skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose if you're really want to be pedantic this wasn't completely limited to the church and monarchs. If enough people in a village wanted to suppress some information, or promulgate some falsehood, they could intimidate others into compliance. Plenty of Italian city-states had power structures more centered around wealthy merchants rather than nobility. So sure, it wasn't entirely limited to the church and nobility. But the church and nobility were undoubtedly in the most effective positions to carry out such deception.

The key observation is that when communication technology is primitive, then the ability to spread information is limited to a handful of people. Namely, those that either have the social position to spread their interpretation of the world and what is happening in it, or those that have the power to intimidate and force people into silence or compliance. Throughout much of history, this was religion (easy to spread information when people go to one of your institutions every Sunday, and your priests make up a huge portion of literate society) and the nobility (you control the armed forces and have more or less unilateral control over employment them).

And on a side note, I don't see why false accusations of crime or violation of social norms don't count as fake news. Such accusations are probably some of the most common instances of fake news.
Soon there will be Dart shops (Flutter). :)
If you stay up an hour later it's no big deal: so sometimes you go to sleep at midnight and wake up at 7?
I was looking at their github repo and couldn't immediately see where pihole gets its block lists, just a very large soup of shell scripting that seems to make a lot of assumptions about your Linux distro.

Anybody familiar with this code able to point out where it does the "interesting" work?
I've got gigabit fibre running to my house, and some of the best natural beauty and outdoor activities available anywhere just minutes away. Mountain biking, climbing, white water paddling, kite surfing, trail running, sailing, hiking, etc.

Let me assure you, there is plenty to do if you're into this lifestyle. Don't knock it just cause it's not something you're into.

I think as more people get good remote jobs that many of them will realize that living in nice small towns is really desirable.
Ask HN: What do you say to someone whose company was acquihired?
What should you say to someone who you know had a company that was recently acquihired? Saying 'congratulations' seems inappropriate ... after all while an accomplishment not exactly the desired outcome.
lol and another big story is talking about china attacking activists and everyones freaking out. people who want to censor are the worst.
Is red meat killing us?
I get about 15% of queries blocked with 3 Windows laptops, 2 Android phones, 1 iPhone, and a smart TV. I do run most of the traffic generated for work through work VPN though, and that tends to be the largest source of traffic (about 80% by data volume), which completely ignores local DNS.
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The word is dissident. You don't have activism in China, you only have (, ignoring all the regular people who just work hard and don't cause trouble) the state, its law and dissidents (who by definition are stupid people who want to go against the state and its law).

You may not be stupid if you're an "activist" in America (but you probably still are ~ engagement not activism is much better), but if people call you an "activist" in China (ha!), then you're just someone who is dumb, because you fail to understand that State and its Law.

I think I should clarify why these people are stupid. Because they ought to know that doing this is going to bring them a world of trouble, and achieve nothing, but they do so.
You can't escape Google. I think there's been several articles talking about how deeply embedded they are.
What about the rest of the stuff we buy, 80% of which is still made in China?
Exactly, all of these things. The notion that city living is the only way to live and that smaller towns are simply flyover communities is pretty ignorant. I love visiting the city as well, there are excellent opportunities like restaurants and events, but the culture is different and I am always happy to return to my small town hobbies.
Housing price increases, at least in the US, are due to regulations..plain and simple. If you make it easier for houses to be built, the supply will out pace demand and the market will force these prices down.
Switch to Firefox, DDG, and iCloud/Fastmail email
> Life expectancy has gone down because of the Opioid crisis and suicides. That certainly does effect poor people, but it is not -because- they are poor.

I beg to differ. The area where I grew up, in rural southeastern Ohio, has been ravaged by the opioid crisis. IMHO, it goes hand-in-hand with the loss of industry and jobs and the rise of poverty and hopelessness that's been left in the wake of that loss of economic prosperity.
StrongLoop – In the Loop – May 30, 2019
Yep. Long time lurker on hacker news, but never felt the need to comment before. To be clear supernova's comment didn't trigger me - I just felt that it was worth pointing out that the document was not uncommon in my experience.
As did I and had nightmares of years past when converting a cold fusion application into a fresh rails application and migrating the database mysql to postgres. Basically, just found out functionality and redid everything. Very satisfying at the end but man that was a chore.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
Yep... my pfSense is virtualized, too. I need to get pfBlocker configured, but pi-hole works so well, I'm too lazy to do anything about it! I'm also working on an IoT VLAN - that Ring doorbell is a chatty Kathy!
Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform app dream is dead and buried
Why haven't remote workers or remote teams spread into the smaller towns and countryside?

Because when you live in an area you become entrenched. I would love to move out of the Bay Area for cheaper everything, but all my friends and family are here.

This is the element that people forget about in these discussions.
Sadly, the website documentation for most languages is pretty terrible. Independent authors can take the time to write much more comprehensive educational books that go beyond just a simple language spec and a Github link.
Given that as I understand it most gun violence is undertaken by people who have obtained the firearms illegally[0] or are prohibited from owning them I doubt this will move the needle at all. All this does is prevent people who would legally obtain arms and very probably use them safely to be recorded in a competitors CRM system as opposed to Salesforce.

[0]https://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2018/mar/12/j...
Intel reportedly mulling outsourcing chipset design to ASMedia
On the contrary, most of my peers are either living in the country on their own land or saving to do so. Especially if it's within driving distance of a city.
Then why bother with the song and dance?
I disagree. Technical solutions are largely preferable. Political solutions are feeble and can be changed on a whim.

If the NSA has the capability to sniff vast amounts of network traffic, encrypting that traffic is a much stronger defense than telling the NSA they aren't allowed to deploy the capability for the time being.

If Chrome insists on using its own DNS or removing the adblocking API for add-ons, one can just use another browser like Firefox that has the desired technical capabilities. Managing DNS lookups and HTTP requests are not "stopgap" solutions, they are basic functionality that any one entity can't eradicate.
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You may not be a Republican, but you are nonetheless parroting their propaganda.

Linking the phenomenon of fake news with a liberal media conspiracy while downplaying or discrediting any connection it had with Trump's campaign and his supporters is parroting their propaganda.

>Meanwhile the biggest "fake news" item of the past few years was Russiagate, which escaped your list along with widespread condemnation from establishment media.

Because my list was of items which occurred prior to Trump's election, establishing a basis for the origin of the term. And it has yet to be established to what degree Russiagate is fake news, although your attempt to dismiss through equivocation is recognized. For someone who's not a Republican, you're really good at their techniques and talking points, though. Mention liberal sour grapes or the deep state next, maybe you'll get bingo.

The sudden alarm about Pizzagate, Zuckerberg and fake news is not a symptom of "elite" anxiety, but public anxiety over the sudden weight of influence that conspiracy theories and lies once relegated to the likes of 4chan and Reddit seem to have to influence the public. There is no secret cabal of liberal globalist elites who are harmed by any of this, it's only the public and their ability to discern the truth that's harmed.
How is this different from hyperparameter tuning?
Not getting enough ratings also causes punishment.
That’s anecdotal, but I’m willing to bet the typical technologist is not like your peers.
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it's fascinating that this [satirical] comment is the top post while the article itself has simultaneously made the front page. like the comment above alludes to, this article is absurd, yet, there seem to be many who take it seriously (presumably the researchers studying "queer hci", whatever that is)?
no its not. censorship is stopping you from talking. allowing everyone to talk is the opposite of censorship. the platform owner can say whatever they want.
Switch from Chrome to Firefox
Just use torrent! It's easy, and potentially free!
Thanks for the clarification. The key issue, then, is for people running other filesystems in Linux. And especially for *BSD users.

Re LUKS, I meant to use a tool that converts the encrypted LUKS volume (on this machine, /dev/md1) to an image file. Working in a USB drive, say. Then storing that 500GB (or whatever) file in Dropbox. If that's too big, then have a separate smaller LUKS volume. Or even, for VMs, a LUKS-encrypted VDI.

Also, the unencrypted LUKS volume can just be ext4, for Dropbox compatibility.
Here in the US, you can use interlibrary loan to get nearly any book from a public or university library. Worldcat [0] is a great resource for finding books in other libraries that can be sent to you free through ILL.

[0] http://worldcat.org
Have you looked at ActorDB [1]? It's a distributed version of SQLite that may be particularly suited to multitenant SaaS applications.

[1] http://www.actordb.com
Yes - you can see the differences between the coastal towns and the ex mining towns in this map of social deprivation in Scotland:

http://simd.scot
Is there such thing as an incorruptible news rating app?
Did you have prior JavaScript experience?
I guess I'll be the lone voice chiming in that I find this pretty useful. There's been a number of times I've been like "oh, what's that song I asked Google to identify a month ago?" or "what was that page I managed to find last year by searching about [x]?" that I've been able to remember via this tool.

Yeah, Google knows everything about me. C'est la vie. At least it's useful. What exactly is the threat model that everyone is operating under which prompts all the comments here?
No, this works on any overlapping types too - even unsound combinations such as `T | Array<T>`
I think you're missing my point that I don't particularly care how it's done. I just care that graduating students can start their life with zero debt, just like they can in many other countries.
Will the Uber/Lyft IPOs Finally Change the Public Narrative About Ridesharing?
Is it possible you logged into a computer somewhere else? Maybe at a friend's house? That seems odd to me.
This is, in fact, already sometimes necessary since there are things that will hard code 8.8.8.8.
The helium shortage seems to come up a lot lately. Not mining, I understand, but that's what came to mind.
I really hope WPF will die along with it, and it will finally force MS to think of making a proper toolkit.
I am curious about your definition of scale, because in my experience this is just flat out untrue.
I think the problem is that the civil service / defence industry think that technical "boffins" are some sort of cheery working class NCO who will work for tuppence ha'penny. the type who be played in the films by Normal Wisdom or George Formby

"mr Oldfield, that Kims a wrong un - I saw him taking money from the from the orphans fund"

M " I know lad I know"
I used Maps.me for quite a while until they recently added ads. Anyone know of an alternative for iOS that's ad-free? (I'm more than happy to make a one-time purchase for an app that promises no ads now or ever.)
The difference is one has a dedicated security team and the other does not.
Chernobyl: The abandoned pets that formed their own canine community (2018)
I don't believe this is compliant with the GDPR. Afaik usernames are considered personal data, as are user ids. Both are a form of online identifiers:

"Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them."
You not only have to have money to invest, you have to have the further means to be able to leave it there for the long term.

I'm middle class and about 18 months ago finally moved some modest savings (5 figure amt) into a robo-advisor controlled account. It's basically been flat the entire time, and is now up 1.4%, not even beating inflation over the same time period. Now, I get it, patience is everything. But it's definitely pretty detached from reality to blame poor people for their bad financial literacy in not having tens of thousands to drop into "investments" when this kind of thing is the reality even for those of us that do.
The City as a contractor
As is your claim. What is the typical technologist? My peers, along with me, live outside of one of the biggest cities in the Midwest, and work remotely or commute to and from. I would consider us part of the prevailing technological culture.
>If you wanted to do the cheap version of this you could probably set up a screen with proper lighting such that it'd line up well enough that screen and sensor pixels matched closely making it near if not completely impossible to tell a screen was involved.

You could make things more difficult by using multiple cameras (and perhaps some other sensors) to detect a 3D scene rather than just a 2D representation, but I agree that it's all ultimately fakeable.
Ok, I just noticed something that is even scarier.

Under the "Chrome, Google Analytics, and more" I see "Used com.kongregate.mobile.adventurecommunist", which is a game installed on my iPhone. Ok, I also have my Gmail logged in there as well, so they somehow read shared data or whatever. But I also see "Used es.socialpoint.chefparadise" which is a game, installed on my iPad at home which is mostly used by my wife for random games and stuff and I don't have any Google account logged in there.
I 100% disagree with the original article but upvoted it because I think it's important that people see that there exists attempts to push platforms to manipulate their users for ideological reasons. It's good to shine the flashlight under the rock.
Why do you guys care so much that google is tracking your purchases? They will just that use your own habits to give you more personalized ads or recommendations which is better than random ads not related to your own habits. How does it hurt you as a consumer?
> some awful website they visited late one night in their teens

Are you thinking about websites like 8chan?
> It has nothing to do with trusting the government, or driving a car. It has to do with transferring ownership information of an asset with intrinsic value between 2 parties, ensuring payment without relying on (possibly expensive) escrow

The government is the entity that recognizes the change of ownership, it's not something you can do without their approval. Your change of ownership is being filed with the government and is available at their discretion - they can choose to block it. Car registration isn't for your benefit. If you require the government's approval you may as well store it in their database. I just saved you a blockchain :)
Mute Tab and the place I was modifying to restore Ctrl+shift+q was removed. It was too much effort to maintain these features.
'Riley, Hobson and Bence' was a standard reference I used throughout my undergrad and graduate studies. Sure enough, it's about 1200 pages.
> Xbox prevents everyone from using a competing game store. No the Playstation does not compete with Xbox's game store.

Indeed. You cannot substitute an Xbox game for a Playstation game or vice versa. Xbox games and Playstation games are different markets.

> I'm going to sue to get my Coca Cola bottles filled with Pepsi under federal anti-trust laws.

Having a trademark technically constitutes a monopoly. But there are good reasons to have trademark law anyway.

> Walmart prevents everyone from buying products from competing stores. No, Target does not compete with Walmart, you can't buy Great Value products at Target so they're in different markets.

> Hacker News prevents everyone from using a competing site. No, reddit does not compete with Hacker News. If I click the "reply" button it only posts to Hacker News and not reddit so they're in different markets.

I'll pretend you kept these ridiculous strawmen to yourself. If you have any actual arguments, I'd love to read them.
It really isn’t a mystery: they like tech obviously, they probably went to a big university with lots of diversity and eat out options, they feel a strong need to network. All hint toward city living rather than country side living.

Also, many techies in the USA aren’t even Americans, they are even less likely to be craving for the countryside lifestyle.
Birthrates are falling worldwide, and rapidly. We're already at a point where the birth rate worldwide is just at replacement level - the current growth in population is due to increased lifespans from 1-2 generations ahead of the flattening. Only a handful of desperately poor countries - places like Yemen and Afghanistan - have high birthrates. To give a sense of how much it's changed, Iran's birthrate is lower than Europe or the US. In 1980, Iran's birthrate was four times higher than it is now.
Some of it may be various IoT devices that are aggressive in retrying when they can't reach their census servers.
DNS on EOS
That sounds like a normal Tuesday evening free-energy nut dropping in :)
> Your wife downloads a game on her phone, and you get that look like "ok, why isn't this working.. what did you do now?"

THISSSSSS. The only thing stopping me from using Pi-hole at home are my family members and the inevitable "this isn't working!?!?" rant and then I need to figure out how and what to whitelist. No thanks. I have ad blockers on the kids' PC and when something doesn't work, it's one click to temporarily turn it (browser extension) off.
But ... but ... Hacker News says yes.
> and use it on their device

To use the modified software on your device you have to be a "App Developer" (or whatever Apple calls it), and in the process to becoming one accept the TOS imposed by Apple. So you are only as free to run the modified source as Apple wants you too be.
I would definitely buy this book. With so many things that leverage the JVM, and with new things like GraalVM, learning the JVM ecosystem from the perspective of a non-Java developer would be very useful.
uh theres a big story right now about china attacking activists. theres a story about google and amazon tracking everything and using facial recognition. everyone freaks out when google builds a china search engine.

but ok, yea its all fake because you think theyre racists. whatever.
At some point Bitcoin mining difficulty either:

1. must hit a ceiling and the rate of increase will significantly slow,

2. or Bitcoin mining will break SHA-256 and render it insecure.

I find 1 to be a the most likely outcome however the most plausible path for 2 would be a novel cryptanalytic attack on SHA-256 which could be exploited to increase mining power. It seems very unlikely that 2 would occur because mining power approaches the brute force limits of SHA-256.
Ask HN: Best Passive Income Method?
I am learning Python. I want to create some passive income streams while learning Python.
I have free time available around weekends.I am working on few ideas of my own, but those will not necessarily generate income.

Which method of the following would you recommend?

ebook in a niche technical topic SaaS product that solves a niche issue mobile or web based game
This article has the implicit assumption that you're holding the team constant. What if I really broke out the checkbook and brought in Martin Fowler to lay out a plan for technical debt cleanup? Or acquired a key data provider that has a terrible API in order to have direct access?

Certainly that's buying higher software quality yet that's not what is being discussed here (but I wish the author would discuss it!).

What this is saying is having developers think and plan a little bit instead of treating every day like it's the home stretch of the Kentucky Derby and you're half a length behind plays off pretty quickly. I would agree with that! I also like the point about letting teams with high momentum move fast and make improvements, I often see such teams reigned in and I tend to think that's a mistake.
I don't think the problem is not having stuff to do, the problem is finding people to do it with.

Small towns and nature have no end of things to do. But it has way fewer people. I think modern society has a bigger problem with loneliness than with not having enough entertaining activities.
Argh, couldn’t find a way past the paywall.
nice job missing the point that free speech is good even if you dont like it.
> ...they were getting censored from other social platforms so they built their own. It just so as happens that over time they have attracted vile users to the platform who have way more unpopular views.

My point is that there is not much daylight between the former and the latter. Gab was not created in a vacuum by neutral arbiters of free speech.
It's also hobbled somewhat by the distinct lack of case law or other precedent. Much of it is subject to interpretation rather than explicit, and no one ones to be the poster child for the interpreting.
tell me why you feel physically sick that you now have a log of your own activity. which you could look through to find something you had done and forgot about. do you think someone at google is gonna sit there and sift through `your` very personal information and do...what?
Ask HN: What do you use to monitor website performance from client perspective?
Also known as "Real User Monitoring". There are a lot of SaaSes doing some form of it, but I know none avoiding third-party JS or requests and most don't support First (Contentful) Paint. What's your experience? What do you use? If you hacked something together in-house, what stack did you use and how do you build reports on top of it?
True. We need real data to say otherwise, but we already know most techies live in cities anyways, you can claim that is not within their desire and they would like your lifestyle better, but I would claim it is as they want.
I have no idea how Netflix, HBO, PBS and C-SPAN make money without advertising, but I do know this: it's not my problem, it's theirs.