skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With varying degrees depending on which part of the country you're in, police and the criminal justice system are also a means of political suppression of minorities, through uneven enforcement and felony disenfranchisement.
I'm aware. My point was that the founders of the US Government chose to uphold the principle of free speech. The founders of companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter chose not to.
A little uncomfortable about the coupling of hate speech and fake news. Hate speech, while odious, is an unfortunate side-effect of free speech. And so we already have a mechanism for regulating it: social norms. Even at its worst, hate speech is the temporary symptom of some other, more insidious wrong - and the temporary injury each instance of hate speech produces just does not justify eating at a core value of liberal democracy.

Fiction that purports to be news poses a far greater threat to democratic institutions, especially when it is targeted (and therefore invisible to the normal editorial controls). A mis- or dis- informed populace empowers people that worsen the core systemic problems that hate speech is a symptom of. But in this case, too, there is also an historic, market-based mechanism for combating it: editors. But unlike with hate speech, where Internet communities can enforce norms that determine inclusion, the Internet has no built-in editorial controls.
Shoot first! Ask questions later! mirite?!
Interesting. I can't click your Terms of Use link. Would you happen to have a direct link handy?
Here's the article this one is meant to answer:

https://medium.com/@gianluca.guarini/things-nobody-will-tell...
It's amazing how quickly posts like this bring out the bootlickers. Are you employed by a law enforcement agency, or a PR firm working for one?
i find the passive-aggresive emojis in these "response" blog posts amusing.
In 2017, the Social Security Wage Base was $127,200 and the Social Security tax rate was 6.20% paid by the employee and 6.20% paid by the employer.[1] A person with $10,000 of gross income had $620.00 withheld as Social Security tax from his check and the employer sent an additional $620.00. A person with $130,000 of gross income in 2017 incurred Social Security tax of $7,886.40 (resulting in an effective rate of approximately 6.07% - the rate was lower because the income was more than the 2017 "wage base", see below), with $7,886.40 paid by the employer. A person who earned a million dollars in wages paid the same $7,886.40 in Social Security tax (resulting in an effective rate of approximately 0.79%), with equivalent employer matching. In the cases of the $130k and $1m earners, each paid the same amount into the social security system, and both will take the same out of the social security system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Wage_Base
Wearing clothes is a hallmark of religions across time and space...
This is a case of "trust but verify".

Yes we trust the police, but we'd like to verify they respect the law they swore to uphold, and that illegal behavior be dealt with due process.
Seems like the emulator window does not get cursor keys, cursor down, for example, selects a ROM.
The Guardian did a lot of work on pagespeed, made a lot of it public - I wonder if much of this was referenced. Especially given the planned 'masonry' effect shown midway down the page.

Good to see major public resources taking the lead (gov.uk being another) on reducing cruft. Most likely out of necessity, but it wouldn't hurt to start a trend :)
Pcwalton provide me new information and did change my opinion on some things and I suspect I gave him at least some new perspective.

You... Clearly just want me to agree with you without applying any critical thought of my own. You implicitly my experience, personal and professional, while presuming your stance to be the only valid one on a subjective topic. That is not how you have a constructive conversation, goodbye.
As that site indicates, in X.org with the defaults, '·' is easily typed with 'Compose . -', 'Compose . ^' or 'Compose ^ .' (this should also work from the console in Debian, at least, which uses xkb bindings throughout).

I love the Compose key, and don't think I'll ever use a desktop without it.
After a certain point and I imagine any adult is years/decades past this, all you're doing is chasing away the withdrawal by taking caffeine. You're quite literally addicted to it.

I've been on/off it several times and now only drink green tea so I have a bit of experience here. I think ultimately it does nothing once I have a certain amount of tolerance. Worse, I do know it hurts my sleep quality significantly if taken anytime other than the morning or if too much is taken any time during the day. Sleep quality seems to be the elephant in the room for many white collar professionals, imo. So you may take caffeine to beat bad sleep but then caffeine may cause bad sleep, so its an ugly cycle while the whole time you're slowly becoming addicted to it.

That said, I've had good luck with ginseng as a morning 'pick me up.' Building tolerance to it seems slow as well.
The philosophy of GitS is more around "what is human identity?" but it does so through the conventional framework of the cyberpunk genre, and so those explorations into the mind are linked to technological advancement, and so, hacking is central.
IMO you should just merge with docs.rs.
Not something just anyone can do, but I was a full time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for two years. I became much more outgoing during this time, and developed a greater love for other people and a greater understanding of those in different situations and with different viewpoints. My appreciation and admiration for diversity was increased.

I was in Utah and southern Idaho, a place that as it turns out is very different from where I grew up in Southwest Missouri. I interacted and discussed religion regularly with former Mormons, preachers in other Churches, atheists, and others. I tried to find ways to serve and help them, we would frequently see someone moving or working in their yard and just stop and ask if we could help out.

I was also involved with coordination of efforts across many different groups and areas. This was a great experience for someone as young as I was to learn about leadership and working together with many people of different backgrounds to accomplish a larger goal.
Because Google doesn't use Rust in its code bases?
Is this supposed to be taken as Google engineers have infinite wisdom on how to build kernels and therefore we should copy what makes sense for them? Because they are smart but afaik haven't tried this yet, will make plenty of mistakes scaling it up, and there are lots of explanations for why it is in C other than C is better than Rust.
another good book recommendation for trying to understand the chaos of human group behavior that focuses on leaders and how they lead is "the dictators handbook: why bad behavior is almost always good politics." by alastair smith and bruce mesquita.
There was an article in The Nation earlier this year which gave a little more detail on the life expectancy issue:

https://www.thenation.com/article/why-are-poor-americans-dyi...

As for how socioeconomic inequalities translate into inequities in life span, “It’s rather mysterious,” said Lisa Berkman, the director of the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University. One answer is that low-income people tend to be sicker in the first place, because the neighborhoods they can afford to live in are more polluted; because they can’t afford to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors; because they can’t afford health insurance premiums, copayments, and prescription drugs.

Woolf accounts much of the disparity in death rates to what he calls “stress-related conditions.” People who aren’t secure economically are likely to experience high levels of stress, which studies have linked to shorter lifespans and a heightened risk of death from strokes, heart attacks, and other illnesses. “We’re seeing a dramatic increase in deaths from opioids, whether we’re talking about prescription painkiller or heroin, but also from suicides, liver disease, and other conditions that I personally feel come from different ways that people are coping, in an unhealthy way, with the stresses that they’re facing in their daily lives,” Woolf said, particularly since the recession. Smoking, the leading cause of preventable death, takes a particularly costly toll on low-income people.

Berkman traces at least some of the stress load on lower-income Americans to changes in the workplace. The 1920s cohort analyzed by the Brookings researchers had their greatest earnings in the 40s and 50s, a time of economic growth and greater equality across the income spectrum. While low-income people born in the 1940s entered a labor market that was less demanding physically, they may also have experienced greater insecurity as wages stagnated, and difficulty balancing work and family life as more women entered the workforce. Unlike many other peer countries with more robust family support, the United States didn’t do much to accommodate the increased challenges facing working parents, Berkman noted. “The second wave of occupational risk are sets of working conditions that are hugely stressful,” she said. “They aren’t so physically stressful, but they’re socially stressful. They’re insecure, they’re inflexible, or they have no ability to balance work and family issues. We need to rethink what occupational health and safety is.”
This is just vandalism, I hope that archive.org or others are on the case here.
Inspired by Casey Neistat
Hey, Computer Scientists Stop Hating on the Humanities
You're missing the point.

Someone already had proof.

Snowden was the one who managed to bring it to a mass audience. And I love him and respect him immensely for that. But I'm sure he also feels the same disdain that it took him completely destroying his life to convince people that something nefarious has been going on when many clues were already public and just routinely dismissed by people like the other guy arguing with me right now.

Yeah, he gave lots of evidence on programs we didn't even know existed. Like, the full extent of this situation. But we already had enough information to know that we should demand legislation and oversight and that 1984 has all but come true.
if we lift the tax cap, can we also lift the benefit cap?
By now everybody probably realizes that Musk's "predictions" are on some kind of relativistic timescale related to Earth's frame by a factor O(10). In 2008, the Falcon Heavy was going to fly "in a couple of years"; with some luck, it will actually fly this summer.

Let's be optimistic and call it a factor 9/2 ~ 4. Using the same factor for Neuralink, it will have its first medical device out in 15 years and its first general consumer device in 30 years.

The one big objection I have to this article is the emphasis on how "opening a person’s skull is not a trivial procedure". I would be willing to bet that Neuralink is shooting for something which won't require that, along the lines of injectable "neural dust" or stents:

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v34/n3/full/nbt.3428.html
I'd love to read an answer to this:

"what do you expect from a framework with more than 1000 issues on github that will let you install alpha dependencies by default (React@16.0.0-alpha.6) to develop your native app?!?"
Ask HN: Arguments and sources supporting open-source for tax-funded software?
I am trying to find some reliable sources substantiating the societal benefits for governments developing their software openly, especially when funded by public spending. It is also relevant, but slightly less so, to find evidence (if there is any) indicating the benefits of using open systems such as Linux as opposed to proprietary systems in the public sector.

I have looked at Bulgaria as an example for developing systems openly and Munich/Vietnam as examples for using non-proprietary systems but I can only find news coverage and I want tangible data supporting the respective benefits.

Any arguments that you yourself might have that are pro- or against open-source and open systems within the government are also appreciated.
Scanning for Doublepulsar – the numbers
When someone was firing a "machine gun" in the vicinity, that might not be the worst idea. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
There are tons of such apps [1] for a phone (which I assume you are asking about, not much use streaming from a laptop). However, the part I'm not having success with is finding an app that hooks into the voice recognition, and starts within a second of getting the command to launch, because both Android and iOS currently do not provide a way to certify and enable apps that can be launched from the lock screen without first unlocking.

The phone OS would provide specific services to keep such an app ready to launch at any moment, so it doesn't even need to be loaded from flash storage, and give it the ability to let the user set overrides on normal preferences like WiFi/cell signal to enable location services as soon as it starts, etc.

Elsewhere on the technology fronts, we need lower energy consumption for selectable lower-quality video and audio, to enable constant audio recording, and video when the phone detects the camera is out of a pocket/purse. Then the "...but you don't know what happened in the seconds leading up to the start of the video..." defense falls apart as non-HD-but-acceptable-quality-for-admissible-evidence becomes a matter of course. Some automatic rotation to save space, hook up to social media like Twitter to detect geographical hotspots of controversy to, or other measures to try to stymie gaming the rotation.

In the US specifically, but also elsewhere where it applies, we also need legislative overrides on two-party consent recording rules: any official, in any capacity, unless explicitly named in a national security letter or similar, receiving or benefiting from any public funding, is subject to one-party consent recording rules.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=live+stream+video+to+cloud&i...
Blog post is really great. Favorite section is the "What I think worked" section, tips for staying motivated and getting to launch. Also after reading this becomes apparent how much freaking work goes into this stuff!!!

Welp, off to make my "tripwire" product.
My Moto Razr Maxx is a bit on the large side, and it's no longer state of the art, but it does pretty well for battery life. Even with wifi and mobile data and GPS and bluetooth all turned on, and in active use, it will still last a day and a half. That's not as long as I'd like, but it's better than the barely-a-day that I get with my work-issued Samsung G6 used more lightly with only one of wifi or mobile data turned on at a time (both on concurrently will cut that by half because Samsung royally FUBARed the radio design). You can probably find a reconditioned one for low $$$ and it's a decent choice.
Indeed. Good cops who protect bad cops are not good cops, and bad cops are generally well protected.
Flatpipes: A TCP proxy over named pipes
Show HN: Learn Pure React – An Interactive Deep Dive into the Basics of React.js
Educate both, perhaps? Someday those kids will be adults and have kids of their own, with hopefully more inclusive and accepting views. Perhaps it will even encourage them to challenge the ideas, words, and views their parents present.
When Does a Project Need React?
> These are all just fancy words for being a more complete Developer - and enabling Developers to deliver faster.

Exactly. I'm a mobile developer and I cross into "DevOps" field a lot, but I see it as a part of my job as a developer to make our team's lives easier.
Many readers of the linked article won't understand the meaning of "ground effect" and what role it plays in the video. It's possible to create a demonstration flying craft that can't ascend above the ground effect regime, but still create an impressive video.

In short, if the video had shown ascent to an altitude of, say, 100 feet, I would be much more impressed.
The article ignores the fact that while the wealthy may be living longer, they also disproportionately fund social security. They may be receiving benefits for more years, but while I don't know the numbers, I would guess their ROI is much much smaller than the bottom 20% of earners.

There is certainly a very valid separate point to be made about how in the US wealth leads to longer/healthier lives and we definitely need to think about how to fix that, but putting it in terms of receiving more social security feels disingenuous to me.
Top-ranked programming Web tutorials introduce vulnerabilities into software
Worth being aware that "In the United Kingdom, LSD is a Schedule 1 Class 'A' drug. This means it has no recognized legitimate uses and possession of the drug without a license is punishable with 7 years' imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine, and trafficking is punishable with life imprisonment and an unlimited fine."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Leg...
If the banner is always there, something has to be put into it, sadly.
Why is that extreme? The author is asking that developers take care in their work and account for unintended consequences of a non-moral entity learning from a world with racism & sexism in it. That seems prudent to me.
Ask HN: Do you feel you understand what Ad Tech does with your data?
I'm an "Ad Tech" insider who's been recently surprised to observe several HN threads concerning how consumer data collection works and how online advertising utilizes that data. Many HN readers seem shocked by how much companies they've never heard of seem to know about them. To be honest, I'm a little bit surprised because I thought all of this was common knowledge amongst techies. I've also seen a few misunderstandings about how things work technically which concerns me.

A few examples of those threads:

- Uber purchasing customer data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397

- The Slice/Unroll.me "scandal" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14181152

- Facebook & Google Ad targeting discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14097220

How well do you all feel you understand this stuff? Consumer data tracking companies, DMPs, user tracking methods, etc. i.e. how an app you install, page you visit, or an offline purchase you make shapes what ads you see and what e-mails you receive.

I've thought of starting an anonymous blog to explain all of this in detail. Would you find something like that helpful? What would you most want to learn more about?
Breaking #GoogleGestapo – The Next Internet?
I would have thought the Nintendo Lawyers would have sent out their Scud Missile on that server within 5 minutes.
I'd move if I knew that the locals wouldn't make my life hard for being transgender and not the typical Christian (I'm a Christian Gnostic, so I'm way out there in terms of my faith). But if anything living in my home state of Kansas has taught me is that no matter how much you reach out and try to show kindness folks will inevitably stay focused on the foreign qualities you bring in their midst.
So here's the thing. Social Security (SSDI) is a system you pay into. When you retire or become disabled, the amount of benefits you are eligible for is related to the amount you pay in, which is a percentage of your income. Naturally, if one earns more money over their lifetime they would have paid more into the system, and thus are getting more Social Security benefits in return.

For those who have earned very little income over their lifetime, they are eligible for benefits through the SSI program, which one does not have to pay for. However, you may not be eligible for SSI if you have too many assets (e.g. saved money, a 2nd car). The problem is that the cutoff of SSI based upon assets has not been raised since 1989. You're only allowed to have no more than $2,000 in savings, basically requiring the applicant to be completely destitute before becoming eligible. In my personal opinion, this amount needs to be drastically updated to match modern cost-of-living standards. This program is far too out-of-reach for those merely dipping their feet in poverty.
Is there any reason not to do NAT with ipv6 for the casual user?
My not very technical CTO told me that "all developers will be devops in the near future", so I guess it's dead.
I'm not giving an opinion on what the right way to do kernel memory allocation is, I don't know enough on Linux internals to offer a useful opinion. Luckily, HN seems to be populated by many such experts who instantly know the right thing, and it turns out the answer is obvious to all of them and the existing code is dumb and stupid. We are blessed by their genius, apparently.

Besides, my Turing machine has an infinite length of ticker tape, so memory allocation is not my concern :)
I am pretty sure Google's allowed to use any of your data for two purposes: Improving their services (which arguably, your example would fall under) or for promotional purposes.

One of the big changes a couple years ago was when they unified all their terms and privacy policies under one that applied to your entire account. So I don't think there'd any longer be any distinction between where the data came from and which Google product they were using it for.
Nice service, thanks!
Agreed! It's why immigrants in low-paying, low-skill jobs press so hard for their children to get as much formal education as possible. Even two years of community college is enough to gain more control (and income!)
This course covers the fundamentals of computational models of neural systems. Have there been large advances in e.g. hippocampal modeling or core changes in what we know about brain structures and processes in the past decade?
> The articles I read are actually about AWS killing ops in favour of more devops, because apparently AWS makes ops so easy your devs can do it during their lunch breaks.

Nonsense is an understatement...

We, as technologists spent YEARS getting ourselves into some sort of sane silo's because the tools in each area were becoming more complex. Operations, Database, Backend, Front end, and arguably now mobile as different roles.

In many places that meant building walls and silo's that were hard to bypass (for good reason) but it made getting problems fixed exceedingly difficult, especially where the rubber met the road (code running on servers).

The desire to have open communications isn't the desire to eliminate jobs or roles, but a desire to make actually solving the problems of running an application, doing good engineering easier. This was the intent of Dev-ops collaboration, and doing it out in the open as partners!

The problem is that business have taken this and run with it as a reason to curtail resources. Lets take another example that hacker news likes to talk about, Agile. I can't tell you how many agile coaches advocate for everyone on an engineering team being able to accomplish ever role. Not only is this naive but is potentially a source for pain further down the road.

I had to think about why Agile coaches were advocating this, and the conclusion that I came to was that "business" likes it. Dev-Ops is now code for "full stack", now code for "we expect you to do everything"... It doesn't scale and further down the road creates far more problems than it solves.
Google has their share of privacy problems, but they don't sell data