skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please stop "ranting and vomiting" on HN. Not only does it not help, you're reinforcing exactly the situation you're deploring. That damages this community in a deeper way.

HN is a highly international community but it is also highly Western. You can't expect attitudes on topics remote from Western understanding to be either balanced or informed—especially not when the topic is politically and nationally charged. The same would be true of any group of HN's size and regional composition. That's a baseline condition we can't do a thing to change. The question is how we should handle it.

I've expended a huge amount of effort trying to protect this place for minority voices (including about China - here's a list I put together for another user some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod). I regularly get accused of being a communist agent and all the rest of it (which expresses the stupidity-of-the-collective in a way that would be scary if it weren't so trivial), and I can tell you for sure that accounts like yours, making the opposing case in a name-calling, ranting way, are a big part of the problem on this. So please stop.

Anyone who wants to represent a minority view to a majority (especially a highly-charged majority) has a special responsibility not to "rant and vomit" in a wake-up-sheeple fashion. If you do that, all you achieve is to recharge the majority and reinforce its righteousness in precisely the places you want to see change. Should you happen to be arguing in favor of the truth (or some aspect of the truth), then you discredit the truth, which hurts everybody. I've been trying to make this point to people for years, on a wide range of topics: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

Arguably it's not fair that the minority has an additional burden that the majority doesn't have, but it's the way these conversations work, and we can't do a thing to change that either.
I want to voice strong agreement with kevincox. I use an encrypted Matrix room daily and had no idea that reactions, relations (does that mean that edits are in cleartext??), etc are completely unencrypted. I've read a little bit of the spec (though clearly not very much), I've written a bot, I've patched the Element desktop client, I've even been working with a JSON export of my message history and didn't notice—perhaps I should have, but my point is that it's not obvious at all, and users SHOULD be proactively made aware of what's encrypted and what's not.

Sending things unencrypted that users have every reason to think are encrypted is extremely irresponsible. And I assumed, as I think is perfectly reasonable, that everything in an E2EE room is in fact end-to-end encrypted. I'm very disappointed to find out this way that it's not (and won't be for the foreseeable future), and I don't see any justification for failing to making users aware of that.

All that said, I love Matrix, will continue to use it every day, and am hugely rooting for the success of the project. Thanks for all your hard work on it!
I use conduit to run multiple rooms, read receipts have been working just fine.
It would be surprising if we didn’t cross 1 million deaths this winter.
So you are totally okay with the government flushing 2 years of your incredibly short life down the drain to "flatten the curve to build up supplies and healthcare" with zero results? In fact, so little results that many places are locking down yet again like it was march of 2020?

Do y'all not value your lives or short time on this earth at all? You should be furious the government is still playing the "protect healthcare capacity" card. They literally wasted 2 years of your life. No results. And they have the audacity to blame you and the rest of society for their failure!! How on earth is that excusable?
Are we just ignoring all of the doctors and nurses who were fired for refusing vaccinations? They don't count?
This begs the question:

If an asteroid was discovered coming our way and potentially destroying humanity in let's say 10 yrs, would they tell us?

Bonus question:

If the news would break, how would humanity react?
I've been using Eta: https://eta.js.org/

It doesn't do gzip or image optimization, but such features might be better suited as server middlewares separate from the template engine.
Yes, I joked that I could create one called attwifi and hang out next to Home Depot. If you made faked bank websites or PayPal you could likely capture some credentials.
So in the end, I suppose it was not so different from a payday lender after all.
I'm agreeing with you, to be clear, and I'm not a conservative. It's disappointing that that seems to be the inference people have made, if I understand correctly the message that was intended to be sent by the smattering of downvotes. It's disturbing that these things are being done to anyone, and that we don't understand the ramifications or the subtleties just because our tribe forbids us to empathise with the people involved.

If it were left-wingers being banned, or centrist Biden supporters, I have absolutely no doubt in the world that there would be a slew of New York Times thinkpieces about 'the complexity of our political liberties in a world where the public square is digital', or whatever nauseating way they would invariably phrase it.

(You can see this from the other reply saying "conservatives hate morals and that's why we can ignore morals in dealing with them", the exact same thing conservatives say about liberals, and eventually they're both justified. But apparently none of us has the necessary higher-order thinking skills to avoid a moral slide into bedlam. This case is perfectly illustrative: no amount of political-tribalist tosh should be able to persuade you that the other side doesn't deserve to be treated morally.)
It's Farr's Law in action.

"Farr's laws is a law formulated by Dr. William Farr when he made the observation that epidemic events rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern. The time-evolution behavior could be captured by a single mathematical formula that could be approximated by a bell-shaped curve."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farr's_laws
She's very lucky it was a mechanical heart and not a donor organ, as being anti-vaccine is enough to get kicked to the bottom of the recipient list.
Fuel is fuel. Porsche doesn't own gasoline stations. If they sell this fuel, it will be for any car with the technology to burn it.
Ah yes, the suffering of Krav Maga...and the joy of it being done and remembered.
Does codeacdemy hire codecademy?
Great online plays was not a competing factor with the Dreamcast at that time.
Even after a mature library with online play long after the Dreamcast's death the PS2 online scene paled compared to the Xbox.
Classic HN response spending an entire paragraph to disect how I used the word "want" even though it's obvious that I meant "to achieve their goal of maximizing proliferation".
> You're also encouraged to read a lot of warrior culture literature that talks about these things in great detail.

Would you please mention some titles? Thank you.
> What are the arguments in favor of it, from the point of view of the German politicians and/or activists that are pushing for it?

There isnt any, there is only strong coal lobby, russian propaganda against nuclear and lots of stupid people that use Charnobyl as an argument.
That's what I said. To the programming language it's just a token and representing that with a single ligature is fine.

I replied to a comment, that the document is character-based and therefore ligatures are inherently wrong.
Quite large, certainly a good chunk of the population that currently drives. There's also a segment of the public transit riding population that would prefer personal transit, but do not have the option.

People generally prefer to a) be comfortable, and b) proceed directly from point A to B with no interstitial bullshit.

You almost never get b) with public transit as commonly realized today.
> Go will not inline a function that exceeds complexity metrics

True, but:

> and one of those metrics is whether the function contains a range statement. You will get a real heap-allocated closure invocation on each loop.

I think this is no longer true in Go 1.18, see https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14768#issuecomment-98175... .
I suppose in theory, in the very long run, improving one's credit by paying off loans in a timely fashion could lead to that result eventually.
Exactly. All electric heating should be replaced by GPUs. If you need to heat up a room with electricity, at least do some proof of work along the way.
Team building events: type 3.
Basically every other species reproduces only because we allow them to and it benefits us. If we were ever existentially threatened by a competitor, we would eradicate it from existence before it even became a legitimate threat. Single-cell organisms and viruses are the only things we struggle with totally eliminating for our benefit, but we're working on it.
It certainly looks like this, until you look at facts. What did the "50 cent army" actually achieve? Anything even close to manufacturing American consent to invade Middle East and kill million random people?
Meanwhile UBC to international students:

In Christmas holidays we close the dorms. Oh? Oh what's that? You don't have a place to stay? Well. Too fucking bad. Go find an extremely expensive hotel.

Oh what's that? The hotels are charging 500/night? Well. Sucks to be you then? Maybe fly back home during the holidays.

Oh but wait, you're worried about covid? Well. that really sucks doesn't it. So sad.

This news literally feels like someone is trying to actively make the situation so stupid that other diversification efforts are also put on pause.
Channels are really just a protocol, but that protocol is implemented in Elixir (Phoenix) and so isn't available elsewhere.

I think that the important question is "why does this protocol exist?" Most likely, you'll end up solving similar problems as to why Channels exist in the first place. So from a protocol perspective, it's nice that some problems are solved for you.
That's fair, yes. High exponential growth rates make the system much harder to control though, and will easily overshoot the 'set point' (maximal hospital capacity). At a 2-3 day doubling time that overshoot could look pretty drastic.
In that case I'd be mostly worried about breaking law in the U.S. by making rocket knowledge available to foreigners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
Nuclear is fantastic economics, its just regulated to death. The real effect of suppressing nuclear has been a slower transition to a sustainable carbon economy, and increased power prices limiting innovation and productivity. Solar and wind have benefitted, but its still a minor player, and without a revolutionary new battery tech, and gargantuan infrastructure investment, it simply cant replace a majority of current power production, much less satisfy the massive suppressed demand.
When did that happen? According to this piece, the first regulatory action against them for these practices was in 2016.
Is someone selling it as some kind of universal solution for production diagramming problems of all scales, or is this just unnecessary negativity?
Contract law allows very wide variety of contracts, and Apple/Google/whatevs have enough expensive lawyers to write the contract that means "you have rights to whatever we allow you and we can revoke it any time we want without any recourse to you". As for the judge - the economics of going to the judge - which would cost you four figures just to start, five to six if you want any real results - is not exactly in your favor. They have lawyers on retainer, you have a day job which pays way less than any single one of those lawyers costs.
That's true but it's adjacent to my argument. Would you argue that growth stocks offer some utility or intrinsic value which is substantially greater than that of cryptocurrency? It seems to me both asset classes are largely based on a greater fool theory. The only difference is that securities have been around much longer.
Note that LendUp spun off its credit card business (Mission Lane) in December 2018.

https://www.pymnts.com/loans/2019/lendup-credit-card-busines...
The "w" sound is in the u, so unless you also write "an western movie" a wumao is correct.
I was just banned by EA/DICE for cheating, hacking or exploiting in Battlefield 2042. I'm not sure which, as I did none of those things (or if I did, I wasn't aware of it - but I expect it's unlikely that you can accidentally break those rules). After asking support for more information, they listed the same reasons that were originally emailed to me - cheating, hacking or exploiting the game. No further information given.

Luckily I bought it on Amazon so I'll be refunding through them, and I expect my Origin account to be banned as a result - however it sucks to deal with these hardline policies with zero transparency when you're on the wrong side of the algorithm.

EDIT: After reading more about false-positive bans, it seems these days having the wrong driver installed (as some hacks pretend to be software that communicates through that "bad" driver) or running peripheral scripts (like mouse macros) can cause a ban. I wasn't using macros and I don't have peripherals capable of running them (eg Logitech G series).
I normally look at the go blog. Their post about 1.18 linked the detailed release notes.

https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.18
You can't really compare Siri & even Alexa to Google. That things is at a whole different level.

Anyway, we really need a fully offline and private voice assistant. Maybe this sort of things are what should GNU and Apache work on next?
ICU beds require something like 7 specially trained nurses each to operate. Generally, availability of trained staff is the limiting factor (developed countries, at this point, generally have more ventilators etc than they can use), and lead time on making new doctors and nurses is pretty long.
Openwrt has a good description of the various supported routers (v2, v3 etc.) and i had no issues with it.
You're right, but there are a number of factors at play here.

First and foremost, we can only make predictions based upon the data we have. The data we have is mostly based upon people going for voluntary testing. Given the variability in symptoms that motivate testing, varying levels of awareness to potential exposure, varying willingness to get tested, and the availability of testing, the number of known exposures will make it look like we're in an exponential growth phase even when things are tapering off. It is hard to blame public health organizations for accepting this data at face value since the potential consequences of not doing so are extremely bleak.

The other consideration is that people will modify their behaviour based upon perceived risk, whether or not restrictions are imposed. People will tend to comply with restrictions, go about life as normal, follow some sort of middle path, or impose tighter restrictions upon themselves. It takes a truly special person to put themselves into a position of greater risk. Even then, there is a good chance that they are doing little more than translating one high risk circumstance into another (more or less balancing out the growth). We are facing a situation where scientists can make predictions based upon what is known, e.g. the outcome of restrictions, or making predictions based upon anticipated behaviour. Given there is not enough data to model anticipated behaviour, the natural response is to rely upon models that use expected behaviour (e.g. compliance with restrictions or no response). Since the average actual response will prefer over compliance, more bleak predictions are made.

Finally, everyone has a different understanding of life now as compared to life before the pandemic. I remember when the coronavirus first caught my attention: it was when major U.S. universities started shutting down. I remember when I first started taking it seriously: it was when my provincial government issued a shelter in place style order. Since that time, I have paid attention to what is happening and thinking about how I should respond. Sometimes it is in an acute manner. Sometimes is in a cursory manner. Either way, I am more likely to notice and respond preemptively to outbreaks. I suspect that many, if not most, people are the same even if their only actions are stocking up to prepare for the worse. Again, this will affect outcomes.
Looks to have been in 2018 or 2019
Practically looks like it's not bad you can get it at #1 on query "IO Programming Language"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh88g_EKlqw Pedestrians Being Dumb for 10 Minutes Straight. I guess this is the finest america have to offer?

What is the largest country in South America? ... Africa

Can you name a book? ... ummmmmmm

How many stars on the American flag? ... 32
> So you are totally okay with the government flushing 2 years of your incredibly short life down the drain

I reject that that's an even remotely accurate description of anything that has happened, or has any other relevancd to reality.

> many places are locking down yet again

What places? Unless you are using “locking down” as loosely as you’ve used “battlefield”, that's not actually happening, anywhere.

> And they have the audacity to blame you

The only people I’ve seen anyone in government even approximately blame are particular government decision-makers who allegedly deliberately acted to make things worse and the unvaccinated, neither group of which included me. So, again, I reject that this description is grounded in reality.
In the case of the credit card you don't ever have to pay any interest if you pay within 30 days; can't say that for the payday loans.
Are you using official cables too? Cause all my Pi instabilities have come from power supply issues, and in all cases the problem was actually due to crappy cables.

I bought a cheap USB cable tester[1] from AliExpress and ended up throwing away half my cables.

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32973869742.html (random store, feel free to find another)
I don't take issue with reprimands. I take issue with their conversations being recorded. Which absolutely is different than before, when whispering to a classmate, even during class, would remain reasonably private. Unless a microphone was installed at every desk.

> their school device is monitored during class.

So messages sent during recess, or after hours, are not recorded? Even if part of a chat conversation or e-mail chain where some messages were sent during class? Or is the entire device monitored, meaning if they view during class a chat conversation that took place after-school, the entire conversation is recorded? Or even if they don't view it during class? You said the device is monitored, so would that include all the chat logs and e-mails stored on it? Chats and e-mails that would leave students socially hermits if they ignored out of a desire for privacy.

The example document you linked only mentions screen-recording, that the student is alerted to when it's activated. Are you sure that's the full extent of their spying capabilities, or that it's the same service these teachers were discussing? It does not seem to enable the kind of self-professed "stalking" these teachers described.
The Asymmetry of Open Source
Right, and to keep this analogy consistent, do storage owners routinely open all storage units, then open up all your boxes and search through them to check for flammables?
This is a bit pedantic, but I'll make my point anyway: whether a law can apply to you is orthogonal to whether it can be enforced on you. The GDPR is very clear about its application, and it is explicitly extraterritorial [1]. Of course, it does have secondary provisions about company size and non-commercial activity (mainly recitals [13] and [18]) which limits its applicability, but from a legal definition point of view, "I don't live in the EU so the GDPR does not apply to me" is too simplistic.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/

[13] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-13/

[18] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-18/
Before and After GDPR: Tracking in Mobile Apps
How IPFS is broken
You paid for the right to access content for undefined term, determined by sole discretion of the service provider. You've got what you paid for.
I respectfully disagree. If Mozilla can lessen its dependence on hush-money from Google, that is a /good/ thing. One may believe that Firefox/Gecko is an animated corpse, but it's the only realistic alternative to the Chromium ecosystem that we currently have. Other rendering engines are too obscure to matter and/or the hobbyist project of one person or at best a small team, including Palemoon and its ilk.
Not just patents: trademark too.

There’s only one Facebook. Without that, you also don’t have Facebook’s network effect tying it all together.
It's better for a customer to scan images locally, on the phone, prior to upload. By doing this, the device can then encrypt images and store them in the cloud service. In this way the cloud service can be "CSAM sharing free" but never needs the symmetric keys to decrypt private images, period, for any reason.

The only thing this adds to the threat model is mistrust for false positives in scanning engine - but in even the worst case scenario here (forged false positives), you're still ahead of the Google model, where the same forged false positives would be extremely likely to result in a full account review rather than review of specific images. Everything about "the device looking at your photos" is tinfoil hat, because the device is already looking at your photos, they're decrypted in RAM! All of the threat scenarios about "Apple adds a secret government backdoor that downloads your photos and sends them to the FBI" are already equally possible today!
Martin Pali is at the forefront of this but, you know, this is scary to a lot of people for some reason.

The most studied ion channels are the Voltage Gated Calcium Ion Channels

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcmm.12088

https://www.spandidos-publications.com/ijo/59/5/92

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01434...

https://emmind.net/openpapers_repos/Applied_Fields-Hazads/Va...
I wrote Real-Time Phoenix and it goes into pretty much everything that I hit when shipping decently large real-time Channel application into production. Like, the basics of "I don't know what a Channel is" into the nuance of how it's a PITA to deploy WS-based applications due to load balancers and long-lived connections.

The new LiveView book is great if you're interested in going fully into Elixir (server/client basically). I use LiveView for my product and it's great.
Well the report is circa 2013 based on years old documents from before that and it details bulk data collection of US nationals' phone related material. It is feasible that in the post smartphone world and the collapse of storage tech costs it is entirely possible that this has been expanded to any device that receives and transmits IP packets. That is enough to piece together everything needed to personally know about a specific individual. Storing this info for later use (even in encrypted form) is exactly what I was detailing and that is a foregone conclusion based on what we do know.
Note that it's not salaries that are public per se, but how much you paid in taxes. For a typical person with few side incomes and 1 job, the taxable income is obviously very close to "salary".
Given that the App Store doesn't let developers give users refunds, it does sound likely to me that they can't cancel user subscriptions either.
In other news, NFTs are still stupid.
Redundancy does go a long way, but that also introduces a lot of extra weight and complexity into an already heavy aircraft and can screw with your weight distribution.

The parachute can work since there are ones for air dropping tanks, but at the same time I'm not sure I've seen anyone try to use a parachute as safety equipment on an aircraft this heavy.