skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With proper tools like Caddy or Apache's mod_md, there's no setup needed - they will simply work.

Using those traditional free CAs still required getting the signed certs through a sometimes obscure process from their website, transferring it manually to the target system etc.

The manual handling alone, which causes work, adds another point of possibly exposing secrets, does not scale, can't be automated, etc was reason enough to replace it with ACME, even if setting it up would be quite complex (which it isn't at all).
I'm aware of this, but the parent said they did an investigation and I'm asking if there was any actual foul play going on or just suspected.
Is that why they are banning /r/conservative? Right... they are not
You made a broad, vague claim that iterator guarantees were broken. You misrepresented it as being a much larger issue that it actually is. Nearly all iterator guarantees are not broken. One very specific guarantee in one very specific case is, that's it. And it's a rare, not general, case at that, making the trade-off necessary to achieve it a bad default.
That's right, it's technically correct. And I'm sure that it's written that way to be technically correct while suggesting that they doubled the RAM of the raspberry pi. That's clickbait.
Facebook Becomes a Premiere Sponsor of the OBS Project
Yep, it is Dunning-Kruger effect.

If rolling back works for a simple system, why wouldn't it work for a complex one?

Because one cannot step into the same river twice. Heraclitus would probably make a good engineering manager.
Sigh; I did realize that but didn't phrase the comment clearly enough to ensure a display of understanding.

'Regarding the losses before produce reaches consumers (the 40% mentioned) ...' might have been a little clearer, if a bit unwieldy.

The duplicate/misleading use of the word 'rate' at the end of the sentence also added extra confusion.

English can be a surprisingly tricky language sometimes :)
I find pizza shows up reliably! We have 5 pizza delivery options and only 2 stop lights in town.
> Why do we always measure burocracy as an "amount" (something of which there can be "less" or "more").

Because large bureaucracies only ever get modified in the aggregate.

You have a bureaucracy that imposes 500,000 rules. If you want to know which are worth it, you have to evaluate each of the rules individually, because some may be worth it and others not.

Really evaluating 500,000 separate rules would take a large staff multiple lifetimes, so you still have to decide whether the bureaucracy as a whole is doing net good or net harm in order to determine whether it should be suspended for the years it will take to evaluate all the rules.

But by the time you finish the evaluation, years have passed since you started and the facts on the ground may have changed, or new rules proposed, so the evaluations are stale before they're completed and you have to start over.

It leaves you with only the systemic question of whether large bureaucracies are a net positive force as an institution. The answer could reasonably be no.

But notice that the answer is also related to the size. Because if the bureaucracy is smaller, you can finish the evaluation sooner, possibly soon enough that the evaluation results are still relevant by the time you finish. Having fewer rules allows you to have better rules, because the fewer you have the more time and other resources you have to make sure each is doing more good than harm.
I'm using it on a Moto G6 which is last I checked literally the cheapest phone you can buy brand new in the US, and Firefox works fine on it.

Of course I usually have JavaScript disabled.
Half of one funding round and "owned" are substantially different things.
Can you post it somewhere where people can view it without having an account, like tinypic/postimage/etc? I get a "Sign in required" from your image link.
I don't believe there was a way to automate the certificate signing from StartTLS or WoSign, was there?
Perfection is not when there's nothing more to add, it's when there is nothing more to take away.

My website is also 'bare-bones'. What do we need all that extraneous crap for? People who want to look at it will. People who don't want to look at it won't.

Want more eyes on your site? Make it more interesting.
> In her 1998 book Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement, sociologist Janet Poppendieck controversially argued that, rather than seriously addressing the problem of hunger, food shelves and other nodes of the charity-based “emergency food system” unintentionally served to perpetuate it in their feeble attempts to mend the holes in the social safety net wrought by Reagan-era bootstrapping and Clinton-era welfare reform. Rather than focus more structurally on workers’ rights and economic justice issues, organizations and institutions coalescing around fighting hunger concerned themselves with addressing immediate needs in ways that did not rock the boat politically.

If bad building and furniture regulations were causing home fires, we would of course want to focus on improving those. But we would still need fire fighters.
Sure. But this is the US we are talking about.
Thanks to idiots like you we have a game show host as president, and he put a self proclaimed enemy of science in charge of pandemic response.

After he gutted the CDC of actual experts.
I wasn't just talking about the_donald, but the broader effects of no longer having the promise of a "secret ballot." When people know their vote is being observed, they change their behavior. My point is how this will favor Reddit's political majority and disfavor the minority.
Ideally, if eating less food, they should produce less food.

Even better, though, rather than throw it away, diverting it to people who lack sufficient food would be nice.

You do have a point that occurred to me before... By the time you've purchased too much food and have it on your plate, it's not actually better to finish eating it versus throw it away. There's no advantage to obesity.
Sorry about yer data loss, mate. That's rough, I've been there.

Reminds me of most places database backups... I always check to make sure they restore correctly, a lot of people just assume they will.

--

Other Engineer: We back up our database nightly! It's AUTOMATED and even copied to another data center in a different region!

Me: Have you ever tried restoring it?

Other Engineer: ... well, uhh, no... awkwardly pauses I mean why? scoffs and quickly walks back to desk

[two hours later]

Other Engineer: Holy shit, our backups wouldn't restore.... good thinking, mate. We would have been totally fucked.

--

You'd be surprised how often people don't check their backups, critical systems, restore functionality. Like just because you're doing it doesn't mean you're doing it right...

I personally think unless you somehow corrupted the data before failure, that Blackblaze sort of sucks hard here since this is literally their job. I hope they try to make it right somehow or actually figure out and find what caused that to happen.
These type of attacks on Authenticator codes generators that don’t have a PIN protection and other measures to mitigate against these type of attacks will be on the increase. I use SAASPASS Authenticator for my personal services and it has measures against this type of attacks.

From SAASPASS website on the SAASPASS Authenticator versus Google Authenticator:

SAASPASS encrypts all data, whereas Google Authenticator stores keys in plain/clear text; this is a problem especially with rooted devices and backup programs, where unencrypted data can be viewed easily

https://saaspass.com/authenticator/

Full disclosure: We resell and integrate SAASPASS IAM to enterprises.
I'm with you on all of this. It was an eye-opener visiting other countries (USA native here) that were more laid-back about getting to work and staying at work. Mexico City in particular was nice and relaxed when I worked there for a while.
I’m no a Go developer but was super excited to see someone taking this kind of approach to editors last time it was posted here. Downloaded and tried out the build, great stuff!
> iMX6, for example, can boot with no closed blobs at all. vote with your money

Side question: Are already SBCs with the i.MX8 available that have a price that is suitable for individual customers; let's say: < 250 EUR or USD?
That doesn't match my experience at all. My phone has 4GB of RAM, my firefox has over tabs up (yes I'm a monster but it makes my point a lot stronger here), and other than taking a bit to open from a cold start it's perfectly fine performance-wise.
“Knee-jerk” is so disingenious, they’ve had warnings for over a year
Your theory is that, say, a baker not making a cake because he's opposed to interracial marriage is basically indistinguishable from YouTube deciding not to run ads against some of PragerU's videos?
I agree with what you're saying about reporting cases in China. My point was in the context of reporting elsewhere in the world where most areas have zero cases and so having cases or not is the most important information, followed by the number of cases. I should have been clearer.
In what data visualisation situation would you use anything other than an area equal map? What advantage does the web projection offer over area equal?
Pinning can be used with anything in the chain not just your leaf.

Some pinning strategies assume a particular CA is trustworthy and pin the public key for that CA, so that they don't need to update with new pins just because they got a new certificate. Obviously you do need to stay on your toes (if you pinned Symantec and then it got distrusted... need to get new pins pronto) but that's true for any pinning strategy. Laziness plus pinning is a bad combination. Like er... keeping tigers as pets and having a toddler maybe?
IMO, during the first half of an epidemic, when a small portion of the population is infected and infections are growing exponentially, it makes sense to use the absolute number of infections. Then later when infection is widespread and the curve looks logistic, it makes sense to give the proportion of infected. I think we are clearly in the first half when it comes to coronavirus.
Reddit is pretty clearly trying to find any viable alternative to outright banning T_D. They're attempting a proof by exhaustion that the community will not cooperate with any viable moderation policy. They're rightly afraid to just pull the trigger and delete the whole subreddit.

There's also some chance that they can get the community in its current form to die in a more organic and less sudden manner, by expunging enough of the worst users and behaviors that it is no longer such a self-sustaining cesspool. Banning mods who directly encourage "shitposting" by name seems like a reasonable step toward that goal.
> Why is all stable software technology old, and all recent technology fragile?

Sounds like survival bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias I don't want to be overly simplistic, but the fact that this isn't even considered is a problem.

Sure, some C89 and FORTRAN-77 code persists today, but how much has been lost/discarded? I'm sure we can find plenty of code written for non-standard C compilers that you couldn't even attempt to run today. It is likely that 100 years for now, running Python 2 code will be easier than running some (most?) proprietary toolkits used in the 90s (the ones he didn't mention).
No vaccine. No way to know that someone is infected and spreading the disease. More deadly than the flu. More devastating even to people who survive, something like 10% of those infected require weeks of intensive hospitalization.

Because it’s spreading silently and is so impactful to its victims it’s a really big deal.
xkcd 1138, not to be confused with THX 1138.
People who are concerned about the politico-media complex.
It's entirely possible that the anecdote I mentioned in a sibling reply is just an early Uncle Bob comment from ages ago.

The Pattern Language approach to code didn't have to turn into naming everything after patterns (and then arguing endlessly about the ones that are ambiguously differentiated). It could have just been a field guide to spotting them. I recall reading a few good papers about how 75% of that book is just idiomatic functional programming code. I am blissfully unaware of anyone in the FP space getting suckered into actually naming anything after the official names.

I attended a workshop a couple years back, run by a person who was 1 degree of separation away from the Gang Of Four and he asserted that book was a Masters or PhD thesis for the youngest author and the other people were essentially editors. This was all news to me. I suspect if I had known this I would have pushed back a lot sooner, instead of getting sucked in too. A decade of OOAD ruined by someone's college project...
If anything, the_donald has gotten preferential treatment compared to everyone else. They've routinely broke rules and ignored warnings from admins. If any other subreddit did what they've done it'd be banned instantly. Instead Reddit keeps giving r/T_D leeway because they don't want to seem biased.

Here's a list from a year ago of rules they've broken: https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/851r...
That's only true assuming:

1) Food only consists of highly perishable produce, and

2) People are unwilling to make substitutions or otherwise change their eating or cooking plans.

No one's gonna die from a supply chain outage of pears, and we can warehouse lentils without them going bad.
I would not be too surprised if components used in this device come out to total price range of 5k€-10k€ in one-off quantities, which paints the price in different light.
Completely agree... you see users and mods swearing at the mods and telling them all sort of really offensive things...
I think this is really well put and something that we haven't considered (letting users download their data and then re-upload later). As long as we could ensure the data hasn't changed it could work. Unfortunately, we can't do anonymous testing because it is physician-ordered. I should say that some of this identifiable information is super important for the analysis.
> Or remember what car websites used to look like vs what they look like now.

lingscars.com ?
I completely agree. And I would argue that small changes aren't "wasteful" in this context since they start conversations and demonstrate commitment and credibility.
You're correct that it isn't surprising.

Best action is to bring this to light. Make everyone aware that Reddit is not a free speech zone--its a closely monitored and profit-driven business.
The first portion of the CDC's mission statement suggests otherwise...

"CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same."

https://www.cdc.gov/about/organization/mission.htm

It isn't about fixing every problem abroad, or regulating any foreign nation's health agencies. It's about controlling/recognizing threats that start abroad before they spread to the US.
But if you get a bunch of "it's just a flu" people, who sneeze everywhere and don't wash their hands, that "1%" number gets higher. I'm not saying we should close up the whole country, but basic measures (you're ill, even if it is just a flu, you stay home... people must wash hands. Hand desinfectants at stores, schools, etc. No large gatherings if it's not neccessary. If you can, work from home, if someone near you got sick. etc)
People have been using version control since I started coding professionally in the 90ies. Granted, it was much crappier (cvs and then subversion), but it still was much better than nothing at all.
>We’re mapping a human health tragedy that may get way worse before it subsides. Do we really want the map to be screaming bright red? Red [...] can connotates [sic] danger, and death, which is still statistically extremely rare for coronavirus.

This really seems like a case of "it's not a bug, it's a feature". It may be rare (so far, anyway), but few would argue "danger and death" is an inaccurate characterization.
Is this guy also responsible for Softbank's somewhat batshit investment strategy? Is he being outed here because someone wants to turn the company around?
Do you have any examples of brigading from the subreddits you mention? I haven't seen any, and would like to be more informed.

EDIT: OP edited their comment, I will leave mine as-is.
The point was the mods were following the guidelines to prevent encouragement of brigading.

Of course you can change the link, any user in any sub can change a link and brigade, at that point the blame is on the individual, not the group.

I could show you many examples of rule breaking all over Reddit, that doesn't mean you quarantine the entire sub, there would be nothing left.
> The address bar is now at the bottom. Change for the sake of change.

This can be changed in Settings > Toolbar > Top.
>therefore the population ought to have some kind of exponent attached to it, like particles bouncing against one another in a container.

Population squared? That gives you the number of potential connections.
Do you have any examples of the brigading from T_D?

No you already said you didn't.
Not sure why he's downvoted. It's reasonable to question whether 18 years old is the correct voting restriction.
Just to elaborate on this, by analysis I mean understanding which mutation in the genome is pathogenic.
This is the kitchens unlimited idea. You see famous places like Cantor's Deli do it.
> they typically impose a tree structure on the code, made up of labelled sections and subsections.

But most non-trivial programs don't have a tree structure, but are a full directed graph. Methods calling other methods, classes inheriting from other classes or implementing interfaces, etc. Programming and debugging could involve traversing and modifying this graph in almost any order, and does not lend itself to one preferred linearization.
Anyone know any charities for climate change, homelessness, etc. that actually are worth donating to?
Dow plunges 1100 points as coronavirus market tumbling into correction territory
It seems like the heat map can be useful there, as long as you divide it by population count.
My iPad is probably my most-used device, but it is also the device that I most often feel like throwing at a wall. Wading through quicksand is exactly how it feels like to do anything "advanced".

Not to mention the madness that is the Files interface. Far too often I find myself selecting a file, wanting to do something simple with it (like move it to a a location managed by another app) and just being stuck. Again, the quicksand feeling. I just want to get to that place right over there a few steps away, but there is no obvious way of getting there.

/rant
Significantly doubt that is the real reason.
No, that’s not how any of this works. Pension funds aren’t sitting in HFT systems.
Reddit has become highly successful as a political discussion forum for people from pretty much every part of the spectrum, but the moderation is utterly opaque. Even relatively centrist subreddits, such as /r/Canada, have mods who ignore the published moderation rules of their own subreddit and do what they please. If they don't like a thread or post it just disappears, even if it violated no rule. Reddit's moderation system is designed to prevent users from seeing how it works.

The result is a cocktail of factors ripe for exploitation:

1. Some political subreddits have hundreds of thousands of users and are highly influential.

2. Mods have unrestricted power and virtually no accountability. Users have no way to check that moderation is fair and unbiased.

3. Mods are unpaid and anonymous.

If Russia or China specifically set out to design a way to influence foreign politics, Reddit would be a fantastic platform to do just that. If you can get mods in your pocket you can promote or suppress issues to suit whatever agenda you desire.

If Reddit were going to try to reign in the very worst of its mods, /r/The_Donald would probably be a good place to start. Most reddit users view that forum as a cesspool that was quarantined for good reason. However, the methods Reddit is using here are as opaque as that of the moderators themselves. There has been no direct communication to users. All the reporting on this "purge" is sourced from the purged moderators themselves. While I have no sympathy for the mods of /r/The_Donald whatsoever, the way Reddit is operating here is indeed reminiscent of a totalitarian state's propaganda ministry. They permit much, but certain things bring the fist down hard, and it's done in a way that most people are not meant to see.

If you rely on Reddit for political information then you are making yourself vulnerable to unknown influences. While reddit is a fantastic resource in many ways, it's simply not safe to rely upon for certain things.

With most traditional news sources now being owned by a small number of international conglomerates, there is a real need for alternative forums of political discussion. Reddit, as it currently exists, should not be that forum. However, with changes something like Reddit could be made to work. Such a forum would need to make moderation much more transparent. You can't give mods the power to simply disappear that which they don't like. Users need to be able to examine the actions of moderators and question them. Taking away the toy of unchecked, anonymous power would naturally make it harder to find mods, so they might actually have to be paid. How you make money like Reddit does without volunteer moderators is a problem worth solving, as is finding a way to select moderators that can be trusted by the community they serve and not necessarily the company paying them.
As a point of reference for how deadly the corona virus is, you are more likely to die by murder in New York city than you are to die by corona virus in Hubei, assuming a death rate of 2.5 percent. The murder rate in NYC is 5 per 100K whereas the infection rate in Hubei is 111 per 100K.

Edit: This isn't really a fair assessment. See the comments below.
> It makes me wonder how Macs got their reputation of being easier to use than Windows computers.

Because they used to be easier. I made a post on this elsewhere in this thread.

For installing applications: Apple used to place a stack for the Applications folder in your Dock by default, and you'd use that stack to launch any applications that weren't already in your Dock. It was natural that you'd install new applications by dragging them to the same place you launched them.
<input type=number> for things that are like telephone numbers and not like quantities is such a common mistake. It can be hilarious when, for example, a login form uses such a field for a Swedish personal identity number. I just need to click the up arrow ~1.996×10¹¹ times!
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That's very kind of you. I'm afraid a bunch of things don't work without a working local Go install, but would still love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch if there's anything else you'd like to share.
Which aspect of the make-up of our brains limits caring about many people?
Given how poorly executed softbanks strategy has been I'm not surprised.

The strategy itself was maybe something that could work or was at least an interesting idea - but the way they've actually deployed funding has been wild.

I wonder how much more self dealing will show up in all of this.
Github's diffs are pretty much instantaneous, Bitbucket just gives up, "now that's a lot of code!". No, it was a one line change actually.
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> people would rather feel nice about themselves

Is that really it, or do people get a power trip out of getting plastic straws banned?