skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way the moderation system works is the following:

Any user may report content as 1) trash content or 2) offensive content.

A report immediately triggers a task that packages the reported question on a poll asking if the content is in fact what it has been tagged as.

The poll is presented to other users in the platform to validate if the content is or not what it was tagged as.

If it is, then the content is censored and the user faces consequences in his score up to eventually being banned.

It is ok to give your point of view even if someone does not agree with it. That is not trash nor an offense.

The purpose is to be able to be completely open and candid without being offensive.
Easy HTTPS for your private networks
>Care to link it?

Edible oil refining is a set of processes or treatments necessary to turn vegetable raw oil into edible oil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_oil_refining

>What makes it "chemical"? Does the refinement process chemically alter the molecular structure of the lipid molecules?

The process uses chemicals as opposed to physical interventions, which is why it is called chemical refinement. Chemicals used in this process can include: phosphoric, citric, sulfuric or hydrochloric acids, EDTA, bleaching earth/bentonite, phospholipase enzymes, caustic soda and silica, plus high temperatures up to 240C.

Did you watch the video? Chemical refining is the traditional method used since ancient times. It can be used for all fats and oils. Each step of the refining process has specific functions for removing some undesirable compounds. Chemical refining follows the six-step process outlined at the link (degumming, neutralization, washing and drying, bleaching, dewaxing, and deodorizing).

The process also removes the important bioactive molecules in oil such as tocopherols and polyphenols (which can act as antioxidants), squalene and sterols.
Okay, so they're reducing the role of blogs, moving further away from chronological feeds, and replacing isolated replies from people you follow with... something else.

I remember when Tumblr was the place to find individuals posting passionately about all kinds of super-niche topics. It had more personality than any of the other mainstream social media services. What the hell happened?
Flaw in Revolut payment systems exploited to steal $20M
Referenced recently by John Carmack: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1678421439190319110
Attorneys taking advantage of the situation for their own enrichment???
No Way! "Shocked! Shocked I Say..."
Progress will _only_ be made with sufficient stimulus, and your body will rapidly adapt so the stimulus is not sufficient -- unless you do progressive overload (and ideally occasional deloads too)
One thing I was surprised to read being praised was the I-beam loupe in iOS.

I don’t think any other interaction fills me with more rage than trying to paste content where I set the I-beam. You set the I-beam in a spot, and then… hold? Sometimes the “paste, copy, select all” menu comes up. Or it just prolongs the loupe being on screen. So you have to carefully slide down, without moving left or right, and then pinpoint exactly where the I-beam is with your finger, hold, and now you can paste. It will happily jump to a word or line ending on any step of that process.

Or! I’ve made some typo that’s inexplicably locked in the iOS dictionary now, so I have to remove one letter… which it will happily swap back to the incorrect one after I spent 10 seconds fiddling with a virtual magnifying glass to correct it. Why is that not a signal to iOS that I’m precisely editing this text?
It may be that you're outside of the USA. Were currently providing service on the USA only.
Not sure about #1. Is it impossible? Convergence of the sum of a_n implies a_n goes to zero, which means we can use the theorem, right? What am I missing?
#2. Consider the sequence 1, -1/2, 1, -1/2, .... The sum diverges while the product "nearly" converges. A slight tweak will allow the product to converge while still letting the sum diverge. Essentially we are taking advantage of the convexity of the log function.
The IHOP Kingpin vs. the American Revolutionaries
Ugh, I will never understand it.

Profits are as high (if not higher) before pandemic. It definitely doesn’t seem like a logical one.

I wonder if these executives have a vested interest in keeping the office staffed. Maybe commercial real estate REITs?

I just don’t believe or buy the “cUlTuRe” shit.
> This reframing of the institution as a market based services purchase is the rationale for the policies that have caused all the other problems

Monks around the world are telling themselves "THIS GUY GETS IT". The institution misses its alma mater :(
I would call both selfhosting.
> Is there any proposed solution (other than just using unencrypted HTTP) that would make it so TLS is no longer the most brittle component of the web?

HTTP over tcpcrypt AKA TCP-ENO?

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8547.html and https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8548.html

Unlike HTTPS/TLS, it doesn't provide protection against active attacks, but at least prevents passive ones. So it couldn't be used for https:// URLs, but would be a security improvement for http:// ones. And no certificates to manage
You like your bacon fat, we get it, you're still a quack.
I need to measure my preliminary design before the moment I ask for money. If I don't, there will be simply no reason to give me the money.
housing and transportation and…
Canadian PM Likens Fight over Online News Act to World War II
I think fundamentally, it is impossible to trust any entity forever. The best solution would be certificate updates outside of normal update paths. Its not like the format of x509 certs have changed in basically ever.

I suspect that protocol churn will settle down now. TLS 1.2 was introduced in 2008 and still considered ok, so its hardly that new now. Lots of people looking carefully hopefully means most of the issues have been flushed out.
ASVAB is a standardized test like the ones you took in school or the SAT or whatever with subject matter appropriate for evaluating military recruits.
Teachers and nurses would disagree!
If the studio expected > $500 of potential sales in years 5-10, then they would pay the fee and the game wouldn’t enter the public domain for 10 years.

Every game that experiences even a moderate success would probably be locked up for 15 years in this scenario, and every game that experiences even a hint of success would be locked up for 10 years.

I cannot imagine that the number of people who are willing to wait 10-15 years to play a game instead of spending $20 now will
materially harm the same of a game.
Drilling a round hole in sheet metal
OMG you've bloated a 9 instruction function to 15 instructions!!!!

Well, ok, scalar optimised memcpy() gets into hundreds of instructions.

Your result may well be hardware dependent. That's the kind of thing that you kind of have to wait for hardware to appear to actually know (or be in the team designing the hardware).

Just how much faster is it on C906? And does the same happen on C910?
"You can do it yourself" is never an acceptable reply to a criticism of a piece of software.
;-) Ada's advantages such as memory safety, concurrency model, range types, exception handling, pre/postconditions and invariants, etc. seem even more valuable now compared to C. Ada's memory-safe string handling seems like a very good idea vs. C.

Ada Minix sounds like it was an interesting exercise - I'd like to see more OS kernels written in memory safe languages.
You misread. It won't support Apple CarPlay.
Tangentially, I have geneology gaps due to WW2. My great-grandfathers perished defending unknown cities with the Soviet Army. Afaik one was sent to take out tanks with improvized AT weapons at best, the other I know nothing of.

During the Battle for Odesa and the following occupation by the Axis forces many records were lost. My grandmother on my dad's side grew up during the occupation. Thankfully my mom's side evacuated (Jewish) potentially due to my maternal great grandmother having been part of the defense as a field doctor and helped organize evacuation via ships. She received medals for her efforts including Order of the Red Star. She was able to get on the last ship to leave. After the war she counted 28 relatives lost due to war or holocaust.

Some decades later her nephew made a booklet about the widely extended family tree despite spotty records at best. I know it took many years of research on his part, I should ask where our copy is.

That maybe took a dark turn at some point - but I was thinking primarily about how armed conflict has the potential to erase history.
So what? My hometown was literally built by the japanese. My parents worked with japanese their entire lives. Sometimes I go to a restaurant and I hear people speaking japanese nearby. They're all doing fine too.

Doesn't change the fact birth rates in Japan are below replacement. Am I missing something here?
The Planck length ℓ P is defined as: ℓ P = ℏ G c 3 ≈ 1.616 255 ( 18 ) × 10 − 35 m , where is the speed of light, G is the gravitational constant, and ħ is the reduced Planck constant.

I know they’re not the same. But they obviously depend on each other, no?
Aren't you kind of overstating this? Perhaps for countries like India, which have seen massive increases in real wages and a corresponding rise out of poverty. In the US, the generation after the Greatest Gen (targeted here) was the Boomers, who made a lot more money and had a lot more opportunities. Since then, we've seen a massive rise in inequality, a wipeout of civic life, political disenfrancisement and lack of trust, and wage stagnation. If you just look at one number going up, great. But a rising total, and a rising average, disguises a falling median. Of course people aren't happy with that.
One thing this paper ignores is side channel attacks. Those may involve hardware or software vulnerabilities, or they may be inherent to the process itself.

So the real bogeyman is not whether we have figured out how to factor large numbers yet (aside from Shor and the as of now mythical quantum computer), but how much information you might leak by using your key.

One (generally) overlooked idea might be, some sort of vulnerability between they key and the data being used. E.g., by multiplying many, many smaller numbers with the private key, is it possible to increase the efficiency of the sieve.

Then it might be the case that commonly used keys are more vulnerable and keys used less are less vulnerable.

Another idea would be a rainbow table of keys. It might not matter so much that you can arbitrarily factor a large number, if generating keys is fast. Especially when you mount attacks on the random number generators involved, you can reduce the search spaces.

Forcing the key itself is not so much the concern, this doesn't make me think "oh we are fine".

Historically we only have to look back to e.g. Heartbleed to be reminded that we broke ssl not by factoring primes, but by exploiting the many flaws in the protocol itself.
> "Since we have mouse wheels and touch screens ..."

Oh, how I hate that use of "we"! Please realize: "YOU" does not equal "EVERYONE"

Personally (sample size 1) I use several different PC-like hardware units for productive work, as well as personal use. These units have different hardware/software/OS in general, but some applications are used cross-platform: Email is one. Hence the need for Thunderbird in the first place. I have been using it for no less than a decade and probably much longer - iow as long as I remember.

The fact is that none (0, zero) of the total amount of hardware units I personally use _at_all_ "... have mouse wheels and touch screens" - not a single one.

I am not a robot! I exist, and I'm a core user of that product (which has become increasingly annoying in multiple ways during the years - way too narrow scroll bars are actually a good example of the dev team undermining usability - but there is no feasible alternative).

It seems the team is operating from some assumptions about user preferences that generally does not include (the likes of) me.

(ADDED: which would be fine if my demands were higher than their aility to deliver, but that is not the case. I only ever use the very basic core functions (read, write, folders; not even search) - no UI features added the past 5-10 years have been relevant for me. All of them have cost me time/productivity as anything new in the UI (no matter how minor) requires a breach of habit and a new learning loop, even if just to ignore said new feature.)

So, for the past couple of years my personal use of email has been on a steady decline. I just tend to avoid that kind of activity when/if I can.

ADDED: Don't preach me webmail in replies please. I did write "there is no feasible alternative" because that was exactly what I ment to say. Same goes for "just join the dev team and make a change yourself". I have actually considered these, but then: There IS NO feasible alternative. And that is the singular reason I still have Thunderbird installed even if used sparingly these days
Not inherently. You get unneeded levels of abstractions if you add them yourself. You can follow these patterns without doing everything at once.
Show HN: Manabi Reader – Learn Japanese by Reading on iOS and macOS (SwiftUI)
I quit my job last year and worked mostly on this full SwiftUI rewrite of my Japanese reading app, Manabi Reader. The rewrite gave me the opportunity to expand to macOS (and without Catalyst so it feels extra native) and redo the data layer to be offline-first via Realm with iCloud sync.

The biggest differentiators compared with other language study apps are that it tracks every word/kanji you read so that you can see how much of a given webpage/article you're already familiar with and other features/analytics built on that foundation; it automatically builds a personal corpus of example sentences; and that it does all the Japanese tokenization/dictionary lookups locally on-device and in a flexible web browser-like UI with readability mode, to be respectful of your privacy and to work offline.

I've also added Anki integration. Tap a word, tap another button to save it to Anki with the original source material sentence and URL. I have a Manabi Flashcards app as well if you don't like Anki.

Packed with free features. See what percent of each article's vocabulary you're familiar with based on your reading history. Scan paragraphs of text with your camera to look up words. Japanese/English dict. Native Japanese web dicts. Look up kanji by drawing. Expanded JLPT levels. RSS. Web browser UI. Save links from other apps. Works offline. Readability mode. Tap words to look them up. Furigana depending on your familiarity with each word.

Future plans: besides more features (ePUB, YouTube, mpv player, WaniKani integration, more languages, etc), I’m also preparing the underlying SwiftUI web browser lib as open source and will launch it as a WebKit-based browser/reader option, which I’m excited to get out alongside other interesting recent entrants to the desktop and mobile browser market.
From 'dang

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314

> Things pg said about downvotes:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691

> It's how HN has always worked, and in my opinion needs to. A site that cares about discussion quality needs those white blood cells.

And as for the guidelines talking about voting:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
The MacBook Air 15" that I bought 2 weeks ago, is the first laptop that I like using since... my 2012 MacBook Pro 15". I used that 2012 laptop 11 years(!) without any issues. It still does, but 8GB was becoming a problem.

In those 11 years, I've also used quite a bit of expensive workstation class corporate Windows laptops from Dell, HP, and Lenovo, and none of them had or have a usable trackpads or something like magsafe. And don't get me started about the fan on my current Dell that starts screaming at random when it's sitting idle on my desk, or comes out of my backpack screaming hot because nobody but Apple seems to be capable of getting power management right.

The laptop is definitely shiny, but the only one that doesn't feel like a toy.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with complaining about a piece of software.
No, it doesn't. That quick-answer doesn't even mention rising tuition costs. It's only tangentially related. The existence of government backed student loans does not in itself prove they are the main cause of increased tuition.

To prove that claim, you'd need to actually demonstrate some sort of causal relationship and have data to back it up

For example, you could make the argument that:

1. Demand is the primary cause of tuition increases

2. Government backed student loans are the primary cause for the increase in demand

I believe that 1 is almost certainly the main cause of tuition cost increases. What I haven't seen any evidence for is 2. If it's true, show me the evidence. I'm open to it.

From what this article states and the research I've done, the main driver of demand is not cheap government loans. It's the labor market. The best jobs in this country require a college degree. That is what is probably driving demand, the desire to earn a liveable wage. Not the fact that you can get a cheap loan.
I think it’s a great plan, or at least a start. The state is going to have to do something to make residential conversions more profitable for developers who otherwise would build either ultra luxury or “lab space”.
The way the moderation system works is the following:

Any user may report content as 1) trash content or 2) offensive content.

A report immediately triggers a task that packages the reported question on a poll asking if the content is in fact what it has been tagged as.

The poll is presented to other users in the platform to validate if the content is or not what it was tagged as.

If it is, then the content is censored and the user faces consequences in his score up to eventually being banned.

It is ok to give your point of view even if someone does not agree with it. That is not trash nor an offense.

The purpose is to be able to be completely open and candid without being offensive.

Hope this helps answer your question.
This is the kind of article I threw away for being unsubstantiated.

Besides, it has 2 "real" datapoints, and both are completely different from the sizes everybody else were achieving in well-public and well-reviewed computers.

If you restrict your data to devices other people were allowed to touch, a lot of those huge numbers just disappear.
It's a bit horrifying it takes a disgruntled HN post and the pure chance you happened across it. It's also discomforting how comfortable Stripe employees like yourself think holding 50% of someone's earning for any amount of time is acceptable. I really don't care if Stripe is HN's baby, this is awful customer service and gives me great pause in recommending or using Stripe.
I prefer SyncThing on both mobile and desktop devices. It's open source and mature, the server only makes devices findable between each other. It allows 1 or 2 way sync. And it has advanced settings for keeping removed files (e.g. trashbin that cleans anything older than X days.)
>the latter of which is vanishingly rare in developed countries.

You may live in a bubble
There's a huge vendor community around Kubernetes, which is open source and permissively licensed to boot. If you write something complex that basically works you'll be able to develop defensible IP around management.

p.s., I'm sure many of those vendors are not making money yet but they all aim to.
"the UK land registry isn't a perfect system at all"

No shit! I was an Army brat and lived in what was called West Germany. It may have been a state thing (Nord Rhein OP) rather than a federal thing but houses often had little markers, similar to surveying benchmarks to demarcate property boundaries.

In little Britain we have err the Land Registry. It's not quite as bad as you say. Since around 2007-2010 (I can't remember exactly when) plans submitted to Planning had to have a lot more detail added. For example you have to include trees and hedges but not co-ords of the boundary to 5mm from the nearest OBM. I can personally survey better than that and I'm just a Civ Eng graduate who ended up pissing around with computers.

My house came with its original and subsequent conveyancing docs. It was built in the 1920s, so quite modern. The farmer who flogged off a bit of land, near to a railway line also provided a mortgage/loan to the woman who bought it. Its been through a few hands since. One of the subsequent owners lives up the road. He and his wife (she passed away recently) divided the plot, another house was built and a double garage linking the houses was added.

Anyway, the Land Registry is quite loose but it works. It seems that Little Britain is quite content on a microscopic scale. We somehow manage to not get too whizzed up over boundaries too often. The boundaries somehow manage to manage themselves.
Is vice bankrupt yet? I mean, financially, not ethically. That ship sailed long ago.
Hope they didnt pay too much for this "strategy", because these are plans - not choices.
I would be happy to change the proposal so that the original author, and only the original author could pay for the extensions much more cheaply, if they have retained the copyright for its entire lifetime.

So any work for hire, or other aspect would be expensive to renew. Anything owned by a corporation, LLC, or other non humane entity would be expensive.

But if the original author has maintained control of the copyright since it’s inception, I’d be fine giving them a much cheaper renewal price.
1. The chance of getting popular support for a protest like this diminishes with the number of people you piss off. You may be able to earn some sympathy by targeting SUVs only, but doing the same with all cars wouldn't be a good strategy.

2. There are good reasons to own a car, and in some places a significant number of people may be justified in using one. Blanket targeting everyone would be unfair to those who really need it. By contrast, SUVs don't have any (significant?) utility over a regular car (other than ego boosting maybe...).
"Disagree and commit" is just a euphemism for "shut up and code". The only opinion that matters is whoever the highest paid person in the room happens to be.

Just gotta pick your battles and figure out if the time is right or not for them. Then, who to say things to, and how. But never voice things out in public or some middle-manager is likely to take a dislike to you.
Reminds me when a morning news service was live scrolling a twitter hashtag on tv and a dick pic popped up. The reporter was so surprised, lol.
The US is built on interest from debt. Money does grow on trees for some.
does this mean there's an ultraviolet catastrophe for gravitational waves?
If you want to "shim" the API, then it's easier to have the whole previous object, rather than just the cookie.
A friend recently took a job in a company with more managers than employees. Example: one department has a VP managing a director managing 2 reports. One of the reports has more experience than the VP and director (combined.) The VP has no other reports. It's truly absurd.
That's useful!
It counts. My discriminator is the self- part. Server location is not relevant.
>That all makes sense… but the bit I can't fathom is why Facebook didn't take the approach of building from the high end down? I don't know of any complex consumer electronics or hardware companies which don't take the approach of launching massively expensive "pro" hardware which is the beachhead for driving down price over time.

The entire PC 'revolution' and Intel/x86 dominance was based on going from the lower end up. ARM later entered the picture again going from the low end up. Both strategies are viable depending on the business in question.