skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] I'm not sure how much choice they had in this - I suspect NSA/US gov more widely here. [...]

Note that when parent says "you can't trust NIST" and you counter with something along the lines of "that's unfair... NIST acts untrustworthy/knowingly recommends subpar options because of NSA", it doesn't really counter what is being said.

If NIST decisions are based mostly on "whatever the NSA tells them to do", rather than the actual technical merits of the things they recommend, then... yes, they are generally not worthy of trust (blind or otherwise), because you'll always have to double-check their statements against other sources (e.g. your own knowledge, expert cryptographers, etc.).

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

That's the problem of being untrustworthy once in a while... it's easier to lose your reputation than to regain it.

As it is... if you use anything recommended by NIST without first checking with the actual trustworthy community of researchers, you're asking for it.

TL;DR: Trying to justify why the NIST is seen as untrustworthy (or acts as such) does not change the fact that it is seen as untrustworthy by many people (and, as far as I can tell, fairly so).
> The gas problem is well known and it has been addressed with the London upgrade

Gas prices are up. London only made the prices more predictable; high and predictable. "prices go high and low" is not a problems who's solution is "keep it high all the time".

The actual promised solution to high gas prices is sharing. Which got delayed behind proof of stake backed validation. Aka: delayed until other long delayed feature is shipped.
It's referenced in the article - https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/86/10/4727/2849013

In general - I'm surprised people take melatonin so casually without realizing that it's a hormone - not a mineral or amino acid like other sleep aids - https://impossible.co/blogs/health/melatonin-side-effects
> Hell, doesn't SomethingAwful let users ban others for a fee?

I couldn’t find anything that said that. You could buy your way out of a ban[1].

You might be thinking of “Another brilliant monetization not mentioned in the article: you could pay to customize your own user image and title. For twice the price, another user could pay to anonymously choose their own title/image for you, usually to insult. Want to change your appearance back? Pay again.” as per philipkglass https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14122169

[1] “When Rich put the paywall in effect, it kept idiots out to an enormous degree. It was probably the smartest decision he ever made in regards to the website. You have to put in a little investment if you want to participate and if you're a real shithead you're going to end up paying Rich like $150 because you keep buying accounts, which is good for the site and it's also kind of funny to watch really, really bad people shell out a lot of money.” - https://www.vice.com/en/article/nzg4yw/fuck-you-and-die-an-o...
Personally, I tend to post the change in a comment on the issue that it fixes. I don't generally bother with doing a formal PR, since that would mean setting up the repo in a dev environment, branching, etc. and would be a bunch of extra work.

Locally, I just make the change and check it in to my project.

Here's an example:

https://github.com/xwpongithub/vue-range-slider/issues/3#iss...
The federal government actually does have block grant programs to buy out homeowners, or will pay to raise their house, if the cost is cheaper than building a levee or similar flood protection.
How do I know which of the many small teams is telling the truth?
Accretion...
> It would be cool if EXPLAIN ANALYZE also perhaps showed other query plans the planner considered but discarded, and why. Imagine if the planner tried multiple plans and adjusted itself accordingly.

The interesting point is in that regard MySQL is really better than PostgreSQL. MySQL can give you more execution plans it evaluated and tell you why it didn't use them (cost value is higher) and even tell you why it didn't use a specific index it. Combined with the enforcing specific indexes you can sometimes trick it into a more efficient query plan even if it believed to be worse.

But to be honest, PostgreSQL query planner is a lot more intelligent and does stupid things very seldom. And the ability to instruct PostgreSQL collecting more statistics on some attributes (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-createstatistics.html) is a huge improvement to getting PostgreSQL make more intelligent plans.

What i really miss in PostgreSQL is:

* Seeing other query plans it discarded as you described to get a feeling how to hint PostgreSQL into a direction if the query planner is doing stupid things

* MySQLs query profile showing the execution time of multiple subtasks of the query: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/show-profile.html

* The ability to enforce specific query plans. The PostgreSQL devs stated they are against this but pg_hint_plan is really usefull and i was able to drastically improve some very complex queries.
The Docker CLI is also available for Mac, and is open-source.
there’s more to absorption than whether the dirt is saturated

the more trees and roots that exist in that dirt, the more quickly water is drawn away by capillary action (you see, the roots are a series of tubes…)
Is possible in theory, if you don't have the resources to do so is another problem.
I’m a web developer, and I assume a lot of HNers are too. So I’m really confused by the lack of understanding around IP addresses in the comments here.

Everyone realizes that, by default, literally just connecting to another service over the web, will expose your IP address?

It’s trivial to monitor and report your IP to the authorities, as soon as you login to ProtonMail, despite lack of “logging”.

Logs only matter for historical data. This legal request is impossible to /not comply/ with.

Does anyone here have a feasible way to solve this? Or is it just a bunch of ProtonMail hating FUD?
You can bet there is hidden effort being led by multiple departments and multiple govts to take down this shining beacon of knowledge. Something that embodies what the best of internet has to offer.
Ask HN: Where can I find a free fork of Docker?
Where can I find a free open source fork of Docker? Now that Docker is no longer free.
So, they changed their server software to surveil a particular user? It seems even worse than logging all IPs systematically.
It calls GitHubs api at compile time. You can do pretty much anything in a rust procedural macro, including IO.
Do you have any constructive suggestions? It looks pretty readable to me, and I’ve never written any Rust.
Alright there Comrade... lets hope your vision for the future never becomes a reality.

Here's the real rub, there's many of us who would also fight to preserve the status quo or something close to it. You think many (most?) HN'ers with their 150K+ jobs want to live either individually or with their families at a much worse quality of life so some folks an ocean or two away can be a little better off? Big doubt.
Many databases benefit significantly from being able to optimize knowing that a column is a fixed-width integer, for instance (or a timestamptz--especially when it comes to sorting and indexing!). SQLite has not historically cared much about these kinds of optimizations because it does not compete particularly well on execution speed with other databases for anything but very simple queries.
Depends on the job. Google? You might have trouble getting past the HR screen. Random YC startup? I doubt they’d even care so long as you’re bringing by something g of value to the table. Brush up your GitHub resume.
The math support in MS Office is sufficient for some tasks and it's actually very usable then. But I find it woefully underpowered when it comes to typesetting advanced stuff. I come up against its limit quite regularly (I need to make my slides in Powerpoint for $REASONS). Also, annoyingly, it slows down significantly when there are lots of nested blocks (e.g. subscripts, superscripts, which I need often).
Yes that was my point, it was the main change for eth 2.0 but it still has a long way to go.

I guess other chain that use an utility token and main token have a better control over the transaction fee as compared as eth.
Maybe the title should read: The average media consumer becomes more news literate.

In the advent of social media being a megaphone and a news source nowadays, media organizations ceased to own the monopoly of news.

It doesn't help matters that old media is busy cannibalizing the very thing that built its brand: quality journalism.

Very common to see media organizations these days report government speech as facts. Investigative journalism is nothing but an old fable now.
haven’t you ever heard of a cistern?

“ The floodwater cathedral hidden 22 meters underground is part of the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (MAOUDC), a 6.3 km long system of tunnels and towering cylindrical chambers that protect North Tokyo from flooding.”

- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181129-the-underground-...
> one of the books that popularized Lean manufacturing, Eli Goldblatt's "The Goal",

Turns out it's Goldratt. Very difficult to read as it is in the form of a melodrama. I suppose the point was to make it light reading, but to me it's a difficult slog through the protagonist's personal life to get to the data I want.
> We need smaller, more local, more connected, more transparent governments.

I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately it seems that power only ever gets more concentrated at a higher level, there's rarely a decentralization of power, so local governments have less and less influence over people's lives and matter less and less.
And doctors might be on the more interesting end of job spectrum. What about dude whose job is to watch over the robots doing cleaning, of the sanitation system. Or other similar things, day after day looking at monitors with nothing new on them...
create a better alternative to Parler, more robust against de-platforming by Bigtech, half the country will thank you
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> it does not explain the qualia of consciousness, or why we are not p-zombies. This is a very hard problem to chip away at from a scientific perspective.

Why do you think so? What makes you think subjective experience is not just another type of brain function, like smell, taste or value judgement?

> Do you believe that if we were capable if making a replica of a brain that performed all the same functions in silicon, and had the same computational capacity that it would be conscious? Why or why not?

Yes I do believe so. I believe that consciousness is a function of our nervous system, so if you could make a perfect copy, put it into the same state, and gave it all the same inputs and outputs, it would be conscious.

However I think we're very far from that. the functions of the brain depend on complex and diverse sub-cellular processes which current models don't scratch the surface of replicating with any kind of fidelity, so I think it will be quite some time before we can test this hypothesis.

To pose a similar question to you, if you don't think a perfect replica of the brain would give rise to consciousness, what do you think would be missing?
I use it via Firefox.

https://satellite.earth/
Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep (2016)
And for a much longer while - about 20 years - they ran the Black and White Minstrel show. The answer is not to represent everyone's dumb ideas equally.

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/people-nation...
Just say what it is.

Then what problem it solves.

Then why I should care.

It’s a funnel.

Don’t waste people’s time.

That’s how to build trust.

Trust is the cornerstone of business relationships.
It seems that they were compelled by Swiss authorities to start logging a particular user (i.e., logging their IPs which were not logged by default). ProtonMail seems like a very bad actor in that case. Even if they must have to obey that order, they could have prevented the user explicitly before doing so.
I note there was a tailwind serious enough to reduce breaking performance, and also that it is possible to land in the opposite direction on the runway in question. Is the practice of landing into the wind ignored within certain parameters?
Theoretically speaking what would it take to assure that sci-hub survives. From what I understand it'd be like moving mountains to make it legal in US.
> If facebook becomes public utility I want to be able to regulate speech on it with my tax money.

What makes you think you should be able to do that? Do you get to cut off someone's water utility if they say something you don't like?
Eventually there's a time where corporations, like individuals have to decide what's important, putting their money where their mouth is as it were. What matters more to Google, profit or accessibility of information. Issues like these highlight those choices.
On reflection, I'd like to retract this. I was reading quickly and didn't understand what I was replying to.

It is not my belief that, left to its own devices, natural language will become unusable. It is probably true that we can get away with letting nature run its course. I do object to using this as an argument for avoiding optimization, but I don't think I'm in disagreement with the parent there. Apologies for my error.
Couldn't agree more with your last sentence. Recently I had a discussion around that with my 12 year old about just that, in the end I compared online journalism to social media influencers. The latter do almost everything for likes, the former for clicks, because both equal revenue. This fast news cycle certainly doesn't help journalism in general. Throw in agendas and we end up where we are. Not that journalism can, or should, be unbiased. Journalism should be open about their particular biases, and definitely less aggressive and underhanded in transporting it. The US seems to be worse in that regard than other countries, this doesn't mean that it is a purely US problem.

The underlying issues with journalism also make it hard to fight back on Fake News allegations, sometimes the Fake News crowd, regardless of political leanings, actually does have a point.
You may be on to something. It could be used as the world's greatest random number generator.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-produ...
I often think about the same with game design, especially level design, where every object and every inch of terrain should contribute the fun / story factor.

But for creative works, any rules / razors should be mere reference, in the end it's all about senses.
> a computer hooked up to a rudimentary word processor app on my

You just need an Android tablet with EPD display and a decent word processor.

If you do not want full formatting - so, you are contented with typewriter like rendering -, there must be abundance of software application. If you want proper typographical paragraph formatting, with e.g. full text justification and spacing etc., there are a few usable applications. (As written in anther post, in the end, to have an application with all the features I wanted, I wrote it directly.)
I agree with you, that the majority are not like this. The trouble is the people setting agendas in culture generally, mostly the media, are basically the extreme woke types you say are the minority.

And these people actually have power, as journalists, film directors, etc. they do set the talking points.

So I think it’s completely fair to react to this in a negative way, because it is actually happening.

It would be great if the normal woke minority would reject these people and stand up against them and say they are too extreme, but they don’t.
How much time have you spent practicing sawing with a coping saw?

People are not born with skills. Skills are acquired through practice.
I think we’re mixing Discourse and Discord. Agreed on all fronts on Discord, it’s basically IRC with a teamspeak server.
I think you're using a definition of end-to-end encryption that's too narrow, same with privacy. E2E schemes try to ensure that your messages can only be read by their intended recipient. That's undeniably a privacy feature, since having private messages read by a third party (without consent) would be a privacy violation.

Security and privacy are intertwined, imagine your server getting hacked (security problem) leading to your private documents being exposed on the internet (privacy violation).
I usually find people running ZFS to run into way too many more problems than what other people run using Ext4. (Edit: I'm surprised to see how people run into issues with Btrfs)

It might be good for some specific purposes but I'd reckon the majority of people using it do not fall into those. Using it "just because" is probably more trouble than worth.

> ZFS really wasn't in use, ever! But at the same time, it was eating over 30% of CPU capacity! Whaaat??

Interesting bug, sounds like the best option is to not even have the module loaded then. (Not blaming the developers here, necessarily, but yeah, it's a bug)
That's funny, I must have been an outlier then.

I've been using Postgres since 1998, and I tried getting MySQL up first. There was more documentation available for the latter, so it should have been simple. Failed. It just didn't work.

Out of frustration I then tried Postgres, because I just wanted a decent database for my project. It was surprisingly easy, I only had to learn about pg_hba.conf to get to a functional state. Everything else was in place out of the box.

I've been a happy user ever since. MySQL may have had the mindshare (thanks to prevalence of LAMP) but everything outside the magic happy path was confusing and fragile.
> What’s needed is for news organizations to not only report facts, but stop telling stories in ways that only benefit their own ideological systems.

Ironic timing considering how just earlier today we were discussing how Rolling Stone's story about gunshot victims being left waiting because of ivermectin overdoses was determined to be false. Talk about a perfect example of a credulously reported story that made it halfway around the globe, retweeted by MSNBC anchors and foreign news outlets, all because it played into the prejudices of journalists and the narrative they wanted to promote. And the whole thing was based on the commentary of one doctor, who apparently hadn't even worked at the hospital in question for months.

It's remarkable that journalists can complain about the public's declining trust while fiascos like this happen on a regular basis, and Axios and their contemporaries either downplay it or sweep it under the carpet.

Previous discussion of the ivermectin hospitalization story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421638
Wanting to make changes to your schema easier, doesn't necessarily mean you need NoSQL.

I think it's a question of having the right tooling.

It would be cool if you could dump an unstructured blob of data in a psql table. And then later you can add a schema to this defining relationships. So like `post.comments` is an array of `Comment`. And then you just run a command that runs a migration that normalizes the data into a `comment` table. And then it would map `post.comments` to a join. Although psql's jsonb support and indexing is pretty good.

The difficulty though is that if you change your mind it becomes much harder to change because now you have multiple tables and relationships. So what would be nice is if you can go back from the relational model to the unstructured model with ease.

I think what is needed is a visual tool to design your db schema and migrations that just works, and is also aware of unstructured data and that it can have a json schema.

Ideally we want to be designing a logical schema (and any unstructured data would implicitly be given a logical schema too), and the physical schema is automatically created.
I read that (worth it sort of) and there are a few takeaways, but for me the big one is realising that the author seems to think that there is "an answer" out there, that "everyone else" knows it and that he (the author) ought to be told it upfront. And any indication that people change their minds, get things wrong or otherwise screw up is an indication that people are not just lying but hiding the truth.

It took a while to realise this. Am glad I read it.
Today's example of the media pushing a false story without bothering to do the least bit of fact checking first:

https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1434591443855753220
If you have to depend on a external library for a simple function which can be written in a intro programming course, it's a red flag.
I see most takes here discussing the growing distrust in media as a problem to fix. Instead, I see it as a welcome change, a necessary but not sufficient condition to a more free society. The media has always been extremely biased, selling a particular elite consensus view of the world. Sure, some real reporting made it though once in a while, especially when it was orthogonal to the overarching narrative or when it directly served it. But major news organizations have always been run and edited by the same academic elite and political elite who make policy.

For some examples, you will not find any high-level media people (senior editors, senior reporters) at any US institution who believe the Vietnam war was an act of aggression, who believe George Bush Jr was a war criminal, who believe consumerism and economic growth are not a net good in the world, who believe the USA is most responsible for the state of the Middle East, who believe Cuba has often been a force for good in the world and the illegal embargo against it should be lifted, who believe Israel is an apartheid state performing daily acts of aggression against Palestine, who believe that its fair and good for people who don't work to be poor and miserable, and so on.

You don't have to accept these views as true, but you should still note that CNN and The New York Times and Fox News and Breitbart all agree on the bedrock narrative of the USA's fundamentally noble role in the world, its fairness to its citizens, its desire to do good, even if they disagree on a few specifics and may or may not think there were some mistakes along the way.

To me it seems that having people distrust this media is like having people distrust Pravda in the USSR: absolutely crucial if they are to think of a better world. Now of course, some people stop trusting the NYT and move to trusting flat earth groups on FB, which is worse. But I believe that the great good that comes from realizing you shouldn't trust those in authority simply because you've been taught to will see a slow but fundamental shift in society. One that news organizations and PR firms and other propaganda machines will fight tooth and nail, as this article shows.
Trees can talk to one another and to us
It is totally normal to display debits and credits on screen in gui software as signed numbers too. It is very convenient to be able to sum a list and find a balance. It also means that the sum of the entire ledger must always be zero which is a common consistency check that is applied. This is how it is in SAP, Coda, Sage and Netsuite at least.
> "things are getting better, stay the course"

This is the overarching theme.