skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're calling equal rights for gay people puritanical?

You're playing a lot of mental gymnastics here. Eich isn't anti-marriage, he specifically supported excluding gay people from marriage. He gave money to one of the most vocal prop 8 supporters and a group that fund-raised on prop 8 specifically. Where's the nuance?
Just avoid cloud and choose dedicated infrastructure
I have found this too. ZFS on root just works, no hacks needed to set it up on freebsd.
Insisting people who already have had the virus (and thus have better immunity than that given by the vaccine) should be second class citizens until they comply and get the vaccine, despite not needing it, proves more than anything else that many of the pro-vaccine arguments are NOT being made in good faith.

"Follow the Science!" indeed :p
This wouldn't happen in Europe, where labor laws are strong.
It's possible to read the original quote was as a warning of exactly that. We should all be very wary of letting our code do the walking because the fault should realistically lie with us, but it's as if the software industry feels invincible, and it's not hard to see why.
While I get the author's reasoning, it makes me wonder at what scale, portability and level of automation and disposability all of this is done.

Even if an OS is 'better', a VM with a short lifetime will generally be 'good enough' very quickly. If you add a very large ecosystem and lots of support (both open source and community as well as commercial support) and existing knowledge, FreeBSD doesn't immediately come to mind as a great option.

If I were to go for an 'appliance' style system, that's where I would likely consider FreeBSD at some point, especially with ZFS snapshots and (for me) the reliably and fast BTX loader. Pumping out BSD images isn't hard (great distro tools!) and complete system updates (due to the mentioned "one team does the whole release") are a breeze as well. This is of course something we can do with systemd and things like debootstrap too, but from a OS-image-as-deployable perspective this will do just fine.
There must be some internet law that states something like "no flippant comment about the absurdities of copyright law is so crazy that a patent troll won't be inspired by it"
I don’t see anything dealing with OCaml here, other than it being listed as an inspiration.
Circumcision is a form of genital mutilation. Societies have done it in the past and present. Many societies have outlawed or otherwise restricted female gential mutilation, why can the same not be done for males in the same Developed world?
The James Webb space telescope has arrived at L2
Xfinity Data breach detected through email alias service
This is a warning to Xfinity customers. Today, I got a sophisticated spam email to an email address that was only ever provided to Xfinity. Note I am no longer an Xfinity customer since a few months ago, but my account still exists with Xfinity. I am using SimpleLogin to generate unique email addresses for every service that I signup for. Due to the way SimpleLogin forwards emails, I only have limited email header information. The email appears to be an invoice from Quickbooks for Norton AntiVirus suggesting I have a balance due of 256.89 for 5 copies of AntiVirus. The phone number provided, 1 (850) 806-2408, has a live person answer when called immediately suggested that I provide my credit card to cancel the order.

The email appears to have been sent from Teamnort@saless.cc. Interestingly enough when trying a WHOIS on saless.cc it appears the domain is not registered. However, according to this article the TLDs have been hijacked before:

https://labs.detectify.com/2021/01/15/how-i-hijacked-the-top-level-domain-of-a-sovereign-state/

I immediately tried calling Xfinity to explain the issue to their security team, but their entry-level employees couldn't understand the issue. I did some searches and appears that other Xfinity customers have experienced similar phishing emails. In this instance, the only way someone could have gotten that email is if an Xfinity employee is leaking emails or there has been a data breach with customer emails. This email was updated in April of 2021, so the breach would have had to occur after that time. The email is unique enough that it wouldn't have been randomly sent, and note this is the first phishing email I've ever received from someone to my 400+ aliases that I'm using currently.
Looks awesome and conveniently designed! Am I understanding that `/* pseudocode */ el = MyElement.read( 0b111010101 ) && console.log( json.dump(el) );` would do what's expected?
El Salvador Is Now over 31% Down on Its Bitcoin Bet
Ask HN: How do you unplug from tracking infrastructure?
Is there a guide on what steps I need to take to get rid of most of the tracking? I know basics - browser switch, migrate email, etc, but they don't cover much. Any suggestions? Is it at all possible?
That is a very practical viewpoint, thats its not worth worrying about, and I agree. I was circumsiced and I dont really think about it and I dont care. But its not really a great justification, its like telling someone born with bad knees that theyve never ran before so dont know what theyre missing out on so theres no point being upset. I dont reallt see the logic in saying no sensation is a awful mistake but reduced sensation is not a mistake at all, its a scale, if no sensation is bad reduced sensation is at least half bad.
Nah, the ash cloud went westwards towards Australia.
"What is stored on the blockchain is most often a link to a web page[6] that itself points to the associated object. Here again, we have lost all idea of decentralization"

No where in the article did the author mention IPFS (https://ipfs.io/). The trend with NFTs is that the digital assets are stored on IPFS, typically through a pinning service like Pinata (https://www.pinata.cloud/). With the asset being content addressable and not location based, and the address being a permanent part of the blockchain, how can the above statement be true?
> makes the Afghanistan pull-out look so much more stupid in hindsight

Germans aren't blowing up American service members. The legitimate government of Germany maintains an invitation to those forces. And there is clear and present strategic American interest to the role those forces serve.

None of those applied to Afghanistan. Doesn't mean the pull-out was correct, just that Germany's situation is too different for comparison.
> Do you think those who are currently afraid to be vaccinated will change their mind if only we can prevent them...

Given the ppl I've spoken with, this is slightly off target assumption. It's not the jab they fear per se. It's the sources (gov + pharma) and the context (heavyhanded hyperbolic data / stats manipulation), and as of late the authoritarian efforts to force the jabs on anyone (above 5 yo) with a pulse.

If these people have a fear, it's that given the facts too few others have no fear at all.
Show HN: Crowdsourced Databases and Sui Generis Rights
In this study we propose a new concept of databases (crowdsourced databases), adding a new conceptual approach to the debate on legal protection of databases in Europe. We also summarise the current legal framework and current indexing and web scraping practices - it would not be prudent to suggest a new theory without contextualising it in the legal and practical context in which it is developed.
The key would be to pick a good company/team but are there any?

I haven't found any, my work history is littered with terribly managed companies where nepotism is more important than competence, business people run tech departments with no tech experience, had a CEO go to jail for bribery which shut the company down, another company my entire team was let go 6 months after I started. Recruiters and companies who ghost you during applications with out even a polite no thanks email.

I was raised by boomers who taught me if you just work hard and do the right thing your company will reward you but that has not even remotely miniscuely been my experience in the tech world.

Heard even a FAANG can be a nightmare if on the wrong team.

So how to identify a safe landing spot?
Yawn. The lack of hard evidence demonstrating injuries from vaccines has led to a lot of this "lower order proof" conversation: "well here's something suspicious and here's something suspicious...".

Taken together it feels like someone heavily implying something while waggling their eyebrows and nudging you in the ribs to get you to come to the same conclusion.

If the vaccines are injuring people, the evidence should be overwhelming. Despite rigorous review (https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/covid-19-vacci...) there is no evidence of this.
Any place in particular you'd like to work next?

What's your new dream industry/job?
Mount Tambora is estimated to have been about 33GT. That one messed up weather globally for two years.
Going through college admissions with my son right now, one thing they always ask about is "class rank" - that is, out of your graduating class, what percentile were your grades in? Seems like the same basic concept.
> Writing for the majority in that case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said she expected that “25 years from now,” the “use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.”

> The court is now poised to act well before Justice O’Connor’s deadline.

The article says the case would be heard this fall. That means an action sometime in 2023, I assume? Universities would take that ruling into account during their admissions decisions during the following year. That would be less than five years before the 25 year clock has passed. Doing something in 21 years instead of 25 is not a huge difference.

Also the statement about it not being necessary in 25 years does not say it would be necessary all the way to the end of that period. It just says that in 25 years it won't be necessary anymore.

Surprised that this journalist ended the article on such a weak note. Makes me wonder what other partisan spin was hid throughout.
Thanks for the tip. Firefox is running a lot faster with Javascript disabled.
Marketing people are always absolute idiots. The failure here was allowing them to push that extension, and that wasn't their choice.
Mostly sarcastic in the direction of "you can't be friends with people of a gender to which you are attracted", with direct borrowing from old bisexual community jokes in the process.
All A/B testing really implies to me is, at most, crash reporting, which shouldn't be much of a privacy concern.
thank you for putting in the effort
Real stone like marble or granite needs to be curated prior to use, and maintained. The most you use them, the better it turns regarding stains and absorptions.
how? I mined and got $10 in mining rewards. I owe $12 in electricity. what money do I have left over to pay down anything?
I don't code much in C++, but I have to imagine the verbosity of its 'const' syntax is the real problem. Syntax aside, if a variable is not actually variable, it's arguably a lie to declare it as something other than constant. In languages with better 'const' syntax, it's not just a matter of performance, it's a legibility issue.
I still don't get it.

Are you telling me you grow your own food and make your own energy for your computers used for coding?

Plus, Disneyland (ie Tourism/entertainment) seems like a pretty serious economy to me.
>I’ve wondered recently if the US civil war really needed to happen and if the states and world would be better off if it hadn’t. We are taught so as kids but learning more I’m not so sure.

It certainly would have been better if it didn't happen, 720K lives and countless fortunes and the decimation of 1/2 the land mass. Reconstruction was pretty horrible for ex-slaves as well. Of course slaves suffer being slaves for longer if there was no war. No one would ever know how long it would have taken to end slavery without the war, but I doubt it would exist today if things had continued without it.

>Today’s polarization is also supported by having a larger country with different views pulling in different directions.

I'm convinced today's polarization is a lot of theatre intended to divide. I analog it to crowds cheering different WWE wrestlers during the match, only to have the wrestlers have a beer together after the show.
I am immediately skeptical of anything that has to use an analogy like friends stealing stuff from a party just to explain a point, especially when that point is "ignore that none of these pieces of evidence are particularly convincing on their own."

But even so I didn't really think of anything in here as "misinformation." What specifically is wrong?

Edit because apparently HN's knee-jerk downvoting applies to this instance as well: I'm triple-vaxxed and think everyone's default should be to get the vaccine unless their PCP or a specialist tells them specifically not to get it, I'm just curious what the incorrect info is other than "well it's cropped obv"
This is great feedback, and I agree with you re de-prioritizing terseness.

And I agree with you on both the assignments and `split` being a bit awkward. Kusto just uses `by`, WDYT?
Do you mean outside of the US?
Woah, I have never seen this in action before. You better believe I am going to find a way to abuse it for metaprogramming. I already have a tendency to over-use @property everywhere.
Your signup page still loads to a blank gray page for me in Chrome and Firefox.

uBlock Origin, which is installed by my IT department, seems to be blocking the load of a JavaScript file from fast.appcues.com, not sure if that's the cause or not.
Do you genuinely believe in the existence of an "evil"? Like as in, Satan, bad spirits, other supernatural phenomena?
So the bulk of this post is…

…anecdotes. Testimonies have an obvious selection bias.

…conjecture about myocarditis. Which is discussed in multiple sources, but we’ll go with the Science Based Medicine blog. (https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/myocarditis-and-covid-19-a-...)

…conjecture that the vaccines don’t prevent death or hospitalization, which is so wrong I don’t even know where to start. (https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination and https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitali...)

…and attacks on Big Pharma being evil, which, while obviously true in some cases (see Aducanumab for a glaringly recent example), does not mean they were evil here.

…also “consilience” in this context sure sounds like a fancy word for “cherry-picking evidence to confirm whatever priors I have.”

EDIT: …oh, right the VAERS debacle. (https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/as-2021-shambles-to-a-close...)
Agreed, the whole inline-signaling aspect of that makes me a little uncomfortable.
Candyland is a wonderful gaming experience for small children.

You are taking for granted that understanding how to follow game mechanics and taking turns are both acquired skills. It's very rewarding for children to learn those skills and see themselves apply them. The fact that there aren't interesting decisions to make in playing the game is secondary.

The kids are spending all of their mental energy making decisions to follow the game mechanics themselves instead of moving out of turn, jumping to the squares they want to land on, taking extra cards, etc. All that requires a lot more executive function and willpower than we realize because we're so practiced at it, but Candyland is a way for small kids to get that practice.
I really don't think their copyright checks are run by anything in the ML domain.
> Is there no way to treat working for big tech as a business transaction and compartmentalize the negatives?

Maybe you can, but I can't. It's so exhausting when it's an everyday thing. Constantly in Slack. Constantly in emails. Constantly expected to believe the exact same thing and if you don't you're a racist bigot that doesn't deserve life itself.
> My behavior on a site is now being sent to the browser author, an unrelated party.

But you're just assuming it is. It could also be "On uninstall and crash, report back which studies were enabled" to track how many people are uninstalling their browser when the flag stupid_feature="on" is set.

Be mad about the data collected [specifically, what type of data is collected], not about the concept of a/b testing. Set clear boundaries of what is and isn't acceptable. Otherwise you're fighting an ever-uphiller battle. Because if they want to know which sites you visit and the privacy boundary is "a/b testing isn't acceptable", they'll do it via history syncing instead.
I've read this explanation that i find explicit:

"""
If 1 coin costs $50,000, and you already own the rig, it's worth spending $49,999 on electricity to mine the next coin and you will make a profit. If you're rig can't do that, you're better off just turning it off.
"""

Note that this is how it worked for bitcoin startup five years ago once the first specialized bitcoin rigs came into being. When the price of electricity where they operated became too high, some startup shut out or just changed their operations to create value around BTC(email/photograph ID/validation on the blockchain or other stuff like that)
I'm a big fan of SPARQL, but the one thing that would concern me about trying to use it outside of the SemWeb context is simply that it assumes data is stored in <S,P,O> triples. Legacy databases by and large are not, so you need an adapter to bridge the representations. And while I know some exist, I haven't really used them and am not sure about the performance impact.
Get them to install Vimium extension and a Tilling Windows Manager.
Can confirm (assuming the T in your "U of T" was Texas, not Tennessee). One caveat there is they'll admit you to UT, but they won't necessarily admit you to your preferred major.
No surprise here.
One World Corporation is going to reserve 1 for itself.
This tweet is just a test drive.
I believe there were countries that did acknowledge previous infection as contributing to immunity; this is just America doing what America does best--large portion sizes.
Nice and simple explanation. Never looked at the docs, I used the Github 'workflow' to automatically create an action for CMake and CTest (C++ code) and just followed the steps without customizing. It just worked out-of-the-box, the autogenerated yaml file is here:
https://github.com/google-research/tiny-differentiable-simul...
Not going to trade my browser's back-button for this...
Not in this context. This wasn't spam, this was a person with the information they had trying to close the loop on some information an engineer put into a a spreadsheet. This message was not "irrelevant" in the context that the person sending it had. This was not a robocall trying to extort money.

As I noted in another thread: A simple response pointing to the license should be the default response to requests like this which can be automated.
will the area of eruption eventually become an island?
We are in the middle of the hostilities, and we can always appreciate if more young idealists, as well as practical and hands-on militias want to join the revolution:

"The Coming War on General Computation":

http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/coming-war-general-com...
You know, if you regard HN as a "hell site", you could just... not come here.

[Edit to add: Your last paragraph reflects my frustrations with the current situation. We have to guess at the risks and make a choice. The "least crappy option" is the best we can do. I hate it.]
Informed consent is a standard practice for human experimentation. It's a serious ethical lapse that the web companies have decided it doesn't apply to them simply because it's inconvenient. Here's some references:

https://researchbasics.education.uconn.edu/ethics-and-inform...
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/conduc...
True, but it's harder to compromise a fully programmable device. In essence, you'd have to somehow prevent certain kinds of programming while still permitting all the rest. How is the device to know that flipping pin 121 and 122 in a specific pattern is actually clocking bits from a storage device?

I think the web is broken (user-hostile) for the same reason. It's been made to support arbitrary programming, and now you have to play this weird cat and mouse game of trying to prevent a particular kind of programming -- that can be used against you -- without breaking all the rest of the web. Google can block your browser because they can run code in your browser. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051512
The mapping of that NFT to [some piece of in-game content, a game account] is entirely outside of control of any blockchain system and is wholly dictated by the developers. NFTs give no more of a guarantee to access and utilize your purchases or content than a screenshot of your receipt for buying them in the first place.
This is completely valid YAML.

YAML does not allow tabs in indentation, but the tabs in your example are not indentation according to the YAML spec productions.

You can see it clearly here against many YAML parsers: https://play.yaml.io/main/parser?input=CXsKCQkibGlzdCI6IFsKC...

As tinita points out, sadly PyYAML and libyaml implement this wrong.

See https://matrix.yaml.info/
>Installing emacs? You'll want to use the binary cache. No biggie. Except when it doesn't work, and your system update ends up building it from scratch--a two-hour process on my stalwart old desktop.

Just don’t use emacs ;)

In all seriousness, were you pulling from unstable? Disallowing installation because the hydra build is failing has gotten me, albeit for an obscure package I never use.

>And flakes are explained in...uh...well, you'll figure it out.

This is a funny quirk in the community I’ve seen, where everyone talks about using flakes but has a very difficult time of saying how. I finally figured out the weird incantation to get flakes to work. It was not trivial. (And the reason I’m not saying it here is because I simply don’t remember.)
This is why I personally won't run projects on infrastructure with what roughly equates to unlimited risk billing.

It's my opinion that it's better to work with known limitations and optimize for them.

In the case of bandwidth, work with a fixed pipe size, or do the math and set up a QoS that implements a throttle to avoid exceeding your bandwidth allotment.
Well, yes, actually I would. I know, because my children are hispanic and benefit from affirmative action programs.
haha very true...
> The first is relatively simple: they developed their own programming language to do configuration

Exactly this. I do not understand why did they do that.
It is very rare I wouldn't call it a "trend" yet. Also, I agree that using IPFS links addresses the problem of content integrity, but the link can still rot, and having to pay a centralized service to pin your data (even in a decentralized network like IPFS) does not solve the decentralization and disintermediation problems.
When you add in the ability to reference different tables like that to the piping syntax, it starts to remind me of the M query language: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/quick-tour-of-...

There, each variable can be referenced by downstream steps. Generally, the prior step is referenced. Without table variables, your language implicitly pipes the most recent one. With table references, you can explicitly pipe any prior one. That way, you can reference multiple prior steps for a join step.

I haven't thought through that fully, so there may be gotchas in compiling such an approach down to SQL, but you can already do something similar in SQL CTEs anyway, so it should probably work.
This article is missing so many important details to be taken seriously. It serves no real purpose.
Fantastic. I did not expect to enjoy using the custom widgets or "Kinos" this much.
This is sophisticated intentional misinformation. HN readers are precisely the kind of people who would be deceived by this.
> because it contains some PII like the user's address.

Does it, though? Where?