skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am guessing you are suggesting this as an absurdist argument (even if it is feasible !?!!) but I don't get why using client certs is bad? The downsides to session keys in cookies is immense and I don't see JWTs as being materially different.

It appears to me there are two options :

use out of band method to verify a HSM "belongs" to a given person (which has loads of issues) then

1. Use that HSM to establish a bearer token for future requests

2. use that HSM to establish a client certificate which at least avoids the problems of bearer token.

I may of course be very wrong.

PS To me the problems of "replacing passwords with something stronger" boil down to the fact that the vast majority of web sites out there are not protecting anything valuable. I have 300+ entries in my password vault and if I had to walk down the street to a "PKI office" and get my passport stamped to access each one, I would choose maybe five.

I suspect that the vast amount of crap sites out there trying to find ways to make authentication stronger without actually making it less convenient for people i case they stop bothering to sign in, is just undermining the infrastructure we would need to have trustable authentication.

If it's valuable to you, you will make the effort.
In a prior probability sense, that makes sense, right? The adaptive immune system has to be working or the vaccines wouldn't work, and adapting against the actual threat has to be effective or you'd never have fought it off in the first place.

Of course, the general problem here is one of measurability and working in an adverse environment. So in a medical sense, prior infection determines response. But in a public health sense, if you believe that prior infection claims are easier to fake than vaccine records, and if you believe the spread risk is worse, then it makes sense to proxy spread risk with vaccine records. Personally, I get what you mean, and perhaps I'm not fighting too hard for the truth here because I don't really care that much.

But I just wanted to say I'm with you on the facts since every other response is operating (in my opinion) in the fallacious "there's a paper that says" mode. It's just not Bayesian.
> The only censorship that should happen is when something illegal is said

I enjoy this tautological directive. By OP's logic, China's censorship is totally fine because it's illegal to criticize the government there.
Even more naive if you think corporations and media owners aren't influencing governments, and aren't carpet bombing social media platforms with views and comments to try to suppress views that don't benefit them.

Overt de-platforming is just the most obvious kind of censorship. Inexplicably, those who label themselves free speech advocates rarely seem genuinely concerned about the more covert kinds of influencing.
Nearly 20 million babies (most in adult form) died under Hitler, so yeah... censoring him would almost certainly have been better.
Of all the issues raised in this thread, preventing a DDOS of a virtual Boston Common is the only one I can claim -- with confidence -- that I know how to prevent ;-)
It's not Google per se but a practical impossibility: it has to rank somehow, hopefully as a human knowing the answer would. They could theoretically hire humans to do it but they won't because it's obviously impossible due to how vast the dataset is, so they use software. Software is still far from human level reasoning so they use metrics. Metrics can and will be discovered and gamed, regardless of what kind they are.
What the Font
I’ve bought some of these all-caps items and some (probably over half) have been surprisingly good products. I’m not deciding between them and Apple usually, but between those brands on Amazon and the same products on Ali. Now that Ali shipping has been nerfed, I often buy from Amazon.
Alphabet should rip the bandaid off and just ban all conservatives, antivaxers, and other undesirables from using their products.
Nah. I prefer well-moderated platforms (the one I’m currently typing into is a great example.)

I’m ok with bars throwing out rude patrons, and I’m ok with YouTube banning nutjobs. Nutjobs can pay for their own video hosting.
I shall eagerly await my cheque for $0.27 that I will never receive.
Most legal systems do not agree with you. Fruit of the poisoned tree is a peculiarly American legal abberation, and even in the United States, it is not applicable in many cases.

Most ethical and legal systems around the world, in fact, would use that evidence to both convict the criminal, and then independently recommend separate sanctions for breaking procedures.

But we're not even talking about ethics or legality, here. We are talking about knowledge. People claim that we don't know about the safety of vaccines because we don't have data on trials conducted on thousands of people.

... Yet we have data about vaccines administered to billions of people. Why don't those critics look at that data, instead?

It's because knowledge and fact-finding isn't the point of that complaint. The people asking about this don't actually care about having a data-driven argument about the safety or efficacy of vaccines, they just found a procedural problem, that they can play a political game with. The politics is the entire point.
Which many devices solved by not sending output to the connector until after it sensed resistance on the pins, then enabled the audio output. So, another problem solved by 3.5mm jacks!

God I miss having a real connector on my phone :(
Some shops call x86-64 “amd64” because AMD originated it. Not sure if Apple is one.
using prohibition of CP as an example is a very weak argument, generally speaking nude photos are said to be the speech of the person in the photo's they give the permission for them to be distributed (or not), children are incapable to give this consent thus the prohibition of CP is not censorship in the way you are attempting to conflate it here.

this si also why "revenge porn" is illegal, the person distributing the porn is NOT the speaker, the person in the photo;s is, and it is for them to control how that is distributed.

As to Germany's censorship of Nazi imagery, and holocaust denial, I believe the better path is the path the OP outlines where debate and open dialog is a better path and government laws. so I disagree that is an example of "good censorship"
Wordle is so amazingly well-designed. I’m starting to feel it’s comparable to Tetris in how deceptively simple but well-balanced it is. The choice of 5-letter words and 6 guesses gives just the right level of difficulty; these optimality results back up that intuition pretty well.
There always have been, and always will be, vulnerable immunocompromised people. We didn't reorganize society around that fact before the pandemic, and we shouldn't do so now.

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but we can't keep using things that will never change as reasons to persist with a state of emergency -- otherwise that state of emergency will never end.
Israel’s NSO Group in sale talks with company run by ex-US soldiers
These brands are often pad printed onto the products though (pointlessly, IMO), which is upstream of manifesting.
If you haven't already, please do yourself a favor and check out the Miyoo custom frimware for the v90 - https://github.com/TriForceX/MiyooCFW

It makes a fun little device that much better. Plus it's a good starting point if you want to try doing your own Linux stuff on it.
yes. will have a hard time kbding on split keyboard while looking at the screen,which is directly under their hand movements.
Malicious software: software that instructs your computer to do something you don't want it to do. (Not a common definition, but I don't think it's a wrong one.)
It's been a while since I've actively used tiddlywiki, so I don't have actual code snippets at hand - but extracting "tiddlers" should be the least of your concerns (at least, that was my experience when I used it).

Just open the tiddlywiki in your text editor. All your tiddlers are neatly filed away at the bottom. It's that simple.

In fact, I had a folding expression in vim which folded everything neatly, and allowed one to just navigate between tiddlers, all in vim.

If its that simple to interactively browse through the data without running the javascript "engine", then you can see how trivial it is to pull out any or all tiddlers, on demand, out of the tiddlywiki.

Hope that helps
I agree, but I also I don't think that's the point OP was trying to make. My reading was that the censorship that they are taking immediate issue with is the censorship that isn't a direct result of a law. Whether a certain thing should be legally censored or not is a separate (but related) issue.
You are correct and I believe that it therefore falls on government to effectively manage that situation.

Youtube is basically a monopoly and without trying to debate the ethics or correctness of how they got there, the message should be that they can choose to uphold certain principles like free speech or they can choose to be broken up.
Silent censorship? I tried posting this article today and it was [dead] immediately: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/i-live-in-ukraine-we-hav...
He made the choice. Or assumed what they would choose at least.[1]

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-dem...
I like making stupid suggestions in brainstorming sessions. They make people laugh, they can help defuse things a bit, and on occasion, people say "wait... that's actually not a terrible idea" and it grows into something.
I thought it was generally accepted that changing verbiage/language has a huge impact on the way people think. Do you disagree with that notion?
> Obviously the above examples are exaggerated hyperboles and reality is somewhere in the middle.

Are they? Is it?

I'm starting to think this actually describes most of professional accomplishment and career, at least in software. People can't see negative space, so to speak, and they don't bother to imagine it.

Write or debug something in a fraction of a time another engineer would be able to? Well, we can't observe both universes, so it must have just been easy. Make something super stable and easily understandable that doesn't require any attention or maintenance and becomes crucial to a company's success? Without noise, people will just forget about it or assume it was straightforward.

The space of things that doesn't happen is infinitely bigger than the outcome we end up seeing. This makes a lot of our judgments completely off base.
> The country is fully open and other than mask requirements in schools and public transit, there are essentially no restrictions for vaccinated individuals

Then it isn't open. Until masks and mass testing are gone, the motor that powers the panic is still running hot and this never ends.
Joe is the expert on feature X. When we have a problem in X we ask Joe for help and he invariably provides the insight needed to solve the problem.

When Joe has a problem with X, he should go ask for help, even though he's the one best able to deal with it? Should he ask himself for help?

Can you see the problem with blanket statements like this?
I would argue that for most cases, that's preferable to simply cutting old functionality. The only exception would be in environments where the upgrade process is more rigid where users/admins know what's changing with an upgrade and have a safe and easy way to roll back in case of any issues.
Yes. I added "vehicle-producing" to make it clear. Thanks!
WTF? It is censored inherently with laws directed at it specifically, with crimes against production, distribution, and possesion. It is censored culturally as nearly any tech goon or housekeeper that finds it will report you (contrast with fraud or drugs).

In plenty of U.S. states the age of consent is below the age at which pornographic images are legal. I really have no idea what point you're making.
From personal experience alone, I'm tempted to believe that all of psychology is just habits and metahabits. Of course, given the existence of an entire field dedicated to its study, I'm sure it's a bit more than that.
I 100% agree w/r/t the CP argument (I basically posted the same thing at the same time, lol) but the Nazi/Holocaust one I'm not as sure about honestly.

I think, in post-war Germany, that type of censorship had a role and was necessary. It probably does do more harm than good today.
You're mistaking what Youtube is. Not being on Youtube isn't censorship, it's the other way around. Being on Youtube is being given a pedestal. you also got your lesson about censorship backwards, tell me one time in history when giving a megaphone to the loudest voice to spread their bullshit was a good idea. If Hilter hadn't been given a pedestal to spread his hateful message, the world would've been a better place.

No one is entitled to be given a "platform" to spread their message. Youtube is a megaphone and they have all the rights to control which messages they don't want to amplify. It also very much reasonable to refuse to amplify messages that literally lead to real human beings dying.

People who listen to Fox News have a 3x higher chance of dying of COVID than people who don't [0]. Killing your own users is the stupidest thing a business can do.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828...
> without doing a redirect

Do you never use relative URLs?
> It's really the most divisive issue I've ever seen in my life.

I've been yelled at and called very awful things by people I know in real life. Biggest clue that this is 90% hysteria and 10% real.... What ever happened to keep calm and carry on.
Because the front-line people in health care don't have the legislative or fiscal power to change the system they're working in. We need systematic update to healthcare system, not to blame the "people in healthcare" which are the least of all the problems.
The honest truth is that despite trying to read up on the topic, I still don't understand how Chinese is used on a daily basis. Even the most basic "alphabetization" is based on strokes of the characters I guess? And Pinyin is mind boggling to me. I guess I'll just have to actually sit down and learn some Chinese - like a course or something so I can work it out in my head.

I have this sense that touch screens and the smartphones must have had an outsized impact on societies with character based languages, with prediction making it orders of magnitude easier to enter text. Additionally, the compact nature of Chinese means you can fit a ton more info onto a screen AND there's no need for icons, as the entire written language is basically icons. That means learning how to use apps and menus is marginally easier.

Please correct me if this is a wrong assumption.
I don’t know why you think this. Covid cases — people merely testing positive — are overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated in every state. Vaccine cuts your risk by 3x to 5x depending where you look.

Look at this chart: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...

If you read to the bottom of the previous study I posted they addressed vaccine effectiveness too based on UK data. They work! Just make sure to get your booster.
One can reasonably argue that an over time, over budget project should be considered a failure even if it ultimately meets its objectives is a defensible comment. Arguing that people should be put in prison for such, absent actual malfeasance, is an argument that no one should ever do anything risky that's exposed to personal risk. Go away.
I mean, we already twisted the meaning of "well-regulated militia" to mean "literally everyone" including clowns like this[0] so why not?

[0]https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/11420/production...
This philosophy also presumes that the future existence of these trillions of hypothetical humans is an inherent good, when it seems to me that they would not be alive to lament their nonexistence (indeed, they may as well be spared from suffering in a miserable world), and so the ethical calculus falls upon the set of humans currently alive to determine how valuable that scenario is to them.

Am I meant to believe that the average human currently alive values an intergalactic future at thousands of times the value derived from their own existence? For the vast majority of people, that factor is probably in the ones and twos at most. I can think of many people I know personally for whom that factor is marginally negative.
I loved hackaday back when I was in undergrad :) Very inspiring to see cool projects like this.
Hacker News has many undocumented features [1] which should give you some insight into how/why this happened.

[1]: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
I am Amazon, and you sell cat mugs. I offer you a "sold by Amazon" contract, which you accept.

I start manufacturing my own cat mugs, and sell them at a price that undercuts yours. You have no way to change your price, so your mugs no longer compete effectively with Amazon cat mugs. Most of your sales go away, because Amazon is so dominant as an online marketplace (NOT as a cat mug manufacturer).

This is anti-competitive because Amazon used its dominance as an online retailer to become a dominant cat mug manufacturer.
What is a "budget" when it comes to this sort of stuff though? They were doing things nobody has ever done before. How could anybody have any idea what it was going to cost?
Windows 11 is getting Android apps, taskbar improvements, and more
I think you prevent these "corrupt file corrupts important memory" bugs in two ways: 1) use a memory safe language 2) write fuzz tests just like you'd write unit tests.

1 is becoming extremely viable, infrastructure for 2 is starting to be included with modern programming languages and so will soon become the norm.
we maybe fired less than a tenth of a percent of health care workers. and most were not even nurses they were janitors and the like. a few thousands in a field of hundreds of thousands.

if your going to make shit up at least make up believable bullshit.
Be good > Don't be evil > Don't talk about being evil.
Since Hitler encouraged violence against a specific population I'd say they would even be legally obliged to remove him from their platform.

From what I understand from Bongino is that he is a really popular conservative and was talking about a specific book that Youtube doesn't like.

Can't find him removed for spreading hatespeech, nor inciting violence.

And if it's true then that's incredibly disturbing to me.

YouTube is so big that they really must try to refrain to remove people for their opinions etc.
This stuff reminds me of New Math[0], I like this video on it[1].

People have a bizarre relationship with math. Somehow it's a huge problem if people don't memorise a lookup table of multiplication of unsigned integers from 1-12, Times tables are not even math! It seems like it's mostly just social and any real math has to be taught later in life. Even teaching real basic math like set theory was rejected by the masses because they didn't know it.

I wonder what society would be like is New Math continued. If everyone could do it then the average person would be far better at some (IMO the most important) aspects of programming than most programmers today. Would GDP be 2x, 10x, 100x higher? Imagine if a random hairdresser or landscaper had a perfect understanding on how computers work, it'd be crazy.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvEcFJANVQo
You asked what substack is trying to do, and I think I gave the only accurate answer.

That said, your point is well-taken. I think one of my other comments already captures my thoughts on the point your making; let's move there to discuss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30093683
Back when journalism was still a thing, "non-college educated folk" were very much part of the readership. And they were treated in a far less patronising way than they are today, by outlets like Fox - which wind them up for profit and political gain, but secretly have nothing but contempt for them.
Are you seriously making an equivalency between child pornography and raising objections to masks?

Given the rapid and profound spread of Omicron against all efforts, I also question the effectiveness of masks and other containment measures being used. Should I be blocked for typing these words on HN?

How long ago was it prohibited to talk about the lab leak origin theory? Kyle Rittenhouse, who was ultimately acquitted by a jury, was blocked from discussion on Facebook and couldn't raise money for his defense on GoFundMe. Numerous news outlets wrongly asserted over and over that he chased his assailant, when the video plainly showed otherwise.

Is this really the world we want, in which everything held up by one side is sacred and anything said by the other is heresy?
They *just* launched, and they've been pushing a lot in University towns. I don't know how successful it'll be, but every single one of my friends has WS Cash, and if I ever had to send them cash I'd first ask if they'd use Cash since it's so much simpler than Interac.

Unfortunately, most people say no right now since the WS Cash Card is really weak (so no point in using it) and it takes a couple of days for you to withdraw money from WS Cash to your bank account.
Yeah, you're going to have a tough time getting users to sign up for something like this, regardless of the approach. It might be a good idea to get involved with some online security research interest group since they may have some ideas on how to test this, if not be willing to help you run the experiments so long as you let them see the results.

> the same ISP may be blocking a site in one city but not another
I can't say I've heard of this happening very often at all. How common is this? Or is this something you're trying to find out?
> posting anti-vax content may have externalities , such as convincing other ppl to not be vaxed.

Oh erudite student of history, what then will stop the toxic vaccines and unethical medical studies from being halted then?

Such as:

The Cutter Incident [1] , The SV40 Contamination [2] , The Swine Flu Vaccine Debacle [3], The Vaccine Contamination disaster [4] , The Tuskegee Syphilis Study [5] , just to name a few.

We should be skeptical about the pros and cons of medical interventions, and also, non-interventions too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC452549/

[3] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200918-the-fiasco-of-th...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/us/politics/johnson-covid...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
Same impression. I work in a tiny healthcare tech startup and work closely with practitioners who do the good work in hospitals. I get this person had a crappy work experience fixing bugs in code, but being pampered with two-week stress leaves while making serious money and having the option to pick up something else up at the drop of a hat, that doesn’t sound like a very big violin
> but not visibly if you just look at abebooks.com

At first (admittedly lazy) glance I agree.

As soon as you click on the jobs link it takes you to Amazon. Looking at their wikip entry, it states abebooks was acquired by Amazon in 2008.

If they are attempting to hide it, they are doing a terrible job.
Yep, you can read [Google's brand guidelines for Android here.](https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/bra...)

>"Android", or anything confusingly similar to "Android", cannot be used in names of applications or accessory products, including phones, tablets, TVs, speakers, headphones, watches, and other devices. Instead, use "for Android".