skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not know it/of it so I cannot really say. If it works along the lines of NoRootFirewall ( creates a firewall to localhost and forces all internet connectivity to to go through that tunnel with a per app/per host allow/deny policies that are easy for a user to enale/disable ) then it is strictly the question of UX/design decisions.

FFS, my camera application wants to talk to the internet, sometimes when I'm NOT using it!
Nice Apophasis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
The problem is that a great many people believe everything they read on FB. As these people see it, "they wouldn't let them say it if it wasn't true."
> They invest in things the society didn't even know it needed.

That's an overly generous way to put it. In reality, VCs exist to fund companies that will make the VCs a lot of money. So either the companies they invest in have to (1) become profitable, or (2) the share price must increase drastically such that the VC's can sell their shares at a profit.

The reason VCs don't build hotels for the homeless isn't because "society already knows it needs this", it's because homeless people don't have any money so there's no profit in serving them.
I didn’t mean to imply that they did; just that their kind of menu-planning approach—of having many different (fast) final preparations that all take as input the same small set of pre-cooked ingredients—would also be a workable model to copy, to achieve the economies of scale that ghost kitchens require.
Stock price dropping over 8% today is one metric.
Really? Catch-22 implies they military doesn't trust the military, or maybe I missed something.
Exactly...I'd like to understand that as well. I really don't want to eat food where someone is 'innovating' (disrupting?) safety and hygiene regulations without some check and balance. And I don't think this 'attitude' on the part of health inspectors would be unique to SFO...
> Beto wasn’t planning on sending social workers to do the confiscation.

No, but he needn't have sent people with guns at first. The first step in enforcing any law is just asking people to comply with it. The next step is putting fines on them. Only the last step involves the threat or at the very end, the use of force.

Given the common attitudes of those who purchase and keep AR-15s, perhaps the chance of them complying with any future legal ban on assault weapons is small, but in that situation, by not complying they would be committing a criminal act.

> if necessary.

Yes, if necessary. A lot of issues we treat as law enforcement problems can be resolved without bringing violence into the picture, but that's only possible if the systems are set up that way that encourages non-violent intervention first. Unfortunately, our current law enforcement systems treat many situations as having a high probability of requiring violence.
The moderation team here is clever enough to catch things like these should they happen.
Dolphins learn “shelling” (eating trick) from peers, not mother
After watching the video again I stand by the description. At that position in the video the man faces them and has his knife arm fully extended before the shots are fired. There is a second perspective following the first that shows this more clearly.

Given he yells "you're going to have to fucking kill me" seconds prior to being shot it's hard to interpret any of that as a surrender.

The other controversial killing in recent memory is a non compliant armed man. The body cam footage is inconclusive on this one to me. The man certainly doesn't seem like a threat because he's on the ground. However, he was struggling and armed with a pistol. They gave him many opportunities to surrender.
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> Phones for various reasons (and a lot of them are phone carrier bureaucracy related, I would imagine)

IMHO the real issue is the size of the audience. Phones get sold to people who would never buy a computer, "non-technicals" to a level that desktops and laptops never really touched.

These folks 1) need a lot of help choosing what to buy, 2) have a relationship with these items that is not driven by tech specs but by "feels", 3) buy stuff primarily in shops, not from websites.
But this also highlights the benefit of community packaging. Debian packagers often backport security fixes into older versions of libraries that are no longer maintained upstream. That's a big part of their job--not just to bang out a build and walk away, but to keep an eye on things. This is why it's important to only use distro-packaged libraries as much as you can, even when statically linking.

Getting off the treadmill of integrating interface-breaking upstream changes is one of the biggest practical reasons people prefer static linking and directly adding upstream source repositories into their build. It's at least as important, IME, as being able to use newer versions of libraries unavailable in an LTS distro. It can work well for large organizations, such as Google with their monolithic build, because they can and often do substitute the army of open source packers with their own army of people to curate and backport upstream changes. For everybody else it's quite risky, and if containerization provides any measure we're definitely worse off given the staleness problems with even the most popular containers.[1]

[1] I wouldn't be surprised if an open source project emerged to provide regularly rebuilt and possibly patched upstream containers, recapitulating the organizational evolution of the traditional FOSS distribution ecosystem.
youtube video in show hn ?
Docker for Windows is pretty sweet WSL2 is even sweeter.

Microsoft pretty much killed Linux on desktop for anything other than ideological reasons at this point.
> Though that depends on how you interpret "much." If you double energy cost, upper middle class folks won't change their thermostat, but work class folks won't be able to afford to turn on their AC.

Most plans I've seen that involve an energy tax involve moving that money back to the working class via reduced taxes or rebates.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)...
> The Block Club is a local non-profit news organization, it seems a bit disingenuous to delegitimize them by calling them a "blog with a pretty transparent agenda".

We can agree to disagree I guess. They're not exactly subtle about their biases, but then again, neither are mainstream media outlets these days.

> The fact that the mayor is black and lesbian has little to do with the disproportionate enforcement of crimes and bringing up her race/sexual orientation is a poor way of denying the legitimacy of the claims made by Chance AND local news sources.

Is this satire? Of course the mayor's identities have nothing to do with the claim--as I said, I put that in there to head off predictable identitarian rebuttals. The mayor's identity would only "invalidate" Chance's claims if you believed that the racial, etc identity of the claimant is paramount and the content of the claims is unimportant--this would be textbook bigotry so I'm sure this wasn't where you were going. No, Chance's claim is invalid because it's an anecdote and one which is incorrect at that (per local news sources as well as the mayor, anyway).

> Your last point seems to be the only real argument made but the majority of arrests have more to do with petty and drug related offenses as opposed to firearms according to the U.S. DoJ.

I don't see what that has to do with Chicago's covid experience.
Just a guess, but normally lightning is caused by potential difference between the air and ground, so you roughly speaking have two potential surfaces/regions. For this to happen laterally, perhaps it would be enough to have three masses of air separated by two pressure fronts, with the interactions at the air masses' boundaries acting something like charge buildup across parallel plate capacitors. And then, dielectric breakdown happens.
I really would like to understand how twitter is completely absent of this conversation? Its content, in my opinion, is much more ugly. Facebook technology is better suited at taking down violent and sexual explicit content, topics that frequently slip through the cracks on Twitter.
Running GNU/Linux involves a different kind of fighting with your computer for a lot of machines. The intent is different but the result is the same.
What pisses me off is that a windows machinea spend so much time downloading and installing the OS and just a few Microsoft apps.

Linux machines update everything including hundreds of apps you may have installed (and some are updated very often) and you barely notice it happening because it's so damn efficient.
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I fully support that. But the sad alternative we have now, is to have Trump draw the line (he's already trying to do that with executive orders targeting social media).
Not sure You can always separate out violent from non-violent events. The police are expected to deal with a whole community in a holistic way.
> East Coast-based for this reason.

Or anywhere east of Chicago roughly (a large chunk of US/Canada is in Eastern time).

Even Chicago (Central Time) isn't too bad.

It starts getting iffy with Pacific and Mountain Time zones and CET.
>> Fear is what brought us the inane toilet paper shortage a few months ago.

That is not fear. That is panic. Relevant concept, but also very different.

Unless of course you believe reading this article you are criticizing will lead to people rushing to buy toilet paper again...
For sure. My comment was directed at Linux the kernel rather than Linux the ecosystem, but it's a totally valid point that for practical purposes that distinction can border on meaningless.
I don't understand why FB don't separate news from timeline into its own lane. They both can even be side by side in the UI.

This way, news algorithm can be treated differently than other non-political utilities. And there will be less people impacted by news (positively/negatively).
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> First, this analysis was done on Arch Linux, a source-based distribution. Since you know at compile time what your environment is, I would expect the benefits to be smaller. And of course, this means you're willing to do a lot of recompiles.

I run Gentoo as my Linux box. It takes a long time to compile stuff as it is (and I have a 22 core machine). Being forced to compile a lot more because everything is linked statically would be a nightmare.

This is definitely not a plus for source based distributions.
>>HN and the tech industry in general has a consistent presence of people espousing the laissez faire view on free speech.

Pre-2016 I would have agreed. Today the tech industry DOES NOT in any way have a "laissez faire view on free speech" the Tech Industry in general has a one sided political bias that is very clear, and the goal to suppress any speech not aligned with that political bias for the purposes of influencing elections
"Joel Finkelstein is the director of the Network Contagion Research Institute, which tracks hateful ideology online. He says that Facebook has become a key place for members of the Boogaloo movement to organize, recruit and discuss communication strategies through the use of private groups."

Earlier this month. I don't see how anyone who has had any experience with Facebook can not know that it is crammed full of violent neo-fascists.
The guy tried to express all the problems we - parents - have in the modern ("startup") ecosystem, and then he gets bashed because there are people who can't have kids. That's not the point. I'm the only parent in a 10 person startup and I'm constantly looked at like I'm the person slacking off, because I randomly have to go take care of my baby. Our 9am standup is a joke, with everyone groggy and still in their pajamas trying to wake up, while I was already up at 5 answering email, because I know the baby will get up at 6 and want to play. I respond to Slack and email at 11pm because that's the only time in the day I can sit and focus on what I need to write. And all of this doesn't matter, because nobody else has kids and they don't get it.
> NYC has used analytics since 1993 and it's widely credited as contributing to the incredible drop in crime.

I see the "NYC did X in the 90s and it caused crime to decrease" thing pretty often, but from what I've read, the real reasons for crime reduction in NYC aren't well understood, and when compared with crime reduction on the national level, NYC isn't really all that special; crime was dropping at similar rates throughout the country (and the world, even). So I'm not convinced that a NYC-centric examination of policy is at all representative. Not to mention that NYC itself is not a representative place, so what works in NYC may have no connection to what works elsewhere.

> Certainly we can decrease brutality by sending police into areas with no conflicts but that defeats the whole purpose of policing.

That's not the issue. The issue is that police are being sent to places, and because the computer told them to expect crime, they are primed to find crime, even if it's stuff they wouldn't bother with under normal circumstances. The simple act of saying "this neighborhood is a hot spot" makes it a hot spot, regardless of whether or not it actually is.

Put another way: the computer sends the police to places where there probably are some problems, but much fewer than police are primed to expect, so they end up creating problems in addition to any they solve. They get this "warzone" mentality where they feel like they're going into an "us vs. them" situation, where anyone on the street is assumed to possibly be a criminal. That's a recipe for unnecessary violence.

> We need effective and aggressive law enforcement as much as ever.

Effective, yes. We severely lack this in many places and need to work hard to fix this. Aggressive, no. That's why we're in the position we're in: aggressive assholes on a power trip who just happen to also be racist and think they're above the law.

> ...and show them that bad behavior will be punished severely.

That attitude suggests that you aren't really interested in making society better, just that you want to punish people for doing the wrong thing. But I suppose this shouldn't surprise me; based on incarceration rates and the state of prisons in the US, it doesn't seem like anyone is interested in prevention and rehabilitation, just "sticking it to those bad people".
20% of the country doesn’t have public water or sewer, including many fairly wealth areas. In vastly more of the country, existing water and sewer infrastructure is crumbling and needs replacement. Sure, you can pass bonds, but how do you get people to vote for those bonds when you also need to issue bonds for all this other higher priority infrastructure?
Maybe because the plan is to ditch Bay Area in the future? Why would people come to a specific place to found an internet company?
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Why shouldn't Facebook draw the line on their own platform?
I think there's a big difference in using it to predict who will commit a crime (a big nono imo) vs. where a crime will be committed. For example allocating patrols by likelyhood of breakins seems acceptable to me and might even free up resources for more important tasks. Same for mundane stuff like more patrol cars/checks for areas with more potential speeding violations/car accidents due to reckless driving etc.
I think I killed mine with the shutup10 tool. I can't imagine having my OS telling me when to update (and potentially kill the features I need, e.g. the Hyper-V) and when to restart. I understand the need to force an Office-running, email-attachment-clicking user to update periodically, but as a dev this is way past the line I would ever tolerate. And thanks to (also) folks like you, I don't have to, so thanks for that.

Another first thing I do after Windows 10 install is killing the task scheduler. Among other things, it contains a broken task related to Xbox support, which activates on idle and takes up like 50% of the CPU. I think that people think that the machine is running a defrag or some other optimization.

If Linux got its UI business together, I would flee from the Windows immediately. I've been 10 years on Mac but we all know where that's going. Now with WebKit and Node.js so advanced, I'm not sure what's stopping us from creating a really nice Linux UI ecosystem. Perhaps the state of Linux laptop drivers, mainly the touchpad ones.
Hotpatching actually used to exist in Windows versions prior to Windows 8, but it was removed because few updates were made to support it. In the 12 years of support for Windows Server 2003, only 10 updates were released that supported hotpatching. Additionally, malicious software has been reported to have taken advantage of the feature. [1]

[1]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3061998/group-uses-win...
I've thought about this a bit and I think one way I might do it is freeze the list once a user has typed something, even as better results are coming in. Once they type a new letter you can redo the search with the better results, and users will do that anyways if they don't see their results in that list.
A community that tolerates abusive behavior can be exploited to become a community that fosters abusive behavior.

Facebook is in control of what type of community they want their social network to be. At some point users may make a decision that they no longer want to be part of a community which tolerates certain behavior and Facebook will need to make a decision between a hands-off approach and a community that people want to be a part of. Facebook is reaching this point now.
Are these also issues for languages like Go and Rust?
I have the book and it's fantastic, it's really NOT an unltrabook and is meant to be a workstation. The Book 3 even comes with a Quadro GPU
Hey, author here. This is a project I've been working on for a while. This was inspired by frustrations I trying to build out a GraphQL service in node at airbnb. We used an early version of this with a lot of success to build out some of the support tools at airbnb. If you have any questions or feedback, let me know!
Too me it seems like the private enterprise is not the right place too look for funding for meaningful research, at least not in the current economy.
We pay $50/mo for (up to) 10 Mb/s down, 1 Mb/s up (that's megabits, so just over 1 MB/s down, and 0.125 MB/s up). Our only alternative is bundled service from Comcast that's $130/mo not including fees (at up to 300 Mb/s, with a 1TB data cap).
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That's intriguing, could you provide a link? If all females can just reproduce more, I would expect one would break ranks and increase her own fitness by maxing out regardless.
> asking users to compare the gigantic difference between a failed and non-failing output

It isn't. It's asking users to compare what happens at a particular bitrate as a demonstration that it works (well!) at bitrates significantly lower than what anything else can safely achieve. To get comparable quality you need several _times_ the number of bytes with another codec.

While I agree that it would be _interesting_ to see what happens below HiFiC's knee, the location of the knee for individual codecs is irrelevant to the comparison that really matters, because users just want high quality without high size or low size without low quality. And this clearly produces the best quality at the least size by a mile.

I think they did a fantastic job of showing both how each code looks at the same size and also how many bytes it takes for other codecs to reach the same quality. Showing what it looks like when HiFiC degrades if you go to an even lower than already extremely low bitrate would be fun and neat for comparing HiFiC's bitrates but has little bearing on how it compares to other codecs.
"We act as a needlessly centralized hub for information on a medium which is traditionally decentralized, and we do it without charging you!!"

Wow, thanks so much...
Many positive steps here, but still no change on allowing political ads that make knowingly false claims, or am I missing something?
It's not perfect, but at least a detective can be deposed.
> I’m working out of state, but I refuse to uproot my wife, who has an excellent job where we live and doesn’t want to move for very good reasons, and my cat, who I’m afraid is now chronically ill, for an allegedly-tenured job at a university in a state which mainly grows corn and racism.

I find that most people who hold these prejudices against "flyover country" have the privilege of never having their worldview tested.
Does that mean they can no longer arrive at protests before a crime has happened?
I imagine all the robots and logistics stuff.
Then what exactly is the problem? You can discuss crime statistics all you want, you just can't be virulently racist. This isn't a major issue to distinguish in the actual world and it's been a social norm for decades.

And if something's controversial and right on the line then that itself is discussed and resolved and that's it, that's how norms are developed.
That's a good point. The law can have an exception for communities that get less than 5 bids. If that happens the gov't builds the infrastructure.
Pretty much all the replies miss the point that the business versions of Windows (not just the server but workstation) can and are centrally managed by the business down to what patches are installed (and when), when reboots occur, etc.

It's consumers who have no control over the process.
> If the compiler and the build system is so coupled, I am now stuck with that build system.

This seems like a strawman. Please give me an example of this.

Your example has nothing to do with what most people considers "compiler" (that reads in code written in some programming language, and transforms it into some lower-level form, either machine code or some other format). Bazel is not a compiler, and it does not have any compiler built-in.
I think many commenters here fail to understand the real world consequences these racist algorithms have had. Go watch the ethics section of Lesson 6 in the Fast AI course (https://course.fast.ai/videos/?lesson=6); it covers many ethical topics, predictive policing being one of them. It's amazing that ethics aren't mandatory in computer science education. Should have learned our lesson 80 years ago when IBM happily computerized mass genocide.
>>I really would like to understand how twitter is completely absent of this conversation? Its content, in my opinion, is much more ugly.

If you look closely a pattern will emerge...

Hint: Think political bias
I can get on board with most of what you're saying here but I get the impression that a lot of people want to change history as part of a present-day political battle, rather than pursuing a better understanding of history.

Those same people often have a really shallow europe-centric historical understanding (the standard greece->rome->skip 1k years->renaissance->napoleon), so I don't trust them.

Like, Mansa Musa was the richest man on the planet at one point during the time period we're talking. Dude collapsed several economies on his pilgrimage to Mecca by giving away too much gold. Give me that, don't give me Morgan Freeman shoehorned into Robin Hood.
I’m guessing they didn’t mean 1 gigabit :(
There is only one substantive reason I am aware of: power.

Suppression of speech, especially political speech, is a raw power play by the suppressors.

That's a losing game though. I agree with GP, only dumb (aka honest) conduits last.
Yea, both of these points are so bad as to be almost parody.

Not only should you never, ever base your beliefs based on avoiding the discomfort of being an outsider, but you also should never, ever, use majority opinion as some sort of proof of... anything.

If you did, you’d have advocated for slavery if only you’d been born south of the Mason Dixon years ago.