skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the whole point of democracy is that governments should fear their citizens, rather than vice versa.

I think that's more an optimistic interpretation of democracy.

After all, it's the government that gets to decide who is a citizen, and who has the franchise.

Historically the US said that African Americans were not citizens, within the meaning of the Constitution. In 1858 your statement might be 100% true about the US, but it would exclude a lot of people - who indeed were justifiably fearful of the democracy they lived in.

While the 14th amendment made many new citizens, for many decades after the end of reconstruction these citizens feared their government far more than vice versa.

You can see the variable concept of "citizen" when considering that a minor may be a US citizen for many purposes, but does not have the voting rights of full citizenship. Before the 26th amendment even 20-year-old adults were not full citizens.

Something like 2% of US adult citizens cannot vote due to being a convicted felon, further showing how shaky your assertion is.

There's also a large number of immigrants to the US who are not citizens, but ideally should not fear the government any more than citizens do.

Perhaps the US doesn't count as democracy, but that sounds too much like a No True Scotsman response. Switzerland, with its famous direct democracy, didn't allow full women's suffrage until 1971-1990, depending on canton, again highlighting that "citizen" and "those who can vote" are not really the same thing in a democracy.
>The common law could learn a lot from Sharia law

If you're curious to compare and live in the UK, just pop into your local Sharia court. Between 30-85 such courts are estimated to exist in Britain. They generally call themselves "councils" rather than courts but sometimes the mask slips:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/applying-sharia-l...

>Common misconceptions around sharia councils often perpetuate owing to the use of incorrect terms such as referring to them as ‘courts’ rather than councils or to their members as ‘judges’. These terms are used both in media articles but also on occasion by the sharia councils themselves.
To take a specific example, Pergolesi wrote a setting of the hymn ‘Stabat Mater’ (which is fantastic). So that’s the composition. But it can sound very different depending on how it is performed, my favourite performance is by Emma Kirkby. But it’s hit and miss about how that gets categorised - and it’s particularly important if the piece forms part of a set of works. I don’t want to search Emma Kirkby to find a piece by pergolesi, and I want to be able to group by composer rather than performer even through the performer is listed as the artist. Or, I might want to find other pieces performed by her from other composers.
Developer will do the simplest thing to solve the problem.

If the solutions are:

* rewrite that part to add retention, or use better compression, or spend next month deciding which data to keep and which can be removed early

* Wiggle a thing in panel/API giving it more space

The second will win every single time unless there is pushback or it hits the 5% of the developers that actually care to make good architecture not just deliver tickets.
The idea that anyone would find storing 20TB of plain text logs for a normal service reasonable is quite amusing.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that a single-digit kUSD/month is peanuts against developer productivity gains, but I still wouldn't be able to take a developer making that suggestion seriously. I would also seriously question internal processes, GDPR (or equivalent) compliance, and whether the system actually brings benefit or if it is just lazy "but what if" thinking.
Yet you read hacker news, where you get pushed the latest thing every day
Out of interest, was this the project that eventually became wirefilter [1]?

[1]: https://github.com/cloudflare/wirefilter
Precisely!!! At this rate Signal's inexplicable desire to claim this as a victory (https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1699405364968423828) is distracting at the very worst possible time - this is the last chance to stop the bill, and instead of a final hail mary... we're congratulating ourselves? on the fact that scanning won't be implemented immediately but only once the government has decided that the tech is mature enough?!!
In the UK during lockdown they became quite common as a way of ordering food to your table in a restaurant or pub. I think that's the only time I use them though.
> In what world is 2160TB $100k?

When you buy a SAN to present a bunch of disks as one thing to the rest of the machines.
Seeing this news today, I decided to give jq another try and ended up discovering jq-mode [1] for emacs. It doesn't just support jq filter file editing, it supports jq in org-mode and something else called 'jq-interactively'. This interactive mode allows you to apply jq interactively on a JSON or YAML (with yq) buffer. The buffer contents become the filtered value when you finish editing the jq filter with a return. This is especially impressive to see in yaml files.

[1] https://github.com/ljos/jq-mode
This is a non-sequitur. The repo is deprecated because the repo owner is absent, and development is continuing in a fork.
Yeah, it seems like the authors of the new paper may have missed much relevant existing research?
Not only can Atmos be a bit of a gimmick, but there have already been cases of mere stereo recordings converted to Atmos through trickery, instead of having been originally recorded as multi-channel. Consumers are getting scammed.
Good for you if you accept that your tools might get rug-pulled from you any time. I don't.
Exactly! ls is alive, and just exists, mostly. The commits done on it are extremely minor changes to save up 0.0001% of performance and because the APIs it was using are sometimes deprecated. And that's fine!

However, when a new project arrives and does more, suddenly it's dogshit because it's stopped evolving despite doing infinitely more than ls.

Unixheads have a weird inferiority complex when it comes to anything not in coreutils.
You could argue that "modern" versions of old tools with a bus factor of 1 are harder to trust.
The problem is that staff time costs an order of magnitude more and most of these things can go wrong. For example, you don’t just want to buy random lots of whatever disks are cheapest because then you have to track recalls and firmware updates for everything.

If you have two tiers available, someone will use the less reliable one because that’s how they fit their budget but then because it’s “in production” they’ll expect the same level of service.

All of these are manageable but what you’re really hearing is that the technical issues are really the tip of the social iceberg most organizations have. One of the reasons people pick AWS isn’t just that it’s usually cheaper than the full cost of rolling your own but that lots of these things don’t affect you: you never fail to provision an EBS volume because the VPs of finance and IT are still arguing about procuring a new rack of disks, people can’t request endless customizations because the options are “take it or leave it”, etc.
It could have all been avoided if Russia's dictatorship stopped trying to strong arm the former soviet bloc
I don't know if you are right or not, but this is surely one of those.
0 content, 0 discussion stimulus.
Unlike with a pet, nothing actually suffers if/when you lose interest/forget about it and the Tamagotchi dies.

That said, as holiday season approaches we're probably going to get another wave of people actually buying some poor cute animal to treat as a Tamagotchi, to be returned or let loose once they've gotten bored with it.
Yes, because it’s yet another name for piece work without job security.

He was also against landlords. He was much closer to what we’d today call a social democrat, not unlike Keynes.
It's mostly whataboutism though. Similar to how closet nazis attack Israel. There is an enormous moral difference between the US behaves and the Taliban behaves.

The US for example cares and are ashamed of the war crimes you speak of.

The Taliban CELEBRATE their war crimes, beheadings, lynchings of women.
because x is the coolest letter, don't believe me: just ask Elon
Not everybody. Lots of people work outdoors for 6+ hour shifts, have transport jobs without AC, and so on. You could also consider primitive cultures. I know the Amazon can get upwards of 40C. I am not as familiar with the humidity on these days, beyond the fact that it's hella humid. And 40C + 70% = 35 wet bulb.

If the 35 wet bulb hypothesis was valid, then literally one solitary day of this, regardless of how infrequent, would have killed everybody in the Amazon. There are also many other areas along the equator with high temperature, high humidity, and lots of people without access to AC. Something just doesn't seem right.
Perhaps this is the law:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/33/177.07

The law (and others) seem to protect others from harm from the offender. Driving at night in a car with no brakes and no headlights is also illegal in my state. That seems to be in a similar vein.

> Besides, with such overbearing interferences the state will only hamper the pioneer spirit of American, one of the agreeable most important things that made America such a great nation.

Certainly something to be wary of but, to me, this isn’t the right example of innovation being hampered. The underlying “experiment” could have been perfectly legal with a few safeguards (for others) in place.
They seem to be going cloud only even on the desktop.

I tried to use the built-in video editor in Windows 10, and it told me to start using Clipchamp instead. A few clicks later the new program was installed and running, and before I could do anything it asked for my name. This is normal in many office programs that want to embed author info in metadata, so I entered it without any hesitation. A few seconds later a new email pops up in my inbox - I apparently had signed up to an online video editor service using my Microsoft account without knowledge.
> 0. Get your SSO + Webauthn 2FA everywhere. (Don't use Okta or Auth0! Do it yourself!)

Maintaining that crap is a full-time job in itself and very hard to get right.
Is exa gone ? Can you not download exa anymore ? Are the binaries deleted from the internet ? Is the source completely overwritten ? Has it been removes from crates.io and from package managers ? Has it suddenly stopped listing files in your folders?

Calling it having your tools rug-pulled from you is, quite frankly, the most moronic thing I've read today.
>there's a reason why France built the Maginot line and Germany didn't bother with building one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Line

(post-WW1, but so's the Maginot line)
I had a coworker who used to say

Tight coupling is good because it solves communication problems.
No coupling is good because it solves communication problems (but worse).
Loose coupling is the worst deal you can have.

This is in the context of microservices which advertise themselves as loosely coupled (as a system / automation person I can highly relate to this sentiment).

I think that the best project management strategy is to hold out for as long as possible before splitting a program into multiple parts, and once that becomes inevitable -- split off completely into separate programs. The intermediate state of having many components that depend on each other a great deal is the worst possible situation you can find yourself in as a developer. Nothing ever works properly, the staging and the testing systems are always in some kind of "dirty" state that doesn't reflect the intended operational state. There's a ton of automation that tries to keep components up to date with modifications in other components and invariably fails due to its own complexity + human factor.
I do not get any sense from the article that anything is being called old.

Another way of saying '50 year old record label' is 'a record label that has been accumulating copyrighted material for 50 years'
"Alternatively, maybe it was as bad as it sounds"

I'm sorry but in what world is improving the performance of the product you're working on 10 fold "bad" ???

Yes, it was probably a shock for the team. But those kinds of moment are also a huge opportunity to realize there was something wrong with the way you were working.

I've had a senior engineer erase the entirety of my code once in front of my eyes and rewrite it from scratch in a few hours, still in front of me. Well, i still joke about it with friends that experienced the same thing from the same guy, but it was definitely the kind of things that motivates you to improve the quality of your work.

Of course, the senior guy was a friend and it was all done with smiles and laughs. He didn't make it sound worst than it was.
You could make that argument and many experts would say that you have a right to a translator. That isn't a thing under the common law. Many countries do provide translators, but that isn't a right across the board and for centuries people were executed in England without access to translators.
D'oh! Yes, of course.

At least I didn't say elven blacksmith, working in the fires of Mt. Doom.
I much prefer lsd over exa, as lsd has better backwards compatibility with the flags. Specifically `-t` for sorting by time, exa has it specify the time field used.
Imagine CI/CD with a gov body in there. Deploy once a year.
> So if you never worked in NY state, or move away from NY state, then you are not liable for NY income taxes.

Sorry, it’s not that simple. I’m not speaking about things “I’ve read”, I’m speaking from first hand experience including fighting this via attorneys. I (as well as others) have not stepped foot in the state of NY for work for an entire calendar year in the past, did not live in NY when hired nor have any even pseudo claim to residency, yet do to convenience of employer regulations, pay NY state income tax on all income from said employer.
Les hivers de mon enfance étaient des saisons longues, longues. Nous vivions en trois lieux : l’école, l’église et la patinoire; mais la vraie vie était sur la patinoire.

"The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places – the school, the church and the skating rink – but our real life was on the skating rink."

The Hockey Sweater was my favorite book growing up. I hope Canadians continue to enjoy it for generations to come.
Most of the developed world considers people who say they "My father apprenticed me in the natural sciences" to be the quacks.

Unfortunately, people who support the establishment

Who are you talking about?

propping up both quacks

Are dentists quacks?

Is getting wisdom teeth removed the "pseudoscientific woo."

It's interesting that you have all these claims and strong feelings, but no actual evidence to back up what you're saying.
I’m sitting here eating a chicken katsu curry in London and each seat at the bar has a QR code to scan and see the menu.

For the past 3 years a lot of restaurants switched to QR based menus for obvious reasons. So I’d wager to say that anyone that went out to eat in the last 3 years has interacted with at least a handful of QR scans :)

I’ve also seen hotels adopt “scan this code to get our WI-FI details”. Which is a pretty seamless experience and great
I think they're becoming a bit of a fad again. Many streamers I follow have been obsessing over them recently (granted that they're mostly not zoomers, just millennials enjoying some nostalgia).
Maybe you'd like the nushell approach more, have the structured data understanding and extraction tools built into the shell language.
Perhaps because technology is a new religion and it's "leaders"
genuinely see themselves as prophets?

If you look at the history of capitalism and industrialisation, the old
"captains of industry" were a different breed.

Sure we had "celebrity" industrialists, Isambard Brunel and Henry Ford
come to mind. But they kept their place, largely in the background of
boardrooms and factories.

Digital technology has created a new kind of cargo cult, with cult
leaders. So I think it's a product of the culture rather than a fault
of individual "worship".

In this episode Helen singles out Bill Gates as counter-example (much
to my disagreement): ( UK Cybershow #011 | S1 | On The Go | Episode 3
- Money, Personality and Technology Dictatorships)

https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/otg-03_r2_session_2023-0...
That's a very mature stance. Inside the government there are a ton of people doing really hard work who are frustrated by the rise of encryption, so they can no longer do the work that they were doing in the past effectively (some outside of government see this as a good thing).

In those same governments there are those that dream of having access to all of this data with less honorable intentions. Because both are part of the same entity and once the capability is there it is pretty much a given that checks and balances will fail when you need them most I find myself both sympathetic to those that keep us safe and to those that object to this level of invasiveness, and I find myself opposed to those what effectively use terrorism and CP as a way to shepherd us into an authoritarian society.

And then there are the consequences of finding yourself with a really bad instance of government at some point in the future, it could easily happen.
Read about epigenetics. It's not quite as magic as what you describe but it's in the ballpark.
Typical Florida Man behavior
The website IslamQA is run by the Islamic scholar Muhammad Al-Munajjid and adheres to the Sunni doctrine[1], the belief of 87-90% of Muslims[2].

If by extremist you mean unpopular that's not true.[3]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Al-Munajjid

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country#:~:text=Mos....

[3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_labor_force_in_the_Mu...
Many times it's personal preference or familiarity. Also, sometimes there's a business case like you mentioned popularity that seems like a business case. Easier to find developers.
If the owner is outright missing, to the point where the newer fork owners can't even get the repo archived, one would reasonably assume that they'd need to rename/rebrand the tool in order to publish it elsewhere.

It frankly doesn't seem like a deprecation in the traditional sense.
In U.S., most UFO documentation is classified. Not so in other countries
Sawdust is unfortunately an actual food ingredient you’re more likely to find in industrial food regulated by the FDA. There’s an argument to be made that the free market, mom and pop/artisanal providers will be of higher quality than something regulated by the government.
Your question is a little loaded. I'm not sure "worship" is the right term. But a lot of people in tech respect anyone who can win the game like they have. It's like that expression hate the game not the player. Capitalism for all its flaws, we have no better system yet, and Elon and Jeff get a "wow, well done" from other people trying to do the same.

P.S. https://vimeo.com/635476080 (Spiral Dynamics talks about what comes next after capitalism.)
https://archive.ph/HZ1co
This is a bit over the top, don't you think? Case in point: we will have elections one of these days, that seems to be proof to me that we still are a democracy. Or do you believe in widespread vote fraud?
> I was using still using a 300 baud modem with my C=64 when Q-Link launched.

Wow, that brought back memories for me. Quantum Link was my first "online" experience, and the cost made it very much a "get in, get it done, and get out" kind of experience, but Grolier's Online Encyclopedia helped me with many reports and papers in elementary school.

Once I moved to PC and dial-up BBS, it was all over for Quantum Link.
> Furthermore, I strongly suspect and assume that other human beings are conscious, but I cannot verify this scientifically (i.e. measure it somehow).

I don't think this is fully true, if you really examine this belief. You do have certain criteria that you use to determine, at least quasi-scientifically, if you should believe that some other entity is conscious or not. You say you believe "humans beings are conscious", but I would bet you don't believe that dead human beings are conscious, or that fertilized eggs are conscious. You may or may not believe that they are still conscious while under general anaesthesia, or while they are in clinical death. You may very much believe that certain things that are not human beings are also conscious - maybe dogs, or even all mammals, or even all vertebrates.

Your criteria probably start from the initial premise: I am conscious. Then, you apply a simple argument: I perform certain actions and/or display certain behaviors, and I have this conscious motivation for them. This other being performs these behaviors very similarly, so they probably have a similar consciousness motivating them to do so. You then test this assumption, and come up with more refined observations (e.g. not every similarity is equally related to consciousness - for example, you move around, and shadows move around, but it seems unlikely that shadows have consciousness so perhaps "move around" is not a good test for consciousness).
I wonder if a prospective employer views your LI page, sees falsified information, and having made a positive hiring decision based mostly on that, terminates and sues you for misrepresentation.

Is lying on LI akin to lying on your résumé, or is it more like lying on Facebook?
> You can't give them carte blanche to the storage because they'll waste it

So what? Just buy more. Storage is cheap.

It's hard to have a discussion here without understanding the scales involved. Is the problem that they're wasting 100 GB or 100 TB? And if the issue is truly that they're wasting 100 TB, then clamp down on it as part of cost reduction efforts. The truth in most organizations is you get rewarded for eliminating mountains of waste, but trying to prevent the waste in the first place brands you as someone difficult to work with who is standing in the way. Why not lean into that?
I recently stopped reading such a book. It wasn't terrible and had no blatant flaws, but it also had nothing good either. It was all just meh. Music can also like this -- there is a big gap between being able to make something that isn't bad and making something that is actually good.
I mark as spam all emails coming from companies that don't have a link to remove the email from the account that triggered it because someone added it by mistake or maliciously.
More like "deploy once ever, maybe"
There have been and still are socialist economies. Jobs pay differently and people choose them. Central planning incentivises necessary but unpleasant jobs.

The main feature is that workers collectively run workplaces, municipalities, regions and ultimately the state. The rest of the details are up to said workers to work out among themselves.
This is something I’ve pondered, and for what it’s worth, I don’t think any of the responses so far clearly explain the flaw in your rationale.

That’s not to say Cantor was wrong - much more likely we’re missing something, however I think the issue is more subtle than people realise.
No way man, the iPhone was insanely addicting before 2012, maybe you just had poor friends.