skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I unkilled this, for anti-ironic reasons. But as other users have correctly pointed out, these points are meaningless if they don't come with specific links. The minute you give people specific examples to look at, you'll see that they generate an entire spectrum of responses, from strong-agree (from the ones who like the examples) to strong-disagree (from the ones who dislike them). This reveals how hard, indeed impossible, it is to come up with a satisfying answer to this.

Speaking of irony, if you want some, consider this: the most even-handed policy, the most consistently applied, would actually produce an optimum of dissatisfaction—because by applying even-handed principles to all content, it would produce plenty of examples for everyone to dislike, and those are the data points that determine people's views about bias, skew, and censorship (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

More ironically still, the most even-handed and consistent policy would actually be perceived by nearly everyone with strong feelings as hopelessly biased and in favor of the other side (whichever that is, relative to the perceiver).

I'm not saying that we actually do moderate HN in the most even-handed of all possible ways, nor that we do so with perfect consistency—especially not the latter, because we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). But some sort of evenhandedness does follow, as a value, from HN's core principle of intellectual curiosity—since if you exclude things for ideological reasons, you're automatically not optimizing for intellectual interest. So we have to at least try to be evenhanded, and we do at least try.
If you are considering upgrading from Vue 2 with Vuex note that store getters caching is not working in Vuex for Vue 3, potentially hindering performance significantly.

The issue was reported multiple times but it's not yet fixed:
https://github.com/vuejs/vuex/issues/2102
https://github.com/vuejs/vuex/pull/1883
I have had a lot of fun with Brawl Stars. Supercell got a bad wrap because Clash of Clans was so frequently mimicked, but they clearly have some passionate designers.
Wasn't that pretty much disproven? Or at least dismissed as extremely unlikely by the majority of scientists.
You realize Pat King and Chris Sky are not insignificantly involved in organizing the protest (both officially and unofficially)? And have a rather large support base among the participants? I can't speak for Pat King, but Chris Sky has quoted and agreed with Hitler in the past .. so yes, I would say there are Nazis in the protest.
Did it get bad enough that they actually had to finally tell the truth to investors?
One of the modifications some GMO plants have is to produce more/more effective lectins to make them more resilient against insects. Given research on lectins shows many of them are harmful to human health, it seems like a valid concern.
They should put a human in a fMRI scanner, and place this in the feedback loop of the GAN. When the human feels repulsion, the fMRI scanner picks this up and sends negative feedback to the network.
That's a really interesting point.

This seems to explain a skepticism that I have, with regards to new tools, new languages, and especially "a new [x] that will solve all your problems."
Part of the issue seems to be getting other departments and agencies in government to let another take responsibility for "login" - authentication gives internal leverage and "power" over other departments...

It shouldn't be seen that way, but this is definitely the case in a number of countries.

The solution is central SSO-by-and-for-govt, run as an in-house capability.

This isn't in itself uncontroversial (many countries don't have a unique primary key for easily linking individuals across datasets) - people who are in favour of smaller government are likely to be unkeen on a single government account they have to verify and then use to access taxes, healthcare, etc - they're used to separation of powers between agencies.

The challenge for government is they're not just providing TOFU-style SSO - they need to also validate each user's "identity" against other datasets to ascertain to a certain level of confidence who the individual is, and that it's really them and not a fraudster. This is hard for government as nobody wants to be on the hook to another department when their verification was inadequate for some future use-case (think covid emergency loans).
The Epstein-Barr virus causes multiple sclerosis. So what?
I can speak to this a little, the issue is that the sets are designed to not be as friendly to rebuilding. The walls and floors to buildings are made out of very specific pieces that aren't easily reconfigured into new structures.

Honestly some of it is so weird that I think they do it on purpose specifically to discourage re-use.
Wait, are you really calling gawker press? I assume TMZ is right up there with the Walls Street Journal as well. Yikes that is scary.
These covers aren't great, but if you could design a process that could produce great ones, then write books to fulfill the best ones, you wouldn't be that far off from the editorial process of a lot of pulp publishers that wrote books based on good covers.

AI generated covers and titles used as writing prompts would be very fun. They would have to be far better than these, though.
First time I heard about this site. Maybe we can use this for preliminary research requiring small funds. I'll study this.
The storage shares are nextcloud instances. The storage boxes on the other hand can only be accessed via SCP, FTP, SFTP, rsync, borg, WebDAV and smb.
Really? Gawker published intimate photos of someone without their permission. What Gawker did was very wrong. I don't get why people defend Gawker.
> I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day.

I'm waiting for them to add glucose monitoring into it
It's power. A guy who thinks that the 19th Amendment was a mistake doesn't care about more money, he cares about winding back the clock.
> Next time when Facebook pulls something user-hostile ...

In my opinion with or without FB putting anything more hostile people are moving, in drones, to Telegram. I see regular people (non-tecchies at all) in my friends' circle joining Telegram regularly.

I'm not saying TG is better than Signal but I think TG's userbase is many orders of magnitude bigger than Signal's.
There's no real way to connect the compression function to any kind of mathematical model that would help here, other than modeling it as random. Provability is out the window.

So what you do is assume it behaves like a random function until proven otherwise, by _some_ property that deviates from this model. (This is not even the case for SHA-256, since neither the hash nor the compression function can be modeled as random oracles (due to length extension and the Davies-Meyer structure), but we can conveniently forget that for the duration of this thread.)

There _are_ some hash functions based on number-theoretic problems where you could reason about such things, but none of those are in common use since they are usually slow and/or require an output unstructured transformation anyway to turn them into proper, rather than just collision-resistant, hash functions.
Sorry to be clear, when I say competition I mean non-lego or knockoff toys, things like LOL Surprise or Shopkins, or Paw Patrol figures.
Yes and Windows was a fantastic product and Microsoft the best company in the world because 90% of Americans "chose" Windows in the 90s.
Is he eligible? Looking at his bio it doesn't appear so. Also he seems like he'd be happier pulling the strings of a President JD Vance anyway.
Probably alluding to the Scandinavian countries. One or two of them tried out UI for a limited time. In France they have very generous unemployment benefits, but you pay for them with heavy taxation which has its own problems .
Thanks for mentioning some original artists. One thing I am realizing here is that the original artists who worked hard to create the source material for these algorithms are often totally overlooked. "I threw a bunch of book covers in to an algorithm and look at all this cool output!" Sure, but who are the people who created all that source material? Can we credit their names as we build off of their work? We can and should credit the algorithm developers too and the person who put all of it together. But I scanned through TFA and I don't see the names of any original artists or mention of the source material, and that seems like quite an unfortunate oversight.
This is great news, Vue 3 looks much better than its predecessor.

However, I had to migrate a Vue 2 + TS app to Vue 3 and their guide at the time was pretty underwhelming. Props to Evan for dedicating time to migrate a sample app and publish the migration as commits, but the app was quite basic and dependency-free so I had to figure out a lot of stuff on the go. The compatibility build actually slowed down my progress as it took me a lot to figure out that I didn't actually benefit much from it and could just drop it. Till this day I don't have a clear idea about what @vue/compat is for.

Hopefully, with them pushing Vue 3 as the new default, there will be more detailed how-tos available.
As an elder, I can attest that 2.5 decades ago it all worked like a charm. Then millennials arrived.
Show HN: My Nuclear RNG (Random Number Generator)
Any suggestion is welcome:

https://github.com/gbonacini/nuclear_random_number_generator
How to Organize Your TypeScript Project with Workspaces
At some point net worth becomes self worth for these people.
People don't think he's merely wrong, people think he's outright evil.
This feels like a silicon valley episode.
OpenBSD once the kernel is slimmed down.
A few counterpoints:

- LEGO still makes bins of fairly generic pieces that can be built into all sorts of things: https://smile.amazon.com/LEGO-Classic-Medium-Creative-Brick/...

- My daughter has a few LEGO duplo sets. One for example had instructions for building a Minnie Mouse house, but we only did that once. Now all the sets are taken apart and mixed together and she pretty much builds whatever she wants, mixing and building with pieces from 4-5 different duplo sets together.

- It's super easy to buy bins of used legos online, especially in local parenting communities. I see people exchanging bins of LEGO pieces all the time and usually it's just bins of pieces, no instructions or defined sets or plans at all.
It's possible to hold the opinion that it'd be better if we had waited 10 or 20 years more.

Large-scale societal changes -- even ones you think are well past due -- are filled with Chesterton fences.
And watch European citizens complain that now their game consoles are more expensive because the console makers won’t sell them at a loss since they can’t be subsidized by fees.

Or since there is already a shortage, the console makers prioritize the US.

Then Apple will have a much higher fee to use their developer tools.

Also in the case of Google, you can’t use Google Services outside of the Google Play store. The only company that has had the resources to duplicate many of those services is Amazon.

In iOS users case, you won’t be able to use iCloud backup, the same notifications controls, access to global settings, probably no access to KeyChain or any other API that requires server side integration.
> It took me 9 months to get over it completely.

How did you do it? Just slowly rebuild lung capacity?

I need to do this ASAP now as if I speak for too long, I have to catch my breath. That is "no bueno".
You might be eligible for some of the grants made by CZI for their rare as one program focused on supporting patient driven research for rare diseases.

https://chanzuckerberg.com/science/programs-resources/rare-a...
Meanwhile my Swing skills from the 1990s remain relevant today. Java might not be hip, but it sure does get the job done for enterprise apps
> he does have a specific talent for manipulating the political systems and government coffers to enrich himself

That gave me Epstein-verse vibes.
OK perhaps I misread.
Like I said, I don't know about Marx, and I don't know what he means by "the means of communication". But for one thing, it seems (from the paragraph above the line you quoted) that he views this as a necessary and temporary evil:

> despotic inroads on the rights of property... unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.

And for another, he's also said to have said (in "Comments on the Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction"):

> The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people.

That seems pretty unambiguously against censorship.
You could seek automate-able repetitive work and not have to dodge said repetitive work.
Pretty weak raise compared to what the these people getting with base pay of $350k
NPM hell is what got me to move from beloved TypeScript to Golang. Coming back to pet projects a few months later was true excruciating pain every single time.

Today, it's Go in the backend and Svelte in the frontend, or vanilla JS for very small and simple tools.
> Because the app constantly prompts for contact-list access

AFAIK, it prompts at first, maybe a few times, but then stops.

> Signal's software-on-device definitely has the contact list

Definitely not required at all. Signal can use its own contact list.

> that software regularly re-sends that encrypted list to Signal's servers' SGX enclaves for their contact-discovery protocol

The SGX enclaves are not for contact discovery. Contact discovery worked long before Signal implemented the SGX enclaves.

As I understand it: The SGX enclaves store a crypto key that Signal adds to the user's password, to enable data migration: Users tend to choose weak passwords; if Signal truly wants their data to be secure, strong passwords aren't realistic. Their solution is ingenious (IMHO): 1) Append a random key to strengthen the password chosen by the user. 2) A locally stored key would be a big problem for data migration, such as lost phones; the key would be lost too, and thus all the user data. 3) Therefore, they store the key centrally, as securely as possible (in the SGX enclave). That does make the key more vulnerable, but if you choose a strong password then it's irrelevant - the attacker needs to defeat both the key and your password. You can also disable this backup feature if you like. Some reading (partly because I might misremember a detail or two):

https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-th...

I am not sure how Signal backups work or that user contacts, encrypted, are backed up to the SGX enclave. Where does it say that?

> So whether or not Signal, or some entity near/around it, "has" the contact list is a matter of how much users trust Intel™ SGX® (as well as the chain of processes that deliver/update the Signal software on-device.)

Again, if you choose a strong password then you only need to trust yourself, and I think you can disable it altogether.
You can Mask your address
hoarder mentality
Is being the 50th best basketball player on the planet good enough? Why do athletes continue to dedicate their lives in the hopes of being #1?

Once your basic needs are met and you have a comfortable standard of living, everything else is a game, and people like to win. Why does anyone need a fancy car? Why does anyone need to compete with their neighbors and coworkers? Why does a billionaire need a superyacht when an adequately sized one will do? This is simply how some (or maybe even most) people are wired.
One game I have enjoyed with my 5-year-old is to give two (or more) people an identical collection of 20–50 miscellaneous pieces (just pull pairs of identical pieces randomly and dump into 2 piles) and then each make something and compare.

Or have one person make something and see if the other person can copy it, then switch.
A human brain can only paint what it has observed or derivatives of observation. How is digital remixing any different?
Curious—- have you checked out this recruiters individual profile and his firm? Do they look remotely legit?

There are certainly some eye-popping compensation packages out there these days.

Basic rule of thumb: recruiting at the $1M level requires a certain finesse and sophistication to engage high caliber prospective talent.

Coming at me cold with a $1M tease, just sounds bogus.
> But your attitude here is exactly why public health authorities have damaged their credibility and that of science itself in the past two years. They have repeatedly misrepresented their educated guesses as scientific fact - and then turned out to be wrong.

Where has that happened for this? Every study that has shown disease severity correlated with vaccine usage has shown the same results, over and over, for each variant: vaccination correlates with symptomatic disease severity which correlates linearly with long-term effects, in every observed metric.

This has appeared again and again and again in dozens of studies, to the point where it is the null hypothesis; you'd need to make a real case with novel, contradictory evidence to show that this is not the case.

In every domain of medicine there is some degree of guessing and basing off of historical data for a cohort; you can't test every patient for every possible thing that could ever affect them. Instead you pick and choose the most significant factors and use that as your guidelines. Research efforts for COVID are very large, but also limited; there is no evidence to contradict this and it's not worth researching.

If you actually kept up with domain experts during the pandemic, you'll see that there were many open questions over which they kept interest, and many open questions where they did not care much. The reason for that has to do with the acquired knowledge of having studied hundreds of other diseases and similar cases; they tell you how to explore the domain, seeing where things are likely to be different, and where they are not.
I can't find anything about this from an actual news site. Hopefully, they'll pick it up soon if it's for real.
Does it advertise your username? If I don't have the name of the contact, will Signal share my username or does it just say "this number in your list has joined signal, and here is their profile?"
I don't care about the average or median case and 'some of the best' is suitably subjective, I just want the freedom to make my own choices.

The entire bet with startups if you're not rich enough to fund via an incubator is picking a team or company you think is good and kicking in some smallish amount of cash (~10k), angel list basically. If you're in the industry you may be better positioned to do this than a random person. We can do this by going and working for a startup and dumping money in to exercise options (arguably even riskier since now your job is also tied to its success), but not by just kicking in some cash unless you hit the accredited investor threshold.

I should be able to choose to do this if I want to. Instead I can only put money in after the company is public and a lot of the early return has already been taken by people rich enough to be allowed to buy in earlier.

Meanwhile I could go and gamble at a casino on slots without any proof that I'm rich enough to waste money that way.
AbstractOps gives you back that invaluable time taken up with the operational day to day work on the back end. Now you can focus on the aspects of why you started feeding that inspiration and passion. Brilliant!
Sadly, I live in this Sheriff's jurisdiction. It's embarrassing. And yeah, puns about his last name using a short "i" are in order.

Civil asset forfeiture disturbs me. I mean it really, really disturbs me -- deep down in my gut. I have a hard time understanding how it is consistent with the values we (U.S. citizens) claim to hold. I'm not a student of the law, so I won't pretend to have any deep insights into its constitutionality. I just feel it's a malignant tumor on our justice system. I can only wonder how it appears to those in other developed nations, at least those whose laws do not allow such presumptive seizures. It doesn't seem all that far removed from the system of letters of marque that authorized so much piracy in the 16th century -- we can so we will. Honestly, I don't see how any fair-minded person can be anything but sickened by civil asset forfeiture.
If anyone here has an Apple Watch and knows or suspects that they got COVID in the past year, open the Health app on your phone and look up your "v02 Max" figure on the Watch. This is a machine-learning guesstimate of how efficiently your lungs process oxygen.

Here's a quick look at my measurements over the past six months, would you like to guess when I tested positive for COVID?
http://whiskyvangoghgo.com/images/v02max.jpeg

(this was a huge letdown, back in September I had started a jumprope program in hopes of driving this number up, despite reading that v02-max is nearly hard-wired to a individual’s physiology)
We still get called racist when we try to bring up this distinction.
I see. That sounds very promising!
> I have seen the rapid spread of a bizarre image of China that has almost nothing to do with the reality on the ground.

Are you denying that China has wrongfully imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and begun to deny Hong Kong the autonomy it is promised under the law? Just to pick two of the posters' subject matter.

Perhaps you meant "bizarre image" in a purely aesthetic sense. It does not seem like condemnation of what's treated in the posters is even controversial outside China. It's certainly not unique to the US.
I’ve never understood the perspective that what
Thiel did too Gawker was anything but good. Love or hate the guy, he just funded a lawsuit that Gawker assumed they would beat using the classic tactics of bankrupting their opponent. I despise those tactics, it was (rightly IMO) determined that Gawker acted illegally and caused massive damage, and if the Hulk Hogan had been funded by literally any other billionaire I think they would have been applauded.

Corporations use “run the meter” tactics to win lawsuits all the time. It’s nice to see that fail for once.
Whether or not I use Signal is private info, which is separate from my phone number info. Signal is mixing the two as if it was the same.

A username kinda restore that, but it could be taken a step further and ask for a secret token when adding contacts. That way you know exactly who has you in their contact list, and this token could be revoked (equivalent of blocking the person).
This is a quirk of us-east-1 only due to its legacy of having 6-8? AZ's (depending on how old your aws account is), whereas all other regions are (mostly) a more standard 3 AZ arrangement.
In theory, yes. In practice, no.

Push too far and your "free speech" gets reclassified as something illegal.

See: Jan 6 dissidents, Julian Assange, Aaron Swartz, et al.
That requirement seems pretty bizarre to myself as a non-US person. Haven't heard of being natural born as a requirement for president before, but seems like another aspect that the US shares with a small list of other countries.

It seems pretty on-brand to be honest though, I wonder why that rule exists and what benefit it provides. The first couple presidents couldn't have met it, so I wonder when it was introduced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_qualifica...
It is game with millions of human lives being destroyed as a consequence at times.