skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many words in this article. So little evidence or basic fact checking.

For example: why did they not release a screenshot with timestamp of the alleged internal memo? This is so obviously a case of Zuck/Sandberg instructing the guy who was already on the way out to take the fall. The author even calls it out as Schrage “jumping on the grenade” while simultaneously failing to do ANY INVESTIGATION WHATSOEVER into, you know, who actually made the call to do this. (Hint: not Schrage.)

Normally I expect Josh Constine/TC to at least make an attempt to hold powerful tech leaders accountable. As opposed to spread more misinformation.

Am I missing something? Can anyone get their hands on a copy of this doc to verify when it was actually written?
Client ID in Forwarded DNS Queries
It says they currently use ext4 but might bypass later.
> It's such a stupid idea and I really lose hope about the future of a free internet

I really lose hope for the EU, not a free internet.
Vim will win, and everyone will keep on using VSCode/Idea
quotas don't really work and are injust. You don't even know the condition for success, so I doubt there could exists data that would support your assumption in any way.
There's also custom development of modules/extensions to the core (it's not open-core because these developments may be open themselves).
IBM's 1970s future system (FS) project
Your proposed "solution" is hardly a general solution. The winner used a java.util.stream.Stream class which is a standard Java class. The rules (https://www.speedment.com/code-one/) stated that import/main class rows were not counted. But even if they did, they would impact any solution about the same.
I liked these, along with Perfecto Podcast and a few others, but then I found Deep Sunset House and Progressive. I liked it even better, in large part because they don't interrupt the music with talk of their latest show etc.

brain.fm seems to work for me, so I bought a lifetime subscription back when it was available, but the iOS app is flaky enough that I don't use it that often. I don't understand what the "AI" is doing for me, but it makes the experience worse. I'd rather have a static set of music files that are in the app so that I can play them offline (e.g., while traveling). Or even better, not in the app so that I can put them into a music player. The app does have an offline mode but it's awkward.

I recently learned Pzizz (which is nice for sleep) added a focus mode. I should try that sometime. Their app is much more reliable than brain.fm's app. However they don't have a lifetime purchase option, and I almost never sign up for subscription services, so I'm only using the free version.
It's fairly easy to build a thin C layer around C++.
Europe is already overwhelmed by regulation, and this is another good example. I'm not surprised either that many fellow Europeans agree with it - if they could, they would have the government control every aspect of their lives.
goodbye and farewell
Depends what the union negotiates. When they negotiate overtime pay for working on holidays, you typically end up with the lucrative holiday hours being staffed by the most senior employees.

Basically, the junior people get screwed no matter what...
Google won't lose much from this, the reaction was entirely forseeable.

I'm much more worried about aggregators acting in the EU and having no eternal fountain of revenue like Adsense to withdraw back to.

Now that the regulation would finally be there, a giant swarm of rent seeking publishers will move on to these local players in order to extract at least some revenue from someone, potentially killing a whole industry.

I'm running an aggregator and just the administration effort and legal exposure of being forced to make a deal with every single "content owner" out there (for giving them free traffic in the first place) would make me consider to shut down completely in the EU.
Avoiding the spaghetti architecture
> The existence of liquid markets is beneficial for the producers and consumers as the price volatility is reduced and hedging becomes easier.

Yeah, that's a nice fairy tale. It isn't true though. It's criminally untrue.

I can't eat volatile grain, nor hedged grain. I just eat grain. At a price I can afford, today and tomorrow, not bankrupting me in the process. When you're hungry you really don't care about all the financial jargon. You care about price.

Traders cannot make a profit if they don't manipulate the price. Simple, if a trader always sold for the same price he bought for he wouldn't make any money. So price goes up, trader has profited from the grain I eat, and has taken a few cents out of my pocket. And I don't even trade. I just live on a dollar day in a shithole somewhere.

If everybody bought just the grain they needed to eat, and every grain producer simply put their product on the market for people to buy, without a "liquid global market" and price index, without traders in the middle wanting to profit from it, my food would be affordable. But because the market bets on a price rise in the future, even though the bad weather hasn't materialized yet, my food is unaffordable.

In financial, when someone profits, someone hurts. And the one that hurts is almost always not even in the game.

> Significantly influencing the price of a commodity [...] is pretty much impossible unless you're acting on behalf of a country or are able to control weather.

No. A market can do that by itself. It's what all those terms bullish and bearish and stuff are for. Markets can drive up commodity prices like a rocket. Bad weather coming? "Let's buy all the grain everybody! Guaranteed profit! Just ignore the starving people over there, they'll go away fast enough." And buy the way, all those think tanks and the pentagon predicting a shortage of every natural resource in the near future, that's not going to influence the price at all, right? Great example of how a country manipulates commodity prices btw.

Financial trade is just people profiting from people who are worse off to begin with. And don't start about how nowadays regulations are much tighter and all that, it's just not true. Everybody always says that in times when stuff is stable, but as soon as something big happens everybody starts the "nobody could have forseen this" dance followed by the too-big-to-fail entities being saved by the govt and the bill footed to the people.
New Startup looking to boost Employee Engagement by fixing email limitations
Doesn’t this validate Googles point. You are visiting less thus bringing the news sites less page views and thus less ad income.
What is Google leeching here exactly? They're providing a free service: driving traffic to news sites. If they have to pay for providing that free service, of course they're going to stop doing it. Apparently the EU thinks news sites are sufficiently well known to not need Google for traffic.

Keep in mind that Google News doesn't show ads.
And is hopefully a death knell to their awful amp standard. I see amp as Google's play (pun) to shape how the WWW works, in a lop-sided, selfish manner.
There was a politician and activist from Montana on (US) NPR radio today who advocated getting congress to pass an act that /corporations aren't people/. If anyone's new to the issue, Google 'Thom Hartmann corporate personhood', you'll get the flimsy history of how it came to be. Making them not be people would solve a lot of the problems of money in politics. Too bad there's now so much precedence, I guess.
I don't have a horse in this race, but remember that what looks "generous" to you in New York City is considered "table stakes for a civilised society" in Europe.
I tried some basic motions and the editor crashed
Foxnews proving to me that their latest article is actually from them only helps people who already trust that source.
The reason why Assange etc. post signatures is because they dont have control over Twitter. The ownership of the domain already is a form of authentication/signature that is more than sufficient for just about everybody and source authentication definitely is not the main problem that fakenews is about. Verifiying that the author is who you think it is, is probably the smallest, most insignifant part of fakenews. Much more central is that the content isnt false.
How do we prove that something is false? We usually can't, so we could at best try to find flaws in their thinking or quotes that are wrong and say 'probably false'. That's what fact checker sites are doing, they give out grades. In my opinion the approach of fact checker sites is the best we can do so far, the problem however is now identical to mainstream news: Corruption.
These fact checkers inevitably mess up or maximize their grading to achieve goals for their ideology of purse, which has arguably already happened and now we dont trust factcheckers anymore either.

Maybe this is an uncomfortable thing to say but this entire escapade with fakenews may just be a natural cycle that happens when corruption becomes too much and competition is emerging. So if we accept that reasoning then fakenews is just one ugly side effect but there are also good side effects, like new news sites emerging which may use outrageous new content to get viewers or superior ethics as their selling point. Hopefully the latter prevails but the cycle of gaining / losing trust will continue for as long as human beings are fallible.
> People with less knowledge. Less technology.

One of my observations, to make a living you need an angle. This isn't necessarily 'bad'. A mechanic has years of experience and tools, and a lift. In return for parting with cash he'll do something for you (hopefully). Trading houses use their angle to do something to you, namely siphon off some of your money without providing you anything.
As an EU citizen, I'll go against the grain here and say that I will indeed miss this service.

The idea that google has made "a killing" of news.google.com is just silly. There are, I'm sure, related benefits, but they don't serve ads on those pages, they simply aggregate and sort various news services.

As someone who appreciates getting different viewpoints, having the articles sorted like this was a great value.

This is a classic case of the news media shooting itself in the foot.

To me, this akin to restaurants saying that concierge desks need to pay them to refer customers to them. Just ridiculous.
There EU is generally a force for good. Please don't let a couple of bad policies cloud your judgement against all of the good work that the wider organisation does.
Hacker News doesn't leech the content of the linked site. At most some posts take the title 1:1.
..and what's wrong with mailing lists? Too complicated? A need to have discussion of the patch in question?

it's very easy to write an email and there are some benefits to it. I.e, you don't need an account on a proprietary (Microsoft owned) system.
That's the beauty of having a large sample size. There are examples everywhere.

Look at political parties which imposed forms of quotas e.g. UK and Australian Labour. They have extremely high levels of female MPs versus alternative parties. Or look at corporate boards and executives across many countries. Almost all have seen improvements in female participation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_representation_on_corpo...
You can use trademarks to force the forks to have other names, minimizing confusion. You can't use FOSS licenses to prevent them from customizing it or adding features, that would go against the point of FOSS.

But I think the "standing in the community" is overrated; your clients probably won't know or care. Some people will prefer your project and help it, just ignore the haters.
The EU used to be a major champion for internet freedom, though.
That's the insidious part of affirmative action. It casts shade on even those who are legitimately good enough to succeed without it.
Isn't the colour a problem because of the white balancing and the way cameras "change" the colour when taking a shot?
So, HN should pay "techgraph" for linking this article?
FWIW, TC works perfectly well with the default uMatrix config (as in block everything third party) and only sets a single, empty session cookie.
I'm guessing they didn't have the number of unique users logged anywhere, and figured that their bandwidth logs were the next best thing. Rather refreshing to see that sort of thinking from a government bureaucracy rather than simply having an answer sent back of "unique users? Sorry, we don't track that".
Why Is Japan Still So Attached to Paper?
I really dislike many things about Google lately. But I still would rather have their services instead of EU regulation.

We had quite a few experiments through out the history where central entity could decide what's best for citizens. Those did not end well.

So how about, if you don't like Google News, just don't use it. You don't need any EU regulation for that.
... promised to be "the most open administration ever" - and ended up being more closed even than GWB. There's really something to the idea that paying lip service mentally gets you off the hook.
>Many of these news services do not have the audience, they are getting it from Google

I don't understand. Where are they supposed to be getting the audience from? Do you consider clicks from Google to be worthless? Are clicks from Facebook any better?
I wrote one (in python) myself: https://github.com/pplonski/hack-hn
Meanwhile in other threads we often discuss how the hiring process is broken for technical positions - what makes us think that hiring in other fields is any better?
Some random site says that another site reported and doesn't link it to the original article?

Is this them getting ready for the link tax? So now we will see these "news" sites that regurgitate other peoples news omit links to the original articles as to not pay this "tax"?

Will this actually be beneficial in the long run? Omitting core internet functionality, linking, because it costs extra. Only help to spread fake news as links to sources and references will be omitted. Or is there some clause that only tech giants will be taxed? How do you define a giant then. Certainly google but what about Reddit? Or Hacker News?

Don't have answers to any of these questions but until we know more I'll be very skeptical of this "link tax"
I guess one way to articulate what you are doing is building /up/ more commands in a step by step fashion with immediate feedback. It is not necessarily a bad thing, especially if processing or preparation times for the input are long. However, you could also accomplish the same thing with a smaller sample size and repeatedly applying your commands using a regular shell instead of an interactive less.
keep a close eye around any volatile times (potentially related to scares of manipulation) :) for checking up on trends and ai forecasts of the next few hours checkout https://bitbank.nz
> what is the point of reinventing the wheel?

For many of us (me included), it's not REinventing the wheel, it's inventing it. I've taken a quick look through here, and some of these are in the 'yeah, I can do that straight off' category, some are in the 'I -think- I could do that' and some are in the '...right.... I'm not sure how I'd approach that' category. Remember that not everyone is in the same boat as you, and at the same level. I'm sure I'm way behind 99% of the people on HN, so maybe this is the wrong audience.

In addition, there's also the element of the development of the wheel - after all, they used to be wooden, and then gained a steel tyre, a proper bearing, etc... The code you create today may well be completely different (and hopefully better in every respect) than the code from yesteryear.

>Even if you are looking to hone your skills in a new language, creating something genuinely new seems like it would be more useful and motivational.

Maybe, but sometimes having the limitation of producing a specific thing can be useful - certainly when teaching music in the past, there has been room for both approaches, and I think that carries across into coding. There are also plenty of people who don't know -what- to create, and anything they look at is such a massive, difficult project combining multiple skills they may not have 100% down that it's probably better to do some simple 'test pieces' like I had to do when I was an engineering apprentice.
As a general answer, the theory suggests that organisms maximize a quantity known as model evidence, which is just a way of saying 'how much evidence does some data provide for my model of the world?'

There are two complementary ways to maximize this - change your model or change your world.

If we now grant that actions also maximize model evidence, then actions can either be conducted to sample data that make the model a better fit of the data (exploration), or they can be conducted to sample observations that are consistent with the current model (exploitation).
Have a look at Aragon[1], it has good funding in their ICO run (and this was when ETH was in the 100's last year).

[1] https://aragon.org/
> trying to prove the opposite with no facts or evidence

You're doing exactly the same. You have provided no evidence or facts.

> There has been a staggering amount of research over the decades on this topic

Great, so provide it.
I rather have democratically elected entites decide how to regulate than tech giants deciding what not to regulate.

The "just don't use it" doesn't cut it. I don't use Facebook (or any of their products). It still very much affects - and has a direct impact on my life.

Edit : Added paragraph 2
Would be really handy but I'd definitely want a page on the site spelling out in explicit detail how data flows and who has access to what plus what happens if things go wrong.

Not that I assume shenanigans but if I'm giving someone access to my bank account, even read-only, I want to be damn sure it's safe and that I'm covered if things go wrong.
It has been gone from Spain for some time now.

I thought I was going to miss it, but honestly, I don't.

I also thought that the news services would crumble and die. They didn't, but their news quality took a dive. I can't say whether this is causality or just correlation.
Predict on IND vs. AUS Match and Win BIG
I wonder who those same publishers are going to blame when their visitors drop by 13% as they did in spain.

But maybe that's intended, as smaller publishers would suffer the most the large publishers would finally be able to decide what is news and how it's to be distributed.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150725/14510131761/study...
Adobe requiring CC Subscription for TypeKit the hard way
A force for good indeed, while Germany and to some extent France have regulations in their favour enforced, the rest of the EU is slowly ground into a slow death.
Not surprising, their most basic criteria already requires a custom annotation in JavaScript code. Unless a page panders to this specific test it is set up to fail.
You make terrific points. The problem arises, for both points, with believing that time is a background against which everything happens. For most practical purposes this is fine, and it is very difficult for humans to accept that time is not actually the background against which everything happens. I'll do my best to address your points, but as a layman I'm really not the best person to do that.

Regarding the CMB, I have no problem stating that the Big Bang is happening now in a distant part of the universe. That is an interpretation that is easy for humans to understand, and it's not really wrong since we are now receiving the photons. As a very poor Newtonian analogy one could imagine it to be similar to how a flame front in a combustion chamber propagates.

As for near-real-time two-way communication, I don't think that humans will ever be developed enough to accept the non-agreeing simultaneity. We will continue to say that Mark Watney said something 15 minutes ago when we hear his voice. For practical purposes, it is the best way to deal with the situation, even if it is technically wrong. There is precedent with knowingly using terms incorrectly, just off the top of my head we (metric-using people) typically answer with our mass, not our weight, when asked what we weigh. If I were to tell someone that I weigh 700 Newtons they would have no idea what I'm talking about.
So I tried to install it and got fancy error:

$ ./install.tcl

...skipped...

Copying data to lib/tke/data... done.

Copying doc to lib/tke/doc... done.

Copying lib to lib/tke/lib... error!

error copying "lib" to "lib/tke/lib": "lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/...skipped.../tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/lib/tke/doc/md/TKE Developer Guide/Plugin Development/Safe (Untrusted) Interpreter Description.md": file name too long
People pay to promote their links on google search. Why can't it be the other way around?
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but Hacker News would technically be affected by the same Link tax. It would probably not be enforced but still.

The "link tax" isn't a tax on actual links. That name is a misnomer, it applies to links that reproduce key parts of the linked content inline.

So, for example, Google News links duplicating the headline and providing a summary. Because, in essence, Google News is copying content from news organisations/sites reducing their traffic (usually skimming headlines is enough to cherry-pick the few things you care about) while themselves profiting (keeping people on Google sites and around Google ads longer).

Whether this "link tax" is the right solution is debatable, but I hope we can agree that Google and Facebook abusing their dominant position this way isn't health for the world.

This does not apply to HN, because HN isn't reproducing any of the linked content inline.
I have also played around with differentiation. I even wrote a template metaprogram in C++ that could differentiate formulas in compile time. However integration is tough, I have never attempted to do it.
Ask HN: How to get started with Linux kernel developing/debugging?
Hello HN,

I'm a developer and Linux user for quite some time. I run Arch Linux and already experienced with different kernels, also with building some special Kernels from AUR and applying some patches, etc.

Now I have a minor issue with my touchpad, I know it's caused by a change between 4.9 and 4.11, not sure what exactly, and I would love to figure this out on my own and eventually submit a patch. This is knowledge/a skill I was eager to gain for quite some time now.

So, Dear HNers, what would you recommend to an experienced programmer to get started with debugging and developing the Linux kernel? I'm looking for everything that you made good experiences with, be it articles, tutorials, videos or even books.

Thanks to everyone!
He means that smaller publishers don't have a brand yet where people just browse directly to their site. Those smaller publishers get a disproportionate share of views when one of their article trends on google news.
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
> consent [...] cannot be gained through a framework arrangement which bundles a number of uses behind a single “I agree” button [...]

I'm a bit worried that the interface of old Windows installers might make a comeback in the internet, but with "I agree" instead of "Next" written on that button that you have to click a dozen times.
The Fairphone actually provides an official AOSP image, so you don't have to compile it oyurself and you keep OTA updates.

However, it still has the problem that it cannot realistically update beyond Android 7.
Amazon discloses breach of email addresses and names
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