skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we're mostly in agreement here.

> What is this example supposed to show?

It's an analogy, not an example. It's meant to present a hypothetical, similar situation in another context in order to help people who can't relate to something happening across the world, in a place they've never been, see that situation in a way they can understand.

> The saddest part of this example is leaving out the Palestine. It’s very sad that they don’t even get to be part of the example.

It's an analogy. If Palestine were literally included, it would no longer be an analogy.

> Why can’t Israel leave Palestine alone?

Because of the rocket fire and bombings combined with the repeated public stating of a goal to exterminate the state and people of Israel.

> Why do they have to incorporate Palestine into Israel?

They don't. That just seems like it's one of the only outcomes that allows both groups to share the land they claim.

> The one thing that shouldn’t be done is cutting the grass as Israel does now.

That's for sure. It's indiscriminate and savage and on top of that counterproductive. Israel has shown time and again that they are capable of surgical military operations in the most hostile of territories. If their intent is truly to reduce the capability of Palestinian fighters to attack Israel, they are more than capable of doing that with minimal loss of life.

Unfortunately, Israel has a similar problem to that in the US (another useful commonality in my analogy) in that there is a large hawkish segment of the population and political class who feel justified in punitive military violence. They are gratified in the overwhelmingly disproportionate response to the feeble rocket attacks coming out of Gaza. Again, the specifics of my analogy are chosen advisedly - what I meant to point out was what the world would expect to see if anyone at all fired rockets at Americans. They'd wipe those people off the map.

I'm not endorsing that outcome, I'm just pointing out that when the US does it, it's considered de rigueur, but when Israel does it, it's considered barbaric. But can you think of another example, anywhere in the world, where a population are supposed to allow their cities to be literally shelled and attacked with rockets and, as you say, 'Leave the [attackers] alone?' That's not a practical solution.

> Israel being able to remain their own country and be prepared and strong. Nothing wrong with that! Why would there be?

Agreed. Unfortunately, Palestinian (and their backing Iranian) leadership does not agree.
Of course you can’t prove that some data cannot be de-anonymized unless there are duplicate entries. However, GDPR explicitly encourages anonymization, or “pseudonymization”, which therefore suggests that reasonable attempts to keep data generic are considered legal by this particular law. People have already pointed out that GDPR’s language here is too vague and makes bad assumptions about how identifying multiple quasi-identifiers can be.
You’re in the danger zone where the current codebase has been mentally deprecated, but no replacement exists yet.

It may seem like a small detail, but declaring your only codebase “legacy” before you have a replacement is a bad move if you have any customers or active use cases at all. You may not like the old project, but you need to be honest with everyone that it is your bread and butter until the new codebase is written. If you start calling it “legacy” and pretend that new hires will only ever be dealing with something that doesn’t exist yet, you’re setting everyone up for disappointment when business realities make the old codebase active for far longer than you expect.

I’d hire now, and hire with the expectation that new hires will be working with both old and new codebases. Don’t set your company up for a situation of competing codebases, or worse, competing developers depending on which codebase they’re each working on.
> It really lifts the veil on how little research goes into some of these articles when you see the reporting on a topic you have closely followed.

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
That was pretty much the case! Also except for some time in 2020, there was no lockdown in US. The only thing that varied depending on the community transmission were the indoor mask mandates (and nothing of that sort in red states). Seems like a strawman.
That was 2 days ago?

Please make a dumb car (techcrunch.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30144101
The worst case of this I’ve seen was the iOS game Threes. Cool and original idea (to me) on a puzzle game. Even had an art style that was carefully crafted and audio lines from the game devs friends. It started gaining steam among puzzle fans. I think it cost 3-4€ as a one time purchase in the app store.

What happened next?

Someone released a free version called 2048 that ripped off the idea, made the number 3 based puzzle use the number 2, made the game less challenging and might have even made it use ads at the bottom of the screen.

Because Wordle was already free there wasn’t a chance for this kind of douchebag move. NYT as an established brand would face criticism if they cloned the game based on its current popularity (the idea for worlde apparently is not original).

NYT did this by the book in my opinion. I think the writer ks just connecting the two for easy points.
To give it a try:
web: http://www.dadditude.app
ios: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1558653576
android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dadditude....
Development in Clojure is afaik noticeably different (or at least was in my experience) if only because Java quickly surfaces for example in backtraces. You also might simply not need Java libraries, so you lose considerable portion of clojure benefits.
I don’t know how anyone can support restrictions at this point. All school aged children can be vaccinated and the vaccine is effective at decreasing hospitalization and death.
Stop Reading, Start Doing
I think the consensus is that you do not have a headache. Obviously you are only imagining it.
Good. Now pick a random one of the companies that used this particular product/service and make an example of them.

The problem I think until now has basically been that sites that rely on tracking ads know they are in violation. They don't want to comply, because it would be too costly.

Basically, a meeting at one of these businesses (I'm imagining) has a conversation where people say "Ok what do we do about the cookies? Unless we at least write the X and Y and Z tracking cookies, we can't keep the lights on so we cant't risk users just clicking 'Reject all' and getting dumb ads. What should we do? I think we should use that dark pattern dialog which leaves X Y and Z on for 75% of visitors who just click the biggest button. That at least buys us some time. If regulators complain we can always change it".

A regulation that was scary enough would see sites prefer shutting down over using a dark pattern. For that to happen, the fines not only need to be big enough to be fatal to the business, they have to actually go further and be personal fines to key employees.
Ha! Actual intelligent discourse takes too much time, let me just take a virtue-signalling action and call it a day
Heroku is crap. You can’t deploy without dropping requests, it’s tools are lame and any serious monitoring costs you big $. ‘It just works’ is a layman’s response to the fact that it really doesn’t.
I'm assuming the shorting is through puts that were bought and held long term, and are being rolled out before expiry? Otherwise a short of the underlying costs money and this has been going on a long time to not close out a position on.
060. Iloveyou – Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky
Global warming, I agree, should be everyone's highest priority.

Asteroid strike ... hasn't it been a while since the Earth has seen one on a scale that would rival global warming? Worrying about an asteroid strike seems like something that has stirred the public imagination but has a crazy low likelihood.
Does anyone know how Home Assistant compares to node-red? As far as I can tell Home Assistant is better at building a dashboard of things, but node-red is better at actually automating specific actions (unless you want to grapple with HA's YAML based scripting language).

Is this about right? Is it possible to combine Home Assistant and node-red, or has Home Assistant outgrown the need for something like node-red?
Putin Plays Judo, Not Chess
>> In judo, a seemingly weaker practitioner can rely on inner strength and force of will to defeat a larger, stronger foe. One basic technique involves putting an opponent off balance and taking advantage of his temporary disorientation to strike a winning blow. Mr. Putin has proved adept at seizing opportunities presented by the West’s disarray and its leaders’ indecisiveness. He had a plan to restore Russia as a great power when he took over from Yeltsin; the U.S. has had no comparable strategy in the post-Cold War era, and Russia has taken advantage against its much stronger competitor.
> We don’t create content for the web and for longevity. We create content to show ads around it.

And that is the difference between the artisanal/hobbyist web of the pre-Facebook/Youtube/Blogging Gold Rush era, and what came after it. The web is dominated by businesses that consider content to be a means to an end. Kids' cartoons on TV in the 60s were designed to sell toys and merchandise after all.

This isn't just limited to websites that 'review' things with a metric tons of Amazon affiliate links, or gate white papers behind an email signup. Youtube and Instagram went this route years ago. At least YT is still generally good quality. IG feels like a wasteland of influences shilling some product with a discount code that attributes sales to them.
I don't know why people would downvote you, but my guess is that a lot of people especially in America who identify with being progressive don't like the idea that race might include Jewish people, not just black and white people. However, historically (just 50 or so years ago) "Jewish" was effectively considered a race even though it's more of a religious heritage and there are black Jewish people immigrating to Israel from Africa.

I merely recommend that everybody who believes race is about black and white go read up on the entire world history and how people have treated race over time.
> Probably moreso than a rover on mars that figures out the composition of some rock.

Over the past 20yr hose rovers had gone from "testing the composition of probably dead rocks" to "actively looking for signs of current or former microbial life". Even the landings have gone from "shoot the thing at the planet and wait to hear back from it" to a live-streamed helicopter drop. I think they've excliped the ISS in terms of excitement for the junior-high and above crowd. Skyping someone in a blue jumpsuit who's floating around in a tube doesn't have the cool factor that "literally on another planet" gets you.
Ah, I see that you expect a US / Southern European style revolving-door wink-and-a-nudge quid pro quo! Yep. Nope.

These people will be frighteningly competent
Do it with chain or rope and then you can say "myth busted".
The middle ground I use is DISALLOW_FILE_MODS set to true.
I’ve found Hurl to be quite usable.

https://hurl.dev/
Yes, I do think they should have chosen a better name than "LXD". It really confuses itself with LXC, specially so because all of its commands start with "lxc"..
> Google with all of their cash in the bank and talented engineers can't even crack the problem.

Search is a solved problem. But you're starting from the false premise that Google and your expectations are aligned, they're not. Google shows you what they want you to see, typically spam sites carrying their ads. That's not what you're looking for but from their perspective they've 'solved search'.
First Big Jump in Steam Deck Verified Games
We have generally accepted metrics we use to measure how the economy is doing. Things like GDP, productivity, or even more proxy-like things like life expectancy and happiness.

Sure, maybe this type of activity counts towards the GDP in the short term, but long term a giant yacht isn't capital that is going to give a return on the investment. For other metrics it is useless as well. It makes 1 person (and maybe his friends) a bit happier for an extreme cost. I think by most metrics this is a poor allocation of resources in the medium or long term. It's just an ultra rich guy spending a ton of capital to make himself happy.
Given this piece of text:

>> I get the point he's making. But still, if he didn't like the lack of nuance why not find somewhere to work other than Microsoft?

Can you quote the specific portions of text that explicitly communicates these specific ideas:

- {something} is the only consideration in the universe

- {something} is the worst thing in the world

- Microsoft is intolerable

- that these problems are a uniquely MS problem

- Microsoft sucks
We have come a long way from the late 90s and early 2000s when ISS was built. If NASA was properly funded I'm sure it would also be able to build a competing station cheaper/easier as well. ISS and NASA paved the way for SpaceX. So them being to do it cheaper isn't as impressive as it was bound to happen.
The fact that nobody wants to pay their hard-earned dollars for it suggests it's more than just his opinion.

In fact, let's imagine a system where one side provides ads that you can watch to accumulate a monetary balance and the other provides content (including the aforementioned trash).

Do you think people will still watch and choose to pay for said trash content? Or will they choose to spend that money on better content, or even cash it out and buy a meal or drink?
I still have friends that adamantly believe Gamestop stock is going to make them obscenely rich despite losing significant amounts of money on it. Yet at the same time they say things like NFTs are a scam and all crypto is a ponzi scheme. It is very weird to me that they can lack the self awareness of being in a cult while calling other things cults.

If a year of nothing is not enough to convince them that nothing is going to happen I don't know what will. Hopefully in 5 years from now they will realize it was nothing but a retail fueled crazed pump and dump and the vast majority of players lost money.
Probably a better title would be "You read enough. Now take action! Then read more, and apply your learning, run them in parallel" or more formally "Procrastination by Reading"
There are paid alternatives.
I used to be on heroku but to be honest it’s extremely expensive for what it provides. Same value for money I moved to digital ocean app platform and I am very happy with the service.
Finding leaked secrets in your Docker image with a scanner
That looks amazing. You should shoot an email to Yannick Moy! He had lots of insights and ideas on how to help automatically generate or infer (reliably) loop variants/invariants (they use loop unrolling for example: https://blog.adacore.com/proving-loops-without-loop-invarian...) .

I know AdaCore uses CodePeer (abstract interpretation and iirc 'interval propagation') to help SPARK avoid or simplify some VCs and it helps in a lot of cases.

There's also some possibilities with symbolic execution, maybe on the counter-examples generation side.

I think you're treading a very interesting path!
Reading all these books doesn't mean you will be successful unless you execute on your learnings. Reading and executing should run in parallel.
Ulysses (Novel)
It's not just shortcode using admins who don't want to use Gutenberg. There are many people who have used any one of various visual composers for years. They generally don't have the time or inclination to learn a new workflow that doesn't support what they already do.

Having a classic editor plugin has nothing to do with characterizing people as crufty throwbacks who can't learn new things. Many people are in the business of their business and don't care to learn the next new-greatest-software every few months.
Can it do substitution with some sort of application-based KV store? The main reason I used a rest client like Insomnia is so that I can reference secrets like {{ client_secret }} or {{ api_key }} and have a change to the value in the KV store reflect for every request.
> Does the McNamara Fallacy have any application to our response to COVID?

In my opinion, yes. Many politicians and media are fixated on stats like "Covid cases" whereas society depends on multiple variables to function including the health of the economy, mental health and social cohesion of the population, people having hope for the future, the freedom to make choices for yourself, and people being able to exercise and not living unhealthy lives, etc.

> "the data shows this" and "the data says that"

This kind of objective data is generally science.

> "therefore the science says we must all do such-and-such"

This kind of thing is a policy or risk-management decision being wrongly conflated as science.
Read, take note and apply straight away. Often refer to the books you read instead of ordering new ones. Learn deeper in practice and experience the benefits. Continue executing while reading. Only then you get the real benefits of reading.
Correct URL: https://gripgrpc.dev/
All coral will suffer severe bleaching when global heating hits 1.5C
To add another data point, I also moved on from Postman a while ago. Similarly to several commentors here I had found it to have become bloated, slow and buggy imho. In my particular use case, I found the urlencoding when using oauth1 to be pretty buggy. It would sometimes not work on certain headers it generated.

My team ended up moving to Paw but that has been a bit problematic since it only supports osx, so some team members are also using insomnia which doesn't seem to be much better in my opinion.

I recently found httpyac[1]. It's a cli and file based http client similar to the IntelliJ HTTP client, but has plugins, hooks and allows scripting through javascript blocks. It seems to have everything I need but I haven't used it much yet. It also already supports gRPC.

One of the issues I found with http clients I looked into is that they often don't provide enough functionality to hook into the request process. Either before or after a request is executed to add to the headers or parameters of the request or getting the results of the request. Postman did provide some of that but that's one area I wanted more from any client I looked at. I could of course simply wrap curl in a script but at that point, I will be maintaining my own jerryrigged version of an http client for my team.

[1]: https://httpyac.github.io/
I often search for articles/books about X, or reviews about Y. The top results for those things is a mix of SEO spam, Amazon links etc. which I all try to avoid.

I use search for information, but I often have to dig quite deep to find something worth clicking on or reading. And that's true for Google and DDG (which I mostly use).

When it's raw, basic knowledge, then I'm using !wiki or !mdn etc. in DDG to search those sites directly. Note: Wikipedia and Mozilla Developer Network are two of my favorite sites.

But when it's something more subtle and specialized that I'm not very familiar with then often my only hope of finding something useful is to search via aggregators and forums like HN, Reddit etc. because then I can gauge the quality of the links via the discussion around it and the people who post them. Or in some cases I know about a specialist or journalist and can use their name to filter out spam.

Discovering these kind of things via search is really hard, especially if their authors are not known. It's the spammers and low effort creators that get rewarded the most, partly because of search engines, partly because of visitors who are content with that kind of quality.
Did I say anything about their fastest package?
How do you handle network security? I wouldn't trust an IoT device on the same network as any of my family's computers or phones for example.
> but I find the complexity with the type system off-putting

Yeah, is it. But "complexity" is fine:

Complex is better than complicated.
- [Zend of python](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/)

What is a big trouble is when the complexity is NOT intentionally designed (ie: in languages like oCalm, Rust, Coq...) but instead the type system is a lie that bring "complications":

//A bad language, like JS, with both complexity AND complications:
[] - {}; // NaN

Humans can deal with complexity if is part of a intentional design (example: APL), but what we dread is when is accidental...
It needs to be boosted every month or so or it will be dragged down into thicker atmosphere.
I'm thinking more like a semi truck. Get onto the freeway on-ramp, pull over and get out, then the truck continues on without you for miles before taking an off-ramp where a driver is waiting to handle the nearby streets. I expect truck stops in rural areas will (with DOT help) get special on/off ramps that are approved (maybe a special stop light?) so that trucks can go to a full service pump for fuel and get back on the freeway.

As you say, city driving is hard, but there are a lot of trucks that cross the US on freeways that are easy to automate.
> The article contradicts your conclusion. If Firefox did not have telemetry, the bug would have had no impact, and users would not have suffered an outage.

This is your mistake: as explained in the article, it could have affected any component. Telemetry happened to hit it first but anything using HTTP/3 with that path would have been affected.

“This is why users who disabled Telemetry would see this problem resolved even though the problem is not related to Telemetry functionality itself and could have been triggered otherwise.”
If it’s an upgrade then you should do it and stop trying to force things for others.

I’m really not even sure what your point is. You just want others to do what you want?
India's Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao writing computer programs in 1990s

https://princeezraj.medium.com/the-indian-prime-minister-who...
That would also be the first time Elon is correct about his claims, then.
With Amazon Smile's charity thing, the money donated is not from my pocket. I am pretty happy with the idea of being able to give some of Amazon's money to EFF.

Simply don't use the Amazon App, and there are no notifications.
> for several years

Old accounts are still hotbeds of spam... There are plenty of spammers who signed up for 100,000 gmail accounts back in 2010 when there were no good captchas, and have left them mostly idle till now, and can now sell them to others to use for spamming.
Pump and dump is the very opposite of collective action: no real value is created, you're just fleecing a bunch of optimists in a very zero-sum game.

(Mind you, a lot of high profile VC deals look like that as well! Remember Wework?)
No, the versions of installed apps should be up to me. And my OS should help me manage that.
Those of y'all frustrated with Postman might be interested in restclient.el: https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
Git 2.34 has changed how you configure fast-forward only pulls and rebasing
India’s best Covid data are coming from open-source collaboration
Failing to reach DDR4 bandwidth