skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a huge difference between "policing of social norms" and equal rule of law for all regardless of who they choose to have sex with.

Maybe you can argue that it's fine for someone to choose not to be friends with gay people but it shouldn't be OK for the government withhold rights/law/healthcare/social security/education/electricity/water/etc because of it. Who cares if it's genetics or a choice.
I think I would dispute the characterization of this as pseudo-scientific. The analogue balloon risk task is well validated, if in some ways poorly understood. That is, while standard economic risk models don't map onto it very well, it does correlate fairly substantially with real-world risky behaviors (so again, not economic risk where there is variance of outcomes, but more like the kind of risk taking where there are predictably bad outcomes, like trying heroin).

On the other hand, the use of these measures by big corps very well might be pseudo-scientific. I generally object to psychometrics being applied to prospective employees; it feels very dystopian to me. I also know that these measures require more subtle interpretation--and caution--than you're likely to get from anyone in HR, especially when we are talking about making inferences about individuals rather than groups of individuals.
I had a 'fun' experience along these lines with health insurance and medical bills a couple years ago. I can confirm that in our case at least, /every/ error we found was not in our favor, and took usually about an hour on the phone to get fixed.

The somewhat-less-malicious interpretation is that the companies have a strong incentive to detect + fix errors that cost them money. Meanwhile, consumers are a) non-centralized, uncoordinated, and often unaware of errors, and b) have no way to fix systemic issues that impact them. And the companies therefore have no /real/ incentive to fix systemic problems. It is literally more profitable to fix the bills of the few people who complain, as they still make money on the remainder who don't notice the errors in the first place.

(on edit; exactly what the other comment one subthread over said. :P )
I think there's also a fair question of "ownership of damages" here - cities get sold water treatment management systems and want them online as cheaply as possible - city councils end up owning the mistakes in misconfiguration but companies selling the systems are incentivized to make those default bad configurations possible - even while, in bold lettering, mentioning that you should not use the default authentication.

Cell towers are a really integral part of carrier's business - I'm not certain whether most are owned by providers or other companies, but either way the folks that put the tower up owe the customer (be it a phone user, a phone provider or some subcontactor of the provider) an explanation and pay the costs of bad configuration... I'd also assume that making sure these towers stay up is someone's fulltime job (likely multiple people) - while there won't be an employee constantly monitoring city water systems since it would take so little of a single person's time.
After thinking about it a bit, I don't see things that way. Gmail is not the problem as far as I'm concerned. Nor Chrome, etc. The problem from my pov is that the only alternative to Apple phones are Androids, and Android is biased towards the whole Google ecosystem. That's where the monopolistic feeling comes from for me, and if I was in charge of antitrust efforts, Android is what I would want to force them to spin off. Not sure with or without Google Maps, because that's the other thing that I really need and don't feel like there is a substitute.
> The only thing surprising about this is that we don't hear about it tenfold more.

If you're someone who stands to gain from disrupting a nation's infrastructure... you don't tip your hand until it most benefits you.

If it really is the case that large parts of the infrastructure are very unsecure, expect to hear about it all at once, instead of little by little.
No. It entirely relies on the guarantee that you can spend the Bitcoin transactions. Secure in that knowledge, it doesn't have to for every small transaction.
> conversion therapy isn’t inherently a bad thing, it’s only bad in worlds where it doesn’t work, like the real world

I think large sections of the gay community would disagree. Many gay people view homosexuality as a trait with intrinsic value (this is the whole point of pride).

A similar dynamic plays out in the deaf community, where there is a proven equivalent of conversion therapy, namely cochlear implants. Cochlear implants are very controversial in the deaf community. Part of this is because it's cochlear implants don't yet fully replicate normal hearing, but there are many objections to the very purpose of cochlear implants and in that sense, perfect cochlear implants would be even worse. Certain segments of the community liken cochlear implants to cultural genocide.
Thank you for this write up. Mostly agree - been using Common Lisp seriously (almost every day as part of my work). At our company almost all NEW back end work is done in Common Lisp as the first choice.

FWIW, in my computing career there have been two crucial pivot points. Exposure to and programming and using Unix (SunOS/HP-UX and later Linux) and its powerful mode of working was the first epiphany. And later Common Lisp, and the degree of freedom it enables in expression of code and ideas, as well as its speed and interactivity model: REPL/SLY, EMACS etc. I have become a much better programmer because of my exposure to this mode of working.

When I was first starting though, my frustration with the language was large, and it was compounded with learning Emacs (which I love and curse at on a daily basis). Libraries seemed poorly and very inadequately documented for someone new to the language, especially compared to Python for example. But the newish culture of hosting open source projects in Github is improving and READMEs/project descriptions are getting better. And, doc strings are in the code themselves, mostly...

Common Lisp gets criticized for not changing. Sometimes it can be a bit verbose (setf (gethash mykey my-hash-table) my-value). A lot of programmers will instantly gravitate to "that's a lot of words to set a value in a hash table". But it really isn't the problem it turns out to be in real life because you learn to read it pretty damn quick, and you save key strokes elsewhere (for example using loop or CLOS). So it balances out. However, I have come to learn that having a rock underneath that has no problem running years old code is a HUGE benefit. Things generally continue to work with the updated compilers and that reduces the cost to maintain the code base. I trust the language to stay solid underneath. You can extend it, but you generally don't need to use reader macros and other features to solve most problems. So while the world is changing around you, you aren't updating your python2 to python3. Instead you can stay focused on app level changes.
If UnicornAuthorization manages ten billion credentials, one breach could kill the company... and severely wound every single customer.

If JaneService manages ten thousand credentials and has a breach, it could put JaneService out of business, but it won't affect MonicaSoft.
yeah, that'd be the the one. Not too sure if mkdocs material is the best theme to go with for a blog, though.

Here's a site using it: https://docs.libretro.com/
You mean true vaccine claims that vaccine mega corps dont want shared on mega corp social media. Nytimes hates free speech. Change my mind.
Another fine article by Derek Lowe:

> The adenoviruses have long been used as tools in molecular biology, since they have plenty of room to carry a modified DNA payload, show no tendencies to integrate DNA into the host genomes, and can infect both dividing and nondividing cells. But as those figures just cited show, a downside of using them as human therapies is that many people may well already have antibodies to your viral vector tool right at the start, which will surely knock down its effectiveness. For this reason, there has been a long-running search for rare and unusual Ad forms to use as platforms, which explains why you see J&J and Gamaleya using Ad26, Oxford/AZ using a virus from chimpanzees that’s not in the human population, ReiThera using a gorilla adenovirus, etc. And it’s also why people wonder about CanSino’s efficacy in general, since they stayed with Ad5.
If my vague memories of high school chemistry serve me correctly, then 11,100 ppm is 0.2775M, which would have a pH of about 13.4. That's definitely not something I'd want to drink.
Okay now add billing to this and rocket to a $1B+ valuation.
> As rudimentary as it may seem now — both users needed a machine to type messages back and forth on what was called TTY, Telecommunications Device for the Deaf

"TTY" and "TDD" are not the same thing

> "My father never stopped advocating for TTY"

Again.

> Taylor advocated for a national operator relay system for the deaf to allow them to communicate with people who were not deaf and did not have a TTY machine

Again.

etc. The article does not in fact "make that clear".
The beauty of voting software is that you don't have to verify the code if you hold the vote correctly. If the software provides a voter verifiable paper trail, the voter can verify their vote before turning it in.

The county can then verify the software by manually counting a random selection of paper votes to see if they match the software. If they do, then the software is correct, otherwise it is not. You then have a full by-hand recount and tell the vendor to fix their software.
I feel the same: The upper tier pricing is a bit aggressive even if free 5000 MAUs is a good "hook" (more than sufficient for most upstarts).

I've been meaning to evaluate keycloak.org and userbase.com, two radically different open source user management layers. Especially, userbase which has a relatively more attractive pricing for their hosted option.

Besides, user management is something I'd like to rid if I can, and instead rely on anonymous / decoupled (passwordless?) identity layers like human-id.org and gazepass.com

Cloudflare's OPAQUE is another enticing (zero-password) tangent in all of this, but they warn folks to not build identity systems using it, yet.
Bitcoin (still) isn't worth that much compared to gold : gold's (above ground) reserves are around 12T$, while Bitcoin's market cap is (currently) 0.6T$.
I like to imagine we are the only intelligent life in the whole universe sometimes. It's highly unlikely, but it isn't impossible. Given that possibility, we certainly aren't great at looking after what might be the most significant species on that entire map.
I didn't get the impression that he was trying to subtly accuse any reporters of being directly involved in anything like that, but if the incentives of modern journalism align to create the same outcome where inconvenient status-quo-doubters are silenced, why does it matter how we got there?
If people changed their minds in the face of the science, we'd have been putting real work into decarbonization since 10 years ago at least.
Yeah this narrative is played out. Yes bitcoin uses a lot of energy. Almost certainly less than the things it is competing against. And over time it has the potential to decrease that consumption drastically with other protocols, an option traditional banking doesn't possess.

Bitcoin is already the greenest form of finance and will get much cleaner in the future.
Sadly, when you consider the available evidence, Corporal Bubba isn’t too far from the truth. I say that as someone whose Dad is a retired police officer and who spent most of his youth in a very small town with sub-1200 people.
What are all the horizontal bands?
Bit of an aside, but it's so wild that we label people as "environmentalists" and that anyone would place themselves NOT in that group.

It seems like 100% of people should want air which is non-toxic, water which is non-toxic and food which is non-toxic.

But of course, being an "abolitionist" was a political group in the 1800s but now it's just assumed that 100% of people are anti-slavery, so maybe the optimistic take is that "environmentalist" will undergo the same transformation as "abolitionist".
Only relevant for large corporates where the technology decisioning time scales can support this. For startup environments I would consider agile architecture/modeling more relevant and useful.

check out : http://agilemodeling.com
That looks like an Akamai error
> Postgres on Virtual Machines: The "Old" Standard

That’s “old”? What’s Postgres on my Hetzner box then - “prehistoric”? Because it works great for me.
Dup of this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26070262
It shouldn't be considered conspiracy theory that, technically speaking, many things in our nation are an insecure joke, including our system of voting.
Toronto approves program to increase access to affordable high-speed internet
Hey all - looks like there's a lot of confusion on the pricing model here. That's our fault, sorry!

The free plan does not include 2-step verification, and that was the reason for the increase in the paid plan.

We'd love some feedback on how you'd like to see the free plan constructed. What would be most helpful for getting you started with Clerk?
FCAS – Fundamental Crypto Asset Score
Care to share the service/company?
Claiming that "an indefinite suspension" is just a type of temporary suspension and different from a ban will have you laughed out of any actual court.
By Carnot's theorem an ideal engine will convert convert 1J heat into less than 1J of work and this process is invertible.

So as a corollary you can transfer 1J of heat using less than 1J of work. Since the temperature difference is so large the theoretical limit is really close to 1J of work though.
Another aspect is TDS creep. The membrane only reaches the specified rejection rate after a few minutes of use. If they under sink RO system is used frequently for small amounts of water it can cause frequent cycling of the RO system which will reduce the water quality produced.

My RO system can take the 450 TDS tap water down to about 30 under my normal use. If I close off the tank and run the water for about 10 minutes it will get down to about 20.
Water seems like a really weird system to sabotage though - power can bring businesses offline in a serious way but a city reservoir likely isn't supplying any businesses with a real need of water for any sorts of industrial needs... It's more of an inconvenience. Messing with chemical balances in particular seems like a prank or someone really twisted trying to give a bunch of folks long term health complications.
"You have to pay us in some cases" is not the same as "free", no matter how you try to weasel it.
Algebraic data types[0], compile-time thread safety guarantees[1], async/await on embedded[2], type inference that can work backwards[3], blocks are expressions so you can return values from if statements[4], returning from while(true) loops[5], and iterators[6] that don't kill performance[7].

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch06-01-defining-an-enum.html...

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch16-04-extensible-concurrenc...

[2]: https://lights0123.com/blog/2020/07/25/async-await-for-avr-w...

[3]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-02-data-types.html#data-...

[4]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch06-02-match.html#the-match-...

[5]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-05-control-flow.html#ret...

[6]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch13-02-iterators.html

[7]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch13-04-performance.html
A file is more than simply a unit or collection of data in a local hierarchy. It's an abstraction that supports the copying, exchange and even possession of data. How is one supposed to share part of a database with another system or user without ultimately resorting to the file metaphor?
Just use incognito mode.
You said: I am not finding anything insightful from any political discussion online. Is it just me?

No it is not just you.

You asked: What do you think is the biggest reason for the current condition?

I believe the single-greatest contributor to the current condition is the way in which wholesale dehumanization of "the other" has been utterly normalized.

My opinion is that this type of Political Puritanism (seriously afflicting both sides of the political spectrum) is product of a "win-at-any-cost" mentality.
Internet-accessble industrial control systems have been a problem for many years now. It's a documented issue but it's difficult to fix for a variety of reasons:

1. Difficult to identify the owner: a lot of the devices are on mobile networks that don't point to an obvious owner.

2. Unknown criticality: is it a demo system or something used in production?

3. Security budget: lots of smaller utilities don't have a budget for buying cyber security products.

4. Uneducated vendor: sometimes the vendors of the device give very bad advice (https://blog.shodan.io/why-control-systems-are-on-the-intern...)

That being said, based on the numbers in Shodan the situation has improved over the past decade. And there's been a large resurgence of startups in the ICS space (ex https://www.dragos.com, https://www.gravwell.io). Here's a current view of exposed industrial devices on the Internet:

https://beta.shodan.io/search/report?query=tag%3Aics&title=I...

I've written/ presented on the issue a few times:

https://blog.shodan.io/taking-things-offline-is-hard/

https://blog.shodan.io/trends-in-internet-exposure/

https://exposure.shodan.io/#/
Those look like two saturated stars, so not actually galaxies. But in general yes, gravitational lenses can create multiples images of a galaxy, here is an example of four images ( pretty rare, not of galaxies though) https://www.space.com/28744-cosmic-lens-4-supernova-views-ph...
> Who cares if it's genetics or a choice.

Society cares, that’s the point. Society cares about who you have sex with, and society cares about whether something is genetic. If society didn’t care we’d be having a different discussion.
Ask HN: How to you get a fulfilling social life as a solodev?
I’m 33 and for the last 10 years, I worked in tech, trying different kind of jobs (consulting, enterprise, startup, solodev, freelancer, etc.) and learned a lot along the way about my tastes.

To sum up: I love programming in solo, but hate doing this in team. I don’t want to manage people or worst, being managed by someone. However, I noticed I get truly miserable spending my whole life alone behind my computer monitor. I love meeting people, chatting and having fun with them.

And having the opportunity to compare different jobs, I noticed most of new people I met in my life came from my daily job. So, solodev careers sound bad for meeting new people, right?

Today, I need to make choices. I could be a solodev again, but very afraid to feel lonely and miss human opportunities, because life is not writing code, even if I love it.

I'm looking for ideas. Maybe mixing solodev with freelancing? Mixing solodev with various external social activities (sport groups, meetups, etc.) ? Maybe developing apps whose purpose is to meet people, to use the app in addition of using it?

Any idea, tip, thought, would be appreciated.
Worst out of the 23 games listed in the first link has 8 frames of latency at 120 fps, which is about 66ms. Monitor input lag included.

200ms, while possible, is far from "most AAA+ games", as OP stated.

Sure, there's people that play on lowest-end consoles, on a crappy LCD TV with game mode disabled, but let's not consider that the norm for all players/all AAA+ games, and I'm going to need hard sources showing whether those worst case environments get even close to triple digit latencies.
This makes me feel a little better about the whole "heat death" problem.
I designed such superconducting chips for my MSc thesis and had them manufactured by Hypres, one of the few foundries that offered such a process. Designing superconducting circuits is great fun, I even wrote my own circuit simulator (https://github.com/adewes/superconductor/).

RSFQ (Rapid Single Flux Quantum Logic, or as some would jokingly say Russian Single Flux Quantum Logic) was quite hyped up in the nineties, Prof. Likharev at Stony Brook had a collaboration with IBM working on RSFQ circuit elements to replace conventional semiconductor logic. At the time the achievable speed was fantastic as compared to regular circuits, (un)fortunately semiconductor processes kept evolving and today RSFQ is only interesting for some niche applications like fast microwave circuits at cryogenic temperatures (and even there HEMT transistors are often a better solution nowadays).

Also, getting circuits with more than 10.000 junctions to work was quite tricky as the fabrication processes weren't very reliable and transferring flux quanta is a bit more noisy than storing charges on an FET, so I'm doubtful whether we could even have large-scale RSFQ circuits without extensive error correction.

Well, it's still an amazingly fun and fascinating field, really hope we might see a revival of it one day (maybe if we get room-temperature superconductors).
And we arrive at the premise. They can build the tech, but they can't be bothered to navigate the social dynamics that make up the rest of the world.
The main web backend is still ruby it seems: https://github.blog/2020-08-25-upgrading-github-to-ruby-2-7/ I can't remember where it was exactly but I remember recently stumbling on a random github-related OSS project that had chatter in the issues from githubbers talking about .NET and C#. It would not surprise me to see significant pressure from the now 2-year post-acquisition engineering org to get in line with the rest of MS's online services that are all .NET stack.
We can just replay the history of SEO. I believe we're at the point (was it the late 90s for SEO?) where it's time to put all the keywords onto your resume in a white font.
You raise some good points here, and this is a slippery slope were standing upon. I found it to be a little be gross to see the tweets where Taylor L was taunting Marc A to try and block her out of the chat since she got a burner account. Is that what we are trying to do? The press ABSOLUTELY should be able to find corruption and keep it in check, but this doesnt feel like that. It was a personal abuse of a platform by that journalist. Im familiar with Greenwald because of Snowden, but I agree that he is a bit jaded/angry now. Im not really 100% clear on why he lives abroad now, but Im sure that transition was not easy and may have something to do with it.
25 years people had a 3 minute attention span, or at least that's what the advertisers said. Now it's down to 15 seconds.
I read this as well intentioned but ultimately poor reasoning. Things that are intrinsic about a person are a good baseline, no-question quality that we should not antagonize people for. Sexual orientation, race, disabilities, gender, appearance etc. These seem like important issues to get right on civic protections.

Saying we must offer respect to everyone's choices is just wrong. We certainly don't want to ensure someone's right to be a homophobic asshole in a workplace for example. And it's not as simple as just saying being LGBTQ is a private thing that doesn't affect others either. Trans bathroom rights, marriage license rights, adoption rights, etc.. The argument to ban gay conversion camps seems much harder to make if one believes identity is purely a choice. If homosexuality is perceived as a choice, then onlookers will wonder who influenced someone to make a choice to be gay, which muddies the perception of being gay being a personal private thing.

Homophobia is bad, but wishing it weren't a thing doesn't change the reasoning that intrinsic qualities are a lot more important to protect than choices.

Sexual orientation is more deserving of protection than, say, holocaust denialism. Religion is the only protected class that is a choice, but for many people, it's not so much a choice as an inherited identity and similarly fixed.