skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that is exactly what Western propaganda looks like: absolute and automatic conviction of superiority. The truth is large Western corporations invented most of the things you describe and are now so advanced you don't even recognise it.

Unchecked political lobbying dictates the major themes of news cycles and school curriculums, the places where censorship and distortion of the written word most matters. (Eg. Facebook and Cambridge Analytica)

CEO's and rich people are beyond the legal system, which is the ultimate arbiter of criticism. (Eg. Jeffrey Epstein)

Granted, it is indeed true, thankfully large Western corporations do not harvest organs from the poor. Though you need to know about the British and Dutch East India trading companies, arguable some of the most evil entities to ever exist. They had standing armies that slaughtered, committed state-backed genocides, enslaved, raped and stole. What's more they are the very source of how the modern concept of a corporation came to be. And if you want a modern example then look at the large Western corporation of Nestle.

My understanding of China's concentration camps is that they're more like re-education camps, please correct me if I'm wrong. But besides, we're all happily buying things like iPhones that are made in what amount to exploitation camps. Indeed this refers to the previous paragraph, in many ways the fundamental definition of Western power arises from its corporate exploitation of human beings for economic greed.

I also agree that large Western corporations don't scrape thousands of protests into gutters with bulldozers. The West is much more intelligent. It enables proxies wars in the Middle East that kill hundreds of thousands, if not millions of civilians for daring to speak out about oppression and not letting the West have free access to geopolitical assets and commercial resources like oil.

If you want to make bold statements, then you have to say the West is worse than China. But this isn't a competition for who is best or worst. We are all on both sides and are all implicated in the solution to this inextricably global problem.
Boy I’m glad my Xanga is long gone. I recall reading what I wrote at 16 at 22 and being mortified. I imagine today I’d die of embarrassment if I so much as glanced at it.
This article is devoid of any meaningful analysis and perspective.

>The cybersecurity unit—responsible for ensuring Capital One’s firewalls were properly configured and scanning the internet for evidence of a data breach—has cycled through senior leaders and staffers in recent years, according to the people.

Firewall team combined with threat-intel? I'm not sure what that has to do with the breach, or preventing it.

>Sometimes the broader tech-centric culture of the firm could complicate security, the people said. Technology employees had at times been given free rein to write in many coding languages—so many that it made it harder for the cybersecurity unit to spot problems, according to people familiar with the matter.

Super common, but coding languages aren't generally acknowledged as responsible for the hack. If there was a code level vulnerability that most likely would have been caught by static analysis, but wasn't because their scanning tools didn't support a language, this comment would make more sense.

>the alleged hacker found that a computer managing communications between the company’s cloud and the public internet was misconfigured—effectively it had weak security settings, the Journal previously reported.

Server Side Request Forgery, coupled with overpermissioning, could be explained this way - misconfigured WAF. A poor description of the what we think may be the actual exploit.

It goes on and on.
> I can’t imagine anyone going through tweets from 2010 and actively reporting them, so it seems more likely that they must be using some algorithm ...

Moderation tools have been weaponized in the troll propaganda war.

Post an insightful and highly liked reply to a controversial topic, watch the likes roll in, and then suddenly go dark after about three minutes.

View the thread incognito, and the popular comment cannot be found.

Trolls brigade-block-and-report views they don't like, and your reply gets memory-holed until a human moderator can review it.

Hours or days later your comment gets restored, but the damage is done.

Of course troll armies are mining old tweets for any violation, so they can remove you from the conversation and manufacture the illusion of consensus.
Twitter obviously should be the ones to determine what is true and false.
"Strong sense of pride" perhaps, characterizing it as "face saving" seems to imply that a loss has already occurred.
Thanks for this, I tried to do the calcs but couldn't find all the numbers.

Thb I'm not particularly fazed by the large numbers, we already manage to ship 100 times this for the global herd already. The big question is the economics, if the economic benefits (milk/beef) yield are bigger than the costs it'll take off regardless. If the economics aren't there it may take a bit longer but there aren't many governments worried about sticking their oar into farming matters.
It is easy to say this as long as you are not the victim of insults.
Red Hat controls both gnome and systemd. They made systemd a hard dependency for gnome. That's the only reason systemd "won".
Grass fed cows but the vast majority of cows are fed primarily or exclusively grain, not grass/hay.
Trump aides look into U.S. purchasing Greenland after directives from president
Cigarette smokers tend to always stay with one brand, same with Swedish snuss. Seems weird that vapers would want tons of different flavors?
Cathay Pacific CEO Resigns Amid Hong Kong Protests
Well, there have been teasers recently, and I think a 2020 release date is confirmed
I think whatever strategic value Kashmir had to India is greatly outweighed by its emotional value - much like Pakistan.

For India, Kashmir has been an enormous drain on its resources, both financially & in lives lost. To accept that muslim Kashmiris are somehow distinct from other Indians is to revive the Two Nation Theory that tore the subcontinent apart, and flies in the face of the lived experience of the multitude of diverse peoples who coexist in relative peace in India.

The supposed secret deal that Vajpayee & Musharraf had agreed to was to finalize the Line of Control as the International Border, permanently bifircating Kashmir between the two. I doubt it would have found much support in either country, if the plans had been public.
teosinte, the ancestor of maize, still grows in Mexico and is occasionally harvested by indigenous peoples. There was some very nice work done by Beadle ("one gene, one enzyme") and Mcclintock ("jumping genes") to uncover the historical relationship and it's quite impressive to see what 10K years of selective breeding can do.
Strange coincidence this appears on the front page, as I have been having system instability with freezes, and my hunch is that it's something with the QT library. So lately I've been running only X programs instead of KDE apps, and it hasn't frozen in a while. This list will give me some additional apps to play with.
From a self-interested standpoint, I don’t think Twitter cares that much about being a historical resource and this sort of curating / censorship is really about improving Twitter’s bottom line - not some grander notion of creating a totally comprehensive historical archive of every tweet.
To be fair, though: Elon is shipping actual vehicles. I mean, I think the GM and Waymo offerings look great too, but I can't buy one. Even granting the premise that LiDAR is going to be a firm requirement, it's not clear to me that Tesla is actually behind the curve on real products. Adding a LiDAR system (or buying one from Waymo) to a Tesla seems naively simpler than finishing and shipping a whole new system from scratch.
Lennart Poettering is a dev who has contributed massive amounts of code most people in this thread use every hour of every day. Code which, for most people, does work.

It's not like free software has a shortage of talented contributors that people hate for a variety of reasons. At some point you have to actually point out the issues productively, rather than the boring character assassination, or just randomly saying "the software's broken it sucks!" like this is the Best Buy tech support line.

I mean, seriously, if you're smart enough to "kill processes and [set] up stuff manually", you're smart enough to disable/remove software you don't like all on your own like a grown adult.
A clear example is the political discussion around the US China tariff war.

Most commentators will present the reason why China cannot back down as the government not wanting to lose face, while presenting the reasons Trump does not want to back down in very different language (not wanting a loss, for example), although they’re the same thing. The former is presented as a cultural trait, while the latter as an objective outcome.

The reality is that Xi can not afford to “lose face” not because of cultural reasons, but because it would greatly undermine his strength and power.
> Or Bitcoin

That sentiment always ages well
Another way to put it is "if your idea is so unique that no one has ever had it before, there is probably something profoundly wrong with it."
> With all due respect, I think it is you the one who's been tricked into the ethereal realm of 'the religious', which you've used often in this thread to get out of the real discussion.

"real discussion" -- this is exactly the trick. you are laying claim to your domain being the "real discussion"

> The historical debate came about because of specific claims about the physical world. No one is, or was, discussing the derived value of 'the religious', that is not the point of contention most of the time.

This is why I say "trick". Yes, the challenge to the religious was from Science/empiricalism that said "Look, I can explain phenomenon this way, now you don't need religion." The latter part "now you don't need religion" is the trick -- b/c it's assuming falsely that the value that the religious were getting from their faith was explanation for phenomenon which is not primarily what most humans are getting from their belief, now and then.

> Religion is not some ambiguous collection of moral view points

I'm afraid you're not able to see what I'm talking about, even when you shift your perspective to religion. Here you're misunderstanding the claim. The claim isn't that Religion = A Set of Moral Propositions. The value from "religion" is the resonance of a dynamic, mimetic process played out usually in narratives in historic texts/scriptures.

To only be able to construe your "opponents" position as a static set of "view points" or "axioms" means you have been wholly inculcated by the domain of science etc. This is the trick, again: to try to drag the Religious person from their dynamic relationship to their faith into an on-paper axiom-, proof- oriented domain of symbol manipulation.

(By the way, if I've taken liberty in explaining your position ^ here it is only to ask you to clarify yourself.)
Armed forces in Kashmir are detaining children and molesting women amid blackout
I am thinking about what would make something revolutionary today. The only, but very important thing I can think of is that software today has no time constraints. All interfaces feel sluggish at some point.

What if we could make an OS with constraints, or an app store with a vetting process, or both complementing each other, to the effect that:

A widget pressed or touched or interacted with could always be trusted to respond in time - or fail in an understandable manner.

- No launching screens on touch interfaces suddenly being sluggish.

- No waiting for apps to download and install and can not be used during that time. (Solved by having updates installed quietly in the background.)

- No stutter or slowdowns, ever, no audio lags, ever.

the main thing should be that what you are interacting with must never feel like it's sluggish, no more than the water flowing out of a faucet starts to lag or freeze/unfreeze suddenly. The interface should feel so solid and "real", that if it stuttered you would be so shocked as if a thrown ball in real life stuttered in mid air.

Possible means

: Give GUI code very high priority. This will have to involve putting some intelligence in GUI code, or the interface will appear to be unresponsive or do strange things when underlying IO or network is being slow.

: Focus on determinism and time budgets, not raw performance throughput

: Vetting of applications

: Constrain apps to hard RAM budgets

: IO budgets for apps?

: Have apps allocate and bid for network performance and available bandwidth

I have a feeling much of this would not need a ground up rewrite. Probably Android or Linux could be used as a basis for such a system.
Ups is investing in TuSimple, a self-driving startup
I've started using it a few months ago, and it seems pretty stable.

I've got a fancier mapping for the caps lock key: when you hold it, it works like ctrl, and when you tap it it works like escape.

I've also got something similar for space: when I tap space, it works like space. When I hold space, I can tap additional characters. (So space works like a modifier, similar to ctrl or shift.) For example, space-x = delete, space-p = page up, space-j = cursor down.
World turned upside down: the inverted yield curve
Then why not withdraw it?
Interesting that we have China chills on HN, too. They are always way too obvious.
Curious what they would have accepted as proof in that case?
Aside: Sledgehammering doesn't currently work in Curry-Howard-based provers. (This may change in the future, it's an active research topic.)
Reading this essay made me think of this book that I recently read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1319.The_War_of_Art

How much of the obstacles that we face are there just to 'resist' the shining light we each could bring into the world? Or the work we were meant to do?
oclock shows a shaped window. `oclock -transparent` shows only the clocks hands and border.
Well, the commentor specifically wanted to make it about themselves regardless of what the context originally was.
Quick look at Autodesk's website lists Maya as costing $1,500 per year. Depending on what your commissions cost, that might not be trivial -- especially since you can't build up to that. You can't do 5 small commissions over the course of two months, you need that money up-front.

Plus, you're betting on your commission rate being steady. If your commission rate drops off with Blender, no big deal. If it drops off with Maya, you have to make a decision now about whether it's worth it to renew your subscription, or whether you should drop Maya and start over learning a brand new program.

If you value your time at $20 an hour, you could spend 75 additional hours learning to get good at Blender instead of Maya, and you would still break even. And then every year after that for the rest of your career you'd get to save $1500. Take that extra money and put it into buying a better desktop computer, or into upgrading your GPU, or into getting a good drawing tablet, or into buying professional textures, all of which will probably have a much bigger impact on your productivity than Maya will.
How Lazy-Loading Web Components Work with StencilJS
Now I wonder how would old coal miners feel if you told them nowadays the coal is supposed to go in the ground.
> Kashmir wasn't independent enough to be able to make state-wide preparations for a conflict with India

This is like saying Maine is not independent enough to be able to make state-wide preparations for a conflict with USA.
Are you self-employed? That can be a way to bump your income significantly in the belgian IT world. My email is in my profile if you want to talk about it. (self-employed for 5 years, 1 kid, early thirties, also in Belgium)
Further food for thought: the lower the statistical power of a study which meets a given significance threshold, the more exaggerated the effect size will be.

So our default posture to evidence like this, even assuming we find it broadly credible, should be that the real-world effect is very likely to be smaller than this, and very unlikely to be larger.
You're responding to the words "Norway or Sweden". Sweden doesn't have a ton of oil money.
It is possible that we now have bigger companies that can afford to pay their CEOs more.
Show HN: Open-source / Selfhostable standalone trashmail solution
This seems like a no-brainer and something I thought already existed.
If you lose a major war, all you have is your pride. That's probably at the core of this observation.
The downside is that with a mass of publicity around promoting it, some people (such as children) will get it mixed up with 911 and in an emergency there will be a delay in getting the proper help.

Edit: I'm not necessarily against this idea, I'm merely trying to participate in due diligence.
A few years ago a Chinese man on the BART tried asking me for directions. His english was poor. With the aid of google translate we were able to do some basic communication. Over the course of 10 minutes I learned he was trying to visit the Wikipedia headquarters. I mentioned I was surprised he could access Wikipedia in the mainland. He told me that many know how to access Wikipedia.

Let's be clear. Authoritarianism is not culture; it is an evil political ideology that the people of China are subjected to.
It’s meant to ‘punish’ consumers: it needs to be painful enough that consumers reduce their consumption, otherwise pollution will not be reduced.
How to Build an Anomaly Detection Model on Mars Through Community Collaboration
I always forget Amazon's been around that long.
This isn’t really a punch in the face though, is it? If someone discovered you used racial slurs nine years ago, I think they would be justified in choosing to no longer associate with you or ask you to recant what you had said in the past.
Ask HN: Why do some founders create a new user profile for Launch HN?
Of late, I've noticed a trend where the founders doing Launch HN posts have almost no prior news.yc presence [0][1][2][3][4]. It rather seems very strange because it can't be that the founders never had a news.yc account ever before? In fact, to apply to YC one must have created a news.yc account in the first place.

What could be some reasons to create a new account for Launch HN? Is it a recommendation now because a Launch HN in the past has gone awry because of a founder's contributions on news.yc?

I, personally, like to trace a founder's journey on news.yc to get an insight in to their thought process by going through the discussions they might have engaged in.

To clarify, I don't find this disingenuous but intriguing, as I've seen this happen frequent only from a year or so back.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20578850

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20699923

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19265377

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19347443

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20215483
Specific demands which amount to independence rather than integration.
Doesn't sound like Tim Pool is really all that left wing: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tim_Pool#Clickbait_content
Here is a podcast with the author:

https://samharris.org/podcasts/is-buddhism-true/
There's another aspect to this... the user in question lives in New Zealand. Should their foul-mouthed tweet to a US Senator during a US election have the same protections as an American's tweets?

It's not immediately apparent that he's from and lives in New Zealand unless you really dig through his content, something most readers won't do. In aggregate, this might influence American voters into thinking there's some substance to anti-Palin rhetoric.

Isn't that a form of foreign influence?
> 1A rights

> private company

...?
Of course there are key differences; however, the analogy provided by the OP doesn't really fit here.

Let's say someone ran a service which spun up Windows Virtual Machines, of any model, which were not genuine licenses, for the sake of "security research." Legal?

You can, in fact, legally spin up arbitrary Windows VMs for security research without a paid license.

If any comparison is to be made here, it should be between Apple's licensing and Microsoft's licensing:

* Microsoft will allow you to use Windows without paying for research purposes; Apple will not.

* Microsoft will allow you to run Windows on hardware purchased from a third party, or even hardware you've made yourself; Apple will not.

* Microsoft goes out of their way to facilitate research with the help of virtualization technology; Apple goes out of their way to impede it.

As a customer of both companies, Apple's approach here really rubs me the wrong way and definitely contributes to my unwillingness to completely embrace the Apple ecosystem.
Israeli AI Research Company Introduces Model to Solve Text Ambiguity
>I'm a little sad I never got to use the BeOS that the author so much likens to a batmobile (going from memory).

You may be interested in Haiku OS then...
https://www.haiku-os.org/
> A street is not a private place

There are still degrees of this across the world. In certain places, wearing face covering is banned. In others its literally forced on 50% of the population to obscure their head and/or face. Some places don't care at all.

Same goes for tinted glass on vehicles.

Not saying any of these position is ethical or not.
That is true, of course. However, the reviews offer a valuable, though noisy, signal: one star reviews uncover design issues with a product.

A lack of one star reviews (like 100% five star reviews seen in some products) point to obvious manipulation and should also serve as a red flag.

I should have said: read the reviews and use your head (d'oh!)
Saving your own face is as common in Asian culture as in western. I mean, just look at Boeing doing everything to avoid taking responsibility (you still cannot name an individual in Boeing who has taken responsibility). How is that any different than Japanese “face saving”.

Being conservative about your culture, or not wanting to buck the trend probably has a lot more to do with appetite for risk (which in turn likely has more to do with poverty, and the lack of immigrants) than it has to do with a notion of “face saving”.

Let me clarify. I’m not saying additional “face saving” isn’t a thing in Asian cultures. My point is that it’s a lazy and easy fallback in Western discourse to explain a variety of differences.
> If someone invents a way to bottle spare internet, that's the next unicorn for sure

Internet's architecture is already like this (See Alan Kay). You can create your own local networks, Problem is the centralized applications built on top of it.
Hackernews literally operates on this premise as well. Flagging is a very common feature. Crowdsourcing this is actually a very effective tactic.

Also, you'd be surprised how smart kids are if you give them the chance, have the right UI, etc.

I'm actually surprised the HN community seems to look down on crowdsourcing these efforts, kinda humorous.
The Anthropocene’s destabilizing effects on uncertainty and risk
The problem here that I see, is when one party hires a lawyer to start the lawsuit and the other party some how gets a pro bono lawyer to defend them in federal court. Defense with a pro bono lawyer dont care as much as time/costs when they are not footing the bill, thus they take every chance to delay, or increase court costs to try and force plaintiff to stop the lawsuit etc. Rule 11 exists for this reason, but its rare to get pushed. (Real issue, dont ask)
You may believe it's encrypted, but without zero-knowledge Apple sold users a placebo. EFF agrees [1].

[1] https://fixitalready.eff.org/apple
You can also use the “restart stack frame” option in Chrome DevTools to move back to the beginning of any function currently being executed. So if you skip past something on accident, you can just restart the closest stack frame to bring you back.
I hope Blender will include more GIMP features in the future