skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Women are guaranteed to reproduce, men are not"

How are women "guaranteed to reproduce"? There are plenty of women who choose not to reproduce, others who actually have standards and don't want to lower them to reproduce with just anyone, and yet others who are asocial, antisocial, or have a variety of psychological issues that make them unlikely to partner up with anyone. Same with men.

"If you are going to have a son, and you know he's not going to be the most handsome guy, don't have a son. Otherwise you're a trash human being pushing a lifetime of suffering on another human due to no fault of his own"

Oh, please. Like physical attractiveness has to be the most important thing in a person's life.

Not to mention that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and there have been plenty of people who were not conventionally attractive and still had worthwhile and fulfilling lives.

You'd probably have aborted Samuel Johnson and Socrates.
Sometimes you have to use C because there are no other options, especially for embedded systems which have no (e.g.) LLVM support.
The only sincere exchange of ideas left will be on 4chan.
Prognosticators predict that advances in technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and wearable electronics will spawn a new generation of devices that could change our everyday existence even more than the smartphone did.
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I do not have 80s experience but starting from 1994-1996 (do not remember exactly) I do not recall any major problems with any of my cars. There was one exception when the transmission broke (I could still drive to repair shop) but from what I see this kind of shit can happen now just as likely.
Next Steps for the Rust Foundation
They are trying to download the DDG Privacy Browser. I just did it in 3.

1. Use the search widget and type duckduckgo app
2. First thing that pops up is Google Play link to install app, click install
3. Takes you to google play, and click install
The GDPR didn't require Gmail to become slow, or Google to provide multiple confusingly competing video call products.
I got to this point with games a few years ago. My coworkers (all big gamers) were amazed that I would wait for games to be on steep sale or just play older titles. My first job out of high school was working in a game store where I fell into the rat race of having every shiny new thing I could afford and getting hyped up on the hyper competitive nature of everything.

Really, it was Destiny 1 and Halo MCC that broke me hard of this habit. Between the games being broken or lacking, and me not enjoying the PvP aspect of Destiny 1, I just stepped away from it all.

Now I am content to game for the sake of burning time. I don't like PUBG, but I have it to play with friends while we drink beers and shoot the bot infested unranked, the final moments are tense and fun and if we fail at least we had the fun of getting there.

I got XBOX game pass and just pop in games to try them out now, no worries or hassle of returning since it is Netflix style gaming.

Even on my phone I have loaded up old games where I turn on cheats for mad fun. I am currently playing Pokemon Sun and whenever the baddies start a match with "I am stealing your Pokemon" they face my 100% started with 100% critical chance and I just lob a Master Ball and steal their Pokemon. I enjoy walking through walls and just being ridiculous in it while still enjoying the story and atmosphere of the game. (all the fun, none of slowness inherent in those games).

But I do agree. I don't know how many times I would work my 9-5, try and game some, get upset at the losses, and just wallow out the rest of the night, skipping other stuff I wanted/needed to do. The highs certainly weren't worth the lows.

Part of why when folks say video games aren't addicting, I ask why CoD put in the prestige system. It keeps hitting you with that dopamine of 'yea, just unlocked something' which constantly throws you back into combat where something else gets unlocked.
Yes, by far! And to extend it, we're at the "canoes" (or maybe "swimming and surfing") stage regarding our technology for exploring those horizons.
I never did BBC Micro, but in the early PC days there were "Copy II PC" add in ISA cards that the floppy cable passed through on the way to the drive. With their software most any floppy disk could be copied with a standard PC drive; and with a bit of hacking you could do things like read Victor 9000 floppies.

There was only one floppy I could never get, a licensed Scrabble game that insisted on writing scores to its game disc. My mom loved that game and we had to buy it twice. It was humiliating, I had this special hardware and I never did figure that one out.

* found one: https://www.biocomp.net/o62799.htm
Fully online, streaming gaming a la Stadia, will be the ultimate in copy and cheat protection. Since you don't have access the the actual code, you won't be able to modify or hack it to either cheat or bypass protection.
Dirt is awesome in VR. Hopefully more racers will get VR support.
Time Travel Without the Paradoxes
Which irks me, there are beta, dev and canary release channels to help people catch changes like this (and can even be automated).

But they will in the end probably be happy with the speedup they will get from fixing their HTTPS/HTTP/HTTPS issue, e.g. not changing context, having double redirects etc.
Please ask your Congressional rep to co sponsor the below bill. Outrage is easy, meaningful change is a long slog but necessary.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/357... (S.3571 - Banking for All Act
116th Congress (2019-2020))
I appreciate the thought and agree in most situations the solution is to dress better, but when it’s -40 actual temperature and hitting -70F with the windchill I’d still call it “bad weather”.

At that point you can get frostbite in under a minute. Dressing appropriately starts to feel more like putting on a hazmat suit than getting dressed to go out as any bit of exposed skin is at risk.

Even many cold-weather accessories you might have start to feel insufficient. A knit scarf or toque is great in many situations, but the cold wind will cut through it like a knife.

I remember being sent outside at recess as a kid at those kinds of temperatures. I mean, I still go outside when I have to but I don’t exactly look for excuses to leave the house.
Raft does not Guarantee Liveness in the face of Network Faults
They sure sounded a lot better though.
Startup or not, government contracts require certain certifications.
Consumers in general have no internal model of security. It's enough that there's a sticker on the box saying that "even more secure than last year" or "2021-ready security".

It's cheap, it works for a year or two. It's apparently more than enough.
heck, POTS line phones can even function with a power loss since they derive their power from the phone line (unless you have a POTS line phone like a cordless where it has to charge a battery and operate a 900mhz connection to the handset.)
Hmm.. Or a 'graffiti wall' where customers are allowed to contribute to the cafes eclectic art, but it's not exactly curated?

What I'm getting at is Reddit wasn't started with the idea that it had to vet content, if you put the responsibility for content on the website owner/operator.. I'm not saying it's wrong, but I think it's hard to draw a parallel on the high street, just because of the scale of the internet I suppose.

A debate society perhaps, that keeps rigorous records - in parliament for example, if a Member said something egregious they'd be personally called out on it, apologies (or resignation) demanded, etc. - but it wouldn't be struck from record. People might also think the Speaker ought to have stepped in sooner, etc., but then I suppose that's the problem again - there is and always has been the expectation of moderation there, the record keeping isn't some passive web form -> database, it's human presence.

(I'm honestly not sure where I stand on it, I'm not arguing one way or the other; just thinking - and putting those thoughts into a passive web form -> database that has only some light retrospective moderation. ;))
This most certainly wasn't the case for YouTube in the early days either. Once Google took over they were WAY more strict about locking down infringing works.
> you can't just revamp the UX for a product used by billions of users without some pretty serious blowback.

Sure you can. Empower your users instead of taking features away. Make it modular with the default modules being the old interface. Make reporting spam actually useful instead of feeling like it gets ignored. Make it easier to manage a list of _thousands_ of filters. Provide better IMAP integration instead of the half-implemented crap that it is right now. Hell, just make it so that I can encrypt my emails.

Serious blowback happens when you break something for some segment of your users. You don't have to break things to provide new features.
One thing I have always thought is odd, is that a multinational company that has ~billions of users would have a single UI. At Google or Facebook scale, it would seems like having a more localized UI per region would make more sense. It isn't like they don't have the money to do this, and most of the service is behind an API/server-side, so having a different front-end better localized to, say, Arabic users, doesn't seem like it would place an undue burden on them.
It's a little-loved library in the standard library that wasn't designed to support cryptographic security, but was by many projects repurposed as such to support SAML. It was a mistake for any SAML project to depend on encoding/xml.
LPDDR4X-4266 memory and its right on the chip.

I'd really like to see what AMD could do with a huge die that combines 8 Zen 3 cores, 16 GB of LPDDR4X-4266, and their GPU all on a single chip.

I'm very excited about the performance that Apple has been able to generate with this silicon, but these tests don't put anything to bed.

You're giving up extreme choice and expandability for performance by going the M1 route. You can spend $1700 for a Mac Mini with 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD, but that's what you're stuck with. Forever. Until its time to buy a new computer. People who bought into AMD's AM4 platform at the start were able to go up from the 1000 series to the 3000 series, able to upgrade their RAM from nearly any size to 64 GB, and able to upgrade their SSDs by slotting in a new NVMe drive. To say nothing of the GPU, which for developers of specific solutions, is becoming a serious concern. Also if you game in your spare time, you're at a disadvantage not just due to the Apple ecosystem, but also limited by the GPU.

For most of us, our machines are disposable. Even though I still build myself a new workstation every 2-3 years, I never bother selling it, I just give it away to family because for me its not worth the hassle, and then I order $3-4000 in parts and build a new one all over again. So buying the new Mac Mini made sense for me, although I opted to go with the base model for $699 so I could evaluate it and determine if going "all-in" for a higher-end model made sense (it does), but not for one second am I under the illusion that this chip is going to be the death of x86.
Apple’s Fitness+ Is the Latest Shot in Silicon Valley’s At-Home Workout Wars
This will break the ABI indeed. That's given.
They are meant to be convo openers, and it works. People rejected banner advertising, so advertising adapted
For about 6 hours a few months ago the Google Keyboard app had plastered the "GOOGLE" logo on the spacebar. Very high impact improvement...
Was able to just do this in 3 steps

1. Use the Google Search widget and type DuckDuckGo, there's a suggestion for "DuckDuckGo App"

2. First result is the DDG Privacy Browser App, with a button to "install"

3. Opens up Play and you have to select "install" again, IMO this is a good security feature to not auto install
I've personally reported child pornography on Pornhub several times that wasn't removed.

Pornhub also required you to have an account to report content if I'm not mistaken.
Because those have the highest impact as swing states, and with a 68% alleged error rate, and lack of adjudication logs, in a traceability critical system, which shows significantly altered behavior from previous year's datasets, this is highly alarming from the process integrity point of view.

There needs to ne a widening of the net to any other county using the same or a similar system.

Eventual winner be damned. The process is what matters, and the integrity based on this report is grossly threatened.

Nice of this to only pop up today, and there's a lot of knock-on investigations that'd have to take place as a result to ascertain things.

I was vetting the Epoch Times story for credibility, and was looking for whether or not there is an official place if record to lookup the document signed off on by 13th Circuit Judge Kevin Elsenheimer.

Anyone got an idea where that could be looked up? I'd not normally go this far to verify, but the consequences are far reaching enough where I'm going all the way back to the official record if at all possible.
Hello World – WP Git Updater
I've been a Reddit user for about a decade and I really love RPAN, the streaming broadcast you refer to. I often find really interesting music made by talented artists, and I appreciate that the performances are done in a kind of off-the-cuff, low-key way.
Its one of those things that we can have by simply wanting it. Ironically the predatory corporations would thrive under such new deal.
>Something feels disconcerting here. It’s not that I care personally about this particular action; in truth I have almost only ever seen meme videos on Pornhub. But it feels like it could be a precursor to another push to censor pornography and the internet.

I would go even farther to worry that this might begin to push the Overton window towards demonizing any content posted online that isn't "verified" by a real identity. MindGeek (the company behind PornHub) was also backing the UK's law requiring an ID to watch porn online. If users get comfortable with the idea of having even their porn tied to a real ID, wouldn't they become comfortable with less "private" content also tied to their legal identity?

I don't want to read this headline from the future: "Pornhub requires an ID, should Reddit, Twitter, and 4chan do the same?"
And I also don't want to read the future headline: "Pornhub's ID database hacked, thousands of models names and addresses exposed"

Anonymity is important (imo) and it would be a shame to see people use porn as the excuse to curtail it. Surely it's possible to remove illegal content without stripping away privacy and anonymity.
>It's really hard to find something that was better in the pre-internet era.

Big ticket home items like fridges, washer/dryers, TVs. They're all planned to shit the bed just after their warranty wears out so that companies can squeeze out extra money from them. Nothing is made with pride anymore. There's many facets as to why this is, but as a civilization I don't think we're ever going to be able to go back to the way "the way things were"
Wow, this is the first time I've ever heard of something like this. Are there others? I searched and didn't find any, but did find this cool writeup about LTM's setup: https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/perfecting-the-solar-powered...
This is Zoox
Education is hard, has a really long lead time, no one can agree on what the curriculum should be, and you can't force people to learn anyway. You're right that we should be trying, but moderation will remain necessary forever.
why do humans exercise so little forethought. Especially in big hierarchical groups
Akashi city to certify same-sex couples, children as ‘family’
I understand that this is horrible for unbreakable DRM, but in my case, I only play multiplayer online games (MMOs) - there is nothing to pirate. I'd happily take game streaming in exchange for getting rid of invasive, useless, data-collecting (including clipboard contents, uploading files on disk, etc.) rootkit anticheats starting at boot being "mandatory" to play.
TechCrunch don't need to verify anything.
I have been trying to explain to people that having the DRAM chips physically next to the SOC on the package does not actually meaningfully improve memory latency.

I get that people on this site are excited, but please be excited about the right things.
Yes. Security vendors have to add a bunch of snake oil products.

If they just did "consulting" and trained the staff against social security attacks, and improved a company's policies, how could managers that authorized the expense justify it? Where's the shiny "product" that "keep us safe"?"Do you mean we have to periodically expend money to keep ourselves safe? I'll go with Vendor B, they have a blockchain-based Machine Learning tool that's going to safeguard us against current and future threats!"
No, instead we has simply proven the Horseshoe theory of politics.

Liberty, and freedom are under assault from both the extreme right, and the extreme left. Who it seems end up supporting similar policies for very different reasons
Well, that is a page which describes the options.

Bit have you tried the "Book ticket" button?

For me, it simply goes to the start page.

So I still don't know how to find the routes that offer these options.
I hope someday we reach on IOT the same safety electricity has today.
> It takes a lot of energy to raise the temperature of a house - more than to maintain a given temperature

is this true? the house is constantly bleeding off its heat at a rate proportional to the temperature difference between interior and exterior. it should always cost more energy to maintain the higher temperature gradient than to just let the heat bleed off (which it was always going to do) and add in more heat once the building is occupied.
What makes it worse is that XMLDSIG is exponentially more complicated. Most of the ecosystem literally shells out to libxmlsec1 and assumes it does the right thing. DSIG is a batshit standard that attempts to support arbitrary combinations of signed and unsigned parts in a single document, tied together with a DOM-like scheme, passed through a canonicalizing transformation that has itself broken SAML before. It's a fractal of bad security design.
The data is updated every day. They are actively managed so they'll send trade data via email if you request it.
Almost every install document I've ever read says disable antivirus and firewall. I actively disregard every such instruction and rarely have a problem.

If your antivirus product is any good, it will work fine with legitimate software. But that is entered solely as a support disclaimer for "I can't guarantee anything if anything else is running on your system".
Cyberpunk 2077 Developer Apologizes and Offers Refund for Game Glitches
Because the standard lib was not designed to handle that use case and so they can't change it right now to not break compatibility, which is why they're going to add new API in Go 1.16 that will release in February.
Topological Autoencoders
Facebook is exactly in the same boat , but they have redesigned the user interface multiple times over the years. Even after so many years, Facebook still feels current.
This is pretty much why I have yet to buy into any internet of things devices and look really hard at what something can do, will do offline.

Maybe one day when all this is actual infrastructure and all that goes with the idea, standards, service entities who will be there, are regulated, etc.

Maybe then, I will reconsider.

And let's be clear. I have no problem with pioneers pioneering. Have fun! I just have different priorities.
> can't read the news

Alternative potential consequence: it allows indie news publishers to become more competitive and visible against billionaire-backed business with huge advertising powers.

> [can't] connect with friends and family online

same - if Facebook goes under, that's a positive network effect to smaller competitors. (there are plenty of free ways to connect that don't depend on advertising)
I dream of a day when Webpack builds won’t be so slow.
Probably.

On the other hand, electricity replaced many things that were either more dangerous in themselves (like gas lighting) or more physical work (like laundry). And the only significant downside (I'm ignoring the dangers electricity posed) was that it sometimes stopped working, although in those cases you probably had your manual fall-back (candles and a wash-tub).
Sinister sounds: podcasts are becoming the new medium of misinformation
"Some street legal cars have governors because of how exceptional their acceleration is."

Most manufacturer limits on top speed are tied to the vehicle tire speed rating (usually somewhere around 92-116mph). There are a few that are sort of an industry standard cutoff for 'safety', like 300kpm (I think) on sport bikes.
The cleverest floppy disc protection ever
The stats compared to facebook show the opposite.

100 or so items over three years is a success story compared to any other social network.

You need trust in the messager. If this person has religious objections ignoring that is ignoring reality.
The messager is the message
I think this sudden performance improvement of many services after the outage earlier today is indicative of how Google lost its way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416812

It's very hard for me to find a good explanation for why this isn't the normal performance.
- Move Fast! Break things!

- Sir, that was for software, not hardware.
> Russia has been the big bad wolf since 2016.

For a very good reason.
This situation reminds me more of like when Bruce Springsteen objected to Trump using the song Born in the USA. Springsteen is alive to object. Camus isn’t alive to object, but looking at his past thinking, it’s not far fetched to presume that he would object to use of his art and writing to reinforce the arguments of political figures with opposing viewpoints.
This is not the only highly questionable "seducing AI" ravaging China. I have heard of an AI there that pretends to be the voices of your ancestors, whom the user confides, requests advice, and purchases gifts to curry favors from their afterlife ancestors. That's a cultural exploit of their ancestor respecting society. That, the seducing girlfriend, and more could be another pandemic.
It's surprising to me (perhaps shouldn't be) how many people here are discussing this issue in the abstract using terms like "broadly harmless." To these commenters: are you unaware of the issue of child porn, revenge porn, stolen content* and videos of actual rapes being uploaded to Pornhub, and Pornhub making money off of this content?

If you are aware of this (the core issue), you should be grappling with these issues rather than ignoring them. If you're not aware of these issues (the core issue here & the motivation for the actions of the CC companies), please read[1] & build that complicated issue into your view of the topic before commenting. These "what's the harm?" comments are really stupid, to put it bluntly.

* and I don't care about DMCA & intellectual property, I'm talking about someone having their phone stolen & private pictures taken, or sending pics to a lover in confidence and having him humiliate her by sharing it online & telling friends and she can't get the pictures taken down. This isn't about IP it's about peoples' lives.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...
Which they also point out may be insufficient:

>By Mattermost’s estimates this new API will not be a reasonable solution for most use cases currently affected by the vulnerabilities. Parsing and resolving namespaces is an essential requirement for correctly implementing SAML, and even considering only a limited set of real-world SAML messages without strict namespacing requirements would be unlikely to allow for a secure implementation.
Companies that provide faulty software are "magically" exempt from liability – neat trick!