skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve only been talking about topics in which the overwhelming majority of experts in that area agree upon. If each year’s class of residency graduates in psychiatry all have different opinions on a given topic then this clearly is not in the scope of my comments. Also, I acknowledged that sometimes experts get it wrong. My point is that this fact ought not disuade someone from relying upon consensus expert opinion. Few people have expertise in an area of science and very few have expertise in more than one area of science. We need to rely on what others tell us to be true. I don’t know anyone who has personally run the Michelson-Morley experiment but I know the overwhelming majority of physicists agree the results of the experiment. I’m not arrogant enough to think they are wrong.

If 99% of oncologists think you have cancer then I hope you get treatment for cancer. And if 99% of them think option A is your best hope then I suggest you take their advice. You don’t have to. They may be wrong but in this world of uncertainty and imperfect information it’s the best option.
My mother was there in the 80s (with my father, on a holiday) and complained about being groped and harassed by men, and the poor quality of food and water. No desire to ever visit or to have much to do with the people from there. The Indian men I've met in clubs and bars have been as unwanted as the job applicants.
'Peoples’ intuition is usually wrong without a lot of experience to back it up' -- people's understandings are based on their own and their social circle experiences. What's make you think its always wrong? Do you mean we keep our brain shut and feeling suppressed about anything that's not coherent with experts opinion? That's what happen in Autocratic government.
you might want to check out Enpass. Multiple vaults and mobile clients are a premium feature, but the desktop app is free and fully local with self-hosted sync options. I'm not affiliated, but have been a happy user for a couple of years.
This is awesome, however, if you're looking for plausible deniability this can cause some concern.

Tor traffic is pretty visible and detectable. If you're firewalled somewhere, it's pretty obvious to anyone in the middle that you're using Tor. Tools like these clearly don't work against nation states like China, or even some corporate environments.

Transferring secrets in a plausibly deniable format is still a hard problem.
Sheet metal is actually harder to use than milled parts, it's just cheaper for mass production. The original AK was a milled receiver which they switched to stamped for subsequent iterations. Stamping metal with high accuracy is very hard and requires very special tooling.
Not to be snarky, but the person to ask first about it's construction is Adolph Hitler, unfortunately.
"Hitler's autobahn construction began in September 1933 under the direction of chief engineer Fritz Todt. The 14-mile expressway between Frankfurt and Darmstadt, which opened on May 19, 1935, was the first section completed under Hitler. By December 1941, when wartime needs brought construction to a halt, Germany had completed 2,400 miles (3,860 km), with another 1,550 miles (2,500 km) under construction."

Article link:
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/reichs.cfm
Ask HN: Scaling an ORM-Gated DB to Support Multiple Accessing Languages
As some background: we've invested heavily in SQLAlchemy, as our ORM connecting Python to Postgres, at my current employer, to the point that we do all of our CRUD operations through SQLAlchemy models.

While we love the productivity gains, especially in terms of testing, we are beginning to feel some growing pains.

In particular, our dependence discourages us from playing with other languages. For example, we would like our SQL statements in Go and Python to come from the same source of truth. Leaning on SQLAlchemy prevents this (there's no Go bindings, and it wouldn't make sense for there to be).

This makes us reluctant to write any db-touching code in another language, because it would mean that changes to our db schema would require N times the number of code changes, where N is the number of languages our db-downstream services are written in.

We've considered creating a thin wrapper service around our database (in SQLAlchemy), and making all of our services (python or otherwise) downstream to this, but that feels extremely overkill, and not obviously worth the upside.

Have any of you encountered this growing pain and overcome it? If so, how did you do it?
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So in your world, we should just never give users nice things because we know they're stupid?
Yes. In some (most?) states, the leftmost lane on a motorway above 65MPH is supposed to be used for passing only.

What makes highways dangerous are large speed gradients and this is an issue caused by drivers both on the high end and the low end of speed. Hence why most highways have a minimum advertised speed. The issue is that no one respects the speed limits anymore which often expands the gradient and makes the highway less safe. Left lane or not, you shouldn’t exceed the speed limit.
The auto sear (auto-firing part of the lower) is just a little lever hinged on a pin that blocks the hammer from moving momentarily. The two cuts that it interfaces with in the upper are somewhat more complicated.
Have you considered that your child might really regret all this stuff you're publishing about them when they're older?

I don't exactly care myself but I do appreciate that my kid isn't capable of consenting to having his childhood published. So I don't do it.

It seems really odd that you're reason for making that call is, "meh, why not?"
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I don't know about cruise missiles but ISIS has modified commercial off-the-shelf drones to deliver bombs. 3 French Special Forces soldiers were killed in one such attack during the battle of Mosul.
> They don't mean a single app with the same UI. They mean adapting UI (different for touch vs desktops) and sharing the same backend code.

But that's not what Marzipan does. It runs existing iOS apps unchanged.
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For those looking to do this programmatically, it is so easy these days. This project uses the Python library Stem [0] and I wrote one for Go called Bine [1]. Firing up a website on an onion service from your home computer is really easy, and busts NAT by its nature.

0 - https://stem.torproject.org/
1 - https://github.com/cretz/bine
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MiSTer FPGA: The Future of Retro Game Emulation and Preservation?
Even as a proof of concept.

This is like a car show showing a prototype car with just a new engine throw in the trunk. So amateur.
I am surprised at how few of the comments here say - if parents and/or kids want to make non-sexual videos public, fine. If paedophiles are aroused by them nometheless, fine too (as long as they do so privately and don't harrass the kids). I don't know why one would presume to have a 'right not to incite arousal' in another. Personally, I'd choose paedophiles enjoying videos of my children over censorship by large american corporations any day.
Actually, there’s less congestion on the road if you follow at a safe distance from the car in front of you. Congestion is caused by following too closely and braking too hard. If everyone followed at the minimum safe distances, your average speed would likely be faster than it would be in stop-and-go congestion.
Former competitive basketball player here, still play pickup regularly. "Nobody who has ever played even semicompetitive organized basketball could mistake this for an honest performance" is blatant hyperbole.

I could not possibly disagree with you more re: 1984 Lakers/Celtics, and I'm a huge Lakers fan who'd love to believe they were really the better team. I'm not going to bother to click on the video, but I'm sure you're referring to Magic dribbling the clock out at the end of game 2, and throwing the ball away at the end of game 4? These are called mistakes, and they get made all the time. Steph Curry threw the ball away similarly with a needless behind the back pass in game 7 2016, almost exactly the same as Magic's game 4 (although with a bit more time left in the game). JR Smith utterly forgot what the score was at the end of Game 1 last year and did exactly the same thing as Magic in 1984 game 2. These examples are just from the past few years, there are countless others. I'll also point out those 2 examples are both from the NBA finals. If you just want examples of professional players throwing bad passes resulting in turnovers or dribbling too long resulting in time running out, the former happens about ~10 times in every single NBA game, the latter happens a couple of times per week during the regular season.

You're talking about the highest pressure situation in the sport, players make mistakes. You are sorely underestimating the competitiveness of these athletes. I defy you to watch any interview Magic gave in the 80s and to this present day about the 84 finals, and still argue that he threw the series on purpose. His first NBA finals matchup with Larry Bird, who had been his rival for 5 years at that point, going back to their college careers? Either he's the the world's greatest actor, or that loss emotionally and mentally devastated him for a year until he got redemption in 85.

You say the league needed the white fanbase's team to win, and it is absolutely true there was a huge racial component to the Lakers/Celtics rivalry in the 80s. How do you then explain the 85 and 87 finals? I consider myself pretty knowledgable about NBA history dating back to the NBA/ABA merger, and to be blunt your comments sound very uninformed.
Don't they? I feel like half the pictures are probably nearly identical to some picture in the training data and the other half are distorted mess...
Well I'm her parent and I get to make such decisions for now. That's how it works. If I had any concern whatsoever that she might be embarrassed about something I post, I'd take that into consideration, but I'm not.

Someone could video her at a playground, and post it on YouTube. Should I not take her to the playground out of fear of that?

Honestly, I think I'm probably more concerned than most other parents, since they put their daughters in skirts and let them play on the monkeybars, while I tend to dress her in pants when she is going to be doing that sort of thing. But it's probably more out of concern for other dads, who (thanks to all the hand wringing about this sort of thing) tend to feel like everyone is on the lookout for someone who is creepy.
I agree. They provide nothing constructive.
My 10-15 year old self would hate you. Most of what I even remember about being that age from my involvement in various online communities. I didn't have many friends at school so I talked to people in games and chat instead. To suggest that my parents should have to be there to "supervise" me is absurd. To some extent they tried to do this, and I resented it and I'm certain that it did no good at all. Not least because sanitizing access to the internet is impossible and if I wanted to get past a restriction of any kind I found a way.

Your kids talk to each other at school without parents going over their conversations to make sure everything is kosher. Interacting online isn't any different, as long as they know not to give out their physical location publicly or to strangers. Even more so these days, kids are digital natives. Cutting them off from the network is like giving them a lobotomy. They'll be well behaved, obedient, sessile outcasts.

Anyway, interacting online is so little like running free on the highway that it's difficult to even find a foothold to frame a counter-argument. It's a non sequitur.
Those same parents might take a different view of the pro assembling an edited lowlights tape.

Which seems very close to crosslinking comments with timestamps on fully public videos, with advertising.
Some loose similarities does not establish the sexual nature of these kind of videos.
Conversely, I felt the same way about "flugzeug", "spielzeug", "werkzeug" etc.
The “Miscegenation” Troll
actually it's more like the first iphone reveal.
>You're displeased that their algorithm is too sensitive and flagged your content as a false positive, right?

No. As I said, their rules. I have no idea if it is a false positive since I cannot get an answer as to what guideline was violated. I could have violated one of their guidelines.

Youtube doesn't owe me anything ... I use their service for free with unlisted videos to share with family. They make no money off the videos.

My point was if they can flag something like my video, I am sure they can flag the ones given as examples attracting the other people.

I can understand your point that false positives would generate more upset content creators who do make their videos public and would like ads run against them.
A better, simpler-sounding plan is to enable better 2FA on your critical accounts. Doesn't this mostly fix your catastrophic scenario?
If speeches are regulated to this extent then it hampers society from discovering others experiences and learning from them.
No, you make the default safe and make the "dangerous" option hidden behind an advanced menu, so at the very least you can be certain the user can read and follow directions. Like a two-stage weapon switch.
I don’t think dividing up the battery is a big problem. You’re right that there’s some additional overhead from more packaging, but it’s not horrible.

Consider Tesla batteries, which consist of thousands of cells. They are heavier and bigger than they could be (and indeed, their newer ones use somewhat fewer, larger cells for this reason) but it’s ok.

Phones are more weight sensitive than cars, but a two-piece battery is also not very extreme.
Okay, can you reword that? What is wrong with kids doing squats? If nothing, then, what is wrong with timestamping kids doing squats?

The only thing I see wrong here is the sexualization, but it'd be us doing it if we assume the reason of the timestamp. Compare: Video of people playing soccer, someone adds a timestamp to a part when a guy passes the ball to another guy, would you think the timestamp was created because of sexual arousal and tell they need to see a psychiatrist? How is kid doing squats different?
Sometimes I think 'hey, I had a pretty interesting childhood', and other times, I read comments like this one.
>given that many people spend probably 20% of their waking hours looking at their phone screen

This sounds like punishment to me.
Oh no. Oh no no no.
FYI O(10ms) means anything from 10-99ms.
For the longest time I’ve had a tough time explaining why some colors worked together better than others, not to mention how to pick good colors (for apps, websites, any kind of design really).

I’ve finally been able to put some of those findings into words- my goal was to make the process more formulaic for designers but also for less-artistically inclined individuals.

Hopefully some of it helps you with colors on your projects.
How can we report bugs in the Hacker News site?

My particular bug/request: the story submission form will trim page title suffixes for some popular sites, but the form's "too long" JavaScript check measures the original title length, not the auto-trimmed title length. So I often submit a story and have to manually trim the title suffix that would have been trimmed anyways for a story from the same site with a shorter title.
It is funny though, because it is them who make the association... I would have never looked at it that way if they wouldn't have told me to.
What if not reading those things is smart as almost all of it is crap? Then you are banking on them being reasonable but stats still in your odds.
We need an IOT protection bill that starts with labeling.

* sensors
* endpoints it talks to
* update timeline
* security protocols and device specific passwords
The problem with SCOTUS is its reputation, which is dragged down by basically everything else in our politics. When politicians (on both sides of the aisle) openly talk about "liberal judges" and "conservative judges", and promise to appoint the kind that will rule the way they and their constituents want (as opposed to ruling according to what the law says) - and then those same people actually nominate or confirm appointees - it's hard to treat SCOTUS as some kind of cathedral where everybody is beyond reproach. Now it's just politics.
At that level of detail you could just be chanting "god did it" over and over, it comes out to about the same explanatory power.
When a discussion is interesting enough for me to want to follow it, I will search the page for "minutes ago" to find the newest posts. It might be nice if new posts were highlighted for some amount of time.
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Similar sharing, but not onion routed.

https://github.com/datproject/dat
Is an arms manufacturer at fault when there's war?

China is always going to censor. Google facilitating it or not make no difference. Might as well make the money, and also hope to influence the system from a position of power rather than a position of weakness (i.e, not involved at all)
> copyright because of background music

I feel you. Many of my videos have been flagged for copyright violations due to background music, but since they are unlisted and only for sharing among family, I'm ok with it.

There have been a couple of times they have muted a whole video for a snippet of music, but I've never had a video removed for music.
Youtube could leverage their existing ContentID system so reuploads of videos that are private are taken down and the accounts locked after three strikes.
I was a bit simplistic given that I didn't expect all the HN gun experts to come out of the woodwork on this one but I'll bite :)

Yes, you can get by with a smooth bore but "long-ish" here is significantly less than buckshot range. To get really nerdy, if volume of fire (submachine gun) is going to replace accuracy, the difficulty in creating a reliable magazine dwarfs the difficulty in rifling and while I haven't tried, I don't think 3D printing has the tolerances to solve that...yet.

Yes you can rifle a barrel in a garage but you need real machine tools as well as some very specialized tools that you'll need to either acquire or build which kind of adds steps beyond "have machine tools" -> "make gun"
Look up "the switch in time that saved the nine".
Why would one use the same email to sign up, and to send spam?!
It's still far more economical and effective to hire real people to type those. Plus, it's easy to recognize fully conciseness-optimized English. And when leaving reviews, your average person doesn't write the most concise English possible.

Neural networks are capable of optimizing English. The knowledge and capacity to do this is already globally widespread. Sorry to be the one to tell you.
Really like the ephemeral links, don’t love the fact that the receiving party needs to use a tor browser....
Are there any databases that can link fingerprints to identities? Could there be companies legally using them?
That is true, but in the EU parliament as in many other systems there is an incentive for representatives to vote in favor of the (EU) party they are in - as huge majority of representatives have on this case despite of their own governments showing displease to this particular ruling.

I will not personally be voting for any of the representatives that voted for this particular ruling as none of them they gave no satisfactory explanation why they actually voted this way anything other than that their EU party wanted it to pass. My country being Finland, and we definitely have been opposed to this from the start.
Yay. Apocalypse 2.0 on its way. Looking forward to:

1. Any videos with footage of kids in them de-monetised.
2. Comments disabled by default on any sub 100k subscriber channels
3. Mandatory ID verification to be allowed to comment.
I don't enjoy it either, Reddit does seem to see it as someone "exposing youtube", credit where it's due he brought it to light, but that aside I agree, he's a creep.
Any idea what makes tap water smell like a pool? It evaporates out pretty quickly (a day or so in a normal pitcher), whatever the cause, and I've always assumed it was chlorine since it smells like a tiny waft of bleach.
Bet I'm not unique in getting a 504 error.
No. He’s arguing that if the algorithm is capable of detecting his video, it is capable of finding others like it - so if google wanted to remove such videos categorically, it can and currently chooses not to.
>Likewise, topics around diversity and inclusion in tech have gained lots of visibility over the past few years. However, despite these discussions not being off-topic, they tend to be flagged to death by users regardless.

Time to see see if mentioning this very clear behavior gets this link flagged/killed. Privileged people usually don't like having their privilege challenged.
I'm having difficulty understanding how to use this. Is there a demo / example to view? I'm currently managing a team using Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel and Hotjar. How can I benefit from Avo?

From what I understand, I can use Avo to setup flows that I want to watch (like a sales conversion funnel) and make sure that the analytics tags are properly implemented across all pages of the funnel. Is that correct?

In the case that the sales funnel changes and a new page is added, do I need to remember to update Avo with the change?
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Since when is recording and publicly publishing a performance that includes copyrighted music licensed for public performance as part of a live event but specifically and explicitly not for rerecording and distribution (as would normally be the case for the type of recital described, assuming the dance studio was on the ball with licensing) fair use?
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You would take a massive hit in performance. But there are operating systems (some commercial) like that
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> If you mean "The world sucks" then say that instead of saying "the world is fallen".

If you mean that you don't like the author's choice of words, then that that instead of saying "the entire article [is] essentially meaningless".

> Fallen has a very specific meaning

Which of the four definitions in WordNet, or dozens of other possible dictionary meanings, is that very specific meaning?

> and using it as a poetic slush word is enough to make me not take the OP seriously.

"Slush" has a very specific meaning, involving partially frozen materials. I feel that your use of it here has rendered your entire comment essentially meaningless.
They likely don’t. In most cases, congestion and gridlock are caused by “traffic snakes” and other phantom traffic jams. These are mostly predicated on drivers braking too hard because they were following the car in front too closely.

In order to avoid stop-and-go traffic, you should try to balance the distance to the car in front of you with the distance to the car behind you. Allowing enough distance lets you slow down to avoid an accident without coming to a complete stop (as long as the person in front of you is doing the same).

A lot of driver behavior is at fault for gridlock and traffic issues. It really comes down to poor enforcement and counterintuitive game theory that makes it more advantageous to disregard the rules.
I wonder how many times you can fold the display before it makes a crease or splits in 2. Hasn't that been a long-standing problem with flexible displays? You can bend them but you can't fold them? I imagine that like paper, you can only fold it so many times before the same thing happens.
It's about context. The context establishes the intent.