skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one that uses Linux in a virtual machine as their daily driver? I do this whether I'm on Windows or MacOS.

Linux with a lightweight window manager, like i3, works great in a virtual machine. Docker works flawleslly inside a VM as well.
We're not talking about sending people to jail, we're talking about blocking content from search engines. Whether or not you think it should be illegal to possess that imagery (which it is in many countries), it seems totally appropriate to block pretty much anything that could be construed as CP from search engines.
(If you live in SF feel free to PM me for a suggestion).
This article goes very well with the recent NYT "Relentless Parenting" story [0].

If you live in America, its not surprising that once you reach the age where you can think in-depth about your future and the consequences of "failing" that an existential sense of dread may loom over you.

School age kids have to worry about the pressures related to school and getting into a good college, college students have the pressure of college and debt. Millennials are dealing with high college debt, a substandard labor market overall, and high rent. Middle aged folks are dealing with rising healthcare costs for their children and parents, along with debt and other issues. It just goes on and on.

There might have been an idea in the 50s that by the turn of the century most Americans could escape the rat race, but it's probably just gotten worse.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/upshot/the-relentlessness...
It's called a thought exercise, as HN is considered a good faith exchange. If you ask an American how to control a situation, the most common solution is an appeal to a government authority. That's not really a strawman, when it's demonstrably true. Relying on the economy, is typically the choice when there's propaganda money to convince them so (see most of the US West Coast states). I really don't understand why you would take this in bad faith, when there's a commercialization of mocking it (via youtube, merchandising) and the documented history of the USA litigiousness. shrug
And the UK will soon become a caliphate.
Dated [2014]
What is DevSecOps?
I'm not in any way appealing to a "mythical golden age". I'm simply pointing out that the whole Linux world ran this way for over two decades without this being a critical problem, or even a problem of particular note.

Not only that, but automated service restarting was configurable if desired, albeit not the default. If you wanted it, it was doable with ease. This is not a new feature which systemd brought to the table, it was already available.
Iranian hackers suspected in worldwide DNS hijacking campaign
It’s not inevitable if we aren’t willing to let it happen. It used to be “inevitable” that poison gas, napalm, cluster mines, etc. were inevitably the future of war, but as a species we decided we weren’t okay with the effects of those technologies, and we’ve subsequently been reasonably successful at not using them.
Face recognition is categorically inevitable for small targeting systems.

The danger with AI in particular is that eventually the technology gets trivially accessible. You don't need to hire specialists, just wait a bit and download the library and get the how-to book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
After mice had mostly standardized on two buttons but scroll wheels didn't exist yet, it was common to map a simultaneous click of both mouse buttons to simulate a middle click.
Inside the world of YouTuber burnout [video]
It sounds like an udev issue. But re-connecting displays works for me with USB-C. And Wayland has still very strange bugs, for example, on my workstation the login (powered by Wayland under Ubuntu) freezes upon selecting the user and again when entering a password until you move the mouse long enough in circles [0]. So somehow the user input treatment (and, secondary, rendering) is linked to the mouse input. If wayland can manage that, it can mess up on the xrandr layer equivalent and change the display enumeration.

[0]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/177856..., I reported the bug
note that in porn, "teen" refers to anyone young, and can be found on any major porn website referring to of-legal-age women.
It used to be. My parents didn't. We are trying to do better to leave something for my kids like my grandparents did for my parents.
While most dogs might get easily distracted by food, most will sense when their owner is in fear or danger and will attempt to protect them irregardless of the distraction.
I'm not sure if this plays a major part in his psyche, but having dependents changes the game considerably. Suddenly, you're worried about providing for someone else's future (kids, potential grandkids) even after you're gone. But, then again, that makes flashy purchases look selfish and wasteful.
Personal electronics perhaps. I'd argue there are more specialty hand and power tools than ever before though.
The irony of the "career clusters" in the one kid's course registration manual (that are supposed to help you get a high-skill/high-wage/high-demand job), is that they are the usual well-meaning suggestions by people who have no idea how to get a high-skill, high-wage, or high-demand job. Mind you I'm not taking a pot-shot at educators here (though you could read it that way); I'm just saying, nobody has an accurate idea what the landscape will look like in 6 or 8 years (which is when this kid will be out in the job market), much less how best to prepare for it. There is doubt attached to both the forecast and the preparation methods.
No country has had proper communism. So there is no compassion to be made.
Because it's not true
New York Daily News, Daily Mail or UK tabloids are not considered legitimate journalism. They are yellow trash, tabloid journalism, also known as rag newspapers. They belong to the same category as Infowars.
This.

I had an Asus laptop that would only pickup wifi if I hibernated it first. I have a Dell touchscreen model that took a full day to get the touchpad to work at all as Ubuntu kept defaulting to the screen. Too afraid to do a fresh install of the current (or any other) distro because I can't remember how I fixed the touchpad issue.
There are meds that can slow down the demise. Also just knowing helps a lot in how to deal with the suffering.
Patch now or risk your security appliance choking on single rogue email
Supposing you're asking the question in good faith, the answer is: the people, democratically. For example: unoccupied/unused properties become commonly owned by the people, and their management and decisions about their use are done democratically by all, therefore serving the interests of the public, rather than that being decided by the owner class, therefore serving the interests of that select few.
I guess everything you wrote is correct, but it seems like a very white-middle-class perspective. Legal segregation in America only ended a generation or two ago. That's just one of many examples which meant that for many Americans, since the founding of the country, there was never a hill. More like a ditch they couldn't leave.

Of course it's a massive issue, but it always amuses me when people look back to how "great" it used to be. For a white male, the 50's seemed pretty great. If I was anything else I'm pretty sure I would choose 2019.
There is a lot of cynicism here in response to a strictly positive social effort. If we (nationally) are actually behind in some kind of "AI" drone-targeting arms race, I suspect a great many of these objectors would be willing to do work to, say, disable incoming drones, or develop systems to scramble/mislead automated targeting systems.

I feel that it is the responsibility of every moral and conscious agent to oppose dark patterns and negative trends within their place of work whenever possible, and while it is easy (and apropos) to accuse Google of perpetrating malicious patterns, I think we ought to laud and publicly encourage internal currants that oppose that trend, not smirk at them or deride them for not doing enough.
I read it. It's old, and the issues in it have been addressed. There have been several years of research since that paper was released. I've pointed you to an academic paper that addresses the issues.

I'm done with this discussion as you're simply repeating the same things over and over.
Just like you don't need to draw an exact line to know which side porn should be on, or anti-government rabble-rousing, or blasphemy. "Graphic videos of murder" might also be there, given the parallels to CP.

And in case it's not clear, I think those should all be on the same side of the line. The "this is OK" side. (I'm pretty absolutist here and think the "obscenity exception" is complete bullshit)

But that's not what you think, is it? So perhaps that line isn't quite as precisely bounded as you're thinking.
i can drop a link right now that will let you look around at my driveway, if i get to know you better i could give you a login so you can see it works.
That's a great analogy, but I would add that the slope isn't the same everywhere, and you can't always keep going straight up. But its often hard to tell which way to turn and whether that's going to make the climb easier or not. And the landscape keeps changing.
probably not morally wrong to search for it if you're that age, but it's certainly wrong to produce and distribute it.
"Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association and a widespread (if still contested) franchise. But we believe that if policymaking is dominated by powerful business organisations and a small number of affluent Americans, then America's claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened."
So remove the incentive to earn above a certain threshold?
I suspect it had its origins here -

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9bexbk/if_you_we...
Marijuana could be the biggest growth opportunity for struggling beverage-makers
The best programming languages to learn in 2019: Top coding skills that pay
Did a research study need to be done to show this? The US Constitution sets up a federated oligarchic republic with slaves to boot. What's shocking is that it's shocking that the US has something like the government it was designed to have. . . .
Hyatt Hotels launches bug bounty program
Question:

1. Anyone considering or practicing unschooling/self directed education [0] for your children?

2. Were you home schooled/unschooled/practiced self directed education ?

What’s your story?

I am Considering this approach. Just finished reading free to learn [1] and Peter gray makes a compelling case for this approach. Also the documentary “schooling the world” covers some of the chilling effects of compulsory schooling. [2] it has made me seriously question our current education system.

Thoughts?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashing-Instinct-Self-R...

[2] https://schoolingtheworld.org

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSIgZWNR9M
Netgear security hole
> There is no blurry line here. Child abuse and child pornography are clearly defined terms. Justifying child abuse in a novel might be morally offensive, but is not a crime, abusing an actual child however, and publishing footage of it, is.

Okay, let me give an alternative situation then.

A 14 year old girl sends a sexual text message to her (also underage) boyfriend. In Minnesota, the 14-year-old-girl was charged with Child Pornography.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/juvenile-justice/minnesota-prosecu...

If you think morality is black-and-white, then you are going to cause issues to many people. There's nothing "black and white" about distributing child porn. There are unfortunately, a ton of gray areas.

Yes, there are clear-cut cases of CP that need to be banned. But you must ALWAYS be wary about the edge cases, lest you harm otherwise innocent people. A 14-year-old who sends naked pictures of herself to her friends is... well... objectionable, but it shouldn't result in a sex-crime on her permanent record.
Not exactly news. It's pretty to see the influence of various lobby groups on all levels of government. Most politicians, and especially those who have actual sway within the government, all come from a certain socio-economic background and have ultra-rich backers. Not to mention various entrenched political families (Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes, etc...), as well as close ties between politicians, rich political donors and the media.
Hello fellow class of 97 mate. I agree with you completely. It's a common trait of new professionals, especially in programming, and even more in web development, to pursue encyclopedic knowledge of all the buzzwords and brand new frameworks or tools.

It's useful to learn about these things but never lose sight of the big picture. Frameworks, tools, languages, trends, all go in and out of fashion very quickly, for various reasons. On the other hand, practices, patterns, soft skills and a good understanding of how things really work will be valuable for an entire career.

Put your energy into understanding which problems are being solved by the above things, not into becoming masters of any particular set of tools. You'll still be very good at those tools because you'll know the role they play and what to expect from them.
There was so much CP on Tumblr I wonder if it wasn’t an elaborate honeypot. It was sooo bad and over the top. People have no idea. There’s also been a lot of CP on Instagram, including child sex trafficking rings advertising their wares. Backpage was the largest single source of child sex trafficking operations in the US and many in LE knew it for years before it was finally shut down.

I’ve unfortunately seen far too much of what people don’t believe is out there. That’s what I get for helping anons “dig”. As they say “nothing is beyond our reach”.
Care to share the progress you've made?
The BBC is merely a news agency, publishing articles for you to read. In an article like this they can't be considered hypocritical, which is what your comment seems to suggest. It's not an editorial, nor an accusation.

Quote from the article:

> 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.

The study that the article talks about was published by Princeton University (in NJ). But even if it were published by Tsinghua University it would be no less valid. [Economic] science is science.
I'm a Russian citizen. I can tell you firsthand that the US is as bad as Russia, with one exception: Russia is honest about what it is, while the US plays democracy games and pretends to be a "free" country.

Edit: The downvotes are a sign that I've stepped on your sore toe. Go ahead, I have karma to spare, but remember my words next time you vote in an imaginary election.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio
> Any argument on how Chavez/Maduro's dictatorship is not a true scotsman/socialist regime is entirely irrelevant as the dictator of Venezuela, who is also the president of Venezuela's Socialist Party, is very open to any of the many socialist reforms and revolutions that he himself announces repeatedly in his struggle to advance socialism in Venezuela.

I'm not sure I follow this sentence at all. Yes, Chavez calls himself a socialist and has in the past advocated socialist programs (though not so much currently). That doesn't have any effect on whether Venezuela is actually a "progressive country," "progressive" and "socialist" not being synonymous terms. And, again, you ignore the grandparent's contention that in order for a country to truly be considered progressive, it has to have features Venezuela doesn't have. It does matter, because that's the core of the original post's argument as I understand it.

That is, Venezuela might be somewhat socialist insofar as it has - or has had in the past - some socialist policies, but representing it as an example of a socialist country is incorrect in the same way that representing the US as a socialist country because we have Medicare is inaccurate. (I'd define "socialist" countries which are also "progressive" as being places like Canada, the UK, Norway, France, Japan etc.)

> My contention is that the original argument is absurd and is just a blatant attempt to whitewash yet another humanitarian disaster caused by a socialist dictatorship.

What's being whitewashed? Nobody is arguing that Venezuela is not a dictatorship, or that there is no disaster going on. What I'm arguing is that categorizing a country as something just because the leaders of that country would like us to do so doesn't make much sense. Venezuela appeared progressive, and it had many actual socialist policies (again, non-synonymous terms), but most of those policies backslid and whatever it appeared as or wants to be considered now, we can all see it for what it is.

It's not "no true scotsman" to point out that something actually doesn't meet the criteria of a certain definition.
OK, my bad, I admit. Not everyone. Most.

Most popular distributions, because, let's make it clear: RedHat, Fedora, CoreOS, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, including Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Fedora KDE, and all other members of these respected families will account for at least (data by different sources vary) 75% of all installations.

Octopus-like architecture cannot be argument why it was adopted in the first place. People don't like dropping familiar/stable tools. Also, it was not so octopus in the first version.

Politics and network effects sound to me like conspiracy theory. Sorry, but I really do not believe that there is someone so powerful to make RedHat, Debian, SUSE and Canonical, to name a few, to harm themselves in one and the same, very specific way.

Problems solved by systemd exist. Systemd was not the only project trying to solve these problems, it was most successful/adopted. There was upstart. Remember Upstart? So, honestly, just reverting back to SysV init is not an option, it's just burying your head in the sand. Systemd is not perfect. It never was. Just SysV is worse.

I look at http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_... and see that most arguments against systemd are either
a) Ignore obvious fact, that systemd is not a single program, but suite of programs which play nice together and are optimized to exchange data in effective ways, keep configuration in similar manner, etc. You cannot compare systemd to initd, like you cannot compare Atom to nano.
b) Simply nostalgic.
c) Somewhat valid, but again, systemd is not perfect, it's just much better than SysV initd. That's why it was adopted, not because of politics.
Ah, the ole "sitting on the sidelines is helpful" argument.
It's morally defensible for sure, and neutral, but pretending it is actually helpful is wrong. It doesn't help in any meaningful way to change things (in any direction) if you sit on the sidelines. Ironically, people who are the ones who always seem to think the have the moral high ground.

Of course that doesn't mean you have to join google to make a difference, but pretending that you have to not be working at Google to be helping change things is just silly nonsense.
Thanks. What does "blows through the floor" mean?
I'm sure you remember this quote then: "a community who gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be surrounded by idiots who think they are in good company"

This explains SO much of not just 4chan sub-groups, but a lot of internet groups, and I honestly don't think older generations can't think like this. Ironic humor doesn't occur to them; they take it all at face value. Unfortunately ideas spread on 4chan and elsewhere stop becoming memes and start becoming someones reality.

There's no better example of this than Facebook. A graveyard of dead, crappy, overused memes, and younger generations are not using Facebook anymore, it's older generations now.
If you feel the stress/anxiety is strongly impacting your life/wellbeing - then I strongly second this recommendation.
US never had a democracy. Two parties assembly rather the bad cop / good cop scenario than a true democracy where people have control, built bottom up.

However this illusion worked well up until now when oligarchies started to rise by simply putting a mirror on the front of that so called democracy.

These new regimes have an easy job since the old system bleeds from all parts.

I’m a big fan of democracy and oligarchies are the way back, not the way forward.

However I’m skeptic if humanity is capable to invent a forward looking new system in the next years.
Well said. I switched to an XPS-based Arch build for many of these reasons.

I think computers are generally too complicated for lay users. People tolerated the quirks because there was no alternative. Even on a Mac, which wouldn't suffer from the same hardware compatibility issues as a PC/Windows machine, users would still need to understand how to organize files, properly close applications, and avoid running/opening arbitrary programs/files from the internet. And that's if they could connect to the internet at all.

iOS and its ilk solved all of that. And in that moment, the number of people who needed to be exposed to all of that underlying complexity shrank considerably. There is most certainly something lost for those people, but at the end of the day, there is a cognitive cost to understanding how those pieces work, and I think the mass market has shifted away from implementations that require (or allow for) that visibility. I think that's fine, provided there are still hardware options available to the rest of us. :)
Technically the US is a Rebuplic. Which, in a sense, means it is largely a Democracy of Aristocrats. Who, it should be noted, have done a stellar job in the last 200 some-odd years of convincing the masses that the Aristocracy no longer (truly) exists. And so the People feel they have the power. When in reality it's all Smoke and Mirrors. Political Theater is nothing more than Circuses that the People can take part in. But the fact remains that Panem et Circenses still exists.

Or to put that in technical terms. "Democracy" (as understood in the common vernacular) is a honeypot that the People got caught in, at which time they got sandboxed.
No country in history has implemented communism in the strict sense of the word.

As for the success of socialist principles of economic management (i.e. common ownership of property/means of production), it varies (there's Norway, and there's Venezuela), much like the success of capitalist economies varies.
Simple.

But this brings up a debate I've been having with some folks. I have the memory of a gnat, so I can't keep a lot of context in my head. I prefer the previous two examples to this one, simply because with this one, I have to remember a lot more contextual vocabulary.

It's a pet-peeve of mine to pull up a source file, and then have to ping-pong around between 50 different function calls, when the entire thing could have been written linearly in fewer than 50 lines of code.

On the other hand, small functions like yours are easier to verify at a glance and move on. I haven't figured out what the right trade-off is.

Anyone else want to weigh in on this conundrum?
Seeing when you come and go to your house (pattern or not) would allow someone to do a good job of planning a burglary or some other crime, no?
It’s pattern recognition and confusion. The news stories that are fake are presented and look the same way as real ones.

I would like to see a study using the same subjects but check to see if they can tell what is a Google search result and what is an ad.