skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another example of how "both sides" are not in fact the same and should not be treated the same by these companies or the media. There's no equivalent on the left to the far-right media complex of Fox News, talk radio, and online sources like those in the article.
I use Mikrotik (or OpenWRT) for routers, but Mikrotik is not that good on WiFi. Peeople recommend Ruckus, but it's pretty expensive (and not that easy to get second hand in Europe, or Spain at least).

Is there any (good) brand with pricing between Mikrotik and a Ruckus that doesn't need a cloud connection?
Why do people trust any IoT devices these days? Shouldn't we be trying to reduce our exposure to (inevitably insecure) software? What benefits does it provide that are worth the unbounded risks?
Peplink seems pretty good; they do have a Cloud:tm: management offering called InControl2 but as far as I'm aware it's entirely optional. I've had good luck configuring everything via the local UI. My setup is a Balance Two + a few One AX APs.
Far-left misinformation, not a problem.
previously stored. They probably made a csv backup of the lastpass database. Those aren’t encrypted.
I think we're on the same page, then. Or at least close to it.

> Does that warping also fix causality? I'd want to see that proven, not just assume that it magically does so.

Fair. My impression is that it does fix causality, since the warping eliminates the need to (locally) move at relativistic speeds (and therefore reduces any time dilation to negligibility, and thus the opportunities for retrocausality).

So I guess I'm more coming at it from the opposite direction: that if any superluminal communication violates causality (which seems to be a common assertion, both in this thread and elsewhere), then I'd want to see that proven, rather than assume it does so.

At most, what I can gather is that it's mathematically possible to construct a warp bubble capable of backwards time travel, just like how it's mathematically possible to construct a wormhole that can do so; when you're mangling spacetime, that obviously opens the door for all sorts of wacky shenanigans. Possibility != certainty, though, and various online discussions (including this one) feature folks who seem to assert that all FTL travel/communication must violate causality, which leaves me wondering why - especially when, to your point, plugging the relevant numbers into the Lorentz transformation doesn't transform anything (no local movement, so v = 0, so the Lorentz factor becomes 1, and vx/c^2 = 0, therefore no time dilation - is that math right?).

There's also Hawking's chronology protection conjecture. Yeah, just a conjecture, so it can obviously be disproven at some point, but from what I understand string theory seems to support it (reading the relevant papers is on my TODO list).

In any case, thanks again. I don't feel like I'm closer to a definitive answer, but at least I'm left with more to think about.
> Or if that doesn't work, then torches and pitchforks.

It's America. I think the Matrix quote "guns; lots of guns" is more appropriate :)
Yes; I didn't mention it because, while they are technically literals, you are expected to write your own types and use your own constructors. But yes, F#, OCaml, Haskell, Idris, Elm, etc. are also very data-centric.
Trust in the system aka Benefits from the system. If Bitcoin became entrenched in the legal framework of our societies, they will simply get Bitcoin as it happens. Until then, they make enough money as it is. Also, they look down on the believers as gamblers and criminals undeserving of this new wealth.
I always thought that the main selling point of their devices was that you can run your own Ubiquiti server at home and keep everything local? They are always portrayed as the not-so-shitty IoT company.
I've only ever seen it once when I was in an EV Uber (it was a Model S) behind a pickup truck in Baltimore and the pickup kept blasting us with massive amounts of black soot (presumably because we were in an EV).

There's a political element of "Truck Driving Republican" vs. "EV Driving Liberal" that powers some of this. I think Elon has been at last partially trying to reduce this polarization with how he behaves online to widen Tesla's appeal (though maybe I'm attributing too much intentionality here).

On the west coast I was tailed super aggressively by a pickup in my model 3 on 280 which was a little scary (blinding me with headlights, switching lanes to stay 1 inch behind me). I watched cameras after to see if I cut him off or something, but I didn't. It has made me more wary of pick up trucks in general though.
Deno poses itself partially as node with web standards, Mozilla likes when things are webby
I do not understand the data in this article.

Do all these trees bloom in unison? The scattered data seems to suggest there is variance between individual trees?

If there is variance, then how is decided what the start of spring is and at what point the tree as a collective species blooms?
Discovery of breaches seems to be undesirable in the current environment, if many go undetected.

If you discover, you have to report. If you don’t, odds are nobody will notice/will blame someone else.
I'll never understand how opposition to improving the integrity of things like this is taken seriously, much less defended.
(Or convert to outlines, and then embed some sort of metadata for accessibility and machine readability. But that’s probably overkill.)
This is really nice
Misc points of doctrine are not really the “collective interpretation” as if fundamentals were changing, and the comment to which I replied said “radically different”.

None of your examples feel like radically different Catholicism, except perhaps the papal infallibility thing, though even that seems it was generally believed, but not categorically, before being written down and today is generally believed, but not categorically, so, not radically different.
Irvine, California out of the 100 largest cities. Average of 0.72 homicides per 100,000 people, per year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
I more or less agree; but I find myself wondering why I so often use Matlab's debugger, but almost never use pdb for python. It is not like I'm not used to using command line tools (I use bash, git, emacs, etc. everyday). It could just be an accident of habit, I don't know.
Shoulda learned from the best guys.
Michael Jordan: "Republicans buy sneakers too."
Given that it is a, I think, gen2 paperwhite, you are almost certainly correct in your assessment of my humorous comment.

However, I don't like to generate waste so as long as it still, generally, holds its charge for weeks I'll continue to use it.
Technically, Ubiquiti does have a local option. You can run the controller locally and disable cloud login.
I assembled a similar decruftifier for the Washington Post specifically, using html-xml-utils (https://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils -- and some sed/awk) to strip only core article content & metadata (head, byline, dateline). Result was typically <5% of original HTML.

I've come to realise that most online commercial publishing does not even use bold within body text, giving another filter trigger for stripping cruft.
Is a successful hack even necessary?

Threatening to send fabricated evidence of your scandalous kink to people in your work or social circles should be enough. If "that isn't mine" actually works, it works against an actual hack too.

Society will experience a brief but painful moment in the near future when Zoom recordings deepfaked to show you into scandalous kinks are easier to create than the public thinks.
Facebook has become increasingly popular with older people. Older people tend to be more conservative. People engage more with content which confirms their preexisting biases. Facebook prioritizes engagement above all else because their monetization model is engagement => ad views => revenue.

The ad-funded social media giants all inevitably turn into echo chamber factories.
Ubiquiti is another one of these companies where if you did nothing but read about them on HN, Reddit, et al, you would think they're filing for bankruptcy tomorrow, set orphanages on fire, kill puppies, etc. The negative hyperbole around this company is something else, hack or not. And yet, all they do is thrive...
Simple. They can control TV stations & newspapers. Facebook & Twitter, not so much. At least, not yet.
It's a shame that Mikrotik doesn't have a easy to use global GUI.

It's the right hardware, and great firmware and wonderful flexibility - but it needs an easy to use GUI controller to make the simple stuff easy to take over from Ubiquiti.
What's so important about hardware crypto?
For me, the real game-changer would be some type of better GPGPU support on existing and future devices. Most of the FLOPs are in the GPU and it's not very practical to use it for compute due to lack of drivers and APIs.
Perhaps KOReader will solve your issue: https://github.com/koreader/koreader
Ouch, that's one of those "ha ha only serious" kind of jokes.
The Weird Science of Loneliness and Our Brains
I would bet on a large scale it's not people who are being abused, just people who are miserable and unhappy with their lives for whatever reason.
No, I haven't. I think you deeply don't understand those cultures. Cultures usually agree on what's bad, but not on how bad it is. In my school, everyone told "yo momma" jokes. I've also been in countries where insulting your mom would lead to a fist fight, and I'd be considered in the wrong for making the joke (and not the other person for punching me). How bad is a fist fight? How bad is a "yo momma" joke? It depends on your culture.

Yes, making someone feel uncomfortable is considered bad everywhere, but in many parts of the world, it's the same kind of bad as using the wrong fork to eat your salad in the US. No one cares. No one will argue it's not better than using the Right Fork, but whatever. (And yes, there are cultures where eating etiquette and ritual is super-important).

That's even true in parts of lower-class US culture. If I'm on a construction site, and there are two workers:

- One is impeccably polite, and never makes me uncomfortable

- One always helps me out in a bind; if I need a shift covered, or my family has an emergency, but goes out of their way to tease everyone

Guess who'll be preferred? It's the opposite from elite British society (which the US descends from), where I can conquer your country and exploit your people so long as I'm polite and don't lose my temper.

And yes, different types teasing and other ways of making people intentionally feel uncomfortable for NO reason are parts of many cultures, and no one cares.

As a footnote: As far as I know, Stallman does have a goal in inflicting discomfort: he is advocating for a particular set of social changes. Is that an effective way to do it? Probably not. But no one's perfect. Stallman works from first principles and kind of ignores prevailing culture.
I don't think it's only adolescents. You can see rich Google employees bullying poorer developers on Twitter in the name of social justice. Some of the bullies must be at least 50 years old.

Social media and Twitter are bad because you can form virtual tribes and yield to age-old instincts.

The more individualistic people are, the less they join those tribes. Individualists tend to be grumpy though, for which they are bullied by the perfect Twitter moralists.
This post gets to the core that the relevant axes for belief in Bitcoin and decentralized crypto in general lie in "knowledge" vs "trust in the system."

The main issue I have here is that the knowledge bit glosses over the "high trust in the system/high knowledge" quadrant quite a bit. One perspective from those folks that's missing is that Bitcoin's day of reckoning will inevitably be if and when it becomes a material threat to the system, that the system itself will react to (1) suppress Bitcoin and (2) replace its own currency with one that re-establishes trust.

The history for currencies around the world broadly follow the pattern we're seeing unfold today: a "hard" currency becomes devalued, typically due to some event like war, loses trust, and the system replaces it with a new currency that can re-establish trust. Some examples are the greenback-dollar relationship, the mark-rentenmark-reichmark, and the 1994 Brazilian real.

The other shoe here is that, as part of the playbook for establishing new currencies during a crisis, the governments always suppress alternative currencies, whether those were bank-issued notes in the 19th century US, FDR's massive gold confiscation, or re-valuing debts in terms of the newly established currency - all options are in play, and there is basically nothing that the government will stop at to run it's playbook to stabilize the currency in crisis.

In that context, maybe the smart/high trust people think "Crypto is a cool technology, but it can be used to create the next central bank currency so why do I care about this one when anyone can create a new coin" and also consciously or unconsciously know that the government is going to take massive action to suppress a $1MM bitcoin.

Some good references for how currencies (and contract denominated in the currency, like debt & assets) evolve in various crises throughout history: "Principals for Navigating Big Debt Crises" by Ray Dalio, "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber, Perry Mehrling's course "Economics of Money and Banking."
I don't think social media was doomed from the start - there were many years of healthy enough communities (I'm mostly familiar with LiveJournal in the early 2000s) that didn't have all the downsides of modern social media. You saw updates in most-recent-first order, if you refreshed the page you got the same thing (perhaps with a new update at the top, but it was easy to tell when you'd caught up), and if you had too much stuff to read, you figured out how to trim some of it away ("FRIENDS CUT!"). The cost to operate the infrastructure was fairly minimal, and it accomplished most of the things we actually would like from social media without the downsides.

What we haven't proved is that you can have social media run by a publicly traded, ad-revenue-funded company without all sorts of harmful effects (with the main interface being smartphones with push notifications). That's where all the nasty "engagement" effects come from - trying to drive eyeballs to ads to improve revenue. It's very much a zero-sum game - every pair of eyeballs has 24 hours in the day, so the goal is to command their attention for as many of those hours as possible. That's where the evil creeps in.
I doubt this meta analysis is done well enough to make a statement such as the title. Easily seems like a personal sentiment backed by some well picked numbers.

Look forward to all of the opinions based off this as if it were fact.

- What does far right mean?

- What does misinformation mean?

- Measuring engagement is much more involved than looking at comment totals

On another note, does anyone else find it laughable that a researcher thinks they can so easily categorise political affiliations to internet communities?

"HN is far right!"

Edit: This post is already getting nasty. I don't care if you're left or right, I'm ripping on academics and the current state of research.

The social sciences need to be reigned back in.
but if you get away with it 90% of the time....
"Thus this is simultaneously “a dangerous food safety thing people commonly do” and “relatively high risk” (Conor regrettably does not say what this risk is high relative to; it’s almost certainly high compared to eating a fresh saltine, less so compared to doing wheelies on a motorcycle in traffic)."

This is a problem.

I've met people who advocated feeding their pets cooked, bone-in chicken. That's kind of a bad idea, but you can get away with it for a very long time. Or, if you get unlucky, ....

Risks are frequently presented on a "relative risk" basis; do X and your risk of cancer Y is 20 times greater. Except that your risk of cancer Y is minuscule and 20 times more is only slightly less minuscule. On the other hand, there are 300+ million people in the US; 300 million times something minuscule can still be a noticeable number.

So when the USDA says, "If a perishable food (such as meat or poultry) has been left out at room temperature overnight (more than two hours) it may not be safe. Discard it, even though it may look and smell good," they do that because if they don't, hundreds or thousands of restaurants in the country will keep perishable food, perhaps much longer than overnight, and the result will be a daily death toll.

So, allow me to rephrase one of his interpretations: "some foods might be a significant risk after several hours, but we can’t trust [a 16-year old minimum wage employee or that sketchy dude whose food truck keeps changing names] to sort out which ones [given that specifying which ones would require several thousand pages of fine print], or to keep close track of your cut-off time [which varies by local atmospheric conditions, among other things], so we are saying two hours is the limit for virtually all foods to keep [even someone immune-compromised] safe and our smart asses covered".

You can call that a lie, if you like. Kind of like how "if the net force on an object is zero, then the velocity of the object is constant" is a lie, too.

Do I eat pizza that has been left out overnight? Sure. Heck, I'll eat stuff that's far enough along to be visibly sketchy. But I have a functional immune system and the worst case is that I get sick (or die). But I'm a lot more cautious when I'm cooking for someone else, and I tend not to cook for large numbers of people because I don't know all those stupid rules.

But when someone says something like, "USDA’s bullshit mega-overcautious-standard", I'm calling their opinion horseshit. Because that is exactly how you get anti-vaxxers and measles outbreaks.
> but the longer your repl session is open and the more you change and compile, the more likely you are going to end up with a mixed state in memory that does not reflect how your program would behave if run from scratch.

I've seen this happen multiple times including during live Clojure talks at conferences. I also never found REPL driven development all that beneficial outside of quickly toying with trivial pure functions and that's possible in basically every popular language these days.
Man I really wonder why the lack of proper 2FA is so wide spread?

Is it rally cost and complexity?

Or just missing awareness?

Or the lack of consequences when you get hacked in a way which could easily have been prevented (through then they might have attacked in a different way, tbh.).
Do you really see a clear cap-height (and baseline, to measure it from) here? https://software.sil.org/awami/design/

Or look at Thai: https://omniglot.com/writing/thai.htm. Yes, there's a pretty clear upper and lower "line", but it's much more like an equivalent to ex-height in Latin than to cap-height.

Giving it a different name doesn't help: if you put Latin text with 16px cap-height alongside Thai text with the "body" of the letters sized to 16px, they'll look awful (the Thai will be much too big).

(As someone else has already said, ex-height is usually a more useful measure for Latin script, and that would be closer to matching how something like Thai might be measured -- though it'd be a bit on the small side. And it wouldn't interoperate well with Chinese, for example.)
Maybe we should try a less famous passage for comparison?

Et factum est post mortem Moysi servi Domini, ut loqueretur Dominus ad Josue filium Nun, ministrum Moysi, et diceret ei: Moyses servus meus mortuus est: surge, et transi Jordanem istum tu, et omnis populus tecum, in terram quam ego dabo filiis Israël. Omnem locum, quem calcaverit vestigium pedis vestri, vobis tradam, sicut locutus sum Moysi. A deserto et Libano usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten, omnis terra Hethæorum usque ad mare magnum contra solis occasum erit terminus vester. Nullus poterit vobis resistere cunctis diebus vitæ tuæ: sicut fui cum Moyse, ita ero tecum: non dimittam, nec derelinquam te. Confortare, et esto robustus: tu enim sorte divides populo huic terram, pro qua juravi patribus suis, ut traderem eam illis. Confortare igitur, et esto robustus valde, ut custodias, et facias omnem legem, quam præcepit tibi Moyses servus meus: ne declines ab ea ad dexteram vel ad sinistram, ut intelligas cuncta quæ agis. Non recedat volumen legis hujus ab ore tuo: sed meditaberis in eo diebus ac noctibus, ut custodias et facias omnia quæ scripta sunt in eo: tunc diriges viam tuam, et intelliges eam. Ecce præcipio tibi: confortare, et esto robustus. Noli metuere, et noli timere: quoniam tecum est Dominus Deus tuus in omnibus ad quæcumque perrexeris.

And done is after death Moses servant God, so speak God to Joshua son Nun, assistant Moses, and say him: Moses servant my dead is: arise and cross Jordan that you, and all people with you, in land which I give sons Israel. All place, which step track foot your, you give, like speak I am Moses. From desert and Lebanon up to river big Euphrates, all land Hethites up to sea great against sun set is border your. None can to you resist all days life you: like am with Moses, so am with you: not send away, nor abandon you. Be comforted, and be strong: you indeed lot divide people this land, for which swear fathers their, that give her them. Be comforted therefore, and be strong very, so keep, and do all law, which teach you Moses servant my: not fall from her to right or to left, so know all that you do. Not depart book law this from mouth your: but meditate in it days and nights, so keep and do all which written are in it: then direct way your, and understand her. Look instruct you: be comforted, and be strong. Don't be afraid, and don't fear: because with you is Lord God your in all to wherever go.

OK, this translation benefits from most verbs being imperative in meaning, which matches up well with the base form in English.

I guess I have to agree that maybe one could understand the Vulgate decently well just by learning Latin words' meaning in isolation without the grammar.
I use a Yubikey, personally.
I love fzf and tend to use it whenever repeatitive, non-static behavior is in play.

Replacing Ctrl-R with fzf is the most basic and most useful usage.

Basically every git command involving history, branches etc have fzf wrappers in my setup.

My latest, least common usage is having built a wrapper around KeepassX and keepassx-cli to access my secrets from the CLI with fzf to fuzzy search entries. Saves me a lot of time every day.

Thanks junegunn for theamazimg tool!
full title:

Far-Right Misinformation Is Thriving On Facebook. A New Study Shows Just How Much
Early Unix Computer Games
it did exist before. rarepepewallet, though amateurish in its UI and full of unserious and borderline offensive memery, was (maybe still is?) an NFT platform years before the term existed. In some ways is more fully realized for the purpose of trading unique token indexes than most of what goes by the name NFT presently.
Not all that useful but definitely cool. Would help if the the selected color code was printed at the bottom with a 'copy to clipboard' button
Virtuesignaling of America is how I interpret this. How about General Electric Motors next? Voltvo? Big Mega Watts?

Im all for electrification where it makes sense, but this seems like a bad pun more than a good idea.
This is an interesting observation. As a non-native speaker I was surprised by how many German expressions are used in English (with the correct German spelling). Even when there is a perfect (or near perfect) English equivalent.

However, this is pretty different as VW is a brand name so you don't have much liberty in how you write it.