skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have any advice for what platform might be best to migrate to? I'm not overly concerned with group E2E, but it is a nice-to-have. Telegram and Discord seem like two of the most practical options, Keybase and Matrix seem like two of the most ideal from a security standpoint. I wonder what offers the best cross-section of features and user experience.
"everyone hates yaml" hah. Shocking how we're stuck on these problems.

The old line about "the problem that it solves is not hard and it does not solve them well" about XML is kind of hilarious when we're still facing the same thing about its current popular replacements - JSON and YAML.
Here are what might help you through the pain:

Treat mistakes as learning process

Treat errors as a tool

Treat difficult workmates and bosses as children

Treat scripts as writing stories for computers in different language.

If it affects you physically, it may be stress. Try to think that the whole process, whether it results in a good thing or a bad thing, is actually a progress.

There are indeed some frustrating part in scripting, unclear library docs, no static typings, slow feedback loops.

Keep in mind your end goal, being sysadmin right now is where you are and maybe a stepping stone. Do it one by one. Take a step back, calm yourself, see what's around you and take some steps to easen the pain and achieve your goal, whatever that is.
Yup - this combination works even if the device is hung.
I believe the courts have ruled previously that your speech is not limited just because the government has access to it. Otherwise wiretaps would be illegal already. This is just an extension of wiretap law.

In both cases they need to be fought from another angle than freedom of speech, because we've already lost that battle.
Thanks for sharing, this looks really interesting. I keep hearing about LiveView, but not knowing Phoenix, it never really clicked for me. This really clarifies it for me.
Non-naturally occurring chemicals, or at least chemicals that we weren't traditionally exposed to in great abundance. Like laundry detergent and conventional shampoo. Those are probably terrible for the environment. When we ban one, companies just create another one.
Archive.org has a special exemption via US copyright law, I believe, and other parties will not have the same exemption.

I imagine it would be very difficult for someone to start a website which hosts a lot of copyrighted material and claim they are genuinely archiving copyrighted material. This would be the defense of every piracy site ever, if it were feasible, I imagine.

I am not a copyright lawyer, and I welcome correction on this.

Developing an archival API for those who want their site archived is perfectly fine, though this is probably what robots.txt is for.
Does a “reasonable” country not prosecute people for committing crimes?
It's more like saying a couple AND gates have achieved mathematical supremacy over humans. They can add 1+1 insanely fast, but that's about it.

If we had the quantum equivalent of a 14 button calculator that would be a big deal.
> This cancel-culture is disgusting and is utterly unacceptable to treat anybody like this, no matter what their views are.

I wholeheartedly agree. Excommunication (plus more!) for speech is disastrous.
Wikipedia is terrible when it talks about English law.

It gets the UK entry pretty seriously wrong. The age of consent is 16, unless one of the people is in a position of authority over the other (where authority is defined in law and covers things like teachers) when it's 18; prostitution is legal in England but definitely not if the person is under 18.

> Any person who engages in sexual intercourse with a person under the age 16 could be prosecuted. However this therefore means that even sexual intercourse between willing people of a similar age (i.e. A 16 year old and a 15 year old) could result in the older person being liable for prosecution for committing a sexual offence. Because of this, when the Sexual Offences Act 2003 was created, separate sections of the act were put in place to be used on how to appropriately prosecute a person who had sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16, depending on exactly how young a person under the age of 16 was at time the sexual intercourse took place. This therefore maintained a "two-tier" cut off age system regarding sexual intercourse when it involved a person under the age of 16. Currently this depends on whether a younger person was Under 16 or Under 13 at the time of the sexual intercourse taking place, with the latter being automatically overall illegal, and the former still being illegal, but with defences due to the younger person's older age, more flexibility in sentencing and flexibility overall whether to prosecute or not based on individual case

This is incorrect.

The different ages exist in law because too many abusing men were claiming that they honestly thought that the 12 year old they had abused was a willing 16 year old.

The law removes this dishonest defence by adding this 13 year limit. We want the law to adequately capture the seriousness of the offence of rape of a child.

The reason we don't prosecute 15 year olds who have sex with each other has nothing to do with this two-step age limit: it is because our crown prosecution service has to ask two questions: "Is there a reasonable prospect of a conviction?" and "is it in the public interest to prosecute?". It's not in the public interest to prosecute children for having sex with each other so long as there's no element of coercion or force.

The CPS guidance to prosecuting sexual offences is here: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/rape-and-sexual-offenc...

> The overriding public concern is to protect children. It was not Parliament's intention to punish children unnecessarily or for the criminal law to intervene where it is wholly inappropriate. During the passage of the bill, Lord Falconer said:

> "Our overriding concern is to protect children, not to punish them unnecessarily. Where sexual relationships between minors are not abusive, prosecuting either or both children is highly unlikely to be in the public interest. Nor would it be in the best interests of the child ..."

The guidance on youth offenders contains more detailed descriptions: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/youth-offenders
Demo looks awesome. Is that against localhost or an actual server? Latency seems nil.
The comment I'm referring to is the one saying we shouldn't grant rights because bad stuff happens to humans so we should solve those problems first. There are multiple replies to that, including mine, which I refer you to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100715
> If it’s that easy to say, then go ahead and put forth a business plan that can succeed even with people copy pasting your text to different websites for free consumption.

I think it would be worth to give the same way a try that effectively killed video and music piracy over the last decade. Content delivery across media, across devices, with less friction than it is now to visit some ad infested site or sign up for weird, non-obvious paywalls for each and every single outlet. Maybe give other players a chance, like Apple News or even the here mentioned Google News, and work with them instead of going down in their shadow. You'll always have piracy but if you give people convenience you can still turn a profit, especially on a website like HN copy&pasting articles wouldn't be a thing if people felt it was less ethical than just paying for a good service.

I don't want to suggest that it's easy or that I've got a business plan to save the news industry, I'm merely trying to express my frustration with how they currently handle it (but yes, I feel like at least part of that is self inflicted by the industry).

As for your first point, I'm sure journalists tried. We've even seen some nice initiatives in Germany where they tried to get people to sign up to purely journalist-driven services. Not sure what came out of that tbh. But that brings me back to the thing that my main grievance are not journalists, I honestly admire people that chose this profession, especially those who don't end up rewriting press releases or clickbait headlines for some blog to make a living.
The FSF has never viewed anyone who wants exceptions to copyleft as being part of their community to begin with.

Even something simple like the JSON license is something that the FSF sees as fundamentally incompatible with their values.

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:JSON
Why is arbitration even a thing? What’s the point of laws and regulations if you can opt-out of them by requiring arbitration?
This doesn’t feel like much of a “hack”, it just leveraged the fact that an email address is all that’s needed to create an account and get a promo code. in the end he just has 1000s of accounts with $10 of promo credits each. His plan is to switch accounts every time he runs out of credits, seems like the easiest solution from Voi’s perspective would be to expire promo credits after a few weeks.
Same here, we just deployed a React/Next.js app and it's been a veritable nightmare. Productivity was much worse than a normal server-side framework with a JS layer on top, especially since we've got experience with Elixir which has worked great for us.

Soon we're starting another project, and we'll go with Phoenix (which we're already using as a backend and GraphQL server) with LiveView sprinkled here and there where we need better interactivity.
Bad analogy - exporting "good" encryption was illegal and while for individuals that was basically irrelevant, _companies_ would absolute follow that law. The analogy is not between "you stealing from a convenience store", it's "you running a company that has a known practice of robbing convenience stores". It's so incredibly illegal, you're not going to. There is no realistic hypothetical in which that decision would even remotely make sense.
I guess the government will only ever use their powers for good, and those powers will never fall into the wrong hands?

I suppose the definition of illegal activity is also fixed and social norms will not change over time?
Maybe we could say there are varying degrees of clickbait, but any headline that calls attention to the fact it is omitting important information has to be considered clickbait.
> Yes, I do have great disdain for Elon, he's an absolutely terrible human being. Thanks for digging it up.

Ohh.. Interesting. So not only is that you have severe anger issues, but you're also holier than thou. Geez guy, get a grip. What have you done for humanity? Look at a mirror and yourself that question.

But you know...I truly feel sorry for you. I hope you find peace, whatever pain you're suffering inside.
Matrix or Signal?
Wow, you cited so many sources to support your views. Am impress
I'm out. Hit me up when 'slavery' just doesn't deliver the punch you're after and you move on to intellectual genocide.

We're basically in the verbal equivalent of the audio loudness wars. There's no dynamic range left in our speech, everything is theft, hate, rape, violence, racism, fascism and of course slavery on some ever increasing but poorly articulated spectrum.
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Has Google officially announced QS yet, or is this all based off of leaks?
None of that is true.

Have you considered the idea that speaking out could have negative consequences for my son, who still has a couple of years at that university?

They have already shown their cards in so many ways. One of my son's roommates during his first year (an 18 year old) both sold alcohol and drugs from their shared dorm room and consumed them in such amounts that it was common for him to vomit in his bed multiple times a week and generally be dysfunctional, much less study.

Both parents from the remaining two kids in the room brought this up to university authorities, including police. I physically went to meetings with them. The other parents did the same. We wrote countless letters. We wanted this kid to get help. He was here from another country, had no support system and was harming himself and others in incredible ways.

The university utterly ignored our requests. They told us the only option we had was for our kids to move to a different dorm room. Never mind the kid who was killing himself while dealing drugs and alcohol.

Fast forward to the end of the term, he takes a flying leap from the top of a flight of stairs and suffers serious physical damage. The university still does nothing, in fact, despite failing his courses they allow him to continue and enroll for the next term. He spends much of his time in bed, gains a tremendous amount of weight and his quality of life became unbearable. I'll stop the story at that point.

The university, did not care. We could have saved this kid's life. They had at least six people screaming at the top of their lungs for months when this problem started. They did nothing. And the kid paid the price. Well, I guess he was worth $60K per year, it must have been worth it.

This kind of thing --not this exact kind of thing-- goes on at many universities across the US. I am in touch with parents with kids in universities ranging from Berkeley to MIT. They all have stories of ideologically or financially (or both) wrongdoing. It's just the way it is.

For an interesting perspective, watch this interview with Niall Ferguson (the first half or so is relevant to this topic):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkNIOkGtnQ
>We need tests with lower false positive rates. The problem with catching cancer early is confirming whether you actually have cancer or not.

This is a big problem, but it's far from the only problem. The other problem is catching cancers that are destined to stay harmlessly in place. So-called "turtles." They are surprisingly common among the population.

South Korea currently has this problem - 15 years of screening has found a massive amount of thyroid cancer, so much so that thyroid cancer is now the most common cancer in Korea. Yet all these extra cancers discovered and treated early hasn't reduced the death rate at all. That means the cancers being detected and treated are destined to have no negative consequences to the patient.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/09/5275692...
That is not possible, the key is inside a hardware chip which enforces the number of tries for the PIN.
>Research shows the UK needs 21,000 more computer science graduates on average, every year, to meet the demands of the digital economy.

This contradicts with most of the Amazon Software engineering jobs in the UK which are targeted to mid-seniors only. Given that this is the case, it is better to hire 1,000 senior engineers to do the work of 21,000 CS grads that need to be trained for the job, which doing that is costly.

The UK just doesn't have the core computer science skills that are needed by FAANG companies. Amazon just bring in engineers from other countries on a work visa just to 'fill in the demand'.
They used to last years. They are cheap crap now.
It looks like the app makers have to port over the plugins that are available in the app too, so older ones may not be available either. At least that’s what the App Store text leads me to think.

Still, as someone who’s very interested in getting into modular, $8 for a few hundred modules that I can use with my other iOS audio apps is a great deal! I expect to lose track of time very soon...
Does it though? The other side is mowing people down in cars at peaceful protests and killing immigrants extrajudicially.
If a person takes his baby to rob a bank or commits any other arrestable offence and there is no other family available to take the child, then the child will end up in government custody. I concur that it is a sad and unfortunate result, but it's necessary supposing you don't want bringing a minor along to be a free pass for committing crimes. Since that policy creates incentives for endangering children, I strongly oppose it and anyone else who cares about the welfare of children should too.

edit: I debated posting and then deleting this with myself quite a lot, but I'm going to leave it because I think it's important to consider more than just first order effects to protect child welfare, which is something we (I hope) all want.
This is more about using AI in the classroom. Often times family income is a major feature in determining low-performance. Simply not including this in predictive models isn't enough because you may find a proxy feature that is also highly correlated to family wealth.

Current research in edtech is now looking at the transferability of AI models. For example, if I target a specifically low-income / low-performing school and use some type of process to improve their scores, will that model transfer to another school (with hetero- or homogeneous students).

So the statement "Reduce childhood poverty and you’ll improve results." isn't directly referring to how wealth improves intelligence, but rather from a logistical regression perspective each "unit of wealth" is correlated to a higher performance.
The decrease in unemployment has gotten slower since the last huge tax cuts so you can't even use it as an example of "maybe it worked, its hard to say".
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I'll take limited YAML over JSON any day of the week for things that might be edited by hand. The cleaner diffs when appending to a list alone are worth it.
I watched Fox News regularly until 2015 or so, so unless the changed dramatically since then the statement about them having more politically diverse guests is just wrong.
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That's just passing the buck: instead of relying on the goodwill of government employees, you're now relying on the goodwill of Facebook employees. That's still "relying on goodwill" levels of security.
Yeah, my buddy survived it once, then it came back again as stage 4 and he beat it using immune based therapy. Now his adrenals and thyroid are dead. It's better than dying, but it's not free.

Edit: also, my buddy was the only guy in the study group who didn't drop out. He just happened to be a massive pill-head(opiates), and smoked a ton of pot, which probably helped get him through the side effects.

Immune therapies are worlds better than traditional chemo/rad, which often ended up giving you an entirely different kind of cancer years later, but they are not without side-effects.
I'm not sure if I completely agree with the silently part. Doesn't Signal have reproducible builds? In theory, any binary they release can be checked to see if it corresponds to source code.

Whether anyone is actually doing that is another question. And there is no technical reason app stores couldn't send a special backdoor-ed build to select list of users under surveillance if government forced them to. (They can target sets of users for staged roll-outs, beta programs, etc.) Which defeats the notion that one person watching can detect it for everybody.

On the other hand, it's possible to do stuff with smart phones at the platform level. Whether through vulnerabilities or some platform capability (updates, etc.), it may be possible to have a backdoor-ed binary that looks to the user like it is the regular binary. That's not a capability that Signal has, but it is a capability that might very well exist.

Regardless of all that, for users who have auto-updates enabled (most users), even if Signal can't silently push a backdoor-ed update, they can unilaterally push one. You could wake up tomorrow with a different version that has a backdoor, so even if you can identify backdoor-ed binaries, you have to turn off updates or verify the binary every time you open the app.
China's new 'super camera' pinpoints specific target persons in crowds
If you are making a new missile system and all of the free (as in beer) software you want says you can't use it to kill people, then you suddenly have to pay a lot more money to make your missile system. That seems like a good thing to me.

I don't see how you could claim that it wouldn't be influencial if this became standard practice.
Traffic to the airport is.
I'm not advocating equivalent rights or status, and was careful not to phrase it that way.
I mean, isn’t that exactly the whole point of sanctions, to make people on the inside to feel the effects and do something about it from within?
For some contrast, I find Riot (web and desktop) quite nice and usable these days. There are still a few rough edges, but it's good enough as a "daily driver" for me.
So, how many banking executives were found criminally liable after, say, the 2008 global financial crisis?
I think there is a lot of sense in your argument. Also worth remembering Apple have added so many features we once Jailbroke for, which makes the usefulness less for the average person.

Still though I think this will help the JB scene. It’s unlikely it won’t spur at least some new interest and momentum in the scene though.

I mostly jailbreak for shell access and ability to see what the network stack is doing (related to my work,) but a few tweaks like SwipeSelection are great additions too.
One of the biggest companies in the world did it. Starts with a G.
> Bad point. Type checkers only check fairly simple properties of your program.

Bad bad point. There are statically-typed languages with fairly complex type systems. There are even dependently typed languages which check essentially any property of you values and can be used to prove your program correct.

> Most of the work in making sure that your program is correct [...] goes into developing comprehensive tests.

Tests can only show the presence of bugs, never the absence of them. This is not me speaking, this is Dijkstra.

It is ok to prefer one method over the other, but there's clearly an aura of opinion on the statements of this article. It would be better for the reader to explicitly differentiate fact from opinion there.
> Being a gathering of system administrators I’d expected more IRC, there was no mention of it.

We just don't tell you about it -- Slack is more visible to management, and thus infosec has made slackbots a fucking integration nightmare.
> Usage of tangible objects is restricted by law.

A company can refuse to sell you a product if they don't agree with what you're going to do with it but they can't do anything at all if you somehow legally get ahold of it through secondary means.

Same with sold copyrighted works through the first sale doctrine (and this carries over to patents as well).

Software has seemed to have carved itself out a special niche where you don't actually own the product so the producers can dictate what you can and can not do with it after "first sale" since they don't really sell (or grant) you anything other than the right to use the product.
i am very avidly opposes to DoH because it doesn’t solve the problem people think it does. and it further entrenches cloudflare, who imho are vile but that aside the concentration isn’t a good thing.

however, your statement is wrong.

i won’t go further into detail because my comments on this subject universally attract all the downvotes so there’s no point. but in general the problem is you need to qualify “safest”. safest for what and for whom, and in what scenarios? you’ve left too much unsaid, so what you say is not generally true.
I know you say this in good faith, but as a Brazilian I find this comment very condescending and unproductive.

If Brazil wants to become as rich as Europe it needs to focus on things that made Europe what it is right now: industry, services, technological innovation.

The Amazon deforestation is only beneficial to agriculture. Focusing on it is basically sending us back to the 19th century.

EDIT: I also made another comment pointing out how minor the effects of stopping the deforestation altogether would be in our economy: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=21101628
Wisely spoken
That's what you ultimately have to do, but you can take users, engagement, retention, growth and monetization over time compared to competition.