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I wonder how much downvotes are to blame for the incredible political bias over on Reddit (just check out /r/politics). Or whether it would naturally occur without the downvotes anyway. I suspect downvotes exacerbate the problem but probably aren't the only cause.
Overall, I liked this article, but a bit of a tangent: most historians today reject the term "Dark Ages" when referring to the entirety of the time between the fall of the Roman Empire in the west and the Renaissance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)).

Also, the claim "In the historical Dark Ages, religion put down science" is simplistic. If by "Dark Ages," the author means the time between the fall of Rome in the west and the Carolingian Renaissance in 800, there was no institution maintaining science, but there happened to be institutions maintaining religion. During this time, what scientific knowledge that was preserved in the west was preserved by monks copying manuscripts. If the author means to refer to the whole Medieval period, then many of the most famous scientists were clergy, and many scientific institutions grew out of religious institutions, so again the claim is confusing.

It's unfortunate that the author chose to distract from a good point by using a problematic metaphor.
HN has a certain discussion parameters and moderation system on purpose. The goal on HN isn’t to allow open ended discussions on all topics. I for one appreciate that we can talk computers and technology here and that the moderators keep the average level of the discussion high. If I want politics and other garbage I’ll go somewhere else. I have never experienced any issues here. Been here a looong time. Don’t be edgy and contribute positively to discussions with curiosity and you will do fine.
Hypochlorous acid denatures proteins, so yeah.
Making hobby projects ipv6-only would be a start.
1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 for me :)
Why doesn't more "GCP" lower variance even more?
I asked my mobile service provider when they might start supporting IPv6, and got the answer that they have enough IPv4 addresses, so no plans to implement IPv6. The mind boggles.
The study of rare, contagious diseases seems likely enough to result in an eventual outbreak that it should be treated like enriching uranium.

Which is to say, with great caution- and not like regular science but rather like the kind of science with potentially very negative externalities.
Yes, they should stop potentially lethal research procedures to see how they can prevent them.

Its not rocket science.
Bad management 101: Tell the engineer(s) how the problem should be solved, as well as avoid defining and understanding the problem. And every time the engineer(s) go off the set path, like when something doesn't work out, make sure they stay on the path until the budget runs out, then blame the engineers.
You can give the user a firmware write-screw (Chromebooks),

and bootloader locks (and reasonable smartphone).

Prop up the next excuse!
Yeah, bleach does affect prions. Most of the studies I could find were tested on metal, not just someone's thumb. It looks bleach doesn't do a great job of penetrating tissue so the hope is to destroy the prions before they get into the cut, which seems more hopeful than effective to me.
Ultimately, you could abstract from any kind of computer work with such a general description. Another example: "Basically I am just pressing buttons all day and I am getting paid for it. shrugs"
>The way the US healthcare system is designed, it will only cover restoration of mobility, not a restoration of function.

You'll find that countries with socialized medicine won't cover more than that either. It's too expensive, regardless of whether your covered privately or publicly. Socialized medicine is typically much harsher on keeping costs down as well.
Nice link, thanks!
Articles like this feel like plants from the incarceration industry, with the aim of delaying current drug decriminalization trends.
> Does bleach even affect proteins? Isn't that protocol for an organism you're afraid of?

Yes, bleach's direct action is attacking proteins:

https://phys.org/news/2008-11-household-bacteria.html
A comment disputing the post with its own upvotes seems a better representation.

So original post states x (it can gather up votes that mean relevance). Then responses are posted, positive, negative, adding nuance - doesnt matter.. then those responses get up votes.

Seems to me that everything can be done with positive re-inforcement.

I would like to be able to filter out out votes though, maybe within a scope. So if you post x, someone disputes it with a comment that i disagree with that gets lots of upvotes.. i would like to be able to flag all those users as incompetent within that domain (this would just be my opinion and no one else would see it) then i can have two upvote scores: the masses, and the "competent in my eyes" masses.

I know this isnt a full solution.. just putting ideas out there
I also use Blink with Mosh, but what’s your physical setup? You mentioned using it on the train, so are you using an attachable keyboard like the Magic Keyboard? At that point, isn’t the iPad just bigger and heavier than a laptop?

I don’t ask to refute your experience; I’m honestly curious since I like the idea of just using the iPad, but the ergonomics just seem inherently inferior regardless of software concerns.
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I imagine that we're going to see more articles like this where IPv4 is getting more and more expensive until it becomes absurd. Once it gets too expensive, then providers will have a reason to supply IPv6 - cost. It's the only way I can see an ISP making this move.
> then someone comes along with their four accounts and downvotes every comment I got

In HN you can send an email to the mods so they can take a look. Also the site may detect it automatically (the details are unclear, it's part of the secret sauce).

> because I'm not sufficiently ideological

Avoid political threads. Everyone is talking pass each other, and you will not convince anyone. Upvote grey comments if they are not offensive or very wrong, and run away before you get angry and want to start downvoting everyone.

Try to stick to technical threads, preferably if they have less than 100 comments. You will be happier.
People talk a lot of bad things about German ISPs, but I have IPv6 on my DSL connection since 2015 and on my phone since 2019 (maybe earlier).
>Staff working in the control room moved the chair to clean and, in the process, knocked the acrylic protective cover of a main steam isolation valve switch causing it to tilt, shift, and close, setting off a chain reaction that tripped the main steam turbine and stopped the reactor

I found the headline to be misleading.
> Reddit moderators who run subreddits are given the choice to allow the function. When it’s enabled, it’s used as a filter to sort out divisive posts from the rest but also leads to problems like abuse based on opinions and introducing a feeling of negativity into the communities.

Just want to clarify this: reddit inc. doesn't really offer communities a way to "disable" downvoting. The subreddits referenced at the link in this article are using the custom CSS to hide the downvote button. Notably this does not impact users who are browsing 1) via the mobile app, a substantial to majority percentage of traffic based on the community in question 2) with custom CSS disabled [which can be done via a global reddit setting or via popular extensions like RES 3) via the reddit desktop redesign ['r3']. In the desktop redesign, some communities try to continue hiding downvotes by using the customization tools to set the button to a transparent png - but this is blatantly ineffective - the downvote hitbox remains accessible and feedback is offered to the user on a successful click when they see the score change.

I have some experience with this, having helped researcher Nate Matias test the impact of downvote behavior in a community I'm involved with. You can see the summary of the resulting paper Do Downvote Buttons Cause Unruly Online Behavior? here https://citizensandtech.org/2018/01/do-downvote-buttons-caus...
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Today Microsoft has the resources and capital to release Windows 95 "remastered edition" - one has to wonder why they haven't.
In the end he was caught because his van was identified and because "One of his sons had revealed to his then-girlfriend that his father had placed a bomb in Harvey's."

I always wonder at how criminals that otherwise might seem movie-like masterminds are caught as a result of mundane mistakes and outright stupid moves like this. You would think if you are going to bomb a place, the first thing would be to not talk about it to anyone outside those that are directly involved. But criminals that have executed the "perfect crime" get caught driving over the speed limit, with expired license, spending money too lavishly...

I suppose he would have been caught some other way if not for this, but it almost seems like a comical trope to me. Maybe you are the best bomb maker around, but you weren't that good at the simpler things.
> someone comes along with their four accounts and downvotes every comment I got

I think the Reddit server software actually detects that kind of thing now and will make those votes not count.

Likewise I think they’ve also made it so that a single comment alone that downvotes get piled onto will not hurt the account of the person that wrote it that much any longer.
do Departament of Defense of US and some schools still own a lot of IPs?
prions sounds very much like ice-nine
China appears to be building a second missile silo field
This is nice and all, but what I am waiting for is the phone to power my desktop setup. I walk up, drop the phone into a dock, and my three 27" monitors all wake up with the desktop exactly as I left it.

To get there I think the GPU will have to be embedded in the monitors, and some interesting operating system hoops will have to be jumped through. Do cords have enough bandwidth now to support this? I honestly don't know the answer to this question. I feel like the answer is yes.

The other idea is just to mount the phone to a head mount display and go VR or AR. But I feel like that is going to require way more advancement in resolution on the phone screens to get right.

We can get there. We are super close. The iPad with an M1 chip probably already has the power to do it. Maybe one or two more years and this is not only feasible but purchasable. I'm a buyer.
Not true at all. Among all primates and even in elephants, one of the reason for "better" evolution is that even grandparents were involved in raising the kids.

Throughout history and even before that when we were primates, children maintained relationship with their families all their life. And relationship even with extended families including nephews/niece, grandparents, distant cousins etc
I actually get this sentiment. I don't find too much use in GIMP specifically anymore. darktable/RawTherapee can more than pull their weight in photo editing and can handle RAW non-destructively. Krita is better optimized for drawing. Hugin stitches and stacks images better. You may as well use ImageMagick for resizing. GIMP being a jack of all trades, has left it the master of none for me. Maybe had they had more funds 6-8 years ago, it would be in a better spot but right now, I'd rather throw donations at these other projects.
Did your return it voluntarily, or what happened to it? I know several folks (myself included) with our own personal /24's from the 90's. Mine is routed to my home lab.
>A 5-minute soak in a 40% solution of household bleach decontaminated stainless steel wires coated with chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions, according to a new study by National Institutes of Health scientists.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/household-blea...
For games, I find that it is much easier to dynamically anaylze them while they are running to get an idea where you should be looking. Use something like cheat engine to get the address of health and use the built in debugger to find what writes to that health address. Then you can get the address for the instructions that write to the health and go back to something like Ghidra and start reverse engineering from there. But for small indie games, the dissasmbler in Cheat Engine is actually quite good depending on what you are trying to do.

An understanding of how C/C++ memory mangement works and how things like arrays/pointers etc normally get compiled down by the compiler. Having a general idea of how indie games a typically made (a loop which reads input -> updates game state -> draws to the screne) helps as well. In the case of finding what writes to the HP, you'll end up in a function that most likely updates game state, so you can then just walk up the functions to get to the main loop.

I spent a lot of my youth reverse engineering a small indie game. It go to the point where as a community we reverse engineered most of the in game objects into C header files. Then with the help of those header files, we made custom AI possible. Used a DLL to detour the normal AI function to our function and in that function we loaded Angelscript files that had access to the original game objects so they could control the objects. Ghidra didn't exist back then, and IDA was too expensive and the Cheat Engine dissambler was bad, so we reverse engineered everything in Ollydbg.

This was of course for a tiny indie game with a custom engine. I imagine now days with everything being made in Unity/Unreal etc, it's much harder to reverse engineer. Also x86 calling conventions were nicer than x64 imo ;).
I've been thinking how to counter this effect. How to give power to the silent majority.

I've been slowly writing a version of Reddit with an added level of moderation via direct democracy but made efficient by using proxy votes and statistical sampling. People with time and interest provide most is the content but moderation incentivizes behavior beneficial to the majority.

It's a fools errand as it's a double-sided market but I feel the need.
"the "family farmer" still has mystique" It has a mystique because its a useful political fairytale that still proves effective. It is probably spun and refined in the lobbying arms of the large corporate farms in much the same way the "personal carbon footprint" is in the lobbying / advertising arms of oil companies. Large farming companies have massive political / lobbying influence and use it to their financial benefit, family farms get almost none of that. Similar to how politicians use soldiers as shiny tokens but for the most part do almost nothing for them but the large defense firms sure do get a lot of dollars.
One of the very few good things I can say about my Comcast connection is that they gave me a 60-bit IPv6 prefix.
> the number of famous people in the world is a tiny fraction of the number of people of modest or minimal means.

That's related to the point I was making, absolute numbers or specific cases are irrelevant. The percentage of convictions (versus cases brought) when categorized by tax bracket, is the second most influential indicator of conviction probability (after proof).
This really is an interesting problem, and I'm not sure if there's an answer. Sometimes I think the whole idea of HN/Reddit type sites is just doomed to ultimate failure. Dunbar's number is every bit as real in a digital space as it is in a physical space.

I wonder if somebody built a social media site that was totally built around small communities. So instead of a global channel, your primary feed would come from your pod of 150ish that you would interact with more directly. This would mirror the concept of a village. Then maybe there would be another tier, the "region" if you will, where a single top post of the day from each village would get posted, then maybe a larger "nation" type area where the top post from each region over a week would get posted weekly.

This system would let people spend most of their time with like-minded people, which is exactly what people want as exhibited by downvote behavior, but still allow for a degree of cross pollination of thought.

Zoomed out, it seems like there really are two types of social media networks. The first is the hyper niche one where the entire conversation revovles around the topic and nothing but the topic. But once you leave your niche and become a more general site, cultural and idelogical alignment becomes a much bigger driver than topic and interest alignment.
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My ISP had some sort of v4 outage where only v6 worked fine. That was really nice except that even services or games that supposedly work over v6 rely on v4 and are borderline unusable without it.
I'm confused by what appears to be a contradiction at the end.

These are consecutive sentences:

> Note that it is also possible to fund several contributors through GIMP Liberapay account as an interesting alternative.

> What these donations through GNOME still cannot do is funding paid development, so if that’s what you want, please fund the developers directly as explained above.

I would rather put money into a single pot for GIMP contributors than have to chose and donate to individual contributors. Can I do that through the liberapay link (https://liberapay.com/GIMP/)? Most things suggest that I can, but the text makes it a little confusing.
Down-votes are, plain and simple, mob rule.

There's ample historical evidence that the fact that many people believe in something absolutely does not make it correct. I'd even venture to go to the other extreme: if many people believe something to be correct there's IMO 50% chance of it being severely and hilariously wrong.

Watch a few National Geographic documentaries on monkeys and how their tribes are constantly at war with each other. It's eye-opening. They fling poop at whomever they don't like, not only in the other tribe, but inside their own as well.

Like @crazy_horse said, I have zero problems being wrong or engaging in a discussion from which I might emerge with my mind changed.

But I don't like turning myself into target practice for poop flinging masters.
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> Do we not have a “right to repair” our bodies with their drugs?

Actually...yes.

If someone catches wind/reverse engineers/synthesizes Pfizer drugs and saves themselves or others on a small enough scale tax authorities don't even chase them, I think humanity benefits.
About 100 comments yesterday on the Google blog post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27971921
Fear mongering.

There was never a pandemic or a wide spread prion outbreak caused by a lab leak.

They should listen to the science and the scientists, and not politicize vital research that we need to prevent disease outbreaks.
As a user, I have IPv6 disabled at my router. It is just easier for me to see xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx style IPs everywhere and avoid the cognitive load of IPv6.

As a tech entrepreneur, I run multiple popular websites that have hundreds of thousands of users. I get emails from users daily. With congratulations, feature requests etc. So far, nobody ever requested IPv6 support.

I have no idea what would happen if I enable IPv6 on my servers. Probably some desaster would strike because some of the code expects xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx style IPs.

What would be the steps to test this? Run the application locally in a Docker container and somehow make the requests to the container go over IPv6?
What state do you live in? In my state we have to put up bilboards that its not okay to let teens drink at a parent hosted party. We can buy booze of any kind on any day, purchases as late as 9, and generally if youre a regular at a bar, drinks after last call. Cops really do not care. If you havent figured it our by now its Wisconsin. The state where teetotalers are less trusted than atheists.
I experienced this badly at the final team I was on at my last employer before leaving, which was very unfortunate because the team I was on before that was the highest-performing, most consistently delivering team I've ever had the pleasure of being a part of at any company in any industry.

The microservices there were anything but. Not only tightly coupled, but coupled at build time, such that we had a mountain of custom Ruby libraries written by one person to parse and publish Apache Ivy files no matter the underlying build and packaging system, to construct dependency trees and build orders for this massive Jenkins infrastructure that rebuilt the world several times a day. It got even worse, because the development teams were building fat jars, then the pipeline team was putting those in fat containers, then we were shipping the containers, except across an air gap. So we're generating gigs of data every hour that some poor souls have to physically burn to DVDs and sit around waiting for hours while virus scanners approve it to go into the runtime system.

But I don't think the issue was so much a dark ages problem that nobody understood what we were doing. It was just myopia. Nobody understood the impact their decisions had on downstream and upstream teams. Architects were pitching great ideas to customers, managers were making tremendous promises, and neither had any idea that the as-built system came nowhere near matching the glorious vision they drew up on a whiteboard. And the developers didn't know the whiteboard vision even existed. They just saw tiny chunks of single-sentence Jira tickets with no context and no idea how they fit into the larger system.

It's the Buddhist koan thing about 10 people looking at an elephant but nobody seeing an elephant.
Only allow downvotes to a post or comment after replying to it first perhaps
Heh. A lot of folks don't remember the days before NAT, when people had public IPv4 on their desktop. I worked at a couple of ISPs and one early startup that was set up that way. No firewalls, either!
Meanwhile, you cannot get a €2.49/mo virtual server from Hetzner without an IPv4 address…
Or they'll completely ignore it and start CGNAT'ing people on IPv4. :-(
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