skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greylisting is good stuff. I have found similar results.
While social media has caused muxh more people to spread misinformation farther and faster, more traditional mediums aren't free from misinformation.

Your solution of stopping to consume social media doesn't work, as other mediums have been just as bad at being unbiased truthseekers.
There's a whole movie about this. It was remade at least twice, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taking_of_Pelham_One_Two_T...
I chose that term carefully, and put it in quotes, to avoid derailment about my choice of words. I wanted to make it clear I'm referring without judgment to the types of people he is talking about, and was willing to make my short comment clunkier in the name of keeping it precise.

But the clunkiness you're saying is in my comment, not his essay. The essay includes the words "heretic hunters", but it's only used once:

> I've deliberately avoided mentioning any specific heresies here. Partly because one of the universal tactics of heretic hunters, now as in the past, is to accuse those who disapprove of the way in which they suppress ideas of being heretics themselves. Indeed, this tactic is so consistent that you could use it as a way of detecting witch hunts in any era

Personally, this single usage and less-clunky grammar doesn't strike me as especially bad writing.
Perhaps you can add ads to the site to cover the cost.
I used to do this too, but it's a considerable amount of effort, and doesn't really prevent much: many domain hoarders/resellers know the trick, so they'll try to match other data they get from you, and sometimes build a fuller "profile" on you than they would if you only had gmail/other generic domain (eg if they have your name, which often leaks along email, they'll try your first name, first name + last name, initial + last name, first name + last initial, etc).
US trains were majorly useful and common way to travel before the 1960s. (Only a few miles dropped after WW2.) But in the early 1950s, a plan to build 41,000 miles of Interstate freeways appeared. And Eisenhower selected the Chairman of General Motors to be his Secretary of Defense. The plan was signed into law in 1956, and construction began. It was quite a boon to the auto industry.

By 1967 passenger train ridership had plummeted. Most people and a whole lot of freight shifted to the freeways and/or jetliners. Railroads could not compete. In 1952 there were 370 thousand miles of track. By 1992 that had dropped to 190 thousand miles.[0] Much track steel was recycled, and many rural railbeds became 'trailways'.

[0]https://www.railserve.com/stats_records/railroad_route_miles...
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Yes, we're on the same page there. (Some of) Trump's policies were racist: constructed and executed with overt racial animus, to a degree we haven't seen since the 1970s. That doesn't mean border security and cutting refugee slots is intrinsically racist; not everything Trump did was racist. I'm sure George Wallace did a bunch of stuff just to keep the lights on and the trains running, too!
Why is the terrorist activities EXPANDING when there have been not even a single coordinated terrorist attack in over 20 years?

This is why people fight against vaccine mandates and I’m about to join them.
This would even help some of my clients. I had a client say "we need to be compliant add a cookie banner" so I did. A week later they call me up in a panic saying their engagement (Google Analytics) had almost completely fallen off and I explained people are probably declining the cookies.
“North Bondi” is code in Australia for an extremely, extremely wealthy set of suburbs when they don’t wish to be directly identified (such as Vaucluse, Dover Heights, Rose Bay).

This is undisputedly the wealthiest part of Australia.

How did the founder raise $100M with no revenue? “Charisma”? No, this is high-net worth connections and is an overlooked aspect of this whole saga.
Pretty sure there's some apps that's designed to reduce social media usage. One turned everything grey and removed notification symbols
Everything is connected so nobody can build anything without help from other people.
Oddly enough, American Airlines has started doing this too for short haul flights that are now bus rides.
Who doesn't worship money? Let's not kid ourselves. We all worship money to a degree where we understand how the concept of intellectual property incentivizes the creation of "intellectual property."
For those using this feature for a long enough time, have you seen misfiring or emails that disappear, you couldn't retrieve ?

When using keychain as a password manager, once in a while when creating a password for a new site, it would generate it and complete the account registration, without properly saving the generated password.

I'd hunt for the site item through keychain's list and not find it, and go through the "Reset My Password" for the site, except if time passed I might not even remember which email I used to register.

It was annoying enough for passwords, but not critical. For emails there's probably situations where the account is just lost and the only option is to create a fresh new one. How good is their implementation for this ?
This sounds like it about doing projects for the sake of saying they're completed?

My projects tend to be because I want something from them (explore a new toolset; have a working dish disposal; make my car able to play audio from bluetooth; not have to care about network filtering on random wifi aps; get a history of just how bad the temperature difference between rooms at home really is). They're "done" when either I have (enough of) what I want, or I lose interest and decide it doesn't matter that much anyway.
That's a beautiful route, especially if you are on the west facing side of the train but it sounds like it was dark most of your trip. Quite the pity because during the day the view makes up for the slowness of the trip.
On a personal level, I:

(a) Don't have a substantive view on these events other than "beating up the neighbor is hard to justify".

(b) Am comfortable that what is publicly known has a terrible signal-to-noise ratio, while what is privately driving the whole situation is likely at odds with what's publicly known.
Lazards's cost figures are backward-looking, so not representative. As I already pointed out. Yet, generation + even those figures is still cheaper than building nukes.
Well there's already speech-oriented codecs that can go down below a kilobyte per second, and there's this one that throws a neural net at the problem to help squeeze bytes: https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/08/soundstream-end-to-end-neu...

I don't think I've ever had a functional connection slower than that. You need packets to be making it through in a timely manner if you want a voice conversation, after all.
If you already believe he said women are biologically inferior, enough to throw quotes around it, you have a lot of work to do to unwind that bias. Most people would not be able to do it, especially if they are motivated reasoners.

I might respectfully suggest you try again.

If it will help you, he doesn't say women are more neurotic. What he says, truthfully, is that women on average score higher in neuroticism than men do in the Big 5 personality traits. It's a term in psychology with a specific meaning, it no doubt has a citation in his memo, and it has direct relevance to why there are fewer women in leadership roles. If the intent is to have more women in leadership roles, and this is true, it should be addressed, yeah? The memo suggests ways to do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism

Apparently, this is a heresy: "The distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes."
Perhaps they've been deliberately trying to put the rest of us into more and more fluorescent dungeons because they want us to understand their pain.
You know, I used to love reading DJBs bitch slaps in his replies to people. He was legendary in the way Linus is legendary...

"...But I do know that she likes my in your face attitude" -- Bender relaying Leelas remarks on him in Futurama, S1E7.

On a non-related note, I used the hell out of Qmail and DJBDNS for years. I sometimes look out into the darkness before I drift off into unconsciousness and wonder why I do not use them today.
My SO uses it to find ideas for home decoration. She can quickly find lots of related photos and pin them so she can come back and see if she still likes them, or show them to me.

Not something I use though.
I’m gonna go against the grain here and just say it - just give your users a date and turn it off on that date. You don’t owe them anything beyond that. If you don’t want to run it and can’t find someone who does, oh well. It’s your creation and your life. Take the experience and move on.
Most of it is implausible.

Are fleets of 100s of Rokus used in commercial settings? A quick google suggests no.

Do fleets of commercial network devices typically implement some weird peer-to-peer leader election thing to... save some bandwidth on updates? Also no, centralized management service/console is both way easier to implement and a desirable feature to boot. Chances are that's how device fleets are managed in places you've worked.

Then what is 'a quarter mil in CDN fees'? Once? Per update? Per month or year? Oddly specific details like this are often a hallmark of a tall tale and this one is both oddly specific and oddly nonsensical.

We also have to believe a billion dollar revenue company did this much more convoluted, complicated and highly atypical thing to save $250k and then just left it completely vulnerable to trivial replay attacks.

Could one or some of these things, plausibly, happen? Maybe. Taken together, though, it's a house of cards and every card is a joker.
This and NFT come in hand in hand.
If someone with this much experience is going back to a third world country leaving it all back then you should know the pathetic state of US immigration.

US immigration is not flawed but carefully designed to benefit corporations to have enslaved foreign labor force available on their terms to keep their local labor workforce in check.

There is no other interpretation of it. Especially targeting those who born in countries like India who are ready to pay the price to stay in the US.

Living in the US is not as great as they make you believe.

Subpar experience for anyone from other developed country. So target US as a market never try to live there.

Note: I have worked in the US, had enough opportunity to live there but never bothered about it.
There's also a huge difference between fiber to the whatever, and the 10-20 year old infra in the US suburbs being slowly upgraded to gigabit DOWN only. The suburbs are often regulatory captured by anti-competitive agreements with little enforcement oversight or forethought by the small cities. Maybe (I personally suspect) kickbacks in various forms too.

I agree that the 50% of the population with even less need things too, but it's myopic to think that we're even as good as the rosy outlook. Help to raise the local industrial and civil capacity in other nations, in my mind and opinion, would also make them nicer places to live and thus more likely to have happy citizens with a stable and responsible government who can help make the world a better place overall. (Surely there's been no study on this, but I also theorize this would be the most net cost effective way of battling terrorism; since if there's something positive to live for you're less likely to be angry and hateful towards others.)
I read the paper, and I really have a hard time understanding what kind of threat model the authors are proposing.

If the details of the watermark are public, as they suggest, what would stop a counterfeit manufacturer from just writing their own watermark to their own devices? Wouldn't that be just as easy as printing a fake logo on the IC package?

I suppose you could prevent this with some kind of scheme using digital signatures, but the paper never suggests or considers that. And if you had a way to generate a "certificate of authenticity" for each device, what would be the point of storing it as a wear pattern, instead of in an EEPROM or something? The authors only say that their proposal "does not require any hardware modification", which seems like a pretty flimsy justification.
I had precisely the same thought. It follows the outline it set forth at the top, but vaguely and without actually communicating any real content. It’s all pseudo-profound Rorschach blot writing.
They already tried it once in Tennessee. IIRC, it was only for truckers and after a good bit of blowback, they claimed it had been voluntary (though the truckers didn't know that) and strictly informational.
I would guess that India and Pakistan know as well as anyone else the importance of destroying an opponent's most critical infrastructure in the execution of a total war.
I think it's best to maybe put a pinned post on the top explaining the situation and asking for donations. In that way, you're giving them some control.
This is exactly why I have stayed clear of them. For the last ~15 years I have used SHR, then Maemo and now PureOS, and it feels like the device is there for me, not the other way around.
Ending the consumption of Russian vodka is an excellent economic protest move in fact, along with all of their other exports (many of which Biden has already begun neutering).

Of course that's not what your comment was reaching for.
Testing for "works" is non-trivial.
Yes, and this eurodollar futures price (and related options contracts) is used to derive, mathematically, the "percent chance of a rate hike" that you see around the fed meetings.
Hey man, if this system can prevent just one train-hijacking then it will be worth it.

/s
> I don't think this would be rational behavior, but rather pathological behavior.

That's exactly right. I am describing cluster B personality disorders.

> it is possible to feel the things from your first paragraph, yet understand the purpose of the very feeling.

Yes, and when someone is apologising to you, you would do well to try and analyze and understand whether the person is doing so for the first set of motives or the latter (it can be hard to tell). And doing so would be quite rational if you don't want to become prey to a sociopath :)

Edit:

> The only reason one would devaluate others is that they feel some kind of irrational need to feel superior, even if that feeling costs them good relationships.

man, you really hit the nail on the head here :)

Anyway, it works well for all manner of CEO's, politicians, heads of state, frauds, tinder swindlers, and the like. In other words, it doesn't seem to impair someone's prospects as much as one might imagine!
> They are, in the sense that their identities and thought patterns motivate and emotionlly charge people in institutions ranging from the white house to mega corportations to do things they might have otherwise not done, sometimes to the detriment of the institutions.

This is an extremely strange definition of "in power." I donate a lot of money to the local food bank. This doesn't make it so that starving people are actually running my life.

Feel free to keep your conspiracies to yourself.
For python, I've used:

(1) Triple-quoted strings to set up large markup forms

(2) The `%()s` syntax to set up dictionary interpolations

(3) Something like:

def merge(template, args):

return template % args

to deliver the goods.
> fear mongering.

If there's one thing you should be afraid of it is probably nuclear war.

> All sides understand the consequences, so nobody is going to use ALL or even part of their nuclear arsenal.

Putin and the Kremlin now probably understand that they can't really trust their military readiness, which makes it that much more likely that if their nuclear launch sites are threatened that they will launch everything they have under the assumption that if they don't they will lose it, and that they need to fire everything they have assuming a lot won't reach their targets.
Any thoughts about [Lit](https://lit.dev/)?
I like it how Java steals as much as it can from ML. Someday we'll be calling it an ML family language.
> But that’s easier said than done for a lot of people.

It's also very easy for some people, myself as an example. I took the standard career path, eventually serving as VP of Engineering and CTO for several startups. (None successful enough to give me FU money, alas.) Now, at age 60, I've gone back to being just a regular developer with a manager 30 years my junior. I love it. No time wasted on worthless meeting, corporate BS, etc. All I do all day is write code. That's what gives me joy, and I'm very fortunate to be able to do it.
> asymmetric

There's no technical reason for this to be the case. ISPs adapted to the needs of the web, not the other way around.

> lack upload bandwidth

This is relative to each user. The vast majority wouldn't require much upload bandwidth, and there could be technical solutions to address this (caching nodes, data expiration, P2P, etc.).

The biggest technical challenges of large web services are because of the scale needed to support the large amount of users. If we had built services and tools around the inherent distributed nature of the web, centralization and all the problems caused by scale wouldn't be an issue.

> battery powered and intermittently operated

> mobile

Why should user data be highly available? If I'm physically unreachable or just want to be offline, shouldn't my data be unreachable as well? Besides, all of these can have technical solutions as well.

> Having a third, highly available, high upload capacity location to stage data between production and consumption wins

I'm not disagreeing, but a) this wouldn't be required by most users, and b) why couldn't this be under control of users as well? The fact no such (simple) solution exists today doesn't mean that it couldn't have gained traction back when browsers were getting adopted, and today we would've had a completely different web. Unfortunately incentives are turned on its head, users aren't educated about the harms of giving their data away because they've learned that it's the way the web works, we have to pass laws to protect user data, and a vocal minority of web developers have been swimming upstream and trying to undo the harms of centralization for decades with lackluster results.
Your story might be an example more of corrupt contracting than of regulatory overreaction. Everybody involved made a tidy profit. Except us, of course.

I too am deeply concerned about the climatic future. My main worry is that not halting the temperature and ocean acidification excursions soon enough will trigger global collapse. The radically lower CO2 emission rate after would be cold comfort. I think we need to see serious progress by 2030, i.e. before new nukes could come online.
The only event I know of where that new policy played a central role was in the 2015 disaster in which a suicidal pilot locked the cabin while his co-worker took a bathroom break, and crashed the plane:

> "On March 24, 2015, the co-pilot of a German airliner deliberately flew the plane into the French Alps, killing himself and the other 149 people onboard. When it crashed, Germanwings flight 9525 had been traveling from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany. (history.com)"

I believe there's now a strict rule of two pilots in the cockpit at all times as a result. Also, hijacked planes are now much more likely to be shot down by military jets if they approach urban areas, which is not a topic airlines like to discuss.
Poll: Should state representatives be allowed to entertain members of public?
Some time ago, I received an invitation to meet a senator I had written to[1], should members of the public be allowed to meet state representatives this way? It could unlock improper relationships such as a member of the public could slip the state representative something to sweeten their relationship.

* Should representatives be allowed to entertain and meet members of the public?

[1] https://ibb.co/8BGXf79
I have no opinion
they are a bad thing, can you just not have them? thanks. Op in for those that love to be tracked and traced.
But how many people were saved from cancer deaths, because they weren’t exposed to more radiation in the upper atmosphere? Is that offset by breathing more ozone and PM2.5 on the roadway?
> So, I noticed you didn’t answer the Question about which ad agency it is Tesla uses.

You're only noticing my boredom. Just try to think logically. Your claim is that Tesla can make its own cars but it cannot make its own ads?

> avoid having a discussion?

There is no discussion. There is only your inability to see the obvious.

Tesla's advertising has worked well on you. You've been trained in what to parrot and you parrot it desperately and for free. You like to think of yourself as sophisticated but in reality Tesla's manipulation of you is total. You can't see the obvious even when it's right in front of you.

Now that's some good advertising.
Why would you believe it was ever better?
> Today: you can still stand up a web server at your house and forward the ports on your router

And you just lost 97%+ of the Internet userbase. They have no idea what you just said.
I think it's reasonable to consider it a bug in both: it's a MIR lowering bug, one that gets promoted into a different bug by LLVM.
ThorCon true costs are just unknown. Storage, like solar and wind generation, costs are subject to statistical laws.
Honestly, I think that's cleaner.
Actually that is forbidden, at least according to some convention which exact point of origin I'm too lazy to search now.

Anyway, targeting NPP's with nukes is a big NO, NO! Same for things like dams, btw.

OTOH, before these the Brits had no problems targeting Germanies dams whith some
ingenious things, which hopped over the water several times like described in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise

But that was before this convention was born.

Anyway, remains to be seen who gives a shit about such things in all out confrontation.
> "The interface to the Ada runtime system is so opaque that it is impossible to model or predict its performance, making it effectively useless for real-time systems."

This comment didn't age well. If you've ever been a passenger on a modern jetliner you've most likely trusted your life to real-time systems coded in Ada.

> "Am I correct..."

> "Were the problems..."

> "...by a leading scientist (name?)..."

> "I think the report..."

Terrible. Entirely conjecture. Not one concrete source to substantiate these claims.
I apologize to the author; upon reflection, I think your interpretation is correct.
Can you help add this spammer/scammer to those lists?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30871398
Castration or straight up euthanizing?
I wish this was the downfall of that terrible company. I say that as someone who actually likes Jira from a functionality point of view but is fed up with the frontend becoming slower and slower for no good reason.