skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here is my theory: the "coup" was such an utter non-threat that those in charge did not want to give an ounce of evidence regarding how they could respond in order to prevent legitimately threatening bad actors from understanding the possibilities.

Six people died! How is that an "utter non-threat"? The mental revisionism is out of control. How is it that people are so unwilling to condemn the most obvious kind of political violence imaginable?
Disabling JS prevents the paywall.
But that requires an ISP and DNS (which are also often censorious).
Yes, if you happen to own an oven that has this feature. It's not exactly common.

Edit: because of course I triggered a storm. Maybe it's common elsewhere. I've lived in few EU countries, rented then owned a few houses, exactly only one of them had an oven with the self cleaning(by heating up to like 500C) feature, I don't think we ever used it. When we bought our current oven none of the ones we looked at had that function. A fancy Candy we looked at had a function where it cleans itself with steam(where you fill up a provided container with water and then it heats it up to fill the oven with steam and in theory that softens the gunk. No idea if that actually works).

If it's common where you live, then my apologies for this comment.
Do you have examples of Google Cloud arbitrarily changing prices and terminating products?

Sure they terminate consumer products, and there was a Maps price hike, but I'm not aware of anything that's part of Cloud.
I agree, but by allowing some calls to violence and not others, Twitter is placing itself as a judge of what violence is justifiable and what isn't.

This is basically what politics is - deciding how to fairly apply violence. So Twitter is taking a political stance by only removing some calls. And an especially strong stance if they are going to start judging nation states.
I actually lived in Manhattan for years...
My girlfriend at the time used to take a 'gypsy cab' from the Bronx to downtown everyday. Though, I admit when I lived in Staten Island it is was an issue.

Thing is, companies are not servicing those areas because its not profitable. That makes me extremely leery of claims that gig drivers can make minimum wage ( or more) in those areas. I feel the drivers are basically subsidizing the ride companies profits.

edit: which means, I ultimately feel these companies will go out of business.
"We never thought it would happen, but in 2024, the year of our lord, it did. It seems that governments are requiring full access to iPhones and using features in ways we didn't think possible. People are now using infrared broadcasting, attached to weapons, government vehicles and buildings, to prevent taking photos near protests and riots. This is the first time it's happened that we know of, and we are scared of the precedent. Over 4,150 people died in a protest in the [redacted African country] at the hands of newly 'elected' military regime, and we have no digital evidence of it, except for the older analog cameras that some people still possessed."

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-patent-disables-camera...
Imho all should have been saved by buying China's ones instead, with full availabilities
I know people (native English speakers also) who pronounce the data type "char" as "care" for this reason. I still go with "char" as in burning.

It's a rich tapestry of confusion.
There's historical precedent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
> Do teenage girls buy playboy in Germany? I imagine usually not.

Not that I'm aware of, neither do I know in general which and how many women consume similar media in general. My impression, and I'm not feeling very confident in suggesting this is correct or representative, is that women in general rather like to talk about sexuality related topics with their friends, or for example check out guys together on Facebook etc and not so much look at nudity in a magazine.

> Honestly, we might have to agree to disagree

I'm totally fine with that. :-) I'm not on a mission here, just trying to explain why I feel this is rather an overreaction, and how my cultural background might play a role here... Yes it came from playboy, but the image on its own barely hints at that. At least I never made the connection and only learned about it from the HN comments a few years ago, I think from an IOCCC entry that used that image in some way.

> If this was just about nudity being fine, I am not seeing many naked men in tech.

I'd be absolutely fine with someone using a cropped face from a Playgirl model as a counter weight. :-)
I'm sorry, but the intro of the article is wrong.

Not anyone could edit the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Ford was researching earth for 15 years and an editor cut his submission down to "mostly harmless"...

> https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ford_Prefect#Work_on_the...
Melt your computer with compilation? A Node program?

More to the point, did you audit Tensorflow? If no, then what's your point to begin with? If yes, what made you conclude that auditing Tensorflow is doable, but usually simple NPM modules are "un-auditable"?
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix/
Can you take a picture of it?
> I feel the drivers are basically subsidizing the ride companies profits.

Since the ride companies don't make any profits... this cannot be a true statement.
Of course that only works if there is no competition that is more efficient.
Yes, sorry. Have to fix that. We are not making money yet so no reports to show.
FYI, “The S&P 500 is a total return index of U.S. large-cap stocks, meaning that its price level includes dividends as well as capital gains.”

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/040915/does-sp-500-...
Rather than soap, I use a pampered chef plastic scraper (It’s for stone ware; don’t know any other name for it), and a stainless steel scouring pad (not steel wool; instead it’s coils of flat stainless steel tape or something). The scraper removes the bulk of stuff, keeping the scouring pad clean.

This is less effort than using soap, and more effective. The stainless smooths out any imperfections that form in the seasoning over time, and cooking with oil continuously reseasons it.

I found that I had to re-season my pans every 5-10 years if I used soap, and that the seasoning was an inferior cooking surface (more food stuck to it). With the technique I described above, I can cook eggs and they don’t stick. (be sure to preheat, use plenty of oil, and then don’t touch for a minute or two at the beginning of cooking)
You can call its implementation a disaster while still agreeing with it. Trump has repeatedly talked about how we just need to go in there and take the oil", and anecdotally or otherwise, you're saying that support for military actions is lower among Trump supporters than liberals? That's going to be a challenge to reconcile or confirm - it doesn't really square.
Curriculums? In my experience yes. Unfortunately connecting those classes to the things you're going to be doing is usually an exercise left to the reader.

It's usually "here's some linear algebra and calc" but not "this thing you're doing here comes from this model and here's how we got here"
> I'm not sure what "Android browser" means here, but it's been a while since I've seen the built-in browser engines not running on some recent version of Chromium as a base.

Looks like it's the pre-Android 5, non-Chromium, AOSP browser ?
Is a great deal of actual Rust behavior not fairly intimately tied to LLVM? As far as I know it leaks various LLVM details and much of the documentation about various functions documents them as being little more than a thin wrapper to various LLVM internals.
Wait, aren't DDG and Ecosia using the same search engine under the hood (bing)?

How would you be getting different results from them?
On a related tangent, why is mmap() needed to begin with? Is it not an example of a leaky abstraction?

I know, I know, how else would a process communicate its needs to the memory management system. I have seen shellcode that marks writeable pages executable using mmap, so it is certainly useful.
Are they keyword-based ads like DDG?
AWS costs for a simple web application
Private.sh ( https://private.sh ) actually encrypts your search query and washes it thru a proxy prior to delivering it to the search engine entity which decrypts it, performs the search, and encrypts the results before sending it back through the same channel.
It's not possible to fix information on Wikipedia by using primary sources (the Judiciary website, the ONS data, the NCISH reports), you have to use secondary sources such as newspaper reports. Since newspapers get this stuff wrong too wikipedia will only allow incorrect information.

And that's Wikipedia working as intended. If you're unfortunate you'll run up against someone who i) doesn't know anything at all about the topic, ii) has misunderstood some poorly reported document, and iii) has more free time than you. It's exhausting dealing with these people and I simply have better things to do with my time.
Even though there are only 3 comments in the thread, they are still rife with dismissive and bad-faith arguments. It's extremely telling how when black America mentions something about systemic racism in the context of the US, the response is "what's the p-value", "I don't like that sample size", "correlation != causation".

The article has studies with authors from the BIG 10 and with Ivy League heritage, but it's the mention of race that causes people to trot out canned and thinly supported reasons of doubt. Here is one of the studies if anyone is interested.

https://1410c6d1-d135-4b4a-a0cf-5e7e63a95a5c.filesusr.com/ug...
it's important to understand that pretty much anything useful can also be someone's hobby. I don't really understand the pursuit of the perfect cast iron skillet either. I just want to cook some eggs. at the same time, I don't expect people to understand why I spend hours trying to find the lowest stable voltage for a 300 MHz overclock. if you just want to use the damn thing, ignore the hobbyists.
> There is absolutely no reason why the GCC front-end needs to be written in Rust.

How about memory safety and fearless concurrency?
So you would agree with my conclusion that GMO are worthless as advisors?
Still going back to Joel on Software for a good read. My favorite technical blog even though Joel has more or less stopped writing except for the occasional update.
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Because it is forced?

In general, actions done to children by their parents (or with their parents' expressed, unequivocal consent) are not considered "forced" except in cases where the harm is large. So, male circumcision or teeth corrections or vaccinations are not "forced" on the children, because they are acts that their parents consider are beneficial to the child.

However, if the state were to force children to be circumcised or have their teeth aligned regardless of their parents' desires, then most people would object to that.

Even more importantly, any actions which affect someone's ability to use their body in a normal way are generally considered abhorrent. That is why male circumcision is usually tolerated, while female circumcision is an abomination, even if done by one's parents. Forced sterilization is obviously in the second case, since it is terminally preventing someone from performing one of the 3 fundamental components of life.
Or was it that he didn't have the know-how?

You need to have some pretty advanced knowledge to operate on the internet and not leave a trace.
> increased variance is very much in line with systemic climate change

Not really, it's also in line with the limited amount of high-quality data we have.

E.g. viewed in isolation, recent Gulf of Mexico hurricanes were pretty bad (2019 in particular, IIRC). But if you look into history, 1932,1933 was also pretty bad.

Arguably, if we had even more recorded history, such outliers wouldn't seem that exceptional - there still is a possiblity that climate change is affecting hurricanes (making them worse) but you can't just look at the variance (outliers) - trend is also (more?) important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_hurricane_season
Thank you for this book
I'd find that very surprising and interesting - I can't imagine which semantics could leak from LLVM into a language specification. Can you give some examples?
> Could you provide more details on this? Are you saying accessing the metadata will be a bottleneck (via E.g., a relational database)?

It's the problem of having too many small files. Explained here https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs#introduction.

> Also, what do you mean by fill/rebalance in this context?

Assuming you are replicating the data. You have to be careful of cascading failures if repairing replication is too slow because of slow network/disk-io/cpu.
This is an advantage of the web platform, not exactly related to cloud. You can get this advantage with an on-premises web product, or with old school hosting.
In drawing the distinction between technologies that enable us to act on a decision we’ve already made versus those that try to make the decision for us, its interesting to note that the former is increasingly leading
to the latter.

When I started using platforms like Netflix and Uber Eats, it was because I already knew the things I wanted to watch and eat, and they provided an easy way for me to act on those desires. As they became normalized parts of my day to day, it only seemed natural that I should start following their recommendations as well. Now it feels increasingly like I go to them to give me answers, unlike when I started out.
Are there a larger percentage of violent comments on Parler than Facebook or Twitter? I haven't seen any evidence of that.
Well as I home owner I absolutely think about most of those things, and I want to understand how they work if for no other reason so I am not ripped off by a contractor should I need these systems repaired.

On a macro scale I also want to understand them so I know how badly my utility is screwing me when they propose rate hikes and other things to justify their poor management covering that poor stewardship with need for "improvements" or other explinations that will be ignorated by the masses of people that "do not want to think about any of this things"

This is known as Outsourcing your thinking, one should never do that

I also do not at all want them "regulated and managed by a democratic authority". I neither want centrally planned systems nor do I want them to be managed "democratically" which is at the end of the say 2 wolves and lamb voting on what is for dinner.
For those trying to assert some sort of bizarre abortion-based theory for skewing the statistics: the study is specifically only about the mortality rate of Black babies delivered in a medical facility.

It does not study the mortality rate of babies whose mothers had Black obstetricians during their pregnancies.

The researchers did not attempt to identify a cause for this disparity in this study, and noted only that this disparity does not appear to exist for other doctor-patient racial pairings where the mother was not Black.

The point of this study was simply to identify that a disparity exists, so that follow-up research can identify why and hopefully address the disparity in outcomes.
Looks like some of the airship to orbit crafts proposed by JP Aeropace:

https://rimstar.org/space/jp_aerospace_balloon_airship_to_or...
You can condemn it, be fearful of it, and be specific with regards to the threat it presents. It presents threats. I assume the specific threat the poster was refuting (which I won’t throw my 2c on here) is that it posed a threat to materializing a new government in the United States, which is typically the top of mind threat when talking about coups. So citing the number of deaths is neither here nor there in assessing the validity that it was a legitimate threat to creating a new government and ending the previous one.
How?

Keeping work and private life sperate is normal.
I don't understand what people are building in order to need half of this decoupled and managed elsewhere anyway. It wasn't all that challenging to self manage it five years ago, what's changed?

My guess is that the average small to medium project has drank the enterprise coolaid, and they are suffering the configuration and complexity nightmares that surround managing cloud infrastructure before they really needed to.

As the article is pointing out, you don't forgo managing these things by doing it in the cloud, you just manage it inside a constantly changing Web UI instead of something likely familiar to your developers.
I think it's that we get drama which is big to us, but it rarely splashes outside the Foundation and the community to become common knowledge... and the dedicated community remains fairly insular.

Maybe this will be the hidden drawback of the current work to improve talk pages -- all the wikidrama will become more visible to the world!
I doubt that most rooms are not E2EE. People usually have more private conversations than public ones.
Private rooms are the default and they default to E2EE.
This JSON will work now.

Again, thank you for the feedback.
- How many users frequent dark web forums, and how active are they?
I rejected Spotify's Discover Weekly suggestions for a really long time, but lately I've been more and more accepting of the fact that wow, I really do like Discover Weekly's suggestions every week, and I don't know how to reconcile that
> I know that Paddle, as a merchant of record, handles tax and several other things, and I like the idea of receiving just one reverse invoice per month which would make accounting easier too.

For what it's worth, I've been using Paddle for a few years for a paid Chrome extension (https://www.checkbot.io/) and it's been that simple for me. I put through the Paddle payments as my income on tax returns and I'm done for admin.

Chargebee does seem to have a lot more customer/subscription management features though so I would check Paddle has everything you need there.

Fastspring and Gumroad are worth looking at too as they handle VAT as well.
I can't speak for Perl or Python, but for Ruby I have never seen a single Ruby tool that pulls in anything close to the same order of magnitude of discrete dependencies that some JS tools end up doing. I of course stand to be corrected.

I don't mind installing tools like Rollup and TypeScript. I do very much mind installing tools like Webpack and Babel.
Would anyone be familiar as to how to regularly purge metadata (or even message history) from homeservers?

I run my own server and don't need my message history to live forever there.
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This person has never worked in a data center. He thinks he's managing a network because he sets a few vpc ips, that's an itsy tiny fragment of networking, and the cloud has indeed removex a great deal you previously had to manage on prem.
Black America is well aware of the fact that being black means that we will run into sub-part outcomes in US society. This isn't news to our community. Just because it causes feelings of racial anxiety in other groups doesn't mean it shouldn't be mentioned and be studied.

Before such a study, when black Americans would have noted that something seemed off, we would have been met with "You need data to back that up, X can't be racist!!!". Now that there is data to back up what we've known, it's "Your p-value is wrong!!!"
This looks awesome. Thank you!
>> It's an insane amalgamation of other languages with occasional attempts at consistency that actually make it worse.

Oh, so it's a bit like R, then?
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> the Dutch goverment's plan to hand out free condoms to teenagers is a form of genocide, as it is a measure intended to stop births within the group of Dutchmen.

That would be perhaps true if the Dutch government were planning to give out free condoms only to white people or only to black people or only to blonds or only to christians etc. If they are universally giving out condoms, then they are obviously not trying to destroy any particular ethnic or national group inside their own country - the obvious limit to the UN definition.
Just speculating here but could it be that, in neighborhoods where a black person is more likely to become a doctor, those neighborhoods have a better healthcare system in place? The cities/neighborhoods with higher black poverty probably have less black doctors in general.
I used to take these results at face value because I am against racism, but time and time again many of these analyses have been shown to be flawed so now I am more critical. Has nothing to do with not liking the conclusion.
What an eggregious claim that black doctors avoid risky childbirths in black communities and pass them to white doctors instead. WP is being racist again.
I live in a liberal urban area. We have a ton of right wing people who aren't adhering to even the most basic containment measures. It only takes 50% to 60% of a population to share a certain set of political views for that area to be labeled with said view, but that still leaves a huge portion of the population. And it only takes a relatively small portion of the population ignoring containment measures in order to seriously undermine their effectiveness.
Do they do head tracking?
I never said it was impossible. Quite the opposite: Australia managed it (also, an anglo nation with popularist right wing government, a shitty press etc).

Choosing not to do something is not the same as not being able to do it.

If our "leaders" mastered have the effort for this that we put into the war on drugs or tax cuts for the Uber rich or even farm subsidies, we'd all be in the pub by now.

Edit:

I think issues like this are difficult exactly because we cannot have a compromise solution. A compromise solution (lots of lockdown but not effective lockdown) is worst for everyone.
That’s a really interesting case and surprisingly relevant to today’s situation. I’ve never seen a good argument for being able to counter a companies ability to decide who to service under today’s laws before. People usually concentrate on the idea that new regulation is required.
There are two that I know of:

YaCy: https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server (functional)

Seeks: https://github.com/beniz/seeks (defunct?)

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There's also SearX, which isn't distributed but is a metasearch engine (pulls results from multiple search engines) that you can self-host [0] or use one of its many mirrors [1].

[0] https://github.com/searx/searx

[1] https://searx.space/
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I don't think much of the stable functionality exposes llvm internals. Part of stabilizing is removing the llvm leaks into the language.
Really? Not state actors?
That my view - a quick dip in warm water with a bit of soap and lightly whip of any bits and let it dry.

Ill try the water test next time
I agree, we need to vigorously oppose climate denial, get money out of politics, and seriously reconsider if market economies are able to deliver sustainable lifestyles at all.
Ask HN: What books do you highly recommend?
Fellow smart people at HN, what books do you absolutely highly recommend, books that perhaps stayed with you for long after you read them and changed the way you think.

No genre/age/language limitations.
Did you read the study? What are the technical reasons for the study being flawed.
Have you tried carbon steel? In my opinion it is superior to cast iron in every way, especially durability.
The coworkers should all be doing the same thing. Only the oncall and their official escalation paths should be expected to be available off-hours.