skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Remind me when they drop bombs on an African country's capital and hang its leader, all on a false charge of possessing WMDs.

They didn't. On the other hand they were the master of Khmer Rouge, who carried out a genocide killing millions of Cambodians in 1970s - [0]

> In April 1975, Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia, and in January, 1976, Democratic Kampuchea was established. During the Cambodian genocide, the CPC was the main international patron of the Khmer Rouge, supplying "more than 15,000 military advisers" and most of its external aid. It is estimated that at least 90% of the foreign aid to Khmer Rouge came from China, with 1975 alone seeing US$1 billion in interest-free economics and military aid and US$20 million gift, which was "the biggest aid ever given to any one country by China". In June 1975, Pol Pot and other officials of Khmer Rouge met with Mao Zedong in Beijing, receiving Mao's approval and advice; in addition, Mao also taught Pot his "Theory of Continuing Revolution under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat（无产阶级专政下继续革命理论）". High-ranking CPC officials such as Zhang Chunqiao later visited Cambodia to offer help

You should also check out the short war with Vietnam in 1979, where atrocious crimes were committed against civilians.

You should finally read about Chinese's systematic effort to suppress Tibetans - [1], or more recently, Uyghurs

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinicization_of_Tibet
Trillium is a much better alternative to Obsidian's freemium marketing choice and poor licensing
I agree that both of Stefan's claims are more likely to be false. But as factual claims I think they are better dealt with by arguing against them rather than simply banning.

Of course, one can make a factual claim in bad faith in order to stoke controversy. It would be nice to limit this, but it happens so often and I don't see a principled way to prohibit them as a class.

On the other hand, I don't see how someone doesn't get banned for saying things like "Oh man it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men." or "#CancelWhitePeople"[1]. If we're going to ban people, those who say things like that against any demographic would be my first choice.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45052534
Hmm, no dentists of that type anywhere near me. Is there any other relevant organization that might have dentists with similar expertise?
SIGPIPE, ¦ Error messages were brief back in the old days.
With a toddler, you don't have much of a choice. Explaining won't work, and immitation is an instinct.

Question is whether this remains true in older age. Curious people are going to think about things anyway, so the choice is not between explanation and mindless repetition, but between correct explanation and random misunderstandings. Seems better to provide the correct one (and of course then do as much repetition as necessary).
Having a fast feedback loop helps with staying in the flow. Compile times need to be short for this.
yes but undeniably the dejanews or google groups usenet experience was worse than with a proper news client like Forté Agent, except for search.

These days a web based NNTP client could offer an equivalent if not superior experience.

[1] http://www.forteinc.com
>And it's not contradictory to have moral rules in favor of speech and against hate while also allowing the community to punch a nazi in the face for being a nazi.

There it is again. Yes, it absolutely is contradictory to proclaim that you support freedom of expression while threatening to punch someone in the face when you disagree with their ideas!
Posting the most offensive examples of gangster rap lyrics to Facebook or Twitter could easily get you banned or at least flagged/shadow-banned if the songs were about killing people, contained a lot of misogyny, etc. Uncensored gangster rap would definitely violate TOS for a lot of these platforms and would probably get auto-banned by bots. A lot of this music gets flagged as 21+ only on YouTube. Many businesses ban it on premise, and many record companies won't publish it. That's part of why the really extreme stuff tends to have its own labels, stations, channels, sites, etc.

You're allowed to listen to it in private of course, just like you are allowed to read or listen to any racist material you want in private. There are loads of web sites that cater specifically to these circles, and even entire alternative social networks. Like the most violent and offensive gangster rap, it has its own safe spaces and is available to anyone who wants it.
So, a bit OT, but I'm looking for some advice on building a Postgres cluster, and I'm pretty sure k8s is going to add a lot of complexity with no benefit.

I'm a Postgres fan, and use it a lot, but I've never actually used it in a clustered setup.

What I'm looking at clustering for is not really for scalability (still at the stage where we can scale vertically), but for high availability and backup - if one node is done for update, or crashes, the other node can take over, and I'd also ideally like point-in-time restore.

There seems to be a plethora of OSS projects claiming to help with this, so it looks like there isn't "one true way" - I'd love to hear how people are actually setting up their Postgres clusters for in practice?
Home infusion medicine is a fairly big, and growing, option in the States. A drug being IV is definitely inconvenient, but there are some options.
I started playing with it, and J became a very powerful desktop calculator. Then I started to tackle other programs in it, and I was hooked by the way it made me think about a problem. All of the selling points of functional programming, which didn't resonate when I was learning F# or Haskell or Lisp, became crystal to me when tacit programming in J or solely functions. I am a polyglot, but I like the array as the basic unit of computation (now very popular with GPUs, Pandas, and Tensorflow and all other array-laden technologies). I feel like I am distilling a problem down to a very well thought out distillation, and it brings me joy!
>Wouldn't data collection be limited by the mobile OS anyway

Maybe on iOS. But on Android of the ones that he listed, many can be retrieved without any permissions, such as

>* Phone hardware (cpu type, number of course, hardware ids, screen dimensions, dpi, memory usage, disk space, etc)

>* Whether or not you're rooted/jailbroken

I also suspect that they can get some or all of the network information without any special permissions either.

>* Everything network-related (ip, local ip, router mac, your mac, wifi access point name)

As for "other apps you have installed", it looks like it's getting it through the "retrieve running apps" permission, although I'm not sure whether that shows up as a permission prompt or not.
Not youtube, apparently.
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Sometimes I worry living in New Orleans will ruin me for other cities and then I realize all my collaborators (barring one interesting startup I’m not doing anything with just this moment) are other places. It’s painful (and arguably indicative of deep structural problems).
I was going to say, depending on the size of the developer for their application, they are horribly inconsistent with policy and feedback regarding review. I work at a mid level development game house, and compared to what the AAA game houses can get away with is night and day (maybe not quite as drastic as that, but the standards are definitely different).
They just announced something like a 7K per treatment price schedule for the drug, and it was largely developed at tax payer expense through a DoD scheme, so I’ll stick to my skepticism. The WHO also accidentally released some study data showing that drug showed no improvement in COVID outcomes:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/23/data-on-gileads-remdesiv...
I would think that the reputation of the creator becomes even more critical when considering a black box algorithm.
Drupal: https://git.drupalcode.org
Sending binary firmware updates (sysex) is not a necessary part of the API... they don't have to implement that, and if they do, they can ask for additional permissions.

Allowing you to use a keyboard as an input device is incredibly powerful, and even that can be handled much as camera and microphone is: you give the site permission.
GCP volumes are over network already. You can deploy stateful workloads using StatefulSets. We've run an HBase workloads for development purposes (about 20-30x cheaper than BigTable) and it worked great (no issues for over 12 months). While Postgres is hardly a distributed database, there may be some advantages to ensure availability and perhaps even more in replicated setup.
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Social media is the medium through which modern civil discourse is occurring. It is where political opinions are formed. To have all the major corporations strong-arm these companies to limit speech is dangerous. Companies should not determine the overton window.
What's new in Linux 2020 “Woke” Edition
What's new in Linux 2020 “Woke” Edition

- SIGVIRTUE added
- All red-black trees have been modified to right/left trees. Now the left nodes loot and burn down other trees.
- Any multithreaded code that exhibits a race condition will be labeled race-ist and be banned from further execution.
- All files are the same size in order to enforce equality and fair distribution of resources.
- There is no longer a root user. Everyone gets root. No more UID 0 privilege.
- All network ports are open and in LISTEN mode even though they actually are not really listening. Data from a left tree is echoed in a recursive loop, data from a right tree goes to /dev/null.
- The renice command has been renamed to trump. You can make one process trump another for priority.
- The kernel may be susceptible to a new virus. It may test positive without any symptoms requiring all processes to be shut down for 14 days unless those processes are operating on behalf of left nodes.
- Integers are no longer odd but they can be even. The floats were offended on behalf of the integers and protested. Integers are now even and special.
- Namespaces have been removed so that we can all share one big global, genderless, stateless single race namespace.
- Cgroups now favor processes that process a majority of left nodes automatically without notice or log message.
- Many of these features will revert back after November.
Supreme Court rulings[0][1]. They consistently rule in favor of free speech and believe something along the lines of "defending the thought that we hate".

They even sided with the Westboro Baptist Church (the people with the offensive signs)[2] so they're pretty committed to "absolute" free speech.

[0]: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1968/492
[1]: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/01-1107
[2]: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2010/09-751
I think London must secede from UK. I heard once somewhere that London is de-jure independent from the British crown by some prehistoric treaty.

A weird legal status where independence !== sovereignty.
I never resist the opportunity to quote:

Computer people generally design terrible computer interfaces because they are not only willing to cope with something bad, they're pleased to.
- Alan Kay, Personal Computing Historic Beginnings
This.

I don’t live in the Bay Area because I want to work in tech...

I work in tech because I want to live in the Bay Area, and my skill set of technical knowledge aligned with tech pretty nicely.

In San Francisco, when the pandemic ends and everything starts actually getting back to normal, we don’t have to worry about if the weather will be nice that month. We can pick back up where we left off.

I don’t have to cram our outside summer activities into five months anymore.

I love Chicago, but I did my time.
Let me make sure I have this straight. Trees don’t grow to the sky but we should have built five more colliders instead of a unique zero gravity research laboratory?
Facebook will be concerned but not particularly worried.

These advertisers will be back and the bulk of their revenue comes from SMBs who will never move their advertising dollars. People who have never had to run ads fail to understand just how superior Facebook's platform is for certain businesses/audiences.
Not sure about Google auth, but I created a Spotify account with their FB login years ago. About 1.5 years ago I wanted to decouple them, but they have no way to do it. I had to create an entirely new account. Not sure if it's a technical limitation or just a case of Spotify not prioritizing it, but their support tech did relate to me that they had lots of those switches occurring at the time.
Never saw validity as a good marker, reminds me of Sophistry-esque arguments. If you're an intelligent enough person you can bend and twist almost anything you want so that it's "valid".

I prefer the imagery and idea of something with a good foundation over something that's valid.
I found it jarring that Apple would present themselves as the vanguard defenders of privacy by announcing what is basically an email relay service. Most privacy-conscious people wouldn't exactly think of their emails going through Apple as any particular win in privacy.

And even for the "general user" I find the argument very weak, since it doesn't look as being any easier than using any other email relay, and there is a huge obvious conflict of interest for Apple here (they get data they may not have had otherwise PLUS have yet another tool to bind you to their services).

It reminds me of the days where everyone in the www was making OpenID providers but no one was actually willing to do an actual OpenID _consumer_. So that I could actually use _my_ identity provider on a server of _my_ choice instead of going through the hoops of yet another large company for no reason.
Not every app maker WANTS to store this user data.

Some makers just want things to work and to keep the process as simple as possible for the user.
I don't think it is a matter of keeping it a secret, my guess is that they don't want bleed over to wherever they haven't been banned yet.
Some, like Coca-Cola, if they knew what the whole meaning socially conscientious was then would STOP selling their sweetened watery drinks altogether... but I don’t expect them to do that any time soon.
I don't believe that people are looking for brand new cars in the middle of a pandemic, in July. Edmunds and Kelly Blue Book say the best deals are towards the end of the calendar year.

It would be safe to cut advertising especially only for a 30 day period.
Most Facebook ad spend is a zero sum game. Starbucks doesn't win tons of new business with their Facebook ads. But they can use it to hold ground against competitors.

This equilibrium was remarkably resilient. But Covid is a hard punch. And it seems to have knocked that equilibrium out of alignment. Everyone has simultaneously lost the benefits of advertising. As a result, everyone can unilaterally disarm.

The impetus is important. But there are structural reasons for the current environment. Similarly, once the current environment subsides, if nothing is changed, the old regime is likely to reassert itself.
TikTok is controlled by an authoritarian dictatorship engaged in a war against Western/Democratic values and human rights.
I’m very glad a web page cannot store 50mb data and send notification to me.

You only think from a developer’s perspective. What if you are the user receiving 50 notification requirement a day from a web browser?
Does that include any of the dependencies? [1]

1. https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/Cargo.toml
This seems like a really wild stance to take on a paradox. Paradoxes aren't principles, laws, or theories. They're just self-contradictory or logically contrary statements; they don't require "empirical evidence" outside of the reasoning laid out in the paradox itself.

It would be better to say that people shouldn't use a paradox as evidence for something (e.g., claim aliens must exist because of Fermi's Paradox).
(not specific to this case)

It's so often both in some ratio.

The worst combination is largely corrupt and incompetent leading to people causing massive damages for small personal profit.
Yes, exactly. I was shocked to read that and try to envision it happening today.
'half' is ambiguous here: They lose 1 bit of expressiveness for the mantissa, and 1 bit in the exponent, giving an efficiency loss of 2 bits from 32 == ~3%.

So there's very little loss in using single-precision floating point, and a lot of gains in smoothly handling larger numbers that arise from addition et al.

edit: I'm half wrong. The bit in mantissa isn't wasted, the only bit that's wasted in the sign bit in the exponent, so the efficiency loss is ~1.5%
If you don’t care about error rates and want an approximate location it could be done. If one finds satisfying a device which would tell you that you’re in such and such neighborhood but not give you the exact location sure.. We’re in 2020, that would be like travelling back in time
I'm pretty sure social media platforms all have the same problematic groups set up for one click deletion. If one pulls the trigger it's trivial for the rest to do it too.

It's the same coordination you see in penguins jumping off an ice flow. They'll all bunch up looking for sea lions they know are lurking. Eventually one jumps in or gets pushed and they all jump in right after.
There actually is a more technical reason. Running up to an election, brand advertising performs SIGNIFICANTLY worse. This is probably pre-emptive.
I have a cousin that her whole life always wanted to live close to her parents. She started to live 100 meters away from them. Then bought the land next to their house to build, etc.

I have always been an independent bastard. I love my family to death, but I want to be the furthest away from them. I am who I am, but different lives have different requirements. And different parents have different ways to be dealt with.

I can say here, I would love to have a more 'present' life with my parents. Do wood working projects with my father, or take my mother for coffee somewhere, but we are so different in the way we think, that 99.5% of the times, we just end up arguing (just Saturday evening, we had a family dinner with extended family, and I left their house after a screaming match with my father, no-one was right, we are just too different to ever understand each other)
In fact, I recall we had to contribute code to SVN to make it scale to our existing monorepo size :-)
Great discussion of this topic on the media criticism podcast Citations Needed last week. "How 'Polarization' Discourse Flattens Power Dynamics and Says Nothing"
https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-112-how-polar...
I like to call it the “gifted program” vibe.
Politics does. That's the difference. Acting on above is solely depends on political bias instead of a concrete notice. No official research conducted and released stating the harm about the apps, right?
I did the same thing. Food is amazing. I was eating my own food (not terrible!) and takeout for months in NYC before coming back home a few weeks ago.

Also, I have 3x as much living space, tons of open green space to run in, and people to talk to (all while saving > $2k/month). Many have suffered tremendously during this pandemic so I'm very blessed to be so lucky.
> "That’s a bad look, but it has nothing to do with privacy, and ultimately has no practical consequences for anybody."

I agree that it's not narrowly related to privacy, but it demonstrates that Apple is willing to comply with censorship demands from authoritarian governments. When/if China tries to take Taiwan the systemic suppression of Taiwan's existence and independence to the Chinese people may have played a part in what the public is willing to support. These kinds of things add up and have real effects.

> "What would you like Apple to do differently here? Should they martyr themselves in protest Chinese laws? What would that accomplish?"

I don't want to rehash my blog post linked above, but I'd argue Apple is responsible for the actions they take. They position themselves in the west as protectors of user privacy (refusing to decrypt iPhones, setting up systems where they can't be compelled to), yet in countries with real authoritarian governments where the people are at serious risk, where Uigers are put in camps and sterilized (https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c) Apple just 'follows local laws'. This is not a principled position.

What can they do? I'm not sure, but they can start with not being complicit in the oppressive laws of authoritarian countries. Maybe China has too much leverage with their manufacturing, but Apple has a strong brand and people want their devices. Maybe if they held up their principles then people in China would still try to smuggle the phones in?

Maybe it's too much to ask for western companies to support human rights everywhere even when there aren't government sanctions to force them, but I wish they did.

It's often in these countries that the people need protection the most.
Harbormaster works fine, though it requires a million clicks to set up.

It can trigger automatically for new commits or new revisions.

Gitlab is much better at the CI part, though, but significantly worse for code review.
Their peek was during the USSR and guess what happened then.

Their focus on aerospace just got nullified by SpaceX.

Their oil/gas is neglecting the accelerated shift from Europe to green energy.

So yeah, they still have military which was way bigger in the past and didn't got them anywhere.

The Ukraine story is not over and I don't think you have any idea why it was done.

It's because their fleet would be rendered useless is they can't control Ukraine and the black sea. And they don't control Ukraine yet :)

They did however already suffer pretty big losses because of it.
I really haven't seen any of the hate speech that's so revolting to these companies. I've seen them block links to websites that occasionally flirt with the far right, and I've seen their censorship ban memes that are innocent, so I don't know what they're so agitated over.
I think a lot of services use mobile number login as a way of bot-limiting; harder to create lots of phony email addresses than phone numbers. But it's still a pain in the butt :(
It's increasingly looking like an unpopular opinion, but Quibi to me seems like an obviously sound business strategy. It's seemingly skating where the puck is going through numerous media consumption trends. At worst, this short-term failure seems like the failure of Google Wave, namely that it failed by being too far ahead of its time (and it's ideas will be cannibalized into however many yet-to-be-invented media products).

This doesn't detract from the pleasure I have at seeing it fail, mainly because of the way they wantonly plagiarized Everything Is Terrible with "Memory Hole".

But, to generalize, I think a lot of people have lots of different reasons to feel animosity towards Quibi, and we're all collectively misconstruing that animosity as identification of a weak business model (which I don't believe it is).
The main advantage with Kubernetes (especially in low ops environments like GKE) is not scalability, but availability and ease of development (spinning things up and down is super-easy). The learning curve to stand something up is not very high and pays of over time compared to SSH-ing into VMs.
Most likely, he always had these beliefs, but he knew they were socially unacceptable so he kept them to himself. When a massive and lucrative potential audience developed on YouTube, of course he's going to be there to go after those views.