skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we need to study war?

The "War" parts of Afghanistan and Iraq were a resounding victory for the USA. We basically won every fight.

Or do we need to study governance and nation building? The part that comes after a war? I can't help but think about the Philippine–American War / Insurrection (after the USA gained the Philippines from the Spanish in the late 1800s), and compare it against the Afghanistan mission.

In both cases, the USA wished to nation-build (the Philippines as a colony, but build it up nonetheless was a goal). It took many decades and the Philippines was given independence due to WW2 later on.

I think of heroic figures like Jose Rizal (author of many books in many dialects in the Philippines) who helped build the identity of the Philippines as a country. (Remember: there are 7000+ islands, and hundreds of languages/dialects, along with many subcultures. The idea of unifying them all under one banner must have been exhausting).

I see similarities and differences (most noticeably, the Spanish spread Catholicism across the nation ahead of time. Sharing a religion probably made the job easier. It was also the 1900s, so American-atrocities were more accepted back then compared to today's media heavy environment).

But we're talking about a nation that was basically undergoing a civil war in 1890s vs the Spanish. The USA took over a few years, and then the civil war continued into a Philippine-USA war/insurrection. The myriad of languages/cultures of the Philippines from island-to-island cannot be denied (much like how Afghanistan is a collection of tribes scattered throughout the region).

The Taliban similarly were waging a civil war / transforming the Afghanistan before the USA took it over in early 2000. The Taliban continued to fight, much as the Katipunan continued to fight / beat up Americans for years after the takeover.

There's even an element of Islamic rule in the Philippine history: the Moro (the Islamic islands) in the south were particularly difficult for the Americans to control after the Spanish-American War.

What went wrong? What went right? In both the Philippine Revolution as well as the Afghanistan one? If more people studied the Philippine-American history, could the Afghanistan occupation gone better?
For most use-cases I can't really see any reason not to go with Mullvad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28551960

https://mullvad.net
Disclaimer: I'm a Googler, but thankfully not dealing with any of this.

Well, it won't stop the police. But the accuracy is lower, increasing the number of people that match the geofence. That changes the cost-benefit of asking for such a warrant.
Even one (1) queer dude would do. I'd hop right on if I saw a professional fursuit photographer on there, for example.
I guess I see it mostly used without accompanying documentation
I envy you if you can guard your email address. I have a six digit name and initial of last name Gmail address and I get email for more Pedros with a last name starting with a V that I wanted to know existed. It's so broken... Last week I had to create a new email to sign up for Playstation Whatever because they won't let me "recover" the account someone on Brazil created with my email even though they can't have ever possible validated the email.
If you are bootstrapped, it is extremely tough especially in the early days to hire good talent in general. Hence the co-founder thing. But even if you are past initial stages but bootstrapped, it is tough to compete with VC money to pay big and attract really good candidates. That is the unfortunate reality.
This is what people due when generic types (parametric polymorphism) wouldn't be involved.

But if you need type parameters, then you wouldn't be able to do this.
I think they meant:

You’re Wrong About is an incredible podcast. Spot on about information density and humor. I love it
I very much agree with the assertion that our economy is getting less dynamic, in the sense that everywhere you go in the US it seems like everything, and i mean everything, is being steamrolled by bigger and bigger corps and morphed into a bland, dumbed down, mass appealing corporate monoculture, designed (probably by MBAs) exclusively with profits in mind and no actual interest in developing any sort of soul or true differentiation. Random example, walk into a hardware store (everywhere you go its either lowes, home depot, or maybe ace, cross country) and tell me if there's a real difference between any of the tool manufacturers. On the one hand, the convenience of cheap and fairly durable goods is great. On the other, it seems like everyone is afraid to stray too far from what works to really innovate or compete. Most cars look pretty similar. The same restaurants exist literally from coast to coast, everywhere you go the US is starting to look more and more generic.

Mostly it probably has to do with economies of scale, but at this point I'd rather spend an extra 10%+ on goods and services if it meant a return to true differentiation and a wider variety of consumer culture.
"In order to shave off a cycle from every instruction that modifies another one, the entire loop will be placed in the zero-page." Oh wow.
Guide to an Effective Code Review
Some common lines you hear from mainframers.

Deprecation is a new term in mainframe.

Don't fix what's not broken

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It's a common saying that mainframers don't try to learn new tech. Well that saying goes two ways, person saying has really tried to learning mainframe and work on it for a month. Actually there isn't much to learn other than couple of languages COBOL, REXX, JCL and SAS. Other than that it's just ISPF interfaces.

Mainframers actually have to learn tech once and then go on to learn business logics and business domain. Isnt that actually good when comparing to always learning new tech and writing migrating programs to support existing interface in new Lang but not too much about business you are working on.

On the other hand mainframers do spend on learning and upskilling but in mainframe itself. There are lots of IBM Usergroups like IDUG for instance which is related to Db2, being a DBA that's a very useful training programme for me.

COBOL codes are highly modularized to do one or couple of functions to my knowledge and there are definitely coding standards each shop maintains.

Having a bunch of nodeJs cloud functions i get an email from Google saying that I need to migrate my NodeJs or it will stop functioning and while trying to migrate i find couple of modules are not longer supported and I need recode. Here I am not adding any new features just trying to make it work as before with new library which I have to find, learn, test and analyse does it suit then recode. All this costs time which you don't have to do in mainframe. You can say why not run in a VM, then what's the point running in cloud.

Mainframe is not a legacy system. IBM introduces a new machine every 3-4 years and send their sales team to visit corps and run presentations :) . Currently IBM has changed their billing style, it's not flat or peak hour, it's custom. It's the smallest footprint in your data center.

What mainframe actually did is, job separation. So in a career a person will sort of become an expert in their line or software. He will know all the ins and outs. For example a RACF security person will not know about Db2 and how it functions only part he knows is what interfaces with RACF. Same with CICS, MQ.... From application/dev team they get to know business like in a requirement meeting when business talks devs will be mapping business with program modules they had to make a change.

In mainframe people get to specialize.
Which standards judge the backwardness, and what a good one?
Possibly more interesting (and a base for this work):

https://netdevconf.info/0x15/slides/25/ghOSt%20Talk%20(Netde...

"Fast & Flexible User-Space Delegation of Linux Scheduling"

from Google, July 2021
Any attempt to suppress "harmful misinformation" will be seen as partisan because, well, it pretty much is. There was a huge amount of utter bullshit pushed on social media about the 2016 election being stolen by fraud, including stuff that the author obviously could not possibly have worked as described or been used to steal the election, and a large proportion of the US population literally believed Russians had hacked the voting tallies. It obviously wasn't harmless either: someone radicalized by Facebook went and shot a Republican senator, and it was only through masses of luck and intrusive medical interventions that he survived. Yet the only thing the mainstream media showed an iota of concern for was the fact that anyone objected to this.

Hell, even in the run-up to the 2020 elections the press were pushing the narrative that it'd be impossible to know the results weren't hacked and the election was valid - right up until it became clear Trump had lost, at which point it became absolutely certain they were valid and the audit chains and processes so robust only a conspiracy nut would question them. The same kinda happened in reverse in 2016.
Wait till you learn that modern CPUs run billions of cycles per second. With multiple cores in parallel! And they can reach transfer rates of tens of gigabytes per second to RAM, or around a terabyte per second into L3.
You are ignoring what I wrote. Please re-read my comments because I already explicitly addressed this both times: it is not "privilege" when the psychologists literally consult their patients and work together on a solution.

It is helpful to frame it this way because someone who has no first hand experience, nor have they consulted with those who have, are claiming a solution. Think of privilege as a class of arrogance that comes from ignorance.
I got that, and I appreciated you articulating the argument.
Why would you “[…]” the first part of the sentence that explains exactly why it could have made sense?
Have we ever collectively put the car back into the bag? Is there a realistic version of the world where kids are using social media less(and not because they’ve gone on to adopt something worse).
IMDB management thought it was their brilliant editorial work that drew people to their site. Morons. It was the comments all along. Of course they also believed they could create gravity-free zones by sheer force of executive will (and maybe still do).
Manufacturing industry must limit internal data access to prevent sensitive
Oh, wonderful. iOS only. They can bugger right off. I'm not buying a fucking iPhone just to use their app.
>It really sounds like you need a better email client, or you just need to learn how to use the one you have better.

I have heard this sentiment a lot and tried a lot of email clients and personally I still don't enjoy using any email client for this task. A properly designed forum software is always going to be easier to use for its express purpose than a mail client.
Audit log streaming is now in public beta
https://netdevconf.info/0x15/session.html?ghOSt:-Fast-&-Flex...
I financed 250,000 of a mortgage last year, and my mortgage payment is about $1200 a month (including taxes and insurance)

Assuming taxes and insurance correspond with a % of home value, a 1 million mortgage would be about $4,800 a month.

Or about $4,000 a month if talking about a $1 million dollar house with 80% financed.
What about other stuff? I got a quote for electrical work that was only good for 14 days because of the volatile prices of copper wire and other components like panels and circuit breakers.
> One surprising side effect of having a .xyz domain is that the mere inclusion of .xyz inside of a text message will result in a silent delivery failure for many providers.

This is wild to me. Tested it out myself and I couldn't send an SMS with a spot.xyz link to/from Google Voice <-> T-Mobile. And no "failed delivery" notice either, just a silent failure. And yet I still get so many texts that are obviously spam or phishing attempts.
Maybe not only "data" but ""meta-data"" that is more important.
> yet he has never been taken to task and likely never will.

They are not comparable at all. Diagnostics is a life-or-death issue. Any "faking" employed there should automatically lead to a capital sentence for everyone involved. Look at how the Chinese dealt with the milk-powder adulteration scandal of 2008.
DOJ Seeks To Block Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Deal
You don't? I don't think activists only use TOR, I'd imagine they layer a VPN on as well, they're not mutually exclusive.
In France it isn't.

We have a strong class system, based on location and studies that is being eroded by the tech industry.

Talking about it, making fun of it, or openly acknowledging it is the norm.
> One surprising side effect of having a .xyz domain is that the mere inclusion of .xyz inside of a text message will result in a silent delivery failure for many providers.

Why are people afraid to use the real term for this?

It's called censorship.

Your provider is silently censoring your text messages. In peacetime. You can't expect it to improve when that's no longer the case.
"How a plan becomes policy"

http://web.mnstate.edu/alm/humor/ThePlan.htm

This poem is my favorite description of this pattern, because it focuses on the the bad communication that creates the problem. Regardless of the intent of the people involved, gradually filtering out important information at each level as people try to please their superior guarantees a GIGO mess for the that the people at the top. As the poem says, "this ... is how shit happens",

Adopting something like the airline industry's "no-blame" culture that focuses on getting accurate reports by explicitly not focusing on blame might help avoid the natural tendency to eventually fall into this pattern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000

Those were wild little toys; and people stretched them beyond all reason.
Facebook never should have started down this road. There's no winning endgame for them here.
> Companies are moving to the Slack, informal groups to the Discord. I've been using IRC for years and I still love it but with recent adoption of Slack it seems everyone wants to push all the communication there and I don't think it works. It's hard to search for stuff (usually it takes me 3-4 queries to find thing _I know_ is there) and then it's in lengthy conversational format that takes a bit of time to replay. You might lose window of opportunity to provide important info just because you aren't present at the moment and since Slack is perceived as a low impact tool, those conversations can happen in late evening hours.

Yeah, Slack is even worse than email for most uses. At least with email you have conversation threads that consolidate discussion on a topic that you can actually find later. My experience with Slack (and similar) that that everything gets fragmented immediately, to the degree that you can never put it back together again.

IMHO, Slack is only good for a few narrow cases (e.g. replacing long coordination email chains, organizing lunch).
"Harmful coordination by real accounts" appears to mean mass-reporting and brigading. The truth is, that because Facebook's moderation is so unreliable, with innocent comments frequently leading to bans, while actual death threats and incitement to violence are deemed "not in violation of our community standards", mass-reporting and brigading are among the only recourse real users have to get actual harmful content removed. They're not reliable, of course, and they can be used by all sides, but if Facebook is effective at this, we're looking at a situation where Facebook only does something when Zuckerberg is hauled in front of Congress over something. I'm glad I haven't been on Facebook for many years now, but opting out isn't a solution for everyone.
Man, where to start with all this? The fact that you can't possibly "approach" everyone on the planet? The reduction of all social interaction to an "approach" numbers game? The conflation of "successful approach" with "very close people"? The description of building meaningful relationships as "facing discomfort and hustling and selling"?

I can't unpack all that, but man - realtalk, it sounds like you're in a dark place. This is a horribly unhealthy attitude. Most people manage to get friends and partners without routinely upsetting strangers so badly that they become physically agressive. I wonder if it matters to you how they feel?

People generally enjoy social interaction for its own sake. "Putting in the work" doesn't mean playing a sick numbers game in the hope that by some pure fluke you get a positive interaction, leaving behind a trail of unhappy strangers. It means caring about other people - actually caring. In particular it means figuring out why strangers overwhelmingly dislike you.
XenForo is great!
For context, this is not a NYT columnist writing this article - it's Ellen Pao guest writing an opinion column.
In the common language used these days, "the algorithm" refers to the sorting/reranking companies like Facebook and now Twitter do to attempt to show you posts you're most likely to engage with. I think the vast majority of people reading that Glass has "no algorithm" will understand this.
I'd like to chime in here that it's very fucking frustrating that the best & most convenient free tools for virtualizing macOS aren't available on macOS, considering macOS has shipped with a damn hypervisor for years. Setting up a vanilla installation of arbitrary, older version of macOS for testing, or for maintaining build environments for long-support-life Mac software, should be one command, shipped with the dev tools. But no, instead it's "pay for a 3rd party solution" or "break the EULA and run it on Linux".

(yes, I'm aware of a bunch of fragile solutions involving VirtualBox, but they tend to be slowish, that's also supposed to be paid if you're using the extensions for commercial operation IIRC, and several versions of macOS/OSX remain a huge pain in the ass to set up on it regardless)
Choosing a VPN service is a serious decision (2019)
"It also focuses on websites in English, Swedish and Latin and tries to identify and ignore the rest (best-effort)."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28551183
The Conbee II (USB Stick)
Paperclip maximiser.
To be fair, those searches are pretty weird.
It's the same problem with finding developers to work for your early stage startup. Actual good sales people and marketers are in high demand everywhere. Finding one that will be committed enough as you is hard when they are fielding offers from established companies that are much easier to sell.
Past performance is not an indicator of future outcomes.

We are quite literally watching Japan disappear in front of our eyes.

The West is about to start contracting as well.

The only areas which are growing are India, Africa and South America.

The future can't be bright when you inesorably shrink day after day.
> You're implicitly assuming that a fraudster wants the account long term, which is rarely true.

Wait what?

Here my comment:

> Fraudster also doesn't have the same needs as most customers, they don't need to keep the same account...

How does I assume fraudster wants the account? I'm arguing the reverse, that they don't want it, thus give more credibility over anyone doing effort to get his account back. I don't understands that part, feel free to clarify it.

> And identity is a VERY complex area, and nothing like as simple as "plenty of ways to verify identities".

I was arguing that opening up customer service for theses instances won't be a huge risk if you keep a flag on the account as they fraudster don't need the account long term (as you seems to agree).

Doing others verification is to reduce that risk further, risk that I already consider minimal. No one said that it would be 100% effective, nothing is perfect, sure some will be able to bypass, but as I said, they don't need to.

> Particularly noting that fraud is often carried out by leveraging many partial opportunities: I use the (false/stolen) identity from over there to carry out of the fraud over here.

Yup, thus why getting more proof of the user identity will allow to confirm he is actually who he is claiming to be. Here in Canada we can do that at Canada Post office. It's not something Stripe ask for, thus if someone with a flagged account ask to get it back, doing a local verification will most probably be harder for him.
To a first approximation, they are called "consultants."

They will work hands on because they charge enough to make it economically viable.
What is a plan to reduce it, that hasn't already failed stupendously somewhere in the world?
I was referring to the general umbrella of "anything but unvaccinated, non-post-recovery".
Look at postwar history. It’s basically 1960 again. In a few years, these massive companies with huge workforces and are going to be too unwieldy.

Some of the big tech companies are sort of an open secret in this area. People make extravagant salaries for jobs that are perhaps less than extravagant in terms of value.

Multi-billion dollar companies are little command economies and fail in similar ways. They’ll grow into AT&T style behemoths and fail. I’d venture to guess that Amazon will be first - they hide lots of turds in growth and have massive capitalization requirements. Once that growth slows, boom.
True but renting doesn't work for me because:

1. My lifestyle is such that I only get an hour or two here and there to progress my projects. It takes probably 2h to go fetch a machine and unload it, so zero work would get done.

2. Around here rental machine availability is very inconsistent: it's quite likely that whatever machine you want is not available when you need it.

3. I've found that it's beneficial to have various attachments and accessories that most rental places don't carry such as a ditching bucket, pallet forks, brush mower.

4. I need to do snow removal in winter and although not necessary, heavy equipment comes in handy for that.

5. Other random things that arise when you own property: lift a fallen tree off your vehicle; unload palletized deliveries from semi truck, etc.

6. Typically the value of machines doesn't drop much, so if you have the cash available, buying machines with the expectation of selling them some time in the future means overall low TCO.

That said, I'd rent when I need a machine I would only use for one job.
Privacy – Addressless Shipping
If it tracks signal strength as well, then it's just one extra step to triangulation.
ah. So if I have all the information known for years from tobacco and I smoke and get into trouble, then I blame it on not having regulations?

Seriously? I was not taught like that at my home sorry. It is not the way it should.

You do something and, unless fooled or cheated, you are responsible for the consequences.
Okay. I still haven't heard of him.
I still don't understand how they get around the copyright issues. There are a bunch of lyric sites that put ads on them, always wondered how they are able to not break copyright rules
Audette is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)
How to Track a Mammoth (2021)
Urbit a solution?!? Hardly!

Urbit is a digital fiefdom made by a neo-fascist whom coded that arbitrary limits at the base of the protocol.

I cant get far enough away from that garbage.
My experience was much better than that definitely. A lot of amazing business people, some requesting me to join them, some responding to my requests (about 30-40% response rate I'd say). Some former successful founders looking for something new, too.
hanlon's razor applies here. Sure, it could be some sort of malicious trick to get people to click their ads, ...or it could be because the ad is slow to load.
I've been thinking of making something like this for many years. It's unfortunate how hostile Instagram is towards photographers, considering it's the main place people engage with photography. Will definitely be giving this a shot.
The ones that get caught, at least. I worry that availability bias makes it hard to know what "true" crime looks like, so we end up chasing the wrong things.