skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that if you spread the privileges between many people, especially in a voluntarily project, it usually ends up with no-one doing any work. I have experienced it over and over again. Meanwhile if there is only one person in charge he/she will often end up doing a tremendous amount of work. It's like, if the the whole organization depends on you, you feel more responsibility.
Putin Signs 'Russian Internet Law' to Disconnect Russia from the World Wide Web
This is a great write up, but it seems to be missing a key ingredient to deciding to use a dependency. That is, are you willing to become a contributer on the project, and/or are the maintainers open to your participation. Example: You may really want to use a dependency, but test coverage is lacking. Are you willing to contribute the test coverage?

The open source model is about building an alliance with others so that you do not have to create the whole tech stack yourself. It's the only way to compete with a monopoly and win.
Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters - By Scott Aaronson
This is actually quite a nice idea: packages can travel underground while humans get more of the surface. If it works out that way.
Why can’t you do a captcha?
Re point 4:

Capitalism is descriptive, not prescriptive. It is what it is. Redefining it is like redefining water - you can do it all you like but you'll still end up wet.
To be fair, the original article does have "please" in the title.
> Views contradict from each other

That's a good thing. The views on governance policy can differ. I have no problem with those things.

I am talking about objective truths like Earth being flat, incorrect dates, misinformation in speech etc

There are grey areas here too, example being religion, and I concede that area becomes needlessly murky. Having said that, it needs to be discussed
>really difficult for even sophisticated users to detect when done well

Hard to believe. Can you substantiate that claim? Also you don't need to detect it, you only need to not fall for it.
Limiting the conversation to what is seen on a webcam doesn’t come close to covering the scope of what could happen.

Let’s say your screen is captured as well. And sometimes that screen will contain personal and private information of friends and family who might care.

It is not your call to decide for them whether their information should be put at risk or not by an organization that has proved itself capable of leaking like a sieve.

You could argue that your devices contain no names of friends or pictures or contact info or messages of any sort with anyone. OK, but that would be pretty unusual.

Saying you don’t care is like driving drunk on an empty road with passengers in the car. You may not care about whether you die, but you have passengers. Your caring about yourself or not isn’t the issue.
That's facile whataboutism. None of that is relevant to his actions to extort and bribe, by offering a quid pro quo with a foreign government to wage a disinformation and propaganda campaign n the United States of his behalf. And then go on national TV and ask China to do the same thing: export Chinese propaganda to make my political enemies look bad and I'll make you a better trade deal. It's an explicit request by the POTUS for a foreign government to engage in psychological warfare against the American public.

My whataboutism? In NYC he had been considered hot garbage for decades after multiple bankruptcies leaving small businesses holding the bag for his incompetency. This is why he turned to the shadiest people in the world to make money. There's a reason he fights so hard to keep his taxes secret. NYC folks voted against him 10:1. There, he's been considered a D-minus tabloid trash celebrity for a very long time, him as president was a long running hilarious joke to New Yorkers, until it happenened. Hardly everyone loved him. Most people didn't, per the polling and the total vote count.
U2F Support in OpenSSH Head
Its difficult to track the source but American culture wave had a direct impact and can be fairly measured.

To take a direct example, Sweden we used to censor violence, even animated violence, while nudity was perfectly acceptable. There were even a sex-education program on national TV broadcast during primer hours. Then the broadcast monopoly was eroded and a very noticeable Americanization occurred culturally. Censoring violence became unpopular and censoring nudity became more common.

Old Swedish movies often included full frontal nudity, either as just a representation of normal life activity like swimming in the ocean, bathing in a sauna, or as a bit of a joke between characters. There were even discussing of banning a few of those movies because they included nude children. A common reaction to old Swedish movies is that "we had a different cultural view about nudity", but what is also noticeable is the lack of any American culture in the same movies.
I think basically, we know what states are, and often use "nation" as a synonym for state. But some people try to use "nation" to mean something else, such as Wikipedia would have it: "A nation is a stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, history, ethnicity, or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture."

Although, personally, I'd find language to be the only thing there that I'd care about
With transfer learning, you can download some of the worlds most advanced pre-trained NLP models and adapt them to a specific data set.

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/03/pretrained-mode...
> Such logging isn't technically necessary to serve web pages, and ideally shouldn't be done without consent.

It's needed as soon as you want to do: non-trivial spam protection, context connection for errors/exceptions, dos mitigation, correlation of issues across browsers, and a few other things.

For most of those you could theoretically hash the IP because you're interested in matches not actual values (although matching either the AS or at least /24 makes things easier). But until we migrate to IPv6 hashing doesn't make sense (and once we move, keeping individual addresses doesn't make sense).

Basically the bigger the site, the more important that information is for operations.
Softbank Fire Sale
No word on where the search results come from?

Can't find anything about it on the about page.

Doing a few test searches, the results seem similar to those of Bing.
How did you get financially rewarded by participating in OSS? eg. did it help you find a job? Did you get donations. Or how did you do it?
I think the best route is 1) Get a paid job 2) Do OOS on the job. Meanwhile a lot of people do the mistake of 1) Do OSS for free 2) Ask for financial support
They used the word negative.
Presumably "We the people who don't believe in the toxins-fad but do believe in science"
And iff the definition of good will never change.
> that Intel chip that gets a bad rap

I wonder why.

<<<According to the New York Times, "the i432 ran 5 to 10 times more slowly than its competitor, the Motorola 68000" >>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432#The_project%27s...

From memory a quote from a user of it, something like: "on a good day it walked, on a bad day it crawled"

IIRC every main memory access needed 3 pointer derefs and 3 array lookups (from memory).
I'm using vapor on a production app and really enjoying the experience. I do see there is a lot of work to do in the community though. Where would one start out to help with the efforts?
TinyURL'd the link: https://tinyurl.com/ycp2cv5s
Can someone tl;dr for me?
Google takes Site Isolation a notch higher in Chrome 77 against attacks
>Also, Swift has great interop with the C FFI, so you have access to every C library, and every Rust library with a C API to boot.
I can think of maybe 3 Rust libraries that I'd want to interface with through their C api.
> As a result of news, we walk around with the completely wrong risk map in our heads.

> * Terrorism is overrated. Chronic stress is underrated

> * Airplane crashes are overrated. Resistance to antibiotics is underrated

News consumption creates channel for political actors to work through emotions.

If big passenger aircraft goes missing, news channels start 24/7 catastrophe porn marathon. It competes with TV-series. It's macabre but it's mostly harmless. If people consume the suffering of others for dramatic entertainment to fill their empty life it does not harm other people.

Except when it's terrorism. Terrorism as tactics has symbiotic relationship with the news. Terrorism works trough media and is amplifies it. Terrorist attacks are political messaging and influencing. Not so different from those Facebook ads. Making terrorism into 24/7 dramatic entertainment makes it more effective.

Jihadists and far-right gets free exposure and relevance from creating 'media events'. Just stabbing few people with a knife, or attacking mosque buys airtime that is worth of millions. Just reporting the facts, giving basic information and dry analysis without entertaining dramatization would reduce the effectiveness of terrorism, and reduce terrorism as a result. People would be calmer.
There's an in-game option to disable scrolling the screen with the mouse and doing it with only the keyboard.
> What kind of person thinks its impressive that you've swiped your credit card a few more times then they did, for the same game?

The same kind of person who thinks it’s impressive that you swiped you credit card a few more times than they did for the same society? Rolexes, branded suits, designer dresses, branded smells, it’s all the same. Products that are effectively the same as cheaper alternatives except the are more expensive and carry along with them the awe of someone taking on that higher expense. That is to say, everyone, including you. You just aren’t conscious about it in the contexts where it happens.

Also, “Timmy can’t join our clan, he’s a cheap-ass who can’t even afford the flaming bucket helmet we all wear.” Is a powerful sales pitch.
humans can be held accountable for their decisions though
Sure, but all this tracking isn't a product of JS tripwires pwning computers: it's a natural result of downloading an article from a server.
If rather just have enum variants as dedicated types.
4. A reward in the afterlife.
It’s one think to make and release open source software. It’s entirely another to maintain a free service.
This makes no sense. Both the paragraphs and the sentences contradict each other while repeating cliches from past discussions on this topic. It reads like a markov bot account. You might want to explain what you mean better.
The Morning Papers had its take on this paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/28/interpretable-models/
I could ask, back when Yugoslavia existed, was it a nation? If not, how many nations did it contain? Perhaps there's no single answer, since it depends on which arbitrary method you are going to use to divide people into nations.
Starting a job in a "Windows dependant" software house, I was forced to have both WLS and Linux VM. They gave me a brand new HP computer they prepared with company software, security software, etc. I was "Windows free" since 2009, ten year without Windows. The first problem was BSOD, that computer start randomly to crash, even after the software / system / driver upgrades the administrator installed on the machine and it still does, randomly. The same happen to my collegues. For the first time I noticed that now BSODs have a nice QR-Code. My impression about WLS is that's nice but still a toy with lot of limitation: first of all you can't full iteract using WSL tools with what is running in Windows space. It's useful to have access to Linux tools like grep, interpreters, etc to use against object resident on Windows file system. Sometimes Linux programs silently doesn't work well I noticed this using some Linux tool and Python libs, for example. This is the reason of the Linux VM running on my PC. IMHO WLS is far to be a replacement of a native Linux pc / VM, I still prefer to work on a Linux or OSX pc, even if Apple and Systemd are spending big effort to make me hate both, with the result I'm evaluating BSD.
This is the point I was making about misuse of data. Thinking usage analytics on a website is a tripwire is quite extreme. Thinking that building a complete profile of someone based on their activity on lots of websites is a tripwire is quite reasonable. Hence the difficulty in defining what 'spying' really is.
"A spokesperson for the Home Office said: “The government is committed to tackling the harms linked to prostitution. This report provides a picture of one of the most complex and rapidly changing issues in the country. It shows that traditional perceptions of prostitution are out-dated and cannot be used to understand the issue.”"

But of course it doesn't say that the government will do something about it, nor does it provide concrete measures which will be undertaken to improve the situation.
Steve Blank: The Secret History of Silicon Valley [video]
New research shows that foot­ballers are more likely to suffer from dementia
AI Principles: Recommendations on Ethical Use of AI by the DoD [pdf]
What about both of those? Sounds like a win-win scenario
How do you know what he is thinking?
Why would anyone be willing to do captchas? It is just a waste of time for regular users.
I also had a similar experience when I searched for many different queries in such a short time, I got hit by captchas for a while.
Is his software available anywhere?
Only because we all agree that a human is a ‘person’ ie. a thing that can take blame.
No, you fucking moron.

What you need to understand is fewer people are getting laid, families are disintegrating, instincts of procreation are stifled and effaced, and it results in rootless, suicidal (or worse) individuals (of all stripes and genders) who are very unhappy.

This is nothing to sniff at.

Is overpopulation also a problem? Yes.

I present to you a surprising reality, you might not have considered: You can have more than one deadly problem at the same time.
PSI is a perfect fit for htop. I sent a PR to add it some time ago (https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/pull/890) but it hasn't been merged yet.
This cool hack deserves the name AirDrop much more than the AirDrop feature created by Apple. No bluetooth or other radio transmitted standard used, and no infrared used either. Hey, I see lots of supercool social datings apps using this hack.
Hong Kong Protest: Students Develop Video Game to Show Inside of Protests
Backing Services section is over promising. Changing databases isn't a simple configuration change. Every database doesn't speak the same SQL. It doesn't have the same optimizations nor configuration. Also, your organization probably won't be making that change-- ever. Even if you could swap, you very likely won't.

This is similar to the claim that by using an ORM, you can easily change databases except that the ORM actually can achieve it because it abstracts away the differences. Yet, very rarely does this valuable feature get used.
> 2. we have seeked in a file that was already closed.

> The second error, however, is much harder to catch. Most programming languages support the necessary features to make this error hard, typically by closing the file upon destruction or at the end of a higher-order function call, but the only non-academic language that I know of that can actually entirely prevent that error is Rust.

Why not simply add an `is_closed` flag and throw an error if it is?
A combination. For any preordered domains, I poll the domain until it drops and automatically register it using the API. Each day I'll review upcoming drops for the next day for anything I want to chase myself, and also review the drops from the previous day for any that weren't worth chasing but are worth manual registration.
It’s good that authors are free to write about things that might reflect negatively on the underlying technology or business practices of the platform they are being published on.
strace -fe file,network
I believe that extension would be https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-tone/nnckeh... (last updated 3 years ago). Not sure if that was ever something official or just an experiment.

There's also (the non-Google) chirp.io that started around the same time.
> Joe Biden or the Ukrainian AG have ever been in possession of 1 Billion

>Nobody claims that they were

Your quote from the article.

>"Right now, on your website, is an ad claiming that Joe Biden gave the Ukrainian attorney general a billion dollars not to investigate his son."

So, am I to understand that Joe Biden gave the Ukrainian attorney general a billion dollars despite Joe Biden not having a billion dollars and the Ukrainian attorney general never having had a billion dollars.

> he had the gall to brag about it on stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA--dj2-CY.

You post an editted clip out of context, about the level of honesty of Nancy Pelosi's speech being slowed down to make her sound drunk. In return I'll give you a link to a trusted fact checking site showing the full clip and a debunking of your claim.
>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/c-span-video-joe-biden-ukr...

That's because your claim is a lie.

> It's also a fact that his son had no experience in oil, gas or Ukraine, and only sat on that board because of his last name (something he _himself_ admitted in an interview which you can also easily find)

What does this have to do with the specific lie we're talking about? Let's be clear about this: If you think there's a scandal about Hunter Biden being appointed to a company you were welcome to make that argument before you came out with a conspiracy theory about Joe Biden, but now you've started on crazy lies about Joe Biden's time as VP you've lost the credibility to talk about this.

>I didn't read the rest of your message.

And for everyone reading this, this is the level of intellectual honesty we've come to expect from people pushing this conspiracy theory. We get it, Hunter Biden is the new "But her emails!", but unfortunately, we all lived through "but her emails!" so we're not going to take this bullshit seriously anymore.
Can you support your statements with evidence? The data I provided is from 2018 and you are making assumptions based on a bunch of people in a country (2MM vs 50MM).

What is happening here is that some independentists patrons are paying for PR around the world and you, guys, are only getting one part of the story.

You don't know nothing about they teaching fake history to kids, stating Colon is Catalonian, stating that the American flag is based on Catalonian flag... These guys are ridiculous and they have been brainwashing their population for decades.

We even have Junqueras (one of the leaders of the movement) telling that genetically, the Catalonian people are better than Spanish people so they need to separate.

Today, you have a lot of young people defending what they have been taught without knowing they are defending a bunch of lies.
That's certainly important for some users for some dependencies. But most users cannot and should not contribute to most of their dependencies.

The overhead of reviewing all those contributions would be enormous, and the effort required to make a quality contribution that doesn't waste other people's time would be impossible to justify in most cases.
Silicon Valley enables online slave markets
Extensible Web Dev Tools for Monorepos
I've been looking for similar. I've coded up a few pieces in go and have trying to fit all the pieces into a coherent model before starting any serious coding.

My plan was to use gRPC + go for communications, a DHT to find peers, and github's klauspost/reedsolomon for adding redundancy.

I wanted to support a simple client in go, tracking all filesystem state locally in something like sqlite and of course encrypting before upload. The local state of course would be backed up as well.

Encrypted blobs would be offered for upload to a peer 2 peer server (or in small setups it could be the same machine) and accepted if they were unique. If not unique, the client would be subscribed to that blob.

The server would then chunk up 1GB or so of blobs, run the reedsolomon to add the desired level of redundancy and start trading those chunks with peers. No peer would know if you trusted them, you might well set your server to only "trust" peers until they have a 95% uptime and 95% reliability when challenged over a month. Reputation would be tracked for the peers you trade with, but only directly. Much like torrent's tit for tat strategy.

The p2p server would accept uploads from any trusted clients and work to ensure the configured replication across any peers it could find.

The peer challenges would be something like ask for the sha256 of a range of bytes of a blob the peer stored for you. Maybe 100 random challenges every few hours.

The general goal is something that would "just work", create keys, get nagged to print the keys out, and have sane defaults for everything.
To me, this is focusing on minimizing the occurrence of failure scenarios rather than solutions for them. You should not only be asking yourself what you're ok with happening in failure scenarios, but also what happens when rare scenarios suddenly become not so rare. And you should be actively testing these decisions by failing often, to improve your confidence that when unplanned failure occurs your system will be resilient.

That's not to say that you can't minimize rather than solve, as its (IMO) easier and faster to introduce minimizing mitigations rather than wholesale solutions to failure and, well, time is dimes. But the reality is that these are just short-term mitigations that you'll outgrow as you scale.
For everyone interested in fiction which explores these things, I'd also like to plug the excellent anime Kaiba. [0]

It's set in the far future where editing your memories, copying them to other bodies, editing those bodies, is as common as smartphones today.

People get bad memories removed, download fake good memories (like Total Recall), transfer their consciousness into "designer bodies", and of course there's even a fetish for having sex with yourself (your clone, who knows best how to please you.)

[0] https://myanimelist.net/anime/3701/Kaiba (possible spoilers; avoid reading any more if you want the max enjoyment.)
This "nothing to hide" discussions always remind me of this great essay "We should all have something to hide":
https://moxie.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide/
Perhaps for you and me language is the only major attribute, but for many people there's also religion, and sometimes religion is even more important than language.
Did you check CO2 levels in the bedroom, or at least take care that CO2 should theoretically exit the room? Just unlocking the window handle a little bit can create a bit of air circulation.
> we appear to live in a good world that offers us a beautiful future.

That sounds quite entitled. Sure, if you are a well-off individual in one of western democracies, or one of very few riding the success wave elsewhere. For the rest, the world is changing for sure, some things get better, many things (environment, true freedom) are getting worse.

The sentiment you describe was common for hippies too, world-reshaping change just around the corner. But then reality happened. Don't hold your breath
The fact that ionizing radiation causes cancer because it resonates with DNA bonds does not mean that other kinds of radiation could not cause other types of cancer.

Other kind of radiation will resonate with bigger molecules and could do things like denaturalize them.

Have you ever fried an egg. You are denaturalizing a protein that is liquid and becomes solid, and you have done that just with heat alone.

You can actually denaturalize an egg in the microwave oven, and there are certainly lots of health problems when the microwave oven leaks microwaves.

When you denaturalize something in the body, it stops working as it should. This creates a cascade of things that stops working as they should.