skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tbf people even post born on /biz/, they just eat the ban for it, and even when it isn't outright porn it's often very overtly sexual images. The only thing that makes it browsable is the Wingman browser plugin.
I suppose it's relevant but (devil's advocate) how does it affect/harm you? The reason the public doesn't seem to care is because it's benign.
This isn’t a unilateral move by a small group of moderators. Regular users support the blackout in droves. We don’t like Reddit corporate deciding to shut down 3rd party developers.

Reddit is extremely entitled. They as a company create nothing. The users create everything and do all the work of moderation. Spitting in the eye of your all-volunteer staff on which you depend completely for your livelihood is corporate suicide.
Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

Or in this case, incompetence.
Sure why not. Why does it matter? There’s unhoused and hungry people in the US and where its military bases are.

Instead of worrying about the country being founded by bourgeoisie supremacists whose writing the country still uses as its foundation…let’s worry if Mount Rushmore or Jefferson get “cancelled”. If they aren’t cancelled, what of all the dead victims of the exclusionary foundation of the country?
There was a good NYTimes piece about it a few years ago. It’s easier than you’d think. If you know the target’s home address you can track the devices that come from there, and everywhere they go. On weekdays they’re probably going to work, which is also quasi-public info.
Knuth's rule of thumb was that a "quick'n'dirty" assembler should take an afternoon to write.
I'd call 90% of the site currently black a pretty rough edge.
> In the US also the FAX is still a thing?! Seriously?!

Yep. My current employer, as well as the two prior to this one, all have and use fax machines despite being tech companies. Not because they want to, but because so many other companies out there still require it.
> In practice, most people do not understand the ramifications of the things they agreed to that put this data out there (if they even read it!)

True, but it's even worse than that. Many of those who do understand it, simply don't care ("nothing to hide", "nothing to fear", etc.).

The allure of a "free" service that everyone else uses is enough to abandon any expectation of privacy, and consciously come up with arguments that it doesn't matter.
> I don't agree that it's Amazon's job to police how I use my own device.

That's not what the ban was about. His account was banned because they wanted to protect their drivers from future racist encounters.

Obviously, they should be very sure that something actually happened, before taking such a drastic measure. The minimum would be to at least hear both sides.
Man, what a blast from the past. There was once a time that I had to use zsync or jigdo to get an Ubuntu image, almost two decades ago. Now, the whole thing shows up in seconds. Wirelessly. Magical.
Cloth goods were expensive up until quite recently. People generally didn't have nearly as many outfits as we do now. Being able to repair and manufacture your own clothing and linens was a huge deal.
Not sure why people are still repeating this erroneous line of thinking. Humans can’t look in two different places at once like a chameleon. The eyes focus on the same point and the stereo images overlap almost entirely - the difference in point-of-view between your two eyes is tiny, they are next to each other! (Try alternatively closing one eye). If you’re emulating a pixel from a screen in VR you’re going to have to draw that same pixel in both eyes. You do not get 2x the pixels.

The exception to this is at the edges of your vision, where each eye does see a unique portion of the field, but by definition that’s not where you’re looking.
Modern consumer brands have essentially nothing to do with selling consumer goods. They are financial vehicles for private equity to lever up on.

In a decreasing liquidity environment many of these schemes will blow up. They could have sold 100x more insta pots and it wouldn't have mattered, it's pure financial gambling under the hood
The thing is that the looks of scrollbars vary so much between platforms - on mobile you can barely see them only when you do the action of scrolling! So it would be rather weird that, if you are seeing a website in mobile and you just put a scrollbar because reasons, you're quitting some horizontal/vertical space to the effective area of the website.

And note that the act of scrolling is much more related to the OS host rather than something the website itself should provide (now, if there was an standard way across every device to scroll to the very top or the very bottom of a view (webpage, list, etcetera...). I am a designer myself but I agree than we should not mess with them. And the plus that it's a bit less of work for us (and devs, when they have to implement those things).
Are you sure about that? See Section 2.2 of the report, "Examples of CAI Contracts" that says "The IC currently acquires a large amount of CAI" and goes on to list specific data brokers contracted by specific government agencies. What am I missing?
Most AI research shouldn’t be publicly released
Not sure what the play is here. By changing your name you are telling the government about your new name. So they will just search for all of your names.
Moved to a bigger/better city this year. Was a bit of a daunting task as some friends and family advised against it and I had just bought my apartment a year ago. But it ended up being the best thing I ever did, completely changed everything about my life and I'm loving everything.

I didn't go as extreme as the author and just jump in without any research, but I feel the benefits were the same without many risks. My life from 1-2 years ago is almost unrecognizable now, and I had no idea how much it sucked back then despite on paper seeming pretty good.
meh, I'm not impressed. You gloss over and dismiss high level issues with nothing more than hand-wringing.

Disinformation and hate speech are real problems without easy solutions, but it doesn't mean that they should be disregarded as concerns.

And as for politics, the evolution of the GOP has gone into whole new territory (cult-like), and it's beyond frustrating that there's zero room for real discussion about it.

Back to free speech: one of the reasons that HN is so wonderful is that "unacceptable speech" is not tolerated here. That's a feature, not a bug.
Is there some peculiar technical limitation on your end which prevents you from following or reading links?

From the NOAA link above:

See Huang et al. 2021 for complete details

Huang et al, "Improvements of the Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1 " (April 2021): <https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/34/8/JCLI-D-...>

Notably:

- "DOISST v2.0 and v2.1 have a resolution of daily and 0.25° × 0.25°"

- "The large-scale biases of AVHRR SSTs are corrected against the available in situ observations from ships and buoys in DOISST v2.0 (Reynolds et al. 2007) and from ships, buoys, and Argo floats in this study (v2.1; Table 1). Daily biases of AVHRR SSTs (e.g., 15 January 2020) are calculated in the following procedures: 1) daily AVHRR and in situ SSTs are bin-averaged separately to 2° × 2° grids; 2) daily AVHRR and in situ SSTs are averaged separately within a 15-day running window (e.g., 8–22 January 2020); 3) the averaged AVHRR and in situ SSTs are projected onto a common set of empirical orthogonal teleconnection (EOT) functions; 4) the difference between EOT-filtered AVHRR and in situ SSTs is defined as AVHRR biases; and 5) the daily biases on 2° × 2° grids are interpolated linearly to 0.25° × 0.25° grids and applied to AVHRR SST [see more details in Reynolds et al. (2007); Huang et al. 2015b]."

I'll trust in your competence to answer your remaining questions without my assistance.
I don't entirely disagree, but the first thing that this article brought to mind is the old cliche "wherever you go, there you are". I'm 34, lots of ex girlfriends and lots of past cities. There's a fine line between breaking out of the status quo hamster wheel and running away from your baggage.

Moving cities, or relationships, or jobs isn't worth as much if you aren't simultaneously working on yourself
Perhaps everyone who wanted one already bought one, so the demand must have crashed.

We have 2, but the 2nd one has never needed used.
Meta Releases MusicGen
Liberty Ale is a true classic of brewing, but you can find something like it in any city now

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is another classic and you can find it practically anywhere
But those people who bought expensive properties are the ones with the power to change the situation.
It is scary to me how much legislating is done by these government bodies inside the (executive ?) branch.

I do sympathize with anyone trying to get clear requirements in black and white terms of what is and isn’t acceptable .

I think this is more of a systemic failure.
Anytime I am laying out a UI or database it goes in a journal, diagrams for things as well. Any reference publications or online sources of information will be listed as well.

If your development project is doing something novel, it is almost a necessity to keep records. It's really more of a research project at that point which becomes much more difficult to manage without diligently keeping notes of the process.
Substack is the new Medium, this drivel as a prime example.
I believe you mean "non sequitur", but my comment wasn't one of those either.

The claim I'm responding to was in the a part you failed to quote, "censorship". Censorship is generally meant as suppression of content, not behavior. In the case described, Twitter was cracking down on harassment, not specific content.

As a clear example, imagine I call you up at all hours of the day and night, reciting the Bill of Rights every time you answer. When you stop answering, I show up out front of your house with a bullhorn and start reading the Federalist Papers at maximum volume. When you call the police and they haul me off, is that censorship? In typical usage, no, because the problem is not my ideas expressed.
I think the simplest around that is to pay the moderators. So given the $2

- $1 goes to the server

- $.67 goes to the users you upvote

- $.33 goes to the moderator(s) of the group you upvoted in.

So there's actual incentive to want to mod to begin with, and less incentive to risk that by trying to game for post votes as well.

Now ofc I already see a half dozen issues here, so we'd need to deviate strongly from reddit to make this work:

- you can't just create subs willy-nilly. You don't even want that in the beginning anyway because you shouldn't splinter a small community. There would need to be a formal way to talk to an admin and request any new sub. Or at least, we need to delineate from a monetized sub vs. non-monetized, with ways to transition from one to the other.

- This encourages small mod groups and you don't want mods to be able to pick/kick at will now that money is involved. Again, new mods would need some more admin intervention for moderator changes.

- As you can assume, A senior mod won't be equal to a newly recruited mod. So it probably isn't the best idea to spread that mod fund equally per se.

- Mod posts would need to be taken into account as well. Maybe moderators (and possible alts) can't make money off their own posts to avoid double dipping

Lot of interesting ideas to go about. So I hope this site does at least get some visibility
Anecdotally: op guessed right - I was only interested because of the HN and reddit outages
That’s part of the problem with durable or semi-durable businesses. You sell a ton - one to everyone- and then you only sell to people coming of age or to those who have failures. If you want to play with the math look up Bass models or diffusion models. Fascinating but quite sobering. Once a market is saturated it’s very hard to grow.
I stopped reading at article with "Andrew Tate is the latest victim of the Matrix...". No kidding.
> trying to out do one another across different dimensions (though mostly hops)

In places with younger craft markets, it's like an even split between hops and extreme naming/label graphics. Here in Seattle, beer names are like Obscure Mythology Reference and you might enjoy the Wikipedia hole it starts you on while you imbibe. The first craft brew I remember seeing visiting my original home state, Virginia, was literally named Raging Bitch with a fierce looking dog baring its teeth and blood-like splatters of red ink. It was actually a pretty decent stout IIRC.
There's a recording from 2014 where David Relman and Ralph Baric talk about that distinction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw-nR6-4kQQ&t=2466s

I said "gain of function research of concern", which is vague but seems to have become the standard phrase to convey that narrower sense. There's definitely some grey, but the WIV's work was pretty deep in the black.

I'm reading more about lentiviral vectors now, and not totally comforted to see all the ways the earlier generations could regain replication competence. That still seems much less frightening to me than GOFROC, which is deliberately just one containment failure away from a novel pandemic.
Isn’t a name change just another entry in a database saying user_id X now points to make Y?

How hard can it be to combine one more database entry into a deanonymisation process?
Smells like survival bias... but yes, go for it!
I enjoy the randomness of that with being able to shout into the wind at an above average technical audience.
One thought that occurred to me, regarding how to stop this kind of data being available:

First, a question: how does the government (or any buyer) determine that the data they are buying is genuine?

Second: Assuming that there's really no good way, then there's something you can do. Somebody could simply run lots of ChatGPT style models to generate a flood of nonsense but plausible-looking data about everyone on the planet. Flood the Internet with it. Compile it into lists and offer them for sale. Cheap!

Once there's so much nonsense data out there, then provenance becomes more valuable. It becomes less useful to just buy random data.

Doesn't solve the actual problem of privacy, but it might help in the short run.
By the way, does anyone know why it was named LCARS (by Okuda, presumably)? Neither the abbreviation nor the expansion are particularly catchy or straightforward.
Of course I mean you. I mean all programmers.

"When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor." -- Timothy Snyder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F75dhfkXjw8)

As engineers we are building these systems, such as ad tech and personal data markets, that we do not wish to participate in. We (and if you're back is up, then in all likelihood you) are responsible for the world we are creating.

As engineers we have an ethical responsibility to build a world we wish to live in.

As a class of people exercising power together, we can use that power to make a world we want to live in. When we implement systems that sell personal data we disempower ourselves and empower those who benefit from making the world a worse place.
You misunderstand me. I'm saying it should be legal, but just because something is legal doesn't mean it's good for society and thus society _should_ pursue legal means to stop people from doing things that are socially bad.

There are other, legal, means of discouraging a behavior than just putting a law on the books and letting the judicial system handle it.
strength. i put mine in three weeks ago. good luck!
This gave me a bunch of insight into the workings of those old survival tricks of using analog watch hands to find cardinal directions:

- Since the video starts at solar noon, the sun is always at 12:00 relative to the video.

- Swapping reference frames, if you had a clock face with 24 hours on it, and aligned the "12:00" to point at the equator, the "0:00-12:00" axis would define a longitudinal plane through the Earth, and the hour hand would define a second plane that would intersect with the sun--the hour hand would "follow" the sun.

- Conversely, if you pointed your clock's hour hand at the sun, you would know your "12:00" would be due north/south (depending on hemisphere).

- The same is true for conventional 12-hour watches and clocks, but you must find the "half-way" mark between your hour hand and noon, because the hour hand is moving at twice the speed relative to the hypothetical 24-hour clock.

Neat!
>The fact that our economies are pulling through a near-total shutdown relatively unscathed except moderate inflation

in what world is the economy pulling through 'relatively unscathed'? It's quite literally teetering between hyperinflation and deflationary collapse monthly
I don't know how to tell you that there were George Floyd protests in DC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Washi....

Somehow they managed to avoid breaking into the Capitol building and rifling through the offices of Congresscritters.
Mind me asking how you got into HFT? Curious about this.
At the time Microsoft was strong-arming every Android OEM into paying royalty payments or else. Samsung paid more than a billion dollars to Microsoft in royalty payments for those questionable patents. I'd call that a chokehold.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29505439
I strongly disagree. That rule exists specifically to remove any ambiguity about when it's "warranted" to change the title and when it's not. The author's title accurately reflects the author's perspective on the incident and the overall tone of the piece.

Changing the title to be more inflammatory would color the perspective of readers in a way that the author didn't intend, and would make the conversation on here considerably worse. HN is intended for curious discussion, not outrage brigading, and the headline rule is one of several defense mechanisms that attempt to keep it that way.
Many high ranking fast food executives actively hate, detest, and despise their frontline employees, as in, consider them to be inferior human-like beings whose only duty in life is to cause trouble and give them grief and to cost them their bonuses in the process.

Frontline fast food employees are disobedient money making robots to them.

If the Stanford Prison Experiment could be reproduced ethically, I think using fast food executives as the guards and frontline as the prisoners, it would be very enlightening.
Overjustification effect in action.
I know that intellectual charity is a virtue one should practice, but I can't resist to think that the text is mainly in favor of very dangerous gambling with the added argument that "sometimes, you can win, like I did".
I'd love to see an API only version of Reddit where people build the clients on top of it but are forced to serve ads from the global provider, from which they get a generous cut.
Why should I pick you, when there are so many alternatives? I have more candidates than I can try:
DevCycle,
enrolla,
FeatureHub,
Featurevisor,
Flagsmith,
Flipt,
Flux,
GrowthBook,
LaunchDarkly,
Prefab,
Split,
Unleash
Yes, and as both posts say, that’s because large sequences are implemented by building up from small sequences :)
> The way my grandmother spoke would be cut out of a modern novel as a racist stereotype.

That’s nothing new sadly, especially in academia. It used to be considered proper literary form to “translate” how people actually spoke to “proper English” and you can imagine the demographic of the people doing the “translating.”

See for example Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" [1] about one of the last living former slaves in the US. It was published a few years ago nearly a century after it was written because the author refused to white wash the subject’s language and couldn’t get it published in her life time.

Hell that criticism could easily be leveled at some of the most popular western canon like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracoon:_The_Story_of_the_...
A simple hash table in C
One security expert a while back recommended grsecurity. From what I gather, it prevents permission exploitation in the first place and does so in a way that is pretty robust (can't remember the principle on how it does so)

Otherwise, I'd say forget about trying to secure Linux and just go with QubesOS unless you need 3D graphics acceleration

Edit: QubesOS allows you to run at least some conventional brands of Linux out of the box, but it allows memory efficient VM isolation between them, and some other really cool features, overall making securing stuff much simpler than installing a bunch of of random tools from different parties
Can someone please expain the state of doing async with Melange? ReasonML never had an answer in that important area to my knowledge.
It would have been better to run the headline, "WD advises customers of maximum 3 yr lifespan of NAS drives".
Yeah, I'm with you, still love old Reddit and think it's peak design.

I can never tell if I'm out of touch or if kids these days are wrong.
Maybe you are right, I shouldn't have characterized the evidence as indirect.
Thanks for response, makes a lot of sense! I can’t yet relate to the first reasons, but I definitely see the appeal of mentally marking working notes as “garbage”. I find that trying to make working notes an artifact always leads to me getting distracted
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I find it absolutely ridiculous that you keep telling people that they haven't visited 4chan and are wrong. This is hackernews. Most of us are in our 30s and were perpetually online during the rise of 4chan and are not ignorant whatsoever to what chan boards are like. The last time I went there it was full of CP and I lose all respect for people who use that site no matter how you try to spin it.
I agree with this. I'd rather them drop the pretense and say that we are spying on all of you, we don't abide by our own laws, and we have shown the inability to self-police, hold accountable, or be transparent about our methods and bad actors. However, that would go against the illusion of "democracy" that is sold to the people to make us feel that we still have agency.