skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Truth is hard, let's go Postmodern!" isn't a valid conclusion. It's an escape hatch, a refusal to make a best effort and, when it's about something that matters, a horribly dangerous practice which essentially cedes the field to the idiots who have no such scruples.

Postmodernism is not the only critique of Kant. Although you're fighting a strawman, I agree with your criticism of postmodernism as used today, but that is not what I was talking about.

I am arguing indeed for making the best effort and especially about something that really matters. And it turns out "this is the objective truth" is one of the other escape hatches, especially since most of the questions that really matter are far more complex than the shape of our planet. Ethics, meaning, policy etc. they all require an ongoing process of being less wrong, which best works in opponent processing. There is rarely a terminal value for truth for these questions, there is always going to be an ongoing tension because the part of the reality we are trying to capture is inexhaustably complex. People who wrote the religious texts thought they were able to capture and codify the algorithm for "the right way", but we now see how inadequate they can be for our 21st century context. Anytime someone thought they had the key algorithm for utopia, they turned out to be the most evil machineries of our history sooner or later.

> But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

I think that guy is the most wrong. Because "what are we going to use this information for, what adjacent information that we haven't yet might be interesting, are we framing the question right" is the most critical parts of the query that goes unasked. If we are talking about walking on the street, the flat earth guy is just as correct as the sphere guy. Notice I am not saying his epistemology is correct, nor he is entitled to his own opinion and we should be pluralistic. I am saying as long as both guys only walk on the street, the difference opinions are completely inconsequential.

Now expand this to a question no one has a clear answer for. E.g. economic policy; some want it sphere, some want it flat. No doubt newspapers will be filled with people "it is flat, this is the objective truth". That is the use of going "hang on a second, we don't do objective truth here, we humbly pursue being less wrong, now dialogue with us, don't rhetorize your talking points, just honestly talk to us". Sadly, nowadays mass of the public discourse happens over channels that doesn't reward that but rhetoric and likes.
Whereas I lose count of the various phones I've cracked. Never had an iphone, but I've destroyed screens on Samsungs, Motorolas, at least one nexus device... Every phone I insisted on using caseless.

Perhaps I'm just clumsy :)
We created a web portal with SAML authentication that provisions and manages wireguard profiles on our edge locations. Employees have to log into the portal to obtain a wireguard configuration, and their configuration(s) are removed when their profile is deprovisioned in the IDP. It’s much easier to support then OpenVPN was - much easier to support and the wireguard client for mobile (at least iOS) just works, whereas the OpenVPN client for iOS was a nightmare to setup.
Hey everyone I am the creator of The Old Net.. but in a way, aren't we all?? (cheese)

Anyway super excited to see people talking about my project here. I originally built it just for myself. I have a healthy collection of old computers. I'm really happy that other people are getting something out of it.

I see some good feature suggestions. Keep them coming. I have an ever growing backlog of things I want to add to the site. And one by one I do what I can to add them.

Just a couple weeks ago someone mentioned on a facebook group that they wish they could use wikipedia from an old browser. So I built a proxy for that.

One issue I've been struggling with since the beginning is continually getting flagged by cyber security tools as a phishing site. Anytime this happens all I have to do is contact the security company and without question they lift the blacklist status of my site. But none of them will tell me anything I can change to avoid these false positives proactively. If anyone has concrete advice on this please let me know.

Thanks!
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6

> Evidence from people infected with other coronaviruses suggests that the damage will linger for some. A study published in February recorded long-term lung harm from SARS, which is caused by SARS-CoV-1. Between 2003 and 2018, Peixun Zhang at Peking University People’s Hospital in Beijing and his colleagues tracked the health of 71 people who had been hospitalized with SARS. Even after 15 years, 4.6% still had visible lesions on their lungs, and 38% had reduced diffusion capacity, meaning that their lungs were poor at transferring oxygen into the blood and removing carbon dioxide from it.
yeah I know someone who works in transporting cars, and he said the paint job on the brand new teslas is often pretty atrocious, but the customers coming to pick them up never seem to complain
I really like this approach. I can't imagine a better way to approach things in a language.
HN would block the NY Post article, despite users’ attempts at discussing it - where would that fall on section 230?
Yeah I don't get his logic at all. I would have purchased a case either way. At least with a thinner phone, the case isn't as unwieldy.
Because cases can add functionality or customization that only a subset of users might want. See the "naked robotic core" idea http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/86.
Not sure what issue you're trying to argue here. I think there is agreement that a browser monoculture is bad. Unfortunately, as TFA says, Mozilla's mistakes have contributed significantly to killing Firefox/Gecko as an alternative, which is I think a fair claim.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6

> Symptoms might take a long time to fade; a study posted on the preprint server medRxiv in August followed up on people who had been hospitalized, and found that even a month after being discharged, more than 70% were reporting shortness of breath and 13.5% were still using oxygen at home.

> One study of 143 people with COVID-19 discharged from a hospital in Rome found that 53% had reported fatigue and 43% had shortness of breath an average of 2 months after their symptoms started. A study of patients in China showed that 25% had abnormal lung function after 3 months, and that 16% were still fatigued.
Ask HN: What keeps us committed to something besides motivations and discipline?
The biggest industry in New Zealand was tourism.
We rely heavily on open borders until this year.
>Note that host is hardcoded to localhost. This means it should never connect to any machine other than the developer machine. We’re too tired to figure it out right now. The gremlins won this time.

Obviously, somehow the script ran on the database host.

some practices I've followed in the past to keep this kind of thing from happening:

* A script that deletes all the data can never be deployed to production.

* scripts that alter the DB rename tables/columns rather than dropping them (you write a matching rollback script ), for at least one schema upgrade cycle. you can always restore from backups, but this can make rollbacks quick when you spot a problem at deployment time.

* the number of people with access to the database in prod is severely restricted. I suppose this is obvious, so I'm curious how the particular chain of events in TFA happened.
Yep. I broke a system at work this way. I needed a piece of crytopgraphic information generated by an internal system for testing. The system requires all pieces are signed (with an accompanying expiration date). I decided to ask for it to be signed for 100 years.

...This resulted in the service generating an invalid x509 certificate [but fortunately the validation library said that the cert was invalid, just didn't tell me why] -- making me lose a day to debugging this mistake.
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I thought the delay was deliberate?
I'm getting a steady 144 fps. I don't think the delay is performance related, at least on my PC.
I think you're making an interesting point that warrants a little further exploration: "disinformation" is nothing more than you using information available to you to determine what you think is true that the people who disagree with you would not like you to consider in your assessment. What the whole "control disinformation" argument boils down to, in my opinion, is an attempt to stifle people's own faculty of reason and deliberation by restricting their access to information. Who is to decide what information is relevant to you? Why is it that some people want to do that because you did not come to the conclusion they think you ought to?
vscode remote extension perhaps
That perhaps if we weren't focused on thinness above all, perhaps they could be made robust enough to survive without needing a case.
Given the short time frames that startups aim to capture value in its not worth investing time in safety until you have plenty of capacity to spare later.
I've got a feeling that most videoconferencing apps push for highest video quality, when the most important thing is audio latency. I wouldn't care if I saw my coworkers in 640x480 as long as I can hear them loud and clear and they can hear me the same.
> I don't think you're digging deep enough here. It's not the business model. It's the technology.

I don't think you're digging deep enough here. It's not the technology. It's the people. Meaning not just the people running companies, but all of us.

Technology is a tool. Any tool can be used for nefarious purposes, or for beneficial purposes. Which kind it gets used for depends on the people who use it, and on the people who are creating the environment in which the people using the tools operate.

I don't dispute that most of the people who are running large companies (not even limited to social media companies) are amoral and will do anything to make more money, including manipulating other people's thoughts and opinions. But such people can only thrive in an environment where there are lots of other people who are susceptible to their manipulation. There will always be nefarious people in the world. But there is no rule that says there have to be enough other people who are susceptible to them to enable them to thrive.

I don't disagree that people who make money through lies and manipulation should be punished. But I think we all need to take a step back and ask why such people are able to thrive in our society to this extent. At some point the rest of society needs to take some responsibility for not being susceptible to liars and crooks.
There isn't a STIG for MySQL... yet. Supposedly there is one being worked on, however.

There's been a Postgres STIG for, I dunno, "a while" now.

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DISA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Information_Systems_Ag...

STIG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Technical_Implementat...
Okay, if that's a punt, the ball has left the stadium, left the parking lot, narrowly avoids hitting skyscrapers downtown, on it's way to landing safely in a park n ride outside of town, where it bounces a few times before coming to a stop, but not before it taps into a car, setting off an alarm, which happens to be a fans car who bussed in, trying to save on traffic, but will be woefully disappointed to find his car dead, only to have his spirits lifted when he finds the game ball, only slightly charred from breaking the sound barrier, and a jump from his crush who went to the game with him, and then she helped him with his dead battery, heyo!
If that’s needed.
Keep in mind that until relatively recently it took a lot longer to get to New Zealand as it was common to come here by ship. My parents and grandparents got here that way and it worked ok.
Coming from a country where free speech "was never really a thing" implies that your government either stops you from conveying X, retaliates, or is unwilling to protect you from another entity doing the same.

I find it strange that anyone in that situation would equate it with social media sites removing or flagging content published on their platform.
Lost seven hours of data? Daily backup with no transaction log backup?

Whoa.
localhost is an abstraction, it's a non-routable-outside-your-machine network...except it's not. It's nothing more than normal TCP traffic except with a message to the OS and other programs that whatever is on that local computer network, you don't want it routed outside the local computer.

There's absolutely nothing stopping anything with access to localhost from routing it anywhere that process wants. Does not even take a malicious actor, all kinds of legit programs expose localhost. It's really not something you should use for anything except as a signal to other well-behaving programs that you are using the network stack as a machine-local IPC bus.
It's well done, though anyone who regularly browses Shadertoy or similar websites has probably been desensitized to old-school (yes, old school!) liquid demos compared to what the cool kids do these days... but well done nonetheless!
I agree with regard to hate speech (although "support" is too strong a term). What the Westboro Baptist Church does is abhorrent, but I'm in favor of their right to say those things (although I don't think private companies need to give them a platform).

But this article is primarily focused on "misinformation", and I think that's more complicated. It's one thing to legitimately believe something abhorrent, and to express that abhorrent view in "good faith." Knowingly spreading something you know to be false, however, is another matter—not entirely unlike engaging in fraud, or shouting fire in a crowded theater.
I've gone 3 years with no case on my current phone. The screen is still unscratched and not chipped or cracked or anything. The most obvious wear and tear is actually in the paint on the back of the phone that has faded where my fingers normally comfortably position themselves.
I don't like what they have to say because its inherently not fact based. I am totally susceptible to bias and I do not claim to be otherwise, but there are certain ground rules we can set. Rush Limbaugh always starts off his rants and problematic messages with straight up incorrect statements. As in statements that are verifiably false. He then constructs arguments around these false ideas. The issue is, to the average viewer its difficult to know that those ideas are false (how are you gonna do that after working for 40+ hours a day doing manual labor, commuting, cooking, taking care of a kid, etc).

There are also people like Tucker Carlson who say things without validating their claims. Here is a recent example
https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-tucker-carlson-lockdown-pu...

and now guess what, oklahoma for example is experiencing increasing covid cases and now local officials are advocating for lockdowns, which is something scientists were advocating from the start. He was clearly wrong, however people DO listen to him. I know because I've lived with people who do and think he knows everything.

We even have a president who dog whistled a terror plot against the governor of Michigan. Trump is a white supremacist and white supremacism is inherently a non fact based ideological stance, yet it leads to stuff like the terror plot.

I am advocating for clamping down of purposeful disinformation. America itself knows how powerful purposeful disinformation is given its experiences with it during the cold war. What we should probably do is punish purposeful disinformation that has an intent to harm a specific group, the general public, or for the gain of an entity at the expense of the public (tobacco companies and polluters come to mind here. Lots of disinformation regarding health effects). Its generally very difficult to prove things like hate crimes (which the spreading of disinformation to harm a group is) and even cases like the michael richards incident wouldn't involve a punitive action. He was angry because he was bombing his set and said something wrong out of a moment frustration. He might truly be racist (or not, who knows other than him), but he doesn't seem to be actively working to advance his life at the expense of other's. He didn't actively work to disenfranchise a group of people, unlike people like David Duke who actively works to disenfranchise specific groups of people and has never suffered the consequences of it in America (he went to jail for tax fraud, but not for his awful actions funnily enough).
Just because the magnetic properties came up in this thread: I doubt Apple designed it this way, but an ipad pro with their keyboard folio will stick to the metal walls found in your average restroom.
> The idea was to preserve local autonomy...

Maybe some early Esperanto disseminators were like this, but Zamenhof himself hoped that Esperanto (or at least something like it) would eventually replace all local languages.
I hate cases and think they make the phone totally bulky. The strap for the 5th pen iPod touch is what should be on every iPhone. Apple often comes up with good ideas but fails to execute on them properly.
I would think it's similar to why there are so many viruses for Windows vs Mac. Hackers target where the users are. In this case, Russia seeks to influence the USA citizenry because we have a democracy where votes actually count.
The rise and fall of ArsDigita (2002)
Another "stories boost your career and property" blog post that contains no content on where storytelling comes from, how it's tied to ordinary living, great examples of traditional stories, or how stories work in a technical sense.

The fact is, if you search for "storytelling how to" you get directed to a blog post like this one, something about the Campbell monomyth, or a summary of "Save the Cat". Not traditional storytelling practice, like e.g. Nancy Mellon's books on the subject. So I have to conclude that literally everyone making these blogposts is just copypasting from the self-help playbook and has no original contribution to make.

...once upon a time there was a man named Dale Carnegie and he solved the problem of how to be successful in life's ambitions so thoroughly that nobody could surpass his teachings. And yet, somehow, there still existed people who were not successful. It turned out in each instance that they had simply not taken the advice heartily enough, as they told each other in meetings of the Friendless and Uninfluential Society. "If at first you do not succeed, try, try again."

Gradually each learned that the true secret to success was to tell someone else of these teachings and sell them products. And so the world turned, the message growing seemingly more and more inevitable and omnipresent, until one day, a fisherman in a small village was invited to join a seminar for the Friendless and Influential, raise his wealth and standing and buy a fleet of boats, and he responded:

"Ah, I could do all of these things you suggest and retire to a small fishing village, or I could go home."
No lucid assessment of “free speech” entertains a definition that includes “the use of machine learning to target messages to individuals in order to make money.” In the same way me sitting outside your house watching when you come and go to determine the best time to place a political flier on your door so you’ll see it when I want you to, surveillance capitalism it not free speech.
Thanks for the feature suggestions! Some of them are already there

It does have a counter. Tucows does work. And I have sunk a good amount of time into making this VRML museum. http://vrml.theoldnet.com
> "fact checking" is merely replying to what others are saying.

Not if "fact checking" actually means "taking down the post because we disagreed with it".
How to Teach Yourself Computer Science: A Developer's 100-Hour Journey
In context - this is less for you than for the "COVID is no big deal" folks - that's 5x the annual likelihood of a 40-year-old dying in a car crash in the United States, and about 60x the likelihood of a 40-year-old dying of the swine flu during the 2009 epidemic.

So COVID is in fact very dangerous for 40-year-olds. Pose a thought experiment: if someone said "would you go out drinking with your friends tonight if there was a 10% chance that, for the next 12 months, you'll be 5x as likely to die in a car crash than baseline?" I would say "absolutely not, why would you even ask me this?" and I certainly wouldn't take that risk over-and-over again for such a petty reason.
You mean if the laptop was stolen instead of abandoned? that would change what exactly?
Or do you wanna imply that someone wrote these emails and fabricated the photos? because that's just delusional at this point.
It's not unchecked free speech. Instead, it's unchecked curation by media and social media companies with the goal of engagement.

Try teaching non-elite undergrads sometime, and particularly assignments that require some sense of epistemology, and you'll discover that the vast majority of people have pretty poor personal epistemic hygiene—it's not much required in most people, most of the time, in most jobs.

We evolved to form tribes, not to be "right." Jonathan's Haidt's The Righteous Mind deals with this topic well. https://jakeseliger.com/2012/03/25/jonathan-haidts-the-right...
Related Twitter thread: https://archive.vn/o4JP0
For Mozilla and its mission, it's over. Why project a mission for supporting privacy when you sign a contract with your closest competitor who goes directly against your own mission? Especially as the default search engine? I don't think they're quite serious about your privacy, more like they are focused on the 'social justice' than generating their own revenue.

It seems that they either ruin their own credibility by being a hypocrite or they risk going bankrupt trying to fight for your privacy with products failing generating any sustainable revenue for themselves. Either way, it's in Google's hands.

As for the 'social justice reasons' it's a classic side example of going woke will make you and your business broke.
I would consider making the HTML tags uppercase, at least that's how I learned how to do them back in the day.

Also it's funny that SEO for a while almost felt like creating a successful webring because it's all based on how many sites link back to you.
For those not familiar with the witch/duck reference, it's from the film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. Here's the clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
I hate breaking my phone. Cases may not be pretty, but they’re pragmatic.

Also FYI: literally no one cares how your phone looks.
This is what I came to say. Postgres usually allows a connection string that contains all the details as the database name postgres://username:password@host:port/dbname and I think it will take priority over separately specified host, depending on the client.

Tough way to learn that lesson though.
This also occurred in Auckland, New Zealand. Auckland was shut off from the rest of the country after an still-unexplained outbreak.
Liberals have blood on their hands.

All because of their hatred of Trump. Absolutey shameful.
While it's not immediately obvious, you can use proton as wine replacement by adding windows apps through the steam lubrary. I found proton stability and support to be exceptional even outside of games.
We're building most everything on bare metal at Fly.io and it's the exact same deal. Wireguard is great for our infrastructure.

Your GitHub list is super handy. :)
That’s complicated though. Getting it as an adult is REALLY nasty, hence the previous history to try and get it done as a kid. Now we immunise instead...