skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there seems to be some disagreement with your position, I just wanted to thank you for being transparent about your involvement at Google. More people should act like that.
The way they talk, it's unclear they ever realised it.
Same way - the extended 3rd century crisis in the Roman Empire led to a loss of sculpting expertise. No art was commissioned for so long that skills weren't passed on.
>You abstract.

The danger is that you end up with a "perfectly spherical cow" that you base your arguments then on, and your abstraction-based results then have no bearing whatsover to the real world.
Just use Dokku?
That's certainly possible. I didn't see it mentioned as being a drive-by either. Usually that's treated almost like a buzz word people like to throw in a headline. Either way, I guess the data isn't there for us to ever know.
Only in the sense of a Solzhenitsyn nightmare. There are breathing, ideologically-bent individuals pushing this. Who are they, and how do we hound them like they have hounded him.
Regarding the reduction in lines of SQL. Doesn't this imply a tradeoff with where compute is utilized? By reducing SQL, wouldn't you be "pushing up" the compute from the database to the JVM while also increasing the amount of data that has to be moved around?

Edit: Wait, did you imply that the SQL you replaced with Scala ultimately gets transpiled into SQL (spark or other dataframe engine) and "pushed down" to the database? Now you're just maintaining Scala and not a rats nest of SQL strings concatenated together? If so, that's pretty awesome.
And the Antikythera mechanism gave a lot of credibility to those descriptions. Without it, they might well be dismissed as fantasy; Roman and Greek writers, even historians, were generally pretty credulous by modern standards and the literature contains references to all sorts of things which couldn't possibly have been true.
Well "throwaway21", interesting that every time this topic comes up, brand new accounts come out of the woodwork. I'm not going to accuse you of being a political actor, but I would point out that Wikileaks exists as part of a new realm of state-funded and state-coordinated private intelligence services created to retain plausible deniability. When certain state funded operations come up, the comment sections do always seem to fill with oddly named brand new accounts, on this website and many others! What a weird coincidence.

As per his crimes, he is charged with a relatively minor criminal offense stemming from his assistance in attempting to crack a password hash to gain unauthorized access to military computers -- a crime that would also be charged in any other western nation. Imagine hiding from a 5 year max sentence for 10 years. Oof.

As for Reality, she really could not have transitioned in Russia and China regardless of prison, that was the point you missed. But as to her crime, yes I do think that the idea of classification and state secrets have merit and that members of the military who violate that can be punished.
>I'm pretty sure it also rearranged his world view to view facts as less important than kindness.

If I was a strident atheist and my life was saved by a Christian fundamentalist, it seems plausible to me that I would subsequently be less prejudiced against such people and less concerned about the areas in which I thought they were incorrect. But not that I would believe whatever they do.
> I think maybe that dynamic influenced the tone of your original message.

I believe you are, at least in part, right in that. I'm going to reflect on this further, later in the day, but it is a very insightful analysis, thank you.

I do believe this is part of "growing up", learning to not just accept (as defeat) the way things are, but to find something in them to thrive on, even without changing yourself or who you are.

I've been a fierce Free Software advocate, a Linux fanatic, I've stood on my principles any chance I got, and it's been necessary for me to do so, and I understand that other people have other things about themselves that limit them in one way or another, but it really is important, not for the world, but for the individual, to be able to find some way to live in the world that is not entirely without compromise or adjustment (whichever fit the situation).

Again, I'm not advocating for compromise, or for changing who you are, but to seek reasons that things can work out, instead of seeking for reasons they can't. I just cannot muster sympathy for this particular concept of "feeling entitled and not having a job" at the same time.. It's like some famous chef, who used to work at a 3 star michelin restaurant and goes to bed each night hungry because he's absolutely refusing to work at the "not even 1 star" high-end restaurant, while lots of other people are able to function just fine in their job at McDonalds, it's a display of privilege that I don't care for or respect.
You must criticise every single injustice on Earth at once, or we just cannot take you seriously.

(I shouldn't have to point out that was sarcasm, but I fear I need to, these days.)
It's the natural evolution of the internet as a medium. Technology is always born without content and leeches off older technologies content.

Theater -> Books

Music -> Radio

Books + Radio -> Movies

Movies + Books -> TV

Movies + TV -> Games

So far we have used books and movies as content, but the internets native content is an open action 3D MMO, it just takes time for new mediums to develop their own content type.

Why have a linear hardcoded storyline when the users can live out their own stories in the game?

I know it might be hard to see now, but we don't have the energy to not build it.

Also kids lead the way, and TV does not exist in their world, they call that YouTube and Twitch.

And while movies might be fun for them, the time spent in Movies vs. Minecraft + Roblox is an approximation error.
Are you sure about that? Even in your own life? Why did you eat the dinner you had last night? Was it because the caloric intake was the proper amount you needed for life? Or were there other reasons? You liked the taste? Just felt like it?

many decisions we make are shortcuts in life. Maybe at one point something was a rational data decisions. But you can turn that into a 'gut feel' very quickly with little thought.

Changing someone's opinion with facts almost rarely works. Unless they do not care about the outcome. Then you can easily change their minds. Something like 1+1=3 'hey you got that wrong' 'oh yeah you are right its 2'. That sort of fact decision is easy to 'fix'. But which steakhouse is the best one on the market? You will get lots of opinions and anecdotes. But there are known and sometimes manipulative methods to change someone's opinion on those things. Edward Bernays methods are usually manipulative and use extensively in politics and marketing campaigns. I usually personally use a more questioning methodology. You also have to get past the idea of 'right vs wrong' also, and be willing to change your own opinions. If not fact methodology usually makes people dig in and ignore you.
Apple inches closer to $3T market cap
Thank you for this. Most people don't realise just how much effort has gone into securing chromium (and therefore chrome) and/or they conflate privacy and security.

One question, you mention memory unsafe code. Is chromium not written in C++? Isn't that still considered an "unsafe" language?
> He can work for Alice or anyone else in the world

what's stopping him now?

> without having to deal with intermediaries and bureaucracy.

you mean laws?

edit: immagine this situation, Bob does the job, the other party never clicks on "done", Bob doesn't get the money, what Bob can do if there's no intermediary and/or bureaucracy protecting him?
I've been programming since... well... technically since I was a kid in the 1980s and professionally since 1998. I think several areas have regressed quite a bit. The biggest one by far is desktop GUI programming.

From the late 1980s until the mid-2000s GUIs had all kinds of standardized visual cues, context sensitive help, UIs usable by both mouse and keyboard, standard interface designs across apps, data binding, and most of all WYSIWYG GUI design software that worked exceptionally well. We had this on 80286 CPUs with 1MiB of RAM and similarly tiny machines.

Today's desktop UIs are a fucking disaster on both the developer side and the user side.

For developers you have a choice between a hypertext language hacked endlessly into a UI and native UI tooling that's far less intuitive and much uglier than what we had back then. Compare the UI designer (not the language) in Visual Basic in the 1990s to today. You could not only design but data bind a complex app that looked decent in 30 minutes.

For users you have no consistency, no keyboard shortcuts (or different ones for every app), no help or help that only works online, etc.
> The question however is: "Do we listen to facts when the new information _does not_ fit our image of the world and it _feels_ wrong"? All science around that topic I have seen suggests we go with the feeling more likely in that case

I am sorry to hear that: you really should do something about it.

> it means our image of the world lags behind the information we get

In a way correct. It is explicit even in the actual formal study in epistemology (before the side of brain science): theories of foundation note the cost to "keep track". Nonetheless, there exists formation that installs the reflection module without adding more power consumption costs to the brain.

> It is the price we pay for having a more or less stable image of the world around us

Why should the image of the world be stable?! It should be dynamic - it's part of its purpose, it's not just deontic. And careful, also in order not to have to perform revolutions on the body of knowledge and relations in some future.

> Facts are not decoupled from their packaging

People who have dealt with people know out of experience they have to be skeptic... Packaging: it's even traditional wisdom running in popular proverbial locutions: "A beard does not make one a philosopher" (Plutarchus) - cowl and monk, book and cover... Children repeat it, adults know it, through experience! They sometimes fall? Well they utter "Should have known better" as they raise, not (normally) "But the garment!".
I do the exact same pinch-zoom gesture with my touchpad, though. Without leaving oily fingerprints all over my screen.
Yeah, I was wondering if there any platform/ tool/ service that I can use instead, like press release distribution but with more control of what's happening. Like picking journalists and also maybe with hints on press release writing...
Open Swoole IDE Helper released with enhanced type hinting for IDE
>"What "games" would YOU play to get out of being extradited to a foreign country for crimes of publishing factual information?"

The crime he is charged with has nothing to do with publication of anything, it's a charge stemming from his help attempting to crack a password hash of military computer accounts to help gain unauthorized access to military systems.

Are foreigners allowed to hack military networks in your country?

> You think it is the definition of intelligence to submit to that?

Considering that you're giving me an emotional tale of "CRIME OF PUBLISHING" which is completely contrary to the facts, I would say that the definition of intelligence at the very least includes setting your emotions aside and learning the basic information of a situation before coming to a conclusion
> Like Epstein?

Exactly. You can't prevent prison suicides.

In 2012, when she was home secretary, Theresa May stopped Gary McKinnon's extradition to the USA, on the grounds that he was a high suicide risk, and therefore the extradition violated his human rights. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon). If only I had similar expectations of our current home secretary.
Nice. Got it. A demo instance would also be helpful in this regard. I always appreciate self-hostable tools and for that use case a demo is super valuable for getting a quick understanding of “what it is” as well.
That's exactly what I'm saying.

Its not a linear path.

Its a bumpy path that's filled with huge upticks at times and no movement at times.
Scala is almost as terse as Python for data munging/wrangling tasks (unlike say C#,C++ or Java)

Scala is almost as much joy to write data munging tasks as Python (unlike say C#, C++, Java, and I have to say Golang).

Chaining multiple maps and filters is so much more pleasurable than writing 4 nested loops with multiple ifs inside.

The better part is that you can reliably deploy Scala unlike Python.

We just had yet another discussion on the mess that Python deployment is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29439149
>Data centers could cause serious environmental damage

Uh huh.

And cars DO cause serious environmental damage, and instead of regulating them in the only way that makes sense (that is: trying to get rid of them as much as possible), mankind builds more and more roads right through its living space, and clings to the fantasy of electrical cars somehow solving anything (tell that to people living near the places where all that Lithium for the batteries is mined).

Datacenters used up about 205 TWh (tera-watt-hours) in 2018 ~1% of the globally provided electricity. (https://energyinnovation.org/2020/03/17/how-much-energy-do-d...). What's more, their energy consumption has reached a plateau in recent years, because while more data/compute is wrangled, devices got more efficient.

So forgive me if I don't give a damn about the energy required to make the internet go "brrrrrrrr", when at the same time, we still consider it normal, to burn 2litres of gasoline, to fetch 150g of butter from the corner store.
Its possible that it was recorded on dev ps5, those machines are more powerful. And you can get away calling it 'runs on ps5'.

Marketing people are at it again
Utility is a fundamental concept in decision theory. Arguing it cannot exist is the opposite extreme to arguing that homo economicus, with superhuman evaluative strategies and no gaps in rationality, exists.

People can compare their current situations to relative improvement, and often those are transitive (though not always). So in most reasonable cases the mathematical axioms needed for utility to be defined exist in a reasonable way, allowing for comparison through a formalized utility function.

One can certainly mathurbate themselves with utility, and many do, but ultimately utility is a discussion to simplify communication (instead of primitives) about why people make preditible choices. It extends pretty quickly to revealed preferences.

Of course, asking where preferences come from in the first place is a third rail.
I don't think this is a tailwind specific thing. I see this happen with almost every framework/language update. There's more people who know about a language than people who know the language. So it will obviously deviate more to them.
It’s our jobs as engineers to say no, and to try to fight that kitchen-sink tendency. It’s exhausting work, though, and I admit to just caving at work from time to time.
Read somewhere that he was portrayed as a villain to move the fence-sitters. Otherwise he was a liberal figure for most of his time.
On the path to become a better developer
I don't understand. If my upload bandwidth is sufficient for me to keep my stuff on OneDrive/iCloud/Google Drive, why wouldn't it be sufficient to keep my stuff on any other remote storage service?
Or is that the smoker's emphysema, copd, lung cancer - I've heard it both ways but in my mind it's at least an open question as to who costs more.
A500 was the most sold model, and still easiest/cheapest to find second hand.

It does cost a little more, but not much. Around 150€ in Europe. US might be harder.
Imagine the level of whataboutism to cherry-pick Assange's case as being morally equivalent to the large-scale enslavement and genocide of the Uyghurs.

I'm disgusted by what is happening to Assange. But what China is doing to the Uyghurs is Medieval. Even if you ignore the Uyghur situation, China has tens of thousands of political prisoners for every one Assange the USA has.
> If you don't believe me, stay in your walled garden. I've given you hints, start checking them for yourself or don't.

There's no need to be so confrontational. You made the claim, you'll probably be asked to show the technical reasoning behind your statements on a forum called Hacker News. But since you're working on competition, it's in your best interest to discredit similar products.

> If I would post screenshots of MITMProxy, Little Snitch or something else, people would try to discredit them as fake anyways

Sounds to me you're not prepared for people to show you might be incorrect. Honestly, I never doubted your position, I just wanted clarification for my own intellectual gratification. But you sound really defensive for some reason.

(By the way, I do not work in ad-tech nor in ad-blocking tech and I have no stake in anything slightly related to the matter at hand.)
Firefox still doesn't encrypt your session cookies.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1259652
This is a _bit_ of a myth; the main reason that Roman-era steam engines went nowhere was that they didn't have the metallurgy to make them practical. Like, they had _watermills_; the idea that they were uninterested in mechanical power because they had slaves doesn't really hold up.
It's seems they have a preference for goatherds though....
Turn history off and/or watch via DuckDuckGo
i think that orgmode notebook programing generally beats anything else out of the water, including jupyter. i actually dont uderstand why it hasnt gotten bigger attention in the communities thatvuse jupyter

as for cl, if you enjoy learning it in this way you can convert norvig's paip book from md to org format using pandoc

https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp
Totally possible! I hope we actually see small walkable enclaves throughout the country. Like the little mountain resort towns, but kept afloat by residents rather than tourism. Jobs are a big part of the equation with living in a city, but definitely not the only one. Food, arts, other cultural artifacts that people who live in cities care about are harder to move across the web for sure.
I'm not saying that you must follow your abstractions blindly. At the end you must always test your theory against reality and adjust if reality contradicts your assumptions.
> Only couple of years earlier we thought to know everything about ancient Greece

I don't think any historian would claim that, or would ever have claimed that. Knowledge of the ancient world is extremely limited and patchy.
People gliding over the ground is a huge giveaway as well, when you walk past someone else your feet don't slide to the right while you are still walking straight ahead, your movement changes.
Interesting article but it is a bit funny that the author says that they are fed up with C++, then they try to hack around the lack of HKT :)
Any decent password manager nowadays allows sharing of 2FA tokens, it's not a technical problem, it's a managerial and staff training problem in non-tech industries. It is simply not enforced enough and there are still too many people who are not aware of the risks and can not be bothered to be inconvenienced.

Disclosure: My company is offering a web-based 2FA authenticator (https://www.daito.io/) that explicitly is for sharing 2FA tokens, but not usernames+passwords, thus eliminating a single point of failure. I regularly have discussions about why and sadly why not people are using 2FA. There are tons of small business & mom+pop shops out there who are at risk.

I hope the guidance gets upgraded to a mandatory requirement (as some platforms do) sometime soon.
Author here, thanks for catching that error.
> Rehashing US war crimes, which would certainly come up, won't be great for the prosecution either.

Assuming the judge doesn't block that line of argument.
Yeah I’m ok not having my coffee made by something “smart” that depends on AWS. There’s a trend of making everything aware. But in my experience, it’s often implemented poorly, with terrible UI, and insecurely. Just look at the absolute trash they call “infotainment” in some cars. You buy a new car and feel like the infotainment is from 2006. The Internet of Crappy Things is real. There are notable exceptions, but too often “smart” is just a junky screen that send back information on me to monetize me. Do I care if some marketing company knows how many cups of coffee I drink? Maybe not, but maybe a health insurance risk database does. And I bet there are nearly zero controls over that harvested data being kept by the SmartBrew2.0
He hasn’t completely finished his reconstruction, but he hasn’t entirely been on a hiatus either. He co–authored a paper on the calendar ring of the mechanism: https://bhi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BHI-Antikythera...

But he hasn’t made many videos the last year or two.
You are dismissing the examples for being too simple. They are simple because they are examples.

My point is not that these three examples "solve all issues we have with Authority/Govt/BigFinance". Nor to prove that "Bitcoin Fixes this".

My point is to show that crypto-currencies, by design, are programmable, and this allows a lot of use cases to move from Authority/Govt/BigFinance to DIY.
Not all cases, not everywhere, not for everyone. But in a spectrum.

To clarify with your refutations:

> Now my life savings are gone forever.

Which is why you probably want "your life savings" in a secure, goverened, trusted environment. For many people Blockchain or DIY is out of the question for "my life savings". But that leaves a giant spectrum of other use-cases. From checking accounts to saving-for-a-friends-present. Use your imagination.

> Then I have to trust that the blockchain can tell these people are alive

You are dismissing a giant set of use-cases on one that will, indeed, probably never work.
I never mentioned that this the ultimate and only replacement for Deed. I deliberately did not, because I think this is a bad use-case for Blockchain for the reasons you mention and much more.

But this could be a "here's some money for when you turn 18" or "bonuses for managers which can only get extracted after a year", a "tip jar that pays out every month" etc.

My point was that trust is a spectrum, and not binary. Yet you take the most extreme outliers thinkable, refute those and then conclude that none of the cases in the broad spectrum can ever work. They can. And Blockchain is one of the tools. As are trust-funds, banks, payment-APIs, courts, notaries and so on.
In case you didn't gather, they're lying about perfect emulation.

Not even WinUAE has perfect emulation, although at least they are genuinely trying, unlike these crooks.

The perfect AGA claim is insulting. AGA isn't even close to fully understood or documented.
You didn’t actually point to any evidence that a meaningful number of those 2 billion people actually benefit from crypto.
> just to be clear, the perpetrators of those barbarous war crimes, and their superiors, never had to face justice.

This is the big one. I can totally see how Assange handled some of the data irresponsibly, and I can understand if he deserves a firm slap on the wrist for that. But they're asking for 175 years for this, while the war crimes he reported on go unpunished, and that is the real injustice here.

The US clearly doesn't care about war crimes anymore, but it does not tolerate criticism of crimes committed in service of the government.
Yeah I had to reread it a few times, it's just a mistake.

Of course maybe the kid being more accessible to doctors might increase the doctors' utility, but that's not what he meant.