skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too like to do this yet I feel hobbled by the infinite loop problem on bare iron (watchdog fires off, provided it's not preprocessed out in the release). A sibling brings up the Erlang supervisor and I like failing fast and often when someone's around to see that the log's littered with restarts.

Is that the best one can hope for - to leave traces for my successor to pick up the pieces?
The thing about ext4 is that it's sufficiently mediocre at what it does.

It's fairly crash resistant, has well worn and battle-tested codepaths and generally seems to not loose data outside bitrot. So why pick btrfs with it's dataloss stories or ZFS with it's complex management?

It's an effort to switch to a new FS as default, especially if either itself or the integration is not as well tested or completed yet.

So everyone just sticks to the thing they know how it sucks.
It's also such an easy fix too. If a company isn't actually using a license or copyright they should loss all claim to it.
How about electing a fascist dictator that wants to genocide the left in his country, and deforest the rainforest by opening it to western companies?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/18/brazil-jair-bo...
I feel the same way. It regularly frustrates me to see the magnitude of corporate misdeeds that just go unmentioned. Equifax resulted in little to no real action despite, what is in my mind, a far more powerful and privacy-sensitive position. (nearly-mandatory access to my spending habits will tell you MUCH more about my life than a social site or tracking cookie that I can realistically avoid.) And this not even mentioning the passing fancies we get for everything from medical billing abuses to undischargable student debt without showing nearly the level of tenacity we do with FB.

Hell, just comparing them to what the tobacco execs did in terms of physical harm and outright mortality-causing misdirection for almost half a century shows how skewed the comparison is to my eyes. It's like the talking heads on the news who compared <hot button topic> to Hitler. Sure it may be a bad thing but you've just lost all sense of relativism.

Additionally, the complaint that facebook is somehow the threat to democracy (and to our credit, other topics have come and gone to question "how'd we get here" but FB is really the recurring theme) has always sounded to me far too much like a "let's find a scapegoat for an outcome we don't want to blame ourselves for" (Trump) especially given that when many articles have risen to the top showing how _our own executive_ may be taking part in truly criminal action (far beyond just "we're slimy corporate executives") this doesn't even make the front page, but we'll beat the dead horse of FB all day long.
It's a link to a commentary podcast, not sure which "actual story" you're referencing but there have been several negative stories about Facebook which they talk through and that's kind of the point of the podcast.
I’m reading this thread and replying from my phone while on the bus. Try that with a desktop or even a laptop. I consume a huge amount of educational and special interest material from YouTube that wouldn’t exist let alone be accessible in the age of TV.

Mobile devices do have some negative consequences, sure, but they also enable engagement, contribution, self improvement and creativity. My kids watch a lot of YouTube, but also use their iPads to do homework and sketch and draw.

These are fantastic tools. How we use them is up to us.
This is not the sort of repo I would present to the public.

* There are no instructions on how to actually run the thing.

* There is no requirements.txt or similar, so I have no idea which version of dependencies I'd need.

* The repository is strewn with unnecessary files (.pyc/.ds_store/.so...), random-looking images with names like "plswork.png", a HTML file from some "starter kit"...

* I can't seem to find the React frontend that is mentioned in the readme -- on the other hand, it looks like `server2.py` is looking for them outside the repository (`".././reactExperiments"`).
I wasn’t alive then but always has the impression that “home computers” like those described were much more popular in Europe and Japan while PCs became the dominant platform in the US. Is this why?

Your impression is wrong.

8 bit home computers were massive in the U.S. the main differences between the U.S. and Europe were:

. Europe was big into Acorn and Sinclair. In the U.S., Sinclair was an also-ran under the Timex brand, and was widely seen as a toy; Acorn was unknown.

. Tape drives were more common in Europe, while U.S. consumers almost always had a disk drive or both.

IBM becoming big in the home computer space didn’t happen until the 8-bit Commodore and early Apple machines were already long in the tooth. When it came time for people who owned Commodore 64’s and TI99/4A’s to upgrade, the choices were often Amiga, Mac, or IBM.

IBM was an easy decision for many because they were familiar with the machines from work, and because the notion of doing more office-like things at home was becoming popular. It was about this time that the home “computer room” evolved into the “home office.”
This online compiler is pretty cool for just experimenting: https://www.jdoodle.com/execute-cobol-online
Well you know, that whole enabling genocide thing is arguably as bad as poisoning people. Should we just not criticize corporations until the death count gets to a certain threshold?
It is difficult to assess what you will gain, for me it help in very uncomfortable situation, like a rough meeting sort of avoiding panic mode,
I used Muse the brain sensing https://choosemuse.com/ somehow this gadget helped me, and no I don't do 1 hour a day as I don't have time for that, 10 minutes a day and I think it helped me.
A lot of it is subjective, but then pretty much all of interactions are too.
> But it does reduce the possibility of being manipulated through fake news.

Really??? Most "educated" people are proud of their indoctrination. They frame it and put it on their wall and resume
What do you mean? Can NATO or US force any law they want?
If I am in a small country and decide that patents and copyright is evil should I expect a war? If not what do you mean by military in your comment?

As I see it if you don't like China politics don't do business with them and do not involve the army(though we all know some big countries like to get involved in smaller countries politics and force laws).
Yeah, I think it all basically comes down to:

The internet is destroying existing power structures, and giving control to alternative media sources/platforms/whatever that people are starting to trust more than the 'mainstream' ones.

So all the hand wringing and fake news paranoia and what not feels like a desparate, last ditch attempt by those who did well before to try and cram the internet/social media genie back into the bottle before they're made irrelevant.

Does this potentially lead to authoritarianism and what not? Possibly, but the answer isn't to try and shut down freedom of speeech/independent media/any thought outside of an ever narrowing acceptable boundary, but to ask why these views are on the rise and deal with the real causes.
Why I wrote a utility for diagnosing paths
This is one thing I don’t get about this narrative. At this point how do we know how permanent what you’re talking about is? And how much is due to Facebook vs. just generally the unexpected terrible combination of it becoming very easy to distribute information + the fact that humans seek out information that tells them what they want to believe.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t criticize Facebook, or that they shouldn’t be the ones to solve this problem. But I think it’s important to frame it as a problem to be solved instead of growing extremely cynical and saying Facebook is pure evil.
The trouble with checked exceptions is most of the time you want the exception to continue up the stack but you are forced to write unnecessary code.
Ask HN: Knowing what we know about Facebook, why do you still have an account?
>This means they are hosting the Tor bridge themselves, but the device's traffic is still going through the carrier's network in plaintext

The traffic is encrypted using the onion layering scheme on the device. The bridge node is the entry point for this traffic to the tor network.

>an attacker on the other side of their bridge spinning up a fake Tor network

The client creates the 'circuit', all the bridge node knows is who is connecting to it, it then unwraps its onion layer, finds an encrypted packet and a forwarding address and then sends it on.
You didn't dig up some undisclosed connection between the author and the Chinese communist party, or other business interests that may taint their reporting. You are only suspicious because of their ethnicity.

And relax, as Avenue Q states: everybody's a little bit racist! But discussion on HN is meant to be substantiative, and part of that is trying to avoid ad-hominem attacks with a racist tint.
That's because the meditation practice gets mistaken with regular practices where one must be invested in the practice to get better at it. Meditation is a practice in the way that you must put it in practice, not practice to get better at it. And you can put it in practice doing anything, your attention just have to be in the moment. So when you are waiting on a line, or having a meal, brushing you teeth, preparing your coffee, going to work, paying your bills you can be meditating in which you are focusing entirely on the present moment and not letting your mind wander off.

I believe that's you you achieve 7 years worth of meditation
It's a solid comparison, but I find it interesting that the author refers to Rust/Java/C++ as coming from the “IT World”. I guess the bit about human subcultures being fractal rings true here.
Inside Amazon’s Jeff Bezos meteoric rise to riches
It may improve the quality of those 1000 hours.
Although China is a vibrant place it is still a developing country. not on par with stable developed countries. Speaking of guanxi, many new rich had gotten almost none but their tech talent.
> export falling 30% year-over-year in Guangdong

Export surplus is falling... that's a very different animal.
Find a meditation group that meets regularly (i.e. once a week) at a time you can make. It's easier for most people to meditate a bit longer in a group, and you might find it motivates you to practice more during the rest of the week.
From what I’ve read in various discussions, I think the general consensus amongst investors is that the worst case scenario is so utterly mind-boggling unbelievably horrifically apocalyptic that essentially none of them believe anyone could possibly let it happen.

Either that or they see an angle to make money from it, but that’s a minority.
Tobacco has killed more people so far. Facebook accepted a lot of money to help Trump win, so if he were to start a war or something, I think the blood would also be on Facebook's hands. Climate change is a whole other issue with him, though less direct.

Also, I understand the headline to be a comparison of tactics, not of harm.

And as for the share button, writers don't make their site's templates.
I agree :). I've already changed my first post to say that it is meant for advanced meditators.
I guess at least they don't pretend to be interested in funding or collaborating with another company before stealing, say, design/code/algorithms from them. Or are there any anecdotes about these big conglomerates doing disgraceful things like that as well?
Do not do business with them, it is not like other countries politicians and politics are good examples to follow.
Butterick made his own programming language called Pollen [1] to publish this site. [2] Pollen is implemented in the Racket programming language. [3] He has another online book called Beautiful Racket [4] about language-oriented programming in Racket.

[1] https://pollenpub.com

[2] https://practicaltypography.com/why-racket-why-lisp.html

[3] https://racket-lang.org

[4] https://beautifulracket.com
We need to disambiguate the word "you" here. When "you" = an IBM or Apple or Microsoft, then forking is a great option, and a great reason to pick a program with a license that allows it. When "you" = some guy sitting at home in his PJs on Sunday morning who reads that his favorite filesystem is moving in a direction he doesn't like, you're basically SOL unless you decide to devote your life to maintaining that FS now.

Maintaining an entire Debian architecture is probably not a one-person job.
"The west was sure the chinese approach would not work"?

Is that why the west invested trillions of dollars in china over the past 4 decades? I expect very little from the nytimes, but this is a new low for them.

Did the nytimes assume Gordon Chang is "the west" and then run with that false premise?

If anything, we have gambled our future and put all our eggs in one basket - china. We looked to china to be the manufacturer of the world. Then during the financial crisis, we looked to china to increase debt to save the world economy from collapse. Now we are looking to china to be the consumer of the world to boost the world economy.

The west helped create modern china. It was our money, resources, expertise, technology and markets that helped create modern china. Why would we invest trillions in a country expecting it to fail?

From hollywood to the NBA to silicon valley to wall street to agriculture, "the west" is looking to china to be the source of growth for decades to come. Or maybe I'm missing something?
Facebook does not give the cancer a platform. Facebook is the cancer.
Codeless UI is so exciting! This reminds me of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad from the early 60s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad
Whats your specific concern? Handing over data to a government, or handing it over for commercial purposes?
>Do not do business with them

This tactic works when it comes to mercantilist trade policy (see also: new U.S. tariffs, and recent EU complaint against China in the WTO). Less effective when it comes to stemming IP theft.
How much of these narrative/stories are coming from a hidden agenda of newspaper companies that are struggling to survive from the onslaught of aggregation platforms like Facebook and Google. There seems to be a sudden spike in these stories. Got to be coming/funding from somewhere. Anybody agree/disagree?
I'm a programmer who has had to do plenty of complicated SQL queries; the difficulty I've had with those has been about 10% quirks in the design of SQL, and 90% bad database design that I'm not in a position to fix.
How is it false equivalency? This has nothing to do with the concept of sanctuary.

Even Adam Smith regarded IP laws to be an 'Unessecary Evil'. Even in SV, an engineer works for one company, learns the tricks of the trade, and then takes that knowledge to another. This is business as usual, and it's a critical ingredient to Silicon Valley's success, and it's the secret to the success of many city states and industrial hubs all throughout history.
Ultimately explainable by the fact that extremely few, possibly zero people actually live their life according to principles.

Everyone has their pet topic, everyone has their set of vices.

I don't have a Facebook account, but I do own a (non-electric) car. I'm very much aware of how bad it is. Giving it up would restrict my life dramatically, so I don't. (I'd love a Model 3 when they finally hit the UK).
this is also how i imagine villiages and tribes passed down knowledge, traditions and stories. small children learn from older children, who learn from young adults, who learn from older adults, who learn from the elders.
How much of this is attributable to Facebook?

Also yes, Genocide is terrible. But the amount of people that cigarettes kill every year is orders of magnitudes more than this.

That’s the thing: tobacco execs are still around! Making a product that literally kills millions of people every year. The only reason more outrage isn’t targeted at them is I think we believe that with enough backlash, we can change the situation with Facebook whereas cigarettes seem unstoppable.
Facebook is just another website. Sure it has problems, but it’s super handy for keeping up with a ‘distributed’ family across the globe.

What are you fishing for?
I know, and I believe it's because the consequences are still not direct enough. Diseases strike at random, and curing them is a complex process (often involving the illness going away on its own, or actual medicine not working). The temporal separation between cause and effect is large enough to allow some people to believe in altmed/antivax nonsense.
It makes me think that meditation could just be practicing to put your mind in a quiet place. Whenever you are in a bad place, if you’ve trained well, it’s easy to grt back to that quiet place of your mind.
The Quinoa Boom Goes Bust in the Andes
Try UDF, it's supported by Linux, Mac and Windows natively since it's the default FS for a DVD (ie, any computer OS that understands a DVD understands UDF). It supports files bigger than 4GiB, unicode filenames and up to 2TiB volumes with 512 byte sectors. It doesn't have journaling though but it is fairly reliable even without.

It's better than FAT and widely supported.
I would like to use this post to draw attention to the Toubled Teen Industry. Its foundations are rooted in the Synanon.

Former Synanon members founded an organization called CEDU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEDU

CEDU created therapeutic boarding schools and wilderness retreats marketed for "troubled teens." These schools and programs used behavioral modification and therapy created by Synanon to control and brainwash the students. These schools still exist today as members of CEDU branched off and founded their own organizations.

The best site dedicated to compiling this knowledge isn't even available right now http://wiki.fornits.com/index.php/Main_Page
To capture gamma waves you need to have something that samples at least 200 times per second on the low end 400 times per second on the higher end. This is a minimum, preferably you'd be sampling 1000 times per second. Most EEGs sample between 240 - 500 times per second. This is due to the way FFTs work.

Now this does not include noise OR sensor sensitivity, which for reference you'll see from things like electrical (ranging from 50 - 60 hz), which incidentally is the same as gamma waves. You'll also have movement, heart beats, static, equipment interference, electrical signals from looking at things, etc. Etc.

This is why you need more sampling the higher you go, because the sensors have errors due to sensitivity already, plus you add a bunch of interference, at a lower sample rate, than say beta waves (which are 12 - 30 hz).

Essentially, the more potential for errors the higher N number you need. I never used gamma waves in experiments due to the lack of statical relevance.
I am essentially a art student who picked up some python and C along the way. I feel very comfortable with Rust (started a year ago). Make sure to read the books and maybe consider buying "Programming Rust" by Blandy & Orendorff which is easily one of the best language books I ever read, especially when combined with the free books available online.

I found the hardest part was stopping myself from using concepts I learned from python (e.g. Object Oriented stuff). I tried to make everything as class-like as possible. This always worked for a bit and then quickly started to make things immensly complicated. This was in fact never really necessary to solve the problem at hand. I learned to love custom data types, traits and the ability to just (for example) make my own Vec and extend it with some specialized functionality.

Rust has a incredibly good tooling and I use it more than Python nowadays.
Implying lung cancer can happen because of smoking. In fact air pollution and a bunch of other things cause lung cancer too.
I'm in that 30-40 range and been programming 20 of that. I definitely would shy away from anything with FTP in the name because of the protocol's historical problems even if that wasn't a fair assumption for the service. Not having FTP in the name was a good decision by Amazon in my opinion. Now is S3 a good name? I don't know.
Has anyone seen specifics on how they'll be held accountable? They've made promises for x jobs with $y average salaries, but if they don't meet that, then what?

https://ny.curbed.com/2018/11/16/18098589/amazon-hq2-nyc-que... suggests that nearly $1.3 billion is not tied to any amount of job creation at all.
There are benchmarks baked into the deal, so no jobs = no tax breaks. The cities should have known better than to play this game, but at least there's that.
For me, this online-book is the most beautiful site on the entire web, at least with the default Valkyrie font. It's a prime example of how excellent content design can be made in black-and-white, and the sorta-recent wave of "this is a website" pages didn't come close to it. White space there is simply magical, every single interval is perfect―I envy the author for the ability to achieve that.

The site, together with other Butterick's online-books, also uses a rather non-traditional styling for headings: they stand out just a bit from the body text by the use of bold face, and that's enough. Every day, I see examples of either loud and heavy headings, or subheadings that are not obvious―on very popular sites―and I keep thinking how I would apply Butterick's trick, alas to no avail.
Shouldn't a bed tax increases the price? Low margin hotels will be forced to shut down since the margin just is taxed and if they increase the price they will lose guests.

A bed tax is essentially cutting the demand.

You could make the bed tax season adjusted. The peak months are the main problem.
If you already have a consistent design language,and those pre-baked pieces, it seems like assembling them visually is the easy part. This would still leave the behavior logic an data flows.

I’d be interested to see new things like this though!
According to Mark Goodman "Future Crimes", it amounts to over 1 trillion USD over the last 10 years.

Micron being the latest victim.

https://www.wired.com/story/us-accuses-chinese-stealing-micr...

It is interesting that an agrarian society can transform and innovate itself in approx 10-15 years to become the world leader in Technology, etc. They also never seem to run out of funds to drive anything they do?
Well, it's the same example :) The point of the paper is that even when people are forced to handle errors, they punt.

BTW, that it's "almost universally hated" is more myth than reality. When there are polls at conferences, most developers actually say they like it a lot. The complaints are mostly not about the feature, but the choice of which exceptions thrown by methods in the standard library are marked as checked and which are not.
So one guy measured a gamma wave of his friend, and it's a >140 point article on HN?
There's zero substance to this article. No links to reviewed research.
This is disingenuous. 'Protecting democracy from misinformation' is misinformation. How do you do 'protect democracy' without erecting 'ministry of truth' structures and becoming undemocratic?

It's a bit sad many champions of democracy are realizing they can't handle real dissent. They seem more comfortable with control, limits and useless debates on media structures and platforms they can influence and control than the kind of actual dissent provided by Assange, Snowden and the wider platform of the Internet that allows people to freely exchange ideas.

Let's take it to the extreme, if citizens elect an flat earther or an extremist running on hate then its not a problem with democracy but a reflection of deeper problems with your society and education system.

Misinformation, propaganda, fake news are as old as human society and used by all countries and special interests, and can be addressed well outside the fundamental structures of democracy, free speech, dissent and free press.
"No dependencies" is nice. The last commit was in February though, and there's plenty of open issues and pull requests.