skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few details missing from this story that I would have liked to have known:

* What happened to Billy?

* How close was the store to ground zero?

* What ultimately happened to the workers who walked out? Obviously they weren't fired, but was there a disciplinary process, etc.?
Kubernetes uses it throughout, so there mist be some increased usage just because of that.
> People have gotten in serious hot water over Internet traffic that was accidentally sent to them.

You've piqued my curiosity. Any examples to share?
Arguing with the Peak-Resource crowed is beyond pointless. These people have not except basic economic arguments for 200 years, and every 15 years they come up with a new crisis that gone happen in the next 15-20 years.

The was a lot of Peak-Coal talk in 1800 Britain as well. Now they seem to have moved on to 'rare' earths (that aren't that actually rare).

They always excuse every individual wrong prediction with 'well this factor we couldn't predict and nobody could have' so we were right. No matter that that does not make sense and is exactly the point the other side makes.

The Club of Rome and the 'Population Bomb' are some of the most mainstream example. The author of the 'Population Bomb' was often on mainstream TV.

The 'Populationbomb' crowed for example wanted limit growth of population in India, and wanted to US government not to trade with them or help them with agriculture. Their logic was that millions were gone die anyway, not helping them might kill them sooner and that will limit growth, much more humane. There is a long history of that thinking.

The Club of Rome of course hilariously came back back and said 'we were actually right, juts off by multiple 100%'. Great, thanks guys, I'm defiantly gone listen to you now.

People who think in zero sum games will never understand how a non-zero sum game works. These are the most dangerous people in the world. The earth is not threatens by limited resource, but rather people who believe resources are limited. The biggest catastrophes of the modern happened because of people who believed in zero sum games.

Even if Jevons paradox were always true, there is no issue with growing energy use for the next couple 100 years, or even couple 1000s. There are plenty of energy sources around. As long as we have energy, food is not an issue either.
Can you explain more about the encryption process?
I for one applaud twitter for doing this! Bravo!! It’s an extraordinary move By twitter and I hope the don’t back down. The tool that made him president (by his own acknowledgment in a FT interview from 2016) is now no longer susceptible to sprerad his bullying and lying tactics.

I think What will follow will be equally extraordinary - an attack by trump That will shock the American public and in turn will establish new lows For a presidents behavior for American politics
> What if, instead, you had a personal AI that read every Facebook post and then decided what to show you. Trained on your own preferences, under your control, with whatever settings you like.

There is a feedback problem, though, which is that your preferences are modified by what you see. So the AI problem devolves to showing you the kind of content that makes you want to see more of it, i.e. maximize engagement. I think a lot of people are addicted to controversy, "rage porn," anger-inducing content, and these agents are not going to help with this issue.

If we could train AI agents to analyze the preferences of people, I think the best use for them wouldn't be to curate your own content, but to use them to see the world from other people's perspective. If you know in what "opinion cluster" someone lies and can predict their emotional reaction to some content, you may be able to identify the articles from cluster A that people from cluster B react the least negatively to, and vice versa. And this could be leveraged to break echo chambers, I think: imagine that article X is rated +10 by cluster A and -10 by cluster B, and article Y is rated +10 by cluster A but only -2 by cluster B. It might be a good idea to promote Y over X, because unlike X, Y represents the views of cluster A in a way that cluster B can understand, whereas X is probably some inflammatory rag.

The key is that you can't simply choose content according to a user's current preferences, they also have to be shown adversarial content so that they have all the information they need about what others think. This is how they can retain their agency. Show them stuff they disagree with, but that they can respect.

I expect that a system like the one I'm describing would naturally penalize content that paint people with opposing points of view as evil or idiots, because such content is the most likely to be very highly rated by the "smart" side and profoundly hated by the "stupid" side. Again, note that I'm not saying content everyone likes should be promoted, it's more like, we should promote the +10/-2 kind of polarization (well thought out opinion pieces that focus on ideas which might be unpopular or uncomfortable) over the +10/-10 kind of polarization (people who disagree with me are evil cretins).
The Blue Bee: Least Effective Marvel Superhero. Superpower: Really, really good at hiding.
Building the Perfect Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder
It seems to still be auto starting on page load for me.
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One cpp critical keyword. You can go write a screed against the cpp in the comments if you want.

Anyway, complex systems can have unexpected behavior. Who would have thought? It’s a good thing there aren’t any examples of a some visual object recognition software classifying a dog as a cat, right?
This is a pretty cynical take. I think most (not all, but most) news organizations are trying to produce ethical, truthful news free of bias and conflicts of interest.
New cases of Covid-19 recorded in Nigeria
Another thread with more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23317286
Twitter’s first fact-check on President Trump calls out “false claims”
Comb through public support forums, do public asks for reports of inappropriate moderation outcomes, find someone with significant enough financial losses to justify a lawsuit and use the legal discovery process to get internal stats or ask Google's representative on the stand, ask your state or national representative to support legislation requiring publishing of such statistics... there are a few ideas. All of them would require action to try to get data, I wouldn't know of any existing data because I haven't looked.
Acquisition of lots of money is not the same as moving money around, which was your original point.

Acquisition of lots of money is also a proxy for impact — if you provide just $3 of value to every American, ONE TIME, congrats, you're a billionaire.

Hell, there are 7.8 billion people in the world. If you can get 1% of them to pay you a penny once a year, you're making $780k/year.

Most smart people spend a lot of time thinking about building empires. Making money is just a really nice side effect of building the empires.

In this world, there are 2 endeavors that make a LOT of money: empire building and macro resource allocation. The majority of the best and brightest will spend a lot of time thinking about those two endeavors no matter what the underlying system is. In a parallel universe where all resource allocation and production is driven by the government — your elite class will simply be in the officer ranks of those bureaucracies. It's no different from the military where the elite West Point graduates enjoy greater status than the enlisted rank-and-file.
Needs blockchain integration
The whole reason there is a United States of America is because each state would get a voice in choosing the president. By only going by popularity, a few select cities decide all. If it was proposed that way, the USA would never have formed and we'd have a bunch of individual separate countries.
Few years on and I still use what I learned in Ramsay's "How to Cook the Perfect Steak" video on YouTube. Maybe cooking is just inherently more practical even without all the theory (?).
I built an electron app using the react boilerplate to get started. My app uses a handful of native node modules that let me interface with Mac and windows environments in a fairly seamless way. My app is sold directly from my website using a custom licensing system I built using express, GraphQL and JWT. I also sell on the Mac App Store and Microsoft store. Tooling such as electron-builder make packaging and multi-channel distribution possible, but it’s still a lot of work. You can check out my app at https://label.live. I’m happy to answer any questions about my experience.
Show HN: Require review points instead of review number on GitHub
For me Pihole on hosted vps has less latency than NextDNS
> show all content from friends, in chronological order

Then typical user Facebook feed will be 99% pictures of funny cats from one of their loved friends, which are too good to unfriend (if that friend is, for example, mother).

(Not to mention, it's practically impossible to configure filtering for 99% users).

And then these users will just leave the service because it's boring, and that's it, end of Facebook.

We already had a lot of services with no feed ranking. All of them died or started doing the ranking.

> Facebook does exercise editorial control

As any other mainstream service with feed and user-generated content. For example, Twitter or TikTok.

> It's fair to ask that this curation consider other objectives as well

The big neural network which defines feed ranking is developed by hundreds of engineers, and already optimized for (I guess) hundreds of parameters, including time spend of website, ads revenue, fraud protection, lower risk of suicide and so on.
But then you need the cooperation of every file to include the shebang line. Muuch easier to just

echo :js:E::0::/usr/bin/node: >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
> If you have installed Minecraft Dungeons in a custom directory, there is a chance uninstalling Minecraft Dungeons Launcher and/or the game will remove the entire parent directory and everything in it.

It doesn't erase the entire disk when uninstalling (just the parent directory), however, the bug is still extremely troubling.
> until they do, and they start taking measures to counteract it,

When? Adblock has been free and easy for years now
recommend taking a look at the newly released for Vue developers. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nuxt/content
I honestly like the sound of a technology directorate. I'd love to see some basic research into new computing technology, based on topological insulators or optics.
Good point. These are more celebrity interviews (that make you feel like you're spending your time wisely by learning) than they are expert lesions.
Not sure why you're downvoted. I completely agree. I couldn't get past the first answer because of the italics. Why would someone do that. I'm sure it's an interesting Q&A, but I just can't read it.
Have family that work in encryption, you can think of barriers to entry as orders of magnitude in cost.

AWS can decipher decade old encryption standards for about $100k brute computational cost.

Nation states have access to 5-8 zeros of effort if it is valuable enough. Private entities have no chance against nation-state backed hacking efforts.

It’s one-sided or ‘asymmetric’, because western intelligence refuses to share commercial intelligence with western businesses (probably because there isn’t much of value to share... yet).

Only solution is political change.
Russia is much harder to penetrate for Chinese then US. Giving out secret like that is a death sentence, even if you manage to leave Russia there is a decent chance they will hunt you down and kill you in a very unpleasant manner.

US ability to recruit within Russia is also very limited. Something like that would not be picked up by sigint.

Russia did go all in on electronic warfare, I think US missed a golden opportunity to work with/through Ukraine to test their systems against Russian ones. If they could capture one it would be a gold mine of intel.
Sizing Up Twitter Users
Marketing is typically about getting to the customer before the customer does any homework. The more informed the customer is, the less conversions the marketing heavy company will get. This is because they spend their budget on marketing (thus you seeing their ad as opposed to the competition). That means they don’t have the same resources dedicated to their product.

Sure at some scale, marketing becomes a requirement to build your brand for many other purposes and I will also concede that in some cases, like with services that hinge on network effect, marketing is required for the product to even become viable. But most things are not social networks and we would be better served to learn of the product in context with its competition in a less biased setting.
You could certainly argue that there is a mis-allocation of resources towards the kinds of energy we need to be using.

I don't think you can look to the climate crises, and then conclude that there is a compete mis-allocation of resources, across ALL industries. That's plainly absurd. We don't have a mis-allocation of resources in the production of food, clothing, appliances, electronics.

Insofar as we have a mis-allocation of resources towards energy sources, it's because externalities are not included in the price of the thing. There is a pretty straightforward way to fix this that does not involve totally shifting the way we allocate all of our other resources...
As long as you're only doing reads, though, you can forego the locking and it's pretty nice!

Definitely would not use in a read/write situation for a web API for various reasons, though. :-)
Paul Graham talked about this in this essay http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Thank you. I misunderstood as well.
Many academic leaders are praising the legislation, which was spearheaded by the Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer (NY), and co-sponsored by Senator Todd Young (R–IN) [...]

The real news, I'd say.
Facebook and Google know what's best for us, right?

That's why we give them all our data and complain that they have all our data and actively monetize and sell it. We can't trust them with our own data but we trust them to monitor others data they produce?

It's like trying to tell a cow not to eat grass, it doesn't understand your question and it'll still eat grass.
I don’t know about pretending a correlation, but a common challenge for engineering and product ICs who are trying to become more senior or have a bigger impact is understanding how their work relates to the big picture. I often ask engineers why they are (to use your example) rewriting the login system, and is there is any way to quantify the results. This helps to avoid engineers polishing an already-round ball, and to have some kind of accountability for outcomes. If you are rewriting login to cut down on tech support calls or to make it work with third party auth or work with legacy enterprise garbage, all those reasons are tangible and possible to quantify.
Back in the day this is how it worked. They changed it. Nobody that I can recall was complaining for it to change at the time. Circa 2006 I think.

edit: grammar
That's less of a cross between expert/celebrity and more pure celebrity (pure in the sense that they are famous because they are famous).
> If you understand what a flywheel is, and I tell you that there is such a thing as a “marketing flywheel”, you’re no closer to understanding what I’m talking about.

Clearly a "marketing flywheel" is something which keeps the marketing momentum going between marketing campaigns, reducing the spiking to something more steady... well at least to me :)
Wartime for Wodehouse
So 0.000001% of votes were fraudulent if you take the Heritage Foundation's analysis as fact (1,285 votes fraudulent out of 119,000,000 who voted in 2016).

Does 0.000001% fraud qualify as a problem in any reasonable sense?

Republicans' electoral strategy is basically "the less people vote, the better". Is that good for democracy? Is that just?
Yes the math does not support the metaphor. This is the kind of thing that would irk me but I'm fine with this one. I imagine a massive flywheel where each input imperceptibly changes angular velocity and in early stages is moving in slow motion like a joke. Keep at it and it becomes an unstoppable beast (neglecting friction of course). This is content marketing. Nothing until it's something.
I misread that the same way you did.
The and operation could be logical so the result of anding with one self is a mop
"abuse system deletes some comments" isn't a failure mode sre concerns itself with. Buggy software can, and will get released despite whatever operational principles you have.

Sre isn't about buglessness, but reliability.
Astronomers now doubt there is an undiscovered 9th planet in our solar system
How do we know how much fraud there is? How much fraud were we aware of at Enron until they went bust?
Steps+to+Make+Facebook+Avatar+-+make+self+–+version+of+you+–+zmamen.com
Use git aliases!

# ~/.config/git/config
[alias]
s = status
d = diff
ds = diff --staged

# ~/.zshrc
alias g=git

$ g s
$ g ds

I think I have an alias for every letter of the alphabet.
> The thing is when you remove the ugly side of those business what remains can be done better for free using p2p networks or federation over open protocols.

Then why hasn't it happened?
archive: http://archive.is/evYQ7

The companies are discussing a deal that would value Zoox at less than the $3.2 billion it achieved in a funding round in 2018, according to people familiar with the matter.
Perhaps if people aren’t willing to pay for it the service isn’t that valuable after all.
> Is it fair and ethical to ask country A to make free all research while being okay with country B hiding its own research on the same subject?

An American journalist toured the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Everyone he spoke to proudly bragged about the USSR and its accomplishments. But some things seemed off. He asked about the mass starvation, and his handler explained it was because the kulaks destroyed their food to spite the people. He questioned why newspapers would one day say one thing, and the next denounce the same as counterrevolutionary. His handler responded, there was no difference, he's just misunderstanding the context. Finally he asked about political opponents mysteriously disappearing when they stood against Stalin.

Exasperated, the handler shrieked, "And you are lynching negroes!"
>Facebook’s brand will be plastered on Novi/Libra so just name alone might make people slightly distrustful anyway.

By that logic, Facebook wouldn't have any users right now, Instagram wouldn't be growing, WhatsApp shouldn't exist... should I go on? Facebooks digital grasp is enormous. That alone is why I think this will be a huge player.
I was actually wondering why the note taking app was named "Bear".

Maybe they thought the same way as you do :)
Cue the Simpsons clip "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas".

If one is not willing, capable, or even interested in trying to solve problems they help create, as an individual or a group, I have very little interest in sympathy for their difficulty.
Honestly I think the only way to make an ethical social network is to make a non-profit one. Fund it alongside other public goods like PBS, public education, highways, rail networks, healthcare, etc.

And yes, I know: good luck getting THAT to happen in the US given how badly funded everything else in my list is. If you’re in another country that actually funds public goods maybe this is a thing you could talk to some of your fellow techies about and make a proposal, especially if your country is getting increasingly tired of Facebook?

Alternatively, ground-up local funding of federated social networks might be workable; I run a Mastodon server for myself and a small group of my friends and acquaintances, with the costs pretty much evenly split between myself and the users who have money to spare. It is not without its flaws and problems but it is a thing I can generally keep going with a small investment of my spare time every few months.
I was just discussing blue bees with my friend--they're native to Australia. I had no idea they were in North America as well.
> This presupposes some kind of universal value function.

Sorry, I did not mean to suggest that some comments are intrinsically more valuable. But we do want to sort comments so that, on average, the distance between the "ideal" order for any given reader and the actual order is minimized, don't we?

> This is like perfect is the enemy of good counterargument.

I'm not trying to argue anything here, I just wanted your thoughts on how this could be implemented effectively.

> I have never browsed a journal or arxiv by the number of citations or the hindex or whatever.

I don't know if arXiv is a very good comparison — the posts are much fewer, the range of interests is much narrower, and the site itself is very heavily moderated.
Oh, another junket to the ISS, the ultimate money pit.

Don't forget to take a chain saw, guys!
IIR it was under $1k.
Businesswire: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200521005268/en/Ama...
How could you know that "country A is hiding research"? If its hiding it, you dont know about it, unless you are spying/hacking yourself.

FBI stance is we can hide stuff from you, and hack you, because we are the "good guys".
> have no skin in the game whatsoever

Well, aside from your taxes being blown on an orbiting astronaut aquarium. Virtually no science, or anything else of value, is done on the ISS.
Pretty much.

The encoded key is sent, once, in a header, and then stored in a secure session cookie, that has a reasonable timeout on it, and is user-revokable, and is encrypted in memory server-side, unless it is being accessed.

(Setting up session cookies to only decrypt when being accessed sort of required reinventing the wheel, as that's apparently not something anyone goes to the effort of usually, and sends you down some optimisation paths around timing that will have you pulling out your hair).

User-revokable session cookies are simple enough - each user gets their own session cookie key, and they can roll that over from a settings page.

Worth noting: This is a great way to decimate your server performance, because most websites aren't constantly handling decryption.

The prototype was written for Flask [0], then rewritten for Bottle [1] when it was clear I wasn't using 90% of the Flask stack, and monkeypatching most of what I was using. Nowadays it's a strange mix of Hug [3] and Bottle.

But there's nothing there that's unique to Python or even the framework. It's easily doable in just about any language. I made three prototypes when I was coming up with this batty idea, the Flask prototype, one for vibe.d (D), and one for Go. I settled on Python for no particular reason. They all had similar performance, because encryption became the bottleneck.

[0] https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/

[1] http://bottlepy.org/

[2] https://hugapi.github.io/hug/