented, and incredibly accessible.

I find it to be an ideal anti-Medium, and fits what I love - long-form articles by experts in their field.

Given the HN crowd some of his other articles focus on the accuracy of various games, TV series etc as well - probably worth a look through his back-catalog.
Just to clarify.

You need to have legal counsel right now. You can't wait until you've been served. At that point it will be too late.
Gitlab Employment Solutions
The lab was sloppy, the modified virus leaked, and the rest is history.

That is the most likely explanation, and it is unfortunate you are getting so heavily downvoted.

There are probably only a handful of people ultimately responsible for this.

Again, how much do lab assistants make? I know it’s not a lot in America, and even less in China. I wonder who the person was cleaning bat poop, feeding them, etc. Some underpaid lab assistant, on their 1000th time ferrying bats in and out of cages, cleaning shit, slacked on a particular day. Your 1000th time flipping that Wendy’s burger, and it drops to the floor, and you wipe it off and say ‘fuck it’ and put it on the bun.

Simple as that. No mega conspiracy.
I'd love to go back to (neo)vim. I like vscode fine, but sometimes it sounds like a rocket is taking off from my laptop. However, the ability to have a full remote development environment act pretty much exactly like the local one is the absolute vscode killer feature. I just can't go back to a ssh season, cloning the plugins, and dealing with occasional latency.
Because one it makes sense to call "property" and the other is literally the opposite of property.

If you think such a thing as "intellectual property" exists, then you would also probably be fine with calling cigarettes "health pops!".

If your computer is your property, but there are loads of peaceful things you cannot do with it where no one else is directly affected, then it is not your property.

The term "Intellectual Property" is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
I have Economist feeds like this so what are you seeing that's different? It works fine for Economist feeds in my experience.

https://www.economist.com/feeds/print-sections/69/leaders.xm...
Not if you have many small desalination plants distributed over a larger area. This would work well for less-densely populated areas.
> because now you have to prove—not just hypothesize, but prove—that the human animal is different from other animals in some very specific ways

Are you being ironic? We know what a ruminant digestive system looks like and why humans can’t do what they do.
Why’s that? You support keeping everything related to Symbolics locked up and hidden from the public? It’s 30 years old, it has no actual value besides research.
I would add soft skills - how to sell your ideas; how to ask for help, how to offer help with offering offense; how to write docs, emails, or proposals; how to avoid taking offense when it feels like you're being ignored or slighted (usually not the case); how to keep stakeholders updated; creating realistic timelines. I'm sure I'm missing some. You can accomplish more than your technically astute colleagues and work on more interesting projects if people trust you, like you, and feel inspired and happy to work with you.
Are you imagining the Taliban running around with iPhones, ordering mortar fire on areas where all valuable Pokemon have been plucked by US military?
The point of the article is precisely that the hacking allegations against Assange were made up by Icelander "Siggi the Hacker", a sociopath, liar, con-man, pedophile. One of the crimes was stealing funds from wikileaks.

The FBI knew it and gave him protection from prosecution for a lot of his crimes if he witnessed to the alleged hacking.
He continued committing crimes without stopping afterwards. They are still protecting him to this day.
I use plain mirrors in mine, but that is a really cool idea.
Even if you're not required to file a return (e.g. because you have no income), you are still allowed to file. I think the site helps you file (to claim a credit) even if you're not required to file.
You mean like how they just happened to announce the vaccine the day after the election?
I reckon Marmalade, with outside chance of QuinceJam
We also farm in a way that is almost optimized for erosion of topsoil. We’ve already lost a third of it and it only renews on geological timescales. Daft is too polite.