skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outrage culture exists, in part, because it is very profitable. News outlets have an incentive (for clicks/ad revenue/social engagement) to find something to be outraged about 24/7...even if it is completely absurd. The problem is this really is eroding the trust in media. Even if something is so absurd that most people disagree with it, the hate clicks/engagement from that is well worth publishing it.

The only real way to solve this, imo is to start punishing these publications by simply no longer engaging with them or supporting them. Even good publications (I'm thinking Wired, which generally is good, but lately has published some absurd things.) Until then, or until the ad business model changes...this will continue.

We should be looking at alternative business strategies for media, so they aren't dependent on the absurd. That extends to cable news as well. Fox, CNN, MSNBC have all turned into clown shows...and what anyone that has been on these programs or done media training will tell you...the producers often book people simply for being absurd. Merit it no longer what matters, it's all about engagement to drive ad revenues.
my god, so cringy, what a bunch of soyboys really.
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You'd have to run it locally right now. I'll try to get a demo server set up somewhere soon. Also a top TODO is to create a Docker image and push it to Docker Hub so anybody using Docker can spin it up very quickly.
Right - I not only use an editor to code, I like one for notes, to draft text - write notes and letters to others. I find using WORD or similar cumbersome and unnecessary. I've written before that I love plain text as the files are compatible with everything.

Also, in fact, I write out all email in a text editor first, then copy/paste into webmail so the watching eyes don't / can't fingerprint my typing! /little paranoid!
25% Can Create a Majority
I'm the only one who thought to the dialog at the end of Lord of War?
There are certainly people going to their doctors complaining of various sorts of chronic pain and/or tiredness, who may be given some tests and test negative, who are then told "it's all in your head" and not offered further treatment.

(It's bad enough with physical-but-hard-to-diagnose problems like endometriosis; I know someone who's only just got a diagnosis after several years.)

The level of treatment you receive and how seriously you are taken will depend on which country you're in, how good your insurance is (where applicable), and how you appear to the doctors.
And, which happens all the time, remove images including tits from advertising for the US market. It works both ways.
Is Apple unfairly leveraging the app store the same way Microsoft leveraged IE? I don't even see this being an anti-competitive concern
As a user, I much prefer the Android model. For example I can buy and browse Kindle or Audible books directly in the app. I don't use Spotify but I imagine it's a similar experience.

Apple policies do not really benefit anyone. Kindle iOS users will simply open Safari to buy their books, making their experience worse.

Either Apple should really remain objective and not have horses in the App Store race, or follow the same rules on its own apps that they impose on others, or change the rules to benefit everyone (including the users).
Engine flame outs could occur at high AoA due to stall turbulence in the inlet.
You seem to be mixing up GNU's GPL (GNU Public License) with the OGL (Open Gaming License) from Wizards of the Coast.
Roleplayer?
>But that's a different use case than what I wrote about here.

I find it amusing that the problem in the HN threads isn't that they know too little, it's that they know too much. They've seen arguments against PGP for years, and are having trouble processing the post in any way that is different from the "usual" PGP use cases they've seen. I'm seeing comments arguing that the user can't understand concepts of web of trust, or will get fooled by Paypals.com's signature, etc.
Sure. You can’t get under the ledge though.

I don’t remember full details, but the gist of it was that Carmack optimized rendering algorithm around this specific restriction.
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For this specific task, we can collapse a lot of that on the web. Adding a gpg key ring or some other suitable structure to the .well-known URL list [1] wouldn't be that big a deal. This is easier than solving the problem of securing all emails. For verifying signatures you don't need any keys of your own, so 2 & 3 are irrelevant, and the .well-known URL can have revocations in it too.

But it's still plenty hard to ensure that we don't show an email as validated as definitely being from amazorn.com, along with some other funny business that could be pulled.

It does tend to get the problem down to an already existing set of problems, though. It could also be the "killer app" for GPG emails.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785
> Having said this, Apple can do as they please. They control the hardware, the OS, the App Store, and the user accounts.

I disagree. Apple created the App Store and invited 3rd parties to host their apps there, so they should have to play fair for whatever the legal system deems is a good definition of fair.
> There was also the unwritten contract that users of open source would support their developers.

Doesn't match my recollection. Back when FOSS was a rising star, the rallying cry was "free as in beer and free as in speech". No suggestion of an unwritten contract was there and it was amply clear that the vast majority who were piling on to FOSS were infinitely more interested in the free as in beer part than the other.

FOSS created the widespread belief that software and digital information should be gratis; that's the only unwritten contract.
Right now I divide my time into the following areas:

1. Robotics consulting, mainly working on mobile industrial and agricultural wheeled robots

2. Weekly Robotics - my side project that brings me up to speed on current state of robotics and hopefully is also useful for the community (https://weeklyrobotics.com/)

3. I'm currently eyeing making my own mobile robot and open sourcing it. It sounds like a win-win-win - I'm having fun, others can learn something from it and I would imagine it could lead to some projects for 1.
In some cases it's a fairly clear "you're making this up, go away."
Interestingly, there are flush toilets and septic systems installed along the entire length of the walking track.
What happens if the OS updates something needed for one service, but breaks something for another?
$22*1.30 = $35.1

Interesting, so Spotify could pay nearly the same simply by paying the 30% to artists instead of Apple.

And of course, those 37 might already be partly paid by Spotify anyway.
What does iOS Safari not support? It uses WebKit, so more or less full technical/js support, it has ad blockers, tracking prevention, a built in password manager that uses the iOS keychain... not sure what else I’d really want for web browsing.
""Improved security" is also a red herring. You can't make something more secure by adding an additional layer of abstraction."

I have not used docker. However, I have been putting things in containers with FreeBSD 'jail' since 2001 ...

If I jail my httpd and there is a vuln in the httpd, the attacker gets the jail (and the httpd, etc.) but not the underlying system.

That's a huge win, in my mind - is that not how it works in dockerland ?
> Progressive Web Apps [are] ultimately a threat to Apple's app store racket

Honestly, no, they're not. Even the Gold Standard of PWAs - the Twitter Lite app that Google (the patron saint of PWAs) helped them build - provides an inferior experience compared to native apps.

People bring this up often - Apple refuses to improve Safari to bolster their App Store - which completely ignores all the valuable improvements Safari has made to give web apps more native-like features, like backdrop-blur for blurred backgrounds and CSS Snap points for native JS-less carousels. Chrome doesn't support either of these.
Email signing is trivial with the right email program. My work email is signed, and all I had to do was tick a checkbox.
Shame has always been a part of human nature, doing shameful acts -- like eating up all the reserve food that the tribe worked so hard to store is appropriately responded to with shame from peers.

Social pressure has it's place in society, as with all things the internet takes everything about the human social experience and turns the dial to 11. I think we are only just coming to grips with what actually should be shamed on the internet. As with all things, we will reach an equilibrium. You don't kick someone out of the tribe for a simple mistake that has a slim chance of happening again if the proper amount of social pressure is applied.
The word IBM feels conspicuous.
Who'd have thought Tesla would have to meet or beat another player on launch day? When announcing a new SUV, Tesla now has to compare with Rivian for availability, range, price, performance, etc. Until they actually ship, the Model Y is as much vaporware as Rivian. So Tesla has to compete with pie-in-the-sky promises.

Here's hoping that they both deliver.
That happened to me too. I thought that was normal procedure?
I completely agree. I'm still unclear how mongodb was able to not only succeed but thrive with all it fundamental problems.
>the river rises thirty feet, and crossings that were once three miles wide can balloon to thirty miles in a matter of weeks.

My impression wasn't so much that it was the 30 feet rise, but the fact that it added 27 miles to the width of the river. Does the Mississippi do that as well? (The Ohio/Monongahela/Allegheny are my baseline, so it's harder to comprehend rivers that do stuff like this!)
> teaching it's the students with lazy habits

I think that's very much a thing. I do think that some folks ... just can't beyond that, but I agree lazy habits are the worst and frustrating.

I put in a TON of time outside class when I went to a bootcamp. I'd make progress and come back with a quick question for the instructor, and there would be a series of people with the same questions waiting to talk to the instructor who clearly did nothing since the last time they talked to the instructor and were asking the same question as the day before who are mildly perturbed the instructor doesn't just give them the answer...

A lot of the time I just gave up trying to talk to the instructor.
In practical terms, "physical mechanism" means something a GP can see or test for, rather than relying on asking the patient whether it hurts.
Yeah, the context for this is that spotify recently launched a website & EU legal complaint against apple for not opening up its platform sufficiently to competitors (or not sufficiently prioritizing feature work desired by competitors).

I assume OP found spotify's actions hypocritical, which is why they posted this.

Then the question is whether we should see spotify's 'time to play fair' website as a true statement of principle, or a cynical attempt to sway public opinion against actions that harm it as a business, but that it would be more than happy to engage in itself if it were in apple's position.
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19377322
We (https://chatbird.io) are trying to solve mainly that - networking between attendees, communication between organizer and attendees before, during and after the event. Happy to talk more about it and to understand your use case, my email is in my profile.
This is the current codebase but it goes back at least 20 years in places. If you look at the core engine you'll see plenty of comments dating back to 1995:

https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/search?q=1995&unscop...
I have also heard of medical examples like that. However, this article argues that generalizations based on apparent racial characteristics are medically unreliable.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-...

> Yudell said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox, which is that race is understood to be a useful tool to elucidate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity and an imprecise proxy for the relationship between ancestry and genetics.

> ...

> "What the study of complete genomes from different parts of the world has shown is that even between Africa and Europe, for example, there is not a single absolute genetic difference, meaning no single variant where all Africans have one variant and all Europeans another one, even when recent migration is disregarded," Pääbo told Live Science. "It is all a question of differences in how frequent different variants are on different continents and in different regions."

> In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim. It turned out that Watson (who, ironically, became ostracized in the scientific community after making racist remarks) and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with Kim.

> ...

> "If you make clinical predictions based on somebody's race, you're going to be wrong a good chunk of the time," Yudell told Live Science. In the paper, he and his colleagues used the example of cystic fibrosis, which is underdiagnosed in people of African ancestry because it is thought of as a "white" disease.
The purpose of your circumlocution is to remain ambiguous enough to fall back to a less controversial position when called out. Just say what mean, which is that skin colour correlates with IQ.

I hate it when your ilk make race vs IQ seem like an edgy new opinion that is being suppressed. It used to be mainstream globally, but we moved past that through dialectics. When the "bell curve" book was published, we resurrected the debate, then we moved passed it.

It seems to me that you have to go out of your way to bring up race and IQ. That's why, whenever the debate is brought up, one of the parties is accused of having an agenda.
It's 2.5 degrees every 15 seconds. There's time to recover

"MCAS will trim the Stabilizer down for 10 seconds (2.5 deg nose down) and pause for 5 seconds and repeat if the conditions (high angle of attack, flaps up and autopilot disengaged) continue to be met. Using electric pitch trim will only pause MCAS, to deactivate it you need to switch off the STAB TRIM SUTOUT switches." http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm
That's true. I guess we need something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificat... for email then.

I'm not sure how PGP would help though, as the user also has to check, if the email from his bank was signed with the correct key. Checking the exact domain name is something he can already do and I guess is also easier to understand.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367065
Problem is it’s not evidence based and we know there’s not a psychological component. The PACE trial and work of Sharpe are pretty widely debunked which is why they complain of being under attack. (See links elsewhere.) Meanwhile if you go watch some videos by the scientists at OMF and Stanford and elsewhere you’ll see they’re uncovering big differences in the bodies and blood of people with ME/CFS. It’s looking like it’s probably going to turn out to be an pretty complex autoimmune disease.

So when Sharpe and his friends continue to point fingers and say it’s in your head to these patients, and continue to push their exercise therapy, and continue to sow confusion, it’s really easy to see how they cause offense. Because they’re doing real harm to sick people by doing that. All because their egos are more important than hard science.
I agree.

The problem here is my choice of an ambiguous word, "security". Formally speaking, the "security level" or "security claim" of a cipher is defined by the computational complexity (time/memory) of breaking it, often represented as the number of bits. so the Biclique attack indeed reduced the "security" of AES to 25% of its original claim. "Security" in a broader sense can be roughly understood as "how well a system is practically protected, under a specific threat model", in this case, the underlying details, such as this minor reduction to a cipher's security claim hardly matters.

I should have edited my comment to use a better word, but now it already became permanent.
You do, that's the crux of the matter. Apple can happily claim that 30% is the overhead cost of providing the subscriptions service, that's within their right. Looking past how ridiculously high 30% is the fact that they are so hostile to apps having users pay via means that aren't the app store is the issue. For example Spotify aren't allowed to even tell people in the iOS app that they can subscribe with a credit card on the web without facing rejection.
Thanks a lot, I'll try that immediately!

If this works, we can contribute with a lot of usability improvements, more payments plugins and Swedish translation.
Is this the same quantum computer that had the weird promo video where they talked at length about assembling it in Italy out of aircraft-grade aluminum and didn't mention benchmarks/capabilities?
A physics simulation usually simulates the future, but there is nothing stopping you from running the code "backwards" in order to study the past state of the system. If we want to sound fancy we call this "reversing time".

In the case of a quantum computer simulating something (we can not really do this yet, but we are hard at work building the hardware) that type of reversal might require us to calculate complex conjugates of quantum states. For various reasons this is nontrivial and this paper describes ways to do that.
"but the rest should work without a permission prompt"

what "rest" are you referring to?
Agree. This is kind of embarrasing as a grown up, an engineer and a soldier, but the brain can really prank some of us. (Edit: I guess it might be even worse as a doctor or nurse. My point is only that I consider myself a reasonable adult, not too easily scared.)

My brain used to have my body act up when I took a certain medication.

I was lucky: Once it got a little ahead of itself and my body started acting funny before I'd even taken the medication.

At that point I knew it was all in my head and never had any more problems with that medicine after that.
Yeah, this is a poor use of words. I was actually hoping they had read some quantum information "from the future" but in a way that precludes transmitting useful information to the past - similar to how entangled pairs seem to transmit information faster than light, but in a way that doesn't enable FLT communication. But no, nothing about this suggests anything to me about reversing time. Reversing decoherence (if that's a better description) is nice but it's not about time reversal.
I mean, find the biggest file you can open with Vim, and then find the biggest file you can open with any other full-fledged editor. I doubt most full-fledged editor will be able to handle a 5GB+ log file, much less perform a search / replace within a reasonable amount of time.

Vim just has a lot less going on under the hood by default and
is built for this.

In short, I guess I'm agreeing with your original post. Vim is just on another level when it comes to performance versus other editors so it's kind of unfair to pit them together.
There is a “web” link next to the story title. Click that, then the headline.
> utterly unscientific proxies of race

I cannot but laugh every time someone mentions this.

It's very simple: can you measure it? (Yes.) Is the measurement persistent? (Yes.) Then it doesn't really matter whether it's "scientific" or "unscientific" or "mezo-scientific" or whatever, it's a valid concept.

Then people say that it's "socially defined" (yeah, all words/concepts are) or that categories are not clearly separated (e.g. mixed race people), but then again, same goes for the concepts of "day" and "night". Now, are you going to claim that "day" and "night" are unscientific?
If the US Gov was dumb enough to hire them, then they would act in the same way.
As OP mentioned, that could be enabled with a toggle. An example of this all being for the benefit of walled gardens, take rooting. Obviously if a user is going through the trouble to attain true ownership of their phone and os, they are doing so because they want to be in control. Phone carriers openly fight this at every turn because they want us to be forced to use their BS apps, known as bloatware, and prevent users from no longer seeing ads. This is all about money. Microsoft is trying hard to do the same on desktop now with all their in-os ads. Protecting users is the single most bullshit line ever and they all use it.
People have been selling T-Shirts around this for years. However, most of them depict the Y with falcon wing doors, which is not the case according to reports I read earlier this week.

Example shirt: https://teslaminiature.com/product/s3xy-tesla-unisex-t-shirt...
I appreciate the link, but fair warning to others - it has a prerequisite of reading three other postings for complete comprehension per the article.
This reminds of the whole browser war situation with Microsoft many years ago which Microsoft was forced to allow other browsers. It, however, feels different from Apple who seem to be able to just get away with this behaviour unchallenged.
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I'm not a physicist but that seems accurate. Click bait paper.

I mean, non casual filter (time travel filters!) are nothing more fancy than a post measurement analysis where we know y_n+1 at y_n, for example.
A bunch of my own opinions to the FAQ:

- Should I use Flask or Django?
- Agreed, Django

- Should I split my code up into multiple apps?
- I think it's better if you split your code into different apps from the beginning especially if its about different things that don't have a heavy relations. For example I usually put my user, profile, preferences etc things in a different app.

- Should I use Django’s default template language (DTL) or something else?
- Agreed, DTL

- DTL doesn’t do what I want - should I use something else like Jinja2?
- Agreed, use DTL and mix a bunch of template tags for things that can't be implemented with only the DTL

- Should I use Gunicorn or uWSGI to run Django?
- Agreed, definitely use gunicorn unless you really know what you are doing. uWSGI is a PITA to setup and has various problems with security, when reloading it etc

- Where should I deploy my app?
- No opinion I mainly deploy to internal (Centos) servers

- What should I use to serve my static files?
- Whitenoise is a good solution for some projects but if you are going to put your app behind a reverse proxy (i.e nginx) then why not just serve your static files from there directly ?

- I’m trying to get the admin to do X…
- Agreed, admin is for internal users / operators; CBV is excellent. Also if you want something more configurable try my django generic scaffold package: https://github.com/spapas/django-generic-scaffold/

- What database should I use?
- Agreed, Postgres all the way; don't forget to take a look at the django-postgresql specific models https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/contrib/postgres/f...

- How should I split my settings file between production / development?
- I disagree; I use the common pattern with a settings package and dev/uat/prod modules. Using env vars is not always feasible since python is much more expressive than a string (think when you need to setup a setting with a dict)

- Should I use a custom User model?
- Agreed; follow the docs if you start from scratch but be careful if you have a project with live migrations