skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no name calling. There is only a correct assessment.

For starters, you're asserting without argument. Which leads it to appear to be name calling.

Secondly, given you are being downvoted to hell, you should probably reevaluate if it is really a correct assesment. After all, if its obviously correct why aren't people agreeing?

Second you are clearly using childish as an insult, instead of saying what you really think is wrong with that view - which is a second reason why it looks like name calling. Childish can mean a lot of things, some positive some negative, its hard to see from your posts what the specific objection is, which makes it seem like just a shallow insult.

> What do you believe is not childish in an adult saying they are unable to control themselves and that they need someone to do it for them?

For starters, the original poster did not say that. They especially did not say they were unable to control themselves.

They did say they would like to delegate some aspects of their life. I personally wouldn't want to live in their utopia, but its not like it's totally different from how many societies work including our own.

I hired a guy to do my taxes, instead of taking responsibility for them myself. Is that childish?

Some people hire personal trainers instead of coming up with their own exercise plans. Is that childish?

Some people go to university for a structured education, instead of reading textbooks, articles, recorded lecture videos themselves (seriously, between lectures on youtube, open courseware, lib genisis, is there any valid reason to go to university except a lack of self control and discipline?) Is that childish?

I would argue the true mark of an adult is knowing what to take responsibility for yourself, and knowing what to delegate to others. We all have limited attention, if we try to do everything we do nothing very well.
Is it possible to create a payment link that customer can follow to pay you a certain amount without dinking with all the invoice/product/price junk? If I create an invoice in another system I want to put a QR code on those invoices that customers can simply follow and pay. That link/payment should be tied to metadata I provide to Stripe--associated with that link. Sort of like a hosted UI payment page. I think PayPal does that but I want to stay away from them.
>yet the hardware they built is arguably very libre-friendly

Well they're already in legal trouble for abusing their iOS market dominance with the new EU proposed legislation, they know the tides are turning against big tech, so they didn't lock down the MacBooks preemptively to brace themselves for what's coming, not because Apple has somehow now become a FOSS supporter.

Before you applaud Apple for being too libre and think the company has changed direction, keep in mind this is the same company that ships recently launched monitors without user replaceable power cords and locks out in firmware the possibility to upgrade the SSDs on the very expensive Mac Studio despite teardowns showing that it's phisically possible by end users.

Also, as a curiosity, why is every thread related to a X86 news, need to bring in the Apple M1 fan army and bang their drums? They serve completely different markets. For those consumers or companies that need to run X86 windows/Linux binaries that have no Mac ports, M1 based hardware is off the table from the start. And the device from this topic is designed to cater to that market, not to compete with M1.
OK then let's see him do it. Maybe he will have innovations like the 141 character tweet.
> for example, in a "free" twitter, i could post some racist tirade, and expect it to gain no traction/retweets from my followers & some random others. people might see it, but it is principally no different to making the same speech in the city center: i'm going to be heard, but no one is going to listen.

This is the biggest misconception many proponents of absolute free speech have. Many movements, both good and bad, have begun in social media (Twitter / Facebook, etc.). Everything from the Arab Spring, to BLM, to Unite the Right in Charlottesville and January 6th, were at least in part organized on social media. Just because _you_ don't think an idea is worth listening to, does NOT mean that there aren't hundreds or thousands of people who disagree and will listen. I don't know what the solution to this problem is, but to assume it's not real is just plain wrong.
It doesn't matter one iota if someone claims it as their own, what matters is the benefit it brings. Do you think Patanjali (or whomever) would be protective of their techniques and trademark it, patent it, and extract wealth for it?

If they don't care then neither should anyone else, and perhaps this will help the techniques spread further, which I'm sure Patanjali et al again, would not be against.
> I assume that the cascading done on GitHub would be done on a FK constraint, but I'm not really sure how you'd do a "cascading soft delete" without making some kind of manual cascading logic?

Couldn't you just use an on delete trigger for this? I have no experience one the subject however
I created a no-frills guest list management web app for social get togethers. You rsvp via sms and event hosts can broadcast any updates/reminders as needed. I got a little “dissatisfied” seeing group chats light up with “+1!” when plans were shared. Would be cool to enhance it and make it a business but [excuses here].

Here’s an example event:
https://addyourself.to/it/c047e279-f5b4-4de8-9456-3fe71a77aa...
So which reflects worse on Russia's military? If it was sunk by an accidental fire on board, or if it was sunk by a Ukrainian missile attack? Either way it seems like a huge loss for them.
You don’t seem to understand. If Elon buys 100% of shares, it will become a private company. It won’t be traded on a stock market any more, and won’t have a share price.
The claim I’m making isn’t that you can’t use non-potable water. It’s that the water quality is regulated (see https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...) and you can’t fertilize crops with raw human sewage (https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...), both of which are true (with certain exceptions).

I find it is useful to try to disprove your own beliefs before confidently claiming something to be true. The resources are out there and not terribly difficult to locate if you put a modicum of effort into it.
Apples to oranges. The fanboyism is not helpful.
Not the GP, but I can anecdotally confirm this. Breaking caste barriers remains unusual in most of India. The Indian HN community is biased towards Bangalore, Delhi and Bombay where rates of exogamy amongst the upper middle class are far higher than in practically all other parts of India.
Preventing institutions from becoming corrupt and no longer serving their members is different from preventing all types of evil.

The american constitution wasn't designed around the idea that slaves were supposed to be fairly dealt with by the government
Either Ukraine hit it with missiles or the Russian warship was equipped with Alesya, heard the command “Go Fuck Yourself” and did as it was told.
Also sudo mode, right? They had to authenticate to the whole website again too, before doing this!
Your definition of capitalism is actually compatible with left-libertarianism, in the original sense of the word not Rothbard's, market socialism and other forms of left-anarchism and socialism. The only difference compared to your definition are the views on capital, which could be generalized as saying that those who mix their labor with capital should have democratic decision making with regard to that capital.
If your oxygen level is varying significantly while at rest, you are very out of shape aerobically, and you should be getting more exercise, not obsessing about your breathing patterns.
Xps 17 is 1200x1920, 16:10. It's a great ratio and at 17 inch I don't use any scaling in windows and everything looks right size for my eyes. Can upgrade ssd and I've changed out memory to 64gb. It's a great rig but fans are a bit noisy.
I intentionally did this very recently for a whole bunch of old repos (mainly because a Github bot decided to start emailing me weekly about vulnerabilities in stuff that has been untouched for nearly a decade) and was mildly annoyed at how inconvenient it was to make them private. I would have said the warnings are unnecessary overkill.

It's quite amusing to read this so soon after.
Ask HN: What can an engaged citizen do to contribute to the world?
(Note: This is not a criticism-post although it might sound like it.)

What can an engaged citizen do to contribute to the world?

Sure, we can vote, we can protest (at least in North America), but what else can we do to help steer our society forward? What are some things that we, as ordinary people with bills to pay and mouths to feed, can do in our daily lives to contribute constructively towards positive social change?

Write a book? Make art? Make music?

Study science? Study culture? Research the world's problems? Innovate solutions?

Be a better parent, spouse, family member? A better boss, employee, colleague? A better friend, neighbor, stranger?

Listen more? Understand more? Love more? Take better care of yourself so you can be more present to the world and all the people in it?

These all sound great of course, but the key question is, of the ones that we can do, how do we make it significant and concrete enough to matter?

For example, how do we make actions like reading books and exchanging ideas on the internet non-trivial?
you are arguing that signing up for twitter (or the equivalent) is some kind of significant barrier to entry?
I use Google to search Amazon products. As a last resort I search by the exact product name. Amazon search has always been garbage and with 3rd party seller products flooding Amazon it was bound to get worse.

Amazon (at least in India) resembles flea market at this point; don't shop for expensive products and buy only from big brand stores.
Here is their HP.
Some pictures of interior.

https://koenji-sankakuchitai.blog.jp/ManuscriptWritingCafe/
You could catch such issues early by setting up a billing alarm.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...
I think he said they were a feature, not a product.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12092
if the algorithm is open source, bad actors can see it as well. it'll become remarkably easy to spam and game the system. this could drive users away, decrease revenue and leave Mr. Musk holding a $40B hot potato
Why doubt the claim? It is initially counter intuitive but actually makes sense if you think about it.

In any case, it’s not just a story, it is described in this paper:

https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/fine...
If it is so simple to buy out twitter, why hasn't it been done?
You can rent from various cloud providers many VMs with 2TB of ram each.

AWS also offers some high memory machines with up to 24TB of ram in some locations.
Reportedly the Moskva's radar system only covers 180 degrees, so the Ukrainians used the drone to distract the radar system, this combined with the high turbulent seas causing artefacts on the radar make it very hard to defend against anti ship missiles.

I presume most more modern ships don't have radars that can only cover 180 degrees so they would be as vulnerable to this attack.
I'm super interested - I'm always on the lookout for a replacement for Ruby as my primary scripting lang. LISPs seem super cool for scripting because of the exploratory nature of the REPL - writing a script, at least for me, is a process where I have to run it dozens of times, tweaking it every time, and then finally running it regularly without monitoring, and the REPL would save so much time in the first part of this process.

But while I'm interested, I can't find any docs for what's included. For scripting, I think I would at least need the following in the standard library, no package management required:

1. A good API for filesystem ops, such as reading and writing files. Ex: reading the lines of a file into a list, writing a list to a file as lines etc.

2. Making network requests easily, with persistent connections if you need it. (see Net::HTTP in Ruby, which has become extremely usable for all but the most advanced use cases)

3. Parsing JSON at the very least, with YAML and CSV being good to haves.

4. An easy way to run shell commands for stuff that's just better handled there. (like `` in Ruby)

In addition, if the stdout natively supports colouring text that would be super sweet, but that's not a hard requirement.

I can see 1) to some extent in the examples, but without a docs site I'm not sure about the rest. Does anybody here know for sure? Otherwise, is there some other lisp that would meet these requirements?
Isn't it interesting that many otherwise intelligent people don't seem to understand this? I don't know _how_ we solve this problem, but the sheer amount of people who refuse to see this as _a_ problem (and who should know better) is frankly astonishing and scary.
I don't have a strong opinion on this. Maybe there should be a button to show you why exactly you get what you get. I definitely don't like the opaque nature of these content curation algos.
> I agree it would be nice but it would also be a boon for bad actors who want to manipulate the system.

Has this ever happened, though? How is it different from giving hackers source code?
Ancient alien theorists say yes.
It’s their prerogative to not be well informed. I certainly don’t think it’s right to force them to watch CNN.

Where does this end, anyway? Should we also force people to consume OAN or InfoWars? Can I get my blog on this required reading list?
IIRC they have a pretty standard PostGres setup. I'd bet they just setup another PostGres shard replicated just for search, using an extension for the index. Doesn't require the index or working set to be in RAM.
How come darknet markets work extremely well then?

Some people value steady profits much more than a one time scam.
I feel a benevolent dictator could actually move Twitter in the right direction here... better that than a malevolent (profit motivated) plutocracy.

(Although a. At best it would only be partially benevolent, and b. It will still be a plutocracy)
While the article focuses on lost stars, they also lost a lot of repository watchers.

This is pretty significant because lots of downstream users and distribution maintainers use the watching feature to get release and security advisory notifications. If this had happened secretly it's possible that a security release would be delayed because they didn't see the announcement early enough. (In fact, in the article they mention they had a security advisory recently -- so it's possible the above scenario has already happened.)
> Secondly, given you are being downvoted to hell, you should probably reevaluate if it is really a correct assesment. After all, if its obviously correct why aren't people agreeing?

A lot of people are wrong about a lot of things a lot of the time. Popularity doesn't make something true or false. If you're chasing what's popular you will never be honest.
According to the article it definitely will be a very significant event if it turns out to be the result of a Ukrainian missile attack which has not been confirmed.

I'm not sure how it could be confirmed that Ukrainian actions cause the ship to sink. Hardly likely that Russia will say so even if it is true.

Maybe someone with expertise in these matters could shed light on the question. Certainly there are more than a few people around the globe who are highly invested in knowing the answer to that one.
inverted indexes do not require that much overhead
Same here. I finally brought accidentally deleting stuff down to zero by having them type the number they get to lose:

"You have 55,231 GitHub stars. Please type 55231 if you want to delete them all."

But I guess, if you delete repos often enough, this will also become muscle memory.

Edit: Just saw the other comment here suggesting the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033996
After giving this topic a bit more thought, you are partially right. Any malicious dependency developer can simply pollute the XMLHttpRequest prototype to steal the results of oauth calls. If this is the threat model, then we can simply Object.freeze(XMLHttpRequest). But at this point, we're in a game of cat and mouse.

Ultimately, it's still (somewhat) harder for you to steal credentials from injecting code into my app vs I explicitly calling your code with the credentials.
People seem to believe that it's impossible to create a competing platform. That's built on the assumption that most people are generally happy with current offerings. If Musk does anything that a critical mass of users finds objectionable, they can and will leave or go to a competitor.

Part of me hopes he buys it just to test this hypothesis. My feeling is that we'll learn one way or another how important a given social media brand is.
What’s was the rate and collateral ratio?
Meh. It's cultural appropriation which a sufficient number of people do care about, whether or not you like it.
This is kind of weaseling out of the question since I don’t think even China’s harshest critics are claiming it isn’t benefiting party members.
In traditional sense, the free speech is implied to be about your relationship with your government. If you get jailed, fined, killed etc... by your government you obviously don't have free speech.

On the internet platforms, admins can't do any of that but they can effectively silence you(IRL silencing you is very hard).
Rubber band can't dynamically detect and repair weared off molecule clusters.

Mammals are highly adoptive by the design, a living organism consists of trillions programmed and partially controllable nanomachines.

Body has autonomous and centralised systems, which checks and sends hormonal signals and redistribute resources from other parts and could directly command specific cell groups to grow or change behavior in a chance to increase organism survivability.
I disagree entirely with your assertion.
US Government says $600M Axie Infinity crypto-heist was pulled by North Korea
You don't need an implication of decline when the market has already explicitly indicated it believes Twitter is declining as evidenced by the falling stock price.
Game on!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/elon-musk...
Counter point, maybe it just accelerates the game of cat and mouse already played between bad actors and algorithm designers, possibly leading to faster iteration and improvement of their algorithm to find hard to fake signals.
I meant how much money you got scammed for.

Lets say you bought a phone from Craigslist and its a fake one, what do you do?

You sent a guy a wire for a collectors item and he sends you a box of rocks? What do you do?

There's so many ways that you can get scammed in the real world without recourse.

What's happening here is that you have a preconceived notion of "darknets markets bad"
I really like this post.

It shows how we gamify everything including open-source.
1. just because something is free it's not excuse to provide poor service

2. I don't use it, I point out for others facts about service OP recommends so they don't waste their time or you prefer everyone wasting their time?
What was the Harvard equivalent of sati?
Same here - not too long ago I had to take a bunch of repositories private, and while I appreciated the prompt (I've dealt with destructive actions that have even less of a barrier before, and that sucks) it still was annoying to do that again and again.
And you can install the "old reddit redirect" extension in chrome to make this automatic.
From the first definition I found:

> Cultural appropriation refers to the use of objects or elements of a non-dominant culture in a way that reinforces stereotypes or contributes to oppression and doesn't respect their original meaning or give credit to their source. It also includes the unauthorized use of parts of their culture (their dress, dance, etc.) without permission.

I await Patanjali to serve papers that use of his intellectual property isn't allowed, apparently because it reinforces stereotypes or contributes to oppression.

Maybe we'll hear about the Buddha's thoughts on copyright next and how derivative works are unauthorized.

I refuse to disguise my disdain for this idea.
Who exactly is Musk demonstrating a lack of empathy for in this situation?
Neat - one step closer to an unelected world government. Lord knows they're heading in that direction with the WHO.
That's a fair take. In research about forecasting, they do indeed find that timeline greatly impacts forecasting accuracy.

Even if we were to fix this particular bucketing issue with a large enough dataset of foreign policy predictions X months into the future... one could still say this tells us nothing about this specific question because... maybe even among the geopolitical questions, this question is somehow different in some way which makes it noncomparable.

Or by analogy it would be like we were flipping what we think are coins and someone snuck a dice roll on one of the tries. Maybe the Taiwan question is the dice roll and therefore not subject to comparison with other geopolitical questions X years out.

This is of course afaik an unknowable problem, and Taleb would agree that we should just assume these predictions are tea-leaves.

At the same time it may be a valuable source of info (certainly imo more empirical than pundits and the news)

For consideration:

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-03-26/is-it-pos...
This is quite a rant and quite a lumping of diverse and unrelated opinions. You have quite a chip on your shoulder.

Without researching or commenting on the bulk of your strawman army, I will posit this: Wishing for the death of a harmful actor with a lifetime appointment to political office is not immoral. If there were some avenue, some knowable end date of a terrible human's influence on a critical pillar of government, maybe it wouldn't be so. Alas, we have no term limits for this role.
Great question. İ think first we should agree on a definition of better. I'll give the classical anti example of Nazi definition of "better" or good.

What i know that good or bad is up to our Creator, Lord.

Sure we can figure out few things by our own but our minds have a limit and we need an outside guide -- a manual for humans. Who can prescribe a better guide than our creator?

İ suggest that you read some Quran verses mentioning good and bad. Once you have solid guide, whatever good you do will be appreciated no matter big or small.
What's in your hands? 3D Reconstruction of Generic Objects in Hands
This seems a lot of hard work, when it's so easy to get spyware in at the software/OS level on a myriad of phones and computers.
Apt Cyber Tools Targeting ICS/Scada Devices [pdf]
What concrete benefits does a project get from having lots of stars? I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just wondering what the stakes are, since I don't have a lot of open source background myself.
Nah, that's the benefit of the Supercarriers actually.

A typical carrier (Chinese Shandong) is 70,000 tons. The Gerald Ford Supercarrier is 100,000 tons.

So you can see that 3x regular carriers cost as much tons as 2x Supercarriers (210,000 tons vs 200,000 tons). But 2x supercarriers have 4-runways total and 8 catapults, while 3x carriers would only have 3-runways.

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The real problem with "Supercarriers" is that you've got all your eggs in one basket. Killing one supercarrier is kinda-sorta like killing two carriers, in terms of capabilities.

More efficient for the US Navy to use, but also more efficient for the enemy to kill.