skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not hard to envision nation state level threats that could be mitigated by illegal assassination of a warlord, or stealing all of a drug cartel's money or so on.

This may be true in the abstract, I agree, but out there in the world, you don't have to stray too deeply into kook-dom to realize that, unsettlingly often, we're (the US) the guys responsible for the creation of the conditions in which warlords and drug cartels operate in the first place -- and almost as frequently, of the groups themselves. There are no drug cartels without a War On Drugs, and indeed, the CIA has been shown to be deeply involved in cartel activity itself. (See the Kiki Camarena story, Gary Webb's work, and the story of Sister Dianna Ortiz. All mainstream sources, no whackjobs. The recent-ish Camarena Netflix documentary "The Last Narc" is terrific.) So you could make a compelling case that if we didn't get our hands dirty in these areas at all, we wouldn't need a CIA or NSA to manage the inevitable consequences when the actors involve start behaving in ways we don't like. (I'm told they call this "blowback".) And indeed, this is exactly the point. It's a genius business. It's like the guys in Amsterdam who own both the cannabis coffee-shop and the kebab place next door to it. Revolving door operation. Prints money!

> That only works in the context of strict oversight and principled direction by an incorruptible chain of command and leadership by elected officials given privileged access.

Respectfully, this is impossible. Human beings cannot do this. No one is incorruptible, and there are too many people with an interest in meaningful oversight never existing, starting with these little mafias themselves. The real-world record bears this out: there is no meaningful oversight, from congress to FISA to your local cops using StingRays. They're just not going to tell you what they're doing. And if you bother them too much about it, well, let's just say don't get on any small aircraft. This is an open secret in DC. Look, even Chuck Schumer knows: "Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."

As I've said in other threads: if you ask a bunch of people to get world-class-good at lying, stealing, betraying, and murdering, and they then start doing those things to you, well, there's no one to blame but yourself.
The great generational shift within venture capital
I don't mind automatic updates, but I at least want to know when they're going to happen. There are two important pieces of information that are apparently impossible to obtain: "if I put my computer to sleep, will it wake up and update?" and "if I leave my computer on for the next <X> hours, will it reboot and update?"
How meaningful is location for brain analysis?

You can reliably predict which physical DRAM cells are used to store your lives in the original Super Mario Bros on NES hardware (and you can manipulate that value if you have a Game Genie).

But you'll have a rather difficult time doing the same for your health level in Minecraft on a Windows PC.

Is the brain more like an NES, where the software generally uses the same place for the same thing?

Or is the brain more like a modern PC, where the physical location of any value is pseudo-randomly set by complex interactions of different subsystems -- paging, processes, OS and programming language allocators, garbage collection, etc., and will change from machine to machine, or even run to run on the same machine?
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

TL;DR?
"...and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation;"
Having trouble finding sources but I was under the impression Samsung made the display for Huawei's phones.

Edit: Nevermind looks like it was made by BOE. https://pocketnow.com/the-new-huawei-mate-x2-will-not-use-sa...
I’m anti paying for entertainment. I’m sure you use YouTube with an Adblocker and think it’s your right.
As someone entirely unfamiliar with the tax options and strategies here, is there a good guide you would recommend around all this?
He might mean not safer for society since more pedestrians and kids are killed by SUVs.
> No one can.

Of course one can. People do it all the time. Look at medicine, for example. A doctor will write of personal experience with a few patients. But before making sweeping universal statements they'll talk with other doctors, form hypotheses, and gather data under controlled conditions.

Being shown different experiences is not unpleasant. What is unpleasant is having personal hypotheses stated as universal rules when they aren't.

> The way I see this - you are asking the author to write in a 'universal' style, that respects and acknowledges all view points without preferring one over another.

I am not. I am asking to show awareness of the limits of his knowledge. To leave room for the notion that differently situated people will have different experiences. And perhaps be willing to listen to those experiences in order to improve his understanding.

> merely give you an opportunity to correct me and my impression.

Gosh, how generous of you.
Can you please share the iptables rule?
I remember reading about a guy who got FreeBSD's "pf" working on an iPad. MacOS used to (still does?) ship with it. They could do it, they just don't want. They'd certainly never let you be the admin of it and block the gazillion telemetry requests they make back to themselves.
Throwaway marketing account?
I think I would just delete it.
Love Google Arts and Culture! I always wanted to work there, but seems it's a small team in Paris quite separated from most of Google based on researching on LinkedIn. I'm happy Google has it, and I wish they'd invest more in it.

On a side note if anyone wants to learn more about spices and try them, there's a cool startup I recently discovered for it [1] (not affiliated to me). It's been really cool to support local farmers and try new spices while knowing the backstory.

[1] https://www.burlapandbarrel.com/
Anti-subscription seems like an awfully limiting belief to live by. Why not support services you like and avoid those you don't?
I await your response, poster with -1 total karma points 10 minutes ago
The claims in the 4S study paper referenced by the first paper is not generalizable to the general populration. The studied patients were as follows:

- 75% smokers or ex-smokers

- already had AP or MI episodes

- 51% at least 60 yo

- 57% were on beta-blockers. (How do you know that the statins are not mainly protecting against some unknown side effects of beta-blockers.)

These patients are not healthy people. The observations do not constitute evidence that cholesterol itself is a risk factor. These days, a lot of doctors are pushing statins to people without any risk factor like age or high-blood pressure, simply because of high LDL-C.

As for the second paper about sdLDL, the mainstream dogma is laser-focused on LDL-C, not sdLDL.
Listen, I don't care if my fonts are 15% less viewable with my custom color scheme. I don't care if I'm manually impeding the accessibility of my system by refusing to use Flatpaks.

THIS is the issue, the issue with almost every paragraph of your comments that I've read.

Your assumption that everyone cares about this is false, there's no "misconceptions" here. The only misconception is the one that GNOME is the center of the Linux universe... which is tacitly untrue. GNOME is an extension of a modular system, one that was also designed to be built upon to create better experiences. GNOME once also shared that sentiment of modularity, and it worked perfectly fine for it: GTK2 and GTK3 both respectively inspired several desktops to exist purely based around their design languages, and worked pretty much flawlessly. If the GNOME team is scaling down their ambition and deciding to be less modular, then fine: let's put the tiger on the table and yell at it. You can publicly say that you're distributing with Flatpak because you're too lazy to debug a native version, I won't take any umbridge. I'll just compile the app myself and use it as normal, no skin off my back.

The ultimate Achilles heel of Flatpak is that it will inexorably always be a second-class package manager. You'll never install it without having another, feature-complete package manager operating alongside it. The UNIX philosophy is to do one thing and do it well: Flatpak tries doing a hundred things, and can't do a single one better than another, dedicated tool. There is no argument here. Flatpak is not, cannot, and will never be considered a real package manager. It's a second-class supplement at best, and abhorrent bloatware when it stops working properly.
Liquid Democracy, this is a thing! Lottocracy... I don't know, I kind of wanna have people administrating the country that I can trust (not politicians per se, but at least a job interview and some qualification would be good), not just some random guys.
Malware that has user-level access won't need to bother with addons. Adding user MITM certs strikes me as a far easier way to access browsing traffic.
Their phones were to be surrendered as part of an investigation. Wiping them is destroying records.

It’s different if you’re just returning a work phone, or preparing to sell or transfer a personal phone.

When members of a group do it more or less en masse, it implies that they have something to hide.
It sounds to me that you are arguing that consciousness fundementally doesn't exist; what we think of consciousness is an emergent property of fundementally determinable physical rules.

If this is the case why are you arguing on HN? Is it possible for you to leave the discussion? Is talking to you the same as dropping a ball and watching gravity pull it downwards?

I'm a little skeptical of your stochastic model of humanity as well. Statistical mechanics works because oxygen molecules don't go off and start religions and convince other oxygen molecules to behave radically differently for thousands of years (or at least we haven't ever seen it). In fact our stoachstic physical models, classical, semi-classical and quantum, kinda specifically preclude this. How would you design an equation to capture this real phenomenon in humans?
That's an idiotic interview question. I've experienced this at young companies where both the company and its engineers are too immature to understand basic etiquette in the industry. Btw I doubt Google would ask a stupid "gotcha" question like that. They tend to ask hard algorithmic questions.
All you really need to know is Nyquist's thereom

"A bandlimited continuous-time signal can be sampled and perfectly reconstructed from its samples if the waveform is sampled over twice as fast as it's highest frequency component."

This is where the magic 44.1 Khz sampling rate comes from. It is twice the limit of human hearing at 22 Khz.

Now I don't really understand why 16-bit or 1-bit makes a difference. Maybe someone can explain that to me.
Hey! I ported switchboard from Erlang to Elixir to get a better sense about how certain Elixir constructs translate to Erlang.

It's an IMAP client for Elixir which you might find useful in your project! I should really get around to creating a reference example for monitoring a single mailbox.

https://github.com/voughtdq/imap
I had that thought as I was writing this post. I have no idea.
Good choice. See also: Steve Reich
All you really need to know is Nyquist's thereom
"A bandlimited continuous-time signal can be sampled and perfectly reconstructed from its samples if the waveform is sampled over twice as fast as it's highest frequency component."

This is where the magic 44.1 Khz sampling rate comes from. It is twice the limit of human hearing at 22 Khz.

Now I don't really understand why 16-bit or 1-bit makes a difference. Maybe someone can explain that to me.
> First, without support from Apple and Google, any fight with a local regulator is lost before it starts.

More evidence of the problem
plaguing our current era. These two companies simple should not be authorities above all local regulators.
In case anyone is wondering, the answer is '' (empty string).
This level of responsive and attention to detail is a good example of why you will likely win in this space. Impressive.
Off topic, but is there a new site that replaced lambda-the-ultimate? It's such an amazing source of PL discussion... but mainly from 10 years ago.
Thanks for sharing!

For Apple Music users I've duplicated this playlist here:

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/lofi-beats/pl.u-Zm4Girz7...
Rites and aesthetics have existed independent of culture -- consider the Romans, who adopted, adapted, and incorporated others' rites but left the culture mostly unchanged. I don't know that the equivalence or dominance of religion-as-culture paradigm is conclusive.
Who benefits from such a decision?
Yes. Under the current laws, people can be used as tools for pay. Also, without intellectual property, people could be used as tools in the same way. But under the current laws, people can be used as tools to produce something that might prevent them from plying the same skills in the future, if their practices get captured as IP. I do not support laws that tip the balance of power further in favor of extracting value from labor, as this is already the way the power dynamic naturally goes and if we need laws to intervene, it is decidedly in the other direction
> Neither particularly cares about the success of the corporation.

Well written.

And sometimes, let's say for an online betting site, maybe that's a make sense mindset -- I mean, to not care.

Why think about the poker game company's future or the shareholders future profits -- why would they be and more important than oneself.

And maybe the existence of many companies is as meaningless as online poker games
Conteinerization (docker or docker-compose if needed) is a need to avoid complex setup
It’s a good balance. No compilation, but there are type checkers. Interpreted, but still pretty fast. Poor language design, but there are strict linters. Not pure functional but still takes inspiration from FP. In React land, declarative coding is the norm to the point where you can almost go too far with it. Straightforward to debug (no threading) and logging is straightforward.
Or they can let people side-load addons like every other desktop browser.
I am totally atheist, but I am against most abortion. You don’t have to be religious to be against abortion.

Be secular doesn’t make anybody free from judgement.
I would call that being cheap, with all due respect. There’s nothing wrong with a subscription pricing model if the value is there and there’s a relatively easy way to unsubscribe.
Shared database that you have to pay to write to, with a special unit of exchange that you get pro-bono if you help validate the writes. Yawn
Super-cool, thank you! How else could I so quickly learn which e.g. South Park episodes to watch?!
Nice to see other people out there with this life philosophy. Thought I was the only one.

Paying for entertainment always seemed "wrong" somehow. That includes paying for it with attention, like watching commercials or enduring sponsorships on YouTube.

Note that this isn't the same as saying I'm entitled to the output of professional entertainers for free.
I understand the frustration, but as someone having to debug browser bugs with JavaScript edge cases, minified (and in this case ultra-obfuscated) JS is hell on earth to untangle and I wish people wouldn't.
If it weren't for Napster and DC++, I would've bought a Minidisc player instead of an iPod.
I'm mystified why an interviewer would want to know "has this guy memorized that adding two empty arrays in javascript nets 'empty string'?"
Small note: Clicking 'Sign Up' routes to 'Sign In' modal requiring another click to sign up to update the form component. Small detail, but worth commenting on. Flow is broken.
You were burning data CDs in '84? That is impressive. How did you read it? I mean, I think the first general availability for data CD readers was in the NeXT computers in the '89 or so?
For someone to reverse your code, all they need to do is run it through this.

https://enkhee-osiris.github.io/Decoder-JSFuck/
OOI how do you reconcile not paying for entertainment while also wanting to supporting professional entertainers?
Ask HN: I am being pushed out. How do I handle?
I am an individual contributor in 40's. Have always been a top performer. A few months ago, I sensed that I am being pushed out. But I pretended that, I am unaware of it, since I wanted to focus my career. Now, this has started to impact my performance rating. I was under the impression, I was being targeted. Recently I realised that, its happening with a lot of other senior people too. Looks like they no longer value the senior people. This has really upset me, since I was very loyal to the team. I am not able to focus on anything.

I am thinking about the possible options. One option is to continue, (by doing the minimum required) till they lay me off. But I dont know if they can also resort to the informal layoff, by asking me to look for a job. The advantage in this option is that, this gives me the time to explore building something on my own. But it will definitely hurt my self respect. The other option is to start applying outside right away. But I have a lot of concerns. I know the market is hot for 2-10 years profile. Not sure about the senior level jobs. Even if I get selected for interviews, rejection will further demotivate me. I havent given interviews for a long time. I am very good at design, latest technologies etc. But I hate leetcode kind of interviews. The other problem is that, in a new company/job, I wont be able to focus on other things since the expectation will be high. I need to prove again. And eventually one will have the same problem no matter which company. One good thing in this option is that, I can prove a point.

Have you been in this situation?. How do we go about handling it?. Till now, I havent discussed it with my manager. Because, I fear, he might openly tell the truth. I would appreciate, if you someone could help me.
I read a lot of comments there, basically the devs back then did not know it, but they hoped for Docker and it's applications, for Rust, some for Node =)
I got my first CD player at about the same time. The thing was that the early adopters were willing to spend a lot on cds, and people who already had big vinyl collections spent less. When it got to be like ten percent of the market was spending fifty percent of the money, record shops all switched over.
Internet 2 backbone campuses with DC++ were an amazing mix.
> his Tesla often tried to run him into the same barrier.

In a way, consistency here is good. If it only sometimes tries to crash itself, it's harder to fix and it may indicate a bigger recognition problem.

Of course, that doesn't mean the product is any good, or that selling it is reasonable.
Yes, please. I added a vote on AUR as well.
If no messaging is better, then they should do that. If there is a certain form of messaging that is better, then they should do that.
The right type of answer for that is to laugh and say, "you should ask the fool who wrote that code instead of asking me."
> I think at the point where you agree that IP isn't fulfilling its purpose

I think it very obviously is fulfilling its purpose generally speaking. I think this is evident in that fact that consumers have access to an extraordinary variety of technology, and content. The fact is that the prices for access to this are continually falling, the quality of products and services is continually improving, and these factors are continuously improving quality of life across all sectors of society.

The success of this system, and the benefits it provides to everybody is perfectly evident everywhere around us. You can find instances of this system failing, and identify some patterns in those failures, along with particular components of the regulatory framework that are likely responsible for more bad outcomes than good ones. But the system itself has proved its value many times over.

Edit: I also think the extent to which hoarding content collections has fallen out of favor with consumers is rather compelling evidence that the on-demand model is more popular. But that’s a little besides the point.
How can this statement:

“Note that this isn't the same as saying I'm entitled to the output of professional entertainers for free.”

Logically coexist with this:

“Paying for entertainment always seemed "wrong" somehow. That includes paying for it with attention, like watching commercials or enduring sponsorships on YouTube.”

I’m being serious. Stuff costs money to make, seems logical that somehow compensation can be acquired for creative work somehow.
You can backup your iPhone to a local computer and even encrypt it without using iCloud. It's certainly an option. No one chooses it because iCloud is easier.
What do you mean illegally? I think a judge signed off on the order. I'm not a lawyer so I'm not completely certain it's legal, but if judges are signing off on orders, I think we need some concrete reason if we want to conclude it's being done illegally.
But these constant court disputes mean that it moves some technologies outside of the realm of regular people. If Apple gets a patent for "Display with Pixel Dimming for Curved Edges" then regular people and smaller companies can't use that even if Apple's patent is nonsense. You can only afford to fight off so many lawsuits and still continue doing your original work.
This is honestly quite disappointing compared to prior art. https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::EyeDrops
As far as catapults go, or really the whole premise, I don't think it was ever considered in a serious way, except to propagate through various papers and books because it sounds clever. It's a bad meme.
It's super awesome. Just wondering if it can simultaneously use play-command to play sample and in the same time render the next to eliminate pauses? Also wondering if it can work through spd-say (speech dispatcher). I will probably be able to figure out both just checking in case if there are ready solutions.
You can also use "git difftool <commit>...<commit>" (with 3 dots).

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff#Documentation/git-diff.txt...
> Given that all human behavior can (very likely) be reduced to mathematical equations too

I can reduce all the music in the history of the world to the phrase "rhythm, melodies and lyrics". So? That'd say nothing about all that music, it'd just say something unflattering about me.

> It is not the greatest of modern scientists who feel most sure that the object, stripped of its qualitative properties and reduced to mere quantity, is wholly real. Little scientists, and little unscientific followers of science, may think so. The great minds know very well that the object, so treated, is an artificial abstraction, that something of its reality has been lost.

-- C.S. Lewis
Norway to end coronavirus-related restrictions on Saturday
A proper credit wouldn't hurt though.
Link to the referenced YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3CBOpT2-NRvoc2ecFMDCsA
I bet you feel Rick Rolled. I have NoScript! I'm glad you didn't write something like

location="http://y2u.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
It is separate and definitely not the default