skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Democracy is not a mechanism for accountability. No democracy can produce accountability, that's not what it's for. A company with competition has a degree of accountability because their customers can go elsewhere if they are mistreated. A citizen without a lot of money to spend on political campaigns have very little recourse when they are mistreated by the government. Even when the government breaks its own laws, there is almost nothing you can do between qualified, absolute, and sovereign immunity.

The US and other governments have long histories of medical abuses. I would not want an organization that preforms unnecessary and intrusive surgical procedures without consent[0], falsely told people they have cancer in order to remove their reproductive organs[1], intentionally gave people syphilis, hepatitis, and other diseases[2], pretended to treat syphilis to see what happens when it's left untreated[3], etc. to be my only provider of health care. It frankly seems irrational to want an organization that can act with impunity and seem to abuse every function and responsibility it is given to be the sole provider of anything.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/22/ice-gynecolo...

[1]: https://www.insider.com/inside-forced-sterilizations-califor...

[2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/ugly-past-u-s-hum...
Almost. The back seats were actually shredded.
The chairman of Thompson Reuters, who professionally fact check information for Facebook, is on the board of Pfizer which is a grave conflict of interest and there's been repeated examples of them lying outright so all bets are off on who you may suggest is being misleading.
Reddit announces revamped blocking experience
You can just make up whatever factors.

If you want to deliver security then MFA is an interesting strategy that needs careful consideration and planning, you might end up building things like Security Keys so as to solve real threats. You might fix real problems (Google eliminated phishing) at your organisation.

But if your goal is to bamboozle fools into giving you their real money in exchange for Itchy and Scratchy money that you may or may not then "lose" then you don't need all that hard work. Take whatever nonsense you cobbled together and say it's "Two factor" because that means "good" to people who don't know any better.
Definitely Github. Everyone is familiar with Github and can instantly start using it without thinking or learning. Rarely anyone has experience with Gitlab or Bitbucket and you'll spend hours figuring out how to get started and where's what.
As long as they follow the official HHS guidance on de-identification then it should be fine.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-...
Look at shootings and homicides, which are reported more consistency than low-level crimes (people have given up reporting many of these).

2020 was up 50%. And 2021 is outpacing 2020.
Looks like it's down, I get a 504 gateway error.
I'm a pro vax person, and I've had three vaccine doses. But I have a few anti-vaxers around in friends and family, and it can be hard to argue with them that vaccines are totally safe and effective for them (not talking about the population as a whole).

I would like safe and effective vaccines, and I would like to know that the vaccines I have been administered have really got the backing of truly scientific trials.

Surely releasing the trial data is a net positive for all the national populations that have paid for it.
The aspiration is to represent structure in the most elemental form. Some definitions of the word "primitive" refer to a time before words existed. Shapes, motion, and relative positioning are the modes of communicating ideas and knowledge.

Also as mentioned in another comment, primitive types in programming languages lend themselves nicely to visual representation.

Hope you have a chance to try!
> This kind of data is likely more complicated because it's really hard if not impossible to anonymize the actual patient-level data. It still should be as accessible to other scientists as possible.

I disagree with both parts of this. Why not associate each patient with a number then log all data against that? Patient names and other identifying information should simply never be attached to trial-related data (except for in a well-protected lookup file with highly restricted access).

Making scientific data accessible only to other scientists is highly anti-scientific. Feynman, one of the greatest scientists of all time has many quotes around exactly this mindset:

"Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look at what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, 'Is it reasonable?' ... we will doom humanity for a long time to the chains of authority, confined to the limits of our present imagination. It has been done so many times before."

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts"

"Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained."
This is the project site new Ottawa Central Library:

https://inspire555.ca/
More poorly defined legislation with no predictable outcomes that will spend decades with judges who never used a computer trying to guess their way through?
Please don't cross into snark and attack like that. It adds poison to the ecosystem and weakens your argument. More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30016018.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Terrific, thank you!

If you are interested, these are two of the bugs that I filed on the subject. I might triage them again sometime, but if you are interested in ensuring that your code hasn't been affected you might want to look at them:

"Do not parse input as wikicode"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/585300

"Option to disable all autolinking"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/585301
Yes, and I cited the very specific legislation allowing that.
The problem is that robolox essentially lies to kids (by omission) in an attempt to get free labor out of them.
And yet WhatsApp encryption has literally defeated my country's justice system. Judges demanded that the content of the messages be revealed and they didn't get what they wanted. I'll never forget that day. This was years ago before all this client-side content filtering nonsense but still.

WhatsApp is a Facebook product and obviously cannot to be fully trusted. However, I'm still really happy that nearly everyone in my country is using something this secure. There's no point in having the perfect system if nobody uses it.
> And that's a reasonable decision for an adult to make, and if they were targeting an adult developer community.

If it's a reasonable decision for an adult to make because the trade-offs might be worth it, doesn't that mean that it would also be reasonable for a child to make the same decision for the same reason?

It's either exploitative or it isn't, the age of the developer doesn't alter the trade-offs involved.
This is not true, if they handled the rollout properly. Companies like Uber have two entirely different data centers and during outages they failover you either datacenter.

Everything is duplicated which is potentially wasteful but ensures complete redundancy and it’s an insurance policy. If you rollout, you rollout to each datacenter separately. So in this case rolling out in one complete datacenter and waiting a day for their Consul streaming changes probably would have caught it.
> my father advised me that in my career I should stay "close to the money"

I got the same advice from my father, but it meant something different. I was told if I went into computer science or any engineering, I'd always be a servant to management and my job would be outsourced to India. I would be easily replaceable. Best to be "close to the money" instead... that was management. Also, to make "real money", I'd have to move up from engineering to management and wouldn't be programming anyway.

So I went to business school. Might as well optimize and skip the engineering step and go straight into managment. And to be even closer to the money: finance degree.

15+ years later, while finance has been fine, I just really like programming. I have a real aptitude for it. Had to teach myself to code, started side hustle online business (finance is still day job). I might get the same salary as a FAANG software engineer (without the skyrocketing stock), but I always wonder what if I did comp sci instead.

Then, on HN I see comments like yours. Many here hate management, or in your case, moved up to the top of IT management and still seem unsatisfied.

Now, I figure grass is greener on there side... Management says they are treated like a cost center and engineering is "closer to the money" as in profit center. Engineers, even in the profit center, gripe at those MBAs who are "closer to the money" as in directing the business plan, budget and timelines.

In my next life, I'll just do what I enjoy and am good at.
Here is my personal website's privacy policy. Short and concise. Basically I say "I don't collect any data on you"

https://yashchandra.com/privacy-policy/
The system can only be changed by the current political parties, so at the very least you need to build a coalition to change the system.
My son loves it, I think it is a great way to learn.
But if that's the worry, I don't see how this Snopes article actually runs counter to the intent of the original Tweet. If the intent of the tweet was to show that Susan Rosenberg is dangerous, then the Snopes article does a fantastic job of achieving that goal. The tweet was "meaningfully correct, yet technically incorrect", but the fact check was "meaningfully correct, as well as technically incorrect". That's the best kind of correct.

The Snopes article gives ample background context, goes over all the alleged crimes in detail, and it's all fully sourced! It's very hard to come away from this Snopes fact check concluding that Susan Rosenberg is not a dangerous individual.
I, for one, appreciate you owning this. It takes humility and strength of character to admit one's errors. And Heaven knows we all make them, large and small.
Scott brought machines and ponies to Antarctica. He brought an additional crew member without having sufficient resources for him. He also had the men sled-haul supplies. Amundsen brought dogs and just enough crew. The dogs pulled the sleds and the crew ate the dogs as they went along, and as according to plan. Amundsen earned his victory.
Direct link to the issue: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/215215744?pli=1
The big one pinning podcast recommendations to the home screen above the fold with no option remove it. Same with unremovable "recommended" playlists that mix music with podcasts. Podcast settings are at the top of the list in settings too.

But because podcasts are treated equally to music on every page and user backlash to remove podcasts, they added [Music] and [Podcasts & Shows] filter buttons to the header of those pages, wasting page real estate. But the slap in the face is it doesn't even remember to keep those filters applied.

Plus, even if you actually like some podcasts, it'll randomly swap out [Your shows] section for podcast [Recommendations] instead.
PostGIS is, without doubt, some of the coolest software I’ve ever had a chance to work with, professionally.

I used it for a data visualization tool for a large wireless network and it was a joy.
What a horrible response by the dev investigator. The thread has all the info you need: the QR scanning functionality truncates TLDs to 2 characters. And provides a list of a dozen examples.

The dev replies with "hi, thanks for the bug report, please provide a memory dump and a screen recording." How about they just try it out? Do they not have phones?
All of reddit is down for me right now
When I moved into my new house but the internet fiber was not yet activated I also used a Pi with a Huawei 3g dongle as gateway for my home. Most expensive internet I had to use for 3 weeks.

Didn't have any reconnects though but I had a script running checking the connection and if it failed it would re dial
site is up, login is down
Yes, yes I did. I'm not even sure I can blame that on autocorrect.

EDIT: As an aside, I didn't realize there's no strikethrough option for text on HN. For anyone else who wants to hide their shame without ninja editing, I found this site which does the same in unicode:

https://yaytext.com/strike/
The Closely Reasoned Technological Story'': The Critical History of Hard SF
My kids were in a clinical trial on bilirubin lights, a technology around since the 1950s. Would it be fair to imply the lights are untested as a result?
Salt Diffusion
Huh, I guess old reddit is down, but new seems to be working https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/s71g03/announcing_blo...
> better support for ML... such as data and model versioning options?

I'm not familiar with the kinds of files ML deals with. But if you want to version control huge data dumps or non-textual files, git is not ideal. Or use it as a general purpose "share folder" to store random things. A git repo is best fit to store source code for a single project.

SVN might be OK if you insist on using 1 source control system for both code and dumps.

But I don't think you need to force all things into 1 system. It would be acceptable to store pure source code in git. And dumps in something else, maybe using old school backup strategies rather than source control if they are truly massive.
One time I lost my keys and missed my flight, and they bumped some paying customer so I could get home sooner. Still feel a little bad about that one.

Another time, I was walking out of the Admirals Club at DFW to board my flight. One of the agents came running out to tell me I was walking in the wrong direction.

But, it's not always great. I had an award ticket in 1st class out of LHR, and they didn't clean the plane at all. The tray table had sticky soda all over it, and the plane was filthy. Miserable flight.

Another time, I had an upgrade to 1st class on a domestic flight, but the TSA didn't like my bags and did an extensive check (I must have been on some list back then, it happened a lot). I arrived way late to the gate, and lost my seat. Ended up flying back home in a middle seat in the last row. It was miserable.

So, it's a mixed bag, but generally good. It's hard for such a large company to offer consistency.
THIS^^ So much this.

If the executives from the CEO on down fail to understand technology as the source of a serious competitive advantage, then you will be seen merely as a glorified janitor, or maybe plumber. They do absolutely essential work, but nobody respects them.

And one guarantee, if your company (or one you are considering) looks at technology as a cost center, then I can guarantee that they do NOT and WILL NOT see technology as the source of any competitive advantage. You'll be nothing more than a plumber on a team of plumbers who will be ignored, until a pipe breaks, then you'll be blamed for it happening even if they congratulate you for fixing it to your face. Good luck with that.
If they knew, they'd share and talk about how they fixed it.

As a communications person, reading between the lines tell me they've got no idea what happened. Comforting!
This immediately redirects to a sign-in page. Note that you can't get a Google account without a phone number that can receive SMS, so this is effectively paywalled.
> but at the same time it's a feature defined as a finalized spec in the Web incubator.

At the dame time both Firefox and Safari consider this feature harmful and will not implement it.

Just because you rammed it through standards bodies doesn't make it standard, or good.

And, unfortunately, you've co-opted web.dev to be a full-on Chrome propaganda machine.

Additionally, the status of this "finalized spec" is, quote, "Draft Community Group Report". It's nowhere near to being a) finalized and b) standardized.

The "finalized spec" literally has this in its description: "It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track."

> For example, File System Access API

1. Is anyone talking about this API here? No. Only you, trying to pull conversation away from WebUSB

2. Filesystem API suffers from the same thing: it's a "standard", and now your team is busy pushing three more file standards
The counter theory is the comment that OP made. Your response opens with a denial of OPs theory; this response would be more effective with citations. Your theory makes sense, but I just don't see why it has to be mutually exclusive. Maybe they're both factors to varying degrees?
Police's job doesn't force them to intervene either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Do you have numbers for Tidal or Amazon Music? I'd guess they'd land somewhere between the two.
Many of the accusations in this allegedly science-based article are purely guilt by association. In many cases there's no association at all, just fringe people referencing Doshi's peer-reviewed publications. If Hitler was against cigarettes, does that mean I should smoke? I can literally not find two consecutive sentences in this entire article without a snarky ad hominem or tribal flag-wave.
Oh come on dude.
Here is a screenshot of the issue as of time of posting. Forgive the zoom, the UI has a iframe scroll which isn't very capture friendly. https://i.imgur.com/hS8jBzw.png
It would be interesting to see this with the commodity prices adjusted for inflation.

Also this report has commodities interspersed with fiscal / monetary items such as bond purchases, rates and Fed holdings as well. I'm not sure how those could be adjusted for inflation and be used for an apples-to-apples comparison.
> And 2021 is outpacing 2020.

There were less homicides in 2021 than in 2020. In total, there were less crimes in 2021 than in 2018, with a 2.2% population increase.
I'm not fully up to speed with all the research here, but as far as I understand it's quite easy to de-anonymize many datasets of exactly the kind you describe. If you're not really, really careful there will be lots of information in simple demographic data that could easily be matched to other data sources.
The post indicates they'd been rolling it out for months, and indicate the feature went live "several months ago".

With the behaviour matching other types of degradation (hardware), it's entirely reasonable that it could have taken quite a while to recognise that software and configurations that have proven stable for several months, that is still there working, wasn't quite so stable as it seemed.
This was something I was exploring a little bit, but as I had some early trouble—and since all the guides I could find seemed to _not_ use MM/NM—I didn't keep trying.

I would like to figure it out though, because it seems they'd be the more plug-and-play solution if they can work with the modem out of the box.
The sibling posts make the right point: lots of things are objectively bad for your body, but your emotions are part of it, too. If alcohol or whatever makes you happier, then it's "good for you." Until you have so much that it's not good for you anymore.

It's the same for sweet desserts: why TF should you deprive yourself of all of them? Just keep it in moderation.
More specifically, it appears to truncate new generic TLDs to two characters.

From the issue tracker:

It also affects the newer generic TLDs. Some examples:

.apple becomes .ap

.amex becomes .am

.army, .arte, .art, and .arab become .ar

.audi, .audio., .auto, .and autos become .au

.bet and .beer become .be
There must have been a caching glitch...

Many thanks for the info, I had seen the first two pages, but I wasn't sure whether it applied to that very plan. That seems promising :-)
Yeah it seems to not load if you're logged in. Both old and new Reddit working fine in Incognito mode in Chrome.
Yes, and there have been bad actors in the government who do that to try and avoid accountability. Hopefully they usually get overruled by someone with good sense in the executive branch. But if not, the judicial branch could overrule an invalid classification and order it be made public.
Yes, I agree that the deception is a problem, although I admit I'm not well versed in the issue. (I'm watching the documentary linked elsewhere now.) But the original claim was that they were exploiting young developers by taking a big cut of revenues, which I disagree with.
Because it isn't that much work to keep rebasing his tree according to megi.
I have lived in NYC and Bay area. Both times safe places in those areas. And sure I have never seen a crime happen.

But very close to me (like 15 min of walking), there are major armed crimes happening. There are enough guns and people willing to use them in this country that it is just not safe without the police.

There are many reasons for this, I probably agree with most of them, but until they are all solved we need the police.

I grew up in Norway, did not feel like this there at all. Of course crime does still exist, but I would not care how far it was to my local police station.

Also lived in the UK, felt very safe compared to the US.
I don't think copyright infringement is a big problem either, but many software publishers do, and that fear leads them to make the software worse for all of us.
I cannot recommend that article. Science exists in a realm of science, just because a major medical organisation is misunderstood dosen't make them 'antivaxxers'. BMJ is asking for open data, something I think many people here could utilise and find value in.
Why couldn't they make the entitlements enforced by the operating system with user prompts, rather than the App Store (or both)? Just because that's how it's done right now doesn't mean we're just flipping a switch and suddenly allowing everything. It's still up to Apple on how they implement it. If that's how they choose to implement it, that's on Apple.
Depending on how it's implemented it could result in innovation by reducing the cost for competitors, to well, compete. Tremendously poor companies would still fail, but it would effectively create more breathing room for potentially viable competitors.
1> Because no current OS is based on capabilities, no current OS can be trusted to secure an application. This void is being filled with containers and virtualization as a stopgap. Eventually, capability based operating systems could fix this, and become a trillion dollar market.

2> There should only be one logical task per line of code. The right density is that of basic or pascal. Clever use of compound assignments, macros, etc. cost more than their worth in the long run. It makes code harder to read, and easier to misunderstand, even when you're writing it.

3> Moore's law gave us a nice boost in hardware, but the ride is coming to an end. If your software doesn't distribute across cores, you're going to be stuck in the slow lane compared to that which does.

4> Accounts with usernames and passwords are going away. Capability tokens that can be revoked and renewed are going to be the next big thing. Think Flickr's guest pass to look at an otherwise private photo album, for example.
That describes a wide variety of proposals.

I unequivocally support it for healthcare workers.
> How about they just try it out? Do they not have phones?

Not sure what this has to do with Diablo Immortal /s
Speaking of which, how learnable is Elm without any HTML familiarity? I more or less gave up on learning it once the (previous) Elm book started piecing together HTML tags in Elm syntax...