skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article doesn't move us forward even an inch.

If the solution was providing people with a list of bad faith tactics we would have been done with it at least twice by now: first when Socrates was arguing with Sophists 2500 years ago and another time when Schopenhauer wrote Eristic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right. And before you think 'maybe someone doesn't know yet': yes, you are correct. Someone doesn't know. We tried telling everyone before and just trying harder doesn't seem to cut it.

What, I'd argue, would be at least a tiny step forward would be thinking in terms of games people play, rewards they seek and maybe even monetization of systems. Thinking of people who argue in 'bad faith' as being mostly plain wrong is naive and somewhat offensive. Talk to your PR department every now and then, some of them are smart and know what they're doing. Same for Twitter discourse and all else.

Telling people (or yourself) to make better communities ignores costs involved in managing that community. Can you afford onboarding of even telling people that cute list of bad faith tactics? Can you do it faster than a place that doesn't do it? Can you achieve retention higher than love bombarding communities?

No. No, you can't.

Not with current tooling at least. Not to push own products/services (today!), here are some angles that seem achievably hard, yet somewhat underdeveloped: good faith arguments are more time expensive - it can be cut into pieces/redesigned to give them more chance; both wrong and correct ways of thinking about specific problems are actually very limited in numbers - maintaining searchable database of them to reuse should dramatically speed up 'getting through'; false positives in ostracism are unnoticed - layered moderation that provides feedback on initial misjudgment can noticeably improve the space: not so much retention (that numbers would be small), but limit echo chamber by avoiding rituals of cancellation - without increasing costs as much as having 'full conversation' with everyone before banning would.
When you stand next to a train track yes à train is noisy. But a plane will cover literally a whole town with its noise. Very different.

I was just in Frankfurt yesterday and the noise is substantial, in the residential neighbourhood I visited it was the main source of noise during the day.
If I'm conservative, but my friends are liberal, am I a liberal? Or maybe I'm not a conservative, and they're not liberals: we all hold different nuanced opinions based on our own life and personal experience. Binning someone based on a subset of the company they keep is dismissive at best and purposefully malignant at worst.
They have you where they want, you are willing to pay, ... but the close down the service anyway with a three months notice.
Amusement coming purely from the disproportionality of complexity of what worked correctly and what failed.
yeah, hardly a rant. Hardly any serious problems. Homebrew IS the package manager for apple, get a window-snapping tool and/or learn to use alt-click on the green "maximise window button". Keep enjoying. Done.
> This is a romantic take and the only takeaway from it is that Fast failed because it failed.

What is your take on why they failed?
> If SWE was the only non-NATO country in Northern Europe it would be quite open for an attack.

EU has a mutual defense clause [0]

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/...
just 2 directions, beyond that you can (like with airlines) go bigger and more frequent. After that the proverbial landing strips become the bottle neck.
I'm not sure about that. Polarization in the United States has certainly ebbed and flowed over time, but if you study history, there has been a rough liberal-conservative dichotomy in nearly every society I can think of, going back at least hundreds of years. There's a great podcast actually, Revolutions, by Mike Duncan - it devotes a season to each of several famous historical revolutions. Currently it's in the last season, on the Russian revolution, which is particularly interesting in the present day, as it plants the seeds for modern Russia. But given that these revolutions span centuries, it's really striking how many commonalities they have, and the echoes you can hear in modern discourse.

For example, liberals are generally agitating for greater democratic freedoms, or in non-democratic societies, at least freedom from oppression. Conservatives are, as the name suggests, generally dissatisfied with the pace of change, and in favor of maintaining current power structures. Also, revolutions are generally presaged by exactly the kind of breakdowns in communication described here. Increased polarization, unwillingness to give the 'other side' any kind of a political win, even if it's beneficial for everyone, etc.

So yeah, while I could see that digital communication might have been a catalyst for our current situation, for the most part this all looks very familiar. And as the article describes, the likely result doesn't look good.
Federal Constitutional Court Annual report 2021
Not really. Just because they exit at a later stage doesn't mean its not a ponzi scheme. Chamath Palihapitiya certainly disagrees with you (https://youtu.be/RwRZtZQoLtQ). Skyhigh valuations with no product market fit and no path to revenue certainly sounds like one to me. Many startups burn money to acquire customers, but churn is high because they don't have PM fit. It becomes an endless cycle of raising to acquire more customers. Once the money stops, someone will eventually be holding the bag.
I found an architectural discussion with many lovely photos, no paywall.

https://www.avontuura.com/sara-cultural-centre-white-arkitek...
Wellcome to the lonely world of Firefox users.

The sad thing is that Firefox desktop and Firefox android are identical. This breaking is probably due to someone trying to be fancy on mobile.
Okay, let's do the math. Consider a 2 hour flight, say Madrid -> Paris. A round trip is something like 140 eur. Boeing 737-800 burns something like 3000 liters of jet fuel/hour, and will typically carry something like 150 passengers. That's 40 liters per person. Jet fuel is really pricey now, something like 80 cents/liter. This means that fuel costs something like 30 eur per flight per passenger, so 60 eur in a round trip.

Now imagine we slap a tax on jet fuel similar to the one on vehicle gasoline. This would mean that the price of jet fuel would go up by 50%. The round trip ticket Madrid - Paris now costs 170 eur instead of 140 eur. Would it make Madrid - Paris train route competitive? No, not at all.

Truth is, you can make anything competitive with anything else if you put heavy enough finger on the scale, but the reason flights are much cheaper than trains, despite being faster, is not because of lack of jet fuel taxes.
I thought letsencrypt offered wildcard certs?
> nobody knows where to send a message until you setup your MX records

Not quite. RFC 974 says
It is possible that the list of MXs in the response to the query will
be empty. This is a special case. If the list is empty, mailers
should treat it as if it contained one RR, an MX RR with a preference
value of 0, and a host name of REMOTE. (I.e., REMOTE is its only
MX). In addition, the mailer should do no further processing on the
list, but should attempt to deliver the message to REMOTE.
It really would be a mistake to trust your business with a Google product in general, especially a "free" one.
I was struck more by the accounts of driving into a ditch knocking the treads off and driving off a bridge.
I didn't write my comment with "as opposed" sentiment in mind, but can't help to wonder what is the typical distance between US capitals. So, wow, thanks for that piece of data!

I also think there's a hen and egg problem. To build a rail road you need to buy the land strip between two stations, and in today's US you can't just do it because someone knowing about your venture and how you cannot succeed without having all the land - will just ask any enormous price knowing you won't have a choice. I think the whole idea of hyperloop was born on that restriction - because buying places for support pillars and making the whole system more or less silent making it at least viable.

In EU railroads are there for 100+ years, all the land under them is belong to government or railroad companies.
Unfortunately values for reward and risk aren't methodically calculated on some fundamentals. It is mostly driven by hype cycle, FOMO and hubris among other things. This allows lot of companies to reach valuations which don't seem justifiable to anyone else.
Particularly useful when you use -e — the virtualenv will only reference your package, not copy the source. Very useful for development and I learned it way too recently.
Addressing Security Weaknesses in the Nginx LDAP Reference Implementation
Google Cloud is very different from Google's consumer product and advertising side. It has revenues of $13 billion which all comes directly from customers paying them money, not indirectly via advertising etc. Larger companies sign agreements with Google that cover what it does and doesn't promise, and enterprise companies are their highest priority target market. Google Cloud has its own CEO, Thomas Kurian, previously president of product development at Oracle, who was at Oracle for over 20 years.

The pattern you're referring to really doesn't apply to this business. If anything it's the opposite: Kurian's goal is to make Gcloud more like Oracle, and part of that involves making sure enterprise customers don't need to be skittish about the kinds of concerns you seem to be thinking of.
Whole Latinx seems like trying to fix an issue that isn't even there. In a way that is more culturally insensitive than any level of sexism it tries to combat. The whole word doesn't in anyway work in language context... It is fundamentally imperialist culture, forcing English on others.
Addressing your opponent position lets them pick what the topic is. They are picking a topic their position is strong at. Therefore addressing your opponent position in limited-attention setting (aka publicly) is simply a losing move.
I recall stories of Google arbitrarily declaring users persona non grata, ruining the user's business and even their life, with no recourse.

Is this another such risk vector?
They downgraded the firmware to one with a known vulnerability and used it to gain code execution, yes.
An archaeologist once said, "The most merciful thing in the world is the human heart that cannot associate everything together"

Everything that happens in this world has a coherent causal relationship. Whether it is technological development, territorial domination, or even unavoidable natural disasters or unexpected accidents, no one should stay out of it.

If people are willing to face it, perhaps many things will not evolve to the worst level, but in this case, people usually choose to turn a blind eye in order to protect themselves, or some people are very willing to sacrifice other things for selfishness, they It is taken for granted that only the victims will bear the consequences in the end, but it is not the case, the laws of the world will one day pay back all cause and effect.

However, this is only limited to the things that the "law" can take effect.

When "exceptions" fill the whole world, then the fate of this world will be nothing but despair.
As the BVerfG noted: the less we do today, the more likely it is that our children end up in a dictatorship... just with nature itself as the dictator, which is even worse since you can't putsch away nature.
Good question. It is also the exact same question I have been asking about Clubhouse's valuation which ever since my comment [0] it is somehow valued at $4B with nothing to justify it.

If we find out that there are huge operating costs and little revenue for this valuation then I would be not surprised to see it close down faster than Fast.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883362
> this sociopsychological phenomenon [as opposed to the events and things it purports to exist] is now part of "reality."

Yep. The reference is not the referent, the map is not the territory, etc, etc. A hallucination of a witch can't hurt you; a mob of hallucinating witch hunters very much can.
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This isn’t true, every venture capitalist pretty honestly says only 1/10 or 2/10 of their investments will make all the returns.

And they do.

Just because you see 9/10 failures and think it’s a Ponzi scheme doesn’t mean it is, especially when the market is quite happy with what’s happening, and there are still plenty of profitable unicorns being created.

You are skewing your opinion towards not survival bias but failure bias basically.
Hexagonal Architecture and Domain Driven Design
IME, it's because a.) it requires one to first admit one doesn't understand something (and hubris prevents this in some people) and b.) learning something requires putting forth the mental effort to understand it. The same reason people don't like reading source code they didn't write: it's hard, and you have to try.

And to a degree and in some contexts (particularly work/in a company), c.) under too much time pressure to take the time to understand. (I.e., too little time is available to them; the dysfunction is higher up the ladder…)
I think we're missing the context of gas prices here. German gas prices are far higher than in the US, making train more cost-effective. We don't have cheap flights, except apparently Berlin-Frankfurt, so we can't rely on air travel the same way the US does. This overall makes train travel much more attractive in Germany. Then there are things like regional tickets, day tickets, BahnCard discounts, etc.
I often hear about the great battery life of the Pebble watch, and that there is no smart watch with a comparable one. Thats kind of true, depending what one wants from their smart watch.
But there actually is an alternative if you only need basic smart watch capabilites: Sport Watches.
I personally only want notifications from my phone, which my Garmin Forerunner 245 can do perfectly well.
And it has a battery life of up to 2 weeks, depending on how much I use the GPS of the watch.
So the only wining move is not to play?
100% agree. I wanted to scream at my computer everytime I read some bullshit article about how "Theranos was playing by the Silicon Valley 'fake it til you make it' ethos".

Bullshit. Theranos told investors clear falsehoods they knew to be false in order to get funding. Fast sold a vision they couldn't deliver on, and unless more info comes out I didn't see anything that said they committed fraud.
Everything is, you just have to divide by π.
Why don't the trains just stop doing the empty runs on the outlying routes, then?
They already do, and yes.

How about looking at the facts first?
A previous article posted a week or so ago from the same blog finally flipped the understanding switch in my head and I now understand how long addressable RGB LED strips work.

It's a similar shift-register principle in action. Each LED light along a wire reads a serial data line and extracts a certain number of bytes depending on the type of RGB LED it is, then passes the rest of the data on untouched before resetting to read mode again after a certain amount of time (the refresh rate). So, if you want to update the 5th LED color, you need to fill the pipe with the data for the first four LEDs which simply keep them the same color, and then the new data for the fifth LED at the end.

I thought that was very cool.
The US would have to make a case to the rest of the members that it has been attacked under article 5 and the rest of the members have to agree.

There are a lot of conceivable scenarios where the US would not make the case and even where the other members might disagree.
The Qualities of a Good Senior Engineer
How would you argue to convince someone that it's more likely than not?

The existence of r&d initiatives is a signal but doesn't seem sufficient to make the case.
There's no way to win an argument anymore because the goalposts don't even exist anymore. All of the groups that exist have decided to remove them so that instead of winning small battles, they win the entire narrative by removing all goalposts (the thing that locks some conversation or argument inside some constraint). Without those constraints there's literally no argument to be had. At that point people just talk past each other so all that's really left in America is if your local radio stations tend to be more left or right. And whether you have Fox or CNN on your TV.
I'm sorry, but my experience in work in many different segments shows the exact opposite to be true. Theres barely any company that takes "You can rise quickly thorough pay bands if you put in the effort", or "we would pay you more without benefits" seriously and is even being truthfully with you. I've had one company, the one where I'm at now, where I earn good money, get bonus and that bonus is determined by the companies performance. We had bonus when CEO etc. didnt get any because they messed up. We have great benefits (2 additional paid weeks of paternal leave, i.e.), but it's the exception to the rule.
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How do you come to this conclusion?
All high speed lines in Germany (ICE) are powered by overhead wires.
Most languages have gRPC SDKs that create the same kind of high level bindings, it is only yet another transport mechanism to do RPC.
A backslash before the asterisk makes it appear as an asterisk

\*this\* becomes *this*.

And before you ask, to show the backslash, you add another backslash. \\*this\\* becomes \*this\*
> the one great thing we got out of the previous system is a well developed train network

Amusingly enough, most of this is something we got from the systems before that, or simply other countries :-) Just look at this map: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_kolejowy_w_Polsce#/m...

See how the rail network is much denser in the western regions? Now compare it to this map: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziemie_Rzeczypospolitej_pod_za...
The problem is simply corruption. DigiCert and the like buy up the competition and entrench themselves where there is no business or technical need for their existence.

It's pure rent seeking with approximately zero value provided in exchange.

Let's Encrypt demonstrated that the marginal cost of a certificate is close enough to $0 to round down to precisely zero dollars.

To see how deeply rooted this corruption is -- and it is corruption -- ask any major cloud provider like Azure or AWS whether they are willing to provide native ACME protocol integration to enable their customers to request Let's Encrypt certificates for arbitrary DNS-hosted services.

You'll hear nothing back. "No comment" or "We're considering it".

In other words: "We considered it, but then our boss's boss made it very clear to our boss that he was getting a kick-back from DigiCert and to never mention such topics ever again."
Except centrism isn't a real position - by definition. It's solely defined by the sides in opposition. There's a real and important difference between holding positions which make you "roughly" at the center of apparent sides, and the apparent holding of positions because "moderate" or "centrist" is being held up as a virtue.

And that last part is key: at the point where people are arguing that they are moderate, rather then what they actually believe, they're not arguing in good faith to start with - they're trying to argue they're morally superior without engaging with the actual subject matter.

At best, they're in fact arguing for the status quo and trying to pretend that they are not in fact very definitely asserting a position by doing that.
I think if you don't look at raw passenger figures, but instead at passenger-miles, it becomes even more lopsided in favor of airlines.
Because they failed https://cdn.ilbianconero.com/images/2018-07/SOCIAL.asamoah.m...
Why we Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t (2018)
And your analysis is corroborated by waste sewage analysis around areas like Wall Street :-)
Hmm, I was using my ThinkPad with the wrong body part
Is it? It's not that obvious to me at least. I suspect that it's more like function of distance, speed, landscape.

Airports also tend to be at the middle of nowhere, IMHO you need to incorporate the cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure needed to get somewhere from that nowhere.
Most Amtrak trains are diesel powered.
It really depends on your angle.

for example, "1 + 1" in FP is different from "1 + 1" in OOP.

In FP, everything is func. 1 is func; + is a combinator.

In OOP, 1 is an obj, + is the method of that obj that takes another obj.

It looks like you really enjoy SC's syntax. It's great. But essentially, the language is just one part of SuperCollider.

SuperCollider = sclang + scsynth

sclang -> OSC msg -> scsynth

The scsynth is actually the soul of SuperCollider to many computer musicians and that is what drives many to develop different language front-ends for scsynth.

Language is just a wrapper, with different programming paradigms. But down to the lower abstraction, it's the audio graph. I have no connection with Elementary js at all but I think it does a good job for providing a new angle for Web audio. Yet I understand your concern of using it for developing vst plugins.
Yes, you can, both options exists in System Preferences, one under Mouse, the other under Trackpad
Reports of Russian Chemical Weapons Use in Ukraine ‘Deeply Concerning’- Pentagon
I’m probably outdated on this, but old Excel format have an upper limit of 65536 rows and the new format has a limit of 1M rows. So that’s where I would estimate the limit of upper bound. Could be less, can’t really think it’s possible to have more.
Pfizer offers $100m to buy company behind smartphone app that diagnoses Covid-19
Interest rates have been trending downward before any of this "QE" (more accurately is just swapping non yielding reserves [not cash] for securities that yield non-zero amount) nonsense.
A nice clean page! A joy to read!

view-source:http://www.eklhad.net/philosophy.html
This. A “Shell game” implies scam. Call it a “half solution” and it is an appropriate criticism.
HN has shadow ban functionality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26940481
this is the modern world of monopolies and big money. they either buy you out or crush you. this is why progress is stalled these days so much in hw and sw world. it's just not worth it and requires way too much backing to succeed and be able to compete with these monopolies.
We run our company on Google Cloud, spending about $400k a year on it. I previously worked heavily with AWS. From a technical perspective Gcloud is pretty great.

People's saltiness about the consumer/advertising side of Google having killed their favorite free product is pretty irrelevant in this context.
Danny is a man of 1,000 aliases. It's worth looking into him.

There's some aliases project that he hasn't publicly connected to him yet (such as https://www.elektrobopacek.ch - which is technically a personified recording studio and at times a collective although it's 80% Danny) and he makes "guest appearances" all over the place such as the telemarketer in Xosars, "The calling" (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-UdW-lmHSNY)
>> We had a failed insurrection two years ago that killed 5 people.

Every time I see this I just think it is peak “American exceptionalism”. You had a small group of red necks, who had what could barely be described as a riot, who walked into the government building and vandalised it a little. It was not an “insurrection”. That is language that was used specifically to create more division and fear.
Ukraine actually applied to NATO in 2006.

You label the invasion of Ukraine a "dispute"? It's a war of unilateral aggression involving war crimes and genocide.

The point of NATO membership of Finland and Sweden is to avoid military conflicts. Putin proved to the world that he does not abide by any norm or treaty, so not joining NATO will give those countries no security from his forces should he decide attacking them is in his best interests.