skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is nicer syntax-wise in Red/REBOL compared to Lisp is the slightly lower number of brackets and nesting. And the C-style formatting of brackets -- with closing brackets aligned with their counterparts. It is a little more verbose, but easier to read.

Plus the square brackets are easier to type than the round ones.

Overall the design of REBOLs is pretty interesting and IMO somewhat reminiscent of Tcl. Both are certainly good inspirations for minimalist language designers.
You can run Qubes OS instead and enjoy security through isolation and diversity it provides by default.
Nextcloud seems to me to be the most popular self hosted solution.
Heidi Howard, the first author of this paper did two videos about her paper:

- A 10' short intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQss0uQUc6o

- A more in depth one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K6kt39wyH0
Thanks! These were all done by hand in Procreate on an iPad since I wanted to give them more of a chalkboard feel.
How about the $300 free lunch I just paid for his kids?
It’s possible that there were great intentions all around and the COVID leak was a horrible accident.

It’s also possible that a PRC agency or individual decided to take advantage of the situation and leak it to try and stick it to the United States as a geopolitical move.

I hope this isn’t true, but until we have additional evidence it would be impossible to rule this out entirely. Also the PRC needs to show that evidence to the world ASAP.

For some reason the media wants to call everyone that looks at the situation xenophobic and racist, which just leads me to believe there is more to the story.
The fundamental problem is that it used to invoke a cost to publish anything. Now any idiot can post things for free and the viral aspect of the systems ensures it will explode. Us humans are hardwired for new and outrageous gossip and hench the ads industry is related to this. Nothing can fix this as long as publishing is cost free.
Human nature can not be fixed. Get over it and design systems which mitigate the worst part of it.
Ask HN: How long do you give a new job?
My standard advice to folks starting new jobs is:

"You need to give it _at least_ two months before you decide to bounce, because anything less than that, and -- outside extreme circumstances -- there is just no way to know anything about anything at that point. Whether people are being mean and lazy, or are just incompetent and stupid, or any other combination of behaviors. It's fine to look before then, of course, because...America."

I think this is generally good/excellent advice.

That said, is it?

Asking for a friend.
> it seems strange that any state would want to wound its own economy by restricting employee mobility.

That's because you think the goal is to maximize the state's overall revenue/economy. It's not. It's to maximize the income to specific well connected individuals and their investments.
This move is cynical, in bad faith, and contrary to everything that makes the Internet useful.

And if they're trying to lose CDA 230, this is a great step toward convincing lawmakers who might have been on the fence.
One issue with cycles is that the results you will get may not reflect what end users, who probably have throtling enabled if it is made to run on laptops or desktop computers, will experience.

All instructions do not have the same thermal cost, and even though my laptop's CPU is able to stand at 3.99GHz when running stress tests whereas its base clock is 2.59GHz, I doubt it would be able to do the same if it was running AVX2 instructions (or it does have quite impressive thermals for a laptop).

Also, does disabling throtling disable dynamic frequency scaling of the CPU's cache too ?
Soooo… The Who said the virus isn’t airborne initially. They said masks don’t work initially.

What’s your plan of action there? Google censors what the status quo asks them to and then flips and censors the other side the second they change their mind? Does that sound like a good world to you?

How exactly does long term discussion happen in that cases? Since basically by about April 2020 you’ve banned all pro mask discussion and anti mask discussion…
Not many neanderthals around these days. Just an observation.
>That's all fine if you want a 100% processed food diet. Some of us want to eat less-processed food than that, and save the "treat" foods for treat times.

Where I'm at, I do the mediterranean diet, like most people (with a little more meat and BS snacks thrown in following the cultural example of the US, but still, nothing like the S.A.D.).

I'll also mention that most staple plants, legumes, etc. on that diet is cheaper in the US than here, where wages are double and more in the US. So price is not an excuse for Americans not to eat similarly.

People who want to eat "less processed food" can start eating less processed food. Highly processed, lab grown "meat" is hardly the way to eat "less processed food".
I can and might. But, like everyone everywhere dealing with the pandemic, I was getting hopes high for a trip in a place where masks mandates had abated, and LA was one of those places. The list of places to go that don't require flying... well, honestly, I just want to get out of the SF/Tahoe area and be mask free. I get that it's mostly a matter of disappointment that I have to deal with here. I'm not a mask resister, but I am not wearing them day to day.. and if I can, I'd rather vacation without it.
Glowing example of "tossing the baby out with the bath water."
Because it's HN.
I mean a computer science perspective on the Axiom of Choice itself.

While I am naturally much more sympathetic to intuitionistic/constructible mathematics than the general math community is, I won't go so far as to insist it is the only one true math, since I don't think there is such a thing. I just think that from an information theoretic perspective, calling the instantiation of infinite unknowable amounts of information into a proof "aesthetic" is, well, not a term I'd use. I find Axiom of Choice generally gross.
Sure, someone can frame it that way. Someone else can also frame it as respecting privacy
Time to double down on self hosting a Google drive clone. I don't trust Google any more.
You're thinking like a business not a government/essential service. Unemployment, like a lot of services, could be designed or mandated to break even or turn a profit but whether or not that would work or result in the system failing is another question.

The capacity for a government to run essential services at a loss is a long standing component from even the US founding fathers. Hamilton wanted to adopt all debt from the colonies as a way to consolidate credit, unite the colonies financially, and put stock into the federal government with power to manage the nations debt vs individual states. Jefferson was against the policy but it (and other Hamilton drafted plans like a central bank) were approved through compromise.
Then there will be calls for cloud providers to remove "misleading" clients. (Read: AWS + Parlor, Cloudflare, etc)

What we really need is a legal designation of a "public square" online that protects free speech online
I remember growing up watching the "military vehicle shows" on the Discovery channel when they just output all the various specs of every vehicle.

I think a lot of the general operating specs and such are pretty well known.
"Debunk" is becoming quite the loaded term. For one thing it's being used definitively despite the fact that there are still ongoing debates. The other thing is that it implies a sort of finality. New evidence or the results of an investigation can pop up anytime.
I don't think it's black and white. I have no issue with someone starting a business and becoming hundreds of times more wealthy than the median American. However, I think that's a lot different than becoming thousands of times more wealthy.

Opposition to addressing inequality in the US tends to take the form of arguing that the rich worked harder, earned their wealth, are more valuable, etc.; therefore, it is immoral to redistribute that wealth. The argument that I am attempting to make is that the differences in wealth are so dramatic that it isn't realistic that they earned it in the sense that free market advocates are implying.
Can you say more? I’m not even sure how I’d search for more information about this.

Because of the large and dense population centers, and therefore power requirements, governments require aggressive power management settings on computers??
On some browsers if you click away it will suspend WebAssembly execution, if you click back it should continue...
Another explanation for lower casualties is modern communications. How did people in the past know to evacuate prior to modern meteorology and real-time communications? Had there been less warning of this event, the #s dead may well have been in the thousands.
I'll watch it later.
Declining to sue in this case, when I have publicly said what I am going to do, shows other companies that Microsoft is ignoring the threat to closed source software that this poses.

So while it would not be a legal precedent, it would be a social one that would be fought against by other companies.
Why I Am Still a Designer
The guys a lawyer yeah, but the advice isn’t to offer the cop a chance to talk with you with a lawyer; it’s to avoid talking to cops at all. Then if the cops try to force an interview anyway, that’s where the “without a lawyer” comes in; if they’re arresting you then they should have other PC and you’ll be needing a lawyer anyway.

And the whole point is that even in your case, it’s not directly beneficial to you to answer even innocuous questions about your neighbor’s death; at best it doesn’t change any suspicions on you, but at worst there is a chance that your answers could make you a person of interest when you weren’t one before.
I have my ergodox ez setup like this.

asdf and jkl; all have dual functions when held

a/j = ctrl

; = alt

a turns ijkl into arrow keys (like wsad, but I have a left handed mouse)

k + j = copy, k + l = paste

and so on for symbols, brackets, etc.

The goal is to move from the home row as little as possible. I attempted to gather statistics on most used keys when programming at work, which was mildly successful.

Here's my layout, optimized for left handed mouse use: https://configure.zsa.io/ergodox-ez/layouts/JwoW9/latest/0
Have you ever been on-call for any project larger than a toy? If you have, you likely noticed that keeping the whole thing up sometimes takes effort, more effort than meets the eye.

Hosting as in having some code deployed to some machines is indeed cheap. Keeping a large app like g.docs up and running, especially without breaking the bank, is a bit more tricky.
Last year in Germany you could get IIRC 7 free N95/FFP2 masks at the local pharmacy for free. The pharmacists were supposed to show you how to wear them.
> Your Taxes are insane high for medium wage workers

A single person earning $200k in the state of Washington pays ~$52.5k in federal income tax and social security. An effective tax rate of 26%. Is that insanely high?
I make $15.60 an hour at my job. These 'concerns' are my day-to-day life.
Just because it was 7.2 megameters, a "transoceanic distance", doesn't mean it wasn't just 7.2 megameters of fiber all coiled up in a lab room.
> The issue is that rust is a very large language and it's hard to get it right.

In my experience, Rust type system (especially the Send and Sync traits, which prevent data races) makes it easier − not harder − to get big things work.
Sent you a LinkedIn request. Wouldn’t let me put a message with it.
This ain't it, chief.

We shouldn't be trusting (and giving power to) central governing bodies to dictate what counts as a "lie," and scrubbing away inconvenient information.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Voltaire
You're definitely not thinking creatively enough.

You don't need to hit the planet directly with anything, all you need to do is destabilize the orbit of all the planets or even just the Earth itself. You could send a gravity wave for example, that would cause the Earth's near circular orbit to shift to a very eliptical orbit. The vast change in temperatures would kill all life on the planet, and then you could come and mine all the resources that you needed and leave.
Webserver Benchmark: Erlang vs Go vs Java vs NodeJS
"There’s not capacity in top school districts for everyone who wants to be in one."

I love the casual dystopian-ness of the 21st century we've internalized. We just accept that good schools are a rare commodity only available to the very wealthy
Who wants to be a consumer company that just has an anything goes policy?

I sure as hell don't want to do it.
Yeah, I used to live in Europe, so I wanted to go back there, but I don't see myself testing those waters. It also doesn't feel right heading to places where the locals are living in a different health zone than the inbound travelers. A few of the places I had on my list have moved to almost-lockdown status.
I don't see how medicine can cost less when the supply hasn't changed.

Patents are the same. Residencies are the same. Hospitals are the same.

Do you think the physician cartel is going to stop living in Mansions?
> Google's increasing role as an arbiter of right vs wrong

The problem is that (I doubt) Google is really doing this out of some misguided attempt at "protecting" people but rather as a reaction to what they perceive to be what the people want. When America was a very religious (Christian) country, media distributors stayed away from anything that appeared "blasphemous". They didn't necessarily do it because there was a law against it (there were some odd laws here and there, but the media didn't start actually challenging them until religion really fell out of favor), but because they were afraid of consumer reactions. Google (and every other tech company) is doing essentially the same thing here: speaking ill on certain topics is modern-day heresy and they just don't want to be attached to it because they do ultimately fear the consumer.

Even if you found a globally adoptable alternative to google, the same people who pushed Google to ban distribution of "misleading content" would start looking for ways to ban your globally adoptable alternative - at the network level if necessary (look what happened to Parler before they agreed to follow the unwritten rules). At the end of the day, we won't have truly free speech because far too few of us really want truly free speech.
That is the truth. But mainstream Propaganda as it typically does shouted loudly that IT DID NOT COME FROM A LAB IN WUHAN.
It's funny to me that , in my mind HN = SV and SV is hyper liberal and listening to NPR which is also fairly liberal all the shows I listen to are calling for exactly "Google and Facebook need to ban all speech we don't like"

this isn't Google's problem. It's a society level problem. Google is just responding to the pressure
I don't have a good book to recommend offhand, but wandering a bit offotpic here, I know someone who worked on a military orbital program in the late '70 that was transmitting data from orbit at 800MB/s.

Some congressmen had not heard of this technology and were working to fund a completely different (iirc, civilian) program intending to develop essentially the same capabilities. They had to go give a few TS briefings to the congressmen to dissuade them from writing the redundant funding into the next defense spending bill.
For the most part climate change is not the spark, but it makes the tinderbox larger and drier - easier to ignite, and much more fuel when it does.

And honestly it's not even fully correct to say "climate change is not the spark" - having stronger storms with more lightning results in more chances for ignition as well. But afaik most fires are attributable to human causes - the problem is that climate change is making the fires much larger and more destructive than they otherwise would be.
This is ridiculous, I agree with most the top comments about a need for a new platform.

But if you have such “misleading” content as Big Brother sees it, shield it from them.

Encrypt the content, give out the key. Even if it’s a simple key, who cares. I’d bet you could even share it as a doc to other people, their internal algorithms surely aren’t sophisticated enough to figure it out.
Now you sound like a DA, tough on crime. "No one would ever get convicted" - this is about people falsely confessing to crimes because of police lies.

But I notice that in your statement, it's all about the conviction, not about the guilt.
I agree, but by October they were everywhere.
What if it was leaked by Russian intelligence?
The other truth is we're all outraged when these companies host some stuff that we don't like ... and get upset when they don't host the stuff we do like.

Consumers aren't rational. Neither are their demands.

I'm probably no more rational than anyone else, but I'm honest that I sure as hell don't want to give money to a service that is happy to host some violent folks content / garbage...
Sure, police are bound but human constructs, but they can also change them in a whim since they have power.

And yes, I do it out of respect and would never capitalize those pronouns for a mere human, king or not.
What is the size of your front-end that is downloaded by the user's browser?
Good on Google!

The old assumptions of the internet and how it works were wrong. The declaration of freedom was naive.

The simple model of how “free speech” leads to wiser outcomes turned out to be wrong.

What the heck - this combination may even be a Great Filter.

1) The rapid deployment of near-species scale information networks.

2) Information losing neutrality because any species (aside from maybe a hive mind) adds spin and polarity to data

3) Unprepared economic markets that end up rewarding polarizing (“engaging”) content, attriting societal level attention/mental resource in a way never experienced before.

I believe the recent British Govt paper argues that social media firms need to bear a duty of care to users. This is a better place to start.

Removing misinformation which has an obvious known fingerprint is a good start.
The use of "blind" in the title is problematic in several serious ways, not least, for being obviously false for any conventional interpretation.

Idle comment: were divergent focal point such a significant issue for visual perception, IMO we could anticipate it would be widely applied by evolution, and we would see many prey species hiding inside blue blurs. There are innumerable reasons this is not the case; but that it isn't is one more problem with the conjecture.
Do you think US sanctions in any way makes the populace of this countries have a good opinion of the US.

Is Haiti or Dominica any better off than Cuba?
No. Nothing changed.
> whose best interests are provably not aligned with that of the general population.

Hell always comes when people feel they know what's best for everyone else, and attempt to forcibly implement it.

I'm for people being free to choose what they believe their own individual self interest is. Even if it isn't what others imagine it to be. Even if those others are right.
I suppose if I say Xi Jinping should go to hoosegow I’m stepping in it too?
I agree, but my solution was self_hosted at home, not on big tecks slippery back. But I guess the same could be said by your ISP.

Although with the increasing use of private gaming servers and streaming, ISP’s are starting to acommadate the gen_pop with decent upload bandwith finally.

Who know, it wont be long untill ISP’s start filtering content on a massive scale.
Google could be sued if they helped distribute dangerous misleading health-information.

It's really not about their "good intentions" but about their self-interest.

It's not about freedom of speech either. Everybody has the right to say whatever they want, and Google has the right not to distribute it. Free markets 101.

The fact that Google has de facto monopoly in some areas is a problem that government needs to deal with.
That's really interesting, I would have expected the opposite -- that Airbnbs increase nuisance crime but not violence, due to the nature of most use of Airbnbs.

I wonder if this is measuring a third factor: potentially neighborhoods which are more violent for some other reason are more likely to end up as Airbnbs because of a decreased demand for owner-occupation? Just my personal hypothesis.
Well, we only have to go back a year, and you are saying the Trump admin is the only one speaking truth…

I find it insane that Silicon Valley companies have such short memories, and can’t even comprehend that 1 year ago the same policies would have resulted in banning anything Trump disagreed with.
You'd think that, but no, not really. If you talk to a lawyer first and he registers what you're doing with the police first and you don't actually break the law, you'll be fine. Lots of bounty hunters and private investigators are in the same game. Going to the police saying "I want to earn this $10m reward by finding those horrid blokes and here is why I'm qualified" isn't going to completely blow their mind.

But it could get you hacked or worse.
What makes you think the government is that Messiah? Is it likely, in your view, that the government will go out of their way to "encourage the spread of misinformation"? I'm not seeing that happening.
This is a consequence of the Enlightenment idea that a government gets its authority from the consent of the governed.
The Terms of Service are written broadly and that's on purpose so that Google can take the liberty of interpreting things however they please. Ultimately, it comes down to the culture of the team that deals with content scanning and take-down requests. I'm willing to bet money that it is staffed by Progressive Bay-Area folks and the implications should be self evident.
> They implored me to trust that they had "never sued anyone" and "have no intentions to", and I think they honestly believe that. But then why have the non-compete at all?

I feel like I'm yelling at a brick wall when I make a fuss of this, but this happens every time I see a doctor too. I'm asked to sign forms acknowledging I've read and understood long legal documents that they don't have a copy of to show me.

"It doesn't matter". Well I can't see the doctor without signing it. It only matters if they don't get their way. The same is true of the non-compete: it's because it only benefits them.
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> Many factors contribute to flooding, but a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely.

Do you see anything wrong with that statement? Seems pretty accurate to me...
> It is also slowly becoming illegal to criticise Islam

Really? Literally "Illegal" as in laws against it, or figuratively as in no longer socially acceptable?
Hey I saw self deforming mirrors as a missile defense intern circa 15 years ago! I thought they were dang cool at the time myself.
I recall (for these designs) self deformation being used to help with tracking and compensate for, ya know, the shock of a little steering boost motors lighting off and such, in some cases.
If none of those locations pay above minimum wage many may not only be taking a pay cut vs unemployment but also need to find transport, childcare, and give up putting that time into their homes/families. It's summer and without vaccinations for those under 16 childcare is rough or hugely expensive.

It's not the same, but around here people list a 5x/week dog walk at $60/hour (what?!). I'm not sure what they are earning to validate that expense but even at half that hourly cost I would save more money quitting my job than sending even one kid to childcare during work hours.