skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested to know if anyone has had success with any legal measure that would enjoin them or any other entity they're in any way affiliated with or that shares common ownership.
Oh, they'll have to say something when they suddenly stop doing business until a backup can get pulled, and the new db instances actually secured before putting them up again.

Even a bland 'we lost parts of our data and we will have to start recovery processes. please stand by' is a signal.
This is also what came to my mind when reading this article. Not everyone is capable of pivoting their life because of dependents and other inflexible obligations.

I've dubbed articles and advice like this as "manic pixey tech guy" syndrome.
We wouldn't need them if corporations didnt constantly game the system for their own benefit.
That sounds like you do have a choice: spend more money. In a world where this wasn't allowed, presumably you'd be forced to spend more money. So you can inhabit that world right now if you want.
Ye it is not like I trust my credit card to strangers and let them walk away with it for a while.
Many of the social sciences, including economics and psychology, do not meet the criteria to be considered a science (at least not a rigorous one).

What Separates Science from Non-Science? - https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2012/05/30/what_se...
Hah, that was my first thought too. I've become so much more suspicious of HN comments in the past weeks.
FWIWI think it’s reasonable to infer a number greater than 10% (I’d be greater than 30% but want to be conservative) based on how the NYPD has behaved over time when it comes to its own accountability under the law.
To learn, have some fun, and think differently and more optimally. Most of the older and more mainstream programming languages like Python, Java, C, C++, etc. are simply uninspired. They have very mainstream and convoluted ways of thinking that bind you in ways that I personally can't take.

When I program, I try and think of the problem and possible solutions in the same way that I would if working with a human colleague. That is, I design systems in a human way. I try to program in such a way that maps to how I would explain the domain to someone else and not how the computer thinks of it.

Thus, I primarily think in terms of data, transformations on that data, interactivity, and concurrent or parallel operations. This approach almost chooses languages for me. My primary languages I am learning and using at home right now are F#, Racket, and Elixir. These are new (-ish) languages with new ideas based upon the strong foundation of old languages that had revolutionary ideas, so it's not surprising I landed on these, for me personally. Also, although each one is a complex language, they each have a simple core, which is another plus. Then there are visual languages like TouchDesigner and LabVIEW.

However, the curse is finding a place that uses the road less traveled because it requires the company and its employees to have made the non-standard choice and to consider the tools as important as whatever else they're working on. There are few places that use newer languages, but I am trying to become more agressive in just using them at my work. If they solve problems in an efficient way, you shouldn't necessarily need to ask for permission. People can be trained. Nobody asks for permission when they use Python or C or whatever else. They use it because that's all they know. The other way is to merge your personal interests with work by creating your own company, but that is an obvious high hurdle.

When using new languages, there is the problem of ecosystem, particularly in libraries. However, I am of the opinion that this isn't as big of a problem as often reported. It's a problem but not the no-go problem it is usually presented as.
There are many species that don’t care about consent. The ones that do have consent tend to spend a lot of energy growing plumage and doing elaborate dances to woo the females. It shouldn’t be that hard to understand that some species evolution would land on rape as a way to save the time and energy spent during courtship. Just because humans shun rape it doesn’t mean it can’t work for other species, moral issues aside.
The best comparison is the popularity of forth in small resource-constrained situations.
If building stuff is an option, 14 days might not be so bad.

You can store heat as heat, cooling as ice. They already need a huge water supply, why not freeze it for cooling?

Another option, unique to the moon. Why not just run wires to the sunny side. You could probably use uninsulated wire at a pretty high voltage. Nothing to disturb it or get electrocuted up there. You could do like 5 kilovolt on a hair thin wire to get usable amount of power across the moon with maybe 200lb of it
This is exactly the issue I see with nuclear. We're creating dangerous waste products that last tens of thousands of years (normal nuclear - I know RTGs don't stay radioactive nearly as long!), and are easily weaponised.

Yet on the other hand we can't even keep a country stable for more than a few decades. The soviet union fell into disarray that time leading to all kinds of incidents, and we had a major world war only 75 years ago which is nothing on nuclear waste time scales.

One way or another this will bite humanity in the back in the future. If it isn't by a malicious future actor weaponising it, it'll be by neglected nuclear waste storage facilities that last much shorter than the waste itself.

For another example of things that can happen see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident . That one was medical in origin but the same can happen to nuclear waste when not adequately protected of which there is a lot more.
I don't know if there's another good example, but Poland fined an EU company under the GDPR for scraping profile data without giving proper notification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19530087

You shouldn't have to guess where your personal data is going, and how it's being used. When the GDPR was first coming into force, I remember getting bombarded with all these notification emails from all these companies coming out of the woodwork that I didn't recognize. But I don't think I've ever been notified by email, SMS, phone or smoke signal since then.

The biggest flaw of the GDPR in my opinion is that it leaves the definition of what's considered personal identifying information with too much wiggle-room for creative interpretation. Maybe it's hard to pin down exactly, but there's often too much emphasis on the word "identifying", as if it's otherwise OK to gather every intimate online detail and build a profile that is a unique identity in and of itself. It's even worse when real-world decisions can be based on it without your knowledge.

I recently had my own rude awakening learning about these data brokers and risk analysis services. The matter itself was relatively trivial, but I didn't realize the extent of this before and the scope of what personal information they're gathering. And it doesn't matter if you think it won't affect you, since you've done nothing wrong. From what I read elsewhere, even exercising fundamental consumer rights may be held against you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21440526
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That particular model? No, I was not aware of it. But that production hydrogen cars exist, yes I did.

However, proof of their existence isn't proof of their safety. I have no doubt that they are (mostly) safe, even in almost every imaginable accident. However, it's the (unforeseen) edge cases that worry me. Not because of how often they might happen, but because of how bad the consequences could be when things go wrong.

It's a real bummer when whole a housing block gets wiped of the map, because one eccentric/rich guy just had to do something "for the environment" (#sarcasm).

From what I read, this car has storage capacity of 5 kg of pressurized hydrogen. I've seen similar storage tanks, and I have been amazed about how resistant they are to puncturing and tearing forces. Unlikely that any direct impact collusion would destroy one of these. But then there is always some corner case that it wasn't designed for. I certainly would not like to be even remotely around it, when 5 kg of pressurized hydrogen goes up in flames.

As hopefully every engineer knows, catastrophic failure is almost always a cascade of smaller compounding failures. Disrupt that chain-reaction and a catastrophe is usually averted.

However, with hydrogen the opportunity/window for that is often extremely short, with extreme consequences as a result. Not quite what you might call an optimal combination of factors.

Technically we could drive cars on nuclear reactors.
I find it weird that drawn child porn is illegal actually. It's as if drawing murder or rape would be illegal.

Don't get me wrong, I understand 100% the people that find the idea repulsive, would never want to accidentally see it, etc. But that's the same with gore / gruesome scenes: I really don't want to see that, either. That's not what makes something illegal.

It might also depend on research into whether it makes pedophiles more likely to act on their feelings. If it's shown that pedophiles viewing drawn child porn has adverse effects, it should indeed not be allowed; but I never read about it having such an effect. So far as I know it doesn't hurt anyone.
If you and your co-workers have both Rails and Laravel in production and your Laravel applications performs better, then I have absolutely no doubt about that. However, there is no evidence that Rails is an order of magnitude slower than Laravel in general, quite the contrary, benchmarks indicating that (non-swoole) Laravel is slower.
> That's why we have early adopters to bring it to a more universally accepted state :-)

Who are the early adopters? People that want to have their profile featured, or people hoping to find inspiration?

> This project is quite interesting from a pure analytics point of view

> This project also has a healthy number of new pull requests so clearly something is working

> cross reference the rate at which people are "starring" with the growth of the project.

I don't see how any of these metrics reflect the quality of the service. If it were a resume collector, then I'd be in complete agreement: Things are going fantastically. But the way it's branded, it's supposed to help people find inspiration for their own readmes, and quantity of examples is not a positive factor in that service's quality.

If I were using this to find a template that worked for me, I would want to have to look through a minimum number of submissions to find one, not trudge through endless submissions that have little to no appeal.

Additionally, I'm seeing profiles that are copies of each other in the listings. Perhaps it would be appropriate to remove the "template" from the repo's name, as it isn't providing _templates_, just profiles. If it were, duplicates would not be accepted, and the examples would have sample data (eg "John Doe john@example.com" rather than people's actual info.
The author made a fundamental mistake of judgement.

So far, what he says amount to an advocacy against digital signing of code as such.

Miikka Koskinen says "digital signing doesn't work, so, lets decide to use something even more broken." Just that alone makes me think he has no say on this.
Then replace grit with desire, or desire with faith in oneself, or faith in oneself with determination to live and die doing what I value, etc....
Why must some people insist on being assholes?
> Somehow I feel good about this.

For me, it's not exactly "good." But I am more upset with the database owners than I am with the kitties. Don't leave the barn door open, or this (or worse) will happen to you, and happen again. If they were instead exfiltrating and selling the data, the equation would change. I'm not saying the cats are doing good, but I do say that the "responsible adults" did the greatest harm by not cat-proofing their databases that contain PII.
Diversity is strength – yes, even in writing. If you do not like the New Yorker's long form and quirky diaeresis, then do not read it. Other people (myself included) like the occasional long read with a cup of coffee on a foggy morning, where the prose winds its way slowly to build to a satisfying crescendo only after sufficient investment from you, the reader.

I personally do not like Hemingway's skeletal, scientific style – it feels to me like the writing of someone who does not revel in the pleasure of writing. However, I recognize that's a personal preference, and under no circumstances would I embark on a crusade to have fewer people read him or suggest that Hemingway do something different to satisfy me.

Perhaps I feel so strongly about this because I come from a country that would forcefully insist on designated styles of art - Soviet realism is the only acceptable art style, Pravda has the official and only acceptable journalism. It's wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Mn6V1IzHw
There's a famous Bose bughunt article that proves this not to be the case. I can't find where they posted it on a blog or something but here's the forum link:

https://community.bose.com/t5/Around-On-Ear-Headphones/Bose-...
> startups never shut up about who their clients are, social proof to land more deals.

I read it as they scraped user databases to get email addresses and the like.
While on the subject of FORTH for the 6502, I can't resist mentioning Eloraam's now-defunct (but huge in its heyday) Minecraft mod Redpower 2! It included fully-functional computer blocks that could interface with redstone machinery ... running a custom FORTH on an emulated 6502 processor :)
Could be the same complainant with a grudge on a particular beat. Likely not but blanket statements like yours aren't helpful.
Sure, agreed that refinements are likely the better approach here.
It's a cool concept but it needs to scale to be sustainable. Their website says it takes 7 to 9 years on a pre order... How does that work in an age with Prime delivery?

They need an MBA to go in there and shake things up. (Go ahead downvote me). Figure out new materials that grow faster (like bamboo). Forget the grafting bit because that probably takes too much time. And make sure there's a inventory of things people can buy now on their website. People will pay for immediacy.

On another hand I was expecting not to be able to find them on the web, but they're still alive. So kudos to them
The protests happen in part because the demonstrators do not trust the government to spend the money well. They are afraid that they will distribute it to the "usual few" or "subsidize the lazy ones".
Distributing the tariffs equitably among the population would take that stigma away. This would encourage those tariffs that are so necessary for us to comply with the Paris agreement.
Firstly, neither is ever zero. That would only ever be true in a dead person.

It makes perfect sense to say that one factor is more important than another if it has more effect on the outcome.

Intelligence is not fixed. It can certainly be decreased by long term stress and environmental toxins etc.

It can also be enabled or inhibited by situational factors such as access to information, available time, etc.

Working ‘harder’ is not well defined. Do you mean going faster at doing the same things, or spending more time working? If not, can you define it?

Working harder or faster on something that is systematically unproductive will only make ones situation worse.

Intelligence is the capacity to select valuable activities in which to invest one’s energy.

Therefore grit doesn’t matter at all in the absence of intelligence, or can even be a negative.
The top-voted answer links to this HN page. I'm stuck in an infinite loop.
Hey, thx!
Yep, you can import bookmarks via Chrome extension.
Duplicate detector in development.
Yeah, I caught it too late to edit :\
I (and many other engineers I know) do this too, and for a good reason. It's a simple system.

Same reason I don't use WiFi at home but ethernet: it's simple.
Curious, why do you use Mongo? Does it give you something that a JSONB column in Postgres wouldn’t?
I like hosting mine for a few reasons:

- It's a hobby and I enjoy it

- It like fiddling around with advanced features, like wildcard addresses, server side filtering (via dovecot-sieve), and other fun stuff. For instance, a friend once was mulling on facebook on detecting tone of email and rejecting ones that were too mean. I made a simple python script that attempted this and had her try it out. It was funny. (See previous point about hobby)

- I figure that being on your own server you're at least slightly less likely to be a victim of a big internal platform hack like twitter's recent one, or state-run ones.

- It feels slightly badass.

I don't recommend it to people who don't want to do it for fun.
I agree but I don't think that changes my point that the person who destroys the data has more culpability than the storage service in the destruction of the data.

There tends to be a pass given to people destroying data and I don't think that is right.
I would definitely take (Have taken? Am in the process of taking?) the education without the degree.
Nah. He said that the current infrastructure for signing JARs is broken, making supplying signed JARs pointless. He didn’t say that this is the way things should be.

He advised, at the end, fixing the system; but it is implicit in his tone that he doesn’t expect anyone to try—it’s been broken this long with nobody caring, so why would that change now?

And yes, he advised relying on other mechanisms for verification, for the time being. Because those mechanisms provide nonzero (if small) security, while the current infrastructure for JAR signing provides zero security.

(Compare: “if calling the police does nothing, at least carry pepper spray.” This advice does not imply that pepper spray is better than effective police response; only better than an ineffective one. It also does not imply that one should not seek police reform. It only suggests what one should do while the condition of “ineffective police response” still holds.)

At the end, he says:

> I’ve written this post in part to be proven wrong. I’m eagerly waiting for posts from y’all about how you do, in fact, systematically verify the signatures.

One would presume that, if he were proven wrong, and the digital signatures Of JAR files actually did anything, he would retract this post and post one giving the opposite advice.
Instead of leaving Android entirely, one can use MicroG, which is a FOSS reimplementation of the Google Play Services client.

https://microg.org

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore

Currently, the easiest way to use MicroG is through CalyxOS, a distribution of Android 10 that preinstalls MicroG instead of Google Play Services. It supports all Pixel devices and the Xiaomi Mi A2.

https://calyxos.org

https://gitlab.com/calyxos

Unlike most Android distributions, CalyxOS is designed to be used with a locked bootloader, which is more secure than an unlocked bootloader.
I'd say that's still better than the other fake narrative: The game is rigged, the cards are stacked against you, they're holding you down, don't even try.
“Hydrogen needs a bit more work” for use in gas turbines, but it is something Rolls-Royce is examining, along with electric.
That’s an understandable conclusion to jump to but IIRC the article said they thought the males needed to form peer groups because the male dolphin mating strategy is, to quote from the article, for a group of males to get a female dolphin alone and coerce her into sex.

Which feels weird to write but apparently is how dolphins do it.

The article also said females needed peers for foraging, to have additional support when raising vulnerable young.
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Surprised that females aren't wanting to pair and mate with the most desirable males, and why social behaviors that offer some protection are lacking -- female dolphins must have an instinct for reproduction too. If these male dolphins are desirable, why do they need to force themselves? Why wouldn't a female be open to it? If they are not desirable, then evolutionarily speaking, wont this lead to very poor results.
States and cities often have balanced budget laws. Even if these were repealed (look how easy that has been for the Eurozone), states do not have the mechanism for bankruptcy (see: Puerto Rico). And cities have one but it can get extremely messy (see: Detroit, New York in the '70s)

The feds have decided to prioritize the economy in an election year, for some short-sighted definition of a good economy. And the party in power has never liked a strong federal government anyways.
I'm no expert, but I feel like there is nothing efficient about this process and the end product will not be as durable as something that can be constructed. So sure, this is fun and whimsical but I don't see any reason to scale it.

Are screws no longer considered sustainable? Not sure what problem this is solving other than -- hey, cool chairs!
AWS bills are un-auditable. I'm convinced every org is being over-charged for bugs in their billing and tracking software. I've asked on multiple occasions where charges randomly started appearing (despite no infra changes), which weren't there the month before, and no one was able to answer on the AWS support side.
These aren't victims; they were harmed through their own gross negligence or the gross negligence of the developer they employed.
I'm from Belgium. In the past, you needed to speak French in Belgium, even if the majority is Dutch-speaking. The people with money or power spoke French, if you wanted to have a voice, you spoke French. So people gave their companies French names, spoke French, read French newspapers,... Now,because of a variety of reasons, French lost a lot of its power. And in Flanders, younger generations and companies mostly stopped using French as second language.

Now, starting at world war 2, English received the status of international default language because of economic and political reasons. Hollywood and the internet amplified it. It is hard in younger western generations to find someone not speaking English. Even local bakeries choose an English name. Doesn't make much sense, but thats what you do today.

We're seeing now the economic and political rise of China, combined with a loss of power from the USA. It makes sense that the international default language will shift again.

Arguments like 'too hard', 'complucated', 'inefficient', 'people already made the choice'? These wont matter. We've seen these in the past.

Reality is simple: You adapt to the current power or you get marginalized. The only relevant question is wether China can reach the status of most powerful country or not.

This is also the kind of advancement that happens a funeral at the time. We mostly wont spend the effort to change our second language. But the next generation?