skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article. I agree with most of the proposed reforms, but take issue with freely using ‘abolish’ to describe non-abolition reforms. Something they teach in high school, that is particularly harmful IMO, is persuasive writing through bold statements and elimination of perceived uncertainty or nuance. Don’t say abolish of what you really mean is change.

Other critiques:

- High school isn’t really so different from real life outside; all those high schoolers were eventually released into the community and did not magically change

- I’ve been called a faggot and had hateful speech directed at me more often in Portland OR than I ever did in my rural New England high school; homophobia and racism and bullying aren’t high school problems, they are American society problems

- The author’s parents clearly did a very bad job socializing her when she was young. That made high school harder than it had to be

- School quality varies dramatically. The proposed reforms would go a long way towards fixing the bad schools. I went to a progressive reform-minded high school and it was great

- Bad behavior among boys on the football team is a lot more about the football team and the people that self-select into that group than about high school itself. TBIs that come out of it aren’t exactly helping the situation either

- Learning how to survive in a world of people who are different from you and with whom you share mutual dislike is actually pretty important. Some people can skip high school and be fine, but often not. I’m not convinced the people who skip out on high school because they just love reading so much are actually ending up better off. When I was a kid I preferred candy to vegetables, but it was pretty important to be nudged towards vegetables. (To be fair my parents were bad at cooking vegetables and that didn’t help matters). Physical education, when done well (e.g. includes options like yoga, a range of choices, adult-style activities like strength training and rock climbing) is extremely valuable.

- Please please please stop saying ‘abolish’ when you mean ‘change’
Not familiar with it, but their installation guide is one of the best I've ever seen.
This still seems healthier. You were angry about something presumably in much closer proximity to you, and therefore in a much better position to change/do something about. You didn't have an immediate way to fire off a response, so you had to think about it more. Twitter takes all those things and gives us the worst possible version: outrage you can engage immediately with, about issues on the other side of the planet.
> I think a full index of the contents of hundreds or thousands of emails and their attachments is soon going to take a lot of space and be slow on a mobile device.

The index doesn't need the attachments, does it? At a couple kilobytes per message you can fit a whole lot of text into a reasonable amount of phone storage. And there's no reason it should be slow.

> Also if you have multiple clients, which one is going to update the index and how do they sync up?

Each client can either independently index new emails as they come in or upload something like a compressed csv of new entries for the index database. A hundred new emails should only take milliseconds to process.

> if it needs to index pdfs and images.

How do you index images? Indexing pdfs is much more of a nicety than a necessity, and it could be a setting on whether you want to spend the data. It shouldn't take long though, as far as I know. You don't need to render it or anything.

> If multiple mobile clients build their own indices syncing them and merge conflicts might arise.

If they build their own then you don't need to sync.

If they share and do sync, I still don't see how you'd get merge conflicts. Emails don't change, and index updates are just adding and removing entire emails.
No mention of the jackrabbit x antelope hybrid despite extensive and widespread taxidermical evidence.

https://www.google.com/search?q=jackalope+taxidermy&tbm=isch
I think that most (sensible) people do not fear that Masons are devil worshippers, but rather that malicious people can hijack these groups to advance their political agenda.

If you think this is far-fetched, you should keep in mind that one of the greatest political scandals in Italy involved a deranged masonic lodge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due
Palace of Culture and Science
> 100к users ~10 000 $, and so on.

хахаха...
Apollo-Soyuz Mission: When the Space Race Ended (2020)
Ultima Online could support millions of connected players over a peer-to-peer network? Allowing any player full access to adapt the world and create any content, of any genre, style or experience. All set across an infinite sized world?

I think it's a bit of an offense to pair DreamWorld to Ultima and the legacy of people like Raph Koster, Starr Long et al. That game had a wealth of gameplay loops, progression, deep economy, and interesting world.

DreamWorld has no design, it's just all things. A plate full of every food you like does not make a good meal.
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Phabricator had seemed to be the only good product in this space when I had looked; what are people even using instead? (I guess they just put up with GitHub :/.)
This really implies that the whole idea of chrome extensions is broken: a mix of attempted malware and adware.

It seems like they should be more carefully sandboxed in some way.

Are there any proposals for fixing this?
> concretize

dear god
> I won't be surprised if writing a db in python actually becomes viable some years down the road due to the awesome tooling and the idea

Long term, complicated, high performance projects worked on by many developers is the Achilles heel of Python. The lack of type safety really bites over a large code base. Also issues with automatic refactoring tools due to the very dynamic nature of Python Deployment and dependency management is also a big issue in Python. Not to mention performance and multithreading.
Are Covid Vaccines a Good Bet?
Gerrit is solid: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/
Q&A on the EU Digital Covid Certificate
Perhaps someone could help me understand what the attack vector of the group suppousedly conducting "DNS error research" is.
At the very least Google should detect "significant" changes in ownership and or the underlying account for extensions that have "important" permissions.

With this you could implement something where once changes are detected, users have to manually opt-in. Users who care about such things could look at the changes and see that sketchy changes have been made.
When bits are flipped in a row hammer attack, what is happening to the dram? Most people would argue the energetic potential is increasing causing a failure of the boundary between cells...
I was really hoping this was going to be Yamaha announcing the first affordable, full-size e-bike, the Tesla 3 of two-wheelers. I guess we're still in the high performance slash high tech phase.
maybe in computer science only
It really is interesting how bullying as a thing seems much less prominent in College. You still have things like hazing in frats and such but the frats are optional, of course. It's easier to dismiss it as a maturity thing but it might have a little to do with how kids are crammed into the same spaces with the same people, good and toxic while in college somehow it seems less so.
That's a shame, heard only good things about those tools.

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Morningstar and S&P are not academic institutions. If you have data to refute what they're saying, I'd welcome it.
Valis is a very brave book, horselover fats biography if not Philip k. Dicks.
Yes, this jumped out at me as a classic disciplinary tactic of cults, along with this:

> Morals and Dogma was first of all written for those who have received the degrees of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in the form developed and edited by Albert Pike (the "Pike recension"). For someone to attempt to interpret the contents without the knowledge of the degrees is like trying to understand a book on quantum physics without having mastered the basics of dynamics and statics.

The reasons Freemasons might want to dissemble around Pike are obvious, given that he is both still given prominent billing in their Washington DC temple and was one of the highest ranking early members of the Ku Klux Klan.
It's definitely partly that, but it's also that the reading experience for many articles is atrocious. If I click the comments link, I get to the comments immediately — perhaps incomplete, uninformed, argumentative, but they're right there. If I click on the article, I have to wait for a bunch of branding banners, ads, sidebars, and analytics scripts to load. Then I have to wade through some popups for cookies and the site's app and wouldn't I like to subscribe? Then I have to read a couple pages of the author reminiscing about a bagel they once ate before they actually start talking about the topic at hand — along with some more slow-loading fade-in images and scrollbar hijacking. It's exhausting! I don't have time for all that.
PG has some interesting thoughts about this: http://www.paulgraham.com/talk.html
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The DNC Didn’t Get Hacked in 2020. Here’s Why
In my proposal, the number of hours a student actually spends directly listening to/interacting with an on-premise educator is much, much lower. The hope is that those would be more efficient hours, to the point of getting better results with >5x less time.

Part of the issue here may be that I found the education system to have net negative impact on my... education. The main value I see in the current system is providing child care, safety, and food security. If there is solid research showing that ~40 hours of the current approach outperforms ~5 hours of a tutoring-style approach in the general population, that would be evidence against my proposal. And that might exist, I just haven't seen it, since this is not exactly a formally vetted idea.
The way I'm reading it, you need support's help to delete everything, but I admit I'm not sure if that's the correct reading.
Conan Doyle and the Wright family helped propagating the Cottingley Fairies. Sometimes I get impressed by how much the western developed world was still so mystical by the begining of the 20th century... then I see people mixing religion and politics and I see how we haven't advanced so much in this area.
Often found in Group Policy settings, as explained by Raymond Chen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110606-00/?p=10...
Curl to /dev/shm/ ;)
If there is no shift in expectations, then you should reduce your position as the price goes up, per Kelly, i.e. "take profits". It's a great heuristic. If you wouldn't buy something at the current price, why hold it?
Try MT09 SP.
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> fail eventually.

The problem with a trustless society is the high cost of it.

Sure, people will fail, but far later in the process. So the doctor will fail, but instead of failing at the selection for medical school will fail when he actually must do procedures. So a lot of money was spent to train a useless doctor.

Sure the employee will fail, but after you have paid then 10,000 and they have screwed up a lot of work.
These videos are incredibly life like.
I can see many virtual companions being made with this.
I have a similar issue with spam related to running a website. as a rule of thumb, if it contains certain keywords or a very generic greeting ("Dear website.com team") and comes from a Gmail address, I can safely delete it. I have a filter for that.

If something slips through, I block the sender instead of just marking the message as spam. This means I don't get any of the followup emails.

Filters alone almost completely stopped those emails, and never had a false positive.

I delete any and all recruitment emails, because my LinkedIn profile is plastered with "I am not looking for work, do not contact me about contracts or job offers". In fact I just don't visit LinkedIn at all.

All of this works well. My inbox is very focused. Most emails I get were written by a human who wishes to talk to me, and machines I want to hear from.
That they are aware of the growing problem and here's what they plan to do about it. I don't know what that would be.

> "Any cooperation with third parties who pay you to add stuff to your extension gets your extension banned" rule, but it seems hard to write that rule in a way that distinguishes it from legitimate commercial activity.

Requiring disclosure would make sense and not be a problem for "legitimate commercial activity", but also not sure how it would be enforced. I'm certainly no expert.
The UI is atrocious, unfortunately.
Couldn’t just search for “pizza in Brooklyn” then? It’s not that onerous.
Implementing that is easier said than done.

I'd like to first see a real example of a mail service that in addition to e2e encryption is also best in class in terms of usability (quality and speed of search, spam filtering, auto categorization, ...).

For my use cases, usability comes first and e2e encryption comes second or even third (after price)
Talk about initial investment is not meaningful. Money is fungible. The only relevant question is what the current optimal percentage of bankroll to allocate is given the price and the expectation of future prices.
Is there a summary of why this product is not maintained anymore? From time to time I would hear about Phabricator, but I didn't know that the project was in trouble.
Impressive. Funny enough I've started to see those faces appear on YouTube. The intention may be to create these corporate style videos, but I'm counting down the minutes until my aunt starts forwarding questionable things on WhatsApp.
Is it possible to make free and decentralized Google Analytics alternative?
At the end of the day, in terms of the tracking options, people will primarily choose to use the thing that is both free and easy to set up.
Is it technically possible to recreate Google Analytics tracking alternative that fulfills those things? (Not talking about self hosting alternatives like umami)
The word advertising itself has been co-opted. It is like "freedom" or "justice" that is ambiguous and means one thing to advertisers and another to the public.

I'm reminded of the vitamin water lawsuit

"Coca-Cola criticized the suit as "ridiculous" on the grounds that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking Vitaminwater was a healthy beverage"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Brands#vitaminwater

The point being that normal people think "advertising" means showing a picture of a car or cereal, and google thinks advertising is identifying the individual.
Bamboo sheets, they are better than everything else by miles and that includes silk
I think having alternatives to high school is good.

That said, I’ve experienced what happens when high schoolers infiltrate the community colleges - it feels like high school all over again. A bit better, sure. But the level of immaturity and the disruptions are very similar. God help you if you get a group project with 15 year olds.

Ultimately, there are many people at a young age who have no interests in being a part of the type of society that has been around for the last 30-40 years. And they are a sizable portion of youths. Nihilism (in many forms...) is strong at that age and so is the lack of interest in hard work. Ultimately, what do you do for those kids for them to be happy? UBI would really be the only thing... That’s the only way you could get these counter-culture kids who are more focused on disruption out.

Also, most kids who are problematic in school tend to have problematic parents. Trickles down real well that stuff.
BBC BASIC was unmatched because of its built-in assembler. I wish that feature was more common among BASIC interpreters back then.
I always had a good experience with Phabricator, especially its customization/dashboards.

Wikimedia still uses it[1].

[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
Long time fastmail user and I love it. Simple and works great. Use it for business and personal now.
So, all the things I'm actually doing on Apple hardware I'm not really doing? Hmm...good to know. Thx.
Seems to just hang after /fusebot command in discord? Is it overwhelmed?
To clarify: this applies not just to phabricator-dot-com, but Phabricator the software: https://github.com/phacility/phabricator/commit/9ceb66453501...

This is unexpected. Many companies, among them as well-resourced as Facebook, use Phabricator. I wonder if it will be forked soon by some party interested in keeping it around. OTOH it looks like none such party exists, because the public sources have not been updated literally for years. Maybe everyone interested just runs their private fork :(

Phabricator should be reasonably easy to self-host anyway.
How much do they offer you if I'm not too blunt?
Ack! Recently moved from Phabricator to Gerrit and deleting Arcanist was a plus.
Yea, camaraderie would have been nice. Only 2 kids from my high school participated in the program. For financial reasons, I had to fully commit to college and couldn't do part time. Anyway, cool, I really liked the program and think it is a good option for some kids.
You could make it so the ability to access the network is a permission you have to grant to extensions. Got a shady extension that can't access the internet? Who cares.

Same thing would work very well on Android. Got a shady app that can't access the internet? Who cares. Of course, Google trembles at the idea of being able to run apps without a constant connection to an advertising network.
Man, in my opinion, in software, things don't really get started until after surviving for about 10 years or so. Everything else is fleeting.

Quite nice to see it saw 11 years, though.
Check again - it got a serious makeover recently. It's still far from intutive, but so much better than it used to be.

It's a power user tool that has a slight learning curve.
A number of things. Metal seals, welded and vacuum brazed joints, a variety of good epoxies. Even good O-rings. And helium leak chasers, so you can actually find and correct leaks.

To get down below a certain pressure, you have to heat everything and "bake out" residual volatile materials. This precludes a wax from even being tested at the lowest pressures.
FB's phabricator went its own way long ago. I imagine this has exactly zero impact on their day to day.

Put it this way: the last time I saw it, they still had the "clowncopterize" button. Try finding that anywhere else.
If you write on a computer, printing the essay in a different font/color/line spacing, and reading it, also works.
I'm guilty skipping straight to comments and even commenting when I haven't read the article, however, it doesn't feel at all like an urge to socialize.

Articles usually feel like they need some minimum length or to fill a word count. Comments tend more toward someone actually wanting to say something and working uphill a little bit against a natural tendency to not type.

It just annoys me that people can't separate weight of points and value of content from some kind of mental tendency to use word count as a proxy, the same way they think heavier stuff is more valuable.

Compact stuff is just more valuable to my cognitive style now. I used to like things lengthier.
Teachers get a lot of (empty) praise in the US. But many of them allow bullying. Many ARE the bullies. I've known a teacher who sold drugs to students. I remember a classmate who was r*ped by a teacher.
Reposting my experience from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27326268:

As a dev of an extension with 10k users I get 3-4 emails a month in my spam which ask me to monetize my extension by secretly changing its users' search engines. My extension is open-source and quite small, but if the change was sneaked in I think most of the users would not notice. I stick to using userscripts for the most part since you can easily check their downloaded source and disable updates.

Example:

Beth Anderson <beth@monetize-extensions.com> Mon 10:58 AM To: Mostly Spam <dev@x-ing.space>

Hello

I am Beth and I am offering monetization for browser extensions, with everything that is going on our team was extremely focused and productive in creating a way to earn revenue on extensions.

We offer to change default search to Bing or Yahoo on your extension which can earn up to $800 a month per 5000 users. This is a premium product by invitation only and can easily be added to your chrome extensions.

You are might curious to know if it is allowed? And I must say that this is completely allowed! Please reply to this email to discuss this further!

Looking forward hearing from you!

Beth Anderson

Business Development Manager
Many regional areas in Australia are going through a property boom as people rearrange their lives around remote working. Byron is right at the tip of that mountain. There are many more affordable towns both north and south of Byron.
So this post has absolutely zero context.
We were a bit surprised by the sudden reaction today. We have been using reCaptcha as one tool (among many) to fight abuse for years now. For example, here's a thread from 4 years ago mentioning it [1]. It is triggered most often for signup, but it can also appear for password reset, username lookup, sending mail, payments, login, and any other api routes which can be abused.

That said, we can also understand the reaction. Back in 2014, there were no viable alternatives. Today, there is one alternative, and we started the transition to hCaptcha earlier this year, and will complete it in the coming weeks.

For security reasons, we can't say too much, but some truly massive residential IP botnets have appeared in recent years and can make millions of attempts per day. On really bad days, Captcha can appear for nearly 1% of legitimate users (some who are unwittingly part of the botnet), while blocking nearly all of the malicious attempts.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/5z70cd/when_sig...
We also figured out how to make direct glass-to-metal joints at some point. Widely used in mass-manufactured stuff, but I think you can also buy just a glass-to-metal transition or feedthrough by itself if you're doing custom glasswork.
Soooo The Castle?
This might be a terrible advice but here’s what i did: i drowned myself reading pessimist philosophers literature. This ended up being my source of energy to keep on moving... it worked for me. I dunno about you but here’s my two mexican pesos. Best of things to ya, my fellow human.
Would you be able to share what your solution looked like? Thanks in advance!
There are definitely other horrible tropes and attitudes at work here as well, such as age discrimination for junior positions at companies that pressures kids to be ready made for employment at 23 but be cast with a skeptical eye at 27. It's ridiculous.
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Australia has national health so that tax difference is probably more than made up for by health insurance premiums.
There are probably better links:

https://texasnewsexpress.com/index.php/04162021-1249/apple-r...
I read this comment out loud
Philip K. Dick and the Pleasures of Unquotable Prose (2011)
Back in the 1970s I owned all of Dick's novels, and all short stories available in collections (which is quite a lot of stuff!) I'm not a book collector - I bought them because at the time he was my favourite writer.

Just recently, I've started re-reading them on my Kindle. I've just finished "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", and while I enjoyed it, I have to say it wasn't as good as I remember. Next up is "A Scanner Darkly", so we shall see how things go.
> Lots of states have programs where you can go to college and earn highschool credit (duel credit).

“Dual credit”. Duel credit might be available in New Jersey, though (everything is legal in New Jersey.)