skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are they easily gamed?

Yes, like a Ponzi scheme or MLM for example. That's literally a web of trust setup to defraud people and one that often relies on pre-existing trusted relationships to spread. Almost all crimes involving social engineering like fraud are going to involve exploiting webs of trust. And whilst your friends may never steal your tools other people do end up being robbed by their friends.

> Don't ask "how trustworthy is user A," instead ask, "given users A and B, who does A trust that trusts B (and what kinds of trust have they configured)?" I'm not angling for a credit score, I'm angling to replace implicitly trusted institutions (like banks) with explicitly trusted third parties (like mutual friends, or people that users A and B both recognize as an expert).

Right and people won't create fake webs of trust with this to engage in scamming like they do in the real world already? No one would try to ruin your reputation this way and so forth. It feels like proponents of these social credit schemes do literally zero adversarial thinking. Similar to the way no one seemed to have thought about the rampant bot fraud now occurring on NFT marketplaces which are probably a scheme to setup false identities more than offload low value NFTs. But theft, fraud and automating it seem to not have occurred to the designers.
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You mentioned persona, which relies on email. Lose gmail=lose your account on possibly hundreds of websites.

Wallets can indeed be very large "coins". People are going to come up with creative solutions for this, eg. you can split each bitcoins in a different wallet, share the keys with trusted people etc. Cryptocoins are not yet widely used, but there is nothing stopping people from coming up with new ingenious ways to store their hard money safely as they have done in real life. It 's a change of mindset, that it is possible to lose digital assets permanently. I think many people can come to terms with that in the end
The new AdGuard iOS beta has a web extension component and it is now very close to ublock in terms of functionality. So it’s coming soon. Between AdGuard and NextDNS I don’t see hardly any ads.
i think that has changed over the past 20 years. linux is now everywhere and not just on servers in data centers. and this requirement is not a valid reason to force rust onto all device creators who choose linux.
Yeah, me too, really. The media have a fairly conservative bias, despite all the Republican claims of "liberal bias". I thought this conservative bias came from media trying to keep Republicans from claiming "liberal bias", but now I'm wondering if the CIA has something to do with it.
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I’m addition to all of the canonical texts folks have posted here, it might be worth noting the ACM has a publication in which they define what makes a complete Computer Science curriculum:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/240483.240502

This is behind their paywall, and I would discourage you from paying, but someone might be able to find the same document with a simple web search.
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Tried the demo but it could not answer correctly any of my questions, maybe it didn't have the answers in its index.
Due to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), more minimum wage jobs provide healthcare coverage than did so 30 years ago. Most employers are now required to offer that to all full-time employees regardless of wage level. There are still gaps and affordability problems but overall coverage is now more available to such workers.
I’m addition to all of the canonical texts folks have posted here, it might be worth noting the ACM has a publication in which they define what makes a complete Computer Science curriculum:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/240483.240502

This is behind their paywall, and I would not discourage you from paying, but someone might be able to find the same document with a simple web search.
People living in periods of high innovation (Han dynasty, 19th century West) didn’t have near the luxury your average person in America enjoys today. Less debt, but also a dramatically lower carbon footprint reflecting a far lower standard of living and opportunity. They would consider you lucky for having the opportunity to get and carry a mortgage by comparison. Especially to do so with such ease and lack of social standing. The food you eat, the air travel you can enjoy, your figurative and literal mobility, etc.

You can still live as they did if you want to. Rent a dwelling, live with another family or more relatives, eat largely the same food except on holidays, perhaps live and die without traveling outside your town, do some military service.

Nobody makes you take on massive personal debt. Ideally you’re doing it as an investment with a plan for return. Also, the world won’t end if you stop getting nickled-and-dimed by monthly subscriptions. Shut it down for a while.
If you anticipate that whatever government mandates your money will still be around when you retire, then you're not living during (what I'm claiming is) the endgame of NFT's.
well, if I'm not mistaken -- the US' immigration process awfulness pales in comparison, to, say the UK. I believe AUS/NZ have inherited similarly complex, kafkaesque systems. I don't know for sure, because I only have experience with the UK's (and failed to get in despite having a PhD AND having a job with money set aside waiting for me); but I have worked side-by-side with H1B holders who said "it was bad but not that bad".
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I reduce my time on YouTube by going there with a specific subject in mind, search on it, and use yt-dlp to download the likely candidates and watch them offline. It has the added bonus of being able to re-watch them offline without going back to YT.

It's similar, now that I think about it, to my shopping routine. Research what I want, go in, grab it, and get the heck out.

I've learned over the years that if I don't want to buy too much or spend a few hours watching videos I could do without, I limit my interactions voluntarily.
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I'm not being taken for a ride where we pretend that nothing was intended nor implied by calling it a narcotic.
Here's another take that I don't know if I believe, but is interesting. What if we aren't running out of new ideas, and it's just hard to classify all the new stuff so we bucket it together too much? If 'fantasy' is a respectable genre to innovate within, then complaining that there's no innovation because we aren't seeing new genres misses the mark. But once upon a time, fantasy would all be categorized as Tolkien rip offs. Same with 'phone app' or 'super hero movie' as things that innovation can happen within.

Maybe over time, old branches become commonly accepted enough that we can finally recognize innovation within them, but until then that innovation just looks derivative. And those branches have their own branches, repeating the process where most everything always looks incremental without hindsight.
Is there a link showing the delta between v2 and v3?
> If you watch pretty much any video upload to social media about officers harassing citizens you'll see intimidation by the threat of violence and from actual violence

Everyone knows it happens. The claim that needs citation is that it is "widespread", happens "often" and "regularly". What that claim really needs is more specificity on what those words mean.

> The article is literally about the Police's failure to comply and submit documentation of all uses-of-force. In the vacuum of any official documentation, the only thing we have to go by are citizen reports.

Has someone compiled those citizen reports into a database?

The proportion of what media dedicates time to (this includes social media) is not proportional to how often those things happen. In fact, it's often the opposite. Sensational, rare and objectionable things get disproportionate coverage.

The topic database needs to exist. Instead of shutting it down for lack of compliance, it needs consequences or incentives attached to produce the desired behavior.

As it is now, there's literally nothing to gain for the police to voluntarily report these incidents. It can only hurt them. It'd be like asking you to publish how often and how much you drink alcohol and offering no incentive or consequences. Why would you do that? It'd only invite scrutiny.
> How anyone can become a billionaire as an employee is utterly beyond me.

You are thinking of all employees as fungible replaceable units, but employees are capitalistic units that can get monopoly power or economic rents.

An employee can provide a function that can’t be replaced, and that employee can capture a lot of the business profits, well beyond their actual “value” to the business. For example, Tim Cook’s personal relationship with Chinese officials might be very hard to replace.

Alternatively there is a kind of blackmail value, where losing a prominent employee can have high costs to the business, and the employee can get paid more than they are “worth” due to that. For example, perhaps Tim Cook leaving would cause more than a few billion damage in profits or valuation due to perceptions.
> It might be in-bubble, but "I have never spoken to anyone who..." is a poor heuristic for evaluating the superiority/inferiority of a product.

∃x→¬P(x) is a poor response to ∃x→P(x), but a good response to ∀x→P(x). In this case, the parent commenter was claiming - in context - that all end users need or benefit from having the source code to their software, so it is relevant to say that that statement is true of absolutely nobody I know.

If he were making the abstract statement that publishing the source code might benefit some people, that would be another thing. In reality, I don't think it makes any difference whether Apple bundles the source code to these programs, when the source code, by definition, is openly available, and can be accessed much more easily by Googling it much more quickly and easily than by searching for it somewhere in /usr/lib.
That's a fun idea! I don't see how you would execute that unfortunately though. Hubble wasn't meant to be re-mounted after deployment. Starship wouldn't be able to just gobble Hubble up and have it rattle around in its fairing during re-entry
Maybe tether just hopes to be so entrenched and trusted that they become their own "Central bank of crypto". Doubt it would work considering the whole point of crypto is "minimal trust", but being the money printer could be a valid business model.
Thank you very much for the answers! This is a great work!

I'm thinking maybe stack graph can be used to understand the preprocessor. finding the original toggle/condition that turns on/off a #ifdef block.

I heard a simple c++ hello world contains 5000 #defines introduced by standard libs. if stack graph can improve exhaustive search somehow, that would be awesome.
My Google home accepts being called a variety of things that aren't Google, possibly in order to accept different accents or slurring, possibly just because it's not very strict with exact sounds being used. I imagine this is actually a good thing if you're half asleep talking into the pillow, have an uncommon accent, etc.

- googoo
- googah
- guhguh
- gulgul
- doodle
- doodoo
- booboo
- booble
- ok gool (but not hey gool)
Actually, each of the books are a pretty quick read. They are also good as audiobooks.
Yeah, they invited a few people at first, then opened it to every Tesla owner in California, and basically nobody was interested. Supercharging was fast enough for most people, and it didn't make sense to scale out something that almost nobody was interested in.

Another notable change at that time was adding the underbody plate[1] for increased fire safety, which made the swap take longer than it otherwise would. These were offered free of charge to customers and there was very high uptake.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-adds-titanium-underbody-shi...
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* Looks around

"We down bad here too?"
It seems you're suggesting the same strategy, and just don't like when it's done poorly.
There have always been inflection points in history. It's unreasonable to assume that there won't be any. Everytime society comes out of an inflection point there is a field of critics bemoaning the fact that we are no longer in an inflection point. But that's because inflection points are by definition state changes.

In a way I think the assumption that growth is always a smooth curve up and to the right is inadequate. During every single inflection point people think this time is different this kind of growth is permanent. Every single time that turns out to not be the case. It's just society running it's normal course. The next inflection point is coming. In the meantime we'll have to content ourselves with the benefits of the last inflection point.
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Some things which have worked for me (Scandinavian working elsewhere, senior dev):

- Re. keywords, trim the CV according to the job you want. I've worked with PHP, PL/SQL, VBA and other technologies I'd rather never touch again. I simply don't mention them in the CV, and if it ever comes up in the interview I clearly say "I don't want to work with that." If they press me on it, that's a big red flag.

- Rather than simply saying "no" to a rebuild, how about looking into the pain points and improving them, step by step? If it's slow, do a bit of profiling and fix the low-hanging fruit. If it's incomprehensible, run a formatter and a linter and fix everything which you can conceivably fix, then run a complexity checker and discombobulate a couple of the biggest clusters. If it's unreliable or ossified, add tests until it's stable and refactorable.

- Shitty hiring practices can be a sign of a disorganised or dysfunctional company. I'd simply take it as a red flag and be ready to drop the opportunity if it's too bad.

- Meaningful work is out there, but it's usually not paid the best. That said, do you really need the very best paid job you can find to have a comfortable life? You're already in a well-paid segment, even with the salary stagnation. I've found lots of meaning by working in research (really badly paid, but such stimulating colleagues & cameraderie) and currently in a place where I'm working almost full time on open source software, including third party dependencies.
It’s part of the feedback loop but it’s not a cause.

Intervening to alleviate inequality directly won’t change the other dynamics.
I've long campaigned for HN to abandon px and adopt em/rem units for text.

Reading on mobile devices, or worse, high-DPI e-ink, is a nightmare.

There's supposed to be a custom-per-user CSS hack in the works, but that's been the response for years.
I think technology addiction is a real thing and a real concern. I'm young enough to have had a Nokia brick cell phone that stayed in my car in high school and was only used for parental conversations. I just did things, explored, played. Now, I am stuck on my computer, phone, or iPad all day. Yes, I tend to read a lot of non-fiction and interesting things there or I'm doing work, but it's an endless onslaught of surface-level material and not deep and exploratory thinking. And I don't even play phone games or watch TV. We even see a change in how people watch things. The days of something like an hour-long Letterman show is over. Everyone wants little clips and bits to gnaw on. If one goes back to old radio and TV interview programs, they had real intellectuals on there with real questions. Now we simply have drivel.

I have personally become worried about my own addiction, which I would wager is pretty light relatively speaking. It's been helping for me to get out and do yard work, it's amazing how simply touching dirt grounds yourself. I've also been trying to get a work setup conducive to just sitting down and actually getting through some books I've surrounded myself with and get back to playing music and also exploring electronics.
>There's also the matter of eliminating errors.

Alternatively, you could replicate those errors at scale....
Having used it pre-release, the JIT compiler is really incredible. It makes Tailwind a sea-change when compared to Bootstrap and the other, similar, CSS toolkits.
Apparently it was. Keep in mind that that generation had a much fresher and more direct memory of a significant conflict (WW2) and so there are common experiences where people would be jumpy at any odd light flying around, sirens, sounds, always ready to jump under the table or shelter to try to hide from the nuclear blast.

I am certainly glad we don't live under that kind of fear, even if we have something else to replace it.
Hm. Now I want a journaling/note-taking app that just listens on every chat service I use.
From reading the blog post, it looks like they took most of the things that were experimental or first class plugins and graduated then into being native.
Counter argument: Always enable fast-math unless your application has a demonstrable need for deterministically consistent floating point math. If you're just trying to get a "good enough" calculation (which is the vast majority of floating point work, physics and rendering calculations for 3D graphics), there's no reason to leave the performance on the floor.
> I don't know what that means.

In Henry George’s terminology, he decomposed income into three components based on the three factors of production. Income from competitive labor is called wages, income from competitive capital is called interest, and income from land and other noncompetitive monopolies is called rent. He proposed to tax land and other monopolies heavily, while exempting labor and capital from tax. What I meant is that a progressive income tax has higher rates for people and companies with high profits while exempting capital and labor expenses, which is similar to the Georgist idea of taxing monopolies more heavily than capital and labor.

> You can read the details in "The Flat Tax: Updated Revised Edition"

Thanks for giving the reference to Hall and Rabushka https://www.hoover.org/research/flat-tax. Previously you mentioned making the curve progressive, which is not a flat tax so I just assumed you meant income tax.

In comparison to the current income tax, it seems that Hall and Rabushka do not exclude business interest expenses or personal mortgage interest, but they still do exclude wage expenses. Wages are progressive at the low end (due to the personal allowance) but their tax is not otherwise progressive. And they totally exclude personal capital gains from taxation (such as the sale of your house) (although the current income tax is not very good at taxing capital gains of real estate).

Basically, the point of the flat tax seems to be to eliminate complicated deductions, credits, and depreciation, and they are skeptical of progressivity which they see as “redistribution”.

Note that they themselves admit that their flat income tax should be combined with property taxes: “We believe that taxing housing is properly ceded to local governments under our federal system. Local property taxes capture part of the value of the services of a house.” (from Chapter 5: Q&A)

> Its a harmful distortion of the price system.

I disagree that LVT (tax on scarcity rents) is a harmful distortion on prices. Chapters 1-4 of Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing is a good book on this topic. https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Economics-Land-Housing-Rya... As you note, the whole point of prices is to incentivize capital investment. But the difference with land is that it has a vertical long-term supply curve, so more money in land does not result in the creation of any more land; it’s just a transfer payment to the old owner.

Ownership of natural resources is a major undeserved source of inequality. We see the inequality playing out in San Francisco: residents who happened to own land became rich, whereas residents who did not own land became impoverished, just as Henry George wrote: “it is as though an immense wedge is being driven through the middle. Those above it are elevated, but those below are crushed” https://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp0.htm. It is better for the poor and better capital allocation to “distort” the economy to prevent extreme inequality between rentiers and laborers+capital.
Like I said to the other commenter, the source code for the software being discussed already is available - by definition - and much more easily than if you had to go searching through /usr/lib. It's an absolutely moot point[0] whether Apple bundles the source code for Bash into their operating systems, for 99.99999% of intents and purposes and users.

We're not discussing whether the source code for XNU/Darwin/Mach/MacOS itself ought to be open, which is another question entirely. (Obviously everyone would sooner it be open than not open, in a first-order analysis, but, as with medical patents and the like, a proper analysis would have to ask whether it would even have existed if its source code were to be open.)

[0] Or rather a non-moot point, for the pedants.
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The Hollywood arguments are out of touch. Just because every big movie is a Franchise doesn't mean creativity is dead.

But Hollywood has a better business model, there is amazing creativity happening, but new ideas are tried in the places that didn't exist before. On streaming services, and the internet.

It's like a startup, the good ideas grow. But Billion dollar movies made for a global audience will no longer take on unnecessary risk. So many of them fail, even with proven formulas.

We should just get over looking for Mega Blockbuster movies that ALSO push art forward.
Microsoft open sourced "Service Fabric" that " Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Cortana, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Intune, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, Dynamics 365, Skype for Business and other" run on. Also .net.
Algorithmics by David Harel is not much mentioned anymore, but it's really good if you can find it. An easy and inviting read, it was written as a popular book not a textbook but nevertheless covers many topics with very thorough and clear explanations, and also touches on history and culture. I recall there were several versions with different titles - Algorithmics: The Soul of Computing was, I think, a cut-down version.

Seconding Petzold's Code for hardware and low-level programming. Also seconding Downey's Think Python (which has appeared in several versions with different titles). It is an easy read but is a bit deeper than many introduction to Python books.

Also seconding Wirth's Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs but it requires a lot more concentration and study than the previous suggestions. It is also old-fashioned, from the late 1970s I think, uses Pascal as its programming language. It teaches and celebrates a rigorous, economical programming method and coding style which is not much in vogue any more.