skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(a) Former UK Green Party equality spokesperson and candidate, current Reddit administrator (read: employee not volunteer).

(b) While a candidate for the UK Green Party, she employed her father as campaign manager ("election agent"). Her mother, who lived with the father, also ran as a candidate and also employed the father as campaign manager. In 2018, her father was charged and convicted of raping and torturing a child in his home.

(c) This person currently works for Reddit, and is allegedly enforcing a line of censorship in order to protect herself from online harassment.
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying you won't always be right.
> having used a smartphone and a “dumb phone”, I’ve discovered a big counter intuitive truth, that the real problem is being online: it’s the smartphone fault.

Is it the truth, though? It probably varies by people. My opinion is social media is cancer. A cacophony of opinions that no one really cares about. And yet here I am, sharing my worthless opinions and reading other people's comments. It's addictive.

But a smartphone is simply amazing. It's my flashlight, my GPS, my book reader, my video player, my music player, my learning tool, my communication tool, my note taker, my camera, my personal assistant... it's basically a full fledged computer.

Often with features blocked for the convenience of the companies raking in cash from people addicted to vomiting their thoughts online. Why can't I save images and videos in the browser anymore? Used to be real easy, now browsers try their best to hide this feature, Reddit and Imgur have redesigned their shit to actively block downloading the source files, and other platforms require you to log in (no Facebook minions, I don't think I will). But it's an easy thing to solve... for now.

I'm trying hard to decouple the damn thing from the Internet, though, it should work in the middle of nowhere imo. Why in fuck's name do I need an Internet connection to send files between my laptop and my phone? Local transfer tools are worse than those made for the cloud bullshit that everyone fell for. Ridiculous.

People now watch videos and listen to music online. No, give me my files, I want them available anywhere, anytime. Perhaps I'll need an Internet connection for the flashlight next. This sounds like old man talk, "I want it the way it used to be", but really, too few people notice the risk of losing everything digital if someone cuts a fiber cable somewhere or some automated system decides to terminate your account. Or if you simply travel to some country where getting a prepaid SIM requires a cavity search and you don't have money for the roaming mafia.

But I'm getting sidetracked. In short: Reduce or remove social media and keep your smartphone :)
I've had the Light Phone 2 since launch, but just got rid of my old smart phone and switched over to it completely about a month ago.

If your goal is to overcome a phone/internet addiction, or just disconnect, then the LP2 will definitively help you achieve that! Your going to have to give some stuff up (No Spotify, no Directions yet), and deal with texting that worse then a smart phone but better then a number pad. But to me its definitely worth it.

I think the LP2 will eventually provide the same stuff that the original author gets from his Garmin watch and GSM Calls phone, which is pretty neat!
I don't think it's niche at all. Why else would the address field be editable then
Apple’s 20-year head of developer relations retires ahead of Epic AppStore trial
Interesting. I’m currently working on an “IoT” device and this seems like it could theoretically work. One concern I have is that there’s an initial step where the device creates an access point so that you can enter wifi credentials that it will use to connect to your home network. In this case, the device connecting to the local server will not have internet access, and would not be able to resolve the plex.direct domain. Maybe I can rely on the browser dns cache, but that seems pretty sketchy...
> "I'm all for HTTPS everywhere but right now for my products it's either: https with self-signed certificate, which basically makes any modern browser tell its user that they're in a very imminent danger of violent death should they decide to proceed, or just go with good old HTTP but then you hit all sorts of limitations, and obviously zero security."

How about what Plex did for its self-hosted media servers?

"First they solved the problem of servers not having a domain name or a stable IP (they are mostly reached via bare dynamic IPs or even local IPs) by setting up a dynamic DNS space under plex.direct"

"Then they partnered with Digicert to issue a wildcard certificate for *.HASH.plex.direct to each user, where HASH is - I guess - a hash of the user or server name/id."

"This way when a server first starts it asks for its wildcard certificate to be issued (which happened almost instantly for me) and then the client, instead of connecting to http://1.2.3.4:32400, connects to https://1-2-3-4.625d406a00ac415b978ddb368c0d1289.plex.direct... which resolves to the same IP, but with a domain name that matches the certificate that the server (and only that server, because of the hash) holds."

https://blog.filippo.io/how-plex-is-doing-https-for-all-its-...
Yes, have you tried Julia? It is pretty much how you describe. There are other things that I don't like about that language, but the matrix part is really great
> and trans people are the new token individuals

You have to be totally detached from reality to actually believe this. Have you not paid any attention at all to the number of anti-trans laws being brought in a number of US states? There's been over 100 in 2021.
I found a great website recently by a man who collects crayons. A niche activity if there ever was one. Want to be part of that community? It exists only on Facebook.

I moved abroad a couple years ago and needed a way to get involved with the local ex-pat community. One guess where all of their organizing and communicating was done.

Want to bootstrap a home business, like so many mask-makers have done during the pandemic? How do you get your initial traction without friends and family on the social media networks?

If people want to opt out of the modern world that's fine, but let's not pretend they aren't missing out.
> I 'm pretty confident

Sounds like a engineers way of saying "I think it is like this, but I should double-check just in case" because who knows what the browser can show when something different happens?

I don't know, I would check it at least.
I think most of us automatically downvote or flag anything political regardless of personal politics. Especially US presidential politics, because that's what the uninteresting parts of the internet are for.
Can we get /u/maxwellhill to weigh in on this?
Pro-Trump lawyer says ‘no reasonable person’ would believe her election lies
While I think I agree with this article, that isn't the case here. That article is talking about taking C code that happens to be portable to an obscure architecture, but never officially supported it, then complaining when the never-official support breaks for some reason. We're talking here about the Linux kernel, which (by necessity) was explicitly ported to every architecture it works on, so any lost architecture support would be an explicitly removed feature.
Hey I hope you don't mind a bit of constructive criticism: you should look into getting a pop filter for your mic. I'm very sensible to pops and esses so it might not bother others but it's a very cheap upgrade that you might want to consider :)

You can also experiment by placing at a 45°angle (point the mic towards your mouth, not your mouth towards the mic) and placing it slightly sideways. It'll help with sibilances and pops.

Anyways, thanks for sharing the video, I was actually looking for an overview of SvelteKit's features.
Knowing how to compartment your digital life, as-well as secure it, and gain some privacy is a must have skill in the coming years. With so many people becoming 'extremely online' and every device becoming a 'smart device', it's super pertinent to know how to secure all that and gain privacy too.

It used to be very hard to do all this, but now there are community vetted tools and tool-suites we can use to level up security & personal privacy. Think ad-blockers, mature and capable Operating Sytems like Ubuntu, privacy aware browsers like Firefox & the Tor Browser Bundle, as-well as encrypted cloud-based note-taking apps like Standard Notes, and even password managers like Bitwarden. We are spoiled for choice lately!
But for some people, transition is a regrettable outcome, even in the very literal sense that they do regret it. "affirmation-only" would mean affirming even people who actually would end up regretting a transition. The technology does not exist to actually make a man into a woman or a woman into a man.
There's a similarly long history of people trying and failing to break code-based schemes like Niederreiter and McEliece with binary Goppa codes. Unlike lattice-based schemes they're considered quite secure, but their key sizes are enormous (like, hundreds of KiB to several MiB in size). So they're impractical for embedded security, or any situation where key transfer bandwidth is an issue (IoT, metered data plans, etc).
The worst so-called “best practice” for Docker
I was going to say, 30 years ago, the 1st edition of the actual Plan 9 wasn't yet released (not until 1992), much less a clone/port of its shell. But it seems that Byron Rakitzis wrote his Unix clone of `rc` in 1991 before Plan 9 was even out! He based it on Tom Duff's paper which described Plan 9's shell.

(Plan 9's `rc` was originally written for 10th edition Unix, and would later get ported back to Unix as part of Russ Cox's plan9port in 2003.)
Criticism
NPVs tend to converge even on a perpetuity. simple measure of whether the seller will underwrite it, and will there be a market for purchase.
On the face of it, it sounds simple enough: special treatment when the IP address is an IETF-designated private IPv4 address (e.g. 192.168.x.y).

Is there some reason this wouldn't work, that I haven't thought of?
Nice approach. And yes, Stimulus is great for things like this.
Do you know anything about the people whose motives you are questioning? What work they've done, and why? I think if you did, you may not say what you've said.
Tom Scott has an excellent short video about just this topic if you're interested in further information about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSIC8jwbQs Quite an interesting video, definitely worth a watch!
GP is talking about the equity cost to join the YC network, not how much money YC is able to get for that equity way down the line.

The question is whether increased participation will dilute the pool of VCs who come to demo day with their checkbooks, or if the network effects will scale.

I don't think anyone knows the answer to that.
Canada signed deals with Pfizer and Moderna on August 5th. The EU signed a Pfizer + Biontech deal on September 9th. The US signed a Pfizer + Biontech deal on July 22nd.

And yet, Canada is substantially behind the EU on receiving doses, despite putting an order in more than a month earlier.

Given that the US only came to the agreement two weeks before Canada, I don't think Trudeau was sitting on his hands, waiting months for the CanSino deal to fall apart, before exploring alternative options. Seems to be a bit of an exaggeration by the Tories.
Always good to go by the content though rather than your assumption of it from the URL :).

The title and content would be of interest to anybody who cares about the freedom of speech on dominant platforms, which is certainly a frequent subject here.

Obviously if there is a neutral article on it on a third party platform that might be better, but this seems a good substitute in the meantime as it's external to the origin of the issue (which has a habit of disappearing), and contains a clear summary of what's going on.

However, I shall bear your admonition in mind for future (no snark).
> young carefree professional

Only about a third of Americans older than 25 have finished college. Not long ago, that figure was more like 1 in 4.

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

> Right now my "American style" suburban house is perfect.

In the time of Covid-19? I agree. Before February 2020? Hell, no. I moved to the 'burbs to a 4-bedroom house from my 2-bedroom city apartment. I'll move back when I can dine at bars and restaurants safely again.
$10B for Discord? Here’s why Microsoft might buy it
I would definitely put Andrei Tarkovsky in the same league of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch. Watching movies such as Solaris, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blue Velvet etc. feel like watching a beautiful and masterpiece art.
Wow. Calls for the entire FSF board to step down. And signed by more than a few names that carry weight.
The comment I was replying to cites an article about public pools and racist behaviors from 60+ years ago in entirely different communities that borders on a non-sequitur to these issues of community policing and does so as a commentary to the suggestion that these areas are "cleaning up their Deep south, backwoods" image by behaving this way, senselessly pushing the idea that racism is the cause of this. Talk about hand-wavy.
My grandfather was a construction engineer. I remember visiting his office around 1990 just before he retired.

His only computer was a Commodore 64 and he had written all the software himself in BASIC over the years, just translating a lifetime of professional experience into these little interactive programs on floppies.

Maybe the modern equivalent would be to use Excel.
Love this comment - really insightful. We did YC ourselves, and I guess there are two points here where I think YC can help improve things further.

1) Regarding getting other YC companies as your customers, I don't think there is a really great mechanism for that yet. With a network of thousands of founders, it is hard to pitch your company to the YC network without it becoming spam.

2) I agree that we learned most from companies relatively similar to ours. But it is also clear now that there is a lot of direct competitors within the YC network. I don't see a way to avoid that, but it feels important to think about at this scale.

Thanks for running YC, and thanks for scaling it!
What i mean is, your post seemed to imply that the opprobrium should be less because she is trans. I think it should be equal regardless of your gender identity.
Dynamic allocations don't cause any issues with hard realtime, as long as you don't run out of memory.
Aka fox defense

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...
My jaw just hit the floor. Wow. Reddit should be ashamed if this is true.
Except for discovery of self. If you are fortunate to get to a spot where no "man" has trod, you can feel it. A feeling of amazement, a surreal loneliness. It is awesome. Are you afraid? Alone? Teeming world is just, over there. Yet here are no ghosts. Empty of human soul. But, rich in nature's soul. Wonderful, contemplative experience.
We had an explanation of superconductivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_pair but it didn't apply to high temperature superconductivity. It took many years to get a good enough explanation of high temperature superconductivity, and IIRC there are a few details that are not understood. So it was surprising that someone made a high temperature superconductor.

As far as I know, there is no theoretical reason to discard cold fusion. There are a few "cold fusion" method that work, like using muons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion but it's so expensive to create muons and they are short lived, so you expend more energy than the useful energy you can collect from the device.

So (in 1985) both phenomena were in the same class, it was not theoretically impossible, but no one had shown a good experiment were they happened.

> Had they published something along the lines of “we’ve seen this cool thing; we think it works that way; could anyone replicate this?”, there wouldn’t have been any controversy. But they did not offer any insight, their results were unreliable, and their interpretation was doubtful. It’s not because you don’t understand something that fairies must be involved somehow.

Perhaps we agree, the problem of Cold Fusion is the lack of a reliable experiment. (And too many scammers publishing bad experiments and trying to get investors.)
Being distributed operating system can I build a RPi cluster with just plan9 installed for distributed computing tasks?
Seems like an example of the cancel culture hype. Fsf is not Rms anymore.
We've definitely talked about it. One of the downsides is that it's logistically quite complex to have overlapping batches. But it's still something we might do in the future.
Please don't turn it into another Microsoft Teams.
Provided it takes O(1) time not 0.
The UK government used to issue consols, which are perpetual bonds. Over the centuries, they bought them all back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consol_(bond)
> there are both lower hanging fruit AND bigger fish to fry than getting code into Rust.

Do tell, I am very interested?

> but it's still an effort by people who are more excited about Rust than they are acting in the interest of security

Needlessly dismissive. What if the people got excited because of the increased security?
I confirm that ZGC works with IntelliJ IDEA, and it seems to me that it makes IDEA respond quite a bit faster. It's not hard to get IntelliJ IDEs to use ZGC by editing the VM properties file.
Same issue on Ubuntu but using "go get" worked although I have no idea where the config file the developer mentions is.

Comment to dev: Please provide better documentation. Installation steps and configuration are terribly lacking.
Revamin Stretch Mark
Hopefully it's not against the rules here or anything, but it was identified[0] as /u/bpwpb[1], so Challenor changed[2] profiles to /u/isnottheimposter[3].

[0] https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/ashton-challenor-the-bo...

[1] https://reddit.com/u/bpwpb

[2] https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/something-rotten-at-the...

[3] https://reddit.com/u/isnottheimposter
As a YC alumni, the money has been the least important part of the deal. Would do it again without the money.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I was fairly certain she left the UK sometimes in 2019 and was employed by Reddit in the US. (But is still a UK citizen and presumably has substantial British interests, so both the UKs notoriously intense libel liability and the USs [and some US state’s] workplace environment laws would both potentially be in play.)
An interesting subject, but I couldn’t help but be totally derailed by introduction of Jonathan Hoefler as “designer of famed fonts like Gotham”.

That’s like introducing Thomas Edison as “father of AC power”, or Pepsi as “creators of Coca-Cola”. It might seem like nitpicking, but we’re talking about one of the most famous typefaces in the world[1] and the most dramatic design industry scandal[2] of the 21st century.

[1] https://theoutline.com/post/7356/gotham-font-is-everywhere

[2] https://qz.com/167993/frere-jones-is-suing-hoefler-for-his-h...
Firefox 86 falls back on HTTP transparently (e.g. try it with sane-project.org). I'd like to disable that, but without also adding a (stateful, fingerprintable) confirmation step to follow HTTP links.
Judge a tree by its fruit I guess.

I wonder if someone has tried to try to do a research study to compare the dogs that are outcomes of different schools of training. I imagine it would be hard to define and measure 'desirable' outcomes.
Anti-google neckbeards are ready to throw TLS away in their blind rage. What's new?
I created an open source depth estimation project. Contributions welcome
> The assumption that FTL is impossible is predicated on our understanding of physical laws being complete.

No, the assumption that FTL is impossible is based on it being impossible according to the very best evidence we have. It does not require a complete understanding of physical law to confidently state that the sun will rise in the east and a dropped ball will fall to the ground.

> We don't actually know what's possible and what's not, only what we believe is possible given our current understanding of the universe.

This will always be true. And we cannot say for certain that I am not a Boltzmann brain imagining a conversation with you. It means nothing. We have to work with what we are given because the alternative is to pretend that fantasy is reality.

> Anyway, whether FTL is or isn't possible isn't the point of my post. The point is that if you assume aliens are basically like us except with warp drives then it's easy to come up with reasonable explanations for their behaviour.

Fair, but what I'm saying is that that's an assumption on the order of "assume world leaders are actually disguised reptiles".
Here's something horrifying for you. I ran Android 5.x with updates blocked for 5 years, and even now that phone works unchanged! I also disable Spectre/Meltdown mitigations in Windows and undervolt my processors! I have no antivirus! I don't lock my door at night and my dog is going deaf with old age!

Oooh, even I shudder when reading that! :D
And often there's so much text on the dials. Brand name, automatic, 1000ft, made in X, etc, etc. I find it extremely noisy.
You're not wrong, but plaintext needs to die for reasons everyone already understands. We can deal with the implementation details^wabuses later.
I haven't seen anybody sit in a hot tub until they died, usually we get too hot and then get out. That's nowhere near boiling. Obviously, the boiling frog trope isn't intended to be taken literally.
I think there's still a market for slide-out keyboards on devices. They felt a bit janky in the 00's but I would still be first in line for the next android (or even ios, unlikely) device with such a feature. In high school I could send texts without having to look away from my counter-strike games.
Given the number of Star Wars references in the various NIST Post-Quantum Competition scheme names (CRYSTALS-KYBER, SABER, NewHope) I'm rather sad he didn't call it "Post Quantum RSA - The Phantom Menace".
For some reason, there is a fanatical subset of trans people, almost all of them biological men who identify as women, who are extremely prominent on the Internet, and particularly on Reddit. They wield an influence that is out of all proportion to their numbers.

Edit: for this story in particular, there is a pressure of cancel culture on both sides. On one side, a person's husband got doxxed after having admitted online to having pedophilic fantasies. On the other side, there is mass Reddit censorship together with attempts to cancel people for supposedly being "transphobic". The cancelation and doxxing seem unwarranted and unpleasant to me regardless of which side is doing it.
"there is zero reason to avoid a vaccine unless you're immunocompromised or allergic"

sigh did you really get all the vaccines, that exist?

I doubt so. I actually never heard anyone recomending that. Quite the contrary.
The idea is to get vaccinated against diseases you are likely to get in contact with - and then you still have to think about it, if it is worth it. Because EVERY vaccination has potential negative side effects, some quite severe.

So now there is a great chance to get in contact with Covid - so yeah, it makes sense to take that vaccine. I think I said, I did today.

But taking every vaccination?!? Come on. Or provide a source that the WHO or alike do recommend it. That would surprise me, as I traveled quite a bit and therefore discussed various vaccines with various doctors before.

And also, I never implied that you should skip a vaccine to get training on that disease. I said if you rely too much on sterilisation and vaccines - it does not help your immune system overal. Counterclaims to that? I doubt it. I am a bit annoyed by that bite-reflex of the crowd here. Maybe save that for the anti-vaxxers?