skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voice of America.

The idea that the US doesn’t covertly spend money on propaganda, when it overtly does and has for decades, is hilarious.

I mean, VoA is actually a pretty good, so this isn’t intended to be criticism of it. However, it is intended as propaganda, although a fairly light version of it.
Excellent article. It's my belief the medical industry suffers from a "take no action" bias. They believe letting ten thousand people die from inaction is better than a treatment that will kill half of them and save the other half. When it comes to people who are going to die or suffer for the rest of their lives, I don't see anything wrong with "move fast and break things".
> Tell your wife you're using a proven comedic technique.

"You see, I'm actually being funny right now. It's comedy, trust me."
In fairness, there probably is good coffee out there, you just don't have the mental shortcut of being able to depend on the Starbucks brand. I suppose this was the problem that Yelp, Foursquare, and friends tried to solve, but we're still not really there— even as a conscientious person who would on balance prefer to support a local, non-chain business, it's still a lot of effort to look up which one to go to.

For anyone not willing to put in that effort (or just take a risk), forget about it— that person will just stay on the highway and wait out the next Starbucks.
Sure sounds like the "8x8" recommendation (why not just say "half a gallon" or "2 liters"?) is actually a reasonable lower bound for what people should be drinking then.
Who’s the Face Behind FaceApp? Meet the Russian Who Built the Wildly Viral App
It would be so nice to not only give measures in freedom units...
that actually sounds like a lot of fun.
> People want to retweet

People want to gamble, too, and to drink alcohol, and to shoot heroin. That doesn't mean those things are good for them, or that it's axiomatically ideal either for them individually or for society at large to not have any restrictions on their ability to satisfy those desires.
They're designing for engagement and/or revenues, not for outcome; we (hopefully) don't raise our children to be as hyper as possible as a leading metric.
Quantum mechanics, while not overturning anything about causation, certainly made us think less naively about it.
You should be, the Facebook app explicitly does listen to the mic unless you opt out. It has also come out that Google and Amazon are storing people's personal voice requests, and aside from that the mics are always on waiting to hear the trigger words. This means by default that the apps are listening and analyzing everything, though how much of the non word-triggered speech gets recorded is unknown.

Facebook's initial foray into the app/mic biz was troubled and their statement was "we only listen for popular music / TV in the background in order to help you." It also came out that they mine personal messages between users.

"I’m not paranoid to think they are listening to the microphone but the coincidence is super uncanny."

We need to get past the block where we label people as paranoid for thinking these big corps might invade user's privacy.
DragonFlyBSD Project Update – colo upgrade, future trends
So tired of these "OMG What Did I Create?" stories from social media devs. How about you grow a conscience _before_ you build these things? I have told managers to go f themselves for: Content that would demean people Lying to or misleading customers *Hosing over my fellow engineers ... among other things

I don't think it's that special of a thing to do but reading these things makes it seem like it is.
I have a feeling this wouldn't work as well as it sounds. The legal system doesn't really seem to distinguish between "two hairs" and "procedural fuckup" so someone who drove a monster truck through a crowd of people and runs around afterward wearing a signboard saying "IT WAS ME, I DID IT!!1!" could still get off when the prosecutor misfiles something or fails to obtain the proper warrant for a search.
It is! The article is about the performance of the compiler, not the machine code it generates.
software (source code) documentation is still unsolved.
Try again? I was able to see it.
It can absolutely help here! I've been using Anki for about 7 years, and most of my cards (~9000) are CS-related.

I've found that focusing on the fundamentals helps for me. E.g. most programming languages have a few fundamental ideas that they're built around--memorizing those is usually good enough to quickly hop around programming languages and be productive. Algorithms, operating systems, networks, compilers, machine learning, math, etc...I grabbed some textbooks for those and just focused on the first few chapters, which lay out the fundamentals, and being able to recall and think about those in my head has helped me immensely.

Trivia is occasionally useful but it's hard to transfer to real life: e.g. even though I can answer questions about CLI command arguments when studying, I still have a hard time recalling them when sitting at a computer. Memorizing how to find the answers I need is way more useful (and a lot of this is knowing the right terminology and fundamental concepts...which are easier to recall out-of-context).

I also focus on different formulations of the same concept. Backwards and forwards retrieval: recognizing the concept from its description, and being able to describe the concept. I make separate cards for those. I also put "generative" cards for the same concept, which force me to practice using the concepts, and recognizing when to use them. And also recognizing concepts from code or other contexts. Usually just having one card for a concept isn't enough for me, unless it's really simple or is just trivia. For a hard concept, I might create 5-10 cards to help me practice recalling and using the concept in different contexts.
While this post is referring to desktop/server software, CERN are also using open source platforms in some of their experiments: they recently re-performed some of the 2012 analysis that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, on top of Kubernetes.

Adam and I spoke to a computer scientist and two physicists from CERN for our podcast, and you might like to listen if you like physics or software.

https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/062-cern/
Hottest July day on record for the UK as temperatures reach 38.1˚C
When some aquifers are drained, they take many thousands of years to replenish, a heavy rain season doesn't really help with these depleted aquifers.

Here's a great video on Cody'sLab that explains how confined aquifers work and why they take so long to replenish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4iCgxsZX4
First user preview release of Fedora CoreOS
So I'm curious what you think is the problem, or if there is one - and if so, what your proposed solution would be?
The Linux kernel is not GNU code.
Really CERN does not qualify !
Besides HN, where do you go for your latest news?
Here’s a technical overview on it. Most interesting thing for me was how they made it accessible and feature phone support.

https://web.dev/proxx-announce

Disclosure: Work on same team as the PROXX people
If you have a content blocker turned on in iOS, install the PWA version of Instagram - it will remove all sponsored posts.

The PWA version is almost as good as the native app. It lacks a pull to refresh feature as far as I can tell, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Also a guy who did major pioneering work on infinite scrolling https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44640959
french fries

X-(
Businesses aren't using Windows because schools use it (I think Chromebooks and iPads are more popular among schools now than Windows machines because children can trash a PC easily). They use it because of a long tail of software applications that only run on Windows, they use it because of stuff like Group Policy and Active Directory, they use it because of a lot of things that Linux doesn't do as well.
Yes that's true. Coverity and similar are even slower.

But then rust errors out on a lot of things the C++ analyzer wouldn't, a lot of those things are actually being reasonable code.

For example I discovered recently that you cannot swap two pointer variables in rust without using unsafe. Surely there is some deep reason for that, that is really important until they can figure out how to fix it in some future Rust version, which they undoubtedly will.

It's not that swapping is an obscure operation, many important and fundamental algorithms depend on it.

I'm probably overly cynical there, but I sometimes feel that all these arbitrary restrictions that make code hard to write make people feel better about rust because if they get their code to actually compile it's a sense of achievement that makes them proud. Kind of like a journey to find yourself or something like that.

But then i see that there is actually some progress in Rust to relax some of these restrictions (e.g. non lexical lifetimes in the borrow checker). If my theory above is true that would actually lower Rust's popularity over time. True? Probably not. But it's an interesting thought.
Do React Hooks Replace Redux?
The Great Lakes sources their water from glaciers melting. Too little and too much of a thing it’s still worrying.
Except it's well known that that is way too much water unless you are sweating a lot. If you drink that much, you'll just pee a lot, it won't actually do anything useful.

Since the article got something so basic wrong (and if it was intentional you would think they would mention that the numbers were similar), I decided to stop reading the article at that point, I don't need incorrect information.

Maybe it's an editing mistake?

The actual amount of water you need varies by exertion, and diet and all sorts of things, it's not a fixed amount.
Temp records shattered in Europe, Paris hitting all-time mark of 109 degrees
It makes sense if one focuses on human constructed attractions, especially if one is confined to major travel routes with the goal of getting to a destination.

I think part of what makes this photo look unique to many is that Pennsylvania sits between the extremes of the Northeast's planned rest stops, and the Midwest's natural four-corners ones - so it's exceptional from both. It's larger than one standard concrete building with pluggable vendors, and it's denser than fuel stops with truck scales, overnight parking, etc. Pennsylvania also has this hilly thing going on that tends to concentrate, hide, and focus business gatherings.

Travelling across the country, the real depressing pattern is McDonalds ahead 10 miles, ... 5 miles, ... 2 miles, ... 1 mile, .... half mile, "turn around you missed McDonalds!", next McDonalds 36 miles, repeat. I believe the bigger rest stops actually break the homogeneity by offering more variety. But on longer distances, one actually comes to see the value in chains - predictability. And I say this as someone who goes out of my way to avoid chains.

Of course that's all still focused on the commercial infrastructure that supports travelers. If you're roadtripping, especially west of Pennsylvania (ie clear of the Megalopolis), and not basking in the novel landscape, you're doing it wrong.
> Allowing anonymous users to shift from one crypto to another could be part of a money laundering routine. It does not have to include any fiat currency in the flow.

What's the point? That's like exchanging cash for cash. I guess you could use it to "launder" crypto in the sense that you can make transfers off-chain. The exchange still has those records though, they don't need KYC to provide them, if necessary.
As a potential buyer, I'd want to see some trajectory. Otherwise, I'd just be buying some code which I can hire anyone to write.
Pack your own coffee for long trips. Cold brew is far easier to do than you might expect.

Mix ground coffee with lukewarm water in a 1:4 ratio and let it sit for 12 to 24 hours. This creates "coffee concentrate". Mix the concentrate 1:4 with water to make your final coffee. (Tweak final ratio to taste: these ratios are set to my personal taste)

Even if you use cheap no-name coffee from grocery stores, the coffee tastes great. Grinding your own beans will result in fresher coffee.

The purpose of "concentrate" is that "concentrate" cold brew is easier to process (less to filter), and easier to store. You can pick up bottled water virtually anywhere in the USA. So carrying around the concentrate is easier.

You can also do cool things with concentrate: like make espresso (add milk instead of water), or "impromptu hot-brew" (boil some water, add the concentrate. Since you have 4:1 hot water to concentrate, your temperature will be 80% of the hot temperature).

With 4:1 final mixing ratio, a quart of concentrate becomes 1.25 gallons of coffee, more than enough for most trips.

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"Ball" mason jars are pretty universal in the USA. I'm pretty sure they're sold everywhere (more common than quality coffee at least, lol). So you shouldn't have any issues getting mason-jar equipment for storing liquids.

Just don't use their leaky white-plastic caps. Use their gray "leak proof" caps or their steel-caps if you actually want a liquid-tight seal.

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Alternatively, drink McDonalds coffee. Its actually not bad. I know plenty of foodies who avoid McDonalds EXCEPT for their coffee.
“X big website is down” just hit HN the last few weeks and people on our normally highly rational news site were convinced it was a connected conspiracy.
That does raise the question, can I safely not call a busybox based distribution GNU/Linux in front of RMS, particularly if it uses uClibc?
Can you backup that claim?
Thinking about it, sure. Making meaningful decisions about it, absolutely not. Most people can barely manage to successfully decide what career they want at 18, much less 8.
Maybe it's not actually a loaded gun in the hands of a 4 year old.
But CERN is academic what do you think all those people doing PHD's
the content is the responsibility of the author, but the headline is the responsibility of the marketing department.
You mean the Liberal Tech Billionaire Elite should use AI to secretly Suppress and Censor my tweets about how They’re Building Landing Strips For Gay Martians?
Am I the only one who is rarely, if ever, thirsty? I couldn't drink 8x8 even if my life depended on it.
what is the load balancing story for these RPC services thusly recommended? it was completely glossed over as if it was not even relevant; i know gRPC uses HTTP/2 and persists connections so it's not as simple as throwing a proxy in front.

that seems like a non-trivial point of friction when it comes to "just using solid storage/RPC formats" or whatever.
I wonder if it's already possible to do this without a new button.

If a lot of people close to you in your social network react "angry" to something and you choose to share it, there's a good chance you're sharing it because it makes you angry too.

Graphs are cool
There is a much larger problem here than RTs, and that is lack of journalistic integrity.

You can spread pretty much any sort of information without research or even a logical basis. Weirdly, we tend to default to accepting it as valid rather than questioning it.

The only realistic cure for this, outside of draconian authority, is to teach people how to be more skeptical and educate them on logical fallacies.

These are things that should be taught from elementary school and onwards IMHO.
I am not sure I'd care about the definition of "true", that does not fulfill the Popper criteria. That is the whole point of it.

Occams Razor is a tool people use to pick the best theory (in terms of size) among theories otherwise describing the same universe. These theories are otherwise identical.

The same applies to your last point: we simply pick the best theory at hand, and that argument does exactly that.
What would be better? How would one measure "betterness" anyway? If it's the probability of having to use classroom computers later in life, your choices are Windows or Apple.
My objection is with the word "should", because (and maybe I'm wrong) it implies choice. Nobody says a falling rock should avoid hitting a child - the lack of agency of the rock makes that statement meaningless.

Similarly, if you posit that we have no free will, saying that humanity should rehabilitate and not punish is meaningless.
>When urine turns yellow, and especially if it becomes dark, dehydration has begun.

Misinformation. Light yellow urine does not mean you are dehydrated and crystal-clear urine is not a "hydration goal".
Well there goes my productivity for the day.
My favorite (ridiculous) quote about the blurring of what exactly is a tech company:

”Moxy...will be a technology company that just happens to fly airplanes”

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2018/09/21/moxy...
I always roll my eyes when HN falls for interviews with "random engineer or product person responsible for [feature]", as if that automatically confers authority like they're Richard Stallman or Tim Berners-Lee.

Combining the fact that they have nothing insightful to say with the ego boost from being interviewed in visible articles means that people like this are going to say whatever they think will provide a punchy, clickbait headline for the less-discerning members of link boards to feed their biases with.

The only notable thing here is how hard HN falls for drivel like this.
Although that joke is funny, and this article is a little odd, personally I think everyone is taking away the wrong message.

Personal life absolutely could benefit from management and intelligence layers. For banking, instead of logging into each bank, I can use mint/personal capital. But when it comes to so much of the rest of life nothing plays nicely.

It would be awesome to have a shopping, construction, restaurant, recipe, health care aggregation for making decisions and projects. My family calendar should integrate right into "we need to pick a flooring contractor by xx" and when one of marks the one we want in on the platform, that info should trickle up into the management interface. If both of us mark ourselves as in the mood for Mexican, it can filter results down to restaurants we marked or might be relevant and show them to both of us. Comparing reviews between yelp, foursquare, facebook and google is agonizingly manual. Why cant this be as simple as metacritic? Right now collaborating is a painful mix of handing phones back and forth or sending links and screenshots. It's too real time. The same goes for shopping, comparison shopping together is just as disorganized as any collaborative task. Its very hard to break down the task into discrete components that can happen simultaneously. First you pick what you want, then you price shop, rinse repeat. Even simple stuff, like while planning an event, knowing who called an uber and getting an alert.

And then there is the educational aspect. Publishing and sharing a family budget, spending, net cash flow etc would absolutely benefit kids. They could see and learn how expensive things are, see what spending categories the trinkets they want chip into, where the family can reduce spending elsewhere, and what costs are fixed.

F, why not gamify chores. If you give out allowance for chores, why not have a list of available chores, and let the market handle itself? One kid wants to do all the work, they reap all the reward.

Maybe its less of a Slack/Trellofication and more what I want is a PowerBI/Tableau.

I know things like buildshop.com and getcatalant.com sort of fill that hybrid project management and reviews category, for their own verticals.

A collaborative family calendar, with goal planning, and brainstorming space isnt a bad idea. Hey you want to save for a purchase, heres a budgeting tool. Hey you need a ride to a thing at a certain time, this person is available. Building consensus over whats for dinner can be something people contribute to when they have time over the day, instead of requiring everyone to be on the same page at the same time? Oh we picked a recipe that the inventory knows we are out of an ingredient, add picking that ingredient up to the task list and assign it, before people start driving home for the day.

This comment became a very unfocused vomit of a rant quickly, and I dont feel like circling back around to edit it. Sorry.
Almost 8pm on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast.

29 degrees.
Not exactly a personal cloud, but I use a Cryptomator container inside iCloud, which delivers both security and sync reliability.

Wrote about this setup a couple months ago https://karlshouler.com/posts/2019-05-31-secure-cloud-storag...
and you can donate to KiCad development via CERN: https://cernandsocietyfoundation.cern/projects/kicad-develop...
> spectacular failure scenarios

Such as? Any of them different than that of the suggestion I was replying to?
And you know this how?
Gamergate was a harassment movement aimed at women in videogames that had some very smart people thinking of justifications and excuses to protect it in public.
Germany sets all-time record temperature for second day running
Look into the Indieweb[1] and Webmentions[2]. Still really early days, but they're what you're after, I think. Well, if you're talking about commenting on others' posts. I'd think to follow, you'd use RSS or ActivityPub.

[1]: https://indieweb.org/
[2]: https://indieweb.org/Webmention
> I suspect this is specifically targeting Windows.

It's not: it's things like Active Directory, Skype4B, Office, Exchange etc. Desktop OS's aren't covered by MAlt.
Yea the act of copying and pasting to do a retweet required just enough extra work that people had to think about what they were typing, and so users used it in a less reactionary way.

It's kind of incredible that a tweak to one small feature could have such a large behavioral impact.
Me and my sister are similar. There used to be a time when my only water intake was 1.black coffee in the morning. 2. green tea in the evening. I have had to consciously create a habit of drinking more. My current metric ( to avoid kidney problems ) is to keep the pee as white as possible ( I have no scientific backing for this ).
People suck, and when you let the suckiest people have the same level of audience as less sucky people, you've got a problem.
Why don't you talk to the parents who are knowingly taking the risk to entry the country illegally?

>Save you speech for the children being tortured

I don't think you know what the word torture means. You've been misled by propaganda. And, again, the problems are happening limited to a select number of overwhelmed facilities.
What is actually threatening civilisation here?

This requires an effort of adaptation but it is no threat to civilisation.

It is not productive to go into hysterics.

The plague killed a third of Europe's population and... No civilisation collapse.

Edit: none of the replies so far describe credible threats to civilisation, so I'm not sure what your definition of "end of civilisation" is
You can say swole instead of buff if you want to be trendy.
You may believe that, and I'm sure it's true to a certain degree, but Instagram has seen absurd growth since the Facebook acquisition. Without Instagram, Facebook would likely be in a crisis right now over its aging userbase and decelerating growth. The Instagram app is probably nearly as valuable as the Facebook app at this point.
Are you equating retweets to using heroin?
That does not address the point of the argument.

And if you could restore a body why do you think consciousness would not return? Alcohol example kinda hints that it's exactly how it works.
Many of them, yes. Keep in mind, too, though that there are places like Shenzen. It's grown an order of magnitude in 40 years and was designated as a specific enterprise zone. It was a market town. Now it's an electronics manufacturing powerhouse.
> FAMGA

GAFAM rolls off the tong a little better and what the french use (pretty funny article about them on the french wikipedia [0])

[0]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM