skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure if you’re aware but the police is the group that keeps murdering innocent children
> Which, like, no.

No, you did not address GP in good faith. And GP did address your question by quoting himself: the problem is not "fighting against the bad guys", the problem is whom you consider the bad guys. Anti-fascists calling themselves such in no way means that everyone they oppose is actually a fascist.
Linux is the best operating system for a project like this. The system call binary interface is stable at the processor architecture level:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/stable/syscalls

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscalls.2.html

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html

Any Linux process can perform Linux system calls, no matter what language the software is written in. Instead of relying on C libraries to do everything, a compiler could emit system call code when necessary. The entire Linux user space could be rewritten in a higher level language that way. Rust would be the likely candidate but there's no reason a Lisp or Scheme couldn't do it. The language would need full support for features of binary interfaces such as function calling conventions, pointers, structures with padding and alignment, etc.
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I've seen reports of pops/crackles in digital audio mixing/synthesis applications being fixed by disabling hyperthreading. This makes some sense if hyperthreading can sometimes cause extra latency for some threads to get real CPU work done, which is hard for the OS to strictly control. There have been a few different ways to disable hyperthreading on macbooks over the years, but recently Apple offers a good way (to mitigate recent Intel CPU vulnerability corner-cases for the paranoid): https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210108
They're usually sold as 'less lethal'
Look at non-COVID-19 related deaths in a location with lockdown in effect, but with few COVID-19 deaths. Those should not be people who died from COVID-19 without a test, but if lockdown drives deaths up, there should be enough of them to be visible.

If you do it in New York, chances are you would be attributing COVID-19-related but unconfirmed deaths to lockdown.
This isn't new; this architecture goes back decades, and they've had hardware for ages. It's really cool, but it's not like it's just starting out.
Words have power. I can agree with that. But all the arguments fall flat the moment the rules are not enforced uniformly.
I spent over £600 on 4 USB hubs, to find 1 that allowed USB 2.0 devices to work with the £3k MacBook Pro.

Apple hardware is an expensive hobby it seems.
Tor Browser 9.5
> It's definitely not a massive improvement and I'm not sure if I'd have added it if I had had the choice but it may be worth just giving it a chance.

I mean, it's not like I have a choice now.
Catalina is such a tire fire. (Although, the Touch Bar helpfully suggested the emoji when I typed that.) It crashed multiple times a day hooked up to my external monitor. I was on the verge of returning it until 10.15.5 came out and seems to have fixed it (though it hasn't for everyone suffering from GPU-related kernel panics).
Cops faces are covered during these events, for anonymity, for intimidation, and nominally for protection.
I suspect a lot of this is about making it easier to use with touch input. Which doesn't mean I like it, but I can understand why they're doing it.
Using email aliasing to detect hacks and protect your privacy
Yeah. I mean, this is still much more effort than every Ubuntu-derived "OS" out there, but it isn't like Haiku or Redox or anything.
Where are you located?

Look at your own country's procedure to incorporate a company, it may be simple enough. For example if you're in the UK I doubt anything will beat simply registering a limited company, but not all countries make it so simple and cheap...

Just checked and Atlas is priced at USD500. That's probably cheaper than the total cost of incorporating in many EU countries so if that's too expensive then incorporating is probably too expensive full stop unless you live in a 'cheap' country like the UK.
Let’s generalize and condemn everyone over 40. There is no nuance because that would spoil your take-away.
> Does "really secure" mean "find a bank that still offers safety deposit boxes"?

Realistically? Yes. This is what several of the companies I've done contract work for have done. You can still find at least one bank or self-storage place (look for the ones that don't have a nationally-advertised brand and don't look like they're made entirely out of corrugated metal) that do regular safety deposit boxes in pretty much any city. They may only be offered at a couple of locations and I've noticed credit unions bailing the hell out of this market as fast as they can decommission the vaults but boxes still exist.

Let's assume all variables work in the other way, though. If you can't find a safety deposit box and don't have somewhere that's not your office you can drill into a floor or wall and you're storing a small device like Yubikeys or USB sticks, buy the heftiest portable gun safe you can find, one with a steel cable that loops back into the device, and stick it under your bathroom sink with the cable wrapped firmly around the water supply or drain pipe.
Exactly. The difference between Amazon and Uber is immense. Amazon's core business has been comfortably profitable for over a decade now. They invest those profits to diversify their business. However, Uber's core business has never been profitable.
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https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/is-the-dmcas-notic...

There's a hearing going on in the Senate today in two hours (linked in the article), if anyone wants to watch the livestream.
Not quite simple, human are expensive and finicky.
From first principles, it is possible to have the medium of Facebook, without the infusion of politics. One only has to imagine an orchestration layer on top of email, contact lists, with a publicly visible open source algorithm driving ranking. I don't think that world can exist now, but it can be a useful mental model to disprove the assumption that the communication medium Facebook provides is inherently coupled with centralized editorial control.
Did you see this?

https://www.firefighternation.com/2020/06/01/richmond-police...
For those of you in Moscow, if you go to the Yandex Museum you can play with an Elbrus box. It's really neat! Pretty fast, and has an entire Linux environment running on it.
Your employer is legally required to provide you with chair, desk, keyboard, monitor and mouse if you work from home and don’t have these things already.

During the corona lock down my boss told us to get anything we required from the office. If you couldn’t pick it up, an intern would take the company van and deliver anything you’d need.
Atlassian launches new DevOps features
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A light ring is not a closed timelike curve.
That analogy is not the same at all, and is quite a leap. The difference lies in the double negative in the antifa situation, if you will. The parent was claiming that if you are against antifa ("anti-antifa" such as by calling them a terrorist organization), then you are pro-fascist. But the antifa label comes with a lot more baggage than simply being against fascism. They are known for their militant/violent tendencies, which many people may not support, and some may go as far as to call terroristic.

I'm not interested in debating whether or not antifa is a terrorist organization, and doing so is not necessary to support the point I am making. All I am saying is that some people may have a different understanding of antifa, and believe antifa is a terrorist organization not for its stance against fascism, but for its violent methods. These same people may be completely against fascism but oppose those labeled antifa for the baggage associated with such a label.

The root issue is the implication that being antifa is nothing more than being against fascism. If that were true, then I agree with you. But it's not. The antifa label has become associated with political violence (just read the Wikipedia article). To most people, it no longer means simply being against fascism, but also has associations to antifa's violent methods. Many of the debates about antifa, and I think also this one, stem from the fact that people have different understandings of what antifa actually means. I think it is deceptive to pretend that antifa means nothing more than being against fascism, in the current political context. Perhaps it meant that in the past, but that is not the common understanding anymore.
Our company is so too.
Ultimately, these "text" formats are simply a matter of convention that makes some binary-formatted streams easier to document for humans' benefit. There's nothing wrong with a binary format if it's properly documented in some way, and modern serialization formats can be augmented with schemas and other features that help provide this.
This is similar to a system I have seen, other than the inclusion of a dense QR code as the backup, stored in a secure safe. And you need to test the entire process from scan to key resurrection. We saw that our offline signing laptop's camera was low enough quality that it was very hard (but possible) to read the key, because it was so dense.
looking at the videos over the past few days its pretty safe to safe it was for the most part not white supremists. the last day was questionable like those bricks in dallas but other than that. there were a lot of young black people doing stuff on their own.
How does this benefit touch input? It expands after clicking—the tap target hasn't changed.
But there are brilliant IIT graduates from India who would much rather work from their home city in India than pay Bay Area landlords just so they can sit on an 80 year waitlist for a green card.
All of those are excellent.

There's also the ability to just leave it at a lawyer/notary (they already handle deposits, they might even have a secure box at a bank, so you can piggy-back on them for this).

Directors/Founders of Random Co. should just make a few copies a few pieces of papers that contain the passphrase and store them at their own home and ask a few relatives to do the same for them. Depending on their recoverability/safety/accountability trade-off they can increase the number of copies, they can increase the separation between the parts (eg. keys and passprhases), and so on.

The big-big-big advantage of the yubikey approach is that it's a HSM, and you can't accidentally copy the key and leave it somewhere.
A related concern that this brings to mind is the act of teaching complex rulesets to players who are playing for the first time.

It's not unusual for only one person in a group to have taken the time to learn the rules, by reading the rulebook, or more often these days, by watching a video. Then, that person is informally responsible for communicating the rules to the other players, tutorial-style.

For games beyond a certain level of complexity, I have sometimes found this process to be absurd. For example, it might be obvious that the rules are not being followed correctly or consistently. Or more frequently, players are playing their first playthrough haphazardly, with no real understanding of the games mechanics. And no one wants to be a rules lawyer.

These things are normal and the games are meant to be fun, above all else, but at the same time, playing a game incorrectly or with partial knowledge is unfun to me, especially since it's not unusual to only play a game once these days.

I think the suggestion for gamemakers to include graduated tutorial materials, written or video, allowing players to trivially pick up the basics and begin playing immediately is very useful, and will encourage players to come back to the same games more than once.
How to Delete a Text Message
Monkey patching lib for Swift: InterposeKit
Yeah, it's definitely not worth dealing with weird hacks just to get rid of it. In the first week or so it bothered me too, then it seemed pointless but I didn't care and after I while I actually started using it.
I have been a big XPS fan for years, 8 hours per day for work, but the new 2-in-1 XPS 13 line is the best yet, recommend everyone check it out
Tips for Giving Great Tech Presentations
When Trump started his campaign, the phrase "The Donald" was definitely more of a meme. The content of that sub was indeed "so-over-the-top-this-must-be-satire" type content... Pepe memes, crude photoshops of Trump as a God, the bots that would autoreply "THE WALL JUST GOT X FEET HIGHER!", the refrain of "GET THIS MAN A COAT" when a supporter of a dropped-out candidate would be lured in by the energy and the jokes. But that was more or less the entire facade of Trump's campaign. That language and those posts reached out to a significant constituency online of young, "edgy" men who love memeing and trolling. There was always an undercurrent of anti-black and anti-hispanic rhetoric, even when it seemed like satire.
Honestly, compared to the 2007(?) 17" macbook pro and especially to the pismo... I find that my 2015 15" Macbook Pro already had an unpleasant keyboard, with wobbly keys and too little travel.

I think the pismo and the 17" where the only macs that I have ever owned that I really liked...
The number of times I have to tell people that '+service' isn't enough would boggle your mind.

Regexing that away is a trivial task for spammers.
There's also the odd fact that the lands to the east and the west of Greenland aren't ice covered while Greenland is (Google maps satellite view).
Is it your opinion that the people who met with Zuckerberg were props, and his intention was to positively influence the public's opinion of his actions with respect to the protests and civil unrest happening in the country today? Seems a questionable tactic.

Would you publicly stand behind your opinions and reveal your identity? Do you feel your opinion is widely shared?
Might be best to dive into the literature starting here:

Magpie: Online Modelling and Performance-aware Systems

"Understanding the performance of distributed systems
requires correlation of thousands of interactions between numerous components ..."

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cb76/9b0c983bce6a73cafd1f8a...
The keyboard on the new XPS is awful. No travel.
Only viable alternative is a Thinkpad.
Thanks, I'm talking about the mouse, though. I do use these keyboard shortcuts all the time but that is sort of orthogonal to the changed click behavior -- which is unlike for any other text field on my system.
While I grant that that is true, and likely a contributing factor, it's worth noting that police have other disabling weapons at their disposal. The ease with which one, and the other, are deployed again suggests that it's not simply a matter of "need to defend one's self against possible violence" differing between regions.

How many videos, at this point, are out in public of police taking out tasers at routine, non-violent traffic stops? Of chemical spraying non-violent protestors? And of shooting unarmed people? The famous photo of the UC Davis photo casually spraying seated students at a campus protest makes the case more eloquently than I can: that was not a person in fear of their life, and we've created a system where that person avoided criminal prosecution (https://humansarefree.com/2014/04/the-cop-who-pepper-sprayed...). When that happens, it seems an offense to logic to reach to "well, our police are more violent because our criminals are more violent." It may be true, but it's outright offensive to their victims not to pause, first, at "...and because their violence goes unpunished." Pointing out the risk they are exposed to is less plausible when we see violence undertaken in non-violent situations, and where they do not see criminal prosecution for wildly disproportionate responses.

How many events have we learned of where unarmed people providing no violent resistance were killed by officers who didn't suspect violence? The death of Eric Garner in NYC involved an unarmed man, stopped by the police for selling single cigarettes, who was pinned down and choked to death, while his hands were up and he was wheezing and begging for air. Those officers were neither permanently removed from duty, nor prosecuted. It's difficult to interpret "slowly choked an unarmed and unresisting man to death" as "acting in response to fears of the violence possible in the situation." Situations like that make it highly unlikely that violent police are a simple correlation to violent criminals, because that would at least suggest that the police violence is constrained to violent and reasonably-possible-to-escalate-to-violence situations. Which isn't what we see riots breaking out over.
Publishers are rent seekers and software companies are not? Microsoft selling windows and office is ok but publishers making money is not?
True, and the big ticket stuff at Walmart has additional protections that lower the need to risk a false positive on things like a candy bar or a shirt.
This is true. The fed telegraphed its move into corporate credit for a long time. Many current and former high ranking fed officials said the market was a problem long before and no one did anything until there was a problem. The Fed is just good at its job, the byproduct of that is that people keep asking them to do more and more when they should not.
I regularly blood-test my vitamin D and B levels since I live indoors a lot (not an outside person) and have a slight vit. B absorption problem (I don't absorb it as efficiently as normal people) so I need to take supplements even if I eat healthily.
I learned that at combat training; up until then I assumed they were basically rubber paint balls with a higher velocity. We asked why we had to use chalk rounds for training (basically a 9mm pistol powder charge with a chalk bullet in front of it) instead of rubber bullets, and our combat instructor laughed and said he didn't want to see anyone blinded, unconscious, or permanently damaged, so they were a no go, even when we were wearing ballistic vests, helmets and face shields. Those chalk rounds still hurt like crazy, and would break skin through military camo uniforms; can't imagine being unloaded on with rubber bullets without protection.
Ask HN: Slow journalism equivalent for US news?
I'm looking for slow journalism for the US market. Something similar to https://www.tortoisemedia.com/ and https://www.slow-journalism.com/. Any suggestions?
I was mostly thinking about the amount of whitespace between list items. Makes it easier to hit the right one.
I really dislike the legalistic versus moral distinction. Emphasis on legalistic rather than legal. Legal and moral are obviously not the same. Legalistic seems to just relate to making and enforcing rules, which is a super important way to deal with moral issues when you're a platform or arbiter. Yes, absolutely take the awful stuff off facebook, but make rules and tests to be as clear as you can about it.
I’m not sure of the distinction between light ring and this, but probably a good place to read: Photon sphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere
Removing yet another avenue for police accountability & transparency also puts innocent people at risk.
That's the current one here, too.
As I've written to mdorazio I've actually had the full tear gas experience: locked in a cramped bunker, unable to escape, forced to try to talk in a thick fog of it until officers were happy.

I'd rather take that again than a good number of other unpleasant experiences.

Mentioned it in the same sentence as the use of actual guns seems to indicate that you either talk about a different kind of tear gas or that you don't know what you are talking about at all.
i think it's more useful to discuss the goal rather than the means; if the goal is resilience to theft and natural disaster, the means might range from "stick it in a fireproof safe in the boss' office" to "outsource to iron mountain" depending on threat model.
Prometheus & ELF (formerly ELK) stacks

Much easier to run if you are on k8s
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Sure. Go read debian-devel on the topic of systemd.
That assumes they'd be honest about it. They would arguably have more to gain by accepting the free tickets, then claiming it was all a hoax, further fueling FE.
I understand and agree with this perspective. I should be able to decide what my device does. (And I can do pretty much equally with Windows/macOS, and more so with Linux.)

But I don't know that, “I own this computer and therefore understand what user defaults will make it most stable and usable for me” scales beyond the informed user to general users, if that's what you were suggesting.

“For your own good” preferences exist to try to make the default experience better for users who don't care enough to understand the tool they're using 10 hours a day. Is choosing defaults that seek to benefit most users really not a decision that software developers should be making?
> I am considering donating more to help them, because I truly want the IA to succeed.

I'm beginning to suspect this is why they tied their actions to the IA in the first place. It's a good excuse to get people to donate who otherwise wouldn't support this action.
It was allowed to flourish as a hate forum for years before being quarantined. Users brigaded other subreddits with little to no action from admins. Reddit management always did the least possible until they were forced by the media or user outcry.

It's incredibly cynical to now come out against internet bigotry after being one of the premier destinations hosting it for the past few years.
There is a Debian Wiki, of course. It is not quite at the same level as those two, unfortunately. Contrast:

* https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nosh

* https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Runit

* https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/S6_and_s6-rc-based_init_system

* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Runlevels

* https://wiki.debian.org/runit?action=info

* https://wiki.debian.org/RunLevel
It is kind of sad that Apple lost its way. We used to be excited about new releases, now I only want to make sure auto-update is disabled and the new hardware did not remove half of the ports again. Time to seriously consider an alternative operating system for me after being on MacOS for 10 years. I cannot be put up with it anymore.
Maybe our glorious leader should declare them a "domestic terrorist organization"...
Start with file management utilities such as ls, cp, mv and rm.
Some history of Exim is available in Phil Hazel's technical autobiography; https://drive.google.com/file/d/10TAOEgIL--CmzqOl0fkdP-cagjS... ; it was started in 1995 to provide a mailer for the University of Cambridge as a replacement for "smail".

(When I joined the university in 1997 it was fully deployed there; most people accessed their mail by telnet to a single large Sun server which ran PINE.)
They aren't wanting to kill 230, they want to take it away from companies who choose to alter users' posts.

Their argument is if you start censoring and editing your users you are abusing the protections given to you by 230 and you are no longer eligible and you must vet EVERY post, not just the ones you selected.

Other companies who do not edit/censor their users selectively continue to have protections from 230.

Not picking a side btw, just trying to clarify.
> But all the arguments fall flat the moment the rules are not enforced uniformly.

Is this not the point of the unrest?
It's disturbing how things are turned upside down.
The GAFA already are behaving like they are above the state. You can love or hate Trump, is is elected, not Facebook or Twitter. As the head of the state he represents what we call in french 'monopoly of legitimate violence'. I found dangerous how the GAFA companies think about themselves not concerned by that anymore.