skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should I re-write drag and drop again?
Hello everyoen!
i am considering switching from type script to rust yet again ahahah!!!
should i do this even though i have so much more to write and i have to be done by hristmas?!?
thanks!!
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Arguably, a setup using a VPN for anonymity purposes is badly flawed if it allows traffic to anything but the VPN gateway. This includes the local network.

Mediocre home appliances or (as in this case) ISP CPEs can easily deanonymize you.
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBqgpdBNrt8
I have really mixed feelings about deprecating HTTP for HTTPS. There are a lot of websites that are never going to migrate, websites with quality content. There's also a lot of clients that are never going to support HTTPS. There's nothing wrong with them otherwise, the hardware is still good, but they can't be used anymore and it's not the owners choice to decide, but a few big tech companies pushing this change.

Even if we do care about these nefarious men in the middle, the elephant in the room is that a large part of the encrypted traffic these days go through major CDNs, and for them to actually pages and and route requests and be anything more than a glorified NAT, they need to inspect what's being sent, and keep track of who is sending it. Even if they totally pinky swear they aren't doing anything nefarious with their position of being able to inspect and analyze a huge portion of the Internet's traffic, and even if we believe them, that can change.

Remember SourceForge? Remember when they were the heroes of open source, the go-to host for source code and binaries? Remember when they were bought up and subsequently were caught with their fingers in the cookie jar bundling malware in said open source packages?

All I'm saying is that there sure is a lot of eggs in that basket. Is a lot easier to lean on one or two CDN operators than it is to lean on every ISP in the country.
Any kind of telemetry service inside of a program purporting to care about centralised avenues of control should be an indicator to never ever use it. Either the developers don't understand what they're talking about or they are disingenuous. It doesn't really matter to the end user, both will mean that your use-case is not being served :)
Yep - a guy I shared an office with walked in and told me he had been wondering if he was going to get laid off. I comforted him and told him that I couldn't see why there would be lay-offs - we had tons of work to do.

He picked up everything off his desk and walked out. Turned out he had just been fired, but he had been told it was a lay off to soften the blow. I actually thought he should be fired but the problem had been going on so long and it was the kind of place that just never fired people, so I didn't even consider that possibility.

11 years ago, I think - I still wish I hadn't said anything. But I also wish he had been given candid feedback by his manager much earlier.
Completely agreed!

This is one of the main goals behind https://wapm.io :)
>It ran pretty well on Windows 98 machines

I don't think so, for example requirements for RAM:

Windows 98: 16 megabytes (MB) of memory (24 MB recommended)

Windows 2000: 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM recommended minimum;
In my opinion this is a sign of America becoming a utopia. Most people have so little to worry about we start fighting on stuff that literally doesn't matter.
Big tech’s pro-climate rhetoric is not matched by policy action, report finds
I had an idea similar to this as well - to help people kickstart recommendations for their friends. I'm thinking of creating a personal url for each user (e.g., linklonk.com/u/lonk). If someone upvotes that url - they establish connections to the sources that user is connected to.

When you want to introduce someone to LinkLonk you could share with them your personal url.

As for decaying sellouts, wouldn't downvoting the content they upvoted do what you want?

By the way, every time someone you are connected to upvotes something, your connection to them becomes slightly weaker. So if you simply ignore recommendations from sources with a lower signal-to-noise ratio (or high volume) - their recommendations will eventually fade away from the "For you" page.
Are there any considerations for the extra weight of the OSB on the roof? I guess it doesn’t snow in Texas anyway
Is there a way to watch a youtube video on speed higher than 2x?
I think you should be able to joke about literally anything.

Context matters though so you should not be doing it all the time or to everyone. But for me personally, almost no joke is too far.
> 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.

ZeroTier founder here:

Clients accept identities learned from WHOIS via root servers, but not from regular nodes.

As mentioned in the writeup, this was reported and fixed rapidly. I don't think there is any remaining issue here, but I am doing a re-read and will publish a blog post in a bit.

It's also important to note that the original (fixed) issue also required a node to be offline for >30 days. So the attacker would have to know your network and the identity of a node that was has not been online for a long time and invest >$500K worth of GPU compute power (at current cloud rates) per identity target.

The certificate thing mentioned is well known and hasn't been considered a vulnerability because certificates of membership are not secrets. They are akin to the SSL server and client certificates presented on SSL connection. That being said, it wouldn't be a bad idea (defense in depth) to make it harder to get these to make enumeration more difficult. We're looking at some mechanisms for this in new versions of ZeroTier.
> forwarding all posts to your social networks is essential.

I've been talking to businesses for years about this same thing. Using a blog as a way to broadcast to social media but keep the blog/site as the main source of information for your audience.

And it never works because it is far too simple to just use social media directly and even if you don't, your audience still comments on social media and so your discussion remains there.
Existential comfort has nothing to do with God. It is the ability to appreciate uncertainty of purpose as being a side affect of free will.

Spirituality is bigger than God; Religious practice in the past of an atheist who is dismayed by their own existence within an atheistic framework needs to take a leap of faith I think.

Spirituality/Shamanism, org Religion, Monastic/ZEN Buddhism are paths to spiritual awakening, but I would argue heavily that absurdism i.e. understanding that there is so much to think about wrt the universe and me being here - but that's the universes fault.

All of you reading this because a protein bumped nasties with another protein, fast forward to your parents and now here we all are together...at the pinnacle of existence from the protien's point of view.
The way to find good blogs is to start by asking technical questions in whatever subject you are interested in.

If you want to read about barbeque, you need to start with a technical question about barbeque; if you want to read about Greek history, you need a question about that.

Eventually you will find somebody knowledgeable who is writing about that subject. They will in turn link to others, or comment on others, and so forth.

Discussion groups and forums and such are useful.
RSS is a standard API to subscribe to blogs. Maybe what you're suggesting is that more tools are needed to make RSS more accessible to lay people?
Yes common sense sometimes comes across as cool too
Sasa nat ke Belta, Inyalowda?
In my case, it's because a managerial position is an ephemeral role you voluntarily step into. Accepting a managerial role means accepting certain rights and constraints, including things like the topic of the article.

Being told you have similar constraints simply because you were born with a certain configuration is both arguable, completely lacking any nuance or insight, and mostly original-sin tinged dogma.
Probably just hasn't been discovered then. The Internet is big. I wish more small websites would be better at linking to other small websites :-(
Wouldn’t Wednesday (Woden’s Day) be more appropriate?
The inverse "we will support you for xyz" works just as well anyway.
It reminds me of this, from Krazam:

https://youtu.be/_o7qjN3KF8U

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23014970
Decentralized platforms need signed messages, signed upvotes / downvotes, and an open ranking algorithm otherwise they can never be an alternative to centralized systems like Twitter

Censorship shouldnt be the central focus. The real hope is that from 1000 ranking algorithms, we can find one that isn't a divisiveness amplifier
Ah, you're right, i interpreted that comparison wrongly. In that sense then it's most probably right. Still, we don't have any evidence that this impact was from a comet, it was most likely just an asteroid plunging into it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109727652...
> At one time [Norm MacDonald] had $450,000 to his name. He bet $400,000 on some game, lost it, and then decided he may as well bet the remaining $50k. He lost that too.

Wow! Suddenly, missing out on some stock market gains (but not losing anything in the long run) doesn't seem so bad.
> Wonder if it's actually useful in places where you actually have censorship

It's not like we're immune to this in the west, didn't you see the censorship on all the social media recently?
Yes, this is another problem with cloudformation, although IIRC I just used “aws cloudformation deploy” and let it manage my s3 resources.
> because Amazon is an incredibly trusted brand

I was surprised to read this assertion, because I don't know because anyone who trusts Amazon as a brand, even those who use it heavily.

But perhaps my selection bias misled me here.
Never heard of the Flow browser before. Here's the product page: https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/
My point is that there must be people who aren't involved in criminal gangs or deliveries crossing this bridge, too, so there should be a general interest in keeping it safe.
Then there are those bosses who do it on purpose, to just screw with you. I had one boss who was upset because we both submitted to present at a conference (VMworld) and I was selected, but he wasn't. He then declined the business paying for the trip, so I paid my own way, then he arrived at the conference, slipped past the guard the day I was presenting (I was first panel of the day and did a dry-run) and stepped up to a group of us talking after I had just finished and said, casually, "whew, what a long call I just got off, we were talking about your replacement."

I remember looking at the VMware guys I was with and their eyes were bugging out like WTF, did he really just say that. By this point I was used to his crap and kindof let it roll off me. After we got away one of them asked if I was okay and said screw the presentation--he'd go introduce me to some people :D I talked him through it and did the presentation anyway.

This boss was definitely toxic--he relished psych games, and at one point handed out copies of "The art of War" so we could all "brush up"--and as much fun as I was having working there (not because of this stuff), I finally did leave within a few months on my own terms. Never have I worked with anybody as toxic as that.

(After I returned I asked the CTO about the call the boss was on where they "talked about my replacement." The CTO scoffed at it, and said that call had no such conversation.
In followups my boss backpedalled and said he just meant because I was going away for a few weeks and who would cover me during that time--of course that's what he meant).
I once had a friend uncharacteristically not respond to a couple texts confirming plans we'd made. I eventually sent "Are you alive?" and got a call back from the hiking companion who had watched her fall to her death two days earlier.

That one gives me nightmares.
Scihub test :-)

Note our scientific progress towards "The Global Brain"
https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/3615#issuecomment-...

Specifically designed to improving science

-Tribler team
I went self-hosted about a year ago (again) using ghost and commento. So far I love it. I've been writing online since the first web pages and I started blogging around 2000 or so. (I think)

The demise of blogging and the crap that is social media are both due to the same combination of two factors: zero friction to create content and instantaneous, perhaps wordwide feedback on whatever you create. Serious writing just isn't designed to work in this kind of world. You'll be drowned out by emotionally-manipulative crap and then people will build engines to churn out even more crap faster that's even more manipulative. I love the future, but my vision of the future of VR/AR/brain interfaces is something along the lines of getting instantaneously angry or sad at something and wanting to talk about it before you're even consciously aware of what you're angry or sad about. The words will come later and are besides the point. (Which is just like our brains work)

Because of many innovations, printed text is simply too easily-manipulated and dispersed by technology to survive in any fashion similar to what it used to. I don't know what the answers are, but I'm experimenting. Because of social signaling, my blog is ad, pop-up, and tracking-free. I'm mixing in new formats with weekly video called "Nerd Roundup" where I just shoot the shit about tech stuff. I tried twitch and a couple of other new delivery platforms. I do have e-publications, but I do my best to downplay the idea of anybody buying them who are not serious about the topic. In short, my current strategy, like George in that famous episode of Seinfeld [1], is take whatever most people are doing and invert it. There might be a space there to make some kind of progress. I'm not sure. It's worth trying.

I know that we need more people reasonably talking about various topics and doing so in-depth, and I know we're getting less and less of that.

1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697744/
They also ask for your account password over the phone

I think they now only ask for the X, Y, and Zth characters, but they used to ask for the whole thing
> Based on the images and video provided observers, the object’s diameter is estimated at 20 meters

The Chelyabinsk meteor was 20m and it damaged 7,200 buildings, it collapsed a factory roof and shattered windows (I have no idea the composition of either of both meteors but at least this gives some perspective):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
You're taking a tool -- a chef's knife -- and telling us that the point of it is to open packages from Amazon.

Sure, you can do that. It will even work for that. But the tool has many, many more uses than that.
Yeah, I'm sure there's some sort of psychological reckoning to be had there.
What’s the utility of life advice that’s meant for a general audience, but can only be utilized by a specific niche?
Thursday is literally named after jupiter in latin and latin based languages (french, spanish, etc)
Setting a blog is easier than ever: Medium has a close to zero barrier of entry. With all its criticism here, it helped many people start blogging in the first place.

I don't know if bloggers turned to Twitter, TikTok, and similar goldfish attention span media. (Maybe. I don't have data.)

I think it is more likely that high-quality blog posts drown in the sea of tweets. More people do the latter, and the cost of doing a single one is orders of magnitude lower than writing even an average-quality blog post.
Global Innovation Index 2021 Released
This comment is gold. I genuinely chuckled as I read it.
Is it difficult to write down the labeling guideline?
Data labeling companies always mention that writing a data labeling guideline is very important. However, I think it is really necessary if someone could give me a template to fill in.
Becausue it's so hard to search before you submit...

Duplicate from 5 days ago and >1 year ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28537179

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107510
This must be the uninteresting reading the guidelines refer to.
Thanks for this! I’m going to be rigging something like this soon, and I have a lot of feature crossover with what you’ve done here.
I have installed a Chrome extension to remove certain "data science" blogs from my search results because they just dominate, but allow posts from practically anyone. I'm not interested in the teachings of a data virgin on machine learning.

I have muted and blocked accounts on Twitter as well because of that: people clearly never having touched real data talking about ML projects, recommending libraries to manage lifecycle, etc. All that "audiencing" doesn't suit me, especially when it's clearly BS with no value, not even an entertainment value.
>Lets strip mine 1000s of tons of rock to get lithium batteries and charge them with coal and claim the cars are climate friendly!

works about as well as their 'self-driving' shtick
TLDR: That discourse with your friends IS democracy. We need more of it.

Ya. Platforms are just one facet of the full package.

I've participated in politics in the USA. One fascinating part is the endorsement process. My local party is one of remaining orgs that does rigorous endorsements. Fewer orgs do it over time, tracking with the decline of local (political) news and rise in campaign spending (drowning out all other signals).

Some other tenacious orgs still doing endorsement processes are League of Women Voters, Urban League, Municipal League, League of Conservation Voters, NARAL, most unions, Chambers of Commerce, etc. Every org does their own thing; so this inside baseball game is a whole 'nother world of politics.

It's a lot of work, for all involved.

Candidates seeking our endorsement fill out surveys. This is above and beyond their public platform (position) statements. Some of our questions are deal breakers, where candidates have to abide by our bylaws and positions, by design.

Candidates are rarely blank slates. We also research their past voting, activities, where they get their funding, and so forth.

Then we do endorsement interviews. Every one gets the same prepared, canned questions (for fairness).

Every single election cycle, at least one of our interviews makes the local news. So it's clearly impactful.

During our deliberations, we also consider candidate's campaigns and reputations. We have a heavy bias towards people who play ball, gets things done, are effective. In other words, we're not much interested in someone who agrees with us 100%, but is unlikely to attain our policy goals.
I think the problem here is that people who thought CR will be some "silver bullet" see it is not working for them.

Code reviews are in my opinion still a good tool. It works well in other industries as well. You want to bounce stuff from the other people before pushing it further.

Where it goes wrong is people - so it is people problem not the tool problem. If you do not have good people you won't fix them with code reviews.

It is the same with agile, managers tend to think they can just follow some agile coach and can hire anyone to the team. But the truth is, I see bad teams going bad with or without agile and good teams agile or not going strong.
No it didn't really show here except for Snowpocalypse. And no, no extra consideration really. My neighbor is a proper carpenter and he said I'd be fine so I went with it.
In Hindu culture, Jupiter is known as Brihaspati, and Thursday is known as Brihaspati-var (the day dedicated to Jupiter).
Every time I see an alt-client for Youtube, I feel like this is quickly becoming the BitTorrent vs. Legit DVD/BD game all over again. Here's the thing: I pay for Youtube Premium. Aside from web pages, I'd say it's the biggest non-interactive medium that I consume. And that said, the official Android client SUUUUUCCCKKKSS.

I don't care about blocking ads or downloads. I've already legitimately paid for those features. But I want screen rotation to not suck. I want comments to be easier to read. I want notifications and subscriptions to not be laundered by your shitty recommendation engine. And who the hell thought the Watch Later playlist should pop up/over when I try to play a video?! No one wants that.

I don't mind paying for what I use but I feel like a real sucker when I get a shittier experience compared to pirates.
Feels like what you're referring to is just "understanding". GPT3 fails at this as well. It seems that gpt3 can string together sentences and whole paragraphs that seem to sort of make sense together but it seems that it never really puts hard constraints on any concepts. It doesn't try to build a comprehensive world with rules. Everything is just a sort of a fuzzy continuum. If you train it on enough data this fuzzyness generate a lot of plausibly sounding output but it will have a hard time coming up with the right answer in a new situation.

I feel the missing ingredient is to be able to combine this fuzzy or intuitive understanding with some kind of rule engine.

It's like in the book "Thinking Fast and Slow". It feels like GPT and the best image recognition algorithms we have today are good at the fast kind of thinking but doesn't have the slow and logical part.
I live in the US and have had comcast inject into http requests. I noticed because of a pop-up in csgo's menu (it loads html for their blog)
Arcan as Operating System Design
It's always fraud when the little guy gets one over on the big guy, but strangely never the other way around, in practice
So do many Eastern civilisations...
> it isn't as trivial as on ubuntu

> Personally, I run ubuntu

What does Ubuntu have to do with it?

Here's a quote from the article:

--- start quote ---

Ditch your version manager

September 17, 2021 • 7 min read

You probably use a variety of tools to manage your Ruby, Node, Python, Elixir versions, such as rvm, rbenv, nvm, or asdf. They all work reasonably well, right?

Well, not quite.

...

My ideal dependency manager would allow me to specify each and every dependency that is required to work on my projects. It should be easily reproducible, declarative and easy to upgrade.

--- end quote ---

To this end, the author proposes to ditch rvm, rbenv, nvm etc. and go for nix.

Here's the entirety of what I need to do to pin my ruby version:

rvm install 2.1.1
rvm use 2.1.1

That is it.

I've yet to see anything that approaches this in nix. We are talking about reproducible builds, aren't we?
It was about as big as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor from 2013, so "extensive ground damage over an irregular elliptical area around a hundred kilometres wide, and a few tens of kilometres long". So you would have a bad day if it hit the specific part of the Earth where you were located but overall not much would happen.
Indeed, look at what Franklin Roosevelt was able to accomplish in his four terms as US President. We almost had nationalized health care system. Continuity of executive leadership has tremendous impact on a country’s ability to function and grow.
I didn't get that comment either. I've doubled-down on RSS for this purpose in my side-project Haven[1]. Write your own private blog, share it with people who can then subscribe with personal http-basic-auth RSS links (or view it on the web), and I've recently built in (still a WIP) a feed reader so you can create your own facebook-style news feed of anything on the web or things your friends write privately on their own Haven.

[1]: https://havenweb.org
"Causing harm" is the kind of vaguery that makes people walk on eggshells when taken seriously enough. I agree there are things that managers shouldn't joke about, but I do think it's on us to be specific about topics and scenarios.