skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think that there are any winners in Brexit. ... Absolutely no winners.

Russia, of course.

Their investments in Murdoch media and other hyperpartisan media and disinformation-warfare techniques have paid massive dividends - the US is the most hyper-polarized it's been since the civil war, the UK has been pulled out of the EU fold are both massive successes. Australia and Canada and several other countries are dealing with similar polarization - although of course not Murdoch media in Canada, but it's not a coincidence that the other three are all Murdoch strongholds.

Not a coincidence the NRA got busted for funnelling russian money into US politics and working hand-in-glove with russian intelligence operators, and I don't think they're the only one, not even close. Just as the republican majority leader noted in 2017 - there's probably even a few specific congresspeople and other powerful politicians on the Russian payroll. Throw in a few shells for plausible deniability and it's all for sale.

The performative theatrics around ukraine have certainly been interesting and I don't think it's all just ritual opposition to whatever the party in power is doing either. The politicians McCarthy identified have been particularly outspoken too.

As they say: "Lock it up, no leaks, that's how we know we're family here."
FWIW, those conventions come from Intel originally, Microsoft took it from them. ARM borrowed from VAX Unix conventions, who got it from DEC.
However much they care or don't care about it, the salience of this NDSS paper is that Signal has a relatively complex anonymity feature that no other mainstream messenger has (the ability to cryptographically authenticate a message that can be delivered via the service without the client authenticating to the server), and it's susceptible to some straightforward network timing analyses.

There may be any number of other reasons to believe that Signal doesn't care enough about anonymity, but with respect to this paper, the most you can say is that they don't get full credit for an extra credit anonymity project they did.
What is he using for actual audio interface? RPi has something awful onboard and none of the pictures show anything external. USB would add 0.25ms latency just for being USB, best case.
Ad fraud is a political problem, not a technical or resource problem.
What if you want it to only be less that 100 though? Not everything is so easily expressable the way you're saying.
They should go back to calling them "guilds", as they still do internally. While also a pre-existing word, its real definition is sufficiently different for there to be no confusion that this is a new & special concept unique to Discord.
This doesn't really work because you still end up needing specific types for the output of every "parser" you have and then you still need a way of combining those types together.

Or you get the ability to forge evidence (e.g. you use the evidence provided by a parser for one integer as evidence for another).

This works better for dependency injection scenarios (the Has* pattern).
Oh no! Hoist by my own petard of pedanticity! XD
Not just that, but a country divided against itself was set against a group of countries completely determined to protect their own interests. Britain couldn't win, as Britain didn't have any idea what it actually wanted, and was constantly fighting itself to figure that out.
Did you mention Python experience on your resume? I already find whitespace sensitivity off-putting when I have support from my text editor or IDE. I'd be even more annoyed if forced to use it on a whiteboard.
how does making a bot for whatsapp works? I thought it has always been non trivial. Just want to check what's the current state of it is
Someone here is confused, and it might be me. As I understand it:

In a company where the fair market value share price is $1/share, if you get granted 100 options, you owe tax on $0 because options are not taxable.

If you get granted 100 RSUs which are all fully vested, you owe tax on $100 because stocks are taxable. If the RSUs are 0% vested you don't owe any tax yet.

Then, if the share price goes up to $2 a share, you still owe $0 tax on your options, but if you have RSUs and 50 of them now vest, you immediately owe tax on $100 (50 x $2) - unless you did an 83b election and paid taxes on the 100 shares at $1 a share at the time you got the grant.

If you exercise the options, now you owe tax on $200 (100 x $2), whether or not you can sell the stock.

So again, I don't understand why Stripe would have a tax bill under any of these scenarios.

The employees would have a tax bill connected with vesting of RSUs if they had not done an 83b election, but no one else would have any tax due until they (exercise in the case of options) and then sell the stock.
"The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

— Winston Churchill (probably not, actually, but it's usually attributed to him)

Or just read any poli-sci research concerning voters. It's basically all horrifying and/or depressing.
You’re absolutely right. There are no winners with Brexit although there are significant losses to both sides. The EU lost the one true global city it had - london. I’m certain there will be several claims from Europeans about how Frankfurt or Paris or Amsterdam can supplant it but all that is just hopes and dreams. London is the only true global city apart from New York and there is just no competition. This is a major loss for the EU as London was an excellent gateway to European markets.

On the flip side, the UK remains a global power with significant influence although Brexit was a needless shot in the foot. This is something that a lot of Europeans forget in their attempt to paint Brexit as a disaster - something it definitely is. The UK is a diminished power, but still a power.
The reason bernard arnault is rich is partly because of tax cuts, but mostly because the luxury industry sells well internationally.

The reason french people in general are poor is because france, as a country, is collapsing, because french people have been voting for the wrong people for the last 50 years.

People that managed to sell their skills to other countries are less affected.
I never got such an email, so I guess you are subscribed to their newsletter? Just unsubscribe if that's the case.

Regarding e-shop: I'd never let my hypothetical children have access to any kind of e-shop where you can purchase without me having to confirm. Parental controls FTW.

The alternative is to uncheck “save payment method for future purchases”.
The db access is just an example. I used upward and downward working off the terminology of the article. But I can put it like this:

For a given call or request, there's input, some work done with that input, and the result. (This is true, whether we're talking about a functional or imperative style.) Your code will have some structure that reflects the work to be done. You want to push your parsing toward the input if it's concerned with the input, and toward the result if it's concerned with the result.

Whether you want to call the processing closer to the input "upward", or "earlier" or whatever, that's fine with me. If you call the processing closer to the input and closer to the result both "upward" then I think it's not a useful metaphor and you should choose a different one.
> I think it's more that stuff you deal with in normal life brings along substantial training in favor of fairness.

> Dividing a shape means "divide fairly", because that's what you've done thousands of times.

There are fundamental game-theoretic reasons for a fair split, yes. But there are also, arguably, more "pure" aspects at play, unrelated to agent dynamics. For example, out of the possible division ratios, there is an infinite number of them that give you two different pieces of cake, but only one ratio that gives you two indistinguishable pieces. What it means, among other things, is that[0] the 50/50 split is a singular one[1] that removes one bit of information from the "cake split into two pieces" system! Any other split requires you to track which piece is which (if only to be able to tell whether I just took the smaller or the larger one); the 50/50 one does not (the pieces are the same, it's pointless to ask which one I ate).

> Drawing some lines means "in an aesthetically pleasing way" because that's what you've seen a billion times. Etc.

The cake example above involves a special solution that removes bits from the problem. I feel the same is the case with a lot of aesthetics - we seem to have a preference for patterns that compress well. I don't think it's a peculiarity specific to human minds - it seems to me to be fundamental enough that all minds would naturally end up with a bias towards well-compressible pattern.

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[0] - Take this piece of cake with a grain of salt, because I'm just a smartass, not an actual mathematician.

[1] - Ignoring the degenerate cases, i.e. the 0/100 and 100/0 splits.
Thanks for the idea, the cost wouldn't be a lot smaller because the question summary doesn't consume so many tokens compared to the context, however the latency would be improved significantly if we avoid one round-trip.
Yep... and the cobalt they need to in order to be produced it mined by child slave labor in the Congo.

People need to realize nothing about living in our modern culture comes without a cost.
At Reviewpad we're also working on a similar product.

Just yesterday, I've tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/marceloabsousa/status/163289383288582963....

Some pull request examples at: https://github.com/marcelosousa/robin-preview/pulls
Snowpipe Streaming in Public Review
Nowadays I've just taken a hard stance against all of this crap. Any game I see where the previews let you immediately understand there's going to be a bunch of these dark patterns to hide the fact they're just gambling aimed at kids, I don't ever look at again. Luckily, beyond mobile apps there's still a thriving market of Just Games, particularly indies, and they're better than ever.
Sort of funny that after all those slides, building up a narrative about the way a product that seems fun can be deceptive, it turns out this presentation itself is just ad for his email list.
That's basically the system we started rolling out in Australia in the 90s (see mandatory super).

Unfortunately it doesn't work for everyone, though, and a traditional pension is still needed as a backup.
SEC vs. Ripple Labs, Inc. Order on Motions to Preclude Expert Testimony [pdf]
> I've said it before, and I'll [say it] again: websites should be held responsible for the data they serve

If that were the case, HN, reddit, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. would all have to shut down. There are a bunch of illegal things posted on all websites with user-generated content -- copyright violations, hate speech, financial advice, advising people to kill themselves -- all of which are illegal. You're suggesting we make the website owner liable?

> I've said it before, and I'll [say it] again

Removing section 230 protection as you're suggesting would be such a radical change in the internet as we know it. This argument is so stale. Please stop saying it again and again.
Absolutely not. You might want to look up where that cobalt for batteries comes from as well and how much recycling actually gets done.
An Agenda for the Intangible Economy (2019)
Eh, more like an inflamed appendix being removed; sure, you'll be in the hospital for a couple of days (and medicate for pain for a few weeks) but then you'll be fine with just a scar to remind you.
The french pension reform attempts have been going on for decades ... Every president, be they socialist or liberal, have attempted to tackle the issue, only to get country-paralyzing backlash.... it isn't a sustainable system.

Good For them?

They've been trying to change this forty years? So they were trying to change this back when it ipso facto was sustainable, since it's survived 'till now. How credible does that make the current effort.

Certainly, America has changed a bunch of supposedly "unsustainable" things into ... utter misery for the average person.
When UK was a member of EU it stopped any further development of it. It was against all proposals for tighter military, political and economic integration of the member states. Now that UK is out it gives EU a chance to get closer to a real state and to better compete with US and China.

In 10 or 20 years when most of the leave voters die out and a new generation of politicians grows up it's completely possible for UK to re-join the EU.
Except that advertising is already covered by existing regulations that 230 doesn't supercede. But IANAL, and I'll concede that I may be thinking of how it should be rather than how it is.

Nonetheless, all of my comments are engaging in wishful thinking. Google is a monster and I'm not sure anyone can tame it anytime soon.
I mean they _do_ have VirusTotal to compare hashes to. It's obviously not fool-proof but it's an option.
The suggested fix was pretty complicated and had some drawbacks (see section VII-B). Signal probably did not agree that it was worth it. It's a hard problem and it just might be the case that no one has of yet come up with a workable solution.
5 or 6 is when I let my kids start. Limited time, parental supervision.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.8 is now generally available
This isn’t a Rust thing. Lot’s of new language have the type declaration after the variable because of type inference which makes such declarations optional.
I don't really consider this a solution since I'm opposed to ads creeping into everything on principle, but try hitting the first or second button from the top on the right side. That mutes them around 80% of the time in my experience.
So Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that.

— EM Forster
Having spent the better part of 30 years working on/with/around embedded systems, I can't even count how many bugs I've bumped into that were hiding inbetween sofware and hardware. Or between software and compiler/tools/OS. Or between hardware and spooky RF black magic.
I don't think the EU is nearly as bad off as having lost an arm... and in the situations where there's a zero sum choice, for example a corporation choosing a single EU headquarters, the remaining countries are slightly better off.

And for that matter, the UK is slightly better off than a severed limb.

Still, I love the vividness of this analogy and will probably steal it from you...
I wish the same. In the meantime, I like using these physical USB switches to easily disconnect my webcam when not in use:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07X82661H
Honest question: what should the French government do instead? Some people in this thread have said that the government doesn't need to increase the retirement age by 2 years. If that's so, why are they proposing to? Have they done the math incorrectly, are they being needlessly cruel, or ...?
I will say, it was an effective presentation though. I rarely see slides used in this sort of editorial (advertorial?) format.
Very light on details. Reads like a puff piece.
Python has many qualities, but I wouldn't use it to write a compiler.

That being said, I've seen much worse languages being used to write compilers, so... who knows?
The oil industry uses slave labor to mine cobalt in the congo with zero environmental concerns on how they get it out of the ground?

Your lie is promulgated by the "green energy" industry.

There's just as much money and bs coming from the other side. You can't pretend there's not when you have massive donors and and entire elitist political party backing something like that.
There could in theory have been a sane outcome where the UK "left" the EU, respecting the vote, but remained as close as Switzerland and Norway, and still had access to the single market.

But any politician sensible and capable enough of achieving that would have been against Brexit in the first place, and would have to deal with the sniping of idiots that were for Brexit and promising the moon on a stick.
(From a few Mm) I remember them saying that EU was a big-government ballast, so reducing expenses and bureaucracy they could have a much agile and vibrant economy.

But is that what they did?
LiFePO4 batteries need no cobalt. You do not need fancy batteries for stationary services. Grid-scale storage batteries can be as big, heavy, dumb, and cheap as you like. You don't even need lithium really.
Definitely one of those "it depends" situations. For instance, you could be illiterate middle school drop-out and pretty easily make very close if not six figures if you worked near minimum wage canning work all year in Alaska or something by working the season of every available catch (16 hours a day lots of OT). And you'd bank all your post-tax earnings as they provide the housing/food normally too.

You may work yourself to the bone but pretty much anybody in the US can make a killing.
The hospital installed water filters, a lack of free chlorine in the water allowed bacteria to grow in the ice machines.

So really these patients died because the hospital didn't properly clean and maintain their ice machines.
The request from the bodega owners (and NYPD) was not that customers "drop" their masks, but that they lower them temporarily upon entering so they can be identified:

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-bodega-workers-ask-customers-...

But of course Adams, who appears not to grasp the ongoing risks that the pandemic poses to some individuals, has to morph this message into something else ("stop wearing masks, committing crimes"), as if to optimize for divisiveness. Per the NYT:

Mr. Adams’s suggestion is sure to draw the ire of those who remain committed to masking in public as Covid persists, as well as those with health conditions that put them at an elevated risk of severe illness if they were to be infected with the coronavirus
How big is the band?

I saw a band recently in a 600 capacity venue. It was probably 70-80% full. Near the end the singer said the tour was losing money so please buy something.

Of the metal bands I usually see, I assume the majority have other jobs.
Brexit wasn’t about improving the economy.
Maybe people have finally realized that code is not an asset.
It'd be interesting if there were some ad network that could use "social scoring" in a way that is analogous to Uber/Airbnb between riders-drivers, guests-hosts, etc.. Publishers could rate their advertisers for ads showing up on their site and advertisers could rate publishers they are being matched with.

In some way these scores could effect the search result ads that are shown.

Not saying Google necessarily would/should try this but some other smaller ad/search network.

I think it probably would work about the same as Uber/Airbnb, etc. - which is to say sort of working to at least get the most egregious offenders off the network with some annecodotal false positives.
They're drugs. The market in America wants $800/mo. The international online market wants what comes out to $34/mo.

It's the same drug. It costs $34 online because that's how much it costs for the factory to produce it and make a profit. It costs $800 in America because that's how much my insurance company decided I'm going to pay for it. It would be idiotic for me, with my extremely limited funds, to pay for the American one.
And where does the money for raising salaries come from?
Bumblebees acquire alternative puzzle-box solutions via social learning
I don't know how this compares to your i7, but I dabble around using Pro Tools w/ about 15 or 20 tracks at a time with several effects running in unison, on an M1 Pro processor w/ only 16 gigs RAM, and I typically stay under 20% usage according to Activity Monitor.

I mostly play guitar and don't notice the latency in most effect chains that I use.
Many of your points are valid for many suburbs but also not for many others. Talking generally like this is weird, I've lived in about 6 different suburbs my whole life and nothing you listed was true for any of them.

I'm not a fan of suburbs but I'm tired of people holding up the worst possible examples and saying "SEE, SUBURBS SUCK!"
Why would PRC disallow foreign military aid to Taiwan as a nonstarter in an active conflict? Taiwan already buys extensive military hardware internationally.

Like direct strikes to mainland china - direct strikes to continental us/ us territories imply a global conflict. Article 5 would be called on, and NATO would be drawn into the conflict. China would struggle against a G7 boycott.

It’s plausible that EU stays neutral in a narrow war, but a broad war with expansive war goals would lead to a broad response. Chinas past behavior towards nuclear powers occurred before they had indigenous weapons and while they had a nuclear protector.

The only limiter to nuclear escalation in a modern global conflict is willingness and alternatives. When alternatives have been removed and civilian targets are targeted nuclear options will be on the table. In a broad conflict this process could occur within days.
That's just the appeal to nature fallacy. When people talk about natural food the main benefit is the lack of processing for palatability and heterogeneity (varied eating). There's no reason why molecules occurring in nature would automatically be healthier.
Is Kago noticeably better than other free search offerings with ublock? I like the idea of paid search, but I have a hard time justifying US$120/yr unless the product is clearly superior to what I have now.
Yeah I remember they explicitly wanted to avoid the "free-to-play" schemes back when SMR came out.
One of the main reasons I was so hopeful for Object.observe was because it would have been a stable language feature to build better debuggers around.

Instead, it feels like most state management libraries ultimately end of writing their own Chrome extensions. Which now that I say that makes me curious: do any of these executions also let you observe/monitor server-side state management systems?
TBH, I'm surprised by that. I would have though compiler authors would not have released optimization options in this state - when such breakage is encountered by testers of nightlies or beta releases.
A couple years ago, Western Digital quietly changed their WD Red line (which is explicitly marketed as being for NAS use) to SMR.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-addresses-smr-controver...
Why a decade? I would say at least 30 years. Never mind the fact that not all goals were economic and some were achieved instantly.
Only if the majority populations of the world in developing countries follow along.

The major oil producing nations are not going to stop selling oil though, they depend on it to survive, and likewise developing nations depend on petroleum products to feed themselves and operate their businesses. They can't afford to transition in any timespan that matters for a critical climate change scenario.

What we're on course to do in the West is destroy our economies for no reason as carbon usage will just move elsewhere. In the process we will lose our ability to lead to cleaner technologies by destroying our financial base.
There’s a reimplementation of the Tailscale control plane called Headscale, if you want to self-host.

I’d try to use that first, because sadly Nebula and ZeroTier don’t have a relay/TCP/HTTPS fallback option and still “have no plans of implementing one” as of Mar 2023, which leaves you out of luck as soon as you encounter NATs or try to access your cluster from an airport/hotel wifi

Maybe you know of other mesh/p2p VPNs that do support TCP fallback though? Would be great to see some alternatives in this area
Surprised that a (local) Web call can be considered low latency. Isn’t this why people use grpc etc?
They have that and they currently use it. It does take out the worst offenders.

But Google had to down on the order of some million accounts in 2021. The crawlers hit rate is probably not enough to keep up with this problem.