skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking mildly - it is the Free Software Foundation, not the Free Network Foundation. They aren't trying to tackle all the world's problems at once.

But also the network is profoundly different than the PC to the point where "free software" doesn't mean as much. Picking HN as an example because it is really easy:

1) We don't control the content we create for HN.

2) At some point all that content will disappear.

3) If viewed as an API, there is nothing complicated to it (disregarding dang's daunting fight with comment threading & similar issues). We get a "post" button and a text page.

So there seems to be a freedom problem here but it is about data control rather than software control - far harder to solve and also not so clear cut an issue. Does it, fundamentally, limit my freedom if all my HN posts disappear? Since they are public anyway, does it mean anything for it to be exploited by someone? Things like the piratebay.whichever and youtube-dl have been in the news today as part of ongoing examples that the network is still a very free place for who we can connect to and what API they can offer.
OP said literally nothing about buying and holding, so you’re starting off with a straw man.

How many of those people have used crypto to purchase any goods?
> If someone is an insider and can explain convincingly why a slightly heavy bag places a $100 burden on the baggage handling system, I will retract.

IIRC, at a specific weight special handling kicks in; not sure if it’s union or OHSA rules but it becomes a two person job.

That doesn’t cost $100, sure, but some of that fee is, as you noted, a deterrent rather than raw cost passed along.
reading code (or more correctly, navigating an unfamiliar codebase) is difficult in a setup you're not used to.

I myself rely heavily on IDE click thrus and reference searches.

Purely using grep sucks, and a plain text editor's search function might also not function as smoothly. This all leads to friction.

This type of interview requires the candidate's own dev setup. If they could prepare ahead of time (e.g., give the repo to download and setup the IDE etc), then it would be fine.
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Aren't some presidents around 80 sometimes :-)
Here's a fun rabbit hole of substitution tilings: https://tilings.math.uni-bielefeld.de/substitution/

Run substitutionList.show(1, 1000) in the browser console to show them all on one page.
The interface is MUCH better for one.
Canadians aren't a bunch of nazis. When leftist Bill Maher called Trudeau hitler... it can't be godwins law. You must accept that Trudeau was acting like Hitler. When the protest had swastikas... it's not because they themselves are nazis but rather asserting that Trudeau is the nazi.

The protest didn't even allow any of that. All the actual hateful people were sent packing.

The left wing has taken to calling all conservatives nazis for too long. Harper was a nazi, scheer was a nazi. Bernier was a nazi. Otoole a nazi. Pollievre a nazi.

I absolutely know why first nations dont get vaccinated. I said I dont care, I believe in their right to make the decision. I dont support the government making decisions that disproportionately harm racial minorities. Our PM is a blackface wearing racist.

We as Canadians are on the same team. The left wing has gotten out of control with this smearing. As the NYTimes said, the protest must be allowed to continue. It was a legitimate protest and it would be bad for democracy if force were used to end it. Well force was used. There are now consequences for Trudeau's actions. It will take some extreme actions to restore democracy.

Seemingly the way the left-wing is acting is that we are not on the same team. Do you really wish to see us split? Because that's the direction it's going.
I was the main author on the manual you linked to. In 2012, Stallman contacted me about his new book, and with that forthcoming, I thought it made no sense for me to spend much more time on mine. So I never got quite finished it, and did only a few minor bug fix releases since then.

I did not know it was going to be ten years until his came out!

In any case, I did help him a bit on the new one, but not very recently. The main text, last I saw it, certainly spoke to the GCC dialect of C, and included some GCC historical footnotes, but the description he gave of the book sounds like he must have added even more GCC-specific content since I last saw a draft.
This software aspect is entirely orthogonal to the "drivers use their own car" aspect. In other countries, you have good old taxi companies providing the experience you describe.
>Unless the game is non-free — then it's bad for you, if you play it

I'm all for free software and the less-free open source licenses out there, but the above sentiment is a form of fundamentalism that I think alienates people and makes them view FS as represent by RMS as extremist and somewhat irrational. We don't insist that all movies should be released with accompanying raw footage, or that authors should release all their drafts and editors' notes. These are basically the source code if those creative works. I know, the analogy isn't perfect, but I think it gets at some of the problems with taking this to an extreme.
I have, I bought some jewellery for around $100 worth of crypto. Admittedly, that was before crypto culture really became what it is now - probably 2014 or so. I've distanced myself from it all now, but it was reasonably easy to buy real products back then. I'd be surprised if it wasn't easier now, assuming transaction fees aren't absurdly high.
My anecdotal evidence is the opposite of this. At 53 I'm constantly learning new technologies and trying to get my younger colleagues to adopt them, but they refuse.

I assume (without proof) that this is because of their limited experience. They don't realize yet that there are many different solutions to any problem. They believe the first solution that comes to you is the one to stubbornly adhere to, because they are young and over-confident in their new abilities.
>Now it seems like the vast majority of the needs and requirements to run software locally have been replaced with networked services and a browser/thin client interface.

And its almost always done to remove agency from the user and give it back to the corporation. Again, RMS is right. You can only truly have digital freedom if you are running your own software on your own hardware. It only seems old timey because we have been drinking the everything as a service kool aide for so long.

It doesn't have to be this way and it's not necessarily technologically superior. Its due to business forces more than anything else.

>Even RMS's free game example is bad. One of the players can modify their copy to cheat, and the other players dont have any real option in that situation.

Not everything he advocates for is always practical, the game example is one. You have to have some kind of central control in multiplayer games to make sure people aren't cheating. But there is still wisdom in what he says. We have single player only games that are demanding the same kind of access and control that multiplayer ones are. Obviously that isn't to prevent cheating.

And sometimes he is still right about a problem even if he sees every all of them as technological nails to be solved with a FOSS hammer. That's not going to work but he is identifying the problem correctly. Banks and governments are weaponizing the financial system against people they don't like and can't be trusted. How do you prevent them from doing it? I think ultimately its not a technological problem, its a political/societal one. Banks need to be reigned in and politicians need to be more afraid of the people.
Cars are an interesting example. They are very generational outside the premium outliers. What is raising in price now are those that people are nostalgic with, but they are different from ones that parents or grand parents were nostalgic about, those in current day are just bad bets.

It is about timing, in both buying and selling. And then in carrying.
Pretty high given this is exactly how I would scrape and resell Google results (eg. for a SEO service) if I wanted to evade their automated abuse systems (stolen Google account credentials).
To me, this would be much less "pressure" than leetcode. Just seeing a leetcode problem pisses me off. It's so fucking low effort.
> We are entering a new age, the current iteration will become the badlands, where unknown wallets lurk in the shadows, we will see the rise of a new blockchain economy, not one driven by greed, but instead driven by trust, not trustlessness.

(Public, permissionless) blockchain will never be a mainstream technology. It simply doesn't have any practical advantages over existing technologies, and hence doesn't solve a problem better than existing technologies.

There are technologies like VR which are also in their infancy, but already provide real value to customers. And if you squint your eyes you can see where incremental improvements will lead to (and no, I don't mean everyone living in the metaverse). But with blockchain - I have tried, I really tried. I just can't see it, and I yet to have find a crypto proponent that gives me a real example where a blockchain based tech adds real value to customers.
There is a framework for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_Assurance_Level

Proton is claiming something similar to EAL4, which is not secure, there is an assurance that not all trained reviewers can find a vulnerability. Openssh is a little less secure than that formally, but has more trained reviewers informally, which probably cover some parts extremely well and other parts sparsely.
The UK has a fairly insane amount of history, something is bound to get missed. I grew up in Scotland and in school we didn't even learn much what about went on down in England pre-union. Even fairly huge things like Oliver Cromwell weren't covered (mentioned in passing, but not studied) there's just that much to cover.
The fact that I can't connect more than one monitor to my M1-based iMac is a fucking travesty.
At least it works with microprocessors, at least if to measure a microprocessor's size in transistors.
Ah yes, the internet's worst kept secret. The reasons behind it however are less obvious.

Yes, to a certain extent your ISP is watching to see if you run a speedtest and will open up more bandwidth to you in the event you do. However, if they were throttling you, which is not guaranteed, the most likely reason for throttling you is that the network hub for your neighborhood was under an heavy load, and they throttled everyone on your backbone hub to ensure that critical operations don't experience interruptions.

What you might consider critical operations might not agree with what your ISP considers critical of course, but they're a for profit business rather than a utility. So, what you consider a valid reason for throttling you doesn't count for squat. The reason they sped you up is that despite the fact that they carefully crafted their service contract to say they legally can throttle you for any reason or no reason at all, it reduces the number of complaints calls they don't intend to do anything about.

It also gives them plausible deniablity, and weirdly enough a useful metric for identifying hardware problems. They can simply make you think that the problem was the individual web service you were connecting to, or maybe just all of cloud flare. But more than that, they are able to track the number of times in a day that people visited a speedtest site, and whether they were able to get your speed up to the expected level. This functions as an early warning sign that they need to increase the total available bandwidth in an area if those numbers become what your ISP considers unacceptable.

Again, what your ISP considers unacceptable and what you consider unacceptable are not the same, but they're a for profit business rather than a regulated non-profit utility.
Why didn't that person add Blueprint to the comparison?
I think in that example the analogy might be more along the lines of studios who come down hard on fan fiction, forbidding it, versus those that allow it or even encourage or draw inspiration from it.

Although my analogy falls short because even studios that don't allow fan fiction can't be as restrictive as most software, since everyone is still free to come up with fan fiction in the privacy of their own home. Not so with closed source software.

Therein lies the fundamental difference with software: Movie intellectual property is all stuff that's right there, and the audience can see it. With software, the algorithms are often totally opaque to the user.
The notion that regulation equates to the fall of crypto is a falsehood. Regulation will help clarify crypto usage.
This seems like a nice thing to have badges for. Couldn’t there be a certification programme for ‘dark-pattern free’ websites?
Vtuber merchandise? It might actually be decent bet. Start expensive and limited, might go up with right popular groups.

From cars I'm not sure, Teslas? Or will they just die on their own.
Drugs is the answer you are seeking.
Spaniard here, I don't believe a federation-like would work here. Historically the more independence/leeway that has been given to Catalonia, the stronger it has snowballed into more separatism (e.g. when allowed to have somewhat different media, education, etc. that was turned to teach the younger generations that Catalonia is a different culture and not belonging to Spain, which in turn ...).

TBH I do not know what the solution is here, I'd like to see a unified country, but I can see how both the left and right politic parties are destroying it (one with lies/doctrinism, other with oppression/treating them like they are still 3rd party) and makes me sad. When visiting Barcelona, Spanish is often the 3rd language, after the Catalan (for Catalonian and the rest of Spain) and English (for tourists).

Edit: look at the numbers, it's scary how in a single generation a whole region has gone from 90%+ wanting to be united to 50%+ wanting independence, specially during a "peace" era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_movement#...
Xonotic is the shit!
I don't get your argument ? What would be the benefit of giving such drugs in comparison to risks and how does that relate to modafinil ?

Walk in to your doctors office and ask getting modafinil prescribed for improved work performance. What's the argument against it ? The ones I've heard are about them being there to treat conditions, etc. and giving stuff like this to boost performance of healthy individuals is very much a taboo.
Meh, imma wait for USB4, Gen 3.6, 4x4 with HDMI 2.2.1 support.

/s
So we can't understand the writing without a writing about the writing?

You see how that goes.

When I write, I strive to deliver a complete package with zero dependencies.
Can you provide an example of that?
Hackers hack, especially themselves. People with the urge to "fix it" are numerous here.
„I am firmly convinced that Spain is the strongest country of the world. Century after century trying to destroy herself and still no success.“

Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1886698-otto-von-bismarck-i-am-...
I can, even without having heard it, assure you that he wasn’t disparaging the technology of Zoom.
They were shady to begin with by pushing finasteride.
nobody of them kept holding after earning several times more they have bought.

No? So did they spend it ... or did they exchange it into something that is actually a working currency?
This is the problem with cohort studies. If you just picked 100 people at random and followed them from age 40 to age 60, on average they'd all get physically weaker. But this is an observation, not an unavoidable trend; if you took any one of them and put them on an effective weightlifting and diet program (and they followed it), they could at least double their strength assuming they previously never lifted weights.
https://app.ribbon.finance/v2/theta-vault/T-yvUSDC-P-ETH

This is an automated put-selling strategy using stablecoins (USDC). Every week the smart contract picks a new strike based on the Black Scholes formula and sells puts for the ETH price.

This is just one use case for one project in the DeFi space. It has $115 million deposited which is a small amount of the total put to work in DeFi.

Crypto doesn’t need to be a currency - crypto is permissionless finance. There are thousands of projects like the one I linked. HN commenters generally have no idea what’s going on in this space and continue to argue “bUt iS iT a CuRrEnCy???” talking points as if anyone gives a fuck who works or invests in the ecosystem.
Seems random developers were targeted as well as European Parliament members (and more):

> Jordi Baylina is the technology lead at Polygon, a popular decentralised Ethereum scaling platform. He is also an advisor on projects related to digital voting and decentralisation, and has built a widely-used privacy toolkit. He was extensively targeted with Pegasus, receiving at least 26 infection attempts. Ultimately, he was infected at least eight times between October 2019 and July 2020.

> Baylina received a text message masquerading as a boarding pass link for a Swiss International Air Lines flight he had purchased. Targeting in this case indicates that the Pegasus operator may have had access to Baylina’s Passenger Name Record (PNR) or other information collected from the carrier.

Scare stuff that not just random text messages can infect you (we knew this) but combined with harvesting other data (like PNR), they can time to exploit messages with other actions you do (like buying an flight ticket) and get you that way.

I was scared of receiving random text messages already, but easy to just ignore them as they have nothing to do with me. But if I buy a flight ticket and receive a text message that looks relevant to me, I'm not sure I'd be able to guess it was actually malicious. Scary stuff.

Edit: The more I read, the worse it gets:

> Another common mode of targeting was to masquerade as official notifications from Spanish government entities, including the Tax and Social Security authorities.The messages also used SMS Sender IDs to masquerade as official agency accounts.

> Notably, fake official messages were sometimes highly personalized. For example, a message sent to Jordi Baylina included a portion of his actual official tax identification number, suggesting that the Pegasus operator had access to this information.

Seems clear at this point that the official Spanish government was behind these attacks, or the official registries got hacked (together with various delivery companies). Both are bad, but that signs are pointing to the earlier makes it even worse.

It seems that the Spanish government can't help itself to give more fuel to the fire that is the fight for Catalan independence. Who'd want to belong to a state that constantly suppresses and surveillance you?
Worth noting that Chromium upstream has support for the portals now, so this should be mostly fixed for that specific scenario.
The more I read about these arguments the more I think it might be actually beneficial to male your own engines if you have 1) a small-medium size team and 2) not reaching for top notch graphics.

Does it make sense?
https://twitter.com/RonDeibert/status/1516011319719247873

https://twitter.com/citizenlab/status/1516016174559121409
And in foresight, maybe further question how long will it keep going up? What is the size of new player base considering how expensive it actually is. And how long will the old guard or current active players stay alive and active.
Does 100% living off of crypto count as 'actual' to you? Plenty of people in that boat.

The fact that someone doesn't want to pay an extra $3 and wait 15 minutes to buy a coke is really a poor basis for reasoning.

Is TSLA also not "actually" valuable? You have to sell it for it to do anything too.

From before the Bitcoin whitepaper, the goal has been to decouple value from arbitrary, inflationary, corporate and state-imposed forces. It was referred to as egold not ePayPal.

EDIT: literally asking for crypto perspective then downvoting when it's provided. This is why no one responds positively on HN crypto threads. Too much head in the sand with karma.
I hold Monero since it's popular on darknet marketplaces.

With the global drug trade estimated at ~$8 trillion, if XMR captures 1% of that it's ~$80B.

XMR is currently valued at ~$4.3B so I'd be looking at 18.6x ROI

But I don't think this is the utopia use-case that crypto proponents support
The Basques got the right to manage their own finances and it seems to have quelled the independence push. Financial autonomy also helped to rein in separatists in South Tirol, a German-speaking region of Italy.

Maybe the same should be extended to the Catalans.
No, "Essay FINAL (final version 2)(1).docx"
> when can you claim something as secure?

here’s a maybe wild take, uh, never?
May I ask why? I assume you were aware of this limitation, as Apple was pretty clear in the specs about it, that it only supports one external monitor.

If you pull the trigger on a purchase without reading the specs, then it's pretty much on you, no?
They are a problem that should be demonized.
The Inevitability of Connecting Everything
I'm a former FB eng and a Xoogler and have been an interviewer at both places. The recruiter sets the level for your interviews. There's an option for the interviewer to recommend you for a higher level, but there's no incentive for the interviewer to do so and is almost never used. Getting higher rating from the interviews will only make the hiring committee's decision to hire you easier, and almost never affects your levelling.
Cool stuff.

I've also seen generic traits and tuples used to fake function overloading with different arity:

trait Foo<T> { fn foo(&self, other: T); }

impl Foo<()> for &str {
fn foo(&self, _other: ()) { print!("0 params\n"); } }

impl Foo<(f64,)> for &str {
fn foo(&self, _other: (f64,)) { print!("1 params\n"); } }

impl Foo<(f64, f64)> for &str {
fn foo(&self, _other: (f64, f64)) { print!("2 params\n"); } }

fn main() {
"".foo(()); // pretend that's 0 args
"".foo((1.0,)); // pretend that's 1 args
"".foo((1.0, 2.0)); // pretend that's 2 args
}

Not quite as pretty, but it works, and you can be generic or specific over each sub-item in the tuple.
But it's not like you have reduced mental capacity once you stop taking it (after you get some sleep) or I haven't seen any evidence of it. It's also not addictive. And available as a cheap generic drug. So what would be the problem ?
Sick of arrogant & condescending comments like this made by ignorant people. You're flexing because you took advantage of a bubble, congratulations, nobody cares, and it's completely irrelevant to the parents comment.
Biometric Authentication by Grinding Your Teeth
A plausibe "big-picture" explaination is attributing it (partly) to several intertwined cultural movements, originating or being popular in California in the 60s. They focussed on individual self-improvement, particularly the human potential movement with its idea of self-actualization as highest virtue (See Maslow’s pyramid of needs) and claims that we "only use 10% of our brains". Human potential matches some other ideas that are influential in the tech industry, like frontier-ism and libertarianism and engineering technological solutions for problems (Herbert Simon might be an example for putting forward a problem focussed model of thinking, which also influenced Artificual Intelligence and thus probably the rather AI-influenced early hacker culture).

A nice introduction to this perspective is Christina Dunbar-Hester ’s talk on "Hacking Diversity": https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11569-hacking_diversity_the_polit...