skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I have a couple of servers running in digital ocean with some docker web applications on them. I want to block access to these web services from the public internet but allow them from the VPC network. The only out of the box solutions I see for digitalocean are proprietary apps like OpenVPN. WireGuard is a good alternative but requires a surprisingly high amount of configuration, and all the third party UIs are barely maintained.

I can’t believe this isn’t a solved problem so very curious what people are using to access VPCs. Preferably open source.
Imo it's hard. Different people get different consequences from different approaches. Now, I'm no expert, but I know a little bit about allergies - and I believe it's fairly well known that not being exposed to dirty environments, animals and nature have caused a huge increase in allergies all around the world (but very much the most in the developed world). I guess what I'm saying is that it's not that simple, and a lot comes down to politics.
I think there is still a question of who's responsible. If I have an accident in my non-automated Honda Accord, who's responsible? It could be the car manufacturer, if the front wheel falls off because of a manufacturing defect. Or it could be the government because of unmaintained safety features. Does that equation change if the car is "full self driving"?
WhatsApp's users are not customers. They are the product.
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That's globaly. In countries where most at risk groups are vaccinated they can go back to normal in a few months.
Suppressed report says online “hate speech” doesn’t reflect real-world crimes
Another alternative (not self-hosted or open source) is Fibery.io
More powerful than Airtable, and has some Notion-like capabilities.
I’m not trying to be a smart ass, but none of this explains how a touchscreen is superior to physical buttons.

If you hand misses a physical button, you easily orient yourself by recognizing the shape of the and relative location of the button by touch, whereas a mistouch on screen might have activated some functionality, or at the very least is harder to orient without looking because there are no physical features.

While OEM infotainment systems universally suck, it’s a non sequitur to say that a touchscreen fixes any of these issues, in particular your Bluetooth and voice problems. My Acura has a touchscreen and voice and it sucks. The voice is slow to respond with constant boilerplate announcements, and the typing addresses into the gps is painful, even when using autocomplete (it animates the typing, and then forces you to reconfirm the completed text.)
Fossils of DNA itself could theoretically be possible.
Facebook's fight to beat Google and dominate in AI
In The Netherlands I see now for the first time in forever that it’s not a dealbreaker to not have WhatsApp.

If you don’t have it, people understand why. If you’re in a small to medium sized chat group, people are willing to move it to Signal or an alternative, they are not afraid anymore to try the non-default option.

Now to see if this momentum will last...
> Bitcoin for me is an inflation hedge and I have all my wealth in the digital space at the moment. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Polkadot.

Going all in on crypto (or any other asset class) is the opposite of a hedge.
Is it similar to HAML? I just started using that at work and really quite like it for templating.
That’s a great diagram. I guess what’s described here may fit under that category “pre-drop alternatives”. Wonder how broad the leeway is for them to do what they want.
I disagree. Python's data science community is strongly clustered around pandas, even though it's possible to use other approaches
1. There are thousands of scientific subroutines written in Fortran that are stable and well tested - in fact, there are well established formal libraries of them that go back over 60 years. The researchers know and trust them.

2. Despite the sneers and derision that Fortran has been subjected to from non-Fortran programmers over recent decades, Fortran is an excellent language to do intensive scientific and mathematics work. Compilers are optimized for calculation/math speed and large intensive calculations. From the outset, it could handle complex numbers, double precision, etc., etc. natively without having to resort to calling libraries/special routines as other languages had to do back then.

3. Scientific enterprise alongside mainframes and supercomputers have well established and stable ways of working including program and data exchange etc. Essentially, a well established computing ecosystem/infrastructure surrounds scientific computing that researchers know and understand well. There is no need to change it as it works well. Moreover, it's a stable and reliable environment when compared to other computing environments - Fortran was introduced long before the cowboys entered the computing field, back then the programming/computing environment was more formal and structured, this contributed to that stability.

For the record, Fortran was the first language I learned, and my programming back then was done on an IBM-360 using KP-26 and KP-29 keypunches and 80-column Hollerith cards.
Haskell or GHC?

If you mean GHC, the language version is whatever the pile of configuration flags at each source file ends up meaning, some of them even contradict themselves.

Great for language research, which is Haskell main purpose in life, hardly a good idea for getting industry love.
well vietnam also did extremely well. and new zealands managed isolation (which i just went through) could easily be replicated anywhere there are hotels
For folks (like me) who found the link a bit dense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Herald_Publishing_Co._v....

> Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241 (1974), was a United States Supreme Court case that overturned a Florida state law requiring newspapers to allow equal space in their newspapers to political candidates in the case of a political editorial or endorsement content.
Why are wallhacks even possible? Maybe they're not even trying to design the game securely. That information (who's behind an object) shoudn't be available. In web development it's a critical vulnerability to be able to snoop on other user's activity.
Amazon no longer sells books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness
But at what point does content moderation turn an editor into the speaker and thus liable? As an extreme case I could censor many letters of your post leaving only a few letters expressing something you never expressed. Many people I've heard from on the right are making this case, not arguing to abolish 230, just to clarify it such that moderation is a form of speech and thus invites liability. Even Dershowitz made that point.
Technically speaking, that still wouldn't be Bitcoin.
Considering the flu kills about 500k people every year, one year of Covid is comparable.
Why do we study the social sciences?
As somebody who maintains a fork of MINIX2, just for private pleasure, I know the limitations of ACK. In the end, you either need gcc or clang if you want to compile modern source code.

I doubt that clang would be reason not to volunteer for MINIX3. That said, I personally don't like what MINIX3 has become.

In the end, if you want to have a small, volunteer-based software project, you need somebody with a vision and who is also able to contribute quite a lot of time to the project (and possibily also quite a bit of resources).

The MINIX3 didn't have such a person in the community so the transition from paid developers to a community supported project failed.
The report itself not only didn't find causation, it did not even find correlation:

"This research does not present even comprehensive descriptive data correlating increased hate speech on social media with increased hate crimes."

"On the other hand, the data from the 2018 regression-model study attempting to examine the effect of social media on bias among its users, specifically focusing on religious bias and racist behavior, did not verify a positive correlation."

"we have found no causal, or even good descriptive correlative data, showing a relationship between video game usage and hate crimes."

"we have found no causal, or even good descriptive correlative data, showing a relationship between hate crimes and chat services."

https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/ntiahatecrimesreport2021.pdf
It's not a new phenomenon:

>George Orwell wrote in 1944 that "the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless ... almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist'".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#%22Fascist%22_as_a_pej...
Yeah, you’d only need one strict lockdown if you’re not opening up everything every couple of months. It just never ends.

Is this a joke?
Obviously I meant it's in Mozilla's interest to market Firefox.
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Did GC lead to any problems?
This is a fascinating article, but I'm bookmarking it for the unreadable graphs. It will be a great example for future presentations.
That is what trains and buses are for.
I'm probably dumb, but it feels like all the guys pushing blockchain on trying to solve the problem that the world tends to run on trust and good faith, because those things make them deeply uncomfortable.
A few things to unpack here.

Work is about finding a meaningful way of living your life, of creating something or giving something you can be proud of. If you just do it for money, you already fell prey for the bad parts of human greed and status games. This has nothing to do with other people.

All you see is finance in the open. This happens, far worse, for so long. DeFi just makes it accessible for the average Joe and so you read about it on Reddit. Just like HackerNews can fuck your mind and think there is always a smarter person (there is), DeFi just shows there are always people making money easier than you.

There is a limit to money and happiness. Sure, if you want to be financial independet, stop working, get into DeFi, this is a rare once in a century opportunity to hold your hands open while hedge funds are pouring money into a new system.

Money or wealth won‘t make you happy. Family, friends and purposful „work“ does.
Language adoption was already a thing before the rise of GNU and BSD in the late 90's.

I will love to see the world where such programmers get paid 100% the same way they are willing to pay for their tooling.

Exactly the same way.
A real time garbage collector that can recover temporary storage quickly (1980) [pdf]
Here's an interesting question: would linking to a Breitbart article from Facebook be risky for Facebook if 230 was repealed? That is, we can probably agree that summarizing a Breitbart article into a Facebook post would be risky for Facebook, but a simple link might be fine.
> 1) This will turn your phone SIM into a "master password" - equivalent to using the same password for all your accounts. If a "bad guy" steals your SIM (physically or by tricking the phone company into reassigning the SIM), he will be able to log into every single account you have.

Gaining access to the phone would give one master access. But this is usually the case anyways because you can reset all passwords via mail.

Stealing the SIM won't give you access to the mail though.

> 2) It will be a slow PITA when using a computer. While it would less of a PITA on a phone because you can copy-paste the code, phones are awkward and sub-optimal for many uses and many web pages. [...]

I agree about the delay of email. That's bad. Typing a few digits is not really a problem.. you are typing your password also aren't you?
> I'm generally tired of the whole "I pirate it but if the content is good I will buy it" line of thinking

This is a natural thing to do when buying expensive physical books, because that's exactly what you can do in a bookshop. Imagine if all books in a bookshop were shrink-wrapped.

The need to do this has been somewhat alleviated by Amazon's "peek inside" feature, but for the books that don't have it's basically a binary choice between not buying it at all and getting a shady pdf first and then deciding if to purchase the real thing or not. Applies to cooking, technical, programming, history books - pretty much all of non-fiction. Especially if it's thick and over $50.

So it's possible that his drop of 40% in sales basically means that 40% of his prior buyers regretted purchasing a book and would've not bought it if they had a chance to preview.
There is no professional art imo, the professionalism makes it design. Art and design are opposites. In its purest form the former is about expressing yourself, the latter about resonating with others. If you create "art" with the intention for it to resonate with others (e.g. to make money selling it) you're designing.
Maybe they could build a wall.
I've been a linux user for >10 years and switched to Mac ~4 years ago. I use, love, create, maintain and contribute to open source.

Honestly, the only thing I miss from Linux is i3 (window manager). For the rest, much happier with what Mac offers. I use spectacle on MacOS, which isn't nearly as good as i3wm. It's open-source. I use a bunch of other free or open source tools for Mac. Karabiner, f.lux and lots of other tools.

CleanShot is probably one of the few paid tools I have on my Mac. My company pays for it, and it's something like $20 one-off. Well worth it. I would have paid triple that if it worked on Linux.

I think it's a false dichotomy that Linux == free == good and Mac == paid == bad.

Also, my time is worth more to me and to my company. I feel more productive and that I waste less time fiddling on my Mac than my colleague on Linux. Perhaps it's an age thing, but I now value my time more, and prefer to fiddle only with certain things and not others.

YMMV. All the power to you for using Linux!
Utilities can and are run for profit, they’re regulated though and market standards are set.
Haha, how so? Bitcoin is the only asset which outperformed everything else in the last 3 years. So yes, it is the ONLY (next to Housing and Gold, maybe - based on the numbers: Bitcoin also outperformed Gold) are the only hedges against inflation. Even if you went all-in FAANG, you barely kept your purchasing power.

Concentrated trades is how you get wealthy, spreading your bets is keeping your wealth.

But this is a once in a liftime chance. I can‘t believe people on a tech forum are so blind to the fact that we are in control for the first time. Hedge funds dump money into a system which they can‘t read or understand. It was the opposite for hundreds of years. The average Joe had to trust the financial world. Now YOU can read the code the money runs upon, all in the open.

So yes, show me how you did perform with your FIAT money in an age of money printing.

Your words were true up until 2008, everything after that: Throw away your old school investment books, they don‘t work anymore.
Don't forget that half of your money goes to random companies, because you've used 3 seconds of copyrighted music or something that vaguely resembles it. And that's if you got lucky and didn't got demonetized entirely

A few years ago someone's video of white noise got claimed, because white noise is apparently copyrighted too.

10 hours of Jason Turner's livestream got demonetized because literally 5 minutes of it was a bunch of random ads from the 80s
Language adoption was already a thing from 1950's until late 90's, before rise of free beer culture.

Even UNIX's license had to be paid in some form, although symbolic.
>If The_donald wants to make a site and push bullshit, go ahead, people that only want to see The_donald can read it, but coordinating so that hundreds of millions of redditors see bullshit and spread bullshit is ridiculous.

How would that work? If reddit loses its 230 protection, then this The_donald-only reddit alternative would also lose its 230 protection.

Additionally, I'm concerned whether reddit could exist at all. Would every single comment need to be human-moderated before it's posted? That doesn't seem feasible, and seems likely to kill reddit.
Famous last words. I wish things were that simple. Evolution is a bitch - it made us, but it can also wipe us out.
The globe doesn't have an important property of centralized government and decisionmaking.
I don't want to force anyone to use this method but to offer an additional way of access.

Password managers are probably the best solution for passwords but my question is rather how can we do better than passwords.
Aren’t they? How do you know?
How did Moscow’s stray dogs learn to navigate the metro?
But for the fact that there is no single governing entity... which is an enormous caveat.
They don't trust you. What might you do with that email address, aside from sending email explicitly requested (opt-in and desired) by the user?

Too many people have betrayed trust. This is why we can't have nice things.
Except when discussing poor results in Sweden, then its because they congregated, held events and allowed the virus to spread. I’m not buying either of these no true swedesman arguments.
And your still wrong. Too much of Toronto is zoned for single family homes which is the main driver of lack of affordable housing. When you walk around midtown Berlin you don’t see any single detached houses with big front yards. What you see are mid rise apartment blocks that the city of Toronto literally makes illegal to build in large parts of the city. Then you have the federal government that has totally failed to pump the brakes on lending. This is 100% above bad planning by Canadians, stop blaming immigration it’s a lame cop out when the city only has a population density of about 4500 per sq km which is quite a bit on the low side for a major city. Look in the mirror.
For generations, the only way to use multiple CPUs was multiple process and asynchronous syscalls.

So for C it was ok, but for OCaml a reason not to use the language.
Another way of looking at it is that most people are incompetent at being selfish.

A competently selfish person would realize that having compassion for their fellow human beings is one of the most selfish traits they could ever have.
It’s deeper than that. I think many are simply labeling those using fascist techniques as fascists. Let me explain:

During the Great Depression, very similar rhetoric was used to create the authoritarian fascist regimes. One example is the false narrative that one could blame all of their economic problems on certain racial/ethnic groups. The horrid rhetoric suggesting that Jews caused the financial crisis in 1929 is very similar to the horrid rhetoric saying that Mexican immigrants are stealing American jobs and causing widespread economic devastation.

We _should_ be very concerned to see concerning patterns repeating themselves. Frankly, if the Republican Party was all about “garden variety conservatism”, it would be banishing the extremists from its ranks. That’s not happening. Are republicans fascist? Maybe not. But do several use fascist techniques? Definitely. And those not actively using those techniques are complacent or even accepting.

“Garden variety conservatives” did know what Trump was doing in 2016, and they called him for for it in the Republican primaries. Though I have no rosy view of the Conservative party before then either, it has now overtly embraced many fascist concepts.

Though people would still disagree with “garden variety conservatives”, people have a much bigger problem with fascist concepts.
Europe's largest data center in flames
Agree and thank you for articulating what I was thinking as I read this.
We already have that with email and found solutions to it and the same solutions could apply (readers choose their own spam filtering). The hard problems are where something might or might not be illegal and people strongly disagree. Thats where 230 comes in and it suggests to me that platforms under its protection shouldn't censor unless directed by law enforcement .. The fact that they do is mysterious to me.
If you had Googled "oldest flint tools" you would have found directly that you are extremely off.

> The oldest stone tools currently pre-date genus Homo, they were found in Kenya (Lake Turkana) and date to 3.3 million years ago.

And that's just what current archeology/paleontology has been able to find so far. The find for the 3.3 million years was 700k years earlier than the previous record. It's not a stretch of the imagination to think we will find even older artifacts.

Source https://jigsawcambs.org/images/Flint_Tools_and_Flintknapping...
Conservatives want political affiliation to be a protected class. It makes sense -- they're a minority (especially online, but also offline at a national level), and they'd like to be protected from the majority, who they feel at this moment are persecuting/abusing them for their beliefs.

Lots of problems with that (and the irony is palpable), but I think that gets them all the protection they want without any of the Constitutional crisis.
> There is a bias about when Autopilot is enabled (i.e. on highways). There is a bias in the type of person that can buy a Tesla car.

Yes. This makes any extrapolation to the population as a whole impossible without a lot of assumptions. In particular, things like this are meaningless because of sampling bias:

> Tesla cars in Autopilot mode are roughly 8x less likely to get into an accident compared with the average number of reported accidents in the US.
> The attitude was basically: it's only a disaster in China, outside China it's not serious.

Your comment is on point. I'm certain that many European countries benefitted from the escalation in Italy and pictures of army trucks filled with body bags. From then on, most took the virus a lot more serious.

'It's only a disaster in X, in our country it's not serious' has been a recurring theme and it's one of the things that makes me bearish going forward.
With PReP and PEP HIV is preventable, containable, manageable and no longer leads to AIDS and death. It’s just a chronic infection with no health effects. Is it really still considered an ongoing pandemic?
Please excuse the offtipic here, but I found no other way of contacting you - how did U manage to put 32gb ram in your T440P your're pointing out in that old post of yours?|

" Using a t440p base as my laptop, best laptop for the buck. bought it as a 4300m model with a dual core. now it has an IPS display, better coreboot+bios update, 32gb ram, i7-4712, 2x 512gb ssds plus a 4tb hdd. all together cost me less than 600eur. hackintosh compatible if necessary, though it's running Arch these days. "

If it's via modded coreboot revision,
please do mail me the file when possible @:
delio_man@abv.bg

10x in advance and sorry 'bout the Spam!
Yes exactly, I think it’s an elegant system for some contexts but I wouldn’t want every system to be forced to use it, so I wouldn’t want that ECS design to be a fundamental part of the language. Soft coupling is basically just giving up typing at some interface and relying on soft information. Which can be fine, but not always.
I think it's mostly a nod to the fact that R's data.table blows everybody else out of the water by such a ridiculously wide margin. It's like a factor of 2 faster than the next fastest...

So if you're writing a dataframe library as a hobby project, it's far less demotivating to use "all the other implementations" as your basis for comparison, at least initially.