skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well to honest your post was the textbook definition of victim blaming. It was hardly a "premise." With absolutely zero evidence you flat out accused them of wrong behavior (dressing wrong, acting wrong) instead of considering their situation on the facts they presented. That is victim blaming.

But now you try turn the tables around. Your feelings are so important. Painting yourself as the victim is the all-too-predictable next step in that logical chain. Congratulations on making this all about you.

Instead of being pissed off and trying to fire another salvo to get other people pissed off and concerned about you, you should try to listen to people instead. You came out of the gate with the over the top with "your lived experience is invalid, here is my completely context-free flat denial that anything is wrong, I don't want to hear what you are saying". This whole chain originated out of your lack of empathy, and here now we completely forgot about the people who are actually victimized.
Well these points weaken some of your earlier ones.

For example - if it becomes a duo or tri-opoly there is no reason for them to race to the bottom on commission - remember the store’s customers are the app buyers, not the developers.

Stores from Amazon or Google simply wouldn’t need to lower commissions as long as they had more than 15% of the customers to bring to the table.

I agree that the ranking algorithm is a problem and I think Apple should at the least provide an alternate storefront API, but you contradict yourself here by saying you’d be more secure if You weren’t dependent on the whim of one or two global corporations, because you also said you think two or three stores would be used by almost all consumers.

If you are a porn developer it’s true that you’d only need to comply with the rules of a specialist porn App Store.

However the vast majority of apps are not porn and are of mainstream appeal. All of these apps would have to comply with the superset of regulations so this is not a counterargument.

Breaking up the App Store will simply harm the majority of indie developers. I grant that it may help porn producers.
> making conjoined twins out of young and old mice — such that they share blood and organs

That sent chills down my spine.
You have to make each round using yogurt from the previous round, not the preceding ones (1), else the bacteria in the culture probably get too few / weaker due to less than optimal conditions, like temp., hours out, etc.
(1) That is, batch 2 using starter from 1, 3 from 2, etc.

E.g. google videos of how to make kefir and see what they say about how to preserve and replicate the kefir "grains".

Exact same technique may not apply to yogurt culture, but principles do.
CIA Unaware of Vault 7 Theft Until WikiLeaks Dump
No, they don't. They discredit the legitimate point that many state actors wantonly use excessive force in the minds of most Americans. Nobody will listen to proposals while he's worried about his things being destroyed. Nobody is going to vote for reform under the threat of having his business burned or his neighborhood terrorized. Using violence to achieve a political aim is terrorism, and will never achieve long-term social change. All it will do is prompt a backlash and close most Americans' minds to what is otherwise a legitimate grievance.
> Outside of narrow fields, it was often the case that you would need to cough up an amount in the thousands to publish as open-access.

Itself a tremendous affront to the public, which funds most research.
> tests might fail one run and pass another. People don't seem to like this

I have also encountered this attitude and haven't understood it so far. What stops you from recording the test cases to reproduce failed ones?
>I think the point the parent is making is that human vision has limited resolution. I.e. for a given screen size & distance from the screen, you cannot notice any difference in DPI past a point. The parent is suggesting that 1080p & 27" with a typical viewing distance is already higher resolution than the eye can resolve. Looking at my 1080p 27" screen from a metre away with 20/20 vision I am inclined to agree!

Are you sure you have 20/20 vision? I can absolutely resolve individual pixels with zero effort whatsoever on 1080p 27-inch displays.

Back when I had a 27-inch 1080p display at work, my MacBook's 13-inch Retina Display effectively became my main monitor. The 27-inch monitor was relegated to displaying documentation and secondary content, because I found its low resolution totally eye straining

Edit: I might have found it so eye straining because MacOS does not support sub pixel rendering. That means a lot of people will need a 4K or Retina monitor to have a comfortable viewing experience on the Mac.
I would jump with joy if sqlite3 was rewritten in Haskell, OCaml or Rust. They can bring so much to the table in terms of safety and less development surprises.
I have a laptop with a 13" 3200x1800 monitor; not quite 4k, but higher resolution than my eyes' ability to discern fine detail. My other laptop is 1366x768. The other laptop is a lot better for a wide variety of reasons (and also an order of magnitude more expensive) but the display resolution is genuinely something I don't give a crap about. It isn't terrible and I don't hate it. There's plenty of stuff I don't like about the display; narrow viewing angle, poor contrast, prone to glare- but the resolution is fine.
Are there benefits of being Startup School Certified? It's not clear in the FAQ
If she did it, she's a criminal.
this is amazing. how did you find this, and do you know of any other health/longevity tips?
> Writing from the UK, I'm reasonably sure that (a) all my phone calls are not recorded

With 5 / 14 eyes and no specific privacy doctrine in the UK, I have no idea why you would have that assumption at all.

Maybe not recorded indefinitely, but it seems very possible to voice to text and store that forever.
Fun (interesting? predictable?) fact:

I’ve been putting off reading this since early yesterday. I’ve kept it unread in my RSS reader and looked at it at least a dozen times now.
Joe Rogan Experience #1492 – Jocko Willink ( on the whole shit show )
> There are, of course, only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. But there is another hard problem lurking amongst the tall weeds of computer science: seeing things in order.

Seeing things in order is a sub problem of cache invalidation. The reason multiprocessor systems have trouble seeing things in order is because of cache. A lot of the memory consistency models can be thought of as specifying when the CPU catches become invalidated.

It’s cache invalidation all the way down.
> American voters are significantly more interested in job creation and other "Jobs" style political rhetoric.

This is the case all over the world. Because normal people understand that you can't eat virtue signalling and moral posturing. Jobs feed families and pay taxes. They have intrinsic value and cannot be done away with easily, with vague scares and promises of bright, green new jobs, some day.
I am not sure why this is getting much attention. Walmart is selective about which merchants they will take and Shopify is estimating only 1.200 will be onboarded by years end. Shopify claims to have 500,000 stores so this penetration is so minuscule its really not worth mentioning. In the same vein, this was all already possible using a couple of third-party Shopify Apps and merchants have already been doing this for years. All I see is PR being created to drive stock price?
Whether someone "is a criminal" should have something to do with how much of a regular part of their life it is. Just like someone who smoked a joint once 20 years ago isn't considered a drug user, someone who committed a one-off crime isn't a criminal.
The 4K monitor at my office is a fair bit smaller than that, and I haven't used it since the COVID-19 epidemic sent me packing home. Since then I've just been using my laptop's built-in screen.

To be honest, I think I may stick to it. At first, the huge monitor was fun, and initial change to having less screen real estate was definitely a drag. But, now that I'm accustomed to it again, I'm finding that "I can fit less stuff on the screen at once" is just another way of saying, "it's harder to distract myself with extra stuff on the screen." My productivity is possibly up, and certainly no worse.
She was charged criminally. The PD could also bring a civil suit for her to pay for the damage, but they probably won't bother.
My thought as well. I did not know there was a name for it.

Thank you.
I absolutely hate the term virtue signalling. It's always reductive and dismissive. If I am willing to go a LITTLE out of my way to protect my privacy, but not a LOT out of my way, am I "just virtue signalling"? If I continue to use a privacy-less platform (e.g. zoom/instagram/facebook) but just exercise caution with what I say using that medium, is that also "just virtue signalling"?

I agree, evidence shows most people are not willing to go very far out of their way to defend their privacy. But I also think privacy is a genuine virtue, and a desire for it is present and often untapped. Why else would Apple have run privacy-centric ad campaigns? Attempting to tap into the weak but widespread desire for privacy, I think

Also, side note, lgbtq people make up somewhere in the range of 2-7% of the population, not 1%.
I wasn't “finding excuses for racism”. Just trying to determine if actually occured, or not.
For all of the space given to macOS "Font Smoothing", that setting really doesn't do much at all. I'm testing on macOS 10.15.5 and the setting seems to do nothing at all for web pages (viewed in Safari), or Terminal.app, or VSCode, or MacVim, or Xcode's editor. It does affect some of the UI chrome in Safari's toolbar, and Xcode's sidebar, but not the editor. So it really seems to have no effect at all on programming.
My friend, when I moved into my new apartment I went without WiFi for 2 years and did nothing but code on my T43. In that time I managed to rewrite (a variant of) Age of Empires 2.
You as a coder also don't normally need 120 Hz display like the OP and to be limited to !3! models currently available on the market. It doesn't make sense. But hey, economics, whatever...
haha, yeah. very cool, though. would love to chat when you're ready to share if you're looking for feedback.. I've got some features to suggest that would (IMO) increase the value prop.
This wasn't the only problem with Zoom, and it was an egregious problem. Zoom has lost all presumption of good faith, and in fact earned the presumption of bad faith as far as I'm concerned.
Worse than that. Saying AESGCM doesn’t even mean they are using SSL or DH key exchange or etc. it just means they’re using symmetric for the data, that’s all. Nothing about how the key is securely transferred to each side and how the user can have any confidence they aren’t passing the key back to themselves anyhow.
Covid-19 plasma donors interactive live map
This is an interactive live map for people who recently recovered from COVID-19 and willing to donate their plasma to help others recover. Donors can fill out a form with their information and a pin with a popup with only their first name, blood type, and phone is generated near their location on the map. Thus, hospitals and donation centers can find who are the nearest donors to them to contact.
This website has a lot of non-political news itself, e.g. freebsd 11.4 is out etc
I just wish mine had one who could speak in full sentences
I know that the term "peer-to-peer" could be interpreted in many ways, but to the best of my knowledge it is usually interpreted how I wrote above.

Which I think it's pretty much how you defined it too in your (last) comment, so I'm not sure what we're debating.

The important thing was that no one reading these comments get the impression that the multitude of systems that describe themselves as "peer-to-peer" are for sure using "encryption that a middle man cannot decrypt".

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> The parent comment asked about avoiding a middleman

Middle man in cryptography is anyone intercepting a message

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> I have no idea what "end-to-end encryption" means, nor do I seek to know

Well, I don't mean to be rude, but then there's not much you can say in a discussion about encryption...

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Look, the important thing was to underscore that the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23554823 comment was (apparently) wrong, I don't have any interest in winning a battle, I appreciate your enthusiasm, you probably currently don't know everything about cryptography or networking and there's nothing wrong with that, no one is born expert and no one knows everything there is to know. I have to go to sleep, bye
Almost as if objective reporting had some sort of value...
I would say that it's unsurprising that our organs are less than perfect at doing their jobs, given that they operate under various constraints (e.g. running under an ATP power budget, one tuned for an ancestral environment where dying of hunger was a real concern; being only able to eliminate metabolic waste at the rate blood flow can take it away; having to avoid strategies that lead to DNA damage, like running anaerobically for long periods; etc.)

Therefore, it's also unsurprising that external devices can do some of an organ's jobs "better" than the organ itself can. They devices don't have the same constraints our organs do.

This effect is already very clear for pacemakers: hearts are very bad at keeping themselves going in oxygen-poor conditions (as they effectively have a circular dependency—a heart can't beat without flowing oxygenated blood); but electronic pacemakers don't need oxygen, and so keep the heart going under such conditions, until oxygen-rich blood can return.

Once we perfect stem-cell organ synthesis, it'd be intriguing to know whether "untethered" human longevity could be increased just by sticking "moar kidney" and "moar liver" into the body, than the human body-plan calls for by default.
Trust me, a lot of people would be interested. If you can spare the time, please do a write-up. It will be hugely appreciated!
> Not to say that that's excusable when it does occur, but...

The thing that goes after the but is called an "excuse".
This

Pretty much no maintstream UX has properly solve the large screen problem and instead we have to workaround it with smaller, multiple monitors.
pandemics + police brutality means protective gear is a must!
Also just to be clear, you’re only taxed 30% on the income in the new bracket, not your entire income so rejoice! :)
They did that with Amazon Fresh, and (at least from my perspective of several years ago) I think the asymmetry between # of packages and frequency of delivery didn't work out for them that well. We'd end up holding onto a stack of 4-5 crates for a week or so, which means Amazon would have to float probably a ton of these across their customers. That's all a guess though, but these days we get deliveries in plastic/paper bags, no reusable containers, so something must not have worked out.

That said, grocery delivery is much more "bursty" than package delivery.
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Been a while since my eyesight tested, but I think so! I can see pixels if I focus but not when reading text at any speed. I have also checked and my display is only 24" (could've sworn it was more!) so maybe that's why. I retract my comment :)
Perfectionism (which is what I feel like you’re describing) is usually covering something deeper. Might be worth looking inside yourself, past the various layers.

Hint: big or small, it’s always a fear
Good point. Blood samples of corona virus disease patients frequently show markers of neurological damage.

The defense attorney could try the "Infectious toxic encephalopathy" gambit .
"half of the blood plasma"
Important difference.

Interesting point by aomix about the temperature, but that could be compensated for if it was needed.

I haven't donated plasma in a long time, but pretty much the only thing I felt when the blood cells and platelets were returned was a light tickling near the needle and sometimes a faint chemical taste or smell, presumably from some component in the replacement fluid.
Exchanging several liters would take time, certainly, but it doesn't seem at all a given that it would be very disagreeable in the immediate term.

Slightly longer term, one might certainly wonder about the comfort effects of having stuff like hormones and cytokines, circulating antibodies, clotting factors, etcetera rapidly halved. That ought to jolt the homeostatic controllers good, and that could well be one of the reasons for the beneficial effects.
And halving blood glucose should be potentially unpleasant, but I suspect the compensation would be very fast.
Well, if you think knowledge is same as truth, computer verifications can do. Today, at least the consensus in philosophy of science is not centered on truth. It is true that a falsity can't be knowledge. There is more to knowledge than truth.
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You’re definitely right. This twitter thread uses excerpts from the charging documents to explain the steps the FBI took: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1273098216775524355.html
This is great! I just put in a submission and added your links to my homepage.

I will say, so far most of the sites I have tried with the random button are missing the webring links. I seem to remember most of the rings I was involved in in the past required that the ring links were present on the homepage in order to be a member of the ring, maybe its worth adding that to this ring? Or maybe rank sites lower in the random priority that don't link back?

For now I am using the iframe browser version
> by all means go after opiates’ supply-chain (and we can start with Perdue’s executives!)

I agree with the rest of what you wrote, but I'd like to suggest that the vast majority of the negative effects of opiates are entirely due to how society treats them.

(Also note their incredibly low wholesale prices, and that (as with alcohol) most people who become addicted to them seem to have other problems in their lives that don't magically go away when the drug is banned.)
I find it so strange that most people still talk about their monitors' resolution in terms of pixel counts. Oh, you have a 4k monitor? Well, if that's a 43" 16:9 4k monitor, then that's pretty close to 100 dpi, so you basically have a big-ass traditional ("lodpi") monitor. Whereas if it's a 24" monitor, then it's a smallish hidpi screen. Rather than pixel counts, I find it much more helpful if you tell me the size in inches and the DPI.

This is related to one reason why I'm not so crazy about 4k: At most of the usual screen sizes, they occupy an unpleasant middle ground between a traditional screen (~100 dpi) and a 2x hidpi/retina screen (~200 dpi).
But it's not a list of college dropouts either...

And listing Jane Austen is odd - how would she have been able to, and why would one assume she wouldn't have benefitted? Why not list other people who weren't white males and didn't go to college in the 1700s? I mean, it obviously wouldn't feel right in support of the thesis, but why did these lists seem to make sense to the author?

Edit: I was thinking maybe this is some sort of parody or satire or gotcha, and then I decided to check out the main page and I read:

"We helped launch and run the Thiel Fellowship, working alongside Peter Thiel to identify and work with young founders building new technology"

Which instantly repositioned the theses as validation in my mind of the general dislike of him that some people have. He may not be directly responsible, but I can't help feeling that if this is the sort of people who like him...
Fractal Geometry Is Not the Geometry of Nature
I have always used a single monitor and I am productive like crazy. I mainly need a code editor and terminal. Sometimes switch to a browser and back. And that's enough. More monitors doesn't automatically imply more productivity IMO. Maybe in some specific cases. You can't focus on all monitors simultaneously anyway.
If your competence and competitive edge is long-lived hardware, why not open source the control software? Are there any downsides to doing this? Perhaps incorporating some binary blobs to hide proprietary IP where / if necessary.
IMO political ads should be banned from all platforms, as a law. It is insane that candidates who have more money and funding will in turn have more reach. This is antidemocratic.
Isn't ZH generally oriented against foreign meddling by the US?
I think people put a little too much faith into "safety in numbers" during these riots.
Yeah, I used to think of it like this.

In particular, my view was basically: "don't like FB/YT/Twitter policies? Spin up a wordpress; it's as easy as posting to FB/YT and you can pay the monthly bill for a quite decent audience using loose change."

I've come around in the past couple of years. Social networks/content platforms are... well, networks and platforms. Like it or not, the policies of the largest networks/platforms will have a non-trivial impact on public opinion. They have become a (perhaps the) public square. And the government doesn't have to extend Section 230 protections to those networks/platforms.

I really like the idea that individual users should be able to create their own content filters and buy/sell content filters. At least in the abstract, this seems like it would address the need for content moderation without centralizing the censorship.
> It destroyed families, lives, whole communities.

This completely unfounded moral panic is what fuels the vast majority of organized crime (among other things) throughout the world.
I think as long as it's reproducible it's Ok... but should be a team decision. The data has to be non-sensitive of course, very often it's not ok to pull data out of prod.
Fuzzers in general tend to work hard to make sure crashes are reproducible (usually with a seed at the start of the run, and by saving crashing inputs).

If you can't repro a crash a month or a week later, it's not worth it IMHO.

Usually you can get most of the benefits with data generation, based on a deterministic seed.

Mainly though, you have to ask about the purpose of the tests. Most developers want a test suite that tells them with high confidence that what they just worked on didn't create a new bug, or a regression. That lets them stay focused on their work rather than chasing through the codebase for an unrelated latent issue which might have been introduced by someone else, years ago.

There is often value in separating "exploratory" or "stochastic" tests which might uncover new bugs (previously unknown) from regular tests. To make it really work as part of default workflow you need a culture which understands a feature might take additional time because the team stopped to fix a latent issue to get back to green.

To put it bluntly, letting random-ish testing break your pipeline is making a statement of business priority (we care so much about random bugs that we will stop all other work until they are fixed) which might not align with reality.

"Is this the most important thing for me to be working on for the success of the business?"

I think the "right" way to add fuzzing / random testing to a pipeline is sell the value to the business and have an initiative to rigorously fuzz the snot out of the software. Crucially, have resources dedicated to triage and fix the identified issues. It should be a non-breaking pipeline stage right up to the point where everyone feels confident that any test failures are the result of new code.

The worst case is that an opinionated developer adds stochastic tests, with bad reproducibility, without consulting the team and randomly breaks builds in an organisation that only rewards or understands feature delivery and ticket punching. That is basically going to make their co-workers life hell and is IMHO not the right way to go about it.
One interesting note - she's being charged federally, not by local Philly PD.