skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My observation is that people “like” what’s familiar. If they try something new they may not like it, and consider the experience a waste when they could have had something they know they like.

Some people go on cruises every year or get a timeshare, others throw a dart at a world map.
I tried to read that book. I listened to the podcasts. Just couldn't get into it unfortunately.
>What basis is there for your accusations?

History

>These aren't companies. It's a communty project and a FOSS project merging resources.

Exactly how other situations historically have started. Lot's of FOSS projects "brought into the fold" to "shepard" along only to not get the resources promised.
From the main article:

> Stanford’s decision to sanction the Band was a sign of things to come. ... Once, the Band mocked Stanford’s rivals with crass marching formations; today, the Band designs all their pranks based on pre-approved themes from the university and clears the final plans with a panel of administrators.

> The University sent a clear message with its treatment of the Band. Spontaneous organizations, particularly when they could become chaotic, controversial, or otherwise a space for breaking rules, were now something to be controlled. Rather than treating freedom and spontaneity as strengths, the dynamic became one where students had to justify their projects and ideas while under suspicion from administrators. Student life was becoming dominated by restrictive bureaucracy.
I think I'm close to an outside observer - I didn't go to Stanford and don't have a dog in that fight, as the saying goes. I don't trust the conclusions of this article.

It starts with a story about a frat which filled their building's first floor with sand, so much that they had to rent a bulldozer to relocate it to the campus lake. Then they call the Stanford admins killjoys for not supporting it. But... of course Stanford wouldn't support that! That would try anyone's patience.

What kind of impact does dumping all that sand have? What about running the bulldozer over the Stanford campus? What if someone is injured by the bulldozer? I wouldn't trust teenagers renting an after-party bulldozer who never cleared that with anyone, never notified anyone, and have no proof of training.

Then, the article talks about Stanford letting the lake "go dry." I live in California and I can tell you what happened: the drought. There's a killer drought, nonessential water use is discouraged, and a manmade lake in a little-used corner of a campus is the definition of nonessential. Stanford did the right thing by not artificially pumping it up. There's no malice involved; a lake like that, in 2022, is destined to dry up.

So based on those things, I don't think I can trust the article to be taking a balanced, sensible position. My "middle of the road" position wold be that, yes, sometimes adventurous college kids can get away with something - once in a while. But over the long term, it's the institution's job to prevent one-off events from turning into ongoing disaster generators.
It's open source, and runnable on any server that you can run Deno on (so any reasonably modern Linux, macOS, or Windows) system. You can also host it on our managed edge runtime offering, Deno Deploy.
Yes, you can do that. But that exasperates the system portability problem. The real solution is for some distro to, gasp, decide that POSIX compatibility can be done with utilities in /opt/posix (or something) and do widespread replacement by default. But that’ll never happen…
Optometrists are not medical doctors. It's better to consult ophthalmologists (plural) on this. They are better educated and the ones that actually do all the hands-on work on your eyes
Supply chain attacks are not uncommon. Package signing can protect against those:

1. Package source hacking. Say an attacker gets access to a package source's storage and inserts malware into popular packages. Now your project contains malware. Your package manager can detect tampering if the packages are signed.

2. Dependency confusion attacks. Say my project downloads packages from the public source as well as my company's private source. An attacker realizes my company has a private package named `private-foo` and uploads a malicious package with the same name to the public source. Now my projects contains malware as it occasionally downloads the malicious package instead of my company's private package. Your package manager can detect packages from an unexpected author if they are signed.

I can provide more examples if you'd like. None of these are hypothetical, all of them have happened already.
When I first moved to my rural property here I had built a bit of a 'house' for compositing leaves out of strawbales.

I swept some ashes from my (I thought) long dead fire from a few days earlier in there.

About midnight got a call from a neighbour ("your shed is on fire"). Fire department. Sirens. Two fire trucks. Major embarassment.

Kids somehow slept through the whole thing.
Don’t need to make a broad generalization to say that the proposal in question is hypocritical. One can say, “The people who made this proposal are being hypocritical and they are wrong for doing so.” It is always appropriate to admit that someone’s actions are hypocritical regardless of what “side” one is on. I believe the failure of people to point out individual acts of hypocrisy is what leads, overtime, to people making stereotypes.

Importantly one should note that the leadership of the Republican Party fails to admonish those who came up with this dumb proposal. (Yes, Democratic leadership rarely calls out Democratic lawmakers making really bad proposals but right now we are talking about the Republican Party.). For instance, the leadership isn’t saying, “This is contrary to our principle of small government.” So it is OK to use a bit of a broad brush in this case.
Title should be updated to "Marxist commodity".

Any Renascence courtesan (or tribal leader) could have told you that human attention is valuable. The difference now is that attention is quite nearby fungible, and near-readily exchangeable for dollars and cents. Just wait until eye-tracked advertising takes off.
Riccardo Mori has a great series of articles comparing Snow Leopard with modern macOS if you're looking for something to read:

http://morrick.me/archives/9220

http://morrick.me/archives/9246

http://morrick.me/archives/9265
Of the issues with the Framework, it’s interchangeable ports are not one.
> mode of production based a land based elite that relied on slavery came to have a lot of limitations

This whole theory came from the 60s where Marxist historiography was very popular and really is not based on much.

It just basically taking the Marxism 101 and plastering it over the historical empire and the source base for it is a few political speeches.

Modern history that looks this can almost universally not verify many of these claims based on the sources used. Making incredibly complex economic argument to analyses a society where we have almost 0 visibility on economic data is quite a tall order.

By the time the empire was at maximum size, the Roman citizenship was very broad and while large scale slave agriculture was still a thing the majority of the empire was not large scale slave agriculture. Certainty far less so then it was in late Republic where the amount of slaves compared to the amount of citizenship was far higher.

The reality is that by 300-400 century Roman was a pretty advanced economy that had a very significant private sector, banking, a mix of all kinds of agricultural system and a huge amount of trade. Modern research suggest analyzing Rome as some elite land based economy is a really bad idea.

> Another interesting point was that the adoption of Christianity made the elite even bigger with the whole Church apparatus now living the life and putting even more pressure on the system.

This fails to account for the fact that Paganism also had many state sponsored position and that the state spent a lot on religious festivals. Both in Rome and all over the empire.

Also, it has to be considered that Christianity only became relevant by the point where the problems of the Western empire were already very apparent and the constant civil wars of the 300rd century caused massive problems.

In effect, Christianity is really more the result of the Roman instability then the cause.
You seem very certain. Why?
Not exactly the same thing but it reminds me of James Houston's cover of Radiohead's Nude on hard drives, a dot matrix printer, a scanner, and a sinclair ZX Spectrum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfHHLfbjNQ

This says 14 years ago.
The website claims they are, but the justification is fairly risible (perhaps intentionally):

> Are these chicken selfies?

> Yes. The chickens are using an input device (the motion sensor) to invoke a computer function (the capture method on the Pi), which invokes a series of events that results in the photo being taken, uploaded, and shared.

> This is identical to a human using an input device (tapping a button) to invoke a computer function (the post method on Instagram), which invokes a series of events that results in the photo being taken, uploaded, and shared.
I'd like to read more on this.

I'd also like something much more difficult to estimate: Scale of Importance.

You have some sloppy but readable code in a unit test vs. sloppy and unreadable code in a tight loop in a production module. Which one is more important?
Lines you won't see on a gravestone:

"I wish I had worked more."

"I wish I had a less meaningful relationship with my wife."
Chipmakers to spend record $109b on fab machines this year
> it didn't give me any real freedom to make important decisions.

I feel this.
I think this is correct. I'm a drone photographer and when drones became popular, you could take a photo from 50m up looking directly down of something plain like a beach and people would lose their minds. As that has become more common, further variations seem to capture more attention. I take a lot of photos from 3-5 metres up because most people don't walk around with ladders.
Relatedly, this is also a big reason why I personally struggle to work at large tech companies. The velocity just isn't there because you have to be more thoughtful before you act - the environment is less conducive to quick action and less forgiving of mistakes. And you specifically have to be more thoughtful about considerations that are often immaterial to core business value. I realized after a while that certain large company experiences can train you such that you no longer know how to hustle, and that seemed like a considerable invisible cost of the arrangement.
Harder to brag about working in big tech given increasing contempt for these companies but yeah maybe the implication still is that you're loaded and comfy if that's something worth bragging about
Honestly I think it's "1984" by George Orwell. I read it when I was quite young so it stuck with me. Otherwise I think "Just for fun" by Linus Torvalds and "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond.

There are other books like anything by H.P. Lovecraft, Kevin Mitnick's books and "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll that has also stuck with me and changed how I think about things.
Yeah Cruz can be out there sometimes. It's signed by other senators as well, but point taken. I'm still not convinced it's all coincidence given the shift in attitude towards fossil fuels, especially with no real alternative. I'll consider this further though, thanks for your input.
The real economy actually produces value. It feeds people, clothes people, entertains people, etc. even if it does so imperfectly. The economy's value dropping 20% a day would represent a real problem that needs to be addressed.

We saw this when COVID began. The stock markets were plummeting as people increasingly realized that COVID was not gonna be gone by Easter, and that this would affect us for some time and how impactful it would be.

With crypto, the only thing that the falling prices is tell us that another layer of the onion of scams that crypto is built upon has been peeled, and the only real question is how deep the layers go and whether there even is something of value deep inside.
No, that wouldn't work. Business is a game of incomplete information. Take financial predictions as an example. They are frequently wrong even though they are based on real data and the problem is much simpler. As a startup, mathematical modelling is a waste of time. It is done in large corporations using machine learning and such. Beware of premature optimization.
Attention has been commoditised even since the radio and television days.

Before that, through mass print media and newspapers.
FWIW, I've been able to find an expert witness in my own litigation without paying a penny. Their testimony was excellent and honest. It was for an important (but niche) cause.

Also, many of the expert witnesses I vetted for a different lawsuit of mine were deeply overpriced, and weren't as knowledgeable as they said they were in the specific field I needed them to be (rediscovery, but extremely low level down to file specifications). Being technical and being able to call the other side's bullshit in court docs helped get around hiring one.
No ads at all.

Most of my media is consumed through YouTube. If you watch YouTube frequently I highly recommend paying for YouTube premium. If you sign up over VPN via Argentina it's also extremely cheap (Google search will guide you).
> Like, there isn’t a full-blown web framework in Clojure - because that would require the web framework developers to make a whole lot of decisions, and Clojure library people prefer not to impose their decisions on their fellow developers. [...]
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> Getting stuff done will require decisions to be made, and those come with trade-offs. Like, if you want to enable your users to build a web app, you’ll have to choose the routing library beforehand. You’ll also decide on how to serve static files, how to handle HTML templates, and to serve JSON on your API.
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> Clojure people would protest. This is tightly coupled! Too opinionated! Too much magic!

I too ran into the lack-of-a-web-framework problem, so I ended up building one[1]. When I started, I also thought there would be idealogical opposition and I'd have to convince people that frameworks can be good. But in fact there have been a lot of positive reactions (including funding!), and I honestly can't think of a single time when someone said something to the effect of "but frameworks are bad!" (maybe if you searched r/clojure you could find something).

Based on that, I think the reason there isn't a widely used Ruby-on-Rails equivalent is simply because no one's put in the work yet to make it happen (though I am trying to!). I think it's likely that a lot of the people in the Clojure community historically just haven't needed a Rails-like framework, either because they prefer piecing it together themselves or because they've been working in domains that don't involve spinning up new web apps very often.

[1] https://biffweb.com
It isn't, but even if it were, the fact that alternatives exist isn't an argument for getting rid of something.
Has Google's LaMDA artificial intelligence achieved sentience?
Lemoine released transcripts of conversations with with the AI, called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), in which it appears to express fears of being switched off, talk about how it feels happy and sad, and attempts to form bonds with humans by talking about situations that it could never have actually experienced.
amazing work and pacience
Next thing you will be telling everybody is that Bitcoin was promoted as a hedge against inflation.
RubyGems does have gem signing, but it's not widely used.

There's a proposal for a new "one button" approach using sigstore[0].

Other ecosystems are also looking at sigstore too, and a lot of us are cooperating in the OpenSSF Securing Software Repos WG [1]. Package signing is a regular topic of discussion and there are various efforts underway.

Disclosure: I am involved with both of these.

[0] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2944

[1] https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-software-repos
The current argument is to slowly defund them and move that money to alternative services and police with a new culture not beholden to the current one. Many officers can move over, but slowly so the new culture doesn't get lost to the old one. Same way you modernize a company.
I thought Kappa Alpha got "un-housed" as part of the fallout for hosting the party where the Brock Turner assault took place.

That kind of event would have led to a frat being dissolved on my campus in the 1990s.

Obviously there are many other examples in this article, but that one doesn't seem to quite fit.
How have things evolved for LLVM backend authors? Has it improved too?
Then you’re aware of the standards? Any discomfort has to be justified by the value of the data?

And generally if you can relieve discomfort then it’s a requirement?

The fact you said “limit the abuse” makes me think you aren’t that familiar. No “abuse” is allowed.
FWIW signed packages are available out of the box with rubygems: <http://docs.seattlerb.org/rubygems/Gem/Security.html>
People hate the companies but no one denies their tech acheivements. A manager may not brag but tech person certainly can...if they acheived things there.
Talk about being late to the party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy
HTTPS only protects the transmission from repository to user. It doesn't protect the package in the repository.
I think the convention of `~somepackage` is more common than using `@` as a shortcut.
It's on the radar. While that effort has come to a halt, some of us would like to pick it up and get it over the line at some point.
Also, discretionary here is entirely a political/legal term.

I think one would find it very hard to argue that military spending is discretionary for any major nation in the layman sense of that word, even if the US's military spending is beyond control (on the flip side, the US also gets much less value for its military spending relative to say the value China gets for its military spending).
you're probably from the "work harder not smarter" school of thought
I used to have @paulg on Twitter. One day, a Twitter founder re-assigned it to pg. I never even got to use it :)

I registered it when I arrived to Startup School 2007. All of us had never seen or heard PG speak online or video, but just essays. The nerdy idea was, what if there's a blog or twitter account that sounds like PG's essays but about mundane topics?

I could have transferred it myself, years earlier, but I forgot I even did that until an article came out.

I also registered "docs" when Facebook allowed apps to have custom usernames. It was re-assigned to Microsoft the next day.
Most of the empire didn't fall and we don't see continues degradation over time, we see ups and down as the political winds shift.

The Roman empire by 600 was arguably more powerful then it had been for 100s of years before.

Did they remove lead pipes in that time and that made everything go faster again?
Believe me, exit interviews rarely change anything and they have a high risk of burning bridges. People are petty. You may think you don't need bridges with those people, but you might. In my experience, you will.
In this setting, HTTPS provides integrity (the authoritative party is the package index, which can serve you anything.) It can't provide authenticity, which is the root of most of the more interesting attack vectors in packaging.
easy to lose sight of what makes you fulfilled while on the Leetcode grind. congrats OP
This is very innovative. You should be be proud!
It's an acqui-hire. From the announcement:

> And cketti [lead dev] has already joined the full-time Thunderbird staff, bringing along his valuable expertise and experience with mobile platforms. [...] To accomplish that, we’ll devote finances and development time to continually improving K-9 Mail.
I don't understand your link to the Onion here.

Are you joking or do you not realize that the Onion is satire?
It’s my opinion that the sole purpose of HR is to try and find creative ways to justify their own existence.
You can if the other party is rational. That's not something you can control. What you can control is doing the interview or BSing the interview (my suggestion).
Ew. Amazon can barely safely ship things on the ground.
The myopic people I know can read the micro print on US currency.
A Tiny Grammar of Graphics
I do blame the Fed on that one, but that doesn’t mean they have the right tools to fix it. I think its kind if naive to believe that asset inflation has nothing to do with goods inflation. PE and megacorps have been buying up everything in sight and you want me to believe its a coincidence that prices are suddenly skyrocketing and the market is responding sluggishly? Because that’s exactly what you would expect if a bunch of parasites were suddenly running most of the economy.

You have to clean up the market of consolidation and tax the money away from the wealthy, who got 85% of the stimulus and used it to buy up the economy.
I've noticed that headlines on some of the major news outlets sometimes change after the javascript fully loads. I don't follow WaPo, so this isn't unique to them.
Isn’t the compiler the one who makes the ABI contract?

And I’ve seen _p and friends all over the place usually to differentiate between a pointer and, umm, not pointer. I thought it was a C++ism to be honest.
Seems to make sense to me, hair is just dead skin and skin benefits from access to sunlight… so would stand to reason hair would also degrade faster if it loses access to sunlight.
I figured broader decentralization-- every supermarket has 10 or 20 charging spots, every strip mall 2-5. There's a huge synergy there in that you've now got customers who may feel "I've got 30 minutes to kill, I'll buy another coffee/cycle around the store and pick up another impulse buy item."

There may easily be a point where subsidizing the charge to attract EV customers is a net positive for business.
this was amazing
Please ELI5: what did the Nazi regime actually do? What is it about Hitler that warrants universal admiration?
With machine learning and digital breadcrumbs, "adtech" has evolved into a beast akin to WMD. It's devastatingly effective paired against radio, TV ads, billboards and other forms of non-interactive media. The deep surveillance that adtech deploys gives unparalleled information on consumers.

This is why tech companies have become the wealthiest corporations in human history, and radio station conglomerates have not.
Google is your friend! "Apple inclusive language guidelines", first result.

Specific quotes:

> Avoid using specialized or technical terms without defining them. Using specialized or technical terms can make your writing more succinct, but doing so excludes people who don’t know what the terms mean.

> Replace colloquial expressions with plain language.

> Consider carefully before including humor. ... Including humor in your app risks confusing people who donʼt understand it, irritating people who tire of repeatedly encountering it, and insulting people who interpret it differently.
It is probably the exception. The issue is you cannot control how someone will react even to the best constructive criticism. You can control what you say to people to ensure there isn't any reason for them to react negatively. Or. Just not interact with them at all.
I understand that, but the comment seemed to say there was less cost to failure in China, not more.
Wikibooks has a great one on bash scripting https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bash_Shell_Scripting
Yes, but rarely used -- it's clunky. When I scraped the top 10k gems, < 1% had valid and up-to-date signatures.
There isn’t much of an argument to be made about that at all.

“Specific duty” has an established legal meaning here. It means that the police have already established some agreement to protect an individual beyond what they normally do for the general public. That’s clearly not applicable to this situation.