skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are over simplifying this.

China is a authoritarian surveillance state? Yes.

But that only scratches the surface of a deeper problem within. I think China is just a case of policies easily influenced by lobbyists, and gets executed very efficiently

This contributes much to China's economical success, as well as its (possible) demise.
Lotus notes (at least in Baltimore).
There was a good thread on it here where this was viewed quite positively.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17726094
Not really, you just have to write the law to allow what you think should be allowed.

Some countries allow assisted suicide in non critical conditions, some allow it only for critical conditions, and some never allow it.

I don't see why it would give any weight to those opposing assisted suicide.

And TBH I don't understand what is the problem with assisted suicide for non critical conditions in the first place. People get to chose their life, and should be able to end it if they want to. The only alternative as I see it would be to put on the state the responsibility to make everyone so happy they would never want to die, which does not sound like something those opposing assisted suicide would want either.

Why would we force people to live miserable lives?
Yep true.
I am still trying to figure out how to write good documentation/tutorials. I will definitely write some general recipes in the README for common tasks, some also doable in other container software like mounting containers, importing from docker, exporting to docker, using an image published in github etc. I'll shortly ping you via PM afterwards.
Discussed earlier today here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18058748
Well, at least you aren’t the guy that bought two pizzas for 10 000 bitcoins. If he’d have held onto them until the $20 000 peak (a tall order in itself) he’d have netted a cool $200 million.
Crypto FTW
Thanks for posting this here nsmog767. I'm the author of the post.

I completely agree with you on what you said about content marketing. I was really excited when I published this post because I think it really helps people that write a lot of content better understand their efforts.
Facebook sued for exposing content moderators to Facebook
I haven't done the maths on how much explosive you'd need to noticeably alter the trajectory, but it's not 4 kg. I'm not sure if 15 million kg (one Hiroshima) would even do it.

Edit: according to Wikipedia [0], a 1967 study suggested that we could alter the course of a 1.4km asteroid enough to avoid an Earth collision by using a handful of Tsar-Bomba-sized nuclear weapons, each equivalent to around 6000 Hiroshimas or 25 billion of the charges proposed for the Hayabusa-2 mission.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance
I think you mean ascribe - "to attribute" rather than prescribe - "to give or direct".

I agree with your point though.
> few edge cases

It’s all edges. It’s really grim. And once you have it sorted out, another variation pops up and fails in some new and awful way. Trying to maintain charts with columns and rows for example, basic stuff, in is near impossible. Just when you crack it you find some down stream system you have no control over is transposing rows and messing up records. It’s critical stuff and it’s a mess.
I am honestly curious: which part was uncivil? The use of the word "bitch"?
FWIW, pipes aren't necessary to achieve explosion. Here's an example fork bomb without pipes:

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> Assuming your 1 GPU machine depreciates to $0 in 3 years (very conservative), the chart below shows that if you use it for up to 1 year, it’ll be 10x cheaper, including costs for electricity

You can invert that to 3 years of use at 33% utilization which would come out cheaper (or is my maths broken?). Still doesn't sound like it'd be a good match for your usage though.

That 3 years is extremely conservative though, in reality it would probably be much longer and there are some potential upgrade paths to factor in as well. Not to mention the potential to use it for other purposes.
Remote working for software developers
The things important to me are annual leave, are there periods of crunch and whether you are expected to be available on email or otherwise out of work.

I care more about my quality of life now that I'm a bit older, you might not have the same considerations now but things do change.
Why do you need a PKI to encrypt and store data? As far as I know, you need a PKI when working with other people/with a web of trust.

For just a backup, I think the easiest way is just to encrypt offline and put the encrypted file online. And keep the keys either offline or in another online storage.
A syscall zombie is pretty easy to find, I often run into them when making NFS mistakes (like leaving the local net without properly ending some dep)... is there a general way to see what syscall the undead process is waiting for? Is there a simple way to make it return ERRx?

Can I get a list of pending syscalls by age?
Mental health facility :(
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Only that the article says the exact opposite - the participants were LESS empathic if they believed the person's behavior was due to mental illness.
The real issues at hand with this research are 1) prescribing medicine too often and 2) interacting with patients too little.

If you take a look at the original research (linked to from the posted article), then you can skip to the discussion section to see the authors wording of what you are taking about. They are saying the same thing as you, essentially, in a more specific and sophisticated way (page 4 of 5)
I'm not sure why people are still surprised at this sort of behaviour; it's their modus operandi: spin a narrative of hate and prejudice that is active within a community, concern troll your way into the fringes and then eat away by dogpiling and bullying people who disapprove of what you're doing until you have a large enough group of people on the inside that you have some sway within the community.
This guy is great to follow on twitter (lots of funny stuff), but recently he's started rambling on about how twitter is "full of Nazis" which gets a bit annoying.
How to Customize Your Ecwid Store
Shaping the stories that rule our economy
Combined with the need for change. Reports are regularly altered and amended. How would this be handled?
Hey guys, today we’re showing HN a new open-source library that we have been working on for almost a year. It incorporates lessons learned from scraping of thousands of websites over the last 4 years. We figured there was no such universal library for JavaScript, while for example Python has one (https://scrapy.org/). That wasn’t fair, because JavaScript is THE language of the web :)

Anyway, we hope you’ll give it a shot and we’re really looking forward to hear what you think about it. All feedback welcome!
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> MSFT makes a large chunk of their revenue from Enterprise customers

Now they do. Got out of the consumer business like a scalded cat, because consumers are fickle and quick to anger.

Now, perhaps we could have a word from HiSpace's Tom, or whatever his Ozymandias was ...
Would be cooler to have an open source/license framework for handling payment processing, easy industry wide contract templates: why not make a X,Y,Z (like MIT, BSD for licenses) thing for contracts with open source vendors AND then if the open source developer does not want to handle all this stuff himself give him the opportunity to choose a service like tidelift with a certain percentage cut.
"and if you are a programmer in work in then you are pretty rich"

Incidentally, I'm not sure if this statement has any validity outside US. I wonder why that is.
I regularly deal with printed out referral forms that are photographs of the original with a steering wheel and traffic in the background.
Maybe in the US. It's not uncommon in the UK.
I just opened up a private tab and did this (and by the way, going in, I was and am already suspicious that Google is in fact using search results to manipulate public opinion, at least some of the time and in an experimental way).

In the top two rows (ie, 8 images), three are from a reddit post about this very controversy.

The remaining five are images of couples. Of these, three are what look to my eyes to be white couples. One is an image of an ethnically Indian couple in an article about not being able to adopt a white child. The other is a photo of two dudes doing a hand symbol together with a caption "black and white couple gesturing with hands."

All of these images seem very relevant to the phrase "white couple."

So, actually, this is a case where Google Image Search gives back perfectly appropriate results, at least for me as of today.
Hey,

Yeah, that should work. It usually uses linux namespaces/overlay/unionfs/mount/chroot there are no dependencies on hyper-V.

In the worst case scenario plash would also be happy with not cleaning up mountpoints (PLASH_NO_UNSHARE=1) and using unionfs-fuse. During development I run it on FreeBSD and macOS. So its quite portable. Feel free to send me an mail (mail at irae me) for support.

EDIT:
Running it natively on a non Linux-System is probably not what you think, since you can't run a linux root file system for example on top of the macOS kernel. Experimenting with the FreeBSD linux abi emulation layer did not yield usable results for me.
I think it's worth remembering that the userbase of chrome is huge and largely non-technical (i.e. they're not going to be on hn, twitter, reddit etc. voicing their opinion on the privacy implications of this change). What if for that big proportion of people the change is a net gain? Should it be reversed because the change is a net loss for a small subset of people?
It's very easy to find the current stack of running syscalls and how long they take using perf [0]. In fact, a flame graph will give you a wonderful way to visualize this [1].

I could go on and on about perf, but there's no reason since Brendan Gregg's page is so darned good. Just read that, play around with the perf cli, find the answers to all your questions... Well, all of them except how to cause that syscall to error out.

There's no simple way to force an in-progress syscall to error out as far as I know. If any one else knows of a simple way, I'd be curious to hear of it.

[0]: http://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html
[1]: http://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html#FlameGraphs
Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies
I think people had more empathy for the mentally ill before the advent of science or religion.

Science will reduce and dehumanize all that makes that human to a nameless patient file while trying to fix the issues.

Religion might demonize and ostracize.

I feel that before all of this because there was no explanation, the mentally ill were just treated as having a different mindset. I mean.. if we tried to "fix" all the artists that have lived, the world would be a much bleaker and empty place without their art.
I’m voting for PodFix.
> Many of the women who worked in the mills would "retire" in their mid-late 20s or early 30s, having saved up the majority of their wages.

Thanks for sharing. I was under the impression that this was a relatively new phenomenon with the advent of sky high compensation in tech roles.

Do you happen to know how common it was for them to be making, say, $300k in inflation adjusted terms by, say, age 26?

I'd love to read more about this if you have any links. All the stuff I remember reading in school was about how horrible it was.
$220/paycheck which in the US is typically twice a month, so $440/month.

My experience as a Brit working in the US is also that health insurance with higher employee contribution is often also (bizarrely) more expensive and worse quality in other ways, so there are additional non-financial (or not just financial) factors to consider. But the OP hasn't given enough detail to evaluate.
You can buy a cheap android phone and install miniG to get rid of all the google shite, but you will need to use newpipe for google (it wont cast to chromecast), and I recommend waze for maps.

Why not setup something like zsync then encrypt the files and upload them to backblaze, cheap encrypted backups.
Is the Hype Over AI Art Outpacing the Technology?
I feel that once you’ve passed a certain size you should move the domain to a more professional service, no matter the cost. MarkMonitor etc.
Atiyah and the Fine-Structure Constant
> your account will get automatically downgraded to single factor authentication going forward.

*your device

If someone has access to my desktop PC, they also have access to my yubikey anyway.
It's not the subject, no, but the limitations on telescopes are what places limits on how much astronomy can do, and by improving their telescopes, and by improving how they use their telescopes, they can find out more than what they could before.
Per their profile page, most likely it's Path of Exile.
VirualBox does not work: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17805

tl;dr: Mojave blocks the VBoxDrv.kext <5.3 kernel extension from loading because "it will panic the machine if allowed to load", and it's up to Oracle to patch on version >=5.3 (current latest is 5.2.18)

Systems that depend on VirtualBox such as Vagrant don't work either.

Some guy has posted a workaround but it involves disabling the SIP, proceed at your own risk: https://silvae86.github.io/sysadmin/mojave/beta/vagrant/virt...
The issue here is that a bankrupt company is breaking the contracts it made with employees — and you suggest it can be fixed by having employees enter into another contract with the same company. Do you see the problem?
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It seems to be case–sensitive:

/category/Management & marketing
^

works, but

/category/Management & Marketing
^

does not…
GPU accelerates training time considerably. For development it's very convenient to use a Linux laptop with nVidia Optimus. I was able to train a quite complex model on laptops's nVidia (optirun process) while continue working using Intel SOC's GPU. However GPU memory is crucial it's better to choose a laptop with 4GB or more video RAM.
It would only ignite in the presence of oxygen, and at least according to the information I've looked at it doesn't seem that Titan's atmosphere contains large amounts.
If you trouble yourself over regret on how you didn't get rich that one time, while still living a life that is probably in the upper 90th percentile comfort-wise, you aren't doing yourself any favors. Money is just numbers, and in the end we are all dead, so spending your days regretting not winning the lottery has to be one of the most stupid things to trouble your mind with. A dose of some traditional values would probably help.
As you probably know, Google does have quite clear policies on the matter.[0]

You and your colleagues could raise that these are there for a reason, approved by senior management, and there to help you respect your users' rights.

I like the sound of "Applications that affect or change your user experience should make clear they are the reason for those changes." or "It should be clear to you when you are installing or enabling software on your computer and you should have the ability to say no." or "We believe you should be asked explicitly for your permission in a manner that is obvious and clearly states what information will be collected or transmitted."

All of these sound relevant to the grievance of the OP.

[0]: https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/software-principles.htm...
I don't think that's accurate. A more apt anology (and one trending on HN, coincidentally) is the California Gold Rush. The prospectors (workers) are willing to work super hard and risk it all to find gold (unicorn equity).
Ask HN: Have you even been silenced for voicing unpopular beliefs?
Immortality will probably never work for those that die from getting hit by a train and the like. This will make their death so much worse for their loved ones.
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I suppose the obvious answer is to require them to pay — as you say, it becomes a political problem for politicians to write law mandating it and the providers to lobby for it not to be forced.

The closest analogy I can think of is the Data Communications Company that intermediates smart meter data in the UK between the energy suppliers and end users. As a monopoly, their prices are regulated (well or not is a political problem…) and all the providers have to use them.

If the data exchange was the source of truth, the providers would presumably save some money not having to store their own copies (or at least, could store more summarised versions) with all the requirements that HIPAA/GDPR entail.

However, there’s money to be had for a huge aggregated database of everyone’s health records, stored in consistent format for easy consumption…maybe we should be careful what we wish for.
How can Nvidia anymore enforce that than movie producers can stop rentals of physical media.
Snapchat's market cap is only $12B… and publicly traded. I'm sure they could buy it if they wanted to.
Facebook Appoints Hotstar CEO Ajit Mohan as Managing Director for India
The worst part is this might also motivate other nations to develop their own "internet" and strictly control what goes out of their borders.
> For me or anyone to believe this, is a huge ask.

Agreed.

> Any attempt to algorithmically shape perspectives is crude with today’s state of the art.

I suspect that the truth of this statement is very difficult to ascertain at the moment. Reasonable people might dispute both which technologies represent the "state of the art" and also which outcomes represent successfully shaped perspectives.

Although I don't have the data to back up this assertion (and again, I'm not sure such data is cognizable in the current environment), I think that for some reasonable definitions of the above that indeed perspectives can successfully be algorithmically shaped today, though as I said above, I think that this "white couple" nonsense is not a meaningful example.

> How precisely would such an algorithm work, while not creating obvious artifacts and errors throughout the search results for all people using the service.

Again, it may not be clear to anyone, including the authors, precisely how such an algorithm works. That's why A/B (and other) testing is needed.

And I think people in this thread are saying that indeed obvious artifacts are starting to creep up (although again I think that the "white couple" thing is a total misfire and not at all an example - the "gun rights" thing appears to my eyes to be much closer).

> And how would it work for people only in the us and not elsewhere?

Isn't this already at a point of triviality? Doesn't Google already do this all the time? I mean, if you travel outside North America, indeed the Google experience is palpably different from the one in the US.
Recently the UK Office of National Statistics released the 2017 baby names, having a niece born last year this was of great interest to me so I know the dataset quite well.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

So that is 43 Heathers born last year in the UK. Not very many, however, compare that to the 106 Margarets born last year. Margaret is an unpopular name, however, Margaret was all the rage a century ago, Prime Ministers and Royal Family members are testament to that. But nowadays the name has gone the way of 'Adolf' (of which zero were brought into the world in the UK last year).

What I find most interesting about names in the UK is when you have to identify yourself in hospital, with the police or anywhere else where they have access to the 'full database'. Even if you have an extremely common first name then the authorities only need to know your surname and your date of birth to have a pretty good idea who you are and what your National Insurance number is. Add the town or hospital of your birth and they have an exact match. Unless your name really is 'John Smith' and you give your birth town as 'London' there is no chance that the police will be getting you confused with anyone and even then the other 'John Smith' characters can probably be eliminated from enquiries very easily.

The police, secret services and others needing to go undercover go to extraordinary lengths to get the birth certificates and other particulars of 'dead babies' that died a long time ago without distressing anyone except their mothers. You wonder why they do this rather than just make up any old name. Surely they could ask the passport people to just make up an appropriate passport and get the DVLA (drivers licence people) to do likewise? Well no, the statistics are quite hard to fiddle, you wouldn't be able to just fake a 'Heather' or even a 'John' as people really are not as anonymous as you might think.
Sure... https://about-history.com/the-cruel-way-people-with-mental-h...
I'm still using Opera 12! I use it with Javascript disabled and it works flawlessly as it always did. Just to reply here I decided to count the number of tabs I've got opened. I counted 60! I should just put them in the 'Read Later' list I guess!

Wikipedia says Opera 15 with the Blink engine came out on 28 May 2013 [0]. So, it's still chugging along after 5 years of the switch. Which in the web world is an eternity I suppose.

The tab navigation, the mouse gestures, the keyboard based navigation on the page, the keyboard shortcuts, tab stacks, customized searches with keywords, just too many features to count. And all without a single add-on.

Vivaldi does a lot of these things right as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#History
It is. One feature I'd like to see added is a separate history for every container.

Currently the global history is shared between all containers.
Yeah -- what I'm most curious about is how it determines its initial state. Does it need to be powered up and "zeroed" like a scale before it's scrambled? How does the algorithm know which actuator needs to be moved and which direction it needs to be moved in?
Can easily be found by a search, so it carries the same, if not greater risks, as the other "dual" solutions.
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It takes a competing company that is actually (very) profitable and believes it can successfully monetize the 70 million users Pandora claims to have.

My gut feeling is that this will be one of countless such acquisitions that‘ll turn out to be bad for both users and the acquiring company in the next couple of years. There‘s a reason why Pandora isn’t profitable in a market where others make 100‘s of millions in profit every year.
I was not referring to the implementation. The first , should be a ;. I agree, bpf looks sweet. It might be so useful that it becomes optional only in spirit.
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With the way Snapchat's stock price is going, it's going to be snapped up by a bigger player eventually.
If I had to guess they're probably rejecting the message further because it likely contains the spam itself.

This is a key error in their handling of their abuse@ address, it needs to be expected to receive spam.
If you have a kernel driver that is giving you this problem, it should be fairly easy in most cases to replace its use of TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE with TASK_KILLABLE.
Just tell them you've been sentenced to prison, or are dying, or something like that.
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The only social media account I have is IG and just use it to follow brands, business and artists I like. It's quite good for that. Example, a record shop will post noteworthy new arrivals (video with sound) and I frequently buy the things they post.
Well, not so bad if they were nice pizzas!
Formidable Labs also has a similar project written in React: https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle