skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do we have to draw the line and if so where ?

When the government gets involved.

Till then, build your own internet backbone or get back in line.

Fwiw, I don't agree with this but net neutrality died a while ago. Both the left and right political movements have had ample opportunity to fix this problem but they've made their bed. Now they get to lie in it.
War on drugs.
This is trully amazing!
Lots of places around the world under-incarcerate their criminals, sadly. India has 70 rapes per day, and a conviction rate of just 30%. Sub-Saharan Africa is even worse.
needs a comnet: "Dyslixic accessiblity mangulation"
This appears to be the wrong URL. It takes you to the blog homepage; the actual post is https://blog.koehntopp.info/2022/06/20/mysql-breaking-replic...
The case for unique email addresses (2020)
Here is how I’d argue that consciousness is (hugely likely) not computation:

First we still don’t understand how time crystals work. There are some nice recent advancements though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31766804

For those who are not familiar with time crystals and weird time related things like Delayed-Choice Quantum Eraser, here is a nice Sean Carroll's article https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2019/09/21/the-not...

The Delayed-Choice Quantum Eraser (and other weird time related things) always reinforce the many-world interpretation, the most mathematically minimal of all.

As strange as it is, even if it is true, many-world is only scratching the surface of our reality.

We need a new mathematical framework that goes beyond spacetime and amplituhedron https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron (from which more re-interpretations can happen, especially ones that can encapsulate consciousness more than just “an observer” (or worst leading to absurdity like the quantum suicide experiment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortal... )

There could be a huge connection between time crystals and “consciousness” in ways we don’t understand. In that case “consciousness” would be related to quantum computation. Or likely going beyond that as we reformulate our understanding of physics.

Also, there are also so much about computation we need to advance our understanding in (like what does the Curry-Howard correspondence implies about our universe? And why is the current formulation makes it so difficult or almost impossible to prove p =? np ?).

There are so many work to be done in these two fields.

And we still don’t understand how meditation work and why practising mindfulness can help us to be more productive at work
Maybe you are having hard day or bad experience in similar situation, still you might consider taking a break and re-read your comment and see if you would like to hear similar criticism for yourself.
Not only that, but WASM leaves out security features that native platforms have, making it actually easier in some ways to exploit programs than it would be if they were native. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat...
Now I'm grateful for my parents' choice of dentist. She worked out of a small office attached to the back of her home, and had family members as office staff. This is in the 90's in a very posh suburb of a major city, not some backwater a long time ago. Anyways, that dentist always had unique advice, she told me that if I were going to only do either brushing or flossing, that I should do the flossing and skip the brushing. Doing both is better, but she observed that many people skip flossing too much. She also said that toothpaste was largely superficial, and good brushing without toothpaste was just as good. She also would spend lots of time literally demonstrating good brushing technique and explaining why to do it that way. I also have some slightly crooked teeth, she said to push them with my tongue instead of getting braces. When I grew up, before going to college, she advised me that I don't really need to see a dentist regularly as an adult, and my teeth will be alright as long as I continue brushing and flossing. Cool somewhat hippy dentist was right on all accounts, and I've had good dental health ever since. Another anecdote: she would trade dental services for my dad fixing her various dental machines and equipment. Not sure how that arrangement came about, my dad wasn't really qualified or anything, he was just pretty handy and usually managed to fix things more than break them. And it wasn't disguised charity or anything, we had no issues paying. Pretty cool dentist.
on a trackpad, it's a two-finger gesture (see https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204895). On the mouseless system, it depends. For coding, I'd tend to search rather than scroll.
I know someone who does. We were sharing a hotel on a work trip and he told me about it.
> Google

Or Facebook/Instagram/Meta, or Twitter, or Dropbox, or ...

Not even Iron Mountain is immune from malicious or negligent handling of critical records.
For-profit prisons are a tiny minority of prisons in the US.
Why shouldn't there be doubt on the post given that there's no indication it ever happened?

People just believing whatever they read on the internet is the reason why such rampant misinformation is spreading. YouTube is a distributed system - many parts are eventually consistent. It's very likely they loaded the page, saw some error and made the blog post. It doesn't mean anything was ever deleted.
Mojo.js 1.0 – From Perl to Node.js
> As a society, we may need a platform where educational/government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this.

These institutions are big enough to host their own videos - we don't need a new platform, they just need to spin up a server and to pay for their own bandwidth.

If you trust Google to provide your video hosting at a pricetag of £0 this is what you get... You are on their platform, with their rules, where their algorithm is judge, jury and executioner.
A VPN will hide you from your ISP, but that's about it, isn't it? Does a VPN really provide that much real privacy?
Idk it seems to me like you’re reaching for something which may or may not exist - how do we know there even is such a canvas?

If you can’t even define what this elusive thing might be, how can you raise this as a serious argument against the idea that consciousness is a product of brain function?
Yeah that line really threw me off. My earliest memories of google were ~1999 and it was JUST a search engine. At the time altavista was still superior anyway. Dont know what the hell the author is talking about there.
> The dark side of this mentality is that it creates the same situations whereby people believe their own intuitions are equal to professional scientific research. If you believe no one knows what they’re doing and all adults are just making it up as they go, why would you listen to experts instead of inserting your own opinions based on your Facebook research or some quip you saw online?

Or folks on your own team?

I've got a colleague with over 20 years of software/web/dev experience, working as a contractor on a poorly run team. Routinely there are questions about "how should we do X?".

My colleague has done much of these X situations for 10+ years, and says "we need to do it like Z. I've done Z for 8 years and this is the normal pattern for this scenario".

There's always regular pushback from others on the team with "well, I read $foo which says Z can't scale!" and similar things. These are typically coming from people with ... 1-2 years experience. One guy just graduated high school last year, but the PM gives everyone's views equal weight because "well, no one can know everything, and everyone's got a right to their opinion!"

Just because the 20 year old doesn't know how to do X, or read that Z is 'slow' does not mean their views are equally as valid as someone who has actually done X multiple times over years, and in some cases has already implemented the X on a project.

He's likely not going to be there much longer - he's already splitting time with other projects, and will ramp down if there's not some bigger changes on that team.
Are You Exercising Too Much?
Amazon won't go anywhere but its not a good place to work.

Google might go down and may have to cut employee benefits and compensation soon. Amazon has been eating their ad revenue at a staggering rate.
I'm not sure if they'd even want to. Youtube exists to make money of ads and giving account exemptions so that they can upload long-form content explicitly not fit for advertisers seems like a poor business model. Google is definitely not in it for the good of humanity (and neither are the decision makers at a lot of educational facilities, as hard as some staff may try to improve that). In a perfect world your solution would fix the problem, but in practice it doesn't work out.

Vimeo seems like a much better fit for eduction to be honest. They're probably more expensive, though.
A valid point, I think the sentiment is more common in the development world because things change so fast you can't really master the entirety of even a very specific domain for very long.

However, it seems IT over time has grown to be (or aim to be) "incompetence proof". That is, even if you mess up, there should be mechanisms in place to prevent a catastrophe, so that at least two people must be majorly incompetent to create a disaster. I guess we call it redundancy.

Compare with medecine, if your doctor is bad you can die. And people frequently do. I tend to prefer our base assumption that everyone is incompetent, that way we're prepared when someone makes a mistake.
The people running the Boston Transit system REALLY need to read this

Very impressed with the Swiss system. I could consistently take my seat, and watch a station clock as the departure time approached, and the train would inevitably start to roll on the very second. It seemed like the conductors really took pride in the exactness.

It was also worrisome one evening when I was traveling alone with all my ski racing gear (multiple bags and ski bags). The schedule showed elapsed time between stop-departure as one minute at the small town station where I had to disembark. The doors seemed to open randomly at one end of the car or the other, but never both, and no conductor to be found to ask. I got all ready, sprinted with the gear to the open door, got everything off, and the train indeed left in 60 seconds. Fortunately, I was so nervous that I managed to get everything off with about 30sec to spare...
I'm surprised how many commenters here seem frustrated by this news.
I know there’s a lot of enthusiasm about indefinite WFH but shouldn’t there be fear as well?

I’m just graduating from Radiology residency and telerads is definitely a career opportunity - but really only because of reimbursement from Medicare. You have to be in a US state or territory to get full reimbursement. For me that’s a fortunate insulating moat that protects me and other American physicians from international competition.

An international radiologist can dictate studies but only as a preliminary status which then require a second look and report finalized by a stateside physician.

To my point - what is the tech workers moat? How will they insulate themselves from international competition?

If I can’t do remote anymore because of international competition then I’ll move on site and do procedures as well as read, which obviously off site personnel can’t do. I don’t like that kind of work, but I’ll do it. What will tech workers do?
It cuts both ways. While SSO is a basic security feature (and improves usability and reduces support burden), it also makes account sharing more difficult. Users on the low end plan definitely like account sharing; create a google group as the email, put the password in the shared vault, now the thing is $5/month instead of $30k a year.
I mean the service of discord is good, I use it too from time to time. But for building knowledge it is pretty bad. It is a black hole that sucks in all the content users have talked about. I see some startup developers exclusively using it and the numbers of their communities pretty much stagnate because they don't have a presence anywhere else. Reddit is also flawed but at least it can be indexed by crawlers. That offers a lot of advantages.

Joining a new channel is quite a lot of work since you jump into discussions without context. There is a lot of loss on the way. As I said, IRC had the same problems but the scope was a lot smaller since it was always flanked by forums and other platforms.

Within corporations with Slack and Teams there are similar effects. Yes, communication is effective but only on a very short term.
From a security engineering perspective I think strong authentication should be table stakes, and the proliferation of WebAuthn is a good starting point. For most enterprise companies it also likely makes sense from a risk management perspective. Single sign-on, however, is a convenience feature, not necesarily a security feature. And as such, I think it's acceptable for it to be an add on subscription.

This is especially true when the application in question offers strong authentication with no opt outs, which doesn't seem to be the case with Tuple -- I don't see a way to set a second factor, and the app happily let me register with 'password1234' as my password. Given their lack of strong authentication, I agree with SSO being part of the base subscription, for their own sake more than their customers'. I'd like to see them improve, revamp, or remove their direct login feature altogether.
The amount of unexpected gotchas varies greatly by the programming language you use.
So what you are saying that it makes sense to ban people for ideas you consider wrong, because you worry that those ideas might lead to people being banned for ideas that are wrong?
This is my primary objection to using 80 columns everywhere. Markdown specifically is a painful place to require it, but also latex and HTML. For source code, 80-col works out ok most of the time since "sentences" are relatively short, but even there I prefer to use more semantic line breaks when the style guide or formatting tool does not omit them.
I think I read somewhere that many companies use "needs SSO" as a proxy for "is Enterprise customer and can pay Enterprise rates."
The ad hominem in this post is uncalled for and unnecessary. There are lots of reasons that a job offer might not be a good fit, and there is absolutely no obligation to accept the first offer that someone makes you. Trying to find a good role and asking HN for advice / leads is not something to be ashamed of.

Best of luck to OP, I can't help at the moment but I am sure you will find something you are excited about.
Sometimes I think of the internet like a new country we've discovered. When we landed there, there was no infrastructure - no roads or telephone networks.

How do we govern the internet? For all our bluster about loving democracy, the internet is essentially a feudal system. A few large entities have stepped up to build needed infrastructure. In exchange, they own everything. You don't rent your facebook page, your gmail address or your iCloud account. Renters have rights. If AI enforcers run by the the big tech companies don't like you, they'll just banish you from their land forever. (And delete all your stuff in the process). You have no rights and no representation. Just like in medieval times, this is seen as totally normal.

Facebook and Google pay for all of this by tracking us everywhere we go and selling our data to advertisers. Its like if every road outside your house was owned by a company, and when you walk out the front door cameras track your every move so they can show you personalized ads. Apple pays for it all by massively taxing every transaction in their store, banning competition and making it so everything you buy inside their ecosystem won't work anywhere else.

I never know quite what to say when people defend the right of companies to shamelessly claim sovereignty over their billions of users. I mean, its not exactly the same as totalitarianism because you can move to a different tech platform if you want. Well sort of - have to leave your data, communities, apps and devices behind when you leave.

And anyway, benevolent dictators work great in small companies and communities. My problem with Facebook is that it has nearly 3 billion monthly active users. Thats not a team. Thats bigger than any country. Its an empire. It even has a king!

If I don't like how my city is run, I can vote in my local elections. Where is the ballet box for our tech platforms?

It took humanity thousands of years to figure out that democratic systems work better than feudal systems. I really hope we can make that leap faster this time. Our civilization might depend on it.
Tesla cars barred for 2 months in Beidaihe, site of China leadership meet
Yeah, this decision by YouTube is extremely puzzling. The background[1] on this dispute is extensive, but the most egregious event was probably Quantum calling ActMan's mom on the phone and making some veiled threats[2].

[1] https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/act-man-quantum-tv-drama-ex...

[2] https://twitter.com/TheActMan_YT/status/1518660188617641984
If `strace`ing a process fixes your problem you should try `perf trace`ing it instead. It works at a lower level (using kernel tracepoints rather than the ptrace API) so it disturbs the traced process less, at the cost of having less powerful output (it doesn't capture e.g. the actual data being written to a pipe).
The ‘Hard Yakka’ of Defining Australian English’s Many Quirks
Long COVID Could Be a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’
Came here to say this. An "AI" system may have a hard time distinguishing a porn image published for arousal, from the same image studied in a lecture.

But how hard can it be to mark Cornell University as an account important enough that every action needs a human review, or two?
Portions of Bethesda, Maryland are a 15-minute city on foot. It's amazing to live in a place like that. I always felt it was an abundance of riches.
That's really cool, was wondering how hard it would be to make libc++ play nice with XP - currently I still use MSVC 2017 for those builds but that won't get newer language features and I am planning to move to Clang anyway. Do you know of any effort to go even further back and support pre-NT Windows with a modern C++ compiler?
Depends on the type of mushroom and cultivation method. You need to be careful with a sterilised environment. You need air filtering.
They should not be using cell phones at all if security is a concern not to mention they are a distraction and can be used against people when they are captured. The enemy will extract ones family details from the phone and call them. Let the psychological games begin. No applications are required, just turn on the cell phone and one is instantly a target.

Encrypted freq hopping wide spectrum dynamic power radios with encrypted repeaters managed by the military on the field is the only semi-secure option and even that comes with significant risks. Even then there should be little to no voice comms. Just a 4 byte group designation and a 2 byte code burst that maps to per-arranged tactical instructions and optional coordinates. Ack codes should be optional in the event the enemy gets the decryption key of the hour. Manual ack should have the option of commands received or squad compromised.
With all due respect I disgust you? I've devoted my life to helping others, saved thousands of lives, repaired families and communities, won numerous awards, went through Y Combinator, raised millions of VC dollars, partnered with 300 community organizations and the cities of SF, LA and NY, was named one of the most influential people in DE&I, and made very little money for it. I'm 68 years old, and probably have one more big thing that lies ahead for me, so I want to make sure it's optimally impactful. I disgust you? lol. You made my day.
Are you using "wrongthink" to ironically mean a wrong thought?
Vimeo is moving to a B2B model, so definitely too expensive.

What they really want is to upload the Internet Archive, but the UI really sucks.
> it was probably an AI

The AI, despite recent rumors to the contrary, is not a self-aware entity. It is the creation of humans, and it reflects the biases and values of the humans that created it. It's simply that the people listening have created a tool to automate listening and reacting.
Managers need people that can tell them the truth no matter how upsetting the truth is. Companies fail when bad managers expect their employees to just smile and say yes sir while the ship is sinking. It's not until their ankles start to get wet they wonder why no one told them about all the holes in the ship.
Sometimes people just get unlucky and there's not some direct causal factor. Yes, it could have been the mouthwash. It also could have been a combination of their germline genome having some unfortunate mutations and/or a series of unlucky somatic mutations.
I am completely baffled by the attempt to equate valuing free speech on a broadly accessible platform and tolerating insubordination on operational issues within a private company.
I expected the analysis of the "gnome mode" language to make a connection to Tom Bombadil. The imagery and language is similar enough to "Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow!" memes that I figured that had to be one of the main inspirations it's drawing on.
> As a society, we may need a platform where educational/government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this.

It's problematic to only let government or entrenched institutions deliver uncensored content. Powerful groups have a habit of shaping what is "educational" to fit their goals.
It's not just about the anonymity set, there are more factors than that. That said, I concur with the conclusion.
Good luck! Shutting down a startup, especially one that you're passionate about, is never easy. Hope you take the time for yourself to mentally/emotionally recharge.
the pinephone pro is definitely still thoroughly in the bringing up phase. for people just wanting to play around with it/actively use it, and not intending to develop it, the regular PP is the better option. They do make this pretty clear on their store page for it, to their credit.
For centos6 there is cloudlinux also providing extended release support (paid) for those who don't have a RHEL subscription until 2024.
That detail and every other relevant factual aspect of the article is fabricated. That this is the top item on HN shows how widespread and automatic the "canceled by google" meme has become, even when the complainant is clearly just making it up.

It's hard to imagine that this person even got twenty emails from bewildered colleagues, when the view stats on Youtube indicate that this channel gets about 5 views per day.
Now you have to define 'educational institution'.
Never depend on anything you haven't signed a contract for that explicitly outlines the consequences of the thing failing to deliver, and you are satisfied with those consequences.

Also never depend on any one thing; GCP, AWS, Azure, Rackspace, etc.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/820538/ is an issue, for
example. So is general contamination. This seems like a terrible idea.
8% of prisoners in for profit prisons ? 5.6 million people, that's not tiny.
I'd like to see the break-down based on job position and duties. I highly suspect people who want to go into office will: 1) have large decorated offices with doors, visitor chairs, admin assistants and in-person tech support. 2) spend 6 of 8 hours of their day in meetings.
The is the Avalon Media Project run by Indiana University as well. All open source and intended for this very reason since IU’s Kinsey Institute places them at risk of a deplatform.
Oh, no, i was commenting on the inadequacy of the expression, not the spelling