skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Rwandan genocide got a great deal of television coverage in North America at the time, nearly as much as the Yugoslavian wars. It was because the Rwandan conflict was so familiar to Westerners in the late 1990s and early millennium that a Hollywood studio was willing to fund a film about it.

Of course, now the tail might wag the dog, and the film might introduce the conflict to a younger generation that missed the reportage at the time.
> which was engineered by the British.

Nonsense. The Bengal famine was caused by factors beyond British control, including the Japanese invasion of Burma and multiple natural disasters in Bengal which had a devastating effect on rice imports and grain production. The British failed to completely alleviate the famine, yes, but they did alleviate it partially by sending over 100,000 tons of grain to aid the region, and they would have sent more if shipping had been available (there was the small matter of a gigantic global war going on).

And of course if it wasn't for the British then Bengal would have eventually been conquered by the Japanese, who had far worse plans for the area than anything the British managed.

Comparing Britain's failures in Bengal to Stalin's genocide is offensive, revisionist garbage.
In my view, micrototalitarian actions like this are every bit as bad as the ills they seek to cure. Insisting on infringing the liberty of others, before even so much as talking to another person is the very core of what ails our society in this time.
The odds on starting a business are pretty bad. You kind of have to ignore them, or else have some reason you think they don’t apply to you.
That was a first for IBM, and althought not mentioned there I seem to recall it had something to do with selling PC to the goverment as well.
Writing as an Onramp to Building a Startup
After disabling js I get a blank page in Firefox. Is that right? CBA to decipher the source or work out how to disable js in Chromium.
Are you aware that "lock down hard" isn't possible? Do you expect food to still turn up in the shops, garbage to be collected, maintenance to be done on your utilities, online purchases to still work?

The death toll is on the scale of normal seasonal flu outbreaks when you subtract the deaths caused by lockdowns (i.e. that occur during lockdowns but that don't mention COVID on the death certificate). New Zealand is screwed by the way: good luck with international travel from now on.
People may remember 100 Ideas for Computing at https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

But here's also Another 85+ Ideas for Computing https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

This is the third item of the series.
Show HN: Working on a decentralized funding platform for independent ML research
I feel this article actually does not go far enough, or perhaps is not really intended to reach the designers of linux distros, but I certainly feel it today. I am an old hat linux admin, started in 1992 from minix when I read the announcement on usenix. I have been using linux probably since day 2...

I recently installed the shiny new Mint 20. I have a lot of experiences that the fictitious cook with the kitchen inspector has. Am I just getting old? Do I just want the kids off my lawn? Why is it so damn hard to find anything now? Case in point, I was using a pretty old distro on my computer, one of those dang mini-itx jobs where the BT and WIFI are impossible to turn off from the bios, but you turn them off in software. Of course, on the old linux, they were just off, you had to configure them. Well, I am hardwired in my house (again, maybe I am too old and need to be killed?) and I do not use wifi for my servers/workstations. Install Mint 20, well, first off, it wants to do WIFI, nope. Hrm, open a terminal, why isn't the wired connection getting an IP? I know, beyond all reason, that my dhcp server is working. I try to do my normal config or look in /etc... nope. It is controlled by some kind of automagic thing now. Ill just get on the inter... oh, yeah, its off. So I look around the gui, that config does not show why it is not coming on?

Where is the normal "turn this on/off button in the gui? Why am I using the gui? Oh, right, my old method is long gone now"

I feel like although this example could be trivial, but a lot of things seemed to have gone away. I will not rehash the systemd vs init discussion here, but it sure seemed like a lot of configs used to be easier. Here are a few that come to mind:

My dns was just one text file away.

My network config was a very simple cli change away.

I want to change my prompt... wow, why is it referenced in 5 places in this bash file now?

My path is referenced all over the place... what happened here, I will just check with the set command. OMG, what is all this stuff now?

I think in our quest to make things "easier" for people, we made it a lot more difficult for those who want to change a few things and use the computer.
Genrules are okay for commands, but most things I want to do end up being tiny shell scripts, which isn't a great fit.

I mean full on custom rules, exactly because of the inability for genrule to span more than one command (so we end up having to generate tiny shell scripts and running them).

I've also had issues debugging things any time I've tried to use genrule; the error messages tend to be unhelpful in my experience (though that's been a while and I don't recall the details). Things that look like they'd do what I want would just not work in unhelpful ways, and interrogating the system usually didn't work until there were no errors (at which point I wouldn't need to interrogate it anymore…)
An ssd would have made a bigger difference. And xamarin?? I’m so glad I don’t have to use that anymore.
Good internal hub gears can be shifted under load, and the Rohloff one is probably as good as it gets.
Is there a way to disable JavaScript per website on iOS? Or an alternate iOS browser that supports it?
About 14% of the US population (1 in 7 people) were born in another country. Compare this to 0.07% of the Chinese population.

San Francisco is 34% foreign born, compared to 0.7% in Shanghai.

China is not really in the conversation when it comes to foreign talent yet. But that could change over time.
Sleeping on the floor sounds better. That’s what my mate apparently does if it’s only 2 passengers.

You need to be on fairly bad airline tho where stewardess don’t care.
X_{t+1} = Y_t

Doesn’t have to.
The current lease is for 10 years, but that was renegotiated from a prior lease that I'm not sure what the terms were.
Chrome dev tools? You can step through every JavaScript call
50mb for a build tool is still ludicrous. Very few product codebases will ever reach that size.

In my experience there is a strong correlation between executable size and how hard it is to unravel any issue that arises in it.
This is awesome! Good work!

Are you going to touch on Chaitin's Omega?
Over the years, AI/ML research has become more and more centralized (at least in my opinion) with companies like OpenAI, DeepMind, etc. This has its pros and cons, but I think it would be great for the field to have more independent researchers with the flexibility to explore new ideas without being tied to any one institution. Independent research used to be much more common (with pretty great results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_scientist), and I think with the internet and remote work, there’s no reason it can’t make a comeback. To that end, I’ve been working on a platform to connect independent ML researchers to independent backers who can provide ongoing funding on a monthly basis (similar to a Substack or Patreon model). This is definitely a platform I’ll be interested in using myself, but I’m curious to see if others would be as well and to hear any feedback.
On a related note, check out the War Against Humanity series of the World War Two channel.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIk0qF0R1j4cwI-ZuDoB...
Some of its videos had been shadowbanned and age-restricted by YouTube so every view and share helps.
I’ve thought about it! The keyboard is too important for me, and still being able to checkout source code locally and run a local ide tips it in the favor of laptops.
"Reproduction or distribution of any materials obtained on this website or linking to this website without written permission is prohibited." https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/disclaimer.html

What? :)
>"This isn’t just some lab experiment, either. They’re soon going to be used in top-tier UCI track races."

As long as it is not an absolute crap pros would use whatever equipment their sponsor tells them to use. Chain durability for pros does not matter and whatever the difference in friction are really negligible.

>"ability to transfer 25% more Torque"

Any decent chain will handle way more torque than cyclist can deliver so what's the point.

>“four times increase in system lifetime”

I believe it when I see it. Also how much more this puppy gonna cost and cyclists would need to change chainrings and sprockets. This much troubles for the sake of chain? Sorry but I have my doubts.
Sorry I should have been more clear. The following link from the article was dead at the time:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/history-of-powerdns-1999-2...
> Europe has largely adopted it

I'm not sure you're using the term "largely adopted" correctly. It implies that something is the majority or norm, not a rare occurrence.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25236310.
Im feeling sad. I just want to start by saying that. I think one of the most special moments in my life was going to the Zappos holiday party many years ago, where it was me and a friend from SF and all Zappos employees, including Tony. He is still one of the most humble, inspiring, kind, and impactful leaders I have met, and I have been in a room with Elon Musk and his family. Why do I remember this party of so many parties globally that I have attended? It was because how he CHANGED LIVES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN / MEN IN VEGAS. I listened to stories of many people while riding the bus to this cowboy ranch Themed Xmas party. At the time I was a tech blogger. One story sticks out, a story of a woman who said she had no options than to work in a casino before Zappos, like many people in Vegas. She said, also many of her friends who wanted regular jobs were ostracized if they left adult industry to find jobs that were stable... Zappos was not just secure, but people mattered.
Tony cared. His vision wasn’t some bullshit PR communication, he was a legit leader who cared. I left that holiday party inspired and hopeful for the downtown project... my takeaway from his death: recognize good leaders, highlight them, support them, and relèvera, when such people and companies succeed, it is not just success in funds, but more importantly communities get positive impact! Love to Tony’s family and condolences to them and all those feeling the sadness of his loss...
Reading your words, it looks like you have made a kind of make replacement that just works. Following your link, it looks like... what ? I don't know, some tool that checks some build configuration, augments C and postprocesses executable files?

(Looking at https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan it's an interesting hack. Might be useful in some cases, for example command-line tools like git.)

Have you made something that looks like a better make? If so, it would be nice to know more. Thanks.
It used to be trivial, because the OS had a configurable palette for GUI elements, which every single program followed, because it used the standard platform GUI toolkit. So going dark or light mode for the entire desktop was as trivial as choosing it from a drop-down menu. Or you could have it pink or green or a horrible mishmash of colour that made you go crosseyed. You could even change font sizes so if you had trouble seeing, like maybe you had cataracts, you could have huge letters on highly contrasting background.
> If we take that logic to the reductio ad absurdum, the other adults in your neighborhood could choose to band together, forcibly evict you from your house, and let one of their number live there — after all, that'd be their adult choice, right?

The inaction of those who don't want to be caregivers is not the same as an action taken to forcibly evict someone.

Making an equivalence of the two would mean that anyone who is capable of helping someone else and does not is in the wrong. If that were the case we would all be wrong for not donating all of our money to the poor.

Philosophers better than you and I have grappled with this, I don't think they'd support your reductio ad absurdum.
Because I'm looking at real harm, not "what if..." harm. Google & Facebook have implemented the largest mass surveillance apparatus in the history of mankind. Not even in their wildest dreams could the STASI or KGB expect to be able to access the intimate thoughts, pictures and communication of pretty much everyone on the planet.

You complaining about paying 99 bucks per year and comparing it with the above is seriously mind-bending. No wonder our privacy's so fucked...
Why are you using a laptop for development in the first place unless you have to be on the move? Why not take advantage of even faster CPUs or GPUs, more RAM, many times more screen space, more disk space, ergonomic keyboard and mouse, or even real speakers if you work from home?
Cube has one https://www.cube.eu/en/2020/bikes/urban/hyde/cube-hyde-pro-b... , I bought the 2018 model it's really nice and convenient to drive. Going back to traditional chain once you drove one of these may be similar to automatic vs manual gear shift in a car, why would you? Note: I'm a casual cyclist.
>Can anybody recommend a tool to look what Javascript code loaded by a certain page is doing?

Almost all modern browsers have debug panels that will list all of the requests made by a page, assets cached, cookies and local db, and of course it's trivial to just view the source of a site and read the javascript if it isn't compressed.
In a declarative language, nothing.
I'm sure the Hacker News mods will be in to censor this definitely-not-tech and definitely-political post and all of its comments.

Right?
Getting stuff shipped from Germany or the UK takes for even, and packages from amazon.co.uk frequently goes missing. Shipping cost are reasonable, given that it’s across borders, but you can get it cheaper by buying “locally”.

I’m down to just buying books on Amazon, because no one else really sells books anymore, at least not the books I want. For everything else there are better and cheaper local webshops.

Amazon is a mess, you can’t easily find what you want, filtering sucks and 25% of the stuff you want doesn’t ship to your country anyway. Oh, and they treat their warehouse staff terribly, so I minimize what I buy from Amazon.
I've seen quite a few of those here in Toronto. One owner I've spoken to actually said that it has noticeably higher friction. I did not try those bikes myself so can not really confirm/deny.
The media is controlled by those who want to make nazism a bigger issue despite the fact it killed many, many less.
No offense, but curiously, those are the exact same reasons Russians tend to use to whitewash Holodomor. (Not saying you're wrong or anything)
I don't even want to imagine how expensive the 64 GB version is going to be.
> Can anybody recommend a tool to look what Javascript code loaded by a certain page is doing?

Open your browser's developer tools, go to the Script/Debugger tab and have at it. It's just about as obtuse to use as a tool as gdb, but you'll see exactly what it does. Chrome dev tools has automatic formatting of the code, maybe firefox too. But you'll be stuck with shitty variable names if they been mangled. Although you could try http://www.jsnice.org/, I had variable luck with using it.

It would be interesting to have a browser tool that is like strace and you could filter by calls, so you can see exactly where window.navigator is being used for example, or localStorage.setItem. For now best you can do is searching for "navigator" which works, but can be minified/hidden away by coder as well.
I disabled it with 4 taps in uBlock Origin, Firefox Android. Open menu, Add-ons, uBlock Origin, the JavaScript icon. Then another tap to reload the page, the back button and the site did show.
Strongly agree. The constructs are easy to move past, and worth the simplicity you get with the initial learning curve
The fire is “still an active investigation.”

https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-tony-hsieh-zappo...
Let me answer with a counter question: If a US based HuffPost was good enough why start an Indian based HuffPost in the first place?
> Americans can only buy from Amazon, Walmart and eat at McDonalds. Comparing to China, where people can eat at hundreds of different local small restaurants, several local groceries and local shops.

What on earth are you talking about? Americans have many choices for shopping and restaurants.
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Computers used to be new, and you used to have to do a lot yourself to make it work. This is no longer the case, which has a side-effect of taking that 'self-made' feeling away from it. This is no different than not building your own car anymore or not building your own house from scratch. While it's still possible, it's no longer viable for normal use due to the immense scale and integration required for the mass market.

The only way back would be to destroy the mass market and make it small again, but that has its own drawbacks.
JS NICE - JavaScript Statistical renaming, Type inference and Deobfuscation
Then why don't you rail on Linux? If one day there won't be any other options left, why not aim that way? Presumably that's a worse betrayal
It's true that bikes are a pretty sad story when it comes to standards. I think axles is going to settle down soon though. QR seems to be on the way out and standard TA for road with boost TA for mountain seems like the direction we are headed...

(Disc brakes in particular are not a good match for QR)
I'd argue that wild histrionics as you have just demonstrated are worse than whatever this is (which certainly does not infringe on anyone's liberty).
Also, at 2m diameter, its gravity would be so low that "leaving" a probe on it would mean strapping the probe to it?
That would be a funny tech demo for catching a small rock, but if you already do that, why not put it into a stable orbit for further study?
37% of the time that someone says they are 37% sure of a statement X the statement X is true (assuming they're calibrated correctly/etc).
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on...

This says you can run it on arm with fall creators update or newer.
I was suprised seeing how mainstream the denial of it is on reddit. Back before I stopped looking at the front page a few years ago, it was pretty common to see college-aged communists claiming that it was either western propoganda meant to turn people away from communism, or that it was a necessary evil and you "have to break a few eggs to make an omellete".
The point is that QUIC (and related efforts) is a library, not implemented in the kernel. This makes it way easier to deploy, but also way easier (in practice) to change in bad ways.
>more than just sticking some videos online — which wasn’t even the first thing — but aiming to put all the course material online and encouraging others to use it for their own courses.

Actually putting video (and, for the most part, audio) wasn't even really all that practical when OCW was created. One also suspects that it was an easier sell that OCW was for educators rather than being, in any way, an alternative to taking the courses in-person. OCW was a great innovation though even if it wasn't what a lot of would-be students were looking for. Which ended up being MOOCs that were more directly consumable although still mostly flawed in various ways.
If you think Apple isn't tracking your every move and handing that information over to the government, then you're choosing your facts to support your favorite company.

Apple is just as evil in tracking and even more evil in taking freedom away.

I didn't say Google was blameless. Google is horrifically evil. You're just mad I'm also implicating Apple.

You love Apple. And you love it enough to overlook the incredible harm they're doing.

Stop loving a company that doesn't give a shit about anything but profit. The feelings and pleasure you derive is just Apple fitting to the gradient slopes of profit maximization within the market they've carved out. It's engineered, and you're falling for it.

Use your device for what it is, and be happy in the capabilities it gives you, but be a good citizen to your fellow persons. Not a company. Don't overlook their grievances. Hope for a better, more equitable tomorrow so that everyone in our industry can thrive and can do so without being extractive.

Edit: Downvotes from Apple fans making it further in the thread than those that overwhelmingly agree with my parent comments.

Downvotes from those that disagree with "Hope for a better, more equitable tomorrow so that everyone in our industry can thrive and can do so without being extractive."

Astonishing.
Even that website uses Javascript though (to add a Yahoo tracking pixel, it looks like. What is there even to track?)
How do you draw a line on the screen in Python? Here's BASIC. I'm not saying this is good. But it is easy.

SCREEN 13
LINE (X1, Y1) - (X2, Y2), COLOUR
No HTTPS tho.
Thank you for the reality check on the bad faith relativists
I'm leaning to a burner WiFi leashed connection and a voice-chat application (say, Jitsi), though options are decidedly thin.
Why Encryption is so Hard?
Literally everyone who chooses a laptop as their main driver is doing it purely for the portability... We don't choose it because it's small, we choose it because while most of the time we're stationary, the time we do need to be portable, its easier to just undock and walk away than to make sure your laptop and desktop are synced.
I wonder if this is why American students are much more reluctant to pick STEM degrees than other equivalent countries? Like, they can't handle any setbacks hurting their self-esteem so they pick a simpler major instead of pushing through. Like, "I didn't really fail that calculus class, I just didn't want to study it so I choose a business major instead!".
Some cyclists are indoctrinated to the point that they might actually buy this insanity.
Amazon is like a plantation owner for small and medium sized businesses. When you sell anything on Amazon, you have no way to build a brand as Amazon not only takes ownership of your customer, but they also forbid you from directly advertising to them. It can all be taken away in an instant and by withholding your money for 90 days+ (which is what happens when they take your account away), it can bankrupt a small business because they don't have the funds to pay staff or run their company.

I had an Amazon seller account and they banned me 12 years ago over one disgruntled customer that I believe was just a competitor (I had 100% feedback from hundreds of customers before this) trying to shut me down.

I've been banned for life. I not only can't sign up with a new seller account, but if my name is associated with any other seller account, it gets banned for life as well. I've tried to contact support over the years and it just goes into a black hole and I get automated responses with no help or no response at all.

This needs to be part of a broader conversation: Do we really want to give big companies like Amazon this much control over what we can do online?
The warm feeling inside when I just see the word “QBasic”. Prior to QBasic I was always drawing and tinkering with physical objects. QBasic made me realize that computers are just an other canvas. One where you aren’t just a consumer but a tool that allows you to contribute, create art, build useful little programs and games (to play with my siblings during rainy days). As a 10yo then, it felt I could conquer the world. Magical tool.