skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Manifestos themselves seem to be an artifact of the era, a time where to be a hero of any kind still seemed within the realm of possible. Since then I've worked in the field of privacy, advising government agencies about how to comply with regulations that serve as a check on their public service systems being used as secret surveillance tools, and brokered as political favours by their DBAs and managers.

It is both the most thankless and personally rewarding work in public service I think, and it's the only place left for courage in the bureaucracy. However, execs have got wise to it and parachuted in some compromised ball players into the top privacy roles, and I think the era of principled privacy advocacy in government has passed. We are about to see the effects of leaving those people with powerful technology without oversight.

The manifesto was published in 1993. Here is what I can tell you first hand about privacy in 2022. Depending on where you live:

- Your location and pattern of life is tracked 24/7 with an accuracy of a few feet, almost everywhere on the planet.

- Your political affiliations and social media relationships are kept as part of a private "risk" profile by financial institutions.

- Many of your vaccination records and dates ("hesitancy" info) are already in the hands of political opposition research firms and data brokers.

- Platform companies do not keep consistent logs of who accesses your personal information (DMs, locations, affiliations etc), and there are networks of both domestic and foreign political operatives with agendas who regularly look up personal information about others and share it among themselves.

- Your health records (abortions, std test dates, disease screenings, etc) are available not just to medical researchers, but also to "social science" and other policy "researchers" with political activist affiliations, and you cannot decline consent for "sharing" it with them. You are a data subject whether you consent or not.

- Several government services use so-called "AI" and machine learning to create a pretext or paralell construction for policy decisions.

And these are just a few examples. A modern manifesto would likely need to address basic human dignity, and not merely make an appeal to rights and other things paternalistically granted, but rather, it would need to address what you already have and are, what you must actively use code and intention to defend and take, and how you will be reduced to a liquified, neutralized, "person," on the level of a resource or indifferent animal to be managed if you do not.

30 years later, this manifesto is a relic of what we have collectively denied.
Another impression I get is that no co-worker cares anymore.
Well, I expected the journalists to write it down. It's an integral part their profession.
I am slightly depressed at how content on the web has evolved in the last decade. More and more content providers (youtube, Hulu, Netflix, etc) make their platforms harder and harder to search. They continue to promote what essentially they want you to consume.. and actual content your looking for is buried.

The other day I wanted to watch the last season of Legion (forget never finished the series) and was looking around for it. Turns out it is indeed on Hulu (which I have) however you would never just stumble on this. Despite my history of watching just about ever comic book series and comic book movie there is. Its almost like they don't have a true interest in pulling up what I want. Instead literally the front page is full of stuff I have zero interest in watching.
Shopify Is Illegal in Germany
Sorry for the German only link, but this is from today and didn't make the rounds yet. It is not really about Shopify itself, but about the use of CDNs - which would be even more worrisome. Shopify Support couldn't help the shop owner.
I found the article interesting because it's an approach that I could apply to tools other than text editors - it explains the general concept. I wouldn't have discovered it if someone just posted a link to a Vim add-on.
there's a few projects that are creating something like that, most include some type of column based storage extension for OLAP stuff
Ask HN: Did anyone allege FTX/Alameda was fraudulent before the meltdown?
There seem to be a lot of content with hindsight bias asserting that it was obviously fraud. But I can't find any content making a strong case that they were using customer funds to trade prior to the public meltdown in the last few weeks.

Looking for dated tweets, blog posts, articles. Interested in well-reasoned, but non-obvious arguments before it was clear consensus.
Would you be drawing down the battery on your car every night and leaving in the morning on an empty tank?
> Degrowth necessarily implies population control

As it happens, people in many countries are pretty fine with the idea of having less kids, without the need for population control.

> Killing all humans would also solve the climate problem, but it doesn't make it a good decision.

The problem is going to solve itself with or without us. When people talk about solving climate change, they actually mean making it so we can still be around after that.
Being an Editor of a Prison Newspaper
archived at https://xkcd.com/195/ :)
I think about this a lot. Of course, on paper it's a terrible idea to pay off a mortgage early (assuming a reasonably low interest rate). On the other hand, my mortgage is my only really significant monthly expense and not having that monthly expense would reduce my dependence on a moderately high developer salary and I'd feel more capable of either changing careers or being self-employed.
Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator
Hi HN - this is a little side project I threw together. Some implementation details: image processing is all done with headless GIMP (running inside a Docker container) through its built-in Python API. It's _very_ slow (about 50 seconds/image), and currently it processes exactly one image at a time. The website is built with NextJS; payments are processed by Stripe.

I've had the best results with pictures of houses, although certain photos of people or nature can look neat, too. (For example: https://brushify.art/s/ruYmQWk, original photo from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation.) The effect obscures the edges of the photo, so images with plenty of margin around the subject work best.

Something I'd like to play around with is swapping the GIMP script for an AI-based process (maybe using something like Stable Diffusion?), with the goal of generating images that look more handmade (something like these: https://www.etsy.com/ca/search?q=watercolor+house). I have exactly zero AI experience though, so there would be a bit of a learning curve.

Would love any thoughts or critiques!

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edit: remove unrelated details
The hard 400kb per item limit does sort of force a pause to make sure it will still work well over the lifetime of the app. Not that huge "rows" are a good idea, but that's roughly 2 pages of text.
FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
Create reports directly from accounting / ERP solutions by using simple text prompts
It's official now; let's see if any other crypto companies will also fall. Looking at BlockFi and Nexo specifically.
Do you also got the folks paying you money for broken services, or just the ones who are happy with the parts that still work?
You're not making yourself look very good here. If you didn't realize this was happening then you're niave. Your response is immature and selfish.

Either accept this and start managing it to your advantage, your employees advantage and the companies or just accept that you've proven the Peter principle.
GraalVM: Running C/C++ application safely in the Java world
Good guess! Yes. Salesforce.
What about programming in immoral languages ?
And that is what he wants.
> the solution to this is not for them to pivot to stupid information bytes, but for them to make a better damn algorithm

Keep in mind that the best algorithm is always the human mind. People know what they like and that makes them happy. If you're following creators X, Y, and Z, you don't need a fancy algorithm to expose their videos to their followers, you just a place to show their videos in the order published.

Better YouTube algorithms might help in some cases like discovery of totally new channels and creators that people might be interested in. YouTube should go nuts and do whatever crazy experiments they want on some recommendations page. But the solution of trying to dictate precisely what users see all of the time through making the entire site a big algorithm-festival will always be suboptimial.
FTX Officially Files for Bankruptcy
Hmm...the site may have been hugged a little too tightly; I can't seem to establish a connection to it. Thankfully someone archived it. [1]

1: https://archive.ph/2zqbE

I've really enjoyed reading the discussion in this thread; having approached this general topic with no prior knowledge I now have about 8 Wikipedia pages up that I'll skim throughout the day! Always a fun time.
they may have just removed the ability to sort by oldest uploads.
Sometimes you see animals doing things that pretty much indicates they don't like what they're in (a panther pacing back and forth in a 20x20 cage all day, for example) but with a larger enclosure I think we can say they're "satisfied" insofar as animals can be satisfied. It's probably better than being a pet for most of them.

The "wild animal park" near San Diego has a 300 acre enclosure, for example. That's pretty darn big, and it houses various "compatible" animals.

https://sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org/sites/default/files/...

Of course, the depressing part of the little tram tour is the "and over here is the last male of this species". The good part is the park was started as a breeding ground for endangered species (animals don't breed well in small enclosures) and that has been pretty successful.
I don’t think it’s related to size but rather corporate culture, and what behavior leads to profitability. Netflix is all about reducing cost in their technical infrastructure while providing a highly consistent high bandwidth relatively low latency experience. Exxon Mobil couldn’t care less. There are small pockets of Amazon that care, but most of Amazon is product management driven towards a business goal where costs and performance are only relevant when it interferes with the product goal. It’s less about size and more about priority for achieving the core business objectives. Companies that need this behavior but don’t prioritize it will sooner or later be overtaken by a Netflix. Companies that do not need this behavior but do prioritize it will be overtaken by a product focused competitor while the engineers and flipping bits to optimize marginal compute utilization.
I miss Quarterman’s newsletter.
Well we could just do neither.
Could be worse - recently Android YouTube (or some A/B test of it) opens links with the tiny thumbnail at the bottom - like it reduces to when you go back to search results or something usually, but it's not maximisable, not dismissible, it just sits there tinily playing its ad.

I have to back out of the app and open link in new tab (so it plays in the browser instead) if I want to see it, but usually I just bounce, and am slowly learning not to bother clicking in the first place.
Ok what about this: any good tracker for Mobile?
Hacking the popular WoW TradeSkillMaster addon to make it 100x faster
Sounds like this solution would best be implemented with an undo-tree, but also a linear history mapping with pointers to that tree - the linear history would just log movement within the tree over time e.g. undo-redo would just be a backwards-forwards movement.
Know yourself very well.

I shorten my deadlines.

I delay everything, always and I know that working under pressure I'm the best of me (yes, maybe is shortening my life expectations..). At the other side I know that working with me is giving maybe 120% of you, so I set my deadlines earlier for me.

Then I do the shit because that deadline I set is my deadline and I'm very proud guy that wants to do the shit on time.

Then when the thing is done I have maybe 2 to 3 days to review and relax.

But the best recommendation is: to know yourself.

Sometimes your mind (and body) needs to run away some minutes.

I'm a former teacher also and I know that you can't focus too long on something that you don't want and doing that is bad for you and bad for the stuff you are doing.

You needs something that makes you want to focus, for me is the pressure of deadlines.

I need to talk with my psychologist..
I used to think that Australian preferential voting was the best practical method. Though the Ranked Choice Voting debate in the US has taught me that STAR voting and approval voting are both easier to count and avoid some edge cases.
About 6 years ago Twitch removed the random directory, which was just a list of random streams. That was my preferred way of finding new content to watch. I sent monthly emails for 2 years asking for it to come back, the response always was "looking into it" and it never came back.
It also amazes me that the government activists, those folk attending COP conferences, never suggest holding a video conference for COP as an example to us all. Instead an estimated 400 private jets have arrived in Egypt (where domestic climate protesters are locked up) along with 33,000 delegates though the largest emitters, India and China are not represented. Do all these people really believe that there's a climate emergency in terms of CO2 emissions? Their actions seem to belie it. Moreover not much results from these jamborees.

Apparently, a private jet can emit two tonnes of carbon dioxide in an hour and is five to 14 times more polluting per passenger than a commercial plane.
If you don't mind dealing with leap-smeared time then time.google.com is certainly better than the AWS or Amazon NTP server pools just based on the fact that Google's NTP server pool provide Stratum 1.
Honestly IMO it's a bit better--often times I find myself wanting neither _this_ nor _that_, but some of each. I get to a point in a function where I realize changes I made elsewhere are no longer needed, but I want to keep my function the same. So I usually just copy the function (and paste it someplace so I don't for real lose it), undo everything, then just splice the function back in how I want it.
> I'm not criticizing for calling 911 for help, but wouldn't have calling another local hospital been a better option?

There aren't any other local hospitals. The nearest other hospitals are in Seattle. Her hospital is in Silverdale. Silverdale and Seattle are separated by Puget Sound, so even though they are only maybe 15 miles apart, you either have to drive the long way around Puget Sound or you have to take a ferry.

Without crossing Puget Sound the nearest other hospitals would be in Tacoma which is around a 40 mile drive away.
The Ruby creator is Japanese but if you want to start using it today, you don't even have to know who Matz is. The website with the documentation is in English and translated to quite a number of other languages.

It really is not the fair comparison and I get what the parent was refering to.
Quantum microscopy sheds light on high-temperature superconductivity
As if the secret isn't handing the phone (and perhaps the laptop) TO the monkey and then taking a nice nap.
If you're concerned that Rust has been compromised you should consider where that leaves Python.
The NSA is both offensive and defensive. Part of their mandate is to protect American infrastructure for foreign attacks. A switch like this is one of the easier ways to protect against foreign threats and it is something that is routinely advocated for by most large tech companies and cloud providers.

As for that Datacenter in Utah - it is a large Government project. The idea that the US Government is efficient with its resources or that its operatives are trying to maximize the use of their resources is not well supported by historical precedent. If the project is written off as yet another make-work job project for a reliably red state then I am sure we can all sleep well knowing that our tax dollars have been well spent.
True, though Ruby made the list, and there's a fair amount of gems linked to native libraries and/or using their own C code.
Wow. Embarrassingly I admit I’ve never read it but you’ve sold me.

Also I love how Gargantua sounds right. Just like Morlocks and Eloi. Language is fun.
Modals drive me crazy on the modern web -- I wonder why there's been no pushback equivalent to "actual" pop-up blocking
Bankman-Fried Resigns From FTX, Puts Empire in Bankruptcy
This may depend on the amount of channels you're subscribed to. I've got a lot of subscriptions (423) , split mostly between music and educational channels.

Some of the channels that post less frequently just don't show up in my feed at all, which happen to be the more educational ones that I interact with the most. It is known among content creators that Youtube's algorithm highly prefers frequency and consistency, and I suspect that includes the subscription feed in cases where some results are omitted. I've gone to channels manually and realized I've missed the last five or six most recent uploads so many times now, and I check the subscriptions page almost daily and have been, for a long time.

On a side note, my bookmark points right to the subscription feed, because I think the homepage is an abomination. I can only recommend that to anyone.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ju-iIrI9vKc?feature=share
Sure, but my point is that it's slower to develop the equivalent Rust than Java
I'm not married. I have a girlfriend, no kids and live by myself. I see friends for lunch or dinner every day.

Maybe that's why I'm happy at home.
Now I'm imagining a laptop with a suction base that "sucks down" onto the table and won't let go until you login.
Obvious things are often wrong. It is not just uneconomical, but also physically impossible to replace fossil fuels with nuclear using known mineable uranium reserves.
>If you never commented, how do you know you were shadow banned?

Oh sorry my mistake, I did comment to a canadian chess player saying good job on a great result on tournament where he was second lowest seed but ended up doing well.

There was a comment of 'why is this comment hidden under 'more' and 'offensive'. Hence checking.

>This needs a lot more context, what do you mean by dramatic improvement, and what data are you using to measure this?

Firing the political activists was a shocking change in comments for those I follow. Curation of twitter users was obviously occuring.
Have you ever been involved with building or maintaining a nuclear plant?

I have family members who built plants back in the 80's and some still maintain them.

They claim the main issue has to do with government regulation(s) and unions. I can dive into it further, but effectively the regulation(s) required inspection on ever weld a welder would make. This meant you needed two welders on site, one making a weld and one signing off. You'd have a pipe fitter line up the pipe(s), a different inspector would have to come around and sign off on that work. Sometimes they wouldn't show up, so you'd end up with a days work lost (everyone still getting paid). If someone who was part of a different union or not unionized tried to do the work, the union would strike / the person would be fired.

Then at the end of it, the regulation(s) would change slightly and they'd have to cut out a large section and start all over.

This happened at multiple plants in the 80's per my family members. Today, they're pushing the plants past where they're really safe to use. In the case of Fukushima, they didn't even have a cut-off switch. It was an earlier design.

All that being said, Illinois has been running on mostly nuclear power for decades, as has France. No issue in terms of safety and relatively cheap power (natural gas being cheaper). An updated design, with a reduction in unionization and a loosening of regulations would make nuclear far better than any alternative.

You can do the math yourself and it comes out cheaper and safer than wind or solar. The other thing to consider is what happens when the power goes out in a place like Texas for a week or two due to weather conditions -- people die. Solar, coal, wind, nuclear all have pros/cons. Thus far in the United States nuclear has caused far fewer casualties than per gigawatt than any alternative.
And the average of both is under 100 watts.
There was this article [0] from a week ago. It was based on this [1] information which apparently was a leak of a private balance sheet.

I don't think any of this was related to using customer funds though, that's a separate issue. Nobody other than insiders could've known that, and they are probably highly incentivized to keep it that way.

[0] https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-alameda-research-...

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/02/divisions-in-sa...
Lets not overdramatize and we will have a stronger speech.

To start, kids don't learn how to talk in the school. Not normally and if they are so young as to not being able to talk still, school is basically a convenience parking for toddlers.

We shouldn't adjust the laws to the saddest history that we can find. Treating everybody in a population as if all of them were outliers does not give the desired results.

Children are able to learn in lots of places apart of the school. Yes, is a fact. They can learn a lot for example from their grandpas and grandma. Of course, as long as their grandparents are alive because they were smarter than the fake news and the 'magufo' crew.
People still play WoW?
It seems like an impractical but useful thought experiment, which I think makes a good point about why these lists should be taken with a grain of salt. To take things further, we could improve the experiment by randomly assigning books to founders when they start! HN folks are quick to point out when many scientific results as “correlation not causation”, and this isn’t any different, in my opinion.
Wonder how many 'we removed the dislike button because our advertising clients asked us to' bullshits we get before we see a Twitter style exodus to Odysee...
I agree. It really helps to read the description and not just the title. I have been in industrial controls since 1980, so I'm I'm not so quick to dismiss the introduction of the next new thing. Ten years ago, when the Raspberry PI was introduced, I didn't expect to see it as the go to thin client for manufacturing floor HMIs. Yet, in some, very large and well funded plants, it is. Am I ready to put the Opta in mission critical control? No. Am I happy to see a more open option for IoT? Yes.
I guess I'm starting a language war, but...

I see how Rust is on that list.

I don't get how the other languages are on that list. I mean, yes, I guess they're marginally better than C and C++ at memory-safety, but... just barely...?

Like... this report?

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-s...
Sure, here goes one example,

"A Case Study and Characterization of a Many-socket, Multi-tier NUMA HPC Platform"

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9306956

Or for something with FPGAs and other cool stuff in-between,

"The ATLAS Data Acquisition and High Level Trigger system"

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/11/06/P...
Does this bankruptcy include FTX US? A bunch of people in yesterday’s thread were saying that FTX US is safe, which seemed strange.
Is this a cost-saving move, or a revenue enhancing move?
That's exactly what you get with undo-tree. The regular undo/redo commands continue working as normal, but you can also manually browse the tree if things get too nonlinear for you.