skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could always keep the main repo private, and just pushed the published versions to the public repo
Charting a Way Forward: Online Content Regulation [pdf]
Even if you don't change the interface, by doing fun things like writing types in go that accept strings or ints as ints to strangle a perl server binary and proxying unimplemented handlers, you can still end up with problems. We started having issues with our db getting knocked over by callbacks from our server fleet on an endpoint we hadn't even rewritten yet. Turns out the slowness of perl handling the tls connections had shielded the db and forced retries, switching to go meant the db was hammered with the concurrent requests from perl workers, unhindered by the tls handshake.
From an existing pool.
It seems like there's an even simpler solution that doesn't require bootstrapping a totally new network.

To me, it seems like Twitter serves two closely related but ultimately distinct core purposes. One is publishing. It basically hosts content on a globally accessible network. Two is identity. A person's Twitter handle is an authoritative record of their identity. A person knows that any tweet on the @wikileaks handle came from someone Wikileaks authorized to use the account (barring some sort of hack).

Twitter's censorship and enforcement ability mostly relies on the identity side. It bans you from continuing to publish under your previously, globally known Twitter handle. Creating a new sock puppet account is trivially easy. Even the best of IP bans is clunky and easy to work around. We all know if Wikileaks wanted to open a new handle, there's really nothing Twitter can do to preemptively stop them. They can only react with a game of whack-a-mole.

The problem is that this poses a coordination problem between publisher and consumer. Wikileaks' readers have to somehow discover and verify Wikileaks' new handle/identity. But think about how this dynamic changes if the identity function is off-loaded from the publishing function.

Imagine an unauthorized client that overlays on top of vanilla Twitter. Instead of subscribing to Twitter handles, you subscribe to cryptographic identities. Participating Twitter publishers cryptographically sign their tweets, proving their identity. The overlay client regularly scans the entire site's feed to discover any new handles using a known signature. If Twitter Inc. bans your handle, just fire-up one of your sock-puppets and all your overlay subscribers seamlessly re-point to the new handle.

The best part is this approach is backwards compatible with vanilla Twitter. You can keep using your pre-existing Twitter handle, and vanilla Twitter subscribers don't see any difference. But if you're afraid of potential censorship, you can encourage readers to gradually adopt the overlay system.
I like how some web apps, such as Gitea[0], are just packaged as a binary that you run right away.

So much easier than following a long list of instructions. If your users can't download and run a binary, then they have no business running a web service anyway.

[0]: https://gitea.io
Well, for me, it was never curl or shell vs Zapier or IFTTT. Only time I have used curl is few years ago in PHP while fetching some external link or page. The closest to shell script is my bunch of .bat files or even less number of .vba files I used very few times in life. I never touched linux or *nix if you don't count using Control Panel on PHP Hostings & using Android.

Also, the Ask HN was what do you use these for, not what do you use these for which can't be done by shell?

> anyone reading HN might find it easier to not use Zapier or IFTT.

Well,there you go, I find IFTTT easier than shell or curl because of all GUI & inter-connectivity. Although last two years I go to Google Apps Script first for anything related.
I'm sure Norvig is exceptional in many ways, quite possibly 10x, but the tricky thing about examples is that some things that look hard from the outside aren't. They're just about familiarity.

I saw that you mentioned a spell-checker, and thought "I'd use levenshtein distance. That wouldn't be hard to implement on a flight. I wonder what he did that's better." Turns out, he used levenshtein distance, and tuned the results with frequency estimates. I don't know if I'd have thought of that, but it's also not a mysterious technique--I'm confident a lot of people who work more in related areas than I do would think of it.
What's the deal with Skinwalker ranch? Why are they interested in it? Everything is so vague and x-filesy when people mention the ranch. Very woo woo without any actual details about what people have encountered there. What is the specific link between the ranch and UFOs?
Building Skyscrapers on Chicago's Swampy Soil
I like the way Qwant search engine deals with this. It gives a small challenge to solve which is a lot less cumbersome than finding traffic lights on photos or far less invasive than the fingerprinting technologies others use.
Nice app!

What are your thoughts on flutter overall?

Did it make it easy to build a cross platform app?

How was dart to learn? Is it a headache to understand the syntax of yet another programming language?

Have you been totally satisfied with the performance?
I do use OSX, but I'm also on Linux Mint. Both are sharp and smooth as butter. I'm uncertain why your experience has been what it has with Linux. Could be drivers or something. I did have to set Mint to work for 4k60. It did not work out of the box properly. (HiDPI was off. Hardware vsync was off.) Mint has never had sub pixel rendering as far as I know. It looks crisp and great.
The big difference is my setup doesn’t require another email service. Just 10 lines in a config to spin up an imap server. I was trying avoid the big mail providers when I set this up.
Whose Side Are Ethics Codes On? Power, Responsibility and the Social Good
These are lower orbits so any space junk released is eventually going to burn up. Not sure how long it'll take... years I think, but not too long.
Is there a reason you need fast internet connection in forrests/on the Arctic/while sailing in the middle of the ocean?[1] Is there a reason why much of Africa or Asia can’t invest in similar infrastructure as Europe has done to provide internet to where people live?

1: Maybe it could be handy to transmit large amount of science data I suppose, but they seemed to be able to cope with this limitation while photographing the black holes
I can't tell if this is a bad build or maybe due a tracking thing, but running it locally browserified runs everything perfectly, mobile included.
I was thinking that inexpensive devices might lead to MRIs outside of the 1st world.

quick search shows in 2016 USA has 37 mri/1mm people, mexico has 2 mri/1mm people
So if I run a large chess forum, and want to delete posts that aren't about chess, I would have to choose "publisher"?

And if some user X posted something about a dispute they were having with chess tournament organizer Y, and Y felt this was untrue and decided to sue X for libel, I'd also have responsibility for that alleged libel because I'm the publisher?

Before anyone says that this is a ridiculous scenario, that's pretty similar to that happened with Prodigy's bulletin boards before the CDA. Prodigy had content guidelines for their boards, moderators that moderated to enforce those guidelines, and software that screened for offensive language.

Someone posted a message that someone else felt was libelous, and that someone else sued both the poster and Prodigy. The court ruled that because Prodigy enforced content guidelines and had filters for bad language, they were a publisher and responsible for the content of all the messages.

It was that case that was one of the main inspirations for the CDA.

Before that, the way the case law was shaping up there were only going to be two options for an online forum.

1. If the forum does not want to be liable for what its users say, it cannot moderate or restrict their content, except as required by law.

2. If the forum places any restrictions on content, then it is essentially in the same position as a newspaper or a book publisher, and to keep its legal risks under control it is probably going to have to do a similar level of fact checking.
Agreed, Netlify is fantastic.

Another thing I really like, though I wouldn't really recommend it for corporate sites (but I would recommend it for personal sites because of the community/purpose) is Gitlab + Neocities. I use Gitlab CI to build my site, rclone to copy it to Neocities, and that's it.

Very simple, no-hassle combination with loads of bandwidth (I think my paid account has 3 TB/mo).
I used to joke that the term "business-to-engineering psychologist" was more descriptive than "software architect". You had to know how to get people to agree a lot more than how to get technology to work together, especially in "larger organizations". It's politics, pure and simple - most of the conflict isn't technical.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just pass orders down through the ranks to report all sightings, however odd they may seem?

"Hey, we think the Chinese or Russians may have something new. It's imperative that all unidentifiable flying craft are reported."

My personal theory is that the US knows exactly what these objects are because they built them. I don't believe the US military would've ever commented if they weren't fully aware of the nature of these objects. From a military strategy point of view, that's equivalent to broadcasting a weakness.

Instead, I believe the US military is broadcasting a strength. A sort of disclosure of capability without any real disclosure. The release of these videos, and the accompanying comments from military personnel, in my opinion, is a warning to other nations.
Indeed, but this is the "easy" case, and I suspect your IT guys/gals spent a considerable amount of time setting up and shaking the bugs out of this setup.

It's not that printers are physically unreliable, although they certainly can be. It's the logical complexity of getting an image (or text) from one device via the myriad protocols, connectors (or wireless), page layout languages, etc., correctly onto the printer. And for added fun, even after RMSs long trek, some printers still aren't open enough to drive without secret software.
Apple Warns That Coronavirus Outbreak in China Will Affect Revenue This Quarter
Are you paying for it? It sounds like a great solution if it's available on the free tier.
Interesting tweet sequence from Elon [1] below Karen Hao's introduction of the story on twitter:

> OpenAI should be more open imo

> All orgs developing advanced AI should be regulated, including Tesla

>> By individual governments or on a global scale, eg UN?

> Both

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1229544673590599681
> punitive for past transgressions related to trade

You can take the morality out of it. This is simply two adversaries in a power play.
I would have thought climate change would have greatly impacted this map. Why hasn't it?
Show HN: A directory for shortcuts and hidden features
Roman Ways as Subway Lines (credits to https://sashat.me/)
I am shocked that police would act like that!
>my testing has shown that a cheap “High Speed HDMI Cable” can work at 60Hz with 4K resolution with the right combination of video card, monitor, and drivers.

My testing was completely contrary to this. I bought around 10 cables that claimed to support various dp and HDMI specs, trying to achieve 4k@60 on my MacPro.. in the end only one cable actually succeeded, and the longer version of the same cable from the same manufacturer would not work, and even the "good" cable would flicker if the ambient temperature was too low.
I haven't used 40Hz so I can't speak for it but at 30Hz even my typing is slower, let alone mouse movement, which feels like it's pulling on a short string.

60Hz is a good sweet spot, but as people say 120Hz is noticeably better. At least at 60Hz I can type at full speed, scroll at full speed, and my mouse accuracy when clicking on buttons is good enough.
Pro.paganda
Couldn't agree more. This was fairly revelatory for me and I've been able to find more productive ways to spend my time recently. I even (shameless plug) wrote about it in a blog post: https://timwhite.digital/distractions
Wow, makes me wonder about adverse effects. Could you magnetize the hemoglobin in your blood?
Install Zoom on my computer?

I’ll take a hard pass.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoom-defends-use-of-local-web-...
> why is it not feasible to bring faster internet connectivity to suburban America with traditional infrastructure?

Politics and corruption. Existing entrenched ISPs are massively profitable. Competition kills profits.
Until recently doctors and auditors weren't allowed to be limited-liability companies. There was still a ready supply of people willing to run those businesses as partnerships, with personal liability. There were good and bad firms, just not megascale conglomerates. The "liberalisation" of those rules didn't help the little guy, just the opposite: auditing became concentrated in a handful of giant companies, and quality predictably declined.
Why do you find Pd so much better?

FWIW, Radiohead used Max/MSP live IIRC. Aphex Twin has used it. Neither are "multimedia performance buffoonery". Though I love your characterization because I've been subjected to plenty of said buffoonery.
LavaPS: Compiling on Arch Linux
Totally! Just pointing out that unix timestamps don't solve everything (even before getting to relativity).

International Atomic Time (TAI), which differs by UTC by 37 seconds since it doesn't count leap seconds, solves everything I know of. Although the clocks aren't in a single reference frame, the procedure for measuring their differences and averaging them to define TAI is well defined and so sets an objective standard for "what time is it on Earth".
GitHub provided private repos to everyone after Microsoft bought them. And I don't know why it'd require the repo to be public to do the pages...
> Which of them do you propose is the appropriate model for moderating YouTube or Reddit?

Neither? People are proposing we develop a new model that reflects the new situation we face. Sounds reasonable to me…
Based on this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850605
You still get hit by bots, AT least some of them. If you are really concerned you want to use port knocking.
Where Jeff Bezos could start spending that $10B on climate
Usually you are able to save the tasks that require fast internet connection for later. If you find your self on a slow internet connection while uploading a large video file, you can hold that up until you find somewhere that has a fast connection.

You also often have the option of lowering the bandwidth requirements (e.g. switch of the video call for a voice call at a lower quality). I find fast internet a luxury rather then anything while traveling.
Have you run into this?

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/1087

I love all the features of asciidoc but it bothers me they can't get the actual HTML generation right.
Anyone interestes in this should read the book Disclosure by Steven Greer.
I don’t work for or have any relationship with Netlify. I do think their service is wonderful.
That's out of context. I was responding to OP getting a cheap VPS provider. If you want a cheap server then it's better to just get a tiny instance from a major cloud instead. Most also have free tiers.
while it's technically possible to hear above 20 kHz, outside of a laboratory it's far more likely that you're hearing intermodulation distortion, or simply background noise: at least on Linux, the audio output can be disabled completely when not in use. therefore, there is background noise only when the audio output is activated.
I'm sad about this but not surprised. Holden was one of the two iconic Australian car manufacturers (Ford is the other, but we also had Toyota and others) but had really lost touch in the last 10 or so years.

Go back 20+ years, and there's no way you could have convinced any petrol head that Holden would exit Australia, ever. Ever second car you saw on the road was either a Commodore or a Falcon. There's a car championship (Supercars Championship) that was literally built, for decades, on the "rivalry" that was Holden vs. Ford.

We have a "luxury car tax" that was implemented as a cushion for the local automotive industry. It's meant so if you buy a car from overseas, there's a tariff to make it less enticing, and buy local. Now that Holden will exit, and Ford/Toyota will no longer make cars in Australia, I hope we abolish it. Doubtful though.
To this day most IOTA comments on Reddit will get hit within an hour by rather obvious shills.
Wow. That's surprising to hear that there are 4k60 monitors without DP. I'm sorry to hear you can't find a proper monitor in France.
Then again, all those people who can’t buy these products now due to temporary shortage aren’t going to just forget that they wanted to buy a new iPhone.

I believe there was a similar reason for the auto industry to come back so strongly after the 2008 financial crisis. All those people who held off on car purchases in hard times exited the crisis with aging vehicles that needed to be replaced.

I would think that this sort of shortage would harm a consumables company like Coca-Cola a lot more than an “appliance” company like Apple, Toyota, or Whirlpool.
Building slack into the supply chain would be a very inefficient way to stockpile for emergencies, compared to actually stockpiling for emergencies. As you've said, it would make no sense in the case of the iPhone. The McKinseys of the world are absolutely right about this.

The problem is that the old system created a positive externality (coincidentally storing a bit of inventory for emergencies, though inefficiently and in no way planned) that the new one doesn't. It's the sort of thing that should be fixed by government incentives.
How is it not malware that after you uninstall software that there is a backdoor that will allow them to reinstall it?
The tangle is a DAG (directed acyclic graph). A DAG is a viable data structure for a distributed database, but it has issues for a cryptocurrency where you want to maintain consensus on a single objective global ledger.
First of all something called "Psychological Science" already raises my hackles. Science in general has become so corrupt and politically oriented it makes killing elephants to vilify your technical rival's creation look understated. We have so much useless "science" being funded and won by professional grant hounds that garbage is inevitable.

The US has a legal system not a justice system. I suspect that is true of many countries. Once you are caught up in it then you will realize it isn't personal and it has nothing to do with the truth or justice. We have incentivized "winning" of trials and have blindly gone along with the idea that having both sides behave horribly ensures fairness because well..What else can you do?

Might be time to step back and think if a bunch of premises are working out. Does giving some wannabe tyrant a lifetime job really result in good decision making because they are "free" of political influence? Is it cool to allow for things like fine print and to allow lawyers to be immunized from many bad behaviors because lawyers keep writing rules in such a way to keep lawyers employed? Is it really cool that a prosecutor can lock someone up for 20 years who was innocent but that the recourse is some lawsuit where everyone pays for the settlement and they get to basically get away with "oops"? Is it cool a defense lawyer can "win" a case where they know their client is a child molesting cannibal?

Philosophy and big questions may seem quaint and are often the target of people who claim they are some form of scientist but for some reason my non scientist self and many average people seem to be able to suspect that the legal system is a bit fucked up, paying someone to publish papers on the implications of tyrannosaurus rex having created a vegan matriarchy might also be fucked up and if you let those things near each other some really bad stuff happens unless you get serious about fixing the core of problems both of them have.
That's one lousy excuse for a corporation like Google. This has nothing to do with them being PhD-heavy or engineering-first? (what engineering-first are you referring to btw?) The reason for this is the nature of their business. It's a calculated decision by them in terms of how much is worth spending on support without taking an actual hit to their margins.
This is really slick!
A lot easier, may not work. "On one hand, I've been ordered to report UFOs. On the other hand, I don't want to be laughed at, do a lengthy psych evaluation, and never fly again. "

Best to do both.
If I uninstall Chrome, will it reinstall itself by keeping a daemon running?
There's a lot of misinformation about how visible Starlink is. The satellites are barely visible (and only in dark skies) in their operational orbits. Next-gen versions (with albedo reductions, which they've started experimenting with) will likely be operationally invisible entirely. This doesn't mean it won't be an issue for astronomy with incredibly sensitive instruments from which almost nothing can hide. SpaceX is working with the astronomy community to try to improve the situation for (especially) ground survey campaigns.

As far as who will pay for it... SpaceX has lower launch costs than anyone else by a significant fraction as well as lower satellite costs (likely by a similar fraction). There are tens or perhaps (globally) hundreds of millions of rural users who these constellations would help, as well as some fraction of more urban users.

Satellite internet already several billion in annual revenues from rural areas, in spite of the terrible service and high (expendable) launch costs. It doesn't take much for SpaceX to be profitable here; being a satellite service provider historically is much more lucrative than being a launch provider. The main unproven hurdle I see is user terminals, not the constellation itself.
The free SSL certificates via ACM are only available in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region. That has tripped me up before.
I've added the option to print now. Feel free to give it a try
Wow, thank you for the tip with owllabs.com -- that device sounds amazing (while being damned expensive...). Why do you still use another microphones when you have a 800$ webcam (with integrated microphones) in the room?
Works for me, I'm using two fairly new dell 4K screens, as far as I know it works on any hidpi display
>> The world isn't binary, we need a bit of both.

I believe the point the GP is making is that social media sites play both sides when it's in their best interest and neither when it isn't. So they moderate in the name of "public safety" when it suits them, but can't catch everything so they hide behind "impartial utility" to avoid responsibility.

They aren't walking a line, they are switching sides when it's in their best interest.
> One must be diligent when researching about this stuff, but the evidence is really strong

Where skeptics deviate from this reasoning is that, while there is hard evidence (i.e. the incidence of radiation burns, radar artifacts, etc) of something happening, the most likely explanation is terrestrial rather than interstellar.
You haven't lived until you've had a psychopath as a boss and for whatever reason they've decided they don't like you.

Do you feel lucky?
I enjoy this line of thinking, having domain knowledge is always critical to success. Being invested is always ideal.

I would like to counter with the delivery transformations I have been apart of, the role of the architect has dried up.

I do predict for most large enterprises the role of a manager will start to become more full stack and becoming that invested visionary technical leader and mentor. At least that's what I hope for...
It sounds like a change in policy would be more sane then entrusting private entrepreneur in fixing this very solvable problem.