skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Liches is awesome. I found it when I was researching on alphazero. Used to play on other chess websites, but have been using nothing but lichess since.
Great, then we can rule out the people with the wrong sort of education as they make poor voting choices, and the people from the wrong sort of colleges, and the wrong sort of courses...

People can be hugely educated and aware on some topics whilst being ignorant, blinkered and bigoted on others. You and me included. Plenty of highly educated people voted for the choice you didn't. Even in those recent "surprise" elections, be that Trump, Brexit or the more recent Brazilian election.

If you want to balance the ageing of society and the electorate, open up voting to the young by way of balance. Which may bring the added advantage of not yet being inculcated in the binary certainty of party tribes.
The nukes didn't exactly go away though. We're still welcome to worry about it. :-)
From what I've seen of OP's setup, I'm surprised they every had a macbook in the first place.

Literally everything is textmode barring the browser. you might as well have a tty and a separate device for the browser.
Isn't it bizarre that a privacy tools website uses Google Maps instead of Openstreetmap?
I probably had a handful of days per year in high school with that much homework, and it was always because I let it pile up until the night before it was due.

The sad thing is that nobody cares about your education once you finish it. I have never been asked for my high school transcript except for when I applied to university. And I have never been asked for my university transcript ever.
Why on earth would I assume, given that comment, that he is posting in good faith? I'm not going to assume good faith when someone has made it clear they're only here to look down on shared information.
> Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

I bet most people's token solution to this will be to expand the size of the administrative state with new the levels "oversight", or new laws, new agencies, etc... which will proceed to be shaped and molded by these very same forces and only solidify these "elites" & special interest group's market positions and political influence over the regular person.

No one ever wants to reduce these group's power to influence their own position in the economy and policy by limiting government. Nor does anyone ever correlate the explosion in size of the administrative state in every western country since WW2 with the growth in power of the top end of the market and in general inequality (in both wealth/power). If this growth in scale has done little to help the average "little guy", who is it helping?
I don’t understand why Amazon hasn’t offered lockers to be installed at your home, for a fee. Maybe the cost would have to be too high, but there are savings in getting rid of redelivery costs and “it never arrived” reorders that Amazon eats.
I spend maybe 30 minutes a day on New and just a minute or two on the Front Page. New is where all the interesting and thoughtful stuff is. The Front Page is pretty dull. I think only one item I voted on ended up on the front page. I'm reading this on New right now. I don't recall on ever voting on the Front Page.
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My fingers are so crossed on this one. I've never wanted a phone to be anything else. (Nor been willing to put up with proprietary extortion and anonymous blobs.) I have been waiting (seems like forever) for a phone-sized computer with an FSF-approved philosophy.

I'm sure I'm not alone. I rather imagine that (as with the early 8-bit era) such a device will be adopted quickly by thousands of us. It's just so ... BASIC. To hell with tollbridges.
At least on my AMD box, Wayland is considerably smoother than X.
Having ordered one, I am waiting for them to ship!
I didn't say it was moral or what's best for the world, I just meant it's an easily defined goal. And with regards to the other commenter asking about jurisdiction, you change it based on the IP address (obviously this can be spoofed).

I am not claiming that there is a simple solution for how to handle censorship that is optimal for the benefit of mankind. I am saying the way companies should approach implementing it is relatively straight-forward.

Otherwise you'll have endless debates about what is and is not moral, where nobody will ever agree and product managers and engineers and everybody else will constantly be in tension and nobody will be happy.

Censor as little as necessary based on laws and let people make their own decisions for what they want to view.
Why do you think that they have what they are selling to investors?
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It is a terrible, sad tragedy that I have to wait till 2028 before I can vote for her to be President. She is the first person who has made me doubt the wisdom of the Constitutional restriction of age to those being 35 or older before becoming President. (Also, I make that some other Democrat will win in 2020 and serve 8 years.)
A lot of kids are afraid of this scenario.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/
first, there should be a teacher to personally tell you if you messed up and why. second there is a time and place for these kind of things. imagine the teacher decides to check tests at night. do you really want your kids to constantly check their phones instead of gettibg sleep? we have a long way to go with that tech...
Not necessarily "well-informed". Plenty of books out there which peddle nonsense.
https://xenko.com/features/
Same, I would certainly not enforce my child finishing all of that homework. I might go so far as to tell them not to. There's no way that wouldn't interfere with family time.
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> Shellvault could operate an untrusted intermediary

It's not entirely trivial. The javascript must be served from a trusted source.
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Also from the article:

"Users who identified as conservative were more likely than users who identified as liberal to share fake news: 18 percent of Republicans shared links to fake news sites, compared to less than 4 percent of Democrats."
> I so wish the Linux community would get its act together and

Be the change you want to see in the world. Open source developers are volunteers scratching their own itches, working on their own time. I wish someone would come build me a house for free too, and if they did I'd be hard pressed to complain about the number of windows.
> Homosexuality used to be illegal. If we censored anyone talking about it, it would probably still be illegal today and millions of people would still feel disgusted at themselves for having "unnatural feelings."

But that's not what the issue is here. Displaying CP is literally illegal - was discussing homosexuality illegal? Was viewing nude males? It's the difference between blocking the literal illegal item or blocking items adjacent to it.
There's a slightly bizarre situation here where search algorithms are working against themselves, yeah. Presumably anything spiked by PhotoDNA isn't returned at all - which frees up those spots for the next-most-relevant result. And the more effective Bing's indexing is, well, the worse that result will be...

Since PhotoDNA is basically a known-bad tool, it presumably can't win the battle unless turnover is fairly low. Penalizing or hiding sites with many PhotoDNA hits (or perhaps a high percentage of hits) might do better by targeting concentrators, but that would depend on what sort of sites are serving this stuff. I assume they have to be fairly small/scattered to stay operational, which in turn makes it harder to predict what sort of content they have.

(And despite the article, it doesn't seem clear that Google has solved this problem, so much as bypassed it with a whitelist approach to nudity in general.)
Perhaps for political purposes the businesses which bid over government contracts ought not also be consumer-facing ones.
avo author here. Yes PeachPy was the inspiration for this, as well as asmjit. Both mentioned in the credits:

https://github.com/mmcloughlin/avo#credits

PeachPy actually has Go output already, and Damian Gryski has used this to great effect:

https://github.com/mmcloughlin/avo/issues/40

Unfortunately because PeachPy wasn't initially written with Go in mind there are some rough edges and Go features it simply doesn't support. avo hopes to fill this gap for Go programmers.
I've been using Joplin and been really happy with it for my purposes so far

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/
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> I'm not sure what language would be more beautiful than ruby.

Elixir (with static type analysis) - gets a bit of an edge, IMO, thanks to pipes, which are way prettier than .then:

defmodule FizzBuzz do
@spec fizzbuzz(integer)::String.t
def fizzbuzz(int) do
cond do
rem(int, 15) == 0 -> "FizzBuzz"
rem(int, 5) == 0 -> "Fizz"
rem(int, 3) == 0 -> "Buzz"
true -> inspect int
end
end
end

1..100
|> Enum.map(&FizzBuzz.fizzbuzz/1) #[0]
|> Enum.join("\n")
|> IO.puts

#[0] function variables are a very slightly "ugly
#syntax" part of the language due to erlang legacy

Other stuff that's really pretty in elixir is the first class documentation. Elixir docs are out of the box prettier than ruby docs.

Compare from the official (but as a user you get these docs too):

https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.6/Array.html

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/List.html#content

But again, it's only a bit prettier. Of course, if you try to browse both on mobile, Elixir wins handily. This is great for when you have to use the bathroom at the same time as you're in the middle of debugging and need to look up what a library module member function does, so there's some developer benefit edge too.
They're not, in appropriate levels/contexts. They're normal, healthy, often laudable and sometimes even necessary. The problem is excessive (i.e. harmful or situationally inappropriate) competitiveness or risk-seeking, whether they occur separately or as part of a common/identifiable cluster of behaviors.
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What's the use in getting it checked? It's not like early cancer detection in which an early diagnosis might have some effect on the outcome of the disease. (?)
Not "dental floss" but specifically floss which contained PFASs. Other culprits were Teflon cookware and cardboard food packaging.

The dental floss results are hidden in the Supplementary Information document linked in the original Nature article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-018-0109-y#MOESM1

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs413...

These products contained fluorine, a marker for PFASs, as determined by particle-induced γ-ray emission (PIGE) spectroscopy:

Colgate Total Dental Floss Mint

CVS Health SuperSlip Ease Between Waxed2

Oral-B Glide Pro-Health Mint

Oral-B Glide Pro-Health Original

Crest Glide Deep Clean Cool Mint Floss3

Signature Care Mint Waxed Comfort Floss2

These products were found not to contain any fluorine:

CVS Unwaxed

Desert Essence Tea Tree Oil Dental Tape

EcoDent Gentle Floss Premium Dental Floss with Essential Oils Mint Vegan Waxed

Johnson & Johnson Listerine Cool Mint Mint Floss

Johnson & Johnson Reach Clean Paste Icy Mint Woven Floss

Johnson & Johnson Reach Mint Waxed

Reach Mint Waxed

Reach Waxed Unflavored

Oral-B Complete Deep Clean Ultra Mint

Oral-B Satin Floss Mint

Rite-Aid Premium Waxed Mint Floss2

Tom's of Maine Naturally Waxed Antiplaque Flat Floss
One of my favorite ideas about selecting a major for college is that, if you don’t know what you want to do, you should select the option that gives the most freedom for when you do decide.

Eg a math major can transfer to just about any engineering field with little cost, but its harder to go from say CS to a math major. Philosophy might apply to anything, while art history is quite limited in application elsewhere.

In the same fashion, you should not ask “unless you’re travelling elsewhere”, but rather, “unless you’re planning not to travel elsewhere”; the car gives you both options. You’ve essentially not made a decision regarding travel. Walking otoh does make a decision on the matter (at 15 minutes extra, outside lunch is less appealing; at 20-30, its likely unviable).

Thus, in this particular regard, driving needs no justification, but walking does.
the pee tape is real.
Double pottery awesomeness today between that and this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18869653
I'm thinking about the use case to have a native app be able to work nicely with no internet connection, but then once the internet connection resumes, it downloads new data from the server and sends its offline-modified data up to the server.

From a quick search online [0] [1], I see people doing offline MongoDB sync using SQLite, but nothing like using Mongo directly. With CouchDB, we can use either the old Couchbase native app SDK, or the Cloudant native app SDK, to sync up nicely with a CouchDB instance in the cloud. We've had this running for awhile, and it works quite well, and we do not have to shuffle information to and from a SQLite database... at least, we're not doing it, since the Cloudant or Couchbase SDKs for iOS and Android keep track of all the data and store it on the mobile device however they'd like.

If there is anything similar for Mongo, I'd be interested to know!

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23623295/how-to-make-an-...
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13295960/sqlite-on-andro...
It seems to me there is always an "except" with Linux. Even someone, elsewhere in this thread, said the developer edition of the XPS worked flawlessly, "except..." -- and that is a laptop that comes preinstalled with Linux!
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The thing is, most Linux distributions ran services this way for well over two decades.

So? That doesn't mean it was the best way to do things. Humanity existed for thousands of years without vaccines and still managed but that doesn't mean that disease wasn't a thing. Misbehaving services have always been a thing and they've always been a problem. I know because I've dealt with them. If you feel that other methods for dealing with misbehaving services are better, fair enough, but don't appeal to a mythical golden age where everybody wrote software without bugs.
The entire country will not starve because of a government shutdown.

What's real special is that this shutdown could be ended in an instant by giving one minor concession and one side really doesn't want to do it, for mostly symbolic reasons.
This is definitely where my mom has gone. She thinks Alex Jones is very funny, but then ends up buying the books of conspiracy theorists and interjecting paranoid right talking points into everyday conversations.

Given that it happens so commonly around retirement, I think this is a function of not wanting to struggle or achieve anything anymore, and therefore succumbing fully to a convenient view, one which gives you a thing to worry about apart from your age and declining health, something participatory without being difficult. "Never mind my hip! What about those DEMOCRATS!!!"
Agreed about DOM manipulation. I feel like they should emphasize that a bit more in this roadmap. Also, apparently you only need to learn about HTTP/S is you are doing DevOps...

I still recommend http://domenlightenment.com/ to ppl to get a nice base line of what you can do with the browser (a 2013 book but the browser APIs don't change much, they mostly keep adding stuff).

https://hpbn.co/ is a good resource for the networking side of things, if maybe a bit advanced, not sure what would be a more gentle resource to start with.

With regard to CSS, I don't really have any good book recommendation, maybe someone can chime in.
i think we will see a spike when the current cohort of kids reach early twenties, and real life things screw up, serving to confirm all the imagined problems manufacured by what really amounts to a coincidental "gaslighting" by an badly implemented system.
legality is up to who?

its nice to think laws are just and they should be but thats not neccissarily the way of things some places are worse than others.

as for this subject specifically it should be obvious to people which side this is on.
Yeah, I sometimes wonder about those statistics. But I'm not curious enough to invade people's privacy or use any of the other modern marketing manipulations to boost sales. I think if you make a thing and pour love into it, people will love using it, and maybe even want to give you a little money. I've seen this first hand many times and been on both sides of it. That's why I like Show HN, and give apps like JournalBook an honest look, especially when it's clearly a passion project by a single person.

Edit: Thanks for the bspwm link btw, I've been wanting to add a class to Autumn called TileWM (to complement the existing GridWM) but I couldn't wrap my head around binary space partitioning, although I knew that's what tiling WMs usually use. The page you linked to describes and visualizes it really well and now I think I understand it well enough to finally implement it. Although, given the nature of Autumn, someone could probably implement this feature sooner using Autumn itself :D
Sorry for off topic and I know it's not a complaint aggregator but 90% of the time when I reboot my mbp (2017) it does not recognize usb keyboard and mouse. That's so frustrating and my google-fu does not help me at all, resetting PRAM does however. I'm thinking about just rolling my favorite distribution on this machine. (Although not really sure how things are working now, last time I checked on my mb air 2011 everything was pretty smooth except battery life)
See also: 'The Quiet Coup' [0], Simon Johnson, 2009.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-qui...

EDIT: Fixed link per comment
There is some empirical evidence to suggest that younger generations are better at sussing out opinion vs fact than older generations. Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/older...

My own pet hypothesis for the larger phenomenon discussed here is this: Younger generations had schooling that attempted to make them "college ready" and part of that college readiness was understanding how to find and cite credible sources, alongside understanding what a "primary source" is. Sure, it didn't stick with everyone, but I do think bits-and-pieces of that are imprinted on Millennials.

Along with that you have many younger people doing white collar "knowledge work" which often involves compiling and synthesizing information from multiple sources and drawing a conclusion. This understanding of "how the sausage is made" carries into media literacy when say, examining an editorial for factual accuracy.
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If I needed something from someone or a group at work and I told them to 'get their act together' and do it, I don't think I'd get what I want. And they're paid to work with me.

People don't talk like this in real life.
This never works for me... can't ever get it to stick, tried all kinds of ways to mod with nmcli or systemctl restart/reload network manager. Debating on just doing a cron job to rewrite resolv.conf.
Money is absolutely not a zero sum game. More is created e.g. by loans all the time. Wealthy people provide a lot of stability by either 1) putting money in banks, which provides capital for loans and 2) investing in long-term ventures (which create "jobs").
The only way to win the game is not to play.
https://www.chesstactics.org/ a free online book, I learned quite a bit from it.
> Displaying CP is literally illegal - was discussing homosexuality illegal? Was viewing nude males?

These are weird comparisons to try to make.

Discussing CP is legal. Viewing it is not. Viewing homosexual pornography has been illegal in the past. Viewing nude males wasn't illegal, just like viewing nude children isn't necessarily.
When I was first starting out as a SET/QAA/whatever it's called now I had to deal with the joys of record/playback tests from Selenium. It's a bloody nightmare to debug someone else's actions that have been translated, often poorly, to code by a machine.

Other than being able to whip something up in 30 seconds I haven't found a benefit. From the CSS identifiers that are selected to the backing code there just aren't positives. Unless you consider the 30 seconds of dev time you "saved" by converting it into 30 minutes of tech debt to be a positive.
If we made Linux more similar to Mac like that then we would alienate everyone else who grew up used to Windows-style Ctrl+C shortcuts (which traces its origins back to the original Xerox PARC GUIs).

(If the terminal's Ctrl+Shift+C really bothers you, many terminal emulators allow you to rebind it to Ctrl+C)
Obviously pre-registration is required if both groups will follow the same plan.

If not enough is known to do that, then there needs to be a pilot study done to figure it out. Basically what is being published now is a bunch of pilot studies.
Article linked is truncated, last sentences lifted from here https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00007-1?utm_sourc...
> the binary format of journald is arguably more difficult to recover into proper form than a timestamped plaintext -- please correct me if I'm wrong, though!!

It depends what you mean by recover. To get the basic plaintext, you can pretty much run "strings" on the journal file and grep for "MESSAGE=". It's append-only so the entries are in order. Just because it's a binary file doesn't mean the text itself is mangled. (Unless you enable compression)

The reference may look complicated
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-fi...
but that's all extra features you may ignore for "recovery in emergency".
>As a web developer since 1997, currently working in both the Rails & JAMstack spaces, I can assure any and all beginners out there you don't need to know anything about at least 50% of this stuff, probably closer to 70%.

This criticism is entirely invalid, given that, as a beginner, I DID have to learn at least 50% (or more) of these topics. Why do I have to consider the possibility that his criticism is valid if he comes out the gate with a condescending remark and then states something that is blatantly not true (from my perspective) and not even verifiable on his/her part? Give me a break.
If you want an example, search a job listing aggregator for the job titles. I just ran the numbers for my area, and 41% of total software development related job posts are exclusively looking for backend, frontend or mobile engineers.
Is "advertising and hoovering up user data is more moral than patents" really the hill you want to defend?
Neutral and unbiased certainly don't describe CNN.

As the OP said, a decade ago you could make that claim. They were much more "news". Now their rating have been in the toilet for years, so they've gone to extremes to gain viewership.
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I'm not outright rejecting that there are gray areas, but neither of your examples are ambiguous, because they're not porn.
I've read a number of pieces over the years that a geomagnetic reversal might be near, and there have been flips as short as a couple of hundred years. Where "near" may be in my lifetime or in the next 500 years.

So we may not know why it's moved more than model, but I don't think we should be unduly surprised.

Here's one recent piece implying a switch could be sooner rather than later: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/192522-earths-magnetic-f...
Lolita IIRC is about the viewpoint of a predator justifying his behavior, no? At least I thought that was what the book was about.