skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> some kind of authority

> Which is a performance hack for cases where formal correctness is too expensive, such as paper-based bureaucracies, or impossible a priori, such as totalitarian dictatures.

No, it's a solution things like "I sent my money to the wrong guy" and "this transaction was technically correct but the result of fraud by one party."

>> we don't have problems county recorder forging records to steal people's homes

> You don't. Well, lucky you.

If you have a problem with that, then do share the details.

> Not that long ago ... my family's property happened to be forcibly nationalized by a totalitarian invasion. Have you lived through the arduous and fraud-ridden process of restitution of nationalized property half a century afterwards, after most records were destroyed?

Assuming your story is true, how is that much of a selling point for blockchain-all-the-things? It's pretty speculative and unlikely that a blockchain would even help at all in that scenario (e.g. the invaders are likely to care as little about a blockchain as they did the the paper records, digital records are fragile when unmaintained, the invaders may not ever be driven out, and if they are there may not be a restitution process). In the unlikely event that they do help, I'd likely only benefit distant descendants that may never have even met their wronged ancestor.

> I'm really glad that you like the world that you live in.

I never said that. What I will say is I'm pretty sure blockchains fail at being a solution to most if not all the problems they purport to solve.
yes: https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/
This is my new favorite comment for illustrating the perilous future of general computing and how it needs to be taken away from JavaScript if we have any chance of survival. Electron, Webassembly fetishism, the pursuit of language synchrony at the expense of common sense, it all gets you this. This comment. Right here. This is the future of software and it should scare the shit out of you.

Let me get this straight: you realized latency was a concern, so you wrote in C/C++ (which, exactly?), then turned it into wasm so you can run it in a Web worker? What the hell was the point of that? That’s like saying you bought an M6 and converted it to a foot-powered bicycle. What exactly do you think wasm does? You seem to be implying that you think the native engineering you invested in continues to matter, in the same way, after you do that. You also imply heavily that you understand the wasm you’re executing to still be native. Do you think that? Do you understand what you’re giving up in the Web worker? As in, directly tied to latency and real-time requirements, your whole reason to go native in the first place?

Whatever your response is, deep down, you and I both know it’ll be justification to do Web things for Web’s sake. I know this because everyone I’ve had this discussion with has played the same notes (imagine the deployment model!) while failing to understand that they’re justifying their preference. The only people who build Web stuff want to build Web stuff. In the high performance sphere, of which DSP is a very mature practice, this looseness with the fundamentals of software is going to put you out of the game before you’re even started.
Dear scientists, for the love of all that is good, don't repeat this test.

Cats aren't ever going to forgive you for engineering a situation where they are seen to land in an ungraceful way, and there's a tiny chance that they will make us all pay when they evolve opposable thumbs.
I think it's more to do with average household income. Per capita a US citizen earn 10x that of an Indian citizen.
People were always disenfranchised. The internet has become a grievance machine. Instead of watching a sitcom after dinner, a lot of people spend every spare moment stoking their grievances on FB, Twitter, Youtube etc.
Because previously all social services, including police and fire safety, were privatized, and were only taken over by the state when it became clear there wasn't enough economic incentive to keep such services running without the operators doing stuff like roughing people up, burning down buildings, etc. But everyone decomposes as they age, and people fear illness and death enough that you can charge them however much you like, so it stays private and eventually employers start pitching in to attract talent without having to offer better wages, more holiday leave, or a shorter work week.

Now, there's a whole administrative system that drives up prices and puts a ceiling on availability and quality of care; with most Americans being (relatively) ill-traveled, ill-read, and fed a news product that beneath the packaging is some combination of entertainment and fear-mongering, it's easy for one to believe there's just something in the air that makes an NHS-style or even a German-style system impossible here.

Then, if you were around for the 2008, 2012, and 2016 elections, you'd have seen presidential candidates arguing about whether someone should have to pay for someone else's well-being. And it's not a debate along the lines of class—it's tied up with identity politics and a broader debate around the welfare state. Advantaged and disadvantaged communities alike are full of people who see how things are, and, knowing that it takes a lottery win to move up the economic ladder and a bad week to fall down, are skeptical that next time it'll be different.

Doesn't help that most Americans will never have the opportunity to get even an hour of education in macroeconomics, unless it's buried in disconnected lessons about individual economic downturns, nor that education on probability doesn't happen until second-year calculus (which is similarly rare in high schools), nor that most Americans don't learn about the mechanics of Medicare until their fifties or sixties
Think of the poor shareholders /s
I used Puppet around 2012. I remember looking at Ansible, and immediately seeing that its agentless, SSH-based approach was highly preferable. But every time i discussed it with the devops experts in and contracted to our company, they assured me that agentless was terrible, and had too many disadvantages, and couldn't scale.

And yet, here we are. Puppet grew an agentless mode, and then lost anyway. My former company's deep investment in integrating Puppet and MCollective into our infrastructure tooling must look increasingly like a millstone. Oh well, it was all interesting to work on.
Samsung phones have this built in. I really don't see the point of turning everything to grey?? But I'm of the age where I saved up for my own B/W TV with my newspaper job :)
Thank you, for responding in a more productive way than I could have.
For what it's worth, he wants to learn to program so he can do it for actual work.

Also, he thinks the command line is about the coolest thing he's ever seen and that's the main reason I'm starting there. He gets a lot of enjoyment from that.

Getting him a system76 linux laptop as his first computer for full immersion sake, but most of the rest of what I've laid out so far is intended to be "light touch" on each subject with just enough to show him how it all comes together.
The things that you mention are performative. You're supposed to pretend to believe in them while acting a in deniably ruthless way.
A) Why should they?

B) Are investors not allowed to make any return on their investments in form of dividends?
Yeah, I agree it is definitely worth trying! I think all the talk around SES will push JS as a whole further towards something that could support capability based permissions securely in the future.
Take, for example, network measurement research: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2021/accepted/

One of those papers is about counting the scale and scope of online political advertising during the 2020 election. How does one reproduce that study? The 2020 election is long past, and that data isn't archived anywhere other than what the researchers have already collected. This is a pretty simple empiracal data collection tastk, but you can't just re-measure that today because that study is about a moving target.
My belief is this.

Whenever somebody "loses their shit" it is because their self-image was threatened and they transitioned from feeling good about themselves to feeling bad about themselves. When they were feeling good they had the inner resources to deal with it but feeling bad they regress to when they were a toddler and they act that way.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analysis_of_the_Self
I'm sick of this shit. Rewriting means doing years worth of refactoring all at once, while reducing the velocity of features/improvements/fixes. It means all requests "are handled by the new thing" (they aren't). It's just lazy.

You can't replace what you don't understand. If the original writers left, you have inherited a system. It's not legacy just because you're too lazy to figure it out. You are delusional if you think you can replace it without understanding it.

Taking on a system like this is just EXACTLY like eating a sandwich: one bite at a time.
I always forget the "version" switch. Is it '-v' or '--version' or '-version', everything's just a bit different and I can never remember what needs what to tell me its version.

[edited to add] As others have reminded me, there's also simply 'version'
I asked this once. The answer I got was: because "Log(x) + Log(y) = Log(XY), and the scales of a slide rule are logarithmic."
But people want cheap trinkets.
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Honestly, in practice, I've seen many tools that support -help also allow --help and -h for those who have the muscle memory reflex for those, so it's not nearly as problematic.

$ javac --help
javac: invalid flag: --help
Usage: javac <options> <source files>
use -help for a list of possible options

:-(
Since when does planning ahead have anything to do with anxiety???
https://www.polygon.com/what-to-watch/23013092/michelle-yeoh... has a good presenation of her early movies
I don't think it's that simple. The real problem is that people want nice, handmade trinkets at cheap Chinese goods prices. Which is why the cheap Chinese good manufacturers spam their generic AliExpress-tier wares into places like Etsy to fool people as to what they're getting.

The websites that function as clearinghouses (Amazon, Etsy, etc.) could figure out ways to prevent it but they have incentives to play along with obfuscation as to which market the consumer is shopping in.
White House warns of 'extraordinarily elevated' March inflation
Try pandoc [1]. You can convert back and forth between manpage and Markdown with it.

[1] https://pandoc.org/index.html
Seriously. I got shot down on the last Google related thread about this issue because "what about the scammers". I get it, you need a process for stopping the scammers/psammers, but any system you create will make mistakes and so it must have a genuine system of appeal and recourse.

At some point on of these companies is going to hit someone with enough power to force them to do a better job.
So maybe repeat the experiment, but with a giant fan?
There's a ton cities can do to make public transit a lot more comfortable without billions for building out new public transit infrastructure (which isn't to say that the latter is a bad idea!). Like, put some police on trains and buses so people are less likely to stab, urinate, smoke, blast music, etc. Clean buses and train cars regularly. Keep a high standard for antisocial behavior (if someone is being disruptive, kick them off). Run more trains and buses on existing infrastructure (don't make people wait half an hour for a train, keep people from being packed so tightly into train cars and buses). Keep reliability high.

If we can't manage these fundamentals, I don't know how much of an improvement we would see by building out new infrastructure.
I'm not sure where you live but I found when I traveled to the USA, I was appalled at the level of noise disturbances you put up with.

For reference, I live on one of the busiest roads in London, so I'm not particularly noise sensitive. But in the USA, it was just constant sound everywhere I went. Cars honking when unlocked, multiple sirens within earshot most of the time I was in any large city, people leaving their cars to "warm up" on their driveway, leaf blowers, shouting. It's constant, all hours of the night.

In London, we still very much aren't a 24/7 city. At around 11pm the traffic really dies off and most people are on their way to bed. You still get the odd lorry or ambulance, but even ambulances don't run their siren unless necessary.
Free until the end of the year if you get in touch with them - https://twitter.com/karrisaarinen/status/1513574249121812482
You need to discover either emacs or vim shortcuts for bash. I can't imagine living without `set -o vi`
I wouldn't consider that a similar change, because it's fully compliant with a newer js spec, which deprecated that feature. It sounds like, what deno has done is removed native support for older js specs and instead makes you transpile to an earlier spec. And by removing support for the earlier specs, they are able to drop support for deprecated features.

"allowed by the js standard" is key. As long as it's allowed by the standard they're still fully compliant with it. The compliance is necessary because no one wants to deal with "mostly compliant". Users want certainty, so "mostly compliant" becomes "fork their spec and make your own, so i can know what guarantees you make". That's why each change to the spec results in a new version. It's a self-fork of the previous spec.

If the change made it into the ts or js spec, I'm sure they'd add in support for freezing protoype chains, even if just as an option that can be toggled, but i doubt they'd ever want to break the spec just because they don't like parts of it. That opens the door to more changes because they don't like the spec, and eventually you have a new language, or worse, the original language changes out from under you to support something similar in a newer spec (eg typescript and namespaces/modules).
I love slide rules. I'm old enough to have had one with a belt case that I brought to school. But I have to ask, what is wrong with a ridiculous amount of precision?
They aren't adding any more value by increasing the fees. And from the perspective of the seller, it got worse because now they have to compete with factories in China.
I'm sure I'm just being naive, but why wouldn't it help? Aren't NFTs used to securely show unique ownership of some item?
Reddit appears to be down in the UK
Taxonomy of Attacks on Open-Source Software Supply Chains
This line of reasoning is the same as the line of reasoning behind the idea that hunter-gatherers had it better than we do. It works until:

- Your kid breaks their leg.

- A natural disaster destroys your home.

- You get cancer.

- Psychopathic marauders sack your town and rape and kill everyone.

- A draught causes a famine.

- Your baby is born with a birth defect.

... and so on.

I strongly suspect that humanity set off on its endless hedonic treadmill ride to the stars not because we were dissatisfied with the median of the status quo but because we were dissatisfied with the edge cases.

Today's technophilia is framed as a run toward a glittering future, but I think we started this journey by running away from random misfortune and cruel circumstances. The whole idea of running toward anything is fairly recent vintage, probably enlightenment era onward, though it has some antecedent in Christian eschatology with the idea of salvation being a novelty or in the future vs being in the past.
I think that most sellers won't "strike" simply because there's likely a financial incentive not to. For that week, you can be the only "custom sticker maker" on the platform and increase your profits. What can the other sellers do about it?!

The reason why workplace strikes work is because you are visibly seen 'crossing the picket' line and so majority of workers comply. Other Etsy sellers can see you continue to sell, but what does it matter, you don't work with them. They are all independent of each other.
How can he get that from just a photo?
Having had both, this is not my experience. My experience is that employer plans have fewer choices and similar or higher rates. They're cheap because my employer is paying most of the bill.
Use Emacs. You have something called tramp. Which can connect with sftp/scp/more to remote server.
Any tips on how to mass delete Gmail
My storage is getting full. How can I mass delete emails or massively reduce storage in Gmail? Will deleting drive files reduce? any way to mass delete?
Then, separately, experiment with LCD or projector screens simulating motion, and then the two in combination.

(Remembering to reset the cats to initial values of the feline parameters before each attempt, or else using freshly allocated cats.)
yes because the board gets confidential info and has a fiduciary duty.

a sizeable investor is no different than us in that they have no non-public info
What is the reason to boycott Amazon, but where Google is ok?
It's an economic bet - the article assumes static pricing for offsets vs mitigation. That's just naive.

As there is less rainforest to buy and the last few squares get more and more expensive. Along the way things like solar, bio, and other green energy continue to become more economical to implement

Eventually there will be a tipping point where it's cheaper to move to green than to offset emissions.
Have you read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? I mean Sherlock Holmes.

I become fan of these books unfortunately after phenomenal Russian series (unfortunately, because Vasily Livanov, who played Holmes, in last years become involved in Russian politics, and was supporter of Putin course, even when all respectable intelligent people began to criticize).

So, Sir Arthur, said by mouth of his heroes - if you see something, which could not explain by common sense, that is - you just have opportunity, to see another or NEW reality.

In this new reality, Russia is small country, which have not enough resources to compete with big players, but Russia have huge ambitions.
So what it have to do? - It switches to espionage, to propaganda, to support terrorists.
What it got with such activities? - It make active interference for Western policies, and like child, happy that so small, but have success breaking activities of adults.

Sure, my version is not accurate, but reality is cruel - just cup days after US left Afghanistan, Russian authorities said on official channels, that they will try to find common language to speak with Taliban leaders.

You may ask, where is China in this equation?
Ok, are you really sure, that Russian have not speak about this with Chinese authorities before such statement?

- Look on map, where is China, where is Afghanistan.
- Look in wikipedia, compare sizes of economy and military of Russia and China.
- Look for Russia-China economy relations in news, look who pay and how much.

Are you still sure, Russia could make independent from China statements in such circumstances?
yes :-((
> And more of that. But just saying "a lot of dependencies bad" is not useful.

I disagree. The primary problem is that proper dependency auditing is incredibly time-consuming, especially if you want to stay up-to-date. The reality is that most people simply don't do it all.
Yes: https://www.redditstatus.com/

I'm not sure why this keeps happening lately. What could have changed in their infrastructure that could cause this happening so often?
Bonus tip: don't even type COMMIT until after you've run a few select queries to verify the data has in fact changed how you expected it to change.
As an American who has worked closely with the Federal government, I'm significantly more afraid of the idea that the government would be responsible for my medical care.
There's a "however". Actions that reduce the shareholder value without any long term prospects is something that will drive down investment and could trigger lawsuits
It's a short-hand for the treatment of the subject being pretty shallow and non-descript, which seems to apply to this article exactly. I read this and didn't learn anything.
Humans can reason about the physics, might have an advantage of efficient escape.
Do enough of it every day, multiple times a day, for 10+ years, and you'll see. :)
Every time I read anything about JS, WAT comes to my mind and that explains why everything in web UI domain would require a complete bottom-up rewrite.

And ofcourse that is why it will never happen. We just keep on digging deeper in mud same as with climate..
That doesn't seem applicable unless there are bigger problems to solve that are being ignored.
Using double -- for long named flags is a GNU-ism. Java came from Sun and so prefers the single dashes.
> We just have something to do while we do nothing. Back in time we did not.

I think we did. We could read a book, do puzzles, draw/doodle, carve a chunk of wood, watch the clouds, etc. That's about the same level of exertion as watching videos or posting on HN.
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Seconded. It’s seemingly better if you have no idea what to expect. I took my girlfriend to see it last week on a “blind movie date” where she didn’t even know what we were seeing.

She is someone who never goes to theaters and isn’t anywhere as passionate about film as I am. She borders on indifferent. This is all to say that she was deeply DEEPLY touched by the film’s message. We solemnly left the theater and when we got into the car she broke down and bawled her eyes out because she didn’t want to make a scene in the theater.

It really is a spectacular, unique, absurd, hilarious film with a great message at it’s core. It is a type of film that comes around every ten years if we’re lucky.

Daniels absolutely nailed it.
AliExpress is for consumers, for bulk orders you can use Alibaba. You can also get in contact with the manufacturers to make things to your own liking, they'll quote you a price.
> I do think the “the company doesn’t care about you” type advice does require some nuance.

Probably something like: The company doesn't care about you regardless of the individuals at the company who might care about you. (Unless one of those individuals is the CEO, I guess. More nuance!)
False. Dangerously false.
The pattern with these sorts of Web 2.0 companies is grimly familiar now. They start promising more access and reach for small creators. They get a lot of small creators in the door with the ease of use and cutting out of the old middle-men. Then they implement a bunch of mechanisms to foster lock-in and fleece the small creators in ways that aren't much better than the old middle-men (though, admittedly, with more reach). It's like one of those fish traps you put in a current where the fish swim in but can't turn around to get away.
> If they were, it would quickly be found that it does not actually work...

Unfortunately some of the effect sizes are so small that it's hard to tell what's working or not. The results of papers on body building, for instance, are definitely put into practice by some people. If the claim of the paper is that eating pumpkin [EDIT] decreases muscle recovery time by 5%, how is an individual who starts eating pumpkin supposed to notice that he's not getting any particular benefit from following its advice? Particularly if he's also following random bits of advice from a dozen other papers, half of which are valid and half of which are not?