skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds really awful, and it's really disheartening to see the (ex)maintainer of such a core piece of Linux distributions being treated that way.

I work for a Linux distribution (SUSE) and I assure you that we don't all act this way. I've had to carry my fair share of downstream patches in openSUSE/SUSE packages, but I always make sure to submit the patches upstream in parallel. Quite a few people I know from Red Hat (and other distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, etc) do the same. It's possible that times have changed since then, or that it depends which package maintainers you are dealing with, but I hope it hasn't soured your opinion of all Linux distribution maintainers.

One thing that is a constant problem is that users of distributions keep submitting bugs to upstream bug-trackers. If there was one thing I wish I could change about user behaviour, it would be this. Aside from the fact that the bug might be in a downstream patch (resulting in needless spam of upstream), package maintainers are also usually better bug reporters than users because they are more familiar with the project and probably are already upstream contributors.
A community member built a blogging platform on our permanent, decentralised web (Arweave) today. You might want to check it out:

https://arweave.net/egqLRAbESk4BvrPZGwNM-koJZZU3_xYRb_G9-CYC...

Full disclosure: I started the Arweave project.

Sam
Oh come on.

It's abundantly clear that placing blame and expectation entirely on the shoulders of consumers is bollocks. Humans drop litter - just look at any festival, concert, or sports match. When it was your granddad it was mostly paper bags, maybe wrapped in newspaper, maybe a few crown corks. The glass got carefully taken home as there was a hefty deposit on those beer bottles! Now it's knee-deep single use everywhere.

That hasn't changed as you look at poorer countries, or back into the past. What has changed is extensive industry lobbying pretending it's not fucking obvious and working to abolish deposit and return schemes, and use of far more benign materials - like glass. It's as bad as tobacco or asbestos all over again.

The same plastic industry that fucking lobbied the government against suggestions that plastic packaging should contain a third recycled plastic.

Not only should it be outright illegal, countless industry's execs are deserving of lengthy spells in prison or a law that says you can chuck used plastic in their mansion's garden. :)
Sadly the people who mock students from private religious schools are also mocking students from historic black colleges or those who went to comminity college.

Next time you hear about this speak up and change the conversation.
The anti-gentrification tactic extended to SATs! I like it!
Sad to see them go this is the reason I am wary of Amazon and other monopolies legal or not. As losing amazon income was enough to get them shut down because of Amazon domination in book sales. Had there been any real competition it might have affected their income but Amazon would have been interested to get them back instead of losing the sales to a competitor.
Technically I suppose they are in train, like a column os soldiers, sure, but I think by ‘train’ in this context the idea was the one in front pulls the others. The closes you could get with flying in formation would be drafting in a V as birds do — quite dangerous for planes! (Consider the XB-70). Wingtip coupling isn’t “in train” plus has always been fatal
Have we forgotten the purpose of universities? Groups of students once gathered in a place to attract groups of professors who can teach them thing, and those professors attracted more students, and eventually they got together and built buildings for teaching and housing for students, formed unions, and all the rest.

Why should we be shoving people who aren't capable of being the very best students into this environment? Why give them the expectation that this is what they must do to be successful? What must everyone learn from a university (including those in the Ivy League and their peers) that we expect them to all need to go, as a fundamental right, regardless of the fact that they will be displacing students who are quantifiably better-fit for this place?

Who will be the first responders if we make everyone get a four-year degree before they can start their lives?
Show HN: Made a new notification tool and I'm looking for some beta testers
Hi everyone!

I've been working in DevOps for quite a while now (> 1yr) and have always been a full stack developer, always involved in developing from end to end.

Due to my background, two years ago I started noticing I lacked a tool to monitor better what happened around my systems, which would push me notifications whenever I wanted, with whatever kind of content. After starting doing DevOps I realized i desperately needed such a kind of tool (I'm very well aware and use many monitoring products, but none of the kind I desired).

Long story short, after 2 years of working weekends and early-raise mornings, I finally managed to put together Notify17 ( https://notify17.net ), which is a tool I'm now using every single day to receive custom notifications (on iOS for now) from the most disparate sources (e.g. Graylog, Grafana, Jenkins).

I'm looking for anyone who'd like to try it out with beta-tester benefits, which means just using the tool whenever you feel like and have an extended free tier (free tier for some good time, 3 months at least), with the purpose of seeing if it could fit into daily life as a companion tool, as well as to get some feedback about the overall functionalities.

Edit: for who's interested as beta user, please just drop your email address at beta@notify17.net after you log in once into the dashboard ( https://dash.notify17.net ).

Edit 2: for who's interested in knowing when the Android app will come out, I made a little mailing list you can subscribe to at the bottom of the homepage.

Thanks a lot, Alberto
I have found the CSS "changes" tab to be very useful. Just tweak the CSS and once you're satisfied you can just view a diff and use that to modify your code base [0]

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspecto...
I don't think this really addresses my point. You're saying the in-browser password manager is somehow more dangerous than some external password manager. I don't think this is true. And the browser presents the same attack surface if you're, you know, using the browser. If your browser is a vector for successful compromise, you're boned if you use the browser, whatever elaborate protective ritual you follow while using it.
In my experience, Facebook used to be a cool thing to be on when you were documenting college party shenanigans and sharing pictures with friends, before it reached mass adoption to the point that your parents/grandparents were trying to add you as a friend. This was a time when organizing/sharing pictures with friends digitally was not a straightforward process.

I've come to terms with a simple fact of life that after graduating, it gets harder to make friends as you get older and start to settle down away from your college towns. Most of the acquaintances I've added on Facebook might as well not exist as we don't talk offline and my core circle of friends communicate over imessage/sms or various chat apps and we try to make time to see each other, further cementing our friendships offline.

Another thing that bothers me about Facebook since I first joined around the time a .edu ending email address was required (I think?), is that everytime I visit the site the new interface and feature bloat makes it feel less and less like what made it dead simple to connect with people back in earlier times. The current experience for me consists of a noisy ad infested newsfeed, ultra-optimized to inject itself straight into your brain's reward center with statistically significant A/B tested precision and autoplaying clickbait media nonsense, all while functioning as an echo-chamber for long-lost acquaintance's political outrage spam.

I wonder if people from my age cohort feel similar cognitive dissonance and that's why Facebook isn't even on their mind career wise, cause it's like an ancient digital museum that houses dusty pictures from their younger years and has long been replaced by Instagram.

Anyone out there relate?
We (Chrome DevTools) have had inline breakpoints since at least January 2017: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/129-inline-breakpoints/

The human-friendly variable mapping is very interesting, though. We'd love feedback on how well it works out in the wild.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19935097 and marked it off-topic.
I've been thinking about this lately. How hard would it be for Tim Hortons to implement a deposit system for re-usable plastic cups? A deposit cup could cost two dollars, and every time you buy coffee you hand in your dirty cup and they give you a clean one. To encourage people to use the deposit cups, charge 10 cents each for disposable cups. If you want your two dollars back, just return the cup.

It wouldn't slow down drive throughs at all, because unlike using your own re-usable cups, deposit cups can be filled before you get to the window. They would need to develop some standard language to make ordering simple, but people would get used to it fast enough, especially if they make deposit cups the default after a while.

Tim Hortons is on every street corner, so it already has a strong network effect, making something like this feasible (I bet most Tims customers are regulars).

The cups would be standard, so an automated cup washer wouldn't be too difficult. They could also be semi-insulated, which would be a huge improvement over those flimsy cardboard sleeves or double cups (which is usually what happens).
I agree that you can’t equality of opportunity without the government taking over the task of raising children. But that undermines OP’s premise. If “equality of opportunity” is not an option, then “equality of outcome” should be on the table.
There are plenty of publicly leaked hash tables running MD5 and the like. Just because modern hash functions exist does not mean they are in use. [1]

Also you do not need the hash table of a hardened system to get useful passwords. You need a reused password from a weak one.

[1] https://hashes.org/leaks.php
How long is "a long Jewish ancestry"? Hundreds of years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Africa

Judaism is not 'well accepted' as being a race, and it is quite dismissive for you to assume that other commenters have taken up their positions 'in advance' rather than having spent time on the topic before this conversation that led them to their position.
DataMining NeuralNetworks WholeBrainEmulation BCI MindUploading
Intelligence can be developed. I think it’s called “thinking”. Unless you disagree and have have a more thorough model of the mind as an uncontrollable and spontaneous assembly of synaptic connections in your skull?
I interviewed at Facebook with the intention of getting an offer letter I could use as a bargaining chip with my first choices. I was rejected, but fortunately got into my first choice anyway. Despite all the perks and compensation, I would never want to work for Facebook.
Leveraging Benefits of Mobile POS System in Restaurants
> Although bitcoin transactions are intended to be anonymous and difficult to track, ProPublica was able to trace four of the payments.

I didn’t think Bitcoin transactions were intended to be anonymous and difficult to track, why would Bitcoin use a public ledger if that was the intention? I was under the impression other cryptocurrencies are trying to solve for “anonymous and difficult to track.”
It's now reached the two thirds mark (67%) in some countries, including the US. This is the case in my own country of Australia where it's roughly one third normal weight, one third overweight and one third obese. [1]

[1] https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject...
> not prosecuting female gential mutilation in the US, straight socialism, not settling for anything less than full gun bans, open borders

Please don't lie. There is no mainstream Congress person or presidential candidate protecting FGM, advocating for full socialism or complete open borders. Just because you disagree with them doesn't make your projections true.
> If you don't use Facebook you're pretty much outside of the Facebook tracking network

Not if any of your friends use Facebook.
It is running on top of hashcat, and at the above-mentioned compute it was benchmarking 45 million bcrypts per second. At that point it is more about the attack plan than the compute.

https://imgur.com/a/DXQMsM1

edit: here is the demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnD4f8N1_OE
If general scholastic aptitude measured something other than how to study for tests and write essays, then you might be onto something, except that college is simply more of the same.
What makes you say that FF Console is lightyears beyond Chrome? (I write the Chrome DevTools docs)
I know some people who have lived past 80 without regretting it, but they invariably share a few basic features: their lives are filled with constructive things to do (even if those things are not always enjoyable), they have an internal purpose or direction, and they take time to enjoy whatever spare moments they can grab.

In particular, I know of one octogenarian who works part-time in the IT field as a mid-level support tech in a large company. He’s the one who sets up systems, replaces broken mice and monitors, and gives printers a good whack upside the chassis when they misbehave. It’s light enough work for him to keep up with the field, but important enough that he feels valued.

And the company loves him. To everyone there he’s their “Opa”, and that’s what makes him jump out of bed every morning.
At least for Computer Science A, BC Calculus, Physics C and US History, the tests are nowhere near college level. Plenty of people get 5's on Calculus BC and can't tell you how to derive, say, integration by parts. Or how the Mean Value Theorem works. Or really anything beyond regurgitated power rules, etc. And Physics C? I got a 5 on both tests with some pretty terrible answers. The courses, sure, depending on your school they can be really great and beyond college level. But they'd still be great and beyond college level if they were just regular advanced classes.

Not to mention some AP tests are rather ridiculous. Like AP World, which is a test on all of history. Could you imagine a test on all of math? Plus it doesn't count for anything. AP US History doesn't get me out of any classes. It didn't add anything to my application other than another number. And I didn't really learn much either.
School zoning is a pretty insanely high-stakes thing, and other parents will absolutely rat them out and provide evidence. Parents have been jailed for using an address they don't live at - https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-mom-jailed-sending-kids-schoo...
> For other apps you can sideload, the most secure way is by grabbing the APK from a device that has play store.

You can install Play Store apps with Yalp Store without any G account. It is available on F-Droid.

I use it on kids' tablets to avoid logging into my account there.
Yeah, but if you're doing all that, and you're landing between 34 and 36? I mean, let's be frank, Stanford is not looking at you if you're lower than 33. (Unless you have a wicked 3 point shot. Or you're a genius on the piano or something.) So, yeah, you did all that test prep, and end up scoring about the same as some local yokel from Angleton, TX who took the test cold? Or some broke kid from Chicago who took the test cold?

Sure, the Angleton guy's parents may be strung out on opioids or whatever, but I gotta be honest, I'm just not seeing why Stanford takes a chance on you as opposed to just giving it to one of the two kids who've proven they can perform at a high level academically test prep or no test prep?
Yes, but the word cardinal was triggering a bunch of lame responses, so we changed it to make it less baity.
That’s interesting - does the canonical tag identify the Medium article or the WordPress article as canonical?
The Platform Challenge: Balancing Safety, Privacy and Freedom
Some folks I know are building polyglot.network as a FOSS-only software development agency. Early stages but you might wanna check them out.
I hate to be that person, but could you maybe cite those statistics? I was willing to give a pass on 95% of churches being 95% racially homogeneous, but I'm deeply skeptical the 85% figure is true for all millennials.
The slides indicated they were contemplating very small systems without an MMU or memory protection. Without those, a null pointer dereference may not be able to generate an exception.
An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is no longer the standard kilogram
Yes, it has now been replaced by Gitaly: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/09/12/the-road-to-gitaly-1-0/
Your numbers are wrong. Typical for “google search expertise”. I devoted a full year to understanding the containership business under consulting contract for an energy company. If you think you can bounce around a few links and understand any subject at all to the depth necessary to reach useful conclusions you are sorely mistaken.

Just answer one question:

Without humanity on the planet it would take about 50,000 years for atmospheric CO2 to come down 100 ppm. No humans at all. No factories. No cars. No planes. No ships. Nothing we ever made.

How is it that making a few insignificant changes (remember, we are talking planetary scale) will in any way do BETTER than 50,000 years for a 100 ppm drop?

You are fond of quick numbers. Go figure that out. How do you produce results at a planetary scale at a rate one THOUSAND TIMES FASTER than the historical average for at least the last 800,000 years?

Someone has to answer that basic science question before starting to wave hands around and name-drop technologies that might sound impressive but, at the end of the day, do nothing.

No humans: 50,000 years; 100 ppm drop.

With seven billion humans and our toys: 50 years; 100 ppm?

OK. How? You would need more energy and resources than the planet has available. In other words, you would destroy the planet in the process.
It's mysterious enough if there's no one willing to explain how the system works. Just that the results are adjusted.
> Is not going to Harvard worth pushing yourself to the right? Worth aligning yourself with the guy pushing a trade war with China, which is going to do wonders for the image of Asians in America? Personally, I don't think so.

Point of fact: the Chinese had tariffs on American goods long before the “trade war.” That isn’t fair and it’s correct to call a government out on that policy. China has been called out by the WTO on numerous occasions and now, somehow Trump is wrong for agreeing with the WTO?[1] France has had high tariffs on American products for a long time, but now Trump is the bad guy? I don’t agree with any tariffs, but when other countries use tariffs, it’s only logical to retailiate.

Secondly, you seem to be suggesting that the OP should just accept not going to Harvard as fair when other people who didn’t work as hard get to go? That is just un-American and the complete opposite of a meritocracy. What do kids that have lower grades and don’t score as well get a preference to the most elite schools in the country? We are outraged when rich people bribe their way into a school, how is this any different? These lower performing students could also go to state schools just as you suggest the OP do. What gives them a right to a school for which they wouldn’t normally qualify? There is real anti-Asian discrimination at many of the Ivy League schools. This is documented and is not unlike the anti-Jew initiatives of years past. May the smartest student win — and if that results in an entirely Asian class at Harvard, so be it. It isn’t like Asians have any super-powers in academics. They’re human like the rest of us, but it might seem that their cultural emphasis on education is paying off. Instead of handicapping Asians, why not try to change the culture of non-Asians to better compete?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/19/us-wins-wto-ruling-against-c...
That's not true. Things like ecological or workplace safety regulations are improvements to quality of life at the expense of economic production. Averting global warming also does increase quality of life.

> has their people eat as much meat as they want

It's not healthy to eat that much meat anyway.

> then the US would be powerless

And you shouldn't panic. The US is far from powerless. There are many countries in Europe that for example do not have nuclear weapons. Does it make them dead? No, they continue to live, in fact often with high quality of life.

This worry that you somehow "lose the race", it's such a nonsense (reminds me of "mineshaft gaps" from Dr. Strangelove).
Really? I generally see the opposite these days with everything moving to chromium (Opera, Chrome, Safari, and even Edge now all use it). Its kind of like a creepy consolidation.

I would say though Firefox does remain a strong (if the last) holdout.
In terms of cool tech, Apple/Google absolutely are a cut above Facebook now in my experience. Microsoft used to be below, now they rose as they embraced more open source and modern tech, I'd probably put Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon even in the cool category these days while Facebook was stereotypically above Microsoft before. Amazon, depends who you ask for a definition of "cool" from more so.
Wow. That is seriously unfair
I like FF's diff format. For anyone who hasn't seen it, they give you the old code, followed by the new code:

/* I think they also include URL info up here */
h1 {
/* background-color: blue; */
background-color: grey;
}

We (Chrome DevTools) have a Changes tab but no nice diff export like FF. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/01/devtools#c...
Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in Go
One Man’s Unlikely Quest to Power the World with Magnets
I do this too. Hate paywalls. But not against the idea of paying. The problem is, it’s too fractured. It feels like if I had to pay for each channel on cable TV, it adds up to way too much when you think about the wide scope of sites I could stumble upon on any given month. And like TV, I’m not really a reader of any news site, I’m a reader of interesting pieces of content that surfaces through places like HN/reddit. Then, you also have the fact that usually the title was enough info I realize I don’t even really need to read the text.
Set a standard (SAT score, whatever) and say that students who meet that standard should be capable enough to admit. Then pick randomly from among the applicants who meet your standard. Sounds fair, right?
It doesn't seems to have been mentioned here that this happened over a year ago, in March 2018.

I believe that the time between each crash is lengthening, even as the number of cars with AP balloons. This would speak to the regular improvement.
How, praytell would we be in a recession right now if not for tax cuts that barely made an impact for the vast majority of Americans? The economy was good when he took it over and despite everything he's trying to do to destroy it, it seems to be getting to the point of overheating. His tariffs will cool that though as people being to feel a 20% increase in all of the good that they buy and people start losing work because there's no one able to buy. Don't forget the record highs right before the last recession. Corporate debt is at unsustainable amounts and we have to pay for our debt at some point. Money doesn't just continue to come from nothing.

While I don't disagree with everything he's done, President Trump has caused lasting damage to our economy, our country, and our status in the world that will take generations to fix, if the country survives that long. We seem to be at a point where a rock and a hard place have met, that only bloodshed or external conflict will remedy. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
What went wrong inside Boeing's cockpit?