skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Along with the rest of HN, you have no idea what journalism is.

When has journalism ever stuck to “facts”?

When has the “news” and “history” been more than short stories and opinion?

Hint: Never

Read: A History of News by Mitchell Stephens https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1854941W/A_history_of_news

Read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

Read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_French_journalism

The role of press is not to be “right” or even factual.

The role of the press is dissent and debate.

The sooner you realize this, you’ll have a deeper appreciation for even those outlets you disagree with.

Read: RT, Al-Jazeera, Fox News, Guardian, WaPo, NYT, NYPost, WaTimes, National Review, New Yorker, Vice
Secure Your Digital Life
Lots of comments so far about using Linux From Scratch to learn about the userspace/kernelspace interaction, and while that's all feasible you can do this on basically any distro.

This week I've been iteratively rebuilding the kernel and glibc and the vDSO on my Ubuntu Server 20.04 install and learning a ton about the interactions, while also having the Ubuntu apt repositories to fall back on for when I want to switch from "learning mode" to "just get this task done mode."
Is PHP Worthy of Developers Hate?
My school districts budget book indicates total benefit costs are about 43% of total salary. (https://www.washoeschools.net/Page/550)

The published teacher pay schedule indicates that teachers are paid around $50k for a 9 month schedule (https://www.washoeschools.net/Page/841)

At 43% that's roughly $21500 in benefits. Health insurance for a family of 4 on an ACA platinum plan is ~$19000/Year (https://news.ehealthinsurance.com/_ir/68/20205/eHealth_2020_...)

Since not all teachers will have families or elect for district health insurance, I think it's safe to assume health insurance is probably around the $9000-13000 per person range to the district.

Note that Nevada has pretty low per student spending for the US, so it is quite possible other municipalities Will spend more. This seems to be the case (or my math is bad) as the BLS reports a much higher benefits to pay ratio for state and local government employees nationwide - about 60% (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf)
When someone wants to legalize something, I wonder how often it was happening in secret while illegal.
If we speak about programming and the word “PHP” comes out in this dialogue, many developers will demonstrate either indifference or open hate towards this programming language.
> Heard many good projects died

Part of me will never fully forgive them for just letting Half-Life 2: Episode 3 die, never officially cancelling it (even to this day), and refusing to communicate with their fans about it.

People meme about HL3, but most of us Half-Life fans just wanted Episode 3. Episode 2 ends on the most heartbreaking cliffhanger, and we just wanted some sort of conclusion to that story.
What they did for PHP supporting Windows?
And that's before we get in to the credit card fraud...
Fraud is like life: if there is a way to get free money someone will use it.
Do people really use Windows as a production server for PHP? Most people I know use Windows as a dev machine, which I guess will still be supported.
UX people would ideally be like a scrum master, ie. be the person facilitating UX in teams. They end up designing in a corner stuff that takes ages to be picked up in dev, while ignoring test.
"feel free to direct any questions"

How about you add some substance to that wall of text of yours and tell us WHY instead of hiding behind that email.

Hate php but hate corp speak more haha.
Representing a minority of the United States's population.
Data-driven means proven efficiency for target audience in the long run, so it’s good by design. This may still create bad UX for people outside the target group (e.g. by creating a steep learning curve because of the trade-off between discoverability and performance), but things outside the scope of design do not really matter and do not have to be classified. Inclusiveness does not matter in technical and design topics if it has no business value.
>The western sense of morality didn’t stop the admissions scandals to all top western universities like Harvard Stanford and so on.
Chinese universities as far as I know don’t have things like institutionalized legacy admissions.

As far as I'm aware, it's an American trope, not a « Western » one. But it makes sense that kind of practice would occur in the US where universities were founded by communities to educate their own people, rather than as extensions of the State.
> We see federal representatives rewarded for brinkmanship. What makes you think state level electorates would act differently?

So what if they do? It's what their constituents voted for. Who's to say brinkmanship is never an optimal strategy?

> A representation system that fails to represent is dysfunctional and should be changed.

So change it by voting for different state legislators.

> Celebrate that the constitution can be changed.

Just because something can be done doesn't make it a good idea.
My first thought was the same. Swapping "music" for "audio" would probably work. On a side note is generative music even music? (I think it can be but) According to my undergrad music prof the answer would be no, it would be classified as "not music", same as bird song. I've since seen research that refutes her birdsong claim (she wrote extensively on it) but I'm curious what the general consensus is?
Debatable. DotA 2 yields around $100m revenue annually, a quarter of which goes to funding tournament prize pools. From the remainder, they have tournament organising costs, developer salaries, server costs and so on. I’m sure it’s profitable at the end of the day, just not the main source of their profit.

A bigger source of their profit is taking 30% of most PC gaming revenue with minimal overhead. This was such a money spinner that other game publishers eventually got wise to it and started their own stores. But Steam is still the big dog here.
That’s what you get for trusting Microsoft
Agreed, it was a red herring not a straw man. This dialogue sure benefitted from your persuit of clarity. ";)"
Unfortunately, too many.
Agriculture Is Speedily Turning into a High-Tech Industry
What workload do you have in mind?
Where do you see problems with system tests? Shouldn't they work the same with one database per worker/thread?
What a strange non-sequitur. You know that I am the one in this thread suggesting that the FBI should monitor right-wing white supremacist groups, right?
And where did they get that evidence?
Yes, I entirely agree about drugs being demonized. And I believe that people get to choose what drugs to use, and how to use them. But that also means that they're responsible for consequences.

Indeed, some drugs are so demonized that many who use them do get swallowed whole. Because it's what they expect, and part of the motivation.
> At China's parliament meeting last month, there were calls for college admission identity theft to be criminalised. One delegate said it was "much more harmful than [monetary] theft".

It's not already criminalised? I would expect fraud to be illegal.
Mainly, I'm surprised this was even allowed. My understanding is that if you're not a Han Chinese, you cannot really do business in China, that you're basically swimming against both cultural exclusion, and government exclusion.
If the land encompasses the western border and parts of the northern and southern border of Oklahoma, is it even _in_ Oklahoma anymore?
Growth happened before EU accession in 2007 and it was faster and more robust as it's pretty obvious from the graph I linked. What triggered our economic expansion was reforms that began when we almost defaulted, around the time the first non-Communist government (Democratic Convention in 1996) took power. We stopped printing money to cover huge budget deficits and got rid of hyperinflation. We privatized, simplified and decreased taxation, opened the country to foreign investment, stopped in large part protectionist measures, massively deregulated the economy etc. From a closed economic model inspired by North Korea, we now have an economy that's more free than most of Europe, including our regional competitors like Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Russia or Turkey. UE big government career bureaucrats that can't even "fix" their own failing countries, had nothing to teach us and have no merit in what we have achieved.
anything by Carl Hiassan. Geoerges Simenon
the short stories of Somerset Maughm, John Collier, Graham Greene, Roald Dahl
A Dandy in Aspic by Derek Marlowe
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
My Sister Eileen by Ruth McKenney
anything by Ben MacIntyre, Erik Larson
Orchid Fever by Eric Hansen
The Food Explorer by Dahiel Stone
None of these features are supported by openssh without external code.

You can manually sign certs for users and hosts with ssh-keygen but there's no distribution or automation included with openssh. There's a half dozen SSH CA solutions around for this, but none as polished as what teleport has.

Teleport's session logging is unrivaled by anything you can do with openssh and is one of the key reasons I'm looking to adopt it.

The reverse tunnel mode could be accomplished with autossh to manage a reverse tunnel, but that's also not out of the box.
At least they warned.
If I am doing the math right it’s 14 years since HL3 was announced.

If I am doing the math right it was also 14 years between the initial announcement of Duke Nukem Forever and it’s release. Guess HL3 is about to become the longest-running vaporware game.

It is only nine years between the release of the second book in The Kingkiller Chronicles and now, despite its author’s claim around the time the first was published that all three were ready to go in quick succession. But it is 27 years since volume 4 of David Gerrold’s War Against The Chtorr.
Funny how, by the middle of the video, they all start wearing masks.
> The United States is a Constitutional Republic with rights explicitly enshrined therein, including its amendments. You are more than welcome to your opinion on violating constitutional rights but if you want the rule of law then you should follow the constitutional process to add an amendment in order to revoke said rights.

Tell me: which constitutional rights are violated by the police reading your public twitter feed?

> Yes! You either believe in free speech and freedom of assembly or you don't. If these groups are a clear and present danger, show probable cause already. If they aren't, counter-protest, shame them, embarrass them, whatever.

And how are you supposed to obtain probable cause, if you cannot even read people's public twitter feeds? Can you read their public websites? Their leaflets? What kind of research exactly is the FBI allowed to do on these groups?
It makes sense to me. You can use WSL, and run PHP on Linux.
I find your use of "we" interesting because you clearly identify as part of the group that committed those acts hundreds of years ago. How long should a child be responsible for the crimes of their fathers? As an example, assume your father killed someone and stole $1000 dollars from them. You never knew about this didn't choose for him to do this but now someone is coming after you saying you must pay them $1000. You find out it's all true, your father did murder and steal $1000 and you indirectly and unknowingly benefited from that. Should you legally be forced to pay back that $1000 dollars? But the person is dead, should you have to pay that dead person's son $1000? Should you and any siblings have to divide that sum up and pay back the $1000 collectively? Let's say you have already spent every dime you have on meals out. Should you go to jail because you can't pay back the $1000 your father stole? I think these agreements which weren't honored are equal to theft but how long down the line must you pay for the crime of being born in that situation and pay others that were born into the opposite side of the theft. Even with as close a relation as a father, I find it hard to believe that a child should be responsible for their parents wrong doing. But now assume that not only were you not related to that person who stole $1000, you simply don't have the heritage that the murdered man has. Now assume that hundreds of years have passed and now someone is still asking to collect that $1000 from you. I find it very difficult to find the moral obligation to pay back that money when the people who were the actual victims are long dead, the people who committed the theft are long dead, and there is no connection between your actions and the theft. Voluntary payments I would be all for but using tax money which is essentially taken by force, as if you don't pay taxes you will go to jail, that kind of thing seems very wrong. I would not blame a child for their father's sins.
I always run it in a virtual machine when I'm developing on Windows or OS X.
This demo was so ridiculous it was funny. I don't know why they decided to have such a demo and approved it. I'm sure the DJ wished he had a bigger touchscreen.
True. I was thinking about recent initiatives like https://blog.torproject.org/more-onions-porfavor where security is enhanced by having people put their sites on tor. This is more the i2p model though.
> I guess what is bonkers or could use some (historical?) explanation is why real property is given an allowance to be taken through use by others, when the ownership of the land is recorded

AFAIU, title recordation is a relatively recent thing. And the logic of adverse possession, which I think is a vestige of early statutes of limitations (retained out of principle or ad hoc, I dunno), mirrors the logic of later equitable remedies. Fundamentally, adverse possession doesn't magically transfer title, but because the court refuses to grant the ejectment request of the prior possessor who sat on his rights, the person in possession thus has better title than anyone else in the world in terms of what can be claimed in court.

More generally that reflects the logic of traditional property law under the Common Law--ownership is about having better rights to possession than anyone else in a relative sense, not about some singular, abstract title. Emphasis on formal properly titles is how you distinguish continental Civil Law from Common Law, or from many of the rules that controlled prior to the emergence of the Common Law.[1] Once courts of Equity came about you could then ask the court to quiet title, which can be used to change any formal title registrations and prevent future litigation, though technically that would have been (and often remains) unnecessary to legally deed such property. And adverse possession has been so well established for so long that most jurisdictions have kept it enshrined in statute. Though like the Rule Against Perpetuities, many jurisdictions have eviscerated it.

[1] There are actually strong arguments that formal title requirements are a barrier to the development of more egalitarian economies. Formal titles seem an obvious and easy solution when you're in the elite, or in the context of an already well-developed political and economic environment. But formalisms often make it too easy for the rich and sophisticated to screw over the poor--you take their money, you give them possession, then at some later date (maybe even a later generation) it's all taken away because nobody ever got the valid imprimatur of some bureaucrat. You would think such a simple rule would benefit the poor, but that's not how it plays out it practice. Some economists argue these effects remain consequential in many Latin American and other jurisdictions, particularly ex-colonies of continental powers like France and Spain. In the domains of property and contract law, China has quite deliberately incorporated many Anglo-American principles and rules in its legal reforms precisely because formalisms can create hidden costs far greater than what they seem to save. And I think traditional Chinese property law, at least, also leaned in a similar direction, which is why the phenomenon of so-called nail houses existed in the first place--because the courts recognized (albeit haphazardly) certain possessory entitlements that didn't arise from any formal title, which in communist China were few and far between.
The law only requires an ISP to redirect traffic to a target specified by the Verfassungschutz (Constitutional Protection Office) or BND (Federal Information Office), for the purposes of listening in or modifying traffic. It doesn't seem to require installing or providing TLS cracking.
Render Props vs Hooks in 2020
The problem with arguments for surveillance is that they’re usually made by the people asking for more power, and such powers never seem to go away once whatever emergency necessitated them is over.
There might be some other cases for less ram. If the rumor that it supports rdimm or lrdimm modules is true then it could enable much easier ecc support since there are not a lot of ecc udimm options out there
I feel like 64 cores is getting rather close to a tipping point: What workloads are so massively parallel that they can use 64 cores of x86 but can’t use the thousands of CUDA cores on a Quadro card? I’m sure right now there are workloads that just need particular x86 instructions, but that feels like a temporary problem.

Am I wrong about that being a temporary problem (that would feel frustrating)? Are these cores just that much faster than CUDA cores? What else am I missing here?

I often hear people talk about getting CPUs like this for deep learning research, but all the deep learning work I’ve done goes straight to CUDA and lands on my GPU.
What does this actually mean? The PHP release engineer who replied didn’t make it sound like it was a major deal (of course, if it is a major deal, this may just have been an initial ACK statement).
Let's keep in mind what we're actually discussing here. We're talking about police monitoring public Twitter feeds. They're not tapping phones. They're not secretly infiltrating groups with undercover agents. Just reading stuff that's published in public, for all the world to see.

Reading public messages seems like a super reasonable thing for the police to be doing, to keep tabs on groups that have recently engaged in disruption and violence. Whether those groups are right wing or left wing.
Only oral, from a visiting dutchie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVfiWfoDsrM shows pairs on patrol, but working closely enough they reinforce quickly for arrests. kijk 4 min 5 s

(bereden politie can screen more effectively than fietspolitie, but I guess one goes with what one has on hand)

Looks like your border patrol is much less relaxed than ours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-dHaIuKdw
They build WSL, seems like you can still run PHP fine on Windows while probably saving a slew of bug reports.
Original post can be found here: https://webup.org/blog/render-props-vs-hooks/
This is about PHP For Windows [1], which build is currently supported by Microsoft. The original title "Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows" might be not sufficient but at least not inaccurate. (EDIT: The submission title has been updated since this post.)

[1] https://windows.php.net/
They are in Belgium https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/techno...
PolicyBazaar chief calls SoftBank-backed expansion a ‘mistake’
Flying with first class tickets will get you into an expedited security line in most airports as well as other perks like lounge access. If you're paying Concorde prices I'd expect that to also come with the same perks as a first class ticket on a slower plane. That means less waiting than the rest of us and the wait you do have is more comfortable.
Running multiple parallel VMs with Xen or KVM is a plausible example.
Microsoft and PHP has never been a good combination, it’s like .NET on Linux
If there was only one programming language to directly support, I guess this would not happen. But the landscape has changed (personally, I switched from php to python like 15 years ago).
If you read the next to mails, it seems they will still help, just not work directly to support it from Microsofts end.
"? I don't really think this is the mechanism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_briber...

Polo, sailing, rowing, football, basketball, baseball... You name it; for a few hundred thousand you can have fake sports credentials fabricated -- complete with photoshopped team memberships -- and get yourself pencil-whipped into UoT, Yale, UCLA, USD, Georgetown, etc.
> They should not kill a black man ... over a false counterfeit bill complaint.

They shouldn’t kill even for legitimate counterfeit bill complaints. Police should use the absolute minimum force required to both apprehend suspects (as limited by relevant law) and is required by public safety; not one ounce more.

If someone is accused of committing a crime, it’s up to the courts and the jury to determine if they’re guilty and what the punishment shall me, the police don’t get to play judge, jury, and executioner.
Still 47 years waiting on The Last Dangerous Visions, if that's the kind of thing that interests you.
I guess with WSL maturing, most people will use that instead to run PHP on Windows
.NET on Linux is all good these days, as long as you stick to more recent versions.
I once seen a production server running a WordPress site on Windows.

The logic behind it was that the client had some other websites running on some .NET CMS (not .NET Core), so it made sense for them to run WordPress on the same one instead of getting another one.
Are there any Canonical projects, outside of Ubuntu itself, that dont just eventually fizzle out?

I feel like after all these years, Canonical has still not figured out how to make Open Source work.

Nearly everything they do leads to controversy, and them eventually accepting the community alternative with a huff.
I don't know enough about the history of microtransactions and loot boxes to evaluate your charge that they "pioneered" them, and that indeed could be quite important to any calculation of how much goodwill they deserve.

But I know that in making that calculation, I personally couldn't give less of a shit about whether or not they released Half-Life 3, when they've been the patron saint of gaming on Linux. Which they haven't just barely saved from oblivion, but been the biggest single force in turning into an actual viable competitor.

I hope I don't need to explain why that matters for reasons that go beyond whether or not you are personally directly invested in gaming on Linux.

Their strongest recent competition (Epic) has not just been indifferent to gaming on Linux, they've actively done enormous damage to it: they've bought exclusive rights to popular mainstream games which fully supported Linux, and removed that support.

Though the picture is further complicated in that the other big competitor, GOG.com (run by CD Projekt, the Polish developers of the Witcher series), are easily the best citizens altogether, most importantly for their commitment to DRM-free distribution. But they also aren't the ones doing Proton.
Monthly Hashes 2020-07
Here you can post hashes of, say, your Git repo current revision, or maybe the work-in-progress text of a book you're writing but didn't show to anyone yet.
Microsoft will, in all likeliness, be shifting from the NT kernel to a unix-like kernel in the near-ish future. I wouldn't be too concerned.
Talkyard origin master Git SHA1, 2020-06-20: 236226766862c1a92b127d3cf6006197784967fb
Talkyard w-km7d, 2020-07-10: 6bf922fda6c486973dc192ffd7115f19d2dbd095 (backlinks & link previews — will squash & rebase, disappears)
While the agriculture may feel dystopic, there really wasn’t ever much west of the cross timbers to begin with.

The dividing line you describe is the area between the 98th and 100th meridian.
That pilot interface looks really nice. Not used to seeing a single seat like that for commercial planes. Although I'm guessing the real one will be scaled up.