skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good that this is reported on but I agree about the addiction. A fun exercise I do is look around me and find all the plastic or petroleum derivatives. What does the world look like without oil? It strains the imagination. But that doesn't mean it can't change, vote, get involved!
The difference is that citizens aren’t trained statesmen, diplomats, or political scientists.

That’s the whole premise of representative democracy: that direct democracy (through e.g. having referendums on everything) doesn’t work, because people don’t have time to be good at whatever personally makes them a living and also politics; and so we pay some people to do politics for a living, so that they will have the time and invested practice to make nuanced decisions.

Anything that subjects political representatives to constraints under which they have to vote according to exactly the public’s will, forfeits the benefits of representative democracy and replaces them with an implicit direct democracy.
This is a greater problem to solve than Discord. How do a group of people publicly and responsibly disseminate blackhat information to whitehats?
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Thanks for all the responses everyone!
Isn't sign reading necessary for say, construction areas, that would have a lower speed limit? If so, researchers could do the same thing by placing false construction signs.
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This claim appears so frequently but without links to data to back the assertion, so unless you have something to back that all up, people would be better served educating themselves on the lung damage and deaths caused by vaping - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/s...
Sure, go waste your money speculatively building a product.

You don't have to do this of course if your price point is $10,000+, you could go get agreement in principles if it's a bigger product.

But for smaller products that are online only signup? Getting all dewey eyed over someone not getting their $10 p/m new to-do app, and go spend months building it instead and then finding there's no market?

You're making the wrong call there. Test the market, prove you can sell it, then make it. A couple of people not getting their $10 p/m app vs you losing $10,000s on wasted time is worth that.

To be honest, as a professor what have you ever had to do business-wise? You've never left academia apparantly. It must be nice to critize but I have no respect for your advice.
or your eyeglasses, which would seem to hint at the midpoint of this ethical puzzle
What makes certain movie quotes memorable?
The important question...why do I need to master the material to get a promotion? Is that truly what the next level role requires? Well...unfortunately, many times that's not the case, but someone at company X decided to use it as a filter. So in our free market economy, educational institutions who have a social monopoly on being reputable purveyors of education happen to offer something the market is demanding. I agree with you that an in person focused full time Master's program is meant for you to "master" the material. That's not the reality though and frankly, most people don't have the financial situations to allow for that to happen. Getting a Master's in the purest form of educational attainment is something you need to be rather privileged to achieve, or hardworking/lucky enough that you managed to get a crap ton of scholarships to be able to live off ramen while you're doing it.
Thanks for the advice. I did not notice that it's that terrible level. I'll get this corrected overall.
Ah, I did not realize you were referring to the software. In that case, there is also Construct[^1]. There are other implementations in the works, though progress is somewhat slow.

Synapse is much better with regards to resource usage these days, though. The RSS of my instance is 355M right now and the CPU usage is hovering around 0-10% (15-min server load ~0.5).

[^1]: https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct
That depends on the size of wreck you manage to cause, don't you think? In any case, it takes no more people to drop a brick than it does to sticker a sign.

To be clear, I find this entire concept of unsupervised robot vehicles both dangerous and absurd - even more so than the already dangerous and absurd baseline of a society so intimately bound up with automotive travel as ours. Exceeding such a high baseline as that is in its way impressive, and certainly demonstrates the astonishing overconfidence rampant in some segments of our very young and rather careless industry, but let's not get distracted from that essential point and waste our efforts on inconsequential arguments over whether a sticker is more dangerous than a brick.
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If it's https, that's all fully encrypted. The network only sees IPs. The hosts and paths are all encrypted headers.
"I don't feel like telling people that they shouldn't say anything wrong or potentially unimportant is the right way to go."

The problem is far too many people err in the opposite direction. I don't see an Internet only consisting of perfectly reasoned and argued content, with everyone else fearfully staying quiet. I see countless comments suggesting the writer didn't take a second to consider contrary viewpoints, or facts that might undermine their argument, or stating things with certainty without regard to whether or not they have a factual basis.
>Fun fact 3: AGs are elected so they seek publicity, they are also corrupt: the one in Mississippi was issuing subpoenas to Google on behalf of the entertainment industry (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141217/06353329462/attor...)

This may be an example of corruption in an Attorney General's (AG) office, it does not prove that all AG's are corrupt because they are elected (of which, public relations
is a requirement).

counter example: Letitia James

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_James

One may not agree with her actions, however, corruption it is not.
The essay isn't confusing in general just because you were confused when you read it. There isn't a single argument in that essay that depends on which flavor of encrypted email is used, so being specific about that would only weaken the points being made. The essay is also pretty clear in saying that email can be used for stuff that doesn't need to be kept secret, and that it's not fit for anything that does.
Which is why discord gets run in a browser tab for me.
The elected party in Greece only got 40% of the votes and they can pass any law and take any decision at will. In addition to that pretty much every party that was elected in the past had been caught lying regarding most things that they said regarding the economy (and not only). People should certainly be responsible for their choices, but this was not one of them.
It's as though Farage was right, and there's a lot of unsavory undemocratic backroom dealing going on, cigar smoke and all.
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Mostly course work with a capstone project.
Maybe because they were probably already doing sanity checking, but the kind that relied on some previous context? That seems reasonable, I’m sure they’ve thought about this kind of attack before, missing an obscure edge case.
Throwaway accounts are discouraged in the site guidelines:

>Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

This user isn't revealing sensitive information, and it seems like they are trying to hide a conflict of interest.
Some threads from 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14793217

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776357

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778588

A bit from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180195
I am in complete and utter awe of this website. I simply cannot believe the level of typography that I am seeing. I cannot imagine the number of incorrect decisions or accidents that would have had to have occurred to reach this monstrosity.
Congrats on shipping!

I played with the demo & liked the capability of quickly inserting a snippet of code by selecting + customising a widget. The idea of making it quickly shareable / deployable apps is also very powerful. You product is along the lines of Streamlit / Voila / Plotly dash. Write plain python to make deployable front end apps for dashboarding etc (additionally you help writing that python with readymade snippets).

While the capability is powerful, I'd recommend finding a persona that would actually use it enough to pay for the "pro" version. Currently it's geared towards data scientist, but they are very comfortable writing notebook code to generate visualizations. So the low-code (generate code from widget) part is not very appealing to them. They need simple yet powerful python constructs that creates beautiful front end components for them (headers, paginated tables, plots, graphs, interactive widgets). And then make it easy to deploy these apps internally. Checkout Streamlit that promises to do both these very well.
It's better to use a meaningful title. Something like in the 2017 submission "Magnetico: self-hosted BitTorrent DHT search engine suite" . Perhaps you still can edit this.

Try to get user. Users will became poweruser. Powerusers will become contributors. [You can try also with first-good-issue, but I don't like it too much.]

In the last submission there was some complains about the greedy strategy to connect to other nodes. Have you fixed it?
lol, better downvote me just in case haha
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That'll be one lucky chinese scrapper.
> I did not consent to have poisonous fumes near me.

Me neither. However, the construction trucks driving around in front of my apartment with exhaust so thick it covered my patio with a thin layer of soot don't give a fuck about my consent.

Second-hand tobacco smoke is a non-issue, as smoking is already banned in places where people don't have a choice to be in (bus stations, building entrances, etc..).

But if we go with the 'battery' hyperbole, I would 'batter' back people who sneeze/cough and don't cover their mouths. I don't consent to have poisonous bodily fluids near me.
That's an expected feature that only makes sense if you're part of a community that expects to share all communication.

On the Ardour's project's main IRC channel, it makes absolutely zero sense for the vast majority of people in the channel to be able to drop off the channel for 2 days, and come back and read everything they missed. The social expectations and norms there don't make this a sensible or reasonable expectation.

Contrast with "modern chat systems" ... in most of their uses, this is an entirely reasonable expectation because you are a _member_ of the group, and simply being offline isn't a reason for you to miss messages.

In our case (Ardour), we have private IRC channels where this sort of expectation is more reasonable, and we run a Quassel server to provide "always-on" messaging for people who are "members" (i.e. people for whom it's sensible to expect that they never miss messages).
There is a big difference between a small independently owned mom and pop mattress store and a chain like Mattress Firm, Sit-n-sleep, etc...
I agree with your second point, however, respectfully, your first point is incorrect (I was going to call it absolute bloody bullshit, but that would be the amphetamines talking).

Here's a better breakdown of carcinogens in cigarette smoke (same book, same author)[0]. The most lethal way tobacco smoking impacts health is through carcinogenic by-products created from metabolizing said tobacco.

"PAH, N-nitrosamines, aromatic amines, 1,3-butadiene, benzene, aldehydes, and ethylene oxide are probably the most important carcinogens because of their carcinogenic potency and levels in cigarette smoke."[0]

To elucidate on one of your points: nicotine isn't on any of the "carcinogens in tobacco" lists, because it, nor any of its metabolites, aren't carcinogens at any dosage that is practically applicable to humans.[1]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53010/
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/
Even if it was a legitimate 85 mph sign a human would realize that the road isn't safe at 85 mph speeds.

You must react to the environment as well...
This is a database written in Prolog: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminus-server - albeit with a RUST storage engine - prolog's lack of types means there are better storage solutions, but for constraint logic, it's unbeatable.
The author mentions 4 times that privacy is a basic human right, I guess to guilt us into agreeing with them.

But the article's actual argument is that contributing to a specific FOSS project is a basic human right, which it is not.
Price per kwh is not solely about generation efficiency, it's also about distribution and infrastructure. There will always be a cost associated with that which will rise with inflation. Even if we went totally renewable and all your electricity was "free" then you'd still have to account for on demand storage and infrastructure costs.

The main benefit of nuclear is its relatively low carbon footprint and in theory less risk of spiking fuel costs because we run out of raw materials. That's the dream of fusion anyway.

Nuclear power infra is not cheap and even fusion will have security and decommissioning costs.

Forget cost as the main factor, grid power will never be free. That's a fantasy - even publicly owned utilities will/are funded by taxation. You're paying for price and power stability. Domestic fusion means you don't need to rely on foreign resources (eg Russia cutting off the gas).

Putting renewable generators in your home has a high capital cost, but people forget that you're also cushioning yourself against grid outages. It's insurance more than anything else.
I wish I had this when I was learning Linear Algebra. When it was taught to me, both in HS and College, there was not a word of motivation about why we were juggling numbers around in boxes. It was tedious and had seemed to have no connection to anything.

I developed a strong dislike for LA, if not outright fear and hatred. This from someone who majored in math at university. I later learned from reading Dr Oakley's book, _A Mind For Numbers_, that this is a perfect recipe for not mastering a subject. I was sabotaging my own learning by approaching it from the point of view of something to be despised. It was many years later after reading Oakley's book that I challenged myself to learn Linear Algebra.

I found the Coursera course Coding the Matrix https://codingthematrix.com/ perfect. Not only did Professor Philip Klein explain the subject well, but it was also a programming course in python. Coding the algorithms helped make them that much more concrete. I'm happy to say I finished the online course with 100% grade.

Unfortunately Coding the Matrix is no longer available on Coursera.

I know this thread is more about Strang being a teaching god, and he is. I wanted to add something on alternative ways to learn linear algebra.
I am rather curious about your sugar industry and coral reef claim. Do you have any good sources I could check?

As for climate science and its predictions, I tend to keep an open mind myself, too much advocacy seems to be floating both ways and I don't want to wade through all the Marc Moranos and Greta Tunbergs to get to tangible information. That said, I have recently found this article comparing climate model accuracy over the years.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m...
"Not Radioactive" is the trick. Even if the fuel isn't hazardous you have lots of radiation being kicked off by the reaction that irradiates the surrounding equipment and the waste products.
There's ReactOS. I'm not sure but I believe that many of ReactOS developers are Russian.

Although I don't understand the point of Windows clone.
I keep seeing throughout this thread statements similar to "a human would never do this", and the only thing running through my head is awe at how little otherwise smart people understand their fellow humans.

Like...y'all have lost your goddamn minds. OF COURSE many humans would do it! Humans fucking drive straight into lakes because the map told them to. Humans do not have some kind of magical ward against fucking up or against being tricked. Quite the opposite.

But you know what the difference is? As soon as the computer system has programmed in a record of local contextual defaults, this problem won't happen again. Say the same about humans, I dare you.
Not OP, but the oil lobby in Canada runs rather disingenuous commercials on television on a regular basis.

https://www.youtube.com/user/cappvideos

https://www.youtube.com/user/cappvideos/videos?view=0&sort=p...
Seeing a sentence like:

> You should not use services that can rat on you and your friends to the cops.

in a post about [checks notes] FOSS software development, puts things in a certain light.

FWIW I'm privacy-conscious myself. If the author had just made a general effort to point out the privacy implications of using Discord, that would be one thing. Instead he made a contrived effort to connect it to FOSS development - arguably one of the least-private activities one might be doing online - and then went on to call Discord altogether "unacceptable", instead of just saying "don't assume that what you say on Discord is private".
I switched because I found that it was a more coherent experience overall. With vim I was always editing my vimrc file and struggling to make plugins play well together.

That might be specific to my requirements/preferences or it might just be the fact that I am not skilled enough but in spite of issues (that I outlined in another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22385285), I still find it more pleasant.
Co-reference resolution error: who is 'they' in your sentence? The human or the bad actor?

No matter what, the answer is probably both. You can't modify street signs now anyway. You also can't drive 85 in residential/city areas.
The goal is to make you signup, not dismiss it. It was implemented as desired.
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> Are there any good policy frameworks for how to evaluate something that reduces very harmful behavior while increasing less harmful behavior?

Ideally freedom reductions are evaluated alongside harm reductions in said framework.
There are any number of things that give off poisonous fumes, from home heating to driving your kids to the park[1], at higher volumes and lower distances than cigarettes.

I abhor secondhand smoke too, and applaud legal constraints on where you can emit poisonous fumes, like smoking bans in enclosed spaces. But cigarette smoking is easily separable from the worst of its local air pollution effects, and unless you're willing to condemn even more harshly people who choose to live in the suburbs, this is a dishonest argument.

> How does this apply to the misinformation campaign waged by tobacco companies?

No argument here; this is the reason I'm no fan of tobacco companies. Though this is again a theoretically-separable evil from selling cigarettes per se.
Speaking generally, I view anyone who works for a very problematic company or agency in a worse light for it, regardless of whether they're at the bottom or top of the ladder.

Obviously, the higher up the ladder a person, the stronger this effect is. However, that someone is willing to work in any capacity at an organization that behaves badly (in my view) says something about that person.
For example it could register a fake ssh-agent that just grabs your password first time you type it
I wrote a post about this recently: https://dev.to/levinunnink/how-to-pick-the-right-tech-stack-...

I'm pretty sold on JAMStack + Serverless + AWS. It's the most affordable way to iterate, adapt and scale for a solo dev.
I could not convince State Farm that I did not need coverage for "Furs and Jewelry" and had to pay regardless. A company that understands it's not 1950 and I'd rather have Macbook Pro and Ski coverage would be refreshing.
We (USA) could take it out of the defense budget if we tasked the military with climate security.
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Any chat tool that has DMs and has people who are friends using it will have discussion of illegal activity eventually. It is estimated that the average American commits about 3 federal felonies a day. Nobody is immune from this. Simply talking about your day with a friend in DMs that are logged/unencrypted is dangerous.

The part about ridicule/mocking is an example of why Discord’s legal agreement is unreasonable, not advocating for the ability to mock or ridicule people.

The tools should not enforce censorship.
That's right. It's good for readers here to have to work a little. It slows down the usual reflexes and gives a little time for slower, more reflective mechanisms to kick in. Those are the ones that produce non-habitual responses, which are everything we care about.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Even if they are not being retweeted, I believe they can still affect what hashtags are trending. And then human nature caused more, real people to jump in.
So the same as IRC.
That's pretty common IME though the ones I've driven didn't make decisions based on that.

Last few cars I've rented had a speed limit sign generally matching the speed limit on the dash, and on the one I rented this christmas passing a speed limit sign (or an other sign triggering a speed limit change) while on limiter or cruise control would flash a message suggesting pressing a button twice to change the configured speed to that (rather than manually adjust using the +/- buttons).

They were mediums (C-segment) and compact MPV not large or luxury, which I expect is why the sign reading was mostly to purely indicative.
You say not to cheap out, and then recommend Seasonic. I'd say avoid a brand that was notoriously the cheapest option in recent history.
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> While what you say is true, the contents of these meetings should be public knowledge.

I completely disagree. We should expect these meetings to be held in a manner where participants should not be pressured away from doing the right thing due to concerns on how what they might say behind closed doors could be used as a political weapon to attack them. This asshole move from Varoufakis is a clear example, because this leak is designed to attack any political opponent that didn't simply rolled over to meet his personal demands.

This whole stunt is even more egregious if we consider that this boils down to a self-promotion stunt from someone desperately grabbing at their spotlight to manage to get some attention.
This to me is the real value. I'm not a huge believer in Bitcoin, but try moving > 10k USD between bank accounts (just operating a small business I run into this several times a year) and you will quickly see the appeal. High fees, multi-day settlement times, raised eyebrows. It's just a mess. With cryptocurrencies you can move millions of dollars for less than a dollar in fees and it executes in as quickly as 10 minutes. There is definitely a downside in terms of price volatility, and other cryptocurrencies offer much better settlement times (beyond the network effect, they seem to offer more long term value here than Bitcoin), but having what is essentially gold that can teleport is very appealing. Sadly the ecosystem is not quite to where I would actually operate my business in this manner, but I can definitely see the value.