skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's like telling people who want to "solve" a high murder rate that they should just legalise murder

Well, no, it's not, because people who want to solve a high murder rate will admit that their concern is people getting killed in the conditions that are currently illegal not the illegality. And murder laws reflect the view that those conditions are inherently wrong (mala in se); they don't permit a fixed number of what-would-otherwise-be-murders per year with a specific allocation of who gets to commit them and a waiting list if you would qualify to commit them but your application would exceed the allowed number.

People who conplain about “illegal immigration” pretend that their problem is illegality, not immigration, and the structure of immigration laws reflect that immigration of vast groups of people who are denied legal immigration each year is not inherently wrong but only “wrong” due to aggregate impact, which can be addressed by other means.

> Even many pro-immigration people are against the idea of selling extra spaces,

The only difference between trying to prohibit supernumerary immigration of immigrants who aren't personally barred and selling extra spaces is that the money those people are willing and able to spend to immigrate goes to criminals, and the public foots additional costs of enforcement as well as dealing with the social costs of immigration and the additional social costs of illegality, instead of avoiding the last cost, mitigating the penultimate cost, and avoiding driving money to criminal organizations. And part of the additional social costs of the particular illegality it engenders helping those who are personally barred for good cause avoid detection because the prohibition of immigrants who aren't undesirable breeds widespread contempt for immigration laws and there enforcement.
> Is epic user hostile?

Let's see an example of dodgy kernel drivers. How about Easy Anti-Cheat? Go to their page at https://www.easy.ac/en-us/. Guess who develops it?

> hypothetical monopolistic practices

Hypothetical monopolistic practices really? Because I vividly recall Facebook skirting App Store security policies to make users install a privacy invading VPN app, which they also used to gather data on competitors[1]. But I'm sure that's fine because people have alternatives to Facebook. Or perhaps not[2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15007454

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25363366
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25378155
Envoy proxy uses it for conditions in RBAC filter.
I didn't say random, you added that. Clearly you'd have to enjoy what you do to be project leader.
> It seems like keeping your gear in a faraday cage would be enough to protect it, along with a really nice UPS and fiber optic IO.

Do you know of some reading material for someone interested in setting up something like this?
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An archive for some of the software can be found here: http://www.ambrosiaarchive.com/.
I'm interested in the gulf between low-level systems code and effectively end-user code here. Things like GLib, Cairo, Harbuzz, etc -- none of the end-user tools work without them. It really demonstrates just how difficult this evaluation can be.
and the part 2 of the Manga
I got better results once i set the location to the country I live in
But they didn't, this wasn't a SWAT team.

They were all wearing short sleeves. At least one of them was wearing a bullet proof vest.

You can watch the body cam video, the police are just annoyed.
Framing environmental deterioration as the result of poor individual choices—littering, leaving the lights on when we leave a room, failing to car-pool—not only distracts us from identifying and demanding change from the real drivers of environmental decline. It also removes these issues from the political realm to the personal, implying that the solution is in our personal choices rather than in better policies, business practices, and structural context.

-- Annie Leonard

From the article linked above.
Debian's chromium is out of date
The Piet-GPU Vision
That sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy: If a lot of investors and angels want them succeed, they will succeed. I doubt that it is always hard work and passion that make the difference in whom to invest, I think there are other variables that are less talked about (e.g. sympathy).
It's interesting that they write "none from Google". Because you never know, Bing might be copying some search results from Google in turn [0] ;).

[0] : https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/
This is probably true, but I for one would like to see some kind of protection for payment processors. Not because I feel sorry for them, but because an ordinary person's day-to-day life can become massively disrupted or nearly impossible without them, and a company might be essentially punished without trial. Perhaps payment processors could be responsible only for banning customers that are on a government-maintained blacklist (where a customer would only be added after having been found guilty of a relevant crime, obviously).
I have always been a patient gamer. I don't have much patience for jank and I don't usually go through multiple play throughs of a game like this.

And since, I haven't been able to get my hands on one of the new GPUs at an acceptable price, I would probably wait for at least a few months before purchasing this.

Looking at the bad press coverage CDPR got for handling their staff, I am tempted to think that they haven't handled their success with the Witcher series very well. Video Games production, in general, seems to rely a lot on careful management and highly organized work. So mishandling developer issues, like they have seemingly done, is very short sighted.

I hope they learn their lessons, as far as management is concerned and settle in for the long haul on this. If they can demonstrate good faith as they fix this game's issues, the real Rockstar type money would come pouring in for the sequel of this game.
Virtualization.framework appears to provide Virtio disk, network, etc. I wonder how Apple did it: I doubt they could copy GPL code from qemu. Maybe they copied something from one of the *BSD implementations? If they have implemented it from scratch, I wonder how buggy it is? Anyone has any information on this?
I feel there is a difference between having a disability (a condition) and being disabled (a state of being).

If a condition affects your ability to do something, then it is a disability.

As someone with ADHD and ASD, my ability to do certain things is substantially impacted by my condition. I am fortunate enough that I am able to adapt my environment to my condition, reducing the impact, and do not feel the need to seek concessions elsewhere. As such, I do not identify myself as a disabled person, but I do have a disability.

Others (even with the same condition) are not quite so lucky. Their disability has substantial impact on their day to day lives, and they need external assistance - they are "disabled".
Did you even ask for more or silently accepted what they said? Sometimes you have to ask for more.
no BAT can be spent on websites that haven't joined the program, even if a user tips a website that is currently not in the program, there's a limited window of time, after which if the website is still not part of the program, the tip comes back in the user's wallet.
is location history really turned off or do they keep profiling you but just dont show you? there is no way to know since its all closed source
There's a difference between having a political slant and straight up denying reasonable action because it is against someone of your political alignment.
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Also; more generally: it makes sense to KISS, and the key risk here isn't somebody using yaml or json or whatever initially - even where experience shows that's insufficient, it's just not that costly either. The question is what to do when that becomes unwieldy. And I think it's pretty clear that kinda-sorta-programming that tries to incrementally extend stuff like static config languages - but only slightly - doesn't work well and is a bad idea. It's inconvenient; it results in many of the same issues as a full programming language, and it's often really inconsistent in its expressiveness - as in, for any given application thereof you're likely to run into limitations.

I think it's wise to try and skip as many of those intermediate stages as possible. Of course; that's not a clear-cut solution strategy either; because what's "as possible"? Exactly how high up the language chain do you need to go; conversely which language (and environment) features are too powerful, rendering the language difficult to contain?
The problem is that YouTube explicitly promotes "credible and authoritative" news sources, but these are the same sources that tell you:

Case 1: Leaked Podesta emails and CNN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjDLcvOB1og

"It's illegal to possess these stolen documents. It's different for the media. So everything you're learning about this, you're learning from us."

Learning from us, get that?

Numerous legal scholars weighed in on that hot take, just one of the examples.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/law-prof-smacks-down-cn...

Case 2: Washington Post calls ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi "austere religious scholar"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/washington-post-headline-abu-...

So here we are, being told by YouTube that sources calling the leader of the world's most vile and brutal organization an "austere religious scholar" and deliberately misinforming public about what they can and cannot read are called "credible and authoritative sources".

When your supposedly single reliable source of truth (the media) is so obviously and shamelessly biased, how can you not question the source of "truth" and those who suppress other viewpoints?

I'm reminded of a seemingly prescient quote from 1999's Alpha Centauri:

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/2347

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.

The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism.

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
Anti-trust suits when?
I think Linux phones like the Phinephone are the way forward. They probably won't gain huge marketshare, but everyone that uses Linux on the desktop (probably half of HN) would enjoy them. The only complaint I have with my Pinephone is that its slow. Maybe the Librem 5's beefy processor would be better.
For point 2/ if you are unwilling to switch to Firefox and want to keep using Chromium based browsers take a look at Ungoogled Chromium.

I switched from Firefox to Ungoogled Chromium after a long time because of atrocious UI/UX on macOS. However I am stuck with Google pushing Manifest v3
Lack of affordable housing in Lisbon is not some private company in America's fault, it's Lisbon's government's fault. That's like blaming the tech industry for housing shortages in San Francisco.

Some people like myself (eg. digital nomads) prefer short term rentals, and AirBnB has changed our lives.
But Windows already gave up on that (WSL2 is VM-based, with a Microsoft-built Linux kernel); why would Apple go down that road?
wow, I am surprised Apple allows this
Evening-and-weekends time isn't for more work. Either the current position works for you, or you start interviewing elsewhere.
Thanks for the reply.

> Bullshit, because at this moment that comparison is a mountain vs a molehill.

Regardless, my point in replying to you was to assert that the existence of bad faith actors doesn't justify silencing good faith actors who seem to represent the same "side."

> But you know all this. I don’t believe you’re arguing in good faith and I think you’re full of shit.

Then why did you reply to me? What value is there in engaging in some bad faith bullshitter on the internet? Don't you believe that I'm going to respond with more bad faith bullshit and further confuse anyone who isn't rational and detached enough to see the truth?

> Because, after these last four years saying “bad actors on both sides” means that you’ve chosen to either obscure or deny reality.

After all this you're not even able to see how there could be bad faith actors on both sides? You don't think that bad faith actors on your own side might harm your cause or detract from your message? Or you don't think they exist?

> What you’re doing is dangerous to democracy and you should be ashamed of yourself.

I get that you're passionate about this so can you explain this statement? If me sharing my opinion is so dangerous then why is it safer to let me vote? I'm genuinely curious how you can think that its good for the common person to cast a ballot but its bad for the common person to share their opinions on the integrity of the election.

> I’m not saying YouTube removing this content is the right move, but your logic only holds up in a fantasyland devoid of fact or context.

What's the error in my logic? Is trump uniquely bad so the normal rules don't apply, or is there something dangerous about the idea that people who decide whose opinions should be heard are potentially bad faith actors who could corrupt the discourse?
It's not irrelevant, as the discussion is about alleged effects of free speech on YouTube in the present time.
> I’m genuinely confused what I’m looking at and feel old right now.

Another "social" attempt from Google.

Anyone remember Google+?
That’s essentially what this replaces - which had been done without the aid of simulations.
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Doesn't iTunes provide DRM-free music exports? You could migrate your media to some platform agnostic version like Nextcloud.
One problem with most of the comments here that are claiming one is better than the other is that the "quality" of search results is still a very subjective term. I wish just like DxOMark Score for mobile cameras, there is a Search result quality index that makes us take more informative decisions (not sure how feasible is that though).

P.S. - I realize even DxOMark scores and ranks may be disputed, but that's still one (close to objective) index and it's used just as an example here.
Kristof’s follow-up article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/opinion/pornhub-news-chil...

He accomplished a lot in a week!
The Fed sells the assets it bought back to the banks it bought them from.
Both banks AND the Fed create money. The Fed this year has also directly made loans (from newly printed money) and purchased ETFs on the open market (from newly printed money).

If you think the Fed isn’t doing anything when they QE, then ask yourself why they do it.
Well at least on the first point, nonreversible transactions are extremely desired in the porn market. A constant uphill battle for payment processing is that people spending money on porn sites often have "regret" (or, less charitably, they chargeback when their spouse finds out). I believe this is the reasoning for Stripe not taking adult stores as customers. While it isn't consumer friendly to get rid of chargebacks, it's something that would help out these sites a lot.
But weren't those lies perpetuated by mainstream media? Where, if not YouTube, would you find the counter narratives? And wouldn't people who believe the MSM not then considered the YouTube debunking to be "lies" and called for censorship?
The smug moral superiority of the "educate yourself" trope is the problem.
The downvotes are because people don't want to accept that's what actually happened.

And for a change, I actually agree with the state propaganda agencies. Somehow they were able to chase the daily stormer off the internet basically for talking like my grandfather when he'd watch the news, meanwhile dehumanizing pedophile rape wanker website is muh freedumb of speech.
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I wonder if GPT3 could be used to infer reacted text prompted by the surrounding article..?

Generally, I would assume that the part of the text with the most entropy (redacted nouns and their adjectives) would be especially hard for a system like GPT3 to generate. There might be some clues in the surrounding texts, but perhaps someone would need to train it specifically on similar (un-redacted) documents?

Also, the other way around, marking parts as viable-for-redaction and then having GPT3 generate text to fill in those gaps would be a really insidious way of redacting content. I'm guessing a GAN-type network could even generate the visuals that are appropriate to the document that has been redacted..
That strategy did not work out well for WSL, so in WSL2 they chose to virtualize Linux instead: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-version...
If you believe only Trump fans get Covid19, you are sorely mistaken. Sorry, I can't take you serious, you seem to live fully in the conspiracy theories of "your" side.
Get your gist but the indiehacker and bootstrapping community are absolutely full of counter examples, and plenty of YC companies have not made the world a worse place: Stripe, Dropbox, Gitlab, Twitch, etc.
Ask HN: Is Docker still the way to go to for containers?
Hi HN friends, A few days ago I chatted with the Director of a PaaS startup in hyper-growth mode and he told me that I shouldn't use Docker anymore for two reasons:

1. Kubernetes is deprecating Docker as a container runtime, see: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.20.md#deprecation

2. He mentioned reproducibility issues with the archives (containers) and that Docker is aware of this common issue. Personal notes here: I worked for a ML/DL PaaS and never saw this issue in 3 years of works.

Instead he suggested to use OCI (https://opencontainers.org/), but actually docker containers are OCI complaints! This is where started my confusion. Did he confuse docker runtime with containers?

From my understanding, even if you have a k8s cluster, you will not have any problem at running docker containers given that they are OCI compliant.

I'm feeling a bit confused here. My guess is that we were talking about Docker (which is an entire tech stack!) from different perspectives, for me is still the best way to build and ship containers, but for him was only about the runtime.

Should we still use docker (at least to build containers)? Would love to hear what you think.
it's mind boggling how many features they keep removing. vivaldi has the same search feature but i liked how firefox let you add/edit directly from the bookmark and also how the same shortcuts would work on the mobile browser.

the only thing stopping me from going back to vivaldi at this point if the containers feature
Well, badly run companies die and get eaten by their competitors. That’s fine. We do of course need to make sure markets are competitive and that incumbents aren’t unfairly privileged, so there is a role for regulation, but the basic competitive system is fine.
They do it to avoid both legal and PR consequences.
Seems interesting but far too immature for me to go anywhere near.
But very slowly, very carefully, and perhaps never at all.

See: Taper tantrum.
None of that happened here, they didn't appear to use any force besides one officer maybe having his gun out.

They stood outside knocking on the door for twenty minutes rather annoyed.
this 2 'killer features' could be implemented in your tests in a day or two. Also, you can use video recording features implemented in docker images like Zalenium
Try Runnaroo. In many cases it's results are better than of anything else, including Google.
It is possible! We have seen the porn industry adopt many video standards early and push them mainstream. Perhaps this will help propel crypto to the mainstream.
Duckduckgo id basically anonymized bing.

I'm a little bit surprised that http://startpage.com isn't on the list, it's anonymized google in the same way ddg is anonymized bing.
I don't see a form like this and think "This hurts my feelings :(". I see this form and go "Oh shit, so do I say I'm disabled and get discriminated against now, or do I say I'm not disabled and then get retaliated against for dishonesty later?". I've been rejected from jobs before for being disabled and being disabled is expensive.

Here is how "chill" the situation is in India by the way: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/27/i...
Those were different incidents, iirc he proposed shutting down travel when news about Covid came from China.

The other "closing of the borders" is about immigration laws. I'm not from the US, but I never understood the anti-Trump position there. Surely, if you have immigration laws, you should try to uphold them. You can criticize the laws and try to change them, but criticizing attempts to uphold the laws makes no sense.
There are certainly limits, but null safety doesn't need to be one of them. Typescript does a great job of handling null safety on top of JavaScript.

I don't see any technical reason why Kotlin couldn't have done the same.
Honestly I'm a bit shocked as well. It's in these kinds of threads that it comes out how out of touch a lot of people on HN are with the impacts of their money, and actions. Praising airbnb founders reads like praising Trump to me. Sure, successful in the literal most possible sense, but they have no idea all the harm they are inflicting on those who live different lives than them, in places and cultures they don't understand.
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> Let's see an example of dodgy kernel drivers. How about Easy Anti-Cheat? Go to their page at https://www.easy.ac/en-us/. Guess who develops it?

Their store does not install or require this. Specific applications require it for online play (and generally only for online play...)

Microsoft does not ban this behavior on any storefront, AFAIK. Having a single storefront would not change this.

> Hypothetical monopolistic practices really? Because I vividly Facebook skirting App Store security policies to make users install a privacy invading VPN app, which they also used to gather data on competitors[1].

Amusingly this occurred under the current iOS app restrictions, which clearly didn't prevent this.

An argument could be made for certain high-risk extension point access (such as VPN) could be limited independently of general apps, but the fact that there's a bad VPN app is a silly excuse for restricting the install of simple applications.

The app sandbox should provide plenty of protection, and if the user opts to give apps permissions, that's on their choice. I really don't think users are going to install an app store that requires the usage of a sketchy VPN app ...

If this were the case, surely it would exist already on android :-)

> But I'm sure that's fine because people have alternatives to Facebook. Or perhaps not[2].

[2]: is exactly why we don't need to leave Apple's monopoly in place to "defeat other monopolies" ... we have other tools for that. Let users (and their representatives etc.) decide.
Can’t say we’ve experienced this at all. Part of our test involves navigating to a third party site (gocardless) to set up a direct debit. The test works fantastically well and is a pretty crucial part of our flow, so we’ve come to rely on it.