skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is simple and two fold:

1) Social media has a profit motive to increase engagement

2) Social media has an expensive moderation problem

The solution is also simple, but certainly not easy. There are technology problems to solve.

When you remove access to the user content from the service provider they have nothing to moderate and cannot increase engagement through manipulation of the message (algorithms).

Most people (current developers) refuse to see this simplicity because alternatives are a world directly in conflict with their current livelihoods. This is a behavior called Cognitive Conservatism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_(belief_revision)

I will explain the alternative like this: content on demand directly at the source. Its like what Netflix did to cable and network television. Users take the content when they want it a la carte without waiting for a content provider to prescribe a fixed schedule. Instead of waiting for a media service to make features or content available, or even for their users to make user content available via upload, in a peer-to-peer reality the content is available the moment a user allows remote access. Facebook is like old cable television. You have to wait and hope the desired content appears when you want it to.

In a peer-to-peer world if you want family photos simply use your peer-to-peer application to connect to the remote family member's hard drive and browse or copy all those family photos you want without any web service in the middle. No uploads to Facebook. Just allow reading from a file system directory to authorized users across the internet. Now imagine that directness also applies to messaging, application access, video calls, and anything else digital. The best part of this model is that personal opinions will not dictate remote availability and simultaneously you have privacy in a way that isn't feasible on the current web.
Anyone have background on what a "third party finding" is? Are they talking about dependencies? Because, to me, this specific bug is both a first AND third party issue (e.g. GitLab not pre-verifying before calling ExifTool).
It's a pretty sobering thought that HIV took 40 years to get to 37 million people confirmed dead, and that COVID-19 took only two years to get to 5 million confirmed dead.
So when does Slack get a 3D mode?
That means nothing. Go read the audacity threads pertaining to trying to sneak in Google and some Russian analytics clients.
Having trouble finding my original source but I remember an NYT article that interviewed a bunch of virologists, and the consensus was that the vast majority of the community were unsure because the evidence so far was so limited. Only a tiny, vocal minority is going definitively one way or the other, putting forth arguments that are much flimsier than they sound.

Believe me or no, that's what I remember in good faith. And I think it's supported by the fact that extremely few people with the relevant domain knowledge are coming public with a strong opinion either way.

And don't believe stuff just because FB and Twitter censored it. They're not trying to hide the Truth, they just hate anti-establishment opinions regardless of whether those opinions are true. And things are not true just because they're anti-establishment. That's just the opposite end of conformity.
TLDR; A vulnerability in GitLab that was patched on April 14, 2021 is now being exploited to hack into self-managed servers that are accessible through the internet.

For more context see https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/11/04/action-needed-in-re... If you are using GitLab.com you are not affected.
Rights are social constructs, of course. But we rely on such social constructs all the time. Any ethical system, when you unravel it down to the very bottom, boils down to some axioms that are taken for granted - you can't construct ethics out of nothing.

OPs implicit assertion that undermining nation-states is somehow bad does not have a foundation that is any more stable.
Wow, imagine if a few years ago a startup said its game would earn billions despite forcing whale players who pay a fortune to still have to grind a level 2000-3000 times if they wanted the best artifacts. How many of us would have invested? The craziest things in this world are making people filthy rich. I've just now been learning about the NFT madness....
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I understand the position that we should just handle it like cash because that seems obvious but consider that you risk killing a potentially very large new industry and area of consumption in it's crib by insisting that it must be able to behave within the framework of the current reality because that's how it is right now. For example what if peer to peer connections on the internet had been banned because a user is not allowed to operate their own phone exchange and come on, directly connecting with someone on a data line is basically the exact same thing as connecting with someone on a voice line. It should be done in a smart way, finding new ways to accomplish the goals if it's going to stifle innovation and put the USA behind other countries in the world.
You are right, "easier" is not the right word.
This is patently false. mRNA can contain all sorts of information. In this case it contains the blueprint for the spike protein. What about mRNA that contained a cancer gene? If it were soo fragile, guess what, it wouldn´t work as a vaccine.

More anecdotally, I know someone who was treated a decade ago with mRNA gene therapy and developed cancer as a result.
> You are right, the city believes they have ownership of the data, mainly because they fail to understand that they aren’t showing data in an app, but rather publishing data in an API.

Christian, it's not about the data and has never been. The data is a legal tool they are using.

The municipal administration is trying to save face. It's layers and layers of non-technical bureaucrats who have to justify their salaries.

A few talented software engineers running in circles around some multi-million dollar contract they gave to a large offshored operations with probably close to a hundred individual programmers doesn't look good for them at all.
This is inflammatory and incorrect, you just called all people working on blockchain DeFi criminals.
I explored this a long time ago, but after a while, I was like "what's the point" and just went back to CSS Modules. I'll just write more classes and have a separate file in my directory if it means not adding even more shit that can break in my project.
Are you not using 'set hidden'? Or am I misunderstanding? You can keep a terminal active and not visible.
I used to work for a very successful company that produced mobile games. The entire logic of the game, the rules, etc. was all in Excel
I don't really understand how their customers justify the cost of the premium app.

My insurance recently started providing a year long subscription to the basic app and I have been enjoying it. I use my own treadmill and have access to seemingly all the classes, pre-recorded and live. My Fitbit gives me a large number of stats, the treadmill tells me how far I've run and the app keeps track of my workouts.

But if I pay a huge amount of money for their treadmill or bike the cost of the app increases from 12 a month to over 30 a month. It seems like all you get is a little more stats from the equipment? It really seems that if you're paying for the app at all you should be getting the stats fed into the app. How do people justify the huge price jump on top of the very expensive equipment? I had actually considered getting their equipment after enjoying the app for a few months now, but my insurance only covers three months a year for the "premium" app and it doesn't seem worth it at all.

There are other really screwy pricing going on with all of the other smart fitness equipment I looked into like Mirror and Tonal where the very expensive equipment turns into wall mounted bricks without an ongoing subscription. Even if the subscription was very cheap, if the company were to go bankrupt you're screwed.
It’s not just straight pickle (usually) - there’s a layer in between that allows at the very least for the handling of deprecated fields/new fields/renames etc.

But - after a change - you have to choose either to leave that ‘backward compatibility’ in-place (essentially forever), or put together a job to run (on that scheduler! Hah) to go re-write in your new format. If you care enough, you might - and then you can remove your logic to handle the old names/shapes.

The charm in a lot of it is in its simplicity. It doesn’t claim to very smart, but people get it - and are often remarkably productive.
Here's one for PagerDuty (second YC company to IPO) from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=758653
:x - less strain on the pinky.
Pt and Pd are pretty different from proteins in terms of the reactions they’re used to catalyze, but check out https://opencatalystproject.org/
Intel is doing a fine job themselves in terms of harming intel and propping up AMD. Intel themselves has focused on power efficiency after ivy bridge, and people care about energy bills and being green.

Who do you recommend this CPU to?
I've seen companies use Headless Chrome and then WebAssembly to process files. You then lock down the Headless Chrome process. You're then "triple covered"; WebAssembly's limited context, JavaScript engine's limited context, and the Chrome process boundary itself.

This is obviously "expensive" though. Doesn't scale very well.
> We have quoted a fixed sum per month for that service and we plan to use that money to reimburse everyone sending PR:s we merge

How interesting :- ) I wonder how you'll distribute the thanks-for-the-feature (PR) money — e.g. per PR, or per lines (hmm I guess not) or maybe some impact / "severity" system like for bug bounties? (but this time "feature bounties")

(From Sweden me too. How nice that you built the app and that apparently things seem to end in a good way :- ) I felt a bit upset when reading the article)
You are confused. I never claimed the vaccine is not safe. Not in this post, not ever. VE on the other side is fair game. At least attempt to engage with the points in discussion.

Anything other than insults? Look at yourself...

A clinical trial of VE in kids that does not critically rely on year old original clinical studies? A link to a long term VE study (>6 months)? A proof that the virus is stable to future mutations that impact VE (counterexample: Delta)? Generally speaking, a proof that no medical intervention had ever unexpected effects?
This is a good thing to recognize, however I think in this case it's more along the lines of Munger having a novel vision for a specific dorm layout, and saying to the university "Hi. I got this idea for a dorm, I will foot the bill if you are up for doing it my way". This is hardly the same as "giving grudgingly"...

In fact it feels wrong to cast the matter in this light. At worst it is more akin to Maimonides' concept of Utilitarian Friendship, and the current furor perhaps serving as the “When the benefit vanishes, love vanishes” moment.
That's an interesting opinion. JSX feels far more natural to me.
> What It Means for the Space Industry

I am playing the devil’s advocate and writing that the main issue is materials materials materials, ala Steve Ballmer’s developers developers developers?! So that all these five startups seem just ancillary or toooooo long a shot (imho).
finally, score 1 for society.
If you must Wrangle Untrusted File Formats you should do so Safely:

https://github.com/google/wuffs
Ask HN: Considering Transitioning Gender
Hi HN. I’m considering taking HRT to present as female. I’ve had gender dysphoria since at least puberty about twenty years ago. The idea of transitioning seems fun to me and I wonder if it might help me enjoy life more.

I’m generally handsome (afaict), fit, basically happy enough, in therapy, have decent luck with dating, on senior staff at Google if that helps (i.e. financially secure and with good benefits for trans matters at work). But have struggled deeply with this question and sexually my gender seems to get in the way of my ability to connect physically.

I’m asking HN as it tends to be a curious, yet skeptical and sometimes rigorous community.

My question is: how can I know if this is the right decision for me? Are there good ways of “prototyping” this decision? Is there any great scientific research that is good at predicting outcomes (i.e. whether transitioning improves quality of life or not)?

Thanks so much. Anonymous account for privacy, but a long time poster.
It’s a catchy acronym. For alternatives, check out egghead.io, designcode.io or https://beta.reactjs.org/ depending on the content you’re looking for… I’ve never been able to pick just one framework and use it to the exclusion of all else. Even when I was writing Rails apps back in the day, I had to use Scriptaculous or jQuery in addition to Rails and friends. And often write custom Ruby gems and libraries all over the place. Something like React Native seems cross-platform and friendly until you need one simple API and then you’re writing async wrapper functions that have to talk to the main thread in both Android, iOS and wrapper JS. Abstractions and tech stacks always work well but never in isolation. You gotta write the code somewhere. I’m a big believer in owning your dependencies and treating code you ship - but didn’t write - as your own code. E.g. framework code.
> He may have been a racist bigot,

I sense an inner authoritarian coming out of their pupa here.

> even the far right tends to have a little grudging respect for the ability of someone like Noam Chomsky

The "far right" has about as much respect for Noam Chomsky as the "far left" has for John Birch.

Which is to say, they view him as a peddler of hateful conspiracy theories that his low information followers unquestioningly believe. A dangerous person that should be silenced. If you think otherwise, you are fooling yourself about any supposed admiration there is for Chomsky.

> It's about the gutter-level quality of the voices.

Now are you talking about Chomsky again? Because you still think that the right is objectively worse than the left and that's just not the case. Some people are just natural authoritarians and any opposing views are "gutter discourse" whereas their own enlightened views have to be grudgingly admired. That's not how it works. And I would not recommend that anyone read Chomsky because the value of his political commentary really is the same as that of John Birch, IMO. There are some important nuggets of insight, but you have to be immunized against all the conspiracy theories and hate, and most readers don't have the appropriate background to handle it. They will come away with a feeling of faux-insight that is just a bubble of misinformation. And they tend to be very angry and militant. We need less of that.

> but instead just use snark to try to make other people seem less funny

There's no need to bring John Oliver into the discussion. There is lots of snark, but I agree it's not helpful to focus on it.

> I'm not sure where this level of insight can come from?

Yes, the snark is a real problem.
Isn’t HN expressly a medium for crowd-sourcing what’s interesting?
It's not obviously problematic to me, and I don't see why it's a dichotomy between nation-states and neo-feudalism. The states haven't had that much power over monetary policy for most of human history - and there were many different forms of social organization in said history, of which feudalism is a fairly small subset.

Nor is it obvious at all that there are no other forms that have yet to be tried. Or are being tried - I mean, the Zapatistas are crazy decentralized, but it's not a feudal society, either.
The official statistics start the clock in the 1980s when HIV became widespread enough to get noticed, but it probably infected humans quite a lot earlier.

(which I think that period is probably relevant in the comparison to COVID)
Oh wow I know the citrusbyte people, I didnt know about this!
Those are in no way substitutes for each other -- you have to do both. People are not able to self-report accurate measurement data, and telemetry data can't tell you anything about what a person wants or why they do things.
I find it amusing that Bob made it in most of the banks, but few of the other names stuck.
The greatest thing with Diversity and Inclusion: you can't openly be against it or suggest that the bar was lowered for someone. So instead it's discussed behind closed doors, and you hear things like "You know X is here for the right reasons. He went to Y and is Asian so you know he's qualified".

It actually ends up hurting minorities in the short and long term.
I understand what you are seeing and can see your point.

I think it brings up another point though. Does interesting have intrinsic value?

I believe the 20th century was a time period where the western world had to learn to live in a world with infinite sugar, fat and salt. Our nature is to gorge on these naturally rare resources when we find them.

I believe the 21st century will force humans to live in a world of infinite information. Again, our nature is to gorge ourselves on things we find interesting. Is watching YouTube videos you’re interested in any better than eating sugar? Time will tell but my initial reaction is that it is just as unhealthy.

For example, I love history. YouTube will happily feed me an infinite array of little factoids about history. I’ve seen so many that I will then see the same one come up on my feed again and think, “ooh that sounds interesting” and then I remember watching it previously and can’t remember a single thing about it. Was it really that interesting then? Or was I just wasting time mindlessly binge watching videos?
It certainly is ironic that somebody put nine months of work into a financial product before they considered the legal complexities that might arise. I suspect that I'm missing the trees for the forest in saying so.
It was a question we all asked ourselves many times, but it's hard to say. He was diagnosed with an extremely aggresive stage 4 cancer and was given a couple weeks to live. Whether or not he would have seen a doctor earlier had we not been in crunch mode is uncertain.
Ask HN: What is your favorite blog from a layout/format perspective?
Having trouble following. Interested in hearing more if you'd be willing to expand!
Web fonts, boy, I don't know (2016)
You overdramatise the point, but yes!

You feed the toddler.

You pack and give food to the 5-10 year old. They feed themselves.

You supervise the 10-teenageish to gather/pack their own food.

After "teenageish" you do in fact leave them out on the hills to fend for themselves...

... and part of fending for yourself, is to know when to ask for help. But the terms of help is hopefully between two capable humans at that point.

In the school system, I would expect that teachers are not asking 5-10 year olds to do complicated tasks. But to do simple tasks outside of school hours (homework) and know how to dress on any given day is totally appropriate. Parents can assist their kid to be so organised as and how they can. But the kid themselves are responsible to the school if they aren't.
It’s a completely different approach from the normal way CSS is used. With Tailwind the classes describe what it should look like directly rather than what it is. Yes, it is still accomplished using CSS, but it’s definitely not the way most people use it.
Nothing. I'm also a big fan of libraries. I meant not DRM-d to hell Kindle, which Amazon and only Amazon can control, and which you never actually "own".
Iomega Zip drives— still impressed with the choice of making the drives blue. The showstopper though, was my dad’s wood modem—I don’t remember if it was plastic or real, but it was purchased from a national retailer—not homemade and way cooler than the slate of white 56k US Robotics modems that followed!
Junkies snort, sniff, drink, eat, inject untested stuff all the times, which get's metabolized to hot shit, frying their neurons, trying their livers, trough a very complex and bug-prone process with the occassional OD. Add to that that rational thought is quite lacking when it comes to judgement.

So, stopping to be a junkie is must.

edit: Blablala

Didn't you get the analogy? If your'e using software equivalent to the mindstate of some longtime crackhead with shrunken brains, there isn't much you can do to get the brain repaired.

You could pretend to do so, but you could also just switch off/disable the dangerous stuff, even if it locks you out from some content. Which could be seen as another addiction. So stop accessing that, too.
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Riding a car is not really a problem but some people (that get into an accident) are at risk of injury?

The whole idea of risks is that for some it turns out fine, for others it doesn’t. That’s life, it’s unavoidable.
I clenched my cheeks reading the title. This was a relief.
My DIY ground control station
Exactly, so what is this Armen character getting out of this other than a potentially big amount of liability and unarticulated risk.

The OP said he told people openly that Armen told him he could do it when asked.

This makes no sense to me, what’s the upside to Armen? If he is business savvy, he needs to be gaining something in exchange for having his name thrown around by OP as signing off on this.
This is very bad logic, can't you understand that it's possible for laws to be out of date with current technology? What would you say when the internet came around?
Handheld PC should have the size of comfortable thumb typing. This is just mini laptop, not a handheld PC.
Are you talking Roblox?
Indeed.

Thankfully, I think it can be said the light is now strongly visible at the end of the tunnel on Python 3 (but it’s not completely done).
Just wanted to say huge Thank You to the guys at Cloudflare for the awesome content. You post some of the best articles on Linux kernel, network stack and eBPF. I immensely enjoy these. Keep up the good work!
> Because, to me, this specific bug is both a first AND third party issue

Seems GitLab agreed on that one, they registered two CVEs:

ExifTool https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22204

GitLab https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22205
Not him, but how are you supposed to know about the update? Do you need to check some page every day if there's an update? Why can't security updates just autoupdate like apps on phones or at least email the admin saying there is an important update.
True, there are at least headlines in the yellow press :) https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....

I remembered something like https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....

This is a 3-4 year old machine, BIOS updates have become rare. In the beginning I followed the closely without ever seeing any improvement.
Ask HN: How do you design a responsive organization in large company?
I'm no manager neither senior executive but curious for you that have those title, in large organization there is always some inefficiency, learned helplessness, normalization of deviance, how do you tackle that situation ? creating a responsive organization that can handle growth opportunity, competition from other etc.
Just tell yourself that vim is really actually vi wearing a snazzy new hat, and that you’re the spring chicken in a romance with a distinguished yet energetic 45 year old partner.
I was waiting to see when someone would link to this :)
I’d recommend this blogpost from the creator himself!

https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...