skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No! conspiracy is the agreement to commit a crime AND an overt action in furtherance of the plan.

Cracking a hashed password isn't obviously part of a crime. Using it may be.
And then Cambridge Analytica came along and abused the moronic security of Login with Facebook (fine, AFAIK technically it was quizes on the FB platform) and 4 years later we have... I don't know, people dying because they injected bleach into their body because their Dear Leader said "we should look into that"...
California's Bay Area may require telecommuting, even after the pandemic wanes
Line for "Beam me up, Scotty" jokes starts here.

(Does anyone else kind of miss the flip form-factor? There was something cathartic you just don't get anymore from ending an especially frustrating call with that strong CLACK)
Disagreed.

The primary purpose of the app is to do whatever the app is supposed to do, so unless the app's only purpose is to ask for feedback then asking for feedback (especially in the middle of a task) is disruptive and annoying.

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Furthermore I think asking for reviews should be banned by the App Store (whether Google's or Apple's) guidelines as to put every app on the same playing field. Reviews are best when they come organically instead of being gamed by nagging the user (and a lot of people will just respond randomly with a 5-star just so it gets out of their way).

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This relatively recent (10 years ago this didn't seem like a widespread thing) trend of constantly asking for feedback or similar ("SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON!") is extremely annoying and I wish all platforms would take steps to penalize this behavior given how annoying it is (as you can probably see right here). It's even worse when it's about a product that has already lots of publicized complaints that remain ignored for years (looking at Windows 10 or similar Microsoft products).
Well usually bad reviews do include a lot of details. I also often see support from the company actually responding to users, and these issues getting resolved and the ratings modified. This is one way where that process works well.
Somewhat related: for people with tinnitus issues it can be nice to cancel out the constant ear ring.
This comment breaks the site guidelines and is a big step in exactly the opposite direction of what we want here. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit closer to heart? Note that they include:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Certificates should have an expiration date, any system implemented with this pattern should expire after a couple of hours.

If manual, I would even consider doing it every week with the caveat that it would be a large attack vector.
Segment.com’s homepage does this: the only way to “sign in”, is to click on “sign up”!
A Short Story for Engineers
The 2020 list dropped a lot of pre-1990 music and added more recent stuff which makes me think the list is now controlled by 45-year-olds.
I've been using Emacs since it was a set of teco macros. (Yes, there was an Emacs before Emacs lisp.)

Apart from some settings to keep a keyboard-grabbing co-worker happy several jobs ago, I haven't had a config file in decades.

My experience has been that whenever I need something news, Emacs had it several years before. The most that I've ever had to do is update to a version that isn't 10 years old, and that hasn't happened for a long time. (I keep computers for a long time and the first thing I do with a new computer is install Emacs. I rarely update it.)

I've looked at other text editors. They seem to be better on things that don't much matter to me. They often require configuration to do things that Emacs does out of the box.

Yes, there are some things that I'd like to be different and about every year or so I think about adding a config file, but then I ask myself whether I'm going to propagate that config file everywhere I use Emacs. So far the answer has been "no".
Forget AI democritization, GPT-3 is AI demoguerization.

GPT-3 is singular; it is one model, one dataset, one training. Yet it will be the only one that will exist for quite some time (or by far the most available), and now it will underwrite productization and malfeasance, a la mode pay to play.

For example, I recently read a paper supposedly written by a Chinese dissident virologist, which report was disseminated by a group with questionable membership. Most of the jargon in the report going over my head, I had to wonder if the otherwise convincing verbiage wasn't the work of GPT-3.
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN. Generational flamewar is particularly pointless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Probably the same reason people used IE6 after it went stagnant. What was your choice? It's not like most YouTube channels have websites they publish stuff to as an alternative.
Wonder how many people have access to a very low noise environment. Even at home with no one else here, during the day there's always some noise, be it the climate control system, a car driving by, someone mowing their lawn down the street, etc. It amazes me how silent things can be at 2am during the times of the year where climate control isn't necessary. I get so used to a low level of background noise that it is a noticeable experience when it is nearly silent.
> The question is what they do when those two wishes come into conflict. Which is the high-order bit? There were many cases when PG and Jessica chose the interests of founders over optimizing their own money outcome—in fact this happened so often that it became proverbial, and many experienced people in the investment business were puzzled by it, as if there had to be some other explanation.

And I think this interpretation is incorrect or perhaps doesn't uncover the reality of the strategy. Sometimes in business you sacrifice short term gains for long term ones. That is basically what they did. PG/Jessica have infinite deal flow for life, how many VCs can say that?

> they simply wouldn't spend time on things that they didn't enjoy and didn't feel were essential.

Agreed, I think we're all saying that and was the essence of my point. I took ChuckMcM's point as if they were acting in some benevolent favor - which is a trope that needs to die.

> "because for them, it is all about the money"

This'll just eventually slide into a philosophical debate about what money really is. Either way, my point is that this is certainly a very nice position to be in when you already have money. To pretend that people who run a financial services firm (which is what an investor is) aren't geared towards making money is laughable. To be very clear - let's not pretend as if that this notion is evil or doesn't allow you to do things that you are truly passionate about. There's a subtext here that assumes that "being all about the money" is somehow inherently bad.
Another option, migrate your codebase to use dbt (data build tool) [1] which will give you (among other things) the options of deploying your database project with minimal changes to any number of database products using custom adapters (e.g. dbt-oracle [2] dbt-presto [3])

[1]: https://www.getdbt.com/product/

[2]: https://github.com/techindicium/dbt-oracle

[3]: https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt-presto
Yes, but that when stock, before mining Monero.
I'm surprised why "lawfare" is not more commonly used to classify what is happening to Assange and others by Western-sphere dissidents. maybe I'm not really surprised.
>very unclear if those are invented or discovered

It seems fairly clear that the as yet uncalculated digits of pi are there to be discovered rather than waiting for someone to invent them.
This isn't a trial.. It's an extradition hearing. They don't need to prove their case. They just need to make a showing of sufficient evidence that they could prove their case at trial.
I'm given instant sufficiently infrequently that it always comes as a shock -- I'll decline if I know it's going to be instant coffee, so I am indeed in the state of taking a mouthful of something that I expect to be regular coffee and discovering to my distaste that it's actually instant.

And I'm definitely not a coffee snob. But I can tell you that bog standard Tesco "house blend" coffee tastes nicer in a Philips Solimo machine than in an Aeropress, and nicer in the Aeropress than in a cafetière. And Amazon branded Solimo sachets aren't quite as nice as the ground coffee in the machine, but are good enough for every-day use.
With a ssh jump box you could also centrally manage access, revoke instantly and don't have to sign users keys repetitively..
1973, Larry Niven: "The Hole Man"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_Man:
"In this story, a team of explorers and scientists on Mars encounter an alien base, in which there is a still-functional communication device. One scientist believes that at the center of the device is a tiny black hole.."

(Niven didn't know yet about Hawking radiation discovered next year..)
We use authorized_keys and that file is managed by ansible across our servers. Adding/removing users consists of updating a yaml file (list of tuples {username, public key, status}) and running the playbook.
I use Windows 10 with Classic Start Menu. I see no adverts. I do see some notifications, almost all of which are useful. Probably you should try things first, before jumping to conclusions - I find Windows 10 a pretty good experience, and yes, I have also been using Linux for about 30 years.
UX nitpick: no pause/stop button.
> But putting all the craziest ideas together in one jumble... has anyone ever seriously proposed something like distributed hash table cloud storage, extremely redundant, that was perhaps financed by a blockchain cryptocurrency operating on some kind of auction or supply-and-demand system, that could be used by open-source software?

Sounds similar to IPFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
This is illegal. You should have the opportunity to review the details and to cherry pick.

As a European profoundly attached to privacy and whatnot I think that there should be a special place in hell for the useless consultants and politicians who came up with this idiotic cookie law.
Yep, pretty neat solution.

This occasionally pops up at reddit and the "key in ldap" way feels surprisingly unknown/uncommon. Many use ansible.. but it requires guaranteed cleanup of revoked keys....
Why Mathematicians Still Can’t Solve the Collatz Conjecture
Your comment upthread already crossed into that. The other commenter shouldn't have broken the site guidelines worse. And you shouldn't have escalated like this.

We're looking for curious, thoughtful conversation on this site. Calling other users "an insufferable prick" is so extremely far from that (regardless of how unfair or provocative someone else was) that I'm going to ban you again. You've also posted quite good comments, so obviously I don't want to ban you, but the container here is fragile and comments like this one and some of your others are just too destructive.

If you decide you want to use HN as intended, starting with "Be kind. Don't be snarky" and including the rest of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, you're welcome to let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll be happy to unban you.
I can guarantee you that nobody has ever been sued for having a "sexual experience". The word you're avoiding is rape.
> The selfishness and criminal negligence of two French tourists has resulted in 400 new infections and counting, likely to result in 2-16 deaths given case fatality rates in Iceland (0.5%) and globally (4%).

Interesting. Do you have any source that corroborates that story?
For those who aren’t aware, this is deepnight, author known not only for Dead Cells but also for winning or placing high in many, many ludum dare contests over the years. His stature definitely lends a lot of credence to this project.
I would take that bet. I'm prepared to believe there are wines that if the only question is 'white or red' I might not know, especially if an ambiguous temperature. (Most people are accustomed to drinking white 'too' cold, and red 'too' warm - so obviously in such a test you have to remove that cue, but then what do you choose and still get a good fair test?) but there are also wines that I could tell you which of two grapes it is with nothing but my teeth. (I wouldn't say I'm a snob, but I'm sure you'd disagree.. meh, whatever.)

Coffee.. geeze, much more so. If the only thing available is a jug of brewed coffeewater that you pump out nice and bubbly, as at hotel breakfast bars or conference centres, I have to really 'need' it, and then I pack it with sugar to take the taste away. (I don't ordinarily drink coffee with sugar at all.) Instant, I just can't drink. I could definitely tell you the difference between instant 'coffee' and real, it's not a case of having a preference and better 'notes' like 'essence of snobby bullshit' - one I would be able to drink, and the other I would want to spit out before it even hit my lips.
I think Apple already does block apps that keep fishing for reviews. But I haven't used iOS in a while. Google's validation process isn't that deep so they will usually miss this.

But yes I agree, it is so annoying. Especially in paid apps. I already paid for the app so obviously I like it.
I recently stumbled across some videos where a producer breaks down how some very good songs are produced. Here's one he does for a Max Martin track where you get screenshots of the track in Pro Tools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBDJDZAo41c

> From there, it should be possible to mangle it into a tabulature?

A produced pop track might be a little extreme, but there's a lot going on in these tracks. Even if you know the chord progression, it's hard to tell if a note played by a guitar is played by the rhythm guitar, lead guitar, an overdub, something with double tracking, or even an overtone from the bass, especially when the note makes the chord an add4. The same goes for walking basslines played by the guitar.

You also arrange things differently for solo performances, live performances with a band, and produced performances, so even if you could extract a rhythm guitar tab from a recording, that might not be how you'd want to play it solo.
Nanotherapy reduces plaque buildup in mouse arteries
This really is brilliant in its simplicity.

Not having to maintain complex data structures to keep track of property dependencies as opposed to using light weight integer comparison to track changes.
I can imagine @tracked being many times faster than @computed
That seems a little sweeping. I imagine many do.
the page is broken on firefox
Between 2 and 3 there needs to be “put a screen on it”.
It's a panicdemic.

Is it a pandemic if we have to beg people to get tested?

Is it a pandemic if we have to constantly remind people of the (supposed) danger?

Is it a pandemic if less than 1% of the worlds population is in the morgue or a hospital?

Is it a pandemic when 99% (if not 100%) of models have been off by magnitudes in their estimates?
Of course I can, but then I need to create several different accounts on different sites to place different orders when I can just order everything in one order on Amazon.
Sorry, which part of what I wrote above are you saying "No!" to? I point out the agreement part and the overt act part.

If you're suggesting that the overt act has to itself be criminal: that's wrong.
I'm no lawyer, but as someone who remembers the ludicrous, counterproductive ramifications of schoolyard "zero tolerance" policies against physical fighting (you might as well escalate any fight with a bully because you'll be punished no matter what), and as someone who's been let off the hook by cops a couple times in my life, I'm a firm believer in upholding the spirit of the law, not the letter. People aren't machines. The letter of the law exists merely for people to interpret and apply with good judgment and consideration of context, complexities of which are often offloaded into the phrase "a reasonable person".
> No one ever opted to not sign up for a service because link wasn't visible enough.

I sure hope that’s sarcasm... lack of a clear obvious signup path is literally the number one funnel exit.
> they couldn't even prove I owed

Did you owe it?
Botnets, cheap cloud/hosting, BGP hijacking, etc.
When do you need to access a server via SSH?
Their product is the platform. I’m not there to consume the platform. I’m there to watch videos uploaded by a third party. I could care less who hosts it.

If you want people to view your ads then don’t serve content using a protocol that have user agents that run on my machine where I am in control of what they do, or at least if you do, don’t be surprised when I run user agents that do what I want them to do.

Google's alternative is to embed the ads directly into the video at presentation time (which also won’t work so long as I can fast forward).
From a year earlier, and related:

Ars Technica: "No, I won’t install your app or subscribe to your newsletter."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/the-u...
Is Rhyme faking student reviews and ratings?
Do you have any evidence for your speculation?
If that doesn't describe your post precisely then what does?

GP said X sucks. You respond by saying Y sucks too.

Concurring that X does indeed suck as well doesn't fundamentally change your statement.
It’s not against the rules to try to post something twice
yeah, no! I offer you $1000 a liter of mother's mnilk. Contact me erwin.joosten@telenet.be
We should not be justifying shitty negative externalities because "they help the developer". We should be destroying existing systems and reforming them so that everyone is happy
> No, but there's such thing as a "somewhat objective album ranking".

I wouldn't disagree with that, I'm sure all of the various versions of this list by RS are "somewhat objective"

> Not when it hasn't change that much for 3 decades prior...

That's an interesting point - but look at the last decade: western society has been going through some turmoil, change is happening faster in some areas

> As if Marvin Gaye represents some new taste/genre? It's as old or older as a lot of the stuff it went above in ranking.
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> And it's not like 2020 sensibilities are somehow closer to Joni Mitchel's Blue suddenly over, say, Velvet Underground (which, iirc, got dropped in ranking).

I think Marvin Gaye is more relevant to modern tastes (and therefore universal tastes) than the Beatles, for example. But yes, that doesn't explain all, or even most, of the shift in the rankings.
>No, but there's such thing as a "somewhat objective album ranking".

What objective criteria do you think should be used to do the ranking? Number of chord progressions used? Variety of instruments on the album? Lingual diversity? Or maybe the inverse of one of these criteria would be better? Point being, even choosing an evaluation criteria is subjective.

The only semi-objective criteria I can think of would be the number of other albums/musicians it influenced - but this is basically a meta-ranking.

Aside, for the record, I wouldn't have Sgt Pepper anywhere near my top ten "greatest albums", but What's Goin On and Pet Sounds can stay.
That’s slightly charitable. They believed they raped a woman, but they actually desecrated a corpse.
The pill is bitter to swallow because it doesn't pay for healthcare.

Also it doesn't include state income tax.
I would agree if they only ask once, but on a lot of apps nowadays it's a daily or weekly occurrence. That's annoying. If I already said that I do not wish to rate/review your app, don't ask again.
> and Linux finally wins the desktop wars, not by displacing Windows but by co-opting it

That's not a "win", though. That's "being subsumed". After all, if LSW works, why would anyone with normal computing needs ever need to install Linux on a computer ever again? Or even in a VM, for that matter? As long as they have Windows, they get the parts of Linux they need for free, without the headache of actually learning the convoluted finer points of properly using a well configured Linux distro.

If anything, Linux finally loses the desktop war, by no longer being needed as a standalone OS. It's now something you just fire up on the side if you need something that only has a Makefile, rather than an .sln file...

Your desktop is still Windows, your applications are still Windows, and LSW is there for when you need to do "that thing that only people who work with computers for a living need to do". No one even needs to be told that when they run "bash", they're running Linux: it's now just another app you run. Linux didn't just lose, it got made irrelevant.
My 25 year old La Cimbali takes about 30 minutes to warm up. It’s 30kgs or so of brass and steel. Putting a smart plug on it has been great. The relay clicking at 6am makes me happy.
The ads had some kind of human review so scams and Taboola/Outbrain weren't a thing and people trusted them which was a win-win for both the consumer, the newspaper and the advertiser.
I see. With some modification of this idea, you invent LIGO. Instead of using two masses as a "slit", the light is bounced between the two masses many times, multiplying the tiny change in distance between the masses induced by the gravitational wave.
Debian works too. (and Fedora with adding NVIDIA drivers isn't too hard either, did it before)
"size" is not fine. If I'm conditionally hitting the database, I want that to be as explicit as possible.
I'm unsure how directly relevant this is but when I dug into the implementation of Elixir's LiveView stuff I was frankly amazed as to how little javascript was needed client side to apply the diffs being sent down.

I'm aware this is significantly because they "cheat", but I feel like you're already looking at borrowing from other peoples' trickery so maybe it'll still be of interest.
Do UIs need to be trees?

How do things change if we were to use a list instead? What becomes easier/harder?

Layout calculations might become slightly more expensive, though it seems that that may be acceptable since most time is spent rendering; and perhaps there are other ways to accelerate these calculations if needed.

The fact that most UIs are happy to provide a single linear tab order (and not something more involved that allows users to navigate the tree structure) makes me think that there might be something there.
Bundle WPF with .Net for Linux desktop and then we'll talk...
808s and Heartbreak being on a best of list at all, let alone albums of all-time, seems like a mistake.
Thank you! I get it now.
Frankly I in no way understand the utility of fusion. Almost every credible fuel source is difficult to obtain, and for what? The biggest fusion reactor in lightyears, already fueled up for the next 15 billion years, is currently dumping energy onto the planet whether we want it or not. Solar just makes more sense than anything else.
Deserves a controller if you have one.
> “At the time, it would not have been possible to crack an encrypted password hash, such as the one Manning obtained.”

Wrong. Rainbow tables have always worked, even 20 years ago.
The hierarchy in a game object scene graph tends to be much shallower than a UI hierarchy, so I’m not sure if that is a good comparison.
Related: "Beginning programmers write simple code. Intermediate programmers write complicated code. Masterful programmers write simple code."

In the context of this discussion, "masterful programmers" could be considered equivalent to "enlightened programmers".
> There is likely going to be some correlation with temperature and curvature of the rubber sheet

Yeah, that's a failure of my analogy. Deforming a rubber sheet does create heat, but deforming spacetime does not create light.