skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the whole point of a distribution is to make it easy for the end user to install and use useful apps on top of it

Ubuntu is hard (not impossible, just harder than Arch) to setup the way I want my computer to be.

It's not hard to install useful apps on top of Archlinux (can't speak about Gentoo, never tried it), it's maybe not intuitive at first.

Maybe we can recognize different users have different needs, and what's right for some isn't for others.

> trivialities like bash vs zsh

Yeah, when you spend your life in a shell, the choice shouldn't matter, right ? Just like carpenters shouldn't care about saws...
But both "white flight" and "gentrification" are a bunch of individuals making similar choices. There's no pre-arranged conspiracy to all sell up next year & move to X; the only "homogeneous bloc" is in the eye of the speaker. And it is indeed slightly weird how opposite things are perceived negatively.
Maybe it's buried in footnotes to that page or in their ToS or something.

In my mind, the "correct" way to do this is to:

1) pgp sign the entire warrant canary statement with a published key.

2) add unfakeable news headlines to the canary itself (such as recent stock prices or sports scores)

3) date the warrant canary and include a well defined schedule of updates

I believe this is the authoritative example:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
here another https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
Actually, I found this pretty useful. I have to use "graphical" programs (browser, IDE, email client) rather than terminal based ones. And the graphical ones seem to assume that their windows are pretty large.

Let's say I start my server in my IDE and I use my browser to interact with it. Then the bottom right of the IDE (where the console output of the server is) will be visible even with the browser in focus, and so I can see what the log output is doing.

I have got keyboard shortcuts that move windows to predefined positions with predefined sizes. E.g. full height but only the right 85% of the screen. Or full width but only 90% of the height.
Been meaning to make the dive into learning Go for a while now. My semester is finally slowing down so about to make the jump. I'll be doing a lot of digging on my own, but please link any resources that you feel were helpful for you.
I'm having trouble making the leap from "enhance the quality of your relationships rather than the quantity of relationships" to "people with integrity are typically made fun of". What is your line of reasoning?
The way I understand the issue, it's complicated. It may or may not work. It can work in some country and not in some others.

* A online warrant statement canary that disappears when it does not apply anymore. If there is a gag order preventing this Cloudfare promises to challenge this in the court.

>if Cloudflare were asked to take an action violating one of the warrant canaries, we would pursue legal remedies challenging the request in order to protect our customers from what we believe are improper, illegal, or unconstitutional requests.

* A periodically given statement. For example in annual letter to shareholders or periodic transparency update It's very hard or impossible for the western governments to force companies to give misleading statements to consumers and shareholders.

* Caveat: If there is a gag order that prevents informing the people responsible for any public statements, nothing works. Usually the company lawyers know. For example: Coudfare HQ may not know what their workers in France are asked to do.
It absolutely does matter once the case comes before a federal court. Those cases are often decided based on very subtle issues of law and precedent, and they don't always go in the government's favor.
I do want to continue studying the issue, unfortunately there simply aren't many quality studies on the subject from the last two decades, and most are behind a paywall (never mind the replication crisis in the social sciences and the difficulty of accounting for the progressive bias). :( I could rattle off a list of anecdotes, but I doubt that would change minds and many would imply that I'm a racist for merely taking an interest and I don't care to deal with that this morning.

I'm politically center-left, and I live in one of the most racially diverse zip codes in the country. My "news bubble" is HuffPo, Vox, NYTimes, Guardian, Bloomberg, and WSJ (occassionally CNN). It's unfortunate that I have to defend myself against these implicit ad hominems.
Nice, I like it a lot!
This goes the other way, too...where once a recording engineer had to decide how and where to split up a long work, the entire uninterrupted piece can now be played digitally.
Is there any chance they have stumbled upon the same weakness that Bloomberg tried to report[0]?

The industry at large has been pretty sceptical of Bloomberg's claims, and rightly so, but what if they just got the details wrong and it was this (or similar) vulnerability in the BMC software, rather than a dedicated spy chip, that they meant to write about?

0: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
Yes, of course. But JS is frontend mostly, so I can imagine it's easier to accidentally scrape some JS with text.

PHP, not so much, only if the server returns source by accident.
As of about a year and a half ago.
(Edit: nevermind, I must have been mistaken)
English is my native language and I still don't understand the title even after you explained it, but the article was interesting anyway. Maybe "Humans who are not concentrating may as well be dumb humans?"
"Twitter only encourages misunderstanding and posts without thought."

I recently heard this described as removing context. Which made me facepalm. Obvious, right? (Sorry, I shoulda bookmarked it.)

FWIW, I think every public figure should hire someone to manage their social media presence. As in, doesn't a CEO have more important things to do?
Wow this is something else. The historical revisionism and simultaneous appeal to Catholicism is ridiculous.

While prisons have many problems and the church has spoken against poor treatment of prisoners for many years, the opposite conclusion -- that we should abolish prisons -- is nowhere to be found in the compendium of social teaching. Moreover, the idea that prisons should serve a purely restorative role is a modern invention. While restoration is certainly one goal, catholic teaching also commands just punishment for crimes. The issue today is disproprotionality in the sentence when compared with the crime committed.

Had the author stuck to that point, he would have had a good essay. Instead he claimed all prisons are immoral. This is simply at odds with the Catholic social teaching that just societies must seek temporal justice on behalf of the victimized

Claims that prisons did not exist in the past are met with obvious skepticism when you read about the apostles being imprisoned for sedition as well as the catholic moral commandment to visit the imprisoned. Long sentences are of course more common today as the power of the state has grown, but this is not something to be criticized since many prisoners who have long sentences today would have been swiftly executed in the past.

(Focusing on catholic teaching here because its from notre dame and Villanova)
Venezuela did exactly that.
It's a bit shocking that the people who develop the firmware for these embedded computers is not more concerned with their security. I understand you are not supposed to attach them to untrusted networks, but can we really call any network trusted these days?

Do people still teach about the Maginot Line in schools?
Tinned are often 'better' as they are tinned when ripe (or even slightly over ripe) as there arent the same concerns about transporting them.
Well, in internet parlance its broken every single time. On the other hand if I like something then broken thing will always work flawlessly for me
Well, the internet helps with this. But granted, you're not going to sell artisanal sandwiches over the internet.

And folks willing to spend $40 on specially roasted and ground coffee are far, far fewer than folks spending $2 for the grocery store brand.
We're getting closer and closer to that future regardless of what we want.
> I very much enjoy a really good quality olive oil with bread, but I would never call it a "feast,

Figure of speech.

But yes, it is incredibly good. Unfortunaly, you won't find it at the grocery store, no matter what the bottle says.
Agreed, I use Pis a lot not because it's the fastest or cheapest or whatever but because of its popularity. If a not-quite-compatible board came out at the same price point that was twice as fast and had twice as much memory I might use it if I had a specific use case and enough time to sink into making it work.

From the other testimonials it sounds like the Orange Pi is a reasonable choice but the performance premium doesn't convince me.
Is there anyone here that has a use-case for owning one of these at their current market price?
Design of a Modern Cache–Part Deux
I don't think I need to explain teasing a family member in terms of the HN worldview.
> Wages reflect the labor portion's contribution to "input." We know that tech and automation's portion is continuing to increase in relation to labor. Therefore, with this understanding, wages must decrease in proportion with productivity.

Let's say I make widgets for $10 an hour, and make 100 widgets per hour. That's $0.10 per widget.

Then, a new tool comes along, and allows me to make 200 widgets per hour. The cost of a widget is now $0.05 per widget.

Who "deserves" this extra profit? Yes, my employer paid the expense for the new tool, but this is (more or less) a one-off expense. They will recoup this cost, and eventually the increased productivity will be pure profit,.

I, on the other hand, am still spending eight hours a day making widgets. My time is now worth twice as much as it was, but I'm still being paid the old rate.

The issue we're seeing with wage stagnation is that companies are making one-time investments and recouping increased profits forever, while employees are working just as hard, but seeing no increased benefit.

And that's just from a simple math perspective. This discussion entirely ignores the fact that when you employ someone, you are essentially renting a human being, and in order for our society to function, that cost must have a floor. Society as a whole suffers when you are able to rent a person for less than it costs to live.
Be Local in a Global City. The All New Mesmo
Just to add a bit, you can look at the justice system as a binary classifier if you squint hard enough. So it has both false positives and false negatives, both of which are difficult to actually measure.

On the one hand, you have poc arrested and convicted of crimes that wouldn't be charged in other parts of town (arguably false negatives, amongst the non poc). On the other, prosecutors use the plea bargain system to get people to plea out for smaller charges instead of risking decades of their lives at trial; this is an excellent way to produce false positives.
Wish I could fill up the world's knowledge in 1TB and put it in a low cost tablet and deploy it to a billion underprivileged people in their language to spark the next Einstein, along with millions of other educated people who were able to improve their lives through data
Do you consider it a moral failing to go pee while an ad plays on the TV? To change stations in the car when an ad comes on? To turn to talk with your friends at the table when the game pauses and an ad comes on?

An ad blocker is no different except being automated. And the analytic spying it fights is automated too.
Holy cow. Here I was being impressed by 400GB cards just a few days ago.
I'd love to see more science reporting like this. I think the authors did a great job of explaining the process of discovery: anomalous findings made them question what was wrong with the current theory -> initial steps to see what could possibly replace the current theory -> verification of their proposed replacement. Plus the picture are awesome.
The study posted cites this study on racial stereotypes.

http://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2011.00255.x

And this is the survey data on white perception of crime:

“When you think about people who break into homes and businesses, approximately what percent would you say are Black?”

40.4% Mean Perceived

31.7% Actual

“When you think about people who rob other people at gunpoint, approximately what percent would you say are Black?”

43.4% Mean Perceived

42.0% Actual

“When you think about people who sell illegal drugs, approximately what percent would you say are Black?”

40.2% Mean Perceived

33.6% Actual

“When you think just about juveniles who commit crimes, approximately what percent would you say are Black?”

40.8% Mean Perceived

31.3% Actual

Given that blacks are about 12% of the US population, these numbers show both that blacks commit a disproportionately large percentage of crimes, and that whites slightly over perceive this. It might be more valuable for blacks to focus on ways to lower the actual crime rate than the perceived crime rate.
As per the article, internationalisation and localisation are harder than they seem at first. But take the time to do them right and you can outsell your competitors in certain lucrative markets.

My product has many competitors. In the US, the UK, and other English-speaking regions it is a struggle to compete. But our team has experience with languages and translation so that gives us the edge in markets outside the Anglo-sphere.
My take on internationalization is that I want to see less of it.

I am Russian living in Switzerland, where people speak French, (Swiss) German, Italian and Romansh. I often travel to Barcelona, where people speak Catalan and Spanish. I don’t want any of these languages, I want all sites in English.

This is hard to achieve, as nearly everybody uses geolinked internationalization. It is awful. Especially here in Switzerland — almost every site tries to show me the German version by default (most of Swiss cantons are German-speaking, but mine speaks French).

Please just use English. Or if you must, enable language selection in users profile, do not try to detect it from geographic location.
Steaks from Mc Donalds burgers are not fake. They are pure beef.
How does this compare to taking 1024 1GB SD cards and affixing them with tape?
Don't knock Microsoft Access for this sort of thing.
This is false. [1] Real income has doubled since 1970 for individuals. I'm not sure why so many people seem to think that, I'm constantly having to reply to posts like this on HN and Reddit with real data but a lot of people just go along with it even though the people that post these claims never substantiate it with data.

I think there must be a psychological factor that makes people feel good about how our generation has it so hard? I would truly appreciate if someone could explain why.

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...
An increase in efficiency does not necessarily mean a reduction in total consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Climate change once heated the oceans and caused “The Great Dying
> Custom business apps are tricky. As a programmer it's easy to turn my nose up at excel based solutions, but I totally see how they end up being built.

Both of these are true. And most people do not appreciate how tricky niche apps are. When I started writing PartsBox (for myself initially, later grew it into a business at https://partsbox.io/) several years ago, I thought I'd be done in a weekend. Nearly 4 years and almost 3000 commits later…

Spreadsheets are a pain for anything but the simplest things. And yet they are useful to a point, because making a domain-specific application is surprisingly hard: there are lots of edge cases that you don't think about initially.
Because modern religion is against eating meat but not plants.
Hacker News Meetups?
Are there any active HN meetups? Where are they announced? Also: Anyone in germany interested in a meetup? :)
Press F9 when you're on Firefox to get a good reading experience.
Escaping and writing a custom node+express+React SSR server for a zero-based app should be easy. But zero isn't a 'platform' anyway. It's just an abstraction on common config and some glue code, all open-source so you can easily fork and improve.
AI Acronyms
It’s hardly an afterthought in Erang. It’s a fundamental part of OTP to handle failure. Which is far easier when everything is wrapped in restartable processes with immutable state.
Does anyone know how the pictures are made? Are they colorized by hand or is there some algorithm for doing it?
There is also the possibility that we take your money for cloud storage and run away to Costa Rica without providing anything to you.

Or our ZFS filesystems are actually raid-5 ext2 volumes and we fake the snapshots.

Or one of the locations is just running in my basement.

There are all kinds of ways for a service provider to act in bad faith. In many ways, the warrant canary is an attempt to signal what kind of people we are and the manner in which we act in good faith.
.Net Reference Types vs. Value Types. Part 2
I don't really know if I agree with the premise of this essay, mostly due to its deeply religious argument. Beyond its intense spirituality however its message is quite clear- the writer considers prisons to be a horrific phenomenon, and because horror is a reaction of morality, a morally unacceptable phenomenon.

The writer goes on to emphasize that prisons are morally unacceptable, but also importantly the normalization of imprisoning humans to be morally unacceptable.
Minimalism has a cost. http://npm.broofa.com/?q=zero
when 5g comes we will all:

- feel the internet on our phones is about the same speed as it is now

- pay the same amount each month on phone bill

- have same low coverage areas as we already do

- see a bigger number on the top row of the phone
We know that some mental illnesses have a genetic component. How would that happen if there were not something physical?

Just because we don't know now, doesn't mean we will never know. That's how science works.
You can find real orange juice in any store as well.

Most of it is acide orange fruity sugar concentrate diluted in water though.
If the advertised features are the gpu and 4k, it's the minimum that should work well.

(The RPi actually runs a browser pretty well).
This is going to make it a bit harder to report counterfeit SD cards on Amazon. It used to be pretty easy because they often claimed to be 500GB or 1TB, and those capacities just plain didn't exist at all. Now I'll have to make an argument based on capacity and price-point when I find them.
How are you reading "vitriol" from these comments? "Print" isn't changing the order of the data it's given--the data is unordered by definition. It has to print it in an order, so it orders it by keys as a practical courtesy to humans. Nothing is manipulated except perhaps data structures internal to the print operation.
Every previous "G" was a big deal in terms of opening up new applications and business opportunities by significantly improving latency, bandwidth, and power efficiency. Going from 4G to 5G will eventually have just as huge an impact as going from 3G to 4G did, although rolling out the technology worldwide will be a slow gradual process.
Thanks! I will def move .ts up the list. It should be easy to add.
Not so: 1) because the abilities of AI don't scale in that manner and 2) because, unlike in a true decentralized blockchain, there are centralized trust sources that you can use to verify the content. This is really a better use case for keybase rather than blockchain.
Breaking the security of HTTPS for surveillance and monitoring purposes. The BITS group is formally opposed to secure communications because they want to make it easier to MITM attack the secure communication. They want to make it easier to decrypt communication.
> Find a kid, give the child some candy, pop, or other high sugar thing and hang out with them for a few hours, then draw your own conclusion.

I've done this. I didn't notice any difference. I suspect the difference people notice is down to their lack of skill at parenting rather than anything to do with sugar.
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> Huge transport ships produce more pollution than all cars of the world combined.

That's not really true. They produce more of one type. (SO2) But certainly not more by volume, or by GHG content.

That said, shipping uses bunker oil, which is a nasty piece of work.

And we should transition to electrified rail based shipping, powered by nuclear and renewables. But Hawaii is out of luck, at least Eurasia can be connected to the Americas sort of easily at the Bering strait.
Is that really what you think the next Einstein needs? No, she needs Colonialism to get off her neck.

These millions are under-educated only because we have smashed their societies to burgle their commons.
I commented myself then deleted it because your rebuttal was more elegant :-)

As a father of daughters I am personally glad that prisons exist and fully understand the issues with incarceration, but gladly accept the trade-off (like many moral dilemmas the optimal choice may differ from person to person). Were I African American and more likely to be wrongly imprisoned, I might feel differently.
This is very true. To combat the problem right now, I have some of my own logic in the middle to correct common misappropriations. I also have a small HUD-like tablet that shows me whatever I'm working on so I can see that the info went in correctly. Your point is still correct: the tech isn't quite there yet to do it without these other pieces.
Why was the word "biblical" removed from the title? It definitely seems relevant to know that this is a religious argument.
You don't usually disagree with people or confront them with a different set of beliefs. If you do that then even if you're gentle you'll find a lot of vitriol being thrown at you. Just look at political discourse online. Go to a left wing subreddit and try making some (reasonable) right wing points. You'll probably get a lot of undue flak.
No, platforms run by startups are not exempted. The criteria for exception are:

Available to the public for less than 3 years AND
Annual turnover below €10 million AND
Fewer than 5 million unique monthly visitors

So any "for-profit" site which is more than 3 years old will need to implement upload filters.
You could aggregate these in a credit card sized device with a SATA adapter and put what, 20TB ina 2.5” form factor?
It's not tiny in the sense of file size, it's tiny in the sense of scope. It doesn't even have a standard library, let alone offer everything flash and Java did. At it's heart it's just a compact, efficient representation of a subset of JavaScript
Sounds about as popular as reading encyclopedias for fun. I bet I'd be hard pressed to find one person who genuinely reads Wikipedia as a hobby outside of the lone HNer who will claim "but I do."

I just don't think underprivileged people are so desperate for entertainment that they'll browse a 1TB SD card for morsels of wisdom.

Unless you meant you're going to pack it full of movies, music, and games, which actually sounds interesting.
Make your application directory read-only to the user running the application, as it ought to be anyway.

Automatic dependency resolution however... Fantastic for experimentation, but that's a dealbreaker for production. Maybe it would be OK if it actually wrote the package-lock.json to the application directory, I'd have to think about that.