skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is the slippery slope fallacy, claiming that everything is bad because something worse could be done later. Not allowing warrants is a slippery slope to permitting all murder by making evidence gathering illegal.
Detours: Software package for re-routing Win32 APIs underneath applications
> Only now their migration is greatly accelerated

Just curious, do you have data that backs up this claim?
> Wealthy beachfront owners will likely find a way to socialize their losses, either by getting taxpayers to fund coastal armoring or via direct bailouts. Alternatively there is the risk that property in those areas becomes uninsurable and by proxy unbankable.

This is not hard to predict because it has already happened for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Progr...

It is not just about wealth though, Florida is (or was) a swing state with a ton of votes for the president, and has only increased in political influence. Politically, it is going to near impossible to stop federal taxpayer funded bailouts for them.
Well, it could be true, but not necessarily in a right wing vs left wing sense. People with stupid amounts of money playing stupid political games, propping up people who have no business being in political leadership but are funded to be “our person in office” with some specific agenda but no real attention to the actual roles (buying authority but not desiring or able to actually manage). I don’t know, sounds a lot like USA in the Middle East.
Agreed, the article goes to the wrong place. The real cause is that most organizations (government, financial institutions, media conglomerates, etc.) are largely controlled by old rich white guys and they don't like people doing things. They are the ones pushing their "morality". We need more diverse and younger people in these positions to evolve our culture more quickly.
The author has a book "Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism"

Copy a comment here:

1.0 out of 5 stars Another pompous elitist advocating free speech for those they agree with

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2021

Looking for yet another elitist advocating for freedoms, but only those they agree with, then this is the book for you. The author complains vociferously about silicon valley enterprises restricting the speech of people and groups she politically agrees with while at the exact same time advocating for the removal of content she finds "offensive". The author also makes great noise (rightfully) attacking racial and religious bigotry while simultaneously coming across as extremely bigoted towards Jews and anyone with low melanin counts and politically right of Mao. If the author is the voice of freedom of expression and speech in the modern age then we are all doomed.

see: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2MXNOSHCZ1CW1/re...
Why is still the real narrative for this ban is still not around the children on that platform. I can't for the life of mine understand why everybody is pulling their own agenda while the real reason for that ban is dragged under the rag. Crazy...
Except the point isn’t to practice harder, but to learn harder.
I think C++ pointers being 64 bit will stick with us forever, unless some fundamental paradigm shift happens in what C++ is used for. I also think the size of short, int, long long, float and double will not change anymore, ever. The reasons we had for changes in the past will not happen anymore from now on, and the cost of changes only increases over time. We might see the sizes (and IEEE-754 floats) be officially standardized at some point, like twos complement is standardized now.
> 99.5% of programming

Pulling numbers out of thin air like this to support an argument is counterproductive. This should read “Most of programming”, unless there’s research that can corroborate the number.
We know exactly what lengths the bankers are willing to go to when securing a profit. The leadership environment literally selects for the sort of people who are willing to throw a family out of their home because the financial implications don't make sense. They aren't fuzzy, friendly "forgive the debt because of religious teachings" people.

There is no way there is a moral stand here, the idea is absurd. They're locking out sex work because some regulation is making it risky for them. Or maybe the charge-back issue. But probably regulation.
I think it has to do with active choice. The first programming language that people are introduced to are unlikely to be the "best" for them. The first programming languages are disproportionately java, c#, PHP these days. By extension the talented people mostly move on as they learn new and interesting ideas. This leaves the pool of developers poisoned by the mediocre or bad people who spend their entire careers being expert beginners in one domain. People come to the more exotic languages, like Haskell, as their second, third or fourth language. By default the average developer in that pool will just be much much stronger.

Just because the average developer in a language is bad it doesn't mean that the language itself is bad.
DARPA RFI - Design of Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect Vehicles [PDF]
Exactly. It’s a subjective topic. When I was younger I used to think in terms of “good code” and “bad code”. Nowadays it’s all about “zero code” and “some code”: the best code is the code that’s never written. I leave style issues, good practices, SOLID, etc. to the younger ones to discuss about it, it does not matter anymore.
This is literally what `M-x` does. You want to do the same for functions? `C-h f`. Variables? `C-h v`. Keybindings for the current mode? `C-h ?`.

If I'm not mistaken when you install vanilla Emacs the screen even includes a tutorial and guided tour that both tell you these commands.
NB: WD is doing this after being caught not doing this when they trashed the reputation of the WD Red line of drives.
>US military conducts unmanned airstrike against ISIS-K planner

Alleged ISIS-K planner. Unless I somehow missed the trial, I doubt the culpability was sufficiently established and proven to meet common legal standards.

Also that was pretty fast. Makes you wonder why they didn't stop him before the attack if he was that easy to locate.

To me this reeks just like a wanton revenge killing to satisfy US american bloodlust after Marines had died and in order to make Biden not look so much like the embarassing failure internally and on the world stage.
It has a map of earliest known case of each strain, which is not the same thing.
It really doesn't. Crypto solves anonymity, making it possible for operations to take payments in ways that can't be regulated based on content.

It doesn't solve trust. In fact existing solutions fall way, way, short of what consumers already have. A provider that accepts crypto is 100% unaccountable. You can't do a chargeback on Bitcoin. You get what you get once you make that payment.

Now, it's true that there is an ever growing stable of technologies trying repeatedly to solve the trust problem on top of a crypto base. And none have been remotely successful in any market. Almost all have significant drawbacks. Some have included absolute whoppers of security bugs.

You have to crack that second part before declaring that "crypto solves this". Until then, you aren't going to see any successful small payment markets on this stuff.
Show HN Useful JavaScript methods – Hackernoon article
Invest in Nafty coin, it’s the only fans of crypto
If that were true they wouldnt be investing in Facebook.
Every generation thinks things would be different if they had been in charge.
The source of the problem is the metrics and motivations are not aligned with keeping the population safe. It is more about self-serving the existence and growth of law enforcement.
Yeah, they conflate the software part of AI with the trained systems. They specifically mention introducing bias into open source code.
Ah, yes, the “Christian Taliban” that is beheading those that disagree with it in broad daylight and broadcasting those beheadings to the rest of the world. Here’s a tip: if you want to be persuasive, try using a little less hyperbole. There may be a point to be made here about the influence of organized religion on U.S. laws, but you’re alienating even those who would be willing to listen to your point by drawing such an absurd equivalence.
Common Lisp, Prolog, APL, Fortran, C, OCaml, Ada.
Are chargeback rates higher for porn businesses?

If so, that alone could be a reason to stop servicing them.
No, and I fast between 23-25 hours six days a week and occasionally have longer fasts. My longest fast was five days.

Broccoli always tastes the exact same.
This code is hilarious. He took the switch statement out of one function and then put it in another. The only difference is he didn’t show the new function he put it in.
I think this is a common type of hyperbole and 99.5% of people who read it will understand it isn’t intended to be taken literally.
I recently moved out of Barratt apartment that was built so poorly that I could smell the neighbor's smoke in the bathroom (which was in the middle of the place and had no windows).

Smoke also drifted in through windows.

Makes no difference if it's weed or tobacco.
That is the number one reason why I have tried languages like Lisp, Haskell or Smalltalk. Even Prolog.

You change your mindset in different ways in each of them. When you come back to your usual tool you expanded your thinking to what you could not conceive previously.
The donate button shows up only after gif export. It did not want to clutter the ui.
That is a nice story to tell yourself, but it is not actually what happened. Concorde was more about tying the UK into the European Economic Community and the future EU. The Aerospatiale/BAC partnership that developed the Concorde existed in parallel to Airbus and it was only much later that Airbus took over a lot of the operational maintenance of Concorde when it acquired Aerospatiale entirely in 2000.

Concorde was not an Airbus aircraft. Tech developed for Concorde was not the same fly-by-wire that ended up in the A300 line. The A300 line is very good, but would have (probably) existed without Concorde and the money pissed away on Concorde by Aerospatiale and BAC did nothing for either company other than weaken them and lead to BAC disappearing into BAE. (BAE, the weakened Aerospatiale and what was left of Messerschmidt previously had been pushed by their respective governments to join into Airbus.)

When BAC still existed as an independent company in the late 60s it lobbied the UK government to not support the A300 program and instead tried to push its own competing civilian airliner. Maybe if Concorde was not such a failure then Aerospatiale might have been able to continue on its own and BAC would not have been forced to be acquired by BAE and become a part of the Airbus group. In this imagined reality both would have continued as national aerospace champions in civilian planes in addition to their military work, but we will never know.
Not only is this riddled with spelling and grammar errors, but it's absurd.

Shakespeare's famous romantic scene does exactly the same thing: "it is the east, and Juliet is the sun." That's how he wrote.
Naval Gazing: The Enigma of Étienne Bottineau
> "The scary part is how easy open source is to use"

That sounds like a great advertisement for FLOSS, really.
EU agency advises against using search and browsing history for credit scores
I mean, ‘the Patriarchy’ is the old chestnut explanation for most societal ills. Any evidence that it was corrupt old white men? The banks are bowing to external pressure and I am not convinced those voices are the ones necessarily representative of ‘the Patriarchy.’
Hmm, very interesting. It seems the UK has a long way to go...

I definitely agree that there is a lot we could learn from some of our European neighbours.
> If an open-source algorithm is flawed, it is harder to undo the damage than if the software came from one proprietary—and accountable—company.

Both the companies implementing and using the system need to be responsible and accountable. Whether or not the software is open source. In their example of AI being used to prescribe sentencing, both the judicial district using the AI need to be responsible and accountable as well as the vendor selling, implementing, and operating the system.

The software being open source at least gives a chance for external eyes to evaluate a portion of the system (given that the data set might be private.) With proprietary software we have to rely on the honesty of companies and voluntary transparency or any whistle blowers which may come forward. In the example criminal sentencing example both the judicial district might be incompetent or biased and the vendor could be incompetent or greedy and not communicate system biases since it may hurt their brand or contract or growth.

It seems very clear to me that openness and transparency is key to combating bias or manipulation. And open source foists a minimum of openness into this.
You can download my bachelor's thesis here: https://dspace.cvut.cz/handle/10467/92780 (it's the "plny text" link)
Let me translate your cynic-speak:

___ begin translation ___

some (presumably christian) cultures consider it important to promote a societal standard of morality that encourages self-control as the basis for sustainably safeguarding individual liberty while being (increasingly more) tolerant of aberrant ways of self-expression.

As with every culture, its members defend their way of life and morals.

Put these cultures in control of technology platforms and you will see that they will attempt to strike the right balance between personal freedoms and public responsibility and even failing at that sometimes under pressure from various interests (commercial, the self-interest of spy agencies who want to make their job easier, post-modernist denial of christian cultural norms of morality and personal freedom, far left activism that seeks to dox, cancel, and censor all opposition)*.

___ end translation ___

*I'm pointing out some of the overtly anti-christian or worldview agnostic interests at play to highlight the highly oversimplified anti-traditionalist/anti-conservative/anti-christian slant of the parent comment.

Maybe just maybe we can have a nuanced conversation without all the finger pointing and scapegoating, and recognize that there's some legitimacy to each of these values that sometimes conflict with each other and figuring out the right balance is challenging.
> I'd also say we're not evolved for purely vegetable eating

how come I can get all my necessary nutrients from it so?

> This is one reason our brains expanded, because we gained access to richer foods like cooked meat with fat, which in turn supported more brain cognition.

This also is interesting, it's definitely possible that at this time humans didn't have access to enough vegetable, it was pretty cold 1-2 million years ago, people like inuits obviously don't eat much plant-based food. Fire was an important step (for creating warmth at least), for cooking see this https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/food-for-thought-... which puts things more in relief

In brief, you're putting 2 confounding factors together: brain size expansion and cooked meat. It's very likely that our environment challenges forced us to adapt and get more intelligent, but the causal effect you're saying is not true, just like any logical implication can't be reversed

It's also fun because you are also implying "you'll be more clever by eating meat than vegetables" which is also wrong nowadays, just because we can't compare a situation that happened 1 million years ago in a different context.
> Is that coming?

the fact that it's decentralized means you will not be told - and it's on yourself to buy in and be part of.
The posting of this article on HN is well timed to start a nice comfy little flamewar on a Saturday morning.

Have fun frens.
It’s funny how quickly people blame things on their personal bugbears without evidence.
Depends what kind of news you want, no?
What is in the NYT that you want/need?
Definitely SEO and low content spam.

Look at the tabs on the website, a page to Win $100, a blog that's low content meme spam written by third party authors. https://metameme.app/blog/

Ideally he should be cross posting these across reddit, insta, tiktok and whatever people use these days to drive traffic.
> The effect in question was discovered by a German two decades earlier

Oh hey, you're right. So Bose only invented the use of the effect for radio, not the Schottky diode itself. I stand corrected.

> ?????? We're not talking about pseudoscience here.

Mercury distillation is not pseudoscience; like glassblowing, it was an existing technology that was a basis for the vacuum-tube age. Of course, if you trace any technology back, you will find that its origins are mixed with pseudoscience; Semmelweis promoted handwashing because he was convinced disease was caused by cadaveric particles, Priestley invented water carbonation because he was convinced scurvy was a carbonated water deficiency, etc. Naturally enough, mercury distillation seems to have been invented by people who were convinced that drinking mercury was good for you. They were wrong about that, but their distillation technology still works.
I'm fairly certain it is permitted in California, but police offers do have the power to write a citation that acts as a summons for the suspect to appear in court.

No arrest, likely no jail time, just ~$20 in court costs plus whatever fine the judge imposes.
> even if they don't understand, really, what they're doing

...which includes full-time ML people. So I'm not sure there's a lot of difference.
Yeah this is just bad. It went from being readable to the point where you cannot tell which function is called and where. The original type key is fine.
Make what irrelevant, exactly?
The issue is that the banks all move in lock step, undermining the basic principle of the free market.

If one bank decides it doesn’t want to deal with porn, fine. But when all the banks decide that, that’s very very bad. The cumulative effect is a chilling of protected speech in a way that congress could never legally get away with.
How far away is MCOL from HCOL? Can you visit every weekend with your enhanced savings and reap both benefits?
The external pressure in the US is coming mostly from evangelical Christians, who literally worship the divine Father figure.
> A plant in the field can only take advantage of the extra co2 if there is adequate inputs but it does not do the plant harm if not.

Sure, but the nutritional issue with plants is generally with macronutrients the plant itself doesn't need, or at least not at the concentrations we'd prefer.

Furthermore your assertion is not true, like pretty much everything else that lives plants will absolutely gorge themselves as long as they don't otherwise have limits on their ability to do so, even if it harms them. It's very rare for organisms to have evolutionary limits on that as they'll either be constrained (either by the food source or by an external threat of some sort) or living under boom-and-bust cycles (whether naturally or because humans have removed the external threat, very common in game animals and rodents).
Existence: local population determined enough to throw off centuries of oppression by far more powerful neighbor that said neighbor gave it up as a bad job (except for a few northern counties…)

Current wealth: English-speaking, ridiculously tax-incentivized corporate portal to Germany’s economic area
Wouldn't you want a pl that makes that makes your 95% glue code easy to write, easy to code review, easy to debug in anger?

Stuff like "make this gql query, but with account spelled 'akkounte' b/c it's in language X, compute and add tax, then depending on the associated customer's SAAS, maybe stuff it into a REST call that has the account and tax as a CSV.

Or: convert this list of integers into f64, take the running average with a window of 5 entries (unless there's a holiday that week) then shove it into this C function that someone else wrote
At least with Bitcoin, it's costly to pay privately. I need to set up another wallet and then get funding into it in a way that isn't linked to my main wallet. That involves either giving cash to an exchange or sending the money through a tumbler. There's fees to pay the exchange or tumbler, fees paid to the miners for the transfer into the wallet, and then fees paid to the miners for the transfers out of the wallet (and another fee paid the miners for the tumbler since there's 2 legs to that transfer).
Chargebacks are more common in adult businesses and banks often eat some of this cost. This puts more onus on the banking customers to implement some protections and ID verification that may be seen as cumbersome to small businesses, startups, etc... There are banking and credit sites that provide tips and techniques to minimize charge-backs. Banks can also help businesses learn how to implement these measures, but admittedly there is still an operating cost to this. Here is a past thread talking about some aspects of these issues. [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21538460
"Open source math is throwing financial policymakers for a loop"
In a patch of Arizona, everyone knows Waymo, but few use it
Just to clear up some misconceptions:

> now 3rd largest in the world

It is large and ineffective but it is not the 3rd largest in the world if you look at the incarceration rate per 100k, which is a more reasonable metric. It is the 19th largest [1].

It bugs me somewhat how people often overlook that Brazil is the world's 6th most populous country. Most of Brazil's demographics, no matter what they refer to, will rank near the top when it comes to absolute numbers.

> hits indigenous and black south americans harder. I don't expect they'll have a rich corpus of indigenous literature either

66.7% of the Brazilian prison population are black (includes pardos / mixed race), while 32.3% are white. 54% of the Brazilian population are black, so the incarceration rate is disproportionate for the black population. That is, of course, very unfortunate. However, I don't think the indigenous are particularly affected - only 1390 indigenous Brazilians are in prison in the entire country [4].

A lot of people seem to assume that a significant proportion of the Brazilian population is indigenous. That is not the case. The number of indigenous Brazilians is very small, around 0.47% of the total population. [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

[2] https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2020/10/19/em-15-a...

[3] https://jornal.usp.br/radio-usp/dados-do-ibge-mostram-que-54...

[4] http://antigo.depen.gov.br/DEPEN/depen-publica-levantamento-...

[5] https://pib.socioambiental.org/pt/Quantos_s%C3%A3o%3F
“Weird sense of superiority” is a very succinct way of describing most of PG’s takes on programming.

I’m reminded of his argument about how “hackers” choose languages that let them type the fewest characters possible, an argument that seems empirically unfounded to me.
My comment from another thread : Dutch banks terminated accounts of Corona-critics / anti-vax'ers / conspiracy nuts ( you choose how to call them ).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28301199
They're not pearl clutching church goers enforcing their morality on everyone. They're concerned about real objective harm like revenge porn, videos of sexual assault, leaked videos, child porn, and so on.
>QLC is complete trash and should never be used outside of a WORM architecture in a larger pool.

Not everyone is a creator editing/rendering 4k videos. For the typical surfer/office worker/gamer QLC drives are fine because they rarely need to dump 50+GB of writes at a time. What you're suggesting is basically "ban all atom processors because they're criminally slow!"
Here’s an article about the languages YC’s top startups use

https://charliereese.ca/article/top-50-y-combinator-tech-sta...