skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve brought this up before and I was downvoted for it[0], but I don’t think I made my point clear enough last time.

People seemed to think I was questioning the soundness of the algorithm, but that’s not what concerns me. I was talking about the concept of bitcoin itself.

What I’m concerned with is what if the true point of this thing we have been led to call “bitcoin” is to destabilize countries. What if it’s a new type of nation-state attack, or virus, that we haven’t seen before. Something we don’t yet have a word for. Something that takes advantage of a country’s citizens’ greed while doing things like disrupting power grids and causing countries to be worse off than they would be without bitcoin.

It’s like finding food someone left on your doorstep and eating it without being worried someone is trying to poison you.

Most people that are supporters of bitcoin are driven by pure greed. What if someone has found a way to weaponize greed?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28446571
It's not about making it fair. When soldiers dress as civilians in civilian areas during combat. It's nearly impossible to make sure a real civilian doesn't get harmed.
IIRC that existed before Nat. I could be wrong.
But he was a MS employee pre-acquisition, right? Is it common for the acquiring company to give their employees that manage the acquisition massive incentives that vest in a short-medium window? (Honest question. It's not been common in my experience, but that's pretty limited.)
To me, it's obnoxious because this kind of "complaint" is just as formulaic and will appear on every single announcement post thread.
TimescaleDB vs ClickHouse
Not everyone who needs an organ transplant gets one. So could it be that recipients are privileged in some way that also prevents them getting dementia?
Regular CD's and DVD's have an organic layer that will rot away. There are alternative styles of discs which use a ceramic layer instead of organic which are rated to last a thousand years. These discs can still be burned and read in most standard burners and readers.

https://www.mdisc.com/
> What do you like best about Homebrew?

Some of its advantages are, in a sense, unfair, because it doesn't manage my OS or its most vital pieces, which is part of why it's never, in nearly a decade, broken my system the way any others have. Homebrew's never made my system unbootable. Homebrew's never broken my GUI. Homebrew's never fucked up some driver that had been working totally fine.

In another sense, that's totally fair if you consider the platform as a whole. It's really hard for Linux overall to separate user packages from system packages, mostly because it's all mixed up together in a way that it's not on MacOS or Windows—but a distro could take that approach, if they wanted.

So, that'd be one thing. #1: Separation of a very complete and capable base GUI OS from the rest of my packages, with the base OS upgrading in lock-step and very reliably, and everything else totally disconnected from that.

#2 would be the package selection. The number of times I've found some lowish-star-count project on Github, blindly done "brew install [guess at package name]" and had it work, is crazy. Non-free stuff? It's there too. AFAIK Gentoo and Arch are the only ones that even come close—but then you're stuck either hoping rolling-everything doesn't break your system, or trying to maintain a jenga tower of pinned packages and still risking breaking your system when you eventually do update them. I'm actually not sure there's a single piece of software on any of my Mac hardware, for work or play, that's not either, 1) from Apple, or 2) installed via Homebrew. And I've never added any kind of 3rd-party repo to it.

(a minor point: it's also nice that I can guess the correct package name more often with Homebrew than on Debian and Ubuntu)

#3 is that it has never, ever broken for me, under normal operation. An "install" or "update" or "upgrade" or "remove" has never broken my package manager itself, or its package database, or left its installed dependency tree so deeply fucked that I lose an hour or five un-fucking it (in fact, I've never seen that happen at all with Homebrew). OS upgrades have occasionally made me run a one-time fix to its directory permissions. Maybe that's happened twice in a decade of use? AFAI can recall, that's it. Macports borked itself badly under normal operation every 3-4 months while I was using it, while having a smaller package selection and compiling (=taking way longer) more often—this was, IIRC, like 2011, though, so again, it may be better now. Every other package manager I've used for any serious length of time, I've repeatedly seen get in weird states that required substantial fiddling before I could use them for anything again, after what should have been boring and normal usage.

(see point #1 for why it would also be a lot more tolerable if it did have that trouble, than it is when that happens on, say, Linux, and indeed, that's the only reason I was able to struggle along with Macports for a little over a year before switching—I could just rm its directory and start over, after the second time from a script that did it for me, without causing any harm whatsoever to my OS itself)
In other news, graal python has gotten to ~13k commits. Is there some significant meaning to this from a real compatibility and user experience standpoint?
He was already an MS employee 3 years ago though (he came over when Xamarin was acquired in 2016), whereas I usually associate those terms started when you join the parent company. Granted, 2016 is not that much longer ago, and it does seem plausible there was some bonus that vested after 3 years at Github, so you could be right.
Thats a bummer. I was a Nat fan during his tenure. I think he really embraced the spirit of the role. Hopefully the next CEO continues his work
I would be interested to know why you think that, is this website not a multi-user graphical thing running on a computer?

Edit: Also I'm pretty confused as to why anyone refers to X as "multi-user", are you talking about multi-pointer X? That doesn't really have anything to do with X in particular and is also possible in Wayland.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29095265
Embrace, extend, extinguish still alive at MS it seems.

E: Pointing out proven, explicitly-defined-in-internal-emails tactics used by Microsoft always seems to get downvoted on HN. Why? Would someone like to start a conversation?
Security often comes at the cost of convenience.
China uses concentration camp slave labour to make solar panels.

The discussion shouldn't be how do we figure out which solar panels are made by slave labour so we can avoid.

The discussion should be how do we move towards decoupling from China.

If we are willing to tolerate concentration camps and slave labour, where do we draw the line? Is there any moral line we aren't willing to cross?
Sorry, what’s bad about that?
Literally every point you made applies also at my workplace. The optimist in me hopes we work at the same place, but I fear that your last statement might just be the truth :-)
I assume you're being sarcastic.
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This whole problem is irritating to me because I feel like:

1. Half of the time people use a word processor, they don't actually need one (plain text would be find)

2. When people really need to format something for print, word processors do a shitty job anyway
how do you “counteract systemic disadvantages” without simply disadvantaging all white peoples ( that would be racist against white people)

Or by doing simply giving extra benefit (affirmative action) to one group ?

As we have seen with affirmative action it put people from china India and japan in the same bucket and give them less preferential treatment compared to African Americans. So it just seem that the minority which speak louder about injustice is the one that get the most benefit.

I agree that systemic racism is a thing but I have never seen a single proposed solution which is not simply “reverse racism” or positive racism.

We should be able to give equal opportunity to all group without explicitly helping one group or disadvantaging one group!
I pirated so many low-res seasons of tv shows with this tool.
I hate places that have stand ups. It mostly amounts to being in a work collective where the apparatchik gets to show you it’s still the boss of you.

There are other routines that are actually helpful but don’t feel like the red guard roll call.
No tooling is as reliable and enduring as speech. And the phrase you quoted as an example takes less than 5 second to say.
If we only could have honest tribal liars as Zoons have.
Copilot is still fresh in my mind as a reason to question using GitHub to host my source code. Though I understand that my opinion on this is not universal.
There is one particular corporate leader who speaks their mind and has made a tremendous impact on the world. So, it's not clear if it has anything to do with polished big-corp language.

I'd rather listen to someone who is straightforward than Sundar Pichai speaking entirely in corporate-speak while saying absolutely nothing of value or substance. Completely uninspiring.

All corporate speak is rather an invention of the 80's and 90's. Listen to corporate leaders from any other time before that.
No, Android's doing its own thing, not X11 or Wayland.
Well, yes and no. My concern was the fact that Go's escape analysis isn't always correct (although it's quite good), leading to variables that would be stack allocated in C/C++, being heap allocated in Go.
I read as dumb. It doesn't give any value to the piece, very akin to virtue signaling.
According to my Facebook feed, All I need is to replace my immune system with Invermectin and Colloidal Silver and I’ll be fine.
What Brought Down the Great Classical Civilization of China?
You forgot the part about "leveraging" Windows into places where the acquired company had previously determined it was wholly unsuitable.

Gack, what a terrible company.
> I assume you prefer watching videos without tearing and those are really apparent with Xorg without a compositor.

Of course! I hate tearing, just as much as the next guy. However I honestly haven't seen any tearing in video watching under Xorg, anytime in .. I donno .. at least the last 6 years. And this isn't exactly a powerful machine. :) If I have a video windowed and I move it around while playing, I can see a bit of tear. But.. I don't do that. Most of the time if I'm watching a video it's full screen. It looks perfect.

I bet the tearing you've seen using Xorg is attributable to something else. I remember back when video kinda sucked (in anything other than mplayer) but that was years ago. I have a windowed Netflix playing video as I type this and nope, no tearing. shrug I see in the Xorg.0.log that the COMPOSITE extension is loaded, but I'm not running a compositing WM, nor am I running a stand alone compositor.

I think we can put this "Xorg video playback has tearing" myth to bed.

It was certainly true back when suspend and resume didn't always work right, but that was quite some time ago. Having read much about Wayland in the last few hours, I think a more accurate thing to say would be "In Wayland, there is never any tearing. In Xorg, you can have tearing under some conditions" There are some very compelling reasons to be interested in Wayland that don't require exaggerating Xorg's failings. :)

> X can’t really handle different screens — it will create a huge framebuffer of all of them together and draw on that. So if you have a high DPI and a “regular” monitor, content will appear right on the regular one, but overly small on the other.

I think we have a different definition of "handle", and I apologize in advance for semantic pedantry. I'm looking at 3 screens right now, one of them is a 14" "4kish" (3200x1800). Xorg "handles" it just fine. As I drag a window to the highest resolution screen (which I have in portrait orientation and use basically only for coding), the content appears exactly as I expect it to. That monitor has a higher DPI, which means the pixels are a different size. It's not a bug... it's expected and desired behavior. Dots Per Inch. It's right in the name! If some software in the display stack was interpolating everything, making my text look fuzzy, now that would be a serious bug to me!

I really really think what you mean to say is "Xorg doesn't support rendering things in terms of physical size regardless of the underlying resolution." That might be true. Pleaseeeee say that instead. :) Personally, I wouldn't use that feature but I can imagine one desiring it.

But... when you say "X can't have displays with different DPIs" ... I mean this with no offense, but... you sound less intelligent than I'm sure you are. Because I can plainly see multiple displays with different DPIs right in front of my face. :) Xorg has been able to "handle" multiple displays since Xinerama, IIRC.

Anyway, I'm encouraged to take Wayland out for a spin for a reasons not mentioned in this comment thread. I like minimalism. :)
Nope that drone strike only happened because of the lack of uniform and clear insignia. If they didn't use that tactic the strike would never have happened.
Hate to see this downvoted, and glad it got vouched. This is my number one gripe with GitHub and is frequently dismissed as a conspiracy when it is very real. GitHub does nothing because nobody cares, and that's a sad state of affairs.
Or download entire 4chan threads. At least the images.
Soon! What websites are you using now?
I gave up carting my webcam and stuff around with me - in 90% of zoom meetings it makes essentially no difference. I'm sure there's some specific scenario where Zoom will send actual HD video but they're pretty rare.
I autofilled the form with my browser and was unaware of the issue until I got their e-mail.

There was no chance to remedy this.

I understand that they have no legal obligation to me, and am posting to make others aware that the company might not be interested in resolving conflicts with anything other than the heaviest of hammers.
It's not that it's not true, it's that it that you can't make the conclusion that vaccines are ineffective at stopping the spread of covid from it. And if you don't understand that, you are either (a) deliberately trying to misrepresent the evidence or (b) just exercising confirmation bias. Given your response to the parent post, it seems more like the former.
Do you need to work around Go's escape analysis much? I was under the impression that it's good but not perfect, leading to some heap allocation of variables that wouldn't necessarily need it if they were on C/C++.
> Types that can actually restrict values

Do you mean run-time checks? If yes then all you need is a normal oop class with an `assert` in your constructor. If you mean compile-time checks then that's a much much harder problem.

> Enumerated errors

If you have sum types/enums then enumerated errors are just a normal enum. Like

type err = FileDoesntExist | PermissionError | NoDiskSpace
type result = Ok file | Err err
Ha of course it does, thanks :) I don't know why I didn't see that

so we could expect about 5 people with dementia in that control group, and the test group got 0, so not bad
In 2018, MS had 110 billion USD in revenue, while Github had 200-300 million USD. So the Github business is <0.5% of MS's revenue.
Cell Phone Metadata
I am up-to-date on all of my required vaccines, however the ‘Covid vaccine’ is a vaccine by name only—so much so that the CDC had to update the definition of a vaccine LMAO!
Until the shot has several years of longitudinal case data available for analysis, I will remain uncomfortable taking the untested artificially designed gene therapy all for a disease that poses insignificant risk to me. Sorry for being a jerk, frustrating times
There's plenty of time for this to happen...
What about everyone else, goody two shoes?
This isn't about articles by a site 95% of the population has never heard of and it sure isn't about security if SMS is considered acceptable for the second factor.

Cellular providers have laughable security when it comes to account access and changes. The easiest way to get to someone's money and digital life is to figure out their cell phone company, and then convince them to send you a new SIM card for their account. Presto, instant to their bank account and now their google account.

This is about google wanting to tie more identifying information to a google account, and (by way of making all but "install our app" incredibly annoying) force iOS users to have a Google app on their phone so they know what IP address to associate with you at all times.

I was in the process of stripping Google out of my life and this looks like excellent motivation to speed that along.
Literally just listened to this bit...
Closember
You are not on my team, so your perceptions what is shitty for you do not matter. That’s more the point of my comment: each team should discuss and reach their own ideal dynamic. If you were on my team, from your strong opinions here, the dynamic would certainly be different.
If you're 300+ lbs, you are lazy, period. Sugar coating it isn't doing anyone any favours.
Time for quantum resistant encryption algorithms?
300% is not the increase, but rather the tax on the raw price of petrol as I understand it.
You can already implement this in any language with strong typing, like C++ or Rust or OCaml or Haskell. I guess the syntax might be more verbose, so you would have to write inches(12) rather than 12 inches.
There's a non-profit section in the FAQ https://www.ycombinator.com/faq/#non-profit-money It's better to contact ycombinator directly https://www.ycombinator.com/contact/ , HackerNews is run somewhat separately.
"This spells the end of privacy on the Internet. Your phone 100% identifies you."

My "2FA Mule" has no identifying information of any kind on it and doesn't follow my location(s).

It's a stock android phone with no google account and no apps installed except for "SMS Forwarder"[1].

It is configured to forward all SMS to an email address via encrypted SMTP. This means that I can receive these 2FA codes anywhere I have Internet access - such as an airplane or newly arrived in a foreign country where my SIM card does not work.

The "2FA Mule" itself is plugged in at my office in a corner.

I'm not employing this for anything sensitive but it's interesting to consider that I can use SMS based 2FA while divorcing it from my day to day SIM identity ...

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frzinapps....
Maybe hybrid depending on conditions, driver control only required in case of risky situations
How so? If you have a variety of second factors enabled (security key, TOTP, recovery codes) it seems like you can be confident enough in not getting locked out.
Meetups eventbrites work with radius, I got them wrong... removing ... thanks
Related story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29092292
> Interesting, although it might require Gandalf as the secret father of Aragorn as well.

It doesn't. Aragorn already descends from a Maia. The whole Numenorian royal blood line descends from Thingol and Melian; Melian is a Maia.

> I prefer to think that the path of the ring into the heart was via despair.

I don't really think this plays out. Aragorn is definitely descended from Maia, Faramir might be, and Tom Bombadil is a powerful being though we don't know how powerful (although certainly at least in the realm of a Maia).

I think the real story is Sam's devotion to his friend (or lover, if you subscribe to that theory). That in this clash between immortal, supernatural beings with incredible power, what changes the world isn't a mega-being appearing to vaporize all the evil. It's Sam's unwavering devotion to Frodo. Everyone else is tempted by the ring, but Sam alone is unphased, blinded by his desire to simply go home with his friend/lover and live a simple life.

I like the poetic irony of it. What saves the world is one man's indifference to saving the world.
i've been an early read.cv user and to me it's just a totally different vibe! many of the folks are in the creative field, and the energy is one of sharing and celebrating each others work, rather than posting quips and hustle porn quotes.
Does not change the fact that he stepped into the company he co-founded with vesting shares 3 years ago.
Postgres analysis of VAERS data by lot number
What does good daily mentorship look like?

I ask because I tried to set up daily checkins with my junior dev if only to make myself available to them.

What do I do when they just go radio silent for a week?
That only shifts the issue from having to trust Google to having to trust the domain registrar. It does not solve the underlying problem.
Chiming in with what everyone is saying:

1. Have your own domain name.

2. Use a small-ish mail provider that supports IMAP, etc.

3. Store all your emails/folders on a device (laptop, whatever). This way if the provider locks you out or goes under, it's easy to switch to another.

Has worked since what, the 80's? Personally been doing this since before Gmail existed. Ironically I chose this route precisely because the major providers (Yahoo, etc) were too unreliable for me - I had lost accounts multiple times because some of the (then) top mail providers decided to get out of the mail business and/or regressed their featureset so much that it hurt.

Of all the Internet services, this is the easiest one for someone to own.
Money is not the only part of any large acquisition such as GitHub. Given Microsoft's history, GitHub was the perfect acquisition for their goals.
Nothing limited more African-Americans than normalisation of ghetto culture. This redneck inspired social behavior ruined lives of millions by making not cool to learn well at school, adopt nice public manners and perpetuate the myth that society owns you.
I'm OK with MFA, but it doesn't allow a swedish phone number as backup solution. That's annoying ...
> During the Delta wave, the hospitals here were full of unvaccinated 20 and 30 somethings without complicating health issues, with serious COVID, most of which would have been prevented had they been vaccinated

Source?
Nature’s billion dollar mistake?
People have been doing it since the early 1990s and it hasn't set the world on fire.

From time to time people trot out spatial metaphors as if they were fresh but it was a topic people were already making fun of in Byte magazine back in 1981. Microsoft Bob and similar things get laughed at whenever they are tried. Even the computer desktop is a big trashcan that gets cluttered with whatever junk installers want to put on it. (e.g. it's no accident that the only essential thing on the Windows desktop is the "Recycle Bin")

Cyberspace is hyperdimensional and has limitations entirely different from physical space. The one case for putting blinders on it and making it like physical space is that people might understand it a little better, but it's at the cost of losing all the magic.
> It seems like it mostly restricts them from using US made tech and punishes US companies that supply them.

It’s also not super easy to find banks willing to work with companies publicly blacklisted by the US government.
Yes, it had a lot of custom chips, and some of the same people (like Jay Miner) who worked on the Atari 800 design later were involved in designing the Amiga which likewise was based on custom chips.