skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My alarm bells for the Appeal to the Law fallacy went off. I see it quite often. When we’re discussing what the law should be, what the law currently is is irrelevant (unless your position is that laws should not change).

The fact that it is currently legal to harvest this data and the fact that it is currently legal for the government to purchase it should have no bearing on whether they should be able to in the future.

Further, there is a serious question with regards to the extent to which these businesses had the actual informed consent of their users. Do people fully understand that their information will be sold to data brokers? Do they understand that the government will be able to purchase said info with our money (and possibly use this information to incarcerate them)? The latter is almost certainly no, which is why the government fought so hard to keep it a secret.
User privacy is a fallacy. The standards we judge applications are thrown out the window relative to the services we use in everyday life. Do you think your ISP, TV service, Cellphone carrier, Credit Card company, etc. care about your privacy and don't sell your data? The answer is rhetorical. Yet these user privacy hypocrites somehow exempt these egregious violations because it's just the way it is.

I mean, heaven forbid Google stores my data in their impenetrable ultra secure data centers, but ISP's, TV providers, Cellphone carriers and Credit Card companies - go to town with my data and sell it to as many data brokers as you can.
I wonder if we can get our own information someday it would be fun to see how right and wrong they get this information. I've seen stuff like socialblade and aggregators guess, and they're always way off. With AI it's time to poison the well. :)
> about: Founder / CEO - uLog.ai - A conversational journal to help you create detailed timelines for any subject

It means he's got some product idea he's trying to slip in to the discussion.
My understanding of the point being made is, if anthropogenic climate change is a global catastrophe threatening countries around the world, each of those threatened countries will, at some point, have no choice but to invest in the implementation of geoengineering projects. There won't be a choice.

So the only real question is, when the moment comes that the first sufficiently industrialized country is pushed to the edge by climate catastrophe, what options will they have available to them? If the only options are bad things that are likely to cause more harm than good, that won't matter --- it'll still happen, because what else could happen?
How will you combat plagiarism?

I wouldn’t want to see someone else profiting off my content.

I’m guessing you’d place a hold on any payout, until you’ve reviewed their content? But I’m thinking about the claims / reporting process.
Function over form. If fancy scrollbars make it harder to use, then they should be gone. Design should never trump utility.
You don't need an account to update your OS, and you don't need to download apps from the Mac App Store (I never do).
What makes you think this? If you choose to use UIKit, yes, you get rectangles. But you are not constrained to UIKit.
Maybe will Onivim rise from the dead too ? Who knows
For an end user application, Otter.ai is the best I've seen - I wish there was a better faster one built on top of Whisper, but there isn't a good one that I've seen.

If you're looking for an API - then check AssemblyAI, Google Cloud transcription, Deepgram. I have a list here: https://llm-utils.org/List+of+AI+APIs
I am reasonably confident that DNS, TCP/IP and "social bookmarking" are each on different layers of the OSI networking model, but ok.
Many people could enable Lockdown mode, at the cost of opting-out specific websites or apps which are (a) trusted, (b) dependent on features disabled by Lockdown mode.
On pages, I fully agree. Within components, I also agree but I've found it hard to push back when a design calls for scrollbars because the alternative is... what?

It can be difficult to visually say "Hey, you! There's more to see if you scroll down in this area" You can try to use gradients with fade-outs, you can try to make it so the top of the last item in a scroll area is just visible enough to make it clear something can be scrolled into view. I've also seen actual text-based messages at the bottom of scroll areas to let users know. But at that point, is it really better than creating your own little scroll bar?

Really I think we just need better APIs from the browsers to customize when a scroll bar is shown (again, not on the page level but within scrollable elements), and what it looks like. This has already gotten much better over the years but there are still some features that would be great to have in this area.

One thing I will say is I really dislike the smooth-scrolling behavior that some sites build in with JS. It's usually broken on macs that already have smooth scrolling and it's just a dumb thing to add.
The problem of the idea "updated for a modern audience" is that the updates do not cater to the actual audience, instead a minority of motivated activists that seem to thrive in finding offense and extrapolating it.

It's dysfunctional toxic behavior packaged as doing good.
0.0.0.0 connects to your own machine. You should not "block" domains by assigning them to 0.0.0.0. You should instead return NXDOMAIN.
Sure, but the same basic concepts are involved. The result is just a different level of restriction by the government - seizing property and restricting some movement vs confinement.
Sci-fi has been providing alternative visions of computation pretty much as long as it's existed. Star-trek has more mainstream awareness, but Bank's Culture series is barely a decade old (1987-2012). If you want more recent works, The Ancillary Justice and Murderbot Diary series' both explore the relationship between AI and society, as well as scores of others.

The important thing here is the mainstream bit. The fact that these visions exist doesn't really move the needle because the popular narrative of rogue AI is such a dominant and constantly reinforced cultural narrative that it drowns out anything else.
How is that any different than anyone with an obsession with green energy? In reality, it is a necessary component of a sustainable society. Something that you failed to realize.

What I know is that your position on hydrogen is pure FUD. I know as a matter of fact that your views on the material science side of things are false.

You can send hydrogen via natural gas pipelines. It is fully possible to "switch over." At worst, you will have to line the insides with some kind of coating: https://www.ul.com/sites/g/files/qbfpbp251/files/2023-02/Hyd...

And yet a pipeline is 10x cheaper than sending electricity. As it turns, basic physics does not change no matter how strongly you describe it as "backwards": https://www.brinknews.com/could-hydrogen-replace-the-need-fo...

You are continuing to deny reality with this post: If you are talking about massive overprovisioning, then you are going to have negatively priced electricity coming from renewables. This is the most obvious and most irrefutable point here.

And you can beat around the bush all you want; it does not change the fact that practically free electricity is happening right now, and it will lead to practically free hydrogen. Again, the only necessary resource is water. The cost floor is far lower than any other idea you can conceive of. And since it is cheaper to store and move hydrogen around that electricity, you will eventually abandon an all electricity-based solution in favor of one that moves energy around with hydrogen.

> Again, see my point about being fixated on Hydrogen as the goal rather than the means. You can label criticism as FUD but it won't make it any less true.

No one is fixated on hydrogen. It is the anti-hydrogen Luddites that are fixated on stopping it. This inevitably causes a conflict where rational and non-brainwashed people come out and say "No, you really do have to accept this that this is a necessary part of the solution."
I trust them both to exactly the same degree.
Name the popular services that have it. Here's a start: collect a list of popular domain names --- any of them will do --- and write a bash script that loops `dig ds $domainname +short` over all of them. You'll find that I'm not exaggerating, and that my summary of the state of play was in fact accurate.

There is no value to DNSSEC, which is why virtually nobody seriously uses it.
Is that because you're using cloudflare's dns?
Okay, but how can you determine what the old value was, given that it's now a random value multiplied by a random value with yet another random value added on top?

Hard disks don't record zeros and ones...
I am loving HN for that, there's always an article coming up on the front page that resonates with my current state of mind. Inspiring piece!
A new experiment casts doubt on the leading theory of the nucleus
The thing is this could easily be done without crypto - once again another braindead example of crypto still lacking any use case whatsoever and only appealing to fools.

Just kidding (another example of a dumb HN comment you see on every crypto post).

A few lines of code and you are accepting payments from any country on earth, totally decentralized and p2p! Also the site itself is much cleaner and faster than the others posted. Keep it up.
To me, on the internet, I mostly recognize "people [I've] seen before" via the username. Most of the good internet villages I venture to, a username is secondary to me. I care about the content first, which can come from lots of people, and the users/faces/people second, which are mostly just the extremes of my (dis)favor.

I think mod tools are huge. I also think voting on content is big, though. Finding a village that aligns with my value of content is more important than recognizing specific people online.
It sounds like a class action in a normal court, where a lead plaintiff legitimately can get better treatment to a point. Viewed from that perspective, it's a wonder IPR has been so noncontroversial for so long, because the rules around class actions are extremely contentious.
Rod Hull's Emu
It's really not that bad.

I use Amazon Echo to turn on/off my lights. If my home automation doesn't work, I can still just use the light switch to turn them off and then they will come on.

Or if there is an Amazon issue, I can use the app of the bulb manufacturer instead. It's a convenience feature and if it doesn't work, it's a minor inconvenience.

Many of us would be much more screwed if something happened to our Google or Apple account... and that same story of erroneous bans have happened to many people.
NASA Finds Organic Molecules in 12B-Year-Old Galaxy
I have two slightly challenging comments, which I hope you will take as constructive prodding to clarify your thinking.

Firstly, you have a bit of dissonance in your thinking that you’ll need to clear up. You say lots of complementary things about HN and suggest that the quality is what you’re aiming for. But you also say you “don’t believe in censorship”. Depending on what you mean by censorship (people have wildly different definitions!), you’ll need to reconcile the fact that HN has relatively restrictive community guidelines, and very active moderation. Many people would credit the high quality of discussion to those things.

Secondly, I think your “tags as subreddits” misses the point of subreddits. They’re not a filtering mechanism for which links you want to see, they’re a way to let users associate into small(er) communities where community norms, standards, shared experiences, running jokes, moderation expectations, and generally a community identity and spirit can develop.
> If your principles were used as a lever to undermine your principles would you still adhere to them?

That is indeed the point of principles. If you drop your principles as soon as the going gets tough, then they weren't actually principles to begin with.

> Many of them have no intention of ever giving anyone who disagrees with them the same offer.

Letting your opponents define your own principles is another mistake that unprincipled people often make.

Principles are important not because they help you defeat your enemies. They matter in and of themselves.

Something that is used to fight your enemies is called a strategy or a tactic. Thats completely different from a principle.

If you want to say that you don't care about principles at all, and are willing to do anything and everything that is the most effective to defeat your enemies no matter what it is, just say that instead of talking about principles or morals or values.

That way at least we'd be on the same page as to what the conversation is about.
I disagree, despite living in one of the earlier craft brew havens (Seattle). Anchor Steam was already a unique offering when I happened on it ~15 years ago, and its uniqueness has only been more pronounced as the craft(ish) market has consolidated around IPAs. Anchor Porter isn’t nearly so unique a style, but it’s an exceptional one in the category and has consistently been my preference over local porters even when they were more common. Their winter seasonal really is stellar, and has long stood out in a category that’s basically become a mix of mislabeled IPAs and the occasional barleywine-ish heavy ale.
Is it really worth discussing subjective opinions with a stranger over the internet? I often find these threads to be so ridiculous, like a Metal head arguing with a Classical aficionado who doesn’t like his favorite music.
History has shown that with every new tool people are going to make some crap, but also some wonderful things.
That depends entirely on what the genes in question do. Some pairs of species can produce viable offspring even though the parent species have different numbers of chromosomes.
The US is still making itself less competitive while China is closing the tech gap at a breaking speed. I really don’t understand what they think this will accomplish.
AP is set up in such a way that you get the content you want but nothing more. Scraping messages from other servers is slow and cumbersome, the entire system is set up for pushing content to people who are interested rather than pulling in content that may be interesting to you.

That's not a failure in any way. Actually, I think it's a much more respectful approach than what many social media companies are doing. However, it does severely impact the effectiveness in which this network of small servers can push "stuff you might like" to other users. Some major instances may be able to implement a Twitter-like algorithm, but most of them won't have the messages to recommend to people.

BlueSky has chosen a complex model that basically exchanges huge amounts of data. That should allow for the algorithmic crap that AP servers will struggle with.

Don't get me wrong, I consider AP to be better than BS because of the designs and business concerns involved. However, from what I can tell from the people around me, people want the addictive social media algorithms, outrage posts, drama videos, you name it. Every platform with this crap has people addicted and coming back over and over again. Mastodon and friends mostly seem to contain people interested in each other and their work (and not just in good ways) rather than people pushing for high algorithmic scores to boost follower counts.

This is why I think the fediverse will fail in terms of social media. The predatory alternatives will be able to pull in the general public with ways that AP-based servers never would.
Intent matters sometimes. To some people. But here, in either case the intent is to enable terrible people to, e.g., shout the n-word at people. So I don't see much of a difference in those terms.
Tell HN: I never realized how much I relied on Reddit until today
I used to think that I used Google for most of my searches and Reddit occasionally and boy I was so wrong. After pretty much every search I did today lead to a private sub error, I realized I was just using Google to search Reddit. I’m at a point where other results in Google just frustrate me. I tried using other sources today and oh boy there’s so much useless text and irrelevant details. Makes me want to just take the Reddit archives and a personal searchable database.
https://nitter.it/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538
I can, and will, continue to advocate and affirm that criticizing the Chinese Communist Party - and people with Chinese descent - are 2 very different things, and that the former is acceptable.
Think like this: They have never been a part of the theme of the page. Just like the user's magenta tabbar
If I understand correctly, DevCycle is new, but Taplytics (from that YC batch) is the parent. DevCycle doesn't seem to be a decade old.
Portmaster is the best Windows alternative I've found.
Do a barrel roll!

Reminds me of when I would make myself dizzy by pretending the sky was down and the earth up, and it felt like the only thing keeping me from falling trillions of lightyears through the inky void was that I was stuck to the ceiling of my home planet.
Open Brain Project
As far as I'm aware, we still do not know the first intermediate species of SARS-1 (cf Wikipedia: "Infected palm civets at the market were traced to farms where no infected animals were found. It is unknown whether the virus was originally introduced to the market by civets, humans, or another animal." and "Phylogenetic analysis of these viruses indicated a high probability that SARS coronavirus originated in bats and spread to humans either directly or through animals held in Chinese markets.") So no, it hasn't been months, but 20 years...
I must express my utmost admiration for your exceptional intellect, which effortlessly dismisses the perspectives of vegans as lacking epistemic rigor.

Your towering intellect, armed with an exclusive collection of "epistemically sound research papers," surely eclipses the feeble influence of organizations like the WHO.

How foolish of us to think their information could impact anyone's priors.

Your insightful critique of veganism enthusiasts, while devoid of substance, certainly showcases your unmatched condescension. Thank you for gracing us with your profound wisdom and invaluable lack of useful information.
LUKS/cryptsetup knows how to in-place encrypt and decrypt if you give it a place to put some metadata (16 MB in my experience):

cryptsetup reencrypt --encrypt -q --header /some/where/file /dev/mydev
cryptsetup reencrypt --decrypt -q --header /some/where/file /dev/mydev

(Just used that to encrypt a server disk during shipping and
decrypt it afterwards once it reached its destination datacenter)

I haven't looked into it but it might be possible to convert a non crypted disk to a cyrpted one.
For prices to go down, it doesn't really matter who gets to live in these apartments, as long as enough demand is taken off the market.

And usually, with few exceptions, socially acceptable jobs are the ones which pay little compared to the effort they require, and also compared to the (non-monetary) value they bring to society. You also want these people in your city because sure it's great that you have tech workers, lawyers and bankers, but who is going to be in the hospitals?
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13787163/161954436...

Wouldn’t this look completely off with a massive light mode default Chromium scroll bar in the middle of everything? When I was developing that my main goal was to get the UI looking consistent and clean so it would feel good to use, which I think is an underappreciated thing; if your UI doesn’t “feel right” then people won’t enjoy using it no matter how functional it is

To be fair it probably does have contrast issues which I could improve

Note: it’s an Electron app so maybe that’s different
I wonder if there is a way to override the entire web with a custom stylesheet plugin like Stylus for Firefox.
Yeah, it isn't that mainstream though. I like his take on this and largely agree with him.
I think it's a mistake to confuse the health of Meta, the company, with Facebook, the platform. I think as a company they made the right decision in the acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp because they captured some of the platforms that were stealing their important demographics. I think if they hadn't made these acquisitions and were still just Facebook.com, we'd be looking at Facebook the company not as a FAANG giant but as a Yahoo or IBM or similar.
What sort of geoengineering project could a country the size of NZ undertake on its own though? Certainly nothing that will make any difference to global climate - at best they might find ways to control cloud-cover and/or rainfall over its own territory. And "legal permission" mightn't be an issue, but if one country decides to undertake a geoengineering project that's fully expected to have a significant negative impact on other ones, they can certainly expect military retaliation.
It is easier to understand if you imagine that the observer is at the south pole looking up, instead of thinking of them on the equator going around. In reality, they are somewhere between the two extremes.
“There was a very well coordinated and intentional conflation of the term "lab leak" with the conspiracy theories”

Only by those wishing to shutdown legitimate discussion.

So back to the original question. Who was behind trying to change the narrative.

Dr. Fauci’s emails have shown he orchestrated deceiving the public. I’m not sure that is sufficient to explain the total media backlash against a lab-leak.
Just put in my two weeks notice Friday. Gotta blast!
I don't think using source control is incompatible with this. You can persist state in source control, and have a separate deployment pipeline that is triggered only for updates to feature flag files. It is also deployed separately; e.g., to a key-value store.
Do you not see the irony of your post? Did you not see the same at the 1/6? If they were more policed, the fires, and destruction didn't help it make it appear so. I could see the Floyd protests/riots outside. 1/6 affected some .1% of the elite I could care less about.

I'm still trying to see a reason why the common man hates that the citizens protest the government, or cares so much for the corrupt elite of either party. The government is not your friend. If the Floyd protests went to Washington it could have been less 1996 and more MLK.
Probably not for everyone, but having some of this is good, I think.

Something I would add: try and also have some stable points that you don't blow up. I have enjoyed moving to different countries and places, but am really, really fortunate to have married someone who will do that with me. She's a keeper! Having a few stable points of reference makes it easier to change other things.

It gets harder with kids - you can't give up, let them down, or run around and desert them. But I think some novelty is healthy for them, too. Ours were quite successful when we moved from Europe to the US.
You seem like my dream customer for communick. What can I do to have you joining it?
It’s an Electron app in my case so there’s no browser chrome for it to fit into, and the scroll bar is also in the middle of dark-themed content:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13787163/161954436...
> higher than average value spying targets

Acquisition of a per-device, client-side signal is orders of magnitude more expensive than bulk purchasing the data of millions of individuals.
West Africa
Saying housing needs to stop being viewed as an investment, and as such will be devalued, is not even remotely the same thing as saying, and I quote the person I replied to here: "Come, live in my house; take some of my food. Do you need clothing? A car? I am at your disposal. Together, we can build a better economy (for you)."

The straw men here is that everything should be sacrificed at the alter of a better economy. Which is not what was claimed.