skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like if we as the open source community would require commit signing we would be in a safer position. Crypto signing doesn't block malware from being introduced, but it would make it harder to sneek under our noses.

Currently in open source, you really don't know where your code is coming from and who worked on it. Git's "commit author" fields don't require any proof of identity, that's what GPG is for.
The delicious irony if the Cydia devs come back with an official Cydia store.
>cleanliness was nonexistent (fabric seats were not the best design choice!)

I'm a New Yorker and before you say you think I want to do away with cars, I think the ideal is a combination of mass transit and private vehicle ownership if you need it. That being said, my mind is always amazed at how clean and well maintained the DC Metro seems to remain. The cars have cloth seats! But the trains are always clean! New Yorkers were so surprised in 2020 when city subway stations got regular bleachdowns. It humors me to no end.
My personal recollection is that local newspapers went into sharp decline about 20 years ago, which is about when Craigslist became a mainstream brand, ruining local newspapers that relied on selling classified ads. The demise of classified ads made newspapers increase their subscription prices, which subsequently lost them subscribers. With fewer eyeballs to sell, newspapers could no longer charge as much for advertising, gutting what revenue they had left. Local newspapers started dropping like flies in the 00s. This is how I recall it, and more or less what wikipedia describes on their page about the decline of newspapers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers

That page also mentions that TV had been hurting the newspaper industry since the 50s. But I think the real decline started roughly 20 years ago. 24/7 cable news, starting in the 80s, probably did a lot of damage too. It's hard for a newspaper to compete with all the fancy sound effects and animations that television news use to mesmerize viewers.
Of course that’s not automated.

From the parent, it sounded like the their issue wasn’t figuring out if something was a false positive. It was that another “intelligent life form” ran a tool and then wouldn’t accept when another “intelligent life form” assessed that a flag was a false positive.

If the infosec person is just running a tool and reporting results, why are they part of the loop? Make running the tool mandatory for each git push back to the main repo. Then, if/when there is a false positive, allow them to pass if they’ve already been “approved” by some means (like a .infosec_ignore file).
The poor widow argument against land value taxes has been a mainstay of the landowning class for over a century. [Winston Churchill had had enough of it back in 1909.](https://web.archive.org/web/20010728120002/http://home.vicne...)

Guaranteeing that people can take up the same space that they did when the population was half its current level is a great way to ensure that future generations have nowhere to live.
Ah, yes, the place where trolls had free reign. comp.lang.lisp is a good example. Xah Lee and others. It was just too much, so I had to stop reading it.

There were other newsgroups that had serious trolls, too.
We moderate accounts that break HN's rules regardless of what they're arguing for, and regardless of how right they are or feel they are. Being right is no license to break the rules. Quite the contrary—the more right you are, the more responsibility you have.

Routinely, when people see moderation happening to accounts they happen to agree with, they overlook and excuse how those accounts were breaking the rules (no matter how extreme it was!) and jump to the conclusion that the mods must secretly be in cahoots with the other side. Of course, the other side feels exactly the same way. It's cognitive bias in both cases.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Content moderation on usenet was and still is an unsolved problem. Fediverse stuff is a bit saner as it has more controls available, albeit is less forum-like
This is awesome. Seeing the mention of an App Store made me think of Umbrel [1] which is still in alpha but is a very approachable GUI for managing services running on your Raspberry.

[1]: https://umbrel.com/
Up to about age 11 or 12, the costumes are cute and fun for kids. Why adults do this is beyond me. Ands don't get me started on that clown thing.
So on the one hand, you have vandalism and arson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%27s_Revenge), and on the other multiple mass shootings with deaths (just one of the many, from this year which is from a right winger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting). I do not excuse this "Jane's Revenge" group, but that is some really weak both sides stuff. Especially because a lot of right wing church groups act violently towards abortion clinics! Which is a real glass houses moment.
> I really don't like pen testing as a practice

could you elaborate on this a bit? what's wrong with it? to me it seems the only logical thing to spend external security budget on. (or internal red team if the company is so bit it can afford it.)
But it doesn't happen as fast as it does on HN.

Once something drops from HN's front page - 12 hours? 24 hours? 36 hours if it is really huge

then it's dead.
I think both grandparent you’re referring to and its parent are lost in the woods.
This is not just bad. This is even worse if we consider a lot of people trust more any random charismatic person on Facebook or Twitter than a journalist, but the sad thing here is how I understand them.

In Spain we have so many examples about how mass media have made up news in order to manipulate people than I don't think many people trust in them any more. Just look up for a policeman called Villarejo and you will find how some police agents, politicians, and mass media business were working together hiding shady business and affairs of Juan Carlos I (the former King of Spain), making fake news about opposing politicians, and making smokescreens to hide corruption cases.

Without trusting mass media and random social networks, you only can verify yourself those spicy news looking in different places to know the truth, and even doing that, you can't have the real truth since every media have their ideology and they usually are really partisan to the party that back their ideology.
Superficial harmony and conflict avoidance resulting from negative anticipation
ATM in London has optional Cockney rhyming slang language
I would second this. Learning nix takes time and practice, but is very rewarding. Reading the nix pills series is definitely the most helpful first step. I would also recommend https://discourse.nixos.org/ where kind fellow Nix users constantly answer questions and give advice.
Easy to fuel the fire when you have unlimited wood to burn.
It also strongly depends on the branching factor.

Like, if you're in a chess midgame, there might still 6 major pieces and 4 or 6 minor pieces and tons of pawns on the board. It's tricky to calculate far into the future. At each node, there's easily dozens of possible moves, and 4-8 viable or not-horrible ones. That's becoming a lot of possibilities to consider very quickly.

In an endgame, there's like, 2 kings, 2 pieces and 4 pawns or a similar constellation. There's 6 possible moves, 3 of them immediately lose and 3 are worth thinking about. 2 of them probably only have one possible answer. Suddenly even an utter beginner like me can calculate 4-8 moves. A master-level player probably knows the endgame entirely, or can see 10 - 20 moves into it easily, because the branching factor is a lot lower now.
Yes, if I was commenting on a project or company that I had self-interest in (eg: reputational, monetary, etc) then I would add a disclaimer like everyone else here does.

If you're writing messaging systems and working on cryptocurrency you can figure out Algolia: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

You didn't need me to do that.
PDF: https://sci-hub.ru/https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1017/mor.2...
p4d.24xlarge is only $33/hr! And you get 400 Gbe so it should be quick to load.
There are LPs and LPs.

The LPs which the user above refers to are the APGs, the PFZWs type.
I just checked Nikoli, and now I am getting a definite desire to play Shakashaka ( https://www.nikoli.co.jp/en/puzzles/shakashaka/ ).

Which is not in Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. Guess I will have to code it one day. Edit: or just use web implementations - there are many...
The idea that a profit-motivated entity can be trusted to deliver honest facts seems rather absurd on the face of it.
Why would a computer program get bored? I doubt we will ever create a 'real' AGI, simply because it's hard and has no human utility, but if we did, it would (hopefully) be designed to enjoy repetition and drudgery.
There's nothing but claims backed by facts in that document. Your ad hominem attack is not a valid argument.
Is the horror of this situation the fact that biometric security is less secure than a memorized password, or the big-brother-esq coercion tactic they used?
I've been using sqlite for my recent projects but one thing I miss from postgres are connection pooling client libraries. I work with JS/TS but the nodejs runtime model doesn't really allow a multiprocess shared connection pool.
I would have to think some of this is just availability bias cause by the focus of news outlets on if it bleeds it leads
How does this relate to or overlap with Microsoft MRTK? https://github.com/microsoft/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity

(@koujaku)
Waymo Cars and Honey Bears
It has gotten even worse now. Moderators of different subreddits run bots that scan other subreddits and ban anyone who posts to them. My main account is banned from dozens of subreddits including default ones like r/news and r/pics just for posting in a now banned lockdown skepticism subreddit.

I was actually trying to counter misinformation by posting there and I messaged the moderators with links to said posts proving as much. They responded that it didn't matter because I shouldn't be talking to "those people" anyways and then they permanently muted me (preventing me from ever contacting the moderators again).

It's the worst with leftist subreddits. I got banned from a generic socialist subreddit for posting in a "tankie" subreddit. The "tankie" subreddit then banned me for posting in a "reactionary" subreddit. I don't even necessarily agree with any of those ideologies, but I enjoy debate and being exposed to different points of view. Apparently that is no longer allowed.

It is frustrating that my 12 year old account is rapidly becoming unusable due to being banned from more and more subreddits and none of the bans are based on what I have posted, but rather who I am talking to.
Group of senators cuts deal to change election laws in response to Jan 6 attack
All three of your links show a lack of understanding of the word 'efficacy', which is defined as: "the ability to produce a desired or intended result".

If you have a clinical trial and everyone in the trial passes the clinical trial, that doesn't mean the vaccine is a magic cape that protects 100% against the virus.

It just means that the desired result in the trial was achieved.
We use NixOS and Nix extensively in the company. A few developers actually use NixOS on WSL as daily driver, and it was pretty smooth.
They avoided using real human faces in the training data.
Config files/settings.
Considering temporary card numbers like privacy.com are also getting harder to use…

I guess I’ll just open and close online checking accounts giving 30-day windows for online purchases using a debit card.

After 30 days the debit card will no longer be valid, linked to a closed account, and cannot be charged recurrently.
A lot of them were just early.

pets.com => Chewy. Also PetSmart operates the pets.com domain now apparently.

webvan => Amazon Fresh, Instacart

kozmo => DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc.
Star: Brave’s New System for Privacy-Preserving Data Collection
> If you're not willing to put in the very minor time investment,

The time investment only seems minor if you view it in isolation. I probably have hundreds of forum accounts scattered about the web, and at this point, every additional signup feels like such a nuisance that I seldom bother any more. Too many paper cuts. (Especially when it comes time to update my email address.)

> then you probably don't have much to contribute to the community,

That logic breaks down when considering people who contribute high quality in low quantity. For example, when I go down a rabbit hole to solve a tricky problem, I might want to share the solution where others who need it are likely look for it. Sometimes that means a single post on a forum. Signup friction makes me less likely to share.
The main problem I have with Broken Windows Theory is that rather than being used to improve the environments (fixing the broken windows) it's often used to justify flooding the streets with police and aggressively harassing people. It identifies the source of the problem (the run down areas of a city), but then ignores it because overaggressive policing is an easier sell than spending that money improving the living environments of "the wrong kinds of people". Making those spaces into more oppressive environments won't tend to do much to solve the crime problem because it was an oppressive environment that caused the problem in the first place.

Cleaning up and maintaining the run down areas communicates to everyone that the area and the people living in it have value. People start to expect more from the area and from each other. It also makes those spaces less attractive to people looking to cause trouble and more attractive to businesses and to people from outside of that community. The health and mental well-being of the community improves and so does their economy. Shooting jaywalkers and setting up stop and frisk checkpoints just makes everyone feel like criminals and sure enough that's what you get.

Broken Windows Theory isn't wrong, but Broken Windows Policing is a problem because what these areas need aren't just police, but rather urban developers, landscapers, and construction crews. Cities that clean up, improve, and maintain the run down parts of town see crime drop. Cities that simply use run down areas to designate "problem populations" and send in the police harass those communities over every possible minor infraction don't get those kinds of results.
Ehh

I hate their layout, it doesn't remind me that "style" that all forums used to use
If you want to tamp down on speculation, can't we be a little more creative and targeted than just high vs low property tax rates?

- Some cities are already getting into vacancy taxes; here the problem seems to be enforcement. No one's going door to door in luxury condo buildings looking for empty ones.

- Can a tax due when a property is sold be based on how long the seller owned the property? If you lived there for 20 years and now you're moving to downsize, you pay a low rate. If you held it for 9 months to renovate and flip it, pay a high rate.

- Can a tax rate due when a property is sold be based on the number of homes the seller has been purchased in the past 5 years? If you've been a resident homeowner, low rate. If you're a development company bought subdivision land and is now able to sell dozens of houses, low rate. If you're a speculator who has bought several homes, and are flipping them, high rate.
IPv6 has 64bit host addresses so you can do whatever the hell you like. SLAAC EUI64 (the MAC based one you describe) is one of those. So is tmpaddrs, where you just assign yourself a new random address every ten minutes. A quite reasonable use case, I think.
I never said they would start the war, I’d say neither “side” seems to have any actual need or desire to start an actual shooting civil war, since there is no ground in dispute (or that it would help to dispute), or major economic/resource dispute. If someone ‘captures’ Washington DC, for instance, it would not help them one bit. No one seems to be in any position to try to leave either, usefully.

There is a lot of complaining and grumbling, and ideological disagreements. Maybe there could be a ‘crusade’, but doesn’t seem likely right now.

If we’re talking elections, that’s the opposite of civil war.

Right now it just seems like an old bitter married couple bitching about each other and talking about how they want to split. Far cry from actually doing it, let alone paying the legal bills.
Yeah it's not a great user experience currently. I think the problem is a typo. There is a website without the www that works.

http://trialtopaid.com

It's an instant redirect to another domain.
Show HN: Lightweight tool to find people to game with
Hey HN -

I've been having a hard time getting back into gaming when I'm in-and-out of it so often with particular games, so I built a very simple tool in my spare time to help folks find people to game with.

I tried to minimize friction: no user account needed & you specify the game. You can search for specific games too or usernames even.

It's still in alpha stage, meaning it's super barebones and cool features that integrate with your current apps aren't there yet. We'll get there though.

Let me know if you have questions or recs!
Dude, you simply can't pay the electricity bills for AC. I mean, you can if you have good income, but prices are much higher than the US and salaries are much lower.
This is not true. I had an ARM based server from scaleway in Paris years ago.
I asked about this two years ago and he was evasive. Take that as you will.
Ask HN: Is Netlify Acting Wonky?
I went to log into netlify and got an error saying there was no user for that email/password combo. I asked my partner to log into her account and she had the same issue. We both tried to reset the passwords for our accounts and received no emails.

What’s up?
> But if they’re politely stated, no harm no foul?

That's not at all how we moderate HN. But IIRC (it's been a few hours since I've read the thread) your comments put an extreme personal skew on the comments you were taking offense at and then breaking the rules in reply to.

It's natural and understandable that this happens sometimes on topics where you feel strongly (I don't mean you personally, but any of us). However, natural and understandable does not equal ok. On the contrary: we all need to catch ourselves when we're getting carried away like that, and either edit our posts to be within the site guidelines, or just walk away. I find it helpful, in such cases, to remember that the internet is to a first approximation wrong about everything, and there's nothing that any of us can do about it.
It came very close. Had AOL/Netscape/Mozilla not opensourced and push open standards when they did, things would be very different.
Great context! Do you have any books you can recommend to become better at thinking/working in these ways?
"Use it or lose it"

Don't remember the source of this insight, it is often used in context of evolutionary adaptation in biology. This encompasses every activity in day-to-day life.
It sounds like you called somebody a moron for having a different POV from you.
How does math stabilize societies? Funding the homeless shelter and food bank across my town probably stabilizes the area than any further investments in math.
>I dearly miss phpBB style forums. (I strongly dislike Discourse, somehow, despite being the only modern spiritual successor.)

For me its layout. I prefer phpBB layout
Google US Civil War
Yeah an electric car future is better than an oil car future. Thinking broader though they still have a large initial carbon impact and any future that depends on cars isn’t really sustainable. I think it takes too much focus off reducing dependence on cars entirely.
I mean, you aren't wrong. But this is akin to saying you don't need a memory safe language, because you can decide what is best for your applications memory needs.

That is, I think the ask is more of "why haven't we come up with something that is a bit better at mitigating risks, here?"
How is localism supposed to enable things like mobile phones, internet, video games, movies, travel, etc., function? You're suggestion is essentially to go back to the stone age. Additionally, wouldn't localism require more people to do things that they don't enjoy? For example, I'm not a fan of farming and I don't think many of my neighbors are either but fortunately, we're all able to eat pretty much any dish we like because of the food shipped from distant farms every day.

> What would it look like in your town? I don't know, but I don't need to

This sounds a lot like a non-answer. Perhaps I would understand what you're talking about better if you explained how you believe it would work in your town where you do have more context.
Do you expect the government to protect your assets if someone threatens them?
Dall-e has novelty, but no intent, meaning, originality. Yes the author can be creative at generating prompts, but visually I haven’t seen it generate anything that feels artistically interesting. If you want pre-existing concepts in novel combinations then yes it works.

It’s good at “in the style of” but there’s no “in a new style”.

It has a house style too that tends to feel Reddit-like.
Some balance for the first link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist_mass_killings
It's his choice of course but I think some of the argumentation is in bad taste. Suggesting to only play against Firouzja is bad sportsmanship, a player should not attempt to handpick their opponent. It's also disrespectful to announce this after the candidates tournament finished, in particular towards Nepomniachtchi but also the other players who expected to face the world champion.
Overturning Roe was one of many decisions that they have made recently, you can easily google this information:
"The Supreme Court Benches the Separation of Church and State | News & Commentary | American Civil Liberties Union" https://www.aclu.org/news/religious-liberty/the-supreme-cour...
Ok, all of these services have different names, what do they do?

- Text Service

- SMS Service

- TwilioProxy

- Telephony Service
Here [1] are some data on this specific question. 27% of Americans consider themselves Republican, 27% Democrat, and 43% Independent. Of the Independents, 46% lean Republican, and 45% lean Democrat.

[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
offensive to whom is the sticking point when it comes to comedy

it takes a special talent to please everybody
Whose platform is it? It's the users that make the forum valuable. Anyone can administrate a web forum. The individuals and communities should decide what speech is acceptable for them, not some unaccountable bureaucrats.

I think there is a time and place for insults and flamewars. Maybe not everywhere all the time, but what you are seeing on the web today is selective enforcement of "politeness" and "civility" rules to benefit whatever side of the "flamewar" that the moderators approve of.

HN is a good forum insofar as the users think that admins enforce reasonable rules and users agree to abide by those rules and not evade bans. On HN, moderation is rather sophisticated and neutral. When that changes I'll leave.
Which you continue to dance around and refuse to elucidate.

Speak clearly.
"You hire someone for what they can bring to the table not how much you can profit off them."

Not sure if I agree with this naive view. Yes, you hire people and give them what they want in exchange for work but at the end of the day, I am absolutely trying to save money as a company and increase profits as long as I am doing it reasonably.