skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is voting based on matching your exact ideology a good idea? You could have a system where everyone has a party that represents their views exactly, but democracy is about compromise, which takes political skill. This should be a factor in voting.

In the UK, up until recently we had a pretty far left guy called Jeremy Corbyn in charge of Labour, the largest left wing party. I was pretty aligned with him on a his ideas but I thought he was completely ineffective as a political leader, and that he would never have gained the capital to get his own policies through. I was glad to see him gone.
That's verbal sophistry. People shouldn't have a fixed set of priorities and take them in order, aka the "but there are starving people in Africa argument". You can wonder how the pandemic started without taking anything from the importance of fighting it.

You might, in a different universe, argue that there are too many resources spent on investigating the origin on the pandemic. This is definitely not the case in our universe, where the investigation is laughably small. There are murder or missing person cases where there is more information available to the public than what we have now, and they affected 1 (one) victim. As for China's cooperation... I understand they have a different way of doing things, but it's kinda a global problem, so maybe we shouldn't be ok with doing the investigation their way, aka without any public involvement at all.
How this will be legal in the EU? E.g. incoming TERREG regulation requires website operators to have 1hr SLA for deleting harmful content and a dedicated officer to liaise with government requests.
I think the kids should just refuse to wear the device or install the app. The parents want the kid to succeed have good grades, go to college, etc. if the parents can't be persuade by common sense and logic then the kid can leverage the success in order to persuade the parents to not require the app. What are the parents going to do, kick him out of the house and make him homeless? I know that it is easier said then done but still that is the only option I can think about.
Great point, well made. I’d argue this is the reason for Burkean democracy, that there are too many questions with too many nuances to reduce it to multiple choice. Instead, you elect a person who you think has good judgement and leave them to do all the thinking on your behalf.

But of course this system gets abused, because electors don’t know who they can trust.
That's somewhat ignoring bombs designed to be difficult to defuse. See the Harvey's resort hotel bombing[0] for an example of where "just removing the detonator" is easier said than done.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%27s_Resort_Hotel_bombin...
Remember Orkut?
Which left parties in Europe are advocating leaving the EU? I think these would be more hard-left than centre-left.
They are funny indeed - using public election funds (meant to give each party a chance) to put up jokes. Whether you think that's right or not, it's hilarious.
First you make many copies of that file, to different disks and usb-memories.

Then you can load one of them into bitcoin-core wallet and you are done.

That file should be all you need, it is unencrypted and contains your bitcorns.
This is as deliciously anti-climactic as finding out what "non-Euclidean space" means after hearing it a lot in Cthulu-like horror settings
> You can't use multiple versions of a dependency on a single system without completely separating both the build-time and run-time environments

Sure you can. It's what version numbers in library file names are for. Works for executable names, too. Until Python 2.7 died, you commonly had 2.7 and 3.x installed at the same time.

But maybe you meant something different?
My wife and I had an odd experience when we visited India several years ago. We met a lot of children, and many of the girls, approx 10 or 12 years old, were full of questions to my wife about her career -- what did she do for a living, how did she get to become a professional, what kind of school? Whereas anywhere else, kids are just kids and interested in kids things, girls everywhere we visited there were concerned about their future jobs. It was a little depressing. It seems there is a lot of pressure on children, maybe especially on girls, in India? That seems supported by the stories in this article as well.
Exactly, but conversely my point is that the machine giving you a 90% rating is evidence that you will not choose to flip a coin.

edit: Oh hang on, this is a machine, not Omega, so I can't say that Omega can just choose to not give you the offer if it can't reach 90%. Idk then. Probably it means that at least 9 out of 10 people don't throw coins.
The bigger issue is that votes from governing parties and opposition parties are very different things and deinwal.de kinda mixes those together.

As an opposition party you can basically vote what you like, you don't have to consider the consequences (because you often know it won't pass) and you don't have to compromise with a coalition partner.

Having said that: I'm generally not a fan of these tools, precisely because of those issues. Wahl-o-mat has the issue raised by the original poster, i.e. they look at what people announce, not what they do, but the alternative isn't much better, as it's comparing apples and oranges.
> Zerotier promptly addressed the root server identity verification issues. This attack is still possible (as of 20/09/2021); however, an attacker is required to invest significant compute time (many many years with a single RTX2070) to generate a valid identity that collides with an intended target. Zerotier client’s still accept any identity learned via WHOIS packet as implicitly valid.

It also says below that the main vuln is fixed... Can't now figure out if I should be worried or not...
Thanks. The numbers still aren't lining up for me, but guess it can't be helped :)

They're saying that encoding a season of Stranger Things took 190k CPU-hours. That's about 20k CPU-hours per one-hour episode. If they need 300k cores round the clock, that implies they're encoding 360 hours of content every day (300k*24/20k=360). To a Netflix customer, it seems pretty obvious they don't have 360 hours of new content coming in daily.
You are not wrong. But if you make an RPM, you can then easily make a container containing the said RPM ;)
The checks and balances these large ecosystems boast off has become a hurdle to only small business who go over and above to comply with the rules, Where as these nefarious actors who game the system don't have anything dragging them down.

This seems to be case with every large digital content publishing platform and especially worse in the case of vertical monopolies.
I'm having the same problem learning German in Berlin - everyone speaks English here and the slightest mispronunciation or "vie bitte?" and they switch to English. Which is appreciated - I'm a foreigner in their country and they're being incredibly hospitable to speak my language - but it makes practising German very difficult.

Also, a Swedish distant relative of mine told me (decades ago) "We Swedes prefer to talk to foreigners in their own language, and keep Swedish as a private language for ourselves". I've never heard that said by anyone else, but it has always stuck with me as a cool idea, and the antithesis of the English ;)
I can imagine the conversations this leads to:

Mentor: "Hi! This is your mentor. We've noticed that you're suicidal, depressed, paranoid and generally not doing that well."

Student: "How do you know that?"

Mentor: "Oh, we've been monitoring everything you chat about with your friends and family. So we basically know all your secrets, if you've chatted about them in the past 1.5 years."

Student: shoots herself.
Don't forget about activists and competition posting illegal content and then reporting it.
This doesn't even work that well for the governing parties. Coalition governments are based on the parties making compromises where their positions disagree. This means that in particular the smaller partner(s) have to vote against their own program most of the time if they want to at least get their core issues through the parliament. Unfortunately, an alarming number of people seem not to know this.
Depressing and disgusting all around. Imagine being such a worthless sack of shit that you work at Apple and actively let this slide. These people are walking around filled with pus and maggots where their soul should be
It feels a bit of an overkill, given that your comment is already negative, but I kinda want to point out the fallacy.

Preventing pandemics _is_ the best way of responding to them. If we're going to have 10 big epidemies next century, doing whatever we can to make sure 3 don't happen at all is by far the best response to those 3.

So researching the sh*t out of the causes of this particular pandemic is likely to get us extremely good return of investment.
From the perspective of Germany, the only arguments for leaving the EU are about nationalism or immigrants. Both of those have strong far-right tendencies, even if they are not exclusively far-right (which nobody claimed anyways).
This would make things a lot simpler, but that lack off app icon makes it really hard to consider.
IIRC, both Windows Updates as well as Steam use delivery systems that are very similar to torrents.
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It matters that you throw it far enough away at least ;-)

I think the overhand throw may be a leftover from trench warfare, where you'd need to throw the grenade from high enough to clear the trench you're standing in. Though obviously the same sort of tactic would work from behind various sorts of cover.
Becoming an influencer that grade is like wining a lottery, so unless you encourage people to play lottery nothing when it comes to advice has changed really.
Well, if you're comparing against all YouTube users, or even all YouTube users who have ever uploaded a video, then yes, it's a lot. On the other hand, compared to most content being viewed on YouTube, it's not even tiny, it's minuscule. There are many niche hobbyist communities or individual hobbyist singers getting much more than that. 20 subscribers basically means that not even your friends and family are looking at your channel.
Yeah, that's how I would frame it as well. It's the populist right and the hard left who are the bulk of the leavers. Centre-left, centre-right and small-el liberals tend to range between somewhat and very pro-eu.
There is no sonic boom visible or audible in that video.
One of the problems with the Wahl-O-Mat is you are given 38 questions and big Agree/Disagree buttons, so most people just go with their gut-feeling and click through as fast as possible.

E.g. the question "All of the labour force must be covered by the state pension" sounds great but glosses over the whole problem of provisioning that money for future generations (Germany's worker/pensioner ratio is supposed to sink to 1.7 in 2050) and certainly doesn't cover potential alternatives like an Australian Superannutation style system.
Looks promising. Platforms such as Netlify have greatly simplified the development of web applications. Recently I tried Netlify forms - child's play, in 4 minutes I had a working form with e-mail notification. All I had to do was create the correct HTML code. If they simplify the use of the database in simple projects in a similar way, it will be a great success.
Back in high school I had a "gaming channel" where I posted just random clips of my friends and I. The subscriber count peaked around 350. No idea how many views were in total. But I removed the channel years ago.

So I'm guessing as long as you post regularly you can get thousands of subscribers without much effort.
Zerotier seems a bit too clever about auto-discovery/peering.

For comparison: WireGuard, by design, is a fairly simple protocol that requires some other software or out of band configuration to provide the peer pubkey list (among other things). As a result, there are multiple mesh configuration tools built on top of it, some of which support dynamic (auto-discovered) peers/tunnel establishment. This separation of concerns for the well-designed mesh configuration layers on top of WG make it a little safer than integrated options like ZeroTier in my opinion, because the peer config/establishment and tunneling protocol are separate, independently auditable pieces.

I am wary of mesh VPNs that don’t require you to statically enumerate peers, especially when I don’t fully understand the underlying authorization/trust scheme. I’m extra wary of those that don’t have a well staffed team to respond to threats, and that don’t exhibit the appropriate amount of humility when making security claims. (This is not directed at ZeroTier specifically.)

On an unrelated note, there is a really fun infosec podcast named Darknet Diaries, worth a listen.
Here there are a lot of bright plastic barrels and reflective barricades with flashing yellow lights on top.

And on streets well lit with streetlights drivers are still knocking them down like dominos.
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I think that is the problem.

The common use case is mostly what you describe (a single user working on an isolated drawing) but the social features is what makes it sexy and what enables the company to raise money at spiraling valuations.
Seems like a future alternative to Firestore with an analytics engine, and a Spreadsheet-like UI.
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I know some of the words you used.
So was there MSFT funding? And is there now MSFT funding?

That it gets continued as a hobby project does not mean it was not funded at some point (and is no longer).

But I'm not sure about my statement; no source also (just remember reading it).

CORRECTION: as can be read rest of the thread, Koka is being funded by MSFT.
Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10
+1 a good dependency manager should 1) pull all necessary packages for you 2) build them if required.

It's your job when downloading a package to use or when adding a dependency to make sure you trust the source - this is not a dependency management problem.

A good dependency manager should help you better filter trusted sources or at least have a good build file layout to make it obvious what the sources are but that's it.
Most of these things are pretty easy in elixir phoenix... And the tradeoff is that if you are sending gobs of http and also doing a fresh db query each time, it's wasteful and can possibly hurt latency too; phoenix tries to solve that. Conceptually one way you can think of it is that it's just a "smarter (in the feature sense, not necessarily the access-optimized sense) cache layer" in front of your DB.
It's not about what is possible, it is about ergonomics. We could have used email for conversations online, yet we use Slack. Other tool require lots of thought and carefull execution for what Nix gives you for free.
The auth in OAuth stands for authentication. This is authorization.
Well said. Also, the whole argument of "one bad thing prevented" is fundamentally flawed. It is not possible to evaluate how many bad things it causes, because, unless somehow clear enough for our dumb human observational skills, those are brushed under "would have happened anyways".

If schools and governments wanted to help prevent suicides, the answer isn't difficult. You try to improve social security, and otherwise make an effort to foster safe environments.

Stranger monitoring everything you do and might punish you for it... is exactly the opposite.
At what distance? Sound takes quite a bit of power to generate. It's likely this saves a noticeable amount of fuel (maybe over multiple flights). If it's an attachment this may not apply.

After a certain point changes are incremental. We're at that stage with jet engines.
I've never seen anyone doing graphics design etc and not using a Mac to do it.
Wikipedia is not distributed, anonymous, or censor-proof.
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The problem with the the idea of tolerance in discourse like online communities is the paradox of tolerance: that we must necessarily be tolerant to intolerance.

Ideas that call for violence of all sorts don't need to be articulated in an ugly way. In fact, the most effective rhetoric isn't. For example, think of the "just asking questions" style of representing an argument.

This is the sort of rhetoric that places like hackernews is incredibly susceptible to, since it unironically subscribes to that same idea of the "free marketplace of ideas" that's blind to the difference between the content of speech and its actual effects.

Think of it this way: what's the applied use of "debunking the argument" of somebody yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater?
CRT is one of the core results of elementary number theory. Elementary number theory is arguably one of the two most axiomatic and most beautiful branches of elementary mathematics, the other being Euclidean geometry. It is, in my opinion, the best pedagogical subject to teach mathematical thinking, and should be taught to more middle schoolers / high schoolers. Unfortunately, I don’t think it will work in places where most middle school / high school teachers themselves have abysmal understanding of mathematics and can only teach you to recite shit or plug numbers into formulae.
The main advantage of AI is that we can just copy it. So if we take 10 years to train an Einstein level AI in a field, we can copy that a million times and have a million Einsteins. Of course a big part in creating progress is learning new things, so this approach might not create scientific progress faster than current humans, but at least it will be way more efficient for run of the mill knowledge work.
Nah it's actually the easiest way to get things fixed
Yes, but without the word "play" (because you can't play it without paying for it), it becomes "free to", which doesn't make any sense, or if you DO pay money, it becomes "to play" which sounds like toupee. Which is another kind of scam, if you think about it. Free to play is a scam if you need to pay to actually win, except that relies on Apple's review process being any good, but as we see here, that's clearly not true.
As an alternative, I use asdf[0] which is written in bash. It allows you to manage versions of any package through plugins. Plugins can be written in any language (as long as they can be set to chmod +x). Most plugins are written in bash.

Though there is a wealth of plugins, what's nice is that it's trivial to write your plugin. So if something doesn't exist yet, or you have some internal tool you need to version, it takes less than an hour to write a plugin.

[0] https://asdf-vm.com/
What is also important to state is that the parties can vouch the answers to ensure that the match is correct. I cannot vote because I do not have the citizenship but I went through it and was interestingly surprised by the results.

I do agree that it is really a nice conversation starter and can help people who are not sure between one or another.
It’s an IEEE standard not a FreeBSD thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation
> uniformed police officers were on the school's payroll

This is nuts. Even in countries that are quite authoritarian politically there's way less policing of boring daily life. You are living in a ridiculous police state.
Maybe he's talking about the hyperloop.
We also have something like this in my home country, but I don't think it really abstracts away "emotion", nor that it even could in theory. The questionnaires are obviously written by someone, projected through the lens of the respective views and, well, emotions. Also many "hot topics" in politics are by their nature very emotionally loaded. People are emotional creatures and in a lot of situations think more with their heart than their head, and while that quality is often vulnerable to exploitation especially in politics, I don't think trying to deny it does anything good at all.

These tools are rather handy for extracting actual opinions from candidates though, which they usually are pretty successful in hiding among all the PR-esque claptrap that they spew out in speech and writing.
I am sure this is for common good. Well no. Is there anything good in this?

It would be nice to receive a letter like this at home.

Is this Turing test - letter edition?
A 10 dB reduction is half the perceived loudness, so 8 dB is quite significant. 142 dB (SPL) will make you deaf instantly if you are right next to the sound source, but at a distance the 8dB reduction will make it sound much softer.
Very excited to see someone is tackling this problem. With the rise of serverless, it's super easy for an average developer or a new developer to build a backend. It's also super easy to deploy a front-end with Vercel, Netlify, or GitHub Pages. But I believe there's no easy solution for the database part yet.

For most people, the most common choice is to use Firebase. Firebase offers services that people can use to build a "full-stack" application, from front-end service, serverless function as a backend, and a database. It's very tempting to use Firebase for a new developer. Now we also see the rise of Supabase, that offers an alternative to Firebase, that's built on top of open source projects.

I believe in the future, it should be the norm to include database to an application with just a single env variable, without worrying about anything else.
In the comments OP writes that this might have been a special SKU for Costco https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/prayz6/dell_...
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Our experience in the UK would suggest that this is a bad idea
It has been long enough, that spouses discover their partner's wallets upon their death, that children a parent's.

In these contexts, there may be no tech savviness..
The more I see posts praising nix, the more I am confused by the decisions made.

In this post:

--- start quote ---

How about a different version of Ruby or Node? Let’s say that our project depends on Ruby 2.6 and Node 10. We can go and search for those specific versions

--- end quote ---

So, to begin with, we still need a "version manager", because we want specific package versions. But look at how this is implemented in nix:

let
pkgs = import <nixpkgs> { };
in
pkgs.mkShell {
buildInputs = [
pkgs.hello
pkgs.ruby_2_6
pkgs.nodejs-10_x
];
}

Why? Because unlike every sane package/dependency manager where you specify a package and a version, nix pretends each version is a separate package.

And these packages aren't even correct. If you do go and search for ruby, for example [1], you get the following:

ruby Version: 2.7.4
ruby_3_0 Version: 3.0.2
ruby_2_6 Version: 2.6.8

This... This is laughable. How do I install ruby 2.6.8? Oh, there's no ruby_2_6_8, because of course there isn't. And this could be difference between a secure system and all your base are belong to us.

And they call this reproducible builds?

And that's before getting into the ridiculous

--- start quote ---

All the software that we installed depends on the specific version of the nixpkgs channel that we installed on our system [whose only version is a commit hash in a git repo]

--- end quote ---

So you need an extra tool [2] for, quote, "painless dependencies for Nix projects."

Yes, sure. I'm definitely ditching my version managers in favor of this tool, that hasn't solved these issues in 18 years of its existence.

[1] https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=21.05&from=0&size=...

[2] https://github.com/nmattia/niv