skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Targeted disinformation.

Imagine being able to compile the cheapest pressure point for everyone in the world using surveillance and then exploiting it on a industrial scale. Most modern surveillance is in a legally ambiguous area of the law.

In theory you can target anyone with habitual use of a computer or with friends who use computers a lot for very cheap.
Ask HN: Do you use JSON Feed or another newer RSS/Atom alternative?
Sure:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415952786

https://www.thoughtco.com/systemic-racism-3026565

> My own experience of the term's usage is to simply imply that racism is part of a system's inherent structural definition, rather than being purely reliant on individual/group biases.

By that definition, all racism is systemic racism, since the system is made up of people.
> • The website is blank on Firefox.

Do you have Firefox FB containers enabled? I had the same issue, but when I opened the website inside a FB container it works.
The+FSFE+is+looking+for+an+office+assistant
The problem is being hyper sensitive is subjective. What is hyper sensitive to you is absolutely normal to someone else. I don’t ever find it wrong to “culturally appropriate” and I don’t even know how it became a thing. I can’t actually think of any reason why it would be bad to start sharing aspects of culture whether it is clothes, music, or language. It brings people together with commonality. People enjoy copying things they like. I wouldn’t ever say someone can’t wear my outfit because my outfit is important to me. The way I see this term used in America is use by racists as a way to be racist against whites who they perceive don’t deserve the freedom to dress any way they want.
I just searched for 'polynomial time simp lex algorithm' and found things like eg https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/2373/complexity... which references https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/spielman/Research/SimplexStoc....
Why we feel worthless in the age of abundance?
The Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You
Of course we don't actually know that, but from what little the HN mods have indicated that appears to be at least part of the algorithm.

But moderators do sometimes manually save a thread from being flagged dead, which apparently they chose not to do in this case.
> Unfortunately his actions will be used by racists for years to come to justify hate and discrimination.

Uh, that's a stretch.
How has Snap failed? Snap lets you install apps like Spotify easily on linux and in a security sandbox. Also snap doesn't have the main issue listed in this article of every app needing filesystem access. Snap has the personal-file interface which you need explicit permission to upload a snap to the Snap Store that accesses this interface: https://snapcraft.io/docs/personal-files-interface .

Source: working on a open source snap applications (without the personal-file interface despite being able to install packages into the sandboxed $SNAP_USER_DATA directory): https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate
As an Italian, stop eating pizza, Americans. You are culturally appropriating our food.

Jokes aside, this happening on Twitter and so it must be somewhat important is the most depressing and disheartening aspect of this event. Stop listening to what ignorants want to say on social media.
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(Thinking in terms of local stores)

> how do your 'not connected' stores know when, say, a user logs out?

If they need this information, it can be passed in from above, or pulled from context. But unless the store and component need to stay mounted when user logs out, they might not need to do anything. There's nothing wrong with a local store being created by a component that receives props and provides them via constructor arguments.

> write code, bespoke to each object, to be able to reset these objects too?

I almost never do this, and nearly always create a new store when the component mounts. The combination of `useLocalStore`[1] with mobx-react-lite makes this straight forward. So per the above example, your component could `useLocalObservable(() => new Store(props.user))`

[1]: https://mobx.js.org/react-integration.html
Most journalists knows at least their native language and English. So when they need something to write about, it's easy to import some problems from English-speaking nations.
I think there is an inversion of cause and effect here. People can afford to say no because they're successful. Saying no is not why they're successful.

Poor people rarely get any opportunity at all so they're forced to say yes to every opportunity just to survive.
I'm not an expert in Rust, so some of these things might be available in it's match (just in a way I'm unfamiliar with), but for me the big advantages of Swift's switch are:

- switching on tuples (not wrapped in a var): this prevents doubly-nested switches, which I've always found to be a problem in control logic.
- unwrapping optionals
- matching against an enum's associated value, and unwrapping it
- using `where` clauses as part of the pattern
- matching against type casts
Content-based searching in YouTube videos
Salaries are indeed a lot lower, but the multiple of the median salary required to buy a home is a lot higher in the coastal metros. In other words, the salaries are nominally lower, but in real terms they’re actually higher.

This thread actually breaks it down by metro -> https://twitter.com/jmhorp/status/1221828310000271361

The home-price-to-income ratio has remained mostly unchanged for all metros except for the infamous coastal ones.

At this moment, here’s a quick breakdown of the salary necessary to buy the median home, by metro -> https://www.hsh.com/finance/mortgage/salary-home-buying-25-c...
I totally agree with this. I have 3 kids, 2 jobs... But, I find that taking an "abundance view" towards time truly makes me happier. I have way more fun and do better work. I do rush and hurry for deadlines.. But I don't feel harried in my day to day.

I see way too many people limiting their own growth because they see themselves as focusing. I personally think playing around is critical — and that we have way more time than we think.

Related: why is it that we think we don't have time to work out, but almost always, whenever we do exercise, the efficiency of work skyrockets?
The coronavirus college scam
Neither FreeRTOS nor ThreadX/Azure RTOS can really accept random patches. These systens are certified for use in highly safety critical applications (think railways, nuclear reactors, chemical plants...). To keep that certification, either the whole OS must be recertified after a change or an impact analysis and extensive testing are performed for each and every minor patch. Most random hackers won't be able to deliver any of that along with their patches. It requires resources few have access to.

To give you an example, I had access to the complete ThreadX source code a while ago as my employer back then was a licensee. Making functional changes to that code was a complete no go because that would instantly invalidate its certification and put the onus of recertification on us. And we wouldn't have been able to pull that off at all.

Given those restrictions, the actual software license barely matters.
Firefox on MacOS causes the issue, Chrome works fine.
As someone who does experience racism on the regular I don't have quite the same level of trouble discerning racism from biggotry.

One is extremely diminishing and the other is a pretty easy to write off as ignorance, differing upbringing, and a general intolerance of difference.

If you need me to spell out a clear cut example of racism it's a few comments earlier where you assumed I was white and discounted my views on this matter solely because of it. Either that or what I was saying didn't fit your American centric narrative.

For what it's worth,

"statistically, aboriginal people commit more crime. Studies have shown that this is because of chronic health and economic issues which have never been adequately addressed by any Australian government"

Was pretty much the gist of what I was getting at but I thought that was pretty obvious given the context and adding the context doesn't really make my statement any more or less factual. More credible maybe, but if you took my remarks on good faith it wouldn't have been a problem. But that is the problem with this American narrative, everyone is too busy trying to win, nobody is trying to look at facts for what they are and find the common ground therein.

These facts don't make aboriginal people any less human or any less successful as a people. They're just shitty truths about the world.
There is no particular reason. Making big changes is never easy.
I dont think that describes accurately the economy. Socioeconomic mobility is declining too, people who were born to rich families become rich and those where were born in poor families become poor.

It is not all young people who will earn a lot of money later.
Haha I don't remember that. It must not have gotten much traction in Charlottesville.
They probably have something to do with that. At the moment, for Japan has a tiny handful of iron mines [0]. So if they want to produce a steel widget, they have to justify someone transporting the iron either through the Chinese mainland or up the coast, past a lot of people who are learning to do wonderful things with steel. They import a lot of coal from Australia but China has relatively easy access overland from provinces like Inner Mongolia.

I'm not sure how much of an advantage they gain from having very easy port access by virtue of being an island (probably quite a big one, I assume). But it is hard to accept they wouldn't be having a much easier time if they had easy access to something like the Saudi oil fields, the US oil fields, the Chinese coal fields, etc etc. They are a long way away from the good sources of natural resources.

And they struggle to be self sufficient in food in the first result I found [1]. That is pretty different from somewhere like the US. There is a real risk of war in East Asia, so I imagine they'd be quite uncomfortable with that.

They have completely different resource-use problems than the economies that are larger than they are. The idea that the US would have to exert itself to be self sufficient in food is rather weird, as is the idea that China would struggle to justify transporting resources to the country from Mongolia, etc. It is obvious to me what could be done with more people in the US or China. In Japan there is probably something, but it does require actual ability to find instead of just "dig more, grow more, build more, forge more" that their competitors for the best-economy crown can manage.

Japan needs transformative technological improvements to grow. The US needs warm bodies. China needed to stop the Great Leap Forward and put competent leaders in charge. The Japanese challenge is much greater.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mines_in_Japan

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture,_forestry,_and_fis...
Do you think it could be a cultural artifact beaten into the Indian subcontinent by the British? Sort of a collective, areawide PTSD?

Tangentially, I personally wish people would stop using the "culture" excuse for a group's bad behavior. Culture doesn't develop in a vacuum. Certain cultural practices could potentially come from really problematic sources. Changing one's culture isn't an insult to anyone if you're changing it for the better. And in this case, even if Indian culture is to prostrate before those you see as your superior, I don't think that's an element of the culture that needs preserving.
Low income salaries actually experienced a higher increase than higher income salaries between 2014-2019 (basically pre-COVID) -> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/low-wage-workers-are-getting-bi...

And while Piketty's work is popular, he isn't gospel. The IMF was unable to reproduce Piketty's findings in empirical data -> https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp16160.pdf, and then Auten & Splinter further refuted the findings by taking into account taxes & transfers -> http://davidsplinter.com/AutenSplinter-Tax_Data_and_Inequali...
I run apps like that inside a docker container, which is a little bit better, I think:

- security library updates update with the base OS, which I update religiously and images are rebuilt (via "make") whenever the base updates, too

- the apps are effectively "somewhat" sandboxed

- I only bind-mount the directories I want the app to have access to (i.e. -v "$HOME/Pictures:/home/user/Pictures", -v "$HOME/.config/appname:/home/user/.config/appname" etc)

While this isn't ideal for graphical apps due to needing sharing the X11 socket for things to work well, which comes with its own type of problems...

... at least no app can change _my_ bashrc, simply because it can't even see it, nevermind edit it.

Going one step further, some bind mounts can also be mounted ":ro" to ensure the app cannot change the contents.
If ads were blocked and users paid for content, surveillance would be less profitable and so less would be done.

Granted it's hard to coordinate both together, but let's be real: given the choice, 90% of the time users pick ads over paying -- you can see this among the vast majority of muggles who don't even try to ad block (so presumably don't really care about these issues) but still prefer free ad-based websites to paying for subscriptions. People pay for stuff that has a wall around it and can't be easily pirated. (Note: most news we read (measured by page views) is pirated by adware websites after someone published original research.)

Maybe YOU block or just avoid ads and pay for non-spyware stuff, but businesses overall respond to the masses.

Even on the super private ad-restricting expensive iPhone, most users immediately rush to adbacked trash websites.
So they enforce requiring at least one level of indirection, or is it more sophisticated than that?
> If you want to use a different computation model, you have to explicitly define it.

Probabilistic Turing machine are sufficiently standard and well known. They (or the random-access machine equivalent) are basically the implied context whenever you talk about randomized algorithm.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_Turing_machine and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_algorithm#Computati...
I doubt the author even got a direct line with Buffett.

Really really successful people have handlers that say no to everything.
Sure, I'm not even talking about the stars, but even the fact young people can make any money out of these is incredible. I wouldn't imagine it in 1991.

What I'm saying is for young people the opportunities for gig are relatively the same compared to 1991, except its in the different form.

Not to mention the opportunities to aquire skill or to learn almost anything for free from the internet.
It's an easy solution for lazy developers. maintaining dependencies is a hassle, and with proprietary software users can't even do it themselfes if the developers decide that an 8 year old ssl lib is perfectly fine. The distributions probably won't keep that lib around either, so the easiest solution for proprietary vendors who don't care about dependency updates is to ship it all in a self contained bundle.

It also makes it easier to clean up when uninstalling and makes for better damage control by limiting what can be broken if done right, but like the article said this is not what it's actually all about since noone seems to care about these points.
I spent 15 years thinking I had fortitude. Turns out I was just stubborn. Pretty much ruined my life.

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win. But people who don't win and don't quit are just stupid."

I landed on my feet. Others won't be so lucky. (Ironically, I was only able to be stubborn for so long because I had so much good fortune elsewhere. If I'd had less support, I'd have quit much earlier, and maybe it would all have turned out better.)

The moral of the story: it's better to be lucky than smart.
You will see how much longer your bubble will last if the next few months play out wrong.
Ok. Thanks. Still I believe they barely overlap (privacy and freedom of speech). It's a grey area. For instance, I can violate your privacy and not telling it to anyone (peeking through your window), and I can also tell something about you in a community without violating your privacy (give an opinion, or take you out of context, or plainly lie, or defame you).

Or you can input all your info in my website, then I get hacked and all your personal info is now in a torrent somewhere (to mention something that has nothing to do with freedom of speech).

They overlap perhaps but I might just call it gossip.

So I don't believe it's a either freedom of speech-or-privacy battle, where one is the solution to the other, or the problem to the other.

Invading privacy is punished in most countries, and gets more serious if the info is published. The real problem is that doxxing and posting personal information in a community goes unpunished right now. The solution may be something I would never want, that is, non-anonymous internet access. At least paparazzis were known, they have a face and a name. You can sue them, and in case, punch them in the face if that's your thing.

It's true there is also a problem with the mob, but there is little that can be done about it. I recall the two guys making "dongle" jokes in a conference and getting fired when it reached Twitter.
I don't know. If we're going down the route of what counts as "inflation-adjusted": Does housing, studying, medicare count there or only [or overwhelmingly] consumer goods? If it's the latter - which I would expect - than the stats are cherry-picked and the money ain't worth as much as it used to be.
It's malware.
If you think of it kind of like the idea of "poverty is violence" maybe that helps make it make some sense.

I am not going to read through this. I have some sympathy for why and how stuff like this gets written, but I think stuff like this tends to be more part of the problem than part of the solution.

I believe what they are going for is the idea that hostility you run into online has real world consequences. We dismiss the idea that "words on a screen" can have impact, but lots of men have no problem using Hacker News to make money but it is not a female-friendly space and even being fairly prominent as a woman here is more downside than up. It has not proven to be a good networking opportunity for me and I am given all kinds of crap for trying to talk about that, even in comments like this one intended to simply elucidate a problem space for someone scratching their head.

There is no good way to talk about such things, so they get entrenched and it causes real and serious problems for women and other marginalized peoples.

I'm spending less time here generally and may be in the process of "leaving" HN, more or less, because this is not a solvable problem and my motives for putting up with this shit are possibly disappearing. Without compelling reason to put up with it, I seem to be spending less time here and more time elsewhere.

So that's likely to leave HN with more crap like this piece and, hey, you get what you want. No one wanted to hear my take and I'm tired of trying to build bridges while getting kicked in the teeth and lumped in with man-hating self-proclaimed feminists for the crime of trying to make my life work.
I've been using BazQux for years and could not be happier with it. Only time I had to get in touch for an issue with a specific feed, it was fixed in a few hours.
What you're saying is not true at all, X11 forwarding still works because of XWayland.
And it lumps them in with those who are likely still in school and have no real job yet thereby making it basically impossible to draw (useful) conclusions about independent young people.
How do you have the assumption chances of achieving a higher max are low? That seems arbitrary and like it'd be a coin flip as I don't know all the possible successes in the world and how they compare to mine.
It's a market economy. No one decided one day to offer a certain salary, the market has figured it out over time (and will continue to do so as conditions change).
> This is not a security risk of flatpak but of the application. Developers are responsible for releasing updates, not flatpak

If it was a regular application installed by a linux package manager, the dependencies will be automatically updated to fix security issues(At least in most cases).
If by "that" you mean the ability to buy a decent house for yourself then the answer is that it would be an extremely poor proxy ... almost uncorrelated. It's possible to live without buying a house or even renting by yourself (you can live with parents or rent a shared house with other young people). People in that situation would still have (and be recorded as having) a disposable income even though accomodation is an essential expense because owning your own personal house is not technically an essential expense.

Therefore, if wages are decent but housing is extremely expensive (which I believe is the case here in the UK, especially city suburbs) then median disposable income would continue to increase while the ability of young people to buy their own homes would continue to decrease.
It’s actually been quantified -> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Based on the empirical tax analysis, 12% of the population found themselves in the top 1% of the income distribution for at least one year. 39% of Americans spent a year in the top 5% of the income distribution, 56% found themselves in the top 10%, and a whopping 73% spent a year in the top 20% of the income distribution.
> They don't mention sandboxing on their frontpage, at all. This is not a goal.

...and without this "fake sandboxing" strawman, flatkill.org is left without a convincing argument.

The security trade-offs that come with flatpak are the same tradeoffs that desktop operating systems like MacOS and Windows have made since their inception.

Considering that these are successful desktop operating systems, whereas Linux is not, one might conclude that these are the right tradeoffs, all things considered. Sure, it's "a security nightmare", but we've been living through it for decades. The alternatives clearly aren't good enough to bring everyone to move over.