skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but it is so annoying to have to change 'www' to 'old' every time I want to read something

There's an add-on to fix that! So whenever you click a reddit link you are automatically redirected to old.reddit.com.

I use the Firefox one, it works great:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect

Apparently there is also a chrome extension but I haven't tried it so user beware:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
Indeed, a commenter demonstrates that resolving the issue on Alpine Linux was as simple as adding an `apk add rustc cargo` to their Dockerfile.
Humans have been exhibited in this way too in exhibits praised by the scientific community. The practice only died out after the horrors of the holocaust made scientific racism unfashionable.

The low point may have been the New York zoo displaying a black man in a cage with monkeys in the early 1900s. The black clergymen who protested were shut down by the city’s mayor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo
** Kadmium changes topic to 'Our hearts are extended to the 18 victims of the recent internet fraud'

http://bash.org/?434593
I'll be gone from Reddit completely the day they turn off old.reddit.com, which surely must be fast approaching.

Meanwhile, limited to subreddits of only a few K users still captures something of that original feel, but smart conversation has long since moved elsewhere.
Trans cross dressing can make some people very uncomfortable. I think it should be protected nonetheless if not directly relevant to the needs of the business.

I'm also ok with furries, but I don't think they're so intrinsic that we need to protect fursuits and light animal roleplaying in the workplace.

apologies if something I said there was off color in terminolgoy
Hello, 1990 called. It's 2021, gender (including sexuality) is fluid.

And yet, it's the other commenters who seem backwards to you?
My experience has been that we are not generally very good at propagating our own history!

On that note, if you haven't read Randy Shilts' And the Band Played On, I strongly recommend it. The events it describes are, I think, the single strongest influence on everything about US (at least) gay culture that's thus far followed.
Ah okay. I thought you meant numerical changes, which would be reason to not trust a language.

Mathworks has broken some legacy support in the past, but they have slowed down on that practice. They used to threaten that dll loading would go away “in a future version of MATLAB” but have since backpedaled on that. My biggest issue is writing code that leverages cool new features (especially timetables) but some people I work with never update their IDE.
> Boiling meat is pretty much the worst way to prepare any cut of meat

Pulled chicken and pork would like to have a word. The trick is to let the meat cool down in the water after boiling so that it reabsorbs the fluid it lost. You get wonderfully tender and juicy pulled meat, plus a good stock. And the world of braising is a deep and delicious one. Not to mention meat-based stews, soups, and chowders. I’d suggest that if you hate meat that’s been boiled, it’s been from someone who doesn’t know how to do it. Which I mean not as a dig, but as a way of saying that there’s a lot of good cooking out there waiting to be discovered!
> ...don't make security an upsell.

Especially in a security focused product.
What's more, the Gentoo maintainer that filed the issue lists a number of platforms that CPython itself doesn't even support.
You also have to look at the success and failure rates of those tests. Most tests reveal no problems, which implies periodic sampling is plenty to handle the rare problems that crop up. If we found more problems, we would demand more testing, but increased testing is pointless if there is no problem to be found. In reverse, if the tests are not specific enough, they can cause issues when you over test due to false positives on the tests.

Indeed, you'll see that if a water test comes back positive, there will be multiple retests and a much greater rate of testing until the problem is abated, at least at my local drinking water board.
there used to be linux based public terminals in DNA lounge too, IIRC
Is handed-ness environmental or is it genetic? It doesn't seem likely to be environmental...

21% of Monozygotic twins are left-handed when the other is right-handed. This is higher than the general population.

Aren't there plenty of genes that just lead to higher causes of something? There are identical albino and non-albino twins.

I'm really skeptical that albinism is environmental. But stranger things have happened, I suppose.
I completely agree.

And if companies don't want to do it, that should be easy to regulate though. Requiring a human centric appeal process even if it has a fee, and prohibiting blanket account bans (if you get banned on gmail it doesn't affect your android and play store accounts, for example)

There are other provisions that I consider important like not being able to reuse email addresses and requiring the forwarding of email for at least 6 months after any account termination (getting banned from your email address can have disastrous consequences)
> annoying to have to change 'www' to 'old' every time

You can stop that from being necessary:

(1) Go to https://new.reddit.com/settings .

(2) Enable "Opt out of the redesign" ("Revert back to old Reddit for the time being").

(3) Visit https://reddit.com/ and you should then have the same experience there as when explicitly visiting https://old.reddit.com/ .
This is kind of horrifying. I find myself often coming to the conclusion that our increasing tangle of software dependencies is a massive liability to society. Suddenly code that was never designed to be "load-bearing"--intended to be part of a critical system, written in a hurry to glue together two components, or written for maximum performance and not maximum security, or code without proper tests, without quality control, code review, code written by hobbyists--finds itself into critical systems. And our amazing ability to constantly zoom out and plug and reuse software in huge amounts leads to this giant tangle of dependencies where everything is needed to get everything off the ground. And suddenly a JPEG vulnerability [1] leads to remote code execution.

I don't know what the answer is, but I don't feel super great about the future, given the giant sinkhole of dependencies that everything seems to be getting sucked into.

[1] https://www.techspot.com/community/topics/critical-vulnerabi...
> Parents are allowed to send their children to religion camps.

Society's desire to bend itself backward to accommodate religious sectarian meme indoctrination is a huge moral blind spot. I don't think many communities are able to honestly discuss consent as applied to religious obedience and obeisance. That doesn't mean we should consider it a moral standard.

> Indeed I think even the very act of calling "singling out sexuality to be perfidious" demonstrates just how much value it holds for people.

It's not the sexuality that has value. The value is in not being the subject of a lie constructed to mask arbitrary oppression because of a religious meme.

> If it were as simple as whether one liked broccoli or not, why would anyone ever care?

I think we can turn this on its head to make it more apt to demonstrate why this reasoning doesn't work for me. Heterosexual people don't form communities for themselves on the basis of heteroidentification (I mean, some definitely do, but it's also definitely an extreme minority). There are communities and there are LGBTQ-oriented communities and there are even (we should acknowledge) straight-exclusionary communities, but we might rightly look askance at anyone who desires LGBTQ-exclusionary communities. So then we have to ask ourselves why, and we can look to your broccoli example...

Maybe you enjoy eating broccoli. Let's say you do. For the sake of argument, let's also say that while you like broccoli you don't identify yourself as "a broccoli person". Like...when you're at parties and people ask you what things you enjoy, you don't even mention broccoli. Then someone comes along and says "everyone who enjoys broccoli has to die". That's you. You're the person who they want to die. Now you care about the broccoli situation, but you care about not being oppressed and you care about solidarity and support, not about broccoli. In that environment you will form bonds with other broccoli eaters, not because of the broccoli, but because oppression forges bonds among the oppressed.

Now non-broccoli-eaters, on the other hand, don't have to spend their lives in fear that someone will beat them up or kill them for enjoying broccoli (because they don't), which means that broccoli isn't on their minds. Like basically ever. At best you could say that once in a while a non-broccoli-eater might be relieved that they aren't in the difficult position of someone wanting them dead because of what they like eating.

The bonds of identification are a consequence of the oppression, not of the broccoli. Broccoli is just the point of intersection.
Most of the AI I've seen is really just a database query dressed up with a HAL-9000 eyeball camera or something. A good example is a license expiration date. It says it expired four years ago. problem is that candidate data is largely parsed from randomly formatted resume files, so it's not that accurate and as a result, the date from the college graduation ended up in the license field.
You're talking about exchange. But even in that example, it's not anywhere near the equivalent of going from ~17k to 3.5k, then up to 45k+ as bitcoin.
WMAP went from the cosmic microwave background downwards. So looking only at the largest structures.

The patterns it sees are real, and very cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson_Microwave_Anisotropy...
I does have implications though, if it is genetically determined then conversion therapy is less likely to succeed, unless we employ some genetic therapy. But if it is just environmental then conversion might succeed, the same way the environment made the person gay in the first place
I was amazed by how well a fully p2p solution fits right into the real-time data problem the author is describing.
it does not date to alt.tasteless on usenet? (edit: w/r/t goatse)
Unless they're some super advanced species that either intentionally or unintentionally destroys or sterilizes the universe.
If not for Apollo (third party Reddit app for iOS), I'd have dropped Reddit long ago. Every change the company makes only serves to worsen the service.
While horrifying, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Huge amounts of important infrastructure sits internet connected due to individual laziness, coupled with a lack of willingness to understand and think about cyber security. Often it seems simply from a lack of willingness to spend money on an ongoing basis to maintain anything.

There's a culture and mindset in ICS that you don't change what isn't broken. And stability and reliability is important - this is an industry where you don't install patches due to the fear of breakage or regression.

When the world shifted towards "code fast and break things", the ICS world didn't accept this change. They can't have Windows (yes, Windows) reboot unexpectedly to do an update. That pretty much rules out the supported versions like Windows 10. I mention consumer versions, because a culture of multi layer outsourcing means nobody wants to pay for a server version - an OEM Pro version of Windows saves a subcontractor some money.

That OS won't be patched, unless the SCADA software vendor has validated the patch with the software being run. Expect crazy things like Windows XP SP2 (not 3) to be requirements. Everything is about stability and using tested configurations.

You could be forgiven for thinking this is less scary, as you can airgap this, and treat it like a fixed appliance. Often that doesn't last, and (if you're lucky) an unpatched VPN box gets thrown in front of it with a weak password. More commonly, some consumer grade remote access software gets installed, so a bean counter can count how many beans they're making or spending. Airgap eliminated.

The fix isn't single step - there's a need for more understanding about safety critical engineering in the IT world - the lack of testing and regression validation isn't acceptable to this industry. The ICS industry needs to be willing to pay for software maintenance and assured development processes. Simpler code that isn't running on full consumer operating systems is needed. And ultimately we need to go and replace systems that "ain't broke", but are insecure. And that's going to be expensive. No security appliances are needed here, just some basic common sense.

Expect to see versions of Windows you didn't even know existed in use in very important places... Seeing pre-NT or very early NT wasn't a huge surprise...
My SO wrote a blog post that touched on the fraternal birth order effect which I thought was great (though I am biased): https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/post/2021/01/27/bayes....

She expands on it and I think her writing breaks it down well (just make sure to check out the appendix correction too!)
The thing about the net is that it's free to go viewing it. It costs money to put something up _that you control_. For example you have to buy the DNS name. You have to get a host, etc.. I know there are IPFS folks out there but I just don't know if there's anything there yet.

Normal people need a way to have a permanent place that can't be taken down and doesn't auto-expire with your credit card.
I tried very recently to research all the "auth0 alternatives" and that project never came up.
Yeah a lot of US news sites block Europe (and UK), a VPN is handy.

Here's an unblocked source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88ab33/hacker-poison-florida...
> effeminate male

> gay son

This is a dangerous stereotype that is equally harmful to people of any sexuality, I'd encourage you to correct it. Most of the gay folk I know personally tend towards the athletic end of the spectrum
This reminds me of the Facebook situation: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo...: lots of complaints on places like HN, but I'd bet they're carefully running a/b tests and watching user growth.
How close is Tzero to what you're talking about? https://www.tzero.com/
What data? Now that people can block the advertising tokens on mobile as of the recent android and iOS releases I’m not sure what the difference is browsing on web vs the app?
For one, respected community member pcwalton has argued against compiling to C, citing the difficulty in producing performant, memory-safe output.

For another, from personal experience, I can comment that compiling to C in such a way that doesn't leak abstractions left and right is quite challenging. It's pretty hard to produce memory-safe C, so it's a ton of work, and the payoff is pretty marginal, as the most important platforms already are supported by LLVM.
The passage of time is probably even more unfathomable. On a long enough timescale our species is completely irrelevant.
This should be a wake up call to both states that they can no longer rely on their natural and historic advantages and need to start making a greater effort to retain and attract businesses and individuals.

For example, if California and New York were to lower their tax rates to 0, these articles would pretty much disappear. New York might have to make a bit more of an effort, especially in the post COVID era, but NYC particularly has been seeing tech replace finance as a source of jobs and income for many years now, and could continue building on that.
>These "startups in the ICS space" are like turbotax/HRBlock: only continued idiocy allows their business model to exist.

Nah, Dragos knows their shit. They'd be around even if ICS had good security.
If homosexuality provided a species or community benefit, it could be selected for in that way.

Perhaps akin to aging phenomena that benefit the species through mortality.
Mine was a sarcastic comment but whatever.
Advice and guidance are two separate things (even if they sound the same.) Vanguard, for instance, has volumes explaining trading and investment strategies but advice would me more like implying you should use a strategy or buy a specific equity.
Symbolic differentiation (e.g. "use Mathematica") is possible but is generally slow to generate and produces incredibly slow/inefficient code.
What's wrong with Stack Overflow? Genuinely curious.
Cell towers are generally going to be actively defended though - they tend to connect to private backhaul circuits, or link by IPsec to the security gateway in the mobile network.

The difference here is that nobody takes responsibility for a water treatment works in the same way a mobile operator looks after base stations - most operators aren't putting their base stations anywhere near the public internet. When they do it's under very careful control, like with femtocells.
US tap water is generally so high in chlorine that to people from Western Europe it smells like pool water, even in places that are proud of their tap water like NYC. Having lived here for ten years now I can no longer smell it when I turn on the sink, but visitors still can.
The way it works, you get a tax code. The tax code is documented on your pay stub. The tax code changes based on things like marital status, kids, etc. The tax codes are all standard and you can easily look them up. That tax code informs payroll software how you're supposed to be taxed, and it adjusts automatically.

If you're US Based, think of it as being similar to the withholding calculation, only significantly more accurate.

I've known a few people that manually check their taxes each year, and never known them to find mistakes. Most people just don't bother.

HMRC already has the information it needs to calculate the information correctly. The same is actually true of IRS too. For almost all cases, the IRS can accurately calculate your taxes for you. In several countries, the agency responsible for taxes pre-populates your tax document for you, and sends it to you to sign off on each year. Doing taxes often involves no more than skimming through a document to verify accuracy, and mailing it off.
Thanks for the extra info. Pretty cool.
This is not true. Automatic differentiation and symbolic differentiation are very distinct.
> I also wanted to point out that there's a technical term for true information that causes harm, "malinformation."

Wow, that is such an Orwellian thing to say.

The definition you just gave could be used to justify censorship of any truthful information.

Yes, this factual information is upsetting, but we need to let Facebook cover our eyes and decide how outraged we are allowed to be. Otherwise we might hurt ourselves or others.

I can appreciate that factual information could be presented in a dishonest way, but if it is so misleading, how is it not just misinformation?

Malinformation as a concept is specifically that truthful information can be problematic and we need to be "protected" from it. If the truth is upsetting, then try to solve the problem, not people talking about it.

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Then again, perhaps good malinformation policies could have averted rioting last summer, and we could have censored the initial George Floyd video that made it look like Floyd was murdered by a cop. The police later released evidence that Floyd had overdosed on fentanyl and most likely died of natural causes. So, if our friends in big tech had simply censored things until the full facts came out and we could see context, it would have been more orderly and harmonious.

Isn't preventing rioting and civil unrest one of their goals? Too bad we couldn't have blunted the outrage.
I find the opposite to be true, with the large subreddits not moderated enough. Compare HN to reddit and you'll see there's a massive difference.
How does one best bet on the future of DeFi?
http://zoo1.galaxyzoo.org/ - looks like it's now been archived.

The newer version is here:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/
Study: Protein behind corona’s slow Asia spread
On the other hand, the extiction of our species for not-reproducing would be quite a failure even on our own metrics.

So it's not like we're some higher-dimensional ethereal beings, not tied to evolution and our natural fitness, with relation to our successes and failures as a species (and even as individuals).

To reverse the "psychological projection" trope, it's just that we learned throu psychological denial to ignore those aspects most of the time...
Lead is the worst by a mile, but If you expect to have water in the very low or very high PH rank, or water with a lot of chemical activity or too hot, copper is not totally safe either.

We, mammals, are relatively well protected to deal with it, but the real problem here is in the long term exposure. Can produce several forms of inner bleeding in the gut, and harm permanently the liver and kidneys. There is a lot of copper messing around for some reason in Alzheimer's patients also.

Moreover copper is particularly toxic for all aquatic life and invertebrates also causing an acute poisoning. I would not use that water in an aquarium for example. I had seen the stuff in action and is devastating for fishes.
It goes beyond that. The fear is that genetics will show that people are in fact not blank slates, and even further that there advantageous and disadvantageous traits common to groups of people.

I'm sure you can surmise the implications of this. Evolutionary biology has been making steady gains in the "nature not nurture" department and it has become an absolute lighting rod to discuss.
> But the language downplaying the severity will mean this all blows over in a couple of months, without the actual mobilization/funds to properly secure not just this one site, but any similarly affected plants.

Our society’s inability to prioritize the solving of obvious problems is pervasive enough that it’s probably due to more than some badly chosen verbiage.

> We'll need to see n=1 disasters with this first, before there's public outcry to fix it.

It’s worse than that. It would have to be a really awful disaster, people would need to understand the causes and effects, and the prevention of future disasters would need to not threaten established businesses and political interests.
Honestly, even with minor versions, I'd prefer to use something like dependabot, or for a bot to open a pull request bumping versions. Tons of authors mess up semver in subtle ways, it's just much easier to avoid problems if you just pin dependencies.

I've started doing this with Nix for my own Rust projects, using the technique described here[1]. Planning on setting up a GitHub workflow to automatically open pull requests with bumped versions of nixpkgs/rust.

[1]: https://christine.website/blog/how-i-start-nix-2020-03-08
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Its not clear cut what all is included with semver. Is switching from a C89 to a C99 a semver-breaking change? Is using a Python 3.1-specific function a semver-breaking change? Is fixing a bug or adding a new feature a semver breaking change [1]?

There is no clear cut answer in all of these situations and applying purity tests to semver instead just push another crowd of developers to abandon semver completely, making it hard to get any information communicated from your dependencies up to you.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1172/
The key, of course, is making sure the choice is truly... random.