skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About that slice indexing problem I wrote a bug-report for the language specification like two years ago. The language specification itself is not clear about what types can be used as indices. Accepting int32 and similiar could be regarded as a feature of the compiler.

The problem was recognized (like a year later), but then claimed to be fixed and simply ignored. Immediately, I wrote a follow-up issue providing a concrete example how the spec could be improved. No response to that, yet. Now another year has passed.
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Usually yes, but some technologies are so powerful they do reshape what is possible for society. Things like birth control, the internet, military technologies like cavalry or guns, the development of limited liability corporations. These things are more powerful than mere laws in what they accomplished.

Privacy-coins could be the next big one. It switches accounting from being a tool of coercion (c.f. the famous case of the Canadian truckers) to something like air which just cannot practically be denied.

If politicians banded together and behaved like civilised adults then crypto would be worthless. But they aren't about to try that sort of radical change, so this tech might actually solve a lot of problems. With something like Monero I really do not see, at any level, how they could stop me doing stuff like donating to political causes I agree with. That is scary in some ways, but there is also reason to be optimistic.
For all five classes of attacks, the paper states that the root cause & mitigation is "Strict Identifier Verification".

6.2 Root Cause & Mitigation
6.2.1 Strict Identifier Verification
The root cause of all of the attacks identified in the preceding sections is failure to verify ownership of the claimed identifier.
I mean if paying for unlimited CI/CD is just some outages in every few months, then I think its worth it.

Even though i know its certainly a trap, github wouldn't keep actions free.
I share your scepticism, but that's a political decision. Nothing protects us from bad political decisions besides participating in the democratic process.

What's happening right now is that we are sacrificing a lot for the financial benefit of corporations and for politicians' control obsession while we can't use some of the same technologies and capabilities for our own benefit.

We often have an obligation to prove our identity using a government issued ID, but we have no right to do so when we want to.

In my view, that's a bad deal.
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I’m struggling to find a reason for HN’s comments page (/newcomments). Do people actually use it? If so, what is the reason behind why you use it? I very rarely visit that page and find it a bit overwhelming since it’s a live firehose of ongoing discussion. What purpose does it serve?
Your comment assumes a false dichotomy. Another option is to simply create a new account. If more people become blase about recycling Facebook accounts, it will paradoxically put pressure on Facebook to stop banning legitimate users.
You're making a mistake in thinking that monetary policy is somehow democratic and that there is some kind of meaningful oversight over it.

Central Banks are privately owned and by design are meant to be "independent" of politics (otherwise politicians would use the money printer to continuously to buy votes, destroying the currency in the process).

There is no real oversight over central banks and nobody (outside of the peanut gallery) has meaningfully questioned the extreme central bank policies of the last 10 years or asked the central bankers any uncomfortable questions.
This looks very interesting. As the original author of khal (another terminal calendar) [1] I love some more competition in this space.

[1] https://github.com/pimutils/khal
If you don't want physics, do not evoke Newton's name and try to bandwagon on someone else's reputation.
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How to unpack such a mixed bundle of truth and utter lies?

Founder here, remote first, remote only, meet later to pop champagne corks if there’s an actual reason.

Your suggested cult sounds like a dead end in the poor shop
So transfer it to another registrar. I registered one of my primary domains through them way back when they started offering G Suite for free, but after a year I moved it to the registrar that holds my other domains. It's not difficult.
I feel like HDMI is dead anyway since USB-C. Not only do I get display port over it, it powers my laptop and lets me use the same mouse + headset for whatever laptop I happen to be using.
Nope, LLVM was started at Iilinois university, and clang only came into the picture because Apple wasn't going to get a ticket for GPL v3 GCC ride.

Had it not been for the license change, clang would never had happened.
It was a gradual thing. I never liked the taste of red meat, but enjoyed fish and chicken. So I cut red meat out pretty early (as soon as my parents stopped making me sit at the table to finish the meal).

Later, as I learned more about factory farming and the treatment of chickens in factory farms, I stopped eating chicken and was just left with fish. And finally I learned more about fish farming and overfishing and decided to just remove fish as well. That full vegetarian switch happened over ten years ago now.

I'm currently finding myself in the midst of minimizing egg and dairy consumption as well. I don't buy normal milk anymore, having found a great alternative that I enjoy. I rarely eat real cheese, opting for vegan alternatives since there's quite a few great tasting options now. But I'm not super strict about it, especially when eating out.
Exchange has an API that could be used for syncronising. I always wanted to build this into vdirsyncer [1] (so that I can use khal with my work Office 365 account) but haven't found the time.

https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer.
> move to a society that operates closer to what you want

This doesn't work. All countries are pressured to adopt the same compliance and framework. OECD, IMF, WEF, and other world organizations will successfully force same reforms everywhere.
So you also believe that a crypto system is inherently better than what we have?

Just because you believe money is printed as much as the dark secret super elite group wants it be printed?

Ah yes the sseg.

But yes we are still living in a democracy (a lot on hn at least) and the solution to all of these problems definitely are not getting solved by crypto.

You as an avg joe you are much better off with our current fiat system. The money they collect is used for a lot of things you depend on.

You might be totally ignorant to this but just switching to crypto doesn't solve a single problem.
It’s not that easy anymore. They frequently require ID verification these days.
Coinbase is the new Philip Morris

Coinbase led the effort with 26 lobbyists and $1.5mn spent on lobbying in 2021
How do we get them to post a follow-up or post-mortem? I get that it might be difficult to discuss a specific case involving a customer, but there’s something seriously wrong when they first refuse to share details and claim they will not be reconsidering the decision, only to later do exactly that after the case gets attention. That’s an inexcusable procedural error that should be very worrying to any of their customers.
I have been uncomfortable with eating animal products, for both ethical and environmental reasons, for years now.

There wasn't one event that prompted the change, it was a very gradual process.

I'm not 100% vegan or vegetarian because I sometimes eat canned sardines and eggs but I'd say 95% of my meals are vegan. IMO it's not so helpful to think in terms of strict categories when discussing diet.
Yeah, fair. This is more global in nature and could have been done while we were in the EU, too.

The broader point is this is a salve for the skills shortage caused by leaving the EU.

You've also perfectly illustrated why basing this on an arbitrary top 50 is stupid in the extreme, but this is government we have.
> Should they pay the software engineer more than everyone else, even though they don't even work on the core mission (i.e. the science)?

They do not have to pay the software engineer anything if they can find one who is happy with getting nothing.

Salary is always going to be a factor in who they can attract, especially when their competitors can offer much better compensation. If they are satisfied with the software engineers they are currently getting, then they can keep doing what they are doing now.

What the professor gets paid matters very little compared to what the candidate can get at a competitor.
> The state regulators' list showing what's recyclable could wind up including just eight types of paper materials, two forms of glass, two types of metals, two types of plastics and one type of colored plastic, predicted a coalition of 14 opposition organizations.

Note that the strongest criticism offered, is actually a good thing. Most countries are moving to standardise packaging around common materials to increase recycling rates.
Should have been more clear, I mean grazing animals for controlling grass.
> the development of limited liability corporations

I generally agree with you but don't understand this example: the concept of an LLC is not a technology that stands against law in a way that forces the law to adapt but is a construct that only exists by the grace of law... like, what would it mean to illegally form an LLC in a world that didn't agree with such actions?
> Aren't all laptops that aren't macs easily repairable?

No. Many laptops, particularly in the compact category come with soldered RAM and SSDs.
Of course, this policy could have been achieved in the EU as well, so this does not reduce the badness of Brexit, or the current Tory leadership which is in power solely through lies.
I wish "innovative, actually interesting parts" would include delivering an actually repair-friendly laptop - that is - one with full schematics; only ICs that are normally in-stock on digi-key/mouser; no soldered-down components made of melty plastic, especially not next to places that are likely to be reworked; soldermask that doesn't obscure traces; all important signals brought to accessible probe points; mechanical design/connectors/cabling allowing for easy power-on outside of chassis, etc...

Sure, QR stickers and a bunch of new/incompatible iteration of good old ExpressCard are nice to have, thank you, but that doesn't make all that big of a difference to repairability.
Toshiba used to sell laptops with Solaris on them, and there were some SPARC versions from Sun as well.
The principal incentive of science is publish or perish. Novelty trumps replication of the previous results (see replication crisis). Use of the citation metrics to evaluate performance in science is similar to relying on likes in the social media to measure importance. The number of citations matter more than the effort (cost) of producing the result. This environment favors those who can deliver something that's good enough, and then move on (and publish often).

Software engineering is a continuous effort. Maintenance often requires more time and resources than the original development. It's more like curating a library or a database. Their product is perceived to stay the same. Incremental improvements do not advance the career of the maintainer at all. Researchers who sink their time into software development mostly hurt their academic careers. Even if they publish a paper about ResearchTool 1.0.0, they won't be able to publish another one about ResearchTool 1.0.1 and another one about ResearchTool 1.0.2. Meanwhile, their peers will probably publish "A", "B", and "C".

Science needs a career path which does not depend on the number of publications.
Wow, awesome! That looks like a lot of fun.
It’s already resolved.
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All good points. I think the list of universities is rather reductive, but I'd rather have this policy than nothing at all.
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> but in a grand scheme of things, it works.

In the grand scheme of things, almost no computer system can withstand a focused, persistent attack by a nation-state level attacker. Air-gaps aren't enough [1], being extremely widely-used open-source isn't enough [2], even being formally verified isn't enough, because even a formally verified compiler can have backdoors [3]. And we haven't even touched whether you can trust the silicon it's running on [4].

And even in the absurdly unlikely case where a secure voting system is implemented, voters will connect to it with laughably insecure personal computers, that can alter their votes at will. I don't want to have to trust Microsoft and Intel's [5] benevolence to not abuse their root-or-lower level access to devices to alter votes as they are cast.

> but it should never be mandatory

So the 1% of voters that understand how insecure online voting is vote in person - or, let's be extremely generous and say 60% vote in person, while 40% have their votes altered by a hostile nation state (this includes the nation state that made their voter's operating system of designed or fabbed their CPUs). There's almost no election you can't swing if you control 40% of all votes.

With the prize being clandestine control of a country, someone is bound to make the effort. And then what will you do? Vote to return to paper ballots? They are imperfect, but attacks on them don't stealthily scale to a whole country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)#Compiler_...

[4] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/adding_backdo...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine - AMD has an equivalent backdoor
Better said, the year Red-Hat realized there was no money on the Linux Desktop and pivoted into RHEL.
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Seems to be going great for Stripe [0] and Moneygram [1] and FIDE Online Arena [2], but obviously crypto-skeptics and crypto-maximalists will not tell you that. Perhaps these companies waited for this executive order: [3] to go through before getting back into using cryptocurrencies.

The reality is that both the hard crypto-skeptics and the crypto-maximalists will be disappointed in achieving their utopian goals of fully stopping crypto and also gaining full adoption of it.

Only a few of them will survive the test of time and further regulations.

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-29/moneygram...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2020-06-23/algorand...

[3] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
Pandas is actually quite decent at extracting tables from HTML.

https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.read_htm...
That sounds like a feature I'd disable (especially if it were something that a browser would try to do without prompting) just because of the odds it'd end up causing major security issues, either because of how it got implemented by the browser manufacturer or due to SQLite itself. I'd personally rather just download the file and handle it outside of my browser. Support for PDF files is bad enough as it is.
Seems to have been resolved in less than an hour.
That's why my CI pipelines never rely on proprietary stuff.

I use multistage Dockerfiles + Buildkit to implement secrets caching, etc... My CI scripts just do "docker build" and "docker publish".

It makes doing things locally much easier.
> Similarly, most public blockchain-based financial products are a disaster for financial privacy; the exceptions are a handful of emerging privacy-focused blockchain finance alternatives, and these are a gift to money-launderers.

Is this arguing both for and against the need for financial privacy at the same time?
What infrastructure/cloud is github using?
> If you want to run universities as some type of public good, then good luck. Pay everybody the same and offer as many degrees as you'd like. Good luck hiring competent people...

This is quite a bizarre statement, since universities have been run as a public good for centuries. The idea that they should be profitable businesses is relatively recent. I doubt that the classicists at Magdalen college have ever turned a profit over the centuries, but that doesn't mean that they had trouble recruiting competent people.
European countries have lower salaries in general? Although their social safety nets are better.

Also, assistant professors (or the equivalent there) generally make less but do probably make more once they get tenure. I'm assuming they meant the tenure-track position itself is ~30K USD, but making tenure usually does mean a pay increase.
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> we can't pay VC money

> we can't pay FANG

So you're not paying market salary.
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> I’ve never heard of any one recommending the oven as a first attempt

That's extremely surprising given the first handful or so of Google results suggest it (along with the popcorn maker)

Unless you're going for a French roast in a small, unventilated room this is not going to be an issue to worry about.

Yes, you could trigger your smoke alarm but that happens if I cook a steak, too. When I used an oven I think mine went off once or twice from dozens of roasts.
following the profile tells me no, also they have this https://thirdhemisphere.studio/ so music related.

When I saw the username I figured it was zoomzoomzoom because Capoeira Mata um, but evidently not.
> I would love to use a terminal based calendar so much

Why? I practically live in my terminal, yet see no need to have my calendar there.
Your CI should be the automation of an existing, manual process for this reason.

Should the automation fail, your manual process still works.
profit-wise maybe, but if you look at the massive global production shortages and supply chain issues, it’s pretty clear that the pandemic working situation was not the ideal way to produce things.
Mm! Lots of amazing playing on that, thanks. Never heard VW sound so good either.
why do you believe that?

They're currently at about 50% recycled/composted which is less than they could be doing, and less than their targets, but not bad in a nation that has had their minds poisoned against recycling.
Hard to remember exactly. I was a vegetarian for around 10 years and vegan for 5 now. I think initially on environmental grounds and later as I learned more about factory farming ethical grounds as well. The omni to vegetarian transition was gradual as I was living with a vegetarian ex-girlfriend at the time, and the vegetarian to vegan was an overnight change.

If you're at all into cooking, even if you eat meat, it's quite a good exercise to learn to cook a few vegan dishes and perfect them to work on the basics.
[1] This is a pretty good explanation on the difference between order-based markets and liquidity-based markets. It's decentralized (DeFi) focused, but still very informative.

[1] https://youtu.be/cizLhxSKrAc
> But sure, MacOS is great, go back to installing a 3rd party software to snap windows xD

Pot, kettle, black?

To make window management bearable in Windows, I install Powertoys (Fancy Zones). Granted, it is not third-party, it is by Microsoft, but then it is version 0.something, it shows and there's a reason why it is not shipped with the OS.
I'd would say none of the technologies listed even closely approach the impact of social technologies such as rule of law, democracy, etc.

If your fellow citizens in aggregate really don't like what you do and want to stop you, the will eventually find a way. You want a society that does not police where money flows - which is a big change and there is no evidence that broadly people like to open the taps on things like terrorist financing, slave trading etc. So there will likely be some limits that societies like to enforce.

And of course they could attack crypto by taking over mining, policing any sale of hardware, making touching any crypto a felony, clamp down harder on any cause you want to donate to, etc. They might not win completely, but they might make things pretty uncomfortable for most that would want to use it.
Keep in mind how likely is it that you'll be able to maintain a better uptime when self-hosting and what's your expected MTTR. Github results may not be that bad.
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Humans are the universe thinking for itself.
"formulas"

Excel formulas are worst abominations of semi-programming. My coworker took advanced excel courses and I sometimes just can’t help her with these monstrosities because everything around them sucks if it’s something more than a simple max-3-term expression. If it was just python or lua, I’d cast few spells and she’d understand and use them much more easily.
At least rationally this should be obvious.

Extraordinary people are extremely limited. The recruitment process is not perfect. The performance equation consists of far more than just the individual's capabilities. Every variable is subject to diminishing returns upon investment.

Microsoft study aside (I couldn't find it either, mostly redirects to Teams), there are tons of studies coming out over and over pointing out how capable the ordinary person is when put in the right environment. We see this every day too, a complete "nobody" rises to fame within a year of dedicated work, to levels most people would claim "you need 5-10 years to be at that level", if not more. And these people aren't doing it in unimpressive ways like making a meme game or a joke website or whatever, no; they are making things which put companies with millions of dollars in budget to shame. If individuals can do this on their own accord, so too can a team with a specialist open to teach others, in work far less glamorous and difficult.
Could do a JS redirect, falling back to an iframe of the whole page?
> I'm not really sure why you would trust this claim from China.

Why not?
While I don't remember what was the previous US's x86 cluster that ranked as top of Top500 List (RoadRunner in 2009?), China's Tianhe-3 and OceanLight are direct successors of Tianhe-2A and TaihuLight, which are once fastest and still in top 10. These seems more promising to me.
Ah yes, sorry. I may have left out a few steps in the thinking.

A country that doesn't adopt LLCs or some similar method of pooling risk will tend to get overrun by a country that does. So people can try to stand against the tide by not allowing pooled risk and capitalism, then 50-100 years later the capitalists role over them because the wealth gap has gotten so large there isn't room for meaningful resistance.

Kind of like what happened between the USSR and the US, or Europe v. All Other Civilisations. You can technically choose not to use the legal ideas, but that is really just choosing to be overwhelmed by more organised groups of people. Much like how a military that refused to use guns would get overwhelmed by one that does.