skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that tracking leads to lower quality discussion - for example I know my name and identity is tied to this account and instead of responding to "lack of ...thinking" with an insult I am forced to come up with intelligent responses (now you try ... it's really annoying isn't it :-)

I also explicitly ask for real life examples and studies of harm - I can imagine and create examples but I much prefer the real world to my imagination as a guide. We learnt that as basis of science.

I also think there is a difference between privacy and secrecy. You seem to conflate the two - if your actions online were secret then advertisers would not send you smoking ads. Secrecy is probably impossible - privacy is merely the politeness of our neighbours. And at scale politeness is enforced - by social norms and sometimes legal measures. We are seeing this come in (GDPR) but it's hard to have legal enforcement before the social norms have arrived.

On the smoking ad front, Gabriel Weinbergs main argument is that searching for "red men's trainers" should be enough to serve ads without having to know if I am a 20 something graduate in wisconsin or a middle aged bloke in London. And I suspect he is right within a few percentage points.

As for online grooming -yeah this is a huge danger. Every parents nightmare. And still absolutely something that needs to be enforced in the real world. And may need extra police and social resources. But if we want to stop predators reaching out to vulnerable children then it requires co-ordination amoung many groups onleine and offline - funding, political will, training education over many years.

There will be no quick fixes for the problems tech is bringing - but I remain optimistic that the cost benefit ratio is worth it and that we can vote for and require change to defend against the dangers

which takes me back to my point - what are the real world examples of dangers so we can make sensible policy
Seems kind of odd that you’re arguing “just do it in C” and “nothing stops you from forgetting” in the same post.
The earlier you start the more time to have to grasp the concept eventually
Their infrastructure is explained in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neBeDgICOeA
It's not trying to explain any experimental results. There is literally not a single piece of evidence in need of an explanation.

There are a very small handful of anomalies which aren't adequately explained by the standard model, but string theorists didn't base their models around resolving these questions. They sought a grand, unified, simple theory out of a philosophical (religious?) belief that one ought to exist.
Higher-Order Leak and Deadlock Free Locks [pdf]
In practice a more complex approach will tend to require a greater amount of data per user, so in this specific case this simple approach is not too bad. Moreover, fake accounts are likely to talk about the same topics, so while this leads to false positives, also makes it more likely that in the list we find actual duplicates.
So there's also reveal() primitive for revealing secrets, as shown by the code for msqrt(). OK, Rune gives you a library for computing stuff in CT, but how do I implement something independent of these things and show that they are CT? Do I still need to rely on FM techniques such as relational symbolic execution? Can I jump into a "constant" mode with a special typing system or something that lets me do this without having to run a more costly verification?
Google:
- leader in AI and text generation
- unable to find or create original names for langs
Wow, this is shocking... I guess they had other customers who were paying them so they could afford to keep betting for 9 months? I would have to stop providing services to customer who would not pay one invoice, but I'm probably too junior to judge.
In the overwhelmingly common situation where your stack started with an SP of 0, you just assign SP back to 0 before setting SS and nothing can go wrong (you are, after all, about to move off this stack and don't care about its contents).

Consider the case when the MSDOS command interpreter is handing off execution to a user program. It can't just set SP to 0 first (well, really 0xFFFF since the stack grows down), because it's somewhere several frames deep in its own execution stack, an execution stack which will hopefully resume when the user program exits.

Programs using the 'tiny' memory model, like all COM files, have SS == CS == DS so new_ss:old_sp could easily clobber the code or data from the loaded file.
Yes, but I don't believe to achieve that with a less restrictive and expensive system. Right now if you upgrade your graphics card in your computer you can not sell your computer to someone else without paying $$$$ to get it certified. I think some rules about what kind of derivatives works you can make from already certified electronics would be beneficial.
WordPress 6.1 “Misha”
Advertising only works on a minority of people who are naive. The other goal of advertising is to generate awareness. The more you teach people about the influence of ads the more agency they gain.
What is 'M of N' in public/private key signing? (2021)
"until that source talks about a subject you're an expert in and you realize they have no idea what they're talking about?"

This reminds me of the power grid. Practically any news article or video is woefully ignorant and a LOT of studies that get put on here have a mountain of assumptions that render their conclusions as far less firm than the readers on here understand. There are some experts on HN in this area, but a lot of folks just blindly parroting stuff they don't understand.
Never used Linode. Most of the services I am familiar with will let you upload your SSH public key that is auto provisioned for root authorized_keys by cloud-init. Using SSH certificates would be even better but I don’t know of any cloud that support them.
Don’t really buy it. Seems to be both “spherical cow optimistic assumptions” and “anyone who could seriously think about pulling this off has nation-state level resources and already 0wnz you and/or already has the rubber hose at hand"
If I were a BRAND, I'd probably hang back while the pizzagaters and the birthers are running wild on a platform, no?
Scrivener is one of those app purchases that I highly value. I have written two screenplays on the Windows version of the app and though using First Draft is the industry standard, I like the ease of use of Scrivener. A lot of the features (even the corkboard) seem harder to grasp and I don't use them, but for playing around with chapters/sections and maintaining focus, it's one of the best writing apps I have used.

(Other favorite is Zettlr, but that's another story)
I believe this one-instruction disabling of interrupts is called the 'interrupt shadow'.
This. It's been a buyers market in the last decade. If employers were really struggling to hire great engineers, they wouldn't be "playing with their food" so much.
Ufw is a wrapper for iptables no?
Every once in a while a brilliant scientist comes up with a new model while theologians will always adhere to an old book.

Theology is never more than rearranging the deck chairs.
That's pretty new for a programming language.
The article is ok doing the questions if you wants this or this and if you would like to work or build a coop if you wants based on that.., and the situation that you has been fired.

Anyway it is very naive at least.

Where the clients come from?

If you has been fired, look for another job.

If you has been fired and you were working with other 10 people that are skilled, and you like to work together and you knows someone that want your skills or you know how to sell yourself and you wants to take your own decisions as a group (like in a pirate boat), then yes, a coop is a choice.

It is not the panacea, it is hard, you will deal with things than never before faced, and is not like you are with people to face that together, you are alone together to face that. I talk for myself and coming form IT i hate bourocracy. And you must to deal with that every day, or at least you must to know that some people must to deal with that, someone. It is a must. Spoiler: you can hire people to do that for youyou, but the reason you build a coop is that you are a worker and you wants to participate in the board. Both.

A coop is not the answer of your lack of employment. It is the answer to deal equally with a capitalist model, inside the capitalism.., something like that.

Anyway, I love coops, the trustworthy level you needs, the equal vote for decisions you have, it is your company, you will take care of that. But everyone must to be in the same boat.

No, if you has been fired look for another job. A coop needs more from you than that.
As other already pointed out, myself included, yhere are some risky things, eg. stopping payments without legal analysis and talking to vendors and suppliers, which I am sure the author knows need additional steps to do properly (well, I assume he does given his background).

This one advoce here:

>> Founders must go back in the trenches and own back the direct leadership on: product development, engineering, monetization and hiring

I more or less strongly disagree with. Because it highly depends on the founders, whether or not they have the necessary background to lead the restructuring. Because we shouldn't forget, it was most likely the founders that got the company in question (the article is about start-ups of sorts after all) into trouble in the first place.
I see a lot of venting here. You seem upset and I'm sorry about that. But also all you've offered is an ad hominem.
I didn’t read the GPs comment as a justification.
Cannot recommend running sshd behind spiped (tool authored by cperciva) enough:

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-08-30-protecting-sshd-...
EventSource and Generating Server-Sent Events in ColdFusion / Lucee CFML
If this is true why do well paying companies have their pick of employees and less well paying ones have to take their left overs? I exaggerate for effect but most companies don’t have anything like an attractive mission so they need to compete on pay, somewhat on benefits, but overwhelmingly on pay.

Google and Goldman have no trouble hiring.
"victims are well informed about the consequences of borrowing" - Citation Needed.

Have you read the terms and conditions of buy-now-pay-later companies? I think the clearest takeaway from this article is that people aren't well informed.
But will that compensate for the almost inevitable outcome that the next liquidity event will be a massive downround compared to the $44B valuation of the acquisition?

Maybe there’s only 25% of employees left to share the pie, but the pie itself is now only worth $10B. That’s not a great incentive when asked to work nights and weekends on capricious initiatives that come and go.
I Told You So
Yes, replace one misery with a worse one. Great solution.
You might be interested in a side project I've been working on...

While its similar to sshguard or blocklistd, I didn't know they existed when badips died a couple years back. https://www.nubi-network.com/faq.php

The list file should work for either ingress or egress (or both).

I wanted to post about it on here some time ago, but I'm kindof bad at advertising.
Yes, there are CTE and recursive queries, and various DBMS also offer views.
There are even table-valued functions.

These things are not widespread, and differ by implementation, and the way these are used by clients are copy-and-paste. Something as thoughtful as ZetaSQL https://github.com/google/zetasql does not have mechanisms for structuring (modules, packages, interfaces). SQL will not, cannot evolve into such a direction (or, anything that evolves, will not be recognizable as SQL).
Having actually worked as a financial advisor in “restructurings” aka bankruptcies, many (most?) of the comments in this sub thread are not correct. Pre-petition, post-petition and restricted payments (say management bonuses a few weeks before bankruptcies which are ellgibile for claw back) are treated differently. There is a strict order of preference (priority) which can be found in the bankruptcy code. Generally, employee wages are sacrosanct. What ends up happening with vendors is the following: “hey guys everything pre petition is washed, but here’s 2 cents on the dollar for your claim, AND the bankruptcy court has allowed us to use cash collateral to keep using you, soooooo, since it’s a sunk cost, how about you keep servicing us? And when we emerge the bk court requires a test of financial validation to our plans so you’ll know for sure we’re safe. “. As unfair as that is, many/most vendors take the deal. A large vendor will have a certain small %age of their customers go bk every year so they’re generally sophisticated and know how to play the game. Same for landlords. Also the unsecured creditors have a committee through which they voice their concerns. Further, if you play games and try to not sign the bk papers as a debtor, 7 creditors can band together and force you in, which doesn’t usually happen because of the game theory around that. But basically, as a general rule, don’t fuck around.

Your scenario as described is unethical, and a virtuous investor would have topped up those delinquent payments with some premium since those employees essentially funded the company with financing. In a bk, you also have access (I won’t explain this) to debtor in possession financing which is super senior to everything except basically tax liens iirc, and if there’s a working capital deficit like the wages mentioned in your case, those can be resolved.

The courts are very very strict on the bright line on pre and post petition spend and liabilities and shenanigans aren’t really tolerated. Also, the “zone of insolvency” brings significant liability to officers and directors of the company, and D&O insurance won’t always protect you against risk of this magnitude, so it’s best to steer far far away from unseemly behavior in any liquidity constrained situation. Those refs bite, and they bite hard.

Sorry you had to go through that.
Everyone is free to drive their car around for no reason whatsoever, which is at least as destructive to the environment. Should we ban cars? If you don't think that the state telling me, at the point of a gun, what programs I'm not allowed to run on my own computer is authoritarian, I'd love to know what your definition of authoritarian is!
Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed?
tldr: because the Japanese smartphone revolution happened 10 years before the rest of the world!
> if not the top

> It's already as deliberately spartan as it can get.

I don't agree. Minimalism (feature-wise) does not equal a better design (or a healthier one for that matter)

This is not a "Chair" (more like a flood...). By definition, People with "issues" (like in this thread) lack that "self-control" to deal with it. I was just pointing to where IMO the weak spots could be.

I guess all this just does not make any sense for users who are accustomed to this HN system for years : As well adjusted (themselves) AND well-adjusted to it (not the same thing), they can afford to roll their eyes.
Just keep them in the loop so you don't end up with a nasty surprise of your own. I have dealt with this scenario from both sides, and suppliers are often pretty well situated to ride out a few missed payments. But by the nature of your situation, you are in no position to be shopping around for a new service should they cut you off for non-payment. Keep people on your side by being communicative as early as possible.
I have tried using cloudflare's client certificate, but it doesn't play well with nginx ssl cache due to increased size on a relatively high load website.
Do you also comment on every app described as tiny that doesn't include all the software it runs on?

FTA
>this project is only a half-joke,

They aren't even selling this as being serious, let alone saying this is great for small underpowered computers in developing nations.

This is basically a sizecoding challenge. They did it, they're presumably happy with it. If you want to come back with a boot sector office suite, you'll get my upvote, but pissing over someone's "half-joke" just wastes everybody's time.
Miller is an interesting one. Ruled that only weapons of war were protected, and now we're hearing "weapons of war have no place with the people"
They might try, but the beauty is that in most instances the leadership is not motivated by engagement metrics and advertisements but just people wanting to stick together. Kinda like the glory days of IRC.
It looks like steady progress is being made in Mathematical Physics (which I believe is physics done from rigorous mathematical definitions - so you can no longer bullshit the Dirac delta "function" for instance). Some of that stuff is apparently supersymmetry-inspired and strings-inspired, but doesn't technically rely on any of these theories being true.
I read her book Lost in Math [1] which I have to say was quite a laborious endeavour. It is essentially a long-winded argument that is better summarised in this article and her YouTube channel, though she got to visit many scholars across the globe. Some agreed with her to a certain extent while others simply didn't (Nima Arkani-Hamid, for example, had no interest in her point of view).

What I found most lacking was a viable path forward, an alternative to all this nay-saying. She had a section in the end with bullet points on what to do and not do, but it was quite brief and generic.

I had a short but interesting exchange on Twitter with Dr. Tony Padilla who has spoken about the case for string theory on Numberphile [2]. He stands at the opposite end of the spectrum of course, and it's worth listening to what he has to say as well.

Being a non-expert with just a casual interest in the inner workings of the universe, I am eagerly awaiting whatever the next breakthrough brings for our understanding of the cosmos, but I have to say that string theory and susy have seemed to over-promise and under-deliver with little prospect in sight, and perhaps at the detriment of a more fundamental or foundational approach. Indeed, the question of what is time has always bothered me, so I'm picking up Carlo Rivelli's book on this next [3].

[1] https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/sabine-hossenfelder/lost-i...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ccXzM3x8A

[3] https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/301539/the-order-of-time-by-...
I hear you; I also had similar experiences. At the same time, I've had bad experiences with people who never, ever, communicate, to the point that one starts wondering if they're alive. That doesn't help teamwork either.

I believe the whole post is more of a projective test than anything else: people read it how they want to read it, because it's vague and full of generalizations.
My understanding is that the gcode files on there right now are just samples. They are working on a Python tool that will let you generate any gcode (for any machine).
Defense in depth, cost little to add one more layer.
Absolutely agreed, there's a huge difference between a 5 minute article you can quickly read whenever you stumble upon it, and a 30 minute post (like acoup.blog's excellent articles) that you might have to save to read later.
I started Emacs, Paredit and Clojure all at the same time. What helped me the most was Chapter 2 from _Clojure For The Brave and True_ (https://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/). Knowing that the learning curve would be steep with emacs I cut myself a lot of slack.

I've since switched from Clojure to CL but kept the elisp scripts from CFBT replacing Cider with Slime.

I always thought Vim got out of my way as far as text editors go but Emacs really gets out of my way.

As with most things I do I learn just enough to do what it is I want to do. I don't go searching for new things until it becomes painfully obvious that a new way needs to be found.

With that said I've barely touched the surface for the power of emacs, paredit and slime.
Live with it is ok now because effective vaccines are available. A lot of lockdown measures went overboard but that was hard to tell at the time, when NYC had overflowing hospitals that required mobile morgues due to the overwhelming number of deaths it was more understandable.
Because quite often people with an agenda are trending, usually very selective about what they say about people.

The start of this article is a great example: Elon was always voting democrat, but the left (progressive) side has changed/progressed enought that Elon's viewpoints are considered right right now (it has been the same for me as I got older).

It still doesn't make him an extreme right person, even if people can (and do) find the few moments in his life that can be considered extremist (which everybody has, just most people hide it).

At some point looking at those other viewpoints and finding whether there's a hidden agenda just gets tiring and boring.
I am not at all advocating for low expectations. It doesn't even take much to dramatically affect the odds of individual outcomes. It just takes brutal honesty some are unwilling to have with themselves.

It's all about identifying what changes have the biggest impact. Many are working too long for the wrong employer, started a family too young, have bad habits, waste their free time on useless hobbies they've long outgrown, etc.

To address your quote, far less "cannot change" than many realize.
Hg was a lot more better, we only used hg+bitbucket until bitbucket killed hg support and we had to move to git. I hope The new sapling by meta got adopted.
Yep, on a self hosted Nextcloud instanceis quite easy
Relational Living in an Upside-Down Forest
Some projects are too big for one person to reasonably complete on their own, especially if they have areas they're weak in. Or not working with someone else places limits on what they can make.

Like I can make video games, and I can make art for video games, but if I want the game to have a decent chance of becoming popular, I'm likely going to need to work with a proper artist at some point. The games in which I did look a lot more interesting and attracted the eye more than the games I've made all on my own, at least (and I've done both).

Also, I can make video games by myself, but I only have time to make small games if by myself (currently working on a small game now in my spare time). I could potentially tackle a larger and more ambitious game if I worked with another programmer.

Realistically I'm never going to be able to make a Stardew Valley on my own, at least not working on it full-time for years like that guy did, his girlfriend paying most of their expenses for several years.
> It's a bunch of Visual Basic behind an Excel spreadsheet

While true for the original FullControl, I've understood they are currently working on a new version in Python, and presumably that is what was used to generate the gcode that's on the website right now.
>She is (was) a physics researcher

Why would you say "was" - she's still a fellow at FIAS and lists herself as a researcher on her own website. Conversely, her only publication in the last decade with more than 100 citations was her popular science book aimed at non-physicists and most of the things before that were borderline hack stuff, basically going back to Milgrom's theory with very little content that would justify moving this research from fringe to mainstream [1]. She definitely hasn't established herself as an authority on foundations of quantum mechanics or string theory, which she has taken a liking to discredit. So the commenter above was not wrong.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NaQZcyYAAAAJ&hl=en