skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other example that comes up a lot is people who are gay and haven't come out to their families/hometowns yet.

But look, I don't have a complicated social life, and I still can't fathom this idea that you share the exact same same stuff with all friends/co-workers/family/acquaintances.

There are some people I talk about politics to and some I don't, some people I talk to about music or books and some I don't, some people I talk to about technology and MANY I never would.

So Facebook became the lowest common denominator of what I was willing to share: my dog. He's a good boy.

Anyway my feed withered down to everyone's lowest common denominator (pets, travel photos, some children, often just nothing) and a few vocal armchair activists do didn't get the memo. Which in some ways is great, it's so boring I can just deactivate my account on a whim.
This is repeated a lot but if you actually look at the research you find that physical exercise has very little effect(except maybe as a preventative). That nutrition in general has a small effect. And dieting has a larger effect but is only temporary, and no dietary interventions have shown any real success over the long term.

Bariatric surgery is currently the only real effective treatment. With GLP agonists like semaglutide having similar effects at least in the near term.
The way the country is designed you really need to drive to buy a simple thing.
They drive on the left side because they walk on the left side. They say the origin for left-hand traffic in Japan comes from the Edo period where samurai, who wore their swords on the left side, would walk on the left side of the road to avoid clashing swords with each other.
Why would philosophers have a say in this?

But point is, that question is far from settled. Especially if you consider the key features being the free market and private property, then capitalism goes far into BCE.
> RMS, TBL, Torvalds, I could just send them an email in the 90s and they'd respond, it was pretty remarkable.

I don't think this stopped just because of spam, harassment, or other bad behavior. A big part of it is just community size. When the community of internet users was smaller, you could interact with everyone who reached out in a reasonable amount of time. As it got bigger, that is no longer possible because of the sheer number of people.
Agreed. Look at the CDC's leading causes of premature death. A significant number are preventable (i.e., diet and lifestyle). Interesting enough, many of these are diseases that Covid 19 does well to exploit. If you are in good health, the chances of being taken to the grave by Covid 19 are rare.

What's odd is that the concept of comorbidies has been abandoned in the C19 era. There is little transparency when it comes to C19's co-conspirators.

Editorial: It troubles me when article after article about the high price is insulin fails to mention demand; and that close to all the demand created by Type 2 is avoidable.

Might there be manufacturer price gouging? Perhaps. But it's universally agreed that demand will increase price.
"I think another thing we might want to learn about is how to sound the alarm when the break glass is used. Is there an easy way of doing that with SSH?"

Yes - quite simple and old-fashioned, actually ...

I have this line in the SSH users' .login file:

/usr/local/sbin/sms 4153331111 4158882222 "USER LOGIN TO XXX - $DATE" >& /dev/null

... where the 'sms' command, above, is a shell script I wrote to call twilio messaging with the curl command. A very simple example of that would be:

curl -X POST -d "Body=$msg" -d "From=$from" -d "To=$to" "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/$accountsid/Messages" -u "$accountsid:$authtoken"

... and this works like a charm.

Alternatively, you could rick-roll your on-call sysadmin:

/usr/local/bin/curl -XPOST https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/$accountsid/Calls.json --data-urlencode "To=$number" --data-urlencode "From=$callerid" --data-urlencode "Url=http://demo.twilio.com/docs/voice.xml" -u $accountsid:$authtoken

(the voice.xml demo is, in fact, Rick Astley)
Responding here because several people have brought this up: why are you assuming I'm not stepping out of the flow to both set up walking directions and to check my phone? Just because I didn't say it explicitly doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but I fail to see the reason why every HN comment I write needs to become a giant essay in order to cover every possible objection up-front. I've just moaned about people using their phones whilst walking: I'm hardly like to stand in the middle of a busy pavement whilst I set sort out directions in Google Maps. I also didn't say that I took a dump and a shower before I left the house today but, if you absolutely insist on making an assumption, it would be much more sensible to assume that I did than that I didn't.
My comment mentioning it is flagged, I'm sorry, I guess you don't get to see it because some people decided my comment was offensive.
I think egeozcan suggested something was offensive earlier, but their post was flagged, I guess if you're interested enough I believe you can change your settings to view flagged content.

on edit: I see egeozcan confirmed it was their post that was calling something out as offensive.

on second edit: changed his to their as I don't actually know egeozcan's gender.
One interesting approach is to convert the hydrogen again into ammonia (nh4). It's easier to store and is a very useful industrial feedstock in its own right.
This is not constructive, but that emoji usage remind me of this [0] fake error message, back when whimsy was more in vogue

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/350/668/6e1...
Tiktok being the notable exception since most content there is pointless without audio/music on.
I think we'll get to cure aging eventually, mankind has been investing in extending life very consistently (a quick google says we spend about 10% of global GDP on healthcare).

It may take a very long time to get there though, but I don't see any reason why people would stop funding progress towards this goal.

Compared to that, what investment is going towards automating childcare, education and healthcare today?
They come in contact with it though, from those driving around them. Then there are other customs, like standing on the left side of escalators (except for Osaka, where it used to be the right side, but now it's mostly the side the line is already on). From my personal experience people in the major cities seem to prefer dodging to the left, all things being equal.
Login shell for emergency accounts could be a script that "sounds the alarm" and then drops to a bash shell.

Edit: ooo @rsync just gave another good approach
Link to the paper referred to in this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2420-8
This gets served from a self-signed certificate and returns a 404 site not found.

Given that there's other comments about the blog post ... what happened here?
You probably have zero chance of getting your hands on the software, but in the late 90s TV ststions ran their weather graphics off of SGI workstations with some software based in part on something called Inventor. The software was incredibly easy to use for building 3D animations, which were baked to video with built-in loops and pauses for the weather segment.

If your meteorologist didn't want to hold a remote, the weather producer would have to sit in front of the workstation with their hand over the spacebar waiting for the right cues to advance to the next loop/pause point.
> A large part of HTML, and a large part of modern browsers and other web technologies, are focused on ensuring that the publisher has control over the user's experience.

It's also the reason why it caught on. On one hand people reject the ability to express individuality on the web, on the other a similar crowd is nostalgic about geocities and praises similar revivals. It's either one or the other.

> I would really like to see structured text that is self-descriptive (e.g. this is the document title, this is a paragraph, this is a header, bullet list, etc.) but have no ability to influence HOW those things are displayed- eventually maybe we'll have browsers that can support rich theming, etc.

How about publishing markdown over HTTPS? Then make a client that renders just that?
In very early stages, yes. Until humans figured out that ownership can be concentrated by using violence.
reminds me of an old joke: 15$ for positioning a screw, 10.000$ to know where to put that screw.

If the US wants to tackle its healthcare costs, it not only has to get rid of the pointless middlemen everywhere and the notion of uninsured people whose bills have to be picked up by the rest, but also enlarge its supply of new doctors, and reduce the student debt they have to pay off.
This bug actually affects OpenSSH, too. See https://www.fzi.de/en/news/news/detail-en/artikel/fsa-2020-2...
These things require enforcement. I rarely see or even hear of people getting tickets for using phones while driving here but, as a cyclist/motorcyclist that has to be very aware of traffic, I am constantly seeing people texting while driving. I also see most cops texting/playing candy crush in their cars too, which might explain the lack of enforcement.
ok, if we can have breakthroughs in propulsion (and braking) then that would be possible.

My understanding is that acceleration gets exponentially more expensive at higher speeds making it practically unfeasible to build a ship like this
This can also work as a solution where the “setup” (of trusting CA) is baked in to the image. Then there is no ssh related setup until the day you actually need to ssh to the host. And you get the guarantee that no ssh login can happen until you issue a temp-pair.

This is actually quite useful for deploying clusters of machines that one doesn’t want normal ssh access until there is a real need. I think this was also mentioned in another comment
I appreciate your point of view, but we do see things differently.

For example, I have learned that there's very often many different aspects to others, beyond my shallow "first reaction." Although social media (and media, in general) encourages us to think of others as 1-dimensional "avatars," it has been my experience that every person is a marvelously complex being, with many different facets.

Sometimes, it's best for me to just keep my mouth/keyboard shut. Retroactive deletion is not the ideal approach, but I believe that it is better than leaving clearly unsuitable material out there, and I suffer from an overwhelming urge to participate in society, despite my challenges.

It might be a good exercise to consider the possibility that I could also have interests in life beyond HN. In fact, I often delete stuff, because it just isn't really important to me that I be heard. I don't live and die by the opinions of others, but it's important to be a member of society, and that means interacting with others in a respectful manner. If what I write does nothing but cause trouble, and I don't really care whether or not anyone likes it, then maybe the world would be a better place without my "wisdom."

I see that you also have many interests beyond the technical, so I have to assume that there was some point that you wanted to make, other than what appears to be a rather flaccid insult.

I must tender an apology. I don't think I have the capacity to understand your point.
> "... they are built to exploit them."

Just a little riff on exploitation--

Banking sites need to provide the necessary and sufficient data about your balance and transactions.

To some degree ecommerce sites need to deliver on your expectation. If a site tricked you to buy something you didn't like, you wouldn't return.
thank you for the answer. can you give some examples of the tools you built with xojo?
A subset of the authors point is the "truth collapse".

It's increasingly difficult to differentiate truth from falsehood. Also increasingly difficult to differentiate between truth and 'almost' truth.

A further problem, likely in the future will be 'source collapse'.

It will be increasingly difficult to determine the actual source of news, with unlimited sharing and distribution. Add in to this mix of chaos AI generated news articles, it may well be possible that people will shun internet news altogether.
Yeah I'm building it myself, stack is: RoR edge branch, HTML, SCSS, JS, Ajax, S3 and Dokku

Thanks for the feedback. I quite like the name Taaalk, for me it gives it a bit of a light hearted feel. Any ideas for what might suit it better?

Interesting re the top of the convo. The feedback Taaalk is open for anyone to join:

https://taaalk.co/t/invite/taaalk-feedback, invite code: 284748872

If you have ideas we can discuss there.
If you can afford to have same living standards as poor Europeans, it's pretty good in the US.
“1491” goes into great detail on this subject - highly recommended.
If you don't understand, I can't explain, but I have spent my entire life, trying to measure the reactions of others to my words and actions.
Use plain HTTP.
Yes. Although iirc (it may have changed, haven't looked "recently" the iptable- commands are distro specific, as in not all of them have / had them).
I didn't say anything about cars and as Hamuko has pointed out, it predates cars. Wikipedia supports this claim, though doesn't cite it.
I wonder if the main usage of the internet isn't the web as we think about it, but largely facebook, youtube, twitter, maybe some google+wikipedia. People don't see it in terms of 'websites' anymore.
What big thing do they still have to develop in their core app?
They don’t to send self-driving etc to India.
Maybe this:

service network stop && sleep 10 && service network start
AMP is happening and CCN is not.
Ah yes, that's simpler: systemctl stop iptables. Also need to do systemctl disable iptables just in case, otherwise if the server reboots the iptables service will restart.
This is only a "Gentle Intro" if you know advanced mathematical notation.
> most content there is pointless

Full stop.
The quality of your peers is an important feature of any educational system (if not the most important) -- by that measure alone the top institutes in India are excellent. The top researchers/professors at those institutes are also a product of the same institutes, and the same selection process, so the top institutes are generally of a high standard (in terms of workload, choice of topics, teaching quality, etc.). Although, here, admittedly the draw of industry and universities abroad has a large effect and the teachers are not the top 0.01% of their age group in the same way as student are.
I was really sad to see BeOS go the way of the dodo as a kid, was a great os.
SQL and Relational Databases Are Dead in 2020, Long Live SQL – CTO TV Episode. 1
Devil's advocate: It's not 4500$, but a lot of microtransactions.
A lot of mobiles games make most of their money on "Whales" that represent less than 1% of their playerbase.
This was really so much cooler than expected! Might actually use it to replace brain.fm when working.

I’d love to see this applied as a general streaming API ingestor, or even used for live tailing log files and playing sounds that match particular events.

(This is where people will comment below with all sorts of examples I haven’t heard of, one of the reasons I love HN)
Hey dang! I don't think my comment was provoking a flamewar, so I'm a bit sad you said "even further".
Finite nature of VC investments! Twitter used to have UserStream, basically free Firehose, but the water level hit the floor and they shut it down.
The relativistic equation is called the Dirac equation, with QFT governing the radiation etc.

The schrodinger equation is just not lorentz covariant
They are cheap if bought in bulk (which many poor people can't do because of upfront cost or lack of freezer space) and if there actually is a place to buy at least decent-quality vegs.
You could simply use cryptography to sign all messages sent by sources. Problem solved.
with batteries, you need to move all the weight for all the journey

For metal-air batteries, one of the more promising areas of research, the problem is actually worse: the cells gain mass as oxygen is reacted with the metal anode, discharging the battery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal–air_electrochemical_cell

For marine propulsion, heavy fuels are typically preferred (bunker fuel typically, thogh deisel and petrol engines do exist). Much of the pollution is in the form of particulates and sulfer emissions. You can actually see major shipping routes on atmospheric sensing maps by SO2 emissions:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/ove...

As long-term risks these are ... somewhat minor as these contaminants settle out quickly: in days to months rather than centuries to millennia for CO2 and methane. Not great for respiratory health, but not the long-term planetary risk fossil fuel combustion overall is.
If you have a chance to try it out, "Baba is You" is one of the most interesting puzzle games I've ever played. The puzzles are distinctly programming-like, or at least exercise similar modes of thought. The central conceit is that the way to beat each level is by changing the rules that apply to it, which are manifested as physical blocks that you can push around. It is available for Switch and from Steam:

https://www.hempuli.com/baba/
Yes, I think putting restrictions in place on pedestrians is more likely to have an effect of encouraging more people into cars. Before worrying about what could happen to someone walking around on their phone, how about worrying what could happen due to all the drivers on their phones? Or, as you say, give pedestrians so much space it becomes a non-issue. Why have we given >90% of public space to cars? (I'm assuming your last sentence is tongue-in-cheek.) If we had to redesign society from the bottom up, there is no way we would have done it like this.

And cue the downvotes from everyone who can't imagine life without their car :/
> He got his degree from IIT, a tier 1 college in India.

Students from IIT in India are filtered from millions of students. They only take about 10-15k students every year and the rest are in NIT and other relevant institutions (around 50k). About 1 million self selected students participate in jee-mains every year. I only meant to highlight that OP's friend may be biased compared to the common situation here.

Here is the article for chinese investment in top Indian startups - https://www.vccircle.com/here-s-a-snapshot-of-key-chinese-in...

With government trying to shut down foreign investment, I don't see investment opportunities in India increasing.
I'd be very interested to read a similar analysis for Keybase core, the command line tools and what they're built on.

I've been using Keybase for a few years but since the Zoom takeover, I'm in a wait-and-see holding pattern.
I agree, but I see this as a client-concern. I could imagine clients fetching and inlining images if the user directed it to, or maybe media-focused clients having a text pane alongside a media pane where the images would be rendered. The main advantage I see of this approach is that it takes us from "the server decides what the client does" to "the client decides what the client does".
I'm not seeing the value of this either. But I don't think that one person submitting one not very useful tool means that Hacker News itself is going to the dogs.
It very closely resembles HTTP 0.9. It's pretty much a single line protocol, like "GET [URL]crlf" over TLS, and that's it.
https://www.gstatic.com/duo/papers/duo_e2ee.pdf is a paper on video encryption by duo. It is pretty good. I assume the audio encryption problem is only a subset of this problem.
It's not pointless, it just isn't for you.
It not cheaper. Prisons are part of the expanded military-indistrial complex, where the goal is to spend more money for the same results so that more can be skimmed off for corruption. US prisons are the great-grandchildren of slave plantations, with broadly similar motivations.
Open Markov Processes
> The amount of information revealed from each query is calculated and deducted from an overall privacy budget to halt additional queries

this is why DP doesn't get used in any real system -- limited # of searches is a deal breaker for any service that wants to monetize

there are some applications where this could be okay, like in-company surveys where you want to enable employees to run stats queries without revealing individuals, but companies are (relatively) high trust environments and DP is overkill
While you might be slightly right, my experience tuning windows machines leads me to believe your missing the mark.

I'm going to say the three largest contributions to general desktop lag are:

Animations and intentional delays. It can't be said, how much faster a machine feels when something like MenuShowDelay is decreased to 0, or the piles of animations are sped up.

Too many layers between the application draw commands and the actual display. All this compositing, vsync, and minimal 2d acceleration creates a low level persistent lag. Disabling aero on a win7 machine does wonders to its responsiveness. But even then pre-vista much of the win32 GDI/drawing API was basically implemented in hardware on the GPU. If you get an old 2d win32 API benchmark, you will notice that modern machines don't tend to fare well in raw API call performance. 30 seconds poking around on youtube, should find you a bunch of comparisons like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=ay-gqx18UTM.... Keep in mind that even in 2020 pretty much every application on the machine is still relying on GDI (same as linux apps relying on xlib).

Input+processing lag, USB is polling with a fairly slow poll interval rate (think a hundred or so ms). Combined with the fact that the keystrokes/events then end up queued/scheduled through multiple subsystems before eventually finding their way to the correct window, and then having to again reschedule and get the application to retrieve and process it via GetMessage()/etc. Basically, this is more a function of modern software bloat, where all those layers of correct architecture add more overhead than the old school get the ps2 interrupt, post a message to the active window queue, schedule the process managing the window messages. (https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/b1...)

There are a number of other issues, but you can retune those three areas to some extent, and the results are a pretty noticeable improvement. Having someone at MS/etc go in and actually focus on fixing this might have a massive effect with little effort. But that doesn't appear to be in the cards, since they appear to be more interested in telemetry and personal assistants.
That will not solve the problem to the average user.

Also, even if all sources are verified, it is already very trivial to create a new publication or a "news" source and make it look legitimate in a few months.

It's a very messed up situation.
In France at least, that point is kinda moot. most of the companies hiring (SSIIs) are contracting body shops that have no specific specialization, so the company's field of work is just 'engineering' or IT / computer science.
True, although I would say the content would be even more pointless without the video - the main idea is clearly to present yourself visually. My daughter uses it a lot and an interesting side effect is that she knows a lot of music I didn't expect her to know (various 90's hits etc), but she only knows the hook/chorus or whatever 10-20 second part is used on tiktok.
It's easy to ignore the suffering of others. You and I do it all day every day.
Nice start; what are you plans for future (killer) features?