skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO that probably has more to do with changes in your own reading habits or maturity level vs. 5-7 years ago. As toxic and ridiculous as any sort of electronic forum can get, I don't think it's any different now than it was on Usenet circa 1995.

For example, I started reading Slashdot not long after it started ('96?). I really enjoyed it, read it every day, occasionally posted. Then sometime around 2000 I just got disgusted with the quality of the comments- it seemed like there was a long slow decline, and no longer did the average commenter seem like they were my age or older, my level of experience or greater, my level of knowledge or greater- instead it just seems like a cesspool of pointless, toxic flamewars about stupid things that seemed to exist for their own sake. Reading Slashdot comments started making me feel stupider and angrier, not more informed. So I eventually stopped reading Slashdot.

But then, over the years I would talk to various people younger than me with the same experience- the only thing that changed was which year they thought Slashdot was good, and which year they thought it went so downhill that they just couldn't read it anymore. Like, "Slashdot was awesome circa 2007 but by 2011 all the commenters sounded like toxic teenagers". Which makes me think that what actually happened was Slashdot comments were always terrible, but if you started reading it your larval hacker years you might not know any better. Then you grow up some more and get more knowledgeable and mature, and the same level of commentary seems really inane.
Are there any stats available for child sex abuse using end to end encryption? It is used widely, along with "terrorism!" as a reason to ban e2eE, so I'd like to see some stats that show that it's actually an issue. Does regular mail post have this problem, or random websites? Not sure that e2eE is exploited more for this than those other platforms ...
Step one - You need to understand the problem (ie. polarization != toxicicity)

Step two - You need to ask the correct question. There are lots of answers here that are both useless and answer you.

Step three - You need to get people to answer the actual question

You need the better answers to rise to the top

You need the answers to be directly actionable.

You preferably need it to be quantifiable

You need to understand how it will work in a marketplace.

As an example, we should try and understand what happened when Twitter doubled it's Tweet size. Did it make it better? Did it hurt their market? How important is message size?
Casting is as bad as using "any". You can make the compiler think anything you throw at it as that type and you can get bitten at runtime.
> It's annoying, sure, but it's far from a material burden on my quality of life.

It's a material burden on the rest of us though. Every home has a dozen cables where 2 would do. The reduction of eWaste is a noble goal.
Yes, they could have that control. But they currently do not.
> It's just a Hyperbolic Headline.

Maybe, but it's effective. I instantly know what it does instead of trying ascertain what makes Yet Another Linux Firewall different from the rest.
To this day, Aperture has hands down the best UI (for me at least) for what it was trying to do. But the first few releases were absolute and total steaming piles of buggy shit. So I concur with that developer who was "standing in the back".
A good many are addicted to authority figures to tell them how to think.

To be fair, if you have (for example) a high school education, simply taking the word of someone who has (for example) a PhD in X subject is a best practice.

From the article:

In theory, resolving factual disputes should be relatively easy: Just present the evidence of a strong expert consensus.

Though I've spent time in an anti-vax community -- because it was a good source of useful health info if you could sidestep the emotional baggage and conspiracy theories -- and some members had PhDs and at least one was also a published author. So they had their own respected and credentialed experts to argue against the respected and credentialed experts that friends and family were trying to use to attack them.

Most don't return the favor.

Regardless of argumentation style or approach, most people are basically saying "This is my best understanding of life, the universe and everything." This includes people claiming to have the logic high ground for some reason and lots of people have been burned by people looking to win the argument and making no effort to understand why they might see it differently.
> If stuff is really gone, that would suck.

It would. Though it's probably not. It's more likely they have their search tuned not to burn extra cycles looking for archived shit not in RAM like the web archive does.

That's my guess at least, there have been HN threads in the past where people run obscure searches and it takes some time for Google to crunch it.
I made the original comment, and I think we see the world in a different way. This is how I see it:

Creating a business is a creative act. It involves logic and rationality as much as intuition and imagination.

I do think it's an expression of yourself, you're packing all you've learned into something that you think will be valuable to other people. Your personality is reflected in your product, so is your voice.

Ultimately it's up to the creator to treat their business however they seem best. If you want to be all about profits, good for you. If you want to explore ideas, try things and enjoy the creative process while slowly building revenue, also good.
As a matter of fact, i picked up woodworking as a hobby last summer and made some really good friends. You don't have to be good at it, just the whole process of going through it is rewarding. Look up "Mr. Chickadee"s channel on YouTube, watching his videos is like a meditating experience.
I really appreciate the thoughts above, but I have to question point 4:

> improving the quality of discussions with profile pictures and real names

As a counter-point, imagine a discussion forum in an authoritarian country where your picture and real name is placed next to everything you say online. The discussions may end up being very polite, and full of agreement, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the community is well served by that forum.

To some, that concern may seem irrelevant, since most governments wouldn't attempt to control people that way, but I don't think we have to look very far to find examples where people expressing unpopular opinions face social and professional punishments. Perhaps you would agree that anonymity can be helpful in such situations, (checks notes) "anonsivalley652".
Thats like saying the person died form lack of blood after being shot. Its technically correct, but actually useless.
Well, consider the reporter's POV. It's really easy to browse Twitter for 20 minutes and then spend 10 minutes summarizing your findings. Contacting people who have any connection at all to important events and then convincing them to answer your questions about those events might take all day...
Well let’s hope that means something. Restaurants also have health rules they are required by law to follow set up to help save lives from things like food poisoning yet I can go to my local health authority website and look at the violations from all the local restaurants. My point is if we are relying on people to self isolate I am less then hopeful. How did he get to that doctor? Did he use effective isolation techniques the whole way along? I know from working in the hospital the gown and gloving procedure before entering and leaving an isolation room is something I had to train to do and took reading and thought. Does this guy have that training? Let’s hope.
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AI’s Killer (Whale) App
Yes but why is it so bad to let companies choose what charging cables they provide?

You get a free charging cable usually when you purchase a new phone and charging cables are cheap.

I get the environment argument but I don't see how this moves the needle on protecting the environment. If anything it could scare off tech companies from developing charging cables that are better for the environment.
The agreement doesn't need to be unanimous. And it's fine for the agreement to be "just use whatever the latest small form factor USB collector is" which has been the de facto Android standard since the beginning.

It sounds like you're arguing that the lowest common denominator phone manufacturer will be holding up progress. But the connector is the easiest part, especially if it's a truly ubiquitous standard, because it will be heavily commoditized. The lowest common denominator phone manufacturer will just buy whatever the cheapest connector from China is, and this will almost always be whatever connector is most common.
This is a cogent argument for having a ceremonial and practical/executive head of state, but doesn't even touch on why a hereditary monarch is in any way superior to having a ceremonial President and executive Prime Minister, as is common in other countries.
Just read the Asimov novels that introduce the rules.

Every single one of them fails in dramatic ways and that's what drives the story forward.
https://pi-hole.net/ ?
Step by Step Guide to BLEU Score
This is all just guys stirring up trouble, conspiracy theories abound.
Good analogy, but one can always banish the proselytizers with a simple "Sorry, we're Catholic!" (One doesn't even actually have to be Catholic to say this!)
It wasn't just "choosing not to participate." It was activism seeking to exclude religion from public life. The most important of those being the elimination of religion from public schools in the 1960s. (I should caveat the following by pointing out that the below is not an attempt to convince anybody about what policy would be better. Instead, it's an attempt to describe what I see as a fundamental tension in the approach that we have, for better or worse, adopted.)

A key function of most religions is providing people with a specific moral framework. Fundamental to that is almost always the process of socializing children in that moral framework. (Indeed, the UN recognizes that as a fundamental human right.) At the same time, a key function of schools also is socializing children in the values and morals of their community. For most of American history, there was no conflict between these two institutions--America's overwhelmingly Christian communities socialized their children in their religion through public schools.

The Warren Court's decisions in the 1960s broke that process. Parents had to socialize children in their religion "on their own time." Meanwhile, because teaching morality is an indispensable aspect of socializing children, public schools created an alternative, secular moral framework to impart onto children. Under those precedents, even in communities that were overwhelmingly Christian, and where Christian parents wanted their children raised with a Christian moral framework, public schools were required to teach them something else, in competition with whatever religious instruction they might receive on their own time. It's a unique scenario where attempts to vindicate the individual right of being free from unwanted exposure to religion in schools, has the side effect of dramatically curtailing the ability of the majority in the larger community to impose their religious values into their children.

Taxing people, then using that money to create public schools, and then requiring people to send their kids to those schools, and then prohibiting those schools from teaching kids the religion of their parents, very much has the effect of undermining the propagation of religion. It gives the secular teachings of teachers primacy over whatever religious teachings parents may be able to impart during the waking hours when children aren't in school.

Whether this that approach is nonetheless necessary in a multi-cultural society is a different question. I would point out that countries like Sweden seem to be doing fine allowing religious parents to choose to send their kids to publicly funded religious schools. But I think the effect of promoting secularism and undermining religion is hard to deny.
no it's not. it's a joke about genders.
From this tweet (https://mobile.twitter.com/tomgara/status/122289759170208153...) which highlights the section that describes advertising inserted into medical software.
For more recent, though more vague, evidence that China may not share the same views on handling extremely dangerous pathogens as the rest of the world, we have this story from July 2019, wherein a Chinese researcher working in one of Canada's BS-4 labs, along with her husband who was a SARS researcher, as well as several students she brought over from China to work with her, were all given the boot over unspecified "administrative matters".

The University later severed all ties with her and her crew.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-e...

The article speculates that this was related to IP theft of some kind, which seems strange considering the lab's work was all in the public domain--what's to steal?

This happened about six months ago, and four months before the Coronavirus broke. Is this at all related? Maybe, maybe not.
I don’t want the new app. I want to stay on v2 on my phone. Or if that’s not an option I’d like a refund so I can buy an alternative.

I’m not paying $40/year for an iPhone app.
Using List.map and Option.map is more verbose and less general, but it's still most of the way there.

OCaml still has currying, algebraic data types, "implicit" returns, tail call optimization, etc., and it encourages recursion instead of loops wherever applicable.
Also, from the Financial Times:

https://www.ft.com/content/f7a01a60-442b-11ea-abea-0c7a29cd6...
There's a ppm error there as well, but that's a usually a different problem. If different units were used, it would be obvious when checking in on the benchmark.

If it's in northing and easting, the baselines are to the South and West of all coordinates covered by the projection, plus an offset. So it might start at 1000000 instead of zero, to ensure format consistency and to catch blunders.

So it's about 2ppm, multiplied by the number of feet between you and the Southern or Western most edge of your state (if single projection state) plus 10^5 or 10^6 or similar.

It's designed to make an error large enough to notice.

Vertical however is rarely a problem, as it's all based off local benchmarks.
Language keywords are like ingredients. You don't have to use it all when cooking. Something that most organizations and folks don't do is constraint what they are going to use. They figure, it's all out there for the taking, so use it all. It's always a pleasure when one comes across a group that have thought deeply about the nature of the work and selected a subset of the language they need to use. This is very important when dealing with a huge beast like C++. Just like if you go to AWS, figure out what you need, don't try to use all their services, decide on what you will not use too.
Imagine someone time traveled here from 30 years ago first learning what cell phones are then seeing this headline. Why is this even debatable?
Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
All but a set with measure zero, in this case.
It's that you're in the wrong e, n location, which may be at an entirely different elevation than where you want to be.
Try the counselor, you won't regret it.

https://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi185837849
Does that matter to the legal theory though? Like they’re free to pass a law that says that carriers have to keep logs for X years and then get a warrant anytime they want them.

Like if you don’t trust the government to follow their own rules then why do the rules matter?
The Approaching Debt Wave
Biggest industry affected is the banks. They’ll ping your phone location if you make out of area purchases as a part of fraud detection. If your bank doesn’t require travel notices, they are probably pulling mobile location. Some don’t, I know chase uses mobile app to determine location.
Cannot comment regarding iPhone 6 specifically, as I had been using Android phones after iPhone 4 up until XS generation came out. It might be that Apple has upgraded the lightning port tech over all those years between iPhone 6 and XS, but that's just a guess.
Cyclone was definitely there. Sadly no longer maintained, and not at all practical to get working on modern systems (I did some work on it, then gave up).
My laptop has USB-C charging and already the cable doesn't fit properly ($1,200 machine). I've tried cleaning it and blasting it with air - so annoying. Have on-site service so may have them come out to figure out what is going on.
Apple is going to be dropping charging cables so... shrug?
Accelerating chemical reactions without direct contact with a catalyst
Sounds like a job for the space force.
I carry two phones, my private Android phone (my personal preference) and an iPhone imposed on me by work. Not having to bother with two sets of cables would be a welcome improvement.

As for "not moving the needle", every little thing sums up. Also, it's not just the cables - manufacturing lines, shelf space, redundant labor, ...
Testing Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot [video]
> The amount of pseudoscience being peddled for attention or thrills in these threads is getting really worrying to me, I had expected something totally different from this community. :/

I believe this is generally the case with most topics outside the standard focus of this site (which I would posit is computers generally). There tends to be a mixture of intelligent, accurate commentary, and intelligent but misled commentary (and my observers bias would further distort the separation between those two categories). It tends to get better as discussion continues, but not always.

That said, this topic is more likely to be sensationalized than most.
7 days from the idea stage to being featured on Business Insider
Last Saturday, we realized that there wasn't an app for tracking the coronavirus. So we built one: https://coronavirus.app. Took us about 72 hours to build the MVP and a couple more days to add additional features.

Right now, we're exactly 7 days after the original moment we came up with the idea, so we're very excited that the press picked up the story. Here is the article by Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-app-where-is-how-dangerous-number-infections-2020-1

Happy to answer any questions you may have!
I bet someone bought location data for legislators and showed it to them.
Do you need biotech people?
AFAIK it remains the single most selective platform out there. If a project is included in an OpenBSD release you know it has undergone serious whitebox scrutiny for security issues. I'm not aware of any platform that is quite so pedantic at the source code level.
http://archive.md/MIVp8
This isn’t a carrier selling the data issue. In the mobile app case you install the app and authorize location tracking.
Spamgourmet an Inspiration
I actually learned of the difference between the U.S. Survey Foot and the International Foot while working on https://plantpredict.com. For years we had infrequent but bizarre unit-conversion bugs. Calculations literally weren't adding up. We assumed it was related to precision rounding since numeric input fields showed rounded values. It turns out the imperial-to-metric feet conversion factor we picked was 1 of 2 choices, and we picked wrong!
Call your mother.
Controlled opposition while shuffling the real dirty jobs on them and maintaining plausible deniability.
Boiling frog syndrome.
NSA monitors foreign traffic.
Show HN: Musilinks – Interactive musical artist relationship discovery
OP here: Hey, i have built an interactive web app where you can choose any artist OR band OR band member that you love and quickly find out who's in that band (if you choose a band) or what bands are related to an artist (if you choose a person). After that, you can drag and drop the nodes in the network to start exploring connections. You can even drop any artist into the network (through the plus sign in the search bar), making possible some really cool visualizations. You can also fix/unfix nodes, open up the artist spotify top tracks and spawn spotify related artists for a particular node (if spotify has that artist in it`s db).

If it sounds confusing, check out the quick tutorial by clicking in the (?) icon. (HN icon not working yet though)

This is my first node/javascript project ever, so let me know what you think :)
Tldr

• Two-lane operation using existing USB Type-C® cables and up to 40Gbps operation over 40Gbps certified cables

• Multiple data and display protocols that efficiently share the maximum aggregate bandwidth

• Backward compatibility with USB 3.2, USB 2.0 and Thunderbolt
Are you supporting this law in favor of the purported "more safety for children" outcome regardless of the privacy impact? Or do you believe the government should have access to the information that's generally encrypted?

I'm in the latter camp. If I can't trust the people my community decided to represent us, then I can only fix that problem by organizing and running myself. I haven't done that just yet. I'm very much on the fence here though - since this does grant a lot of power to the government...

But I don't really feel like this is the most effective way to make our children safer, and I feel like framing it like that is disingenuous. Maybe the reps who introduce it feel that passionately about this issue - but I'm sure a less drastic solution is available.

Maybe we should apply the "principle of least privilege" to the government!
That amazing graphic !
I never understood why domains used to NTP and Package mirrors depend on external, commercial, certificate authorities.

It could be a fallback, with a red big warning to manually check the certs are alright when you need it (e.g too long without synching your root certificates package). But for most cases there is no excuse not having it local at all times.

I mean MITM a domain essential for the "distro" should be at least just a little bit harder than regular MITM.
> There are some who don't like democracy and have continuously obstructed it in order to achieve a 'second referendum' even when they haven't implemented the first.

Was the first referendum binding?
If you don’t see it as something you need, you probably don’t ... at least not yet.

Ive been an Engineering Manager and Head of Quality Engineering and when you end up with hundreds or thousands of test cases, either in one product or service or across many, managing the output of testing becomes a challenge. There may be low priority regressions that you want to fix later and create bugs for and link to failing tests so you know you’re waiting on those fixes before you expect the tests to pass.

If there is a problem with a test itself then assigning it to a team member to fix is useful. Tracking history helps identify flaky test cases - they’re automatically highlighted as being flaky. Consolidating tests from several sources helps understand the overall health of a project.

If you’re maintaining a product or service that goes through a lot of change and there’s say 10 people or more on a team managing all of this becomes increasingly difficult. With respect to pricing it’s free to try and $25/month per target so not particularly expensive.