skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant “shouldn’t have to conform” to a 2000 year old book.

> Teenagers will draw outside the lines. All the more reason to draw those lines rigidly. And again you confirm what ideologies will come in through the door of these discussions.

No matter how you “draw the lines”, do you really think little Johny and Sue are going to decide not to have sex because their teacher told them “it was wrong”? Wouldn’t it make more sense to teach them how to be safe?

Sure I would rather my underage son not drink. But I also have told him if he is in a position where he shouldn’t be driving, call me. Well at least that’s the old school way. I told him to call an Uber and if I see him home without his car - no preaching. Just call the Uber to take him back to his car.

> Legalization of weed seems to have resulted in a significant uptick in smoking of marijuana.

More importantly it’s taken a tool out of the toolbelt of the police state - something that libertarians should want.
None of these are censorship. Petty, retaliatory, and abusive, sure. but not censorship.
Reddit becoming horrible is a function of how it's set up, with "community" moderators being able to ban anyone for any reason and the admins putting pressure on the mods or outright removing/replacing them where they see fit in order to only allow correct speech. If HN can be described as an autocracy with benevolent dictators at the top, reddit is a crazed totalitarian system with Red Guards on the loose all around the communities looking for wrong opinions to report. The voting and some other mechanisms they've set up makes the echo chambers complete. It progressively gets worse and worse, the main subs are already unusable and while there are niche communities that might still be worth visiting, their number keeps shrinking. Not that they literally disappear in most cases, they just get infected with reddit thought.
> What do you mean you support the right to attack a republic? You want to attack our government?

Attack has a broad meaning and use, perhaps my hint as to the sense I was using was strong enough. I've seen it defined as violence and as words. I support words, not violence, if someone wishes to criticise any government then I would support their right to do that, even though that government's supporters would frame it as an attack.

> He WAS involved in violence

I didn't realise that. Did he use his bare hands or a weapon? How many people did attack? (not the words sense)
It's not just conservatives who are banned, it's also gender critical feminists, or anyone who questions "trans women are women". GC feminists are often quite left in their politics.
The other thing that has happened is lots of threats aimed at GC feminists that DON'T get deleted. The mods find these do not violate twitter standards.
Why is that interesting though? I can just as easily put a backdoor in preprocessing before passing it to the algorithm. Outside of machine learning, you can do the same thing anywhere. This doesn't appear to be anything new, it's citing an article that's not even peer reviewed yet. It's just not good writing, in my opinion.
Sounds like a job for a design & typesetting DALL-E AI.

BTW, Kindle is pretty successful, and pretty much all books use a standard design template, so the great importance of typesetting & design is questionable.
To be clear, people don't come out as trans for clout. Trans people are still at a higher risk of suicide and being murdered thanks to people like you.
Also - since I'm on a bit of a roll - there are definitely other stories for what is going on here.

One is that poison pills kind of soften the edges of capitalism a bit by allowing directors to decide if they want to the company to be sold or not. Call it crocodile tears by entrenched management, but there is something to be said for keeping a company off the market if the hostile bidder is going to just fire workers and scrap the company for parts. Fairly, this view is not consistent with "shareholder primacy" but it has to be said that not everyone sees the world that way.
Excuse me? Jesus christ. Not to be offensive towards this software and the creators, as it seems they enjoy a great following dating back to decades, but still, jesus christ.
Also the most logical choice given that it's a hard sell for wealthy, stay-at-home moms rather than women who need to work and don't have the necessary time to breastfeed.
It isn't our fault we are better than you.

It isn't a crime, it is the American way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs
Ask HN: Trying to get a copy of a hard-to-get book/pdf
I'm after RG Collingwood's The First Mate's Log. It's in the Intelex Past Masters series of Philosophy texts, which is available online at (most/many?) universities, but I'm not at one. (It seems individuals can't subscribe to that - I just tried.) It's seemingly not on LibGen/Scihub, or archive.org, Gutenberg, or anywhere online, and it seems paper copies start at >$400 for its 130 pages. The book was published in 1939, reprinted in 1994. How can I get hold of it? Paper or ebook is fine. Any ideas? What/where else should I try? I'm willing to pay, but not >$400! Thank you.
If you think something is absurdly obvious you usually need to re-read what you've read.
You could. You just couldn't while having a healthy amount of sleep or a life beside work. And unless the person is on drugs, I just don't believe they are actually productive 16 hours a day.
I'm not advocating for more people to have kids. I see people everyday that probably shouldn't have.

But if couples want to, it's doesn't have to be the financial catastrophe that many make it out to be.
> This too is a fact.

What is a fact?

> Those minorities are less competent.

"Those minorities"? You mean the individuals involved in the interaction? I didn't see where the study establishes that those people are less competent. Or do you mean the individuals are being stereotyped based on an assumed racial statistic?

> Liberals recognize that fact and propose how to fix it. Conservatives say it is genetics and ignore the problem, making it worse.

Well that's not what this study demonstrates.

And which conservatives do you believe say this anyway? The ones in this study? The average conservative? Or the imaginary boogyman that your math textbook warned you about?

> Which of these is racist?

Assuming a black individual one is conversing with is less competent due to their skin color and treating them differently because of that, is racist. Making no assumptions about an individual's competence based on their skin color and treating them as you would any other individual is not racist. At least that's my definition of the word and the one I was taught.
There was a time when you weren't allowed to say that the SARS-COV-2 might've leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan. That's the most prominent, indefensible example of moderation gone awry and proof that the censorship model can be successfully abused by bad actors to suppress potentially valid opposing views. Imagine how many other issues have been suppressed but haven't reached the level of visibility that issue did.
BTW, this is a taxable event where you might not have expected it to otherwise.
I think it’s a bit odd to say we’d be instantly communist. Those who control the media are _exceptionally_ interested in the status quo and making profit - they do so by generating outrage on both sides, giving the appearance of holding leftist beliefs while not actually being interested.

See: CNN’s treatment of Bernie sanders vs Hillary clinton
I'm not buying it, sorry...

The worst thing russia can do to get them to buy more gas, is to directly attack them. Do you really expect them to even talk to russia, if russia did that? Just the outrage (fueled by the media) would make people forgive the government the highly inflated prices of imported electricity, while they fixed the wind production. Russia literally has nothing to gain by doing this, and a lot to lose...
But the first amendment is just about the federal government not censoring people.

Twitter is a private platform, that now belongs to Elon Musk. If you don't like it, build your own.
Your question was answered by someone 29 minutes before you left this comment...
It's not really supposed to make you sick unless the framerate is too low.
I’ve had the complete opposite experience. I’ve yet to use a non-trivial Python library/framework where I didn’t end up having to dig through the source code to figure out how to do something. The dynamic nature of the language makes it hard to auto generate useful docs. With something like Doxygen you can easily know exactly what types a function expects, how to construct those types, etc.

...OTOH, digging through Python source code is more pleasant than C++. So it balances out I guess.
He claimed it was the primary effect. Which is absurd. And claimed it was easily observed by family inheritance? That’s obviously wrong.
I doubt that burning wood for heat is over, and will ever be.

1) It's something we seem to enjoy at a very primitive level, I'm guessing that hominids that enjoyed a fire were more likely to not be eaten by predators, and could acquire more nutrition from food after cooking.

2) People always want a back-up because power grids are still fallible.

Also...

> The problem goes beyond the release of greenhouse gases as wood is converted to heat

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/09/climate-curious-is-...

The point about particulate is correct, but there multiple methods of reducing that in action already.
Note that I get different results with that site than I get on here: https://hisubway.online/shadowban/

The first site says I have a search ban, while the second says I don't.
> Nobody needs to "do better" than calling your position out as wrong.

It's not going to be convincing unless you can talk about a specific attack. And in particular, that attack should be more relevant to real-world use than a weakness like length extension.

Especially because you could look at this weakness as a sibling attack to length extension, one that's mildly easier to pull off but you can only append zeros. That seems safer overall to me. And it's not reasonable to completely excuse one flaw as needing "misuse" but not the other.

> The reason algorithms like SHA-256 are defined for bits isn't arbitrary - bits are literally the unit of information, this is the obvious and natural way to define the function, so choosing to define a function over "really wide bytes" doesn't make any sense.

A hash algorithm that takes an input in bytes is not a failure. If you think taking single bits is actually necessary, rather than just 'obvious and natural', then I really think you're not analyzing the security properly.
I imagine we'll see a similar spike in serious influenza cases this year for similar reasons.
It's not some radical breakthrough. It's an improvement to lithium-ion, like lots of others that have in fact hit production over the past couple decades. We have half a dozen different cathode chemistries, we've improved energy density by an average of five percent per year, costs have dropped enormously. That's why electric cars are a lot more viable now than they were at the turn of the century.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years...
Did we all shift to a timeline where the computer printer wasn’t invented?
Related headline: humans won't tell you they're lying if they think they're telling the truth
Plot twist: they weren't hacked. They were just programmed in APL and crashed with a source code printout of the offending line.
It’s interesting if someone supplies you a model which you build an application around yourself (and thus control any preprocessing), because they basically prove that you have no way to check that the model doesn’t contain any backdoors, even though you can inspect the model (it’s not a black box to you). It’s as if someone gives you an software component as source code but you still can’t detect that it has a backdoor.
The difference is a lot of trucks are only allowed on designated truck routes as they damage roads. Even then the most destroyed roads in my city are the ones where these heavy vehicles literally work ruts into the asphalt. Not to mention its the state that maintains a lot of highways vs local government for local roads, and one is more fit to regularly repair roads than the other.
> "Fruitless" is a funny word when you read about the USA+Dole Corporation wars on South America.

North America, mostly; specifically, Central America, which is part of North, not South, America.
They would not currently be buying a drop of gas if they had a realistic choice. They don't.
Highways are one thing, but local city streets/roads are not built to the same integrity.
Yep. Also: When people point out that twitter traded more in the past-- what matters isn't twitter's absolute price, but twitter's price relative to some benchmark.

For example, if you use META as the benchmark then Elon's offer is 143% of Twitter's all time high. Meta alone is perhaps not really the fairest benchmark, but his offer is 86% of the ATH if you just use the Nasdaq composite as a benchmark which is still pretty good. A fair 'synthetic twitter' would probably price the offer somewhere between these two.

I would have liked to produce a better synthetic benchmark than just those two options, but didn't really feel like doing two hours of programming and data collection just for a HN post-- what I would have done is grabbed the historical prices for all high volume US equities and ETFs and found a set of coefficients (including allowing negative ones, e.g. shorted stocks) for all equities except twitter that predicted twitter with the lowest L2 norm, and maybe applied some L0 penalty to make the collection sparse and reduce the overfit. Perhaps I'd just try all $stocks choose 5 subsets with 5 stocks and choose the best-- l2 fits are fast, and I doubt 5 stocks can meaningfully overfit a couple years of data.

Why is a benchmarked price the right way to reason about this? Because a substantial part of twitter's price is the overall market, a substantial portion is its sector, etc. To the extent the investors want that non-twitter-specific exposure they can get it in other ways (e.g. by buying synthetic twitter or just a market index).

If you could sell twitter today for 143% of the benchmark rate, then put the income into the benchmark then sell the benchmark later when its value goes up-- you'd do much better than just holding on to twitter for the same amount of time, unless something changed about twitter to make it perform a lot better relative to the benchmark.

From that perspective twitter's roadmap would need to be pretty good to overcome the offer.
Used copy -
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=3108236031...
I don't think Factor is actively maintained.
There are no options. It is as if the world water supply is suddenly owned by a guy you cannot trust. This is bad.
> The relations are not as bad as the media portrays them

They're two hairs away from direct war. You've lost the plot.
> Related headline: humans won't tell you they're lying if they think they're telling the truth

Humans also won't tell you they're lying if they know they're lying, because, well, of the same reason they are lying in the first place.
Not simple or easy to deploy? On a server, it's "apt-get install postgresql" or "yum install postgresql". In the cloud, you choose RDS on AWS, Google Cloud SQL, Heroku Postgres, DigitalOcean managed DB, etc. Need to step it up? AWS Aurora or Aurora Serverless.

Just because Postgres has all the features and knobs doesn't mean you have to use them or turn them. You can always use it like SQLite but just one or two things more that you need.
It’s examples of Elon taking any advantage he can find to retaliate against people that personally piss him off. There’s no reason this wouldn’t extend to Twitter
Were you getting stalked and harassed on Usenet?
Sounds like we should bury deep those casks. But we can't because of NIMBYs.
Big fan of Pop_OS... I'm using it on a Framework laptop. Great sane defaults and look and feel.
And they had to become PLT experts to build the tool that let them tame that.
Great news. I still use GoldWave today, and IMO it's miles better Audacity.

Any other alternative recommendations are welcomed, though.
Like Teslas, they've got their own occasional catastrophic edge cases.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6n263r/f...
With Forbes SPAC Deal on the Brink, a New Deal Emerges
> even less likely to buy russian gas again

They're _currently_ buying Russian gas.
Is this just technically interesting? If it's more than that, what are the benefits for me?
Thanks, that's a bit more of an explanation to what I was wondering about than most of the other answers.
Prove it's not.
The Philbrick Archive
built on Chromium

If only Firefox(Gecko) would get some more attention...
The military has done numerous studies showing that CO2 concentrations far higher than 1000ppm don’t have any cognitive impacts. That combined with the real world examples of submarine crews working in high CO2 concentration,
means that the most likely explanation is a flaw in the studies showing severe cognitive impact at 1000ppm.

Here’s a good summary of some of the data from a hacker news comment a while back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19863319
I see this argument a lot and it always feels like an over-literal interpretation.

Let me ask you a question -- what proves your ability to work on scale as an engineer? Is it the scale of the problem, or the scale of your solution?

Outside of "Google scale" logging is a nearly trivial, solved problem. If the only thing that creates the "challenges of scale" is your data cardinality, guess what. You're only solving problems of scale in the most literal (and maybe trivial) sense. Working on that at Google isn't going to prepare you for how to architect a platform for a startup that scales from 0 to 1 million active users over night without breaking a sweat.

I am biased in that I care about the latter kind of scale and effectively couldn't care less about the former, because the latter is generally an existential problem to have, while the former is a nice problem to have.
> It's not that birds are never killed by wind turbines, it's that this is scrutiny only applied to wind turbines by the fake-environmentalists when they'll happily accept the environmental destruction of other methods of power generation.

Meanwhile the raptors are still shredded...
What's with the Bash replacements?
There are a gazillion posts about Bash replacements recently. Why?

I trust that you know how to make coffee. I don't care if it's drip, French press, Keurig, etc. I know that you will come to work with all the caffeine that you need.

Maybe we should geek out on beans sometimes but seriously why micro-optimize on beans? They're a means not an end.

Similarly, shell is (to crib off Cyc) the whitespace not the content. There's no there there. We might as well discuss 86 vs 87 octane or the size of a shipping container.
Yeah, precommit isn’t my favorite thing out of personal preference. So it’s a shame prettier doesn’t have built in caching like other tools in the space.
A long time ago I moved from GoldWave to Cool Edit (now Adobe Audition) then to Sound Forge.
Why buy something you are already getting for free, and with ample supply?
I dont know what case you are trying to make? Should we not create cryptographic storage on the web? Is that not ok? Do you think there's anything that would keep us from using secure keys for encrypting storage? Is there some barrier you perceieve to why the web couldnt make use of such a capability?

I have no clue why you are building a case out for the web being something special & different & weird & hard to expect basic common sense secure cryptography from. Nitrokey had a pretty basic simple sensible early draft spec. Having some storage & a key that alone cam decrypt it seems trivially obvious. Not sure what kind of smoke you are attempting to blow on this idea.

TLS has absolutely nothing to do with this. The idea of e2e messaging usually is that you could send the message over untrusted links just fine. The other party could validate & decrypt it. Discussion on TLS seems wildly off topic/tangenti to the kind of e2e storage that messaging apps do, and that secure end to end storage entails.

Edit: to your credit, the MLS link you have above is indeed relevant.
I live about 15km from a moderately-sized airport, and I can hear the deep rumble when planes take off during the quieter hours of the day. Airports aren't getting banned anytime soon, and don't seem to have caused any measurable health problems to the surrounding population.

Same thing for surf beach communities. First time I stayed a few days near a surf beach I was surprised by the penetrating deep rumble of every single set of waves that crashed on the beach.

I think the health issues caused by living near a wind farm would be similar to those experienced by living near anything that the individual has some kind of righteous moral opposition to (read: lack of understanding of).

Imagine a future where airports can only be located 50km from any other civilisation due to the health effects that wind farms are accused of causing. Combine that with 4G being the upper limit of mobile connectivity because 5G was found to be both a Chinese conspiracy for world domination and a radiation health risk.
Ask HN: Do you connect your work computer directly to your home network?
I work remotely from home on a company provided laptop.

This may be excessively paranoid, but are there any privacy or security concerns with connecting it directly to my home network?

For example, isn't there a risk that the company could be monitoring the traffic on my local network?

Also I regularly do work through an employer managed Google Workspace account that's logged in on the system.

Given that my public IP is one way that Google targets and matches devices, that could mean that the recommended YouTube content for my corporate Google account would match my private and personal account that is associated with the same IP. And it should be possible for an administrator at my company to access my work account and see that profile.

Are there any recommendations for combating those concerns?

I can't use a personal VPN client on my company laptop, and it's not possible for me to move away from my personal Google account or work from a cafe.
I've also wondered about this, but its also true that they work on an 18 hour day, which is also clearly terrible. Submariner above says that they are always "semi-fatigued". I don't think it's unbelievable that they are operating impaired.
I had the original knee jerk reaction, but then thought better about it before making a post like this.

Think of these new battery tech write ups as a pitch from a startup looking to get funding. They will of course paint the concept in the rosiest of pictures even though there's no functioning tech yet. They need the funding to develop the concept into a viable working product. This forum is a place full of people interested in this kind of tech, so by being a reader of this forum, you'll see a lot of this kind of stuff. One day, one of these might actually work and if you see it here first and "get in on the ground floor" you might get "founder" rich too.
>Why does the board get to sell my shares?

They don't. The deal has to be approved by shareholders (of stock with voting rights).
> the character limit means nothing complex can ever be successfully discussed there. Which excludes basically every important subject, leaving quick news and jokes as the only viable uses of the platform for anyone of sense.

Definitely not my experience, or that of anybody I know who curates their feed carefully. It certainly promotes shallower conversation, and forces irritating kludges like threads. But it's simply not true that it categorically precludes complexity or depth.