skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* random lists (e.g., things to do, books to read, movies on netflix)

* personal CMS (e.g., mailing addresses, the name of so-and-so's boyfriend, etc. etc.)

* bookmarked articles with quotes or summaries (e.g., I read lots of things like https://psyche.co/ideas/a-touch-of-absurdity-can-help-to-wra... but since the idea that absurdity can push people towards the familiar is very disheartening to me, and therefore has interesting implications for my ideas, I'm taking notes on it)

* "ruby case statement syntax" (don't laugh, I switch languages a lot at work, and it's always faster to pull up the neat little answer I wrote myself)

* drafts of things like blog posts

* little fragments of ideas that I might or might not want to turn into blog posts

* journaling (especially nice when linked to entries for people mentioned)

* freewriting on anything I should probably be seeing a therapist for

* personal project documentation (e.g. install commands for self-hosted nonsense)

It's never "I wish I had taken notes of this" exactly, but more a combination of being able to pull up some fact /information/resource, draft things with lots of interlinked connections, or write just about anything down with connections to other things (like my journal entries linked to people they mention). In addition, the process of writing notes means you remember more even if you never consult the notes you wrote, so it's not wasted even in that case.
Around 17,000mph.

A miss is much bigger than a mile.
That is exactly how I see it. I see it as silicon valley employees taking it upon themselves to try to get the last word in with Trump's message. Linking to CNN and WP was just beyond the pale.
They don't have to because they would've banned and will continue to ban anyone else who's tweeted the type of stuff that Trump's tweeted. They've only gotten into this situation because they've refused to ban or suspend Trump's account.
It could start with a simple lane closure today, if traffic stays at the current levels.

Thanks for posting the link. Will look for info on how to fund/vote for this project. As mandelbrotwurst said below, it's a small cost to greatly improve mental and physical health.
I am so tired of this disingenuous line of argumentation. Twitter is not at all like a government, it is a private business that offers a free service which you are under no obligation to use, it has no army or legal authority over your life, stop acting like what gets posted or removed from twitter is anything other than a bullshit triviality.
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Yeah, if the experience was an automated warehouse in which you know you're getting exactly what you want (and if it's not listed, it means they don't have it), it would be a lot better.

The whole checkout experience can be automated, and the final items only need to be picked up and delivered.
Without patience you can master nothing. I hope you are fine with that.
Mailchimp vs. ConvertKits? Which is the better solution?
A knotty situation, to be sure.
Hi thanks for raising this, as far as single machine computation is concerned, Concurnas supports unchecked exceptions. Also, exceptions occurring within the context of isolates are either handled by a (overridable) error handler (which defaults to output to stderr) or more commonly, set to the returned ref from the isolate execution. Then when that ref is accessed the exception is then thrown by the accessor(s) and can be handled as appropriate.

As far as distributed computing is concerned, here the error landscape is much larger than with single machine computation (network disconnections etc). The distributed computing component of Concurnas allows one to define custom error handlers which can deal with errors occurring specifically from distributed computing, and there are a couple of pre-defined error handlers which can be used to assist here (fail on first incident and retry up to x times): https://concurnas.com/docs/distComp.html#common-error-handli...

The documentation about distributed computing (and distributed error handling in particular) could be better written. I will look to make that a priority now that you've raised this point.
I suspect OP is talking about this: https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki (there's a link to an iOS app there)
True.

But it's not the point; The intention is reduce the capabilities of the country as a global influence and generate internal state turmoil.
I see bug bounty programs as just being another example of InfoSec charlatanism. People do bug bounties because InfoSec people say you should do bug bounties, and not doing what InfoSec people say you should do implies some sort of malfeasance. But the value of them is remarkably questionable. For starters they are absolutely not a replacement for pen testing, having a bug bounty is not a sufficient substitute for any of the pen testing that you should be doing. The value of the bugs you have reported are also typically incredibly low value. Most of the reports you get through bug bounty programs are just the output of open source scanning and static analysis tools. You get no-effort reports for things like frame-able content and “your mobile app has a dependency, which has a dependency, which was compiled with marginally sub-optimal flags”. Actually valuable reports do make it through, but I seriously doubt having a bug bounty program is more effective than publishing a security email address on your website. They’re mostly just spam generating services that invite people to try pressure you into coughing up some money for largely trivial nonsense.
A company can ignore a report, then get the reporter banned on HackerOne if the reporter decides to no longer follow the HackerOne guidelines and publicly discloses a vulnerability. This gives companies an opportunity to turn HackerOne into a black hole where they get to not pay any bounties and simultaneously keep the vulnerability secret.
One nuance about facts is that they change over time as we learn more about whatever the fact is about. Take SARS-CoV-2 for example, our best scientific knowledge about it has changed significantly since the start of the year. Some _facts_ from January would be considered _misinformation_ now. You might say that the actual facts are the underlying truth, but even that doesn't help. Our current view on the underlying truth are what is widely considered to be factual. The underlying truth can also change, for instance as the virus evolves and takes on different characteristics. Fact checking is most definitely not solved and I would posit that it's fundamentally intractable.
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agree. and the term "hacker" has been driven through the ground and back up so many times its lost and changed meanings. Now "i got hacked" is akin to the dog ate my homework or I gave someone my password.
CL-WHO - to generate HTML

LASS - to generate CSS

colorize - to colorize source code snippets and embed documentation links in them

Plump, Plump-SEXP, CLSS - for occasional fixing of imported HTML documents "on the fly"
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I also had a heavy flu in February but didn't think much of it. I was traveling a lot so maybe somewhere on a plane.
Oh and by the way, I follow a whole bunch of Subreddits, and a couple Reddit searches via RSS.
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> (1) I have no leaks and (2) I don't know how to create them -- These don't really square with each other.

If he runs his service for a long time and the memory usage doesn't keep growing, no resource exhaustion problem occurs, then he can reasonably say he has no leaks. At least, he has no significant leaks.

I don't have to know how to create nuclear bomb to know I don't have one.
I've read this a couple times and don't really follow it. In reality, there is a tacit consensus scale for vulnerabilities by severity; a real XSS, for instance, in a platform where XSS isn't somehow sev:crit like it is on a large social network, is worth "hundreds" of dollars. Most companies have a scale worked out ahead of time. HackerOne will give you advice on scales if you want to take it.

Whatever the scale is, companies have no incentive to avoid paying them, because even at the high end of the scale the amounts are immaterial. Remember, we're talking about H1 bounties here, not the Apple and Google platform bounties, which are totally different animals.

The real risk companies that run bounties face is that their programs won't generate any real bugs at all, but will absorb costs from both the platform and all the nonsense bugs they have to triage. New serious bounties are good news, not bad news, for most bounty programs.

(I've managed several, continuing until recently; before I did, I went around talking to people who ran them to get the lay of the land. I'm pretty confident in my answers here.)
Which is exactly the point, that platforms who do not self-curate some types of user-generated content are not protected by safe harbor laws.

Your idea that safe-harbor laws only apply to platforms who don't self-curate is absurd precisely because there is illegal content they, the platforms, can be held liable for instead of the users.
Omg, that’s awesome! Please do it Governor Polis!

New Hong Kong City, Colorado. I like the sound of that.

Colorado, would become the new Mecca of delicious Cantonese cuisine and Dim Sum eateries. As well as, all the technical, math, financial, and medical talent, that you can extract from the Hong Kongers. Their children would become the future engineers and doctors in America.

It would unleash a new golden age for Colorado! And bring in massive amounts of tax revenue too!
Ads + engineers?

Edit: + cloud infrastructure probably
try http://danyk.cz/index_en.html
that is it
What western democracies really need is an entire government segment dedicated to fact-checking. We could call it the "Department of Truth" (or "Ministry of Truth" in UK) and it would be responsible for labeling things on social media as true or false using little fact checker badges.
You seem to be very convinced that there is an efficient way to filter 100% of spam without false positives. Which seems optimistic if you have ever dealt with email, text analysis or any aspect of spam detection.
I imagine VPN companies might be in for some trouble.
I think content acquisition still has several hurdles as well as the pipelines of your favorite metadata scraper isn't exactly trivial to setup.

The actual software, once installed is really nice (I have a Plex Server + Infuse on an Apple TV), but in my case I still pay for content (via usenet).
Facebook and Twitter do not control public discourse.
I gave the tweet as an example of a more general trend. The linked demonstration shows a similar shallowness (the focus on mechanism) which is what brought it to mind.

On the other point, I don’t even understand what it means to breed for the trait of “variety”. It’s a collective, not an individual trait. If you allow individuals to practice eugenics by selecting their mates through mutual assent then that works, but that’s not eugenics.
> Warning users is similar to phones letting you know they think a caller is spam.

This is a device feature, not a company one (I think at least). Plus spam has a clear meaning of unwanted commercial messages. I still receive calls from political campaigns regularly, and I would hope my phone company did not take it upon themselves to stop that.
Hm, it makes one wonder: is ProtonMail (and ProtonVPN, etc) all a similar sort of thing?
>> The biggest problem with CLI is discoverability

> I don't agree. Discoverability's a big problem with "modern" GUIs too.

Absolutely, nowadays you have to discover which part of the screen is clickable, you have to discover where they hid that stupid hamburger menu. The menus of the mac and Amiga were so, you could find them blindly with your mouse. On endless scrolling pages you often cannot skip ahead you have to scroll and wait, scroll and wait, scroll and wait, until the browser hangs.
It's not just discipline. It's also partly how associative memories work (aka how the brain accesses memories). I have an office in my house that I can work from. It's a privilege to have this much space. But because I don't solely use the office for work its actually harder to focus while I'm in here. As soon as a task starts getting hard, my brain immediately goes, oh, you could play with this toy, or that toy, or do this other thing. Part of why I like to drive into the office is to have better control over the types of things I have access to, and to become conditioned to avoid certain types of distractions. That said, I've worked in openish offices, and found that to be a nightmare. So I'd take my office distractions over the distractions of a full on open office plan any day...

As a side note, it's not just spacial either. There's a body of evidence that shows time matters too for associative memories. Things like measuring test scores show that the brain is much better at testing in a given subject if the test is at the same time as the classwork. This also leads into other theories of learning, which suggest that if you really want to learn something well, do it in lots of different contexts at lots of different times so that you have a lot more neural paths to access said knowledge/ability.
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It could be both: Everything you listed has been turning the screws into people for a while, but this event has pushed people with those pre-existing anxieties over the top to needing clinical intervention.

It's similar to how the economy had a number of fragilities prior to COVID19 - actually, in a sense they are the same, given that people are the economy.
Can you clarify who "they" is? Are Dynalist and Obsidian made by the same folks?
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Sheer size is a form of monopoly and government. If a company can't be tipped out of your position by a scrappy startup like Youtube, arguably Twitter, then the people have to step in to start making decisions about what it gets to do.
>You're wrong. Stop spreading misinformation.

Be a bit more tolerant of other people's point of view.

Anyway, I think you are misinterpreting the intention of that sentence. It basically means that, in principle, the behavior of being a "provider or user of an interactive computer service" does not imply that it is "the publisher or speaker of any information provided [...]". But that does not exempt them from potentially being the actual publisher, and all the rights/obligations that go with it.

Trivial example: Someone publishing its work on the web (hence becoming a "user of an interactive computer service") does not imply that they lose copyright; even though they "shall [not] be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided [...]".

Again, IANAL, but I read a lot of copyright, safe harbor law, DCMAs, etc... and it goes like that.
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Storing spam messages does make sense. If you asked me the number of times when we've sent something to someone, they told us "We haven't received anything", and we answer "Check your spam", and there it is...

Checking the spam folder is useful when you know something should be there. It's not made to skim through the junk in the hopes of finding a mislabeled email. And storage is so cheap nowadays that it doesn't make sense to not store everything to shave a few megabytes of space.
Говори за себя.
Funny because talk about hoodies always reminds me of my mother as a senior citizen. She was always cold and wore a hoodie even in summer.
Hedge trimming can be done by anyone with a hedge trimming machine. This baker made beautiful unique artistic cakes that were a product of his own life and experiences and sensibilities. Also, a wedding cake specifically celebrates a matrimony whose existence the baker would deny. Any hedge trimming service that satisfied those qualifications would indeed possibly be subject to the same controversy.

Regardless of the context of this case, it's odd that the state can now seemingly force someone to engage their creativity and artistic sensibility for any reason. It is now federal judicial precedence that he must lawfully create a satisfyingly beautiful cake for anyone who= asks. What if it's not beautiful enough? Is that punishable by law? Who judges the beauty?

Probably the baker should have just made a half assed cake...
I'm not sure if I agree about most cases. It is fairly trivial to come up with code that goes down a sad path (you just need to defeat the Escape analysis). That happens all the time.

The JVM's Escape analysis isn't perfect.
Call his bluff. Suspend his account.
It would be more sensible to just report existing bugs via the platform instead of reporting them to the project manager.
Really, I think people see two things:

1. less reliable (probably true)
2. different (so hate it)

Like anyone else, I don't want less reliability. But the "different" in this case isn't at all bad--like you said, less travel. I don't need key travel once my nervous system has calibrated to the keyboard, and extra travel aggravates my RSI as well.
The current CEO was appointed in January. It is currently the end of May. I guess we could still count that in weeks, but most would use months at this point.
I don't believe any serious company does this. There are lots more companies running bounties than I could ever talk to, but I can't even fathom how the cost/benefit of this is supposed to work. It's a negligible amount of money, and a non-negligible reputation risk. I find it a lot more likely that the people who feel this happened to them either reported out-of-scope bugs, or collided with someone else.
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I think it goes both ways though. We have no real frame of reference for “normal” — most of us only know maybe 20 people well enough to see the inner workings of their mind, and we’re probably related to at least half of them so anything congenital would feel “normal”. It seems pretty common that children of people with undiagnosed mental illness end up feeling weird or crazy until they break free and start to discover the world on their own (see also /r/raisedbynarcissists).

Trauma is a huge factor in mental illness as well, so much so that the definition of a “healthy individual” can only be really anchored to a specific point in time. Some things that rise to the level of clinical (anxiety, depression, BPD, PTSD, DPD) are largely seen as the result of trauma and/or some hereditary predisposition.
I have Italian friends on FB constantly voicing their criticisms of US government. It just strikes me as massively hypocritical when Italy's government is a complete train wreck. It's easy to criticize, it's harder to lead by example.

My instinct is to reply "Then show us how it's done with your own government. It isn't easy, is it?"
I feel like early IRC was when people were much more involved in communicating over the not so popular internet. Sitting and chatting was a way of spending time by itself. Brings back warm feelings.
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Yep. When you're at a growth company that enters cost reduction mode, it's a good time to start looking for another opportunity. "Why is AWS going up? Get that cloud bill down. Do you really need all these monitoring services? Cancel them." They should be focusing on revenue, like you said.
Exactly. You'd need a single united economic and political union first.

The EU is heading away from that, not towards it.
I just found your comment on another thread where you said that you wanted to find Ira Glass's video on "taste" but now it's been long enough that I can't reply to that comment, so I'm replying to this completely unrelated comment because I've also had trouble finding that video in the paste and decided to save the link the last time I found it.

Here it is: https://vimeo.com/85040589
I imagine I'll get downvoted for this, but I think it needs to be said. Perhaps one way to lessen the spread of misinformation is to not operate services that limit messages to 280 characters. The world is not black and white. Meaningful topics are almost always nuanced and do not lend themselves to pithy sound bites. Let me demonstrate my point in a provocative way:

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The world would be a better place if Twitter did not exist.
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Note the lack of caveat, nuance, or elaboration here. It's not conducive to making the argument in a compelling and convincing way, especially not in the ways espoused by Hacker News. People who agree with that statement are going to agree. People who don't are going to be outraged.

If you do agree with the above the real question is what to do about it. Does the problem lie with the people at Twitter? With capitalism? With democracy? With the particular implementation that is the United States? Is this just something inherent to human nature? Or is the internet to blame? There are no simple answers to these questions. But perhaps the mediums that we use to have the discussions have a substantial impact on the conversation.
It was real in the sense that ben174 was in fact working at LowerMyBills.com at the time, 2003-2004: http://www.bugben.com/ (His resume)

However, most likely that was not his CTO. Its more likely that someone ran the command

/whois ben174

and it returned the hostname associated with his IP, which on IRC was typically public at the time. Then this person trolled ben174 by claiming to be from his company.
Fair enough..

I was thinking of a hypothetical eugenic society, where they could let (force?) everyone to breed every X years. Then they could try to optimize that entire batch of mates to optimize whatever traits they chose plus some measure of variety in the gene pool. Would that satisfy your definition of eugenics?
Nobody is going to do anything like this. Bug fixes take time to coordinate and deploy, and nobody is going to make themselves and their schedules accountable to some random bug bounty submitter. At the point where you're doing this, you might as well just engage professional pentesters; they don't give a shit when you ship fixes --- you just pay them to find bugs and write them up.
I'd like to point out that having random programs scatted across external HDDs is an anti-feature to me. I never remember which files are where as it is. And too easy to screw things up by unplugging the drive...

Nevertheless it can be done - if you are dedicated, recompile the program with the prefix changed to the mounted root of your separate drive. Presto, automated installs to your external drive. Now, linking up all the bits can still be a right headache, but this is just a bigger nightmare on Windows (what will you DO if your drive letter changes?? You mean I don't have any system to automatically link up random programs on random drives which may or may not be present. Gosh darn, that package manager sounds like a good idea now...)

If you're using a laptop, you're probably due for an upgrade in HDD capacity, or if you're lucky enough to be on Desktop I'd recommend a board with hotplug capability and using LVM. I think no matter your platform you're going to have a hell of a lot of problems doing things your way. If you can patch the package manager to be able to do this, amazing! I don't think any system exists like this, period.
Can you not go for the short stubble look? Still looks neat if done right, less dangerous for you.
CAD and other high end complex packages for example offer combination of command line and GUI at the same time where one can augment the other at many points.