skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No the demo went so badly for them that we never invited them back. I kinda felt sorry for them. They had no clue how uncompetitive they were compared with the tools we were already using. One of the two demo guys kept going on about how better it was because it was using Lisp. While also acknowledging that it was missing pretty much all the features we needed. The “it’s easy to implement yourself because Lisp!” argument was laughable given that Maya already had the features we needed and used every day.
Imagine being a hostage and finding out that snipers were intending to shoot the criminal through you.
Past life. Not extant.
It is a back door and copy pasting Wikipedia doesn’t make it not. Key escrow, public key replacement and message escrow are all backdoors, covert or not. They are all unacceptable.

I’m from the privacy argument, and will except nothing less that complete confidentially between peers. Anything except this position I perceive as an attack and will defend my position with my life.

The other point is “nothing to hide”. Reality is we all have something to hide, and given enough scrutiny we all fall.

“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” — Cardinal Richelieu

There can be no compromise in this argument. There are many jurisdictions on the planet that would love to use this back door to start rounding people up.

An real world example might be 2 gay men communicating in a private messenger about a rendezvous - somewhere that they are not accepted. Law of their land is that it is illegal. Your back door just cost them their lives.

You might live somewhere where law enforcement is not a risk to your life, but many do, and this kind of thinking leads to tyranny and death.
Yes, but pretty much every other equilibrium based limit is something humans decided we didn't want anymore either.
Economists do plenty of experiments.

As for Econometrics, I agree that studies employing observational causal inference in statistics are much harder (and harder to swallow) than experiments. Usually.

But perhaps, if you dig a bit deeper and ask yourself things like: "what makes a hypothesis falsifyable" or, "could there be a hypothesis falsifyable by observational data?". Have your ever written down the exact exclusion condition (or exogeneity condition or whatever) you use in your experiment? You might find out something interesting.

Controlled experiments, much like any econometric (or statistic) technique, require identification assumptions. And of course, these can not be proven. Even though many people believe it is so, experiments are not really different in kind, the assumptions are just usually easier to believe. Not always, though, which can also be fun. Even in an experiment, you - in fact - observe reality only once.
In other cases, however, we find out that our assumptions about the identification in the experiment were wrong, due to factors we didn't know about. This happens even in physics (shocker, I know).

Keep an open mind, would be my advise. Your critiques are well known, and in the broad sense tackling them is the business of statistics. By the way, there are indeed smart people here and there.

A good heuristic: If your find yourself rejecting entire disciplines, like econometrics, all while implictily using auction theory, regulation, pricing etc. in your amazon, ebay, cellphone, or energy grid, you are probably on the wrong peak of a Dunning Kruger curve.
Thanks! I asked our Dev Evangelists to look into this suggestion.
These are all really weak excuses for the fact that the FBI applied pressure on Apple specifically to not add encryption to iMessage backups on iCloud, and there's documented evidence showing that it takes advantage of that.

Apple is acting in the FBI's interest, not in yours.
How will high school look like in future?
Hello, everyone. Since the beginning of my school experience I've never truly enjoyed it. I always had a feeling that something is wrong. School seems to be a place where parents send their children, so they can enjoy adult life and most importantly - work. The same duration for complex and easy courses, absence of any choice for exploration, unnecessary stress for children, etc. Some fundamental changes in this system must be inevitable. So, here is my question - What is your opinion on how schools will look like in future? Will it even exist as a fundamental institution?

My views are that organized courses must be gone. Libraries, teachers, common study spaces, resources for creativity must stay, because school should inspire.

What do you think?
Can I change my mobile browser to use the same user agent?
Yeah, that's totally fine. I ask in case someone has thought about it, so I can learn from them.

Doing just the fun parts of self-hosting will not get you to infrastructure.
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It's not just requiring ID, it's closing polling places, discarding mail-in ballots, and a whole host of techniques designed to "ensure the quality of voters". And these techniques disproportionately affect voters of color and the poor.

Also when I was a kid (20 years ago) no ID was required to vote. Actual voter fraud is incredibly, vanishingly rare. But the lie that it is common is used to drum up support for these regressive measures.

https://americanindependent.com/arizona-republican-john-kava...
Those are the opposite of fast fashion, being both completely unfashionable and oddly long-lived. I have event t-shirts that are almost old enough to vote. And then of course, they have a long afterlife, first as painting shirts and finally as cleaning rags.
Python, JavaScript and PHP run on runtimes written in statically typed languages. And those runtimes run on operating systems written in statically typed languages, using hardware drivers written in statically typed languages. So yes the world does indeed run on statically typed languages. The code you write in Python/JavaScript/PHP is a thin layer on top of C/C++.
That seems more like a failing of that school's uniform? They have to wear it outside in that weather every year on the way to and from school anyway?
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Hahaha yes, true ;)
Outrage about this is 100 years late. The entire college admissions process as we know it today was designed intentionally to exclude jews from Harvard.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in

Edit: 2009 HN Discussion about this article... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520836
WXtrack – Satellite Tracking
Some people found out that the reality of "USA liberating you from the bad commies" (sold by american propaganda) was "liberation through liberal application of nuclear fire to any larger population center" (and we'll figure a reason for the strike after we decide where)
Not to mention the number of places where I’ve been using “Sign in with Google” from that account.
If I want to upgrade only one account, then I can't just "cancel" the service. This means I must delete all other accounts, losing purchases on them. It's an all or nothing thing.
Yes you are right. And I do agree with the author regarding Dependently Typed languages.
Thanks to this cursed god forsaken parasite "Pinterest" I just completely stopped using google's image search option. I'm using bing/ddg now and it feels soooo good compared to how awful google search experience became
Virtually anything of any complexity is going to be tied into the Chinese economy in one way or another. Why is Silicon Valley being singled out?
Google domains lets me do it for free.
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It doesn't need to be regulated. Like many for problems, the negative externalities need to be accounted in taxation/tariffs.
The first question to ask is when you graduated. Syllabi continue to become more and more empirical, but that process started in the 90’s and accelerated in the 2000’s.

MIT’s Micro Principles class has at this point been rewritten so that it is “the Principles of Economics and Relevant Empirical Evidence.” (That’s my gloss on it not the actual title.)

My class definitely features examples from the news every week or every day.

I cite the research literature when I can, but it’s not really possible to get in depth with students who are taking their first course in the subject.
Usually there’s a term that allows for the agreement to be changed.
I mostly agree with what you're saying here, however I don't think the tech environment is structured in a way through the government to allow this behavior right now. If ISPs were treated as a utility making it very difficult for someone to get blocked, and same for cloud providers.. and YouTube, Facebook, etc had to donate a percentage of resources to comparable open source solutions the were easy to self-host, then I'd agree with you. But they do exactly the opposite. We have monopolies attacking and trying to prevent free speech alternatives.
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But you exchange more of your time at 2nd hand places.

The reason new exists is not just the styles, but the higher likelihood you are going to find the correct (or near to it) size.
Urine is not sterile. Neither is blood, tears, ocean water, well water, or anything that isn't 5% bleach or similar.

Still no need to get angry about peeing in the ocean off of a boat.
Is there any documented pattern or middleware for doing transactional updates across multiple HTTP services? That is, commit a write to serviceA and a write to serviceB together, atomically?
Probably because of their hypocritical love of virtue signaling.
Maybe he should've said the developed world.

the west is definitely wrong however, as there are wealthy nations all over the world
This works well if the program is written in a dynamic language like Lua, but in a compiled language it not only requires a recompile per change, but an entire development environment set up in order to modify the config at all.
You need ID to get that job flipping burgers. Two forms of it for the I-9. Though not proof of residency perhaps.

Once you have the job you can use the paycheck as proof of residency.
I would argue that JavaScript is somewhat of an unofficial name since it is an Oracle trademark.

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/8d0bg2/oracle_o...
The fracturing of the states is what he is referring to: "we will live forever or die by suicide".

It case you don't know, he was the president when states did fracture (US civil war).
Some of it was to make it easier to talk for people who didn't know the language of the country on the map, I heard that polish military maps of the UK apparently were "localized" the same way - and the persistent rumour is that under "take all of europe in counterstrike to prevent USA supplying the invasion" plan, Polish forces were to occupy major portions of UK.
I use Joplin too and love it. I even made an exporter for it so I can export my notes to a website, and deployed them to notes.stavros.io.
This is purely my opinion: Lincoln’s point was that the threat of civil war or violent dissent (what we today would call domestic terrorism) is a much greater threat to the US than foreign states. I think this remains true today. In fact, what you mention when you say a fracturing of states within was exactly what he was talking about.

A foreign state would need to cross the Atlantic ocean, contend with the most powerful Navy on earth several times over, land in either Canada or Mexico, both of which are US allies, and then mount a land invasion on the US homeland. It’s hard to imagine how that would be possible.

You raise a good point when you say crushing defeat does not necessarily happen on the conventional battlefield. Nuclear weapons create the possibility of MAD, and other “battlefields” like the cyberspace or global economic warfare have developed since Lincoln’s time. I still think the essence of what he said is true though: the greatest threat to the US comes from within.
This is the best use of government.
I think the utility of generic search engines is coming to an end. Services like Google, Bing and DDG are numbered in usefulness.

Instead, I am guessing (maybe hoping) that we see a return of the moderated directories, like Yahoo or DMOZ of old. A 2.0 spin on these directories, with lessons learned from all the years.

Imagine that you just go to StackOverflow and search there directly for your answer. Want a funny laugh, go to your favorite comedy website (like facebook.com) and search directly. Want some news, go to CNN or Fox (depending on your persuasion) and fill your echo chamber.

Not kidding. I think search as we know it is dead. And there is a new paradigm just sitting out there ready for the next generation to make.

A directory of well known lists of websites with specialty search engines available on each.
This is getting old. I've lived in the Bay Area for 20+ years and guess what, the Bay Area != San Francisco (I personally go to SF less than once every two years).
> Do you have the same reaction to other common virus/cold vectors?

The ones that affect 30% less of the US population in an 8 week span typically? No

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1483996724427251714
The Soviet Union invaded and took control of many of their neighbors, including most of Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia (including invading Afghanistan in 1979), as well as creating and supporting regimes elsewhere (Cuba, etc.). When the people of some countries (e.g., Hungary, Czechoslovakia) tried to form democracies, the Soviets sent in tanks. They tried to sieze Berlin early on. It's not at all far-fetched that they would try to expand further into Europe.

Do you have good sources for the claims above? It looks pretty revisionist, and matches Soviet propaganda, to suggest the Soviets weren't aggressive and expansionist.
Man I remember reading this CEO's hobby blog a decade ago. Glad to see him doing cool stuff https://eclecti.cc/
When you sign something with your private key you expose your public key. This means 1) if you receive money to an address and move that money elsewhere, subsequent money sent to that address is going to an address whose public key is public; and 2) if you publish a transaction to the blockchain someone else can see it before it commits and get your public key and attempt to race you to having a transaction including in a block.
The product of overflights, satellite balloon and aircraft, were absolutely used for cartography. NIMA (now NGIA) spent lots and lots of time making maps (how else would SAC find their way to the ICBM complex at Laputa?).

Not only was getting ahold of Soviet maps something a bit more complex than just going to the local gas station, but the Soviets actually purposely introduced inaccuracies into their civilian-issue maps:

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/03/world/soviet-aide-admits-...
And OWD completely disagrees with the articles assumption.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Took me about three weeks when I switched cold turkey at age 14 to start typing ok. My biggest pain was that the letter I search for was always under the other hand which was resting on the keyboard :)

I'm letting my daughter learn it when she's 8 instead.. they just.. learn it. It is truly fascinating from the perspective of a typist.

So maybe the youtuber is onto something. I think that you should have a clear strategy when learning though, that will probably speed up the process alot.
I can’t stand JMeter’s drag and drop test plan interface.

Everything should be code.

I actually prefer LoadRunner. But it’s way too expensive.
The fallacy here though seems to be that, because we have industrial society, we also have to accept centralization as part of the deal. These technologies enable fewer dependencies on centralized systems, which is the real driver behind off the grid philosophies, IMO.
A microcontroller is extremely unnecessary for a kotatsu. You just need a thermostat.
The weird part of this isn’t that fast fashion generates a lot of trash. Almost every part of the American lifestyle generates tons of waste. The strange part is that the US strong arms African countries into buying the “donated” garments from textile recyclers. I’ll be throwing my used garments directly into the landfill in the future.
I agree, there are many problems to solve. Check out civboot.org

Some of the folks at 100r made uxn, which helped inspire my approach to github.com/civboot/fngi
Yes, more or less my point. All things being unequal, the only way to assign numbers is to know X of Group 2 Jabs were exposed to and contracted vs Y of Group 3 Jab were exposed to and contracted...

As it is, it's less odds and more "on average." Sadly, we're still getting bad data and bad interpretation of that data two years into this. At this point, sad to say, it feels intentional. Two years is quite a bit of negligence.
I try to make sure to limit the max charge percentage to 80 on all devices I use. Voltage in many lithium cells increase with heat, so if you're already at full charge you might overvolt you battery. This is why new devices are shipped with 66% charge, because the same applies to cold and undervolting, both ruin the cells.
> How can people not hate him though? He is so full of shit and all his projects are a joke.

I stopped here in reading your post but you're in a reality distortion field if you actually think this. Tesla and SpaceX have turned two industries on their head. And Tesla was actually in practice formed by him as the two founders were running it into the ground (Musk was there from day one as well, as chairman of the board). If you think Tesla would have succeeded without Musk, why did none of the other electrical vehicle startups then or since succeed?
The account owners may not, but a domain organizer can whack other accounts when they turn down the tenant.

The whole thing is a stupid, poorly conceived initiative which obviously wasn’t planned very well, since the comms from Google are so muddled.
Everyone is bummed out over Pixar’s third straight-to-streaming film
A lot of Canada doesn’t have what you would call “infrastructure” until you’re well within range of the US Border. They’re also about equally insulated from foreign invasion and I think any US invasion that called for invading Canada first would be facing challenges that make invading Russia in the winter look like a pleasant stroll in the park.

Mexico is also about equally protected from foreign invasion. I guess their biggest threat would be us, and not without precedent, but they are not a threat to us. And just as Mexico is not a threat, neither are the nations south of Mexico a threat to Mexico. This was all true even in Lincoln’s time.

So, yeah, suicide it is. That includes any kind of internal fracturing.
Can’t picture myself living like this. Imagine range anxiety of a car except with water…no thanks. To each their own I guess

I could do living in a remote location though. Little bit more predictable
Much of the world lives in poverty and then lusts after what wealthier nations have and usually tries to emulate their methods.

This is about living well without living wastefully. Too much of the world believes we can either live in poverty or ruin the biosphere for future generations.

If you make no effort to both live well and live within a reasonable footprint, it shouldn't be surprising when you fail to achieve both goals.
The Soviet Union invaded and took control of many of their neighbors, including most of Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia (including invading Afghanistan in 1979), as well as creating and supporting regimes elsewhere (Cuba, etc.). When the people of some countries (e.g., Hungary, Czechoslovakia) tried to form democracies, the Soviets sent in tanks. They tried to sieze Berlin early on. It's not at all far-fetched that they would try to expand further into Europe.

(Pardon the redundancy.)
For what breaks: a lot. This has a decent start of the list https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5375

> Using a subnet prefix length other than a /64 will break many features of IPv6, including Neighbor Discovery (ND), Secure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) [RFC3971], privacy extensions [RFC4941], parts of Mobile IPv6 [RFC4866], Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) with Embedded-RP [RFC3956], and Site Multihoming by IPv6 Intermediation (SHIM6) [SHIM6], among others. A number of other features currently in development, or being proposed, also rely on /64 subnet prefixes.

SLAAC is part of that as well.

> I ran a dual-stack network with /112s for host subnets, and /124s for ISLs (prefix lengths chosen to make life easier for the network operators) and I wasn't aware of any problems.

Easiest for network operators is to act like IPv6 doesn't have different subnet mask at all, assume every subnet is always /64 and never have to remember funny patterns. Even a point to point is most often best done as a /64 instead of a /127. Most switching hardware prefers this as well actually, by ignoring the last 64 bits of the address in routing the hardware scales significantly better in terms of TCAM usage.
Most countries whose postal service offered banking stopped.

Know why?
> /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin? Who knows!

If anyone is curious:

Historically /bin and /sbin contained the binaries that were necessary to bring up the system (especially to mount the /usr partition, which was "best practice" to have separately from the root and /boot partitions). Nowadays most distros just symlink them to /usr/(s)bin

/usr/sbin is for utilites that only root should use, whereas /usr/bin is for regular applications managed by your system (i.e.: your distro's default package manager).
I'm waiting for something with beefier internals, or an AMD variant, or both. That being said, they'd have to redesign the power delivery system and thermals, so maybe it would no longer be as modular? Anyone with the knowledge care to weigh in?
Nothing tptacek wrote merited such a rude and abrasive comment.
I'd recommend "The Tiger" as an interesting book about the Amur Tigers and their interaction with Russian society. It's a non-fiction book written by a journalist, so it's one of those compelling to read but probably exercising some artistic license non-fiction stories. I enjoyed reading it a lot.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7624594-the-tiger
If you can get a beta invite for https://kagi.com get it. Not only are their defaults really good you also have the option to customize your searches by blacklisting, creating groups with sites like stackoverflow, github, hackernews etc for a dev search and so much more. It feels like google in the 00s with better customization.
One way is a RC circuit - where the switch (the keyboard button) in series with a resistor then charges a capacitor. You specify the ratio of resistance to capacitance so it takes long enough for the switch to stop bouncing before the capacitor output rises to the sense level of your digital input.

But if you want to reduce hardware cost, you can eliminate many capacitors and resistors by doing it in firmware instead.