skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do hope that people read the article and comment on its contents rather than just getting stuck in a loop of "Google bad".
To avoid becoming a waste of time to blame, when the customer is forced to wait for it. Being shamed by this convenience is not in a waiter's control.
Why limit it to people on the internet?
I am not sure that is true. As far as I understand, the communities in most places were small, everyone knew everyone, and people were vary of strangers. You couldn't come to a random village and start farming... and as far as I can tell from family stories, in villages there is basically zero privacy. You need a city with enough people to get some anonymity and liberty of the kind you describe.
Real question: how is bitcoin not preserving privacy (heard that a lot), how can you link an address to a person?
I've been writing "scripts" with it that extract multi GB data sets using various APIs, perform relevant processing, and spit out actionable visualizations and data.

The APIs are (these days) mostly web/REST-ish, though I'm starting to work on writing some wire-protocol stuff as well.

It (Julia) is an amazingly powerful language today. Excellent for data scientists and engineers, for deep and complex analytics. I am using it in a professional (e.g. paid) setting. Along side python, C++, and other things.
This is such a bizarre article since it’s the pension plans themselves who choose to invest in private equity.
A lot of hardware that I've seen has both h265 and VP9. So you often do have the option of using the codecs that are royalty free.
The life of a billionaire is incredible relative to the life of a poor person.

The point I was trying to make is that that's not necessarily true. There are many non-billionaires that have led incredible lives and have made a big impact in the world and there are billionaires whose biggest contribution to humanity is increasing their own wealth and power.
Western Digital offering free Data Recovery for MyBookLive hack
http://freeread.org/ipfs/
True but the old toolkits did most of that kind of thing for free. You had to do work to break conventions. With web you and your chosen set of libs have to work to meet them. One model is better. ;-)
I definitely agree with this. IMO that's how the democrats and republicans are also realigning themselves in the US.

Although, I'd argue this cycles every 4 generations (see WWII, civil war, revolution, etc -- they're all fights against a autocracy vs populace), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio...
The Open-Source Software Powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
One day, companies will realize releasing subpar product and charging for it is not the sanest business model.
When they hide data you're obviously and explicitly looking for they are making the internet less open.

Look at the google vs duckduckgo search results for this: "How a Convicted Terrorist used the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Website to Identify Targets"
If a government wanted, they can use Zero knowledge proofs to provide every citizen with the ability to do say $100k/year in completely anonymous transactions with Monero-like technology.
I think any kind of CBDC is dead on arrival in the US, for one simple reason: Turbo Tax.

The federal government has all of the information to do everyone's taxes every year, mail you a postcard with the result, and offer you the chance to file an amendment if you disagree. This would make everything much simpler for everyone, and would solve a number of enforcement problems, too. It's a no-brainer.

But Turbo Tax has paid enough money to enough politicians to prevent it from happening, because Turbo Tax makes billions of dollars from the old and broken system.

If the Fed started moving toward a CBDC, and encroaching on the territory now occupied by banks, credit cards, and other entities, the skies would turn black from all of the jets flying lobbyists into Washington to kill that proposal dead.
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Amazon.com and its app are currently broken
I don’t follow the Windows reference since my understanding was that Kerberos (the authentication protocol and associated project and software) is not platform specific, and also works on UNIX and macOS and other systems where it’s implemented for that matter. Did you think Kerberos was only on Windows?
Trillionaires still work in teams; they don't operate in a vacuum. Their influence extends throughout government, which is how they enforce their will, using the police, military, and court systems.
Right, but writes to x from another thread (i.e. by a thread other than the one in which rlo is called or the thread reading y) aren't required to be visible when y is read.

Edit: ah, I think I understand what you're saying – if a thread that calls rlo also modifies x elsewhere, beforehand, then yeah, the store can't be eliminated.
Nobody likes to challenge their own beliefs - especially when it's a negative belief.

(I could provide links to studies, but I like to think the downvotes prove my point for me)
Amazon.com – Downdetector
Well, in that case SciHub is definitely more convenient. Repeating the same sob stories sounds time-consuming, and might still get denied.
My biggest complaint is static compilation. There are things you can do with PackageCompiler, but they don't work for some of the code I write. This makes deployment of artefacts harder than it needs to be.

Most of the infrastructure is there in the code, it just needs to be tied together, in such a way that juliac file.jl -o file.x results in a deployable (preferably static) binary.
> Why do you expect that?

Because I wrote it?

> Nobody ever promised you that.

I just assumed that compiler writers had empathy for humans, my bad.

> It doesn’t! According to the spec we’re both working off. If you think the spec is wrong then change it. But I can’t guess what you want unless you tell me using the spec.

How big is the spec and how many working programmers do you think are super intimately familiar? Do you think this article would be on the front page if this information wasn't surprising? Are you building a compiler for humans, or are you just chasing metrics and getting the smug satisfaction of telling users "I told you so" when shit doesn't work in an intuitive way?

If you want to beat me over the head with "the spec says", you win, master language lawyer. I build things for a living and I like it when the code I specify is the code that's generated. You can blame users all you want, but maybe after the trillionth zero day exploit because nobody gets these things right you might consider empathy and developer ergonomics.
What you want would basically prohibit all optimizations.
Some people do though. Imagine someone who just lets this stuff lapse and they are still being regularly prescribed stuff that should have been cancelled 8 years ago.
Then they can compile with -O0 and get basically that. What’s the problem?
Diaper face alert, diaper face alert, this has been a paid broadcast of the diaper face alert system.
I am a natural contrarian, have built multiple libraries[1][2] that go directly against the grain of most web development today and my companies catch phrase is "We find hot new industry trends & then do the opposite of that..."

So I am sympathetic to the article.

However, as with all things, there is an aristotelian mean here: it is OK and in fact virtuous to attempt to conform to some extent with those around you. Humans are social animals, and going against the grain full bore at all times can wear you out, lose you friends and influence, and is often ineffective for affecting change.

You are often better off going with the grain to some extent and then using some jujitsu to push your contrarian ideas.

To pick a practical example at random: mention your contrarian libraries in a defense of conformity.

[1] - https://intercooler.js

[2] - https://htmx.org
The article is a fluff piece that's comically uncritical of Google. There's obvious hypocrisy for a company that's done all sorts of user-antagonistic things to internet users as Google has, from Google AMP stealing traffic, to PRISM actively violating the 4th amendment, to Dragonfly explicitly enabling censorship. Google's gotten away with the hypocrisy due to a relentless PR engine. Maybe if you don't like predictable Hacker News snark, downvote the PR "submarine" pieces from the front page, because there's nothing of value in this article and "predictable" critique is the best it deserves.
You can store revisions in a Merkle tree, too.
Been waiting for someone to bring this up. Seems very widespread.

https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/
> no where near proportional to the damage done

Do short sellers really do that much damage? Surely they're just part of the price-discovery mechanism for a stock?

If you're holding a stock for the long term, what do you care if its price is temporarily a bit low? Just wait it out.
In Pollan’s latest book, and in the original Harper’s article, he references the book Opium for the Masses by Jim Hogshire. After listening to the book, I went to the google machine and found that the book is readily available on Amazon, and even on Kindle!

Opium for the Masses: Harvesting... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004URM3DG?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_shar...
Much appreciated, I'll look into this.
Google employees angered by 'hypocritical' remote work policies
From the title, I expected deepities. It failed to even meet that bar. It's a CS prof. Was the article generated?
The criticism here is entirely self-serving and hypocritical. Why should Google be able to undemocratically decide which parts of the internet it allows, yet deride governments for doing the same thing? At least the governments ostensibly have the best interests of their people in mind. And even the worst "authoritarian" governments need to answer to their population enough to keep legitimacy.

There is no free and open internet, and Google is part of the group of corporations that help prop up the big tech cartel that help kill off each others' competitors, share employee blacklists, and intentionally sacrifice the quality of their product to push their Bay Area bourgeoisie politics around the globe.
If you work on a (self-hosting) compiler, those are the same.
I realize my comment is a tangent, but I find conspiracy theories incredibly enjoyable. I don't even mean that in a condescending way - I genuinely think they're fun to research. This might be my favorite.

https://www.audubon.org/news/are-birds-actually-government-i...
Has anybody noticed we live in a damn society?
Specifically argumentation related critical thinking ability … aka the ability to form and evaluate internally consistent arguments in favor of or against an idea.

This is a very important “of course”.

Conspiracy theories are reliant on bad argumentation…therefore people who struggle in that area are less inclined to identify the flaws in the theories.
'atomic' isn't uncuttable in the sense that it is irreducible, but in the sense that it cannot be stopped/does not produce intermediaries. If you write four atomic instructions you should expect that they will not be interrupted, nothing more. of course I'm not an expert, but I think that is where your misunderstanding has originated.
Watched the interview and Sundar Pichai sounded so defensive and unauthentic. Why do they do these interviews? I gained absolutely nothing from it.
The big reason the crypto industry is so big is because:

1) They are inventing crypto for a NO-MONEY-PRINTING currency. This article "forgot" to call out how this is the massive few making the crypto industry huge.

2) "bail ins", negative interest rates are the system STEALING from citizens. Governments could never pull this off from the wealthy or corporations. But they feel entitled to be able to do this to the masses. They don't understand how this won't be tolerated by citizens.

3) Crypto paying ~3% interest will be able to be made sustainable. This is DeFi interest when the deposits can be lent out, with risk nearly fully counterbalanced.

Central banks have no clue how the above three are all that is needed to drive citizens to crypto and minimize their USD/CBDC holdings. The amount of crypto supporters shows that #1, #2 and #3 are getting market adoption today.
> If I'm dealing with atomics and concurrent code I really want to tell the compiler, hey, inline constants maybe, but don't reorder or combine operations.

If that's what you want, then declare your variables volatile (in addition to being atomic, not instead).
Your IP address is revealed when you use a torrent, which opens you up to criminal prosecution. Running Bittorrent over Tor is also slow, and tends to overwhelm the volunteer run network. And someone also has to pay for the bandwidth, hardware, and sysadmin time to scan, upload, host.

Incentivized onion routing networks like the Oxen network or Nym offer the potential for fast, anonymous filesharing, while decentralized storage networks like Sia or Filecoin could act as censorship resistant repositories.
You really can be, and I think it's worthwhile, and it does not require drugs.

It does require time, however. Time to practice beginner meditation, and time to sit and reflect on everyday objects.

But the payoff is simply INCREDIBLE. That feeling of "time is going by faster and faster" is replaced with almost the opposite, of remembering an event and being surprised how recent it was compared to how distant it feels.
As far as I can tell they've just give back to using brown ones, which makes them a little less obviously related to the Royal Mail when you see them on the ground.
Pretty unexpected based on how WD treats customers in general, but very happy to see.
Did you perhaps mean ‘d%’? IIRC ‘d$’ deletes to the end of the line.
You make an implicit assumption that a monopoly can't be the best way to organize an industry, and that competition is always better.

I'm not convinced by this assumption as i've seen contrary evidence. I've seen monopolies doing a great job, and i've seen competition destroy quality of service and price.

I would agree that the government needs to mitigate private actors. This regulation can take the form of splitting a monopoly but it can also take the form of keeping it a monopoly and regulating it by having a presence on the Board or through law.

The idea that we need multiple groups of people working on solving the same goal concurrently doesn't strike me of a one-size-fits-all approach. Multiple competing restaurants in a town is probably the way to go. Having virtual operators on the back of one physical infra as is the case with phone carriers for instance I would say is probably causing lots of overheads. I've seen it first hand from the inside. Turns out it's really complex to virtualize infra and have tenant-based billing. The only real difference is now you have 5 companies competing on marketing and offers on top of the same physical reality. Marketing costs can't vanish so the consumer is losing that money one way or another
Microsoft-y
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws." — attributed to Mayer Rothschild

"Who needs dollars when you can have Libra?" — Mark Zuckerberg
I forget where I heard this recently, but iirc there was a study that showed that when someone believes in a conspiracy theory, and you present them evidence that it's false, their natural reaction is actually to double down on the belief rather than question it.
> "you have to make it easy for third parties to fork your website"

That's not the requirement I'm talking about. It's "multiple developers you don't know, of varying experience levels, will work on this project over the course of years".

They're going to clone the repository and have to make changes. Ignoring your stack is not an option. They have to figure it out, or throw it away and rebuild something else.

They'll be the ones paying the time cost of all the advantages you get by doing something complex but easy for you.

You may say this doesn't apply in your situation, and maybe right now it doesn't, but it almost always happens in any successful project eventually.
So, in theory, you have some metric that places Google up at #1. For that to be non-trivial, you must have more than one member of the set evaluated. And for it to be meaningful, maybe you have a top ten or you have evaluated less than ten.

All right, then, enlighten us with your top ten. And if you haven’t already, I’d like to see where on the top ten you’ve put regimes like the Chinese government and the US government.
I read the article and shame the BBC went for the small sound-bite click-bait title. Most of the article is about other aspects, from AI, Quantum computing, corporation TAX and the title per-say does not do the article justice.

With that in mind, it seems most comments appear along the lines of a response to the title and not the content and is just going to clog Dang up with work.

I personally found the aspect and questioning about corporation TAX more insightful and perhaps would of been a better sound-bite of a title.
You want a macro assembler. C is not a macro assembler. C was never supposed to be a macro assembler. It was designed as a cross platform language, which fundamentally means you are programming to an abstract machine, which necessarily means that you cannot have an macro assembler [0].

I can, however, see an argument that people want a C like language which is a macro assembler. I am lost again when people start asking for a C++ like macro assembler. The features that C++ brings over C are not concepts that exist on any mainstream CPU.

[0] Unless you decide to build a concrete machine (either in bare metal, or as a VM).
i may have to pick up some of their apparel
It's called rehypothecation. They take your savings and buy up assets or use it for collateral. That's the consequence of using custodial services - they can do whatever they want with your money.
Could you provide more information, please? Thanks.
I'd say pick 3-4 people who are sensible, and pretty much ignore the rest of the people on the planet.
Mirtazapine (atypical antidepressant) helped me for about 2 years, but then it was downhill from there. Gained 60 lbs on 200 (27 on 91). It's used in certain cases for people to gain weight.

When it worked, it was amazing, but the weight gain was intolerable. Missing a single dose felt exactly like a hangover after sleeping.

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In this age, I would say:

- exercise even more

- subject yourself to more cold (burn more calories)

- subject yourself to more heat (suppress appetite)

- fasting - alternate day

- fasting - 18.6

- organic as much as possible

- eliminate industrially-processed foods as much as possible: if it comes in a box, it's probably suspect.

- eliminate plastic containers

- take the stairs rather than the elevator

- modify one's route to deliberately walk more

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Another thing that needs to happen is for food packages to be wax, glass, or other materials for containers that don't contaminate the food with plastic compounds.
It should be pretty easy to do, to be fair. There are many ways. The easiest would be to have a compressed file (or whatever) that is signed with the source you downloaded it from (and the digest published), and the PDF itself would be signed with the authors' private key. It is not the best way to do it, but it could work.
Wow, this is such a wrong way of interpreting the way things are, that you're finding offense where none was probably intended.

Have you ever witnessed the "eww, foreign shit" thought process, or did you invent this in your head? Emojis are used all over the world that I can't imagine anyone thinking they're a "Japanese thing". Yeah they're from Japan but your imaginary racism accusation is so weird to me, if it's real, to me it would be like meeting someone who does not use flush toilets because s/he doesn't like the British.

There are technical reasons for not supporting Unicode, e.g. to prevent garbling like https://www.zalgo.org/ , but throwing things like "not supporting emojis (I'm going to mansplain to you that emojis is part of Unicode) is sexist is just... Argh! For your own sake, I suggest you stop it with the identity politics and looking to be butthurt by any perceived offense, it won't lead to a life of happiness, and you'd be the irrational one who's looking for conflict, sadly while believing you're the sane one in a holy crusade against infidels. (Ha, for the sake of analogy, it's just like Isis/Al-Qaeda think they're the righteous ones whereas the rest of the world sees them as the bad guys).

I don't know why I want to save people from themselves in an HN comment box, but here's me trying. Although I think you're already so offended that you'll totally ignore this.
You link it to their exchange account when they cash in or cash out.
Not really. Compilers are supposed to be fast at compiling things other than themselves.
Yeah, a lot of publishers voluntarily remove DRM from their games after a few months because most of the profit is made right at launch. Once the first round of discounts start to hit DRM serves no purpose anymore.
I couldn't possibly disagree more.

It's not a problem, it has no real impact, what impact it has is likely net positive, it is not a conflict of interest, and it's impossible to form a coherent argument for why it should be illegal.

There's a reason nobody who understands what's going on cares.
If we had socialized medicine like my local Kaiser, I would be so excited. I honestly haven't been treated anywhere else with the same level of care and concern. I used to hate doctors because of bad experience, but the Kaiser system convinced me to take care of myself on a routine basis. Just one opinion, but thought I'd share.
My Honor Nova5t running Android 10 also did this, when I clicked on connected wifi's name.
In 2010, I had $3/month at 24 Hour Fitness for life + $5/month for SuperSport.
Not surprisingly, mostly those in the US… and all but one in of those in California (which is not exactly the paragon of innovation as it was in its heyday…)

Luckily, that doesn't limit what other can explore and pursue :D

Look, panels are great. I've used them in the past in certain applications (esp those that wont require any storage, or have 24/7 access to sunlight like in some regions in space, etc), but storage (1-4 hours? lol) costs are a joke compared CSP offering 24/7 and providing electricity 17.5 hours without direct solar radiation[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Dominador_Solar_Thermal_...
"Big Pharma" in the eyes of the public is two related but separate issues; 1) the weird employment-insurance-hospital loop that has developed in the US, and the terrible second-order-consequences of all the open-high/settle-low insurer<->carer system it led to, and 2) the medicine advertisements, and all the terrible consequences thereof.

The second one seems like a much easier thing to get rid of using hard government power, and should be the low-hanging fruit.

The first will require a decade of masterful leadership, co-operation from competing interests, and delicate undoing over time that I don't think any country in the west has right now.
Ahead of all the regulation happy governments, the walled gardens, and spam/trolls making areas of the web that are not resourced largely unusable?
The filesystem isn't inherently bad, but the lack of a standard config format, location, and APIs is quite terrible. There's no reason a thousand programs should have a thousand different ways to be configured, it's just a legacy of poor design with no standardization.
I bet that the vast majority of leaf node food purchases on Earth are in cash.
Two hundred and seventy two pages is a pretty excessive amount of "sample material" to showcase skills though.