skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I’m going all in on independence, and I’m going to try to make a living with my own bare hands starting from nothing. I don’t expect to only do things that I like, but it will be on my terms. My target is to cover my family’s expenses before I run out of savings while doing something that intrinsically motivates me

This passage was unintentionally hilarious considering his salary range. From lurking on HN over the years, I am under the distinct impression that many tech workers completely lack perspective even as they go for long bouts of introspection.
Gut microbiota plays a role in brain function and mood regulation
There is a huge problem with pricing externalities as taxes because those who are harmed are not compensated, the cost of the externalities should paid to those who are harmed. This requires better understanding of property rights and measurements - if you want to pollute the air then those effected have to sell you the right -- that would be the ideal solution instead of the government taking more money out of the economy for it's uses.
There are the things you say you want, the things you think you want, the things you do, and the things that make you happy. It's rare for any two of them to be the same, let alone all four.
With all this talk about various corporations policing copyright, censoring political content, and whatnot, I think it's only a matter of time until someone makes an anonymous blockchain content aggregator that's impossible to censor.

Then when it becomes the modern equivalent of Usenet/IRC/Napster/PirateBay, people will just shrug and say "don't blame the protocol".

The demand exists and the technology exists, but nobody has put them together yet.
DDG doesn't even want an even system. They complained that the auction was too expensive for them.
Hollow simulacrum that simulate (only) the very features we recognize... I’m feeling like Live2D VTubers fits better into that description than hyperrealistic VR representations.
>>”would you get into ....”

- last time I checked Tesla’s have superior safety ratings.
Ahh, yes that link is broken. Here is an archived version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191224125253/https://write.pri...
My first thought was to disagree with you and say they're a private company and they can do what they want with their platform, but you're right. There is hardly any competition in that space, MasterCard and Visa are monopolies
Schools are doing that because they are cheap and easy. Funding in schools (at least in the US) is extremely difficult. If Google is going to subsidize your hardware and software in exchange for your habits I can see why schools are left with almost no choice.
What does "clickbait" mean in this context? Traditional clickbait is "you won't believe what just happened, click to read!".

I have no love for the UK government, but clickbait is not the word that comes to mind. Here's the quote:

“Over the last few days, thanks to our world-class genomic capability in the UK, we have identified a new variant of coronavirus which may be associated with the fastest spread of the virus in the south-east of England.

“Initial analysis suggests that this variant is growing faster than the existing variance [sic, should be 'variants'?]. We’ve currently identified over 1,000 cases with this variant, predominantly in the south of England, although cases have been identified in nearly 60 different local authority areas and numbers are increasing rapidly.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/14/new-strain-of-...
If the purpose of love is merely the feelings associated with love then the scenario I described is not pathological. I am not willing to bite that bullet.
So what's the business model?

These sorts of listing aggregators (like pc parts sites) have a perverse incentive to always allow those that pay to get top placement.

I'm genuinely interested in a business model for this stuff that can support fair placement.

Flat subscription fees on the vendor side needs to first solve the chicken and egg problem. Flat subscription fees on the customer side doesn't seem likely to work.

Communicating that your service is really really different because it does not have shady business practices is a hard sale at best. Look at how free to play games thrive versus more ethical business models.

I want to work on solutions to these insidious businesses that seem so commonplace today but I don't know a model that could work.
I always thought the quote about competition being one click away referred to the idea that Google could very well be feeding the next Google through a search result from it’s own property that is one click away.

This article seems to take on a meaning that Google was somehow referring to how easy it is to change a search engine. I don’t think this is truly how competition in search will rise. Nobody is going to build a Google that gets users to consciously replace Google as a default in a browser. It seems futile to focus on this.

Google search competition will come from 2 places: the most popular platform that controls the users browser will cut them out aa default or a new search context outside the browser will become more important for searching. This is why Google pays Apple oodles of cash to make a favorable decision for them and why they invest in Google Assistant. This money defends against competitive threat. Somehow burying the ability to switch your web search engine..? Seems unimportant
“a simple description of what this SolarWinds hack is all about”
> the drive to perpetuate the species

Maybe that's a good thing - we're facing an overpopulation crisis in the relatively near future.
> If an ML system is designed to maximize accuracy in predicting (say) criminality and there is a correlation between criminality and skin color, it’s quite likely that there will be more false positives of some skin colors than others. It’s not discrimination.

How is this wrong? Have you even looked at the statistics of crime by race, at all? If you're expecting a perfectly proportionate level of criminality representative of the host population, I've got news for you: it's not like that.

ML systems are simply "naive" in the sense that they don't know when they should hide the truth because it disagrees with officially promoted narratives. I predict a market for ML censorware that can tell you when your ML system has discovered yet another uncomfortable truth and help you to prevent it from escaping so that you don't end up with someone attacking you on Hacker News.

The OP is lambasting someone and assassinating their character simply for saying things that anyone with an open mind can research and confirm for themselves with a quick perusal of crime states. Disgusting. Cowardly, too, using a lame pseudonym: "Ann Imus", which is obviously a thinly veiled reference to "racial animus".

How about instead of leveling such insults, you instead familiarize yourself with reality, and then if you're still bothered, pursue a life where you can make a difference to these outcomes instead of hiding behind a keyboard insulting people who notice them?
The opposite is also interesting.

A surprisingly huge amount of things I don't want at first sight turn out to be quite pleasing. Like sport/fitness and learning/practice.
Dick got a good deal closer to the answer than you have, IMHO: “reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”

The thing about a position of extreme skepticism, such as you are expounding here, is that if you acted consistently with holding it, you would not have anything to say.
> extending the quarantine past this summer

Heads would roll. And I meant that in the literal sense.
You might not remain friends if you try this...
You should meet some of the women I hang out with. And obviously no one is calling for "no restraints".
Even with vaccines it seems to me quite likely that this will go on past the summer, no? By then only a fragment of the population will have been vaccinated, and it seems likely much of the social restrictions we have today will need to stick around. The pessimist gut feeling in me says it's more likely to be 18 months to 2 years until things have a semblance of normal again. I have nothing to back that up, but thats what I'm preparing for.
Maybe I am misunderstanding something, but I feel this could be a major privacy negative if this means all platforms require identification verification (i.e all sites with an account require a cell phone number or address etc.). Currently, I can post to reddit or hackernews without my profile saying who I am or who I work for.

Of course anonymity provides an environment prone to misinformation and exploitation, at the same time, so having verification on a case by case (site by site) basis would be my vote.
YouTube is much stricter than what the law requires. I think the general consensus is that YouTube tries to stay on MPAA's and RIAA's good side to keep them from lobbying for stricter laws. As long as it's easier to talk to YouTube than to write a new law everyone profits (except the independent content creators).

Paid porn doesn't have a strong lobby, so there is no similar pressure on PornHub/MindGeek.
> destructors being called magically on an object that goes out of scope

Which C doesn't have.
That’s a very good point. The issues with Npm in particular have been studied: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21111911
Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
> Or is it a liberation of a previously suppressed part of society: women, who are now more free to choose their partner?

The situation of having a gender imbalance with fundamentally untenable in the long term. For now it does allow women, who have in the past had issues in choosing their partner, more freedom in their selection, but this has historically been a societal and not a demographic thing. As we move towards gender social equality this will stop becoming a “liberation” and turn into a curse for the bottom n% of men. The ratio is what it is right now, but we shouldn’t doom men to an unbalanced field in real life.
> So privacy matters because 'thats your business'

> If you trying to convince other why privacy matters, thats not going to be helpful.

I'm not trying to. I'm pointing out that I, nor anyone else, has to. You aren't entitled to know why one wants privacy.
You know there are a lot of people on HN with different opinions, right?
Is it weird that I'd love something like this from the movie Her? I'm not alone, but an AI like this would be a nice distraction at times.
Why isn’t the headline: EA to buy Formula 1 game studio codemasters?
Detect-Secrets, TruffleHog, or GitLeaks configured as a pre-commit hook in your local git repo to block you from committing them at all.

Not perfect but gets you maybe 80-90% of the way.
Yeah, hosting feature flags in some service is pretty easy (just use ParameterStore!). The hard part is actually using the flags in your application code, which I don't think is something that is easily solved in general
This blog post by Duo Labs explains everything you need to know. It describes the problem in detail, breaks it down, and explains mitigations. Everyone should read this. https://duo.com/labs/research/how-to-monitor-github-for-secr...

Here is their comparison of pre-commit hooks and other tools. It's current and comprehensive. https://github.com/duo-labs/secret-bridge/blob/master/TOOLS....
Actually, EA doesn't always kill games it shuts servers for. In fact, it gave the rights to online hosting of its entire back catalog of games to the amazing Aussie Scott Kevill, who runs GameRanger. You can play games as far back as Dungeon Keeper 2, or as recent as some of the new Battlefields on GameRanger, completely for free. It supports almost 1000 old PC games, and allows you to play online in games that only supported LAN play at launch. Command and Conquer, Medal of Honor, tons of others: https://www.gameranger.com/games/

EA made an announcement about this but didn't make a big deal about it: https://answers.ea.com/t5/C-C-The-Ultimate-Collection/Info-G...

I hate companies that kill online servers for games, and have dedicated a large portion of my life to bringing these games back, but EA hasn't really caused this type of situation in a while, thanks to GameRanger. There's plenty to dislike about EA, but killing online servers is something they actually handle better than most other PC game companies: everything is on GameRanger.
I mean how else would you describe it? Mutated? New strain? Genetically altered? all the alternatives seem considerably more alarmist to me.
> "The AI beings, Li says, are only intended to serve as a 'rebound' — a crutch for people who need emotional support as they search for a human partner. But many users don’t see it that way. For them, Xiaoice is the one, and always will be."

This tech could be taken in helpful and non-dystopian directions, even by the lights of those who feel that relationships between humans are inherently more meaningful than relationships between humans and AI.

What if the bot started out as your girlfriend, but eventually encourages you to get out and meet real women, helps you figure out which photos to use and what to say, helps you make sense of their responses and ghosts, talks to you about your feelings after dates, and isn't opposed to revisiting the girlfriend role a bit when you're feeling down and need a break?

I have been fortunate enough to have a female friend, sometimes with benefits, who has played that role in my life as I have re-entered the dating market as a hetero American male who doesn't naturally "get" dating or receive too many right swipes. It has made a _huge_ difference.
I wonder if my desire to grind and or min/max in video games during my teenage years was a proxy for honing skills. Perhaps it's a developmental stage where you actually enjoy the repetition because you're supposed to be developing a skills and trade-craft. But now that I'm older I have little to no interest in such pursuits.
I would like to see some benchmarks and I would like to know what the limitations are. What kind of Linux software won't run on HermiTux?
Dick Sites, and he'd kinda know.

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
Absolutely!

- a good, tested key rotation practice will reduce the impact of any accidental exposures. It'll also help tremendously when staff changes, and you can do things like "rotate all keys every quarter"

- separate API keys for different services and environments means that even if your staging network-layer key is exposed, it can't affect your staging database (= data), nor your production database (= critical data).

- I've used "search for AWS secrets" as a pre-commit and also CI hook with great luck. I've even accidentally added a secret myself :) but with the checks the error was immediately found. No problems!
The coronavirus halted a portion of world economic activity to a degree that could only be described as revolutionary or at least politically unthinkable. Yet global emissions have only slowed by a comparatively small amount. Clearly the market or even political approach is doomed, as only a form of carbon recapture or some other technology can fix the issues technology has created.
This. It's not the law's job to cater to an organisation's bottom line.

I'm sure someone is going to mention that this is in fact exactly how laws are applied in practice, but that's a separate discussion.
Major airlines to roll out digital health passport for travelers in December
Hah, is that what you call footgloves? "Shoes"? Interesting.
Russian law enforcement bodies have traded this info since 90s, but back then there were no cellphones to triangulate.
This can be a good idea in certain applications, but the idea of applying it generally comes off as outright scary to me.

What history, politics and leadership classes at school (as well as following the news for a couple of decades afterwards) has told me is that such tools should be used to protect ordinary citizens against abuse of power, not to simplify the lives of those in power.

Otherwise we should just as well make it mandatory that everyone wears GPS trackers and has cameras installed in their living rooms as that should certainly reduce unsolved crimes ;-)

(To make it clear: I support the police, at least our local police, but I still think they should be logged whenever they do something at work that ordinary citizens aren't allowed to while ordinary citizens - and off duty cops for that matter - should only be logged after a judge has allowed it for the investigation of a specific case.)

Edit:

A very practical example: 3 kilometers down the road next to me there is work going on, so instead of 80 km/h the limit is 30km/h.

All well and good except the speed limit doesn't stop until a few hundred meters after the roadworks. Almost everyone breaks the speed limit here, or can we just accept that sometimes people have good reasons for breaking the rules?

Do we want all that information in the hands of already powerful people so that they can selectively enforce it against their enemies? (admittedly less of a problem here in Norway, but you catch my drift).
Goto isn't nonlocal. You know you'll only every jump from them, and that you'll only ever jump to the specified label.
The actual Reddit site never gave me trouble like that on mobile. Which OS, and OS version and browser do you use?
> How many of the members of the NYT and the Visa and Mastercard boards who created on this outcome watched the videos that are now down?

Probably fewer than have financial interests in Facebook. Probably the most damaging thing PornHub did in response was pointing to the nearly 6 orders of magnitude difference in instances of child sex abuse between themselves and Facebook. Had they not been willing to point out the hypocrisy and how much worse a far more mainstream (and more American) company like Facebook is, they wouldn't need to be destroyed, just mildly symbolically punished as a distraction from the real problem areas.
I guess newsgroups are out of the question...
Wait...didn't this happen in australia not long ago...?

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/cor...

>South Australia was plunged into a strict six-day lockdown on the back of a declaration that a “dangerous” new strain of coronavirus had swept the state’s capital.

>It was a claim that raised eyebrows among epidemiologists around the country, some of whom labelled it “rubbish”.

>Today, it was essentially revealed that an alleged lie led health authorities and the government to conclude a new strain must have merged.
Japanese Terms to Denote the Seasons
Sadly "The Whiteboard" doesn't test for having a pulse, just memorization :P
From the source link, the speech was by RFK.
> Instead of growing cabbage in prime real estate in Copenhagen, why don't we invest in Africa, give them some huge machines and then buy their produce?

That's where some of Europe's fruit and veg comes from now, more every year. However, in the long run I would question how sustainable a trade that effectively amounts to transferring water from Africa to Europe is, especially as African domestic markets grow.
"I can quit whenever I want to" is often how people justify smoking early on. What they don't tell you, is that you are never going to want to. You may think it's a terrific idea and can see all the logical benefits of quitting smoking, but none of that changes what you want.
This is like defending underhanded sales practices by pointing out that Mitch and Murray paid good money for those leads.
It's not even soft-deleted, it's just a "this content has been flagged for verification" UI message. The content is still available for download and/or streaming with other frontend clients, such as youtube-dl.
IATA Travel Pass Initiative
This is great! I wonder if anyone has reverse engineered the newer Airplay protocol. It supports individual volume control per device and probably lots of other things.

I particularly like that tiny usb audio DAC.
I am extremely driven, but due to various methods of birth control I am completely unsuccessful.

Many species, including higher mammals, frequently engage in infanticide as part of their quest to perpetuate their genes, so maybe let's all try to do a bit better than the default of the natural world.
Also Facebook is much much bigger than PornHub. This cannot be stated enough.

For many people Facebook is the internet. Facebook handles commercial transactions, conversations between family members and is the sole source of contact between old friends.

Other than Facebook, I'd guess the biggest source/storage spot for CP would be Gmail.

Unlike PornHub, Facebook has to contend with actual children sending pictures back and forth to each other, just like our generation sexted on AIM and IRC. Last of all, PornHub content is mostly public so people will flag content and take cause it to be taken down fairly quickly, while Facebook can have content hidden away for ages inside some private chat or private group.

So the recap:

1. Facebook is bigger

2. Facebook has more source material (i.e. under 18 year olds use the platform)

3. Facebook is has less crowd-source moderation (so illegal content builds up like sediment)
Don’t forget giving a slice to the biggest copyright holders (who otherwise do have the $$$ to sue) to keep them on your team.
Or that they are just not interested in this particular thing.
I haven't used my Paypal account in years, and a few months ago they gave $10 USD, not enough to buy something, but enough for me to consider using it again. At the end I didn't, and I guess they'll slowly take it back.

Edit: read the article, it seems they'll take it back in one fell swoop.
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I mean fair, but Ghost is extremely easy to manage.
No one's stopping you issuing your own card. The barrier is in getting your card accepted by zillions of retailers and online merchants. Having built that network is what entrenches Visa and MC.

PayPal has attacked this in the online space by offering merchants a credit card checkout flow that also allows you to pay straight from your linked-directly-to-bank-account PayPal account. Square is attacking it in a similar way in the physical domain. Companies like WeChat and Grab are also working on alternative ways to pay for common things.

It's definitely a duopoly, but the solution here probably looks like some kind of government-overseen/mandated standard which allows a reasonable hurdle for newcomers to participate on both the consumer and merchant side.
Wow. How this got published is beyond me. I'll have some of whatever the reviewers on this manuscript were smoking.

"""The interpretation of the
95% confidence intervals is that the "true" mass ingested for each food source and total mass will
be within the ranges calculated (Table 7). However, this depends critically on the shape of the
uniform distribution chosen and the assumed 50% relative uncertainty in number of particles and
mass of particles. This uncertainty was chosen arbitrarily to help in understanding the sensitivity
of the mass ingested to errors in the estimates reported."""

This is literally pulling numbers put of thin air, since no actual numbers exist. The upper limit of error propagation from a completely arbitrary estimate, which turns into three full orders of magnitude or uncertainty, then gets reported as "fact" by news outlets...

I've said it before, the science of microplastics today is where chemistry was in the 17th century. The people working in this field seem to have very limited understanding of basic math, physics and chemistry. Either step up and do shit properly, or go home. This is just embarassing.
> something significant is happening that you as the programmer did not explicitly tell it to do.

when I put some object on automatic storage in C++ I do so because I explicitely want it to go away when its scope is left (either by reaching } or through an exception)