skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The numbers are on fake websites which grubhub sets up, which impersonate the business without clearly conveying that it's actually grub hub.

Those websites then end up on Google and Yelp.

It's a vile scam, supported only by immoral and brainless turds such as Riccardo Altavilla.
I hear it was rough on headcount.
That is just not true. Lapd was not prepared to handle the changes in technology since 1992 and the roving bands of organized looters.

They adjusted their strategy drastically on Monday and caught easily hundreds of looters on live tv. Their response times were under 5 minutes and they boxed in an entire caravan of looters at one point and caught them all.

There has been basically no looting today at all so far.
Software That Turns Confusing Math Equations into Simple Images
Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here? Note these two:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is no 'privacy' setting being flouted, other than one that's been entirely imagined up by commenters here.

In fact, if anything people should be against this kind of interaction between two completely independent arms of Google. Isn't that what the "Break Google Up" crowd wanted?
I go out of my way to avoid clicking on ad results and buying things that are heavily advertised (certain VPNs, audiobook services etc) because if they are trying that hard to push ads, it is almost certainly shit targeted towards uninformed consumers.

Those results are not the best value or most popular or highest rated or most comfortable or highest quality. They are the ones with the most money blow on internet ads.
Are there any good free/libre alternatives?
Thanks! That was easy to implement.
How can you be so bad at email that it "doesn't work"?

I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. We're talking about a company that has knowingly promoted white supremacists groups for the sake of clicks. I think that warrants putting just a little effort into email.

No tool is going to do your job for you. If Facebook succeeded where email failed, it's just because someone wasn't doing their job, not because of some special sauce that Facebook has.
Speaking as an infosec practitioner,systems like this are pieced together over time, they are not and cannot be torn down and rebuilt since that implies you can plan a complete design and follow through.

It takes time but a mess like this can be corrected. You first isolate/segment,then you determine scope and source of the compromise/failure as well as external communication channels. The cleaning up part starts when you first disable the communication channels, get forensics imaging as needed,surgically remove threats on critical systems and slowly rebuild systems that are less than critical.

Think of america as a network instead of a system, the hackers have seized control of the domain controller and other critical systems but they haven't compromised all systems or prevented admins from kicking them out.

The problem is not actually fixing America but convincing anyone how deep and widespread the problem is. You can fix it but the bad guys will just get back in, it's not just a cleanup but a systemic change on how security(national security,public security,etc..)is done. In american politics we're talking about changes to the constitution, perhaps even a rewrite. You can convince people a new president that will magically fix things is needed but you can't convince them the very foundation of the country has been cracked due to changes that happened over time and will cause a structural collapse.
> people turned up in #matrix-dev

Honestly, for a "normal" homeserver it does not make as much sense as for the p2p version of it. For the "actual server" synapse, I am more interested now in the multi-home-repo that I saw posted also on this thread.

> Sharing multi-gigabyte files with groups of people in a public way is, yes, maybe something some people do

Microsoft executives in the 90s: "Internet search is a silly idea. Once you find a site that you like, you just bookmark it. Who will be constantly search for the sites they already know?"

> if IPFS was uniquely suited (...) wouldn't people be posting IPFS links

The use-case of posting IPFS to share content is mostly covered by "posting magnet links", which is basically "why people just don't bookmark the sites they like?"

There is a lot more than could use cases that can come up once your matrix node can (a) manage data by its content (b) if it could know who also has it. And these use cases can be implemented in a way that do not make other use cases less secure.

You are right though that just having people asking for something without having no real background about the underlying challenges is a pain in the ass. Barely a year of working with blockchain stuff and I already roll my eyes every time I see someone on a forum doing a "Why don't you... X?" just after reading the word in some random blog. Let's see if I find time to brush up on my Go and contribute to the multi-home-repo project.
I too hate TNR, but mostly just because I think it's ugly and too small. Georgia makes a surprising alternative for Windows users - it's the same style but the details are much better thought out.
I'm going to guess that FB has that information since most Facebook users adblock via a plugin
Yet it happens and the system fails when last altruism and principles are erased. The same demons blame the victims.
This is a great way for Google to make all the margin of mattress sellers.
Profound analogy. Gig platforms appear to be overly helpful to customers and shake down restaurants and drivers.
https://static.cambridge.org/binary/version/id/urn:cambridge...

So they have a list of “undemocratic” behaviors, such as biased redistricting. But it doesn’t include using courts to secure laws that one side would be unable to get through the ordinary legislative process. That’s one of the most profoundly undemocratic things about the US. (Not bad, which is debatable, but by definition undemocratic.) So many major policies, from abortion to the role of religion in the public sphere are decided in America by unelected judges, whereas Europe for the most part manages to pass legislation on the same issues through democratic consensus. But social scientists steeped in American liberal ideology don’t even perceive this as anti-Democratic (again, different from good or bad).

This popped into my head reading the first paragraph, so I scrolled down to see what they thought were “undemocratic” things. Sure enough.
Don't build, operate, or maintain the infrastructure of the surveillance state. That's a big one.

For what it's worth, here is a story from WW2.

A B-17 came back from a run over Germany with a dud shell lodged in its fuel tank. When the intelligence units opened the shell, they found it completely empty apart from a note written in Czech saying, "this is all we can do for you, for now."
We used to just spin up a phpbb instance on a shared host for that. A lot of the hosting platforms had/have one-click installs for it.
It's just an old HP Proliant home server with a USB sound dongle, and VLC transcoding from ALSA PCM to Opus and serving HTTP. VLC does it all!

My radio has a WiFi interface, but it's weird and unreliable (only supports RTSP, 401s if the requested host isn't its internal IP, crashes after 12 hours, etc). So I just use a short analog audio cable instead.
Multi Domain LMS SaaS script with Live class module
How far can we push this software analogy...

The government is a PAAS business. They have various customers, both direct B2C, like you and me, and B2B relationships with other companies that run business on their platform. Either way the customers pay quarterly or yearly for the services through a system called taxes.

Political activists and are a type of white /gray hat hacker who seeks to demonstrate exploitable flaws in the platform and may benefit through bug bounties from backers or through getting advantageous features implemented. Lobbyists are a kind of social engineer that also wishes to influence feature decisions.

Legislators are a type of software developer. Their job is complicated by the lack of adequate test and simulation environments, and the presence of competing interests who frequently oppose the suggested features or implementation decisions but whose approval is often needed for the PR to garnish approval.
Translation Lookaside Buffer, TLB, started with Stretch, too. Nowadays we would call it a page msp cache, but the name has stuck.
You may have a good point, but this is a bad HN comment. For it to be a good HN comment you'd have to develop the point (1) in more detail, (2) with more explanation, and (3) without denunciatory rhetoric. If you were to do that, I'd be interested in reading it.

To post like this is against your interest because, to the extent that readers can tell what you're saying, they'll just be turned against it by the grandiosity and indignation. Those commodities are much too cheap on the internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Does the Nvidia proprietary kernel module provide a DRI interface?
Stop spreading lies.

Trump only got caught because the FBI was spying on Russians when his people approached the Russians asking for their help to subvert American democracy.

But I also get that you're a far-right extremist who despises democracy, and who thinks that using a hyper-partisan publisher who doesn't care about facts is a real source. So your brain worms have combined with your hatred of America to destroy you.
Sure thing. I'm interviewing for "senior software engineering" roles: full-stack, approximately 3-5 years out of school.

To clarify, they specifically ask about the Instagram feed.

Basic answer goes like this:
v0: Webserver handling requests talking to a relational DB. Return feed via ORDER BY created_at DESC;
v1: introduce CDNs to host image files closer to the client.
v2: pre-compute user's feeds and store them in a NoSQL table.

Where I struggle:
* Solving the "push" vs "pull" aspect. v2 doesn't work well for influencers with huge follower counts. How to handle this case? I suggested a blended approach but didn't have many ideas on how to knit them together.
* Would you still pre-compute the feeds even if people haven't logged in for a long period of time? I said we could bucket users into different categories of usage via an offline job and re-fresh their feeds on different cadences and store them in different levels of caching.

Curious to hear how I can add more detail and extend my solution!
I have no context on this, but just reading that sentence, why wouldn't a budget cut raise response times? Is there context that suggests they're lying?
Via Kim Zetter:

> If you're wondering why DEA and US Marshal's Service have been given authority to conduct covert surveillance of protestors, it's likely because they have planes outfitted with Dirtboxes - powerful stingray devices that collect data on phones from the air

https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1267969704259280896
Sure, I'm fairly confident that "Democracy" for many Americans means "my political beliefs" and does not designate an ideal political structure in which the system of government is determined by the populous.

In the American context it's become one of those meaningless, overloaded sham words, wrought with personal interpretation and emotion. For the American, anyone who is defending his own political prescriptions is a defender of sacred democracy.

I mean, jeez, we do such a poor job at political education in this country that I'm sure a large swath of the population couldn't even articulate ideal principles of a well-structured democracy.
Suit Claims Google’s Tracking Violates Federal Wiretap Law
> What's missing from current mathematics to make predictive models for biology?

Well, I think that, no joke, there is a Nobel Prize waiting for anyone who knows the answer to that. I think this is the next big paradigm shift needed in biology, not to mention several other fields.

Who is to say that the problem is strictly mathematical, though? It could be that the math exists, but no one knows how to fit existing data into it, or it could be that there is not enough data, or the right kind of data, to make such a model yet. It could be that both the data and algorithm exists, but we need to turn the Earth into computronium to run it. Who knows?

> So it seems that people are working on the problem of predictability

I'm sure they are. They have been for decades. The last time I did a systematic review of this area was before the resurgence of neural networks, so I can't really say what is the latest progress, or whether the progress in ANNs can inform this problem. I suspect it's very possible.

The situation right now, as far as I know is that: A) most biologists don't even know this is a problem, and B) those who do, don't have any idea what the solution is, or if one even exists (note the author of the linked article was pessimistic on that point).
This was a great read! Do you plan to continue to develop this? I would love to see more posts if so. I actually think this would be a great book as well. Cheers.
> I've always wondered how production/robust JVM implementations make themselves "faster" after they warm up.

They compile the bytecode just-in-time to native machine code, using many of the same techniques a conventional native code compiler.
Not much different from many countries e.g. India
That's all contingent both on OP discovering the restaurant through grubhub's tactics, and on it being unlikely that OP would have found said restaurant without the existence of grubhub's tactics.

For example, suppose a fairy told OP about the restaurant and OP then Googled it to get the number. If the grubhub MITM phone number bumped the real number/website further down then grubhub is a nuisance and a thief.

But OP also mentioned they thought they had ordered from the restaurant's web site. If that confusion is due to dark patterns employed by grubhub then grubhub is full of evil wizards who must be overcome in an epic battle.

Only if OP discovered by searching and grubhub bubbling to the top of a search where the restaurant otherwise wouldn't have appeared is grubhub the knight here.

So we need to know-- OP, how did you discover this new restaurant in the first place?
I don't understand why this isn't treated like domain name hijacking, though.

Suppose you want to go to McDonald's. I buy the McDonald's domain name. I put a credit card form on my site, and I "deliver" McDonald's to you. I charge a $40 surcharge for the privilege.

There is no way in hell that McDonald's would have to go begging at realmcdonald's.com because of my shenanigans. They'd have no patience for this bullshit. In real life they'd sicc a DMCA notice and a ton of lawyers on this and I'd lose my webhost and the sheriff would come visit me and who knows what else. They'd get McDonald's.com fast enough to make your head spin, and I'd be pushed out of that business.

Why is it different for restaurants?

Same problem: instead of me it's a company, and instead of McDonald's it's a small restaurant. But the principle is the same.

In domain name hijacking, it's presumed wrong because customers think they're reaching McDonald's when they're really calling me. In the GrubHub case it's exactly the same thing.

I don't understand why it's wrong when I do it, but it's not a problem GrubHub does. After all, McDonald's doesn't deliver, and I may own a very fine delivery business, but I'm still not allowed to coast off their name for my own business.
Good suggestion. People shouldn't believe the FUD spread by Firefox fanboys:

1. http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml

2. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=22270

3. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=22399

4. https://old.reddit.com/r/palemoon/comments/evywwj/how_secure...
This helps (but does not fix) the problems we're seeing now during the protests but doesn't at all address the problem that instigated the protests.
Exactly; strangely enough that is not quite how many people treat it. Well at least many I see.
They use Signal too
You can't do it from an X11 session, which uses DRM/KMS instead of fbdev, hence you will get the compatibility fbdev buffer, which will be all 0s. You need to be VT switched away (hit Ctrl+Alt+F3 or similar).
I wonder if Times New Roman would look better on an extremely high resolution screen, or if there's something else that would have to change in how we produce screens. (Increased contrast, or the lack of a backlight, for example.)
Net neutrality is supposed to mean that all data are equal.
Took a quick browse through your iOS codebase, and I gotta say that I am not impressed. This app seems to follow the classic "massive view controlller" architecture, where a ton on unrelated functionality is squeezed into the controller. On top of this, I see very little unit testing at a controller layer. This is a dangerous combination where some of the most complex part of you codebase has some of the least test coverage.

You might want to consider patterns like MVVM to bring your controllers under control and increase your test coverage.
Thanks for the long, nuanced post! I like HN especially because of these.

I'm also from small town TX and I consider myself more of a libertarian-lite than a "lefty" or a "righty" in the US political spectrum, so we have some things in common. I realize I tend to look down on "those who own lots of guns" (I'm not talking about just 1-2 per family) because I consider them to be my outgroup.

I decided not to post a lot of response-per-quote after a few drafts, but I'll just say: thanks for this.
Burn it all to the ground and rebuild.
I just don't get it. Are some people just incapable of doing basic research or reading an entire article?

Trump sought to clarify his comments Friday afternoon again on Twitter: "Looting leads to shooting, and that's why a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday night - or look at what just happened in Louisville with 7 people shot. I don't want this to happen, and that's what the expression put out last night means. It was spoken as a fact, not as a statement. It's very simple, nobody should have any problem with this other than the haters, and those looking to cause trouble on social media. Honor the memory of George Floyd!"

But, I will say this guy saw an opportunity and took it! Great self-promoter!
Yes, since a few years ago. https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/396.51/READ...
I have never understood why the police in the US shoot to kill(chest area) as opposed to disarming or injuring by shooting in the leg.
If you do use the fb device for some reason you don't need to have the user give the screen parameters like size and bit depth. Once you know the name of the framebuffer device all of that information is available in /sys/class/graphics/fbX/
There is no law that forces them not to work on other areas. It is just an administrative division.
Wide is good, it improves readability. If you want a narrower version of the same font, try Tahoma.

As a more readable version of Times New Roman, I like Georgia. It too was commissioned by Microsoft as a web font.
There's even a paragraph in there about an incident with the Minneapolis police. Thanks for sharing.
Police in other countries, ones that have better-performing police, are trained to deescalate in the same situations you describe.

People are right not to empathize.
* Warren believes the flow of money in politics has stalled progress on a number of other issues, including gun violence, climate change, and the rising cost of health care. Stamping money out of politics goes to the root of these issues, she says.*

And Lessig has been a supporter of Warren's for exactly this reason for years.
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does this argument not apply to all or most public sector employees? what if a teachers' union demanded high salaries and protection against being fired for poor performance (or worse)?
Google doesn't actually need Mozilla to increase their search market share. When Mozilla switched to Yahoo in the U.S., many users switched back to Google [1], and those who care about privacy switch to things such as DuckDuckGo anyways.

[1] https://searchengineland.com/report-yahoo-search-losing-fire...
I'm pretty sure they are only too happy to buat riot organizers (as distinct from protesters).
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At a previous job they refused to give me database access and instead insisted I ask them whenever I needed any columns added/altered, however I did have access to the code to do my job and...mysql root credentials were committed to the repo.

To keep the charade up I sent one of every 20 requests to them to do for me.
Well, a federal legislator has the states as a test environment. One of the great things about a federal system.
Mass Surveillance to Track the Coronavirus Threatens Black and Brown Communities
Salty water is more dense.
How is this relevant to this article?

Parallel construction can occur from any justice department org.
Had to download the DMG file directly from riot, I was having no luck finding it on the "official apple app store" https://riot.im/download/desktop/
I actually checked the about page for the first time when posting, and sure enough, you're correct. Google has good font design sense, I guess what with Roboto too. Cool!
There's already apps for it. You need root if you want to actually be able to avoid the suspicious towers.
I was interested in a server, but the website does not mention how much storage or any details at all really. Anyone happen to know where to find that info?
I tried to buy 4 different tiny startups and (mostly) failed
> You can't write to the framebuffer device while X11 is running because it will just get overwritten immediately.

You can't write to fbdev because that's not what X11 is using to display buffers to the screen, it uses the newer kernel mode-setting (KMS) API. It's only when you switch away to a VT that the "KMS master" drops its session, the kernel switches back to fbcon, and you can see the "raw fbdev" buffer again, which is usually a fake framebuffer. If you then write to the fbdev framebuffer, you'll see your changes, but fbcon will come in and overwrite them with the kernel console, unless you ioctl(KDSETMODE, KD_GRAPHICS); to turn off fbcon from drawing.
I feel the same way a lot recently and I would love for someone to tell me why I'm wrong.
I started too poor to be too rich, but from a very poor family and no support and background I currently belong to the 5% people making more money in my country, so although I'm not rich as private jet rich, I bootstrapped myself from poverty to a high quality standard of life.
>*As far as I'm aware, states' statutes for murder or manslaughter do not protect people acting under color of law.

Phew. thank you. Hopefully maiming is not protected as well.
Don't give up America's values for even more state sponsored discrimination based on ethnicity. It does mean PRC nationals and others continue to steal, but that's something to be managed through the legal system.
So judges. Just judges. Judges deal with things that haven't been specifically legislated. You're saying judges are antidemocratic because we don't vote on their decisions.

This applies equally to any individual's choice, then, I suppose.