skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do you want ISPs to inject random crap at the top of your website?

If your ISP does this, or if you are on a sketchy network somewhere, then maybe you should not use it at all. Get a new ISP, or use a VPN if you are that worried. If the webmaster is not sharing sensitive information on his casually maintained static website, then that is good enough reason not to use HTTPS. I know it sounds... uncaring.

It is true ordinary people, who don't understand the risks could get MITM'd and never suspect a thing. For some reason I still don't care enough to put HTTPS on my shitty old flash game website. I just can't be bothered. I think that is good enough of a reason. Blame should go on the ISP who are MITM'ing their customers.
> It's not an insecure protocol. What is insecure, in every single example I've seen in this thread and in the article, is the bad defaults of browsers executing javascript automatically. Without that terrible design choice, prioritized because of commerce and the desire to change the web of documents into a surveillance operating system, HTTP would be, and is, just fine.

OK, so what you're saying here is that HTTP is insecure as long as the browser distributors continue to do something that (you say) is insecure.

Well, I've got news for you. The browser distributors are going to continue to do this.

Also, do you really think it's within reason to expect users to examine all the Javascript that is loaded on a page looking for malicious code before clicking some sort of button to run it?
Constraints:
- No temperatures hot enough to melt silicon or metal.
- Everything must unfold from a single cell during the process of reproduction, no factories allowed.
- Everything must be made out of what it can find to eat, no mining allowed unless you're a subterranean bacteria.
Bats carry many viruses but are asymptomatic. Pigs can contract viruses from other animals, they mutate and then it's passed on to humans. A bat biting a pig is probably the cause of many weird viruses.

You also have to wonder if the African Swine flu running rampant through China is also part of the cause.
Thanks, really glad to hear you enjoyed them!
> How are you going to do linear interpolation, let alone exponential growth, without floating-point?

Fixed point is one answer, but I see you know that already. I don’t know what the banks use for interest, but I can guarantee that it’s not float32.

> If you have some routines for dividing fixed-point numbers, one, why do you believe they have more accuracy than floating point

Fixed point routines do not have more best-case accuracy than float, given the same number of bits ... but float32 definitely has a worst-case accuracy that is very very bad compared to a fixed point number.

> why do you believe they’re more correct than floating point?

Can’t speak for the GP, but I think asking about correctness is a straw man. The issue is really about safety, predictability, and controllability. Floating point can be very accurate, but guaranteeing that accuracy is notoriously difficult, and it depends very much on the unknown ranges of your intermediate calculations. Fixed point, on the other hand, never changes accuracy as you go, so you don’t get surprises.
Double exposure.

Expedia for example, if you searched for "flights" you would get an advert for Expedia and a search result for expedia.com
From the article, a quote that is enlightening:
if I asked, ‘Do you understand New York City?’ you would probably respond, ‘What do you mean?’ There’s all this complexity. If you can’t understand New York City, it’s not because you can’t get access to the data. It’s just there’s so much going on at the same time. That’s what a human brain is. It’s millions of things happening simultaneously among different types of cells, neuromodulators, genetic components, things from the outside. There’s no point when you can suddenly say, ‘I now understand the brain,’ just as you wouldn’t say, ‘I now get New York City.’ ”
When did people start putting testimonials in their README.md?
Almost 2000 years before Newton, Archimedes wrote "Any object, totally or partially immersed in a fluid or liquid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object."

The ancients knew a fair bit.
OTOH, "undomesticated" males tend to be good as generating more offspring with diverse partners than "domesticated" ones with 2.5 children.
I meant the second paragraph about security in general, not TLS [0] encryption, but I can see how that's not clear. HTTPS improves security in part through encryption.

[0] What do you think of that S?
The down-vote feature (for those who didn't read the article: you have to provide feedback to down-vote) is something I've spent years saying HN badly needs.

These days I just don't bother posting most of the time because while I shouldn't be bothered by abuse of negative rep; you can't help be pissed off when you've spent a short while including detail only for someone who doesn't understand the subject or has a personal bias in the subject to react with a knee-jerk down vote. It's not as bad when people reply because at least you gain context into their point of view (even if you don't agree with them) but it always felt, dare I say, "rude" to effectively fine a comment karma without explaining why you've done so.

Also HN's model actively encourages burner accounts where people will say something they know to be contentious with an anonymous account so they don't burn their own karma. The problem with that is that can then sometimes lead to trolling too. After all, why sensor your opinion if you're now a burner account?

There used to be so much good content posted in the comments but the quality seems to have diminished over the years and I honestly think that's in part due to more people reaching the karma threshold for down-voting. The more times a genuinely thoughtful or informative post gets a knee-jerk negative vote, the less people will feel inclined to give up their time writing thoughtful or informative comments.
Spotify DRM Bypass
that’s some vampire shit there sir
It means it's a taxi, but with an app.

It's bizarre how people can get away with completely redefining words, especially when it's the cynical creation of a euphemism.
Ever heard of Apple Music? Spotify? Youtube?
It's complicated, but basically... You don't. It's much better to just set up Let's Encrypt. Takes <15 minutes.
Sales Automation Software for Construction Contractors
OP and TFA meant "Would a similar method of observing a complex, connected system of systems work on a less complex example like a microchip if we had just up and found one?"
HN is reddit lite.
No, please don't. Often you have to combine money with quantities that also need unit of measure conversions and this just is one step too far. Frankly, chasing the error goes from a programming problem to a contract problem very quickly.

Also, you are going to end up storing in decimal fields in the database anyway.
The bar has been getting raised overall though, as more computer tasks get taken for granted. Unless your requirement is nothing short of scifi machine consciousness.
Too late to edit the above, but I need to make a major correction: US geostationary satellites are indeed launched from Florida, followed by a fuel-expensive plane change to get them into the equatorial plane. Other countries launch them from land they own or control closer to the equator.
Not any live feed.... a feeding frenzy (Impeachment) and he wants to cut off the dude's rebuttal? That's chickenshit.

But of course I'm sure you'll have a rebuttal to this as to why ol Georgy did nothing wrong. You type of folks always show up white-knight style in these threads.
> The volume on Lobste.rs for some topics is just not large enough to get an insightful convo going.

I get that sense too. I looked at the titles of the links on Lobste.rs and this is a purely subjective opinion, I feel the content appeals to a specific demographic. I struggled to find a link there that would interest me (not that my opinion matters terribly).

10-15 years ago, we experienced something similar with Slashdot and Kuro5hin. Kuro supposedly had much higher quality content, but I couldn't help but feel the site only appealed to certain kinds of people. I appreciate high quality content yet could not bring myself to care about Kuro. (I'm sure many here have the opposite experience, so I'd be interested in your counterpoints).

I very much believe in curation, but without volume, curation seems like pre-mature optimization, it seems to me.
This is an over-rated article by those outside the field of neuroscience. While it brings up a few good points, it fails to acknowledge the sophistication of our neuroscience and behavioral techniques, and the value of converging evidence across levels of description. Also, its relatedness to the present article is tenuous at best.
13. Acknowledge that objectivity may be impossible but fairness never is.

The worst problem with journalism today, encapsulated in a single sentence.
Please don't include Taiwan as part of China.
President Xi has warned that the virus is spreading. His intervention seems to be unprecedented. Is it worse than what it seems to be?

They have quarantined whole cities and are building a hospital at war scale especially for this.

Maybe the Chinese know something that the world doesn't know yet.
> Also, you are going to end up storing in decimal fields in the database anyway.

why not use cents as the unit and store it without decimals?
Sure, but when the biggest (or only) ISPs in many countries are doing it, and you can prevent it by taking out 15 minutes to set up Let's Encrypt, that's on you.
Every one of these "innovations" was invented by Microsoft alone, without any dialog or input with or input from the standards committees. Their intent was clear: to subvert web standards in any way they possibly could in order to force people to Windows. And in large part they succeeded.

Treating them as advances that were, sadly, not adopted by the rest of the web takes a lot of chutzpah.
Actually, I see a much greater risk being around other humans. It’s why I don’t live near a major city and work from home. There is a chance that a virus from an animal might mutate to be human communicable but literally every virus from a human is already human communicable. People see it as somehow natural to live in a city of millions of people and then we are viewing animals as the greatest threat?
I mean, we're talking for the most part about cases where people were having sustained contact with infected animals in wet market-type situations. It's not obvious to me that the problem is animal consumption in general, or if the issue is the prevalence of wet markets in SE Asia. And in any case, if there's a group of people who you're going to have trouble convincing to move away from animal consumption, folks who work in the animal industry are probably going to be the last ones to switch.

E. Coli is also scary, but it doesn't spread as readily person to person, so it's not something that's going to move the needle for most people.
Do you think it’s a bad idea? I figured that it would help people give it the motivation to try it out.
Doesn't that just cause a massive filter bubble effect?
That's not what that article says. According to that article, that decision was based on the idea that a hyperlink cannot infringe copyright, not on implied consent:

> The court in Karlsruhe does not regard the display of the preview images as an act of making available a copyright work in the sense of the copyright law. ... Since the decision handed down in the “Svensson” case in 2014, it is common ground that, in principle, the use of a hyperlink is not a copyright-relevant act.
Down-voting sometimes increased my incentive to do trolling. I felt like they attacked me first for no good reasons.
Why can't twitter itself do this kind of work and deal with the trolls? After all, twitter has the IP address(es) that these tweets come from, and they lots of people smart enough to write anomaly detection code to find potential troll attacks.
Laughable to compare the obsessive curation of music on what.cd with any of those platforms, not to mention the fidelity and the vast range, far exceeding what’s available on the other platforms.
If you want an invite, email me with your username or some other places where you've commented and if you don't seem like an asshole I'll hook you up.
Prepping for a race war: Documents reveal inner workings of neo-Nazi group
Downvoting isn't the problem - it's spam flagging. There's no better tool for suppressing ideas and viewpoints you disagree with than flagging it. Only on HN can a story occupy #1 on the front page due to overwhelming upvotes, and 30 seconds later be sunk to the depths of page 2 or 3 by a handful of flaggers who disagree with the content that's presented.
Salesforce encouraged employees to buy and expense Benioff's book to boost sales
Lets not forget ebola
There's Waldo is a robot that finds Waldo
Right. This is where a teacher or mentor can really speed things along by being able to hear you want to achieve X, and suggest you study the fields of Y and Z.

Ed: and beyond simply pointing out areas the student isn't aware of, also suggesting connections between fields - like linguistics and computer science, for example.
If you use a password manager to save your password and don't lose access to the password manager, you are safe.

All you need is your password to sign in.

I was only describing the hypothetical approach we're planning to implement for someone who forgets their password.

And yes, if I'm understanding right, I think those threat risks are very different. One is trusting your device which you yourself have control over, the other is trusting a cloud-based service provided by Apple, which you do not have control over. Not everyone uses Apple products either :)

Edit: But alas, it's a user's choice how they want to save their password. If Apple provides a static key over this service and users really want this option, it's definitely worth exploring further :)
I found its alien nature to be kind of helpful in learning Clojure, actually. The paren position change really does melt away quickly, and in the meantime it was a good reminder that I was “not allowed” to do procedural code or mutate variables; I had to use a different mindset. Most people who check out Clojure have been coding for 10+ years, so you’re in good company as far as ingrained habits go.

As others have said, the best way to check it out is to get a REPL running in a decent IDE and play with the language. There’s something quite intuitive in its workflow: knowing that you want to do something, though you’re not quite sure what it is yet, and typing a single ( gives you all the power and space you need to figure it out no matter how deep inside a code block you are.
I’d politely suggest reading the post, especially the “Polite & Knowledgable Community” section. Afterwards, you could have a look through https://lobste.rs/hats
Quick, cheap to make, loved by police – facial recognition apps are on the rise
But when you eat certain animal parts you gain extra powers like increased strength, intelligence, testosterone, and sexual prowess! /s
Its true that this system blocks spammers and marketers. At the same time it also prevents a large amount of genuine users who want to take part in the dicussions because its hard to get an invite. So overall the system does more harm than good.
I think the invite only aspect of it can be a problem. The invitee needs to get the invite from someone that they either know in real life or someone who can vouch for them online.

The former isn't a great solution because it requires users to be linked to their real identity by at least one person. Real identities have some advantages, but requiring it bars a lot of good discussions that people don't want linked to their real name. Allowing pseudonyms gives people freedom to publicly say something they would traditionally only say privately or sometimes not at all. If it is paired with strong moderation, like HN is, it can prevent the greater internet fuckwad theory from going into effect which is a common problem with anonymous communities.

If you have people inviting people that they don't know the real identity of, the invite system isn't really adding anything beyond making it slightly more complicated to join. I could understand a theory that a higher barrier to entry means that only people with a high desire will join resulting in a better community. It is possible that results in better discussion, but I'm not sold because there are plenty of bad users like spammers and bots that are also highly motivated.
Again, this is not copyright's fault. This is the decision the artist makes when signing away the rights. If they don't want the airplay, don't sell to a record label that puts things on the air. Believe it or not, the radio stations don't play things without permission. Heck, most artists actually pay for the airtime.
I will jump on and add that the filter options that the OP talks about are a weakness, not a strength.
I like HN because I get exposure to ideas and topics that are out of my normal orbit. A lot of the web is very narrow these days and I know HN has it's limitations but it still feels very diverse.
Nope. They can get a VPN, or fight against their big ISP or government to stop such dubious practices. Your point of view seems to come from a standpoint of infantilization of these users.
How do you categorize it in a way that everyone is satisfied? Do you use a % male/female? What if someone doesn't recognize themselves as neither? Google Photos can't know what you feel who you are, it simply base itself on your visual appearance and guess if you might be male or female on some visual cues and the current fashion trends that is distinctive between male and female, however superficial it might be.
If your "music discovery plummeted" after an illegal copyright infringer was taken down a decade ago, I seriously question your commitment to music. In the years that went by since what.cd, you never found new ways to discover music? Oh kay. More like you just liked stealing from creative professionals.
British Government might ban FB and Twitter if confronted with Brexit riots
> wonder if the African Swine flu running rampant through China is also part of the cause

You mean as in it having transformed and evolved from the swine flu?
This issue is isolated to you. I use PayPal multiple times per day. It is working fine right now.
Pepper Spray with Laser Sight
> This has snowballed and now the community is full of experts in their fields

The front page is mostly dead. The most discussed thread has like 17 comments. And a lot of those comments are uninteresting - e.g. "Hey, really nice post!".

I think it's more important to have a lot of users, with the occasional user that has a deep expertise in one area rather than a small group of people that are slightly better on average.

Honestly, there are probably plenty of small subreddits that have a higher level of expertise. Places like /r/askhistorian have proven that it's possible to have really good in-depth and insightful discussions if a modicum of moderation is implemented. It's especially easy for topics related to a profession and even more generalized, topics that aren't too inflammatory like politics or religion.
I can’t see any good solution, unless those third parties start using HTTPS.
It's not a dichotomy - removing animals from our diet does not leave a sterile environment for humans. Humans and their environment are plenty filthy on their own.
Signup wall?
Cloudflare itself has a feature to issue certs to protect CF<->your server.
Attention is the currency of media. Modern, mainstream "news" programs are not journalism per se, they are just conduits for advertising dollars.

The sad part is that concocting sensationalism is extremely profitable, especially politics. And when you can create the controversy and then charge outrageous amounts of money to the very people to whom you poke, you control the discourse and you make a lot of money, which in America is power.

Modern, mainstream "news" is just like fast food. If you care about your body and your health, you will not eat the stuff. But most people dont care, dont mind and dont even think about it. Its cheap, tasty and convenient.
Is it better to limit access to limit access to only those you personally know?

Sounds like a great way to limit exposure to differing thoughts, experiences, and opinions.

If you’re only hearing from those in your friend circle, it’s just another glorified chat room... nothing new here
Lobste.rs has a better site and functionality, but HN has a better community and much more activity/discussion. Though I want to note that having a better community doesn't mean the people on HN are nicer or more educated. There's just more users on this site, and thus more content overall, which means a larger amount of good content.

I guess you could always read both.
>MHTML was proposed as an open standard to the IETF but somehow it never took off.

I had always wished MHT replaced PDF. But due to the rivalry at the time Firefox refuse to support MHT ( even to this day ). Webkit has WebArchive which as far as I know isn't support outside of Apple's ecosystem.

I dont actually buy the argument it was Vista that slows down IE development. IE 7 wasn't that much difference to IE 6. It shows Microsoft had very little incentive to improve the Web. I dont know how many actually hate them for not complying with ACID "Standards". I certainly dont. But at the time the Web has so many low hanging fruit a lot of people ( or just me ) were pissed Microsoft didn't even bother improving while holding the web standard hostage with its IE dominance. Along with the crap called Windows Vista.

Luckily we got the first iPhone, 2 (?) years later. And the rest is history.
Well, that's how the rest of the Internet seems to work. (I'm not saying it's right!)
Basically all human diseases started out as zoonosis as humans for a long time we’re too few to be a viable reservoir.
I’m a somewhat regular user over there and I regularly see a healthy debate/differing views
So far the virus is believed to have a two week incubation period with unknown transmissability during that time, which makes it particularly hard to contain, especially with a migration like Chinese New Year.

The lockdown is unprecedented in China but the Soviet Union used to do similar lockdowns (at a smaller scale) during cholera outbreaks. I think this is just a massive overcorrection due to China's 2003 SARS outbreak but we'll start seeing more and more of these large scale quarantines as our civilization comes to terms with the realities of cheap air travel.
Nah, you can do that on Reddit as well...
I think that a better solution, at HN scale, would be to limit the number of downvotes in a 24 hour period.

Not clear what the ideal number is; maybe 5 at 500 karma, and 5 more per 500, possibly up to some limit (25?).

Otherwise, 'you must provide a reason' is trivially gameable, it just means downvotes are two clicks instead of one.

I suspect that the recent trend to low-quality downvotes is because 500 is a relatively low threshold with as much traffic as HN gets these days, and we have a bunch of newbs who were champing at the bit to inflict some punishment and go nuts with it when they get the ability.

Limiting downvotes at first would train users to be more thoughtful in what they censure; eventually the limit becomes no practical barrier, but hopefully by then the habit is established.
Look all social platforms (from blogs to news aggregators and networks) continuously change. Not in the manner of the ship of Theseus but in the concept that the people who use the platform determine what the site is all about.

What eventually happens is that the people that have been there the longest reminisce when the site was different and they actually preferred that kind of content. But, the site has gone into a new direction.