skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty hard to hide the fossil fuel-burning power plant generating your PoW. If your local government or citizens won't stop you from polluting the environment, other governments can impose retaliatory tariffs or even sanctions on your government, and citizens of other countries can boycott your country's goods and services. Make the financial penalties for tolerating fossil fuel-burning PoW steep enough, and your power plant gets shut down.
Or that exposure to a fetus for prolonged periods of time has a measurable effect. You can reliably tell the sex of a fetus with a mother's blood test a couple months after conception.

I still think it's a bit unlikely that there's a meaningful connection to be had there, but I wouldn't be totally shocked if I were proven wrong.
I just don't understand why after a decade bitcoin, a simple concept, is still so divisive amongst - of all places - here in the tech community?

I just don't get what the problem is.
Maybe widespread but it was already pretty wide open before there was a gap for 4chan to even exist.
"I don't need to protect my privacy because they already know everything about me" is a form of privacy nihilism. You still have plenty of privacy worth protecting
how is your experience using agile modelling ?
> I'm not arguing than an intelligent user can't get rid of security issues. I'm saying a product that uses passwordless login still has security issues.

Like what? you keep saying "still has security issues", but you don't give any real world examples. Just saying "still has security issues" is not a good argument.

> You first.

Lots of companies use this method in the real world, Slack, Medium, Freetrade, Substack, Monzo (a bank) and many more.

If a bank and a stock trading app is comfortable using this method, I am sure they are comfortable with the security of this method.

In addition, I already have given examples in this thread which you willingly choose to ignore.

Your turn, start with this:

> Forwarding email increases risk of being hacked. They only have to get one of the emails to get into my account.

Proof?
I'm sure they will spend their lives wishing that they could go back in time and do so.

However, it's impossible to see every risk that comes the way of your loved ones.
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Saasify, but they want 20% of your business

I don't think this model works, as small indie devs trying to do SaaS won't pay well enough and drown you in support and anything more than a mid company trying to do SaaS will reimplement their own (badly but good enough) in a month.

Saasify with a few millions funding and a hundreds of sales could do ok, but investors are throwing money on other things these days.
Options aren't binary. There are different levels of options access. Not all options are as dangerous as others. Buying calls or puts is pretty safe (by safe I don't mean you won't lose your money, just that your downside is limited to the initial cost).
Search is also largely read-only. The advantage Wikipedia has is that its traffic overwhelming goes to the head of the page distribution, so simple caching solutions work very well. Google has a pretty extreme long-tail distribution (~15% of daily queries have never been seen before), and so needs to do a lot of computation per query.
This is a great summary, and HNers who knee-jerk hate crypto and say it's worthless should especially give it a read. It's becoming clearer that more and more finance is going to move to blockchain rails. IMO this is the future, and yes I have put my money where my mouth is on that opinion.
i.reddit.com used to work but it's mostly gone now too.
That’s where spray and pray works best, because the initial costs are so low.
Kind of close with TokenSets[0] managing Mirror[1] backed assets.

Things like the DeFi Pulse Index[2][3] I believe are automatically re-balanced by evaluating the weights on the third week of the month and then applied the first business day of the following month. I'm not sure if a human is involved?

[0] https://www.tokensets.com/portfolio/dpi

[1] https://mirror.finance/

[2] https://www.tokensets.com/portfolio/dpi

[3] https://www.pulse.inc/
Yes, more directly I'd say it's the ability to create an event which would necessitate the ability to carry a baby to term.
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One problem I know -- different versions. They actually do have a small amount of third_party libs, but due to "diamond dependency" problem, they are accepting only only one single version of that dependency. And updating that dependency is a huge undertaking (even for small security bugfixes), so those libs are usually outdated.

Kinda similar to OS kernel organization: monolith vs. microkernel.
I vehemently disagree with your premise. Lisp and its ecosystem have been improving through thousands of hours of volunteer work. The Lisp ecosystem is VERY different than it was 15 years ago and is MUCH better. But the standard for what counts as good, in my opinion, has also increased.

I’ve not and never been burned by Common Lisp. I don’t know how you could be burned by it either. I can see how canceling Python 2 could burn someone, but I don’t see how an evergreen standard like that of Common Lisp could. I’m not hurting by there not being a new standard. Functionality is de facto standardized just fine and we live with it just fine. Lisp is like the only language with a useful web-accessible standard. If you ask a Lisper how frequently they visit Stack Overflow or random tutorial websites, you’ll find it’s much less than others.

Lisp isn’t a lost cause. It has outlived just about every other thing out there. It just doesn’t outlive these other things with tons of fervent enthusiasm.
Trying to use Reddit without the app is maddening. I am aware of old.reddit.com- but it is so annoying to have to change 'www' to 'old' every time I want to read something. On IOS/Safari, visiting any Reddit page results in a full page prompt to use the stupid app. No, I don't want to use the app right now, which is why I'm using Safari! If reddit wants to do anything for their future, they should address these basic usability issues.
> I can't think of a major, user-driven[1] site that's more actively hostile to being used than Reddit.

Don't visit Stack Overflow
> I don't think that Facebook/Google developers are foolish or incompetent.

Nobody in this thread is saying that. Parent to you said:

> they could just stop being absurd instead [of building more DCs]

implying FB could build fewer DCs by scaling down some of their per-page complexity/"absurdity". Basically saying their needs are artificial or borne of requirements that aren't.

> conglomerate entities are fundamentally opposed to my right to privacy

That's a common view, but it's not on topic to this thread. This thread is mostly about the tech itself and how WikiMedia scales versus how the bigger techs scale. It has an interesting diversion into some of the reasons why their scaling needs are different.

You could instead continue the thread stating that they could save a lot of money and complexity while also tearing down some of their reputation for being slow and privacy-hostile by removing some of the very features these DCs support (perhaps) without ruining the net bottom line.

This continues the thread and allows the conversation to continue to what the ROI actually is on the sort of complexity that benefits the company but not the user.
> I'd rather use my LibreOffice HTML template and simple PHP controller

Could you tell me more about this? I've had a similar idea but the HTML that LibreOffice generates is very gross
(Posting from Throw Away to not dox my regular account.)

I used to work for AMD some years ago[1]. At that time, there was no "woke" culture there. There was no discrimination that I could see. No one made a fuss about someone being from a minority and there were multiple people, not of the same gender, in my reporting hierarchy. No one ever spoke about that and we were busy with very interesting technical problems. So, if she were the CEO at the time when I was working for them, I'd probably have always regarded her with immense respect and it wouldn't even occur to me to bring gender into it.

1: Based on an opinion and experience from a few years ago, I'd have happily recommended them as a good employer. I do not know how it is now (because I haven't stayed in touch with the folks from there).
What happens when we get into wars over weird minerals no one has heard of, or toxic chemicals leach from solar panels into drinking water? It seems there are harsh tradeoffs in any direction. Your questions are good (better than mine), but I think people are working hard on them with new designs. I like nuclear because it is low waste and seems more amenable to longer term planning. It also seems easier to defend and less reliant on trading for a vast array of minerals...and it seems we have better solutions for what we are going to do with the waste.
... feeds high res biometric data of your face to the highest bidder.
For the personal accountability perspective, I would say it applies even more, since there are no requirements at all for walking into a casino and burning up $100k, yet we don't blame the casinos, we blame the person burning the money.

For the perspective that Robinhood owns his risk somehow, from not following their suitability guidelines, I'm not familiar with any of this so can't speak about it. Naively reading this, it appears to be extremely open ended, requiring a consistent internal process for approval, along with a warning, rather than anything specific.
Centralized opaque moderation ruins every large subreddit. It's too bad because reddit could be 10x more interesting if it were more open. Network effects can only take you so far -- without real user-centric leadership, reddit will go the way of tumblr/digg in the next five years.
Yes, the skepticism has to end somewhere. But when someone is facing years, or life, in prison, that skepticism absolutely should not end before it validates the primary evidence of guilt, and the tools used to purportedly analyze that evidence.

If you can't validate the equipment used to analyze the DNA, gunshot residue, or other scientific evidence, then that evidence should not be allowed in court, because that's prima facie reasonable doubt.
I'm not sure what you mean. What numbers would you call realistic?
Nobody here is saying that discrimination isn't wrong. But why that discrimination is wrong matters. In the west, you can appeal to notions of individual self-determination: "We shouldn't care about peoples' consenting sexual conduct." Those rationales have little meaning in Asian or African societies. That's why the fact that sexual orientation is not a choice people make one day, but is instead something they are born with, is critical to point out.

I’m not “armchair designing” anything. I’m from a Muslim country that does not accept western notions of individualism or sexual permissiveness. So it’s important that, even then, LGBT rights have a solid justification in the fact that it’s biology, not choice. That’s something you can educate people about and improve things. Invoking fallacious hypotheticals like “what if sexual orientation was a choice”—which is the exact opposite of what LGBT advocates believe to be true—undermines that. Instead, it seems like a pretext for universalizing western sexual morality more broadly. That’s imperious—there is no reason why protecting LGBT rights should require embracing western ideas about sexual morality directed to voluntary choices. And ultimately, it’s actively harmful for the hundreds of millions of LGBT people who live outside the west.
I think the lawsuit has more to do with RH accidentally showing a debt of 700k than actually letting people lose 700k on margin.

It will be settled out of court.
The problem is when the subreddit content itself becomes ads, although they may have sufficient time to milk it while people figure it out and/or don’t have a better alternative
> If reddit wants to do anything for their future, they should address these basic usability issues.

They did: they decided they are their future.
I have been using it for a year. No problems so far, and found it to be really flexible
Facebook also has a similar SLA. I've heard that at one point in their architecture (~2010), they literally stored the user's own writes in memcached and then merged them back into the page when rendered. You would see a page consistent with your actions, but if you logged into Facebook as any of your friends your updates might not show up until replication lag passed.
Big stretched open butthole. Not sure if you need the warning but I’m commenting in case anyone would prefer not to see it despite their curiosity.

Sorry to ruin the fun y’all but there’s images I won’t even mention that I can’t unsee and make me feel seriously ill when I do see them. I don’t want anyone else to feel that way without warning.
Forward to all your indian uncles
Tangent but probably related: it really bugs me that ceddit and removeddit both no longer function, and I suspect reddit deliberately changed its API to nuke that window into reddit's censorship.
Ask HN: What would business process workflow tools look like in 2021?
By "business process workflows" I'm referring to things like: - I need to request vacation time, and my supervisor needs to approve it, and the request/approval record needs to be kept - This contract needs to be reviewed by me, then my division leader, then the law department, then we wait for the other company to sign it, and finally the President signs it - I need to submit a reimbursement request. A clerk will review it for completion, then pass it on to a financial analyst, who passes it on to....
And we've all seen workflows that have a few caveats (if this person doesn't approve, then this procedure happens) or a single point of failure (someone is out of the office for a week so it doesn't move).

Many software applications have workflow designers built in - some basic, some advanced, but they're often specific to that application. I'm wondering:

a) Do you use a generic workflow tool that you like? b) If you were to design a generic workflow tool today, what would it look like?
Does it provide LDAP/Kerberos or something like that? I am looking for a roaming sign-in solution for Ubuntu machines.
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"What's Opera Doc?"

Deserves the best remaster, IMHO
HN ain't that big
Why couldn't it? There's a lot of hormones (and other things) involved in pregnancy, right? Wouldn't some of these cause lasting effects?
Those usability issues are intentional dark patterns. The web site is supposed to suck to drive app usage where they can mine more detailed user data.
To add data on the Rust side:

https://github.com/rust-fuzz/trophy-case

there are a few Rust ASN implementations. They've been caught running out of memory and having arithmetic overflows, but no segfaults or use-after-frees. Rust doesn't prevent all problems, but things that slip through tend to be less severe.
I’m right there with you, but it can’t be “usability” oversight, can it? It’s so bad.

I have to assume it’s a very deliberate effort based on some business metric that the risk of losing people from the site is less than the profit gained from people on the app.
i thought bitcoin was pretty bad for the environment and tesla was trying to be good guy environment ? or did i get it all wrong?
The amount of work doesn’t seem to be the limiting factor. Rewriting large amounts of C code into Rust is a lot of work too but that doesn’t stop Rust justice warriors from doing that.
They've straight up started banning certain subreddits from the mobile website, forcing you to download the app. As I write this, I just noticed it was an A/B test and I'm able to go on the subreddit in question again ... Argh!
There is no standard in the Python community for versioning. From this, a lot of projects just never constrained their versions while a lot of other projects assume semver when specifying their version constraints, both wrong.

Then there is the problem of there not being a standard dependency management system. Your `setup.py` can specify version constraints. You either over-constrain in there or have to add a whole separate process for locking your constraint.

- You could use `pip-compile` to get a platform-specific locking of constraints, requiring you to run this for every platform and python version you support. At least, since you duplicate `setup.py` into a `requirements.in`, you can override transitive dependencies.

- You could use `pipenv` and just capture what you happened to install, from constraints or directly, from a specific machine

- You could use Poetry which solves most of these problems except they've put their heads in the sand regarding how bad versioning is within the Python ecosystem and refuse to support overriding transitive dependencies despite being modeled off of Rust's Cargo which does support it despite the Rust ecosystem being good with versioning [1]

[1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697
>> I wonder if it's possible to get the job applicants to evaluate each other?

I can't tell if this is the stupidest idea or brilliant.

On one hand you're saying "take a bunch of people we don't know are qualified to work here and empower them to make our hiring decisions" which sounds dumb.

But on the other hand, if people chosen through this process do well, you should go back and hire those who "hired" them as managers
:)
That's a different semantic definition of human nature, and, as an aside, is likely just not accurate. Close relative primates don't murder and rape other primates within their own social group. Rape is a strategy of desperation for males who can't get any and are likely outcasts from an effective group. Social cohesion is really important for survival. There may be coups to be the top dog, but intra community killing is very rare.
If you’re ok with an app that’s not Reddit (so no ads), try Apollo.
I'd suggest making it very clear in your docs whose data you're managing, and (assuming it's all the customer's and you don't lay claims to it) how would portability work. I wouldn't want to use this without a very clear understanding of what I'm locking my customer base into.

Are you offering any security benefits?

What security is there against malicious insider threat? (Eg can you / people at Clerk impersonate any of my customers on demand? Is there auditing/accountability for such activity?

Is this something that sites with crappy roll-your-own user management would be advised to migrate towards, and if so why?
Not even in the same ballpark. Humans actually need trace amounts of copper. Regulations for safe copper levels are almost 100 times that of lead.

All pipe materials are poison if enough is ingested, lead is however is toxic in extremely low amounts, while copper is actually needed in low amounts. You think PVC is better?
Huh, that’s an interesting idea but it seems to only address one form of inequality. Clearly the incentives are perverse. If there are more cases brought than the system can handle then this just sounds like a band aid at best.

The real issue is why are there so many cases?
I just spent the weekend re-reading Virtual Light & Idoru, Gibson's Bridge series, and I think both books mentioned this theory that the most effective way to ask if anyone's seen a person is to try to identify what celebrity a person looks like, & go around asking if anyone had seen a John Malkovich looking dude around the area, or who-have-you. Both books mention that there is a part of the brain literally trained on looking for/at celebrities, special purpose function for it, and declaring that it's the most likely system to register for most people, our common node/vibration where we'll find matches.

Kind of getting a weird celebrity-recognition-part-of-the-brain vibe of that off this story? Except it's AI's dreaming instead of human people?
Which would be fine if the app wasn’t garbage. Constant bugs with data loading and swipes, and no way to disable all the “suggested” bs (I get why you can’t disable promoted items, but the rest should be removable).
Disagree. I only use old on mobile and vastly prefer the information density.

I'm perfectly happy to zoom in. ZUI beats low density mobile design by a mile.
How is it mostly gone? It looks like its working when I try it. The only thing that doesn't seem to work are videos hosted on reddit (v.redd.it)
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Do you mean Quickdocs? That was a passion project of someone who decided to stop maintaining it. It’s open source and can regenerate docs to be up-to-date. The author simply decided he doesn’t want to maintain it anymore due to other life/health circumstances.

Quicklisp has nothing to do with documentation. That’s a distribution mechanism.
This is a very reductionist assessment of the thread and glosses over one important detail I said here:

> The choice is yours to reimplement this authentication system, but in terms of "a snap of the finger away", You can do that, That is all.

It doesn't matter if it's a 3rd party, it is still an option that exists "a snap of the finger away", which was my response to that comment, this type of system can be done in an hour, 3rd party or library.

But if you want to speed things up, then there's your solution.

That was the point, but go ahead and try and reduce and spin this to your own interpretation.
I'm not a kernel dev, or anything remotely close to it, but it seems to me that purely nonvolatile memory would have the unhappy side effect of not being able to just reboot the machine when things aren't running quite right. It's amazing how often this fixes problems, even in 2021.
All the while at reddit hq: "See! The numbers don't lie, people like using the avatars."
I have never met a gay men who I could say is a masculine in the same way straight men are. There is always something a bit off even in the most straight passing gays. So my anecdote cancels yours and the theory stands.
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I am not a fan of the changes being made and I’ve been using Reddit less and less for casual browsing as a result. However, I do the opposite when I’m looking for an answer to something specific. I find myself using “site:reddit.com” all the time when doing Google searches since the resulting discussions often have way more context, alternate suggestions, etc. than almost any other site I’ve found.
yeah, 40% of global electricity is from coal, which is one of the biggest sources of CO2.
To everyone remarking about privacy, the app does say that the photo won't be sent anywhere. I wonder if everything is done on-device.
1) No

2) Kinda maybe https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/52167/since-ther...
Fast people are harder to kill. Many short and fast people are fearsome opponents in karate kumite for example. Strong and big people are often also slow... but it depends on the motivation. Everybody can be killed in a lot of ways, sadly.
I did not realize how inconsistent python versioning is, or that compatible release (`~=`) doesn't use the semver way. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#compatible-release
teddit.net is slightly better
Every company has incidents of customer support nightmares, But only Google ends up at the top of HN on a monthly basis.
Same here, Reminded me of a youtube parody "the closed cafe - so exclusive it's closed all day"
R&D/manufacturing of consumer facing sensors, in my case.