skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An even bigger mistake than starting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the mistake of keeping those wars going forever.

And that mistake is still ongoing.

Of course, I'm assuming it's a mistake and not a deliberate strategy. But the people advocating for keeping troops there should make explicit again their reason for doing so.
It’s a golf cart.
I'm not trying to be a huge asshole here, but this has zero tests and just saves json files to disk. There's literally a full readme and contributors guide but zero tests for something that's supposed to store data for you?

For a community that loves it some Jepsen analysis, I can't for the life of me figure out why this has been up-voted so many times. This is just saving JSON file to disk. I'd argue this is harder than using Redis (flushing to disk) or (vomits in mouth) Mongo. Or shit, just use your filesystem and `jq`, you'll have something likely faster, safer, and more maintainable.
> In the long war over how to reconcile the Bible with historical fact, the story of David stands at ground zero.

I'd suggest the historicity of Jesus is a more profound question. Absent David, you could still try to lay claim to significant tracts of the various interpretations. For decades I'd assumed the historical record (outside the bible) was exhaustive, clear, and undisputed -- but beyond the deity aspect, there's some genuine doubt over the historical Jesus. [0]

Apropos TFA - I can recommend Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou's excellent BBC 3-episode series from 2011 called 'Bible's Buried Secrets', though I think there was a similar named US series at some point. In any case, one episode is dedicated to the question of 'Did King David's empire exist?' - I won't spoil the surprise of her conclusions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zp3j3
> A callback method that you can define to do anything you want in your program when the OS hands you the result of a user initiated paste operation because your program had focus. If you want custom keybindings to initiate the paste operation, you can register that desire with the OS.

Wonderful! Now how does this brilliant little solution account for applications that don't centre their operations on the keyboard?

How does this work for clicking on a UI element to paste?

How does this work for using non-tactile forms of input - say, a voice command?

How does this work for any method of interaction that's not "press a combination of keys"?

How does this interact with the very real and undebatable need to allow programs to simulate keyboard events?

What happens to operating systems that have the implementation of a system clipboard as out of scope (like a little-known operating system called Linux)? How does, say, the X window server then manage to implement a clipboard on top of it?

> rolling your own GUI and defining keybindings doesn't mean that you control access to the interface. The operating system mediating the hardware does that.

I am very curious indeed: what, exactly, do you think happens when (for example) a C program calls `getchar()`?

> But let's stop making "steal my secrets" part of the fucking standard system API and start working toward a brighter tomorrow.

If you consider something a secret, then may I suggest that you don't (both as a user and as a developer) put it in the general shared buffer for applications? The whole point of a buffer for temporarily storing and transferring data between applications is for said applications to actually access it. You are doing the equivalent of saving your "secret" in plaintext in your home folder and then complaining about the OS if/when a program peeks through your generally accessible home folder and finds it.
I worked for a company that put stuff like this on people’s systems. Small software shop, I think one of the owners was just a control freak. The business was successful and otherwise seemingly well run, I’ve certainly worked at worse places in my life.
I remember as soon as MS switched away from P2P, the latency of my calls went up.

Actually, as far as I can tell every mainstream† voip product right now has more latency than Skype used to. This sucks; it causes conversations to flow less naturally.

† aka not Mumble, which I will never convince friends to use.
Open source alternative to Microsoft Lens and CamScanner
My favorite part of reading LRB articles I come across on here is guessing what the article will be about from the title. I never guess correctly but I’m always hooked by the time I’ve read far enough to understand the title.
> 7.2kW for 32 hours is 230.4 kWh.

I'd guess 7.2kW is the peak, not the continuous load it is capable of. At least that's usually how generators are marketed, by their peak load capability.
Problem is people don't eat their own dog food. Rules are good, for others, and for US to break!
At least with software features that require a subscription to work you don't pay any penalty if you don't subscribe, assuming the software is running on hardware that would be there anyway for non-subscription purposes.

With a feature like this which involved hardware that is useless to non-subscribers those non-subscribers are paying a penalty of the extra energy their car uses to haul around the extra hardware.

As a matter of principle, I'd be fine with making it illegal to include such features on new cars. Any hardware you include in the car has to be functional without a subscription.

They could still sell a subscription seat warmer. They just could not include the hardware with the car. They would have to wait for the customer to actually order the subscription and then install the hardware.
MIT apologizes, permanently pulls dataset AI system using racist slurs
It seems like this is partially because (in the US at least) covid is a largely political thing, as stupid as that is.

Once we are 50 years in the future I think both of these will be regarded as stupid/backward.
> On a related note, if there were a similar site for drm-free movie purchases, I’d be all over it.

No joke. Call me old fashioned, but I love self-hosting my music collection and BandCamp is a key in facilitating that. I would do the same with movies if it were an option.
> “A-blasts will mine ore now inaccessible, and recover oil locked in shale. Subterranean atomic bombs will drive electric power plants. Underground reservoirs dug with nuclear bombs will make deserts bloom. And the atom’s might power will make child’s play of colossal earth-moving feats, to dig harbors, dredge channels, and build great canals.”

How exactly is the State not evil?

There are/were Aboriginal/Indigenous [1] people there for millennia and they knew that, then again that didn't stop them from destroying the lives of the People of the Marshall Islands [2], either with this headlong pursuit to use this technology if given the chance.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Natives

2: https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-te...
Sort of. The CoE + developers wanted to fill in the remaining 2/3 since 1/3 was already being used as trash dumps. [0] And now, large chunks of bay cities are built on top of the former dumps. It's one of the reasons why there are dozens of ships buried under the SF Financial District. [1]

[0]https://blog.savesfbay.org/2013/04/trash-dumps-and-the-hidde...

[1]https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/ghos...
If Covid has done anything for me, is that it’s teaching me how little we understand drugs and how unreliable are studies.

I have seen Hydroxychloroquine go from promising to helpful to not-helpful to damaging to promising again.
> As a fairly novice level coder I'll stick to an IDE with scroll ability and a mouse/etc for coding

Check out gvim - it's a graphical version of vim that gives you scrolling and mouse support.

It's not quite as graphical as a regular IDE but basic stuff like mouse and scrolling is fully supported. You can even use the mouse to e.g. resize tiled windows within the editor.
What part of that are you pointing to?
No, it's yet another observational study. The two RCTs that have been done -- for prophylactic use and for severe patients were both negative, although the studies were small, so there could be a small benefit from HCQ. No one to my knowledge has published an RCT for HCQ given early in the disease.
I suspect d's metaprogramming is not as good as nim's (haven't used the latter), though it's better than metaprogramming of every language I've used without macros.

That said, it can do all of the metaprogramming-related tasks you mention.
Whether traditional search warrants or breaking end-to-end encryption violates privacy more really depends on specific cases and the details of how the end-to-end encryption gets broken. Search warrants definitely aim to seize communications and intrude into private notes, collections, offline-only meetings, affairs, and all kinds of potentially embarrassing bedroom items that were purchased anonymously.

The only real defence against government abuse is strengthening democratic institutions, respect for human rights, strong oversight, transparency etc.. End-to-end encryption is quite a shallow/weak protection since a truly tyrannical government can easily make it illegal at any time. A lot of government abuse is also possible without breaking encryption.

So I think the benefit of end-to-end encryption in protecting against abusive governments is often over-stated. But what about the costs? For example technological progress is making the world more dangerous. Should it be easy for a bunch of people to use unbreakable encryption to coordinate the development extremely dangerous genetically engineered bio-weapons from their homes? If one such person is caught should it be really impossible for 5 judges to allow the police to find all those they've been talking to?
> Isn't this totally obvious?

Without looking at contracts, no.
Right, but those are private spaces.

Social media is what i would consider a public space.

Your analogy would be analogous to police locking up lawful protestors.
Unfortunately everyone in the space does it. Hiring 200 FT with benefits that you only have work for during two months a year will quickly put you out of business.
One of my favorite things of this show is the freedom to mock most of the topics in a way Cartman represent that extreme, others represent the common sense, but is very important for both left and right which have gone extreme to reason and discuss, this show is a good example of how any topic can be discussed just not ignored
Depending on your definition of bossware, this may or may not be practically impossible. If you consider carbon black to be bossware, you would have to exploit the operating system vuln to get around it.

Every once in a blue moon, our security team runs a p99-latency scan on my laptop, that basically bricks it. I’ve tried and failed to kill it, but I’m open to suggestions!
Ubisoft CEO lays out a plan to change the company's toxic culture
You don't form connections by bludgeoning yourself into a different mold, but by finding a way to connect while being yourself. I see things very differently than most of my friends, and I'm still good friends with them and they with me.
1 MB * 1,000,000 = 1 TB
Mutated Covid-19 Viral Strain in U.S. and Europe 10 Times More Contagious
No, more like leave it to HN to have comments providing a completely different perspective and framing of the problem than what you’d expect. Some variant of the above article has been posted dozens of times across multiple message boards and link aggregators since the pandemic began, the consensus is always that the software is horrible and a huge invasion of privacy and on and on (which it is, but we already knew that). I’m thankful for the above commenter’s framing of the issue as it’s something I hadn’t considered and haven’t seen in any of the previous comment sections.
> to how clipboards work on their OSes before this?

GNOME has a Wayland implementation too, and what I said only applies to GNOME native apps.
Because it gets customers to the product they want faster than anything else in e-commerce. Selling shoes or something online? Algolia will earn back its cost in conversion.
Per other note, everyone in the space does it. It’s a fairly commodity business so paying more or keeping people all year when there are only two months of work would put them out of business quickly. If anything it’s a flaw in the underlying law that creates that seasonality
Common Asthma Drug Could Treat Alzheimer's
So does several immunity-based herbals but we since we can't patent those, they are scam and HCQ with side effects is the "real deal".
That is what the article explains, but I was responding to someone who was dismissing the article, so I was wondering if they had a different take.
Don’t know why a person needs more than one streaming service. How much TV does a person need to watch?
Yup. My company went with gChat and have a global setting where messages disappear after about 10 minutes.

It was exactly the reason you stated. Not necessarily that they were worried bad things would happen (but in a big enough company the chance is high), but just the compliance requirements. If someone falls under a legal hold, all of that has to be collected and retained on a schedule.

Easier just to wipe it out after a set time period a global policy.
That's what good culture fit looks like.
Cornell researchers say in-person semester for university safer than online one
What are you talking about? They have tests right here: https://github.com/Devs-Garden/jsonbase/blob/master/test.js

Just uncomment the tests you want to run! Easier than using a testing library IMO.
You aren't referring to this gem, right? ;-) https://github.com/aaronjanse/asciidots
GtkClipboard, like many, many other clipboard implementations, provides programmatic access to applications[0].

I am thus very curious indeed about how a "GNOME native" app differs in this context.

0. https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk3-Clipboards.html
Swastika is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

I wonder why it'still considered "taboo" in the Western society in the information-age.
I'm going to play devils advocate here...

They could make the data for all levels of the organization public within the organization. Doing this would allow for time tracking to be had for the scared middle management, but also give any employees the chance to view any unfair treatment.

Of course this would never happen, but honestly, I would probably be ok with it.
> When we erase history, we lose this guidance and direction.

The AHA has specifically put out a statement[0] about monuments. The prime quote:

> To remove a monument, or to change the name of a school or street, is not to erase history, but rather to alter or call attention to a previous interpretation of history.

Thucydides, arguably the very first historian ever, criticized statues and monuments as poor representations of history. It is important to understand the difference between history and historical memory. Monuments are not pedagogy tools. Actual professional historians do not see them as relevant for teaching us about the people they represent.

[0] https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/aha-advocacy/ah...
Ok. I learned my lesson... don't make fun of Apple on HN.
> I have sometimes read manifestos of perpetrators of similar incidents because I was trying to understand what possesses a person to do such a thing.

I think I understand where the frustration comes from, at least for mass shooters in the recent years. It comes from the hypocrisy of the progressive discourse pushed by mainstream media.

Of course their manifestos don't make any sense. In part because 95% of people (including me) couldn't write a coherent and logical political essay to save their lives. But also because they don't understand where their anger comes from. They vaguely know mainstream media is manipulating people and pushing pernicious ideas, but they can't explain why they're wrong. So they just resort to saying the opposite of what mainstream media is saying.

"You say we should have open borders and everyone that says otherwise is a racist bigot? Oh I'll teach you what it's like to be a racist bigot. How do you like that?"

"I'm transphobic for saying that a trans woman is biologically male? I'll show you what a real transphobe looks like"

Meanwhile, progressive media keeps publicly jerking off to their moral superiority and writing articles about how they're saving the world from these abhorrent alt-right white supremacists, which just keeps adding fuel to the fire.

This is not a new idea, Rob Hoffman has a good article about how Trump rose to power thanks to 'liberal smugness' [0], but I think everyone knows that already.

[0] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/how-the-left...
> People who are domain experts in various fields don't know how, don't care to, and shouldn't code.

My impression (correct me if I'm wrong, though) is that this is less "domain experts writing code" and more "editors can export a Wikidata 'subject' to a prebuilt translated page that domain experts can later expand". The aim of Wikidata is to collect information in a language-agnostic way, whereas the aim of Abstract Wikipedia seems to be to take that information and turn it into autogenerated pages in whatever language (even if that page is more-or-less a stub).
Why does the process of synthesizing data and then training a model on it work well, when hard-coding an algorithm never does?
That's why I keep coming back to HN. I'll see the media coverage on some issue, then check HN where some insider actually knows whats going on and it turns out the media has no clue.
> There's nothing about a pandemic that says that passport issuance/renewal must be closed down all year keeping Americans trapped in the U.S. Stop excusing low standards.

Indoor workers face serious health risks if they have to go into the office and can't maintain social distancing. Do you really think someone should put their family's life at risk because you waited to the last minute to renew your passport and want to go on vacation?

Before you accuse others of low standards I would do a little introspection. The only person you have to blame for waiting until you were months away from expiration is yourself. You could have easily had it renewed while you lived abroad. My advice for when you have a task like a passport renewal that needs repeating once every 10 years: consider doing it before 97.5% of the time has elapsed.
The only streaming service I subscribe to is Netflix and that is shared with 4 of our family members across 3 countries. I stopped watching live tv there is no point anymore.
Worthless without control group
"You can't just extend your territorial jurisdiction and take over another country."

laughs in british
Linear TV as a concept just doesn't seem sustainable for much longer at the current trajectory. It's lost half its viewership in the past 3 years [1]. The decline will continue. Flagship channels will continue to exist, but at some point the bundling model will break down when the economics deteriorate further. Bundling is the only thing keeping most of these channels afloat.

[1] https://medium.com/@ThinkNowTweets/linear-tv-loses-half-its-...
This is really useful. Great job
I don't think it's fair to directly contrast Cornell and Richmond here. If you watch the video, the Richmond kid said something way worse in response, and the Cornell kid replied to that with "you can't say that" and reiterating that this should not be posted (which Richmond kid obviously then ignored).

Also, it's a testament to the quality of Morristown-Beard that Colgate girl decided to post such an obviously offensive meme the night right after her classmates went viral for racism. I can't imagine she didn't hear the school news, so if even that didn't make her rethink it, well that says a lot.
Linear TV Loses Half Its Viewers as Streaming Services Soar
I'm trying to quit posting here. I don't have any link to journalism if that's what you are asking.

But there shouldn't be any effort involved if all of this is already as obvious as claimed.
I don't know that one NEEDS to watch any TV. Then again you don't NEED to be on the internet or hacker news. People also do things they want, not just what they need.
It depends on what shows people want to watch.
Yes but one might watch a small selection of shows over many streaming services.

And even still, I know several people who fill every spare minute with streamed tv to keep their conscience busy.
Seems like the article starts with the conclusion that the disparity is explicitly racially motivate, and works backward.

Why not work from a premise that the outcome is disparate but the reasons might be more nuanced? (that was rhetorical. I know why they didn't)
What about:

- Assessors don't properly account for disparate crime levels for properties that are similar on paper?

- Minorities are priced out of gentrifying neighborhoods because of rapid price increases. This is why Prop 13 happened in CA in the first place, so middle class folk wouldn't be taxed out of their homes when they exploded in value.

- Minorities don't know they can appeal their assessment. Who's responsibility is it to know that? Is there evidence that a state actively attempts to hide this info?

- If they control for race, would the numbers show that white people who live in similarly high crime areas also pay disproportionate property tax? Could it be that black and Hispanic people disproportionately live in higher crime areas, and it is the lack of including crime rates in neighborhoods when assessing taxes is a primary driver if this effect?
You only need more than one because of siloing. Would anybody be happy with one channel or one website. This is not music where all of the offerings have nearly identical catalogs. The problem is they silo so much that piracy becomes the only logical option.
It's more about all that you choose not to watch.
Gotomeeting has an "attention" metric and it's completely, utterly useless. It works by seeing if the gotomeeting window has focus. Not even attempting to track visibility, but actual window focus. It's the laziest crap imaginable, yet unchanged for years now.
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would that convince a judge to instruct a jury to disregard that?

I doubt a judge would make that decision unless the data was somehow "poisoned" and can't be brought to trial.

Most likely the prosecution would bring it up, the defense would counter and it would be up to the jury to decide how relevant it is.

Saying "we strive for a harassment-free workplace, but didn't both to check the data we've been collecting for the past 5 years" wouldn't fly very well with a jury.
Shouldn't this belong to Anatoly Chernyaev? "One can confidently say that every bold foreign policy initiative advanced by Gorbachev in the years 1985-1991 bears Chernyaev's mark on it."[0]

[0] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB192/
> I used the Internet in Spanish in my early teens before learning English, and it's a joke compared the English Internet.

This project seems like one decent way to try and fix that.