skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I certainly don't think we need a Ministry of Truth and am adamantly against government censorship, it also seems foolish to dismiss the possibility that narrative can be used for political purposes - including by foreign adversaries. For example, I am curious if anyone here has seen this series:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-d...

If you think this is not real, or worth dismissing, I'm curious to know your reason - and please, something more substantive than "disinformation is anything that disagrees with X".

edit - here's a quote from the link to give a sense of what it's about:

> We reveal how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted — the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax — went viral in the pre-internet era.
His main point is that he feels like he's making more progress and being more productive at ReplIt than at Google, which leads to higher satisfaction. He considers satisfaction more important than just pure hours / compensation.

I'm inclined to agree. Working uphill in a complexity jungle (organization or technical) can drain the soul.
I heard this on the radio today so it's not like "no one is talking about it". CT with contrast is being rationed to the most critical patients.
all it takes is one court case for everyone to learn what not to say, while doing the same action
I think it’s interesting how a lot of knowledgeable people will chime in on here on certain feature compromises and limitations with USB-C and it always sounds reasonable in isolation. But you only have to take a step back and look at the specification in its totality to see that it’s a shit show. It’s like this thing was designed by a bunch of subcommittees and no one had a clear understanding of or oversight over the big picture.
Only if you've been around people who say it a lot and have the cultural context.

The internet, and Hacker News, is not that place.

There are plenty of people on here who will read "could" and "couldn't" as the actual words they are rather than the phrase they're a part of.
Butter, eggs, cheese, and fish have it too. Personally I like to stick with those. Liver and kidneys have higher values, but I don't trust "filter" organs these days. Too many potential contaminates unless you're very picky about where you get them.
Since there are people who believe America is collapsing and consider the abortion ruling a reason why, we're trying to decide which is true:

A) Those who think overturning Roe has to do with the collapse are a great majority and those who think upholding it has to do with the collapse is a great minority, or vice versa.

B) The ratio from both camps is not that one sided, and neither could be described "a great minority."

You're saying that we can't know anything about whether 'B' is more likely than 'A' based on what the Gallup poll you linked that questions the population on whether they want Roe upheld or not.

I disagree. I believe it gives us a bayesian prior for the distribution of the population's attitudes. I think it's reasonable to expect that someone who thinks America is collapsing partly due to Roe being issue will likely think it's due to upholding it if they also believe they think Roe should be upheld. Why would a person think America is collapsing if Roe is upheld also believe Roe should be overturned? That wouldn't make sense.

Since the population we're focusing on is a subset of that distribution, and since no other evidence has been given for why this distribution should differ, then case 'B' seems more likely.
I've seen people tell other people to kill themselves in dota.
> So, let's just say there is a vaccine that is approved and even distributed before the election. Would you get it?

> I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump. And it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he's talking about.

This is the exact same tactic used by anti vaxxers on the right. s/Donald Trump/Fauci/. Talk about undermining public trust in institutions - this is the (now) vice president publicly saying that it would have been possible and probable for a vaccine which wasn't safe or effective to be released to the public.

https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sotu/date/2020-09-06/segmen...
Never go to the sessions at a commercial conference. Academic conferences may be different. The vendor fair and social interactions are the only useful part of a conference.
There's a reason the anti-federalist papers are not part of our legal and cultural canon: the anti-federalists lost. Their sole victory (a good one!) in our Federal government is the Bill of Rights, and even that was Pyrrhic in nature.

> Both the first and forth amendments also use the wording "the people" to refer to an individual right.

That's because "people" is the plural of "person." "Militia," on the other hand, is not the plural of "person." It's a particular kind of institution, one that the 2A recognizes must be well-regulated. That's why 10 USC isn't the "gotcha" that armchair scholars think it is: the general body of the population is the opposite of a well-regulated militia, even if they are perfectly eligible for service in either a militia or the armed forces.

And note: I'm not claiming that "well-regulated" means that the framers meant "full of regulation." The framers were clasically educated: their understanding of the world "regulate" is the non-personal version of "moderation," meaning something closer to "striking a balance." There is nothing particularly balanced about either a complete ban on arms (you will note that no liberal democracy on Earth actually does this) or our current clown show of private militias showing up to protests strapped with assault rifles.
If you are not happy with what you do, you can't make others happy even if you have time to do so.
I created a similar project recently! Main difference is that I use base64 to encode unique Snowflake IDs, which are timestamped: https://github.com/hopinc/pika :)
You will rarely meet someone who cares more about the environment than people who choose to spend days/weeks up a tree watching for animals for fun.
> Disagreeing with me doesn't make you a Nazi. In the case of Tucker Carlson (who I was referring to), spreading Nazi propaganda (eg [1]) is what makes him a Nazi. I don't mean he's a Nazi as a perjorative. I mean, quite litearlly, he's a Nazi.

Sorry, it was too painful trying to get through the Nazi propaganda you're spreading here. I'm afraid that I won't be able to take your word for it though.

I think it's rather much more likely that he is not literally a Nazi by any objective definition, that it is not Nazi propaganda he is spreading. It may be wrong, insensitive, even racist things he is saying, but it also may be things that aren't obviously wrong or necessarily racist but they threaten your beliefs and opinions. You'll forgive me for not just accepting that someone else is a Nazi based on anonymous internet accusations. I would certainly be open to reconsider it based on e.g., a transcript.
There is an extreme left in US politics, and it's a large percentage of the population.

The problem is the electoral college. You only need 50% of the votes in the smallest twenty states to fillibuster legislation in congress, twenty five states to withold funding, and sixty to overcome a filibuster.

It turns out 7% of people are all that's needed for a filibuster, and 12% can block one, assuming you have the right people. Those "super voters" are in the most conservative states in the US.

I think the populous cities should demand constitutional changes to ensure each vote counts equally. Failing that, they should work towards secession. As it is, the majority of the population is in states that send more money to the federal government than they get back, and the states running the biggest deficits are trying to claw everyone else down to their (fascist, fundamentalist, and antidemocratic) level.

I'm far more moderate than the liberal bogeymen the Republicans like to demonize.
What meaningfully changes the requirements is that takes many more attempts to brute force an API key because they're longer.

I'd consider using a weaker bcrypt/scrypt/argon2 for API keys than would be used for login. Perhaps one that takes a hundredth or a thousandth of the time.

It could be unnecessary though.

Here's the main scenario: someone snagged a hashed long token from a database backup and wants to get the unhashed long token so they can use it to access something behind the API. They can do all the brute forcing they want and the server owner will never know about it. There are 1 with 42 zeroes worth of potential long tokens to try (58 * '51FwqftsmMDHHbJAMEXXHCgG'.length). Seems unlikely even though it's very very cheap to hash a potential long token. The tokens this is using are pretty short, but still not short enough to make cracking it feasible.

If you used argon2 maybe you could cut mycompany_BRTRKFsL_51FwqftsmMDHHbJAMEXXHCgG down to mycompany_BRTRKFsL_51FwqftsmMDH. Shorter token!

I would perhaps make the long token 58 digits long just because it would have more than a googol (10^100) possible values but still be shorter than 80 characters with the prefix and short token, and maybe swap the SHA hashing for a low cost (memory and CPU) argon2.

If you wanted to have really short API keys you could get creative with argon2. This is relevant for magic links.

https://startdebugging.net/2013/10/counting-up-to-one-trilli...
Why? I think it’s perfectly reasonable to think that distributing books about effective altruism would be a very effective use for $30,000 of donations. Most EAs give 10% of their income; if you assume the average EA will make $100,000 a year over a 40 year career (pretty reasonable for people at the IMO), this book only needs 1 of those people to become an EA for this to break even. (In fact, it doesn’t even need one — it just needs to be a 1% chance of producing a single EA!)

My Fermi estimate is probably off, but it’s a pretty sensible argument to me.
Windows 95 doesn’t boot with more than 1GB of RAM (2003)
The closest thing are the extremes in SF and a few other places.

The progressives in SF can't even keep their tools on the school board sharp enough to avoid being kicked out of office in the most liberal city in the US.

In contrast, there are left wing parties in other countries that know how to run for office, hold positions, and get things done. You know - by actually doing things.
All the FIFA license gave EA was the right to use FIFA brand and World Cup.

EA had to licences each team and player separately, so if someone else licences FIFA , they will not be able to use the team or player names.
Guaranteed the guys running that fund made hundreds of millions if not more, even crazier is a lot of that money is probably people’s pension funds. Hope you’re happy to pay for someone’s yacht!
If you are prefixing it, why not prefix it with a full domain name? mycompany_com_BRTRKFsL_51FwqftsmMDHHbJAMEXXHCgG is not much longer than mycompany_BRTRKFsL_51FwqftsmMDHHbJAMEXXHCgG and allows reporting leaked secrets (for example using the GitHub scheme [1]) without having to look up the URL in some sort of registry, e.g. POST https://mycompany.com/.well-known/report-leaked-secrets

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/secret-scanni...

edit: See also the discussion from last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28296864
Worms are common in many fish. I've seen some in fish I've cooked and eaten. Per the FDA, the only fish allowed to be eaten raw without going through a parasite destructor process is tuna. Even then, it's not a bad idea in my opinion.
If you think about it, the Windows registry is the first and most deployed NoSQL database.
Along those lines, a biography video for Admiral Lee by a naval history enthusiast really manages to capture what an impressive and capable person he was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58lfaMFUQc0
Headphones with BlueTooth, Amazon Show, Amazon Echo, Optical Wireless Mouse, Smartphone, Raspberry Pi Zero W, Raspberry Pi Pico (x5), Tablet, Laptop, Desktop, File Server

Oh, cnc router, 3d printer. Smart TV.

That's just me, not my whole household.
With every USB-C and/or TB hub/dock that I've ever used (including a Kensington SD5200T), I'd have periodic drop outs of my Plantronics wireless headset's connection. Directly connected to the laptop, never a problem.

Most recently, I've been using a Belkin 11-in-1 USB-C dock. I just checked, and I had it plugged into the USB 2.0 port on the dock before I moved it back to directly connected to my laptop. I've just plugged the headset back into one of the 3.0 ports, since this article says external 3.0 ports may not share like this article states.

I wonder if every other dock I've used, I've also been plugging into USB 2.0 ports that are sharing 3.0 ports...
At least in the United States that’s really not what the founders were going for. Their stance was more, “First, imagine there is no government. Then people come together. What would they reasonably agree to out of self-interest?”

It wasn’t about individuals being responsible for solving every societal problem they each observe, and it wasn’t about creating an apparatus individuals could use to solve arbitrary social problems.

It was about self-governing individuals negotiating with each other and having the tools to safeguard those agreements against tyranny. Individuals were responsible for themselves, not society. Political society existed as a compact to lift up the individual, not the other way around.
R was considered "just a stats package" until the last 10-15 years.
Having had an opportunity to look deeper, I'm still disappointed.

As a reader, literature is pretty easy, comparatively speaking; it's got a straightforward user interface: you start at page 1 (or whatever) and just start reading. In some cases, maybe you give the whole thing a second readthrough and appreciate something that you missed the first time. But in any case, linearity is the key. Inform7, though it's not alone, appears to have fallen short. In the first place, I'm having real difficulty understanding where the author expects me to actually start. But moving on...

As far as I'm convinced, there is exactly one correct way to document code (whether you're doing LP or not), and that is to explain fully the problems you encounter and their nuances and, as a consequence, paint a picture of why, exactly, you have made the decisions that you have. It is _not_ to explain merely what your solution is and its parts—having already written it, but never having articulated concretely for the reader the problem driving you in the first place (if at all). This, too, is where most attempts to comment code fall short. I'm not getting any different feeling from Inform7. I can't help but feel as I begin trying to read through it that I've jumped into middle somewhere and have not actually started on page 1 since there's no way this narrative makes sense with that in mind.

The file you linked to reads to me like any ordinary block comment where the author struggles to convey their deep understanding to someone else.

Main.w in Chapter 1, after some attempt to be cute about the history of some procedures with similarly cute names like the "deputy", but nowhere explaining the problems that it will attempt to solve, starts right off[1] on line 30 by initializing four variables for which we have no inkling of their raison d'etre, but which presumably are supposed to make sense eventually, in true "Don't mind these" fashion[2]. It pretty much continues on in that vein—e.g. "@Start up the modules@" followed by a non-sequitur of a list of never-before-seen stuff (that, again, I'm sure will make sense eventually—once you've jumped in worked out the constraints and the "why" for yourself, just as you do with any traditional programming approach—but "literate" is not how I'd characterize it).

The whole thing, I'd say, suffers from a real bottom-up* mindset—where we spend a lot of time on things we have not yet seen a use for (and we're not user we'll ever see a use for at this point, but which we give the benefit of the doubt for, anyway), when really what's called for is an explication that is ruthlessly top-down[3] in its approach.

* unfortunately influenced, probably, by its roots in the culture of C—where you are forced to define things in a backwards sort of way, lest you have to add declarations for e.g. `bar()` before you're able to show in `foo()` how it is actually used—and where you tend to end up with `main` at the bottom of the file

1. <https://github.com/ganelson/inform/blob/e723c36deef41bea793a...>

2. <http://akkartik.name/post/literate-programming>

3. <https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/programming/write-code-top-...>
Oh, nice tip! I didn’t know that one.
Because it doesn't seem like that is ever going to happen, I'm 100% for doing that.
> This means principle over loyalty

This is the essence of the problem. Human nature favors loyalty but human progress requires principals.
Not a fan of that generic cartoony Google art style. I'd have used something like a picture of a skull and cross bones or a black and white close-up photo of a pill bottle.
Honestly, "left Google for 40-person startup for work-life balance reasons" brought me up short.
Classic mistake. The creators of JSON thought the same thing, and that decision is here forever to annoy us.
The author states it wasn't actually work-life balance that was making him happy and tired. Rather, he discovered:

> By mid-2021 I was tired all the time. I know I wasn’t alone, because it was an ongoing meme inside Google2. It’s only now that I realize what was wrong: I missed the satisfaction of building things and finishing projects.
I'm not a fan of anything that takes me off the page I'm looking at or screen. I find it disruptive enough that I'll forget I'm logging in when I tab over to check my email and start reading some other message because the subject got my attention, especially if Ive been waiting half a minute for my "magic link." I also don't want to wade through notifications on my phone to check my authenticator or SMS. Ever since apple implemented auto password AND authenticator fill in with face/touch ID logging in has felt natural and frictionless again.
Consensus in both of them is based on unforgeable costliness, to make it economically unviable to create alternative histories. In PoW, the costliness is based on production and consumption of energy. In PoST, the costliness is based on production and consumption of hard drives. Hard drive production needs both energy and natural resources.

In both systems, total cost of mining approaches the block reward. For example, if block rewards are $10 million a day, then $10 million worth of energy is used in PoW. PoST burns through $10 million worth of hard drives.

The cost of PoST is based on scarcity in hard drives, which incentivizes production of hard drives. The cost of PoW is based on scarcity in energy, which incentivizes production of cheap and clean energy.
Common data visualization mistakes and how to avoid them
AI alignment research is still extremely neglected. There’s a handful of researches looking at it and that’s about it. There’s plenty of coverage/criticism about AI, but it tends to be very different than the kinds of things EAs worry about.

The only place I know of alignment actually being covered in normal media is Vox’s Future Perfect (and by Matt Yglesias, who used to work there) and that’s because EAs literally pay them to cover it.
‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics from Raw Data
The article is about the ACLU. I assumed we were talking about the US.
from what I can tell, consensus hasn't been made and there is a lot of regional consensus. For example, I see US English honing in on "man/woman refers to gender, male/female refers to sex" while some Commonwealth English not having that exact distinction. On the internet, this makes things very confusing because its not clear where consensus is, and its not clear if someone is saying something exclusionary when they're critiquing the nomenclature. obviously, if you are fearing something that doesn't make sense, this ambiguous regional discourse masquerading as consensus only will validate your suspicions.
Can you imagine the ridicule Apple would face if they released an iPod without a headphone jack? This seems like a heavy-handed but natural progression of a certain unfortunate series of recent hardware decisions. :(
This will be kept in the desired_state variable.
It's unfortunate that there's like, an entire dark age of the internet of sorts on something like this because so much of the "eternal september" era of the web was on geocities and the vast majority of that is just gone now. Looking for anything on here that you'd recognize from that period and demographic is kind of depressing.
Can’t blame it on the organisers. In general keynotes don’t provide details beforehand, and I suspect they are as surprised about this as you are (maybe except some insiders that wouldn’t spoil anyway).
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has taken the place of ACLU in higher ed. https://www.thefire.org/
Same here in Indonesia, we use “krik krik”.
For anyone interested in further reading:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiger-global-closes-on-12-7-bil...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Global_Management
"which she didn't" The price of surrendering your core beliefs? Getting stabbed in the back by an otherwise upstanding member of the community /s

When you sell your soul to the devil? Don't be surprised when promises aren't kept or turn sour.
Attribute2Font: Creating Fonts You Want from Attributes (2020)
+1 I'm finding this post a bit confusing as well. TBH, Google seems to be an ideal place to have work-life balance. Things move slowly and everyone expects that projects never get delivered on time (as the author points out). People generally are not expected to work outside of working hours and definitely not on weekends.

I believe a better title for the blog post could be "Why I left Google: unsatisfying work" and seems more inline with what the author experienced.
Personally, I'm good with a crypto winter when it comes to VC investment. Using the blockchain for financial transactions is one of the most dubious applications of the technology. We shouldn't be throwing money hand over fist at this application and rather be encouraging folks to innovate where it makes sense — things like public records in countries where the government isn't reliable, etc.
Talk to Kodah above about his fantasy league of rebellion.

I believe the militia clause actually means state level armed service, such as was common in the various states at the time.
Now the PowerShell idea wins big. Really hope MS spend some budget to make it faster. Using the mighty shell with such typing latency don't quite make sense.
My instincts are screaming to take this hit & gtfo now, that there's going to be a lot more sad days ahead.
This is the classic justification that leads people to self-defeating workaholism: The idea that you can fill the voids in your life by just working harder.

The false dichotomy is the idea that the alternative to Google is to work more hours + evenings + weekends at a startup. He's replacing one problem with another, but this new problem feels fresh and new and like turning over a new leaf. At least for now.
The tech recession is going to be great for Apple's back to the office plans.
Thanks. I keep looking for Bubble Tea alternatives in rust. I am glad to have some handles to a few.

After seeing some recent posts on HN, I've been fantasizing about a Turbo Rust project.
I highly doubt they are related. There are a ton of these kinds of tech companies with similar sounding/looking names in the same market sector out of Shenzhen. Sometimes they are good, sometimes they are bad, most of the time they are about as slightly sub-par as you'd expect them to be. Not really different than smaller US companies beyond they are more willing to blatantly copy these kinds of things.
When you give "legitimacy" to illegitimate causes? You have now removed your claim to legitimacy.