skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drug overdoses and suicides are probably two sides of the same coin. The feeling of "despair" and "hopelessness" that young people often speak of are surely exacerbating things and causing some of these deaths.

And while I can empathize, having been the demographic in question until last year, and having experienced exactly those feelings; I think despair and hopelessness is not so much "real" as it is "manufactured".

The media of 2019 is partly to blame. I'm not talking about a specific publication, but the state of "journalism" in general. It's doom and gloom, 24x7 piped to our eyeballs from dozens of sources. Sensationalism and outrage are the goals, and they've gotten very very good at it.

Smartphones and social media are another part of the issue. Zombie scrolling through instagram looking at fake lives and photoshopped images, all the while yearning for the things those people have. Or getting worked up over some post on Facebook or some hot take on Twitter.

I quit reading media, and eliminated all social media from my life, and I've never been happier. I don't feel that sense of dread and despair I used to. I have more time to create, more time to exercise, and I sleep better at night.

Things are actually amazing in 2019 if you think about it. There are endless possibilities for people who want to get out and actually do something.
The Confederacy wasn't a distinct nation state but a faction in Civil War. Noone argues that Whites and Reds in Russia were independent nations, or would you?

Take Finland: it gained independence in much the same circumstances as Baltic states. The only difference was that USSR was not able to fully occupy it in 1940. That's it, there is no other reason an average Russian would scoff at Balts and respect Finland than getting a bloody nose there once.
Damnit, I had 5 years of box-ticking work I could have done, but now I can't because of this guy!
I disagree. I started on Ubuntu 19.10 with GNOME but switched to sway because gnome-shell was always taking 3+% of CPU. It's hard to understand why something that should be doing nothing is one of the largest power draws on my laptop.
That's a dirty tactic no matter how you sugar it.
You don't get to redefine the word "civilian" to suit your politics. Merely working for a defense ministry doesn't make someone a member of the armed forces.
Changemaker: A mockumentary send-up of indie documentary filmmakers
Ironically (given our current Zeitgeist) by the time we start to feel the effects of the these demographic trends, we'll need more automation to keep up productivity (and therefore long-term GDP growth)... especially when one considers the entitlement spending that will be needed to care for the elderly).

I'd imagine that by then, there will be more individuals advocating for increased automation and (hopefully) society will become increasingly 'techno-optimist' as a result
Law is a subset of violent power.
To those saying this is drama out of nothing, please just note this isn't the first time Intel is doing it, and in recent months they have dialled all these marketing moves right up, and Linus isn't the only reviewer complaining.

The saddest part is that I still dont see AMD gaining ground much. While they seems to be doing well in consumer desktop market, but the Desktop market today are tiny. And they get some love on their Mobile SoC from Vendors only because Intel could not supply or guarantee them with shipments.

On the more profitable Server side, even the best estimate suggest AMD could get up to ( only ) 10% of the Server Market Shipment by end of 2020.

I guess a lot of people are only using AMD as their bargaining chip.
So what, if youre paying me 600k a year to write code, I'll accept some abuse. Its why they pay so much
Injecting into the existing implementation is one way of achieving some of the stuff I want to for sure but it feels like that would be more fragile (though less work) and also it would limit what I would be able to do quite a bit.

That being said, DFX does look interesting and it looks like it is doing some of the kinds of things that I had in mind for my own imagined DE so I will have a close look at it for sure.
These are not my rules. The parent poster said that the government CANNOT ban encryption. It can. No message can be totally hiden from a motivated enough opponent.

The random noise IS the point. you cannot hide its very existence, and a government agent might not want to believe you if you said that it's just random data.
None. If someone has an opinion different than yours this is your reaction?
Eggex(Oil shell): New syntax for regexes meant to be transpiled
Upvoting for the boost to my Midwestern ego :)
The human fat being uncommented upon brings to mind deceased organ transplants as an attitude counterpart - it is for healing and the dead are beyond help.
Of course ironically they had issues with dissection sourcing for theological reasons so it was likely more "draining the fat or embalming doesn't count as defiling".

The real crucial difference ethically is that organ transplants are actually effective as opposed to consuming human fat. Using human body parts for something frivolous like fashion would draw far more objections.
Ask HN: How to prevent abusive flagging of posts on HN?
This morning there was a #1 ranked story about Tim Berners Lee on HN that had gathered over 110 points and maybe 30 comments in less than half an hour.

So it was clearly of great interest to the HN community, but it apparently rubbed some people the wrong way. One commenter wished they could downvote it, and another suggested that flagging submissions is an option.

A few minutes later, the post appeared as [flagged] and had completely disappeared from the front page. Myself and a couple of others commented we were surprised it had been flagged, that we thought the discussion was valuable.

I'm not going to link to it here because that's not my point, and I don't want this post to be flagged either.

My point is: should just a couple (presumably) people be able to flag a post to silence debate on a topic of inherent interest to hackers?

It doesn't feel right that a tiny number of people can quell a valuable discussion for a much larger number of people.

Is there a way to prevent abuse of flagging like this?
Does that mean you didn't need to use a boot drive with a 32 bit boot loader?

I've been having trouble getting any of my sticks (one an ASUS Vivostick, the other a no-name) to even boot a Linux installer off USB or CD, but that could be because I've been trying to get Ubuntu Server, which may be part of the problem. If the Ubuntu desktop path is better, maybe I'll try that.
The revolving door between the two, at the very least, warrant closer scrutiny, even if they don't imply breathless accusation of corruption.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21600859 seems related.
Or maybe because they are being frightened endlessly by fear mongering news and social media, which favors outrage and gives an unbalanced view of reality. Things to be optimistic about[1] don't get much attention.

The future you're fearing may or may not happen.

But endless pessimism is a killer regardless. It's a self-fulfilling, terrible strategy if we want things to improve.

1. https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/
It's hard to say - maybe for a sufficiently advanced AI, Lorde's style would be an obvious extrapolation from the popular music of the time. Certainly we're not there yet, and it's an open question if we ever will be - but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if one day AIs can make better music/poetry than the best humans, by any metric we care to use.
> Calling privacy advocates "paranoid" in today's climate is a bit suspect.

It's an insult. They're comparing people with legitimate concerns backed by evidence and precedent to paranoid schizophrenics. They are implicitly saying that people who value privacy are delusional and mentally ill.
Using this rationale we are condeming ourselves to letting the worse parts of societies to use the propaganda machine -known as facebook- to influatiate people in a scale never seen before, equaling freedom of speech with freedom of reach is taking this society off the rails by letting anyone with a big enough wallet influentiate a gigantic part of the population; even outright banning all political ads would be a better alternative.
4 years is long enough for lithium batteries to decline pretty noticeably.
Also keep in mind that unlike tensorboard we keep your full data series available in the API and only downsample the charts to 15k points.
The existence of a hive mind (or multiple) does not rule out the existence of individuality (not vise versa), it can be an emergent property of multitudinous individualistic interactions. The degree of influence varies depending on person and subject. We all tend to be conformist in some ways and iconoclastic in others.

We may not be a hive mind, but we may have one.
Eventually, you won't really have a choice about whether to run a desktop session once Wayland is here. I don't expect my favorite window mamager to be updated with Wayland support.
>> Isn’t that generally the main benefit of using electron based apps? The ability to target both desktop and web?

Yes, but then what would be the point of ElectronCGI?

If the goal is to target desktop and web then Electron is a great choice. There are many popular Electron-based applications that show this, e.g. Slack, VSCode, etc.

ElectronCGI is supposed to provide a cross-platform GUI for use cases where the full Electron stack is not wanted or perhaps not available.

I applaud the effort, but it strikes me as a strange choice since it brings the client-server and async complexities from web programming into a desktop environment. It seems like a very niche use case. Perhaps if you have a large .NET codebase that needs to be available as a cross-platform desktop application, but for some reason you can't use Electron / Blazor ?
from your very own link:

> Generally though, there are many techniques known to be able to hide messages in data using steganographic techniques. None are, by definition, obvious when users employ standard applications, but some can be detected by specialist tools. Others, however, are resistant to detection - or rather it is not possible to reliably distinguish data containing a hidden message from data containing just noise -

You cant hide the existence of the data. You can pretend that it's just random bits. But they are still here, and an opponent can see them.
I was thinking it could be pre-loaded with tons of relevant media and reference materials. Plus being a general purpose tool. I could see distance sailboat cruisers packing one away, similar to how they would pack some redundant spares of key electronics, or an industrial sewing machine like a Sailrite, for enhanced self-reliance in challenging environments. Pack a 3d printer in there too!
Well, there is no denying that the region is in fact currently governed by Russia. Whether that is right is another question.
> I feel that people who say there is havent really done a lot of either to know the difference.

I don't know why you are dismissing my experience like that, or why you think that I do not have a lot of experience. Have you ever had a panic attack? Anxiety and paranoia are something I would get consistently from weed. I never felt the same anxiety, and never felt paranoia, on mushrooms. I never had a panic attack from mushrooms. Almost every psychedelic trip I take (between 50-60 so far) has a range of negative aspects, but I am able to better control myself, something that is not the case with marijuana. I have experienced terror on both mushrooms and LSD, and I was able to keep it together and turn it around every time. FWIW, I also prefer to do relatively large doses (3-5 grams mushrooms, 2-7 hits of LSD).
I'd count the OpenBSD split as a net positive though. They're now different projects with different goals, both worthy in their own respects.
I don't get it. Of course Intel would make sure their releases are timed as well as possible with the competition, especially if they are at a technical disadvantage (so need any other advantage).

I don't see how it affects tech reviewers though? Isn't it good that both lift their embargos at the same time, so they can review and compare both products? Reviewers know that the AMD products that need to be compared with the new Intel 10xxxXE wil come out shortly after the Intel, so any serious review will just need to wait to be able to compare?

No reviewer or comparison will be published comparing the intel 10-series to the previous AMD gen just because they lift an embargo a day earlier?
> the professionals [...] are to blame. Not the wealthy. They just pay for it.

This brought to my mind on old Chomsky comment about civilian casualties in war:

"Evidently, a crucial case is omitted, which is far more depraved than massacring civilians intentionally. Namely, knowing that you are massacring them but not doing so intentionally because you don’t regard them as worthy of concern. That is, you don’t even care enough about them to intend to kill them. Thus when I walk down the street, if I stop to think about it I know I’ll probably kill lots of ants, but I don’t intend to kill them, because in my mind they do not even rise to the level where it matters. There are many such examples. To take one of the very minor ones, when Clinton bombed the al-Shifa pharmaceutical facility in Sudan, he and the other perpetrators surely knew that the bombing would kill civilians (tens of thousands, apparently). But Clinton and associates did not intend to kill them, because by the standards of Western liberal humanitarian racism, they are no more significant than ants. Same in the case of tens of millions of others."

-- https://formicidaefantasy.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/chomsky-o...
> A lithium fire takes hours and thousands of gallons of water to subside.

Tesla battery fires are not lithium metal fires. They are primarily organic solvent fires which evolve flammable gasses when overheated.
Mail the moderators. They can unflag the story.

Abstractly speaking: Overwhelmingly the flags are correct, and you should think hard whether it's really a case of "quelling a valuable discussion".
I want the reMarkable pad version of this..
Well, yes, all taxes divert income towards financing the state. That's rather the definition of a tax.

That isn't an argument against rsync's point, which is that raising fuel taxes in France triggered months of nationwide rioting by people wearing yellow vests, symbolic because French people have to have them in their cars by law. That is they literally made the symbol of their protests a symbol of car driving.

The UK is less prone to riots. However the government abandoned its fuel tax escalator policy ("automatic" fuel tax increases) after a series of protests by truckers who blockaded ports and threatened to bring about a collapse of supply chains.

The conclusion I draw from all this is simple but brutal:governments have nothing they can do about climate change. Nor do protestors, nor do most people. The only people who can make any difference at all are a small group of scientists (not climate scientists), and (primarily) engineers. It's only engineers who develop better cars and power generation techniques who shift the needle. The rest of us might as well forget about it.
How do you keep in touch with people, then? I've also cut out social media and started spending more time outside and around cities. And sure, I don't encounter much frustration, outrage, or extreme dysphoria anymore. I also have lots of time to do and see exciting and fulfilling things, which I enjoy.

But I can't share the experiences or talk to anyone about them. It seems like there's no way to meet people without social media, bevause a quick introduction or "hello" by someone outside of a pre-approved friends list is universally treated as an aggressive imposition these days, even in group settings where people ostensibly share interests. And none of my friends from when I had Facebook / etc were willing to stay in touch through other means.

So this is obviously very anecdotal, but I still deal with crippling loneliness and will probably join the cohort that this study is looking at soon, since it's clear that there is no hope for any of this to change in the near future. But I can hardly blame other people or the media for "manufacturing" those feelings, so I'm not convinced that avoiding toxic screen time is going to be a workable solution for many people.
> I do think that AI would be able to create narratives that humans find more enjoyable than...

> But what I doubt AI will ever be able to do is create art that speaks to us.

that's confusing.
> limited by the data on existing human players that has been provided to them.

Except it isn't. In various games, new strategies have been found by playing AI vs AI. It's also possible to create AI players by self-play with no knowledge of human matches.
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Plasma/KDE is mostly great, but a major thing that GNOME and Xfce still do better is GVFS and GVFS-FUSE. That means I can browse to smb://something or sftp://something, double click a file and it just works whatever the application is (e.g. play in VLC, edit in VS Code). This has never worked in KDE where only KDE apps can open remote files (and even that has bad performance).
I think there is a Russian Black Mirror reboot where this is the premise of the first episode.
Does anyone know of a good guide or reference of what to write in annotations or notes? Every notetaking guide I’ve seen seems to talk exclusively about mechanics and not content, which seems like the harder part to me.
Here's something that I think would be exceedingly difficult if not impossible for AI alone to succeed at in the next hundred years.

Take a look at this painting: [1]

It is a comment on war, bravery, death, life, fear, sacrifice. It is drenched in the political and social context of the day.

I really don't see AI coming up with anything even remotely like this independently, and view such an achievement to be much harder than simply diagnosing disease or writing an emotionally moving classical composition. It would be comparable to writing some types of poetry or song lyrics, however, which require reference to context that humans understand but machines don't (yet).

[1] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/El...

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808
Outside the tech bubbles, that is an obscene amount of money.

The fact that that amount of money is regarded basically as chump change is something that is very strange to certainly myself and I'd guess most people outside those regions.
Why not just actually use comments? If it's worth explaining to new developers it'll likely be useful later when you've simply forgotten why something is the way it is.
>You might think of the US as one of the most advanced mobile markets.

Advanced and quality aren't strictly synonymous. Going by the chart the article references, Canada crushes us in terms of quality but I still wouldn't want to move from an unlimited plan in the USA to a Canadian equivalent due to pricing schemes (the business kind not the conspiracy kind) for unlimited plans in Canada. In that sense I'd argue the USA offers more advanced market choices, but not necessarily a plethora of high quality ones.
There are x86 tablets out there and also many people have done raspberry pi touch screen builds.
I genuinely envy the creator — as in “envy is the sincerest form of flattery”. I love everything about this: that the maker perceived an entirely legitimate use-case, that he had the skills necessary to assemble off-the-shelf components into a device with such a professional finish, and that he shared so much detail with us. It’s the kind of project I’d support on Kickstarter for the twin delights of helping somebody creare something truly nice but exquisite and for the thrill of having such a unit myself.

Yup, this is why I come to Hacker News.
#1 on ProductHunt: Product tips in a comic book format
When You do this kind of (HFT) trading, how does ones tax returns look like? E.g. I assume you still have to report every trade with its gain/loss to a tax authority?
I see increasingly that people are pitted against each other based on race. We should all be treated the same.
It's incredibly comforting. I can do something about a zombie. I can't do something about the orange doofus tweeting war on North Korea and burning the planet.
NextDNS blocks those trackers, see: https://medium.com/nextdns/nextdns-added-cname-uncloaking-su...
"On every measurable metric, there has literally never been a better time to be alive and living in America."

I mean, we have a measurable metric right now- young people dying in high rates, suicide is up, average life expectancy is down?
Am I the only one who doesn't notice a huge difference between 19.04 and 19.10? I wouldn't have noticed if these articles didn't explicitly mention the performance improvements to be honest.
Molva (~rumors, «народная молва») was common name of folk language spoken at territory of (Kievan) Russia. Later it was replaced by official developed language, called yazyk ( tongue, «язык»), which was based on ancient dialect of South Slavic language, as spoken in Russian churches.

However, leaders of folk movement, later known as Ukrainians, developed and enhanced folk language, which then was renamed into Ukrainian language, and used as one of symbols of independence from Moscow, so it was systematically suppressed by government of Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation.
why would one print this via pen plotter vs a normal printer?
Remember most of us on Hacker News make well over the national average. The annual median personal income is about 31k a year. This means that there are a lot of people working mind numbing, dead end, minimum wage jobs (likely retail, service industry, or warehouse jobs with no benefits or bad benefits), barely struggling to survive paycheck to paycheck. They don't feel like "there has literally never been a better time to be alive and living in America".

Social media is bad, but it's not the cause. Our society is seriously suffering, and the gap between those of us who are privileged and those of us who have nothing is just getting wider.
It can be both - the Reuters link in that verge article is a little better: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-antitrust/facebo...

FB can be concerned about apps like Pikini that damage their brand and concerned about other companies trying to leverage their data in order to build a competitor.

This is a little hard to reason about fairly given the context that the document leak was targeted to make FB look bad by lawyers that had an agenda around a current anti-trust lawsuit from a client that used FB user data to make a bikini photo finding app (not the most ethical bunch).

That said, I'd argue there's no reason FB should have to allow API access to a company that directly conflicts with FB's interests, particularly when they're trying to take FB's data to build a replacement (and it looks like it would trigger some sort of contract discussion initially anyway). A lot of companies remove third party API access for a number of reasons and this ability is typically explicitly specified in the terms of the API access agreement.

Framing it around a privacy narrative to avoid media backlash around API deprecation is trying to get a handle on PR - I prefer when companies are just direct, but given the risk around bad media coverage I can see why they did it.

This entire issue is somewhat distinct from what I was talking about in the Cambridge Analytica case which I think was a bug in the social graph (they were not supposed to be able to crawl as much of it as they could) and this bug was fixed prior (I think years prior?) to the whistleblower from CA releasing details. My understanding was that accessing the data, while technically possible due to the bug, was still in violation of TOS.