skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's spreading it, willfully, that's frightening. The consequences of propagation of bad public health information, and also what it says about the possibilities of public discourse, when it's considered acceptable by people to simply ignore facts in favour of preferred falsehoods.

We can argue many things about the Pfizer vaccine. And it's his choice to get it or not. But telling people it underwent no human testing is lying to people.
My mind is constantly blown away that Uber app needs to be so big.
And now Facebook is getting into payments. Good luck getting to your funds when Facebook bans you.
Millions of LOC of Clojure project is unheard of; from the article: Nubank has "2.7 million lines of Clojure code [encompassing] several hundred microservices written in Clojure" – the 2.7M is across the entire enterprise.

I have an enterprise client right now sitting on 1.5M java 1M SQL 1.5M XML for a single government system that mostly does not function at all, it just gets passed from contractor to contractor, each one sucking down a hundred million dollars before tossing the hot potato. Thanks for the money, Java!
That isn't it, it is just that tools are built for RH-flavors first, and used on RH-flabored distros.

I'm sure you can get this stuff working on Debian. I'm also sure it is much more of a PITA to do so, just because that's not where the eyeballs are.
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You do you, but if:

> Avoiding these things would make my life measurably worse.

is true,I dont envy your life at all.
> Any directive telling human beings how they have to reproduce is eugenics by definition.

It could be dysgenics, depending on what the instructions are. :-P How about private charities that provide voluntary incentives for some people to self-sterilize and others to have more kids? How about private charities that subsidize birth control and abortions? How about friends and family encouraging people to marry someone smart, or telling people with genetic disorders that they should adopt? Do you draw a line somewhere in the above between "eugenics" and "not eugenics"? I think your line would be far from universal. dictionary.com says "the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population", which would indeed encompass all of the above. I'm afraid the word "eugenics", like "fascism", has been corrupted into "something whose exact definition is unclear, but it's definitely a bad thing".

> Any law that tells human beings how many children they are allowed to have is fascism, yes.

So what is there to prevent some people from having 10 children, every generation, until the system collapses under their weight? If you say "it's the parents' responsibility to provide for the kids, and if they don't manage to do so from their own resources or persuade anyone else, then the kids may starve and that will limit the process", then, fine, that would work; though many people think the state should always prevent kids (or perhaps people generally) from starving, and I think policies with that effect have been enacted even in the U.S., and I doubt they will get repealed anytime soon.

You say that people with increased access to education and health and such naturally reduce their birth rates. That may be. But I think it would be only a matter of time before they got selected for impulsivity, high libido, inclination to adhere to the parents' religion that says to maximize children, or whatever other traits would lead to a bunch of people actually having tons of kids they can't support. (Perhaps the singularity and/or genetic engineering and/or other stuff will happen and make that irrelevant long before it becomes an issue.) Maybe those traits would also lead to doing things that land them in jail for years, getting a reproductive penalty that way; I dunno if that would be enough.
What I really dislike about the American model of tipping is exactly that: it's basically mandatory. If you don't tip (or tip below the "socially acceptable" for a good service) you are the asshole. Not only that, it's deceiving, I had to always do mental arithmetic to figure out how much things really cost in the end, or be side-eyed by service people when I didn't know better.

And I'm not even including the perverse incentives of constant bajulation of the customer, the fake happiness and cheery attitude ground me quite a bit after the third or fourth restaurant...

I don't need that, I need a menu, someone who can see when I want to order, bring my food and drinks and let me be and enjoy my meal. The constant pestering by waiters if I wanted something else, if I was ready for this or that, it just made me feel like part of some machine to extract as much revenue as possible in the least time.

I ate in quite a few places in the US, from street food vendors to high-end restaurants and I have to say I barely enjoyed most of the experiences, it's just too much.
> unless they’re using some truly exotic hardware.

We're one of those (who uses, not who manufactures)! But in most cases it is not a question of Linux distribution and more of is it Windows (hopefully not XP) or not :(
> But then the food isn't guaranteed, is it?

You are correct but I feel perhaps missing the woods for the trees.

Every person's right tends to be someone else's obligation.

When obligations are met by state resources, there is then a responsibility to distribute fairly (because the resources come from everyone), this introduces hoops or conditions.

That doesn't mean that the right, or the obligation doesn't exist.

The need to ensure everyone gets food is absolutely part of the public understanding and discourse.

You can of course pick holes all day because yes, administering public welfare programs is hard.

Conditions where the state is obliged to do or provide something tend to be more complicated in practice than when the state is obliged NOT to do something (search and seizure, freedom of speech etc).
Literal millennia of warfare says otherwise. Traditionally it's one of the key roles of the state!
> Can the same thing be said for Debian?

It can't. Not just drivers, firmware updates for BIOS among other things. Ubuntu is getting there but it isn't considered as seriously by all manufacturers.
250 deliveries of about $40 each for my wife and I. We order almost every day, sometimes twice a day (lunch and dinner). We are well off and lazy.
You can factory reset it.
language 1 extracts gender to a separate word.

language 2 embeds gender in the word itself.

names are words.

it's a lose-lose situation: native speakers of language 2 will look at what you wrote and cringe or just assume you're ignorant. they won't get the point you're trying to make, null, nada, 0% chance. source: i'm a native speaker of language 2.
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The OP is a Debian developer / Project Leader [1], maintaining quite a few packages, not some rando "Debian fanboy".

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage
MLM has not created a ton of wealth, jobs, or income. It has done that for a select few, and robbed the majority of its victims.

Instagram has provided immense value for millions not only in the ability to connect with others, but opportunities for photographers, videographers, actors, venues, musicians, and almost every other type of creative and small business, that they otherwise wouldn't have gotten.

I know the prevailing view on HN is that social media is bad for society. I disagree. The amount of knowledge and experiences shared through social media has had a huge positive impact on the world, of course with it has come some negatives. But in general, through social media the world is now connected to a level where we can see what the real, on the ground experience is like in other places and events. I think this is key for bringing more empathy to the world, especially when it comes to relating to other people's struggles in places where most people don't really think about.

I think as a society, we are in an adjustment phase with social media, and the internet in general.
Except the US didn't "grant" Pfizer anything, nor made any arrangement in regards to IP. Trump only made a deal for some of the first couple batches and that's it.

What should have happened, is what you are saying. But that's not how it went down and it seems, not how this world works.
CDPR owns GOG, a Steam competitor. Steam and GOG worked together to help bring a big game to Linux. You just love to see that.
Red Hat ships source publicly, but not binaries.

http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/8Base/en/RHOS/...
Even so, geek themselves are a pretty nice market. Would you not buy an open source printer? I know I hate HP after the last one died just after warranty ended and they have no spare parts whatsoever.

Same with other things. I would buy those things.

And if they really are good they can become a mass market product.

Yet, we only get a phone or something and that's it.
How much of a boost will this change by CentOS give to efforts to get Docker running on FreeBSD? I get the impression that many here are open to adopting FreeBSD but that Docker support is a non-negotiable requirement.
> I'm using KeePassX (not XC) version 2.0.3.

Note that KeePassXC is the continuation of KeePassX, which is defunct (last release in 2016, only two commits since for new Qt versions)
"geoblocking European users" is already happening. They recently announced some major API changes on the messenger platform that only affect user's from Europe or businesses based in Europe and gave developers about 2 weeks to make changes https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/euro...
Asynchronous communication is the future for dev teams
You can make the same argument about HN.

Also, in the past couple years, IG has rolled out functionality that does the opposite of what you suggest. e.g. They no longer prompt you with your "likes" notifications. I know they are AB testing removing "likes" from view, though not sure if that will get normalized.

Other than the likes, what exactly are they doing that is designed against the user?
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right, so, we're allowed to profit by releasing a new clone of candy crush but not by saving humanity from a global pandemic...
I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on eBPF generally, it seems likely that this is where observability companies are headed. It's non-trivial to implement but monitoring from the kernel layer makes so much sense that I expect the tooling will come along quickly.
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> Supermarkets might pay for the product, but Kellogg’s, Budweiser, etc pay them for shelf space, eye level, end of aisle placement, etc. there is a dozen ways they make money off the sellers.

I don't see how this invalidates the analogy. Brands paying for eye-level placement is the same as 'sponsored products' on Amazon. Any Amazon Seller has a right to do this and Amazon has the right to sell this access. Just like any brand has the right to meet eye-level requirements.

Yes, supermarkets have a store brand. Yes, they may also place store brand items at eye-level at no cost. But! I think there are two key differences:

1) In most cases, supermarkets buy from the existing product manufacturer at wholesale in order to be able to slap their brand on the product and use other cost saving measures (ie: bland, cheaper packaging, etc) to sell the same product at a lower price. In cases where they don't buy from the manufacturer, the copy of the product is likely not covered by a patent or is different enough as to not infringe on the patent/trademark.

2) Many Amazon Sellers are small independent companies, just look at their success stories page [1] to see the extent to which they market to small business owners. These businesses likely can't afford to patent their products and when Amazon decides to copy their product (based off the data they collected [2]), they can't defend themselves and their product effectively.

Not all Amazon brand products are a problem. The biggest issue is the exploitation of companies in a certain 'sweet spot' on its platform. These small businesses have taken on risk to provide a good product that sells well, but aren't big enough to patent the product or hire lawyers.

Maybe Amazon is just a symptom caused by the imbalance of power in the economy right now. Either way, it's unfair and should be fixed. I think separating Amazon "the marketplace" and Amazon "the competing store brand" would help (as long as Amazon "marketplace" sells store data to Amazon "brand name" at the same price it offers everyone else).

A law requiring store brand items to be made from an existing manufacturer in it's "marketplace" would also help. Supermarkets would be mostly unaffected, Amazon would need to a) buy the product from it's Sellers at wholesale volume (like a supermarket) and b) compete based on other merits like faster shipping, customer service, etc.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/b?node=13496283011
[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its...
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beautiful! thanks for sharing!
Ask HN: How to Effectively Test ETL?
Hey all,

Some time ago I published a Kaggle dataset as part of a passion project. It was generated by a fairly involved handwritten Python pipeline that I hacked together while learning Pandas. The dataset became far more popular than I expected, and now I'm anxious about possible bugs.

I'd like to solicit your advice on building out a decent test suite. How would you go about validating data? Are there any books on best practices that you'd recommend?
Banning accounts that are the sole way a user has to access things they have 'purchased' should be made illegal. If that causes problems because it's also tied to a social media account, then that's an argument for social media companies keeping it separate.

Imagine if a car I'd bought stopped working because I stuck a 'Find my lost cat' poster up somewhere it wasn't supposed to be.
I don't work at Tesla, so I don't know where they have their clusters, but there are obviously many cloud providers who would be more than happy to sell you as many petabytes of storage as you would like to buy.

> I’d like to remind you as well that Google, aka Waymo, had their nn accelerators for half a decade already.

That's true, but you need something mobile and low power for a car. I don't know if Waymo really has an equivalent there.

Also, it's an advantage for Tesla to have their own regardless, because of cost. Tesla can probably make their FSD computer for $200. If you are a third party and you want to buy Waymo's solution, they will sell it to you for thousands.
Agreed. We don't know the consequences of pushing Mountain West aquifers the way we have. There is good evidence we are pulling out more than is replenished and therefore are incurring a deficit.

What's more, we tend to think of the "West" as "won" but these states are mostly still growing as part of the American Westward expansion. A lot of Western State land only became easily accessible with the completion of the interstates in the 1960s 1970s and even 1980s. Therefore, the material abundance necessary for truly large scale populations to live in comfort has only come to these places in the last 40 years. This has caused a consistent population boom in some places which is not yet tapering and will lead to increased stress on these resources.
Californians don't screw in lightbulbs. They screw in hot tubs.

(this joke is dated, I know)
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(This is very much satire!)
Of course there's no failsafe automated way to detect double-voting. There's no failsafe automated way to detect anything. In fact, there's no failsafe way to detect anything.

But checking for duplicate envelopes is part of the process. That's how duplicate votes are found and thrown out of elections (see the Stokke case). Checking for voter eligibility is part of the process. That's how votes are invalidated (see the report I linked elsewhere in this thread).

There is no evidence that ballot fraud exists at a scale which affects elections in the United States. The fact that it exists at all is not a good enough reason to disenfranchise millions of people.

Taking tens of thousands of ballots (the number needed to swing the election) from nursing homes will absolutely cause detected double-votes. Not to mention that collecting those tens of thousands of ballots necessarily involves a large number of people. And when a conspiracy includes a large number of people, the chances that someone talks skyrockets.
I agree, and it's a good point about the industry using Google/Amazon/FB/etc as a template. I hadn't considered that in this context.

My greater reason for "scoring" progress on consent as "no real gains" is less about "compliance" and more about the goals of this compliance. What does consent mean to a non-lawyer and would do we want legislators/regulators to pursue it in the first place?

The model of consent being litigated here doesn't, imo, lead to noticeably more choice or dominion vis a vis companies. It just leads to technicalities about how popups need to be designed. Form rather than substance.

I think the reason these laws have been more effective on disclosure is that the legible, lawyerly definition of disclosure is the same as the common sense one. Consent... not so much. The actual point is not whether or not a document was correctly initialed on page 6.
No Engineer, no matter how smart, can sway a corporation directed by a political culture that has non-feature goals.
I've seen this kind of essay described as an "explorable explanation" - I absolutely love them. There's a directory of other examples of this kind of thing here: https://explorabl.es/
Let me clarify. I wouldn't be surprised if the smell and taste of cooked human flesh causes physiological and mental changes to humans. Those changes could possibly lower the barriers for human to human violence.

Probably worth studying before bringing this into the mass market.

Maybe case studies of cannibalism would shed some light. An otherwise peaceful society who, for example, eats recently dead people, may suggest there wouldn't be any concerns with lab grown human meat.
The device isn't blocked, only the facebook account. They can still sell the device.
Debian provides security support for way more packages and way longer.

Also, Ubuntu adds some bloated software of dubious quality.
Almost... I've been sitting on a draft for months. Will publish it on my site when ready.

Some quick ones:

- Make value proposition clear. Just because they reached the signup screen doesn't mean they're already convinced to sign up.

- Show social proof on signup screen, such as customer logos or approximate number of users. Same reason as above.

- Offer SSO options. Google is especially popular

- Have an Obvious Next Step(tm)(R)(patent pending). Make it clear what the visitor is expected to do next by making that thing visually stand out, and muting (or removing) everything else. Notice in OP's signup screen that the background app preview is tinted, and the Twitter login button is the brightest thing, dead-center of the page.

- Have a product people want. This is a hard one. :)
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> So my advice. Everything in Computer Science is a trade off. There is no universally superior language. Whatever you do, understand what the tradeoff are why you are making them. Don’t let it descend into a political war between opinionated factions.

I really like this point.
eBPF is great but it only works for linux and access to the kernel layer doesn't work for serverless environments, so it's definitely a piece of the puzzle but not a silver bullet IMO.
"Zoning is a mechanism of economic suppression to appease the haves and separate them from the have-nots. They de-diversify and oppress."

The above sentence could be said about building codes.

I sort of jest but also shudder to think: How soon will progressive SFBA thought leaders call out building and health and safety codes as pushing up costs and excluding homeowners (and potential homeowners) that cannot comply with them ?

Because they absolutely do that. God help us if we act on that knowledge ...
Isn't that the same as Ubuntu devel?

You can always stay on devel, or switch to a stable release when (or preferably few days before) it's released.
OK. I was specifically talking about US politics. Although now that I think about it, a lot of what I mentioned could also be traced back to 9/11 - calling Obama a crypto-muslim wouldn't have been a valid way of spreading FUD about his intentions otherwise. There is also apparently something of a global right-wing/right-populist movement underway. I don't know about Australia, though.

As far as social media goes, I see it as a catalyst - it doesn't create the problems but it does help their effect spread. Deplatforming and regulation of social media might help stop the spread (although I support the former and not the latter) but we still as a society have to address the underlying issues. Something like QAnon doesn't take off simply because it's a viral meme, but because it resonates with people's existing fears and beliefs.
Well that meshes rather conveniently with the fact the almost crushingly dominant browser out there now has little incentive to really foil fingerprinting.
The cert couldn't obviously couldn't be static in this case (otherwise it would be trivial to get the private key).

Creating a cert during "install" probably adds a good bit of complexity (especially if the map has multiple env targets)
>I can find a legal solution to your technical blockades. Be careful what you ask for.

legislative... senator.
Don't miss the "Legal Changes" section of that article. The bubble and subsequent bust, it turns out, was caused by government meddling (at the behest of powerful economic interests, mind you).
I think that the bigger problem is that developers just don't get taught any way to think about coding other than the object-oriented, use-Java-for-everything approach.

I sometimes think I could have massively accelerated my ability to produce decent code in any language if I had been forced to work through "The Little Schemer" and "How to Design Programs" before I saw anything else.

But that is probably just hindsight or personal bias. I found functional programming in Lisp and Clojure to simply click for me in a way that enterprise Java class hierarchies never did . . .
The Armenian Genocide comes to mind. You also couldn't prove that Uyghurs are being subject to anything out-of-the-ordinary in Chinese courts right now.

I'm not saying that that's what we're dealing with here, but saying that "if bad things were happening everyone would already know" is begging the question, not a convincing argument. Noting that we'd expect odd statistical distributions of votes in the case of fraud is a better one.
The best most ironic part of the forced Facebook login is that you still have to manually add your Facebook friends as your Oculus friends. Unlike with IG, it doesn't even suggest your Facebook friends to be friends. If adding Facebook friends who joined Oculus was automatic, at least you can argue there was immediate utility, but as of right now it feels like they're just signalling that FB will watch your every move and spy on you.
The beta has steering on city streets, it handles roundabouts, merging, changing lanes, construction work, deers crossing the road, garbage trucks, etc. It can also handle about half of the 10-minute drives I've seen without disengagements, and when it does disengage, it's rarely in a dangerous position.

You can call that L2 if you want, but I feel that's disingenuous. It's way ahead of anything anybody else has except Waymo, with the difference that Tesla's system will drive anywhere in the US.

You can say, sure, but you still need to watch it all the time. Yeah, but the number of interventions that you need to make is becoming less and less.