skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We develop the majority of our code in scala at my company (in fintech).

There seems to be an experience in this thread that training in Scala is difficult. For anyone who is considering and wants another perspective - I have found that junior engineers tend to get up to speed more quickly in Scala than in other languages and that I can give them more freedom (because I know their programs won't compile if they don't line their types up and our use of the type system very immediately forces them to deal with the possibility that an operation can fail, e.g.). I can simply look at types and give them a nudge in the right direction (heyoo -fp either joke-). Yes they suffer a little in the beginning, but are usually shipping code within a few weeks then their trajectory really begins to rocket. It's very cool to watch them grow to building complex systems in a complex domain so quickly. As they grow the ease of refactoring means that it is easy to change their prior work as they gain more understanding, so for our management the penalty of allowing them to learn in the wild about something that's suboptimal is pretty low - they will come back and fix it. Of course what I'm saying above is really about FP and type systems and an implicit (heyoo -scala joke-) presence of thought about how our systems work top to bottom and how we train people. I think that is also required no matter what tools you use or what you're doing in any organization?
But how do you know who is holding the phone/keyboard? If my phone is stolen and someone then sells my house and drains my bank accounts, how can I prove it was not me?

The whole thing is built on sand.

Suggesting that it is all verifiable etc is fine and dandy, but that is risky as the onus of proof falls to the victim. It is a bit like when Chip+Pin first came in for the UK way back when - there was this suggestion by the banks that fraud was now impossible, and the only possible way for the card to be used was by you the account holder as you are the only person that knows your pin is 1234.

Obviously that was bullshit and they have softened their line since, but I worry that we'd just go through this all over again "You are the only person who has your private key! It must have been you that sold your house to someone in Nigeria for $1! It is in the blockchain now - it is irreversible there is nothing we can do. Case closed!" ... ignoring all of the possible ways we can imagine in just 30 seconds for how someone could access your computer/phone without your permission.
If "debug.log(stuffIGotFromPeer)" is dangerous, then the problem is with debug.log and not my code.

Safe logging is not too high of a bar.
The solution of course is to use a collection of oracles that report the state of the park to the blockchain. You would need to use enough oracles to be sure they aren't just your neighbors running them or being manipulated by your neighbors.

I'm only half joking. This example is a bad use case and web3 isn't going to replace literally every aspect of society.
It seems like AWS and Google have had more outages than normal recently. I guess this is to do with COVID disruptions? (remote working and such).
It’s because people want to live in a specific kind of community. Many Americans want a suburban life, with a cute house on a plot of land, with neighbors also with cute houses on plots of land. Low density, low numbers of cars clogging the local roads.

Introduce an apartment building and the aesthetic changes — lots more people around, more cars on the road, more congestion at the grocery store, less privacy in the yard. Or so the theory goes.

Not to mention cheaper housing nearby might lower your property value.
>- the person who stole the files he released is already free and the tax payers paid for their transition

HER transition. Stop misgendering people. Since you used "he/he's/him" to refer to Assange four times, then you should have used "her" to refer to Manning, unless you were just trying to make the point that you're transphobic. And there are more polite ways of telling people you're transphobic than misgendering other people: just come out and admit it.

Edit: changed the second "she" to "her", to match the initial all caps "HER", and included "he's" and "him". Happier?
I think it had more to do with VB being so easy it attracted lots of inexperienced programmers who didn't care about performance or correctness as long as the job got done. Sort of like a pre-internet PHP ;)
There are others options besides Go and category theory. I'd say that for now, languages that are like ML are enough. They're coming in the mainstream with pattern matching, immutable records, etc. It'll take some time for people to learn this, learn to use it properly, teach it to others. And maybe some years later a monad will be a pattern as common and well-known as an iterator. But today isn't that day yet, and until now you have to collaborate with your peers. You also have to assume that you may be wrong about some of this stuff, and keep an open mind for FP alternatives. For example, I think algebraic effects aren't part of category theory, yet they're an exciting new feature that might have an impact in "industrial" languages one day.
When the topic of highly contagious disease is involved some view refusal to vaccinate as others near them putting things into their bodies, through contaminated air.

Consider that one cannot smoke in some public spaces without consequence. For many going unvaccinated to school or the office is in a similar category.
How do you draw a clear line between what Assange disband what other journalists do? Most journalists have agendas, if we allow our government to prosecute journalists with agendas they don't like, then we don't have a free press.
As a kid I was really into the whole 'ancient mysteries' thing and wrote about the Antikythera mechanism in gushing / awed tones in my English O-level ! Luckily the examiner was kind, but years later I realise it must have come across as all a bit Von Daniken.
From https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/22/nils_melzer_julian_a...

> "He will be certainly exposed to an arbitrary trial, if he — in the U.K., extradition trial. The choreography is clear. Whatever his lawyers say, in the end, the U.K. judges will say, “Yes, of course, we cannot extradite him if there’s death penalty or torture or treatment, so, please, U.S., make assurances.” The U.S. will obviously make these assurances, and then the U.K. will say, “Then we have no reason not to trust the U.S.” And they will extradite him to the U.S. That’s what I foresee. And that’s what he expect he will hear. And that’s the crux here. In addition to the ill treatment he has already suffered, I am absolutely convinced that he will not get a fair trial. He’ll get a show trial in East Virginia, and he’ll end up in prison under inhumane conditions for the rest of his life. That needs to be prevented."

The whole article is worth reading: Melzer initially was extremely opposed to even looking into Assange's case (his negative view of Assange having been molded by media, as he states), and describes how his view evolved immediately after starting working on this, assessing him, etc.
Even if that UK bill passes, why can’t Americans and third world residents simply ignore it? If the UK requires ISPs to block the domain, that’s one thing, but how can they realistically enforce prison time on a foreign forum owner? A country that honors such an extradition request is one that is in need to violent replacement with a legitimate government.
The UK govnement has passed extremely draconian laws in the last year. The government is trying to to power grab while covid is still around and people are focused on covid.

Laws banning protests, surveillance and others.

This isn't a surprise but doesn't make it acceptable.
>No, that is not what I said, nor is that what my point is/was.

I see no substantial difference.

>To reiterate, "Further, I am of the opinion, being someone who was quite literally in Afghanistan when he leaked the information he did, that any probative value of the information Manning leaked was overshadowed by the indiscriminate way in which it was done."

I really don't understand what you being in Afghanistan is supposed to prove. If anything it suggests that you place a higher value on loyalty to the institution you belonged to that committed these war crimes and covered them up than you do on human rights.

Is that not the case?

>If all that was leaked was the war crimes, then we would not be having this discussion.

Oh, we absolutely would. The case was built specifically around the leak of collateral murder.

American espionage law criminalizes leaking evidence of war crimes. Snowden has offered to come home if its scope was tightened to only include actual espionage. Congress demurred.

This is what you were fighting for in Afghanistan like it or not - for a group of elites who would toss you in prison for exposing their war crimes without a second's thought.
C++ macros are completely unlike Rust macros so lumping them together makes no sense.
I believe that science and religion must be compatible, or else at least one must be wrong. I believe in both.

Scientific consensus says the vaccine saves lives, and religion says I must not kill people. This seems compatible to me. Who cares what “the government” says?
This is not a convincing argument. Just because I think something should be improved, doesn‘t mean I should applaud any and all attempts to improve it.

If my city has a hideous, impractical train station and you just take a wrecking ball to it overnight, I‘m not going to thank you, because I won‘t be able to ride a train for months.

Also consumer banking (in Europe) is great, I don‘t know what people are so mad about. If it‘s just "consumer banking sucks in the US" you have a much more straightforward improvement plan in "make it like Europe".
Other "out-of-place" artifacts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact
> There’s an app for that ;)

My specific case was that I didn't have access to internet at that moment, but I hoped that I could transfer with Bluetooth just like I did many years ago with simpler devices.

> In the same amount of time it took you type up this comment you could’ve found solutions using your favorite search engine.

>Here’s a “free” search term to try:

>‘copying videos to ipad without itunes’

I remember trying and not finding anything meaningful. I will for sure try again if you're saying there are ways, but just telling me to search online instead of giving some solution brings me back to the same starting point that I was the first time I tried.
Does anyone know what the latency of these Wiimote setups is? If it's better than an actual touch-screen that might be worth implementing for that reason alone
It is impressive that the Russians manage to maintain such a stranglehold on the US consciousness given the number of special interest groups they have to keep in front of.

It would appear that this "Russian propaganda" involves aggressively telling the truth. It is a bit awkward to suggest that is an effective tactic against the US.
Me too. Though it does seem to be any page for that specific domain. They all return an HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error).

Google "site: aws.amazon.com" and try any of the links.
Turning my phone off right fucking now!
Do you have an account on Audius? I think that's a very good start :)

good luck
Is web.archive.org using itself AWS? I tried archiving the error page, but I only get a "Sorry / Job failed" page...
I think it's also about:

- later recycling frequencies

- reducing maintenance burden (by not maintaining 3G)

- as far as I remember 3G as serious security vulnerabilities

Also most smart phones only a lifetime of 3-5 years at most, and even then people tend to replace them early due to braking them and for vanity.

So there are probably not too many smart phones around which do not support 4G and which are not a security liability. Through probably a bunch of fallback feature phones or other "less common" (then smartphones) kinds of phones.

Also it differs by country.
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This is so wasteful. Buy one pair of reading glasses, use them forever, or keep buying plastic drop bottles.
Cloudflare has published an article with clear mitigation options: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cve-2021-44228-log4j-rce-0-day-m...
An ethics for society is pointless as society has neither subjectivity nor moral agency. You may as well draw up a system of ethics for the weather.

All ethics is individual ethics, as individual subjectivity is the only subjectivity, and individual moral agency is the only moral agency.
EU Commission to open source software
In optics, there's a thing called the circle of confusion (1). It's the locus of points that maps to a single point source of photons. A "perfect" focus maps a point source to a point on the image: perfect contrast. Ability to focus is basically how tight you can get this circle, for a focal distance. (this is all super simplified, perfect lenses, no aberration, etc).

The smaller the aperture, the more constrained the light field, thus the smaller the circle of confusion (at the expense of light collection). That's how pinhole cameras work in fact.

Shrinking the aperture also increases the depth of focus. Pinhole cameras have ~∞ depth of field because there is ~1 path every photon can take (ignoring hole width, diffraction, etc).

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_confusion
Detecting and Measuring Gerrymandering with Python
As is said in the demo, stay away from marketing people.
Like the "prisoner" example in the prisoner's dilemma, I feel this example adds a lot of baggage that makes things harder to understand or easier to misunderstand.

If we boil it right down then would you give 11 points of utility to a random billionaire or 10 points to a random poor person.

Most people would feel the 10 units would do more good, but I think by the terms of the setup, that's actually impossible since 11 is more than 10. But probably most people would give to the random poor person if we were talking about 100 dollars, not 100 util points, which presumably translates to many more utils for the poor person.

I think many people would also be "prioritarians" because they think it maximise utility but this example confuses matters as there's second order effects on other people's happiness to consider.

I get the feeling people will answer the second question when asked the first, though they're quite distinct, one is easily graspable and the other very abstract.

If you try to convert back from slightly more util points for the rich person to cash then it might translate into "would you give a poor person .0001 of a penny vs give a rich person 100 dollars" where the utility of each is closer and the choice seems kind of irrelevant because neither really benefits.

Once you scale it to something that the poor person would notice, you'd need to give many millions to the billionaire, at which point the diminishing returns kick in and so you end up with something absurd like give a poor person 5 dollars, versus give Billionaire 5 trillion, at which point you'd be creating so much extra utility out of thin air that some of it is maybe going to spill over to others (or lead to the Billionaire becoming King of the World and/or God and then have negative effects).

Which still doesn't really shed much light on things as you're now imagining how all that extra util wealth will impact others in a complex sequence of utility impacts and transfers.
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>Julian's sexual assault crimes have nothing to do with the United States or his extradition here, as the original charges were espionage related [...] I think either evidence of ignorance (you thought the US was extraditing him for his sexual crimes in Sweden ...?) or malfeasance (you know it was espionage, but you brought this up to muddy the waters intentionally).

No, that's not true. It's easily shown that Assange's first charges were laid in Sweden in November 2010 [0]. He was granted political asylum in Ecuador's British embassy precisely because it was so clear that the charges weren't about sexual assault but rather about his involvement in leaking things. The Yanks were still investigating him at this time [1][2], and didn't lay charges until years afterwards [3], in 2018.

Since you've accused me of being a victim of fake news, I assume you've got the Real Truth hidden away. You've got actual reasons to claim the things you've claimed, which AFAICT are just lies, right? You're not just muddying the waters intentionally?

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11803703

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#cite_ref-Holder...

[2] http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/20...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Julia...
"the person who stole the files he released is already free and the tax payers paid for she transition "

eh?
Sorry for the highly editorialised title, the original one is very bad and marketingy, and also far too long for HN.
I’m not sure about patchy. I transferred money about 10 times this year and all the recipients wanted Zelle.

All of your other criticisms are valid, but also exist in a system where you trust your wallet with a third party service. the majority of Americans would use a bank like service that manages their key instead of managing it themselves.

You also ignore the other risks that crypto introduces. Like losing your key, password, your exchange gets seized, your exchange just straight up steals your money, or having a 1 character bug in a smartcontract.
When will people stop paying for Multi-AZ ops. You basically pay double for this - and - when one region goes down - aws is hosed.
Terrible what the misguided policies of the past from the Communist Party did to the Chinese people.
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> "completely eliding a bunch of politically-motivated now-dismissed sexual assault charges that were the actual impetus for him to hide in a foreign embassy for years"

Isn't this the total opposite of what Assange and his supporters were saying? He was claiming that we wasn't avoiding the sexual offence EAW, but hiding in the embassy because of the US indictment, to which the Swedish allegations were (he claimed) somehow connected.

The evidence revealed during the US case has basically shown that the Obama DOJ in fact had decided against prosecuting him, so at the time this UK->Sweden->USA scheme could never have happened because there wasn't, at that point, a US indictment (ignoring that fact it made no sense when he could have always simply gone UK->USA).
Good thing we have the Summit for Democracy [1] going on right now where they will surely discuss the threat of imprisoning journalists and whistleblowers. /s

[1] https://www.state.gov/summit-for-democracy/
It works for me with Compiz on MATE
Remind me why this is better than a 10$/year VPS
I was explicitly talking about cities because that's the context of the subthread (and indeed the OP). London, Cambridge, Birmingham, Manchester etc. are installing protected cycle infrastructure that was basically unheard of 10 years ago. I do agree that rural roads are more hostile for cycling now, and your assumption as to where I live is wrong.
I work on Dask now and the creator summarizes his preferred code style nicely in this post: https://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2018/01/27/write-dumb-c.... I like working on simple codebases like this.

The only Typelevel library I've used is frameless, which I blogged about here: https://mungingdata.com/apache-spark/frameless-typed-dataset.... Don't think the lib is really usable. Typelevel stuff is not what I'm referring to when I say better Python. I'll try to make another blog to clarify.

I think Scala is a better language than Python. But for some reason it just seems like Scala is full of mind bending code that I can't understand. Full disclosure: I am way less smart than lots of the Scala ppl I've worked with.
Anyone notice how the Wikipedia article doesn't say what Xsnow is or does, at all? Other than that it's a "software application".
>but in general if contracts can automatically decrease someone’s money, reputation, access etc, they can do enforcement.

No, they cannot. They can reduce these values, but that by itself doesn't enforce anything in the real world. If the entitiy doesn't care about these values (for example because it was a fake account/identity/whatever) then the only enforcement can come from outside.

That's why the word "force" is in "enforcement". States work because, among other things, they ultimately have a monopoly on the application of force.
(from France)

at first:

We're sorry!
An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we're already working on the problem and expect to resolve it shortly.

and now:

This page isn’t working
aws.amazon.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 503
Why do you think that is? Would you be willing to accept one of the reasons being a culture which is more tolerant of criminal behavior?
Microsoft told Apple it was willing to turn big Xbox-exclusives into iPhone apps
Those were very interesting times for the desktop. I remember slooowly backing off all the effects after changing Nvidia drivers and restarting X for the Nth time. :-) Eventually just stuck with nv or nouveau or whatever it was. I loved drawing with particles all over the desktop, but little tweaks here and there started to make the whole thing really complex.
Schönfinkel, please.
> the indiscriminate way in which it was done.

What was indiscriminate about it? Wikileaks reached out to other journalists to sort through and publish the information. The full release of the diplomatic cables happened only after some of those journalists (David Leigh and Luke Harding of The Guardian) failed to keep that content secure.
Yup, and this makes me think that the advice to put brighter light on your reading to make things sharper doesn't work because of greater light availability, but because it provokes the pupil to narrow and increase the pinhole camera effect -- or more to the point, not that the bright light doesn't itself help, but how much is due to more light vs provoking smaller pupil opening?
Testes this and it works fine. Thanks!
The two things could be completely unrelated. We have zero evidence that this policy has any impact, positive or negative. Seems odd to frame the two as related.

Counterpoint - MSFT had stack ranking for years and stagnated until they ended the policy in 2013, followed by Nadella becoming CEO in 2014 and it’s hard to argue that MSFT hasn’t seen an incredible revival. One could draw a series of similar comparisons, from stack ranking had zero impact on the company performance, to stack ranking being the barrier to MSFT success, all the way to the removal of stack ranking actually CAUSED Nadella to be appointed CEO. We have just as much evidence for any of those possibilities.
I mean surely questioning current ways of working is how you stay innovative and respond to a changing world? it feels odd to imply they have reached peak innovation and should just stay the same.
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This should be a sobering view of how the world really works. Above a certain threshold, every veneer of civilization vanishes no matter what the country (some have a higher threshold than others).

At this level, only power matters. And the first rule of power is: Don't embarrass the powerful unless you can call on a lot of power to defend yourself.

Laws can't protect you; they can be thwarted and bent, and the legal process "guided" to the required outcome.

International organizations can't protect you; they can only register complaints that will be duly ignored by everyone if the champion is important enough.

Even countries can't protect you at this level; they're beholden to power themselves after a certain point.

This is the message to would-be activists anywhere: Stay out of the big boy pool or we'll make you regret it.