skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This HBR link is a "35 minute interactive lesson", and I didn't want to interact with it, so I stopped when it asked "What is your top priority as leader of the expedition? What is the first thing you do?"

About 25 years ago, Shackleton's Expedition was going around as a "this is how to do things right" just-so-stories that business people write. It feels like this is part of the same vein.

"alleged newspaper ad written by Shackleton to"

Despite much searching, no one has been able to find that alleged advertisement.

I consider it a falsehood, akin to the made-up history that no one thought the world was round before Columbus.

Now, Shackleton's Expedition was incredible. His book about it is thrilling. There's even film they took, which made it through the entire trip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqpITVsy2cU&list=PL914C98C13... .

At the The Polar Museum, University of Cambridge, there's a full-scale model of the boat they used to get to St. George Island - this little tiny sailboat, across the South Atlantic, with the most basic of instruments.

But knowing the history, I know that I cannot answer the questions "What is your top priority as leader of the expedition? What is the first thing you do?" - I simply don't have the training or experience. And it's not just leadership, but requires detailed knowledge of what the equipment of that era can and cannot do.
Now read the rest of the sentence. You supplied it once, and have had multiple opportunities to read it. Here, I'll give you another one:

"...this site will only cover individuals who self-identify as journalists and have some track record of journalistic work.“

Your mind seems to be made up, based on your comments here, but I supply the context for others.
> The idea is to prevent the firms gaining unfair advantages via their elevated positions.

Anyone who is serious about this needs to stop attacking all the symptoms and address the root cause of Big Tech's monopoly power: Imaginary Property Laws ("IP"). Everything else is just tissues to sooth a runny nose instead of medicine to fight the virus.

End IP and bring real competition and democratization to Big Tech.
Based on code inspection, I believe so, yes. It will map "dev.localhost" to 127.0.0.1.
Most older pages on docs.ms.com have been converted to Markdown, and yes, that includes the Windows C and COM API docs.* Here's the source code for CreateFile's doc page: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api/blob/docs/sdk-api-s...

Having said that, https://docs.microsoft.com 's flavor of Markdown does allow for embedded HTML, like GitHub's and enough pages still use that feature that the conversion to Markdown is arguably incomplete. It isn't a big issue in practice, however; you can update markup from HTML to Markdown along with your other changes.

* As a recent-past engineer on the Windows team, I have a rather lower opinion of Windows API docs than you. :) The Windows developer platform has not had enough dedicated technical writers for years; our developer content teams are mainly editors of engineer- and PM-written original docs, which can lead to API doc sets with badly written pages, important missing information, or references to Windows-internal developer tools. I tried to channel my frustrations into correcting and extending my coworkers' writings, or into gently asking them to fix their omissions when I didn't have the free time to spend on the needed research.
There’s a vast difference between selling milk and selling dairy products; milk’s impracticality - shipping water that must be kept under refrigeration and easily spoils - is evident, but cheese, butter, yogurt - none of which discussed in this article - will readily command a premium.

I’d have loved to hear about feed additives under development to curb emissions, but the condescension throughout aligns with the general tone of pity for an industry presumed terminal.
The advertising identifier is a crappy way to do this though. There are multiple more privacy respecting ways to ban users which work much better. The IDFA can be blanked or reset where other methods like identifierForVendor cannot be reset or bypassed.
Mundane: Rust cryptography library that is difficult to misuse
In theory, yes, that's true. That is, if we completely ignore the Pareto principle(which I'm willing to bet is in full effect here). Looking at what they have on their portfolio(Tinder, okcupid, match, etc.), I think it's safe to assume they own 80-90% of the market share. That is pretty close to monopoly if you ask me.
So how can you be a journalist in order to write your first articles if you're not allowed to be a journalist until you've written your first articles?
Of course the EU created her citizens, do you think European citizenship is some sort of fact of nature? Like people woke up in Europe in a cave and were like "Yeah of course we're cosmopolitan citizens of the United European states" ?

All the rules, all the borders, all their values have been created, quite hard earned in fact, with a lot of blood and sweat along the way I might add, even more so than at an Apple smartphone factory if you can believe it.
For sure, I tend to use “we”. I like to think it’s more the royal “we” rather than a golem-like split personality.
Earned Secrets
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741237
Yes, that is exactly what it means: things that require a "secure context" in spec terms, like WebCrypto, will work on http://localhost even though it's not https.
This is exactly how I envisioned it. A crawl+index company that gives equal access to all competitors.

The search front companies would use the index to retrieve pages, then they would rank these pages with their own criteria and filter with their own white/black lists, then present the result in their own UI. Each one would have their own ads and tracking (or lack thereof). The index would not be able to know the identities of the users.

In the end they all boil down to an "attention economy", it's about us and our eyeballs, we should have more say on what we are consuming.

The part about ranking, filtering, tracking and UI is true for FaceBook and Twitter as well, even though they are a different kind of service. We could have alternative views on these systems, where we have more control on the way the system manipulates the information for us.
Even as someone who is generally sympathetic to reports like this I don't think 2019 is a useful comparison. What are the numbers compared to other years with mass protests and/or riots (ex. 2016)? Is this a number that scales with the number and size of large events or was 2020 truly an outlier regardless?
> Firefox now uses more modern techniques for allocating shared memory on Linux, improving performance and increasing compatibility with Docker.

Anyone know any more details about this one?
Seems like a like a good opportunity for a third party solution.
Show HN: Publicly share your stock portfolio
> how does one evaluate a news source for its trustworthiness

You evaluate multiple sources to independently verify information, and you hold each source up to consistently good ethical behavior and accurate information.

Basically, treat journalism like science, but a little more fast and loose (literally) because you can't wait for 10 years of research to determine how to act politically or economically.
I found no justification for the 3% figure in the actual report.

EDIT: my bad, the justification is a 3% estimated rate for all plastics globally.
It's just that recent issues have made controversial policing issues much more salient. Speaking for myself, I've always thought that riots are very bad and the police should use extreme force to shut them down - I just never really ended up talking about it until recently, because it was never a tremendously interesting or relevant topic. In general, it's important to remember that any consensus you see on an Internet forum is implicitly selected for people who care enough to talk about the issue.
It's been like this for a few years now. I see part of the problem being people who are suddenly rich through high salaries or exits that also suddenly become Republican and don't care about anything but taxes. i.e. civil rights, freedom of the press, etc...
Why would you assume that cops are racist? Especially when a lot of them are black themselves?
Sweet, I didn't know that had changed. Good decision.
The EU democratic structure is complex, that for sure. But it's hardly undemocratic.

The EU has always struggled to explain how it works, why it's structure works the way it does. But all the leaders in the EU are elected, just not always via direct elections. A process that actually isn't that unusual in the world.

The US is actually a bit of an outlier, because they have direct elections for almost every position in government, with some slightly mixed results. The EU it's common for countries to select and organise their executive bodies via in-direct elections. For example in the UK our prime minister isn't directly elected, the general public didn't "choose" Boris Johnson. Instead the conservative party did, via its own methodology which it can change any time it does.

The current byzantine system exists out of a need to somehow balance the power of the EU as a federal entity, against the sovereignty of the individual nations. With irony come from the fact that the "unelected" leader only exist because it give more power to leaders of the member states, and takes it away from the EU as an organisation independent of its member states and their elected governments.
with 28 countries 10% is much larger than most.
We’ve been playing around on the side with ways to share trades with friends for some time, excited to share the latest iteration with HN - a personal page for your stock trades and holdings! Once you create your own custom page (see sample - https://rob.withlaguna.com/) you'll be able to import your trades automatically (Plaid), notify followers/friends through text, and grow an audience.

In our beta we have casual users sharing with friends & family to keep them updated, new traders sharing on their social media to build an audience, and existing traders more deeply connecting with their loyal followers through text. We even have someone using it as a faster way to see their portfolio holdings over Robinhood.

Would love to get some feedback from HN! What do you like/dislike? What features should we add?
Besides the fact that existing systems work fine for this, the idea that users pay for a fix or feature is ludicrious.

Users are terrible project managers. They report things as bugs that aren't bugs, they request features that don't improve the product, they in general have a low hitrate in terms of providing successful direction for a project.

Setting up a system where users pay for a _specific_ thing to happen is just asking for trouble.

Users paying for development they already find useful, or for concepts that they believe have promise - that's the way to do it.
Living near Portland I would say that anyone that puts "PRESS" on their shirt with tape defines themselves as a journalist...or even just someone holding a phone or camera. Same as those medics with a red cross out of tape. There have also been many examples of those 2 groups of people engaging in the violence that seem to think of themselves as immune to police orders because of it.

Unfortunately the videos and pictures of these examples of people hiding behind a designation are ignored by the MSM and are only found by being at the protests, looking at raw video or following ultra-conservative people like Andy Ngo.

This report also doesn't say why journalists were arrested. Many reports show that they were not following police orders to clear an area that has been designated a riot...and simply being part of the press doesn't give you the right to ignore police orders and if the police have to resort to non-lethal force in response to being attacked then being in the area leaves you vulnerable to the same non-lethal force.

Police don't have the time to check everyone's credentials at 1AM while having lasers and fireworks thrown at them when trying to clear out an area.

I dislike the police...but I also feel like they were not treated fairly in 2020, especially in places like Portland.
That's not the definition being used here:

> “While we recognize the importance and the rights of the private citizen who snaps a photo or video of an arrest, this site will only cover individuals who self-identify as journalists and have some track record of journalistic work.“
The report is available at the end of the page. It's some awful embedded PDF reader thing.
The cops should just call themselves Journalists. After that, they too can do whatever they want and cry violence, fascism whenever anyone attacks them in any form.
The purpose of this is to ensure that organizations like the European equivalents of RIAA and MPAA have basically one click disable buttons (not strictly required, but how most sites will implement it) for content they claim infringes their copyrights, or is otherwise illegal. This would also be used by organizations that track down child porn etc.

As for who is a trusted flagger: "The status of trusted flaggers under this Regulation shall be awarded, upon
application by any entities, by the Digital Services Coordinator of the Member State in which the applicant is established where the applicant has demonstrated to meet
all of the following conditions: (a) it has particular expertise and competence for the purposes of detecting,
identifying and notifying illegal content; (b) it represents collective interests and is independent from any online platform; (c) it carries out its activities for the purposes of submitting notices in a timely, diligent and objective manner. "

I.E. if you can convince your local government that you should be one, bam you are one, and online platform the EU needs to expedite processing of any notices you make.

On the other end of the spectrum, the companies are required to allow you to appeal takedowns and account suspensions/terminations (for TOS or illegal content reasons, not for non-payment reasons) for a 6 month period. Further, if you appeal a takedown or account suspension and the company rejects your appeal, the law will allow you to take the matter to binding arbitration. If the user wins, the company pays all costs, and must reinstate the content or account. If the user loses, they only pay their portion of arbitration costs. (The company's portion are just part of doing business in the EU).
I don't see a pro-authoritarian bent in the comments in this thread. What I see a lot of is people pointing out that the definition of "journalist" is very very loose in 2020, and that has an effect on the arrest stats. Many many many people have watched with their own eyes, live on video, what's been going on through the course of this year. We've seen CNN and ABC reporters shot with rubber bullets and accosted on live TV, but we've also seen a lot of "journalists" throwing rocks and molotov cocktails on live stream and doing other criminal acts.

There is a healthy and natural cynicism and suspicion of what appears to be a lop-sided reporting of the occurrences during the protests and riots in 2020. That suspicion may benefit people who are pro-authoritarian because they can play on it, but it doesn't necessarily mean those who are suspicious are pro-authoritarian themselves.

The article does a lot to try to explain what it /doesn't/ classify as a journalist, but never says what it does classify as a journalist. Those definitions are central to the point of the whether or not these stats are actually meaningful in any bigger sense than to say "well duh, of course more people were arrested during a year of protest and riots".
Corporate entities have to make quarterly payments. Let's assume you're a $10 million company with 10% monthly ROE/growth. Paying an additional 9% in California corporate tax rates will result in the loss of a billion in market cap within five years. Literally a third of the terminal value of the startup.

Point taken about diminishing marginal returns. But you can see that even taking that into account, the impact of lax tax planning for shareholders is humongous. (Plus many startups are in winner-take-all markets, and effectively have increasing returns to scale.)

The opportunity cost is real. Tax arbitrage will take some amount of bandwidth. But it often takes much less effort to raise cash by minimizing taxes than it does to raise additional equity funding. The former can mostly be done by the CFO in the background, whereas the latter requires the attention of the founders.
Some people don’t play on a team.
I don't think this "balance" framing really works.

Absolutely, traditional journalism had some problems with bias, and they were tough to improve.

I can't think of a single thing in journalism (NB, journalism, not information access) that hasn't become notably worse due to the collapse.
Do something similar to journalists:

1) Cross-check. If a news source says something, see what others are saying. Especially others with no vested interest in agreeing with source 1.

2) (This is key, and where I think people tend to fail hardest) Reputation. Real news sources make mistakes. Real news sources print retractions. Real news sources have a reputation to curate. Guy sitting in his van ranting into a camera and posting to YouTube has none of those things and is not a news source. Keep track of who sucks and who doesn't and start down-sampling bad-reputation sources.

3) Separate news from analysis and know which you're looking at. A lot of news out there is doing more interpretation of fact than relaying fact. Be aware of interpretation---you don't have to disregard it, but remember the effect it has on you the listener (setting expectations changes how we interpret input) and the effect it has on the reporter (bias leads people to discard facts that don't fit and over-highlight facts that do). I'm personally always leery of stories that tell you what you should think before telling you what happened.

4) Do the one thing the modern world discourages you from doing and slow the hell down. People in the middle of a riot have no idea what's going on. No matter what they're capturing on cameras at the scene, it's one vantage point of one event. What actually happened takes time to piece together from multiple vantage points. Resist the urge to let the scoop be the story for you and if something is important, do the leg-work to follow up on it and see what people learned in 1 week and 1 month. Medical and science reporting, in particular, often falls down here because they'll report on the first article on a topic and you never hear about follow-up studies, attempts to reproduce, or sometimes retractions from the original researchers.
Great !!!.
I've thought about it a little. If everything is digital and in deprecated formats then there could be a sort of "dark ages"... even without some kind of end of world scenario to wipe out the evidence. We could simply just forget how to access it. Eg: in yr 3030 will we still know how to open pdfs ,flash files, or say PS4 games?
And this is the reason why BLM where vests that say press but then those same people are attacking police. They want to abuse the special privileges the press get.
Every managed metrics system will put a limit on cardinality because all mainstream available metrics systems cost more per cardinality to query and store. If they don’t limit that you can assume you or some other customer is going to use up the clusters resources and cause an outage.

Like most metrics systems, under the covers in Prometheus each unique combination of dimensions is the same as a new metric line.
FFI-Safe Polymorphism in Rust: Thin Trait Objects
Yes he does. https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3apyv/super-awkward-for-rig...
This seems excessively harsh. I don’t think we should doubt the sincerity of people who believe that modern agriculture should be transformed in order to reduce its climate impact.
I think there's a lot of reasons. Part of it is that, as the power of the tech industry has grown, journalists have become more active in exposing how it abuses that power to make the country, and the world, a worse and more degrading place to live in, and people on HN don't like being reminded of how they contribute to that.

There's also a ton of people who are just reflexively hostile to the idea that society is systematically unjust and exceptionally hostile to the idea that they benefit from the ways in which it is unjust, and as mainstream journalism has been largely sympathetic to these ideas, they are in turn reflexively hostile to mainstream journalism.
"...forum for geeks..."

I think human nature of having opinions and diversity of opinions exist in all groups, no matter how we categorize/stereotype them.
And now if you live in the EU you don't have the CC rewards people in the US do. Congrats, you traded off consumer welfare for small business interests.
Yellow journalism has always been a thing and has been problematic lots of times in our history.

This is really just the prolonged conclusion of 24 hour news cycles that have been with us since cable television.

What's the quote about newspapers bringing all of the horrors of the world to your doorstep? Television brought them into your living room. Now with online media you carry them around with you.
Gawker was bankrupted because they really wanted to display Hulk Hogan's penis, filmed on a hidden camera in a private room, on their website.

edit: removed reference to violating a court order, even though they did before having it overturned.
HN has always been pretty far to the right. There is a strong Trump contingent. A huge "law and order" (but not when disrupting when laws are "ridiculous and dumb") contingent.

On HNs it is normal to denigrate the "MSM" while cheering on some blogger and his completely unsubstantiated claims. Attacks on the press, because there's a strong Trump contingent here that have an issue with reality and fact having an "anti-Trump bias", are cheered on.

It isn't surprising at all.
> Published by Maciej Radzikowski

This guy was dealt a bad hand by God.
No these are organizations that an EU government has granted special status to:

"The status of trusted flaggers under this Regulation shall be awarded, upon application by any entities, by the Digital Services Coordinator of the Member State in which the applicant is established where the applicant has demonstrated to meet all of the following conditions: (a) it has particular expertise and competence for the purposes of detecting, identifying and notifying illegal content; (b) it represents collective interests and is independent from any online platform; (c) it carries out its activities for the purposes of submitting notices in a timely, diligent and objective manner."

edit: Yeah, NGOs and also MPAA/RIAA style associations will probably be the most common entities.
That's a seperate DRM issue with WideVine. Use Safari if you want 1080p (or 4k if you have a T2 chip inside).
The EU is currently based upon the Treaty of Lisbon [1] signed in 2007 after the referenda of 2005 for the new constitution (Spain yes, France and Netherlands nay)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lisbon
Can officer give some absurd order just as cause to arrest someone?
short answer: no.
slightly longer answer: not if there are subsidies.

i will have to devote more time and attention to a longer proper answer that i feel obligated to provide. i hope to revisit this again once work ebbs.
Not saying you're wrong, but maybe Wikipedia is leaving off a lot of relevant history on the Chaos Engineering article then.

Edit: Funny how my original comment is downvoted for contradictory reasons, both because "obviously that was irrelevant to the state of the art in chaos engineering", and because "oh don't worry, that's relevant, they just discuss it in other contexts".
They call themselves "libertarians" while being, in fact, quite authoritarian. Libertarians support criminal justice reform, including reducing the power of police.
That's another team.