skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all threads about Assange have become the same

This is what I have observed in all threads marginally related to 'censorship'/'freedom of speech'. The exact same ideologically charged opinions, often mixed with a dose of middle school level name calling., get reiterated every one or two days, usually by the same set of users. I use to find those flame wars boring, but now I have learned to appreciate the beauty in the amount of efforts people throw into this dumpster fire. It’s the Sisyphus of our time.

And now Assange has also joined the club.

In all seriousness, I wonder what would happen if submissions get penalized more heavily by flagging. I guess there are lots of people how visit HN for the general tech-related interesting stuff, who have shut up due to the immense heat from those flame wars, and would happily click the 'Flag' button if it would bring back a less combative environment for discussion.
> "That is was not a prompt critical nuclear explosion is semantics."

In a world where nuclear weapons are a thing and the public is generally aware of their horrific effects, the distinction between a meltdown and a 'nuclear explosion' is not semantics.
Nope, type A. Both connectors were damaged beyond repair. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it myself - that woman must have the grip strength of an enraged gorilla.
> We need to end off label use. Saying a drug is approved for one diagnosis and then allowing it for any other diagnosis is, in the modern age, simply crazy. One might as well not have fda approval.

The approval process itself is what's crazy. Drugs are approved for treating disease X, but drugs don't work that way. They are chemicals that modify processes in the body to produce collections of effects that help treat some medical issue. What does prednisone treat? It's an immunosuppressant, an anti-inflamatory, and it reduces blood calcium levels. That's useful in treating a range of conditions like heart failure, cancer, autoimmune diseases, and many, many others.

One example of the insanity of this regime is the HPV vaccine. What does the drug do? It helps the immune system fight off certain strands of HPV. What was it approved for? Preventing cervical cancer. Since men don't have cervixes, it wasn't FDA-approved for men and any administration of that vaccine was strictly off-label. It took an additional approval and many years to get it approved for men, even though there was no reason to believe the vaccine would work in women but not in men.
If it was direct government employment did they clarify final salary? There's the 'salary' and then the locality increase [1] which is a base of around 15% and goes up to 28% for places like DC. 102k (1.28*80) is still not worth it especially without prior federal service as you have pension vesting etc to wait for before your benefits are worthwhile.

[1]: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

Fixed math.
So what is the purpose of the massive level of redundancy that you are already paying for when you store a file on S3? I don’t think it’s terribly common for even medium sized companies to have a multi tier1 cloud backup strategy.
3D-Printed Self-Healing Structures with Embedded Healing Agent Reservoirs
> Google went Sparta with their reCaptcha be, and nobody in their right mind should add a script that fingerprints users, specially from an adtech company

Elaborate?
Only if they fail to adapt. And if they can't adapt, then good riddance. The history books are littered with examples of huge corporations that failed to adapt then died. FAANG isn't special.
A Needed Response: Maine Lawmakers Pass Bill to Prevent ISPs
Section 4-B says it's acceptable to use a customer's personal data:

"To advertise or market the provider's communications-related services to the customer;"

With ISPs that own networks, e.g. Comcast -> NBC, would a service like NBC Sports be considered a communication-related service of Comcast's? If yes, then could they feed that customer data into NBC's advertising infrastructure? If so, could NBC then sell that data?

Do Maine judges tend to honor the spirit or the letter of the law more often?
Backups aren't "dotting i's and crossing t's", they're fundamental. FFS, just rsync your database directory somewhere.
The "dumb orange man" line has run its course at this point. That seems like the more obvious reason for the slowness.
https://pastebin.com/xyxBAcbt
The 100s of diesel buses probably emit less than the 2000s of individual cars they replace, so you should be relatively happy that they are here and even concerned there aren't more
It's not just the volume of usage that can indicates fraud, but the pattern. In addition, relying on quotas creates a system that is easily games by perpetrators of fraud.

Caps or quotas are not sufficient to deal with this problem.
The fact that different countries have different cutoff ages for statutory rape (the girl was 16, whereas some countries set the limit to be as low as 15, in particular most of Europe is 16 or below) makes this much less of a clear cut than your comment implies.
In Canada it’s common for the Supreme Court to give parliament time to fix issues with a law before it’s ruled unenforceable. Under the argument a small delay is better than a free for all.
Imagine going back to 1984, and telling the Hubble successor team "Just wait for a future heavy commercial space launch before planning any larger telescopes".

Or to 1997, and telling Goddard "Your specs will require technological development that we feel should be halted until a commercial spaceflight program develops. We're pretty sure next year someone will found a e-commerce business that will make him a billionaire, and he'll sort it all out."

Or to 2002, when tech internet tech was booming and paypal was going IPO, to tell TRW that the $824 million they just acquired should be put on a shelf until about 20 years later.

Or to 2005, 12 years before BFR was announced, when it appeared cost growth was a factor (not at all related to northrup aquisitions). Again, 2010 it passed review, 7 years before announcement. Is it really irony or somehow a waste? I don't think so.

(Full disclosure: I'm working on alternative tech to deoployables for large-aperture telescopes, but I greatly appreciate their efforts on JWST, given what we had over the last 20 years).
I've only had one instance where Linode contacted me about suspicious activity. I responded promptly, it was obvious they understood my answer, and nothing came of it. Another comment thread on this story has people saying Linode's support is better.
2 Month treasury bill is only 1 basis point less than the 20 year treasury
It sounds like you learned that lesson at the correct time.
I seem to recall an issue on Github where they claimed the cost of an Apple Developer Account was a deterrent, but I may be misremembering.
I went on Accutane after a decade of tetracycline kept persistent mild acne under control but never got rid of it.

Accutane worked amazingly, and very fast. Acne gone in a week, and never returned. I stayed on Accutane til I hit the target dose (maybe 3 months, I forget exactly). Twenty years later, I'm still acne free.

Though without a doubt, Accutane is the strongest drug I've ever taken. I needed a liver function test before starting, and monthly during the treatment. My nasal lining and lips were unbelievably dry. I carried lip moisturiser and creams with me everywhere, used them several times an hour. I remember my dermatologist telling me to avoid the sun, and treatment was over the winter months.

To anyone on long-term courses of tetracycline, I suggest trying Accutane. Be prepared for the side effects. And only do it under medical supervision.
Who is Rick brown/what agency is he from?
I have no faith that those people would respect my rights of free speech at all. It is explicitly not part of their ideology.

In my view, believing that if you defend free speech hard enough the forces of fascism and hate will become interested in "hearing all perspectives" is incredibly naive.

To be clear, I do not think it should be illegal or impossible to express hateful views. I don't think there needs to be some effort to block their forking of Mastedon (if it were even possible).

I think it _is_ wrong to celebrate a company which trades in hate and has provided a platform for radicalization which has contributed to at least two major terrorist attacks.

I take issue with the sentiment that it is somehow good they are

> "standing up to their principles of being a truly free speech social network"

It's not true that they are a "free speech social network," they are a platform deliberately cultivating hate. And I think it's wrong to give anyone working to promote hate a pat on the back.

Don't hold up Gab as some free speech hero, you're just playing into their narrative.
Tech's been shifting the balance, but there's still a very substantial portion of the folks with this sort of throwaway money who're sitting on family fortunes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/10/03/there-...

> In 2004, we had 59% of the Forbes 400 having made their own fortune, as opposed to 41% who inherited it. But, again, at the extremes we still saw a full one-tenth of the list, or 40 of them, having fully inherited their fortunes and not working to grow it, and only 4.75% of them, or 19, as totally self-made, having battled adversity to reach the top.

> Thus, the most encouraging results come from this year’s Forbes 400. For the first time in our data set, we see the number of self-made billionaires who rose from nothing, and overcame various tough obstacles, outpacing those that just sat on their fortunes. A total of 34 billionaires, or 8.5%, scored as 10s, or more than three times as many as in 1984. The number of 100% inherited fortunes as a percentage of the total fell to 7%, with 28 billionaires in the 1 category, compared to 99 back in 1984.

There's a higher chance these days someone spending millions on a car is some sort of "job creator", but it's by no means guaranteed. The supercar set may lean more towards Saudi oil wealth sort of folks, as well.
> It segmented the Java ecosystem into two parts.

Sun did that themselves with Java ME. In 2008 when Android was released the newest version of Java SE, Java 6, was released in 2006. The newest version of Java ME, however, was 1.3 released in 2000.

Java ME was 8 years out of date before Android was released.

And Java ME wasn't even one platform. It was a collection of optional extensions.
This is alarming considering many people have multiple handles. Anonymous speech is a major reason America exists[1] and is a constitutional right[2]:

>In Watkins v. United States (1957), NAACP v. Alabama (1958), Bates v. Little Rock (1960), and Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (1963), the Court protected the anonymity of members of controversial groups to ensure their First Amendment right of association.

Imagine a visitor has handles not tied to their real name. (Maybe they don't feel comfortable criticizing their government under their real name)

Should the visitor be forced to list these sensitive identifies in order to enter America?

Keep in mind that lying to border officials is pretty much always a reason to be permanently barred from any country.

I hope our allies lead by example and don't respond in kind - I'd hate to have to get turned away at the Peace Bridge because I wouldn't lie and wouldn't endanger my privacy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers

[2] https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/32/anonymous-speech
This is very sad, and why we all need to make the Web decentralized and own our own data. Here, several Fortune 500 companies were relying on a two person team, which itself was relying on a hosting provider with full discretion to shut it all down. What could possibly go wrong?

https://qbix.com/platform is one of many projects working to tackle this. Tim Berners-Lee’s SOLID project and others are, also.
Having a mode switch isn't enough; potentially any part of the program could contain a spectre gadget, so you'd need to run the whole program in that mode.

A perhaps better approach would be to ensure that speculation aborts actually do clean up the entire microarchitectural state - ensuring that the cache state (and other persistent state) isn't affected by aborted predicted execution.
It’s on the cards!

Don’t want to spread ourselves too thin too early. Also working with the yugabyte folks closely to have Hasura supported with their 2.0 release.

https://twitter.com/karthikr/status/1128003465370693636?s=21
Fun Fact: Chris Sacca is from Lockport and graduated from Lockport High School. Timothy McVeigh is also from there.
with the current semiconductor technology I doubt that 3D is an option for the foreseeable future. You would need a whole new implantation (or doping) technology for that
My interpretation of that was that the batch job takes 1s per row or something like that rather than 1s total. It obviously wouldn't make sense to spin up 10 nodes to turn a 1s job into 10 0.1s jobs.

Just a guess.
A corollary is keep your infrastructure simple, and know how it works, so you can stand it up anywhere. Web server/db/memcached can run anywhere easily and is enough for almost every company out there. Are you sure you need {cool new service}? Are you really really sure? Your database can probably do it.
If you're looking for a replacement to reddit - there's https://saidit.net/ - it's still fairly new, and if you sign up (well, happened to me - maybe it's changed since a few weeks ago?) they subscribe you to all of the subs (so you have to manually unsub from those you don't want to be in - and yes, several of the "ugly" subs from reddit migrated there after the last "great purge").

I don't know how sustainable it will be or can be, if it will stay ok or devolve into a weird "4chan-like" mess, or go the same way as reddit (if it gets popular, gets money, or what). I'm not even sure who's really behind it (that probably isn't a good thing).

But - it's one option that I know of (and if you find out more about it or others, let me know if you can or want to).
$ egrep '^[a-z]{4,10}$' /usr/share/dict/words | wc
50768 50768 433477
$ for i in `seq 5`; do egrep '^[a-z]{4,10}$' /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n 4 | xargs; done
droned engraves developer manoeuvre
lifeforms lurked pursuing subjugated
hooligans underplay sudden command
quartettes soapbox blacklist pigtails
roughening chefs mortals earthy

In my experience, things like that are both easier to remember and to type than things like fa#klwgjl5235 - I type sequences of English words far more often than I type anything else.
Far from flawless. They did it to me and it was dropping half of DNS requests I was receiving so my websites were down. And you practically have to beg them to take you out of DDoS protection.
That is generally how disruptions happen isn't it? This is a great book that talks about the previous cycle when it occurred.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-West-Rules-Now-Patterns/dp/031261...

By the way, I am currently using this engine to track the progress of the US/China trade war

https://trends.getdata.io/covered_entities/579
> without the malicious intent

It seems like exactly the same intent to me. They want people making “Android” apps not Java apps.
That's how I feel about Scaleway. Scaling customer service is no easy task especially technical companies that require agents to have some understanding of the product.
That cannot be right. There are about 10 mil visas issued, so the number of applications cannot be much higher (it costs $160 to apply). So probably 13 mil.
The serious decline of Assange's health is worrisome. Even Belmarsh prison (where Assange is currently) does not have the best record when it comes to human rights violations [1, pp. 21]. However, it seems the main concern at the moment is his lack of proper access to case files and lawyers, his health, and the relentless, ongoing public statements against him at the highest levels.

I can accept the Rapporteur's assessment that his current condition is the result of very high level "collective persecution", e.g. the British Prime Minister stating "no one is above the law", the Australian Government stating "he won't receive special treatment", statements by Ecuador that he smeared faeces on the wall of the embassy and hacked the president's phone, and US politicians and pundits alike calling for him to be extrajudicially executed, for example.

There has been a very high level campaign to get Assange and make an example of him at all costs, even though opinion is clearly divided on whether most of the actions he is charged with were protected under the First Amendment or even commonplace amongst media organisations, e.g. encouraging leaks of secured information and publishing them, and the remaining acts seem to be de minimis, e.g. offering to, but not actually, cracking a password (all counts of the indictment fall under one of the two categories, the summary wording being almost identical in all of them).

In related news Chelsea Manning is back in prison for refusing to testify in a grand jury against Assange. She has now made the case that they didn't need her testimony for indictments [2], and has apparently written an eloquent letter explaining the history of abuse of the Grand Jury process, after seventy something days in prison to coerce her testimony.

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/76000/eur45004200...
[2] https://www.sparrowmedia.net/2019/05/chelsea-mannings-lawyer...
It's not exposed though, right? ACH is just for banks settling between themselves, is it not?

The entire point of OB and PSD2 is that any regulated company can get access to this data.
I think this is a student project that hasn't really made it to that level yet. It looks pretty neat and they apparently won an award for it.
Just another little shout out for Hasura here. It’s a really lovely system to use and the team behind it are awesome to deal with. Super friendly and helpful.

We evaluated a lot of stuff recently before settling on Hasura. Prisma, aws appsync, postgraphile, roll our own socketio backend etc. I had a few hesitations about Hasura. In particular I was hoping to lean on Postgres RLS for the authorisation, and to be able to customise the graphql endpoints a bit more. After hearing the rational from the guys about how their system is better than RLS and seeing the patterns they have for implementing the logic I’m really happy we made the leap.

We’re still in early days, but it’s been really solid and a real pleasure to use.

(No affiliation, but happily paying for their support licence)
> Also... no mobile app :/

They have mobile apps for iOS and Android https://dynalist.io/download
By now, any sane person will just stop using anything but cheap disposable devices, and never ever trust websites with any trackable identifiers ever again.

Biometrics and genetic recognition leave us dead to rights, because we're caught in a merciless bear trap with ubiquitous webcams, and because we can't help but crop dust genetic samples simply by waving hello.

The genetic problem is even worse than imagined, because in 20 years many children will be tagged and released into the wild at the hospital they were born, if they aren't gene edited by then.

So, a war will be fought, and blood spilled for a new constitution, I might guess. Because the old ones were not equipped to think according to such unforgiving realities, whether or not they might've been inclined to.
Does someone know which platforms/providers are available in the dropdown menu? I mean, sure there will be Facebook and Twitter but what about HN/Reddit/Imgur/Whatsapp for example?
n = 18

What is the probability that 8 ASD kids out of 18 would be neurotypical after 2 years even without the treatment?
Those same users are probably benefitting from the other thing I did that delivered value to my company. It has value for the company because it has value, directly or indirectly, for the customer. Eventually, it'll sort itself out with competition.

Ultimately, my work is dictated by what the customers whine about. If they make more noise over missing feature X than slow feature Y, X gets my time.
I thought about this as well. I guess I'd say you're basically right if this ISP is really a monopoly, and everybody has an Internet connection. But I don't know if that's quite right. "The market will bear" whatever price they're selling at now because the consumer would opt to not buy it at a higher price. I imagine the ISP's optimal situation is a price that leads to fewer than 100% of people paying for the connection, even as a monopoly. "People are willing to buy at X price" isn't really meaningful. The question is always how many people.

I certainly don't think they will pass all of the cost onto the customers; that's never how it works. But, since the costs per connection are still the same, and the revenue per connection is now lower, they probably won't be at their optimum anymore. They'll probably find a new optimum by raising their prices, making a bit more revenue per customer and losing some customers. Basic supply/demand curve stuff. Again, those curves are not quite the same in a monopoly market, but iirc it still applies to an extent. If the monopoly really had total control, they would take the customers for everything they have, and it's not quite that bad.

:shrug: maybe the actual effect will be marginal. I'm not an economist either.
Pretty sure that’s done automatically like go-fmt or other similar tools. It’s zero effort and makes it easily to read. Also lots of languages have that import syntax (python import pandas as pd).
100% seconding your observation; I've been arguing something similar myself for a while too. That's why I'm totally serious when I say, ban the shit out of the advertising industry. Burn it to the ground, with legislative fire. Half of this crap comes from advertisers and ad-supported sites (the other probably mostly from airlines).

This won't solve everything, but would be a nice start. There will always be scoundrels, but the current market dynamics seems to be pretty good at making manipulative and dishonest behaviour successful. We need to work on corrections that would promote honest businesses instead.

As a secondary avenue, I wish we could somehow have a cultural shift. "Dark patterns" isn't a new phenomenon; its very name has been a commonly-known term for years now. And yet, instead of avoiding them, most successful companies seem to look at them as sources of inspiration. Hell, they're becoming a part of "UX standard practice" these days.
Human work is taxed. It's called the income tax. There's little opportunity to earn money by working and avoid income taxes.
It can also be a signal that you're too busy to write well in that context.

There are two elements to writing well. One is the efficient communication of content. The other is communication of social register, relative status, and power relationships.

Hitting the right social register is an impedance matching problem that depends on the target audience.

If you go too high you risk sounding snobby, pretentious, and condescending. If you go too low you won't be credible.

People often assume this means that if you lard your verbiage with orotund circumlocutions and vague implications you'll be hitting those high register top notes.

But in fact social register doesn't map neatly to grammar/reading age/vocab.

SMSspeak in an email can - ironically - hit too high a social register because you're implying you don't have time to write a more detailed and conversational response, and you're not making the conversation a priority.

This is orthogonal to any actionable message content.
Direct S/D tunneling becomes a problem with high carrier mobility semiconductors like III-V group materials and germanium.
I've never seen that happen.