skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are an incredibly divided country—whether by religion, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, language, etc etc. it’s a constant issue of us vs them. Unfortunately, Trump takes complete advantage of this to divide the country daily which only exacerbates the situation. I truly think this lack of ‘community life’ is killing Americans and the cause of a lot of other issues like health problems and suicide.
I suspect this is a growth trend largely resultant from intentional self-induced social isolation. This problem is similar, in the brain, to addiction in that the inflicted are incapable of perceiving the problem while the implications are immediately clear to them.
We do this:

Master user records in an identity/SSO system. We use ADFS.

Use a protocol which provides a portable “signed”, temporary credential. We use SAML but OIDC also works.

Have a command-line client which auths to the SSO and then relays an identity proof to a trusted component (lambda, cloud function, dedicated instance, whatever your policy says is ok). The identity proof is just a saml assertion or oidc token.

Have trusted component validate the identity proof from SSO and generate time limited credentials (we issue ssh, kube and iam). Our client then auto-xfers those creds up to jumpbox but you could drop them on workstation instead if your policy allows.
It's obvious that a balance is appropriate. Meatspace engagements will provide one level of training, but kids can't be exposed to everything. My kids will never have the experience of running a farm, but I can give them a shadow of the real thing by allowing them to play farm simulator.
Reminds me of the story of Krikkit.

https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/k/krikkit
I agree that for a large organization - which has the necessary pieces in place - it makes a lot of sense to use SSO for SSH access. The SSO is mission-critical anyway, there might not even be direct SSH access except via an authenticated proxy, there's centralized audit logging and intrusion detection, ...

However, I would argue that unless this is the case, operating a SSH CA is riskier (both from a security and availability point of view).
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My assumption had been that Google built these models using high-resolution LIDAR data, which is why I called it elevation... on a little more research though it looks like I was wrong and the models are perhaps constructed based on street view images and model data for other similar objects.

Honestly, I feel like this makes the situation even more indefensible, because I get that collecting high-quality DEM is very expensive and so trying to use it comes with a lot of compromises. But if they're just substituting in models of "similar trees" like one person on Quora suggests it seems almost embarrassing for them that they're making the user experience more frustrating in order to deliver a 3D street-level experience that's still so bad as to be useless.
I am an American, and I do not fear my Roomba.
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I few months ago, I changed a developer-options configuration on my Android phone to increase the speed of the animations to the maximum. My phone felt so much more responsive, it was like I got a major processor upgrade.

IMHO, two big curses in UX today are unnecessary animations and webfonts that render ugly when font smoothing is off.
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Einstein alerted the authorities about the dangers on Aug 2nd, a month before the war had even started and long before the US had joined the fight.

But the authorities kept it secret, choosing to develop these weapons.

But, had those weapons not been developed in secret and an informed public debate occurred before development, that debate would have inevitably lead to the MAD doctrine. That is the only inevitable outcome of nuclear war.

Without the guidance that MAD provides, politicians in 1939 did what they thought was the rational choice, and chose to develop these weapons so that they weren’t left unprepared if the enemy developed their nukes. But with the knowledge that MAD is the only outcome in a post nuke world, totally different scenarios become possible. They may have chosen to take action at UN-level, anti-nuclear proliferation treaties even before they got developed? Stifling the public debate just delayed the notion of anti-nuclear proliferation treaties but it did not stop them. The only result of an informed public debate on nukes is anti-nuclear proliferation treaties.

If all that had been done in 1939 as opposed to the 50’s & 60’s, the war could have been prevented before it even began!

Regardless of the crazy whataboutery, the lesson is that the public debate resulted in the ethics being decided as: “nuclear technology leads to MAD when used to create weapons, therefore laws are needed to protect the public from misuse of nuclear technology”. This debate is needed for every new technology.

Technology moves fast, faster than ever these days. And currently, we’re used to a situation where we typically operate these debates retroactively, legislating against misuse after the fact, when new technologies are created and then misused. Whereas, as this article is highlighting, the ethical way of doing things would be: to have informed public debates that allow laws to be created to robustly protect the public before a new technology is misused.

Note that nobody is accusing “new technologies” as bad. Or evil. Or anything like that. The call is simply for creators to slow this public debate to take place openly, to decide if the new technology can be misused and its repercussions in the event of that misuse and if new laws are needed to protect the public, before the possibility of their new technology being misused is even a factor.
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Yes, there are pretty good proxy items, even if you don't have exactly the same item. If they have wings from chain X in MFP, but you're at chain Y and you know chain X has a bigger order, or bigger wings, estimate and do your best. Use what you know about other comparable items.
this map does not like michigan, at all:

https://oalley.net/map/ba2

specifically the upper peninsula. it looks like it doesn't have enough data as you go towards the rural north, which doesn't shock me at all, and extrapolates from that.
I'd rather see this label more often as my wife only watches horror, but so much of it is beyond garbage that I won't watch it, but there are some really good horror movies, so I want to have a better indication of which ones are serious movies with plot that just happen to be horror, dark, psychological, gore or whatever, but aren't just trash with no plot that's 100% predictable or has so many things that contradict themselves.

Horror is like the genre where anyone with a video camera fresh out of highschool can produce and somehow get in a bargain bin at any store. The genre has some good stuff, but it's way too flooded with garbage that it's hard to find the good stuff. Some people like the campiness of it, but I just don't have the time to waste on it. In highschool I remember we rented a horror movie because the first name on it was Ron Jeremy and we were like "heh, heh, awesome"! He was in the first 1 minute as a bum, no lines, and died, the rest of the movie was beyond horrible. Those kinds of tactics don't help the genre either.

Yeah, lots of other genres have tons of garbage too, but somehow it doesn't seem like it does to the same extent (just how I've seen things). Maybe it's because Horror has the potential to be awesome, ridiculous or cool, even if it's a shit tier movie, where as a drama just doesn't have the allure without critical acclaim, big names, or notable nudity. There are way more cult followings around horror movies than dramas or others it seems.

I can understand that nobody likes someone else coming into their "scene" and scooping out the best stuff, giving it a respectable note/name, and calling the rest of the baggage, history, and culty stuff garbage.
Hopping on this comment, I had wondered about the merits of a grid system based on parabolic coordinates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic_coordinates

which might retain the convenient local regularity of street grids while preventing the streets from "channeling" wind/noise.
This is exactly it. I grew up there as well and New York has always been a loud place, it's a fundamental part of the historic character of the city.

People have always been complaining about the noise and scaffolding from construction. The culture of the city deeply involves complaining about/yelling at everything that gets in your way.
> How does this work with cherry picks or rebases? Would it just be authorized by the key of the person doing the rebase and lose the authentication of the original commits?

Yes.

> ⋮

Sounds like your organization will need to put a lot of new stuff on top of PGP and Git, then.
It goes deeper than that-- The physical territory, the ruling government, and the Han ethnic group (including "overseas Chinese") are considered equivalent. Kind of like a giant family where blood relations are mixed up with authority, history etc.

So, Han people are a political tool to use in colonization ("Hanification" currently going on in Tibet and Xinjiang) and also an asset to be maintained through what westerners might call eugenics.

It's more deliberate than "racism," more like "American exceptionalism." It's interesting idea, but it seems scary to westerners and it feels a little bit oppressive to be an Overseas Chinese
> robotic rights or AI slavery

These are popsci topics, they're touched upon all of the time in fiction and I'd hardly say they're too academic of topics to approach in such an article.
I agree that exercise is amazing. For me personally, exercising every day builds discipline that spills into every other part of my life.
That's a pity, live bookmarks are useful for things other than blogs, for example bugzilla queries. I hope the Web Extensions API is enough to provide something similar.
I don't think your earlier comments contained much substance, but were more an attempt to deflect and defend a Wikipedia admin with whom you are perhaps acquainted. But I will link to those earlier comments below for the interested reader. We've had three articles about this story discussed on Hacker News, including this one. Here are your comments on the previous articles, and my replies:

* A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17109849

* Update: The agenda-driven edits of Philip Cross and Wikipedia's response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17169786
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What bothers me is melting a glass bottle of wine to produce a new glass bottle of wine. Just remove the label and refill the same bottle with different wine! Recycling should be the last resort.
Why Google Maps?
No, and I’m pretty sure the article fails to make its point. Even if westerners did fear robots more this is the kind of vague “because its their culture” argument you are taught not to make in Anthro 101. There are almost always more proximate causes for what we label “culture”.
> Because most people don't want to bother.

That ends up being the only thing that matters. We have separate bins here. Just look inside and you'll see most people ignore it and treat it as 3 trash cans.
Guess how early (70s) microwave cookbooks told you how to make popcorn, before Orville Redinbacher got involved. Yet my wife, same age I am and read the same cookbooks, buys pre-packaged unflavored microwave popcorn from the store. </shrug>
The fairly standard elementary school my daughter attends has little to no screen time. I'm more likely to play with 3d modelling software or Minecraft with my daughter at home - in addition to time we spend exploring tidal pools or petting farms or at ballet classes. My younger daughter is reading and writing simple words a full year before Kindergarten, thanks to engaging educational apps. This story seems long on nostalgia but short on data. The same concerns have been raised since Socrates (http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...), and yet generation after generation learns to function. It's such a time honoured cliche that even this response is a time honoured cliche.
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That’s not obvious. You are saying that “shadows of the real thing” have more value than other ways they could spend that energy, which seems unlikely.

If you want to let your kids play video games, fine, but the hand waving to support your personal intuition is blatant here.
I just got a road bike and it's a hassle riding outside with so many cars living downtown. Thanks for your advice about zwift.
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Agreed. I used to live near a busy intersection in Brooklyn. Most of the noise was from cars. But not their engines: their horns.

There was a busy bus stop across the way, and drivers loved to lay on the horn when a bus would stop for passengers. Because, of course, traffic isn't moving, better start honking! This is something that basic etiquette would fix.
Well, now I read the paper and, while I do find it interesting but don't follow the formulas, I wonder what you are trying to show me.

Removing the Beamsplitter (BSA) would only remove the ability to correlate the measurements, so how do you know that there are actually no instances of Gaussian distribution happening already at the origin, which would cause the fork at the splitter (instead of information traveling back in time, for example)?

> observation, experiment and theory

we agree on the observation and theory parts. The predictive power of the theory for experiments is duly noted, but here the object under scrutiny is way bigger than a single atom. Whereas the science around the materials used, crystallography to begin with, is way above my grade.

The language in the paper caused me a bit of trouble: "It is easy to see ...", "at the same time", "a quantum".
It's a vicious circle. This lack of community life also makes us more divided. That in turn helps destroy community life...
The science is just immature and not actionable for most people. Any anecdotal evidence and it's inverse can be backed by some study all of equal quality/lack of quality. The science just hasn't transcended the quality of anecdotes yet.

At least anecdotes represent something vaguely real.
None of those actions were the result of an informed public debate.

In fact, they’re all actions that show that an informed public debate regarding new technologies is needed to protect the public from not only unscrupulous businesses or external threats but to protect the public from their own authorities.

Without public debate and a public that demands robust protection in the fit of laws, misused technologies represent a threat to everyone until that debate is had.
Left 4 Dead 2 is the greatest game is the history of games, so I understand wanting to spend some time exploring it's many riches. What I find useful is to set a timer. When the timer goes off, after, say, 15 mins, it's time to stop. It also helps to have enough sleep. My overall concentration and willpower are far greater when I've had enough sleep, and that leads to less unproductive games playing, or Internet browsing, or whatever. Finally, todo lists and well defined goals for the day put pressure on to Get Shit Done. Especially helpful if you can make yourself accountable to someone else.
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I agree in general, but think you might have it backwards in this particular case. Simple is better, but if the only way to ensure it gets through is to make it more complicated, then let's add the modifications.
I think some OpenPGP smartcards like the GnuK might support it, but no PIV mode cards AFAIK. And I don't know if the components higher up the stack (gpg-agent, ssh-agent, PKCS#11 drivers, etc) can make use of those keys. Each new key type requires protocol support up and down the stack.
I think if anything, this supports Mozilla's message: "... where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered..."

Well, individuals shaped their experience by not using RSS.
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Developers come in all shapes and sizes. Some barely use Slack and are laconic on standups.

The whole Agile (tm) is a surface treatment for having a grasp on complexity. It's more of a ritual thing than an exact science.

The introvert developers are sometimes so introvert and protective that they deliver at the last possible moment stuff that doesn't follow any conventions set by the team and in some cases makes stuff explode after merging.

I would rather have them forced to give me an update and subsequently a pretext to get a peek at their work under the guise of helping than have them fail the whole team. Eventually they shed their impostor syndrome, or at least I hope they do.

Personally, I've been on both sides of this pattern and I would rather still have standups.

As for supervision, I've seen teams selling bullshit with glitter on standups if there were transitional people or stakeholders. Then it's nothing more than the usual status update dance.
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Obviously I am talking about the risk inherent to the fund separate from the risk of what it's tracking, which is arbitrary. The inherent risk of the fund is absolutely supposed to be low.

Thanks for the link, but I think even with 102% collateral marked to market daily, short sellers could still default and cause the fund to lose gains. It would be a black swan event, but the losses would be much larger than the 3 basis points they claim to gain from lending. Missing a small number of up days in the market has a huge negative effect on returns.
Finland is like this— they allow kids to come to school and sort of pick their interests and follow those interests to develop skills by actually working on that craft/trade/subject in great detail. I think people would pursue knowledge if it was more customizable to allow kids to follow their passion.
I don't think the 'terminal' model of UI gets enough attention. I don't know why that is, perhaps it is a feeling that it is the "old" way to do things and so not a source of good ideas.

Xerox's XDE had a very nice terminal. It could use proportional fonts and you still had precisely formatted text for code. It was not as fast as a VT100 or an xterm which relied on monospaced fonts. But that was the root of the issue.

Terminals conflate "formatting" and "content" in the worst way possible, there is content that "is" formatting (whitespace). This closely mimicked how typewriters did it but they did it that way not because it was "best" but because it was "possible" given the mechanics of building lines of type without a bunch of lead letters.

It is insidious how that in band content/formatting mixing of ASCII and then later ISO-Latin-x drove compromises in editor and text manipulation tool design. But here we are.

I wrote a pretty printer for come code once that pulled apart the format from the content and it would print out source code with a nice proportional font (I think a2ps(1) could do this too at some point) and I admit that the code "looks wrong" in that form but I also have to admit that it only looks wrong because I'm not used to seeing it in that form. It is harder to read when things like parenthesis fade into the text because they are so much thinner, but this is again the design vs eyeball sorts of trade-off.

When I read this bit what I heard was "Gee, it would be really awesome if some designer could capture the flow of terminals with a modern set of capabilities." But that XDE terminal? Dave Curbow, who was with Xerox Business Systems, once tracked down how many function calls had to be made before the glyph ever hit the screen and it was a lot. It made it hard to run efficiently on the hardware of the time (great when you can code new microcode, less useful on CPUs without that capability).
Wow that sounds like a nightmare. My standups have almost always been limited to just one team, usually 5-8 people.
The sort of information we care about is mutual information, which cannot be generated by randomness or algorithms, per the law of information nongrowth. Which raises the question, where does this mutual information come from?
Thanks a lot. I was afraid that I was going to be stuck on the canvas mode. Sometimes, my curiosity gets the best of me :(
Would it be too much just to install little hand washing sinks in front buildings? I don’t need the germs to die. They can live in the sewer all day long. I just want them off my hands.
Lenders only make money on a short squeeze if the shorts can cover. If they default, the lender loses shares. And if the lender is an index fund that is required to maintain a certain balance of shares then they will have to replace those lost shares, becoming a victim of the short squeeze themselves.
I think some cars in NYC have a breaking system is attached to their horn. They're unable to stop or slow down without the horn also going off.
We charge "congestion tax" on human beings in the form of rent. Are you opposed to that? I'd rather some of the space used on hulking metal boxes be used for humans instead.

Also the streets would get plenty of use. By people. Like we used streets for thousands of years before people in autos showed up and almost literally said "stop walking in MY street or I will kill you" and we decided it was OK, for some reason.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/05/footage-of-city-life-i...
The idea that how we organize ourselves socially online might lead to echo chambers and deepening division was around long before the phrase "social media" had ever been used.

That this phenomenon came about through the heretofore unprecedented (sarcasm) exploitation of human credulity and vanity, that dopamine spikes are the very mechanism of addiction, and that we react more strongly to things that trip our amygdalae than our cortices, should surprise precisely no-one — least of all the people who were building tools predicated upon those things.

None of this stuff is new. None of this stuff is news. You don't get to play ignorant of the implications of the things you're building. Not while you're selling your time on the basis of how smart you are, anyway.
Everytime I go to Tokyo I'm shocked by how few cars there are. Even in popular, inner-city neighborhoods the streets are largely quiet. Growing up in a major US city I didn't even realize a city could be that quiet.