skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He has already started.

- Informed populace. Really? It seems to me that propaganda and disinformation are rampant. The rise of radio broadcasts parallels the rise of National Socialism in Germany. Hitler understood the power of this new form of media, and used it to build a superior propaganda apparatus. The same thing is happening now with the combo of cable news and social media.

- Supreme court is now 5-4. The last two nominations do meet the bar of independence and due process. Neither do dozens of federal judge appointments that the Senate is railroading in unprecedented numbers.

- The entire GOP is compromised. Those who are not aligned with Trump have resigned. Remember Paul Ryan? Everyone who is left is fully aware of the new marching orders: absolute loyalty to Trump and his family. Breaking the law is ok - you will be protected. And if the law gets in the way, change it.

- The DoJ is compromised. For example, Federal charges were dropped against Michael Flynn, a federally indicted accomplice of Trump. That has never happened before.

- The election system is compromised. See the revelations by whistleblower Reality Winner. Note that no action has been taken - except exceptionally harsh prison sentence against Winner in retaliation for leaking the fact that the elect infrastructure is under attack.

- The FBI is compromised. Trump and his family have been under surveillance since the 1980s as known associates of the Russian mafia. It’s the only plausible explanation to the FBI leaving him, a known criminal, entirely alone, while choosing to sabotage Clinton with Comey’s eleventh hour announcement.

- ICE is now effectively a para-military operation loyal to Trump personally.

- The Treasury has been compromised by Russian agents since 2015. With Trump appointees now in charge, things have only gotten worse.

- Multiple state legislatures are compromising beyond repair. For example Missouri is deeply corrupt, and effectively controlled by the GOP in perpetuity regardless of popular vote. There is a vicious circle of electoral impunity leading to more dismantling of anti-corruption regulation, which allows more shady practices to tip the electoral scales even further. In Georgia, the secretary of state used his authority to “disappear” thousands of ballots and get himself fraudulently elected as Governor.

- Let’s not even get into the countless state and city police agencies that are infiltrated by white supremacists.

The coup is already underway.
Remember that many US states are the size of European countries. This is the same deal that many countries in Europe have: subsidized tuition for residents.

Also, a lot of state systems have good schools: UC Berkeley, UMass Amherst, UIUC, UT Austin, and UW Madison come to mind.
K3s on few devices. Thinking of grabbing a HP microserver or something with similar case for ITX ryzen (embedded EPYC would be probably too expensive), some storage space, maybe connect few extra bits of compute power into a heterogenous cluster. Put everything except maybe PiHole on it, with ZFS pool exported over bunch of protocols as backing store for persistent volume claim support.
For Decimals I’m using a hash-chain. So, entries are always balanced, atomic and immutable. Not a blockchain, as there is no need for consensus, but the properties for checking integrity are all in there.
I think there exist such people. I think they are sociopaths. I would not interact with them.

> You would discriminate against people solely due to their feelings

Absolutely not! We were talking about beliefs and values, not feelings. I harbor no ill will against anyone for their feelings. As you say, feelings are mostly not under one’s own control.

But what you believe is well within your own power. If one believes a human life is worth less than some material possessions, then yes, I would remove that person from my life. That’s not a feeling. That’s a choice.
I worked at an AR startup that got rid of their very smart and charismatic CEO eventually.

Guess what happened?
>What gouging does in an emergency is allocate the needed supplies to where they are needed the most. If people in the zone have extra supplies, they'll sell them rather than hoard.

I don't think the hospitals that are in the midst of an outbreak that is at the same time destroying their normal revenue streams are the ones most able to purchase gouged merchandise, and yet they are most certainly examples of where it is needed most.

>It absolutely does. Before the anti-gouging laws, when there was a hurricane, people outside the zone would fill up all their gas cans, get supplies, etc., then drive into the zone and sell them for high prices.

I have never heard of such a thing. In fact, what I typically see in disasters is something nearly the opposite: groups of people outside the impacted area often gather donations, pool them them, and bring them to the impacted area to donate them.
Why do RSA keys have weaknesses? Wasn't the company found to be compromised and selling products that make weak keys or something like that?
Can you please provide a citation for 2048-bit RSA not being enough? That is counter to apparently reliable advice elsewhere.
SKs "biggest spike in weeks" is a small fraction of our daily new cases, even per capita.

Japan and China both managed to regulate the virus out of existence with more success than we have had at stopping terrorist attacks, doesn't seem like all that bad of a comparison to me.
I just tried in Chrome; at least for page 2 it actually did a bit better than my browser: it actually managed to preserve the line breaks! (I don't have Safari installed.)

(Also, if you look closely, the summation signs are not gone, they are replaced by the letter P. Which is not helpful I admit.)

Do you think there's any place here for education/advocacy? For instance, everyone who makes web pages knows to provide alt text for images.

If there was a standard package that everyone knew they had to include or else it breaks everything from ctrl-F to copy/paste to screen readers, presumably people would use it, right?

I'm less interested in speculating what would have been if troff had "won", (though it is indeed fun to speculate), and more interested in how to fix the mess we're in now, so that 10 years in the future, blind people have better choices than OCR.

(Though OCR is still an improvement over the best option in the 1980s I bet. Though I wasn't around so just guessing.)
You can attack the messenger all day, without addressing any of the actual science. Just because you dislike the facts doesn't change that they remain facts.

Silent Spring was a work of fiction, but it killed millions of children in the developing world, and continues to do so to this day. Fortunately at least some have seen the light and relaxed the ban on DDT.
> but a proper tool will do wonders to how much digging you can do.

Then the question becomes "Is K8 more of a shovel or an excavator". I think its fair to say that its more the latter.
Setting up one is easy. Setting up one that gives multiple separate teams the ability to configure their services, and apply those changes to servers around the world and in different environments, repeatedly and safely, is harder.
It seems pretty far from "worst imaginable". I mean, it's not like it goes into an uncontrollable dive.
I recall learning "remember to drink cold beer".
I agree. That sounds like a marketing speak translation of developers saying they're familiar with it and/or they have an existing code base of examples they base off of.
It’s _literally_ the first app that gets installed on a fresh machine for me.
Or poverty. Basic healthcare, mosquito nets and dealing with standing water would probably eliminate the majority of these deaths without killing a single mosquito.
No, you give the other player the entire wallet, you don't actually do a transaction
> I'd assume you'd get your allotment in form of a token, which you could trade for something else if you didn't need it.

Black market gasoline was illegal, but of course that didn't stop a black market from happening, and at much higher prices than the market price would have been.

> Speculators profit best when they make it available at the point when they can command the highest price, not at the point where it could do most good to mitigate the crisis that's driving the prices up.

Those two points are the same.
Now set it up in 30 data centers around the world, with the ability for dozens of different teams to add and change their applications, and across multiple staging and QA environments.
I may be misunderstanding but what happens when your customer changes their password?
> Also of note, is Ed25519 does not harden itself with additional "bits" in the normal RSA sense, it relies on "rounds" of KDF to apply more brute-force protection to the passphrase

That doesn't make sense. Key stretching your pass phrase, and the number of bits your key pair is, is totally separate. The reason people dont talk about number of bits in Ed25519, is that the security margins are higher and many of the more efficient algos for cryptoanalyzing this stuff dont work on elliptic curves, so you dont have to be constantly changing the key strength to keep up with better computers, its just always 256 bits.
Off the top of my head, deployments and sidecars are both missing, which are incredibly useful.
>But both sides have never been the same,

Both are owned by the same oligarchs, it's a pretend lesser of evils game that just pendulum swings back and forth every few election cycles and it amazes me people still fall for this kind of rhetoric. Then again, most people fell for Russiagate hook line and sinker too... and when we increasingly get the evidence about how false it was, crickets... The entire democratic party fell for disinformation just as easily as the republicans did. Stop kidding yourself.
Have you considered what conditions would be required for you to be motivated to behave like these protestors?

What would you need to be feeling or being treated to behave this way?
What would students do with a gap year right now? Travel? Work full time (presumably in a face-to-face service job)? I would think the only real options would be to self study or play World of Warcraft.

Generally, in an economic downturn people turn to education as a way to better themselves and wait out an economic recovery.
It was meant as a joke. From the caption: "Yes, I realize hooded hacker stock photos have become a meme, but that’s the point."
> You’d be surprised all the things you learn k-8.

Very much depends on the school district. In many urban school districts, it's better than being in the house, but its hardly enriching.
Any picture of the rioters/looters will show you they are people of all races. Not just black people.
They're getting good at this. Has Elon considered pivoting from a space flight company into the demolition business?
On my Windows machine, the emax64 distribution (many packages) shows up as 491MB.

But on Windows, it seems that every app like this is essentially a Linux/mSys distro that just happens to run the application.

Of course, apps in general are getting that way.
That's cool - thanks Pixxel! So Fraidycat literally just grabs the title and link from each post in the feed - so it has to do with how DF formats its feed. It appears that the JSON feed works correctly tho: https://daringfireball.net/feeds/json

Also, there is a redesign underway that will give richer post view: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/30
Uh, I have some news for you...
I generally have the opposite problem on my AppleTV... I have to crank HBO/Netflix _way_ up to get a reasonable audio level.
Ok, so that’s a real thing, and not just a Charles Stross / Laundry Files reference.

I guess it’s not too surprising that you would want to keep an eye out for rioting.

Missiles would be a whole new level of messed up, though.
Post US Civil war, we encoded a set of rules that on their face did not discriminate on race. But their effect was basically to prevent black people from voting and enjoying their civil liberties.

Now we are encoding these biases into models built with mass surveillance. Many of us upper middle class white folks turn a blind eye. Subconsciously we know that’s not really targeting us. “We have nothing to hide” is the battle cry of the apathetic middle class person... when you trace the origin not just to law and order but the “war on terrorism” the relationship to race is even more depressing.

Maybe when we examine deeper we see those using the tools of mass surveillance look like us (heck are from this industry!). This same people working in the surveillance industry only imagine getting the “bad guys” not people that look like them!

On their face this has nothing to do with race. Examine deeper and you see, it’s far easier to take away civil liberties when it’s the “other” it’s being taken away from. Where the in group can blissfully rationalize what’s happening to get on with their day
You might be interested in the ELECTRA model. It's the solid first success I've seen of a GAN-like framework in NLP. It also has links to why GANs still don't do so great in NLP in its references.
It's an avionics bug, so very likely the affected equipment is aftermarket.
I remember back in the day we were deploying a production video streaming server at a customer site, and a team from IBM deployed their analytics suite alongside us. We had over 8Gbps coming out of a single 1U server. The IBM installed a separate server for every Java process that their application needed, which was something like 8. It was ridiculous.
Young women will live there if it’s cheap enough and safe, same as young men will. People live in apartments with cockroaches, rats and mold if they’re cheap enough, and not just young men.

I spent €100 a week to share a room with five others close to the center of Dublin city ten years ago. There weren’t any women in that room but there were women living in the apartment.
Trump and Mcconnell have already packed the supreme court and the federal circuits.

It's no-longer a question of if the Democrats respond, it's a question of how.
I misread the link... it is genuine cluster scaling
Yeah don't get me wrong I'm well aware that there's a lot of public support for it. I meant the governed in the narrow sense here, the communities who are actually affected (and largely segregated).

Same goes for the policing. The amount of separation between the police and the policed, demographically, politically and so on is hard to defend.
> a) Vaccines have been tested/developed on people in Africa who were not told of the dangers of experimental treatments

Running medical trials on unsuspecting people is wrong whether it's a new drug or vaccine. It also has little to do with the well proven safety vaccines.

> b)Some vaccines contain trace amounts of metals like mercury.

Ah, the classic anti-vax 'toxins' argument. I said that vaccines have been proven safe time and again (which they have). I never said they don't have trace amounts of stuff often found in much larger amounts all around us in the environment [1].

> When I was child, I was literally vaccinated with a re-used needle. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

There was a time in not so long ago medical history that things like needles were reused. It wasn't specific to vaccines.

> I don't understand why you can act like vaccines have never hurt anyone ever, and claim it as the scientific view

Talk about moving/making up goal posts. Nowhere did I claim that no one was ever hurt in the history of figuring out how vaccines work. What I claimed is that vaccines today have been proven safe over and over again. They also do not cause autism.

[1] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/toxic-myths-about-vaccines/
And the doubled price would keep people who are least able to pay from getting necessary resources, also potentially encouraging them to continue working in risky conditions to earn extra income to do so, helping in some small way to perpetuate the pandemic itself.

If you're looking for a market-based solution to hoarding, there are others besides price gouging. Amazon's approach, at least in areas where they have complete control like their pantry, fresh, and whole foods services, can serve as an example: They want happy customers. Happy customers return and buy more stuff. Customers who can't buy what they need because it's sold out due to hoarding are not happy. Amazon institutes a policy for orders through fresh/pantry/whole foods that limit TP purchases to a single package. More customers get needed supplies, stay happy return to buy more, make Amazon more money in the long term.

Supply/Demand price curves & price elasticity are not the only rational market-based methods of price discovery. More subtle and long-term considerations breed other strategies.
Five to ten years ago (I really forget exactly when) I had my car towed from the street in front of my house in Minneapolis because I had forgotten to pay a few parking tickets – something which only could have happened with either an extremely bored officer manually entering license plate numbers to check... or with an automatic reader which searched every plate it saw.
Newer keys, especially ed25519, are very short. This makes working with them much easier. Copy-pasting them to remote machine is more reliable, examining authorized_keys us faster and so on.
Get worse? I believe that global warming is going to come at a faster clip than predicted. I'm still naive/hopeful enough that if the world collectively worked to remediate it we could get through ok.

I don't see that happening until shit hits the fan and its effectively way too late.

Couple that with the political landscape that indicates this election is going to be a shit show and if Trump is properly voted out will not leave office. Instead his plan is to light the fuse for Civil War II.

If you think I'm Chicken Little crying that the sky is falling, then that tells as much about you as it does about me.

As for you judging my parenting: I've been very guarded about these worries around my children. That said, my teen age daughter has insisted that she will never have kids. It was only a couple of months ago that she confided that it was because she didn't think she'd live long enough to do that.

Bear in mind that this teenager, being a teenager, pays as little attention to what I say as possible and this realization was entirely her own.

So there you go, Mr. Happy Go Lucky Ramblerman, who just thinks wishing things away will make it all better. It won't.

It's my duty as a citizen and a father to pay attention and do whatever I can to speak up or act whenever I can. I don't do this often enough or well enough, but I will continue to try.

So again, thanks for telling me how to parent. I look forward to you accepting the favor in return.
+1 great book for a high level framework of virality
A four-day work week could help rebuild Canada’s economy post-Covid-19
> Saying we are too stupid to ever know anything is a pretty anti-scientific attitude.

It's also a straw man. I didn't say we're "too stupid" to "ever know anything." So let's at least engage in good faith.

Should we "do something?" Sure. And we have, for centuries. Did you miss anti malarial drugs, physical detriments and mitigations?

"Advocating against doing anything" is another gross straw man argument.
To take this meta-discussion a step further, I think this is the inevitable course of an argument where one group cares about X but not Y, and the other group cares about Y but not X. The two debaters won't have much to say to each other except "Let's talk about X", "No, let's talk about Y", etc. You can't have a structured debate unless both people care about the same thing and hold explicitly contrary views on it. But this is rarely the case in today's fragmented information landscape where different information sources emphasize different things.
Beats me. It doesn't correspond to either virtual server nor hypervisors. It certainly doesn't correspond to real hardware. Cloud OS my butt...
"Hey, let's take a zillion commodity cloud provider instances running on hypervisors, then install Ubuntu, then run Kubernetes on them, then run docker containers on them and fiddle about all day with yaml trying to make internal networking do insecure things to imitate real world infrastructure"

Just use Ansible if you miss YAML, and you can actually deploy to real hardware.
They were hiring.
In any other time, masked protesters might spark laws about facial coverings, so there's one silver lining about the current situation.
Another idea along those lines... I like to play with the form builders before creating an account. Shows what field types are available and how it works. Maybe a demo site?
I have a certain monitor width, distance from that monitor and font size. Those constraints dictate how many open file columns I can fit across my screen. I'm happy if I can get two columns, so that I can edit files side-by-side. 80 columns is the approximate sweet spot.

The suggestion that people should just get "better hardware" is so completely asinine, because it neglects to realize that the quality of hardware might not be the problem. For example, instead of having a single very large monitor, I use three somewhat smaller monitors because that enables other productive workflows.
Could this, almost word for word, once have applied to the British Empire?
What If We Killed All the Mosquitoes? (2016)
Thanks for explaining where you're coming from here. I'll offer my perspective.

I replied to your original comment, indicating my belief that the issue is substantially more complicated than your framing suggested, and briefly explained a couple reasons why. I have several more, if you honestly have any interest.

Your reply was to claim it is just about your property rights - the only relation to my comment was the response hierarchy. I honestly still don't see how that's not a refusal to engage.

One point:

> claims that I support state violence

Well, what do you call what's going on? (I do also consider intrusive surveillance a form of violence, but understand why some think that's dilutive to the term.)
I'm fine with standardization, as long as I set the standard. For standard 0, I propose that the only spelling for "standardization" will be with a 'z' (which is itself pronounced "zee").
Ok, but you didn't say why they're bad.

I bought into that hype back in the day. I don't anymore. They're a tool, they're not inherently good or bad.
Weird that you're getting downvoted.

The difference between code and data is pretty big.

One implies an expectation that the user is going to write some kind of algorithm whereas the other is basically a config file.
> Meanwhile the higher prices deter the person who was going to go in and buy out the entire store

Yes, if prices are stable. But the market is not a vacuum of nothing but prices.

If the price is high and dPrice/dt has been zero for a year, then yes, what you're saying is true.

But if dPrice/dt is positively high, the market can overreact to the change from fear of missing out on the current price, and fear of missing out on an investment opportunity.

It's very similar to the price of a stock crashing. People don't know where the bottom is. Fear takes over. And the price will stop dropping when the fear stops.
Same here. I even block JavaScript, too. Not just on Medium, but any website with a paywall or a similar free content blocking mechanism (wired.com, many newspapers etc).
What I said wasn't a premise, it was pointing out that you didn't back up what you were saying with any substance, which can be checked by reading your comment.
It will just become the new normal sadly and people will be more docile by then. The vast majority already is.
SROs are hotels cum boarding houses, cheap places to stay. They’re associated with the homeless in the US because the only places they haven’t been zoned out of existence are cities with many homeless activists.

The answer to “Why isn’t there cheap housing?” is always zoning and the motivation for the zoning is to keep poor people away to protect property prices.