skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
moistly, I think you are in an epistemic pit because you think misleading others is smart. Notice that you don't present evidence that everything is monitored and influenced, because it isn't an evidence rooted belief. Notice that you think that influence on social media is intelligent, that misinformation is clever, and that countering criticism rather than entertaining it is wisdom - you call it absurd to not counter criticism at the end of your post. On the basis of these things you think that smart people must be doing it and since you consider Elon smart you think he is doing it.

The problem is, being smart and thinking misleading people via online influence is smart aren't the same thing. moistly, in mistaking intelligence for oppression, I think you are dooming yourself into accepting a potentially false belief. Many very intelligent people value integrity.

You asks us not to think for even a moment. Fuck that. What happens when we do? The finances at Tesla are public knowledge because it a public company. They don't have an advertising department. It seems reasonable that Elon might not believe in paid promotions as much as some people. So a reasonable person might entertain the thought that -- and now we've transgressed your command to not think for even a moment.

> Of course many of those in this very thread that argue against those who say “bad things” about Musk are being engaged by his paid mouthpieces.

I'm not being paid by Elon Musk to post this. I publicly declare right now that I will retract my assertion that you are trapped in an epistemic pit and give you one hundred dollars if you can prove that at least four people in this thread are being paid by Elon Musk to counteract criticism. I will welcome this public disgrace if you teach me better, because I strongly believe that accepting criticism from you so that my beliefs are more accurate is not absurd, but of great benefit to me.
I know because I tried setting it up. It's slow, requires too much babysitting, and fails to catch cases.

In my experience, it just doesn't work cleanly out of the box like in true statically typed languages, and so I get pushback from my coworkers, who simply can't see the point. And I can't blame them.
They are useful for catching issue before code is committed or deployed. At my work we run mypy as part of our test suite, so failing type checks will block a merge or deploy.
I think there'd be a lot of reliance on all these fundamental components working correctly (and prohibiting other components i.e. "We're using this curl library at a basic level and exposing a safe interface through this protected library but somehow blocking calls from code outside the library") which might have serious repercussions for code reuse.

There are ways you can instruct an OS to block calls to certain library functions/memory ranges (i.e. remove and grant elevations privileges) but I think such a system would need to be designed from the ground up. If you can still `require(lib/reallyOldCurl)` then your protections might allow linters to be able to mark packages as unsafe, but I think it'd be extremely difficult to block access without an extremely fundamental design intent.

I appreciate your reply quite a bit though as I was envisioning the restrictions being defined on a universal package level (aka lpad is given no disk access) rather than being delegated to the consuming developer.
I dont understand why the easterneuropeans keep publishing strange software on strange fourums why don’t they just use GitHub???

When I wanted to change some hidden settings on my car I found many strange software packages on these strange forums. But nothing on GitHub, these forum people live in their own strange walled of garden.
Turley isn't a journalist. He's a law professor. It's an opinion piece.

And I never said I agreed with him in the past. Just commenting on how he changed over time.
Thank you for the reply. One more question: is it possible to sign up as an institutional investor to buy loans originated on the platform alongside Column’s buy side?

https://column.com/loan-purchase
As the author points out, there is some serious talent on display here—doing so much with two colors (literally black and white, not greyscale).
Alcoholic brains desperately try to make them drink, but there are many alcoholics that continue to choose to not drink.

If an alcoholic can choose to not drink, I can choose to not eat all the Nutella.

Unless you’re diagnosed with pica, chances are that you can indeed control your urge to chow down.
The big issue I have over the whole "chargergate" is that Apple announced it as "being green", which, sure, it is.

But the real reason they did this was to maintain their huge margins - cutting the cost of the charger AND they could therefore make the packaging smaller, leading to lower shipping charges from their overseas sweatshops.
> then average case O is worst case O because the worst case term dominates

No, you're overgeneralizing. It's true that the worst case term dominates if e.g. a constant fraction of inputs exhibit the worst-case behavior, so that average complexity is lower bounded by a constant fraction of the worst-case behavior.

This isn't true for the kind of algorithms where it's customary to talk about average case behavior. We only normally talk about average cases when as input size increases, the fraction of inputs with the higher complexity bound shrinks faster. For example, we can imagine an algorithm which, on inputs of size n, requires n^2 operations on 1/n of possible inputs, and n operations on the other (n-1)/n inputs. Then the average runtime is, formally, (n^2)*(1/n)+n*(n-1)/n=2n-1, which is still O(n), even though the worst-case runtime is still O(n^2).

Where this goes wrong is, e.g. perhaps the O(n^2) runtime occurs on "trivial" inputs which are disproportionately likely to appear. For example, if we the above hypothetical function is idempotent and runs in O(n^2) on all of its possible outputs, but O(n) on all other inputs, it'd be easy to accidentally quadratic by calling it on its result repeatedly under the assumption that it's safe to do so.*
Yep — I use mixed annotations on my Python code because as the person I’m responding to pointed out, they catch many small type errors. Dataclasses have been awesome.

I’m also generally pro-types, but I think it’s worth having a discussion about this type system in the context of Pythonisms.

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If you’re using “any” for most of your types, then it’s not providing value — an untyped statement implicitly has the type “any”.

There’s a reason I brought up the JSON example: loading and manipulating JSON of varying structure is something I do a lot at work.
The first line under the main heading starts with "The only nationally chartered bank...". That, combined with the dot com domain, implies pretty heavily that it's a US only thing. At least, it did for me.
Turley isn't a journalist either. The link is to an opinion piece. I'm commenting on someone's opinion which, IMO, is rather suspect.
If they're banking cash they would have otherwise put into their mortgage, then that extra liquidity is going to be a good thing should it come to foreclosure.
> At the end of the month it sums up to a complete employee pay check in addition to the employee pay check.

Sure, there are some large companies that the total cost of subscription services would add up to the equivalent of 1 more employees paycheck but is that really so crazy? For what they get out of it in terms of not having to pay multiple IT people it seems like a pretty decent deal. Someone has to maintain/update/support/etc the tools, it's not free.
I certainly wouldn't call it "least resistance", simply because I never use it enough to be completely comfortable with even some of the basics (i.e. loop). Always hitting the hyperspec about something.

But, even then, I find it's much easier to write in simply because of its syntax.

I use dashes-in-all-my-identifiers. Those are very easy to type. Most of my routines break up easily in to "bunch of assignments and destructuring in let" and then "code to work on those". All of the argument lists and structures and what not are broken in to their component bits early on, then its "just code". It's very stream of consciousness then.

That said, however, I have not done a lot of interfacing to external libraries. It's mostly just me and the listener. But, even with me constantly bouncing back and forth doing prefix math (my little brain doesn't think far enough ahead to naturally use prefix math), it still flows really easily.
This is a personal opinion, but I don't understand how anybody thinks wasting everybody's time with complicated forms on every website and training users to agree to any forms they see in order to access content is somehow progress in any way.
Any military hardware not coming back needs to be destroyed so it doesn't fall into enemy hands. If they aren't missiles they are at least bombs.
This habit of cancellation is, for me, the biggest failure of the lot. Some of their shows were very high quality and quite unique: One Day At A Time, The OA, The Baby-Sitter’s Club. You know what else all of these shows have in common? They were cancelled at the top of their game.

People forget that many huge shows, e.g. Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, only became hugely popular several years into their run. The Wire is even more extreme: it only really became huge after the last episode was broadcast. But in each of those cases, someone made the call that a high-quality show was worth running, either because they hoped it would find a wider audience or because they believed it enhanced their brand.
Well .. not really. Not at all. How could you even think it matters?

Musk could simply setup muskannouncements.com and blog his own tweets. No one may search for your announcements, but you better believe for his site he will still get full coverage.

ergo he's not doing it for his own announcements. it will be for a mix of media influence, and to address the bias in twitters 'fact checking'
Ken Griffin All in to Make Mayor of Key Trading Hub the Governor of Illinois
I think even the most craven digital marketing executive would agree that it might make sense to give people a chance to see your content, before soliciting feedback… on your content.
Under these population curve assumptions, doesn't crypto have the same inflationary risk, as a share of future economic value? It's not a technical characteristic of the financial instrument, but instead a basic imbalance between a net supplier and net consumer generation. A bunch of retirees holding crypto tokens is only rational if there is a reason to believe that a bunch of future kids would see value in those tokens. Just like dollars or euros or yuan.

If the future population does not drive a large enough economy, there are dwindling products and resources available to swap for all existing financial instruments. These real resources are things like clean water, food, medicine, shelter, energy, technology, and services which cannot be stored over a person's lifetime and then consumed decades later.

It seems to me that the instruments with meaningful value in this picture are those rooted in a right to capture future production. That is things like ownership shares in continuing business enterprises, industrial infrastructure, natural resources, buildings, and developed land for housing and commerce. Of course, infrastructure and buildings decay over time, but they do represent a kind of real stored value for a planned service lifetime.

An actual plan to take care of a shrinking population would need to think about how automation can increase the efficiency of production such that a smaller future generation can generate sufficient output to satisfy the needs of the whole population including the elder non-workers. To avoid the Ponzi threat or more generally the "musical chairs" game mode, this plan needs to accomodate continous, incremental decline. The important technological and cultural skills to operate this system need to be passed down to ensure continued production for all who remain alive.
Martin from GitHub here. The "leaderboards" are actually what you see as "Most Helpful" tables in GitHub Discussions (see https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions for an example). We should probably change the language on that settings screen - thanks!
Sling (Sling Blue option, $35/mo) has all of those in Sling Blue except CNBC in which case you'd need the News Extra (Blue) (+$6/mo).
> No, obviously not the same, otherwise I wouldn't be complaining.

What is the difference?

> They are not even on par with Typescript, which I'm not a fan of either.

Go is not on par with Typescript or Python, I still don't think it is okay for people to just say fuckit and `interface{}` it all and it is still shit to work with code that does use `interface{}`. At least Python with mypy has null safety, something that Java and Go does not have. There are some places it is worse than other statically typed languages, others where it is better.

> Standardized, go-to tools that work in the build pipeline and that catch most errors without taking a long time to do so.

It is mypy. What actual type errors does mypy not catch that you want it to catch? Why can't you use it in the build pipeline? I do it every day, it catches all the errors it should. The one complaint I can maybe see is the duct type compatibility complaint, and it is not really something that comes up that often for me, and definitely not something I would say invalidates the whole concept.
Page 1:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/if-you-like-yout...

Page 2:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/if-you-like-yout...

See the URL for page 2 in the HTML of page 1:

x=$(printf '\r\n');
sed "s/$/$x/" << eof|openssl s_client -connect 18.118.201.119:443 -ign_eof|sed -n '/Page:/p'
GET /tech-policy/2022/04/if-you-like-youtubes-copyright-takedown-process-youll-love-this-bill/ HTTP/1.1
Host: arstechnica.com
Connection: close

eof
I find this bit puzzling:

>Forges are online collaborative platforms to support the development of distributed open source software. While once mighty keepers of open source vitality, software forges are rapidly becoming less and less relevant.

By the definition proposed, is not GitHub a "forge", and "relevant" enough?
Just because something is "synthetic" doesn't mean it's toxic. Plastics, or rather the additives used to make plastics soft, flexible, water-repellent, etc., are now known to have a specific set of toxic (or endocrine disrupting) effects on biological systems. Other synthetic substances may have none, or different ones. Textile dyes don't contain any endocrine disrupters as far as I know, but they certainly might have other ingredients that aren't very good for you. Also, some bioactive substances may be easily absorbed by the body, others not. There's a lot about all this that we just don't know.

Personally I'm not very worried about absorbing endocrine disrupters through the skin from clothes, but I avoid polyester clothes because a) I don't like the way they feel on my skin, and b) because of the environmental effects (washing them creates micro-plastic pollution, and eventually they become plastic trash).

But it should be pointed out that cotton is also an environmental villain... in cotton agriculture huge amounts of herbicides and pesticides are used, even more than for most other crops. And even if the dyes don't have any significant effect on the health of the wearer, the process of dying textiles produces lots of environmental toxins and probably isn't good for the health of the people working in that industry.

So in relation to the environment and polyester vs cotton you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. The one thing you can do is consume less... keep clothes longer, mend them whenever at all possible, or just go full naturist! ;-)
Exactly. The article has some valid criticisms of the weirdness of type hinting, but type hinting is a pretty large paradigm shift added to a 20+ year old language. Yes it will have shortcomings, but in my opinion has made working with large Python codebases actually possible. It’s a good thing.
In most OSes, this would require a tricky decision about where to save the undo data. If you save it in each document (assuming a typical document model), you've got bloat of the documents, and if you save it elsewhere, you've got potential privacy and confidentiality issues (and also still maybe bloat).

There are packages for Emacs that persist undo data. I use one, and love it. I think the above reason is probably the reason they're not included in the base distribution.
Your link appears not to work (for me) — can you cite what you believe I have incorrect?

This section seems to agree with me, where it explains why normal classes can’t be subclassed to protocols:

> Now, C is a subtype of Proto, and Proto is a subtype of Base. But C cannot be a subtype of Base (since the latter is not a protocol). This situation would be really weird. In addition, there is an ambiguity about whether attributes of Base should become protocol members of Proto.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0544/#protocols-subclassing-norm...

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I’m not sure why you think it’s “obvious” that you can use a third party library to solve the problem — or why that addresses my complaint that the built-in type system doesn’t work for that.

If anything, the existence of a third party library hints the standard library doesn’t cover the use case.
I don't know if being unobjectionable is necessary. It helps, but:

> The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

- H. L. Mencken
And what? Can't he just add more securities as a collateral if it happens?
Rebol was created by Carl Sassenrath who wrote the Amiga OS and put pre-emptive multi-tasking in it.

After he left Commodore he wrote Amiga Logo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sassenrath
They brought in less than 50k dollars on a 300 million investment with very high, ongoing operating costs.
Thanks for taking the time to help elaborate. When I opened the article I was (naively?) kind of hoping to find a list of chords that would have me covered for most situations, but was unable to determine from the Roman numeric jargon being used if that was so.
Only militaries could afford such a monstrosity. What operational advantage would it actually provide? "Looks cool" doesn't really cut it.
If you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend “UnReal”. It gives you the experience of watching reality TV and prestige TV at the same time.
Unless I'm misreading this, it's $19.78 / yard for 4" wide size at digikey.

If the link doesn't work (lots of tokens in there) try searching for "9703 3M tape conductive" as a starting point.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/3m/9703-4-X36YD/6...
Thanks for your reply.

> I view them as similar to python's "private" functions, which are really just functions starting with an underscore

Good analogy! I wish they were more like "private" class methods, which are prefixed by a double underscore and result in name-mangling: you can still access them from outside if you want, but the code will really look ugly. And you absolutely cannot access them accidentally.

Which is what type checking should be all about, right? Preventing accidental misuse?

> Python typing is like that. If I say a function takes a List[int], but you know I'm just calling a for loop, you can ignore it and hand me a Set[int]. Maybe it breaks some day, but you're allowed to take that risk, if you have a need.

That's what drives me crazy. I come from the statically typed world. This bit of Python's philosophy really clashes with my world view. "These types are just something someone wrote, they may or may not accurately describe the code" seems so wasteful and unhelpful to me...
I think expect is a result of having no programatic interface for command line tools. I ofter wonder how much more useful these command line tools, and how many hundreds of man years would have been saved with buggy text parsers, if there was a programatic stdin/stdout, in addition to the one for humans, from the beginning.

But, with the reality we live in, expect helped me many times in the past. These days, I use python's pexpect for the same use cases.
I was in my thirties before I was taught to floss halfway correctly, and since then my gums have sorted themselves out great. I think we just don’t educate people enough on this.
They tout the system as having "a very special black and white screen – not backlit, but super reflective – that looks way more amazing than you're probably imagining".

If it is the kind of display I am imagining (which I think is different from the one they claim I probably am), then that display will probably look much better than an equivalent backlit displays.

It's just not usable in low lighting conditions, which is a tradeoff I can imagine them accepting, and customers as well. Though unlike an original Gameboy, and more like a common book, a crappy bedside lamp will likely suffice.
Storj is genuinely useful. It is however regular cloud storage, except the storage nodes that must be trusted will survive the company somehow. However the authenticated client-side encryption will protect your data, so the safety claim checks out, not sure about liveness.

Slapping a decentralized sticker on and having a cryptocurrency apparently worked out for them. This is how you successfully differentiate a product.
The Entrepreneur and the Jihadist
Since DuckDB is so portable, it can be a good choice for adding a SQL parser to a new system. Have a look here for an example that uses the parser separately from the execution engine:
https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/blob/master/examples/standa...
how is this feature good for GitHub as a community?

GitHub has always been a social coding platform

i remember what happened when VK allowed people to make their profiles private

everyone just made their VK profile private and now you can't see beyond a person's name and avatar

which sucks, because it makes VK look like a ghost town

edit: why am i getting downvoted?
Many news programs do a great job at having a civilized debate between the conservative and progressive views on current issues. I'm partial to the PBS newshour. Unfortunately, their ratings are in the gutter, even without ads.
Abolishing right to buy once it had happened was bolting the stable door after the horse had bolted. The council housing stock was already gone.

And we're not talking about her foreign policy per se (Pinochet excluded) but the toll she, and the party, inflicted on a large proportion of the population.

LGBTQ+ people in particular were affected by Section 28.

But no, you've glibly responded to what is obviously a retelling of an OLD joke to paint anyone left of her as evil, adding nothing at all to the conversation other than more political point scoring.
> I don't dispute that he's a shrewd businessman and fancy visionary but when it comes to the world of politics, I have my doubts and reservations.

In this day and age you don't become a billionaire without being good at politics. Navigating the regulatory state is an enormous task even when you don't have people laser-focused on you like Musk would due to his wealth and size of his companies.
Why can't you save it in an ".undo" file alongside the main file? Why would there be a privacy issue?
Because changes aren’t written to disk typically (unless you do a save, or save as). That means the “undos” are stored in memory only. When the application closes everything it had in memory goes with it, only things written to disk (or perhaps a database, depending on the app) will persist between program restarts.