skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm as left wing as they come, but being left wing means being able to have open, honest and sometimes uncomfortable debates. Being left wing is not, and never has been, about shutting down conversation, de-platforming, dogma, chilling effects. These are the things of the hard right, and the sooner people on the left start realising it and start being empowered to be vocal in defence of the freedom of ideas, the better."

That has not been true anywhere in the world where a left wing (the) party dominated the discourse. No socialist or communist party has ever had tolerance to an opposing view.
Basic things like bread are getting worse. I can eat a decent amount of home baked wheat based food but store bought wheat bread is just awful to my digestion. Just two slices is enough to regret it. It's clearly not the gluten. I've read articles that store bought bread has more FODMAPs. They clearly changed something in the baking process in the name of mass production but there is no way I can figure it out myself.

Whatever is available in the stores is not the same thing we ate 100 (random number) years ago.
Are there other opinions about this about centralizing development of the Linux kernel?

To be honest, for me this is a trust issue. It is a very valuable commidty and I am still not convinced this isn't some new embrace phase from Microsoft.
Trafficking makes sex work cheap, johns prefer cheap sex work. And then they rationalize the criticism along the lines of your comment.

You don't actually have any evidence that there is no trafficking, no exploitation. You assume prostitutes are taking drugs out of their free will. That they are not abused. That they live the lives they want to live. That "radical feminists" just have some evil agenda...

Well, why do you need to believe all this?
Would you? Because NDAs are about not talking about something, not just not confirming. By denying some statements you'd probably still violate an NDA.
Yes. This is part of the things I'll be adding in the coming days: rss feed, bookmarking functionality, a job board, optimize for mobile...
“…as long as you don’t challenge their ideological stances”? Maybe the problem is you
Reminder that McAfee was a rapist and murderer who was never brought to answer to his crimes.
I would take a vaccine to protect my grandmother.

I would even take a vaccine to protect some abstract person with a broken immune system whom I never met and probably never will.

I would even do that if the vaccine wouldn't help me (which it does).

It is called empathy and caring for each other.
I've been a paying user since google shut down Reader. I really agree with your comment.

On the other hand I'm expecting to be ridiculously productive at work until Newsblur is back up.
Crackpot intuition: Knowing very little about either LSH or Lattices, could something like this be used to speed up the Shortest Vector Problem and attack lattice-based post-quantum cryptography?

Edit: Googling finds a paper from 2015 (https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/744.pdf). Can't tell how relevant this is or how far off the mark I am, but either way this ain't novel. Back to humbly minding my own business =)
In Germany it's expected that vacationing workers are as good as dead until they return.
Cops fly drones at night because they're hard to see, but the drones can see in the dark.
I’m in my mid-forties. The tech industry wasn’t at all like this when I was young. Somewhere along the lines, people stopped being nice and having a personality apparently became a personality flaw.

I’m taking a break from this fucking site. I can’t believe the extent to which my colleagues are roasting someone over three letters. Bunch of fucking bullies if you ask me.
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No, because the AI will become self conscious and kill us all. Repent, Teslageddon is comming.
A compromise would be a program that promoted/subsidized drip irrigation (zero interest loans), as well as resetting water prices to more accurately reflect its value.
This is awesome. Finally something sensible to play while at work. Kidding, but I will take a look at it. Really well done UI and artwork after taking a quick peek.
Flywheel, a modern engine for modded Minecraft
Not every drone is a quadcopter, could have had wings of some kind (?)
> GDPR is a foreign law that has no relevance to American firms lol.

I couldn't agree more with the spirit of your comment, but sadly the reality may be somewhat more nuanced:

GDPR in the USA https://www.cookiebot.com/en/gdpr-usa/

"The GDPR has extra-territorial scope, which means that websites outside of the EU that process data of people inside the EU are obligated to comply with the GDPR. ... In fact, the very first GDPR enforcement was against a Canadian company... being a website in the US does not exempt you from GPDR compliance and the territorial distance will not protect you from its enforcement either."

Reminded me of:

CISA amendment would allow US to jail foreigners for crimes committed abroad https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/22/cybersecu...
Yes, the let's shoot at things in the air over a populated area approach.
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>>Is someone asking you to use their name a small favor or common societal expectation?

We are not talking about that. Is more like a request to address somebody as his majesty or excellency.
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Asking here (@dang) but not really expecting an answer, would be nice to receive one though.

I suspect this thread (apart from a title edit which removed date of event, weird but ok) was flagged in some way: early on it started ranking very low given points and time of submission, currently it shows at the end of Nim searches in algolia (by default ranked by points).

I submitted being careful not to advertise the submission on Nim channel to limit artificial growth by fans and possibly avoid the flagging mechanisms (unsuccessfully). If it were to die off without interest, fine, somebody else would submit again or maybe people are just not interested. Instead it got points but went very early on away from top page. This means people were interested but the post had artificially limited visibility. It also means a repost is not encouraged.

I believe this is a legitimate submission advertising and stimulating discussion from larger HN community on a Nim (a language on which HN crowd has expressed interest) event that happens once a year (and there has been very limited submissions on Nim subjects in the last months).

Is there something else a normal user should know to avoid stuff being flagged while trying to genuinely share something without trying to trick HN in any way? Or is there something specific in this post that warranted flagging?

I am personally very fond on Nim on HN since this is how I discovered about Nim, but this stuff happening makes me less eager to submit stuff (Nim related or otherwise on this site).
Dude, Google have 100,000 employees. They can't all be Mensa level IQ.
was it a quad copter or winged?
My heuristic for pessimism:

We use enourmous amounts of energy and we invest enourmous amounts of money in energy production. At the same time we have neglible storage and and neglible investment in storage.

some numbers:

194MWh - capacity of Hornsdale Power Reserve in Australia

161 million A$ - it's cost (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Power_Reserve)

4 700 000 MWh - Australia's daily total consumption of energy of all fuel types (https://www.energy.gov.au/data/energy-consumption)

4700000 / 194 = 24226 - number of same power reserves to store australias power for one day.

24226 * 161 millions = 3.9 trillions of A$ - money needed to build a days capacity in Australia at current price.

(for comparison, Australia GDP is near 2 trillion A$, US GDP is 27 trilion A$)
And you want missgendering to be interpreted legally as the equivalent of a death threat?
Unrelated, but you might be able to download all your data with their new api
> If, however, somebody else is completely fine with earning their money that way, why would we care or even tell them they aren't allowed to?

I'm pretty ignorant on this issue, so I may have this wrong. But my intuition is that sex work, on average and over the long term, is not positive for one's mental well being. Something about repeatably being so vulnerable and intimate with strangers who have little interest in your whole self. That said, even if I'm right, I'm not sure what the laws or policies should be.
Set yourself free by developing a growth mindset toward anxiety
"I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine." (Tweet by John McAfee) 10/15/20
> Turns out the ufw firewall I enabled and diligently kept on a strict allowlist with only my internal servers didn't work on a new server because of Docker.

I’ve been got by this too.
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Dear all, I'm an addict. A Tetris addict. I fell in love with Tetris Effect the first time I laid eyes on it. Now in July comes the Connected update to all the supported platforms (including Steam). I come to you in order for some advice on how to play it at home, maybe on the TV big screen. I considered PS4, I could get a used one for cheap, but then I would have game cost and also would have to subscribe to Playstation Plus in order to be able to play online. XBOX systems have a similar problem, also requiring a monthly fee to be able to play online. I'm a Mac guy, use only Macs for work and personal activities. I don't think the Intel Iris Plus could handle TE:C. So now my last resort comes in the form of a Windows PC/laptop. Would you be so kind to suggest a Windows PC/Laptop minimum setup that I could buy in order to play TE:C comfortably at least 1080p 60fps? Thank you in advance.
I honestly hate the "Haha I NEED my coffee isn't my addiction so quirky haha?" thing some people have. And the same as weed addicts they constantly feel the need to justify their addiction it really irritates me.
How do you deal with incomplete data?

I made a script to get the highest mountains in norway and get them on a map in Jupyter - looks nice, includes pictures if there are etc, but it doesn't pick out all the highest mountains. Most of them, but some are missing.
Yeah, maybe you're right. My experience with NDAs is indeed limited. At least that naive thought crossed my mind, which might be true for OP as well.
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Why not run it in containers? What's the downsides?

I mean, if you can reliably run Kafka or Postgres in containers, what's sufficiently different about MongoDB?

Or are you talking about using Docker itself as the container host as opposed to K8s or ECS etc.?
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In my case, I focused away from my personal complexes for so long that nowadays I don't care about them at all. The negative emotion is completely gone. When I was younger, I was obsessed with my appearance and the sound of my voice. Thinking about them constantly and always feeling terrible about myself 24/7. Stuck in a loop. This led to a constant sense of self-loathing and kept my self-esteem low which probably made things worse.

I had to bury myself in something difficult for years and really struggle at it in order to escape these negative feedback loops.
> The idea of 'free bricks' such as were available in software was a thing that horrified Lego managemen

It seems that 'free bricks' in general horrifies them. I went to visit one of the biggest sellers of Lego in Norway and they had been told that Lego no longer wants stores to sell plain lego bricks, but only Lego sets. Which for me seems rather strange.
I am definitely not arguing users should not be responsible for what they do. My point is that companies (especially billion dollar companies) can, and should be (more) secure by default.

I am also making the observation that this does not seem to get fixed by itself, rather it seems it needs regulation, which includes GDPR.
Russia literally shot down a civilian airliner, annexed part of the Ukraine, and continues to assassinate/attempt to assassinate former intelligence operatives that turned on them decades ago on foreign soil.

We still haven’t gone to war with them, and we’re in a better position to do that as well.

Declaring war on China even if this was a lab leak, hell even if it was on purpose (Difficult to believe, but let’s go there) isn’t a workable or appropriate solution. Certainly not going to happen in the short term, blame it on globalism, but the global implications are bigger than ever and don’t make it practical.
How is it FUD? Yeah open-source drivers will get updated. The binary blob firmware of a component? Not really. If you replace it, it will still has the old/potentially buggy firmware.
This is such a "funny" mess!

In computer security, if obscure researcher Bob discovers that a few instructions can theoretically be used to steal Joe's passwords at the random location in memory where they are by burning the CPU using some webassembly, we make a huge deal of it. We slow down all CPUs in the world overnight to cope with that thus-far _theoretical_ attack, threaten the CPU designer with class action lawsuits, and hail Bob as a hero.

With this virus, we are doing the opposite: we are distributing the patch (vaccine) at glacial speeds (while our economies burn). No "hardware hardening" is being discussed and we are not bringing a class-action lawsuit against God for all His vulnerabilities. All we are saying is "This is your fault Bob, we are going after you!"
> No military pilot I know would ever create the type of risky scenario as described here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_cras...

20 dead, pilot destroyed a videotape filmed from the plane during the crash.
Oh wonderful, the game where ‘just one more turn’ turns into 8am.

I love the web so much.
Unfortunately jobs do not experiment enough and neither do politics. There are no real "training wheels" kind of jobs that allow one to seriously evaluate merit for many positions.

For instance, suppose we're looking for a person capable of managing and devising a high end strategy. How would you even judge someone good at it, with computer simulation games? Definitely college degrees are bad proxy for it.

What happens if you prefer certain kinds of merit over others, like today, where people with social skills and connections can easily outmanouevre others?

How do you even judge certain kinds of merit, like creativity, critical for art and research jobs? Acclaim is not the same thing as merit.

This and other questions make meritocracy actually impossible to implement.
Infinite complexity doesn’t really phase people. But pointing out that infinite flexibility means an infinite test surface, sometimes gives people pause.
What exceptions? Don't you have any restaurants or dry cleaners or any other small businesses around where you live which were started by poor immigrants?
The reported behavior suggests a fixed-wing drone, not a quadcopter. Especially the circling.
Arguably as well, South Korea is underneath significantly less geopolitical threat than Taiwan.
I don't understand that argument. Wouldn't serial passage through human lung cells produce efficient bindings? Is that sort of artificial selection not what they meant by "laboratory manipulation?" If they mean it's not the product of genetic engineering then sure, but leaving out the possibility of serial passage is misleading at best.
It's possible all of those promises are about encrypting data at rest on their servers, not on your client device.

The loading message about encrypting your data may have been prepping it for transit, not encrypting on your device's storage.

Keep in mind that the most basic security measure on your Android device is to enable encryption for all of your storage across applications, so your data should be encrypted at rest on your end already.
I am overwhelmed with negative responses. The truth is that these things can hide in plain sight. Take for example scurvy. The cure for scurvy was known for a very long time before it was proven to be citrus fruits in the famous experiment, the very first clinical trial. This isn’t well known, but it’s true. Native tribes knew about scurvy and demonstrated the cure to many Europeans long before Europeans rediscovered the cure. European doctors simply ignored it, and didn’t bother looking into the matter. It’s pretty unbelievable. But you haven’t seen anything yet… after the famous clinical trial of citrus fruits, scurvy was finally defeated, right? Wrong! The results of this clinical trial, which was held onboard a ship and witnessed by many people, written about and so on, were ignored by doctors! For an incredible amount of time, the cure was not only known about but scientifically proven and yet the medical establishment ignored it and people went right on dying of scurvy just as they always had. An artifact of the times, right? That could simply never happen today. We are too virtuous.

Now take for example the lipid hypothesis of heart disease. It’s absolutely riddled with holes. And there is more than enough evidence to topple it over. But the story repeats itself. And there are many things that are ignored. Many, many people are lucky enough to never be concerned with it. There are an unlucky few, though, who’s stories intersect with this unfortunate little oversight.

Anyway, our bodies need carbs. If you don’t eat them your body just makes them. They are required for explosive effort and other things. But we were never intended to eat mostly carbs, despite what people say. For millions of years people mostly ate animals. The modern human eats almost nothing but carbs and it results in a lot of problems that aren’t classified as diseases now but will be later. Cheers.
Well, the screenshot does say "by MattKC" :-)
I live in Europe so I'm definitely not talking from a US perspective. But I acknowledge that web services are generally worse in India than most (other) developed countries.
Absolutely! 5g is another area where this is happening. If you read literal industry whitepapers and peer reviewed articles about mm wave antenna arrays, the biometric sensing applications and corresponding privacy concerns are quite literally spelled out. There are entire industries being built around these applications and hosts of highly qualified researchers openly collaborating with corporations. Meanwhile these towers, which are effectively biometric radars, are going into cities across the country with zero informed public conversation.
If you feel so compelled to remain a US citizen that you don't want to renounce your citizenship, then again, you are choosing to pay the costs expected of being a US citizen.
Sorry, but I never stated such a thing. OpenLayers is great when you want all possible features/formats ever created baked in, and excels for certain use cases such as GIS academia, but Leaflet is still the library of choice for most raster-based maps — intentionally simple, lightweight, very easy to use, carefully designed, extremely stable, extensible and working beautifully.
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I read similar stories from early retirees. After some time they get bored and return to work.

I honestly don't get it. I have never experienced that feeling. I'm now on my second year of working significantly less, and you'd have to drag me back kicking and screaming.
Why weren't the same pictures used for StyleGAN2 and Alias-Free GAN?
IIRC, so long as you made a settlement offer early on in the process for some low value, from that point onwards if the case eventually gets decided in the defendant's favor or even if it doesn't but the judgement awarded is less favorable than the settlement offer, then the plaintiff is liable for any legal fees after the settlement. There have been plaintiffs that won in court, were awarded a judgement, but wound up having to pay more to the defendant than what the judgement was even for. It's a rule 68 offer of judgment that triggers this fee shifting and is meant to disincentivize pointless litigation after a reasonable settlement offer has been made.
> Surgical and cross-hormonal therapies are, by most nationally recognised and implemented standards of care, reserved until the patient reaches at least 16 years of age.

Those standards of care are transphobic and a violation of trans children's human rights, according to trans rights groups. Policies that seek any kind of age limits are universally attacked by trans activists.

For example, observe the storm around Tavistock in the UK, which has for years aggressively pushed children into transition surgeries and hormone treatments, and censored and persecuted internal dissenters and wistleblowers with accusations of transphobia.

Last year's High Court ruling that Tavistock must limit these treatment to children over 16 was attacked by trans activists. Here's Mermaids:

"It’s frankly a potential catastrophe for trans young people across the country and it cannot be exaggerated the impact that this might have, not only on the population of trans young people that require hormone blockers, but it may potentially open the floodgates towards other questions around bodily autonomy and who has the right to govern their own body."

And in a recent example from the US, in response to South Dakota's effort to limit surgeries and hormonal treatments to kids older than 16, the Trevor Project said, "[these bills] not only contradict reality and majority medical opinion in the United States — they would also put young lives in jeopardy".

Regarding the study, you're looking at the wrong one. The one cited at the Pink News link is here:

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/145/2/e201917...

No, there's no p-value fuckery going on here (and yes, I understand p-values; I worked at a medical device company analysing statistics from human trials.) This is just bad analysis. And I see bad analysis and bad data everywhere I look within this admittedly fraught subject.

Thanks for the other material though, I'll take a look.
Some kind of property path was used, info here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPARQL/Property_paths
If it were intentionally released, they'd have planted it at the CDC or somewhere else that studies coronaviruses so they wouldn't be the obvious ground zero. China intentionally releasing a virus in Wuhan makes no sense.
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It's also very common for people to take time off for (mental) health reasons.
I can infer so many errors in the architecture, I wonder how this may have survived so far.

1. you put your DB in a server which is exposed to the internet.

2. you have no VIP/NAT in front of your systems.

3. you rely in iptables , while knowing some automatic system is manipulating it.

3 hours? I wonder it took so long. I expect this infrastructure will be a script kiddies party room within a few minutes.
Man, reading that was like reading TOTSE, turned up to 11.
An idea of calculus was already found in ancient Greece.
Archimedes used it to calculate the area of parabola by assigning a 'weight' to a line, and using a leverage to balance it.

There is a good Numberphile YT about it called 'Parabolas and Archimedes'