skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article goes into the issues of doing your own research but borderline handwaves the various issues with "trusting the experts". Unless you understand the research you're essentially trusting nothing more than the majority or the opinions of the establishment in an utterly blind way. You have no means to discern between an "expert" that is a total idiot and an "expert" that is a genius of great insight, you're basically just relying on social proof instead of scientific understanding.

This leads to MANY perverse situations. In cases where the truth is inconvenient to monied interests, monied interests can buy their way to a consensus by simply paying for a ton of scientists out of pocket to manufacture a consensus. Where this is insufficient, the same parties can use the media to promote certain scientific evidence over others. This article is filled with the presumption that somehow "trusting the experts" protects you from induction problems like searching only for evidence which only agrees with your opinion, but on the contrary it's actually pretty easy to find a meta-analysis which uses a neutral search strategy to get a relatively unbiased take on an issue, but if you get your scientific knowledge from the media and public bodies you're virtually always going to be getting more spin than is seen in a meta-analysis with a neutral search strategy.

Generally I think the entire article doesn't really appreciate the difficulties of having a neutral point of view simply by "trusting the experts". Early on with COVID the "Experts" were spouting the idea that masks didn't work, which I believe was premature to say, but they have the perverse incentive to bend the truth because they needed to secure the mask supply for medical professionals since they were more sure that masks did work for medical professionals so they hyped up the ineffectiveness of masks. This was a classic case of misalignment of incentives between the medical establishment, looking to clamp down on the pandemic, and individuals, looking to prevent THEMSELVES from getting disease. Yet it's sort of assumed by the article you just need to "trust the experts" as if they're going to give you advice that's true instead of advice that is useful for the purposes of protecting public health. I wisely ignored the experts, and trusted the evidence, and for that I was rewarded with additional protection against disease because I understood the experts didn't give a fuck about me as an individual.
What are the things that you think are best handled by the browser while negotiating a session?
> Speaking from authority as a KKK member, I ...

Wait, what? Are you serious? If so, that's quite an admission to make openly.

Or did I read your comment incorrectly?
I searched for Bitcoin and results came up for a Bitcoin etf and the timestamp claims it’s from 2001 but that’s definitely not the case.
Simulations will always be simulations as we will always fail to capture the sheer amount of data involved in climate.
This is also a good point. Even I use the terms interchangeably when I shouldn't, and I should know better.
What PCB thickness? Got a footprint?
I heard this quote (I think from PG) that said something like this: “the ACLU should split into groups; the old-ACLU that defends civil liberties, and the new-ACLU that fights against them.”
> The watch isn't 100% standalone

Just to highlight this point, an iPhone is required for activation. You can't activate with any other Apple device. You can use a family member's iPhone.
It's a shame Docker's TOS change killed its usage outright in smaller companies who can't afford the per-seat license.
This post does very, very little to dissuade me that the underlying attitude of the OP is glib cynicism.
Congrats on the raise and success to date!

When you first launched I recall seeing an advertisement for CEO position at Supabase which I thought was surprising for such an early stage startup. It looks like that never eventuated which I am pleased to see. I am curious about the backstory behind seeking an external CEO and then concluding not to?
Found this gem by searching "bsod" – https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/q-how-can-i-chang... – had no idea!
As someone who has given a talk, here and there, one of my favorite things to do (and attend), is small, lightly-attended panel discussions, with a loose format, and the projector available to everyone at the table, via an HDMI switch.

They are best when the panel encourages the audience to participate, and have interesting people sitting at the table. These may not be jargonauts, but people that don't intimidate folks for asking questions, and speak in the vernacular. It helps if the folks at the table have good interpersonal chemistry.

One of my favorite sessions (that I attended -not spoke at), was at a MacHack conference (yeah...old), given by a couple of guys from the Apple "Blue Meanies" team. They were almost like a comedy duo, and gave great information, in a relaxing manner.

MacHack was great. It was a tremendous opportunity to interact directly with Apple geeks.

The standard Apple "One Guy/Gal With Xcode on Presentation Mode" talks are great fodder for after-conference review, but B O R I N G to attend. The production quality is usually great, but I never seem to get much out of the one I attend. I have to review it, in order to understand it.
I like it. I'm not sure that "short token" is the right term for that - perhaps "token id". Also the only occurrence of "it's" in the README should be "its": https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/its-its/

Edit: Actually, the short token is more than just a token ID - it's also required, right? Perhaps replace:

When we receive an incoming request, we search our database for hash(long_token)

with:

When we receive an incoming request, we search our database for hash(long_token) and short_token. A token can be blocklisted by its short_token.

So I think I prefer "short token" to "token id" but perhaps there is a better name for it. If it did get renamed it would probably make sense to rename "long token" as well. I'll defer to experts on this.
What can't run doom at this point?
Nah, I didn't think so. Just wanted to make it clear that a harsh critic can be against shutting down the object of the criticism.
There was a lot of debate over whether Trump even could be indicted, whether Mueller would even if he had the evidence, etc., and such discussions did make it into coverage by the "mainstream media" (I am generally wary of people who use that term tbh).

It's bizarre to simultaneously criticize them while also blaming them for setting your incorrect expectations. Should have listened to and read Lawfare.

It's also simply morally blameworthy to excuse the relevant behavior on the part of Trump and his associates, whether they were indicted or not.
Am I weird that I would prefer being let go like this over an awkward 1:1?

Especially if it’s a day where people are being called in one by one to be told the bad news. Let me know on Zoom or hell just send an email and let me move on with my life.
> common due to phone chargers

Thanks to Apple keeping iPhones on lightning connectors the only things with USB-C I have in my house is a Nintendo Switch and a Soldering Iron.
Why even bring up SSL when no one uses it?
That's a funny way to say that bitcoin has had orders of magnitude better returns than every other asset class over the last decade.
Feedback was explicitly requested. That was my feedback on installation. It's not entitled and has nothing to do with the project being free or open source. Where'd that come from?
> Evidence is collected and evaluated in an unbiased, objective manner, and those methods have to be available to other scientists for replication.

This is the ideal but its not common.

> Experts have advanced degrees, published research, and years of experience in their sub-field

Appeal to authority. Replication crisis. It's fairly clear at this point that getting published in scientific journals has little to do with expertise.

> Thinking one can “do their research” on scientific topics, such as climate change or mRNA vaccines, is to fool oneself.

Clear agenda.

> Their findings have to pass peer review, where other experts evaluate their work before it can be published.

Again, there is a known replication crisis.

> Most people seem to understand that science is trustworthy.

Science is not trustworthy, its not a monolith. Theories that have been tested and replicated are useful to better our understanding of the natural world.

> Unfortunately, the dangerous mixture of confirmation bias, misplaced trust, limited knowledge, and overconfidence is the perfect storm for being misled, and for many scientific issues the price of being wrong is just too high.

Completely glosses over the fact that so called scientists have been abusing their authority for monetary and political gain for decades.
Is there a reasonable alternative to Google Maps API for traffic aware routing and duration estimates?
A stand out memory from my visit to Argentina was all the crazy bug sounds. One sounded exactly like the cartoon sound effect of an arrow being shot into a target.
I’m pretty sure for my 7 port usb-a hub (usb 3) I have to plug it into the wall power too. My max pro doesn’t send enough current to to hub so if I want to to be power stable I have to supply extra power…
Space is indeed very full for a thing synonymous with emptyness.
Do you have an example for such a "USB-C edge connector"? Intuitively I would have said that common PCB thickness is too large, or do I misunderstand what you mean?
But it doesn't seem like the same to me. If he refused to sell a cake out of the display, it's an obvious violation. If he refused to take an order for a wedding cake, obvious violation. It looks like to me he refused to meet for a consultation on making a custom cake, which is something different. Maybe I am convoluting the process I went through with something different.

When I got married we could either fill out an order for a cake, and say we wanted white frosting, white cake with raspberry, to serve 200 people, etc by filling out their standard wedding cake form. Or, we could do a custom cake, where we had our own individual tasting of cakes and talked with the person about the details of what we wanted and design the details of the cake. The second option was not their standard service nor a standard cake, the first was. The first can not be denied, the second can (though your still a shitty person/business if you do). It's no different than an artist with a gallery. Anyone can buy their paintings, but anyone can't commission a piece. The artist has, not regency, I can't think of the word, but they have a say on who they take commissions from.

The point is this is why we need the ACLU. Someone who is willing to take the other side in uncomfortable/ugly discussions, so that we keep our rights. It is easy to give up rights. It's hard to get them back. I'm super uncomfortable with this discussion because I don't agree with the baker or what he did. But I think we need to be willing discuss infringements on rights, even when we agree with them.
It's not flawless unfortunately. We're simply performing a custom google search. Eventually we'd like to improve the search filtering.
"and in about a month they will stop showing up."
Such a great experience
fixed thank you :) - and great suggestion!

edit based on your edit: Added your recommendation to the README, thank you!
> Why is that surprising? There is no proof that transwomen are any more likely to rape ciswomen than other ciswomen are.

Here's an analysis of data from the Ministry of Justice in the UK, demonstrating that trans-identifying males have similar patterns of criminality to other males, including sexual assault: https://fairplayforwomen.com/transgender-male-criminality-se...
While that’s true, it’s such a rare occasion that it wouldn’t really factor into any general terminology. In that there’s not much benefit in altering any words to take into account the 1:100,000 situations where that’s true.

I think it would be like avoiding saying “people have two legs” because some people are born without legs or with only one leg. Yes, it occurs, but not so much as to matter in regards to population generalizations.
Spendy but capable-looking: https://plugable.com/products/usb4-hub3a
(I haven't tried it, but I have had good luck with some of their other products, they take Linux support a little more seriously than most... though not on this hub, apparently...)
If you had physical copies of books, what would be a good way to scan or photograph their spines for something like this?
USB-C is a pretty complex spec with many options. There aren’t a lot of chipsets for it. Most hubs make a lot of trade offs to get the cost down.
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/nfgstg1nb7hr for the official incident post.
Yeah I still see these used as terminals for waitstaff in restaurants, I wonder what they will move to next, iPhones? iPads are kinda huge, iPad mini is kinda expensive...
I don’t understand, my new iPhone 13 came with a usb-c to lightning cable. My new iPad is usb-c too as well as my new kindle and new Sony camera. Even my vape has usb-c!

Edit: and my soldering iron!
Obvious answer to the free service is "no", but can you expand on what you mean by fake?

One of the more inane parts of AI CV scan nonsense is people scatter keywords across the document to avoid being dropped by the autonomous first stage.
Carvana Plans to Lay Off 12% of Workforce as It Closes Expansion Deal
If you believe this, does the 2A give people individual rights to own tanks, missiles, nukes, chemical weapons?

If not, why? Where are the limits in the constitution on the types of arms a person can own?

This is especially relevant if the goal of the 2S is to be able to stand up to the US armed forces.

Or is it your view that the goal of the 2A is for a poorly armed mob to be able to rise up in collective suicide against better armed better trained government forces?
Apple uses Linux to develop their hardware [50m54s]
Why are you telling me that my experience is somehow invalid?
It’s interesting how impactful switching from a rudimentary lock to a thread-safe queue was.
Not having ports with constant capabilities is a source of customer dissatisfaction when devices work when plugged in independently but not together.

Consider for instance the new 14" and 16" MacBook pros: They got rid of the 4th Thunderbolt port in favor of an HDMI port, likely because of internal bandwith constraints. They could have kept Thunderbolt and HDMI, and only have one Thunderbolt port on the right side work when HDMI is plugged in, but they didn't, because having your external drive work only when your monitor is unplugged is unintuitive.
> In a post-truth world, there's no shared reality, and we can't talk to each other. We can only shout our own truth louder.

Well said. Thank you for succinctly capturing what frustrates me so much about current politics.

My personal test, which helps with personal interactions at least, is that I distrust whoever turns to anger and shouting when discussing politics. I have a lot of pent up frustration towards relatives who will express political opinions, but one or two careful questions will lead them to angry grunts of "I don't know!" and "just forget it".

As participants in online discussions, especially in more serious forums like HN, we are accustomed to making logical arguments and then having those arguments challenged. We're a small subset of the total population though, and it seems that most people are incapable of calm and logical debate without quickly turning to anger and shouting.

I don't know what to do except vote, hope the collective intelligence serves us well, and that we don't have a civil war.
I mean, if you're a company of this size and you've never heard of the Qingming Festival is also called Tomb-Sweeping Day where Chinese people enjoy 3 days off then SUSE is clearly anti-Chinese
True. If you have to locate in PR, might as well be pharma. And there are no reasons to move existing lines.
And it costs them barely anything...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/...

The Disney Lobby is partially responsible for this - and something really does need to be done about it.

But let's not pretend that this is anything but sabre-rattling by the Republican - they have no interest in sane copyright limits.
Ask HN: How to move Telegram cache location to else; RAM disk
How do we move Telegram cache location to else main aim is RAM disk ?

It is meant Telegram desktop, program run on desktop PC OS, thanks
You have a way with composition— potentially with spice added via idioms from your mother tongue. Do you write and publish?
I think curlie is the middle ground and the best (IMO) in the space. A nicer CLI for interactive use and can use and output curl flags for scripting.
“I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”

The issue is, of course, the thorny problem of allowing illiberal speech. What would the above author say if someone told them: "I disagree with what you say, and I'll make it illegal to say and jail you for it in the future"

Are you, the original author, supposed to defend their right to threaten your freedoms with your own life?

From this paradox emerged the current debate over de-platforming and "free speech" because people are nervous that their liberties are at risk, and thus they shouldn't tolerate intolerance.

Personally I think it's tricky. We have many, many examples of nations where illiberal leaders abused their freedom of expression to gain power only to pull up that protection behind them and become a dictator while crushing dissent. We really only have a few counter-examples (namely the United States) where free speech absolutism has survived multiple regimes.

The model of free speech that is currently popular on the Right, namely freedom from public backlash as the result of open expression, is juvenile and not enumerated in the Bill of Rights. You have the right to say whatever you want from the perspective of the State, but you do not have the right to an audience or to escape the consequences of your speech. Nobody should ever be arrested for their political opinions, but this idea that the left has gone "woke" or mad by cancelling people they disagree with is simply their right as individuals. So long as the Government isn't making it illegal for you to appear on TV or have a cell phone provider (for example), there's no such thing as being cancelled by the government from a 1st amendment perspective.

On the left there's a bit more nuanced debate that basically pressures private institutions to cancel and de-platform actors that the left feels are attacking the foundation of their institutions. This is all above-board from a legal perspective, but can feel illiberal because it is largely mob-rule. Nuance is discarded and lives can be ruined by accusations that aren't researched in-depth before being blasted out into the world of social media. Here there also needs to be restraint, but again it's not like Verizon is cancelling someone's cell phone access because they had a bad tweet. It's ironically a very capitalist movement where the fear of affiliation hurting the economics of a business causes them to release a statement or "cancel" someone for their speech. Turns out being a racist isn't a great marketing tactic in our capitalist world.

In sum I think the danger to our democracy is still greater from actors who seek to use freedom of expression as a ladder to the top, and then kick away that ladder once in power. It's the biggest weakness of open democracies, and one that should be guarded against carefully. Thankfully a strong commitment and defense of the 1st Amendment from both parties should thwart strongman attempts. We need to make sure that political tradition stays alive.
Science can’t explain everything. It can’t tell you why the Empire State Building looks the way it does. There are other factors involved.

I’m not sure what the scientific model is based on, but it’s borderline impossible to quantify how societal views (one of the biggest factors) will evolve over time, and to account for that in the prediction.

I also “feel” the chance of overshooting is higher than 48%.
Informally, many people still refer to TLS as SSL. After all these years, "SSL certificate" seems like it is still the more popular term.
> What I would like to know is, why it's okay for a few people to lie about the gravity of a pandemic and cost us 1M of our countrymen.

1M people died but the way your sentence is framed is that without those lies 1M people wouldn't have died. That looks like quite the intent to deceive, which makes it look like you are the liar. Why is it ok for you?

Furthermore it's quite obfuscated. Yes people lied about the pandemic(every politician lies, it's like a contest to elect the best liar). I'm willing to bet some of those lies saved lives(just by chance, who knows).

So directly in answer to your question. Speech should be free because that's how society advances, free speech is how you question the current dogma, it's how society moves forward. There's costs and benefits. Charlatan will con people. The way you deal with charlatans is by exposing them with better speech.

Banning speech is weak sauce for people that don't know how to be convincing.

> What I would like to know is, how countries just as capable as us manage to lead better lives despite not having free reign over discussions on Nazis.

I live a pretty good life as an immigrant. Can't complain. Great country, wouldn't want to be anywhere else. The country where I come from does not have "free reign over discussions on Nazis".

> I haven't really heard anyone use anything but propaganda based circular logic or slippery slope fallacies to answer why unbridled free speech is necessary.

That's an admission that you really haven't heard or considered the best argument for free speech. If you can only state arguments from one side of an issue, you haven't made up your mind, it was made for you.
Breaking RSA
Cheeky. I love it!

SSL was the latest standard until 1999, when TLS 1.0 was released.

Per RFC 2246 [0], "The differences between this protocol [TLS 1.0] and SSL 3.0 are not dramatic, but they are significant enough to preclude interoperability between TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0"

SSL/TLS Versions 1995-present: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Histo...

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2246
This is essentially what I was referring to with my comment below. If you can improve the installation experience such that I don't have to care that you developed with node.js, so much the better. If I were a node.js developer I surely wouldn't want my global package name space polluted like that.

npm is not for end users.
Note that these terms are not strictly comparable. USB-C is just a connector specification. There are many protocols that utilize USB-C: USB 3.2, USB4 and Thunderbolt being some of them.
> rates go up and then the share price of Google goes up? Priced in.

Google is profitable and trading at a below-market multiple. It's a poor rates play.

Rates directly influence broad-market multiples, which Google will track, but "market goes down and Google goes up...priced in" isn't an intelligent thing to say.
What does equal weight mean to you, when one side is calling for change, and the other wants no change?

It's status quo conservatism: "I am content with how things are now".
Owning a business is most definitely a right. One of the highest. It falls under 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' and is explicitly a right given by the constitution. It is on the same as familial association which is also a right legally recognized as being granted by 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'.
honest question to the authors: why cannot this tool not be written in JavaScript?

what technically prevents you from designing the tool independent of the Node.JS and JavaScript ecosystem?