skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unrelated, but maybe someone might know the answer to this:

> To do this, we use a neat trick of parsing the /proc/[pid]/maps file for the target process to discover the base virtual address of the loaded program.

Is there any better way to do this? Everyone I know just parses /proc/pid/maps for detecting the slide but this seems so ugly…
> The relationship between advertisers and consumers is inherently adversarial

That is naive thinking. Advertising exists to reduce friction in the market. I'm a lot more likely to buy something if I know it exists. I won't go to the movies unless I've seen a trailer, for instance.

Maybe installing an adblocker doesn't super negatively impact your life but if we completely stop advertising as a practice then spending would slow and all of our lives would be worse off.
Ask HN: What would you do if you had all classical music to work/play with?
The conservatory I work for is considering releasing its deep history of classical music recordings online. The collection covers the entire canon of western classical music, often with multiple recordings of each piece. It is substantially less IP-restricted than most similar libraries, and our intent is ultimately to release as much as possible under something like CC Attribution 4.0 International.

Most of this music is already available online in other forms, but usually with substantial rights restrictions. Our goal is not just to get the music out to the world, but to engender the development of valuable new content, hopefully educational, by encouraging use and reuse of our collection. What would you do if you had access to professional-quality recordings of all of western classical music, and you could do whatever you want with it?
The simple answer is to make the entire C-suite criminally liable - collectively and individually.

Because the usual argument is that the C-suite and especially the CEO are personally responsible for the successes of a company.

So it's not unreasonable to hold them personally responsible for the failures too - especially when those failures amount to suspected criminal negligence.

This is not the same as assuming guilt. Due process should still apply.

But the risk of personal liability should absolutely be present as a deterrent.

And if some executives don't want to operate in that environment - that's absolutely fine. The system should encourage responsible actors, and allow the removal and punishment of those who prefer to act irresponsibly.
I saw this documentary about issues with the 787 back in 2014, and it was clear that something was massively wrong at Boeing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os

The engineers doing the work know what it takes to make a good airplane. Let them do their jobs.
Why are first world middle-upper class people suddenly so interested in stoicism?
Possibly this depends on the definition of "wasted". In a life sense, the question is "how could I have spent the time better?".

As it happens, I did some Windows 10 support today, for someone using Outlook for their email hosted by 1&1. But then, there's helping a neighbour out...
This a compounding pharmacy. They are creating the final product. Likely they just bought bulk minoxidil powder.
Developers don’t need to be super terminal centric. Common sense alone would dictate tons aren’t.
My town's public victory gardens also have a waiting list, but not sure how long. The popularity has definitely increased recently and they are sure peaceful to walk through.

https://www.belmont-ma.gov/conservation-commission/pages/vic...

The rules are interesting to read:
https://www.belmont-ma.gov/sites/belmontma/files/uploads/han...
I thought Java was pretty cool at the time of its announcement.

I even started working on Java applets for an educational website. The idea was to teach algebra / calculus concepts, and use a Java applet to interactively plot graphs and such.

Even at the time, I did wonder about the standard types vs. Objects split, though I wasn't to become an OO purist (temporarily) until learning more Eiffel.
That how it was originally discovered. During the clinical trials for minoxidil, the patients started to grow lots of new hair.
Relevant section:

In addition to regular credit cards, you can also use a one-time use credit card (also known as virtual credit card). It's commonly used as an alternative to physical credit cards when making online payments. Google Ads accepts these credit cards as long as they have a Visa or MasterCard logo. If you don't have a physical credit card, contact your bank to see if they offer them.

Steps to use a one-time use credit card:

Sign in to your Google Ads account at https://ads.google.com.
Click the tool icon and choose Billing & payments. Go there now
Click the Make a payment button.
Click the "Pay with" drop-down and choose Add new payment method, then enter your one-time use credit card information.
Enter the amount you'd like to make a payment for, then click the Make a payment button to review and finish your payment. Be sure to include $1 more than your payment amount for card verification.
Yup. It's either Prilosec (brand) or generic Omeprazole here in the US. More expensive than, say Rantadine, but perhaps better for chronic acid reflux. Relatively cheap OTC.
Well, except for the major airlines, Boeing, and the FAA were saying pretty much that after the first crash, with absolutely no technical basis for saying it.

Those parties continued to assure the public that the aircraft were completely safe until the entire rest of the planet ground the aircraft and the US President ordered the FAA to ground the aircraft.
Going to assume you're in English-speaking North America, as I am:

Politics can no longer be kept out of any field whatsoever, because this is "a politically-charged era," in the argot of the day, but it might be more accurate to describe it as business-as-usual for a large Europe-derived civilization. Remember the Hundred Years War?

The post-war period of stability and consensus is an anomaly and has ended. Buckle up.
I think the standard Linux Gnome or KDE UI is probably better for kids to learn than Sugar, primarily because the learning curve to transition to any other computing interface is pretty high because Sugar's UX is really poor.
> The laboratory was eventually shut down and the medicine taken off the market. Officials have opened an investigation.

Why would they need to take it off the market if it was just a mislabeling issue? Unless they mean that particular lab's medication was taken off the market.
The point of the linked video, at least the relevant part about the street scammers that hand you something and then ask for money, is that we actually banned that kind of behavior in public spaces because it was exploitative.

People have evolved to trust in reciprocity, because it's to our mutual benefit as a society that reciprocity remains a thing, and behaviors which are pathologically exploitative of this evolved trust in reciprocity are fully in the wrong. We decided it and made laws about it, something like 30 years ago. I learned this watching the keynote myself, and was surprised (as it actually hasn't stopped, in spite of legal protections which you might assume put a permanent end to the practice, to the contrary there are still monks handing out little plastic bracelets outside of the Smithsonian in DC, and no shortage of people who are not wise to it, with the $20 to spare.)

If the next generation of developers can't anymore trust in reciprocity and they have to decide on non-free licenses as a result of these companies which plainly don't understand reciprocity, we will all have lost something profoundly important. (And if we assume these companies and their behavior is purely exploitative now, what makes you think a legal machination like non-permissive licensing is going to have more success at getting them to stop doing that? You might have more avenues for recourse, but at what cost...)

It's not about fairness or punishment, it's about protection of our shared mutual benefit via social cues, and we can exile or something like exclude them from polite society if they are not well-behaved. From the receiving end it might look like a punishment, but I prefer to think of it more like as "corrective prodding" or "defensive posturing," and if it works the bad behavior will change, or if it doesn't, then hopefully at least the blast radius can be well-contained.

There are corporations which have learned to behave more thoughtfully and in harmony with OSS, who made a point to be aware of their community footprint, and sure plenty of such individuals too. Those who are not well-behaved can either hopefully see the light, or maybe there's no hope remaining, they will totally take over, and complete the tragedy of the commons. I submit humbly that we should not degrade the commons though as a response to their influence, because even with the bad actors around and their bad behavior, the facts show that our innate understanding of reciprocity is mostly still a beneficial trait, worthy of keeping around.
> In this scenario it seems pretty obvious that their automated fraud AI messed up

Ah, but is it really obvious? One of the benefits of virtual card numbers, in particular the Apple Card implementation, is that it's easy to switch them out, which makes tracking harder.

Could it be that a company that makes its living off tracking users would not be overly fond of virtual card numbers? As long as users' reaction is "if you're planning on using the Apple Card for anything important, think again", it looks like the AI did exactly what it was meant to do.
Think about the time you saved by recognizing them as sunk costs and ending them as soon as you did, though!
I want to dry this drug.

Wonder if topical use is better or oral.
This was part of the One Laptop Per Child program, and the '3 million users' stat comes from the fact that this was preloaded on every one of the 3 million+ laptops distributed.

http://blog.laptop.org/2015/09/03/olpc-announces-partnership...
In your example, the user was easily able to contact a real human being who informed them that their account had been terminated for using a fraudulent gift card.

That human being even went to bat for the user and tried to convince corporate that buying the fraudulent gift card had been an honest mistake in trusting the wrong seller and not intentional fraud.

This seems like quite a different experience from "you are banned for life and we won't even talk to you or tell you why".
The thing is that it doesn't break down except in the extreme cases, and even then it's often less bad than the edge cases with traditional human-mediated customer service. Consider the Wells Fargo accounts snafu, or the Comcast customer nickname issue. Or PayPal just in general. Is Google actually worse, or are they the kind of better that makes their rarer screwups seem worse. Consider in your evaluation just how many people they deal with using their automated systems.
That sounds like a very low bar you set for yourself.
Warning Conspiracy Theory Ahead:

I’m not yet ready to crucify Apple for not issuing a press release listing sites and services affected. Same with the Google “deep dive” with it’s vague insinuations.

I suspect this is a big international incident like - “China bought hacks from Mossad to target Hong Kong” kind of big. For all we know there are gag orders in place and an ongoing investigation.

I will still use iOS devices too. They are still the most secure consumer available/friendly computing devices available imo. That said, I want to know more.
Google Ventures, Allegations Against David Drummond
Thanks for the comment. Thoughts not dissimilar from yours are what drove us to undertake these studies. :)

I definitely suspect that predictive processing in the brain is part of the story, and we discuss that a bit in the paper. Interestingly, local entropy is highly correlated with our "spikiness" measure, the spectral centroid. However, where your comment focuses on macro-level regularity, like Bach versus Rush, our study focused on micro-level texture, like the hum of a box fan versus squealing brake pads. Although macro-level regularity definitely has an impact on emotion perception as well! This is something my other research has touched on, e.g.: https://www.pnas.org/content/110/1/70

We also found that "spikiness" predicted emotional arousal for both positive and negative emotions. E.g., "angry" and "excited" are both spiky across the senses, while "sad" and "peaceful" are both smooth. So the results can't be driven solely by uncertainty becoming associated with negative emotion.

Thanks for your thoughts! And here's a link to a preprint of the paper: https://psyarxiv.com/wucs4
> In other words, Stoic philosophy doesn’t declare that a person should suppress emotions like grief, joy, pity or even shame, but rather that they should examine their origins. “You try to understand where they come from,” says Nancy Sherman, author of Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind and philosophy professor at Georgetown University.

The article expends a lot effort repeating this claim, without once citing a source clearly promoting stoicism (with a lower-case "s") as emotional suppression.

What looks like it might fit the bill doesn't:

> Case in point: Canadian writer Jordan Peterson — a man who believes that the patriarchy is Western civilization and claims “the masculine spirit is under assault” and therefore advocates for a return to 1950s gender roles — is often cited as one such truth-telling sage whose writings have been touted as a return to the Stoics.

Despite the reference to Peterson's work (the only specific citation of an alleged "stoic" I could find in the article), there's not one shred of evidence given to support the claim that Peterson specifically advocates suppression of emotion.

I didn't bother to follow the links - maybe it's explained there. But that's not the point. If you're going to say somebody is promoting a harmful approach to life, your duty as a writer is to prove that to the reader. This article doesn't do it.

Later on:

> Massimo Pigliucci, a professor of philosophy at City College of New York, refutes Vacula’s essay in a different article on the same site, arguing that Vacula’s assessment of Peterson’s writings, which contend that “white privilege is a myth,” is inherently not Stoic. ...

This really deserves an explanation but the essay does little to show the disconnect.
TIL: xrdb translations.

25 years of X usage, and that one has somehow managed to evade me. Such an awesome (and now that I learned about it - obvious) thing.
Citi
What was the original purpose they were testing it for?
The default behavior is to fall back to fetching from source control directly if the proxy fails.

https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.13
Which ISPs? I’ve always gotten in touch with an actual person. Even if it takes time. Complete contrast to FB or Google.
"To date, OLPC has distributed more than 3 million laptops to children around the world."

Not quite 3 million active users, but 3 million machines that came pre-loaded with this

http://blog.laptop.org/2015/09/03/olpc-announces-partnership...
In the US there is a legal doctrine called fair use, which limits the extent of copyright. There are a number of factors but one of the most relevant here is the purpose and character of the use. If you're using the work to create an analysis of it, that's often covered under fair use as it is not a simple reproduction of the original. (not legal advice).
I agree that a lot of mainstream tooling and frameworks are too complicated.

But there are simple tools out there for building your typical business applications. Stateful apps with NodeRun.com (https://noderun.com/docs/concepts/stateful-apps) make development similar to what VB used to be like back in the day (but for JavaScript). There is a Visual drag-and-drop designer for the UI and inherent database integration. I find that building normal database-driven apps is 10x easier compared to rolling your own HTML, CSS, React, Angular, Express, etc.
It could use a large window and get input from that entire area, right? Not quite the same thing, of course.
Depends on the molecule sizes if it can be absorbed topically.
People mistakenly extrapolate technological progress to progress everywhere else. Thus, they reason, surely the best source for Stoicism (or any other ancient practice: Christianity; Zen; Platonism; etc etc) is something written in the 21st century. After all, something written in the 21st century must be better because it's had so much more time to advance and be improved on!

But actually a lot of the time, the original sources are the absolute best. In some sense, you can use survivorship bias to your advantage. A book written in the 21st century might be so good that it will be remembered thousands of years from now (the odds are small although nonzero). A book written thousands of years ago, and remembered today, has, by definition, already passed that test.
>Defenders of the second amendment often say it's an opposition to tyranny, but I fail to see how a hand-gun will help to protect you against an Abrams wielded by a tyrannous government - or should tanks, jets and battleships be objects that private citizens should be able to purchase and own for self-defense?

You could say the same thing for the 1st amendment for individuals vs large media companies. Individuals will always be weaker than well organized, better funded groups. It's impossible to know what would happen in the event of a modern civil war, but it's conceivable that the military would fracture.

As far as reading the 2nd amendment, I have been arguing lately that the "well regulated militia" should mean that gun owners should be required to attend militia training at least once a year, and if you don't, your weapons must be stored in an armory instead of at home. Something more akin to the Swiss system. Having to attend some classes would greatly reduce the number of people that would bother keeping guns at home I think, and would allow others to identify people with mental health issues. I would argue that right now we don't have a "well regulated militia" in any sense.
Hypertension, it's in the article.

It seems it's a vasodilator
Okay maybe the liquid form is why they need the compounding pharmacy. Maybe its not readily available as a liquid.
"On-GPU firmware is not that interesting or concerning, you can consider it part of the hardware. "

It depends on how it can communicate with the external world. If it only eats numbers and draws pixels, then no problems, but if its driver nature (ie, running at higher privileges than anything including root/administrator) allows it to create a covert channel with other hardware (say a network chip) and send vital information to the outside world, then it becomes a huge potential vulnerability.
In open source systems, CPU/GPU/system chipsets firmware and closed device drivers are the places where malware can hide unnoticed for ages, and incidentally the one where it can do the most damage due to the aforementioned privileges, therefore those should be the first parts of a system in which we should demand for total openness.

A simple program with no access to files (therefore considered safe) reading the CPU load and populating a remote graph with numbers can become an effective spying tool if paired with another seemingly innocuous program which has no network access (considered safe as well) but reads files and busy loads one CPU core with values resulting from some encoding of the data it reads. They're 100% safe by themselves, but once paired (say because they're written by the same entity, or different entities obeying to the same government/s) they can exfiltrate information pretty easily. Back on the firmware topic, we can't know if there any seemingly unrelated device drivers talking each other unbeknownst of the system administrator, but should they do, that would be the most dangerous backdooring toolkit ever conceived. Until they stay closed, there's no way to know if they do other things.
That might be true mathematically but talking to forecasters who work on this, they greatly de-emphasize the center line. Instead, they do emphasize that the forecast is the cone, not the center line alone. They direct your attention away from the center line (readers tend to stick too much to it), and say something similar to what is in the article: areas outside will be likely affected, everyone should take precautions and prepare regardless of where we are — and we should read other graphics and messages that can tell us, for instance, whether there may be storm surge, flooding, or whether we need to evacuate or not; the cone tells us nothing about any of that.
“Rather than seeing the feminist activity within fandom as something that has grown from within fandom and is pulling it apart[...]” she wrote, “I conceive of the growing awareness as a part of fandom that has at last opened up […] that is not pulling fandom apart, but in fact is drawing people into fandom, revitalizing fandom! Certainly that relates to the reasons I became involved in fandom. (Working on Janus gave me a chance to explore and articulate connections between feminism and the literature I had grown up with. Science fiction gave me a forum to imagine and dream in ways that are very important to anyone who is interested in creating a new world…)”

Super interesting that the discussions of diversity and talking about diversity in scifi was discussed on its merits to the fandom even from the 1970s. It's often depicted that this "diversity discussions is ruining scifi" is a recent concern against some sudden assault of social justice onto the genre, when it might just be that it's been ongoing for generations of scifi fans.
For me it was mostly video games. I have vivid memories of teachers' being astounded by how much I already knew as far as elementary. Though it was funny that I knew what "sword" is but other more common words eluded me.
Define “adblock” please. I hope you mean something good like uBlock Origin and not bigger share extensions that take fees from Google and others to whitelist ads.
Protecting elections from social media manipulation
Looks like they took that part out after the FDA told them to. You you still download your genome and look that part up yourself from them, though. Possibly by using something like Prometease.
Fair point, but it's inaccurate to say we can't make money off software we give away for free.
It was originally used as a vasodilator to treat hypertension:

>
When Upjohn received permission from the FDA to test the new drug as medicine for hypertension they approached Charles A. Chidsey MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He conducted two studies, the second study showing unexpected hair growth. Puzzled by this side-effect, Chidsey consulted Guinter Kahn and discussed the possibility of using minoxidil for treating hair loss.

> In August 1988, the FDA finally approved the drug for treating baldness in men under the trade name "Rogaine" (FDA rejected Upjohn's first choice, Regain, as misleading). The agency concluded that although "the product will not work for everyone", 39% of the men studied had "moderate to dense hair growth on the crown of the head".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoxidil#Hair_growth
Coinbase does the same thing. Perma-banned for reasons. Won't ever know why.
By scrape I meant that there are some sites allowing to download apks from Google play
They usually cache the apks for a couple of days so that would have been a way to download it.

And after that, I would have looked at the app manifest (it contains all the permissions that the app might want to use, so there might be some interesting stuff there) and maybe use it.

I don't plan to look at the bytecode for shady behavior .. that's not my forte and I am not interested enough to spend one week looking at bytecode.

edit : I have just opened the article again to get the app package name .. looks like it got reinstated.
But no comment of the author as of why it was removed.