skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Uh... you know that "idiot" was originally a medical term which would have had a pretty clear definition right along the lines of "anybody below X IQ"

Yes, I do know that. That's not what people mean when they use it as a pejorative. They might reference it, but they don't use that word to convey that fact.

If someone calls you an idiot and you pull out an IQ test, they're just going to laugh at you.

> I disagree. Words have meaning.

I similarly think arguing the "prescriptive" versus "descriptive" models of language is trite. If you want, try to find a linguist to argue that with.

> Facts are infinitely more important.

If you want to argue facts, just don't use pejoratives and insults. You did, therefore I think it's rightful for people to read your message with tone and emotion and try to parse that too. If you didn't want to convey those things, you should not have used that word.
I think it’s worse than just abdicating responsibility. As if they just didn’t know bad things cound happen.

They’re selling this software to literal tyrants. They knew full well what this would be used for.
I own my own business, and I sell online training. I'm not working in the US - I'm working in Iceland, selling to people globally, and still paying income tax in the US.
Here are the significant threads to date. Additions are welcome.

Pavel Durov listed in leaked Pegasus project data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27906667 - July 2021 (12 comments so far)

Pegasus Project found numbers of Ten PMs, three presidents and a king - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27904236 - July 2021 (17 comments)

NSO Group Hacked - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27902544 - July 2021 (78 comments)

Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27899133 - July 2021 (58 comments)

Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27890735 - July 2021 (501 comments)

Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27886209 - July 2021 (80 comments)

iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journalist iPhones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27882992 - July 2021 (164 comments)

Key Modi rival Rahul Gandhi among potential Indian targets of NSO client - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27882877 - July 2021 (137 comments)

Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27882619 - July 2021 (240 comments)

Private Israeli malware 'Pegasus' used to spy on journalists, activists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27880409 - July 2021 (7 comments)

iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27875976 - July 2021 (162 comments)

How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27874173 - July 2021 (24 comments)

Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27874100 - July 2021 (167 comments)

Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27874027 - July 2021 (136 comments)

Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27727733 - July 2021 (37 comments)
For quality ambient electronica I highly recommend select works on the Mysteries of the Deep label, as well as Auxiliary - all on Bandcamp. Especially love Bandcamp as you can listen to full tracks before making a purchase decision.

https://auxiliary.bandcamp.com/

https://mysteriesofthedeep.bandcamp.com/music
The EU and perhaps NL in particular should really take another look at legalizing at least hash.

It would help to also legalize cocaine, but even Colombia that would benefit most from it, is still not ready to do something to break the status quo.

https://transformdrugs.org/blog/historic-win-for-coca-cocain...
Isn't setting up barriers to entry generally considered to be a part of healthy competition?

No, it is not. This is better described as vendor lock-in, than a barrier to entry. But vendor lock-in is also against healthy competition.

Healthy competition means that users choose your product because it suits their needs the best, not because they are somehow forced to choose your product.
The statement is internally contradictory:

"[W]e [do not] have access to the data of our customers, yet they are obligated to provide us with such information under investigations."

If your customers "are obligated to" provide you with the information, and they meet that obligation, then you have access to the data, because manifestly your customers have given it to you.

This makes it hard for me to see this as anything other than an attempt to obscure the truth (and not a particularly skillful one).

There's also this:

"Any claim that a name in the list is necessarily related to a Pegasus target or Pegasus potential target is erroneous and false." [Emphasis added.]

This is obviously intended to look like a denial, but it isn't. It could well be that all of the names on the list are targets in point of actual fact even if they are not necessarily targets.
> 150k+ starting salaries when the rest of the world never reaches that even for senior engineers.... right.

That's what happens when you work hard to build a world leading industry. I don't get why other countries whine instead of innovating themselves!
I mean, it's made in Germany. For the price, you could get _two_ VW e-ups (worst electric car name ever), also made in Germany, or a small herd of German-made e-bikes.
Modern medical ethics obviously forbids anyone from being intoxicated or working in a less than spotless surgical environment. The price of caprine xenotransplantation has gone up 4000% even after accounting for inflation though.
This “sample” link works:
https://www.bloomberg.com/newsletters/money-stuff/latest
Nope, nothing else. I have been heavily relying on yerba mate -- one sip or tiny cup works wonders during heavy tree planting sessions. This has always been my secret weapon, because, in contrast to coffee, it doesn't seem to cause a feeling of fluid loss.

Also, during tree planting, I only occasionally eat a few carrots or other vegetables to help me finish the day. After that, a well-deserved meal will follow.

Disclaimer, though: I have experimented with intermittent fasting for several years, so I suppose my body has already adapted to long periods of hunger. Be careful with this stuff, though, and don't listen to my silly advice.
The article is a little mis-titled. It asks the question about the Programming languages, but it goes into discussion development tools. This the correct framing of the problem, the language itself is very hard sell. It requires an an environment to flourish: libraries, build tools, etc.

I'm very excited about the variety of languages which are being actively developed right now. There are 2 major open source projects which are helping quite a bit for the new languages:
- Visual Studio Code (Eclipse used to be the choice in the past). Every language can get high quality IDE with a simple integration.
- clang & llvm - high quality back-end and common code generation tools.

The developer tools market is not going to be extremely big. In most mature companies the R&D costs are up to 15% of the revenue and the dev tools is fraction of that.
Because programming languages are a public good, and public goods are fundamentally incompatible with a profit motive. A “programming language startup” would be like an “anti-poverty startup” or “social justice startup” - either an edifice doomed to fail because of its inherent contradictions, or a front for lies and grifting.
To be more clear: the US grid with its existing generation capacity could certainly handle 41% of consumers switching to EVs. We would simply not ramp down as many power plants at night as we do now [1].

However, that would result in this additional marginal demand being satisfied mostly by fossil fuel plants: natural gas and coal, which currently ramp up and down on a daily basis. What is more likely to occur is that the new marginal demand caused by EVs will be satisfied by new capacity from solar and wind farms. Areas with good solar capacity (CA, FL, the southwest) will incentivize EVs to charge during the day, and areas with more consistent wind capacity (the midwest) will incentivize charging at night. Coal plants will increasingly close for economic reasons, while existing natural gas plants will continue to run at lower capacity factors.

Depending on how electricity and carbon markets are structured, and how the costs of different generation technologies and fuels change in the future, there's a good chance that the US grid of the future will look like how I described, and that people will pay less of their income on energy services, and that the air in cities and homes will be cleaner, and that people around the world will be less at risk from the effects of climate change.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/expanded-view/el...
I don't think parsing is the hard part of designing a compiler any more
the capital model for cost recovery and earnings is one thing, but in the modern times, the amount of money that flows through Intel Inc. is not the same thing. Intel played dirty for long years to crush competitors, not "make money" like they need it.. "Greed is good" - remember that ? so, no.. apologists count your quarterly dividends but you have no platform for social advocacy here IMO
As a counter point, there are meditative practices that use cannabis and/or DMT.
A prolonged conflict is only clear-cut if you’re pushing a narrative. https://youtu.be/4pfYeDAKiyA
It’s obvious that the majority of DNR and LNR military are locals. We can speculate all we want how they joined the forces, but it is what it is.
Honestly; i have a Model 3 with FSD - Despite charging issues; I'd rather road trip with it than my wifes (nicer) car because the AutoPilot is better the highway than what else is out there. An idiot crawling into the backseat with AP on is dangerous; but AP in general makes me feel much more comfortable on a highway trip; and comfortable == less chance of dozing off and not noticing the oncoming construction zone.
That's one site I'm iffy on enabling JavaScript for.. is there an alternative host for the release?
Drug dealers are not necessarily dumb, and can be quite creative when figuring out how to go about their criminal enterprising.

History is full of stigmatized industry leading change, especially porn. Porn legitimized VHS, the internet, streaming video on the internet, etc.
Indeed

https://columbiainsight.org/how-and-why-to-fix-the-u-s-canad...
They have a page on “Human Rights Policy”

https://www.nsogroup.com/governance/human-rights-policy/

Unbelievable: first tech company I see that has this… Creepy as hell.

If they state all those things, it makes me think they do not act accordingly.
Actually, in this case, the police didn't shoot. The guy died anyway.
Similar problems in the Bay Area where I am. San Francisco and Los Angeles are huge markets and leading indicators. Uber bet on the idea the self-driving taxis would be a thing and they didn't have to make many concessions to human drivers. Self-driving cars is not working out the way it looked a few years ago, so I am pessimistic about their business model.
> The Straits of Gibraltar has a strong net inflow current

Just a fun fact, I heard that during WWII most of the U-boats that made it through the Strait of Gibraltar never made it out. A combination of being sunk and not having powerful enough engines to make it back out.
Sign me up too, I've got a (very small) site that I would like to outlive me; my plan is to attempt to set it up with a large balance at NearlyFreeSpeach.net and also put the account identifier in an HTML comment so that motivated people could increase its balance in the future.

I would be very interested in other credible perpetual hosting plans.
> The economic definition could use an update, or at least some asterixis.

My goal is to provide some of the asterisks. The "market failure" theorems require the economic definition. One cannot presuppose the existence of the inefficiency in circumstances where the assumptions of the theorems are not satisfied.

Take medical research. Given the existence of patents and the crappy medical papers I am seeing everywhere, I am not convinced there is an underfunding problem. Education is very much excludable and to a great extent rival (especially if you consider the issue of finding the appropriate environment and teacher to learn from).

Of course, institutions matter ... That is not the issue here. The question is whether this crypto scheme exists to eliminate a well-defined inefficiency in a coherent way, or does it just boil down to a heap of presuppositions?
Nikola Motors is another obvious PoS that has had significant retracements up and down in share price for not any particularly sound fundamental reasons. I've been short it since the Hindenburg Research post came out and have made money, but it's been nail-biting at times.

I think buying puts is too expensive given that you've got to get the timing just right (and your upside is capped) and shorting Uber/Lyft is too fraught with "as the COVID recovery story changes good and bad, transportation companies are going to whipsaw some".

Bet with the macro trend, not against it.
Briton arrested over high profile Twitter account hacks
Change to “another crop” is like a farmer telling a software company built on Java to switch to a C++ stack because it’s just another language. There is crop specific knowledge that makes it not just planting something else.

It’s also not just the knowledge and technology capital involved, like many startups here, it’s connection to markets that matter to produce income. Ag wise it’s not clear what other, lower water-usage crop one would switch to, or how our system would encourage, or require, or incentivize that change.
The alternatives to Kubernetes are even more complex. Kubernetes takes a few weeks to learn. To learn alternatives, it takes years, and applications built on alternatives will be tied to one cloud.

See prior discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23463467

You'd have to learn AWS autoscaling group (proprietary to AWS), Elastic Load Balancer (proprietary to AWS) or HAProxy, Blue-green deployment, or phased rollout, Consul, Systemd, pingdom, Cloudwatch, etc. etc.
> Kashoggi's widows

Plural?
Hmm. Your use of poor guy makes me wonder if I should feel bad for him. I don't, because my gut reaction is that he lives off of the donations for a religion he doesn't appear to believe in himself, and presumably most of the people who pays his salary would want him gone. What are the spiritual implications of following and confessing to a nonobservant priest to catholics? Though I suppose after all the high ranking pedo stuff came out anyone who is still a catholic is kind of asking for it.
It won't happen due to the staggering energy requirements to lift water up and over the Rocky Mountains. For that level of energy expenditure, it would make more sense to desalinate water closer to those places.

What might make more sense is growing more warm climate fruits and vegetables in the Great Lakes with the abundant water supplies as the climate there gets warmer, and exporting those elsewhere.

This is already happening in portions of the southern UK which are now growing champagne grapes as the traditional locations in France are getting progressively drier.
The Dalai Lama was regurgitating The Buddha.

"Do not accept my words simply because I have said them; test them yourself, to see if they are true."
They do with PayPal at least.

Their emails even use language like "you need to top up your account".
And yet strategy ETFs still exist
Well in the case that we are discussing here, the police didn't shoot the guy.
It's definitely possible to do malpractice when you are it alone. I never had a teacher and I did get burned on misinterpretations. Though looking back, it doesn't seem to be a big deal, but it did cause me some suffering.

2 major mistakes for me was going too much in either direction (relaxation vs. force).

I had a phase where I wanted to relax too much, or just let it come or let it manifest, either by trying to chill so much as to become sleepy, or by just trying to see with the naked eye. In either case it was a thought loop trap.

And I had a phase were I was too obsessive and used a lot of force. Like I really wanted to concentrate too hard and that also screwed me up a bit.

In either of these cases I could make a statement that meditation screwed me up, but I persisted with it and I can say that after 4 years, the benefits were very well worth the effort.

Also a big mistake was skipping the instructions. I.e. instead of just counting the breath or following the breath, I jumped at the unassisted version. I think if I just sticked to the very simple instructions and tried less of inventing my own way or outsmarting what's in the book, I would not run into these issues.

Note that I'm talking about zazen too, while the article is about mindfulness, it's a bit different although I never tried mindfulness.
Eh. I think people over complicate k8s in their head. Create a bunch of docker files that let your code run, write a bunch of yaml files on how you want your containers to interact, get an endpoint: the end.
Yeah I have a lot of older books, but was specifically asking about modern novels and if texting/smartphones were written into the plots like all modern tv shows
I know people who work for local governments in the midwest and the big elephant in the room there is quite a lot of the roads, sewers, bridges, and other essential infrastructure that was built in the 60s and 70s is approaching the end of its useful life, and these governments don't have the tax income to maintain or improve any of it. Recent heavy rains this summer have inundated local sewer systems, the national weather service had to issue an alert for people to stay in their homes due to how much high water was appearing and trapping vehicles.
This is pretty cool! Pretty pretty, too.

I know this makes me sound kind of old, but this reminds me how much I miss GrooveShark. Their Ambient stream/channel (whatever they called it) was awesome. Spotify has vaguely similar function, but it is nowhere near the sophistication and convenience GrooveShark offered.
This is really nice. Now just add that when the amount is met, everything stops. Or maybe dropped into glacier to accrue charges.

I’d like this to work like a prepaid phone.
I'm on fiber, ~1Gbps
I'm perfectly OK with the "you can't run this code as a service" licenses, but when you get to restricting the spec about the wire format, I think other factors are at play.

Like, if Amazon wants to spend millions of dollars writing their own version of MongoDB that is drop-in compatible for existing MongoDB applications, that is great for customers. You, the customer, now have two choice -- options when things don't work out with one implementation. When you use license agreements to restrict that ability, I think it's a statement about the quality of your product -- you think Amazon can do it better than you, so you're going to use the legal system to prevent them from trying. As a database user, that is a signal for me to stay away. It means that when I'm having a scaling emergency there is only one way to fix it -- give most of my revenue to one company. That's scary.

Yes, Amazon did almost kill Elasticsearch. I sometimes wonder if the set of circumstances translates 1:1 to other companies. The products have similar names -- AWS has the Elastic Compute Cloud, and then there's this Elastic Search. That's not their product? Nope, just an unfortunate naming choice. And, Elasticsearch was particularly difficult to run at the time, so a hosted option was clearly valuable. And finally, Elasticsearch had a lot of company-killing problems: basically not doing what it said it did. https://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch At the time, Elasticsearch was losing acknowledged writes. That's a company killer if your only product is a database.
Very fair request! We are actually planning to support multiple "compilation targets" in future, including CloudFormation and CDK code generation. Just started with Terraform because it's the most widely used of all in the DevOps community and makes it easier to support cloud providers other than AWS, which is appealing to scale-ups and larger teams.
Problem is that in this particular issue the natural systems of the planet are straight up breaking down and soon could spiral so out of control as to be entirely beyond our ability to do anything about the issue. The longer we wait, the higher the odds it becomes "unfixable".
Vim (cross-platform) supports ability to restore from the "swap" file (by default, AFAIK, but that may very well be a special configuration decision by my distro).

If your system crashes or you lose power while editing foo.src, it will leave the swap file behind, which is eagerly written to disk while editing and only removed when the process shuts down gracefully. When you bring your system back up and try to edit foo.src again, you'll get a message "Swap file ".foo.src.swp" already exists!" and prompt you for whether you'd like to recover it or not. Any unsaved changes you made will be reconstructed from swap, rendering the file in the same state it was before.

Vim also supports a closely related concept "sessions", which you can force with ":mks" and restore with the "-S" flag. This will re-open whatever files you had open at the time, in the same layout, and more.

What would be interesting to see are "super swap files" that are passively created (like ordinary swap files, requiring no intervention) but do everything that session files do and more, like preserving movements, markers, undo history try, etc. -- essentially getting you back to exactly what you had at the time of the interruption.
First off, this article isn't actually answering the strawman question it looks like its asking. I think most people who don't work in the space would assume the question means "why aren't there people selling new languages/compilers?" That's a strawman question with a trivial answer, though--free compilers have been the de facto standard for decades [1], so if all you have is a new compiler or a new programming language, you're going to make only a pittance on it directly.

The actual question is why are there so few startups for people who work on PL technologies--which isn't limited to compilers or programming languages, but includes things like IDEs, debuggers, static analyzers [2]. For example, Coverity--a decently well-known paid static analyzer--is kind of the best model of what you'd expect to see more of here. So it is somewhat more interesting to ask why this tool space isn't particularly well-served as a market.

[1] The biggest exception to the rule is custom hardware (particularly embedded, but this also holds true for mainframe and HPC systems), where custom compilers come for the ride. But that would be a hardware startup, not a PL startup, so it doesn't really count.

[2] I tend to lump in decompilers into the formal methods/PL/compilers/software engineering/computer architecture spectrum, mainly being a low-level compiler developer myself, but I suspect most people would consider reverse engineering tools to be a security side of things rather than a PL side things. And decompilers are certainly another noticeable successful paid-software niche, with the very expensive IDA Pro still remaining more or less the industry standard.
This reads like both an intentional trolling and a "How Not to Do PR 101" guide. It's almost as if they've taken a page from the PR playbook of the type of morally bankrupt and corrupt governments they count as customers. Their official response from a few of days ago was equally laughable:

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/response-from-n...