skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am honstely surprised that businesses and other organisations have come to accept this constant 24/7 "updates" scenario from Microsoft without some intelligent business people calling them out on it.

Imagine if every month, every week, or even every day someone from an office supply company came around to your office and collected all your pens, pencils and other office supplies and replaced them with "updated" versions. Meanwhile you could detect no meaningful difference from the "old" ones. After a while, you would just tell them to go away: "The supplies I have are working just fine. Thanks."
Right, but we don't hand out money to people who don't qualify for it (income > $X), so it's a different situation.

But to your point, I've heard a proposed UBI that gives money to everyone, but effectively claws it back in taxes for higher incomes. Actually it would claw 100% back and more in order to fund UBI.

In that case, I could see the inflationary pressure not being an issue since net-net, you're just giving cash to a set group of people.
Some of the reduction on crime may have come at the cost of racially biased stop and frisk.

This data shows 9 out of 10 people stopped were innocent. It also heavily showed that black and latino people were stopped much more frequently.
https://www.nyclu.org/en/Stop-and-Frisk-data

I am glad that stop and frisk was ruled unconstitutional.
https://civilrights.org/edfund/resource/nypds-infamous-stop-...
That can't be from all causes, there are around 8,000 deaths per day in the US from all causes.
Didn’t realize yc did so big batches. Surely it’s basically a shotgun approach at that stage
By and large, places that weren't hit as hard as NY and western Europe assumed that they had some inherent privilege or immunity, and many of them are being proved wrong. It's a basic human behavioral characteristic. Even if you don't understand why you are better off than someone else, the default assumption is that you are intrinsically better. It might be true! But it's dangerous to assume it when you don't know the reason why.

So I think it's more of a tragic flaw of human nature than a particularly unlucky failure of timing.

The other issue with human nature is that people need feedback, so when you have 2-4 weeks of delay in the loop, things get out of control. You have weeks of believing falsehoods before reality starts to kick in.
Another victim of the expertsexchange problem. It's unfortunate because hyphens really should be avoided in URLs. For the last couple of domain names I've registered, I made sure to put the potential names into the "Detect language" box in Google Translate to make sure they weren't inappropriate words in another language, in addition to reading them upside down and backwards for other English interpretations. Naming things is hard.
Scraping Websites: Python and Beautiful Soup and Ingesting into Elasticsearch
Dpub – CLI discourse publishing tool
The content here is you being an ass.
The entire idea behind MLzm schemes is to con your “friends” to get them to sell your goods.
It would be perfectly possible to have people who are trained to preserve evidence who are not also traditional police. E.g. a medical examiner of some kind. You want someone to work with traumatized victims delicately, and a uniformed cop with a sidearm is not the ideal presence in that case. I don't want to get into suspect present/absent/whatever; but this type of crime isn't necessarily done by a random stranger in every case.
Then they switched to fiber which didn't have these rules, and let the copper plant rot away.

I had the local ILEC repair my home POTS line so many times, I finally gave up and switched to VOIP. Now a year of service costs me less than a month used to...
On a related note, I was in the middle of a major forest fire once. The sound was the most intense thing. Every time a slight breeze started blowing, a deep roar like a freight train filled your chest cavity.
I never thought I would ever be defending zoom, but the fact that they don’t let you start the meeting without the meeting owner means that waiting attendees cant be zoom-bombed by griefers who just want to hurt other people because they think it’s funny.

Zoom does a lot of stupid stuff, but most of the things being raised against here aren’t actually in the list of the really stupid stuff that zoom does.

You’re missing the mark.
OK, I could see the impact not being consistent across all areas and all products.

However, if, as per your scenario, we only see housing prices go up in big cities, then we end up in the same place as before - people would need to leave in order to afford a place to live (where previously they would have received gov't housing).
It's funny how you're smart enough to know asian countries aren't like western countries but still stupid enough where you can't figure out something that costs 100k in the west isn't 100k in asia. People like you are so close to the sun but still grapple in dark stupidity.
It is actually much more complicated than that.

http://blog.rongarret.info/2019/07/the-trouble-with-many-wor...
Apologies I always forget that I only have experience with the big guys and haven’t seen what the smaller vendors are doing. I’ve made that mistake before so definitely a blind spot for me.

I do think that what smaller players is doing is the thing people thing of as obviously immoral, but those practices get pinned on everyone else.
I think it’s because he did not have a legal reason to do that traffic stop.
Airplanes are actually fairly efficient, the “problem” is that it makes long distance travel convenient and affordable.
This website really isn't for me if the average user can't tell the difference between chocolate and bullshit...
> I don't like to use infection as a standard because that depends 100% on how much testing you do

As I pointed out, our infection rate is higher than European countries that have a testing rate >= ours. So that is a fair comparison. I.E. our positivity rate is higher.
That seems... very suspicious. I doubt that the virus cares what the reason for a large gathering is. I don't think the BLM actions were using proper social distancing. But what does that leave? People who went haven't bothered to get tested since? Everybody wore masks, and that's way more effective than we thought? The gatherings were outside, and the Vitamin D is saving everyone?
The request isn't for it to be two phase, it's for auto-shutdown to cancel if any program can't fully restore itself.

If there's going to be a forced shutdown, to make sure everyone updates, it should come after half a week to a week of having a big warning on the screen. Windows should never be forcing programs closed when the user is on a coffee break or gone for the day or asleep.

Also chrome will reopen pages, but if you were doing something on that page it's going to be gone. So unless they improve that, it's not a great candidate for auto-reboot.
That's probably a misunderstanding. There are plenty of places that don't have public water, but that do have abundant potable water. It's just coming from a nearby well rather than a water treatment plant. Same with the sewer; they've got private septic systems rather than a public sewer system. This type of distributed infrastructure is less costly and more resilient than public water and sewer systems, though it's not suitable for cities or even suburbs.
Infection numbers are too easy to fake. Look at mortality rate, that's what actually counts.
Probably want to do the check at departure, so you’re not stuck with the cost of 14 days of quarantine at the destination or repatriation.
A Vote for Discrimination
Sony even managed to pre-emptively fix that last exploit a few months before it became known to the public, so users who were actively using their PS4 and allowing it to update unknowingly locked themselves out of jailbreaking before they had the chance. The prospects of jailbreaking the next gen consoles really aren't looking good given the PS4 was this much of a PITA and the Xbox One has been completely bulletproof for its entire life.
I don't think I'd be comfortable even giving them my phone unless I can wipe it first.
I think the root problem is that both political parties portray the other party as an existential threat to our country. Personally I think this is absurd: our country (USA) is strong enough to survive either the republicans or democrats in control of both houses or Congress and the White House. No, the country will not crash and burn depending on which party the elites and corporate news media happens to put in power.

When the Cold War ended, we (the US) lost our Worthy Rival (in the sense discussed in the book The Infinite Game). During the Cold War, both political parties agreed to get along because of an external rival. We now have several Worthy Rivals but fail to realize that, so as a country we have nothing to rally around except for an inaccurate belief in American Exceptualism.

I am hopeful that all of the problems (political, COVID 19, economy, and racism) that we face might unite the country.

As for Facebook acting in our public interest: I will believe it if it ever actually happens.
Interesting, but it's painful to read. It's as if someone is paying Chris per apostrophe.
My guess: the web developers who learned that lesson 10 years ago are now outnumbered and outvoted by the developers and designers who don't have enough experience to do interaction design well. Neophytes will pretty much always outnumber experts, and the neophytes can only be counted on to adhere to a handful of the most popular design guidelines.
Update: We accepted a pull request with a Windows build, including a binary executable and build instructions.
Given the levels of hubbub I’m seeing about Unilever getting off Facebook/Twitter for the year, this is striking me as an absolutely brilliant PR and marketing coup.

Before today I didn’t know they were even a thing. Now I do. This is better than free advertising: they are getting headlines for NOT spending money.

I know you can’t exactly plan this sort of thing, but Unilever’s marketing department earned their pay this week.
> So where is all the time spent?

I had the same question, so I decided to look under the covers to see what the update process actually involves. I experienced true horror, ran away screaming, and never looked back.

There are panthers in there, lurking in the shadows.
I'm not convinced that systemic poverty is the cause. Plenty of poorer counties and non urban, but just a poor, areas in the USA don't have these high violent crime rates.
Making every app that retains any state automatically save it sounds good but seems harder to implement than just don't reboot without asking.
Source please for testing rate? Both for the European countries, and for the individual US states (looking at the US as one lumped whole will give misleading results because different states are at different points in their infection, some are ending like NY, and some are starting like CA).
Let's use more of Firefox, only YOU can stop Chrome from becoming the next IE
For those who don't know (or belong to a newer generation), Microsoft's IE (Internet Explorer) was one browser that had almost monopolized itself globally for many years mostly during the early nineties decade. They managed to do it but the backlash was such that the public pressure practically caused a storm that made Bill Gates sit in front of the jury and answer some hard questions.

And today, I'm seeing history is repeating all over again, only Chrome has taken IE's place but there is no storm coming this time. Unlike our predecessors, we are giving in to convenience, we are acting like its not a botheration at all.

PLEASE DON'T DO IT. Consider the sheer browser market share that Chrome enjoys and Google's data interests for a moment, and it might already be too late for us. If a web service insists only on Chrome for best performance then change that service, not your browser! If Youtube gives issues to you then use Vimeo or Lbry instead. Let's unite in this effort and take it seriously, let's bring more diversity to the browser world.
I believe that’s accurate today, but not a huge delta if they choose to support a rich experience like Telegram does in the future.

1 TB stored in Backblaze B2 is $5/month plus egress/CDN charges.
I think it's pretty clear that we're talking about the American social media industry, and the major players are certainly located in the SF Bay Area.
Companies started in the last 10-15 years that started and ended on a mostly Java-based stack.

The business should also be super stable, slow growth, but high revenue/margins. That's probably the most important thing you should look for.
Ask HN: What systems or tech do you use to speed up your development process?
I find these kind of comments not really constructive.

You'd think everyone has a facebook account by now, or that people can create an account to read something that is important to them. It's not like it's a paywall.
I think the answer is to filter police who may have tendency to violence and racism out of the police force. There have been police who violate rights and the police departments keep them on even after the department or city pays huge settlements.

From my understanding police are able to leave departments and not necessarily have their complaint history follow them to new departments. So if they have racked up complaints then they could move to a new department and essentially have a clean record.
Alternate the digits, or the bits, of the two numbers and prepend 0's onto the shorter number if needed. Accomplishes this in 2n digits or bits instead of 2^n.
EU will ban US travellers when it reopens
People liked that believed in whatever was on TV before. Why do you think Fox News is such a big deal.
In the same vein, forced updates is why I refuse to allow Snap on any of my systems and opt for Flatpak instead.
Agreed. Many smaller, yet successful Hedge Funds limit the capital they manage for this very reason. Some strategies just don't work at certain scale.
> But it's Microsoft's ass

This is exactly why I don't run Microsoft software, even after their rabid tendencies mellowed a bit - providing software the user wants is not their priority.

But neither commercial consumer platform is producing an OS that respects their users - it is one-size-fits-all, you must be an idiot-ware. I don't serve my operating system, it's the other way around. So I'm done with both of them.
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Most people seem to think indexing is a boring cop-out, but imo it’s the place of humility you get to after you’ve dashed yourself against the rocks of trying to outperform for a few years - or decades - and then realising the whole endeavour is insanity.

It’s accepting that you’ll receive what the market gives you and not a dollar more, and that that’s the best you’re ever going to get.
Yup, the private entity would have to make a deal with the EU to only send OKed passengers on a plane (and crew, too).

It's not that hard. And while tests are not foolproof, it's probably "safe enough". I wonder why this hasn't been done already.
The documentary "The Brainwashing of My Dad" might be interesting to you. It's pretty cheaply made but it's about this very topic and offers some hope of how they got him to change.
The old ways of making sense of the world consisted, for the most part, of listening to institutions and people whose integrity, though not perfect, was far greater than it is today. CNN wasn't always the hyper-partisan POS it is today. The NYT used be a real newspaper. Same for the Post. There has not been a Walter Cronkite for decades.

I think its self-evident that journalism has changed, dramatically and for the worst as the Internet became widespread, and we have nothing to replace it with. This is happening at a time when information has been weaponized to an exquisite level with most of us not even aware we are under attack. So, no, I do not think this is business as usual, and while I agree good Journalism is not sufficient to solve our problems I do believe it is a necessary first step.

I think the funding problem is real, but solvable. There is a great hunger out there for honest reporting and there are plenty of people with both the resources and the integrity to help bootstrap a credible effort.
Wondering the same thing. I guess we are to assume that there was no stolen car, but then why wouldn't the author just state that? And in fact, wouldn't that warrant more than a reprimand?
Neighborhood isn't the right metaphor; it is as big as the world now, and should be compared to it. There are many "neigbhorhoods" on the internet. Unfortunately, many of them are quite bad. There are still good ones. For example, I run an online event that brings people together hundreds of people from 6 continents who each write marathon style for 24 hours. That type of event is exactly the "positive" potential of the internet that I dreamed about when I was a kid in the 90s. Unfortunately, one thing is true: the bad don't just dominate, they're way overcrowded.
"Almost every European liked Obama and supported his international leadership."

You are making some strong statements.
> highly engaged moderation

This in particular. It took me a very long time to recognize how important this was, but looking back the very best social spaces I've ever been in have all had reasonable standards of moderation with moderators who actually paid attention to the various conversations going on. That's not to say that all spaces with moderation standards are good, but I can't think of a worthwhile social network with hands-off or primarily user-driven moderation.

Trouble is, we haven't figured out a way to scale "good moderation" up to something like Facebook scale, and organizing a mass exodus from large social space is a lot harder to do en mass unless you have a Digg v4-scale unforced error.
HN commenters being able to say so is everything that's right with HN.

This would be correct, if the objection were right. But the commentator was objectively incorrect, in a way that could have been avoided with something as small as a web search, and the comment had the audacity to do so in a condescending way. I didn't knock anyone who had a genuine objection to the post, I replied to an incredibly low-effort and low-quality comment pointing out that it was low-effort and low-quality.

Commenting that a comment is exemplary of all that's wrong with HN is... popular, I'll grant you that, but it grates, and it's not really right.

This is the first one I've ever made, and I post pretty frequently. I don't think it's wrong whatsoever, and I'm standing by it.

It's a "shut up" argument.

It absolutely is a "shut up" argument. Comments should not be written when they can't get the simplest of facts straight, and authors of them should think before they post.

No need to disparage commenters.

I didn't, I disparaged their comment. I don't think doing so was wrong, either, because the comment was practically equivalent to replying to a well-considered post with a PNG of a meme.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

You can click through to get more granular on the country, state, and county levels.
Can you comment about how to actually use this approach for something useful? I've gotten toy services working with graal nativeimage, but every time I try moving a pre-existing project, I find that some library causes a problem.
You can say a lot of things about Zuckerberg, but boy does he have a difficult job.

The next time some one comes to me and say "I have a cool new idea for a new social network"...

Edit: I'll tell them to use mysql, it's a good choice for a database.
I am disappointed to see California's legislators vote in favor of removing the following text from the state constitution:

> “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group, on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”

Equality of opportunity and equality before the law are crucial for a functioning society that is built on laws. This proposed change enables discrimination by the state, in the form of affirmative action for college admissions and potentially other situations as well (like government contracting). I find this to be explicitly racist, but additionally it may even be counterproductive to the stated goals. Following passage of Proposition 209 (which banned discrimination), enrollment of underrepresented minorities in at the state's university system actually increased significantly (see https://www.ocregister.com/2020/06/23/california-legislature...).
I don't have good data for this, but Clang is much faster compiling C than C++, for example. I don't know if it's fast or slow in any absolute sense; it's not too far off from GCC time-wise and produces approximately-as-good optimized code for my purposes.
>many many tech executives were filmed/recorded publicly saying would would do anything in their power to avoid "another 2016"

Wow, "many many?" Like not one, not even many, but many squared by even more many? That's a lot.

And each of them of was filmed and recorded individually making the same statement too. That's shocking.

I don't suppose you could point us to the mountain of video and audio evidence implied by this comment, could you?
+1 for the effort. I'm wondering though isn't there a list of MS update ips floating around that you can add to your router's black-list?
I remember a time when all my friends were on Facebook. Being able to connect in a concrete way with people that lived far far away seemed magical. Facebook was that scrappy SV upstart that wanted to change the world and provided an ads free experience focused almost completely on people. It seems like a hazy memory, but I do remember liking it and imagining it as an agent of good in the general scheme of things. Very different from the toxic wasteland it is today.