skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me try an argument and you can rebut it for my own edification, I'm a younger brother so perhaps view this as an argument by a younger brother who is exploring half formed ideas and trying to engage an older brother so I can be proved wrong (my older brothers usually prove me wrong irl):

Is it ideological to say that discrete minds have equality of type?

If one then says discrete minds with equality are logically treated with equality of type. Is that not a properly basic truth?

1+1 equaling 2 can be argued against (can't evrything) but the onus is on those who argue that 1+1 equals not 2.

Is basic counting ideological? Are all 1's not the same? Would it be strange to treat a 1 as if some particular 1 does not equal 1 or is a superior 1. I think definitions of 1 would have to be tortured to do so.

I'm not saying what 1 ought to do, I'm just saying form follows function, a tree is not equal to a wheel, they do not share similar form or function.

What moral argument does one have for a particular mind to forcibly coerce another mind. What argument is there for a greater 1?

This seems like this would no longer be describing the way reality is but the way someone views it "ought" to be.

I guess one could argue that minds don't have equality on the whole, but I think the burden of proof would have to fall on the person making such a claim. Maybe through the measurements of skull shape someone has irrefutably identified a superior qualia.
> Why a populist government?

Because your usual honorable Conservative government doesn't give a fuck about public mass media, and left-wing governments are usually happy that there is a counter-view to the Conservative-leaning private media.

> If Tory politicians are populist, than the word has no meaning.

Well, the Tories did put up Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. Given that he's routinely called the "British Trump" for both his looks and his behavior, the Tories can indeed be called populist
We literally don't but the alternative is dying out here in this planet which is guaranteed to suffer some catastrophe eventually.
Bitcoin is not proof of stake so I’m not sure why this would matter.
> Not to attack Dave's credibility on an unrelated thread

Isn't that exactly what you're doing? Not saying you shouldn't; 'anything this person says should be taken with a grain of salt, or perhaps even suspicion' with reason seems like a fine point to make.
We ended up using Puppet Relay quite a bit, which is sort of a halfway house between the two ( visual editor, but yaml backed with low code instead of no code).

The main advantage from my side was being able to get adoption from a wider group of people. This included both very junior technical folk who were able to take on more complex tasks than they would have been able to otherwise, and non technical folk who found starting with the UI a lot less intimidating.

Eventually, almost everyone has gravitated to using YAML over time but I don't think I'd of seen the adoption internally that we had without the UI component.

Mileage will vary though. If we had been at a more technically mature place when adopting relay, then I reckon the UI would have seen a lot less use.
I'm guessing that's Home Assistant?
You’ll note that I was talking about how things are popularly portrayed, especially in the past — think about how “urban” became a popular euphemism when its literal meaning says nothing about about race. It’s not a coincidence that those images shifted notably after desegregation became the law of the land and that was enshrined as the way to know you’d made it for decades, and it’s certainly not a coincidence that almost everyone picked it up given how pervasive it was in mainstream discourse.

Once that became established, a lot of inefficiency was baked in: single-family rather than shared housing, driving yourself in a car rather than sharing a bus with strangers, not building things like sidewalks or favoring cul de sac designs to discourage non-residents traveling through a neighborhood, etc. You don’t need to know or care about the history half a century ago to think of those as the default when they’re what a lot of us were raised in and saw on TV/movies.
Proof that it’s F is that the protocol is extremely slow to change.
> Reddit created an internal clash by attempting to merge these polarizing groups

Isn't segmentation of audiences built in to Reddit in the form of subreddits?
I always wondered how these kinds of ideas even survived the initial laugh-test. Like, didn't the entrepreneur even have a single friend who could point out how awful and flawed their idea was before they tried to make a serious business out of it?

People used to come to me to validate their horrible business ideas. "Oh, you're a tech guy and you have a business degree! What do you think of my Online Store For Cats idea?" Usually they didn't like what I had to say, and eventually people stopped coming to me for advice. Now I know why these things don't get filtered early. Entrepreneurs tend to be positive and optimistic, and then only surround themselves with other positive, optimistic people. So, now subscription-based juice squeezers make it all the way to production and then people scratch their heads and wonder when they fail.
Shorting something means betting the price will go down within a certain timespan. If you do not know that timespan, then you will still lose.
This is not correct.
The locks does happen on the CPU level. If the board cannot provide a BIOS with a valid signature from the key that was burned into the CPU, the CPU will refuse to boot (PSB prevents it from booting)
Are there any that are not manufactured in China?
Link didn't work for me. Needed a trailing slash.
True, but you're continuing to use confusing nomenclature.

SPF is Sender Policy Framework.

Something like "Originating Entity Policy Framework" might be more correct.
Here's an example I've encountered with a user/server system.

A user signs a message with a key and uses a thumbprint to refer to the public key. The server system needs a public key, not just the thumbprint, to verify the message. The server does not accept full public keys in the signed message since public keys are large and thumbprints are sufficient.

One design is to transport the public key along with the signed message. This allows the server to verify and store the whole signed message even if the server doesn't store the public key.
Hetzner is much smaller and have really few locations... They basically host everyting in germany or finland.

OVH also has way better anti DDoS. https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/anti-ddos/
>If this is the case, why did the BBC vote 5 to 1 in favour of Remain[1]

The Express should be considered more of a fiction publication than a reliable newspaper. It's notorious for making stuff up, especially when it comes to Brexit.
I dunno this capture stuff is alright but also a bit like blatant appeasement.

The point of this feature is to be non-cannonical RAII. I.e. it is about cleaning up a location. This data oriented approach is similar to how "locked data" is more correct and intuitive than "critical sections".

Now I get C being low level, so perhaps this is better, but I can't really imagine the thing I am cleaning up (as opposed to auxiliary info like an allocator to deallocate memory with) being captured by value.

BTW, speaking of moves, a "set this bool if I use this variable by value" feature would be very useful. Skip C++'s mistake and do Rust's model. Would work great with this feature.
I like Jacks arguments, they seem informed and data driven.

Do you think yourself or @Jack has better perspective and visibility of planetary money flows, inflation, energy productive and distribution and peer to peer payments and networks?
Delivering Modern Website Experiences: The Journey to a Content Mesh
Add a WebGPU context to the canvas and it would be a brilliant platform.
> Ideology is inescapable. To some extent, everyone is under its influence. But that does not mean that all are equally ideological

The author makes this point very plainly. The 'well it's all ideology anyway' take is reductive and uses relativism to (poorly) justify people supporting ideas that are harmful to both themselves and to society.

In the same way that acknowledging that human conflict is inevitable doesn't justify violence, the existence of ideology doesn't justify structuring one's entire life around it.
AMD's Platform Secure Boot (or PSB)
THIS! Thanks for saying this.

Claiming to be "non-ideological" is the most ideological statement possible:

not only you have your own ideas but you claim to be "neutral" while seeing everybody else as biased.
Jul 16 2021, bitcoin was 30k, today it’s 40k, how is this a deflating bubble?
I find the opposite myself. I have a load of old hardware including my original SNES from when it was released but I find myself playing an Anbernic RG351MP far more. It’s portable, plays games well enough that I can’t discern from the original, things like scraping original manuals, preview videos and ratings makes it a really nice browsing experience and retroachievements it’s a really fun new addition to old gaming experiences I’ve had. Retro emulation is really a lot of fun these days.
What an arrogant use of the word "simple" in the title.

* no decision on access to variables

* lambdas are involved at all

* "appearance in blocks other than function bodies [is] implementation-defined"

They cited D in the implementation, but then used Go as the inspiration for the feature. The answer was staring them right there in the face, scope(exit) [1]. Or, you know, they could have cited Zig for the exact syntax they wanted [2].

This feature is completely unusable.

Let me demonstrate. You can't use this inside an if statement:

if (foo) {
const ptr = malloc(...);
defer [&]{ free(ptr); } // implementation defined. get fucked
}

Furthermore, it's go-style, so the defer runs at the end of the function. This is not only implementation defined, it's full-blown undefined behavior because `ptr` goes out of scope before the defer expression runs.

Scope-based defer works great. Go-based defer is already problematic enough in Go; in C it's worse than not having defer in the language at all.

[1]: https://dlang.org/spec/statement.html#scope-guard-statement

[2]: https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.9.0/#defer
> I just think it's weird that I can't have an LTS OS with non-LTS userland apps. But I guess I have to accept that.

That's a good point, but it's kind of part of the structure of a traditional linux system. Every library is provided only once in the system. Also, the line between what is "the OS" and "the userland apps" tends to be pretty blurry on Linux.

It has big advantages too. That libSSL vulnerability? apt dist-upgrade and all your apps that use it are patched. No need for each app developer to incorporate it. And the dynamic shared memory can do the things it's supposed to. Great for efficiency.

Solutions like snap indeed trade off that efficiency and single point of patching for easier deployment by devs, but it has too many drawbacks for me too. Though snap is exceptionally bad in terms of startup speed compared to FlatPak and AppImage so perhaps you could look at a distro that does that.
To be able to program in C# you don't need any .c file in your whole computer.

Of course you need a lot of binaries which were produced somewhere using low level languages in the process, and you probably need to comply with the C FFI to access a lot of libraries. But nothing that cannot be done with a different low level language.
I recently put my wife through a programming videogame (exapunks). She gas a mechanical engineering degree. She has great memory, but she said the hardest part was holding 2 nested loops in her brain to foresee the execution.

That's when I remembered that way back I had similar problems.
It takes time to develop that skill and the average person will struggle with that
>What I don't get is why the conservatives were so draconian over covid.

Because hundreds of people were dying every day? Because that would have been worse without widespread restrictions?
It says so in the article, though.

> Shipping will get disrupted in both directions, as the U.S. is the set to impose its own vaccine mandate on foreign travelers on Jan. 22.
Is it Log4j that is really the issue, or is it Operating Systems not designed to support the principle of least privilege? Capability Based Security would go a long way towards containing unwanted side effects for any given executable.
he does a load of performance tests too

between bare metal Windows and Linux running under a Microsoft VMM
How is it not illegal to do this without at least first ASKING the user for confirmation? I'd be annoyed but find it 'merely anti-consumer' rather than 'intentional destruction of property' if the BIOS refused to finish POST without the user confirming that yes, they want to sacrifice this CPU and make it (p)owned by $CORP.
All of the recent research has made it obvious that as long as we are in a post-absorptive state (12 hours after eating), every hour of fasting racks up the same benefits, regardless of whether it's a prolonged or intermittent fast. Most intermittent plans will allow for 3-4 post-absorptive hours per day, and after a month, the benefits are basically identical to that of someone who fasts for 5 consecutive days per month. Both result in ~120 hours of post-absorption.

Autophagy seems to be an on-off switch instead of a spectrum of effectiveness, so an hour is an hour, even if you're doing it "wrong."
locking:
At least some AMD CPUs (EPYC, TR PRO, Ryzen Pro) can have cryptographic keys burned into the silicon by the BIOS (Dell and Lenovo do that)
Once a CPU has those keys burned into it, it is locked to motherboards of this specific vendor, because other motherboards don't have a BIOS that is signed with the cryptographic key that was burned in.

PSB: Platform Security Boot

PSP: Platform Security Processor (a CPU inside the CPU which handles e.g. the key burn in process)
Putting others down doesn't help. If you know more than others, the thing to do is to share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. Then you're addressing the underlying ignorance as well as contributing to the ecosystem, instead of poisoning it further.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Third world.
Kathy's famous not just for the harassment she received. She was one of (if not the) first to bring the user into Internet product design. Her point was that users want to feel good about themselves ("kick ass") and then get them into flow, so your job as product designer is to give them that feeling from the get-go.

Her book Badass <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VAUIM18/> has some of that in it, but also covers her focus on perceptual learning -- the kind of learning that chicken sexers do (you get feedback on whether you were right or wrong, but not how to improve, yet that's enough to get better over time). That focus was as a result of her other career, training horses.

She created the "Head First" series of books, which changed what and how computer instruction books worked. She's still out there teaching and training people in how to help their users succeed: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBtcGwHPMKM>.

Please don't send Kathy down in history known only for what men did to her. She deserves to be known for what she created.
I very much meant what I said: Taxes do not go into the same huge pot from which they are distributed some taxes go to the federal governments pot, others to the states, yet others to the city/local council (Einkommenssteuer and Gewerbesteuer for example). There is some redistribution happening, but it’s pretty specific (Länderfinanzausgleich, the federal government pays for some costs which are handled by the local governments). So while taxes are not bound to a purpose, but they are bound to the part of the government they go to: Federal taxes go to the Bundeshaushalt, which pays for the Bundesstraßen and Bundesautobahnen (hence the name) and since all other roads are not paid by the federal government - this they can’t be paid for by federal taxes (among them the KFZ-Steuer)
The problem is that today's cobblestones are pale imitations of the old ones, and won't last nearly as long. There's a parking lot near me built about 5 years ago, and they tried to be decorative with part of it and made it from concrete shaped to look like cobblestones. Because of the grooves and surface treatment it is much weaker than standard concrete, and it's crumbling.
> Hospitals are why I don't "blame" underinvestment into cybersecurity. Their #1 goal is saving people's lives, not messing with IT issues. You want hospitals to be paying for important equipment, important people, important skills. The whole IT part is just supporting the administrative tasks.

And yet everything crumbles and collapses when there's an IT outage. How interesting.

These organizations might not be culturally accustomed to have IT at the core of their business/mission, but it very much is. They might not value engineering skills and people in IT, but they have evolved an absolute dependency on those over the years.

The issue here is cultural, not technical. These randsomware attacks, breaches and outages are completely self-imposed. They can end anytime as soon as the hospital wants it. All they have to do is value and acknowledge IT as a fundamental pillar of their organization. Else the cycle will endlessly repeat itself.
Claiming to not have any ideology is itself an ideology, but it’s a very dishonest one as it masquerades as absolute objectively. Sorry but you’re a human being like the rest of us, you see the world through the lens of the culture you’re marinating in, and the most honest position is to accept that as a starting point.
I guess somebody should point out that “the primacy of individuals and/or the self” is itself an ideology. Maybe the author only means certain ideologies

Is a better title: “ideologies involving self-sacrifice involve self-sacrifice”? This revised title is admittedly less striking than the original
The elites and their newspapers and media teach them so.
I would love for this to be an actual game.
One thing I connected with Zizek and this article is how ideology, to function best needs to leave good size "hole" in itself to allow each individuals to insert their own, personal, hopes, dreams and desires into. It needs to allow itself to be customizable so to speak. And that could be for good or for bad. People who are hurting, have lost control of their lives, have other difficulties often latch the most to ideologies. Ideologies which are based on hating, on being against something, centered on fighting or demonizing will attract and amplify negative aspect of people's personalities.
The Java AutoCloseable seems like a cleaner version of the MS __try/__finally:

try (MyCloseable c = useSomething()) {
// stuff
}

Why isn't this the path explored? The main difference would be not having extra nested blocks. That seems relatively minor, no? It can be improved arg list:

try (MyCloseable c1 = useSomething(), ElseThing c2 = elseThing()) {
// stuff
}
Frank - the autoresponder gpt-3 bot is fantastic.
Reflections on Connect Developers
They'll probably go to https://odysee.com
"of how the Catholic world went from Jesus’ principle of "Love thy neighbor" and "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" to a full blown religious wars and the Inquisition"

One of my favourite debates, but probably not the right place and time for it, to discuss it fully.

But maybe a little bit:

1.Jesus said some other things as well, besides loving everyone, like he is there to bring the sword and he is not there to abolish the law(old testament) but to fullfill it. So of course there is lots of room for interpretation, but nevertheless, this allowed for all the archaic and brutal parts of the law, the old testament, to be included.

2.catholicism became state religion in a empire on the decline, close to collapse.

"but all the foot soldiers have is the cognitive dissonance between their orders and their dogma"

And the foot soldiers of empires, almost always had as the highest dogma - to follow their orders, not to morally judge them. And since the catholic dogma has a lot of battle descriptions included - even the thinking soldiers can find justification, without great cognitive dissonance. But sure, the christian military priests in nazi germany on the frontlines and such, probably had to have a bigger cognitive dissonance from their holy book and their actions.
My first thought was, is it really a big deal to do that to your laptop's cpu? Then I saw that they're doing this to desktops. My next thought was, people buy pre-built desktops still?

Still really concerning to see Lenovo make boneheaded moves like this when they've had one of the better track records for manufacturers.
How Did We Get So ‘Cringe’?
The expenses for federal roads are about 1/2 or 1/3 of all road costs. City roads costs are a bit hard to come by, but are in the same ballpark as the Autobahn, and I could not find a good number for Landstraßen, which would be paid for by the states. It’s not balanced at all.
You have to remember that christianity back then was a state religion which was intended to support state order. Nobody was intended to understand christianity.

When Constantine made christianity the religion of Rome he discovered that christianity was not well defined. Constantine created the Council of Nicaea to clean up the religion. It was a capitol offense to even believe some of the previous christian beliefs if the Nicaean council deleted your belief. Many many christians were executed.

Constantine then decided to make many Roman regions christian in name only. This included incorporating pagan gods as christian saints and adopting pagan festivals and other practices. Only a tiny educated class was expected to understand christianity at all. The uneducated class was not well regarded so that was OK.

The inquisition came much later. The intent of the Inquisition was to expunge the pagan adoption that started under Constantine. Most of the people executed during the inquisition were affiliated with pagan practices. Many of the women were pagan priestesses. At that time you had to read Latin to even understand the bible so I am sure the inquisition was confusing for most people.
I have no doubt this is hard work, but is it smart work?

From having been around residents, I can tell there's a lot of work getting done 2-3 times because of poor communication or sleep deprived professionals making mistakes. And there’s absolutely no automation in the field!

Why not simply work smart instead of hard?
The joke was so bad that it never even stood up, it just is and always has been dead.
Someone still buys Lenovo?
A much nicer solution would be a move the static root of trust off the CPU package. The motherboard’s EC could easily verify a BIOS signature before allowing boot with no CPU involvement whatsoever.
The roman roads didn't have to bear the load that modern roads do. Road wear is approximately (weight^4 ), meaning that the only vehicles that even matter in the calculation are trucks.
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US Government plans to force all new vehicles to have a “kill switch”