skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Turns out, not even Apple is that messiah

They were, just no longer the same under Tim Cook.

I dont want to derail the discussion into another political debate but my thesis, is that some ideology spread like plague in Silicon Valley. The Good vs Evil. As the OP said Google stated off being good, but somewhere along the line the definition of Good got twisted a little bit. They keep thinking they were so righteous they literally started a crusade or witch-hunt ( so to speak ).

And it is in some way interesting because it rhymes with many historical events.
Man, we are completely unprepared for the level of control it is not possible to have over speech. I guess I get where Google is coming from, maybe, but this is getting downright Orwellian.
> I mean LISP is one of the oldest languages with really weird features w.r.t to C-like languages but in practice we only see C-likes

Scripting languages are much closer to Lisp than to C (e.g. compare Python to Racket).

IIRC Ruby, Javascript and Smalltalk (the latter inspiring a lot of OOP languages) were all explicitly designed to be like Lisp.
Okay.. this is the ted talk. I basically implemented his talk and molded it per my situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2paoNvG5Nmo

In this guy's case he was able to run a successful startup and his brother was able to get into and graduate from Harvard despite being terrible procrastinators. (because of the strategy.) He was not using a monetary based strategy. Basically he placed a hit on himself via his brother and viceversa to become successful.

Another thing he did was to write a letter to his ex and told his brother to mail it if he did not finish a certain task.

Again.. these are terrible examples. I would not advocate violence or stunts like this. In my own case, I used money but for others it could be anything. Any consequence they would like to avoid.
I'm sure Kenny G. will have some way of making bank on this technology.

https://www.jazzguitar.com/features/kennyg.html
Show HN: I made a new GUI styling paradigm
Complacence might be a better descriptor than mad/outraged. For example nobody really gets up in arms over companies choosing not to host (what they deem to be) pornography for example, and various bans of risqué content and the people who produce them from major platforms tend to get a lukewarm response from people who are otherwise vocal about free speech (see: the USA's FOSTA/SESTA)
> "Do you know why I pulled you over?"

On a scale from 1 to 10, how bad would it be to answer that with "Is it because I is black?" (© 1998-2021 Ali G)?
You mentioned that cannabis helped or helps with your migraines. Can you elaborate a bit on this? How did you figure out which strains help (and which specific ones), dosage, flower, edibles, etc .. Does it help as a preventative, or an abortive? Does the efficacy wane over time, forcing you to up the dosage?
People take the vaccine they die. They don't take it they die. Why bother taking it then?
It doesn't do anything a vaccine is supposed to do. So why cal it that?
Why not call it what it is?
Experimental gene therapy with 0 long term studies. Why the social pressure to force others to make the same mistake you made by volunteering for use of a drug that you can't even sue the creators of if it kills you?
My hat off to you for being willing to die so that others can learn from this experiment, but don't pretend you are anything more than rats in a lab.
> Those will be the people who make things

Which includes programmers.
A pneumatic random-access memory for controlling soft robots
That's one of my favorite scenes. He is so angry drunk and it's his birthday and you can tell he doesn't like the chef at all (the chef is the same guy who took them out "fishing" earlier in the day).
I call the Russian special forces Spetznaz and the Brazilian yearly festival Car-ni-val. Or when I am happy when bad happens to other people, I have schadenfreude. Did you also know most of English is comprised of loan words from other languages too? Or are you offended too that words like etiquette are actually french?

So yes. I would use a word that the said culture would say themselves.
It helps to read the ToS:

> Misleading content may be allowed in an educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic context, but please be mindful to provide enough information to help people understand this context. In some cases, no amount of context will allow this content to remain on our platforms.
Looks like they just made up an explanation, "We of course have not directly tested whether social organization is indeed the intervening variable"

> Instead, the results point to the possibility that the large-scale conversion of housing units into short-term rentals undermines a neighborhood’s social organization, and in turn its natural ability of a neighborhood to counteract and discourage crime, specifically violent crime. Further, the lagged effects suggest a long-term erosion of the social organization, which would stand in contrast to the more immediate impacts that the presence of tourists would be expected to have. We of course have not directly tested whether social organization is indeed the intervening variable, but it seems clear that the issue is not the tourists themselves but something about how the extreme transience of a short-term rental unit fails to contribute to critical neighborhood social dynamics.
500 people died by being burned to death in a ford Pinto after an accident that otherwise would have survived.

They oftentimes couldn't escape the vehicle due to crumple zones pinching the doors shut.

Sure, the "exploding Pinto" is a myth, but only on a technicality. Those people experienced your real-world observational data first hand.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness/
Says the person calling me a racist for not saying something racist...
The aliens in Scott Westerfeld's Fine Prey invade Earth for a novel reason. It's ROT-13 (https://rot13.com/) encoded to avoid any spoilers.

Gur nyvraf ner ynathntr areqf. Gurl bpphcvrq Rnegu fb gung uhznaf jbhyq perngr n arj qvnyrpg bs gurve ynathntr.
> but rather a single object with an "organization" field.

In your opinion. There are advantages of sharding tables by tenant boundaries. Data isolation and query speed to name a couple.
Spot on.

I spend 3-5 years getting the perfect PC setup only to have it knocked down again every time I get a new PC and all the settings have moved, half the programs that used to work now either wont or has a replacement that's not quite what I want.

I am not against progress but I just need to work so I now specifically keep the last two generations of my PC offline just so I can compile a clients firmware or modify a PCB with the same environment I developed it on. The next generations of development environments are going on-line so it may not be an option for me.

At one point I designed complex communications systems from ISO layer 1 to layer 7 but these days I dont have a clue how to use the top layers, they change daily and I the guy in the IT dept to fix any issues with my smart phone or connecting to a clients network so I feel everyones pain.
The fact google is scanning people's private drive's for this sort of stuff should be scary to absolutely everyone.
No one is talking about this but no matter what side you’re on, it’s terrifying that a group of individuals congregated in Menlo Park, CA and to a lesser extent few other offices around the world has become the arbitrator of the world’s information. Even if that group is benevolent and have good intentions. It’s principally wrong. These groups of people have no dissent because it gets silenced internally in Google. It’s like an unstoppable unchecked steamroller of ideas that make the world dance at their tune.

I also do not want FAANGs to spread their work culture, their shitty UI frameworks, their interview process, their politics, their methodology and engineering libraries, their philosophical stance, their morality and ultimately their influence over the rest of the world.

I love most of their products but I will not use them because of their overpowering influence. People in Australia have to deal with shitty SV culture because of these companies. It’s cancerous. It’s dangerous and it’s going to stifle freedom of information, ultimately freedom of political expression and opposition. They’re acting as government proxy but inability to vote them off. Makes me angry just thinking about it. Fuck this.
I don't think you understand how significant the move is to them in sacrifice.

The untapped reserves are likely worth factors of ten more than their yearly aid from Denmark. They could have used whatever they found to force the issue of independence they've insisted, year by year, they want from the Kingdom. Imagine using that wealth to build out a Norway-in-miniature.
I hope the software that blocks us from using computers doesn't block enough people to where there are no more programmers.
If I host a document for a certified notadoctor telling you that you should treat your children's autism by feeding them bleach which will certainly constitute abusing all of them and perhaps killing some do you think online marketplaces of ideas should ignore the fact that half the population is dumber than dirt and the dead kids and keep serving up poison?
The title is a little misleading, and the results are at a glance a little alarming. If you base your definition of safe on whether you or your dependencies use unsafe anywhere, then obviously you're going to find something of concern. However, if you measure the safety of your code line by line, then the results are much better. Similarly, there's a balance to be found when assuming unsafe code is unsound.

The question is ultimately a reminder to check your dependencies to make sure they're active and take reasonable steps for validating unsafe code.
This April they're mostly useless in the US because you can just get vaccinated. If you're refusing to get vaccinated, you're probably refusing to wear a mask too.
How would my being mildly politically active on HN contradict my belief that it is rational for me to encourage the distribution of legal speech, without regard for agreement with the content? I feel like you’re trying to chide me by reminding me that I’m engaging in politics. Yes, I’m engaging in politics. I just don’t see what that has to do with the thrust of my objection.

Your point about downvotes being censorship is troubling and gives me pause. I think it’s only censorship because of how HN fades the comment towards illegibility. But I have always thought that is a user-hostile design choice. I’d much rather you could see the score, but still be able to read them easily. I have spent enormous amounts of time carefully reading people I disagree with.

(FWIW, I did not downvote you, and I do so rarely.)
It's not only right wingers but left wing organizations like the Atlantic Council. They assist multiple companies in determining which content is deemed permissible.
From the abstract:

> Our results indicate that software engineers use the keyword unsafe in less than 30% of Rust libraries, but more than half cannot be entirely statically checked by the Rust compiler because of Unsafe Rust hidden somewhere in a library's call chain. We conclude that although the use of the keyword unsafe is limited, the propagation of unsafeness offers a challenge to the claim of Rust as a memory-safe language.

I don’t think it’s accurate to say that any use of unsafe necessarily propagates to all code in the call chain. Often safe abstractions are built around the unsafe blocks to effectively limit the scope of unsafeness. It’s not clear from the abstract whether this analysis accounts for such scenarios.
It's not a rando user, it's a TC of a Challenger 2.
The question then is: is that difference recognized in the recently passed law?
I just want to point out Candiru is a fish that supposedly wriggles up someone's ding-dong when they pee in Amazonian rivers while swimming? I'm... gravely... skeptical that it ever actually happens, if I were to guess it's one of those, "I fell on it while getting dressed" situations that are occasionally explained to amused ER doctors. Maybe even one of those, "they put a chemical in the pool that makes the water turn purple when you pee." Whatever the deal with Candiru is, at some point someone suggested naming their spyware after the urethra fish. They might be making the world a worse place, but you can't say they don't have a sense of humor about it.
Something similar that is happening now is the Ivermectin discussion, which right now, to some sounds as crazy as the lab leak, to some, sounded a few months ago. So we have learned nothing from the lab leak debacle.
There's a fair number of ecommerce setups that default to numerically ascending order numbers also.
I think the problem here is not the absolute safety but the illusion of safety. You approach problems differently when you expect memory bugs to appear compared to thinking the chance is 0%.
The free lunch means that it's coming from people who do not directly benefit from the result. It benefits the families with children and hypothetically should go straight to just children. The fact that you think it will result in more taxes for the community in the future does not change the fact that it comes from people without children and is still a "free lunch".

Nevermind that people w/o children would only partially POSSIBLY benefit from this in the future, while parents get the direct aid now and possible future benefits... you're wrong twice.
If only we could leave our respective countries and self organize voluntarily into new ones.

Until then, those of us with kids, can't afford to checkout. We have to secure a future for our children.
People usually think of the scientific method as

1) make an observation that describes a problem, 2) create a hypothesis, 3) test the hypothesis, and 4) draw conclusions and refine the hypothesis.

and stuff along those lines. Paying journals to publish your stuff isn't really science - it's vering more into business and politics.
Biden administration ‘flagging problematic posts for Facebook,’ Psaki says
Right but the whole premise of the Fermi Paradox is that it doesn't take long (on a galactic scale) to gobble up the entire galaxy using STL transit if you're dealing with a constantly growing civilization.

So either they'd
- already have gotten here & already have destroyed the earth when we showed intelligence
OR
- already have gotten here & don't care about destroying intelligence.
Who at Google do you trust to decide what information you and I are allowed to know? What is this person's qualifications?

How can they be held to account when they inevitably get it wrong?

Where will the highly-transparent write-ups detailing moderation decisions be published?

Seems like if Google actually gave a damn about the morality of censorship as some sort of 'neccessary evil' you'd be able to answer these questions easily^. Until then, it's a non-starter in my book.
> That if you make a 'free speech' drive/repository place that's widely available, it will host the absolute worst of the human race.

That's only due to selection effects. If being open were the default then they'd be diluted among all the other people. ISPs themselves, (older) reddit, 4chan all serve as examples that the people you don't want to talk to can be mostly siloed off to some corner and you can have your own corner where you can have fun. Things only get problematic once you add amplification mechanisms like twitter and facebook feeds or reddit's frontpage.

> For one thing, it's easy to say 'well we'd only take down illegal content'. But in practice there isn't such a bright line, there's lots of borderline stuff, authorities could rule something posted on your site illegal after the fact- lots of these situations are up to a prosecutor's judgement call. Would you risk jail to push the boundaries?

I don't see how that's an issue? They send a court order, you take down the content is a perfectly reasonable default procedure. For some categories of content there already exist specific laws which require takedown on notification without a court order, which exactly depends on jurisdiction of course, in most places that would be at least copyright takedowns and child porn.

> Pretty soon the FBI & CIA start contacting you about some of the actual or borderline illegal content being hosted on Free Speech Drive. Do you want to deal with that?

That's pretty much what telcos have to deal with for example. Supposedly 4chan also gets requests from the FBI every now and then. It may be a nuisance, but not some insurmountable obstacle. For big players this shouldn't be an issue and smaller ones will fly under the radar most of the time anyway.

Also, having stricter policies doesn't make those problems go away. People will still post illegal content, but now in addition to dealing with the FBI you also need to deal with moderation policies, psychiatrists for your traumatized moderators (which you're making see that content) and endusers complaining about your policy covering X but not Y or your policy being inconsistently enforced or whatever.
One suggestion I heard was that the Mayans were a bunch of imperialist tax collectors and their "empire" simply started refusing to pay tax when the military advantages were no longer so important.

You could probably say the same about Rome. Once everyone in the empire could out-Legionary the Romans (the provinces were the main source of military might anyway at this point), sending tribute suddenly became a bit of a waste of time. Any disruption can trigger a chain of revolts. A revolt could be armed, or a soft revolt where the locals start acting like feudal lords and claim it's necessary to keep the peace.
Ruff! Ruff! Grrrr...!
> Well then 00-10 was the platinum age. Few behemoths, lots of smaller companies, less focus on marketing and money, fewer idiots online, a focus on hosting your own stuff from 0.

Eternal September was 1993. maybe this golden age of the internet where everyone was civil and educated and almost nothing was subject to censorship didn't really exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Black Women Still Receive Just a Tiny Fraction of VC Funding Despite 5-Year High
"You think you have won! What is light without dark? What are you without me? I am a part of you all. You can never defeat me. We are brothers eternal!"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089469/characters/nm0000347
I'm not so hopeful. To have some guarantee of rights and freedoms today, some sacrifice in convenience is needed. Most people I know who can understand what is at play are not willing so sacrifice even a bit of convenience.

The purpose-specific computing is more profitable right now. If we make general-purpose computing more attractive, then we may have a chance. But even then, compatibility maybe difficult.
Hangswith: Book a 1 on 1 Zoom Meeting with an Inspirational Statistician
I built Hangswith to help make it easy to book a 1 on 1 zoom call with R Statistics experts.

I hope to expand it into other fascinating/fun/useful/nerdy subcultures (like chess and music) - so if you're awesome at something, please consider creating a profile and setting some times you're available to be booked. (or if you have ideas for categories or people, do let me know!)

It's built with rails and heroku in my spare time over the past 12 months.

The idea came to me when I was stuck at home during covid lockdown and wanted to take a "digital holiday" (since I couldn't take a real one). I figured booking a chess grandmaster for an hour over zoom would be pretty awesome, but I couldn't find their contact info, had to negotiate a price, and had to find a time (I'm Australian Eastern and he is US Eastern time, so even that necessitated multiple back-and-forth emails - annoying and time consuming). This was all via email. There *had* to be an easier way. So that weekend I got to work building. After some beta testing, it's officially launching with this post!

I'm incredibly grateful for any questions or feedback you have!

NB - you may wonder: why statisticians if the original idea was chess? It's because I spend my days working in statistics and therefore it's the community I know best, and people tend to benefit a lot from mentorship in statistics/AI. But I am really aiming to get some top chess talent on board soon too.
I only get two comments a day and im going to spend the next one on you as well. the rest of the world would be better off if you were dead because you are leading us down a path to actual hell. let people write whatever the fuck they want you fucking fascist prick. not everyone knows how to make a website and google drive might be how they communicate their information. it’s the equivalent to locking up a guy standing on venice beach with a megaphone because he sounds crazy, and he probably is, but he’s got the right to do it. google drive is a common carrier and as long as they’re not violating the laws of the country it’s being distributed in, they should fuck off and not worry about it.
> Airbnb should start a fund get the otherwise incapable into responsible home-ownership.

Anyone but Airbnb. Local governments, credit unions. Something with at least a bit of democratic accountability.

See what they’ve done in Singapore to achieve high home ownership.

https://www.shareable.net/public-housing-works-lessons-from-...
going to follow suit
Interesting paper. Here's one of their key conclusions:

> Our analysis shows that while publicly available Rust libraries rarely use the unsafe keyword (even very popular libraries), most of them are still not Safe Rust, because of unsafe use in dependencies.

I think this might be a misapprehension of safety in Rust by the authors: safety doesn't mean that absence of the `unsafe` keyword in your dependency tree, it means safety by construction through safe wrappers of fundamentally unsafe code.

The Rust standard library is the perfect example of this: it exposes safe interfaces that are built on top of fundamentally unsafe OS primitives and system calls. That doesn't make any code that uses them "unsafe"; it parametrizes the notion of safety on safe abstractions. That's all Rust has ever promised, and it's still significantly better than the status quo.

Other than that, the paper's other observations are excellent: we should be more aware of the presence of `unsafe` in our dependency trees, and that information should be more readily surfaced by standard tooling. Tools like `cargo geiger`[1] and `siderophile`[2] (FD: my company's tool) bring us a little closer to that.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-secure-code/cargo-geiger

[2]: https://github.com/trailofbits/siderophile
"Misleading content" is already an issue for anyone who uses Google Merchant Center, and can cause your account to be suspended. Try getting a human being to give you a straight answer on what this means in specific cases - it's nearly impossible. Small accounts can't get through to anyone, and even if larger accounts or consultants can, the Googlers on the other end can't explain what triggered their "AI" to shut down the account.
Hanlon's razor has really messed up people's discernment. There are plenty of amoral, if not malicious, decisions by these companies, and these behaviors are intentional. All you HN commenters think you see the consequences clearly, and the execs making these decisions are doe-eyed innocents led down the wrong path... Are you serious?
Yeah those employers managed to pull wages down so much they cant even compete with unemployment benefits.