skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US drone program does not target US citizens who speak up, protest, or embarrass the president of the USA, at the behest of just the president.

How do you know that?

Well, there's simple occam's razor - if drone strikes were doing this, we'd probably have heard about it. On the other hand we have a rising body count of journalists, artists, and ex-spies with real names and histories.

No matter how you feel about drone strikes, you can't compare these things.
Not a 'new proof' - it's never been proved. Also, from a quick google, Atiyah is 89 and has made a couple of other very dodgy claims in the last couple of years. He's more 'a giant' than just 'respected':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Atiyah
> Russia wants important enemies to die slow, painful deaths
> wouldn't have been satisfying or vengeful enough
You know this how ?

Alexander Litvenenko springs to mind, followed by Viktor Yushchenko, Alexander Perepilichny, Anna Politkovskaya (later shot to death), Vladimir Kara-Murza (twice!), the Skripals, Georgi Markov (Ricin... nasty), Karinna Moskalenko, and on and on.
On mobile, offline first products simply work better and provide a better user experience. That doesn't require decentralization, and there are some apps were it won't be useful.
"Refusing to put license plates on your car... is antisocial criminal activity." - cdcfa78156ae5

Of course there's no name.
in the 90s, I read about how religious extremists in certain countries were targeting moderates. This seemed very odd at the time, because the moderate position just seemed the normal sensible person position.

Over time though, moderate preachers were singled out, and in some cases killed, because they didn’t take a stand. This created a chilling effect.

Coupled with incendiary and emotional images (“look at these pictures, look at what they’ve done to our children! You are either with us or with them.”), and no push back or ability to prevent such polarization, extremism grew stronger.

This is the gist of what I remember, it’s been years and many other crises since then.

However I am struck, as to how social media is creating those same dynamics - but now for everything from gender, race, religion, politics, nationality, to brand loyalty and maybe even gaming.

The best solution I saw for dealing with social media was dropping off it altogether.
> but I'd hazard that some people are posting from Google Chrome, which would defeat the point about worrying.

Uhhh, how do you draw that conclusion? There are lots of browsers and they take literally zero time to learn. Comparing a browser to programming language or framework is apples and oranges.

> Is Google going to abandon Flutter, what about Dart? Should I not learn Go because they'll also abandon it? Heck, should I not develop for Android because they'll abandon it too?

I have been a strict Android user for years. Google has effectively abandoned it with the way they've managed the project. I am moving to iOS for a variety of reasons, one of which is that I know where they (Apple) stand with the platform.

I wouldn't learn Go or Kotlin either, honestly, as there are arguably lots of languages that do the same with less separation anxiety.

My only mobile apps are Android only and regret it. I was a big android advocate and now I am not. I have been excited too many times and let down too many times to really care at this point. Google really wasted a lot of my time in retrospect. They announced projects like they are the second coming only to kill them once you have invested countless hours of time learning. I still have the OG Android ADK from I/o 2011...
I was looking at this last week. The lack of native <XML> tree representation, similar to JSX would make this ideal.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42322746 (2017)

>A former Facebook executive has criticised the social network for ripping society apart during a question and answer session.
The database or file system is likely (hopefully) encrypted. I'm referring to record and field level encryption. Like this:

Translucent Databases http://a.co/d/5855TYO http://wayner.org/node/46

Think of how password databases don't actually store passwords. Instead they (should) be storing salted and hashed passwords.

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Please see my other comment about plaintext demographic data vs using unique identifiers.
Short answer is we will never know for sure. There is no reason or incentive for Apple to duplicate your data and it certainly breaches an assortment of data protection laws. Nevertheless you data is always one error away from being sent all over the world. Recall the incident when Cloudflare leaked an unknown amount of information to the public, looks like they have suffered very little repercussion given the scope of the leak.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-c...
Google doesn't think I'm a person
Assuage =/= Eliminate

GP has certainly assuaged[1] (although not eliminated) my concerns.

[1] assuage, verb, make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.
Um, no. The world history of warfare is very much one of looting, pillaging, rape, and enslavement. This held true everywhere from Africa over the centuries, to Greece and Rome, to the Ottoman Empire, to the Aztecs and Mayans and Olmec to Japan, to the Russian revolution, to the First Peoples in North America long before there was a United States of America .
It only took 11 days for the aliens to realise we weren't worth their time and leave.
I added Twitter to my firewall blocked list so now anytime I click on a Twitter link it just doesn't work at all. Won't waste my time in the cesspool if I can't even go there.
>Why is bottled water a billion dollar business in the U.S. when the U.S. has the safest drinking water in the world? I am very sure it's not the product.

The product of bottled water is availability - being able to purchase anywhere and to bring it with you.
Child porn reason behind Sunspot Observatory closure, according to court docs
Above comment about laundering is so ignorant I can't believe it was made in 2018.
Very cool, some nice hands-on engineering going on here.
With links:

The original box: https://imgur.com/5xRFpjH

From Exidy, 390 Java Drive, Sunnyvale California! https://imgur.com/kagFrCC

It's a 32K model: https://imgur.com/7KFBjaj

Inside, the machine under its plastic dust cover: https://imgur.com/syAC3mF

The dust cover reveals the pristine machine: https://imgur.com/MwSLOup

Hidden at the bottom of the box, weirdly, a chip! https://imgur.com/52V0x3N

The original monitor: https://imgur.com/qviVnoZ https://imgur.com/qviVnoZ

Green phosphor no less! https://imgur.com/p1NGl2M

A bag of cables, including a joystick! https://imgur.com/s9kpfwg https://imgur.com/eibEq8L

The most beautiful floppy disk drives ever made: https://imgur.com/ssJq3Wj https://imgur.com/1kK3ole https://imgur.com/ADqTRum

That even have a little dust cover: https://imgur.com/fa3kRjD

But does this 40 year old machine work?

Yes! https://imgur.com/8toCU8T

In case you weren't sure, the stack begins from BF90 hex. https://imgur.com/HhcTkSz
On a related note, is Gitlab profitable?
I am disappointed so many people seem to accept the view that Michelle is in fact substantially to blame and deserves her punishment. I have the opposite view: the government is absolutely to blame, for creating an incomprehensible tax and accounting system. It is unacceptable to me, for example, that the IRS (or SEC) does not just notify people directly and immediately if they have made a mistake - honest or otherwise - on their accounting statements. It's as if a company built an unusable software system, and also somehow had the legal power to send people to jail for making mistakes while using it.
Why do they want me to learn a new language to make use of a gui runtime+lib? Seriously. What makes that language that revolutionary so that nothing else, no other tried & tested & loathed language, could have been used instead? I don't see it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18028915
Yes, that's my point. Facebook (the company) knows that Facebook (the social network) won't be the king forever, so buys up the competition like Instagram to make sure they (the company) are still around.

I was purely referring to the social networks. Who owns them is irrelevant for this point.
You have to look like a body builder if you want to to bump against the guideline numbers while having a reasonably low body fat percentage.
If you figure out how to do that, please let me know. Maybe there's some new math or tricks since I worked in this domain.
Carbon Black and Crowdstrike were traditionally EDR platforms. Crowdstrike had no AV capabilities until last year. They have now morphed into the EPP category as per Gartner. They are a now a suite of tools, where AV is just a single part of it that is the least important.

Any beyond that, "NextGen AV would have caught this" is the original premise. Nextgen tools were not needed. All they had to do was patch a well known Vulnerability within a period of MONTHS.

You can buy the fancy tools. If you can't do the basics, they are worthless.
How to Create Product Grid Serialization in Magento 2
Having a local "bare" copy (to use Git's term; `hg clone -U`) of the Mozilla repo, I'd like to create a checkout of it (`hg clone`), and build Firefox from it.

This results in 90 minutes of waiting with hg pegging one CPU core (CPU-bound, not disk-bound!), then a few minutes of hg actually writing files, then the actual build taking 60 minutes.

In the git community, it was always taken as a sign that they were doing something right that `git clone` was faster than `cp -r`. I'm having a hard time not taking it as a sign that Mercurial is doing something wrong that `hg clone` is so much slower.

edit: The saying was that `git checkout` is faster than `cp -r`, not that `git clone` is. The sentiment stands.
Seems that proof of replication could be done by querying for a random subset of data from the stored file. Is anyone familiar with a hashing scheme or algorithm for determining if a subset of data is part of a larger file without having access to all the data?
What I'd appreciate is if GDB, when stopped during execution, could show _all_ of the source statements that are currently 'in progress' (for the common case under optimisation where the execution of several source statements are interleaved). I don't know how feasible that is, though.
If a pro tennis player declined to play in mixed doubles to shield their spouse from paparazzi gossip, would you call them sexist?
Just wondering, are the queries executed against the state of the databases in that moment?
If it's heavier it's actually more stable because it's harder to move a heavier object. But maybe you mean that a heavier craft is slower to stabilise?
Love what you've done with IPFS and this blog!

There are a couple of advantages to places like Medium, Facebook, or Quora over a normal website.

The first is branding -- you get what you expect from a site. FB for personal connections (memes or distraction for others), curated content for Medium & Quora, etc. I remember using the web back in the 90s or so. I had committed to memory a dozen sites or so that I would visit every day. Slashdot, Yahoo News, ScaryGoRound etc. It was a bit stressful. Now I can just go to Reddit and just get distracted by whatever. Even curating your own Reddit experience is difficult, like it was for RSS. Most viewers of Reddit don't really create an account.

The second is ease of use for publishers. I'm not going to set up a website, even a Wordpress blog now if I can just go post content on Reddit or Medium where I have a chance of people reading it.

There are other things like consistent UX, etc.
> [...] but since it has overwhelming votes, a Presidential veto would be pointless, as The Congress has the votes to override.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. I don't think it is going out on a limb to predict that President Trump will not be happy about a veto of his being overridden, and will be very vocal about that.

Has President Trump actually said anything about this issue? If he said he's against it and Congress still overwhelmingly voted for it then you are probably right--they would also vote to override a veto.

But if he has been silent on this and he vetoes it I would be shocked if a lot of members of Congress do not decide that they only voted for it because they thought the President was at least neutral on it and will realign their positions to conform to his.
The kickbacks go mostly to the venues who then write Ticketmaster into their contracts, making it really hard for artists to find somewhere to play without Ticketmaster being the manditory ticketing provider.
I'd argue people left GoDaddy because their services suck. At least, that's been my experience with them. And at the same time, what they were doing wasn't unique, you have nearly unlimited alternatives in that space. I hope you're right with the Angular comparison though, I would love to see other projects move in a direction that truly competes with what Flutter is doing. As for native...you're right, I'll continue to tolerate it because none of the cross platform solutions are really "there" yet, Flutter included at the moment. It's interesting from a technical perspective, but I wouldn't bet on it for a serious project until it at least hits 1.0
How is git clone faster than `cp -r`?
I'm feeling exactly like you.
Each time I need to install GA, I am reluctant. Thanks.
Wow this was the most ignorant and man-child comment I've read in this entire thread lol.

The generalisations and overestimations are beyond me.

No one cooks every night in this world, unless it's their job. Real food lasts a lot longer than you think it does, and that shows your inexperience or lack of trying to even inch near the real thing.

You remind me of a kid that gets a water pistol expecting a bb gun and cries because water doesn't hurt.

Your gripes with cooking:

- I don't understand how long food lasts. Takes one time to learn.

- I don't know how to cut things. Takes one time to learn.

- I am used to tasty food. The cheap food from your restaurant is not from scratch. Restaurants are often less fresh and less diverse than what you make at home.

- I don't want to cook every day. What are you cooking, 2 sausages and an egg? How about cooking 4 sausages and 2 eggs. Use a pot that doesn't feed 1 person like a normal person. Do you cut parts of a tree off as you need them or do you cut the base?

Honestly I don't know how you live by yourself when you can generate these kinds of "blockades". How about before you pin something you can't do down to it's "negatives" you actually start to pin some effort into it.

Do you catch Ubers everywhere because last time you got in a car your feet got tired from grabbing the steering wheel and your back hurt from sitting upside down? No one taught you to drive that way, no one taught you to cook pasta, toss in sauce and a piece of cheese on top...
I use hg at work and git for open source. I can agree that GitHub and GitLab add momentum to git. Bitbucket is the almost the only provider. I feel hg can do the same things like git but a lot of that power is hidden under extensions in hg. I also love git releases that add a lot of UX improvements. Git is also fast compared to hg due to python startup time and it's one of the reasons hg still remains on python2. There is some effort on reorganizing python startup layout which will lay the foundation for faster hg. I hope with GitLab support hg gets more support and visibility.
I encourage you to have a look at Guillaume Chaslot's https://algotransparency.org - it identifies what videos YouTube's algorithm most often recommends, based on a given search. Serious question (I'm not trying to be facetious): looking at those recommendations, what do you think?
A) I’m not sure how geography plays into this. Perhaps you were making a cultural claim?
B) You only need to take the issue as seriously as you take gaming. However, for the companies involved, figuring out what is preventing >50% of their potential market from engaging is a serious, valuable problem.

FWIW one of the main reasons my (woman) SO plays overwatch is that the abuse controls tend to yield tangible results.
Forcing you to "drop off" social media seems like the exact chilling effect you describe (assuming you are a moderate), rather than being a stance.

It's happening!
Pointing to the obvious here but would this also translate to children and then economically depressed communities (negative network effects anyone?)
Replace "reeducation camps in Xinjiang" with "projects in Philadelphia" and "social credit system" with "private credit ratings" and you see that we're not as unlike as we thought. Yes, the scope and severity of the situation is more blatant in the Chinese example, but pointing fingers overlooks that we have similar problems brought about by similar causes in the West. Moreover, we already have these systems in place, and we treat them like oracles. How many poor in the West will never get a chance to be anything else because they get stuck in a system that only sees them as an unnecessary risk? I'm not claiming either system is good or bad. I'm saying both systems are similar and will have similar benefits and pitfalls.

I would ask Westerners to look long and hard at our financial credit systems and ask whether they allow dissent or whether we have simply accepted that dissent is a largely fruitless endeavor.
I think the article restates Popper quite well on why a tolerant society must not tolerate intolerance. Free speech absolutists will drown Western society with their simplistic good intentions
BBSes were never as great of an advertising buy as an image-adjacent to an Instagram pic.

Nobody looking at a BBS could anticipate why BBSes would eventually vanish, while Instagram is truly here to stay.
Oops so 70 odd people. That’s still nowhere near reasonable to make the claims they’re making.

Being hard to get a decent sample size isn’t a justification for making unreasonable claims.

A few people have commented on the nature of the samples group (namely that they were homogenous, etc), but that’s not mentioned in the article, and the paper is behind a paywall. If you want a press release for your paper you need to make sure the relevant data is available to people who otherwise only have access to the article.
> Yes, one's entitled to that opinion, but it's slightly misplaced sentiment.

How do you figure? How long have you been using/developing with Google products?

Microsoft had the same reputation a few years ago. They learned the hard way what happens when you piss off developers. They are now making great strides to right those wrongs. What is Google doing to assuage those fears?

The way they have managed Android itself should give all mobile developers some consternation. It is an absolute mess with a ridiculous amount of cognitive overhead. Its a utility OS now and a really bad one at that.

My gut tells me that Android will be abandoned soon. Samsung could kill Android if it wanted to...
> I'm not sure I like what it might say.

To me it says economic performance isn't everything, and I like that idea.
Parallel lives: matching portraits from South and North Korea – in pictures
I love it when people think they know better than Apple, and propose simplistic non-solutions as solutions, as if some amazing people at Apple had not already spent countless hours thinking this through at a deep level.

The submitter doesn't always know when they are submitting sensitive or confidential information. And that's not going to be fixed any time soon or with any simple solution. There are system diagnostics reports that can be many megabytes and contain potentially confidential information, and it would be entirely unreasonable to expect a user, even a developer user, to know how to trawl through all of these reports with a level of expertise to discern every possible case of leakage.

And that's just the personal / private information... which, by the way, Apple from what I've seen seems to strive to keep OUT of the diagnostic reports, but that doesn't mean they are perfect at this. And that doesn't even begin to address the information that might be, totally unknown to the submitter, exploitable in other ways.

As far as what other projects have, macOS is a highly complex operating system along with a tightly integrated ecosystem of apps and services, which is designed to, and relied on to, "just work"... while most other systems are either much smaller, or are not maintaining a level of smooth operation and security that can match the "it just works" level of reliability standard that macOS aims for. So maybe the bug reporting systems of all those other projects are appropriate for those other projects, but that doesn't make those systems and their practices appropriate for macOS.
The Skinner by Neal Asher includes a protagonist who is blackmailed to act as an agent of a hornet hive mind for the crime of squishing a hornet.
If the flying death machines are going to make that much noise, it should be fairly straight forward to use a few microphones and CNC machine guns to locate and shoot them down.
The problem is not as clear cut as you make it out to be. For instance, I stopped playing Overwatch because the abuse controls you mention got in the way of me having a good time with the game. So while some people may come in as you try to "control" the community, others will leave.

As for geography, I'm from Brazil. It's been my experience that people from 3rd world countries tend to have a thicker skin when it comes to online interactions compared to a number of people from 1st world countries, so that would explain what the poster above said.
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How would you act instead? In the eyes of a someone with a sufficiently incompatible position you are a loonie who gets ignired after the dirst dissenting statement with a simple mouse click, never to be seen or heard from again on that platform. This is just so much easier than in the real world.
Nobody's asking you to take abuse of women in multiplayer games seriously - at least not you personally.

People don't ask people who've just had a heart attack to take food poisoning seriously. But food poisoning still deserves the attention of people who can afford to care.
Simple, Linux.
It may be in relation to when you duplicate a repository.

When you cp an active git repository you receive an identical file state; when you git clone you receive only what is necessary. Old objects, reflogs, et al aren't in the clone. A clone of an existing local repository may also make hard links, if your file system supports it.
I'm not seeing any "have to" in any of this anywhere, except in the woe-is-me voluntary victim handbook.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249720