skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans have become much less positive about tech companies' impact
she thought the earth would literally tilt back and forth (as though in place)

it's tilted. and it moves to the other side of the sun. so its tilt relative the sun changes. but it doesn't rock back and forth on its own
For my niche use case, I'd love to see this somewhere in the middle of the US so I can have a single instance with similar ping to both coasts.
As a Brazilian Latin American, there's nothing Hispanic about me or my people. Most of us are some mixture of European (primarily Italian or Portuguese), African, indian (as in the native people of South America) descendents. Our official language is Portuguese.
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> Can you index out of bounds and catch the exception? You're attackable via Spectre.

ah, i see... ok assuming you could never access out of bounds (all arrays must be typed by length) would that still apply? or do you mean any kind of exception handling that can be deterministically invoked? what if a hypothetical safe language had no exceptions?

> Can you run multiple threads and time operations? You're vulnerable to MDS.

would that more or less depend on wether or not hyper-threading is enabled or not? assuming you can choose which cpu you are using(that is not vulnerable like intel) would that negate needing hardware memory protection when used with a “safe” language?

> The attacks don't rely on memory unsafety -- they rely on the state of the CPU being changed by doing fairly normal things, while an observer probes the state by doing other fairly normal things.

yes, thanks. i was just wondering what the limits to that re in terms of “safe’ languages vis-a-vis hardware memory protection/os etc...
It does all of that on Nightly. Will get to release in a couple of months.
Well, it's not me that claims alternative media as fake news. It is mainstream media so that is why I am on the defense of them.

I am not talking about obviously fake sites that is just up to spread one idea or lie. I am talking about regular news sites that operates as smaller teams.

Where I am from, at least, these are considered by mainstream media to be fake news. The government has pressured companies like Facebook to stop their content etc etc.

I think the main issue is that "fake news" is not really a clear definition for anyone and is currently used to surpress opinion rather than anything else.
Exactly. All these problems are caused by Facebook's competitive advantage: network scale and reach. Any solution they propose is almost certainly doomed to failure until they acknowledge "hey, you know what, maybe this 'making the world more open and connected' thing is actually really dangerous."
$10-100M theft per year? Seems obvious to install drop boxes....
> Complaining about virtue signaling is sanctimony

So complaining about sanctimony is itself sanctimonious?

> It is inherently hypocritical, besides.

How so? Hypocrisy is when someone tells others to do something they don't do themselves.

> Saying, "this is good, so I do it" is fundamentally more meaningful than, "this is good, so you should do it". The latter is sanctimony.

Not really. Sanctimony is the excessive parading of a supposed virtue. Telling someone to do something is not in itself sanctimony.

Anyway, my original point was that hypocrisy and sanctimony are irrelevant and a distraction in any consideration of morality. For those of us raised Catholic, they're what we'd call venal sins, minor and forgivable. They simply don't matter, but for some reason people online treat them as the equivalent of virginal purity tests, and cherish them with a zeal that would put a village mullah to shame.

The short aphorisms of Marcus Aurelius are invaluable, in my opinion, in considering morality. "Of each thing", he says, "ask what it is in itself". But in our modern world where we've convinced ourselves we're busy as we bustle about with a thousand pointless activities at once, the thoughtful consideration that the old Roman emperor urges seems very far away. And besides, they'd probably accuse him of virtue signalling.
I suspect that this actually is an enjoyable environment, despite how it reads. I also suspect it is a very successful team. It likely has little diversity in employees. I've been on these teams before, and had a lot of fun in a sea of persons who all have the same cultural and educational background.

This usually works until teams get large, or start to grow diversity
"women being inherently or unfixably uninterested in computer science" is not the claim. Do you grok the part where he talks about distributions?
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I think this does what you mention and not the former. I would imagine this works best when you have a codebase that heavily utilizes the AWS SDK so it can internally 'paint a picture' of what's going on and provide better architectural decisions and other best practices.

How well it works is beyond me though
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Well when the press works in coordination to hide a pedophile ring involving two presidents, a prince, Bill Gates and tons of media and business leaders, then yes I don't think "almost entirely corrupt" is an inaccurate statement.

> Can you point to something that actually functions better?

I think Wikileaks is a good model. Get raw information out there. We don't need filters and narrative in the way of figuring out what's going on. Social media helps too, especially when the long form of highly edited videos becomes available. The whole thing with the Covington teens is a great example.
wa.exe is the web interface for LISTSERV on Windows: https://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/htmlhelp/list%20subscribe...

AFAICT this mailing-list post is the original public announcement, but perhaps the submitter followed up with the Schneier link in anticipation of concerns like yours.
From what I've read in this thread it sounds like:

Donor $ -> PayPal/Stripe, subtract Coffee's taste with Coffee never touching the donor's money per their comments in this thread -> Creator's PayPal/Stripe minus any PayPal/Stripe fees.

I'm guessing that's just PayPal taking their cut from the creator on top of Coffee taking their cut. It looks like they had an idea, got into YC, then were like "eh, let's just be Patreon 2: Electric Boogaloo." and then did the payment processing the simplest way they could.

This effectively makes it: "Don't pay the creator via PayPal/Stripe, instead let us act as a pseudo-affiliate and go ahead and keep 5% of that for ourselves and then we'll tell PayPal/Stripe to pay the donor for you. In exchange we'll tell people that visit our website that you supported the creator".

It appears they add no value to the transaction that can't already be obtained from Patreon. They're just a much smaller outfit, with a horribly buggy website with partially baked features and apparently consistently unpleasant mobile experience.
Hemp seeds have failed to catch on as food for a simple reason: they're too strongly flavored. The nutrition claims are largely true, and the flavor isn't terrible, but in order for hempseed to provide, say, 15 grams of protein to a meal, you need to eat about a quarter of a cup of hempseeds. Imagine eating a quarter of a cup of sesame seeds. See the problem? I think the missing link here is some kind of fermentation process that produces something more palatable.

As for the fiber, it's a relatively unremarkable cellulosic fiber. It is rather coarse and contains about 8% lignin, which means hemp fabric is relatively stiff and rough, limiting its application to clothing beyond its branding power (and shoes, where it works well). However, it is useful in composites. Hemp is apparently being used to make composite panels for several cars in the present day, although the actual volume in this market is not so high. The asterisk is that there are lots of other similar fibers (jute, linen, lyocell) that work well in composites, and it's the resins (polyester) which tend to be both more expensive and environmentally problematic. If some kind of more eco-friendly resin technology appears (don't hold your breath) it could become more widespread.

Other claims, e.g. hemp as a building material, are just wrong (hempcrete is not structural). Hemp rope was replaced by manila which has better moisture resistance. Hemp as a biodiesel precursor is unremarkable.
Now that I think of it, if it's paid by lines of code, it perversely incentives people to minimize the lines of code, no? Does it count white space and comments? Can I minify my code before passing it to this, then unminify it?
Yes, and for me the happy ratio is around a 90:10 split.

There is a time and place for really sophisticated code, and people will just have to expend some effort to understand its behavior at least, if not in fact how it accomplishes it. If that's leaking throughout the system then it's likely a code smell.

I'd like to reiterate that the statement you quoted was made in the active voice. It's a process. As you add things to the system you should be looking at all of the pain points around it and amortizing the cost of addressing those issues. If you don't arrive there around the time the system begins to gel, but before calcification, you will never arrive. But if you try to get there from day one, you'll pick the wrong priorities and you'll certainly end up in that Enterprise hell you mention.

What I see happen is that people grow with the project, memorizing one thing after another without ever appreciating the weight of it all, and then one day they have to hire more people because someone left, and all of a sudden they're terrified of letting that person do any real work. Because how could they know? Absolutely no effort has been expended setting new people up for success, and the token efforts feel more like sabotage than help. Then it takes years of their lives to memorize all the same stuff and really, I believe you should be investing that time in something more worthwhile. I'm living through that again and it's every bit as bad as I remembered.
I think the question was how is it a microkernel at all
Well, UTF-8 is an encoding of Unicode, which allows for surrogate pairs and all that jazz which can be a bad fit for fixed-pitch text.

For example, take a Zalgo text generator[1] and try to make the result make sense in a fixed-pitch (monospace) setting.

At least that's my interpretation of what he tried to convey.

[1]: http://eeemo.net/
One has to wonder about a lengthy article which refuses to cite any numbers and instead repeats endlessly that 'no level is known to be safe', which is irrelevant.
> You can enjoy beer and music and stuff without getting into a dick measuring contest.

Sure, and most do, across genders.

> If that’s their way of enjoying things, then what’s so bad about it?

Every act tends to have social/economic implications that affect how others participate, even if unintentional. Walk into a bar now, and often eight out of the ten taps are high IBU IPAs. Fewer choices for people that aren't into the hops competition.

Some people will be rude to others who don't want to play the competitive game.

> (Why this gendered insulting is okay when it’s aimed against men, I don’t know.)

Men collectively have enough power to handle a funny critical term without risk of being marginalized.
I worry that if this system becames permanent, one in which it is practically impossible to stop piracy, followed by the loss of traditional incentives we might find ourselves in a place where no motivated investor will break even when producing quality and innocuous content.
We already know what it is, the centralized ownership of news media. Billionaires do not want Sanders to bring their taxes in line with reality. Thus the corrupt political elites and the corporate owned media marginalize him every chance they get.
I'd describe it instead as that Cargo gives you a way out if your dependencies accidentally break semver, while Go's package manager doesn't. That may be a sensible decision on Go's part, but it doesn't solve the problem of dependency incompatibility. In fact, Go explicitly doesn't solve it.
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The concept that men and women may have different interests is considered sexist

I would posit that men and women have different realities, thus different needs. This shapes interests.

It's not wholly unassailable, but needs to be approached differently than goals like "achieve x percentage of women in tech" are typically approached.
I’m fairly confident that google books is a huge money loser for google. The only reason it’s still online is because there are people within google willing to stick their necks out to spend the money on it.
Ask HN: Should Browsers load explicit content in Incognito mode automatically?
That way explicit content urls won’t land in browsing history accidentally. Should browsers do that automatically or ask user every time domain known for explicit content gets detected?
PR I sent yesterday, line changes: +2,703 −3,529. That's like 50 bucks just for that PR.
Perhaps, but I don't speak for myself -- I'm describing a practice that is well understood, like rules of the road.
Sure, I didn't mean to imply that all people who like hoppy beers do this. (I like IPAs too sometimes.) Just that some do, and they are loud and vocal enough that they influence the entire scene in ways that are a negative for others.
I'm not sure it is 100X better. The tabloids have always published clear fictions. I think the danger is that people take ABC and the New York Times way more seriously than houston-star-ledger-journal.com.

They're both problems but I think the mainstream media version is much more dangerous and powerful.
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It may not be as good as a human, but I highly doubt it's a linter either. It's somewhere in between. If their claims are true, and it has been trained on hundreds of thousands of their own reviews, the AI could have picked up common patterns that are beyond lint but still real mistake a good reviewer would spot.
GNOME on Wayland seems to handle moving windows between displays with different DPIs, it's not super graceful and seems to only apply the new DPI once >50% of the window is on the new display though.

I haven't used fractional scaling, but it's supposed to be behind a flag. But I suppose it could be blurry.
You can either have limitless "free speech" or get rid of fake news, or to use the correct term: lies and propaganda.

Either you take down the propaganda spreaders, no matter if by legal measures such as netblocks or jail (for domestic propaganda), by war (in case of Russian state propaganda) or by a team of elite soldiers (for those operating in unwilling-to-cooperate third states) or you lose the liberal society we enjoy.

The earlier societies realize they are at a new form of war, the better. But as long as people excuse Russian or Chinese propaganda with free speech, nothing will be done and eventually free speech itself will be lost. Hongkong shows what China wants - Europe and the US should not think they are immune from CCP demands. Hell, we provide China and Russia with the weapons against us - and no, nothing Facebook does is anywhere close to enough to not be a weapon in itself! Their moderation rules are intransparent to outright crazy, the teams understaffed and overworked.
Fake news is a cultural problem that can't be solved algorithmically. A large portion of the people sharing and consuming fake news don't care that it's fake. We have to train the next generation to mistrust social media platforms as a general rule and work to encourage the concept of meaningful discourse and communication outside of these platforms.
This statement was written by very well paid professionals, they wouldn't make a vague statement like that if they knew for a fact that these people leaked the material.
It doesn't count as a dupe if the story hasn't had significant attention yet. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I'm sure Ben Franklin had Catalina in mind when he said "Those Who Sacrifice OS Security For UI Convenience Deserve Neither."

Seriously though, I'm willing to put up with mildly inconvenient UI changes (that diminish over time) in exchange for a more secure operating system.
> I have a theory that every subculture attracts two types of adherents: people who are genuinely enthusiastic about it and love introducing their passion to new people, and those looking for a way to set themselves apart, who primarily want to gatekeep and condescend to those not "in the know".

Yes, definitely.

There are some who feel that their membership in the group is all they have and thus the more people in the group, the relatively less they are. Insecurity is the root of gatekeeping.
"Seen from the viewpoint of politics, truth has a despotic character. It is thereforehated by tyrants, who rightly fear the competition of a coercive force they cannotmonopolize, and it enjoys a rather precarious status in the eyes of governments thatrest on consent and abhor coercion. Facts are beyond agreement and consent, and alltalk about them – all exchanges of opinion based on correct information – will contributenothing to their establishment. Unwelcome opinion can be argued with,rejected, or compromised upon, but unwelcome facts possess an infuriating stubbornnessthat nothing can move except plain lies. The trouble is that factual truth,like all other truth, peremptorily claims to be acknowledged and precludes debate,and debate constitutes the very essence of political life."

Excerpt from Truth and Politics by Hannah Arendt in the Feb. 25, 1967 issue of The New Yorker magazine. Highly recommended.
> Those are US assets and the US are free to...

GPS is a derivative of Håkan Lans AIS. The US military built the satellite network yes, but had they not shared it, another network would have been constructed to take its place as the technology itself is not American.

I fully agree with you though, the UN exist to host these projects as a non-partial entity. The fact that they don't is cause for some frustration and a risk to the world.
Honestly, workplace democratization. Management consulting depends on illegitimate hierarchies and elitism that discounts regular worker opinions and elevated opinions of “experts.” Consultants tell you how to read your watch. They are by and large not something to be disrupted, but just eliminated.
Singapore's fake news law should be a warning to American lawmakers
In that case, we will just pass around the same old stuff until we get bored enough that we'll actually pay for new stuff.
I don't feel attacked, and my knowledge of food is far from comprehensive, and I certainly didn't intend it as such. I stand by what I said: you can't learn anything about cooking in an hour except what you need to take the next class on cooking. Do that for a few months, or even a few weeks, and you get somewhere. Scope, my friend. Scope.
They explicitely mention Question Answering. Could it be that they use something like BERT trained with Squad dataset, and fine tuned on additional content?
If so, Bert is very intense in terms of required GPU hardware...
Mousing over the word "Terms" in "By signing up, you agree to our Terms." on the sign up page linked me to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/terms .
Really though, why charge by-the-line on this kind of product? Imagine if CodeCommit or Lambda charged you by the line too!
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Elasticsearch has had support for hot/warm, and now with 6.7+, for hot/warm/cold via Index Life Management [0], where you'd typically run hot nodes with NVMe or SSDs, warm nodes with HDDs, and cold nodes with network attached storage.

AWS' key innovation seems to be that hot nodes are the ones you provision to keep both primary and secondary indices for hot data (writable and recent), and ultra-warm nodes, of different ec2-instance-type than the hot nodes, prefetch speculatively / predictively caches of index-data downloaded on-demand from S3 required to execute read-only requests transparently to the rest of the cluster.

Impressive: It is almost like running ultrawarm nodes with Amazon FSx for Lustre instead of EBS.

I wonder if the Lucene / Elasticsearch changes required to do this will make it to OpenDistro. If not, that'd be tremendously disappointing [1].

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[0] https://www.elastic.co/blog/implementing-hot-warm-cold-in-el...

[1] In addition, the innovation focus has shifted from furthering the open source distribution to making the proprietary distribution popular. This means that the majority of new Elasticsearch users are now, in fact, running proprietary software. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359602
That tends to happen when the media is flooded with negative PR against you for an extended period of time.
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But now actual major changes are unnecessarily hard to communicate to non-technical users. If e.g. the "quantum" activation could have been celebrated with a once-in-a-couple-of-years major increment, far more people would have taken notice, with much less marketing effort. A rarely incremented major number is a marketing tool, a continually incremented number is merely a vector clock.
Oh, those are great examples too. And, again, you see it happening clearly because they managed to conjure up some weird-ass numeric score for it.
That's one of the first things I noticed when I moved to the US. Not sure if it's specific to the US or maybe just the Bay Area or even just a sign of the times, but it seems like it's impossible for people to "kind of like" something. They immediately have to be really into something, be it beer, cycling, photography, to the point where it becomes their entire identity. It doesn't bother me too much. I'm still happy just enjoying craft beers without memorizing different hop strains, but it's definitely a little odd.
By "in GOPATH mode" do you mean it only looks at your GOPATH, not vendor? If so, that could be (part of) the issue - my GOPATH is definitely not up to date with whatever project I'm working on.

Also that'd mean it's a few years behind even basics like the vendor folder, so I'd be comfortable putting it in an "abandonware, effectively does not exist" category.
In most situations it’s memory bound. In hyper cost savings situations it comes down to the fact that you need to run 3+ nodes at the very least in order to have some guarantees about data resilience. In reality you usually want more than 3 and you even want multiple clusters of more than 3 nodes each. So it can become costly.

Most people just run one node. It works fine until the node falls over and comes back with zero indexes.
Neat idea and a good place to start. But most of the time, people are willingly and sometimes violently opposed to automated free tooling like linters, formatters etc. I’m not holding my breath for that cohort (majority of devs).
Try us-east-2, it's located in Ohio.