skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what this boils down to, and is extremely apparent in those quotes, is communication skills & style.

People with very controversial beliefs (and in a free & diverse society, everything is controversial in some relative axis, hence we need to extend measures of freedom to each other) can still act civilly, or they can flail and be problematic on forums. That's not a feature of their beliefs, but a feature of their behavior (stubbornness, arrogance, etc). People who have fully "correct thinking" in some scope can also be disruptive, poorly behaved members of discussion-based communities.
I don't think anyone's arguing that a researcher has a responsibility to tell anyone. If they find a vulnerability and then decide to completely shelve it, that's fine (if maybe a little pointless?). But if they do decide to do some kind of disclosure, I (and others) would argue that researchers have an ethical responsibility to do so in a way that they believe will do the least harm.

It's certainly reasonable to argue which kind of disclosure is the best way to achieve minimal harm, but my opinion is that it's unethical to disclose without considering what method of disclosure will do the least harm, or, worse, just not caring and going for the "biggest splash", as is what it seems these researchers did.
If pictures are already from Google, wouldn't it be simpler to post image to Google's Vision API and then grep results against the list of poisonous spiders?
Stephen Hawking has died
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when does 'longer' end? 80? 120? 150? It's a hard question.
I'm not sure how Google qualifies as a private company

It qualifies as a private company because it is, as a matter of law, a private company.

Tell me how I can refuse to bake a cake for someone because their personal views differ from mine. I dare you.

Assuming, based on your choice of example, that you're talking about the US legal context: You absolutely can refuse someone's business because of their beliefs. What you can't do is refuse someone's business because of their race, or their age, or one of small number of other protected characteristics.
Stephen Hawking, modern cosmology's brightest star, dies aged 76
April 1st is coming up, I suppose.
>> Natural death is a beautiful thing; it's a part of life. I'll be honored to die a natural death at a normal age.

I completely disagree. Natural death is not a beautiful thing, and is sometimes painful. Even if I don't want to live forever, I'd like to be given the choice of when to die, basically when I'm tired of living.

Maybe you still don't agree, but would you have thought differently if all your friends and family also have that choice?
Looking is fine. Disclosing in a way that's likely to cause harm that could otherwise be minimized with a little care... not so much.
Profit, influence, power. They can be exchanged for each other.

YC doesn't make money directly from the forum. But neither does AWS from their docs.

If you have a problem with a company making money directly from your content, why doesn't it bother you if they are gaining something else off you like influence? Do you think HN confers zero value to YC?
Preferably, whenever a person feels ready.
Stephen Hawking dies aged 76
Stephen Hawking, dies age 76
what could go wrong?
"First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get...the Onion?"

Okay, some kind of reverse Thiel thing maybe. The Onion is under the Univison umbrella following the asset re-allocation of post Gawker lawsuit bankruptcy, so why not just go in with cash and buy it outright? Does not compute.

It didn't work for Pitchfork and The Dissolve so well.

That being noted, weaponising sarcasm is a great use of capital, time and effort. There's no way it could possibly backfire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_mrNQBLSMU
Aw man. I don't have anything profound, but I always smile when I read this XKCD - https://xkcd.com/799/
I'll admit, I homed in on the moon hoax because that's what the screenshots in the article show.

But I am struggling to come up with any valid conspiracies which were unravelled on youtube, or disproven on wikipedia. Suffice to say youtube is not famed for its investigative journalism. That's not what nutjobs are soaking up.

I was watching a show that was profiling flat-eathers, and one lady made a comment that really stood out to me. "So I did my own research - I watched four hours of videos on youtube."

This isn't investigative journalism. This isn't classified leaks. It's monetising the gullible.
I get you pizza
RIP one of the greatest physicists in human history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582136
Wow, that really sucks.
> is-same-object-as

I don't expect that's a language I'd enjoy. You may prefer Objective-C over Python.

> a is-same-object-as b, for integers could raise an error, as a and b are not objects.

That would be a greater inconsistency than the minor additional optimization for small integers. It's a Java performance optimization that has crept into the way you think about the data, impacting much more of your program than just "is-a-long-name".

>>> isinstance(1, object)
True
Childbirth is also, by all accounts, painful. But it's seen as a beautiful thing, no?
I don't mean to be contrary, these are all opinionated questions and I like the discussion. And it's really hard. A few of my favorite people(non famous or famous) died 'too young' and have very fond places in my heart and others. Yet some who lived to 80-something...grew old enough to disown their own family and die a lonely life in dementia.
Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar

Above the morning lark.

– Shakespeare
Very sad news for the physic and science community in general his book A brief history of time made me understand black holes.
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This. Saying "It took Mozart ten years to become Mozart" isn't evidence it takes ten years to become a programmer, it's evidence it takes ten years to become Linus.
What if nobody ever felt 'ready'? This is becoming more suicide prevention at this point no?
is this similar to meditation?
Do we know what killed him? All of these articles have very little information. Was it the natural progression of ALS or some other kind of disease?
Discussion at earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582136
As someone who codes offline a lot, I really appreciate when I can just clone a repo to have a full copy of the documentation.
He was an amazing inspiration to me and I am sure many others. I raise a glass tonight to a very special human being.
Well, politics. As a browser vendor, you need to provide webpage owners ways to make (more) money, especially when other browsers that users are happily voting for, do provide these ways.
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But what if you are in between a trek or in woods? Are there generic anti-venom kits available that you can carry?
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Dying may not be meaningful, but it may be useful. Let's say hypothetically we eliminate death, for everyone. Let's further say it developed in such a way that it didn't lead to a more stratified society (e.g. it rapidly became available to all, so the early mover advantage when it was expensive is minimal).

In the short term, that's great, incredible even: everyone lives! In the long term though, do we stagnate on the same set of brains, who are set in their ways from potentially hundreds of years of life and only capable of offering a certain amount of insight on any given topic? There's less incentive to have children (you can always do it later), and there may be physical constraints that limit the number of people the world can support. Without that infusion of new ideas, does human development grind to a halt (or at least slow considerably)? There's no fresh eyes coming to scientific endeavours, maybe restricting the sparks of innovation or new ways of thinking that lead to breakthroughs, and culturally there's no one unburdened by the past pushing the boundaries of the arts etc.

Now you may say (and I might even agree with you) that you'd rather be alive in a stagnant world than dead in one that keeps moving, but I feel there has to be limits to that. There's probably enough going on to keep you engaged for hundreds of years, but beyond that, a stagnant, unchanging world, with the same people, the same cultural, the same knowledge etc. in perpetuity seems incredibly daunting. Would people need to choose to die when they've had their fill to keep the ball rolling? Would enough people choose that, rather than clinging to a merger existence, to matter? Would that first generation of post-death humans last long enough that recovering the pace of development would even be (reasonably) possible?

Let's just say that on a personal level, I don't want to die (and a life _extension_ would be incredibly welcomed as there's plenty to do beyond the 80-or-so years people generally live), but the societal consequences of such a thing could be deeply negative.
How does that matter? The only thing that matters is the harm that certain types of disclosures will do to average users. It doesn't matter whether a bug could have easily been found before release or not; the bug is there, in the wild, in a position to harm users.

By all means, vendors should be taken to task, and be beaten up even more when a bug was easily avoidable. But a bug's stupidity is completely unrelated to how a user might be harmed by an "irresponsible" disclosure. Giving the vendor their just desserts is secondary to that.
If no one is ever ready to die, then why do it? By the time this happens we'll more than likely be multiplanetary, and there'd be no incentive to really ever die.

It's less a moral issue than a logical issue - "Let a person contribute to the world until they feel they have nothing else they can do" isn't a terribly unreasonable idea.
Improving an open source project's docs aren't likely to help you, either.

Intro-level documentation changes are the most common pull requests I get on any of my projects. And the people making them are not the ones being helped by intro-level docs.

It's a clear case of experts helping beginners.
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Does having the package available for 3.x facilitate code migration? Would the references to the builtin in 3.x require other code mods (or just the import statement?)
AWS does makes no direct money off documentations either.

Engineers generally have a natural tendancy to fix things, and documentaitons are worth fixing. And it also helps their future work.
I suspect I might be feeding the troll, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Gamergate might have very initially been about 'ethics in games journalism', but it didn't stay that way very long. It was very quickly infested with racist, sexist trolls. All that stuff with the lady that supposedly slept with someone to get good reviews, or whatever? Turned out that was total bunk. That was proved within a couple of weeks.

Guess what, KotakuInAction still exists. It doesn't really matter whether the initial idea was right, though. If they'd been right initially, their later actions would still be wrong. And they were wrong initially in reality, and it hasn't stopped them from continuing their shit.

For quite a long time, I dismissed the criticisms of Gamergate because I really had nothing to do with it. I read the initial couple of news articles and watched a couple of videos with some outrage and kind of went 'yeah no shit, IGN gets paid to give good reviews, not news'. I then basically ignored them for years. I would hear that they were toxic this or problematic that and I dismissed it, because I thought their initial points seemed solid enough.

Then when I actually went back and looked at it, it had basically turned into TheRedPill. KotakuInAction and GamerGate are really not worth defending.

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The rest of the topics are pretty similar: all differing levels of controversial, and with echo chamber subreddits heartily happy to advocate for them and heartily happy to advocate against them.

The word 'toxic' is only used by one of those sides, but the other side generally uses far worse language to describe their 'opponents' if you want to use that term. I think being described as 'toxic' is a little better than being described as 'worthy of being shot' or whatever other horrible things people in TRP, The_Donald and such tend to say.

Plus sometimes echo chambers are actually good. When you want to discuss the finer points of something, being able to just say 'this is not a subreddit for debating the merits of ideology X just because it's called /r/X, go to /r/DebateX please' is fine. One of the biggest problems with reddit is that in comparison to old-style forums it's so ephemeral. Other than the (maximum 2) stickies and sidebar links there's little in the way of permanent material in any subreddit, so you end up having the same introductory surface-level discussions again and again and again.

Reddit is a social news website first and foremost. It's not good at discussions at all.
I watched the Netflix series and I really liked the premise but found the story and acting lacking in some areas.

However I really liked the noir protagonist and the scene you described was my favorite episode in the show. I am interested how the story continues.

Are the books much better than the show? How would you rate the trilogy among your favorite cyberpunk novels? Thanks.
Great. You die, I’ll live forever. I have no objection to you dying if you feel like it.
If you're concerned about DNS security you can use DNSSEC and Let's Encrypt will cheerfully require DNSSEC signed answers.

If your situation really is that you have unsecured DNS that routinely gets hacked and you just sort of muddle among somehow with users frequently getting phished, malware downloaders, and so on, well, I guess Let's Encrypt doesn't magically solve the trouble you've stepped in.
So, it happens that I have been indulging myself in watching flat earth videos on Youtube for the past few days. And I'm astonished that anybody can watch these and come to the belief that they're accurate. For example, no video explains the simple matter of how, in a "flat earth" model, seasons can occur without the sun traveling at different speeds across the sky through the year. Or how retrograde motion can be observed. These are obvious, glaring flaws.

On the other hand, I have found that there is a wealth of good information about the JFK assassination (although some whacky fringe bullshit too). In this case, I do think that the "establishment" narrative (if it's even reasonable to call the "lone nut" theory that anymore) is demonstrably false, and that Youtube provides good resources for showing it.

In other words: if you conclude, as I do, that the JFK assassination was a conspiracy but that the earth is not flat, then I think that the resources on Youtube does a good job of buttressing reasonable study on these matters.
Like black holes, very little information ever escapes death.
At 76, I think it's fair to say he just died.

I actually had no idea he was that old. Maybe he looked younger than he was because he had no wrinkles.
He was a living triumph. Lived and achieved beyond what his body would allow.
what if i said that i don't personally -want- do die, just that I thought we should all die as life presents, for the good of humanity. Am I being controlling, or are you being selfish?
RIP to one of the great. Not only he was one of the genius minds of our time, but he also was an important symbol of perseverance for all of us.
What a life.
A great loss for humanity.

Is this the fastest upvoted HN thread? I don't think I've ever seen a discussion go up to +200 upvotes in under 10 minutes.
Hi
I am working on Atomize tool. Atomize splits image of any UI into layered sketch components. The converted components are not bitmaps, but vectors, text, and shapes.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Notice also that if you replace k with (1-k) then you get the same results, but with a and b swapped.
Ultimately I make docs for myself so it's easier next time. And i forget ... everything.
Seems to be more info in this article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawk...
Wow, that hits hard... he will be missed.
At least humanity will buy and read more Stephen Hawking books from now on. We must feel more special only by sharing the our timeline with this brilliant mind. More great discoveries and light will be in the future, we will exist to provide proof of the visionaries.
Wow, I was not prepared for this. Rest in peace.
Stephen Hawking defined an entire generation. Say what you will but he created a culture far beyond that of just a physicist. He was both parodied and revered.
There aren't that many humans that have made such a dent in the world as Stephen Hawking.

He will not be forgotten.

Rest in peace.
Few have accomplished as much while overcoming so little compared to Hawkings. Hawkings is and will always be a hero.

To think when he started out black holes were just a myth. He got to witness not only their acceptance and his own vindication but actual gravitational waves as well!
On Pi Day, no less. RIP.
I'm not quite sure how to answer this. DNS is used as ground truth for an enormous amount of certificate issuance by a broad range of CAs. This has been true for many years. Let's Encrypt didn't invent domain validation or the notion of relying on DNS as a basis for issuing DV certificates.
A Brief History Of Time expanded my mind like few other books. Thank you Dr. Hawking.
I'm sure we'll find out more in due course. Right now, it's 4am and all we have is a statement from the family. I'm sure they have much better things to be doing right now.

That said, his original prognosis was that he wouldn't reach his 25th birthday, so he hasn't really done too bad.
Let's celebrate his amazing life.

"The diagnosis of motor neurone disease came when Hawking was 21, in 1963. At the time, doctors gave him a life expectancy of two years.[253][254]"

It must be quite taxing to have been given that diagnosis at such a young age, and then live to a relatively old age. I wonder how that marginally impacted his view on life, work and relationships.

Sad he didn't get the Nobel.
Yes, and given his adulthood-long health problems, it's a bit of a miracle he lived as long as he did. Amazing man.
Now he can travel anywhere he wants to in this or all other Universes, instantenously. RIP big guy!
I genuinely do not think that the risk of a state actor persistently compromising Cloudflare is higher than the risk of a state actor persistently compromising the average self-hosted LAMP site. Or, in other words, I think it is a lot more likely that your website and mine (I also self-host but just for laziness/familiarity reasons) are already compromised by state actors and have been for years without us noticing (how would we?) than that Cloudflare is already compromising without them noticing.

The cost to a state actor to mass-exploit a random 0-day on hobbyist targets, set up a persistent back door, and leave is very low. The benefit is low, too, but there's no real reason why they shouldn't do it just in case they end up needing it ever. And the risk is low because they look just like "random people."
Perhaps just as shocking to me as this news was the fact that he was 76! Given his accomplishments and youthful demeanor in his recent communications this totally caught me off guard. That, and the fact that he lived way longer that expected, given his circumstances. Objectively a triumph. In addition to his obvious, scientific exploits, hopefully the money raised in 2014 for ALS will ensure future scientists won't have to endure such hardship.

Rest in peace.
I understand your point of view however it leaves more questions than answers. For example at what point do you stop trying to stay healthy? Modern medicine and sanitation got us this far. Is it already too much?
The used to use IMU-only navigation to steer submarines and lob ballistic missiles across the world during the early Cold War.
I honestly don’t believe the way to discern the truth is by referencing a site that is written by volunteers, has no system for identifying and rating contributors, no way for the other side to express their view or refute what was said. This guy from Forbes wrote much more eloquently about what I’m trying to say whe he tried to fact check the fact checkers at Snopes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai...
Can anyone recommend a company where i can avoid bro- culture?
I posted this a few days ago, but I think it's the best intro to Kalman filters I've ever seen: https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt...
Can you point to some examples where the land value of an urban plot differs significantly from the land value of other nearby plots?
This is a problem with 'apps'. They don't have enough fund/resources to release proper full version, so they offer halfsies, just iphone app and promise android in distant future.

This is wrong way to go about your business, in my expert opinion. I just don't care, this might be the most brilliant thing ever, you just made yourself obsolete by this in my view.

If they went with PWA, which clearly their 'app' can easily be, they could develop business instead of fishing people.
What a beautiful mind. He played a big role in who I am today - I majored in Physics and later in engineering because of his book. He inspired me to understand science and use it to improve the world.
He was 76, for a man not expected to make it out of his 20's I think he did okay.

It's a sad loss for science, but he's also now freed from a body he was becoming increasingly locked in, with less and less ability to communicate over time.

His passing is perhaps more humane - I don't know though, humaneness is in the eye of the person living it.
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“I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”

-- Stephen Hawking
> So nothing prevents them from taking the packages of their fries stand, get fingerprint images from them, figure out who it is, and send you an offer for 50% off the weight loss holiday package ?

This is what gets me about most arguments around privacy maximal-ism the end result especially for a company like Disney is ridiculously circuitous and could be easily achieved with much lower costs. Why in the world would they go through all that trouble when everyone is either on camera or paying with credit card/the Disney wristband.
BTW, one of the twitter threads went into their disclosure philosophy.

https://twitter.com/gadievron/status/973655683269873664

It turns out it's exactly the "release a general idea to the public to light a fire under the vendor's ass, only release exact technical details to the people who need to know" that you might expect. They didn't dump a zero-day into public.
AFAIK, yes, for positions for which you would sponsor an H-1B, you need to have posted publicly and demonstrated an inability to find a qualified American candidate.

I don't think (but I could be wrong) that requires separate, per position postings or even publicizing the number of positioms: if you publicize for a general job description and can't get adequate American candidates the openings for that position, that can, again AFAIK, satisfy that part of the requirement.
He proved the body is just a carrier for the mind.
I read A brief history of time when I was 11. Since then every single time I have reread the book I have found something new. I waited every Monday night for his show into the universe with Stephan Hawkins. He was the reason I became more curious and skeptical about nature of things. My hats off to this amazing conscious being made from stardust.
Pouring a glass and will read some of his papers again tonight. So sad. Great inspiration. Great hero.