skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, establishing a linear causal relation isn't always possible, at least not ethically. The recommendations have to balance average dietary intake, tolerable upper limits, and what would constitute an adequate intake that is both necessary and sufficient. For Vitamin C, for example, toxicity is probably in the 2-3 grams range, while just 10 mg/day is sufficient to overcome symptoms of deficiency. So what should the recommended daily allowance be? You don’t want to set it at the minimum level, to allow for individual variances and greater needs among particular groups. You also don’t want to set it artificially too high. Different agencies and countries draw that line differently. Japan sets it at 100 mg/day, while India at 40 mg/day. The Indian agencies have to be cognizant of the fact that given average Indian diets, setting the "healthy" level at 100 mg/day would artificially pathologize most Indians who do not suffer from Vit C deficiency symptoms.

The situation is more complicated with recommendations around vitamin D. The most obvious and extreme abnormality associated with low D is bone demineralization. This is largely alleviated by levels above 12 ng/mL. Yet when you look a cohort of healthy young Caucasian coast guards, their vitamin D levels are 30 ng/mL. So what do you set as the recommendation: the level required to prevent symptoms, or the levels seen in (some) healthy people, but with no obvious health advantages? Most groups have tended to split the difference: set the minimum at 20 ng/mL, and the “optimal” at 30 ng/mL. Is there a health benefit with supplementing if the level is below 10 ng/mL? Quite likely. Is there a health benefit supplementing if your level is at 20 ng/mL? Probably not.

The picture is even further complicated if you consider that the healthy cohort of young white coast guards in Hawaii is not representative of the population at large. Multiple studies have looked at healthy black and brown cohorts from tropical environments, and find most average around 20 ng/mL.
Checkouts in the UK still do this. They just seem to have gotten better at it, so I rarely have problems anymore. Possibly they loosened the tolerances.
That has nothing to do with a user not seeing a post that a tech company felt needed to be censored.
Code-signing and certificates are still necessary even in a WASM environment. Once all your software moves into the web browser, all your important data lives there too and the risk profile of all the third-party code loaded into your websites is incredibly high, just like it is for Chrome and Firefox extensions.

Right now if you're a Windows dev you get harassed by SmartScreen, but if you're a web dev you get to either reinvent the entire stack from the ground up (to control it) or pull in 20 different third-party dependencies, none of which are code-signed, without any easy methods to ensure integrity other than manually listing specific hashes in a fashion that causes your website to break any time a vendor pushes new code. Don't get me started on software that currently only works if deployed as an extension - being an extension developer is one of the worst development experiences on earth
i am curious about that too

it is the justification given for shutting down anti ccp discussions and articles

what makes this situation different? surely not the scale of human atrocity? ccp still has the us gov beat, hands down. maybe us lives just matter more?
So if a President yells “fire” in a crowded movie theater, we should all sit and sing kumbaya just because he’s the President?

No. The President isn’t above the law, and he shouldn’t be above the rules of social networking sites as well.

There are plenty of ways to archive and memorialize offensive/racist/vile posts from a President. The news media will do a fine job of that.

No exceptions, no mercy: if a President oversteps, they should be forcibly muzzled just like the rest of us.
> Why? Because even fixing all the small technical bugs in that long list would help only for a little while.

Totally agree with that.

> For example, if Linux Desktop somehow got to magically all items fixed case, it is way underfunded.

Kinda disagree with "the underfunded" part. The biggest issue with Linux is that it's not a platform like Windows, Android, iOS, etc. All of them feature

1) Rich stable APIs/ABIs, including for device drivers
2) Strong backward and forward compatibility
3) Strong cohesion between system components (e.g. kernel and userspace)
4) Excellent support for hardware
5) Universal packaging mechanism (the same 'exe' can be installed on any supported version of Windows/MS-DOS/OS/2, the same APK can be installed on any supported version of Android)

(See the Solving Linux part of the article).

There's just one distro which ticks almost all the checkboxes and that's RHEL and it's not exactly meant to be used on the desktop. Besides its hardware support leaves a lot to be desired as RedHat sticks to the same kernel release for all the support period (10 years or something) and regularly backports only certain drivers from mainline.

If someone created a Linux platform, even with the same number of bugs/missing features that we already have and it would still be a hundred times more successful than Linux has ever been.
Make him post from @potus. His personal brand is not important.
A lot of these leader are not too far off from this viewpoint they'd say it nicer and with more fluff but they'd come close to agreeing.
Uh no. The problem today isn't free speech, it's that the limits on how you transmit and disseminate it, favors the tiny, loud, misleading, ignorant few who can generate the most 'engagement'. Like you for instance. You're hear calling free speech dangerous, and that is such an absurd and ridiculous point of view I feel the need to respond.

Free speech has worked great for 100s of years. You don't give up wheels because people have started driving cars into buildings.

I sincerely hope that was all sarcasm.
FYI this site provides helpful "top 10" lists of foods that naturally contain a lot of vitamins and minerals (or are fortified). E.g. here's the Vitamin D list: https://www.myfooddata.com/articles/high-vitamin-D-foods.php

P.S. I learned a fascinating factoid from that Vitamin D list. You might be aware that standing out in the sun for 20 minutes is a good way to generate Vitamin D. Supposedly the same process happens by leaving crimini mushrooms out in the sun for 20 minutes before eating them.
That just strikes me as a disingenuous argument. No one can argue that drinking and driving is bad. But I would argue that drinking and driving is not correlated to SWAT teams being kitted out like they're on the ground in Afghanistan in 2004, and regular street police having access to military weaponry.
Why do you keep bringing up Trump? Ignore the election for a second.

I'm pointing out two issues: rioting, and the police brutality leading to the rioting are both societal problems. We saw this exact scenario after the Freddie Gray murder. I'm also trying to find out why you're avoiding admitting that both rioting and police brutality are problems.
Donations to Mozilla Foundation are not used for Firefox development: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/a98gmi/donations_t...
Disagree here. Traditional Media MIGHT let a politician lie, with a mention of the incorrectness during the article/segment.

But a politician having unfettered access to provide propaganda is not allowing leadership, if anything it's getting closer to single party control.
The point isn't to push a personal cause or belief. The goal should be to keep a safe space where people aren't allowed to threaten others and incite violence.
OUR LATEST DATA:

192 total press freedom violations

—31+ arrests

—131 assaults (108 by police, 23 by others)

—30 equipment or newsroom damage.

Assault category breakdown:

45 physical attacks (30 by police)

30 tear gassings

17 pepper sprayings

46 rubber bullet/projectiles

https://twitter.com/uspresstracker/status/126787802436572365...
Your system had 512-core Xeons? Did you mean that you had 5 12-core xeons? Or 512 cores total?
As someone who used to make fake IDs it would be very easy to pass EV checks. It's like putting a padlock on a gate. Anyone who wants to get past it can easily do so.
Minecraft AI Learns to Nerd Pole
I'm not familiar with nodejs backends specifically, but for web applications in general it should be possible to run a local copy of the web application with the same code that is being used in production and have it use the prod database connection. And then you can locally step through what is an equivalent of what is in prod with all of your normal local development tools and debuggers.

If you get this working, you can follow along steps to reproduce and hit debug breakpoints etc.
Wait, you're blaming the police if protests turn violent?
Where is Wendy Carlos? (2019)
The relative difficulty of finding Wendy Carlos recordings came up in the thread on Bach. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23393234

> As DeLuca says: "It is okay that Wendy Carlos is private and that she makes her music difficult to find; it makes her music more special."

I doubt the scarcity is a marketing ploy, though HN's entrepreneurs might find that aspect interesting to analyze. My guess is that Carlos is financially secure, has gotten all she wants out of her career in entertainment, and doesn't want to engage publicly any more.
>Therefore individuals aren't responsible and should not be coached to make different choices.

No that's not the point either. Most people do make their own choices, but the ways in which they come to those choices are influenced by their past experiences. Past experience can have a drastic effect on the choices you make in the future. Abuse/neglect/malnourishment during childhood and/or traumatic brain injury can have profound effects on someone's decision-making abilities later in life.

People should be held accountable for their poor choices, but with the understanding that not all lives have had equal opportunity, and there needs to be actual coaching available, not a bunch of finger wagging. Simply telling someone what's wrong with their life is that they "buy too many lotto tickets" is likely ignorant of the actual underlying problems that person may be facing or had to deal with in the past.
I don't think anyone has any problem with the original lending scheme. That was totally fair.

> What changed recently is that they began lending out to a potentially unlimited number of people at a time. But, you still didn't get to keep the book for more than two or three weeks (I forget the exact number).

This is the relevant part, and what has prompted the publisher lawsuit. Do you think people should be allowed to take out any software they want for free for 2-3 weeks for a "National Software Emergency Library". If not, why books.
This is legitimately the argument I hear from my friends who are fans of open carry. Now, it's with AR's and AK's, instead of grenades, but that exact line is what they use. I find the fear simply fascinating and confusing.
> how are the people living in the white neighborhoods to be blamed for that?

They aren’t necessarily to be blamed for that. This blog post isn’t really assigning blame to white homeowners.
I think it's a side effect of the cultural impact. D&D inspired role playing videogames, those inspired MMOs, and MMOs now inspire D&D. Playing 5e feels very much like playing World of Warcraft or something similar.

It's still fun of course -- when I was young we would play D&D with no character sheets and just a few dice -- but I agree some of the spirit is lost. I'm sure there are some custom settings out there with the depth of detail you're looking for.
News stories about freedom of speech and freedom of the press have always been welcome on HN, which is common in tech communities, and the words “most” and “probably” are doing a lot of work there.

This rule is fuzzy by design and I really don’t get why some people here are so pedantic about it.
The barrier to entry for integrating with the web ecosystem is way higher than native. I can interop trivially with basically any native app on my machine, meanwhile even basic tasks like 'export my data from this web service' are often difficult or impossible because vendors don't care.

If you are building a custom product from scratch with no need to integrate with users' existing data and services, the barrier to entry is low. But most users have lots of existing data to use and it lives on other services, so you have to integrate... if you can
> This would help protect against dangerous middlemen

but if everyone can get their certificate, they can always just sign it with their own...
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:c-5hfR...
i bring up this argument when anti ccp topics get flagged or modded, but for some reason the argument does not work in that context
For anyone who wants to keep an eye on what's going on, the subreddit /r/PublicFreakout is full of videos of police (and rioters) engaging in violence. I haven't found a better source yet. There's sometimes misattributed content, so be sure to wade carefully. Many of these cases have multiple videos from different people from different angles as well. The evidence is quite damning.
Yes this please! I recently found out the hoops one must jump through to sign code, I've basically have given up until one of the CI services will provide a way.
There is no solution to the problem except a curated list.

EV certs should be a one-time payment thing, reasonable price ($100, for example) and require paperwork to link it to a business or individual. Same as the "blue tick" in social apps.

That doesn’t stop everything, but at least it is not the wild west either.
Where can I find a list of authors who went out if business by this move in particular?
Including promotion of the likes of child pornography no less
> ignore the context of those videos

Huh? There was no context in most of those videos, which was exactly the problem I was pointing to, and is the same one with this post.
>in bed with powerful political or financial interests, or that they don’t habitually misrepresent facts for those interests

Does this make them legitimate targets for attack by the police?

Btw the same can be said about politicians.
I upvoted you so as to not prevent your "Less space than a Nomad. Lame." post from settling into its rightful place in history :)
While this "off-topic" definition has always been a gray line, I'm definitely in favor of continuing discussion on hacker news. While it's not about technology per se, HN IMO has had the best discussions when it comes to freedom of information, and how to balance varying interests and definitions when it comes to freedom of information (e.g. is requiring you give up a password the same thing as requiring a physical key, what rights do police have to search your phone, etc.)

This topic is fundamentally about freedom of information and what level we are comfortable (or uncomfortable) limiting that freedom in certain situations.
White supremacist infiltration of police organizations goes back a long time. Blaming the much more recent attention that people are paying to white supremacy for the movement itself is absurd. "You called me a white supremacist so now I am one" is nonsense.

The FBI warned of white supremacist infiltration of police forces over a decade ago.
Well,

1) it hardly matters since the point is that excessive disk access by an OS when, essentially, "nothing is happening" (opening the start menu, say) is a bad sign for generally giving-a-shit about performance and spinning rust just exposes the error,

2) they pushed Win10 upgrades on a bunch of well-performing spinning rust Win7 machines back in the middle of 2015, not 2020, immediately making them much worse,

3) most normal home users don't replace hard drives, don't replace their computer very often, buy the cheapest thing they can aside from that they think higher number = better and are often up-sold a large (=spinning rust) drive they don't need and can be up-sold because they buy them at real stores (yes, really), and only very recently did SSDs mostly displace magnetic platters on base configurations of cheap mass-market desktops. I guarantee a high percentage of home users are still booting off traditional HDDs, yes, even in 2020, and they're exactly the same sort not to have been able to figure out how to not upgrade to Win10.
AI is weirder than you think
Interesting - I'd never heard of COSS.

I'd thought they were doomed (ie, no linux cloud offering expected, no multi-platform or open source offerings). Windows Mobile did crash and burn, but Azure actually has linux containers (most common type I think) and their other stuff is sometimes open source / linux friendly now - (SQL Server??) it's whiplash for those of us who were around for the EEE period.
I believe most modern distributions have the framebuffer driver disabled. Embedded is an exception.
See how Mozilla is fighting for an "open web": https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/youtube-regrets/
Defund. Disarm. Disband.
for instance, one can use one's own app:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump/with-r...
“The most important, golden thing in politics is a cellphone number,” said Parscale, who ran Trump’s digital efforts in 2016 before leading the 2020 campaign. “When we receive cellphone numbers, it really allows us to identify them across the databases. Who are they, voting history, everything.”
Tweets were not deleted, you are using a strawman. Tweets were marked up with warning messages. It is perfectly sensible to mark as "factually wrong" a message that says "the sky is green" and as "inciting violence, but has to be kept for historic reasons" when the message is quoting a known oppressor and making threats.
Today Candy, tomorrow stomach ache.
Not saying I can verify this is real or even from recent events. But I think this is the video he is referring to:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/guqzyg/the_...
> her recordings are not as accessible as they ought to be

I found an article from 2019 about that: "Where is Wendy Carlos?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394457
And yet people bash Apple for collecting $99/year.
They get flagged quickly off the front page.
It will be, because of who he is. Anyone with large amounts of clout and following will not be subject to the same rules of the platform.
"Judgement proof" usually just means the plaintiff/copyright holder cannot make money off the defendant/infringer. But the infringer is still going to suffer financially. Having an expectation that you'll be driven into bankruptcy if you file a false counter-notice would probably serve as extremely effective deterrent against doing so, especially when it costs real money to file that false counter-notice.

Judgement-proof infringers may be a serious problem under the current system, but I think that problem would be more or less eliminated by requiring participants in the DMCA takedown procedures to have skin in the game.
No lmao, the US has enforced monopoly breakups of companies with much larger physical barriers, and honestly much more real-world dependency/impact
Yelling fire in a crowded theatre isn't protected, free speech.

Similarly incitement of violence isn't a political opinion to be agreed or disagreed with.
Serious question: Why?

C# is faster, more productive, has better tooling, and generics.
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I like it, and having played board games with my (now adolescent) daughter for years, it all rings true to my experience.

One thing I would like to point out is that a lot of software (including applications, languages, frameworks, etc) would benefit from a similar approach. When the tutorial starts out with "install these five things and then set up this environment and take on board these thirty pieces of jargon and now we can do something", it is hindering its own growth. Usually, it was nothing like that when it started, and just added things to make it "easier" (for people who already knew the basics), without realizing that they were cutting off their flow of new users.
Again, I think you don't realize how substantially better the iphone was compared to the competition (which then has worked to copy the iphone).
When I've herd this concept invoked the source has generally been attributed to Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.[1] That ruling seems to cut in either direction depending on the analysis. But in the end the most compelling argument seems to be lack of enforceability...

the rule of wealth maximization for shareholders is
virtually impossible to enforce as a practical matter. The
rule is aspirational, except in odd cases. As long as
corporate directors and CEOs claim to be maximizing profits
for shareholders, they will be taken at their word, because
it is impossible to refute these corporate officials'
self-serving assertions about their motives.

— Jonathan Macey

While the rule of wealth maximization for shareholders is not an enforceable law, it is a standard of conduct for officers and directors of a company.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
This will probably be an unpopular answer, but if you are in a situation where you need to turn over management of the site to a team of non programmers (which this post doesnt sound like); Managed Wordpress + static site plugin and cdn caching.

Managed Wordpress hosting is $4-$6/m from a reputable place[1], and then everything wordpress and below needs no maintenance. Youll have access control for which team members can control what, and there's probably more wordpress expertise out there than any other platform. The amount of good plugins out there minimize reinventing wheels.

[1] https://www.siteground.com/wordpress-hosting.htm
That’s not how white supremacy works.

More importantly, the history of US policing is firmly rooted in white supremacy.
Amazing specs for a computer made in the 1960s! Of course, the desktop machine I am using right now is much more powerful.
There's no such thing as unbiased news coverage. Any news outlet has more stories to report than they have capacity to report. They must exhibit some bias to control for what they show. (Or, alternatively, I guess they could just randomly select news stories, but I don't think that'd be very compelling.)
Zuckerberg realizes that large corporations should not be arbiters of truth, because it cannot be fair, and it cannot work long-term, in my opinion.

Even if one decides certain types of incorrect content should be removed, he realizes there's no chance for this to be applied evenly to all individuals and organizations, especially when the only example given by these activists is a single person.
And aside from signing certs being a racket, it makes sense for LE to be easier than getting a code signing cert! If the server I land on is a malicious website, I can close the tab. If the app I installed turns out to be malicious odds are good that I have to reformat my machine and restore an old backup, plus change all my security credentials because the malware exfiltrated them.
Are you ignoring the negotiation with led to a great financial deal with Google in 2017?

His raise is 100% justified...unless your implying that any software dev pulling in 150k would be able to negotiate a deal like that.
How do you select the video mode? (i.e. resolution, refreshrate, bits-per-pixel, etc.)
Locks only keep honest people out
> ML algorithms as too disturbing

Coming soon to Twitter: Automated trigger warnings
Nice, will be good to share this as a link to summarize the set of issues.
If I think about writers and scientists, I think about their archives being homed at universities and such. I'm always kind of amazed that certain artists (writers, painters, etc) end up with volumes of letters that sometimes get published after they've passed on.

I don't know if we'll have that rich vein to mine with everyone doing things in computers. Sometimes you'll get some emails from a dead author, but letters and notes? It'll be interesting to see what variation of material gets preserved when we look back in 20-50 years.