skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty close t what I have in mind. Threats may be exogenous (extinction-level asteroid strike, gamma-ray burst, ...), or endogenous (anthropogenic climate change, nuclear winter, ...). With time and scale, the latter seems to become more likely.

Many of these endogenous effects are essentially unforseen consequences, though there might be other descriptions which fit (denial / willful blindness among them). Almost all operate as hygiene dynamics, that is, the failure to sustain or support vigorous, healthful function, not merely of individuals, but at a social or societal level.

The etymology, and specific recognition by the Greeks of hygieine techne, "the healthful art", being notable:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/hygiene#etymonline_v_16114

Eventually, all creatures foul their own nests. Even with mitigations, this is inevitable. Some waste product or effect will prove limiting.

The effects also virtually always prove to be unintended consequences. See Robert K. Morton.

Excess cleanliness or vigilance seems to have several negative dynamics. Quashing internal ambition or creativity, as happenned historically with China, is one. Removing selective pressure, possibly another. Giving rise to pathologically reactive social security apparratus, as with police violence, ICE overreach, and excess NSA/CIA/FBI (or NON-US equivalents), akin to autoimmine disorders, another.

Competitive pressures are probably another dynamic, worth consideration. Thanks for mentioning them.
The goals are laudable, and sometimes a backwards-looking implementation can get traction faster than a forward-looking one. But the reliance on Pods and URL location-based identifiers roots it firmly in the past.

I think the future is the robust content addressable distributed web. Which could give developers the same flexibility, and users the same friendly experience, but with everything virtualized in a peer to peer mesh. I’d like to see the developer smoothness of Solid married to future-proof content identifiers like this: https://github.com/ipld/cid/blob/master/README.md
ActivityPub suffers from this problem as well but has become widely used.
Very cool. Is it possible for me to run my own Opera Mini server?
I'm baffled, that's a list of thousands keywords that you won't ever be able to learn nor revisit to find what's new, and it makes you think it makes ddg superior to another product? What if it were 100 times longer, would it make it even more compelling?

Looking at the list makes me think that parsing of simple sentences is the way to go (like "translate xyz from swedish to russian") or the site:someurl filter from Google, not having a keyword per site or per language
This may have been a lot easier using Jupyter widgets. Or Bokeh. Or Kivy.

In the future I hope we will get some kind of usable Python runtime for Webassembly, implementing or interfacing to something like React or vuejs.

But currently that kind of runtime would be a rather big download...
I was logged out twice, once in the morning and again in the evening - I came back to this discussion to see if there was some explanation.

(No, it's not that it was just two devices - I had to log in four times just on my phone. Once for Messenger, once for FB itself; during each occurrence.)
a security team working full time on developing the system

They've missed a few things. This is a memorable one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15800676
Org-mode and Pandoc as a static site generator
Shock Waves from World War II Bombs Felt at Edge of Space
That’s fair. klib (I assume) was not easy to develop, but it easy to use.
I assume that the barcode is encrypted using a private key, and decrypted by Amazon or the app using a public key.
"let me just duck that for you"

I'm in!
> Should I switch if I do nothing wrong? I stopped downloading illegal videos and my porn is tame.

Do you still close the bathroom door, even if you are not doing anything wrong in there?

That's privacy.
There is a difference in kind between fractional-reserve banking and propping up an entire system of banks with a central bank deemed the lender of last resort and that has the special privilege of issuing newly created fiat money and credit.

I’m no Objectivist, so what do you mean by “the weird idea that laissez-fairy lifts all up”?
There is competition between small sellers until Amazon decides to compete with them, and that's it...remember Amazon refusing to sell Chromecast? Or using dumping against competitors? Not to mention that all the sellers have to pay Amazon a fee so there is no competition with Amazon.
My biggest grievance with BCC has been, as noted in the article, that it requires LLVM to be linked in. Also, it requires a Python interpreter on the target machine. I've also wondered why eBPF can't be pre-compiled.

Installing those dependencies on a regular PC is easy, but not so on an embedded system. I tried cross-compiling the dependencies once, but got stuck at some point. It would've been hard to justify the time spent if I'd continued, so I dropped it. I'm really happy that someone has invested time into this issue.
Part of what Glass-Steagall prevented was banks from dealing/investing/underwriting in non-governmental securities or affiliating with those who do[1]. Seems to me that this would have gone a long way to preventing a lot of the insane repackaging of the toxic garbage alongside the more reasonable debt. Am I incorrect in believing that the securitization of mortgage debt and related instruments like default swaps and other derivatives could not have occurred with that firewall in place? Granted, there were still the problems that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac created (not from their initial purpose, but rather what they morphed into) but it seems the problem would have remained much more contained, more obvious earlier, and with less leverage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_legislation
CreativeLive cutting many jobs including engineering
Yes, you'll be able to use etags with if-match for optimistic concurrency. When reading and writing from a Worker, if you do a get() followed by a put() on the same key in the context of the same request, we'll take care of the if-match automatically under the hood, so the put() fails if there was a concurrent write.

(This logic is not quite in production yet but should be within a week or two.)
Thanks! I'm also on an XPS 13, and also an ex-Mac user who misses the trackpad stuff, so I know how you feel. Not only knowing commands but especially playing with dbus is unfortunately something for very advanced users only, so my idea was to build some sort of "DB" for common dbus commands that act on DEs, say, to open Budgie Desktop's notifications menu, plus an assisted GUI configuration that generates commands for keyboard shortcuts (xdotool or something), workspace actions (move, add...) and an "Open app" selection dialog. That's gonna take a long while though :(
I appreciate your skepticism and would generally agree. However, in this case I believe the article is making a valid point. (Based on experiences of many friends across various universities, and my own experience.)

Of course in some corporations bullying will be worse, but in many it will be nowhere near as bad. This is because there is much less money in academia generally that people have to compete for, and many desperately seek vain prestige (far more so than in industry.)
"As broadband became more common, web sites got needlessly heavier."

100% this. About 8 years ago, I had LIGHTNING fast loading times on every page I visited. 800-1000ms was average, on a connection that is slower than mine is today... Now 4-8 seconds is average, and the new Gmail takes 10-12 seconds to load.

I'm nostalgic for the days when the web was faster and more functional than it is today.
Terrible seem apt. As proposals go, this seems to border on the insanely naive.

It’s impossible to find in the impenetrable marketing speak, but presumably the backend here is some off the shelf LDP? Existing LDPs tend towards being profoundly unscalable; typically the number of clients they can handle without choking per second is in the low single digits. All of the implementations I’ve seen are more concerned with adherence to an ill-conceived shitpile of “standardize-first, use-case later” W3C standards than ever tackling the core performance and protocol problems.

And I cannot imagine a worse choice for presenting Linked Data to the modern web than RDF. It’s ugly, dog-slow to parse, and is INCAPABLE of representing a simple ordered list without significantly painful work-arounds that practically by their nature force N+1 queries on to clients. JSON-LD solves a lot of this and has existed for years.

And then we’ve got yet another attempt to pretend the W3C’s WebACL spec is anything other than a lunatic’s fever-dream of a UI and UX nightmare. We’ll apparently just expose it to end users to let them manage their data. That’ll end well.

The Semantic Web Community’s biggest problem is that they think continually recreating “existing thing but with as many of these awful W3C standards as they can shoehorn in” is some kind of Good in and of itself, no matter how bad the resulting user experience would be.
Or you know, you could just download the DOD profiles from their website.
It'd be awesome!
>At this point it's pretty much impossible to read such articles and figure out whether there is an actual institutional problem.

I don't think that the question of whether there is an institutional problem necessitates large numbers of incidence. For example, you could say that 99.99% of people don't get murdered, so if the police don't investigate murders, it's no big deal, after all it's just 0.01% of the population.

I think the main question is: can the system adequately deal with incidences if they do happen. This is where I think the academic system is failing. Unlike the corporate world, PHD students are intrinsically tied to their supervisors. In an abusive corporate relationship, workers have the option to quit. However, that is often a much much harder option in academia. "Quitting" often means taking a serious hit to your reputation, and if you manage to find a new supervisor, it's likely that it will be hard to publish in the same field as your old supervisor. If you can't find a new supervisor, and have to fail out of the program, it's unlikely that you'll get the chance to work in that field again. For programs like Clinical Psychology, if you do not achieve a PHD, then the previous ~6 years of schooling will not count for anything.

As someone who works in academia, but outside of the Grad School track, the power disparity between PHD's and their supervisors has always surprised me. In undergrad, I worked under a professor whose grad students took an absurdly long time to graduate. By absurdly long, for a Masters and PHD one student took 12+ years, and another took 10+ years. At first I thought it was personal issues that caused the delay. However, after working with him for a while, I could see how that would happen. Projects were started without any foresight. He knew close to nothing about any of the methods his students were using, so couldn't understand any of the requirements. Progress on any project would be sluggish, and if you didn't find results, excuses were made so you'd have to run analyses again with different parameters. It was fine for me, because it was just a part time job, and I got paid decently. If I were a grad student, however, this would have been a complete nightmare.

There should be some sort of oversight over researchers and academics. Although we like to think scientists are stoic and noble in their search for knowledge, many are petty, vindictive and sometimes just clueless. Good grant writers/paper publishers don't necessarily make good managers.
The US military or national guard would be deployed as necessary if the cartels began firing on the contractors and government workers building a theoretical wall. Cartels are certainly threatening in their environment, they're entirely worthless in actual military style engagements. In terms of gear, logistics, training and soldiers, they're less capable than the most mediocre of nation armies. It's not what they're good at. They fare extremely poorly against the Mexican military.

It'd be just about the dumbest thing a cartel ever did, to engage the US Government in such a moronic 'war.' They'd quickly abandon that idea. It's the reason they don't target prominent people in the US Government as it is now: the US can kill their leadership top to bottom, with just a bit of effort and resources pointed that direction. They know that, so they stay within certain bounds of behavior accordingly.
After reading what little documentation is available and installing a single-user solid server myself, I wonder if this is how people felt when the World Wide Web was first invented. I find myself asking: Okay, now what? Except I think even the World Wide Web, when it was first invented, at least had a demo that worked.

Solid doesn't even seem to work. Following instructions for "learn[ing] how to install and run your own Solid server," I successfully installed a single-user solid server. Great, now I have a single-user setup that is supposed to give me control over my data. So how do I authenticate as the single user? No clue. This thing is so secure, not even I can get my data!

I would have expected something more useful from the inventor of a technology that so many people can use today without having to think much about it.

EDIT: I deleted and started over. I still don't know what happened, but now at least I can create an account and login. Still not quite sure what I can do, now.
As a customer/user, there are already entire classes of products I won't even consider buying on Amazon. This includes Batteries, Cables, most common electronic goods.

As a business user, I won't consider signing up for their business account, for which they keep pestering me with popups.

As a vendor, I've held off on putting products on Amazon for exactly this reason of getting hosed by the counterfeiters and knowing that Amazon will not only not have my back as a vendor that is helping them profit, but will actively fight against me on any attempt to force Amazon to responsibly police their warehouses.

I may still take the risk in order to access Amazon's huge customer base, but I'll certainly be costly taking costly countermeasures from the start, and factoring those into the decision of how profitable it might be to sell on Amazon vs or in addition to directly.

They really have a significant problem, and are sadly, becoming another big tech firm that is creating increasing levels of problems in our society and economic environment.

The question is when those problems will exceed the benefit they bring to society.

IMO, FB is well past the bad/good breakeven point, GOOG & AMZN are still on the good side, but trending badly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18066101
I'd class Google and Amazon as being analogous to an industry like coal, oil, or railroads back in the robber baron days. They bring horrible externalities and dodgy/corrupt influences on our politics, but we also need them to keep the modern world running and build the future. The problems with them are larger problems with how we manage our economy and our industrial and labor policies.

Facebook is more like Big Tobacco. They're purely malignant, continuing solely through adversarial relationships with their users meant to foster addiction or control the revenue streams of key industries like media and news. They're pirates. What benefits they provide, they have only ever made worse than other services and tools that predated them.

>but I'm also hoping that it breaks apart and we find a better way then invading peoples privacy to monetize platforms

Amen to that. Treating attention as a form of currency has been utterly corrosive to society.
Could you elaborate a little bit? How do you master breathing and how has it helped you?
> Due to the power imbalance, as a to-be-PhD student you are strongly advised to experience several labs before making a decision where to go.

This isn’t tractable in the UK, where students go straight from the final exams of their undergraduate degree, right into the thesis stage of a PhD.
Riding a bike and driving a car. While I didn't really chose to do these (my parents chose for me) they both provide immense use from getting to work, fitness and recreation to exploring the country. I'm glad I learned them young.

Also, I think this has been mentioned, but learning to cook. I never really formally made an effort to learn but my mom is a great cook and I seemed to have absorbed the knowledge/natural ability and over a decade of trial and error I seem to have managed to be decent. Useful day to day and for special occasions. Only downside is eating too much.
No, that's not supported at present, but that's an interesting idea.

Workers don't have the concept of processes. The unit of compute is an individual event -- e.g. handling an individual HTTP request. So we'd have to augment it a bit, but we can probably come up with something useful.
The least you can do is to emphasise the issue, maybe point to libraries that can be used in conjunction with your framework: a library for creating/using links and link templates, libraries for some existing vocabularies, like Siren or HAL.

Keep it up ;)
AFAICT there are literally no apps to try this on. Why did they decide to announce this and publicize it before a basic, well-polished, example was ready? The pod signup process is using vanilla bootstrap, there wasn't even a visual design pass.
> We are constantly having an administrator say things like, "A college in Colorado uses this website and they pass 70% of their students. You should use it too."

My mom is a adjunct professor, and is also getting pressured about pass rates and graduation rates. It's such a strange metric, because passing (and by extension graduating) is a subjective indication of comprehension of the subject material, but they never talk about measuring that. It just feels so transparently like leaning on the scales and asking to just pass everyone so that you can attract more students($) because they know it's an easy place to get a degree. The problem is that if you do that, then industry will figure out the degree is meaningless, too.
> Linux can be made to run — just barely — in as little as 4MB of RAM

Back in the day, I remember running SLS Linux[1] on a 4MB PC and that included X11. Of course, a 4MB swap partition on my 40MB drive was a requirement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System
Book 'Prime Obsession' by John Derbyshire is also very good detailing the history and basic math behind Riemann Hypothesis. It is very accessible, well written and captivating.
The Solid Spec from their github.
https://github.com/solid/solid-spec
Psychology, especially cognitive behavioral therapy for depression and anxiety
Every modern touchpad supports it AFAIK, not sure about the cheap Chinese ones but I got it working on 6/6 of my tested hardware (a Macbook Pro 2013 (?), an old Macbook 2009 white, my XPS 13 2018, an ASUS with a somewhat bad supported "ELAN" touchpad, a Dell XPS 15 2017 and a Lenovo Thinkpad)
For the interested, this FPGA experiment is discussed from page 21 and beyond.
As follow up- there still is space within some of the walled gardens, primarily YouTube and Twitter, and I’m sure some emerging media will support amateurs early as well. I certainly don’t want to go purely back to webrings, marginal search engines, hand crafted directories, and printed “internet phone books” (yes, this was a thing) as it made it far more difficult to accomplish tasks, but TBL and others fighting against the Balkanization and centralization of the web content as a whole is not a bad thing.
UK ministers' personal details exposed in serious conference app security flaw
Very interesting. I see almost what bgaluszka sees, but the first two results flipped. I know they basically blend a couple search engine's results together, so they must experiment with different combinations.
I tried drinking that much water but it made me wake up once or twice a night having to urinate even if I reduce water intake before bed. I felt that this disrupted my sleep too much to be worth it.

Do you have the same problem? Is there anything I can do about it? For a while I thought I just had a small bladder measuring the amount I urinate showed normal values of roughly 500-600 ml when waking up with a stronge urge to pee. This does make sense to me because the 3 to 4 liters from drinking plus the extra water from food has to go somewhere after all, so I am wondering why other people do not have this problem.
I'd suggest a local nursery. They'll hopefully be able to guide you to ones suited to your area and exposure.
Why did Microsoft Silverlight fail? What were the problems with it?
The closest thing dialup ever got to instantaneous was text-based terminal interfaces. And I remember agonizingly slow load times in Lynx just as often as agonizingly slow load times in Mosaic, NN and IE. Our expectations change, however, and as tech speeds up, we ask “why aren’t people optimizing for what we care about, performance?” But there’s a multitude of answers, many of which are sadly non-technical. Speed and responsiveness often take a backseat, but improvements do happen. (AMP, CDNs like CloudFlare, use of native apps, etc.)
What tool do you use for this?
That does nothing to prevent the first one from being counterfeit, allowing many counterfeits with 'valid' guids to be accepted if they arrive sooner.
At present, yes, lazy propagation. But we're also exploring ways to do proactive propagation where desirable.
184 staff disciplined and 32 dismissed are not low numbers. Each case represents a formal investigation, because no one is going to be disciplined or dismissed without evidence - that way lies an unfair dismissal claim, and perhaps also damages for libel.

Considering you seem to agree that institutional pressure is likely to lead to at least some coverups, how many cases would you want to see before you agree there's a problem?
Not sure how spam is the problem. Mostly solved by good filters. The problem is the amount of legitimate personal emails that one gets, creating the TODO list problem Paul Graham was talking about in his quote at the top of the blog post here.
So is the idea that we're going to swing back in the direction of personal websites again? Pretty much like an Angelfire 2.0?

What separates this technology from everyone just making their own websites?
But at what price per unit?
Yes, but

1) driver and requester would become distant at the start of the ride, not at the end

2) disconnections are different from detecting a distance and you would usually get a connection (some time) after you left the vehicle.

Maybe the user could have a "terminate ride now" button (which is subject to abuses as well, but might be a better user experience)
I was being sarcastic as I am sceptic about the industry at large actually caring about without a couple of massive lawsuits.

Cheap always trumps quality unless there are some legal requirements going on.
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Who's "Inrupt"? The main Solid site is https://solid.mit.edu/".

Inrupt is not in Crunchbase. They don't have a business address on their site. They try to get people to sign up without giving terms and conditions first. And they want you to give them access to all your personal information. Right.
Love it. It's on all my devices.
I have to test. Its early. Its a tracker app. So if they want to get notifications then they'll have to pay for it. I will make it free for maybe 30 days when i launch it next week. Its a web app / subscription. Testing $5/week , $20/m $50/year OR $7/week, $25/m or $70/year. I'll keep jacking it up until people stop paying. Ideal would be $99/year $9/m.