skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Punk was very much not a sign of prosperity, more like stagnancy. Source: was there.
It wasn't really special moderation treatment, though I understand why it looks like that way now.

It was because, when the thread was getting going, it flooded with crap comments (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769222, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769043). I decided to come down hard on those to try to ward off a shitshow. It would have been the same in any thread that was filling up that way, but which we weren't going to downweight off the front page. And we weren't going to do that because (a) the story was on-topic, and (b) it's such a big story that we couldn't get rid of it if we wanted to—people would just repost it until one got past us.

I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769925 at the top of the thread as a bulwark against the crap comments. That's also standard moderation. At some point, though, the thread started to fill with plenty of more substantive comments and then it looked to people like I was taking a side on the royalist question. Nothing was further from my mind.

It took me a long time to figure this out, probably because after 4 hours of doing nothing but refreshing this page and posting moderation scoldings, my brain was fried. Eventually I got it and the fix was simply to unpin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769925 from the top and demote it as offtopic. That seems to have calmed things down (except maybe for https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=theirishrover).
Housing supply very much matters in Marin County!!
Hey, thanks for the feedback (and your kind words!). I've moved the paywall back to (roughly) where it was. It's a challenge to find the right balance between showing off the content, but also leaving enough to encourage people to buy the course! All ideas appreciated for tweaks and alternative payment models :)
It's going to be hard to beat sitting on cash for 18 months until global indexes bottom out at PE 10 like in 2008, and then buying and holding for a decade after.
Or all that stuff would be the default and the setup process of whatever you are doing would loosen restrictions. If you have pubke only for ssh, no need to log password attempts.
This is a perfectly fine idea if you currently have an okay housing market.

But a lot of cities are so far behind that they need a lot more very quickly. You need more radical rezoning to actually help people soon for that.

Of course, the most likely outcome is politicians hemming and hawing some more, putting forth grossly inadequate solutions, and passing the buck to the next generation, as is tradition.
Economics is the study of how to most effectively manipulate conscious actors to engage in work they don't intrinsically want to do towards some large, long term goal.

That goal is always primarily to increase the power and influence of the society (crudely GDP growth) because those that don't direct most energy towards this goal eventually end up getting out competed and supplanted by those external societies that do.
And without the Windsors in the way, the visitors could pay £10 to look around inside.
They're scraped from the Stable Diffusion bot which generated them. People didn't post the images themselves, so they're not cherry picked.
Wow, definitely not trusting them with my credit card. Just cancelled my subscriptions and removed my payment method. I'll be looking at other options the content providers have available.
There have been real secret organizations, but they tend to be more like terrorist groups. The League of Free Jurists, the Irgun, etc. Ones that work as lobbies have to have some visibility. You can't stay completely behind the scenes forever and accomplish much.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is arguably one such. Its existence is not a secret, but its 1970s plan to make the US more friendly to corporations didn't become known until it had already worked.
I know I’ll get downvoted by bitcoin shills like you, but if you had bought bitcoin in Dec 2017, you would have lost money even after holding for 5 years.
To be clear, this is one of two ships. The first was built and unsold. The second is being scrapped before completion. The shipbuilder declared bankruptcy in January of this year.

They used to say that whenever someone, somewhere, builds "the world's tallest building", this is a recession signal. Maybe the same can be said for ships.
>Food, shelter and health care are basic human needs and rights.

Even if so, it's not your right to take these by force. So if someone has to pay for that via taxes, etc then you are infringing on the rights of others in extracting that value. I would argue the government does have the obligation to not infringe on those rights, as they currently do in onerous regulation that makes these things unaffordable (well crappy food is pretty affordable by world standards). Obviously health care regulations and licensing, medicare, medicaid, medi-Cal, are some of the biggest offenders in destroying our rights.
> Not people who live in dense cities with good subway systems and a walkable infrastructure.

Yeah, so almost everyone.

> Driving is one of the most dangerous things humans do. The argument that all health care should be private– the perspective this comment addressed– would not make such a consolation simply because it's common.

Car deaths are about 1% of deaths. Heart disease and cancer are each around 15x as likely.

Even if it's high on the danger scale, I don't think it would be a very big factor in health care costs.
> without a profit motive, what do you do?

We could pose the question even more generally. Apart from making money, what is the value of a human life or community?
Version track the bills.

That would be very cool.
Yep, Australia, NZ, Jamaica, PNG and others.
This is a famous case from the 70s: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1129381/?page=1

Summary: 8 people at a party in SF “accidentally” (having mistook it for cocaine, as one does) snorted at least two lines each of powdered LSD. Somehow, they made it to the hospital 10 minutes later. 5 of them were in a coma by the time they were seen, and 3 had to be intubated. One person had a temperature of 107F + 200BPM pulse. One of the comatose patients discharged himself after 12 hours, and they all seemingly recovered fully. But without prompt medical care…probably not.

Conclusion: Do not snort a 1000x dose of LSD.
I'm not saying she was a bad person, just that this praise is obviously ridiculously over-wrought. You simply can't reign as Queen of England for 70 years "without even the remotest hint of scandal"

Just last year there was the Guardian investigation that suggested she was trying to hide the true extent of her wealth: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/07/revealed-que... (I've seen other sources disputing it, but one can't argue that this is at least a hint of scandal)
The existence of the US senate is a disaster, making the country practically ungovernable (it’s extremely difficult to pass any law without both parties agreeing). It’s really not a great comparison.
> Mr. Zatko told regulators in a whistle-blower report in July that Twitter misled them and the public about its security by misrepresenting how it fights spam and hackers. That violated a 2011 agreement that Twitter had struck with the Federal Trade Commission, which had barred the company from misleading users about its security and privacy measures, he contended.

This whole thing feels vaguely Peter Think v Gawker-esque. Musk got so lucky that Twitter has been being super shady and shitty. It'd be so dystopian if the only reason Twitter was brought to heel for their crimes was because they made a billionaire mad.
edited my post. We don't know the terms of the funding so that was just a guess. Even still I don't think they're rolling in money. They're ~10 years old but until 2019 they were only taking 5%. I'd guess they've always lost money.
Say you had a list of items, sorted by how much you care about them...

If you could not care less about an item on that list, that means that it's literally the last thing you would put on list of things you care about. Nothing can be cared about less than this item. Though you could have multiple things at the bottom of your care list, that you don't care about equally. So you can not care less about multiple items on that list.

If you can care less about an item, then there are things on the list that are lower that you do care less about. Making this item not the thing you care about the least. In fact, the item you care about the most... you could care less than that.
This especially stands out to me:

If a plant were wilting we wouldn’t diagnose it with “wilting-plant-syndrome” – we would change its conditions. Yet when humans are suffering under unliveable conditions, we’re told something is wrong with us, and expected to keep pushing through. To keep working and producing, without acknowledging our hurt.

In efforts to destigmatise mental distress, “mental illness” is framed as an “illness like any other” – rooted in supposedly flawed brain chemistry. In reality, recent research concluded that depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance of the brain. Ironically, suggesting we have a broken brain for life increases stigma and disempowerment. What’s most devastating about this myth is that the problem and the solution are positioned in the person, distracting us from the environments that cause our distress.
I think HN looks fine already. The only real problem with this site's design is that the text is too small.
I can't wrap my head around this thinking. (Not you. Parent.)

A friend of mine just bought a brand new BMW. He's going to sell his old Nissan. Whomever buys that Nissan will be buying their first car, or selling their old car. The market is interconnected and conditions at one end of it absolutely affect the other end.

Just look at the price of used cars last year when the new car stock was strangled. Imagine if, before that happened, someone was arguing that "making a luxury car doesn't increase the supply of cars"
Just like every other 96 year old though, right?
That's not at all what I'm seeing.
Thanks for replying, this certainly lends me some context I was missing before.
There's something quietly pleasing about this settlement. It's as if Mudge is still hacking away, but this time it's an inefficient corporate machine. Good for him.

This quote from his wife (sourced from wikipedia and in turn from Time), is quite pointed:

Remarking about her husband’s time at Twitter in an article in Time Magazine, she said, "dishonesty is definitely something that frustrates him."
io_uring is seriously undercooked as an idea. It's had a ton of CVEs already, and the fact that you can tell the kernel to go off and do something for you later in a big red flag for secure system design. That kind of facility needs to be very carefully designed, but io_uring was just dashed off in a mad hack without really thinking it through.
I can't claim to have been through it but this is sitting on my bookmarks folder and looks very useful: https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Serve...

My only tip I haven't seen mentioned here is be very careful using docker with ufw, as by default docker will effectively override ufw port restrictions if it is told to expose a port.
OSI – 'Building Creative Restrictions to Curb AI Abuse' [audio]
It looks better. The noise is just nostalgic for me, it doesn't enhance inherently IMHO.
I'm a Freemason. I haven't been to a lodge meeting in quite awhile, but there are a few observations I think worth making:

* "Secret societies" have an air of mystique about them, and that played no small part in my joining. The theatricality of some rituals gives a sense of gravitas to the group that is often lacking in everyday life.

* Freemasonry at least does a lot of quiet charity. There is a not-insignificant amount of money they give to help people out, and they do very little publicity of this. In fact... I'd wager you haven't heard of Freemasons doing anything at all in a long time, if ever.

* The perceived exclusivity of membership in a society like this is often portrayed as conducive to arrogance in its members in popular media, but every single Mason I've ever met is extraordinarily humble.

* It's an unfortunate reality that most societies like this are gender-specific.

* Freemasonry is theistic, rather than explicitly Christian. Interestingly, the Catholic church _hates_ Freemasonry, for some reason.
Lars is a hero and a huge inspiration. Emacs is too important to drift into obscurity and it’s due to people like Lars that Emacs is not only kept alive but getting better and better.
Exactly. There are far too many people who are ready to wave their pitchforks around on claims made with the slightest evidence. I would have thought HN would have a higher burden of proof for such claims than the rest of social media landscape.
Sure it wasn’t modern but the Roman Empire, which did exist 2,000 years ago, was in many ways the prototype for European law, culture, politics, etc.
That's pretty normal for all new firms, regardless of whether or not their promises have much to do with their deliveries.
Good luck to them but it sounds like an expensive solution. I’d be super excited to see a scramjet startup but scramjet is always decades away like the fusion reactor.
Government wouldn't be a good choice to vet people. However if they did wouldn't it top setting $50 million on fire?

I think its best if entrepreneurs do it. I've noticed that most of the successful VC's are entrepreneurs with at least one successful exit.

In Michigan it is a mixture of government, non-profits and entrepreneurs who decide who gets funded. That's primarily because it's government money funding it. In Lansing a non-profit provides business classes and applicants complete a business plan.
I would respectfully submit that this is perhaps the product of conditioning.
> If the message was actually end-to-end encrypted, Apple wouldn't have the plaintext to give to law enforcement in the first place.

Apple does provide an alternative way to use the iPhone for maximum security with a tradeoff in inconvenience which most would consider unacceptable. Google, Samsung, etc. offers nothing of the sort, and I do wonder whether phone vendors would ever be interested in investing in a feature which essentially destroys the convenience of using your phone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32003756

The EFF considers Apple's messaging to be end-to-end encrypted. You could choose to not use iCloud, in which case the only practical way to obtain your messages would be to seize your phone. But since they are end-to-end encrypted, if an Apple employee were able to intercept and decrypt messages, then that would be big security news. If for whatever reason your concept of security is narrowly focused on resisting judicial warrants or state actors, then Android would only be worse here.

> And if iMessages supported RCS, then messages to Android could be encrypted too, but Apple chooses not to support that.

The RCS you mention is essentially Google's own standard, one which US carriers have chosen to reject. If Google could reach consensus with carriers and major phone vendors on a new standard, Apple would likely be forced to accept the new standard. Then RCS would become the true successor to SMS.

There are also other phone apps which use their own custom protocol. In some countries, WhatsApp is the most prominent messaging app.
I think GP is referring to the heat equation. "species" is the concentration of the "stuff" that you're describing mathematically. Call that u(x), where is a spatial coordinate and u is a real valued function.

Then the diffusive part says

du(x, t)/dt = \nabla_x u(x, t).

The \nabla term is the laplacian: a multivariate form of the second derivative.

The equation says that a short time from now, u(x, t) will change in proportion to the average value of u, calculated over a small ball surrounding the point x, minus the value of u at the point x itself.

If there's less "stuff" in the points that neighbour x than at x itself, the function will decrease over time. Similarly if there's more stuff at the neighbours of x, u(x, t) will increase. This is the basis of diffusive behaviour.

(Edit: I think the equation in the article is wrong, unless I've misunderstood something: they have a delta (first derivative) when they should have a nabla (laplacian))
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I was just watching a British crime show and learned that the prisons are part of Her Majesty’s Prison System (or some such).
Maybe we can finally become a Republic.
If you look at that account specifically, they've been posting only flamebait on HN, not curious discussion.
> The American system of relying on centuries of tenuous interpretation of a fairly short document just isn't as much of an improvement as you think.

False dichotomy. Getting rid of the monarchy does not mean you have to follow the US model.
You're right I had the timeline between abdication and "exile" condensed in my head. But by govt relief I wasn't referring to High Society but the functional bureaucracy of govt and intelligence services etc.

I recall (possibly faulty memory) from a documentary I watched once, that the bureaucracy stopped providing him with certain daily government briefing documents out of fears for national security.
Security people cost a lot, and infosec people in particular can sometimes be utterly useless bureaucrats, while the security engineers are extremely hard to find. It could be something terrible happened, and it was realized they're all useless and need to be replaced.

Alternatively maybe the devops or other team took over their functions. They're not legally required in that industry, while in some industries / publicly traded companies they can be.
Search for flipper device. It's a fun looking hacker tool with multiple radios for different kinds of devices (think door openers, security scanners) and in their videos looks like easy to use and program. It's apparently a russian company and so in the west you can't legally buy it or send them money. There was some argument about this in earlier hacker news discussions about that exact detail. But apparently it has turned out to officially be a russian company.
Here is the full text:

https://www.rabbisacks.org/archive/the-queen-is-defender-of-...
For my personal servers/services? Everything behind an OpnSense and only accessible via VPN. There is one service on HTTPS a friend has to access, that got a nginx as reverse proxy with http basic auth & long random password in front of it.
This reduces my attack surface to "people on my network or VPN", which is further segmented in VLANs. The OpnSense firewalls between VLANs, and especially the IoT crap & my VPN only have very limited access.

I HTTPS all the things except the Tasmota UIs. I use a SmallStep CA with ACME on my internal network to get certs for my internal stuff; to be safe, the root cert is NameConstrain'ed to `.lan`. Obviously everything is in my local DNS. If someone steals that approach: Make sure to put DHCP-assigned DNS names into something like `.dhcp.lan` ;-)

As you can see, this is already quite opinionated. Generally: Be minimal with what you expose, make sure to quickly update, setup SELinux, setup proper firewalls/VLANs for multi-host deployments. SSH only with keys, not with passwords. Compartmentalize, so that one breach doesn't pwn your machine(s). For that you need either more physical machines, or you can put stuff in containers (I prefer root-less podman over docker) or VMs (e.g. libvirt/qemu or ESXi).

Also, don't rely on some Ubuntu LTS to get all updates you need for "a long time". E.g. Tomcat is a community package and the 18.04 LTS was missing many (security) updates last time I've checked. I've also seen docker containers not being timely updated by their maintainers.
Do some external port scans to not be surprised that you e.g. accidentially left your SQL open for the world. Because mistakes happen, and a `nmap -T5 -p1-65535 $host` doesn't hurt you.
19 trees "'protected' or 'heritage'". A "protected" tree is basically any native tree over 6-10 inches in diameter (i.e. more than a few years old), and a "heritage" tree is any of the same but over 18-30 inches (depending on species). See https://library.municode.com/ca/marin_county/codes/municipal...

These are very broad classifications that mostly serve to provide pretext for rejecting projects or exacting fees. In San Francisco a protected tree is any tree with a diameter of 15" or more (specifically, a circumference of 48" or more). It'll cost you upwards of $500 in mandatory permits and fees alone to remove any (and each) such tree, even if it's a foregone conclusion that it needs to be removed. And if you remove it without spending the money and time on the permit, you'll face thousands of dollars in fines.

The whole system is fscked up. Whether it was proper, legal, or otherwise for that "mansion" to be built, I have no opinion. But the existing regulations and permitting systems in California are wholly ridiculous; clearly, directly, and unequivocally responsible for an immense amount of social problems, including social inequities in this state; and outside a court of law, and without more context, deserve little deference regarding legitimacy and efficacy.

In fact, the system has the overall effect of injuring rule of law by making it difficult, not to mention often times economically infeasible, to obey the letter of the law. It turns the community into scofflaws. If the law and law-abiding community is the only thing protecting a resource, then it's of paramount importance to maintain the legitimacy of and respect for the law, even if that means sometimes making sacrifices and compromises regarding what you would like to accomplish with the law.
If tomorrow some guy from a small remote and completely obscure island came to you and told you're the last in the royal bloodline and need to reign the SNBXIHWJ people, leave your life and everything you own to come to their survival island and sit on the throne, you'd probably give them the middle finger.

In our current world wealth and royalty is preserved by free will and is nothing comparable to your manhood (which you can also give up if you want to, people do)
There were still lots of tribal federations, but the Roman Empire was still in full swing.
And yet those non-programmers who instead "read "Learn Python in 2 hours and become a millionaire" books, had a massive s*t on a keyboard and started a business with it" tend to have ended up with something significantly less horrible to maintain.
The actual song Journey in Satchidananda is one of my favorite pieces of music.

I went down a rabbit hole one afternoon finding various live performances of it, since it seemed so well-suited for extended jazz renditions. Here’s my favorite of the bunch:

https://youtu.be/w2bGe8kBPS4
A broken rib can damage your lungs or liver. Not sure where in the world you are, but going to the hospital with pain usually can help with at least getting prescription pain-killers, especially useful because having a broken rib tends to be kind of painful, paracetamol/ibuprofen have not helped me in the past with broken ribs.

Last time I went they warned me of not being able to breath deeply enough, hence I got stronger pain-killers. Something about possible infections or something like that, was a while ago.
One of the next releases will improve the plugin API to the point where authentication providers can be very easily added as plugins.
What’s unethical about stating that your entire team was disbanded (aka not terminated for individual performance) and you’d like help with connections finding new work? The message seemed extremely germane, seen those messages constantly over the years.