skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You will discover that fighting to make trains a better option than cars is harder as a democrat where everyone agrees but wants to put their finger in the pie, than as a republican where everyone isn't interested in trains but might let you get by with a small amount just to keep you quiet (this won't be enough to build a useful system, but it might be enough to prove it can be cost effective)

This is perfectly exemplified by UTA Trax, which had a humble start in slightly blue SLC, but has expanded outward at an incredibly rapid pace, with approval votes coming from some of the reddest counties in the nation. Building efficiently and cost effectively is quite possibly the best vote-switcher on transit that we could make.
Meta-moderation, which also required oversight to minimize abuse.
I know that in theory you're defending the right of people to speak truth to power, but in practice you're just defending the right of people to scribble cartoon tits and dicks on a toilet stall. Almost no comments on the internet advance humanity in any way.
Just a correction after some quick Googling: Linux dropped 386 in 2012, but 486 is still supported as best I can tell.
Let the children start later. Let the parents start later and have a shorter work day. Problem solved.
3rd option - manufactured by the criminal.

This isn't common today, but considering ongoing the efforts to make 3d-printing Glock and Hi-Point frames easier I can't imagine it will remain uncommon forever. These aren't exactly hard to find, see [0].

And for those who think you can just ban all other gun parts and fix the problem, I present to you the FGC-9 - a pistol-caliber carbine manufacturable in your basement with a 3d printer, metal bar stock, and some high-pressure pipe. Semi-auto, rifled barrel - the works. [1] Is it a trivial process? No. Is it going to get easier and produce higher quality results with time? Yes.

0: https://www.defcad.com/library/60d6a735-4a8c-4b42-8dd7-33b13...

1: https://www.defcad.com/library/ac26b242-720f-4608-a202-0ecea...
NewPipe maintainers refuse BitChute pull request
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We started with scratch, code.org, recently got an arduino kit with lots of electronics for ~30$ Glitch.com is good for learning “real” web.

I’d disagree it’s less accessible. I think it’s way more accessible than when I was a kid and had to copy the games out of the back of Amiga BASIC magazine. We have tons of free text and video content on how to learn just about any language, free IDEs, and easily downloaded platforms/compilers etc. if anything the problem is that it’s hard to choose.
In exchange for sacrificing what many people feel is a vital component of life you could have a completely insignificant impact on the environment!

Also, compare the birth rate per woman in the US (1.73) to somewhere like Niger (7). Getting Western populations to decline faster will not have any meaningful effect on total human population.
What I'm trying to fix is the current situation where social media companies have carte blanche to abuse their position as the broadcast point to shape the public conversation.

Most people don't seem to see the problem because so far the power has only been used for things they agree with, but consider if it weren't.

Suppose Facebook was run by anti-vaxxers. They manipulate their algorithm so that posts that question the safety of vaccines are promoted and posts that say vaccines are safe and helpful get buried. If someone takes a strong pro-vaccine stance, Facebook bans them for spreading "dangerous misinformation".

Under the current system, this would be perfectly fine for Facebook to do, despite the fact that this could completely warp public perception because Facebook is where a lot of people get most of their information. After all, they are a private company, right? They have no obligation to host information they disagree with. Yet, Facebook could, if it decided to, dramatically shift public opinion in any way it wants to, just by manipulating how information is presented.

The world I would rather live in is one where social media companies are limited to removing information only if it is clearly illegal, by explicitly defined terms (such as child pornography) or spam. The rest should be left up to individuals to decide for themselves.
> Yes you do, that's how children get indoctrinated.

Children may take parental guidance more easily on the existence of God than is the case with evangelization generally, sure (though still not as easy as the quote suggest is true of people taking such inputs generally.)

But then, they also, at the same ages where they’ll accept parental guidance on that, accept parental claims on more prosaic material fact, too. So, even then, the contrast suggested by the quote is bogus.
No, Tesla probably has very few employees older than 65 and no employees in nursing homes.
I was sure, and stated on Hacker News as much, that a) half of Minneapolis torched by mobs with the National Guard and police nowhere in sight, b) the nuttiness of CHAZ, and c) nightly attacks on Federal buildings in Portland would significantly increase Trump's 2020 vote share in Minnesota, Washington, and Oregon. Welp.
Search would be a lot more useful if you could block certain sites that were spam.
I actually had a cool experience opening it on the mobile. It sucks on the desktop though.
I run NoScript and I basically only browse hn these days, literally. Half the links here don't work, either, so I usually don't even read those. Twitter is a wasteland for me. I've accepted it, and I enjoy being an antisocial technophobic software engineer. I'm even thinking about only using electronics for work. I'm sick of the internet today, I feel like it only tears people apart.
Depending on where you are it might work.

In the US, I would be wary of lawsuits.

I can easily imagine a grieving family member suing for the wrongful death of a loved one because they got roboadvisory advice that turned out wrong.

There is a reason why doctors in the US have medical malpractice insurance and it is very expensive.
Please write that app.

Would buy for $4.99.
There is an about:config setting called privacy.resistFingerprinting that does a handful of things, I believe including canvas fingerprinting. It also disables site specific zoom though (as that could be used for fingerprinting) which I find rather annoying.
A huge fraction of the US workforce, spread throughout every industry, consists of parents. It sounds easy to say "let the parents start later", but it's a massive coordination problem. It makes more sense if you assume the whole workforce works the way it does for most of us on HN, but in most jobs, you actually have to show up on time; if you can't, someone else has to be scheduled to account for your missing hour.

The only way I think you can make DST abolition make sense is if you say "well, I guess kids are going to be at school in the dark at 9AM in a bunch of places around the country". That's a coherent argument! But "parents and workplaces will just figure it out" is, I think, not.
Hot damn that is a nice deal. Makes me want to upgrade.
I see no hypocrisy here -- a lot of information is, and was, only one-way.

Town criers in the ancient times, teachers, theaters, art galleries, books, newspapers, radio/TV.

The idea that one "must allow all public comments" if you talk about other people is a pretty weird one. Things generally do not work this way in real world, and I see no obvious reason why it should be different online.
This is fun! To test the theory I just threw a pointy pen at the map I have hanging on my wall 5x - 3x water, 1x Ethiopia, 1x USA. Unfortunately I have to do some real work otherwise I'd do a few hundred more and see where we ended up

edit: Looking at my map, I think they arbitrarily shrank the size of the oceans to prioritize landmass (it's one of those ones where you scratch off the countries you've been to), so it's quite possible that the proportion of darts hitting water would be higher normally
There is evidence for trans Beringian trade and population mixing well into the 15th century: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tiny-blue-beads-eu...
>why is it somebody else's job to secure a company's website?

Some people find bug bounties to be lucrative, especially in low cost of living countries. Other people find them fun. Other people find they look good on resumes. But no one is required to participate in them. If you don't want to spend your time looking for vulnerabilities in other people's software, don't do it.

>Rather than investing into security

Running a bounty program costs money, both to pay the participants as well as to pay employees to investigate the reports (most of which are junk). Also it's not a one or the other. You can run your own internal red team while also running a bug bounty program.

>they let somebody else fix the problems while leaving their users exposed

It's usually not the bug bounty participants who fix the problem. Usually the bug bounty participant reports the problem, then the company fixes it.

>At this point, it is more ethical to sell whatever vulnerabilities you find to the black market than to "ethically" disclose them.

Why is it more ethical to sell them on the black market? The black market is composed of people who actively want to harm others for their own benefit. Seeking them out and selling them tools specifically for that purpose is unethical. I don't see what's ethically wrong with reporting a vulnerability to a company through its bug bounty program.

There are of course other options besides those 2. Full disclosure for example.

Also you could sell it on the grey market to people who promise to only use it for legal purposes (e.g. for governments to legally hack people). https://zerodium.com/
All of these things are true?
Do you have a source for the effect on Orca?
> And technology used to settle Mars will be able to be used to fix problems on earth.

This is wrong to assume confidently for several reasons.

It is wrong to endorse as being a good idea because when you apply that attitude to Earth first, you extend the possibility of further Mars missions. But the converse doesn't necessarily hold; we could fail to make breakthroughs on Mars, in which case we've wasted resources that could otherwise have been used to improve the efficiency of civilization on Earth.

It is also wrong to hold that there is anything particularly special about Mars when it comes to developing this technology. The only thing special about Mars is that it's hard. I'm assuming there's an intuition that because something is hard, if innovation occurs, the technology that will come out of it must be fantastic. But if such technology is required for Mars, then it will at least be developed in prototype form on Earth.

So Mars is neither necessary as an incentive or a testbed to develop environment rejuvenating technologies. And if the point I made above holds, then we should just turn this on its head, and focus on technologies for Earth first, then use those lessons for Mars.

It also makes the assumption that there are going to be incentives that will cause technologies developed on Mars to be applied to Earth. We have technologies and practices on Earth that can solve our own "terraforming" problems now. But they are long-term projects that only get their returns after several decades. Very few financiers care about this kind of investment, particularly when the economy is experiencing nominal growth elsewhere in sectors that are not physically sustainable.

Elon sort of gets bail on this because of his stake in SolarCity. He's still wrong in the sense that solar power will not produce energy at the density required for current civilization. Nuclear is the only form of energy that will satisfy our energy constraints in the long run. But you can't easily scale nuclear, it requires a lot of capital to upstart, and the payoff is longer. It's not Silicon Valley friendly because SV is about horizontal scaling and rent capture.

So it's understandable why Elon picked solar, but it shows the limitations of self-interested billionaires in solving humanity's problems.

I have little positive to say about Bezos.
There might be a clue here:

* https://mastodon.sdf.org/@cadadr/105858858509382415
The busy status, at least in some clients affected what sort of notification the recipient got. My phone does have a global do-not-disturb function, but it doesn't notify the sender, and the only real bypass for it is a voice call.

I want to be able to pre-notify all senders that I won't be replying quickly so there's no confusion. In an ideal world, I could set this in one place on my phone or desktop and the 8 different chat apps I use would all get respect it. Of course SMS can't support it, but nobody who has anything important to say to me would send me an SMS.
I think what makes Slashdot tags work is that they are not assigned by the comment's author -- the community decides on what is funny/insightful instead.

When the ratings are assigned by users (like github comment "reactions") they are sometimes pretty helpful.
Speaking for myself, I downvoted not because you are factually wrong. I downvoted because your entire argument is whataboutism. It is irrelevant to the topic being discussed, and makes the entire debate worse for its presence.
"Baizuo is a Chinese neologism and political epithet used to refer to Western leftist ideologies primarily espoused by white people."

Any Chinese person or Sinophile who can give some more depth to what this means?
This is more familiar to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_toast

Not familiar like I've had it, but I saw it in an old cookbook long ago. And apparently the term "milquetoast" was indeed inspired by it.
Is it possible to create a gender neutral fitness test on which men didn't significantly outperform women?
Yes, my privacy comes before everything, including my health.

When your medical records are leaked (only a question of time)
you can't say you weren't warned.
Should Jack Dorsey Combine Twitter and Square?
Same thesis for us. Pushing to use replicated sources for a data mesh, and build around query and cache services. The thesis is analysts know what they want, and operating only on production ready reports takes too much away from business. So, more power to analysts
This sounds like a powerful DoS tool.
Exactly! Its selling point was that it had good conversations, but the bar has dropped drastically.
I suspect that the relatively narrow targeting helps as well. General news sites have a much broader audience with (generally) less subject-matter familiarity than HN.

And most stories here are far less controversial than most news stories these days.
I always read comments like this as: "Every country with lower corporate tax rates than my own is a tax haven"

If a company does business within your borders while your army looks on and the populace waxes lyrical about it being unjust, who is really at fault for that?

Do foreign countries not have the right of sovereignty to make their own laws and tax rates?
HN has heavy moderation.

It's not the same.
Interestingly, most of the threading WWW discussion fora, and threaded mail/news readers that I've encountered start such diagrams in the top left hand corner.
Contact data is a fairly cheap commodity these days.
If I learned one thing from Octonauts videos, it's that sea otters eat purple sea urchins. So while sea urchins are terrible for kelp forests, they're great for large sea otter populations.
Obviously a little biased since I work on it, but we're seeing a ton of folks who remember the old "view source" simplicity of the web bringing their kids to Glitch and getting them started with the same level of accessibility. It's real code, and real web, but as fun as when we were all doing stuff with Notepad + FTP. Not a big leap up from what they're already doing in Minecraft and Roblox.
The actual latency starlink customers are getting is on par with wired ISPs, and has the potential to be lower than ground based links once they add satellite to satellite laser links.
Worth thinking abut what DARPA is trying to kickstart with the $2 million "DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge"

Hint, wars/battles/skirmishes aren't fought in caves or tunnels. They weren't in Vietnam, they weren't in Afghanistan and not on the Mexican border, Sicario was just an (entertaining) movie.
News article comments are usually low quality, but I think this decision is partially rooted in setting up a system where any discussion on a topic is dissuaded because the news organizations feel like they're the end-all be-all for defining public narratives.
I've heard good things about Donorbox.org but haven't used them personally
Same here. I think there's too much noise to signal. But the average talker wouldn't want their conversations written down so I doubt this will happen.
Related XKCD link: https://xkcd.com/1019/
"First Post" (The problem with posting comments in the order they're submitted)

(transcript: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1019:_First_Post)
>There's a huge load of hypocrisy, when you write articles critical of other people. But will not let your self be criticized on what you just wrote.

I'm fairly certain virtually every newspaper on this planet will gladly give someone who is subject of criticism a page to respond, however nobody who is serious thinks that means you need to give anonymous trolls a place on your website to argue on that person's behalf.

Secondly, that is not how 230 works. 230 grants platforms the right to moderate their sites and be shielded from liability. (or else Hackernews, which you are commenting on right now, would cease to exist).
I don't, but the most important tunables are in the replication docs: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-repli...

I'd simply suggest reading this top-to-bottom very carefully, until you understand what each option does. That should in turn help you understand how and where replication impacts the source and the sinks. The docs can be terse, but it's rare for anything to be omitted -- read with care.
Faster-Than-Light Travel Is Possible Within Einstein's Physics
>With NFTs being so new, people haven’t seen the eventual way they’re supposed to be used across ecosystems and their only experience with them so far is that they are useless.

Why do you suppose it is that the first use case that has gained near-mainstream appeal is a use-case that portrays them as "useless"?
Zero-boilerplate frameworks work well, like Processing (https://processing.org), or Pygame Zero (https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.io).

These are also a good way to illustrate math concepts visually.
Netherlands, Ireland and Denmark afaik.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/05...
Seems to be frequent enough with debt I guess.
Whatever you do on the internet, you're always at the mercy of private companies. You're always subject to your hosting company or domain registrar or ISP or whatever.

On some level, private companies have to allow everyone neutral access. Like phone companies and the USPS, the internet should be accessible.

On the other hand, comment sections under news articles are really not the way I'd make this argument. Let's talk about net neutrality first.
I'm not sure I see a demand anywhere in that comment?
You don't have experience with HIPAA, and what you're describing is not at all true.

> Informal discussion of patients has been stopped. The feedback channels that allow for discovery of subtle problems and their solutions have been removed.

No way. I work with hospitals, there are plenty of feedback channels and cases get discussed at length. HIPAA does nothing at all to stop any communication or data sharing that is beneficial for patient safety.

> ER staff used to visit their patients, and keep in touch with them, this stopped with HIPPA. This is dehumanizing.

This is not at all true.

> Imagine if developers weren't ever allowed to discuss bugs in their programs, unless they were actively working on the same bug? Think of how much that would kill productivity.

Hospitals literally do these kinds of debriefs all the time. HIPAA does nothing to stop them at all.

> It is far far safer for them to shut all talk about patients down, in terms of patient satisfaction, lawyers, lawsuits and fines.

You totally misunderstood HIPAA, what it regulates, and how it regulates. It in no way shuts down conversations about patients. I deal with HIPAA-protected data and compliance all the time, I have no idea where you got this impression, but it was not from a doctor.
first result on google images gave me this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZzv5O6UYAA4cb6.jpg

(I'm not Chinese nor do i speak it)
And, of course, graffiti has existed even before written language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffito_(archaeology)

[edit: top comment on the top comment's top comment!]
The Part Time Creator Manifesto
I think real world examples are always good. Germany went all solar, France all nuclear. Seems like France is winning (cheap clean energy).
That would be near impossible in the Federal system we have. It is the purview of the state to license vehicles on its roads and to determine what characteristics the vehicles must have in order to be given a license. But as much as some areas are concerned with emissions, 17 states don't even do any emissions testing and of the remaining 33 states that do, only 10 require emissions testing statewide instead of in just a few areas.

I can see some of the blue areas banning all sorts of things, but the red areas wont, and there are constitutionality issues with trying to stretch the commerce clause to things like forcing states to ban certain types of technology. Even the Federal highway speed limits have been a constitutional nightmare and many states no longer follow the national speed limits, which were also designed to improve on fuel economy and reduce emissions (e.g. https://www.newsweek.com/kentucky-judge-rules-states-speed-l...)
Sounds like equivalent of "libtard"
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It's not like we have a national school schedule. There are already 1-2 hour differences in school start times, sometimes just a few miles away.
Yeah, it's not an unpopular opinion. Investors often red flag software that isn't built in house. It's literally a check box in many places, and a straight question in the YC application form.

It would be harder to convince someone that you can build a unicorn by outsourcing.
I don't think GP is implying malice, just trying to make a (relatively separate) point about responsibility by equivocating on the phrase "on purpose", e.g., you decide where the gun points, even if you don't specifically want to sweep someone. I wouldn't phrase it the way they did, but they do have a point.
Discovering WW1 tunnel of death hidden in France for a century
Many comments here wondering what an individual can do... I'll tell you what I've done in order to stop feeling complicit.

I stopped buying anything "new" unless I absolutely cannot live without it.

Not all at once, but one thing at a time, I looked for alternatives and pulled the trigger.
Another solution is to utilize algae, but it would destroy ecosystems at the scale we'd need it. Still a fun thought exercise.
To maybe drive this point home even more, if the US government ceased to exist, or stopped accepting certain pieces of paper and metal as "special", those pieces of paper and metal would lose their so-called "intrinsic" value -- demonstrating that that value wasn't intrinsic in the first place.

It's not terribly unusual for old coins and banknotes to be removed from circulation and then losing their status as legal tender. I haven't found examples from the US specifically, but there is no reason to believe that it couldn't be done.