skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'The Arabs will have to go but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war."
--Ben-Gurion's Diary,12July1937,and in New Judea, August-September 1937, p.220.

"I am for compulsory transfer; I do not see anything immoral in it."
--David Ben-Gurion to the Jewish Agency Executive, June 1938

''The cultivated land is probably 1 million dunam. According to international law, we cannot sell anything, so maybe we should buy from those Arabs who do not want to come back....
All we need is 400 tractors, each tractor can cultivate 3000 dunam - cultivating not just for the purpose of procuring food but in order to prevent anyone from returning to their lands. Land of lesser quality should be sold to private or public sectors....At least, let us say that this confiscation is an exchange for the property the Jews from the Arab world lost when they immigrated to Palestine."
--Bechor Shitrit, head of the settlement department of the Jewish National Fund, Ben-Gurion's Diary, 18 August 1948.
inconvenience for abusers is a great feature indeed
The "magnifying" part of this is probably just a red herring - in the article itself there is nothing about the magnifying effect.
Thomas might write that in a dissent (in fact, he already has). But he won't find a lot of allies on SCOTUS.

However, the key distinction between limited public forums and private forums is that the government creates the former. Twitter is private, and it has constitutionally-protected freedom of association to choose who it can associate with and constitutionally-protected freedom from being compelled to speak certain viewpoints. Any government that attempts to require social media to let everybody speak will find itself facing a constitutional challenge, as such a law is laughably unconstitutional. (Indeed, Texas and Florida have already written such laws, and they've already been enjoined for the very same reasons).
Can you expound a bit on "Mathematica kind of sucks"?
I have always found low to high sorting to be nearly useless because all you end up with is 100s of pages of random cheap unrelated shit.

https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=kitchen+island&s=price-asc-rank...
FerretDB co-founder there.

The order of fields is maintained by adding a special field with keys in the original order. For example, `{z: 1, a: {y:2, x:3}}` is stored as `{"a":{"x":3,"y":2,"$k":["y","x"]},"z":1,"$k":["z","a"]}`.

Additional types are stored as objects with special fields too. For example, binary values are stored as `{"$b": "<base 64 string>", "s": <subtype number>}`. The full mapping is there: https://github.com/FerretDB/FerretDB/blob/b7e8240607e043a858...
Yeah let's play this game! Let me count all the viruses that killed close to a million Americans in the last 2 years!

1. COVID
Banner (YC S19) (Prop-tech) is hiring a remote full-stack engineer
I'm not part of gecko@ but I wrote the devel/wasi-* ports and I've contributed to Firefox itself on a few occasions (touchpad scrolling on GTK and partial invalidation for EGL) :)
I know NFTs are popularized on decentralized blockchains, but is there anything inherent to NFTs that they need to be on a decentralized blockchain?
Most things people try to use blockchains to solve are better served by a single centralized database.

I'm an advocate of blockchain tech in general, but this criticism is a) valid, and b) as old as blockchains.
Given the rise of lobbyist spending, I am not convinced they failed. https://www.statista.com/statistics/257337/total-lobbying-sp...
> when you criticize any government you have more to lose than to win.

Well, it depends.

https://tousu.www.gov.cn/zwfw/index.htm

This is a Chinese central government website for collecting feedbacks comments and criticism on minor civil issues. At the bottom of the page, there are responses from the government officials on previous comments.

Everything is in Chinese.

I suppose when you say this, you probably have China and other “totalitarian” nations as the subject. So this example is from there.

I am less familiar with US system, but I think minor civil issued are managed by autonomous local community anyway. And there is no federal level civil management after all, not like China. Ie. Chinese central government can have a civil feedback channel, which does not make sense for US feral government, as that's not their scope of responsibility.

Government is setup to manage it's subject. It welcomes feedback, in general. Just like a company, the CEO welcome feedbacks. The government, likewise the CEO, are mostly worried when the subject refuse to care. Leaving everything in stagnation and limbo.
Two and four star reviews are worth focusing on too. Vendors don't, for the most part, pay for four star reviews, and review-bombing idiots or people upset the delivery was late don't tend to offer two star reviews
I know, I still use Windows for the time being. However there are still cases where it isn't as good as batch programs. Like Windows' task scheduler, you can't add PowerShell script to task scheduler without command prompt appearing [1]

[1]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/3028
i don’t want rust in the kernel, because it will make my job as a small device manufacturer even more complicated. it is already super hard / time consuming to understand how to build custom drivers and tune the kernel for specific applications, so i don’t need or want another language involved in there. in the end, you still need to understand what you are doing, and rust is not going to change that.

the days that linux was only used as a secure server OS are long gone. it is used everywhere for all kinds of applications and by lots of small manufacturers who are using the pi or other platforms.

also, you cannot just develop a driver in isolation, you have to take the typical use cases in mind while you make choices how to handle things.
This paper doesn't even attempt to measure effectiveness. It measures neutralization titers which is a totally different thing.
How is using multiple single-purpose tools to solve a problem not “unix-like”? Isn’t that the reason why people like POSIX-shells? It just happens that windows has better integration between even GUI apps, which is directly available from the shell.

Linux’s analog would be dbus, but that is not integrated with the shell natively.
As the label deadline is approaching, it would seem a large advantage to make an extra year’s worth of product and stuff the channel. Retailers would be happy to participate as they’d now have a higher margin “A rated” appliance to offer.
You could probably remove the frist 2 words and the article would be just as good. It feels to me like NFTs are one of those things that sounds really good in concept and seems so sensical and appealing from people in the "business" but looking at it form the outside it seems like just complete nonsenese.

The closest thing to compare it to is MS BizTalk, XSLT, or half a dozen of those other "enterprise" services and technologies that always promised to change the world but seem to never really pan out, and everyone who hears about the project responds with a "WTF why are you doing it that way?" it seems like it is trying to solve a metaproblem that not many people have.

But I'll admit maybe I don't understand the whole thing and am just not enlightened enough to see the brilliance. I know plenty of architects who are fluent in powerpoint that would tell me the same thing about Enterprise Integrations.
Moreover, it will be easier to brigade (or shill). If a video has 1M upvotes in YouTube and 1K upvotes in the site, then with 1K enthusiast you can tilt the count. (And for obscure videos with 100 or 1000 less upvotes in YT, it will be easier.)
Yes everyone should use key-based authentication. What fail2ban and other firewall styled security measures do is to move the point of contact on your network.

1 - You want to limit the number of times that SSHD initializes the connection handshake, this initialization period is when/where 0-day exploits can get through.

2 - With active auditing you can add the banned IP's to your edge device. Odds are that a legitimate IP won't be trying to SSH into your systems so block everything from them. I go one step further and share that banned IP list on all my edge devices.
Improving GitHub Code Search
Collaborative incremental improvement of models would be extremely disruptive. While this happens via research, it's massively inefficient, particularly as pretrained models get larger and span multiple modalities.
The ‘Great Resignation’ slowed down in October, while job openings jumped
Brought to you but the redundancy department of redundant redundancy for redundant titling.

For some reason, I think the uber rich of the world have waay too much money and are willing to throw it around in spectacularly-risky trends without caring about value investing.
It's funny but honestly Stroustrup is the best language designer out there. While others abandoned their creations to make new languages, Stroustrup soldiered on and modern C++ is actually amazing. He's a working programmers language designer, not an academic.
My point is that most case law was ruled on when businesses were an order of magnitude smaller, and had smaller impact on the individual.

Sometimes difference in scale is also difference in kind.

A lot of prior case law that involved much smaller private entities would be unlikely to hold if retested at current scale, against e.g. Facebook or Twitter.

Even if the mechanism isn't through the constitution, Congress is likely to enact similar protections through new laws sooner or later.

The new era of big tech harkens back to the company store/company scrip days, which are widely deemed to have been monopolistic:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store
M-x Forever: Why Emacs will outlast text editor trends
Hacking the Go compiler to add a new keyword
If anyone had trouble parsing rustccggcc, it's rustc-cg-gcc, ie https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc
The Nazis had a paramilitary group called the Brownshirts (Sturmabteilung) who would go around physically assaulting anyone saying things they didn't like. Popper's paradox of tolerance invoked the right of self defense against those like them who would with "fists or pistols" silence others. Stuff like this is why the first amendment protects the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government.
https://twitter.com/realMattBuck/status/1468535971125895175

@NancyTracker, the account that tweets Pelosi's stock trades, was suspended today.
"Types more advanced than Vec<T>" are inevitable. You need them to write safe abstractions for the rest of the kernel to use. Simplicity is a virtue, of course, but not to the point of limiting Rust to the equivalent of "safe C".
seems like the partition in combinatorial representation theory would be finding all path from nil vector to a point P in the space. Am I far off ?
GitHub code search technology preview
The legacy of NFTs is going to be the license they granted corporations like Ubisoft to finally launch this kind of store. They don't need the technology, but they very much do need the marketing wank to make it go down smoothly.
Why not? I’m no statistician, so my basic understanding is you should always prefer bigger sample sizes to ensure statistically significant findings.
>Of course it's a gaffe.

I don't see it that way. Let's discuss the gaffe deeper, as I said it requires significantly more explanation.

>Biden is visibly affected by senility.

I'm not a doctor and haven't diagnosed him this way. I don't believe this is public knowledge that he has been diagnosed as such. What makes you believe he has dementia? What kind? This statement scares me to no end, you believe the person in charge of the largest nuclear weapon arsenal has dementia? That would need to be fixed asap if true. I don't believe it to be true.

>How could you think it's anything but a gaffe?

So lets get into it. If it's a gaffe, what's the gaffe. It would be egregious to give him the benefit of the doubt to the point where you don't even investigate. The gaffe can go either way, he could have just meant that they have an organization to get people engaged and voting. That would be way past the line and not appropriate to jump there.

The other way the gaffe can be seen. There is a voting fraud organization and plan and the gaffe is that he accidentally admitted to it. He shouldn't have admitted to it. I could believe this level of gaffe, it's not unreasonable. It unfortunately admits to voted fraud.

>Do you really think that if he was aware of systematic voter fraud strategy being developed that he would actually give a speech about it?

He wasn't giving a speech about it. It was an accidental admission. Slip of the tongue, freudian slip, whatever you would like to call it. It has nothing to do with dementia. He was under immense pressure running an election during a pandemic. The hallmark of a freudian slip is that they generate out of thought supressions. He knew he can't admit to voting fraud, and was trying to suppress the thought.

Now here's the thing. It's simple to solve this problem. Elections have far more to do with appearance. Democrats having heard Biden admit to voting fraud had to come out and be above board. The entire process needed to be beyond question. No drama, no nothing. They needed to make sure the process was transparent as possible. Give the republicans nothing that might question the legitimacy of the election.

Unfortunately they didnt do that. They hated trump so much they needed him to lose.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/technology/michigan-elect...

Nytimes is obviously biased, but stuff like this however is the opposite of transparent. Literally it's opaque. There's no simple reason, there's no reason at all to block the windows.

Add on top of that they threw out multiple republican observers for various reasons. Most republican observers were denied access.

Nobody will ever know if the election was stolen. As I said above, the republicans made it very clear they believe the election was stolen by their actions.

It's just that right, it sure looks like the election was stolen.
Nubank IPO
ME/PSP isn't that offensive in terms of "locking you out", it's just a coprocessor that's there. Intel Boot Guard on the other hand can actually prevent custom firmware from running.
This reminds me of the Flint, Michigan water drinking "controversy":

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-...

Obama In Flint: 'Can I Get Some Water?' | NBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjugN-nUHh8
I think the context was described. The article lists 5 dimensions where adverse behavior was documented: academic, relationship, financial, occupational, and physical. While I think you may be right about the different socializing role of the internet 25 years later, I'm not sure that explains away the adverse affects across all those dimensions. For example, with online gambling becoming more of a norm now, that doesn't mean the adverse financial aspects are any less bad. Normalization of deviance doesn't equate to unharmful.
Don't forget if the SSD dies, so does the laptop with zero chance of data recovery.

Better not see anyone storing their bitcoins on that thing and cry later because they 'forgot to backup' as their M1 laptop just 'died'.
Should have (1998) in the title.
You're "literally forced" to do tons of things in order to participate in society in any major degree for the sake of public safety and standards of living. I don't know why you people get so obsessed about this effort to avoid spreading transmissible disease and not things like the requirement to not be naked in public, or requiring your vehicle to be considered safe to drive on public roadways.

Don't pretend like the government acting in the name of public safety is somehow completely unique here, and that governments have never made requirements to help prevent needless deaths before.
I've used it since 2001. IMO, it doesn't matter what layout you use, the key is learning to touch type properly if the goal is speed. Some layouts are probably truly awful, but the primary ones are all about as good as each other. The main pro, for me, of Dvorak is that it actually feels a lot more natural with Emacs' default key bindings (my primary text editor) than QWERTY ever did.
There's a whole wave of real accounts that have been swept up in a couple of ban-waves in the past week, falsely accused of being bots.

Seems like they are doing network-based targeting, because none of them had tweeted anything particularly offensive.
Boy, someone was clearly paid by the word.

As an NFT proponent, the biggest problem I see here is that even on 3rd party sites buyers are limited to "eligible" participants. I assume that's built into the contract and the marketplaces will have special code to verify it. Ugh. Very much against what I'd like to see, but perhaps inevitable.
I’m not sure that’s a good analogy. Spacetime isn’t necessarily pounding anything - it could be Spacetime itself that is distorted and curved by such a phenomonon. If spacetime is the medium of the waves, why are these waves hitting anything, and what?
This is why I prefer putting the "bad" message into a deadletter queue instead of dropping it entirely(and alert on messages going into this queue). This unblocks the queue so it can continue working and allows one to decide if it should be dropped or re-processed.
The songs would not have to do anything useful, the important point is that they are syntactically valid.

Compare "Black Perl": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl
(It was posted anonymously, but I remember reading somewhere Larry Wall has later admitted to being the author. Wikipedia claims authorship is still unclear, though.)
> with abstractions that don't require interaction with the rest of the system

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. Drivers obviously interact with each other and with the rest of the system via all kinds of in-kernel interfaces.

Drivers are also not inherently system dependent. Even the sample rust driver is for android binder, which is not a real HW device, but some kind of IPC mechanism. So that one is quite system independent.
Only the risk of a centralised service going away, which also exists for decentralised technology but is considered less likely.
On the other hand, when I was a teenager, Facebook still had a chronological feed, and at one point didn't even have a feed. Friends posted photos of what they were doing. People didn't really post links, presumably because they didn't show pretty preview thumbnails and summaries.

For a kid growing up in a rural area with few opportunities to socialize without driving for miles, Facebook and texting were a genuinely great way for me to have a social life.

Of course, with algorithmic feeds, nobody posting original content any more, ads, and blogspam links radicalizing my relatives, Facebook is not longer a good place to socialize. Even when people do post original content, it's hard to see because it gets buried behind oceans of promoted content and ads. But I think I can safely say that an older incarnation of Facebook had a positive mental impact on me.
They also wrote a book
How can you trust someone who says "There was not outside amplification"? How would the controller of the twitter account differentiate between simple virality and outside amplification? Of course, it's lame that Amy can buy a bunch of bots to get Bob's account canceled.
Next to "Human Expert", I'd like to see it compared to "Average American" or "Average College Grad". That might be more of a realistic notion of how close this model is to everyday US citizenry rather than experts. Sure I'd love to see a radiology assistant, too.
They engineered themselves out of their current job and still get paid for the job they don't have to do. Sounds like they engineered it pretty well.
How would a "panic" differ from an "exception"? Keep in mind what happens in C++ if you do not catch an exception.
>I am not sure if they are aware of the Fediverse

According to the account owner's substack, they are on Gab. So, sort of.
If the static HTML works as-is and requires no server-side work, then just deploy it to AWS S3.
Rock-solid, cheap, fast, automatically scalable and there is literally nothing to manage other than pointing your domain to S3 once.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Websit...
> no reason for it to be distributed

Many decisions are taken to increase market value. It makes sense a distributed ledger based on blockchain if that increases the shares value, but I guess that you mean that it does not improve the product at all. And I can't agree more that if anything it makes it worse.
We already know that spacetime has local curvature, so it’s possible that spacetimes curvature isn’t static. How this affects or interacts with time isn’t clear, since we don’t really understand what spacetime is or how it comes to be.
Internet today did a good job of covering this this-morning:

https://youtu.be/KZx9OwkBA14?t=1969

My fav barb was when they discussed zooming in on the authenticity barcode to confirm it's "authentic".
> But I'm hard pressed to imagine how a C++ style that avoids vtables like the plague could really have that much to offer over straight C.

unique_ptr / shared_ptr alone would be a massive upgrade over straight C. Simply being able to enforce ownership would be huge. So would just having namespaces. Things like move semantics, static_assert, and constexprs would then be the cherry on top. There's also public/private fields, friend classes, etc... to keep people from accidentally poking things they shouldn't be.

C++ is so very much not just "C with vtables."

But C++ has a reputation, deserved or not, for being overly complex. And ultimately Linus chose the devil he knew over something that by all accounts would have been better. Nearly every other large C project has moved into C++, even from other staunch defenders of C like John Carmack eventually relented that C++ was better for large teams.

Rust gets to hit the reset button here with a fresh reputation (and some extra safety & cool tricks), and Linus' views may have changed over time.
When I was first started my career I was working at a small software company. I spent my evening and weekends building tools and plugins to optimize my workflow and I quickly became 10x more productive than my coworkers. I shared my tools with the company and in return, I was rewarded with raises year after year. I went from 30k to 80k[0] in 3 years. Now I work for a large software company and the same tactics haven't worked out in my favor so I just keep everything to myself. In my experience not only did I continuously get paid more but everything I wrote was FOSS so it helped improve my portfolio. The catch is you gotta work for great people, and that's hard to find.

[0] Almost double the median household income for my area.
Are there NFT plans that make sense? I'm sorry if I'm being too cynical for the general quality of this forum, but all I see regarding NFTs look like get rich quick schemes, so I'm not putting a cent in that. Am I losing the opportunity of a lifetime?
I would still take that over the cryptic -fHxC magic incantations of unix tools. Especially that you get unified help for all of them, readily available.

And I say that as someone who really doesn’t like windows (and thinks it is not fit for development at all) — but powershell is really a gem, if one gets over the at first strange syntax and actually looks into it.
I'm pretty sure it will be totally optional to write drivers in Rust, rather than C.