skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by highlighting one company's greenwashing efforts.

I mean, causing the problems in the first place and then selling solutions to the world (and spending plenty of money to visibly promote their 'good works') isn't all that noble.

Are you familiar with the phrase "Disaster Capitalism"?
Do they have ways besides IP to track you there? Some kind of browser fingerprinting? Or that FLOC thing?

Maybe used in combination with IP?
My mother grew up on well water and has never had a cavity in her life. My dad grew up mostly on city water before fluoridation. He has had terrible problems with his teeth.
Would you kindly tell what types of projects are such nice successes?
And that goes double for trying to bootstrap a new protocol; I can only presume the Tor Browser is built on top of Firefox for a reason
Honestly the blog post was really half assed and referenced very little cited sources or material. What does it deserve like a 3/10?
It really sounds like the author's long term goal is AGI. I believe he said something about how being at a company with a 5 year head start on human shaped robots would give him the data advantage he believes is needed for AGI.
I feel like you just described Perl, and I use Perl almost every day for this kind of thing, but people seem to hate it these days.

The syntax can be weird, but I still think it really shines in cases like these.
> It's established all over the place. Look at SAT scores, IQ tests, grades, etc. I never claimed that the stidy you linked to established it.

Competency is not established for the individuals involved in the study!

Read what I wrote. I never said there aren't statistical differences among racial groups. That's why I asked you to clarify when you said "those minorities" whether you were talking about the individuals in the study or the racial stereotypes.

> Which is exactly what the first link you quoted showed, if you were able to read it.

Using the revised liberal definition of racist that requires one to discriminate against asians and assume black people are incompetent, sure.

> The way they were treated differently was by using less competence words

Yes I know, you don't have to repeat what the study concluded. I just fundamentally disagree on your idea of what racism is. Do you still think it's a good idea to teach this stuff in math class? Using my definition of racism? Or yours?

> Liberals are also against discrimination against Asians.

Not the ones I've talked to who have been trying to repeal constitutional prohibitions against racial discrimination in order to bring about policies of systemic racism and discrimination in their institutions.
It’s not always 100% true or false. There’s confidence intervals.
Let me guess: your company ultimately profits somehow, whether directly or indirectly, from the use ("sale", presumably) of these "decentralized domains" and/or ".eth DNS"?
Perhaps their account got banned between the time you go the email and logged in to see.
> Spaces is a feature of Google Chat.

This is true today, but 3-4 years ago Spaces was actually a completely separate product that was so bad that most Googlers didn't even know it existed.

I have never met a single person, including on the Spaces team, that used Spaces for anything. Ever.
Something I have learned from moderating: you can’t just moderate statelessly or with localized state. Moderation is not just about deleting someone’s offensive post or banning a troll. It’s also about setting community norms by performing moderation as a public act. It’s about acknowledging when moderation happens. It’s why sometimes you give someone multiple chances: you hope they get better but also if not at least they’ll dig their own reputation a deeper grave. And sometimes you ban at the first sign of trouble.

It’s quite possible that an AI could learn to do all this but I suspect that a big part of modernism that participants in a community know and respect the moderators. Not many humans respect AI in the same way.
Hm. That's a generous take. Marquet lived the experience once. Now he goes around and lectures people in it instead.

I have all respect for Marquet and I agree with most of the things he says about leadership, as well as try to apply it daily myself. But my best reading of Taleb is that the sort of thing Marquet does (potentially get lucky, extract oneself from the situation, and then live off of the one experience), that's the opposite of skin in the game.
The other commenter addressed this well, but it bears repeating. Abortion is not murder. A fetus is not a human being. Period.

The US is the only country regressing on this issue. This is only temporary, of course. You will join the rest of the world eventually. Even with this regression, 60% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
Yikes, what a naming collision given the "blockchain-y" tone underlying both uses of that name
Is the controversial Netflix “Keeper Test” good management? (2020)
> That is also a good observation. It's hard to create a good UX with a system where you don't somehow handle all of the failures of the subsystem in a central manner.

It's one of the reasons why the Linux UX will always be subpar.

Apple's macOS is based on unix underpinnings, but they take ownership of the whole thing and this is why they can beat it into shape.
> I know a few friends who have 'custom' fonts on their phones.

The weird thing is, whenever I see a custom font (or at least when it’s noticeable) on a phone, it’s Comic Sans. It’s usually people who are not super tech savy, but still they went out of their way to customize their phone to show them all interface elements in Comic Sans.
I read The Soul of a New Machine in 1982 and thought I was late to the technology party... little did I know how much that book impacted my life. I hope you enjoy it.
birds are just government lidar systems.
Maybe to stop mass buying gaming sales rankings?
He said he'd provide the money if they could show how they would use the money to help. They refused because they were caught in their lie. Biden can't solve American hunger with 4T, 6B cannot solve world hunger. Throwing money around just doesn't solve problems
Here Quanta's editor-in-chief explains his thoughts on a print version [2018]:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blo...
Lots of projects do this.

The big issue is you need a PPS capable supply(More and more seem to support it). With that you have full current and voltage control.

Without it you get 5v, 9v, maybe 12v(I think it's deprecated or removed, not sure if it still works on new stuff, sadly, because 12v is so common), 15v, and 20v. Plus the new high voltage modes.
https://www.oilshell.org/
> If you don't pay the bill, it doesn't cost you anything either.

In the US, you won't get the chance to have a bill, because you will be denied care if you're unable to pay for the care or are uninsured. The one exception to this is that emergency rooms are obligated to stabilize patients in crisis, but that type of care is limited. For example, they'll patch you up if you get stabbed and then send you a bill for it, but nobody is getting treatment for non-acute emergencies, like chronic conditions, or the insulin they need to survive diabetes, or life-saving chemo or radiation therapy for cancer.

Your creditors might feel differently about bills not costing you anything when they take you to court to collect on your debt. Those bills might cost you your savings, income and/or assets.
Out of curiosity, is there something protcol-agnostic that is better than lameduck mode?
"Technological Lead Time" - I have thought about this before. I wonder if anyone actively tracks it for different domains.
Do you have a source for this being considered a felony?
I posted the article because it shows a decision making process empty of data and filled with groupthink.

It’s meant as a caution to people employed in the tech industry.

It’s very tempting to view “data less” decisions as the product of stupidity or lack or critical though.

This shows how educated, smart, diverse group ends up worshipping the “idols of the tribe.”
He got a BS+MS from brown I think
You were absolutely allowed to say that, you just weren’t allowed to assert that it was definitely leaked from the lab. You’ve fallen for the false grievances pushed by blatant con men like Alex Berenson.
> i would like an open source browser that shares data collected from all its users. so the public can have access to the types of data google et al have.

That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. The public once got a hold of a sample of the anonymized searches of AOL customers and it didn't take long for individuals to get identified. The amount of data google has on people goes far beyond the things they search for or the sites they visit. A web browser that publishes everyone's browsing habits for the public would also get collected by data brokers and 'google et al' to be exploited for their own gain. Who would sign up to use that?

I'm pretty sure that if the data google has were ever made available to the public, as soon as the first congress person reviewed their own dossier we'd see laws passed very quickly banning the use of that data and perhaps even preventing it from being collected in the first place. I imagine any popular browser or project exposing their users similarly would have the same problem.
Nobody in the 0.001% (the "we" this troll identifies with) made it there through sheer will and determination.

If you grew up in the slums you might make it out with a good, stable, comfortable life through good planning and will. But becoming rich enough to buy Twitter? To influence people on a global scale? You're not going to do that without the approval of the incumbents. And you are deluding yourself to think they are meritocratic. Consider how long it took -it is taking- for people with tattoos to not get written off as gang members or no lifes.

Kindly refrain from assuming people's privilege and mentality. You don't know shit, sorry to say.
About a decade ago I had a social media marketing platform (Wildfire) part of which was a special case web page builder. We scaled our engineering team in many different ways, one of the many ways was to also contract external teams.

One such team wrote a book based on code the wrote for us, Objects on Rails. The code was fine for a time, but we were increasingly serving traffic from Youtube which was a very popular platform for us at the time.

The code in question could not scale in a cost effective manner for traffic coming from Youtube. In fact, it was stressing our ability to maintain a rational number of haproxy POPs - we'd have needed to massively change our operational architecture if the root problem could not be fixed. It took a while to identify, but eventually we found the exhibits abstraction to be the root of a number of significant and leaky performance problems (runtime object extension, blowing all method caches).

I refactored out all of the uses of this code, replacing them with simple in-place conditionals in all cases. This dropped somewhere around 15kloc, and modified another 5k or so (I think these may be under-estimates, but I no longer have access to the code, and it's been a decade). We were able to deploy that patch with very few changes. The teams had done a good job of writing extensive end to end tests. It also helped that removing the abstraction resulted in far simpler code paths.

I didn't need types to do this safely, the tests were sufficient. This is not to be a downer on typing extensions, but I think their advantages are often over-sold.
Bliss was it on that night to be alive
But to be young was very heaven!—Oh! times,
In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways
Of custom, law, and statute, took at once
The attraction of a world in romance!

When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights,
When most intent on making of herself
A prime Enchantress—to assist the work
Which then was going forward in her name!

Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth
A bit old, but fun read:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19810019084/downloads/19...

... there are newer sources, but I'd have to dig through notes, nothing very concrete.
The proof section is 3.5 pages. That's really pretty short, as far as modern math results go. I get your point, though.
It is indeed curious that you say “it depends” and then immediately make a strong, exceedingly opinionated recommendation.

White (whether #fff or something close) is a very good background for most people on most devices. And as a sweeping generalisation, dark-on-light works better than light-on-dark.
I'd like to help, but your email is not in your profile.
Electronics Explained: Fundamentals for engineers, technicians and makers (2018)
> To where it makes sense from an engineering perspective. Yes, that's what makes good engineering: selecting a pragmatic point between two extremes.

You didn't answer the question though.

That is just assumed within my question.

The question is where do you draw the line.

Why is it ok for the autocomplete to be a separate program (and somehow that's good because the autocomplete can crash without crashing the editor)? Why is it not ok for the syntax highlighter to be a separate process? or the file viewer?

> You're trying to counter my point by making up an extreme version of what I said and then refuting this imaginary point. This kind of logical fallacy is called "straw manning"

I'm taking your basic premise and showing you that if you extrapolate it to its natural conclusion you will end up with an absurd situation.

This is not a fallacy.

Although my general feeling is, when you start accusing people of being fallacious, it's difficult to continue the discussion in good faith.
If you aren't resigning, show us what you're doing. Because you probably can't do anything other than voice your useless opinion.

You are as weak as anybody else, don't have delusions now.
It was just a joke. I have many friends in Brooklyn. I just really dislike the culture of Twitter addicted journalists who see the world through a myopic lens of whatever is trending on Twitter is important to cover, and there’s quite a lot of them in New York.
The food you eat as a wealthy person is probably in a good part produced in other parts of the world due to cheap labor. Sure we provide lots of corn and and soy but a lot of that is for export fuel and meat production
Ask HN: Open-source office suite other than LibreOffice?
Are there any open source alternative to Microsoft Office excluding Libreoffice or any other apache open office forks?
Tools for a Culture of Writing (2021)
Wasn't this because of rating spiking? They'd buy tons of these, then after rating went up return them to spike ratings on the charts as a form of marketing.

Is hacker news now the place SEO spammers go to get support?
Also known as the "alt middle."
Feels like a punch in the stomach.

git.io has its place in the world, namely for creating code comments to Github immutable permalinks (that is, with SHA markers) that would otherwise surpass a conventional column limit, making linters complain.

I probably have created dozens of such comments over the years. Now people following those will find nothing.

Folks at github should really reconsider their position. Don't expect loyal consumers to keep their trust when you suck at your very job - namely keeping an immutable historic record.
Just today I had the following interaction with Outlook's web interface:

Me: I want to type "Hi Andrew,"
Outlook's autocomplete: I see an <H>, I see an <i>...
Oh, oh, I know this one! Do you want me to autocomplete "Hi" for you?
<space>? You do! I'm helping!

and I'm left getting two characters out of my three key presses in a frustratingly unexpected way.
Large interbreeding populations are "locked in" and recessive traits are rare. Small isolated populations can make recessive traits permanent. This is well-known to everbody who has stopped to consider what conditions produce major genetic changes in human morphology (inbreeding). Large gene pools protect against morphological changes in humans and animals alike.

Species are sent back and forth between those two extremes by changes in the environment brought on by our planet's constantly changing climate, topography and ecosystems. Sometimes, when the isolation ends, the combination of made-permanent recessive traits turns out to be harmful and the isolated population is replaced by the larger one (if the larger one survived), and other times it is helpful and they spread out into the larger environment. It isn't a contradiction any more than first and second gear on your bike are - you can't have them both at once, but they are switched between by systems external to the bike itself (the rider).

The idea is that every species is descendant from a highly inbred population of another species. Curiously, this happens in the Bible (Noah's ark).

The molecular basis is the same as that of Darwinian evolution (transcription errors plus whole-organism natural selection), combined with the usual laws of population genetics.
Could you please update your page with more information?
Wow congrats on the launch! This looks really exciting.
Because some people like having access to music that they've paid for on a permanent basis? Because some people don't like dealing with whatever the current drama is between Spotify and the artist they want to listen to? Because some people like being able to specify the encoding format and bitrate of their music?
I definitely do not think it's something to brag about - in the very next paragraph I point out that I believe this was too blunt an instrument. I do think it's worth contrasting with other recent responses to dissent, though, if anything to think about what and when would be appropriate.

Also, the government did not "shut down the dissent real quick". The protests went on for weeks without any reprisal. The shouts were shouted, the horns honked, the memes posted, the swastikas flown. The protesters got their fifteen minutes of fame and more. We all heard them speak, unfortunately it turned out they didn't have anything interesting to say.
Sorry, it's you misunderstanding. TLS doesn't require that it's a client to a server, TLS doesn't care, TLS says this connection from A <-> B is secure, that's it. 99% of deployed TLS is client to server, but it doesn't have to be. TLS IS however limited to 1 connection A <-> B.

I think what you are trying to talk about is: You want A to talk THROUGH B to get to C and have the connection secure between A and C. This is generally a terrible idea, if you can at all avoid it, but sadly for many reasons, we can't. And you are right TLS can't do this. Noise totally does this, which I linked to in my first comment.

So We are just talking about different meanings behind E2E. E2E == End To End, i.e. both ends are secure from eavesdroppers, TLS 100% fits this bill, as each end of the connection is secure. You seem to imply E2E is ONLY defined as encryption through some other connection, i.e. A <-> B <-> C, where B can't inspect/understand the contents.

It's important to know that, even with E2E as you seem to be defining it, there is still a LOT of data leakage, B knows that A is talking to C, they maybe can't uniquely identify who A and C are directly, but they probably can indirectly. There is 100% a reason that NSA and friends care a lot about metadata and learn a ton from it. Hence why P2P (i.e. talk directly to the person you want to talk to, nothing in the middle) is way better from a security perspective, less metadata to exploit.

If the Internet was better, Signal wouldn't have to use Noise and shunt traffic through their servers, and we could just use TLS directly between you and I for instance.

Anyways, I hope this helps further your education and you learned something.
The EFF has a long history of supporting spam so I think Elon's efforts around shutting down bots / scammers etc will probably piss them off.

What this really meant was twitter blocked nonapproved content pretty freely while openly tolerating absolutely massive amounts of spam comments / bots / scams with SUPER obvious misuse of usernames and more.

I should note that they've toned their pro-spam stuff way down. Their early early rhetoric was pretty strong, by 2001 I think they'd mellowed out a bit.

"Specifically, any measure for stopping spam must ensure that all non-spam messages reach their intended recipients. Proposed solutions that do not fulfill these minimal goals are themselves a form of Internet abuse and are a direct assault on the health, growth, openness and liberty of the Internet.

...

Email is protected speech. There is a fundamental free speech right to be able to send and receive messages, regardless of medium. ... It is unacceptable, then, for anti-spam policies to limit legitimate rights to send or receive email. To the extent that an anti-spam proposal, whether legal or technical, results in such casualties, that proposal is unacceptable."

So they really really do not like spam folders etc, and they absolutely HATE ip blocks.
The Qubit Game – A game based on quantum computing by Google
My experience of Navy personnel from ship visits as a contractor (commissioning and sometimes fixing SATCOM equipment for Australian Navy, US Special Operations ships etc.) has been that quite a lot of the higher ups seem to be pretty good. Maybe they try to weed out the jerks and psychopaths before they get up that high, or perhaps there are natural processes that do it? I have heard that the other services (especially Army) are a lot worse, so perhaps it's all to do with the realities of all these people having to be stuck together for months on ships or subs that means it's much more important to have good leaders at sea?

I had a time when I'd flown out to fix our satellite terminal, it was literally the only thing holding up this patrol boat from deploying, and the CO (commanding officer) came and asked how I was doing and then went and got me a Coke from the galley himself! There was absolutely no annoyance and anger at me because our company's equipment was holding it up, just "what can we all do to get this working as quick as possible". Another time we had to replace a large part of a gimbal on a frigate, with myself and a tech from our company and a couple of low-ranked seamen, and the top WEEO (Weapons Electrical Engineering Officer) happily jumped in and helped us drag a big crate up the side of the ship.

Of course it's different being a contractor coming in than being one of the lower ranked enlisted people, but on all the ships I've been on it always seemed to be pretty good relationally. Of course, I'd usually be on just before deployment so a few weeks or months later things may not have been so rosy either!
I believe. Never thought I’d see a self driving car I can buy by 2020 (mostly) but Musk, and more importantly the Tesla team, pulled it off. Maybe he can somehow scale the Hacker News conversational ethos :)
I wonder if this has implications for evolution of life. Life is about DNA which is about a graph of nucleoids connecting to each other in specific structures. But DNA must have evolved out of random structures and random mutations. So if there's a threshold at which structures become inevitable, then DNA has a chance to be born?
Lol. If something in Linux took that much convoluted process, people would say it was totally unsuited to all but the most nerdy sadists.
OpenEdx [0] the education platform is an example. Here is their design documentation showing their Bounded Contexts [1] in the DDD section of the docs.

[0] https://openedx.org/

[1] https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/663224968...
I like blue toilet water