skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're benefiting from a massive open, unpartitioned platform (meaning, anyone can join and form communities/reply-to tweets, without isolating things to friend-groups or creating 'subreddits' with human moderators gatekeeping them). The platform gives you unprecedented global reach, and most amazingly: it's still functional and hasn't been drowned in spam. I think people need to take a breath and realize that this is an incredible technical accomplishment in 2022 (or 2015, 2009, 2001) given the ambient noise level of the Internet. You are not going to keep a platform like this readable and still be able to apply loving, artisanal human decision-making to it: there aren't enough human beings in the world.

If you start a new account that behaves like spam, there's a good chance that you'll get treated like spam -- and that's probably an acceptable tradeoff because the alternative is no working platform at all.
https://www.alrc.gov.au/publication/copyright-and-the-digita...

so if your work is transformative, it can be exempt as fair use. But i'm not sure what degree counts as transformative - i do think that training an AI model with millions of repos worth of code is transformative.
It’s like Minsk Agreements have been memory holed…

Unjustified unprovoked war and all that…
No. I'm saying what is learned is useless to the topic at hand. Useless to proving a point.

Valuable,.depends on your opinion, useless to proving a point yes.
Actual title?
What the UK really needs is proportional representation. The conservatives do not belong together in one party, but because of the election system any internal differences are allowed to happen informally via whips within the party constitution instead of the formal, national constitution. Labour has the same problem, as does the US FPTP system.

PR would allow different factions to negotiate under formal rules like in other countries, where when a support party loses confidence, they topple the government and cause an election. PR of course also has whips but there's the prospect of dissenters starting their own party.

For a look at how that works follow the Danish election that's coming up in a couple of weeks. The old PM quit and formed his own party, another of the old ruling party did the same, and both look to be grabbing quite a large share of votes.
Great. We shouldn't be doing that.
Not the only meaning of "legitimate". There's also "Authentic, real, genuine" and "Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid." (Wiktionary) There's a question of acceptability involved here, I feel.
Does anybody know what the scale of this image is when measure in AU per pixel?
I like the HN approach of taking a charitable interpretation of their message.

Clearly EasyList lived on their free tier for a long time without interruption. Only when they used excessive bandwidth did ToS enforcement happen. When they reached out for support, the support agent rightly pointed out that this isn't a website file.

Reading the ToS, the support agents message appears to be correct. Text files are fine (as is pretty much any format) as long as it isn't the main focus of the HTTP server Cloudflare is fronting. Robots.txt would be fine, turning the list into XML or HTML would not be fine. In this case, the text file isn't there to support the web content of Easy List - it's distributing a text file to applications.

The agent could have added additional context but their message is valid.
Did you mean private schools? Public school education in the UK is quite problematic.
Ask a Mortician: Did We Violate Community Guidelines? [video]
This is basically unanswerable by anyone except Twitter employees, since nobody else has any insight into their banning algorithm.
Honestly they are kind of crap in the sense that they really are mopeds with wings, which have sometimes even been shot out of the air by policemen with small arms. They are decidedly not crap in the sense that the type of air defense most nations have developed so far will struggle engaging such drones cost effectively.

If you use a 500k missile to shoot down a 20k drone, that is a win for the drone operator. If you don't shoot it down and it severely damages a 10m power plant, that is also a win for the drone operator. The aircraft vs air defense arms race in the past couple of decades has been towards more capable (and thus more expensive) platforms on both sides, leaving room for this kind of cheap drone on the bottom of the market. There are plenty of systems that can cost-effectively engage drones though, from old-style flak guns to other cheap drones to (in the future) lasers. It is only a matter of time before the West finds proper countermeasures.
I am curious how you managed to pitch and get these angels on board? Some of them are pretty big names and I am skeptical about them answering every DM request for investment from startup founders, because they would likely receive hundreds, if not thousands.
> I thought grandparent was saying that GR is wrong

No. The dark matter hypothesis is part of our best current model based on GR.

That hypothesis does include the belief that, as far as galaxy rotation curves are concerned, GR corrections to Newtonian gravity are negligible. But that is not the case for other observations that dark matter also accounts for (see below).

> and that Vulcan exists, but it’s made of dark matter.

That is basically what the dark matter hypothesis says, yes: that we don't need to modify the laws of gravity to explain galaxy rotation curves, we just have matter there that we can't see.

If this hypothesis were only introduced to explain galaxy rotation curves, that would be one thing. (It still wouldn't be as easily refutable as the Vulcan hypothesis was, since it's a lot easier for us to rule out the presence of significant additional matter in the solar system than it is in distant galaxies. But that's a side issue.) But it isn't. The dark matter hypothesis also explains many other observations (for example, the amount of structure--gravitational clumping of matter into galaxies and galaxy clusters--as compared with the amount of baryonic matter present based on Big Bang nucleosynthesis (which by itself would be much too small to account for the structure that we see). MOND, OTOH, was introduced solely to explain galaxy rotation curves and still leaves all the other observations that dark matter accounts for unexplained.
There's no 'intended message' to be found there, just some isolated incidents of dumb police officers arresting people for silly reasons (as acknowledged by their subsequent 'de-arrest').
Yep. CNC machines of sufficient accuracy/precision are considered export-controlled munitions because they can be used to manufacture nuclear weapons components or nuclear fuel processing equipment, such as gas centrifuges).

Their sale/ownership are registered with the government. Some of them have GPS chipsets or are otherwise set up to detect when they're being moved, and stop functioning to some degree until they're recommissioned by the manufacturer - though this is also abused by manufacturers to force a company to have to pay to re-commission a machine if it is re-sold, even if it doesn't qualify under munitions rules.

Other things that are sometimes export-restricted include components that could be used in missiles like accelerometers, inertial navigation units and GPS chipsets if they're the sort that have sufficient accuracy or lack speed/acceleration/altitude lockouts.
`curl` is a command

`curl | awk …` is a “shell one-liner” (albeit very basic)

Throw in some $(()), ${var:##}, etc and it’s a great example of a “bash one-liner”
Twitter used to have RSS! Unfortunately they killed RSS support in 2012.
Anyone can share their experience with the somewhat new STRICT mode? Does it help? I tend to use Postgres when available, primarily for the added strictness, but I'd surely prefer SQLite in more scenarios as it's easier to operate.
This might sound crazy... but if the UK is already de facto ruled by financial markets, in the sense that the PM has to step down if the markets don't like what they're doing, maybe it's time to try prediction market-based governance for real?

What would've happened if instead of simply announcing the proposal, Truss had described the proposal and the government had sponsored a conditional prediction market on the economic effects?

She could've run prediction markets for dozens of proposals, and selected a policy that was popular with both the markets and the public.

(Lest this idea be seen as overly capitalist: there's no reason not to run a prediction market for "degree to which this policy will reduce inequality", and incorporate the result into decisionmaking as well. Imagine the irony: a bunch of rich hedge funds trying to figure out the best way to reduce inequality!)
That's about the most annoying transcript format ever
App-layer cryptographic primitives for secure storage of user data
This article is 6 months old: 04/27/22
I know reasonably well some ex FB people from the early days (early 2010s, well before IPO). They explicitly defined FB as a 'utility' - based on how users react during outages and usage patterns.

I think that your definition is not only spot on, but actually what social media platforms themselves interpret their role.
The most Chinese friendly candidate in the current global politics? As a Hongkonger living in UK he really instilled lots of fear among our people
The indictment calls it a "high-precision computer-controlled grinding machine" just before it mentions it is "commonly known as a 'jig grinder,'"
A lot of it is theatre. For example keir starmer congratulating boris on the birth of his child, i think, and sounding sincere. Then pretty much in the same breath, he lashes out at him on some policy or scandal. English people banter a lot more then americans, so its not taken personally.
Just to note: Nomad has added service discovery (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/nomad-1-3-adds-native-service...) and a secrets system (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/nomad-1-4-adds-nomad-variable...) in the past few months. You can run Nomad without Consul or Vault for many use-cases now.
> Truss's premiership has been in turmoil since her mini-budget last month, which rocked markets and was later scrapped by her new chancellor

Interesting that the train was set in motion by economic trouble, particularly inflation and a miscalculation about a response.

The strong US dollar is exerting effects around the world and will continue to do so. This is unlikely to be the last incident in which the dollar's strength contributes to instability in other countries.

There have been many calls for the death of the dollar. Inflation will kill it. It will be killed by countries wising up that they don't need it and can trade with each other using their own currencies.

And yet here we are. US CPI growth north of 8% and a dollar that's rocketing higher. Meanwhile countries like Britain and Japan are desperate to find a way out of an acute dollar shortage, tanking currencies, and uncontrollable inflation.
> On the other hand, how does all of the obvious spam not get caught?

The vast majority of the obvious spam is almost certainly getting caught. Ben is making the elementary error only judging things based on what he sees (what makes it through), and totally forgetting to consider not what he doesn't see (the stuff that was blocked).

Being annoyed at the "after careful review" bit in a situation where no human review would have happened is fair though.
In England “public schools” are what they call elite privately run schools.

Edit: interesting history on why: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdo... the schools “were "public" in the sense of being open to pupils irrespective of locality, denomination or paternal trade or profession.”
For everyone saying this is a 5000 dollar ebay score from the 50s, here's the regulation -- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-10-24/pdf/2018-2...

The regulation appears to pertain to _Three or more axis_ CNC machine with a sub 1.1 micron repeatability on one or more axes. That's not a 50s manual jig borer, that's a very high end modern(ish) CNC machine.

The Canadian implementation (Obviously not US law but it's implementing the same treaty), is a little more readable. https://www.international.gc.ca/controls-controles/about-a_p...
Don't ruin the puff piece by asking scientists to actually do science!

They are biologists, though, who do not generally have a good track record on replication.
I’m not sure what is more of a shit show: the GOP seeking to control every aspect of a woman’s life and undermine democracy or UK governance. It’s insane. What’s next? They bring back Boris?
That's not even remotely true. The Leader of the Opposition (Keir Starmer) went to Reigate, then to Leeds University. Gordon Brown went to Edinburgh University, Jeremy Corbyn went to North London Poly.

Only Ed Milliband and Tony Blair went to Oxford, which is where (of the Conservative Party): David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Theresa May and Liz Truss went.

Saying "living under both sides is the same thing" is also observably false, as anyone raised under the Labour governments of 1997 to 2010 can attest and compare to the Conservative governments since.
Ah, that's probably pretty simple: Other folks don't see the same value in sitting in the same room with the team. It's really no deeper than that.

Look, I'm a pretty extroverted, social guy, and as a senior manager, the vast majority of the problems I need to solve involve high bandwidth, 1:1 communication because the problems I solve are people problems first and foremost.

So obviously, for me, in my role, face-to-face interactions have a ton of value!

But I absolutely recognize that a lot of other roles are not the same.

When I look back at my days as a developer, I spent a lot of time in the same room with people! And 80% of that time, our headphones were on and we were banging away coding while interacting digitally. Sure, we'd often pop those headphones off to have those high-bandwidth problem solving conversations, but the vast majority of time those conversations were 1:1 discussions, and could have easily been had over virtual meeting tools like Zoom or Teams.

That's the reality for a lot of individual contributors.

Just because you can't wrap your head around that, doesn't mean that experience is invalid.
This article is bait.

Rage-bait if you are middle management.

Screw-your-manager-bait if you hate your boss.
> Do US streets have the cardinal directions on the roadsigns, or are you all issued with built-in compasses at birth?

A lot of cities have somewhat gridlike street patterns, and those are often roughly oriented to the cardinal directions, so in those places, people will use them that way. (This is especially true in cities that are relatively flat and were mostly settled by colonists after the mid-19th century. Look at a map of Pierre, SD, Denver, CO, or Wichita, KS.)

Even when it's not north-south, people will still do this. In Manhattan, for example, the streets are actually offset by 29°, but people will still say "east" or "west" to mean "towards the Hudson/East River", respectively.

But also, the dialogue in cop dramas is always going to be forced and artificial, so I wouldn't read too much into that anyway.
Whatever sanctions Russia should suffer, the USA and its allies should also suffer the next time they drop troops in a sovereign nation and destroy its government.

Simple as that.
Blue checkmarks have been a joke for years. And imagine using Reddit as an example of "good" moderation.
This is true, and yet there are plenty of other unelected people with far more influence than him. The US also has lots of rich, powerful and unelected people who exert vastly more political influence than the average citizen. That's not to say that I approve of Charles's lobbying activities, but he's hardly the worst example.
I know it's not really related to the topic ( which I find pretty weak, of course VPNs are bad for privacy... ).

I've been using Datapacket for a year for my e-commerce company. Amazing performance, stability and service. Best dedicated hosting I've experienced in a long time.
Now, if they dug into our national labs for information exfiltrators who probably sell said information to non-friendlies, they might come across even more interesting catches. It's probably part of doing business, but also they could probably batten the hatches tighter.
Hard to prove.
Lessons learned from writing a weekly changelog for two years
> There's no such thing as appropriate moderation at Twitter scale. It's societal techology we as humans do not have.

Haven't Wikipedia and Stack Overflow figured out the right way to moderate at scale?
> Crypto spamming with Elon Musk's avatar? Not a bot!

> Stratechery Interviews? NO TWEET FOR YOU

Pretty derpy take. People understand the math on this right? There are literally teams of hundreds or thousands of people who, day in and day out, are spinning up bots in the desperate hope that one will get seen by an actual user, and every once in a while, they break through.

On the other hand, if you say anything controversial to any audience, it's trivial to whip up a brigade of people to report the content, and when enough people report something, it's going to cause a suspension, at least temporarily, no matter how benign it is.
Ah you kidding, hackernews shows large layoffs every other day now
Can someone with more networking expertise than me explain whether this sort of risk applies only to rented DC servers? Or is it an ISP risk that can also impact Mullvad's owned servers[1]?

[1] Mullvad owns 159 servers in 9 countries (https://mullvad.net/en/servers/), so not quite sure why you wouldn't just choose to use one of those instead if concerned about this
Charles Walker isn’t standing in the next election
I doubt many in this thread arguing for nuclear war even know where Minsk is on the map, let alone understand the importance of the Minsk Accords having been non-complied with by both parties ..
No "Public Schools" in the UK refers to a very specific subset of fee-paying schools mentioned in the Public Schools Act of 1868 (sometimes informally includes a couple of others). Private Schools are the other fee-paying schools. What a non-Brit might think of as "public" schools are actually called "state" schools in the UK
This is great! Too many services today become completely unusable when they encounter technical problems, are hacked or are just lost over time. Having an easily accessible offline copy is always reassuring, showing that their survivability does not depend on just a few people and the projects are fundamentally about the information, not an organization.
>But for me, they are life changing

This is not something you can claim. How could you possibly know that the SSRI is responsible for your recovery?

I'm not going to say that antidepressants are useless, but it is important to understand how placebo works. The key point is that placebo works and it is impossible for an individual to distinguish between a placebo and a life changing drug.

In antidepressant studies, SSRIs often outperform placebo to a degree. However, the placebo group has an excellent recovery rate! That means there are people who are clinically depressed, suicidal etc. who are then given a sugar pill as part of a study and make a full recovery.

>You often need to try 2 or 3 different SSRIs

That makes it even murkier. SSRIs take a long time to work, and if you try several of them that's going to take months to years. There's a high probability that in that time, you might naturally recover. You have the combined benefit of placebo and waiting in addition to the effects of the SSRI. You tried 2 SSRIs that didn't work. What makes you so confident that it was the third?

Again, I'm not saying SSRIs are useless. But it's important that we rely on controlled studies to make these determinations. Personal experience and anecdotes are beyond worthless; for example they are the reason why homeopathy is a $20 billion dollar industry even though it is actually provably useless.
Specialized tooling is hard to make. For example, Russia is currently suffering from a reduction in railway capacity as they are unable to make some types of replacement ball bearings for rail cars, and they are also unable to make the devices for manufacturing them. The world is quite interconnected, and if you can buy a rare component at a good quality and price whenever you need one, then bootstrapping an industry for that doesn't make sense - since you alone anyways won't have the scale required to be cost-effective for it.
Well actually on that we asked. They advised us not to use it now or in the future regardless of any outcome because at any point of litigation it muddies the water on what is clean-room innovation and what is not. While a change might be defined by copilot, it is not possible or practical to record any causal data or attribution with the change. It's arguably better to have any plagiarism issues directly attributed to a corporeal engineer where the audit trail can be made and scope identified.

The outcome is that introducing the tool actually tangibly increases business risk in a changing climate.
Not necessarily. I care about free software for practical reasons, not ideological ones. (RMS might say I don't care about free software, but rather "open source").
> public schools such as Eton

I always have to remind myself that an English "public school" is what most people call a private school.

Per Wikipedia[0]:

> "public" in the sense of being open to pupils irrespective of locality, denomination or paternal trade or profession.

I emphatically agree that an emphasis on rhetoric will make smart people smarter.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)
> MOND can reproduce many of those observations using only the visible mass and a tweak to gravitation

No, it can't. It can only reproduce a subset of galaxy rotation curve observations. It cannot reproduce other observations at all (such as the amount of structure in the universe as compared with the amount of baryonic matter that is consistent with Big Bang nucleosynthesis, which is about the same as the amount of matter we can see, but is much too small to account for the amount of structure--gravitational clumping into galaxies and galaxy clusters--that we see).
Yea these aren't related to any genes, there are just custom names for a peptide booster series.
I took Twitter off my laptop and kept it only on my phone. This keeps it from competing with work. (Unfortunately now HN competes with work.)
In UK "public school" means private school, generally old ones with traditions going back to British Empire, or subscribing to a similar ideology. Training the new elites, building character, connections etc.

They do tend to be very good schools but raise issues about social mobility, elitism etc (they tend to be expensive).
It wasn't a contradictory goal.

The sect Truss belongs to considers that aggregate demand is solely a matter for the central bank to sort out, and that it has to respond to the fiscal setting of the government. Not the other way around.

This is enshrined in law at s11 of the Bank of England Act 1998.

"In relation to monetary policy, the objectives of the Bank of England shall be—

(a)to maintain price stability, and

(b)subject to that, to support the economic policy of Her Majesty’s Government, including its objectives for growth and employment."
Prehistoric human genomes reveal that first Neanderthal family were just like us
I'd love to know why proposing borrowing to cover top-bracket tax rate cuts sends Britain spiraling into crisis but in America that is just how we do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)

Nine prestigious schools were investigated by Clarendon (including Merchant Taylors' School and St. Paul's School) and seven subsequently reformed by the Act: Eton, Shrewsbury, Harrow, Winchester, Rugby, Westminster, and Charterhouse.

Confusingly, "Public School" refers to the most elite (and very exclusive) schools in the UK