skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct that rage addicts exist all across the political spectrum, though I don't think "the right" is nearly as much of a trigger phrase as "the left". There are plenty of other phrases used by left leaning rage mongers, but "the left" has for years been curated to trigger strong negative emotions towards half of the US population. People who use that phrase know exactly what they're doing, or are at least parroting someone who does. People who intentionally use negative trigger phrases to gain traction are not typically people whose opinions are worth spending much energy on.
> It's very dumb to smear our poop onto other planets

That is very clever way of putting it, looking at the state of our planet its 100% correct analogy. Thank you for making me chuckle.
> which would be "whoever has the cryptographic keys".

This is still true, no? Now the government has the keys, so they own it. It's clear that you can't be sloppy with your keys, because "whoever has the cryptographic keys".

If they used a brainwallet (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet), the gov wouldn't have taken those keys.
What do you do for a living?

Whatever it is, I will say to you: that's a paid hobby or a side gig. Then I will take the product of your efforts without paying for it. See how that works?

Perhaps it would be worth thinking through the consequences of your attitudes if they were applied back to you?
Article skipped the pharmaceutical contamination problem.
The storm warmed the atmosphere which caused it to expand, leading to additional drag

Was this an expected condition, or a new discovery?

I only have a layman's understanding of space, but like the idea that we (as a species) just learned something new.
Here in the US, politicians, especially on the right, love to highlight and criticize public employees, especially if their salaries seem too large. But Federal employees salaries are not too large, barely competitive with the private sector. If you want government to work well, attract talent by paying them what they'd earn outside of it. But all that just comes from an ideological interest in shrinking government so they can drown it in a bathtub. If you make sure government doesn't work well, then you have an excuse for eliminating it.
> I would go even further and say for me it would be a big red flag to waste time on "business impact" - I am going in as a programmer. From my experience, my "business impact" is somewhat close to a cleaner dude. And I don't want to take on additional (unclear) responsibilities I am not sure I know much about. Thank you, but I already know and do enough in my niche which happened to be software development and is a very specialised, demanding and valuable skill to have )

This is really going to depend on the company and industry. You're never going to get a senior or principal engineer role at FAANG without being able to explain, or better yet, quantify, what business impact you had through your work as a developer. In non-software verticals where developers are seen as a cost center it's different. But in general, those aren't going to pay as well. Plus you're never going to move up the career ladder if you see yourself exclusively as a developer and don't understand the wider business.
"Browser not supported - We currently don't support Safari for the visual editor"

Sad :(

I'm not going to use a special web browser just for one web application.
A gentler strategy for avoiding childhood dental decay
My wife and I rented a Yurt in Fort Collins, CO, near the foot hills of Wyoming. The owner was super eco-conscious/zero-waste. I've not camped for a while, and haven't used anything other than a toilet for years, but something about doing my business in the out house really made the experience 10x better. I think maybe because I feel guilt whenever I flush a toilet that says "3.5-5 gal/flush"... that's a lot of water. I'm not sure the owner used the "humanure", but regardless, it was one less flush.
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Could it possibly be that people see it as a better product?

60% of the US population isn’t “rich”. Even when I was selling cell phones back in 1996 at Radio Shack, the unsubsidized price of a cell phone was $300.

How much of a “status” is it to have something that 60% of the population has?
Facebook has generated so much well-earned hate that even the most nationalistic Americans aren't going to come to its defense.
If your kid is the curious kind who always loves a good puzzle, I would highly recommend you buy him/her Baba Is You on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/736260/Baba_Is_You/.

The game is odd but in a cute and charming way; it heavily incentivizes logical and out of the box thinking without looking as dry and austere as real programming; it is challenging, but with a well adjusted difficulty curve; and all in all it is a very fun game, whatever your age.

I bought it for my sister (around 10) and she's had a blast!
I don't think she's particularly interested into getting into programming, but I think any children growing up to be programmers would reflect fondly on this game.
I’d like to make them larger and easier to target. It’s trivial to do this for form fields.
I would guess a keylogger
I don't get the game, is there something lacking in which you need to explain to us properly?
You don't need to exploit it, at least you didn't before...

They used to autorun specifically named files on a USB stick.

Then some busybody journalists picked up on that and Mazda was forced to lock it down despite the fact that there is complete physical separation from safety systems, and that situations like this article are exactly where it helps.
3d movies require a lot more technical r&d, experimentation and tool development.

This was true for 2d in the past, but Princess and the Frog was made in more or less off the shelf 2d animation software.

The biggest challenge to doing 2d though is finding the talent and the justification. Take a look at what most art school are offering as far as animation goes...
Hi Mike,
Thank you for this. I'll definitely study kernls. I think we should definitely try this through idefine.
Arguably, Joe has done more for Spotify than Spotify has done for Joe (ignoring the $100 million deal)

Him moving to Youtube or somewhere that isn't paywalled likely increases his availability to those who aren't willing to pay to listen to him
Can students no longer pool their money for a loose-leaf edition and then take it down a local sketchy copy center?
Appstore you say.. well, there are many other distribution methods then appstore. I for instance use the direct download built into telegram. A bonus that I can enter chats that my government thinks is not appropriate, like ones that leaked their official communication they did on random public email services.

Also I'm sorry I dissapointed you with sources. Yes, it's sarcasm. How would one provide any meaningfull sources to what you are afraid of? Is it even possible?
Since they like Lego, could you get them into Roblox or Minecraft? MC you can teach them some basic comp sci/computer/tech things using red stone, and there's a peaceful option if you/your kids aren't into fighting in the game. I haven't used Roblox personally.

Another option is if you play games at all, introduce your kids to mods. At that age, I played video games with my dad/watched him and doing things like silly graphics mod replacements (turn Mario's sprite into the poop emoji!) help instill the concept that tech is built out of systems and components that you can change to get the results you want. It's just that since they're 3 and 5, what they want is likely to be quite silly.
I could read research papers about neurological studies but honestly I don't think I would understand it even if I tried. To be completely honest I don't believe you would either since most research papers are pretty hard to understand if you're not involved in the subject matter. One study doesn't make a thing proven science, so to have a good understanding of the matter you would pretty much have read upon it a lot. I don't have any very strong opinions on the subject though so you're simply attacking a straw man.

Please explain how I made the lives of my friends harder. By being their friend? You know nothing about me or my life. Being unfriendly doesn't convince anyone, you're just as much of an example of it as I am.

I just shared my thoughts since I at least have experience of it and if you disagree that's completely fine by me. I don't understand the sentiment today that you're not allowed to have opinions on stuff unless you're a scientist. It is imho impossible to be well read upon all things in life, sometimes all you have is anecdotes and experience.
> I suppose journalists may still believe that have high status

It's how that "high status" is quantified. A journalist might look at their twitter profile, see the blue checkmark, see their 50k followers, and see their inbox filled with the ire of those on the other side, and conclude they are "high status".

Problem becomes, what is "high status" for one person is just "wasting time on twitter" to another person.
Revenue streams.

These network contacts provide $$$ to those companies. They're low effort, easy revenue for them. Privacy for customers be d*mned.

I once met a senior-level dev who worked for a company, they wouldn't have their own app on his phone, due to those invasive practices tracking his behaviour.
As someone with small children, I found myself wondering whether the parents of these Brooklyn writers have actually done their children a service or disservice by funding a financially impossible career.

While there is something to be said for being able to follow one’s interests unconstrained by the need for money, it also seems like a hollow, grasping existence to chase status and popularity amongst a clique of likeminded fellows.

I suppose one could say something similar for a career spent chasing money, but at least money sometimes vaguely (vaguely!) approximates creating value for other people.
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Ask HN: Upload Storage?
I'm building a cloud based storage service, and my clients will be uploading quite large files.

I need these files, to first hit my server, but then move them off to an cdn. I cant! cut out my server as a "middle man" but this also means my cache will/could be clogged up before my code manage to move the files off my server and clear up space.

My question is, is there such a service, where I can run php and the disk grows as needed, up and down, so I never risk temporary running out of space, that I could use just for the upload purpose, and then my current server could handle serving static files, database calls etc.

edit I guess this is not only disk space issue, but ram issue. i have no experience with this hence why im asking, and possible for a managed solution. maybe some managed vps with such features? i dont know...

grateful for any help!
Julia is still very active in the community. Her efforts will help thousands of kids to be cured in the future.
Worldle: Wordle with Countries
(Look who you replied to)
The IPO price can be $1B or $100B -- that's wide variance in life-changing.

% needs context of how many other employees there are and what the valuation is a grant time.
Strategic Transformer Reserve (2017) [pdf]
Yes, wrap a useful "flow" for your application, rather than functions. Often I find there is just one flow for a dependency.
"can lead to" is the sort of statement that is only slightly more modest than "will lead to", in practice. Like, it could also be that it can lead to both heterogeneity and homogeneity, depending on other factors (or even chance). If the author believes the one, the author should put a probability on that outcome, rather than just assume the worst.
Throwing away 25% of your bits sound wasteful... what you need is a moderately large power of 2 that is very close to a power of 3. These can be found by computing the continued fraction of log(3)/log(2). The sequence of convergents starts thus 2/1, 3/2, 5/3, 8/5, 11/7, 19/12, 46/29, 65/41, 84/53. Some good choices seem to be 2^8-3^5=13 (loses 5%) or 2^46≈3^29 (loses 2.5%).
I've never seen a HDD fail like that, but I'm willing to believe it's possible. I have seen read/write errors because of a buggy implementation of ALPM.

But, agreed, whatever it was, if they were paying attention, they could have diagnosed and remediated well before they had any data loss.
One brittle, brute force method to do this (RSA-style) a decade ago was LD_PRELOAD vs. the RNG:

Phidelius: Constructing Asymmetric Keypairs From Mere Passwords For Fun and PAKE

https://dankaminsky.com/2012/01/03/phidelius/

Non-Persistent PGP Keys (2011)

https://ritter.vg/blog-non_persistent_pgp.html

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Also related: https://github.com/jpf/lokey, "a tool for converting between cryptographic key formats". Unfortunately it needs maintenance.
Not just downvoted, erased.

It makes you think.
> so clearly you know what you're doing

??

> freeloading

No I chose stealing for a reason. Freeloading is not the right term. I'm not a native english speaker, freeloading seems to mean "to impose upon another's generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility involved". It's not the right word to convey my idea.
This is even worse on my Dodge. Like yours, the audio comes in immediately, and the volume knob may or may not work for a time. The bluetooth takes absolutely forever to connect so it defaults to another input, typically FM radio. The bluetooth input also has no volume boost setting so I have the volume turned up quite a bit, thus the radio is loud as hell.

All in all, this means that I regret it if I forget to turn the volume down when I get out of the car.
I certainly agree society has gotten a lot more ostentatious, to the negative. But there's still a bit of a "kids these days" vibe to this comment; people (by which I mean the long-established aristocrats) have been decrying the tasteless, crass vulgarity of the nouveau riche since at least the late Roman Republic.
The aspect that worries me the most is the recommendation: Facebook and Twitter discovered a little late that they had the ability to to influence opinion with simple tweaks. That raised internal questions and that model is under close surveillance by people who have talked about those questions in public and who I know have and would raise, at least internally, their concerns. People can explore the updates from their friends and can identity ommissions. Snap is more secretive, but their employees are loud Californians who can about justice, they have access to journalists if they feel the need to push back. Users can also see updates from their friends and people their follow without just having to trust the flow.

I don’t believe that TikTok has a similar internal culture of debate. I haven’t seen anything published by their academic team. I don’t believe that you can check on your friend’s page to see what they posted lately. They are examples of topics that they have favoured or censored that was worrisome and they didn’t adress the controversy. The pool of possible content is much larger so there’s more opportunity to fill strategically.

I know people who work for one but not the other, so I understand that this influence my judgement but I believe that their are objective difference in company values and product design that make TikTok more able to manipulate.

I haven’t seen anyone discuss that, and I have plenty of people who discuss those questions profesionally in my feed.
UK Autonomous Vehicle regulations advance
Could it be one of these two maybe?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/03/11/905396/a-family-...
https://www.lydianaccelerator.org/
Don’t you think you’re just postponing the inevitable? Newspapers historically made most of their money from the classifieds when most people are using Facebook and Craigslist and the like.

Then you have the fact that “only old people buy newspapers”
> What the hell happened to the “millionaire next door” types? Someone who had wealth but you’d never know it?

They're still around, and people still don't know it. Some of those older people you see working at the grocery store have been "retired" from executive positions and need something to do until they reach retirement age. Lots of diligent people working normal jobs and without vices manage to become quite wealthy while living unremarkable lives.
It was notable that it was more than just "viable", but seriously protected (by nobility) because that ammonia was needed (and a limiting factor in) the production of gunpowder - hence it was a matter of security.
> Google's been caught red handed deliberately manipulating political content

Sorry, do you have a better link handy? This primarily looks like a fundraising page.
I've heard an opinion from people on Team Right that "it's just our bad luck that we got stuck with the antivaxxers and Capitol stormers this time around, this could just as easily have come from the other team".

That's how I read this article's conclusion, and then the rest kind of works backwards from that conclusion:

> It’d all be pretty innocuous if I didn’t worry that today’s progressive writer’s commune is also a breeding ground for tomorrows purveyors of reactionary fearmongering and misinformation.

My own worry about the drying-up of print display ads and the end of classifieds, which led to the demise of the steady union career at the midmarket metro daily, and everything that happened afterward, is different. I worry not that people are reporting the wrong thing, but that there are too few people doing the job to even have a "right" or "wrong" set of journalists to read on a topic. In a US metro area of under 500k people there may not be any reporter who is going to open-to-the-public committee meetings and small-scale corruption can basically happen in public. This doesn't seem healthy for democracy.
I used to pride myself on my ability to fit into small parking spaces and parallel park even big vans pretty precisely, and a backup camera blew all that out of the water because I can fit anywhere now.

My little GTI with a backup camera made me an invincible parking machine.
> Sooner or later, I think companies like twitter or reddit will want to "lock in with golden handcuffs" their most valuable writers, those who result in precious ad money eyeballs.

Reddit already "pays" their writers, they pay them in upvotes. But seriously though, that's how places like Reddit get their content. You want to post because you think "people might like this", and "I might get a ton of upvotes" and "I might even get some awards". Now all of these things are completely worthless, but the point is to trick your brain into thinking those things hold value in an attempt for you to post.
In Syndrome's defence, the displacement of feudalism wasn't always a peaceful affair either but it's a change we can all agree was necessary. Violence doesn't change its inherent nature just because one puts a respectable face on it, the hereditary category of 'hero' can only exist at all in an otherwise democratic society because of the implied threat of 'I'm going to use my magical powers to take down anyone who opposes my interests', which is unacceptable because they don't have a legitimate claim to the use of force stemming from democratic consent of the people in the way say the military of a modern Western country does.

We see this at the start of the film where Mr Incredible and his friend get tangled up in a rescue operation in a burning building despite having been pretty firmly rejected by baseline humans they're attempting to help, if I remember right one of them literally gets frozen alive by Mr Incredible's friend as they escape which is rather violent. We also see it when he throws his insufferable boss through several walls in a fit of anger, which is a display of his ingrained violent nature and lack of control over his superhuman powers which presents a threat to innocent bystanders. It's might-makes-right with a veneer of heroic respectability over the top, their true nature is very different from the nature they present to the public.

Either that or I'm reading way too much into a film that's mostly aimed at kids!
of course. it a necessary submarine method to a rollout if not enough developers are on hand. Bad move, IMHO. but it is easily excised.
> normalized the concept of private companies deplatforming people for political reasons

Maybe there's an earlier example I can't think of, but I don't think this trend started with Trump. I think this trend really started with Alex Jones. Once it becomes acceptable to ban anybody for ideas, then nobody can be considered safe from the chopping block. That was the freedom of speech test that civilization failed.

> the far-right, who are far more adept at using it than anyone else

What property of social media makes it so that people on the right are more skilled at using it?

And how can you tell the difference between "people on the right are more skilled at social media" and "better ideas simply win out"? Which one is true if they both explain reality?
Introducing The String Battery
> They used to keep these things amongst themselves rather than announce everything to the public.

When did this happen? Do you mean the gilded age where the wealthy had giant, showy mansions built now used for various museums, or funded massive libraries and stuff in their name? Do you mean when the wealthy hung up painted portraits of themselves everywhere? Do you mean when the wealthy were building literal castles and starting literal wars on their name? Do you mean when royalty proclaimed to be a royal was to be divine??

I don’t think the wealthy have ever stfu’d about their money…