skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only am I willing to double it (or more), I'm willing to drastically reduce their duties. We ask far too much of police officers in the US, we need to respect their wellbeing and start addressing root causes of issues.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RtnQ2GqBeg

[2]: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/killing-of-george-fl...

[3]: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/03/457251670...
Why 64 characters? Because 128 would be too much...

Seriously though, I like obnoxiously long passwords because it clues me in to who is storing my password in a manner than can be reverted to plain text if not in plaintext directly. If you're using a salted hash to store my password it shouldn't make a difference whether my password is "HN/2020/Jun!" or the full text of War and Peace -- just the hash will be stored. Anyone who tells me my password is too long makes me nervous because they are doing something different.

And of course I'm a little paranoid: how many breach datasets are your credentials in?
I’ll probably get hounded for saying this here but:

I genuinely believe that one of the biggest things harming American society right now is adtech. From social media to traditional media they have become obsessed with clicks and view time. This leads to negativity and extremism getting promoted and sensationalism overtaking authentic journalistic approaches. Not only that but it means a population that is getting constantly bombarded with terrible, often overinflated stories. Why? Because all this sells because the human brain is wired to focus on danger before all else.

China doesn’t have this same problem because it controls the media and censors social media. From a purely psychological standpoint this is a positive but there are obviously deep implications for what that censorship does to a society as well.

To answer your direct question, any losses by Google due to this will be dwarfed by the positive implications for the American society. I’m not saying this will fix the above problems but the amount of good it will do (in conjunction with other legislation especially, ie link tax and repealing section 230) is greater than the amount of bad by a mile.
Android would probably be spin-offable via the same strategy that technically makes Mozilla independent: pay for search engine placement. And then pay for all the services it connects to like Maps, Gmail, etc.

It'd def be messy to untangle backends though. One imagines that the play store relies heavily on CDNs by Google, as one random small example from the haystack of papercuts.
Which attitude?

The attitude that undefined behavior is seen as an opportunity for optimization, and backwards compatibility with your installed base is not particularly important. Not even if you know that the change breaks code in the wild which was intended for security checks.

See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30475 for discussion around one such change.

I will elide the specific self-congratulatory attitudes that you claim to have, and your not so subtle insults to myself. With one exception.

Or maybe you are talking about the attitude of not assuming that all users know the C standard to the letter and never write code that has bugs ?

This is exactly the reverse of the attitude that I've observed.

Including in yourself 2 posts up when you described how hard it can be to decide whether something is undefined behavior, but if it is undefined behavior then it isn't a compiler bug. Which, as a developer, tells me that I definitely am not able to decide whether the code will do anything like what appears to be written, or I will get unexpected nasal demons, in some unrelated section of code.
> Mount Rainier, originally known as Tahoma, is the tallest volcano in the Cascade Range and the 2nd tallest mountain in the continental United States at 14,411 feet.

Yeah, it's not the 2nd tallest mountain in the continental US. There are a bunch of mountains in Colorado that are taller and the tallest one is in California

Mount Whitney 14,494 feet
Mount Elbert 14,433 feet
Mount Massive 14,421 feet
Mount Harvard of Colorado 14,420 feet
Mount Rainier 14,410 feet
There is an area outside of Gilroy where a safety flare manufacturer had been dumping perchlorate in a pond for years. It was showing up in local wells years later and bottled water was provided for years until the levels went down enough. Now maybe it wasn't enough? Ouch.
> interworks better

You know that they are totally separate protocols, right?
de gustibus...
I will say both of the eCommerce businesses I worked at were 100% in thrall to google's decisions. Unless you are a brand the size of amazon that can get attention directly, everyone just does a google search. Which mean's if google decides to do something that impacts your ranking or ads you might just be completely out of business with in a matter of days, or slowly bleed out. They might even decide to compete with you or partner with one of your competitors. It's like if the owner of the streets could make a deal with walmart to build more lanes there and always have construction in front of your building. Or even not have a turn off. It controls online commerce basically.
Most things we consider “true” today were considered “false” right before they became “true”.

We’re just not great at being selective when discarding things, so it’s best to keep them around.
Thank you. Judging by deaths the crisis in the US has eased gradually since end of April.
No, I stopped writing the blog a long time ago. But, I always wanted to start a blog. Since, this covid and lockdown situation, till I get a job I want to pursue this.
Sounds like you had a choice of service providers where you live. That might explain why the service was so good. Unfortunately, most americans don't have a choice of service providers, or only have one fast provider (eg. cable that goes to 100mbit, but DSL that only goes to 10mbit).
Do you have any sources to back this up? I figured that may have been the case a few decades ago but I imagined nowadays the affirmative action outweighs those factors on a macro scale.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> The findings of this systematic review and meta-analysis support physical distancing of 1 m or more and provide quantitative estimates for models and contact tracing to inform policy. Optimum use of face masks, respirators, and eye protection in public and health-care settings should be informed by these findings and contextual factors. Robust randomised trials are needed to better inform the evidence for these interventions, but this systematic appraisal of currently best available evidence might inform interim guidance.

This is clear: physical distance definitely works. Optimal use of masks might work -- that's all they can say, and they need better evidence.
I can only assume you live near an estuary.

Do you really believe that water pollution is only a problem to be handled by people who are downstream and not a shared responsibility?
The Precision laptops use the Intel Wi-Fi chips. They're in the same shells as the XPS, and have some extra configuration and aftercare options, as well as more intelligent charging software.
Related tools for those working with JSON:

- jo: convert shell ouput to JSON

- jiq: interactive jq, useful when building complex jq queries
Isn't this an example that you don't want to break up the companies?

i.e. EU companies are not as competitive, presumably lack scale for lower pricing, lack scale to invest into expensive R&D

And that's bad for consumers
Flint is an example of what exactly? https://reason.com/2019/07/30/flint-water-crisis-democrat-de...

> Many in the media have parroted the absurd claim that the water crisis was caused by austerity, as if the government cared more about saving pennies than saving lives. The truth is exactly the opposite: Keeping DWSD as Flint's water provider was a cheaper option, but one that would have created zero new infrastructure jobs
State machines can have inputs and outputs - the new state is a function of the current state and the current input, the output is a function of the current state and optionally the current input. Noise is just part of the input and time obviously has meaning for state machines, too, as state transitions happen as time progresses.
The authors note that, eventually, they wish to make probiotics to treat illnesses. If interested, this piece offers comments on the study: http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-06-05-bacteria-perform-mass-su...
My customers are 100% government entities, so I'm not sure what you mean?
I love the restaurant analogy - it has great resonance especially if you consider cost of making it right.

If I order a Lasagne and get spaghetti meatballs, i think that's a big and i expect to be fixed.

If I order Lasagne and get Beef Lasagne when Inamna vegetarian then I still think it's a big, but the failure is not immediately in the kitchen - why did the waiter not check, if I am wearing dungarees and a a Tee Shirt saying "Die all
meat eaters" should that be a clue?

And what about the kitchen response - we all like the restaurant that apologises and comps the food for free. But we would be a bit surprised if we were told the Beef Lasagane was not going to be refunded and we had to pay again to get the veggie one.

But all those models exist in software.
Wow I was unaware about it. Thanks a lot for the suggestions.
This may be a stupid question, but can anything be planted in Martian soil, even if the atmosphere was corrected? I always assumed not.
I recently stopped using Signal over the PIN thing. I do not want them to store my data on their servers, but they won't let me opt out.
What's wrong with methane/oxygen?
There really should be a way to view the home page or some about page without logging in. This is normally a hard stop for me. I was curious enough to create a login because of this article https://medium.com/@danielblank/djitsu-the-problem-with-web-.... The article mentions that is open source. Can you share the a link to the repo?
It’s possible to have a federal regulation that only targets problems areas. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a classic example.
It does a yahoo search for me which includes ads if I use their dns servers.

But yes, this is why you use the DNS service of your choice instead of whatever dhcp returns.
We need better evidence that masks provide any benefit and don't cause harm before we try to fix problems.
> Dude what? I don't think anybody uses that. I've never heard of it before.

Ya, the first time I heard of it I had the same reaction, but it's legitimate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
That page is quite old, but lots of bodies use it: http://srp.stanford.edu/links.html

Amazon uses it in a service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/am...

Also, as another commenter said, Apple uses it in Homekit.
Lack of evidence is not evidence of absence.
This may be true, but it doesn’t change the fact that a powerful executive clearly could have a bias when criticizing legal/regulatory action.

Quite often, I see wealthy, influential members of the tech community speak out against regulatory function citing things like lost innovation, when the reality is that they were pretty financially motivated to disparage government action in the first place. Again, that’s not to say that this executive was lying, but he clearly makes negative statements around the antitrust case and had a clear financial reason for doing so. He’s not a neutral party making an objective observation here.
My take is that the highest tech debt is never duplication but always abstraction. Duplication make the job tedious and error-prone, but a wrong abstraction in the start and suddenly you have an insurmontable rewrite of everything for the unexpected change or feature that comes in and wasn't envisioned in the beginning. And it'll come, until you have product market fit and are not a startup anymore.
> Tech is and should never be political

I'm curious, do you think internet companies should refrain from releasing statements about political issues like net neutrality or the Patriot Act?
I don’t see any requirement for Apple to provide such functionality. This is simply because all Apple devices come with an OS preinstalled.

And you have tools like Jamf for any enterprise fleet management needs
One person’s charisma is another person’s irritation!
I think `jq`'s syntax is a bit different than bare JSON (I do basic stuff like `echo $CHANNELS_RESPONSE | jq -r ".public_identifier"`), I think it'd be like running a bash script as an input to a query :)

Also not sure whether to start repping TinyDev (my project) but I can pass in an arbitrary read-only SQL query via HTTP to create a materialized view from table(s). HTTP + local procedures is like a very simple RPC :)
> Google acquiring DoubleClick

Allowing that was probably a mistake. IDK if it's possible to undo, but letting the two biggest advertisers merge was is like almost definitionally anticompetitive.
Because it keeps happening for generations. The supposedly not-bad-apples have declined to clean house for at least 70 of policing in the USA.

At some point, decades ago, one must assume complicity.
I've managed some local networks (remotely) in this region for some high traffic sites: quite a handful of Asian countries have high bandwidth dense fiber inside the country, but it tends to go to crap as soon you exit the country/bottleneck heavily.

For example, Japan has 1G being common, SK has 1G being common, Taiwan has 500-1G common. They all bottleneck quite a bit exiting the country (except for TW, but to some destination countries only); and as a side effect, many "local" websites are extremely popular as opposed to being subject to other countries' laws and media.

SK has side effect of also having an extensive DNS and RST/hijacking-based national "great firewall" censorship system that is officially deployed for pornography and pro-NK articles, but has also been used for anti-LGBT rights websites and other purposes in the past, in addition to threats of forcing foreign companies to comply with heavy surveillance requirements like requiring national ID to comment on a blog post. Honestly, SK is not a great role model for internet or censorship. On top of that, while your "home" connectivity is fine, content providers trying to set up even CDN/caching nodes in SK are subject to serious annoyances, like the KRNIC/KINX crap where they really dislike it if your ASN isn't allocated by KRNIC - you're literally on the internet exchange already but all Korean ASs will not talk to you or give you time of day because you're not one of them, and are not present on the route server, and you're forced to route traffic that originates and terminates in Seoul through the US or Hurricane Electric or some other insane route.
Yes! But I'm extremely careful not to overtrain, also I've taken weeks off, etc., it's all the same.

My 5 days a week, btw, is not 5 days of very long workouts. This is a tangent but I used to do 3 days of 1.5+ hour workouts including heavy weight training (squats), and HIIT or other conditioning. All functional movements, no bodybuilding or anything. Now, I do 5 days a week of short 25-35m workouts. My body composition is way better and I feel less pain overall.
I can understand Canonical pushing for snaps. It's their product and they want it to succeed.

That said I hate their dirty ways. I find it even morally wrong. How can "sudo apt install chromium-browser" not install the apt package but install instead a snap? How I, as a user and also as a professional, trust Ubuntu if when I use their package manager I'm being tricked?

I don't use Windows for a reason, more than one actually. I've been using Ubuntu even with all the "weird" stuff Canonical has been doing over the years but I think this is the nail in the coffin.

Right now I'm using 20.04 but as soon as I finish some work I have left I'll install a fresh new distro.
Exactly. I see a lot of posts refuting the garbage from the too post, and it does nothing. It’s like watching a whole community try to nail jello to a telephone pole.
That's an ancient demo, I guess I should have linked a modern implementation sorry. More info here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
It's not as much America's Golden goose as the auto industry. That isn't a complete comparison, the destruction of the auto industry broke large swathes of the physical economy (by that I mean the many many industries that go into an automobile, factories for cables, factories for putting the plastic on cables, doors, glass, etc. These are physical locations that require many people involved, not to mention the job creature surrounding these manufacturing plants.

The tech companies, yes make a lot of money, but the wealth is much more concentrated and a lot lot less jobs are required to make it work.

These companies need to be broken up to foster competitiveness, which leads to more jobs, innovation in different sectors. The unified Google vs. China is such a tired argument from a company that trying to slowly spread their control and negatively leach internet users data. If they aren't broken up before they start causing even more material harm then who knows, maybe in 10 years when the only available GoogSurance denies your claim for medicine because they scraped your Ancenstry.com you'll see what I was talking about.
Why would guess the answer is yes then?
I've been using Mint now for several years and been satisfied with it. I was afraid that the Ubuntu's snap mishegas would force me to move elsewhere, but this is the message I was hoping to hear from the Mint team.
It is miles better than the implementation on Android.
But the mask is part of a set of PPE. By ignoring the eyes you're ignoring an important route.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> 2019-nCoV transmission through the ocular surface must not be ignored

Source for distancing: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Findings

Our search identified 172 observational studies across 16 countries and six continents, with no randomised controlled trials and 44 relevant comparative studies in health-care and non-health-care settings (n=25 697 patients). Transmission of viruses was lower with physical distancing of 1 m or more, compared with a distance of less than 1 m (n=10 736, pooled adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 0·18, 95% CI 0·09 to 0·38; risk difference [RD] −10·2%, 95% CI −11·5 to −7·5; moderate certainty); protection was increased as distance was lengthened (change in relative risk [RR] 2·02 per m; pinteraction=0·041; moderate certainty). Face mask use could result in a large reduction in risk of infection (n=2647; aOR 0·15, 95% CI 0·07 to 0·34, RD −14·3%, −15·9 to −10·7; low certainty), with stronger associations with N95 or similar respirators compared with disposable surgical masks or similar (eg, reusable 12–16-layer cotton masks; pinteraction=0·090; posterior probability >95%, low certainty). Eye protection also was associated with less infection (n=3713; aOR 0·22, 95% CI 0·12 to 0·39, RD −10·6%, 95% CI −12·5 to −7·7; low certainty). Unadjusted studies and subgroup and sensitivity analyses showed similar findings.

Interpretation

The findings of this systematic review and meta-analysis support physical distancing of 1 m or more and provide quantitative estimates for models and contact tracing to inform policy. Optimum use of face masks, respirators, and eye protection in public and health-care settings should be informed by these findings and contextual factors. Robust randomised trials are needed to better inform the evidence for these interventions, but this systematic appraisal of currently best available evidence might inform interim guidance.
> And just this morning, Alexis Ohanian (u/kn0thing), my Reddit cofounder, announced that he is resigning from our board and that he wishes for his seat to be filled with a Black candidate, a request that the board and I will honor.

Isn’t that considered race discrimination, thus would be against the Civil Right Act?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

I’m sure I’m missing something here, I cannot imagine that Reddit’s CEO would announce something like this without a review by their legal team.
Cluttering up df and mount output is a real problem. They are useful tools - cluttering their output makes them much less convenient / more time-consuming to use. I have about 8 mounts for snap and like 15 for cgroups here. And actually about 10 others that I don't remember seeing before at all. pstore? securityfs? tracefs? debugfs?
Is the purpose of school to create obedient workers? Questioning a narrative
As someone who has been thinking about doing some ghost writing for b2b/enterprises/startups as a nice side-income but never got to actuallly do it.

This is a great footprint for me to try and crack something to submit (monday) ideally.

I already applied to a great SaaS which I see an open call to write blogposts for in their newsletter. The CEO asked which topics I would like to write about and I submited 2-3 rough ideas, and he thought they were OK and asked for a draft.

I never followed through.

I don't have any blog although I think I could do it.

Would you mind emailing you for some more specific advice or editorial peer review in the moonshot case I finally get to write some shit?

Thanks again for your great (free) advice
You'd see though a dramatic difference in death rate between Austria and Switzerland. It appears, that the virus is deadlier when you get more of it the moment you infected; countries with the strictest mask regimes, voluntary or mandatory (Taiwan, Korea etc) have the lowest death rate, but not necessarily infection rate.
What if the government breaks up both. The ad tech businesses and the telecoms.

The question is whether this type of comment "[Google/Facebook] is not the problem..." is a not-so-clever attempt to defend a FAANG company or whether it is legitimiate. I have seen this type of response many times on HN. It is like someone saying "Don't look there, look here." Of course, we can look both here and there, one step at a time.

What is a legitimate argument why breaking up Google/Facebook prevents the government from later breaking up telecoms, or solving any other problem.

Whereas if the telecoms were broken up, how does that improve the situation with the ad tech oligarchy. Even if you say "Don't look there, look here" eventually we may look "there".
The harmful effects of Google/Facebook cannot be easily overhsadowed by other problems.
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about, you are clearly outside of this movement with clearly stated biases that you use to determine membership in a group which you oppose but refuse to let define itself, and you are using that to justify violence against the group.
Unless you can tell me ahead of time which police reports are going to end in violence, I suggest you reconsider your thinking. Sometimes something as innocent as a speeding ticket turns into a shooting.

Watch some episodes of actual police incidents. Drunk people can be armed. Domestically abused people can live in dangerous neighborhoods with gangs present. Sorry, a camera is not going to defend you from the Latin Kings.

Violent criminals do not care about your unicorn ideals. If they sense police are nerfed, they will fill that power vacuum with gang violence and drive out the police.

You tell me why Ciudad Juarez is one of the most dangerous cities in the world but El Paso, directly across the U.S.-Mexico border is relatively safe. That's policing.
So what is?
Very true. Especially the petty drug arrests they have to do are poisoning relationships between cops and citizens.
ALOS seems pretty good to me (I'm a GIS noob though). They have free 30m and expensive higher res https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/aw3d30/
I got downvoted for linking to a document about the source. WTF?
Both contain Cl but perchlorate is a highly oxidizing anion (ClO4-), while perchloroethylene is relatively unreactive (though carcinogenic) organic compound (Cl2C=CCl2)