skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have discussed this with a bunch of people (and there is a discussion on Twitter right now [0]), and it seems quite unclear whether it would be illegal.

It would certainly be unethical, and if it is illegal it may mean many other shady black hat SEO practices are also illegal. I really have no idea though - would be interesting if there is a lawyer reading to hear any thoughts.

[0] https://twitter.com/thetafferboy/status/981883506350608385
I'd say people are actually pretty good drivers. I'm more interested in autonomous for the time savings than I am for the potential safety improvements.
Wow! I would think the logjam of people stuffing their cars with possessions and getting the hell out of there would have been a clue that something, possibly, was happening that might warrant some further investigation.

There's apparently a fine line between "not ardently following the news" and "not paying attention at all."
History is not hard to write, it is just hard for many to read it correctly.
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IMO the toothpaste is already out of the tube on this one. We already live in a world where strong encryption exists, and is accessible to the common developer. The DOJ does not get to live in the world that it wants to. I understand this will make their lives more difficult, however I do not care. Currently they are in the "anger and bargaining" stage of grief, I hope they realize that "going dark" isn't really that bad.
You must be talking about a public toilet? I think most "normal" or home toilet routines go out the window when using a public restroom.
So aside from the fact that I can not afford these cars I would also give these at least 10 years to mature and get further than (what really does seem) at least the beta.

Right at the start I was very much wondering how these even allowed this feature on the road. Just from a regulatory point of view. It very much sounded and looked like a complete auto-pilot.

That said, people go through a drivers test, get their license and then are allowed to drive any vehicle really. Can you just solve this by giving the driver assistant a test and seeing if it passes? This needs some kind of filter or regulator to make sure it is safe.
> in the absence of constant high-quality moderation, all discourse eventually becomes toxic

Sounds like life in general. I think People restrain themselves more than we realize. Especially when there are consequences for actioning out. Remove those and things go south quick.

The last 100 years of humanity has had some moments that make the internet look pretty caring.

I mean, we're talking hundreds of millions of killings, plus untold numbers of rape and kidnappings across every convenient.
> most of finance has accepted that cryto currencies are the future

[citation needed]
No, its toxic by design.

All the big social networks exist to serve advertisers. They sell users attention to marketers. This means that their profit is directly dependent on how much attention they can harvest. So the systems that emerge (consciously or not) propagate attention grabbing content. This means that trolling and toxicity which exist to get a reaction get systematically supported. It also means that the novel and affirming fake news get magnified. It also means that the lowest common denominator cruelty does best (hey Logan Paul and your 'prankster' cadre).

None of this changes if you want tech and services paid for by your attention and mind-share. If users actually become customers then the question becomes what might they spend money on, not just what can we get them to pay attention to. And that can lead to much more sophisticated behavior. Behavior that actually reflects our conscious choices as opposed to subconscious impulses.

Check out oalrus.com for my proposal to implement something like that.
Interesting. In my reading of the Dao De Jing and other Taoist texts I've only seen the affirmative side "the unity of being" which has sometimes been dismissed as "monism", but not necessarily the negative side: "nothing else truly 'is'". These might sound like logically equivalent statements but there is a subtle rhetorical and practical difference.

Monism: https://meaningness.com/monism
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I think your point is under represented in the digital privacy conversation. It doesnt do me a lot of good to stay off of Facebook if Facebook is still mapping me and scraping my contact info from other peoples phones.
Because another person is doing something bad does not allow you to absolve yourself of social responsibility.
The vast amount of non-relevant news makes it hard to wade through it. I agree that any relevant news will make to you via other means (visual, word of mouth, etc.).

There is a reason that news is like this. Adam Curtis and Oh Dearism is a good watch.
> Humans self organize into hierarchical system

I never asked for this system, let alone actively tried to organise it
A stupid game for learning about containers, capabilities, and syscalls
Cloud credits are easy to get. But you are giving away cash - what's the catch?
WhatsApp extends its voice messaging capabilities
On the other hand I have never found that big of an issue with said "toxicity". Getting backstabbed in guild environments in MMOs, hurling insults at each other in counterstrike or on IRC, flamewars over irrelevant technical points or many flavors of personal attacks on 4chan have always just been background noise to me.

Experiences may differ, but having grown up in the wild west of the internet this is normal to me and therefore I just don't get how it could stress someone out all that much or why people would voluntarily expose themselves like that.

Of course over the years I have also learned to wear many hats and not stick my real life identity to everything. Data hygiene is important for your sanity.

In that case of twitter I have 3 different accounts. One just for following artists where I harvest their images. One for occasionally having a conversation about tech things and one for video games. None of them are directly associated with my real identity, although with some sleuthing you could notice to which github account my tech one corresponds.
Of course! I'm definitely proud of the heritage I share with my fellow Tunisians of Jewish faith.
If I worked for Google and found out I was working for the Pentagon, my line would be crossed and I would resign.
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Yeah, to me the miraculous existence of anything at all, the ability to enjoy pure wonder, and a fully "unitive" experience once in a while...is more than enough for me. That God certainly lives up to its name.
I default to using RE2[1] in most cases. If I really need backtracking, I would probably just use PCRE through the C++ wrapper[2], but that hasn't been a common need in my experience.

[1] https://github.com/google/re2/

[2] https://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrecpp.html
>I think most of finance has accepted that cryto currencies are the future, it just won't be bitcoin or Etherium but rather a currency for each country/region just like fiat currencies we currently have.

We don't know what the future will bring. But each country with its own cryptocurrency doesn't look like an equilibrium to me. I don't think that advance economies will ever fully outlaw bitcoin, so if it, in fact, becomes a store of value, developing economies will eventually adopt it, even if it's behind their government's back.
Reminded me of this aircraft accident where the time delay of radar satellite datalink weather information was critical. The time delay there is minutes not hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83uvKWJS2os
Wow, this is a great find with enormous potential impact. Kudos!

The payout from Google seems very low, this bug took their core business model on a ride.

Cool find!
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So are you rushing out to be a Musk guinea pig or already are?
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After you're 90% done, you only have the other 90% to finish. Easy, peasy.
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Ask HN: Good Alternative Email Service?
Does anyone know any other good and FREE email services besides TutaNota and ProtonMail but similar? Please no huge companies like Gmail/Yahoo/Zoho etc. Thank You!
Sister had twins - I totally get it. Their house was crazy for the first couple years. You do what works ;)
Comp.risks has a lot of raw source material, and its moderator, Peter G. Neumann, has published a few books.

Ex-Goggler Yonatan Zunger has had some really good recent essays at, variously, Medium, Twitter, the Boston Globe, and Google+ (for which he was chief architect, and despite its general lack of widespread success, I consider his contributions and lessons-learned experience quite positively).

And he's a fan of Perrow.

Bruce Schneier's work is somewhat more focussed on crypto and security, but covers much this ground, especially later works.

Shoshana Zuboff also addresses social impacts of computers and data systems in her work.
how is this relevant to hacker news?
Be sure to check out webdis ( https://github.com/nicolasff/webdis ) for a similar service you can run on your servers. It's all in C so it's superlighweight.
> but it's 3am.

Where do I sign? When I get really stuck on a bug it's sometimes taken weeks to solve in a never ending game of software dominoes. In very rare cases it ended up being a bug that you could only solve with a soldering iron and some creative rewiring of interrupts.

Bugs can be crazily obscured. To the point where you wish you hadn't started but the sunk cost of time invested is such that there is no way back either. This is one of the reasons I was so happy to switch to Unix (and later Linux), the fact that in most cases the program crashes with a core file and access to post mortem debugging (and in many cases a nice stacktrace of how you got there) made short work of most of the bugs. Of course that means you now only have the hardest categories to deal with.
AH! I immediately googled "My God is never so small as to hide in the cracks of reality" because it sounds so much like something Bonhoeffer would say. Well done.
Also, excellent point, I might disagree with your disbelieving in a supernatural God, especially in terms of design and origin, but yes, physics is an incredible canvas. "For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." Romans 1:20
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It's pretty fascinating. I can't think of anything similar...
Apologies. Definitely an estimated start.
Possibly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16499149
> A product that kinda drives your car but sometimes fails, and requires you to pay attention

So, cruise control? If people got confused and thought that cruise control was more than it really was in the 80s, or whenever it came out, what would we have done?
Blockchain startups these days
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There's the idea that everything is defined in relation to something else, except the Dao, which is itself. As a corollary, anything you can name, i.e. define, isn't the Dao. In the ddj it's not said explicitly like this but it's something that can be pieced together from various chapters.
I think for people who want to be able to have a bit of lisp into their daily lives, Clojure is where the majority of the current industry-focused mindshare is going. At least as far as new development of language features is concerned.

For people who are less industry focused, and more interested in the evolution of lisp from a CS perspective, Racket has gobbled up that mindshare.

Common Lisp, in spite of its strengths, multiple standard implementations, and historical pedigree, seems at risk of fading more if there isn't some new lifeblood injected. The problem if I understand it, is that the Common Lisp spec is so gigantic, and was itself the product of a tenuous truce between many warring tribes of lisps long forgotten. I wonder how possible a new spec even is?
"Only check out the first screen of any news web site. No scrolling down, and no clicking links."

I like that rule. One quick check of the news home page should be enough to tell you if there is anything truly important going on that requires your immediate attention.
True, but if you read the report even under non-insane circumstances the design of the ventilation system would have put the ship at risk in any gale or full gale situation. The main issue was the intakes were on the tween deck instead of the main deck and were outboard. Thus if the ship listed at all to the point where the tween deck was even partially submerged it risked serious flooding. This seems counter to the design of the ship where the tween deck was supposed to be open to the sea, but not awash certainly, but still in theory all fittings an openings on that deck should be able to be watertight. Indeed if you look at the report, the rest of the deck was.
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The goal would be 4 CentOS servers (probably VMs in AWS/Azure)
Server 1 - Nginx load balancer
Server 2,3 - ServiceStack (default setup; minimal plugins) with C# on .Net Core
Server 4 - centralized file/data storage. Postgres for SQL, Redis for Cache (possible Message Queue as well)
but would start with 2 servers (one for .Net Core/Service Stack and one for Postgres)

This setup keeps the OSes standard across layers with the possibility to move pieces to Saas (eg. Redis -> Azure Cache/RedisLabs, ServiceStack -> anything supporting .Net Web Apps) if there is a cost/support benefit. IMO these tools have simple installs with common/sane defaults but are well documented for when business features become more complicated.

ServiceStack is mostly C# code with minimal coupling to the framework. It also offers many Plugins/Features for common web scenarios (auth, validation, etc). Basically ServiceStack is great at handling 'Http Request In' and 'Http Response Out'. Everything in-between should be straight C#/.Net.

Redis makes a great cache but can do messaging and pub/sub. ServiceStack offers libraries for Redis but others are available. It doesn't try to do too much so if a more feature rich Cache or Queue is required it will likely support the Redis use cases (and more).

Postgres is a great db engine but can also be a great document store. ServiceStack offers Ormlite support for db, there is raw SQL support via Npgsql or Marten for the full 'kitchen sink' use of Postgres...and I guess even Entity Framework.

I would start with HTML (ServiceStack/C# DTO -> Razor Format Plugin -> HTML) with Bootstrap and jQuery and add in API Support (ie. JSON) with Vuejs frontend if
single page application interactivity made more sense.

When starting an assumed 'vital long-term' project I want my tools to have simple/clear boundaries so I can add/remove when necessary (well, more likely forced to) without losing my investment or doing any heavy 'dependency lifting'.
I suppose the ambiguity keeps the politicians mindful.

At the very least, the American Revolution serves as a precedent: Armed retaliation is justified when the government is a far-off, alienating power imposing taxation without representation.

Well, Washington D.C. is hundreds or thousands of miles away from where most people live; Congress has sustained extremely low approval ratings, indicating a disconnect with its constituents; like a king, the President can increasingly write law unilaterally through executive orders; the interpretations of the Justices are progressively detached from logic, leaving many perplexed as to what "rule of law" even means; and, the Federal Reserve extracts purchasing power from every holder of dollars by "printing" more dollars, essentially taxing people without really consulting them or even engaging in public debate on the matter.

So.... hmmm....
There really isn't anything nefarious in trying to find a good case to set precedent. That's actually the EFF's (and ACLU, etc.) business model

It's not a 'business model' and there is a fundamental difference between advocates cherry picking their cases and approach and the state and its law enforcement apparatus doing so. The latter demands a great deal more scrutiny.

Safekeeping of master decryption keys also seems to be a solved problem. Certificate Authorities, as just one example, seem to do so mostly without any hitches.

Those secrets are not nearly as valuable or potentially damaging and there are lots of mechanisms in place to externally mitigate and detect their potential loss and abuse.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Those passages in the Bible are some of the most relevant to the OP.
Yes, I'd say that free speech—like many things—gets harder with scale.

When a small number of trolls can derail a conversation, you get denial-of-service attacks against civil discourse and democracy.

> having everyone listen to the loud smelly drunk who sat down at your table to tell jokes about negroes

For example, the article talks about a mismatch between moderation tools and trolling:

> Internally, Costolo complained that the “abuse economics” were “backward.” It took just seconds to create an account to harass someone, but reporting that abuse required filling out a time-consuming form.
The tech sector is actually mentioned in the article.. big corp (Apple) transcending size of nation states in wealth:

> Today’s great engines of wealth creation are distributed in such a way as to elude national taxation systems (94% of Apple’s cash reserves are held offshore; this $250bn is greater than the combined foreign reserves of the British government and the Bank of England), which is diminishing all nation states, materially and symbolically.

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Its also big tech that has the highest growth potential in the future, making the problem worse.

And the way our current social platforms can be used to sow disinformation, plant fake news, and misguide huge amounts of people doesn't help either.
What I really need is a tool to generate blog-post code snippets from actual code ;) Thanks, fixed!
I don't agree. This was about censorship, an issue absolutely vital to the core Twitter experience. Choosing how/what to censor is absolutely not mundane.
>Heck with the entire world being able to audit and review the source code

That's irrelevant when we are talking about a company being paid specifically to audit something. The entire world is able to send me food as well, but I don't get mad when it doesn't except for when I pay someone to do it.

>I simply asked a commentor to show the work they've done

And it was a dumb question. An auditing company that failed to detect massive fraud either willfully ignored it to sellout or was too incompetent to recognize it.
>> Let’s imagine that auto-driving tech saves 2001 gross lives per year and kills 1001 people who wouldn’t have died in an all human driving world, for a net of 1000 lives saved.

You're saying that auto-driving would save the lives of 1000 people who would have died without it, by causing the death of another 1001 that wouldn't have died if it wasn't for auto-driving?

So you're basically exchanging the lives of the 1001 and the 1000? That looks a lot less of a no-brainer than your comment makes it sound.

Not to mention, the 1001 people who wouldn't have died if it wasn't for auto-driving would most probably prefer to not have to die. How is it that their opinion doesn't matter?
I actually rarely use a debugger. I used to but the speed with which current processors zip through code makes interactive debugging a lot less useful than it used to be, in very rare cases it is useful, but in the majority of the work I still do in the software world I've found that proper testing is what addresses the vast majority of the cases that would have hit the debugger in the past, and much faster too.

Debuggers are still useful but I don't actually recall the last time when I hit a bug that required interactive debugging.
I see many people here who have said it, and I will say it; I haven't watched any mainstream news(Fox, CNN, ABC, etc) in years. All it is, is negativity and deception. For the most part, I don't care about what is going on. I get my fill of major events from browsing reddit and HN, and even then I just read the comments, rarely the article. I've never used FB as a source of information, that sounds about as bad of a source as you can get.

Back when I used to watch the news, it was always the same. Something like

>> Weather
>> Death
>> Death
>> Shooting
>> Crime reports
>> Crime reports
>> Sports
>> Empty feel good story(Guy saves kitten, guy donates to charity, etc)
>> Ending

They focus so much on negativity and toxic behaviors, it's depressing. I don't want to wake up in the mornings and first thing I see is how many people died the previous day from local crimes. Even worse are the minor crimes where people who might not even be guilty get their picture blown up on screen and automatically deemed criminals prior to being convicted. "Man who might have stolen a car is charged, no evidence has yet been presented. So here is his picture, links to his social media accounts, his address, his entire life story. If you ever see him in the future, consider him a criminal"

It's so hard to get unbiased information anymore. Every major news outlet leans towards one side or the other. The stations that do try an report unbiased get their funding cut and put in financial ruin.
Possibly not for you, but I noticed a long roll-out of switching from stripe to chip. Then, a lot of card readers in major retail stores not "allowing" chip transactions and having to switch. Still even now, most fast-food places disallow chip transactions.

Most recently, I have a repeatable bug in Walgreens where my newly issued credit card (old expired) will not run chip transactions. Their system requires me to attempt a chip transaction first (of which I must do three times) before it will allow me to finally swipe (and work). If I attempt to swipe at first it will require a chip transaction (and on, and on, and on...)

However I can't completely blame Walgreens on it; they're the only one that's reproducable 100% of the time (3-5x now since card was issued). I've also had to re-do transactions with that card at Target but that's hit-and-miss.
I actually already use the include_bytes! macro within the build.rs. Looking at the source I see that I create arrays of arrays of bytes, not just arrays of bytes as opposed to what I originally said. It was a few months since I wrote that code so I hope I would be forgiven for not remembering such details ;)

My eventual plan that I remember now was to make it so that I could reference static files (CSS, JS, icons and images, fonts) in my static HTML files and HTML templates, and build.rs would automatically include the bytes of those files.
That sounds like an instance of the Thundering Herd problem.
Also, it's my belief that the "miles driven" statistic they always point at (wrt safety) should be reset with each software release.
GitHub has high-quality moderation in the form of repo owners who have a vested interest in punishing bad actors.
Well, actually it's near infrared so at this "high" power (3mw) you will definitely see it. You can actually see past 800nm if the source is bright, but I don't recommend it.

The wavelength range where optical radiation is visible does not have sharp borders. Here, the wavelength band of 380 nm to 780 nm is used.

https://www.icnirp.org/en/frequencies/visible/index.html
I think it's reasonable to make at least some attempt before asking…

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