skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To expand on this, a lot of intellectual energy was spent on expanding and properly defining what was meant by "Human" in order to preclude any perverse interpretations, such as what the nazis did, and to shut down a lot of eugenics nonsense.

Reading natural sciences and eugenics books written prior to the 40s is fascinating - there's all sorts of casual racism and talk of different cultures of people as if they were completely different species. Global communications improved after the 40s, and it became progressively more difficult to pretend to be a scholar or intellectual in public if you had racist or supremacist biases. The current state of liberal acceptance and human rights in the modern world is part of a trend that was an incredibly radical departure from almost all human culture prior to wwii.
Seems a little ironic to call out a piece of software whose literal job it is to connect to the internet for... Connecting to the internet.

Tongue in cheek aside, I don't know much about Brave - is there some specific reason that it needs an always-on server to call home to?
What you're missing is that "n horses have the same color" is true for n=1. So therefore we should be able to invoke the induction to bigger and bigger numbers.

If the induction actually was valid for 1->2, we'd have a hell of a problem.
I'm actually glad that they haven't overhauled the UI. It would be great if they made tiny improvements, like making the font size and color defaults more pleasant. Deep blue on black as the default plot is less than stellar.

Also, unless something has changed, ltspice is wholly written by one person.
"More jarring were the people who insisted everything was OK"

I read this as simply being honest (in the "Dutch" sense). It wasn't like he was shit-talking his former co-workers, per se. He's just saying he had a radically different appraisal of technical viability of the flagship product.

Which, again, was simply the truth as he saw it.
I literally provided you evidence of it happening. I guess that wasn't the evidence you're looking for hence "approved thought leaders". If it doesn't come from specific sources for you it's not relevant or "evidentiary".

Go back to reddit.
The thing I don't understand about Brave users is that they are essentially using Chromium with a bunch of extra bloat added. Wouldn't it make more sense to just use Chromium with the extensions that you want and need?
Yeah, that's what I mean by "trying to do the optimizer's job". But this is meant for edge cases - doing this fully would mean starting to rewrite the optimizer in the app. This is where using the "explain" might help - if it's choosing what seems like a sane index and has a limited range of rows, I send the query "as is". If it fucks up and does a table scan, I'll force a compromise index.
I was at Google.

The ability to look long term at Amazon is just fucking amazing.

Google will never ever have that kind of competence.
Like newspapers of old, he should put a retraction at the top of that old article.
I could make a similar claim, most of the X jump was due to moving from academia to industry.
I've found that every one of these security incidents always has someone come in and say:

"Why didn't they just ..."

Where the problem is that the "..." is the subset of non-default security configurations that would have stopped this specific insider(!) attack. They never mentioned that:

- You can't predict which attack you'll be hit with, so you have to implement every non-default / optional security setting or feature in order to be "protected". This is a metric ass-ton of work, typically on the order of multiple man years of up front effort, and then with ongoing multiple FTEs required (e.g.: for separation of roles).

- While you're not actually under insider attack, this provides zero business benefit that can be measured in dollars.

- The people implementing the protection against insider attack are the same people that the protection would typically be designed to stop. No one person can be trusted to do this. Not even any one team. Just organising the Byzantine security required for this is a project manager's nightmare.

- Insider attacks by senior technical staff are stupidly difficult to protect against. I've never seen any org that could survive an intelligent, motivated attacker that already has significant admin rights. Even the FAANGS would take a significant "hit" in this scenario. Ubiquiti is nowhere near their scale or capabilities in this space.

- All that stuff described like "QR codes in a safe" are hilarious to me. Every time I've tried to implement even 1/10th of that, everyone who ought to be responsible for the secure handling of this kind of key material ran away screaming from any personal responsibility. Literally nobody ever wanted to deal with anything even vaguely similar.

- Many of complex delegation systems and IAM technologies suffer from permission-role inversion. Often the CEO/CIO/CTO has virtually no access to the technology stack, but the junior intern from the subcontractor has the keys to the castle and could delete the whole org for shits and giggles. But, you see, he's not "allowed to". But he has the physical permissions. That he's not supposed to use. Because he was told to. You see?

- Now you're going to say that the senior staff should have the admin rights, and delegate the appropriate rights to the junior staff. Oh, you sweet summer child. That requires responsibility! (see above). It also requires that they learn, manage, and monitor something as technically complex as AWS IAM. But you see, senior people are busy people. They're busy with meetings. With memos. And more importantly, they're busy playing politics and jostling for the next promotion. The fiddly security rule stuff they just delegate to the juniors. That's the ticket to the next pay grade!
Gave it a whirl with `cp`:

> ./target/debug/cp /dev/null /dev/zero
thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Os { code: 1, kind: PermissionDenied, message: "Operation not permitted" }', src/uu/cp/src/cp.rs:1295:54

Good advice is "don't panic." Trying `mv`:

> ./target/debug/mv . .
./target/debug/mv: cannot stat '.': No such file or directory

oof

Anyways the point is that there's lots of legitimate institutional knowledge baked into coreutils and a naive RiiR effort will re-introduce previously fixed bugs.
And you're not educating them.
> Are descriptions such as "bitter" not the "plain and simple" truth for this post? I certainly think it reads bitterly.

Erm, no?

You yourself pointed out: “Well, readings are subjective…”
> It does because all adults are cynical nowadays and rather than speaking truth they will just sweep it under the rug for political convenience.

It's possible to speak the truth without being callous. I'm not really sure what political convenience has to do with this.

> Spreading the truth? Does it even need a point?

No, but it should probably have one if it's going to be a discussion on HN.

> Yeah it does, I still find it refreshing that this guy is just calling out all the bs as he sees it. He has nothing to gain from writing this, a lot to lose. It's pretty entertaining. Hope it doesn't affect him negatively.

It's great that you're entertained by it. Personally I it just gave me the impression that the person would benefit from therapy.
Plenty of legitimate cannabis dispensaries have home delivery too.
It's a differential signal using a center-tapped transformer to drive the signal. It's actually using three wires if you count the ground.

This means it's symmetrical about ground and thus cancels it's own radiated field (eg doesn't interfere with adjacent lines).

But with one side open there is still a path for AC, which is through the other side and using the ground return.
Weird that this person doesn’t even consider Firefox, the only browser that lets you have Adblock and other addons on mobile (but not on iOS, sadly).
> I'm trying to imagine a future, 30-50 years from now...

I can only hope it's a future in which we collectively realized that smartphones, smartwatches, smartglasses, smartypantstoilets, smartgloves, smartdiapers, etc, were a bloody well idiotic idea and that we've come to our collective senses and realized that they were never what they promised to be, but had, within a few years of launch, turned into just more ways of monopolizing attention for a quick venture capital and IPO payout. Perhaps not the hardware manufacturers, but at least the way the hardware was used.

More realistically, those are likely to be dim memories of the past, back before capitalism ran the planet into the ground, and took most of our technology stacks with it. Modern tech stacks are complexity, piled on complexity, built on a few stacks of complexity, built on broken hardware that's overly complex in an attempt to gain the performance required to run the teetering stacks on top of it (all the uarch vulns, DDR4 Rowhammer is a nice touch on top, etc).

You'll note that neither of those paths involve us running around with the FitBit 2050 gathering... whatever it is it thinks it ought to gather. The way things are going, probably nothing more useful than Covid tracking stuff. "You were in proximity with 1.7 potential individuals who may have been infected with Covid, please quarantine for the next two weeks. confetti"

It would be nice if we had some of our current technology, that open data standards had taken root and we could decide how we wanted to use the stuff, pay appropriately and be paid appropriately for our devices, attention, etc. But that's just not the way things are going, and I fear that's not the way things are going to go, under any reasonable future. There is far, far too much money and "Well, but, see, if you destroy the market you can monopolize it!" money floating around for the near to moderate future to see that future happen. I mean, a bunch of our current companies are literally based on "We will use the venture capital money to undercut everyone else, drive them out of business, and then be the monopoly!" Uber, Lyft, [insert the food delivery service of the week here], the various scooter services, and the list goes on. They're running into the brick wall of, "Wait... what do you mean, we're not going to accomplish that? You mean we have to turn a profit?" I've talked to people who have started taking taxis again, because at least they'll show up, unlike the Sharing Economy Rideshare App of The Future services that weren't remotely pandemic-proof.

We'll see. But I would predict that fitness trackers, in 20 years, are a big pile of ewaste, "... ugh, yeah, you know, it's not worth the hassle to get that data out...," and broken promises. And hopefully not being actively worn by then.
Absolutely in love with Iosevka!
I think this is due to Brave proxying some Google requests through their own servers, because otherwise the same people would complain that a Google server is being contacted.

> I am thinking of going back to [Chromium] with the usual extensions like Ghostery, AdBlock+

> [Brave's] amazing ad-blocking and tracker protection

If you just need an adblocker, sure. At this point everone should have heard of uBlock Origin.
1B tethers should be created when someone deposits $1B into Tether Corp's bank account. "Created out of thin air" means tethers have been issued on blockchain, but no one deposited any US dollars into said bank account. What evidence do you have for the latter?

If you are confident that is exactly what happened, why don't you go and short USDT/USD pair? Why no insider executed that profitable short trade? How come after so many years of tireless accusations on every message board available, that 99% of people seem to agree with, said pair still trades at exact 1.000 ratio? Why authorities have not stopped the obvious fraud going on for so long?

Something doesn't add up.
Don't file formats like .FIT or .GPX handle this case? I had this problem when migrating nearly 10 years of running data from Nike Running --> Strava. It wasn't perfect but eventually I got "good enough" data after weeks of wrestling with unknown aggregators who either scraped sites or used an unofficial API. Apple Health is the closest thing I've seen where there's somewhat of an open standard despite the walled garden in Apple's ecosystem.

Without some overarching body, like a government regulator, I'm not optimistic there will be widespread adoption of interoperability.
Hi author, if you're here on HN please consider ditching sketchy extensions like Ghostery (sells your user data) and Adblock+ (participates in paid bypass of "acceptable ads" program) for the open-source and user-focused uBlock Origin (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock).

Also, if you haven't tried Firefox since the quantum days come back and give it another try.
Most distros still use GNU libc but I guess you could build a distro with Musl and alt coreutils.
It does include some hardening against fingerprinting. In contrast to Ungoogled Chromium it's properly compiled and can be updated easily.
I don't want to be rude, but this post just seems like pure promotion for the mentoring service the author provides. I'm curious though, if you're pulling in 1MM/year, why bother shilling yourself for a couple hundred an hour for mentoring sessions?
This something that excites me immensely! I always had trouble following Principia’s notations!
Most of the data generated by consumer health devices would be better suited to HL7 standards rather than DICOM.
Phone lines use an AC signal which is superimposed on a DC current. The DC is used to power the phone.
It has a pretty good adblocker integrated, which puts it ahead of chromium in terms of ad blocking. you can use the engine outside of browsers as well. It also has a decent working sync that doesn't require google services if you don't use their google services. It used to be worse, when it was still CEF based.
Duolingo inspiring users to learn new languages
Chrome does not block ads on mobile or support extensions that can
He worked for years on MySQL (writing the executor used in MySQL 8.0 and the upcoming join optimizer) and came to his conclusions based on that time with it.

Can you provide comparable knowledge about MySQL to support your accusation that he wrote "generic statements without any nuance"?
Ungoogled Chromium = no auto-updates, extensions hassle, few users so you can be fingerprinted
Polling driven async is faster than callback based async up and down the stack almost without exception, including interrupts. Interrupts are incredibly slow on modern hardware.
This is about where I'm at. I've used both DBs and adminned sites with them. Sure PG has a ton of nice SQL features that are really handy if you want to do any kind of more advanced analysis. I wouldn't be surprised either to learn that it's much more efficient on executing complex queries. But the bottom line is that the great majority of production usage is basic CRUD queries using simple SQL, and a lot of applications will never need to use advanced SQL. The things MySQL does do better, replication and connections like you mentioned, tend to be more suited to keeping big dumb basic sites up and running reliably.

I'm usually gonna reach for Wordpress first along with MySQL if I need to set up a basic blog for non-technical people to contribute to. Maybe the DB isn't as cool as it could be, but it works fine, and I hardly ever have need to touch the database itself directly.
From a performance standpoint I love love trying them and eagerly seeing if I can replace the GNU tools. Its like using musl over glibc.
> I wonder what other things are popular for the creators but hated by the users? That's kind of an odd economic situation.

Electron, depending on how the developers use it. Most users doesn't knew that it's Electron because it's bundled with the application versus Flash which is visibly installed by the user, but most do indirectly complain of incomplete integration on their OS (usually they re-implement the notification system instead of using the native notification of the system) and very bloated memory requirements.
That's... actually viable? You can decode h264 in real time in JS with a single thread that also runs the UI?!

Sometimes I have this crazy thought that we maybe, just maybe, should undo all the JS performance optimizations in browsers. So JS again becomes the macro language for hypertext documents it's meant to be, not an "application platform".
Thanks, but no, I don't like slower and 1 process per connection.
I'm not the same person, but for whatever it's worth, I found it easier to understand Torchlight from your landing page. It has less emphasis on social validation and more on specifically what the software does, which speaks more loudly to me as a reader. Also, just using scrolling to allow the reader to digest the core features rather than a too-fast animation loop helps tremendously for digesting something new.

I also appreciate that you didn't throw around many unfamiliar technologies, with an assumption that all readers will be as looped into the same technology ecosystem. "Blade templates" is unfamiliar to me, but I can see from the code at the right, you're just illustrating another source file format that doesn't highlight well with traditional highlighters; it's not important for me to know what Blade is.

About the only section I'd say could use some work is the installation section, where a bunch of PHP ecosystem tech is mentioned, all of which is foreign to me. Maybe a, "Not a PHP developer? Here's a quick walk-through of what you need to know..." (linking to another page.)
There's an old add-on, Disable HTML5 Autoplay, that still works most of the time and can whitelist sites.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autop...
Perhaps a little ironic, but very valid. You shouldn't have to connect to brave servers to be able to go to your search engine, email,local network service, etc.
>I ask honestly and earnestly, how would the Homo sapiens and the cosmos progress and advance if more people understood Principia Mathmatica?

Not much, I'd say.

For one, it bears no moral significance. You can be a net negative scumbag and understand Principia Mathmatica.

Second, it's a formalization of mathematics. It doesn't necessarily yield relevant new insight to advance homo sapiens beyond it's (quite narrow) scope. Understanding Principia Mathmatica doesn't mean you'll know how to make penicillin, for example.

Third, even for pure mathematical work, it's not that interesting in the end. Tons of great math work is being done that has no relation to it.
> even Bing and DuckDuckGo give better results now for many searches

You've just made me realise how rarely I find myself needing to add a !g to my searches on DDG these days. That used to be a multiple times a day thing. I can't remember the last time I did it.
It might be. Just sharing my impression of it, take it as you will.
I was fortunate enough at uni to have a professor who edited Dick’ Exegesis and had a wonderful talk on it. During the process, which took many, many years, he said it would often become a task not to get so wrapped up in it all. At moments biting and prescient; others unreadable, schizophrenic runoff. I imagine if he struggled through it perhaps some of it is simply unreadable. I know he mentioned having to work with PKDs estate and of the excerpts I have read it does have a much different feel then his other works. The professor was brilliant, turning me on to other treasures like William Gibson. Just thought I’d share, cheers!
Perhaps I should've re-thought that part. Realism was widely interpreted to be the goal at the time. But the changelog only mentions code simplification.

I'd say if you compare the first two set of screenshots. It is more realistic since you don't get as crazy land formations. But falls short of creating significant mountain ranges to compensate, making it less realistic in a way.
Bromite and Brave have built-in adblockers on Android. Kiwi is a Chromium fork that let's you install addons.
I switched from Firefox and I've been happy so far. It's not perfect, but not as bad as the others. As others have said here be careful what extensions you install.

I also don't sign up for sync, or password manager, or any of that stuff as I don't trust it enough on any browser.

Several months into Brave and I have no urge to turn back yet.
> that’s a tribe I’m pretty happy letting go extinct.

Funny, saying that sort of thing is what got Fisher condemned.
I recently ordered directly from a company's website (it was listed on the product's packaging, so I'm fairly confident it wasn't a third party seller), as it was a little cheaper than ordering from Amazon. It still ended up being delivered directly from Amazon.
>They obviously didn't use TeX. Whatever they did, it must have been a truly staggering amount of work.

Well, tons of math books have been typeset before digital typesetting and/or TeX, they had the knack of it by the time.
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> But in the case of offensive campaigns, the military very much gives the government an idea of what the plan looks like, including the budget, timeline, casualties, chances of success, etc

You're correct that the military comes up with the plans. In some scenarios they may come up with multiple plans. There may also be other parts of the government, such as the state department, coming up with alternative plans. Choosing which plan to go with and what budget to give it is the responsibility of civilian leadership.

> It's worth noting here that the military very much has a vested interest in saying yes to military action, because that's good for job security.

Whose job security is it good for? The private who just joined isn't involved in these conversations. The people who are in these conversation are well established and in the later parts of their careers so they don't need to worry so much about job security.

> But when it turns out that you cannot get in and out of a country in the forecasted amount of time, and when that country then goes back to its former political landscape despite all of our best efforts, that failure cannot land entirely at the government's feet.

Why not? What happened to "the buck stops here"?

> This once again sounds like an internal KPI that the US military can without doubt be very proud of. An external observer may ask how much such an effort would cost, and how well we compare on a per soldier basis with someone like China or Russia

Sounds like the sort of things people in relevant committees in congress would probably ask questions about. If they don't like the answers they could probably even make some headway in getting that changed.

> A good example to bring up here would be the cost of the F-35 program. Is it an impressive aircraft? You bet. Are the capabilities of that aircraft in line with its cost? My gut tells me no, and I think a lot of people would agree. Do I have any hope that this was an isolated instance, and that the next-gen aircraft program will be done more cost-efficiently? Not really.

These kind of purchases are very political. How spread out is the manufacturing for this jet? How many different congressional districts in the US have at least one part being made there? Here are a couple articles about the government buying military equipment the military doesn't need or want [0][1].

[0] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/12/18/congress-agai...
[1] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/01/28/pentagon-tell...
As long as you're free to say no, and as long as your poor circumstances aren't caused by the person or entity offering you $X for Y, then no, that's not force.
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