skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting theory, the article largely agrees with you. I'll add that "others" can include future selves, in which case the evolutionary benefit becomes clear. The capacity to model one's current state is recursive and superfluous, but the ability to model one's future potential states is essential to planning.
False. Tons of people do.

Post an invoice of 1,000 sats here and I'll send some Sats your way.
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This applies to every domain name though (at the second level too, not just the first). You'd have exactly the same problem if you were using a fake .com domain that someone then actually registered. The best practice has always been to use a real domain name that you own, and subdomains thereof. If you don't, your setup isn't working so much as it is not broken ... yet.

See https://jdebp.eu/FGA/dns-use-domain-names-that-you-own.html for more explanation.
Not by a random private company. The parent comment seems to talk about cases where somebody signed up with somebody else's email address. There are plenty of that kind of stories around, and a few have made front page here.

A company that does not validate that the email address actually belongs to the person/entity they have consent from does not have any reason to store and process that email address. The same goes for other PII.

If I sign up with your data, you've never consented, and whatever terms I accepted with a click or two have no relevance to you. Companies just usually don't bother with validation unless they need it for billing purposes, because it's a hassle and might make the customer reconsider.
I don't know, but it sounds like the issue was resolved (correctly or incorrectly) the first time, so the user started filing a ton of issues, which were automatically marked as duplicate. Now he's spamming the white hat security form (https://twitter.com/dannyjhall/status/1310231761444581385), which is not likely to get him a response.
What! are you still alive mr. 4th smartest guy?
I honestly don't know how they still don't have a solution to this -- it's now September. Low level settings like this should be available outside of the bloatware thats loaded on as a "Smart OS".

Imagine buying a refrigerator and not being able to control the tempreture settings because of some bug in the UI/OS. I can only laugh at what Joe Armstrong (rip) would say about something like this :.)
I see where you're coming from but one doesn't need references to say that water is wet. This is a similar case. "Science" (people like you and me that looked into the matter, did experiments, asked critical questions, and presented their work) finding that we are causing the climate to change into something that is less favorable to humans than our current climate is abundantly clear to anyone who will either read the evidence or verify the experiments (e.g. buy an accurate CO2 meter or whatever other part it is that you doubt).
PlantUML may be of interest for some kinds of diagrams.

https://plantuml.com/
If you need to preface it with "If X had happened" then it's not an example of something happening.

> Since then, the Trump administration has stocked the Federal courts with hundreds of far-right judges, including several rated 'unqualified' by the ABA, whom I suspect would have let the law stand.

Do you even realize how big of an assumption this is? "I suspect" is definitely not sufficient to justify ruining people's careers. To the contrary, it's emblematic of mob justice.

> If the next Brendan Eich refrains from trying to incorporate the Bible into state and Federal law because he's terrified of what might happen to his career, I'm OK with that.

First off, that's a really grandiose way to say "he donated $1000 to an unfashionable cause".

Secondly, canceling is a pretty shitty way to fix this problem, don't you think? So shitty you might even call it counterproductive? You don't think this is going to lead to more bottled up hate down the road? You don't think this kind of thing is exactly what got Trump elected in the first place?

Thirdly, and most importantly, cancel culture doesn't stop at Eich. People are getting canceled for far more harmless offenses than his. Because, same as Proposition 8, cancelers are nothing but a hate mob ascribing themselves moral superiority in order to justify their morally reprehensible actions, but unlike Proposition 8 no one even has the power to keep the mob in check.

Regarding your last sentence - you obviously support gay marriage, do you think you're open minded?

Are you really?
Static types are great for Fungeable Programmer at Big Co. where you can be dropped into a project and it sort of gives you a way to figure out what's present in the code.

However, if you need to get somewhere fast, be it a side project where you've only got so much time due to other constraints in life, or it's a product you're trying to get to market first with a small team, then you're not going to benefit from ossifying statically typed languages - you're going to reach for something that's interactive, powerful, and not bogged down in edit/compile/test cycles. You're going to instead reach for something like Common Lisp, Ruby, Python etc.

Once you're making $COMFY_DOLLARS_PER_MONTH you can then pass it off to some re-write team, though.
Hasn't this been around since 2.6?

http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.34.1/drivers/virtio/virtio_b...
Maybe Businesses Don’t Need to Worry So Much About Inference
PS I don't know why I wrote "quadrupled"; the word would be "octupled". I've doubled it 3x, or 2^3, ie 8x.
This times 100. I often jokingly quip that Assad has nothing on US fragrance companies when it comes to chemical warfare, but when I walk into a room with a wall mounted airwick it becomes less of a joke.
Does Mastodon have an Instagram-esque mode now?
Just to ‘second’ your perspective - humanity has an uncanny ability to adapt. Climate Change will be a monstrous stimulus to adapt to, but I don’t see where it ‘ends our kind.’

On the whole, the same folks who fear climate change the most, praise the mission to make life multi-planetary. Those two beliefs held concurrently are a head scratcher to me... if you believe in our ability to make life multi-planetary, then surely we can adapt here. Mars is much more unforgiving than any forest fire, hurricane, or massive earth bound event.

Venice and New Orleans might be a write-off, and NYC will have sea walls, but folks must have some drive to adapt beyond just bland acceptance.
F# is a modern derivative usable in the real world.
This is good argument for increasing minimum wage. The federal minimum wage is still only $7.25. Inflation adjusted, it has been decreasing since 1968 [1]. Once you factor in rising healthcare spending, which has gone up by 5.5x in the same timeframe (inflation adjusted) [2], the problem is further compounded.

Given the high GDP growth in the same time frame, it feels like a big miss by the federal government.

1. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/business/us-minimum-wag...

2. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...
I'd love to do this for a while, but getting that remote income stream is the issue for me, especially with student loans to pay off. Any advice?
Just because some vacuous air bag says it, doesn't make it true.

Instagram is basically the school playground, but sadly unlike in real life, people can make a career from being "playground" popular.
That would be counter-productive. The risk from hurricanes in this area (i.e. relatively inland western gulf coast) isn't wind. It's water.

Build on stilts, not concrete. There's a reason we build the way we do here. We're not stupid.

Concrete just _guarantees_ that the building is uninhabitable in 2-3 years due to the shrink-swell clays in the soils here. Wood flexes. Brick and concrete don't.
Proof-of-work and the massive computing farms that belongs to a handful of miners would be a choke point, at least for Bitcoin?
Traffic's certainly a large barrier to entry; I learned to cycle as an adult too, and it took a long time to become comfortable cycling on anything other than quiet local roads.

And you're right that many people can't currently practically use a bicycle in preference to a car. Some of that's no doubt due to the logistics involved in more remote communities, some of it could be related to urban infrastructure historically designed with large vehicles in mind, and some of it's likely due to limitations of bicycle travel itself (like the challenges of carrying large loads and dealing with weather conditions). Not to mention that it takes time for people's habits to change.

I'm biased because I would probably say cycling's the most useful non-software-related skill I've learned - so take with a grain of salt - but to me cycling's a vast opportunity: an empowering, open, low-cost technology with the potential to improve lives both individually and collectively.

In that context traffic and other limiting factors become issues to understand and find (genuine, win-win) solutions for, rather than impassable obstacles.
HN is becoming a tool to report such crap. can we stop that pls. I know it may help some but get back their account but it ultimately does not solve the problem and it unfair as most people will not know how to make the necessary drama.
+ its annoying non-content post we get here every other week.
I'd love to see a real programming calculator like the HP 16C . But without RPN as I never really grokked that :)
yeah, "example.com" seems pretty sensible; it's what I've always used and recommended.
As far as I know Biomed Lublin is the first company that manufactured a cure from the plasma. It is news from last days.

The most crucial breakthrough is that the cure has a standardized amount of antibodies and in a concentrated amount. First results show it is more effective than plasma

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/here-it-is-lublin-firm-...
It's part of ToS you can lose your account at any time for any reason. And it's their first rule.
Scala is the closest I've gotten to FP at work. I'd love to play with Haskell/F#/etc in a professional setting, it just hasn't come up. Yet.
Looking at the screenshot of the IG story, it indicates that the compromised account is now followed by @blood, @murder and @dead.

Looks like whoever took over the account is not some random kid with a friend at Facebook, but a "professional" account hijacker.

Whether they compromised the account via hacking, bribes or social engineering is anyone's guess, but it seems like this ain't their first rodeo.
I find it strange that the Facebook employee wouldn't just forcibly change OP's username to something else (e.g. @danny123) then give the desired name to their friend. Actually stealing someone's account seems like an over the top and unlikely way to go about this.
> they're voluntary applications

...in an unfree economic system (patents and IP give monopolies) with a black box money system (money is an enclosed protocol). Cooperative Open Value Networks are the future. [1]

[1] http://mikorizal.org/
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There is a certain quality to making the world more poetic. I like it.
Bail doesn’t stop people from running. If you’re facing the the death penalty or life in prison losing a large sum of money isn’t going to stop you. So, the issue is what does it stop?
And this is why I’ll never use Facebook or Instagram again. I can’t even begin to imagine and angst the OP is going through right now. Imagine if it was your business? My sister uses Instagram exclusively to market and promote her beauty salon business. I can only imagine what her reaction would be if something like this happened to her (really my only reference). Letting people have access to data let’s people manipulate that data. Whether this was an insider giving his friend the account or it was hacked and taken over, it doesn’t matter how, things like the OP’s situation should NEVER exist.
Yeah, the same debates happened in C# back when the 'var' keyword was introduced. People just fear change, but once they got hands-on experience they realized the value.
Similar is asdf@asdf.com. See their comment on that http://asdf.com/asdfemail.html
Though it is substantially easier to register a domain for fun than register a TLD for fun, even though the principle remains the same: pay some money and do some DNS configuring. It’s just that for TLDs the value of “some” changes.
I drive a Porsche Macan, I guarantee it’s a better drive than an Audi wagon.

And it’s not big enough for me. If we take a trip, it’s the Cayenne, because it’s far more comfortable with 4 people plus dog plus luggage.
I assume there is no evidence except an account full of pictures of the guy?

Maybe the employee claim is wrong, who knows, but determining who owns the account should be trivial. And frankly, given what we know about how the Twitter "hack" went down (rate limits? sign offs? resetting 2FA? impersonating accounts?!) it is fully believable.
I found this video of it: https://youtu.be/UrU4sGWt45M
I'm worried about the failure of Internet literacy reflected here. As far as I can tell, the author of the Twitter thread is just some guy, not famous or otherwise widely known to be reputable. And he's presented no evidence which can be independently confirmed - he could be misunderstanding the scenario, or the framing could be made up, or the screenshots could be faked, or any of a million other things. But a bunch of us - 201, as of when I'm writing this comment - are signal boosting and discussing his accusation based on no information beyond our preconceptions about what kinds of things Facebook might do.
Agreed. Is anyone really going to risk their cushy FAANG job to give their buddy a cool handle? Possible, but seems far fetched.
Skepticism is warranted but, did everyone forget about a month (?) ago when an insider and "OG username" people did the bitcoin scam on twitter? It's not an unreasonable assumption that this can happen elsewhere.
Ask HN: How do I keep climate change from wrecking my mental health?
Title. I'm a 20 year old college student with an anxiety disorder, and that makes it fairly hard to not hit thought spirals. Particularly, climate change. I'm a vegetarian and I don't drive much at all, I don't use Amazon, etc. but I still have a hard time not just _thinking_ about it all the time and it's starting to affect my mental health. Obviously, we should all be scared as shit, but I don't know if it's healthy to feel this way all of the time if I've already taken steps.
Which was rather the point regards the reaction to Eich, who sought to put force of law behind his differences in belief.
It shouldn't, because the best people at playing the etiquette game are the ones you shouldn't trust.

Which is why it's an important skill to learn. Because you too can exploit it for personal gain.
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Etiquette sends a strong signal that you're socially reliable. Working in groups is difficult and you can't just brute force it by waving your hands and saying you only care about the work or about being nice or whatever. Disagreements happen constantly and you can't just fight or disband the group every time you don't reach consensus, or you can but your group will be quickly outcompeted by a more functional group. Etiquette and other social skills allow for continued cooperation in social circumstances with many moving parts and competing interests. Doing things like sitting down when others sit down, etc. are really just table stakes. If you don't have the basics of reading a situation and applying rudimentary social norms appropriately you're kind of socially radioactive and will be treated accordingly, i.e. you won't move on to the more interesting interactions and you'll be placed in a baby zone unless people need to negotiate with you for specific resources. Programmers can get away with this better than most because it's a skill people need, but it's still kind of a disaster not to get decent with this stuff and you probably won't even understand how much it's damaging you.
I debated running my own Postgres cluster for a side project, but ended up paying for Digitalocean’s managed offering.

I’d like to hear from anyone running their own Postgres. Why did you choose to do that vs pay for a managed instance? How much of a hassle has it been? Is it something you really need significant Postgres experience to do well (to achieve security, backups, high availability, etc)? Biggest gotchas to watch out for? Best material to read?

Thanks in advance.
Dont. This is HN not a support attention army.
Kinda depends on the specifics of the issue. "I can't login." Send password reset, new account owner says thanks, all good. Resolved.
I think you're joking... but sarcam is hard to spot in text format

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Oh god I have the same thing. It's been bothering me for so long and doctors can't fix it. Sore throat every morning, for 10 years now.
For that to work, you have to import those explicitly:

use something\Http;
use something\Http\Method;
use something\Http\URL;
$body = Http::request(Method.GET, URL.Parse('https://example.com'))->body;

Now you have a bunch of lines instead of one. And have "Method" and "URL" in your current scope.

And all of that instead of this beauty:

$body = Http:request('GET', 'https://example.com')['body'];
Awareness of anthropogenic climate change goes back quite a bit further than 1896.

https://daily.jstor.org/how-19th-century-scientists-predicte...
They probably invoke maven with "mvn clean package" which does a fresh complete build, but only for deploying it.
What you are advocating for would not last long at all as a one-time source of funding. On the other hand, letting people out without bail without relying on bail loan sharks, in perpetuity, will do much good on itd own. They don't need the bail loan, they might not lose a job from not showing up to work if they couldnt make bail, etc.

I think, also, that chatbots are an unfair comparison. Those are specifically designed to decrease triage time for non-emergency scenarios.
This is a fundamentally different scenario, where it provides evidence to counter the prosecution. It will always fall to the judge to weigh the score versus what evidence the prosecution provides. If the prosecution has no good reason to demand punishingly high bail, and the model continues to hold up well over time, I see no reason to assume that using it leads to bad outcomes. Remember that the most overworked people are the public defenders, and this is an aide for them.
An interesting aspect to this story is that although there's no real evidence that a Facebook employee was involved, it still seems like a believable explanation to many readers including many commenters here. If a company's customer support is so bad that no one can tell the difference between being hacked and being abused by a rogue employee, does it actually matter what happened? I guess that it matters to the original poster, and I do hope that they do get their photos / account back, but in either case the message the message I'm taking away from the story same: your Facebook account could disappear tomorrow and you'd have no recourse.
I have one of their other calculators, the DM16 and it is glorious! I might buy this one as well. Their quality is fantastic.
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Data scientist says teaching data science is more important than teaching other kinds of math. Film at 11.
I feel the same. By now pretty everyone knows what 'Sign Up' means so it's as clear as can be. All the others are obfuscation - I especially dislike the one which gets a special mention: 'Start Drawing'. I'm not going to call it a lie because yes indeed it will eventually lead you to start drawing, but to me it's like trying to fool users. It sounds like you can start right away, but no, you have to sign up first.
In the modern era the single most important skill is to manage distractions. There are so many things, this site included, that can prevent you from accomplishing your goals via distraction.

Obviously a little distraction and fun is good. But these days it easier than ever to waste an entire day or two watching Netflix and staring at your phone.
I use `ncdu --color dark` for pretty colors.
I don't think the "theft" of the username would break any kind of law, as this was a company decision (since it done by an employee) and the username was never your property anyway. I'm assuming that employee definitely violated some internal policies, but nothing from a legal point of view.

The only recourse I can see from a legal point of view is that they seem to have handed over the entire account (as the followers seem to have been carried over), which contains private data including DMs, stories, archives of deleted pictures, etc. Given that the original owner of the account is based in the UK, GDPR should apply. I wonder if people he talked to via DMs (as well as those with private accounts who granted his account access) would also have a case, since Facebook's actions have disclosed private conversations & contents of private accounts) to an unauthorized person.

I don't have a Twitter account but if someone could suggest this person to complain to their local data protection regulator (the ICO in case of the UK) that would be great.
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> Do we want 100 year old buildings?

Obviously, we do.

To put it in terms that may be easier to understand, we do not want to demolish a building when it serves all functional requirements.

Double so if they have urban and cultural value.

I suggest you visit places such as Amsterdam, where most of the city center was built in the 17th century and it's glorious.
On what basis are you making this claim? Karl Marx often called himself a socialist but he explicitly denied being a Marxist.
You're welcome to start a zine to reach your audience, but nobody owes you a platform they built and pay for.
Not really, but they can if they want and still can with the "new" code it changes nothing.
This reminded me of an article I read a while ago about Instagram employees selling verification... one of the sources mentions they also sell accounts, but the story is mostly about selling verification.

https://mashable.com/2017/09/01/instagram-verification-paid-...

Previously discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15156790
Pixelfed is the instagram-esque incarnation of the fediverse.
Arguable more important than what the miners run is what the exchanges run.
Pixelfed is the federated IG.
This reminds me of the federal indictment against consultants bribing amazon employees.

If Instagram account takeover favors can occur, how much do they cost?
If the creator of Bitcoin is in cryostasis, then I propose that we officially move all cyberpunk novels to the nonfiction section. All we are missing is Rastafarians in space.
>"A boy got his head stuck under a truck? Is that the development’s fault"

I have met people who believe homeless adults should get no help, but I have never ever met anyone who believes we should leave homeless children to starve and die.

By extension, you should not put facilities for kids in an area of obvious danger.
Didn't Python 3.5 introduce optional typings?
A friend of mine lost access to his Instagram account that was blocked for impersonating others (he shares the name with a known person). He had no recourse for six months as the form to appeal the decision didn’t work... finally got it fixed in 10 minutes this summer when the form magically worked again

This needs to stop
OP said "numba", not "numpy" - numba is a JIT that's compatible with CPython!

https://numba.pydata.org/
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40 years ago, the HP-41 had a whole ecosystem of add-ons that took advantage of the expansion ports. Today, I suppose, you’d be better off with just a USB port.