skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's been a ton of discussion on what constitutes "Trust" in the modern web world of late, but very little of it seems to have borne fruit. One minor advance Kubernetes formally adopting a proposal for a trust anchor[1][2]; Which is to say, a set of CAs that are equivalent.

Someone mentioned earlier that "At least we all agree that they're PEM and DER Formatted", to which someone mentioned that Java had it's own world, and ugh... That's a whole thing. Java has moved backwards in recent years; Their old Keystore format was useful for a single context, in that you could say "Here's the keystore for communicating with Google, it's got a list of public keys to trust and list of private keys that we are"; And that more or less worked with the tooling. The move to PKCS#12 moves to one unified bag with all your private and public keys mixed in and you have to specify which are which, which is theoretically better but in practice represents a configuration nightmare over just specifying separate files with the trusted CAs, our public keys, and our private keys. You still can't deliver a single PKCS12 file to all of your servers as a whole, because SafeBags aren't; They're DES encrypted, which is to say: Not at all[3], but at least it's clear that they aren't.

The right answer is basically what Cloudflare[4] and then Google Cloud[5] tried to do and failed: Create a single file-format for "Public Key and accompanying Private Key", and make it easy to extract the public key from many of those to form a list of CAs.

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/pull/3258
[2] https://spiffe.io/docs/latest/spiffe-about/spiffe-concepts/
[3] The actual Java recommendation is to use a single well-know DES key for all PKCS12 operations, which obviates all of the stated and even best-case-steelman arguments for why Java made this change, to the point that anyone defending the decision should probably not be trusted and the proposers were more likely malicious than stupid. That's a rant for a different post.
[4] https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl
[5] https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/application-def...
Websites have regressed to single page brouchure sites of 1995 so there is a pretty standard template nowadays for what you can call a "website".
You are saying, because you are uncomfortable discussing it, no one should discuss it? Feel free to correct me if I'm misreading you, it sounds like you're more or less saying, "things I don't like should go away and stop existing."
I have been opposed to working for defence as a general principle but the Pandemic has change my view.

My logic is that humans need to be safe to a certain degree (and I admit that the perception of safety is totally subjective)

I like safety from viral disease therefore I'm a fan of vaccines and masks.

I like personal safety in my day to day environment therefore I'm a fan of a well funded society with mental healthcare and appropriately funded social services and police.

I'm personally invested in the current system of sovereign countries/states and I believe that without controlling borders you can't really have a country. So I now believe that a well funded military is sadly still necessary. Talk about getting less left wing as you get older :-/

But I still 100% agree about not working for certain companies. Short term high interest consumer loans and any type of gambling are on my black list.
>Stop that!

Send them to a submarine trip undersea. If the symptoms disappear it is because they were the result of outside electromagnetic interference.

Not a medical problem, a criminal problem: computer hacking all the way, the human body, a computer, is the victim.
I have gender dysphoria myself, and you get an upvote from me because I think you are speaking the truth in a way that would lead to better outcomes for many of the affected people, if one properly thought through the implications.

I understand gender dysphoria (as opposed to body dysphoria/dysmorphia in a stricter sense) to be a mismatch between someone's own preferences, interests etc. inasfar as they touch on categories that society has declared to be gendered, and society's expectations of the same - at least those of your local bubble of society.

This means there are two non-mutually-exclusive ways to make the lives of gender dysphoric people better: (1) let them change themselves (many options from pronouns to hormones and surgery), or (2) change society's expectations. Out of sympathy for people suffering from gender dysphoria, I wish for a bit more of (2) in the world.

Even in a vastly improved society, there will be people who decide that medical changes such as hormones/surgery are right for them, and as far as possible we should support them. These people existed, in small numbers, before "trans" was cool, and they will still exist when the media interest has picked up some new favourite category. (By analogy, Tourette's syndrome is also a real thing that existed before the internet, and will still exist when this particular media spike has died down.)
How many times has the German grid collapsed?
YC has been criticized for investments in the past that are unethical, or poor financial bets or both. So YC investments aren't immune from falling under "nothing of value"
That just says that gender norms are malleable, not that they don't exist. Both in the 1800s and today there were strong expectations in terms of "expected" roles for different genders.
This came out very early in covid. It was at a time the only available vaccine. Ivermectin kind of came out about the same time. It's understood why it works as the article explains.

But isn't this akin to the cure for cancer is anthrax? The cure is worse than the disease.
Because usually population means US and sometimes you can include Europe.
I'd say it's a pretty good comprise between quality and performance. Certainly better than the alternative.
Unfortunately (in the case of TRUST stores) it uses pkcs12 in a non-standard way. You cannot, for example, use openssl pkc12 to create a p12 store java can read. Java expects some oracle-specific non-standard attributes on the bag.

PKCS12 keystores work fine, however.
This is alarmist BS. Facebook group fodder. “Humans have working mirror neurons” could have been the headline.

All of you futurists who have slipped down the slope are worried about media spreading “sociogenic illness”. Of course media is powerful. It always has been. There has been about 75 years of fears and schemes about using TV to mass hypnotize its watchers. The same with radio before it.

What is happening is mass unstructured clustering by social algos, specifically TikTok. Historically content and ad algorithms have focused on contextual relevance with structured categories. Graphs have extended that to included social context. TikTok has novel input parameters about user behavior. There have been many reports that this unstructured clustering is surfacing niche medical diagnoses regularly.

A lot of neurodivergent traits have historically been under diagnosed for the same goddamn ignorance as OP’s piece: “it’s just attention seeking”. This type of dismissal by parents, teachers, and doctors alike have lead to millions of people leading shorter, harder lives. ADHD, Autism, Tourette’s, Bipolar, schizophrenia, etc are present in larger numbers than are diagnosed. Often time these lifelong genetic differences lead to 10x+ higher suicide rates, inability to sustain work, and myriad health issues. It’s really common that mental health issues that don’t result in property damage just get ignored, downplayed, or under treated even if acknowledged.

I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 29. Having that information combined with medication, therapy, and exercise has changed my life for the better dramatically. If TikTok was the surface where I discovered that, I would have likely been dismissed or even openly mocked by my doctors, and continued with a life of suffering or worse.

By the way, it seems people cited in the article are experiencing a form of Tourette’s syndrome that is a typical neurological trait associated with other pathology. Echolalia has far less cultural awareness, but accurate describes the behavior: “Echolalia is not only associated with Autism, but also with several other conditions, including congenital blindness, intellectual disability, developmental delay, language delay, Tourette's syndrome, schizophrenia and others.” it’s not just swear words like on TV. My child does this. What happened to start as a YouTube ad for “Raid Shadow Legends” turned into a joke punchline, turned into a phrase that they cannot stop themselves from saying compulsively at odd times, after multiple years. It’s sub-clinical by itself, but is consistent with the diagnosis they do have.

This article is red meat, BS fear bait at best, dangerous at worst. To the extent content like this actually promotes diagnosis denial, it’s complicit in very literal harm of patients and those around them.
I confess I possess only a shallow understanding of ZK rollups - can anyone explain how you can have an opaque proof that transactions are valid and still solve double-spending problems?
> ...where Ubuntu just unilaterally reverted Mozilla’s removal of a cert in their package, because it was breaking nuget

It wasn't unilateral. Ubuntu followed Debian here, who did the same revert: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/c/ca-certificates/...
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> Could there possibly be a legitimate reason for something that clearly absurd?

Yes: https://www.straightdope.com/21343459/in-the-third-world-do-...
Wow, this is like the Cowboy Bebop pilot episode.
My great Aunt use to spend her time in the 80s always seemingly reading a "news paper" that had a cover story about how Elvis was still alive.

Hysterical to me how the generation that fought REAL NAZIS were not concerned with any of this.
Weapons companies running off government contracts look pretty great by this metric.
On being able to replace a real programmer I'd say ChatGPT is about the same distance lane assist is from FSD.

Why you ask? Well it's because most of what a programmer does is more complex than the AI can handle right now. For example my job involves the following:

a) multiple interacting systems and management of the relationships between them

b) > 90% of my work does not involve writing new code

c) the programming part is mostly about changing existing code

d) or debugging (and sometimes setting up a debugger and running code)

e) reading hundreds of articles to figure out why the trivial example these systems are good at doesn't work (sometimes on someone else's machine or staging only)

f) taking product requirements and making small alterations to allow them to become reality (and knowing when to tell people about the decisions you made and when not to)

g) talking to people who might know more about the specific problem you are facing and when to battle through

h) sharing ideas on how to do things with the wider team

i) fighting the good fight and sneaking in refactoring when people are not looking

I don't think we are anywhere near these things yet.
I mean if one of your parties resorts to constant lying, undermines the basic principles of democracy like the equal treatment of all, fights against the separation of church and state and caters to a (surprisingly large) populace of people who think Earth was created 4000 years ago, maybe one should be political.

As far as conjectures go - it's always appreciated to make a hypothesis as long as you approach it in a healthy way. Science requires that you yourself try to disprove the hypothesis as much as possible before posting it to the world. Otherwise you end up with so many "takes" that people stop believing there is a valid answer and become apolitical and jaded. In time of internet and open access to scientific papers the tolerance for constant wild speculation should be very low.
Oh yeah, I didn't mention everything, I had analogous experience. At the second interview video call the interviewer didn't show up, because the recruiter forgot to tell him about it. At the fifth video call with a different interviewer, he was an hour late because of the daylight savings change, again the recruiters' fault.
Agree, the concept is very basic but that doesn't mean it isn't useful. Sometimes dealing with temptations can feel very complicated so reducing in this way to fields can be helpful.
There is enough due diligence to cover ass. I think what surprises people is that peoples asses were actually covered. What exactly did e.g. Sequoia see to give them confidence that there would not be significant cost if things went sideways? I guess you can always say its not illegal to invest poorly. But is it illegal to fund a house of cards where your position is to get a good deal on the inside of a potentially lucrative ponzi scheme? I think the whole thing is a good lesson for common (especially young) investors... care about and think in the longterm ... what is your nest-egg invested in? If things go sideways there's not great guarantees of which groups receive a prop-up and which are allowed to fall.
Read Web3. It is an advertisement for Web3 and the blockchain.

If you want proof it is yours, print it out and sign it with a witness - with ink.
No comment about Chesterton's Fence but I have heard (but never confirmed!) one reason for left-handed stigma is to do with hygiene. The idea is that before modern hygienic standards (e.g. sinks with soap in every bathroom/kitchen), the left hand was reserved for "dirty work" (we are also considering a time before toilet paper...). So for example when you reach out to shake someone's hand, it would be rude to use the left.
For me, the Chesterton’s Fence principle doesn’t insist that there’s a good reason for everything that needs to be discovered. It says, don’t remove the thing until you understand why it was put there. If you’re sure there’s no good reason, go ahead. But find out first.
Humans are not “fungible”. Therefore:

- Immigration will alter the societal outcomes of a region, for “better” or “worse”, as the region chooses

- Destruction of productive and healthy societies by prolific but unhealthy ones will cause widespread harm.

- Failure to reproduce at replacement levels won’t show up as a disaster until many years after it is too late to correct it.

Wouldn’t it be better to aim to reduce harm and increase productivity, than to blanket reduce the overall population?
As you suggest, I'm not sure how typical that is, and it would very much depend on the acquirer. We've made quite a few acquisitions over the years, and there have been other potential acquisitions where we've chosen not to proceed due to something that's come out during DD. That's not to say we've never had any mess to clean up post-acqusition, but it's always been mess that we were aware of either through early conversations or through the DD process.
Playing with new technology and research is an important thing, but you have to be open that you are doing that and don’t pretend you are developing a usable product.
> Gender identity and sexual orientation are different concepts. Exploring gender identity is not the same as exploring sexuality.

While true, to be fair GP was responding to this:

>>> "For the last several decades society put massive pressure on kids to conform to *heteronormativity*. With these pressures lessening more and more people are feeling empowered to explore their *sexuality*." [emphasis mine]

To muddy the distinction further, there is a small minority of men whose sexual kink is to be perceived as women. These seem to be the people who are making the most trouble for trans women who just want to quietly go about living as women without fuss.
The trouble is, the Internet is bathroom stall graffiti.

If I say "For me it's a choice" then it undermines the people for whom it is not a choice. Because most of the audience in the bathroom stall aren't doing research to put together a comprehensive understanding of gender, they're just reading what in front of them for that day, and then leaving.

If I say gender can be learned, we can spend days bickering about what "learned" really means.

It's not fun. And I'm sorry that someone else said something you think is contradictory.
Population growth is both more kids being born, and people living longer.

We're now in the people living longer stage.

Hans Rosling did a simple demonstration of this with boxes over a decade ago.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_global_population_gro...

edit: better illustration of the point, still Hans with Boxes here:

https://youtu.be/2LyzBoHo5EI?t=203
My only point is that because of the color switch we can see that certain concepts of gender identity preference, "color", are social constructs that influence society.
Great example of the danger of talking about a solution before you’ve truly defined the problem. What problem is Fred trying to solve?

The example he gives of writing he would sign is a blog post. The blog post is already authenticated because it’s on avc.com. Fred Wilson has the tokens, social authority etc to ensure what shows up there under his name is from him. Technically speaking, it was already signed via TLS when sent to my web browser. It is also unclear how ChatGPT potentially breaks this sort of authentication.

Again, what is the threat model, what is the problem being solved? It seems like ChatGPT is much more likely to be used by someone imitating themselves out of laziness (“I don’t feel like writing this blog post today”) than to imitate someone else out of malice and this scheme does nothing to solve it.

I suppose someone could make a HN or Reddit account and pose as Fred Wilson and then ChatGPT makes it more credible. But are HN or Reddit going to allow GPG-style signed messages? Seems more likely, if this became an issue, they would move to usernames expressly tied to visible email addresses or domains that could be authenticated by receiving an email, adding a DNS entry, OAuth etc.
Previously you said it was a "conspiracy". Someone posted the results of a lawsuit.

Because of this, it is now irrefutable that this takes place and this is your response?

"I can only speak to my own experience..".. Well.. Have you considered your experience may be severely limited?

Perhaps in the future don't be so fast to pull the "conspiracy" card?
Indeed, but I also tested at least twice weekly for over a year (and others in my household tested positively during this time)
Not laid off, but webdev I've been applying about a year. About the past 3-4 months have been harder to land interviews than early on, even if I write sample code in company's stack/language and contact them. Have an online portfolio and contract work experience.
It can take many months to do a real estate transfer in many countries: in the UK it can be anywhere from a couple of months to a year.

Its not a fast system, basically the seller and the buyers lawyers have to mutually verify the sale is legal etc etc (that the seller actually can sell the property, that its not encumbered by a mortgage or such, etc). Buyer needs proof of funds, etc.

Pre-clearing the property and potential buyers can cut this time to days or hours.
People go through these long legal routes because they're, well, legally binding. Are your NFTs proven to be legally binding?
> And the questions are as inarticulate / ambiguous as you'd expect from a "political" or "social sciences" quiz

Nothing wrong with it. Your way to interpret a question can tell a lot about you. Though I agree it would be fun if the pedantic way of asking clarifying questions back was treated on its own. But I'm not sure it is possible in all cases.

> Taking the test I feel like I'm trying to read the test authors' mind, rather than probing my own.

Just relax and answer questions.

> I doubt the test authors really took into account that it's mostly a coin toss between "Strongly agree" and "Strongly disagree" (or "Neutral hesitant"?), even on the same question for the same person.

I don't know about this particular test, but good tests are robust, i.e. they give the same result on the same person. There are some tricks to measure robustness (for example, just give the test twice is not a good measure) but it is measured and reported in articles proposing new tests.

How these tests works is a magic, i.e. sufficiently advanced technology. There is a lot of work and research goes into really good ones. The trouble is you need a certification to reliable interpret results of such tests.
A cheap 4k 50" TV mounted on the wall over my desk to replace my multi-monitor setup. This was an epiphany I had not long ago when I noticed the price of these cheap 4k TV's. I was running two 27" monitors previously, but the large 4k is a game-changer because it's large enough that I can actually take full advantage of those pixels and nearly double the usable screen space of my old monitors.
The honest data sharing statement about no data sets being generated is a delightfully honest admission of their results being made up.
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Considering that it's the poorer people having more children it seems like the obvious answer is that most children are unplanned or the product of dim people with a figure it out later attitude.
Well UBI is a well established concept to create a more equal society, so let's steal the name and use it to create inequality. Brilliant!
Netflix seems pretty neutral to me, but it's like an obese person's feeder, it enables self-harm to some extent (it seems all streaming services do). There are things that IMO could make it good, most involve encouraging users to use it less, ... now if Netflix's _goals_ include engaging viewers beyond what is healthy (rather than viewers using neutral features in that way), then that is evil.

Two quick things, as a user, I would change about Netflix:

1) More childrens' content with actual people in. It's all cartoons (cheaper) whilst I hypothesise children develop better viewing real human interactions.

2) At account level build in breaks. It used to be adverts would provide a break that would encourage at least some movement and offer a chance to go off and be distracted (for adults and children alike). I'd love to say "minimum 10 minute break between episodes"; the screen would go off and only restart if interacted with after 10 minutes ... some will say "just have some will power", but IMO tech should help us with such things.

Mind you, I'd also change copyright law to allow any service to stream content of one service does (no exclusives except for a limited time; forced syndication, effectively) in order to create competition and choice at the service level rather than the content level.
The developing world. Lack of birth control + poverty + lower cost of raising children has our population exploding in all the places that haven't developed yet.
Interestingly, this time around, Ubuntu actually removed TrustCor from its root store almost immediately. That technically means that some certificates that should still be valid are now invalid on Ubuntu.
I feel like Candide is a pretty good antidote to this sort of thinking, which is a form of Panglossianism.

<sarcasm>

Supporting brutal regimes because not supporting them means you might not have enough oil or gas? Of course, it works out for the best. A few sacrificed in war and oppression while the many live well. Nazis were bad for the Jews? There are more Jews now than ever, and they have control of their ancestral lands. COVID wasn't being taken seriously enough by some countries/states? They've successfully culled their elderly population and are probably saving tons of long-run suffering.

</sarcasm>

Obviously, that is all sarcastic, but there is something weird about teleological thinking. The same sort of thinking that the events that led to my birth were ipso-facto moral, because otherwise I would be wishing for my own nonexistence, and as a moral person how could I do that? An immoral person could take my place.
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