skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks a lot for the in-depth explanation. I admit, I didn't know a lot of the context, in particular the clarification between warrant and subpoena.

> This didn't expand any US government powers. It just clarified what existing power applied when asking for data. In particular it had nothing to do with asserting US jurisdiction extraterritorially, which is what a lot of people seem to think it was about.

Not a lawyer or expert in that area, but my understanding why specifically people in the EU were so upset about it (including ECJ judges apparently) was that this effectively did extend US jurisdiction - simply by virtue of US companies being active internationally, specifically tech companies.

The overwhelming part of all internet activities in the EU are facillitated through US companies (or local subsidiaries of them). This includes a large part of intra-EU activities. So if one german citizen writes another german citizen an email, chances are very high that email will be stored on a Google server - or at least on a server of a german subsidiary of Google. This makes the CLOUD act relevant to EU citizens, even though technically, the obligations of Google under it are a purely domestic affair.

So if the CLOUD act gives US agencies the power to subpoena Google to retrieve data about non-US citizens - while Google is effectively running large part of the internet for other countries - then that does feel a bit like extension of jurisdiction.

(It technically isn't, and to my knowledge the ECJ wasn't arguing that it was. The ECJ simply argued that Google's obligations under the CLOUD act are incompatible with Google's obligations under the GDPR. So something's got to give)

Going back to the beginning of the thread, I have to admit though, I have no idea if the CLOUD act would give agencies the power to force inclusion of certain root certs. So I take that back.
Money is a source of power, maybe the biggest source, often strong enough to overpower democratic governments. Reducing the state just makes society more vulnerable to those who abuse the power that money has granted them. When you think about it, the answer isn't to make the state smaller, the answer should be to make big states unnecessary then they will shrink on their own. Almost every ideology has fallen into this trap. They see a worthy end goal, but they have no clue how to achieve it, here is a common example, the government wants lower housing costs, a lot of leftist governments just introduce price controls and force the price down by decree. They don't bother understanding the reason why prices are unsatisfactory, they don't bother researching potential bottlenecks on the side of the law that prevent housing supply from meeting demand. There is a long chain of events that has lead to this situation and you must unravel it or at least try to think one step further and let your successor try to find the next link to solve.
Actually, for some computerish stuff, he and Allan Turing used enjoy an argument:

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/when-alan-turing-and-ludwig-...
Because if they had a choice of paying someone to answer questions for free or paying them to develop features that generate revenue, which one do you think they pick? Yes, there's the whole narrative about customer satisfaction and call deflection and quality and whatever else. Every FAANG's got rooms full of people looking at data stream in, and they all say "I bet if we do nothing, they'll just throw it in the garbage and buy a new one."

If you want a fast answer to a question from Microsoft, have your company pay two hundred grand a year (or more) for Unified Enterprise Support. They will be more than happy to spend hours on the phone with you working on your exact problem. One time I had them set up a conference call at two in the morning to show a team how to set up some byzantine Platform Builder installation, in Korean. Money talks.
We have many unsuccessful treatments that work for a small percentage of patients. That's why we measure treatments by effectiveness rather than identifying existence proofs that it worked for someone.
They started in 2017 when I think Travis was still a viable option, especially for those that already knew how to use it.
Storage is something that until a few years ago I hadn't considered but it really is a big deal. I've talked to a number of people who say something like "If we run out of oil or really need to make changes we can just build more solar/wind/etc" but that only solves one side of the problem. You can't pour solar into a 747 (yes, I'm aware of the electric planes but they aren't passenger planes and aren't close to being that yet). Gas, for all it's problems, is incredibly energy-dense and replacing that is not something done easily.
A tricky question. Many schools in other EU countries are using Google Office Suite and Google Classroom. Is that also the same issue? My kids reports are published via Google Docs.

How about Microsoft's Office 365? Do they have data centers in EU? Or is that the same issue? Because then we also have fully Microsoft based school including extended Teams usage.

Basically how do you want to have any cloud based app running in EU when most of the providers don't have data centers here in EU?
A lot these these conflicts that appear to be about science are really about values. Many of the people making arguments about COVID's relatively low danger to children are doing so because they believe the mitigations (lockdowns, remote schooling, masking) are harmful and not worth the benefit of reducing transmission. While those arguing in favor, believe the costs to children are worth it.
why not review it yourself. you will get a sense of what works or doesn't. there is no reproducible formula for what works or doesn't. probably just hit or miss.
Yes! Totally hear you on writing communities that are all about SEO/monetization. You should check out Foster https://www.foster.co/
Refcounting had been a very common way to implement resource cleanup for object graphs back in 90s already, in a much more resource-constrained environment. E.g. COM, which is widespread in Windows to this day, is all refcounted.
I rented a desk at an actor's talent agency once. I met the owner and in conversation mentioned I was looking for an office, and he offered to rent me a desk in a seldom used large room, space for 10 people. So I move in and work alone in that large, mostly dark room. About 3 months in, owner guy tells me a modeling agency is going to rent that room, but I'm allowed to keep my desk. They know I'm there, and said they'll just work around me. That was nice, because the modeling agency was (seriously) bikini models! Yes, too good to be true, I had to change offices when my wife learned they'd moved in.

When I left there, I'd met a group of musicians that rented a former paint factory. They'd carved it into different suites and were rented them out, while keeping the main area as a stage they rented. I talked 4 others into joining me, we rented one of the suites, and started our own co-working space. We called it "DropLabs" and it lasted about 5 years, from '06-'11.
Show HN: A Regex-to-Golang compiler based on Thompson's algorithm
I see no problem with mandating 2FA for all PyPi users, potentially offering free security keys to maintainers of Critical projects as an incentive to adopt even more secure practices.
Out of curiosity...which language did you choose and why? How did it turn out?
at least from his computer/script. A number could have been blocked simply detecting him as a bot.
> surely

Is there a more common or obvious trap of reasoning? If 'surely' worked, we wouldn't have needed the Enlightenment, science, or the JWST to learn about the universe.

IIRC (much stronger evidence than 'surely', but still lacking), it's in fact not significant to the cost.
I like to use a long dash instead. It gives the two statements more breathing room.
You seem to be saying that it would be acceptable to impair real privacy in the present if it causes the growth of an indigenous European software/cloud industry. I can see the logic, but I don't really agree with it.

To me it seems like the smaller and more local your infrastructure becomes the worse the privacy story gets. Worst of all would be a completely bespoke infrastructure self-hosted by local authorities, where a handful of petty IT guys have complete access to everyone's data. Sure, it's against the law for them to access it, but they will do it anyway, because there are no internal controls nor effective audits.

Way on the other end of the risk scale is the idea that an American court will order Google to turn over the files of a Danish schoolchild to intelligence agencies. That's just a complete non-risk compared to the insider risks in the other scenario.
Not all placeholder pages will forever stay placeholder pages though. Some may get sold, become a site, then stop being a site again. Some may not get sold, come up for renewal and be deemed unlikely to be worth trying to sell anymore (renewal is cheap for a registrar but the registry will still charge a small fee).

Of course the vast majority with enough interest to make this list will either be sold and be an active page or still be an active placeholder but I wouldn't rule out there being a good count of pages towards the lower end of the top million being placeholders that were eventually deemed not worth trying for anymore.
Yep, he definitely leans on the side of being a goon pretending to be internet police. It shouldn't be forgotten how he doxxed those teens on tenuous evidence. I hope someday he runs afoul of the law himself and reins in this nasty habit. Vigilante 'justice' by means of inciting hate mobs is not to be encouraged.
That is very cool. So if the capacity of the under ground to extract heat from the underground, is something that can diminish on a decades level timescale, what does that say about the longevity of ground source heat pumps I wonder?
I think that good writing is one of those things that people don’t consciously realise. Just like actually good UI.
You are right, my mistake! I was mixing it up with another study. Unfortunately, it is too late to edit my comment.

However, coincidentally, the same conclusions still hold, since it turns out the pigs ate very similar amounts of food on all the diets, except the 5:1 n6:n3 diet, where they ate a bit less. (And that was the diet where the pigs gained the most weight.)

Sorry about the error!
I mean the mainstream has done more to promote conspiracy theories than any tabloid regurgitating individual. When you put top experts on TV denouncing things as conspiracy theories that turn out to be valid, you drive more reasonable individuals to wonder what else the tabloids were right about.
I just do whatever I want
Seems a reasonable guess, but I'd hope that if that were the main stumbling block then it wouldn't be too hard to still sell it as a multi-state project that's also multi-stage, either sharing the work at each stage or signing off up front which stage goes where.
See also:

Writing: A misunderstood activity | 144 points | 3 days ago | 64 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043923
> it is self-evident

Nope! It doesn't cost 8 billion to unfold a mirror. Seems like a rather straightforward mechanical problem to me. And your baseless theories and mine are worth nothing without evidence. That's the reason we built the JWST - we need evidence. Baseless nonsense is the stuff of cults of personality, not knowledge. We need much more of the latter and much less (i.e., none) of the former in our society.
Debits take place in more or less real time, so there's no reason to believe that they wouldn't be paid if you closed your account later. the bankc an just return NSF to transactions which come in after the closure.
Ken Thompson's famous paper on implementing regular expressions is surprisingly simple and yet extremely sophisticated at the same time. The "heart" of the method he proposed was the use of a stack in order to compile the expression to code that parses it, which in this case was IBM 7094 object code.

I find this idea beautiful, and wanted a chance to play around with it for myself, as well as demonstrate to anyone interested the way the algorithm works. Since the aim is demonstration rather than a concrete (or usable) implementation, it makes sense to compile to a high-level language, which is why I have started by targeting Go.

All suggestions are welcome!
Not even close!

At its essence slavery is complete ownership of another person. Whether or not you put that person to "work" is a separate issue.
For some reason reading this article made me wonder: how would you determine whether or not something is extravolitional, in the sense of something you're compelled to rather than decide?

I'm not questioning the conclusion in the title. However, the article raises at least one argument (therapy intending to change something has failed, therefore it is unchangeable) that is compelling but not entirely convincing on the face of it. Genetic studies are another, but those aren't entirely right either maybe? Maybe you can only bring various sorts of evidence to bear?

I think it's an interesting and important philosophical or psychological question in general. Usually people frame arguments about free will in terms of "do you have free will or not", but we also generally have this sense that certain things are outside our control, and it's interesting to think about how you define that difference and whether or not it's actually definable.
Perhaps you haven't had to program concurrencies or thought much about bitwise operators. It's not very frequent anymore. Used to be.
Protesting can be a form of harassment and it can be abused. Some places have laws around where you can protest like in front of abortion clinics.
I should probably clarify that it is not available on mobile.
Gzip may be standard and supported transparently by your http library.

OTOH zstd [1] should be significantly more efficient, while being as fast or faster.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstd
Riccitiello is a class A sociopath. He managed to almost drive EA to the dumps, before getting sacked. For exactly the same practices he advocates here. It would have been so much better if David Helgason made someone who he built the company with as CEO, instead of a serial executive. EA learned from their mistake. The kind of posturing Riccitiello has to do in this article is exactly what narcissists do. Obviously, after being cut from EA, the kind of smooth talking he must have done to get this job is beyond me. Did they just ignore his track record?
The people here defending him shows how good he is a persuading people, unfortunately.
That comment surely had to be for show. How can someone not understand the act of defending one's home from bombings?
Ok let me reword it differently: the 500,000th most popular site on these lists most likely isnt the 500,000th most visited and it might not even be in the top 5 million. These data sources are so bad at capturing popularity after 50k sites or so simply because they dont have enough data
Sounds like you got a nice one!

How much money and resources do you think goog is spending on an ongoing basis to ensure they sell fewer Chromebooks to schools (and in general) in the future?

It's much easier (and more profitable / less expensive) from a program management perspective to instead deprecate the bulk of these cheap machines after five years to ensure "consistent user experience".

I hope I'm wrong! My experience with capitalism tells me I'm probably not. Less e-waste isn't profitable in the short to medium term. :(
I think for many, it starts out as posting slurs and extreme ideas as jokes to troll the "normies", until they suddenly really mean it.
I remember when Reddit's "The Donald" sub became bigger and hit the front page every day, most people thought it was satire. Until it was not.
"I'll really be able to buckle down and write GOOD stuff, just as soon as I get that new [pen/laptop/$600 digital typewriter]" is not an uncommon line of thought among wannabe writers.

Compare with amateur photographers who spend most of their time obsessing over gear on forums instead of just taking pictures.
I suppose. But, I would think the charge/debit would just be declined.
Most of cities in Poland have their own $city.pl domain and allow websites to buy $website.$city.pl. That might not be well known. And cities have theri websites, so I guess it's OK.

But info.pl and biz.pl? Did nobody hear about country variants of gTLDs?!
I infer from your comment that you are not a manager. To (good) managers, knowing "how you are" is critical. As a manager, there is nothing more important to me than finding out if my reports are sad, annoyed, tired, frustrated, all of the above. Especially in a work context, it is very important to make sure people are happy with their job, or find out if something bothered them in the past few days.

On the other hand, why would they care what game you played last time? They are specifically asking a very open ended question and counting on you to be a professional and share with them what matters to you and affected your mood.
That's interesting, I wouldn't describe mustard as spicy. Mustard is shorter and more intense than capsaicin.
I love hearing the circles I run in (I'm a CS major, although I barely program anymore, and I'm queer and poly) described from an anthropological distance. It's very funny :P
If your egress is paramount, you should of course benchmark everything to shreds. Then pick what fits.
If people are interested in trying something different, they also mention cachaça. Sometimes called "Brazilian rum" which is a bit inaccurate. It's getting easier to find, but it's still best to avoid the cheap versions (such as the 51 brand which is terrible). Look for restaurants serving a cocktail called a caipirinha, which is the national drink of Brazil, as the best intro.
That would be the ? operator, I think. It will return the error or continue execution with the data.
i’m not sure that’s any better? do i want to grant literally half the world — the majority of whom i will never otherwise interact with — power to determine my legal rights? it’s bad enough when people 1000 mi away demand things of me which i find morally indefensible and then use the power of democratic law to force that on me. amplify that by 10, and suddenly it’s better?

although Balaji tends to play PR to libertarians, i do think there’s a real diffuse desire for increased freedom of association and less large-group adherence. those desires contributed to the creation of US democracy: a desire for the colonies to associate freely with each other, other states, and with GB in a different form than before; and freedom of religion (group adherence) is enshrined.

democracy is a step up from previous forms of governance in that the people enforcing their views on me are necessarily more likely to have common views (lesser separation of ruling class from the majority class: “by the people for the people”). but this aspect degrades as you widen the democracy, either demographically or geographically (by proxy). i accept democracy as the best tool we’ve got today, but i hardly view it as an ideal end-state.

i would prefer to work towards a state where i don’t have to sacrifice my values to conform with the will of people i don’t care for. that’s necessarily a movement away from one global democracy. we’ve effectively achieved that in the digital landscape via the internet, which is fundamentally anarchic but works because people want to cooperate and associate freely and have voluntarily developed tools to do so. Balaji dreams that there’s some way to take this same achievement and apply it to on-the-ground governance. i appreciate that dream. blockchain is an ironic tool to use for that given its requirement for consensus which it achieves via democratic or shareholder governance (e.g. proof of stake). on the other hand, it makes it more difficult in certain ways for the ruling class to break its own rules, and can lessen the need for (and power of) representatives and push us towards a flatter democracy (where the ruling class more mirrors my own class). it’s just another (hopeful) step along that path toward gradually increased freedom of association. i would like to at least be given the choice as to whether i want to participate in my present representative democracy or in a different, experimental state. i would very much dislike for that ability to be strongly denied me by some global government (democratic or otherwise).
I think it is. That was pretty much the impression it gave me.
Honestly, until you get advertising away from google, we won't can't move to a ownership model. Ownership doesn't matter now, ads do.
I should be able to subscribe, pay, view content with a noscript/basic (x)html.

Where is my bittorrent client?

omegarant
There some irony that jcs blog post is making the front page of HN, given that he claims to have been permanently banned from HN (pg says otherwise) and created lobste.rs about 10 years ago as an alternative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452568
I can't even imagine what defragmenting that file-system would sound like.
How often does that happen though, i.e. "top experts" saying something is a ct but it turns out to be real? I can't think of any examples.

Sure, pundits on 24h news are often wrong, but I wouldn't call them top experts, more like hot-take-deliverers. Believe them at your peril.
SpaceX Raptor 1 vs Raptor 2 Engine: What's New // What's Different [video]
And, well, I failed horribly at conveying my actual strategy (I guess we're getting hung up on "fruits, vegetables, and lean meats are supposedly not very rewarding"?) because I would describe what I'm doing as "eat different highly rewarding foods".
Yes, people care more about the major leagues than the minors, but people are still paying to see minor league baseball and it still makes money. Also practically every player in the majors was at one point in the minors, usually for 3+ years for even the best players.

I'm also not suggesting that minor league players need to make millions, but there was literally an act of Congress passed a few years ago to allow these people to be paid below minimum wage[1]. How is that in any way fair? It is abusive monopolistic behavior and I don't think there is much validity to any argument otherwise.

[1] - https://apnews.com/article/minor-league-baseball-lawsuits-ap...
Insider risk is the #1 risk to data privacy and none of your "robust" open source pieces of junk has got any kind of insider protections. There's going to be some slob somewhere with an EFF sticker on his laptop and the root password who is leafing through your daughter's files looking for nudes because he's a "loli catcher" or some other form of pervert.

The risk model where American intelligence courts are the top line item is stupid.
Focusing sound precisely can knock over one Lego minifig among many (2021)
Good laws are most effective when they take into account the needs of those being governed, including their self actualization as a need.

The way that people in Mongolia, Bahrain, Angola and Norway want to live are very very different. "One set of laws" means authoritarian tyranny to most people of earth. Would you like to live in a world governed by one set of laws, which include theft being punishable by the amputation of a hand? Or in your perfect world with one set of laws, do you see yourself as the entity dictating what the laws are? If I am unhappy with your set of laws, is that just tough shit for me? If you found yourself in such a system and didn't like the laws, would you want a way out?
I think you did the right thing here.

I typically hew to the "existing title" rule but I find it often obscures the whole point of the article to the HN viewer. Someone who already reads that blog would probably find the title perfectly reasonable and funny.
An unfortunate choice of name, easily confused with the Linux kernel's support for transparent proxying.