skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cyberpunk’s nihilistic dystopian vision has run out of steam

Cyberpunk is NOT advocating for dystopia, it's WARNING US about it.
Hey thank you so much!
I see this point a lot but I don't understand it. I'm of both Taiwanese and Hong Kong ethnicity. The world has already seen what China did to Hong Kong's autonomy. But Chomsky's essays and lectures have helped me understand my old countries' political issues more clearly than many other sources, even when he isn't directly talking about Asia. So I don't understand the frequent assertion that Chomsky's arguments or his general political views are invalid when it comes to Ukraine or other European countries.
NATO won't accept members that are entangled in regional conflicts which may turn into wars soon (that's why Ukraine couldn't apply anymore after 2014). So Russia's solution would be to start such a conflict, sooner rather than later.
Thanks, I see what you mean now. I think I was keying off the word “entirely” and trying to make it work for all three dimensions of the building at once. It seems like the building will fit along each coordinate inside the diagonals, but the edges of the hypercube would still cut through the building, right? That’s where I was getting confused
I think Drew makes a good point about the fact that distributions implicitly perform a 'review' step for packages, but I'm not certain I agree with the idea that leaving all packaging to distributions is the best approach overall.

Generally I think that the ability for individuals to upload packages and for those to be available immediately for consumption is an incredible benefit for developer productivity and pace.

I'd also agree that review steps are important, so perhaps the defaults for application-side package managers should err more towards pinning to specific versions, rather than automatic updates (with the possible exception of security-related updates).

To me there are two common modes of software distribution:

- "Building-out" phase distribution: this is while applications and the libraries that they rely on are in active development -- they're 'leaf nodes' if we consider them as a dependency tree. This is where pace and the ability to iterate quickly is beneficial. Code and dependencies are likely not installed from the OS distribution, because that may not evolve quickly enough to support development.

- "Baking-in" phase distribution: the applications and libraries are maturing and have proven their worth in multiple production environments. Stable releases exist, and may have support offerings associated with them. This is where distribution-packaging shines; it makes trusted, well-tested software immediately and easily available to a very large number of users in a way that is reliable and doesn't introduce unnecessary support burdens on the distribution packaging teams.

I'd love to see more code review at various stages of software development; we typically do it during changeset development (pull requests), but I think that pre-release code review would make sense, and I also believe that post-release 'diff' code reviews would be valuable (what has changed between v1.1 and v1.2? do reviewers agree that it is safe, correct and documented?).

The growth areas I'd expect to see in software development careers are in maintenance and review. Perhaps not hugely exciting compared to feature development, but (again, my opinion only) more important for stability and overall software quality long-term.
Had Golfer's Elbow and acupuncture did not work - physical therapy with these flexbars worked.

Conversely, my wife's debilitating ankle injury was going nowhere with physical therapy and after a single trip to a local acupuncturist she could walk pain free.
From a presentation he's done on DoH (he's done a few):

> 2. DoH creates a new class of exfiltration risks

[…]

> When DNS traffic goes through the HTTPS port, it becomes completely indistinguishable from web traffic, or as Paul said, “paints us all with the same brush.” It is this lack of visibility where the trouble happens. Consider a CISO who wants to use DNS as a strategy to protect their network. Or consider a network team who need to block or sinkhole traffic. With DoH, that’s not possible.

> Since DoH changes the security perimeter and controls that were once possible with conventional DNS, this a potential vulnerability that bad actors can exploit. Paul’s biggest concern is “every botnet from now on is going to be coded to use DoH.” That will cause headaches for everyone in a company’s IT organization.

> Most quotable moment: “What we’ve done here is to create a new class of exfiltration risk that we can expect every intruder whether hardware, software or [meetware 00:56:41] is going to be using “ – Paul Vixie

* https://bluecatnetworks.com/blog/3-takeaways-from-the-dns-ov...

Vixie has been doing DNS since ~1998, wrote/maintained BIND 8, co-founded ISC (which maintains BIND 9 and DHCPd), and a bunch of other Internet-y stuff such that he's in the Internet Hall of Fame:

* https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/paul-vixie

See also "DoH Policy Conference - The Consequences of Encrypting DNS":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CKxIHSlfgg

From some BSD conferences:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxTdEEuyxHU

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJorQ9Ufm8
Seems like it would be sufficient to implement it only on children's accounts
A lot of this got accelerated through Covid policies, "never let a good crisis go to waste" as they saying goes. Many systems that were put in place, can be repurposed for other goals.
From article:
"Combining Callgrind and gperftools provides a good combination of profilers. The former offers accurate call statistics and graphs, while the latter provides close-to-real timing information."
Lots of 1000s to go.
This is not Reddit, calling names is not helpful for an intelligent discussion.
"Potential victims" are not victims. That's where the slippery slope begins.
See "Prolotherapy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolotherapy

"The concept of creating irritation or injury to stimulate healing has been recorded as early as Roman times when hot needles were poked into the shoulders of injured gladiators"

Nowadays they (thankfully!) use a mix of Lidocaine/Dextrose but the key is to NOT take ANY anti-inflammatories to allow the body to react & repair itself.
I think this is a version of what I do via blogging. When I learn something new, writing a blog post about it tends to help it stick better as well as exposing and clarifying remaining misunderstandings.
Also they are not really testing UI but rather scientific calculations which might matter for some apps but won’t matter for most.
Victim blaming is wrong, I agree with that completely. But a lot of 'coins' are just paper dreams, and live somewhere on the spectrum of the Nigerian Prince scam. (that, I realize, being the extreme example) I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone that wires $10,000 to a foreign country so that a wire transfer of $20,000,000 can be processed to their bank.

People just don't go around handing out money. Early Bitcoin miners went through the effort of setting up mining rigs (which is no longer practical for an individual). They actually did something, and had some skin in the game. Did they hang on to those early coins until this year? I have no idea.

But people that just buy into coins because OMG its the next big thing, are purely speculating, which is nothing more than a form of gambling. Do I feel sorry for people with a gambling addiction? Yes I do, and I know someone that 'retired early (35)' to play poker professionally.

To much of the coin and NFT space to me smells of a combination of pyramid scheme and MLM. By its very nature it rejects regulation, it is decentralized. Which is one of the reasons, to me, that it is suspect.
> Defensive alliance is a loaded term

It also doesn't appear to be a very accurate description of the things NATO has been getting up to since the end of the Cold War.

"[NATO] has been involved in military operations in the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa"[0]

You don't have to be a spin doctor to realise that what seems like "defence" to one person is another's war of aggression.

German defence minister Peter Struck memorably said in 2004 that "Germany was also [being] defended on the Hindu Kush".[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
[1] https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/service/bulletin/rede...
Biolabs and genetic engineering are very recent developments for humans. It would not have been a possible orgin in the past but it is very possible now.
Id be very interesting in reading a collection of details/documentation for old text editors and paradigms if you are interested in publishing it somewhere.
“Depletion of neutrophils delayed resolution of pain in mice, whereas peripheral injection of neutrophils themselves, or S100A8/A9 proteins normally released by neutrophils, prevented the development of long-lasting pain induced by an anti-inflammatory drug.”
> Cars can kill people. Should we ban those?

the EU commission's starting on this one too: https://www.sae.org/news/2019/04/eu-to-mandate-intelligent-s...
Not only the battery, but also of ever increasingly demanding apps for no real benefit.
I can use my Monopoly money to get more Monopoly money, too.
Ok I guess? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Ukraine#Situ...
Context would help here. “Life savings” when you’re 25 are better known as “savings” and is just being kind of dramatic. When you’re 55, “life” makes more sense and it’s more serious.
> Cars can kill people. Should we ban those?

In dense cities: yes.
Best advice in the thread so far.

You’re chances of success are 10x higher trying to build technology for tanning salons than it is building the next new docker kubernetes react native infrastructure as a service.

Unsexy sells.
Warning, long EU critical rant:

This is again a fundamental flaw of the EU. It is much easier for lobbyists with deep pockets to influence policies on the continent. A few years ago EU advantages wwere sold as keeping the peace and making travel easier.

Well, I think the first one isn't true and the second is a tiny advantage in comparison to have vastly less influence. I don't have a solution and theoretically we have subsidiarity here but it empirically doesn't work, especially concerning civil liberties. Those are reduced while economic interests are completely unchallenged, even supported by the political structure.

Ever wondered why retail tries to use as few suppliers as possible? For a number of reasons but one is certainly to make that supplier dependent and to influence decisions in production. Now take this idea and transfer it to the EU. I don't think a lot of friends of the EU are capable to understand these dynamics and therefore are not really good political allies because refusing to talk about the problems doesn't make the problem go away. There is just hot air as a response if you even get one. The weight the EU provides to defend against the influence of other states is also useless if we emulate corrupt autocracies anyway.

So what is the excuse this time? We have a Hollywood actor influencing policies trying to sell his shitty AI solution. Sure, there is domestic support too, especially with personnel like UvdL who certainly nobody elected. Maybe people that cannot understand her might like her because she looks a bit sympathetic. Great union...

We simply cannot have a political institution on the highest level where nations offload their most incompetent politicians. Public policy is too important for that. As a citizen I cannot keep up with the issues in Spain or Sweden if I live in central Europe. How can I know what to vote for here? I could focus on my interest as a citizen, but right now it feels like a headless race forward with possibly very bad decisions that can do a lot of damage.

Most people in the EU not from Germany don't know UvdL and they should know that she has the capability to severely damage the net and to me this is a case of cronyism right in front of our eyes without much recourse.
It seems to me that some gold coins would work even better in this situation (for longer term savings, not something you move in and out every month). Did you consider this? An honest question.
> if you aren't scared of what another Trump can do to your country or its societal fabric or your personal freedoms [..]

I think instead of being scared of what allowing unethical speech can bring and trying to censor it, we should work towards ensuring that there is equal and opposing points of view, hopefully with better reasoned arguments. As far as I can tell the problem is that the people which are able to put those points of view "on paper" rarely bother to do so, because arguing against someone like Trump never encounters a good faith debate, and most of the times, it's so obvious that it's so wrong. But of course that it's not obviously wrong for a vast number of people, and explicitly stating it, might help them.

Expanding on this discussion see the exchange between Peter Boghossian and Laurie Penny in one of the classics of letter.wiki: https://letter.wiki/conversation/863
Discussed here before, not everybody was seeing only positives.

"ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474600
Thanks for the wake up call, I suppose.
Re targeting angel investors: even when we are talking about a 5M funding round? In continental EU it feels a bit over the powder of angels, or is it?
No, they don't need to "win once", rules can be changed.

And the ECJ/ECHR are a thing (and yes they have ruled against overreaching rules in the past)

(though I like your suggestion)
> The problem is they only need to win once.

and due to the structure of the EU: once it is has passed it is almost impossible to rescind

no matter who you vote for in the future
USV has no escaping on purpose because it's simpler and faster.

USV is for the 99.999% of cases that don't embed USV Control Picture characters in the content.

If you need escaping, then I can suggest you consider USVX which is USV + extensions for escaping and other conveniences, or you can use your content's own escaping such as ampersand escaping for HTML text, or you can use any other format such as JSON, XML, SQL, etc.
Something I suspect we both believe in is that allocation of resources ought to be roughly proportional to value provided.

Where I suspect we differ is that I don’t believe that market value of services is an especially accurate measure of true value provided. And in particular I think it would be pretty much impossible for someone to provide enough value to society (relative to the average person with a normal job - many of which IMO provide huge value to society for little compensation) to warrant billionaire level wealth. I therefore think we ought to correct this discrepancy.
I'm personally happy to mess around with docker for an hour once if it lets me save 50%+ on running it.

It's true that Heroku has a better experience, but that doesn't matter if the NRE for making it work on a cheaper platform is recouped after barely a month. I think the fact that these services are able to be successful despite having a worse experience shows how uncompetitive Heroku's pricing is.
Tether is propping up shitty exchanges/casinos — not cryptocurrency.
afaik it takes several days to fulfill
Oops, realised I got my footnote [2] the wrong way round here, and it's too late to edit it. In forward mode we need one evaluation for each input to get all the sensitivities. In reverse/adjoint mode it's one per output. In real world situations we're often performing calculations on a large set of input numbers to produce a small set of output numbers we're interested in, so there may be orders of magnitude fewer outputs than inputs.
These people couldn’t care less. The line should have already been drawn but people keep falling for this emotional trickery that all politicians use. Packaging up something that nobody agrees with, with a noble cause that nobody would disagree with on the surface.

If you oppose this then I guess you oppose child sexual abuse! You wouldn’t want to look like a bad person would you?
> with invasions of Poland and Finland in 1939, and the Baltic states in 1940

And Romania in 1940.
That's where I learned it too :)
I know it doesn't matter for the point the author is trying to make but, Such a tease, what does the app do?
>But the OP-1 is literally the only piece of music gear you can bring on an airplane and write a whole song. Show me another way to write a song in an airplane, and you can have my money.

Assuming you mean without using a phone, computer, or a tablet:

Yamaha Reface DX ($400) + Korg SOS Recorder ($100) + TE PO-12 Rhythm ($60), and you not only have a portable studio, but a performer's rig.

I'm powering mine from a powerbank via a USB-to-12V adapter, it lasts forever on a charge.

I can busk with Reface DX alone (it's built-in speakers are loud enough for a quiet street). Throw in a mini-amp, and it's a band.

And it comes with an optional keytar strap too, so I cann sling it around my shoulder.

And it's the best FM synthesizer ever made. Worth it for the E-Piano patch and Final Countdown-like leads alone, but the real magic comes in realtime manipulation of sound (something you couldn't do with the clunky controls of DX-7).

Yeah, I don't know if it fits your "all-in-one" defitinion, but surely OP-1 doesn't fit mine: it's missing a proper keyboard (my main rig is Yamaha MX-88, and I still say that Reface DX's keyboard is great).

And with some creative application of electrical tape, the drum machine / field recorder just become upgrades for the Reface DX, giving yout the ultimate unit.
You have it all wrong, just read this article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/nyregion/primary-election...

They’ve tried to take it to multiple courts that have all found it unconstitutional. They are still trying to hold elections with it.
It's kinda hypocritical as Ukraine is standing for much but not any of these values in recent history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Ukraine#Situ... but I totally see your point.
tether have not been audited, their reserves are misrepresented, they introduced arbitrary redemption limits (100k) and all sorts of much worse stuff like losing money when their banking partners disappeared and backing tether with investments in crypto projects that rely on Tether. Very rarely do Tether ever redeem Tethers for dollars, they pretty much only print, so the question should not be “are they currently honouring redemptions” but “will they be able to honour redemptions at some point in the future when lots of people are trying to redeem because of arbitrage?” — best case you can expect it to take weeks for Tether to actually action any request you make.

The risk mitigation is that you can always sell back into the market, assuming Tether holds its value (I’m very cynical about Tether but I doubt it’ll break its peg in the next few weeks because they’ve become experts at manipulating it in a way that UST was not) which I think is a fairly safe bet (in the context of “bets on crypto” not general financial bets, compared to real financial bets this is batshit crazy).

So… relying on Tether to redeem is a terrible idea, but if you are confident the market value will hold, it’s not a bad bet to make as the downside is… a small percentage loss on selling back into the market. Not a bet I would make though, I wouldn’t touch tether with my
worst enemies money.
There were multiple discussions. The main issue was removing the GIL made single-threaded Python. Experiments in 1999 found single threaded performance was 50% slower - you would need 2 cores just to break even, assuming you had parallel code in the first place.

Here's a 2007 essay by van Rossum on the topic: https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=214235 .

> I'd welcome it if someone did another experiment along the lines of Greg's patch (which I haven't found online), and I'd welcome a set of patches into Py3k only if the performance for a single-threaded program (and for a multi-threaded but I/O-bound program) does not decrease.
I believe the original paper on Buckminsterfullerine aka Bucky balls aka C60 described the approach. Basically do violent stuff with carbon and stick it in a mass spectrometer. The violent carbon bit is arc welding, because the arc welding tips are made of graphite.
“Break the bank” is an common phrase.
Yes, using a dot for grouping is a common solution. But it seems to be fading out because of the conflict. Other solutions are a space (12 345,67) or apostrophe also known as "highcomma" (12'345,67).
Yes I am aware, and I didn't meant to equate the bombing of Serbia with Russia's invasion of Ukraine if you understood it this way.

I simply meant it as an example were NATO as an "entity" arguably broke international law. I say "arguably" because there is some debate about this.
When it returns to "original" value +30%, will you return to this thread?

Or are you only interested in discussing this when you can take a victory lap?
> The majority of the US states were not there first – the majority of the US states were effectively created by Congress.

They entered the US on the same terms as the original thirteen colonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_footing

> It is also different in that US states can have their sovereignty further limited, against their consent, by constitutional amendment (which they may have voted down, but the other 3/4th of states supported),

I’m not sure that’s a dispositive distinction. The EU and the US are, on paper, more similar than different. In particular, EU law overrides national law just like federal law overrides state law. In some ways the EU is even more powerful—for example it can directly force member states to enforce EU law, while the federal government can’t force states to enforce federal law.

> or by Supreme Court decision (who decide what "state sovereignty" means in practice, and can choose to interpret the concept broadly or narrowly, and may alter its boundaries over time as their case law evolves due to changes in judicial whim and the ideological composition of the Court.)

This is true of the EU as well. The ECJ has the power to interpret the EU treaties including points about sovereignty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_v_ENEL

> This groundbreaking case established the principle of supremacy in EU law, which is an independent source of law that cannot be overridden by domestic laws.

> By contrast, under EU law, any further major transfers of sovereignty from the member states to the EU require unanimous agreement.

The notion of the Supremacy of EU law over national law was created by judicial fiat. It was included in the EU constitution, which was never adopted by consent, yet remains the law of the EU.

> Better comparisons for the US states would be the Canadian provinces, the Australian states, the German Länder, etc–they are roughly the same kind of thing as US states are (units of a federation lacking their own sovereignty under international law)

The German Lander are a better comparison, because the Canadian and Australian states were created at the same time as those countries. And the German Lander are in fact sovereign entities.

More generally, international law doesn’t recognize one kind of “sovereign entity” and demote everything below that to “administrative subdivision.” Sovereign states can cede part of their sovereignty to a federation and yet retain part of that sovereignty, as the US states did, as the EU member nations did, as the members of the Soviet Union did, and as the members of the United Kingdom did. The aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the impending dissolution of the United Kingdom (of Scotland secedes) demonstrates that these sub-federal boundaries continue to have meaning.