skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s amazing that the same two links always get repeated as if they diminish an impressive career as a journalist and editor. Greenwald has done important work, but his slander against Weiss is not one of them. David French was involved at the time of the events as the head of FIRE, here’s his recounting

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/the-sliming-of-bari-w...

French:

> In fact, if you read Bari’s own writing at the time, you won’t find a call to terminate professors. Instead, you’ll find a critique of a department that she had good reason to believe had lost its way. That’s free speech. That’s an exercise of her own academic freedom. It’s not a shout-down. It’s not a threat. It’s a debate.

Regardless, it’s sad that our culture today makes it so normal to attack a 37-year-old with a strong record of free speech advocacy during her actual career over something she’s accused of doing while in college. Accusations of hypocrisy require a statue of limitations.
I'm no Java developer, but JetBrains Java and PHP editors look very similar in functionality. And VS works fine with PHP.
It is hilarious, because Android phones already exist with under screen cameras. You'd think a company that is supposedly as spectacular as Apple claims to be would be on top of this tech.
While the US system is completely ossified and unresponsive to popular demands, proposals to make voting on everything both ignore the power dynamics at play, voter fatigue, and history.

In the 1789 French revolution, they did try having votes to try to get more and more government officials elected after the overthrow of the ancien regime, but the votes were so frequent that people stopped showing up and the elections became barely legitimate.

Other than that, software elections are prime for tampering, and even if they are determined to be secure by experts, suddenly the mechanisms of democracy are opaque to the masses and become untrustworthy. Making votes less understandable de-legitimizes them.

Lastly, the reason for the ossification of American democracy is due to the fundamental oligarchical design of the 1787 constitution that explicitly saw mass politics as mob rule and feared it. They designed the branches of government as a series of baffles to counter popular sway over policy making, hence a Presidency that requires a vote so large they are responsible to no one in particular (though originally they were elected indirectly by electors), a Senate that was indirectly elected and designed to void popular proposals coming from the house, and a supreme court with lifetime terms that are totally unelected. As an aside, their theory of the separation of powers was that the elites would be mostly in agreement on fundamental issues and fight over control of the branches of government. They were in large part wrong, factions of opposing interests developed and managed to capture the entire government in cycles (so we are living in an edge failure case of the original design).

This system, plus the domination of the economy by wealthy interests, first the slave owning planter class and later the capitalist corporate class, prevents and subverts popular democracy at every turn except where the public's preferences coincide with the real rulers.

Voting is simply a preference expressed to the rulers. It doesn't in any way carry a mechanism for enforcement and enactment and is highly susceptible to all kinds of manipulation, especially when voters are individualized and do not deliberate in organizations and vote in blocks.

If you want your voice heard, take to the streets and/or join an independent party that include non-electoral tactics such as strikes.
Refactoring is always underappreciated.
>Needless to say, this entire post is predicated on good blockchain scaling technology (eg. sharding) being available. Of course, if blockchains cannot scale, none of this can happen. But so far, development of this technology is proceeding quickly, and there's no reason to believe that it can't happen.

The reason to believe it can't happen is that it hasn't. like factoring large numbers.
>* The rest is not even wrong.

Would you explain this part of your comment?

I write this as a mathematician (math PhD, publications, yadda yadda), and what I wrote above is my attempt to translate Vladimir Arnold's article[1] into laymen terms (my non-math friends found that article inaccessible).

Vladimir Arnold is the mathematician (immense contributions to the field that spawned entire branches of math).

All the statements concerning math concepts (numbers, card rules, etc) above are correct - and easily falsifiable; so "not even wrong" hardly applies there (unless you meant it to say that it's not wrong, which has a different meaning).

[1] https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.TP/~munsteg/arnold.html
Cost: if you have to ask, it's too expensive??
It is already a lot more like Reddit than it used to be just a few years ago. For example, the comments on some submissions are full of stupid jokes now, gradually drowning out actually interesting discussion. IMO HN was better when it was dry, boring, and insightful. It is less and less of that every year.

Example from this very submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962122

I'm sure there are more people who want to see these content-free comments than not. That's exactly why Reddit is full of them, and why HN was special.
Then the correct statement would be "half the country would've voted for this guy, based on the number of people who did vote".
They are not the first and not the last idiots from Harvard. There is also Martin Kulldorff and few others.
Maybe the best bet is a hardened virtual machine. No one knows what the future holds centuries forward, but if humanity survives, I'm sure they will know how to emulate ancient hardware, or convert it to other type of containment.

Half a millennium is eons in computing, it has to have stewardship of some sort if it's going to last that long. AIs could become capable of this task in the near future, who knows?
Why did the police point a gun at your head?
> we have trouble building salt resistant concrete docks that last ~100 years

Because of failures in technology/ability, or lack of incentive/motivation? It isn't obvious to me that anyone cares to build long-lasting structures..
Personal page? Encode it on blockchain.
I'd say what's interesting is that the people who don't do that are probably overrepresented within the Linux community. The average tenure of devs there is in excess of the average tenture of most tech employees of today. It might be more meaningful to measure continuity as provided by organizations (i.e. communities vs. corporations, for example) as they address turnover, but I'm not so sure. Frankly tech churn seems to be about equal on both sides. Other systems have revamped their audio stacks on occasion as well. It's the economics/business models that favor certain kinds of finish, especially backwards compatibility.

I'd further submit the Linux story there has improved over time. For example PulseAudio didn't attempt to provide much of an upgrade path to apps using aRts and ESD (its predecessors), but PipeWire provides continuity for apps written against ALSA, PulseAudio and JACK. And as PulseAudio and JACK were difficult to run side-by-side at times, it actually reduces fragmentation as well. By aligning audio and video device access within one system it also generalizes system behavior.
The argument you are arguing with is predicated now on what free-speech is it isn’t but on situating one side as the victim of free speech crimes. It is a typical fascist argument that is characteristic of pretty much every version of fascist ideology that has come into existence
> inflation makes the process of economic planning extremely difficult.

It doesn't, though.

> If you are a business, you need to make long term production plans, and when you have no idea what the costs will be, that severly disrupts the production process

Sure, but that's the effect or unpredictable price changes, not inflation. USD is inflationary, Bitcoin is deflationary, but future (short or long term) prices of other goods and services in USD have a lot less uncertainty than those in Bitcoin. Inflation is not at all the same thing as difficulty projecting future prices.
Hiring thousands of developers is a success metric now.
I've often heard the claim that these limitations are the reason why some older record sound better than CD. During the loudness wars CDs were so aggressively limited, all while the bass content was driven up, that these would make a needle jump out of the track. A vinyl master requires more subtle preparation, controlled bass and stereo image, less dynamic compression.
> Welcome to the world of digital archiving. It's an enormously complicated space, and even for just my own personal projects and content, I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to ensure things are future proof and can be archived easily.

For web content, in my eyes it's a pretty cut and dry example - if the authors of any piece of content don't want it to be archived and aren't forthcoming in making this archival a viable pursuit, then the content simply should not be archived. Alternatively, just get a static PDF of it for future reference instead of fighting an uphill battle against webpages and even software that's user hostile.

For your own content, however, i think that you're on the right track. Use simple file formats, have tested backups and ideally rely on stable, boring software that's also slow to evolve and change.
Jellyfin is a completely open source and community driven fork of Emby, which was a rebrand of "Media Browser" way back in the day.

Plex is just creepy, doing things like requiring you to sign up and log in through their web portal instead of using the local plex server. Even before the [onslaught of money put into it recently](https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/14/plex-raises-50m-growth-rou...) Plex did weird things requiring you to ping their servers. I imagine this is going to increase tenfold over the next few years. Gotta hit those KPI's after all.

Overall, Jellyfin does not have the shine that Plex has. As a user of Jellyfin since day 1, it is getting better and better every day. At this point, the only platform that doesnt have a Jellyfin app that I really wish it did was PlayStation.
I still don't get why Firefox doesn't support MHT(ML)(=EML), while Thunderbird does, considering how that's pretty much the best digital document format we have...
The "wooden" vinyl surfaces are just great. They have almost all the upsides of wood and ceramic at the same time.
The act of conversationally beating around the bush need not have a negative connotation, however.
Let me refine that then. The sticker needs the same guarantees the windows and macos ones do if it wants to be on the box.

Not just some kind of pandering for market share to get linux users to buy it.
And if fake shutters are the thing that you're getting angry about, you aren't paying attention.
Fastmail Down Again
My partner bought me a tie for her sons wedding a couple of weeks ago. It must be at least 10 years since I wore one and I genuinely could not work out why we had to.

In the 90s you needed one to get into a nightclub, never mind the day job. They've completely disappeared since thank God.

As it was I forgot to bring it to the wedding so didn't wear it anyway. Next time will probably be at my funeral, when i'm dead in a casket and won't have a choice.
Everyone making fun of this guy is correct.

I live in a neighborhood where all the (stucco) houses were built in the 50s. They almost all have fake shutters, and the ones that don't, look stupid.

Now, McMansion "pillars" -- those do make me crazy (irony intended).
First of all, this is an old article (also discussed at time of publication, I believe). Second of all, it seems to be a headline-grab during the "fake election" foment of earlier this year, and contains nothing particularly substantial.

I will say, it's a bit funny that Buterin's thesis is "voting would become much more efficient, allowing us to do it much more often." This is just printed as apriori true (and good -- at least in a societal sense), but our democracy (at least in the States) is representative. In my heart of hearts, I'd love to believe that a direct democracy is the "best" form of government -- tangentially, this is the argument of most DAOs. Unfortunately, I just don't think this is true. Most people are dumb, easily manipulated (not coerced, as Buterin belabors). Dumb people voting all the time is a recipe for disaster.

W. E. B. Du Bois makes a great case for this in his The Talented Tenth[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talented_Tenth
Thank you. Our goal is to empower everyone to design. And localization is one aspect that could help us achieve that.
It might be considered unkind to make fun of the dead and dying but arguably such examples are made after the persons own stupidity killed them and the point of the example isn't merely to glory in their death but prevent others from joining them in the grave.

Anyone who can't tell the difference between look at suzy she's made sarcastic comments about vaccines every day up until the day she died of covid don't be like suzy and keep your powder dry pretty soon we shall all get together and murder the libtards isn't looking very hard.

One encourages death and violence the other mocks the harm that has already come about and will continue to come about. The former is against most civil discussion forums rules and the latter is allowed many places. Before they decry uneven enforcement they might do well to understand the rules.
“Ornament is Crime”

—Modernism’s rallying cry, beginning with Adolf Loos in 1910.

Are we still doing this debate a century later? I think for the most part, not. It’s fine to like ornament. It’s fine to prefer form that follows function.

But getting angry about ornament? This can’t be good for anybody’s blood pressure.
I tried https://github.com/alexmerkel/archivetube but it was not a great experience.

I felt that keeping it in Jellyfin and grabbing metadata using https://github.com/ankenyr/jellyfin-youtube-metadata-plugin was nicer. Plus way more client support than just a web browser.
NES cartridge
Not really. I have a gesture programmed in Nova Launcher to disable biometrics with a pinch. The system allows you to do many more things than iOS, just not put of the box.
I did something similar in the early nineties by using the venerable AM7910, an old modem chip often used in vintage computer and Ham Radio gear, to make an interface to store and retrieve data on tape from my Amiga 500.
I used a normal cassette deck for storing, but the chip was really slow at 1200 bps, even for an old system like AmigaOS, and per data sheet it didn't offer higher speeds, however I tried anyway to change its clock frequency by testing a few Xtals in place of its 2.4576 MHz standard one, and eventually settled to an old PAL color TV Xtal (4.433619 MHz) that would nearly double the speed without introducing errors. Good old times...
The Irisih? You'd find many that would oppose the integration of their culture into American culture at the time. Let alone German culture.

Make no mistake, the USA at the outset was meant to be an Anglo nation, not a melting pot.
The whole setup of blockchain voting ignores the vast economic pressures at play here. Blockchains only work if the payoff for cheating the system is lower than the cost of PoS or PoW or whatever consensus mechanism is at play.

The issue is that the results of major elections have truly massive economic consequences.

A president of the US has a powerful say over trillions of dollars in funding.

Meanwhile, total mining revenue for something like Bitcoin is "only" $18 billion per year.
You can release your changes under a proprietary license, then relicense as GPL when you receive money. If you don't release it into general availability, you can simply revoke it.
The video at the end is pretty good, although the article spoils it a bit :D

I will say this is only one of many dozen things that are very fake and chintzy about most architecture, and once you start to see them you can't unsee them. The truth is that people like cheap, tacky stuff, and "knowing better" just makes one miserable, so I would say if you want to be happy then don't learn about architecture. Even more so, don't learn about urbanism and urban design -- just so painful.

(Caveat, this is mostly only true in places built after 1950 or so. Older places are often delightful for the architecture / urbanism inclined.)
Once you do manage to tag @JohnSmith, he will get a notification that he has been tagged in the thread. One notification per thread, regardless of the number of individual posts he was tagged in.

The link on the notification will take him to the top of the thread.

Depending on the thread's popularity, John could have a very difficult time finding the posts he's tagged in.
Yep just watch the videos through the [Jellyfin Roku app](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku)
> jungle-savvanah-desert "exotic foreign wilderness" conflation

What?
> These are very unsubstantiated claims. X11 works perfectly. Wayland on the other hand is not a viable solution at all at this point. You can't even take screenshots.

You either haven't used Wayland, or haven't used it lately. You can take screenshots just fine. I used to do it regularly with KDE's Spectacle, and now I use Flameshot.

Screen sharing also works.

> Maybe in words only. The Actual Wayland version of KDE has major bugs and people doing serious work always switch back to the X11 session where it works flawlessly. Besides that I don't think KDE is any good either.

I use Plasma with Wayland to do my work and it's been a breeze, no pun intended.
I've been considering making "real" shutters for my house (mostly for fun), but haven't yet thought of a way to do it that wouldn't be a fire hazard when they're closed.
How did you found these opportunities? Some network of friends? Or regular stackoverflow jobs or another portal?
Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo [YouTube]
I think the Tom Scott video on electronic voting from years ago remains the most convincing argument to me that it's a bad idea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs). To summarize, even assuming you can solve properties like correctness, censorship resistance, privacy and coercion resistance. The fundamental problem with digital is that any exploit of any of these properties you ever have scales really well. Messing with a paper election requires a lot of people working together across the entire country. A digital hack just requires one smart person
This. Everything above. I was offered plea for immediate release on my very first court date. Turned it down. Spent 8 years locked up fighting it. It's complicated, but it actually got dismissed after 5 years but as I was walking out of the jail I got arrested again by some out-of-jurisdiction police on a fake arrest warrant that the prosecutors created and had entered into the Sheriff's computer system. So back to jail for another 3 years to fight again. Trying telling anyone the arrest warrant was fake! LOL. I wrote letters all over the place to try and get some action on that. I had the state government come one time to the jail with the sheriff's record people.. "The computer says you were arrested, so you were arrested." "OK, who does it say arrested me?" "It says the prosecutor arrested you." "Have you ever heard of a prosecutor making an arrest before?" "No, but the computer says it so it has to be true." FML. Basically no-one would accept that it is possible for a fake warrant to be made. I EVEN HAVE THE COURT ROOM TRANSCRIPTS WHERE THE JUDGE SAYS THERE IS NO ARREST WARRANT.. and still no-one would believe me. The system is fucked. If I had $250,000 for some real lawyers I would be fine.
i think you're focusing too much on how many programmers will be needed in the future without considering what kind of pay they'll be able to get.
Source on this? I thought they were American made but the manufacturer feared for their life so they never publicly said who made them
Men’s neckties began as bibs. Then ornamentation took over, until they lost their original function. Much like a bird of paradise evolving long tail feathers that attract mates, but no longer keep it warm or help it fly.
When it comes to agency work, with a lot of small to medium sites or API:s (in the $10k-$200k range) PHP is very convenient and there are a lot of choices when it comes to hosting and deployment. Dedicated WordPress hosts, Laravel Forge and Vapor, small hosting and VPS providers as well as AWS Lambda, AWS ElasticBeanstalk and AWS ECS to mention a few.
id abandon the entire name spzce.
Hot Demand for Bitcoin ETF as ‘Wild West’ Meets Wall St
> Very soon after we came back to Russia, more than half of our crew died. I survived because I was very young.

This is misquoted, mistranslated or just plain made up.

It is attributed to "Calzatti", one of camermen. There are two Calzatti (Кольцатый in Russian) - father (Arkadi), born in 1905, and son (Alexander). IMDB lists the latter as a cameraman, but Russian wikipedia page on file list the father as one. Film credits have it at "A. Кольцатый", which can be either. The film is not listed in filmography of the father, so most likely it was indeed the son who was the cameraman.

Then things get muddy. They both appear to have immigrated to the US shortly after and adopted Calzetti as the last name. Then, [1] talks about "Italian camera operator Alexander Calzetti" being the part of the film's great recipe. But a 2004 documentary on creation of Soy Cuba credits Aleksandr Kaltsatyj as himself.

So that's a mess in itself.

Then there's also an interview with the principal cameraman [2] where he speaks about his work, explaining in detail how the shot was made, and he doesn't mention Calzetti even once and repeating that most of the shooting was done by the director and himself.

To top it off the only mention of the mysterious crew plague is that sentence in the GP's acsmag article, derived from a brief interview given to that magazine by Calzetti.

Long story short, I think it's safe to assume that nothing horrible actually happened to the crew upon their return home.

1. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-12-08-951208...

2. http://screenstage.ru/?p=13380
> This is just harrassment [sic] against a right-wing media site

Is Tesla a right-wing media site too? Vizio? Or did you just construct a narrative without knowing history?

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/30/calling-all-tesla...
There's a strong possibility that Signal is already breaking Cellebrite https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

>For example, by including a specially formatted but otherwise innocuous file in an app on a device that is then scanned by Cellebrite, it’s possible to execute code that modifies not just the Cellebrite report being created in that scan, but also all previous and future generated Cellebrite reports from all previously scanned devices and all future scanned devices in any arbitrary way (inserting or removing text, email, photos, contacts, files, or any other data), with no detectable timestamp changes or checksum failures. This could even be done at random, and would seriously call the data integrity of Cellebrite’s reports into question.

...

>In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage.

I strongly advise against pissing off Signal by claiming you can hack them.
You have to tell this story.
McCarthy lists Moby-Dick as his favorite book [1]. The otherwise-impenetrable sentence "The Dipper stove." from the first page of Blood Meridian will be immediately understandable to anyone familiar with early 19th century whaling expeditions.

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/s...
Ah, my mistake. The story doesn't appear to be entirely clear-cut, but the hats labeled 'made in china' are apparently knock-offs.

https://apnews.com/article/archive-fact-checking-6391630154