skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lovecraft Country is a horror show that played on HBO's streaming service, HBO Max.

Regardless, I greatly appreciate the additional passage!
I wrote something similar, but as a terminal emulator: https://github.com/jjviana/witty
It also wasn't officially Russian territory. They were still playing the game of "these are separatists that just want to join Russia", so it wouldn't make sense to invest anything in what's really been an active warzone for 8 years. Officially annexing Donbas was probably always the long-term plan from the beginning, but for some reason that turned into "fuck it, let's take Ukraine instead".
If I understand correctly, this still won’t let me achieve my dream of hosting my personal email on my home computer, because smtp connections typically start out as plaintext and then negotiate up to TLS within the protocol itself.
Just that it is free – and this is across countries.

Almost nothing is ever really *"free"* --- even though it may appear that way at some level. Crypto transactions are certainly not *"free"*; neither are credit cards.

FedNow may likewise have the appearance of being *"free"* for individuals, it all depends on how banks chose to recover the operating costs.

The American banking system is currently in a bad, insecure, and expensive state.

Bad is subjective. Expensive is accurate --- and slow. This is finally being addressed.

Insecure --- I don't really think this is a big issue. There are issues but on an individual level, very few people actually lose money due to any inherent "insecurity" in the system .
Apparently lots of children are being born in US prisons. So maybe its more of a class thing than a gender thing.
You keep using stock examples: There is no stock, Twitter was taken private.
Cologne-based translation startup DeepL is worth a billion dollars (German)
I'm honestly only worried about charging speed on laptops and tablets. Phones charge pretty quickly no matter what you plug them into, at least in my experience (I'm not a phone gamer so ymmv), whereas I've seen more than one laptop lose battery while charging if doing something demanding.

If I carried an adapter I'd probably have my charger with me to be honest and I don't know anyone nice enough to carry adapters for others.
Failure is never an issue. Don't shame people for failing, especially when they fail royally. Because we ALL benefit from it in the long run. Don't shame people for failing.
Very sad News:
Thanks for your enormous contribution to humanity !!!
RIP, DR. Brooks
I'm somewhat surprised that nobody bypassed the internal systems to tweet stuff using Musk's account. (Or maybe somebody has and we just can't distinguish?)
Oh you can speak about SpaceX because even a layman can see that nobody else has reusable rockets.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33653902
I absolutely love sour foods, to the point of drinking straight up lemon juice when I was younger. I eat a granny smith apple probably every other day, and the more sour the better. Yet, my S.O. recoils at the thought of eating granny smiths. I wonder why people have such varied responses when it comes to sour foods.
This is probably one of the better-written efforts to describe TikTok's appeal, and yet I still don't 'get' it. Remove the app-specific bells and whistles and it's not fundamentally different from 12 years ago when the idea of putting your life online in video form became a thing.

The author says it's not about the algorithm, but rather the content, but the examples seem to provide evidence for the reverse. People are uploading millions of videos daily, the algorithm is why he's seeing something that's of interest to him.

Maybe what's gone unmentioned here is that people originally used Youtube like a search engine. You typed something in, and clicked a video on the topic. TikTok is like cable TV, it autoplays as soon as you turn it on, and you can "channel surf". Maybe that's the appeal; finding something by perceived "serendipity" releases more dopamine than clicking on a search result.
I’d argue that listing archaic electronic items on a customs form is the correct way. Law and legal documents should assume a catch-all nature by design to address edge cases and until we can absolutely assure that all Walkman, floppies and similar items are out of public circulation for good, it is wise to list them explicitly on a customs form.

The alternative to this is the usage of “including, but not limited to, phones, mp3 players” which leaves you guessing if something needs to be listed or not.
Interesting that Google uses GitHub still. With Microsoft owning it and it becoming less free than alternatives, you'd think for documentation like this they'd use an externally hosted GitLab instance for their external projects or that they'd have acquired something to compete with GitHub by now like Gitea.
Good point about the use of exclamation mark at the end of imperative sentences in German. The article leads with Adorno's quote:

> sociologist Theodor Adorno felt the ! signified an “unbearable gesture of authority”.

Calling the exclamation mark a sign of authority makes a lot more sense if one knows that in the native language of Adorno, it is a grammar rule to use it at the end of an imperative sentence.
Not only that, but FB are pros at corp communications. Notice they also announced the day of or before the mid-terms. Story popped, then was buried.
Crypto differs in that the people getting the most entertainment are not the ones putting in the money.
Elon is finally getting exposed for having very low IQ. Quite simple really.
HermanMartinus is stating facts: there are already millions of organizations productively managing assets, and blockchain governance structures haven't made any kind of concrete contribution so far.

You're stating an opinion that it's like a steam engine, which doesn't really mean anything in this context.
Awarding the World Cup hosting to an ultra-conservative and self-righteous country like Qatar that truly believes in their own sense of moral superiority and cultural supremacy was a big big mistake in the first place.

I knew it early on that they would bait and switch but wait till the last minute before they go with the plan of imposing their religious dogmatic policies on victims, i.e. fans and visitors from all over the world.

If FIFA was so intent on making history by awarding the WC hosting for the first time ever to an Arab or Muslim-majority country, they could have awarded it to the UAE instead, and they would have delivered a fantastic job honoring the traditions of past tournaments, and ensuring smooth and secure operations as well as a festive atmosphere for all involved, but they instead went with that fundamentalist and fanatical country of Qatar, and then they have the audacity to act all surprised when this crap happens.
All mainstream cryptocurrencies rely on the high cost of attacking the network to ensure consistency. If the price is 0, there’s little incentive to participate (mine, validate etc), reducing the cost to attack the network, resulting in the entire network becoming useless.
I miss perl.

I don't think there are any other scripting languages that allow you to write very concise one-liners that can do very complex things. That's also where perl got its bad reputation from, but it's more a discipline issue than a language problem. I always rewrote my explorative one-liners more cleanly when I committed them to a final program, but nothing forces you to do it like python does.
1. PayPal are notorious, for many good reasons. Credit card companies have shown themselves up too; blocking donations to Wikileaks, for example. Then there's the decentralization factor.

2. Seriously? The time and expense of this compared to crypto is huge. Again, decentralization > single point of failure.

Being glib about real benefits and use cases is not helping the conversation here.
> 3. but the G Plug is known to be one of the best, if not the best electrical plug.

One massive downside of the type G plug (UK, Ireland, etc.) is its size. Most mobile charging adapters for phones or even laptops are 30-80% bigger, in my anecdotal experience, than the type A equivalent. The plug is well-designed from a safety and robustness perspective, and I appreciate that it's far better than the two-prong "Europlug" (for instance) at firmly attaching to a wall outlet, but it really should have been miniaturized.

The type L, J, and B plugs are far more compact as three-prong plugs go, even if they lack the third-prong shutter activation and fuse.
You’ve got 99 problems, logging shouldn’t be one
I have worked as a C++ dev, but am definitely not a C++ expert by any means.

My take however is that C++ is inherently a complex language due to deliberately not sacrificing backwards-compatability of the syntax and semantics, which has been creating a mess as the language has evolved: there are many, many things to define semantically in order to "fit" a new piece in this old already-elaborate puzzle that is the C++ standard.

You cannot say the same thing about Rust.

Please correct me if you see things differently.
The way C is written in the kernel is really unlike the C you typically encounter in the wild. Try reading it and tell me how comprehensible you find it and how easily people ramp up into kernel contributions.

and we have yet to see tangible benefits of using Rust

Is that the royal we? Have you actually (successfully) tried writing something in it?

I am surprised Linus agreed to this given that he doesn’t like C++

Maybe Linus has lost the plot after decades of careful stewardship. Or maybe it is an opportune moment for a closer second look. Who knows.

Sometimes that is what I try to do when my expectations are subverted if I care enough about the subject.
Diff at Meta is short for "Differential revision," a Phabricator term (which was originally an internal FB project before Evan left).

The fact that this comment still remains at the top here despite being incredibly inaccurate (and many subcomments stating as such) shows how degraded the discussion has gotten here when Meta is mentioned.
This is covered by the write-up of unit 221 [1], also linked by splink

it turns out the registry key that was deleted can be recovered. Much like you can recover deleted files from a file-system, you can recover deleted keys from a windows registry.

In the words of the blog[1]:

Since Zeppelin deletes the registry key store, we will have to extract unallocated cells from the registry to recover the Public Key section. We use a combination of code and existing tools such as yarp and regipy to carve registry information from the hard drive, memory, registry backup, and transaction files. We also need to recover the deleted data. The most successful process used yarp-carve and yarp-print with the -deleted flag against NTUSER.DAT files, which are compressed.

[1] https://blog.unit221b.com/dont-read-this-blog/0xdead-zeppeli...
> This whole notion of "documentation can get out of sync with the code, so it's better not to write it at all" is so nonsensical.

To me, this feels similar to finding the correct granularity of unit tests or tests in general. Too many tests coupled to the implementation too tightly are a real pain. You end up doing a change 2-3 times in such a situation - once to the actual code, and then 2-3 times to tests looking at the code way too closely.

And comments start to feel similar. Comments can have a scope that's way too close to the code, rendering them very volatile and oftentimes neglected. You know, these kind of comments that eventually escalate into "player.level += 3 // refund 1 player level after error". These are bad comments.

But on the other hand, some comments are covering more stable ground or rather more stable truths. For example, even if we're splitting up our ansible task files a lot, you still easily end up with several pages of tasks because it's just verbose. By now, I very much enjoy having a couple of three to five line boxes just stating "Service Installation", "Config Facts Generation", "Config Deployment", each showing that 3-5 following tasks are part of a section. And that's fairly stable, the config deployment isn't suddenly going to end up being something different.

Or, similarly, we tend to have headers to these task files explaining the idiosyncratic behaviors of a service ansible has to work around to get things to work. Again, these are pretty stable - the service has been weird for years, so without a major rework, it will most likely stay weird. These comments largely get extended over time as we learn more about the system, instead of growing out of date.
It's like "I predict it will crash again" woah...
Yes - but any decently-managed casino is extremely careful in managing their cash, cashflow, and fiat money supply (chips), to make sure that: (1) they make real money, and (2) their chips hold their value against real money.

Crypto, on the other hand...
It's interesting because I don't know if it's possible for anything to truly replace Twitter. I think what will happen is people will splinter off into online forums where they feel most comfortable based on the level of moderation on each site and who is there. Twitter was unique in that everyone was on it, sadly I don't think we'll ever have that again.
Now imagine the "Real Economy" bubble moved from fiat to crypto. Imagine how rich you'd be! You're a trillionare because you invested your $7,000 you earned at McDonald's while you were a teenager in Bitcoin.

The fundamentals aren't there since (at minimum) crypto can't deliver the QPS at low enough energy needed. But this is the crazy dream.
Remember this is a guy who thinks AI is real. His IQ is very low.
> Elaborate harmonies are just not a thing anymore.

I think that's a niaive analysis of a lot of popular music. If I listen to Justin Beiber or Sam Fender or Taylor Swift, their songs often contain very rich harmony, not necessarily (but definitely including) vocal harmonies but across instrumentation, deviation from the 4-chord song and even a lot of mixing of influences in, what I have to say, are some very unique and refreshing ways that I have either not heard before or certainly not in the mainstream.

I think most people just have getting old syndrome. The stuff I listened to when I was in my formative years was great and everything since then not so much.

I'm personally very pleased with the quality of new music without having to like all of it.
Sure, there are ways, but inferior and more expensive than digital options.
And if you bought Enron stock in the 1990s and sold in 2000, you also made a wonderful profit. The existence of a trading opportunity (with perfect timing just assumed) doesn't tell you anything about the fundamentals.

A lot of people bought Bitcoin during the late 2017 hype peak, around $17-19k. If they're still in, they're underwater on their investment now five years later. So it's not actually such a great long-term investment for the regular people who buy when the FOMO is high.
As a concrete example of the real world value Musk has destroyed by being so bad at running his vanity purchase, there is the UVA shooting https://time.com/6233609/uva-shooting-twitter-crisis/ .

I personally am rarely on Twitter but it used to be an invaluable resource when you're in an area and don't really have time for a fully fleshed out news article to come out the next day about what's going on on the ground. Block club Chicago was tweeting and retweeting videos of police beating up protesters that night a couple blocks from my apartment in 2020, well ahead of the articles that came out the next day.

It was also interesting to see in real time an active disinformation campaign materialize and disappear that same day. Up until around 1 AM there were a lot of people posting about how the "Proud Boys" were planning to show up or had shown up and encouraging people to bring weapons, then all initial tweets were deleted late at night, with only screen shots or people who had quoted them still being available on the site. But that was a problem I hope would be fixed instead of the removal of the checks to make it all in to a shit show.
Yeah,re-reading I think they are implying both are bad. I really shouldn't be replying to people at 2am.
Reddit is a good example why;

The technology isn't impossible, but it needs a business plan that's not traditional advertising to have an decent be exit.
This was a fun read, a few additions:

"Everything fails, all the time"
--Werner Vogels, CTO of AWS.

They are in a code freeze right now. Which means they're not changing the system. And as every SRE learns in SRE Kindergarten, the biggest cause of failures are system changes. And a common lesson I learned was that the biggest problem with code freezes was that everyone starts shipping code when they get back. And that bulk set of changes causes increased risk to the system.
And once you have them, you won't be able to sell them and get back $300B.
marketing claims or real mileage? because european manufacturers making up numbers is a thing as proven in court.
I wonder how much people are secretly just hoping Twitter dies with no replacement. Skepticism about social media is basically the default position for educated professionals now, who are likely to already have distanced themselves from Facebook. The Twitter users I know would be happy to get rid of it, if not for the perceived career benefits (likewise with LinkedIn). When Twitter no longer offers any ladder-climbing benefits for technocrats, it will degenerate to be a shittier cousin of Instagram.
true, but nothing (besides how entrenched sh is) prevents replacing it with a real language. you don't need to use a posix shell in your terminal, any REPL that can launch executables will do. i used tclsh as my shell for a while, for instance.
What part of that diagram would break down for a company within the 'real economy'? Naively, if I am running a SaaS company, I receive fiat in and pay fiat out. It's the same two pipes. It's just that some of the fiat coming out is going to shareholders. The 'value' that the service is providing only justifies who the fiat is going to, not how much there is.
I've had hallucinations whilst meditating. Didn't really seek them out, but they randomly happened a couple times.

Furthermore, you have other extraordinary experiences, like for example feelings of universal love, that people seek out via drugs (ecstasy/MDMA) that can be found via meditation (esp. Metta/loving kindness).
Underrated comment that would have been perfect if you said "labled"
Interesting to hear that Windows would simplify some things! Upon reflecting about my time with the Synology NAS, I remembered that there was mostly the network setup I struggled with (DynDNS, port forwarding, static IP address, remote vs. local network access, etc.) – I guess this wouldn’t have been much easier on Windows either, I suppose?
Are you familiar with the innovation diffusion curve[0]? It is very normal for industry leaders to build buggy products, because early adopters value innovation more than perfection. That’s how the whole tech industry works.

Tesla may or may not succeed in appealing to the late majority and laggards, but if they don’t, the Toyota you buy in 15 years will still have benefitted from the industry changes Tesla is leading today.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
Scenario 28:

Genocide. People use your platform to orchestrate mass murder, the machetes in churches kind. And fast. Lightning fucking fast. You need to be prepared before. If you don't have a team who knows how to detect and stop this ASAP, your ass is getting dragged to The Hague
Besides the obvious concerns about tracking/spying, TikTok has great potential as a propaganda tool to gain subtle influence over America's youth. For example, its algorithm could be tweaked to elevate content that is favourable to the Chinese Communist Party.
Don't hide things that didn't go perfectly
That could be true for real casinos as well if you get really lucky while playing slots.
I suggest you take a look the "Criticisms" section of the article you just linked.
> IMO Rust has yet to prove it isn’t another overly complicated C++ waiting to make projects almost incomprehensible to understand

Rust is relatively easy to read I think. The borrow checker is what gets all the hate, but that is an issue for writing, not reading. If anything, things like pattern matching make otherwise long if chains easier to read IMO

> we have yet to see tangible benefits of using Rust

Rust eradicates whole classes of errors in safe code, and unsafe code is more safe than the equivalent C or C++. The only theoretical way to not have a tangible reduction in errors would be to believe that a C programmer is good enough to never commit the error classes Rust eradicates, and believe Rust usage would increase the number of logic errors. This seems incredibly unlikely to me.
Indeed, this is one Go convention that I strongly dislike. Java did have that approach once (HTMLDOMURIReference, XMLIDREF and the likes) but they learned their lesson.

And what's the basis of capitalizing D in ID?
PayPal is not needed for charging a credit card, and international bank transfers take a while but don't involve some weird payment provider in between neither. Also, being paid as a consultant is different thing from donations to WikiLeaks.

Regarding two: The transaction cost of crypto might be lower, but carries the risk of losing the full payments as soon as some exchange decides to stop withdrawals.
It's not that simple. There are significant practical concerns (in general) around incarcerating primary care-givers. (Those may not apply so much in this case, though.) There are also societal concerns, assuming we're concerned with the welfare of children.
Strictly technically speaking, not much, however having working Linux Open Source drivers extends the life of the product using it well beyond the point Microsoft, and/or the hardware manufacturers, declare it obsolete then stop any further development for that chip. There's a huge number of old systems out there that are supported by mainline Linux but couldn't run anything newer than Windows XP or 7, and they aren't just laptops. If you have put some money into a piece of hardware that still works perfectly and are forced to ditch it because either its manufacturer or Microsoft suddenly say "sorry, no more drivers, but here's an offer for the new model", that definitely sucks.
In terms of surface area, I think is hard to beat languages in the Smalltalk family. Smalltalk has only six reserved words: true , false , nil , self , super and thisContext. To emphasize the simplicity, there is even a smalltalk postcard to show the whole syntax fits on it. See https://richardeng.medium.com/syntax-on-a-post-card-cb6d85fa...

I think this postcard remark may be a bit misleading sometimes, as in practice the complexity is shifted from syntax to the large class library in the system image, that packs a lot of functionality. But yet the environment is sweet and has great discoverability, with functionality like search by example. See https://youtu.be/HOuZyOKa91o

The Smalltalk flavor I strongly recommend is Pharo. There's a MOOC[1] on it, and there are several free books that cover the basics of the language itself[2][3], data visualisation[4] and numeric stuff[5]. [1]. https://mooc.pharo.org/ [2]. https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/PharoByExample9/r... [3]. https://books.pharo.org/deep-into-pharo/ [4]. http://agilevisualization.com/ [5]. https://books.pharo.org/numerical-methods/