skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Savants are mentally impaired people with unusual abilities perfect memory and calculator-like ability to compute math operations, etc. Calling people mentally disabled is not a compliment.

I focused on the perfect memory and calculator like abilities of the savant as a descriptive analogy for the level of intelligence you're displaying. It is indeed a compliment of untold proportions.

>Then, anatomically modern humans did not start expanding millions of years ago. And most species do not have an innate fear of humans.

No other species has been called "invasive" after millions of years have passed. Look it up. Most apex predators do have an innate fear of humans:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190717084243.h...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/humans-p...

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/fear-human-superpr...

https://wildlife.org/human-presence-creates-fear-response-in...

The animals that don't fear humans are located here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_tameness

>Preserving the environment is not a political agenda, it is an extension of our survival instinct. Just like food security is not treated as a politically charged topic because everyone can agree that they need food.

But talking about things that are clearly not true to serve your agenda is wrong. Humans are not invasive. We are destroying the environment through technological development not by being invasive.

>Pretty much everything you said is a bunch of nonsense. I regret having read that. Clearly the educational system failed you. I do not have an agenda.

I'm a environmental biologist by trade, aka scientist. All I did was point out your mistaken attribution to humans being "invasive."
Regarding your first link I had questions about the following passages from it:

>"People like to say “Docker isn’t a security boundary”, but that’s not so true anymore, though it once was."

Could you explain why that wasn't true and why it is now?

>"Systems security people spent almost a decade dunking on Docker because of all the gaps in this simplified container model. But nobody really runs containers like this anymore."

Could you elaborate? People don't run container like what? It isn't clear from the preceding paragraph.
Maybe that’s new in iOS14. I remember last year seeing a Shortcut for turning off wifi completely. But even then I thought it turned itself back on randomly.
Show HN: I used to play a lot of Depthcharge, so I made a modern Android clone
Typical SJW

"It's bad when the police do this"

"It's good when we do this because they like Trump"

"It's bad when China does it, no social credit system!"

"It's good when we do this because they like Trump"
Most women's clothes don't have pockets...
> then proceeded to sue for noise

Oh that’s going to go over well. Some people in my neighborhood tried suing and now we have every train blowing their horns through this entire section of the city. A dozen times a day and many of those at night.

It’s hard for me to not laugh at my neighbors every time it happens.
Who's asking? Do you have a warrant? Am I free to go?
Seconding the rOtring 600 - I got mine at the start of university, and it doesn't show any signs of stopping near the end of my bachelor's now.

Though, you do need to carry it in a case of some sort, because the tip doesn't retract.
This is something I am interested and considering as a possible future for my career, coming from a math background and starting to dip my toes into ML.
One thing I am afraid of is how useful is it actually going to be to create a rigorous mathematical framework?
I am afraid it might end up like mathematical physics, where they are almost a century behind theoretical and experimental physics and playing catch-up.
What does anyone else think?
Fair Trade Open Source – Eran Hammer – CascadiaJS 2019
You’re describing a behavior that is highly frowned upon in the Israeli Defense Force, here described to Joel Spolsky by Tamir Nitzan:

> As for the expressions (pronounced “rosh katan” – little head, vs. “rosh gadol” – big head). This expression comes from the IDF, and as most military language, doesn’t quite translate into normal language. A “rosh katan” (literally “little head”, and I actually think it is the original expression which derived most likely from “pinhead”, the contrast later came in as a complement) is someone that does exactly what he’s told.

>[An] example: you tell a soldier to “go notify so-and-so that we will be ready for inspection at 1600”. By 1700 you’re curious, so you ask him “did you notify?”. [A “rosh katan’s”] answer might be “well I called his office and left a message”. A “rosh gadol” would likely say: “I called his office but got his voice mail, so I left a message. I called back an hour later but still got voice mail, so I called his cell phone and left a message there too. I tried him again an hour after that and he assured me he will be here by 1600. I called him again 20 minutes ago and he said he was on his way but stuck in traffic” (a real “rosh gadol” would have notified his C.O. of all this without being asked of course).

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/06/news-45/
Would it be acceptable if the government set up a regulatory body that could force Facebook et al to communicate why a user was banned? Here's how I imagine it would work:

1. User gets banned by Facebook without an explanation

2. User asks Facebook for an explanation

3. Facebook declines to answer

4. User goes to the government regulatory body with a complaint

5. Regulatory body forces Facebook to provide a reason

6. Facebook tells user what they violated and when

Step #5 would allow the regulatory body to require identification to make sure that the user is under their jurisdiction (or you just have to show up in person). This would allow them to identify bad actors and would decrease the chance that the system could be abused.

Obviously this should only apply to platforms/services that are beyond a certain size (>1M users?). Also, I wouldn't be surprised if some consumer protection agency doesn't already have powers akin to this.
Facebook never acquired Snapchat so I'm not sure what you're talking about there. Instagram and WhatsApp have continued to thrive since their acquisition, so from a user perspective nothing really changed, it's not like you need a FB account to use insta or whatsapp.
Yes within the last year... Lenovo with 32 GB Ram, core I7, 1GB SSD, decent GPU... I'm just amazed that the UX hasn't improved after all these years.
6. excessive configurabilty leads to fragility at runtime - the overuse of annotations, xml/yaml/whatever configurations and late-binding (effectively assembling the app at runtime) eliminates quite a lot of advantages of a statically typed language and brings us back to string coding: runtime-errors due to typos, jpa strings in annotations, typo in an xml file leads to non-functioning software at runtime. Classloader horrors due to deeply nested library dependencies that use different versions of libraries, fueled by the insanity called maven.
The parent didn’t claim or imply that this was the general view of the left; you’ve created a straw man argument here.
If I have an option to pay every article, post, tutorial I read automatically pay $0.01, I will willingly do so. But in real world all website want their own payment processing independence, on top of that payment processors charges some minimum fixed 20-30 cents per transaction + 2-3% of transaction and that is crazy. I will not pay 30 cents for a brief article written in 20 minutes, also not pay to a website that I am going to visit once in a lifetime. the only solution I can think is a crypto wallet based browser add-on which takes deposit of $xx from me every month and distribute the 1 cent per article I read to original author every once in a while with a pool of thousands of transactions ultimately making processing fees negligible per transaction.
Even in that case, "Are you around for a call?" gets the point across far better than "Hey, are you there?"

Most people don't need to deal with ephemeral requirements. I've been in software for over a decade at a variety of businesses, and without fail the only times someone's been worried about talking over discoverable mediums they've been considering something that's anticompetitive or potentially illegal. The vast majority of people I've interacted with don't do things like that, and the few I do I don't want to work with.
I’m annoyed by this but for direct messages at least it’s easily solved by simply not replying. If there’s no question or indication of criticality in a professional setting, that means it can wait. If they really need your help, they’ll send a second message. This also avoids the infuriating situation where a reply to “hey” is then replied to with something like “nvm fixed it”.

I apply the golden rule: while doing this I also don’t expect immediate responses from other people to my questions. If it’s critical, I will call them.
can you correct the mangled misspelling of the site's actual name in your posting title?
Bacia Amazônica
I've heard this idea (I think) expressed as, "All organisms garden". It also reminds me of Dawkins' "Extended Phenotype", and the ultimate ecological niche: Gaia, the self-regulating "niche" between vacuum and magma, between Sol and Nuit.

(Nuit is the Egyptian Goddess of the Night Sky. I'm being poetical referring to how we need both a nearby but not-too-close star and the cold sky to have an energy gradient for life.)
Forgot to say am running Windows because of client software requirements.
`malloc` is not one thing. Some mallocs use mmap and others use brk. Some implementations use both.
still unused?
incentives matter. if you arent doing well on the test, change the questions!
I don't like people saying just hello and expecting me to answer before they get to the point. If I see the message and immediately respond hello back then I have to sit and wait and watch the 'person is writing' indication until I get the the real reason they contact me. This time is just active waiting and can't be used for anything. In the situation where I see the hello at some later time and reply back the other person might not even be there. Should I actively wait or start something else and keep an eye on the chat, prepared to be interrupted? A lose-lose situation for me..
Yes it's an amazing tutorial. Thank you.

Speaking as a hobbyist, earlier if you had enough determination you could create just about any software if you kept hacking at it long enough. CPU or cost was generally not an issue, your time and tenacity was.

This has now unfortunately changed and innovation in software (esp ML) is now largely more about how deep are you pockets are.
Because the thread is an echo chamber of irritable pricks whose time and focus is valuable.
Gradle at least gave incremental builds... Even though javac is fast, practical java builds are sloooooww (maven)..
Of course.

The people that claim voter suppression, are the biggest voter suppressors, using all the levers they control.

The people that claim to be in favor of free speech, are the most against free speech in practice.

The people that claim to be the most tolerant, are in fact the most intolerant by a wide margin.

The people that claim to not like war, keep finding an excuse to bomb and topple more countries.

The people that claim to care about civil rights, write a major crime bill that hammers civil rights.

The people that claim to care about journalism, actually persecute journalists more than any others ever have in US history.

The people that claim to care about human rights, demolish human rights with vast, illegal domestic espionage.

The people that claim to care about the working poor and the middle class, those with jobs and wages most susceptible to being undercut by cheap labor competition, flood the system with hyper regressive cheap labor to destroy the poor and middle class workers.

Next up in the coming years, a new war closer to home. It'll be called the war on domestic terrorism (or extremism, whatever branding works best), again by the people that claim to love human rights. And it'll be as fake as the war on drugs and the foreign war on terrorism, with one goal in mind: to wipe out as many civil liberties as possible (including and particularly going after encryption, privacy, speech/expression). Nothing can stop what they're about to do, unfortunately. And you can be certain that big tech is fully onboard, you can already see that in their behavior, just like they all lined up so nicely for PRISM et al.

You know what all of these people - big state, deep state, military industrial complex, big corporate, whatever you call them by, the whole lot of various power interests that are persistent in DC - hated the most about Trump (far more than his character or policies)? His chaos, how he made a mess of everything, made a mess of their system, made it impossible to make progress on their various goals, such as continuing the pursuit of things like banishing encryption. They made almost zero progress on that under Trump, very little got done. It's really difficult to get things done with that much chaos. Well, they've reset the board back to the way they like it, and are about to get back to making big gains again.

And when they say it's some powerless clown in a buffalo hat trying to pull a coup, they're actually the ones attempting a power coup - seizing more power, seizing an opportunity to install new levers in place to control people and curtail rights. Never waste a good crisis, as with 20 years ago and the Patriot Act.
Thanks for the recommendation, ordered a box online.

P.S.: really like your nametag.
As for #1, if my experience is anything to go by, substitute your Moleskines for Leuchtturm notebooks.

(I've used Moleskines as my go-to field notebook for fifteen years or so, until making the switch to Leuchtturm a couple of years ago - the paper is vastly better, ink dries faster, less bleeding, pages are even numbered - overall an even better product than the moleskines (which I am still very fond of, mind)
How would you actually ensure that they aren't (for example) banning customers of a protected race or other class if they refuse to provide any information on why a user was banned? All you can do is act on faith if their policies are secret and their decisions are also secret.

This is less far-fetched than you might imagine. TikTok moderators were ordered to prevent disabled users from appearing in feeds [1], which in practice is blatant discrimination against a protected class - but you'd never know about it directly since even if you figured out you were hidden from feeds, why would they answer unless they were forced to?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/2/20991843/tiktok-bytedance...
I get so fatigued by "behavior" advice like this. Why spend time trying to optimize your chat encounters? Is the status-quo that much of an enemy that we have to fight it in every small corner?
I don't want to use an additional integer column. I don't want to use a custom extension. I don't want to have to extend the database platform where at all possible, and I sure as hello don't want to use Rust in doing so.

Other than that, thank you very much.
Probably so and what a shame. To me, it should really start at the OS and trickle down. Imagine if MS or Apple focused on performance, it would be a great competition. I believe they could convince users to switch if they showed and instantaneous OS.
That sounds like an overly dismissive attitude. It doesn’t make much sense to say, “we tried this intern-grade strawman approach with huge flaws, and since it didn’t work, it would just be a waste of money to try a more principled solution.”

This article is the example of wasting time and money. It’s amazing to me the way anti-machine-learning sentiment causes people to do a complete 180 from common sense just to avoid actually investing minimal levels of resource or effort to study and understand problems where statistics can help.

A big observation in my career is that statistics makes non-statisticians go crazy in the head. People panic that statistics will be used to usurp their authority and then try to steamroll statistics with politics about what is or isn’t over-hyped and what would or wouldn’t be a “waste” of time or resources to try out.
There are plenty of times when a synchronous or time sensitive communication is needed and in those cases a proper first message in slack is something like "production is down" or "we have a customer call in an hour and I need an update on issue X" as those types of messages communicate clearly that I need to drop (or wrap up) what I'm doing an attend to your needs.

If you say "hello" instead you are immediately telling me that your issue isn't an emergency, but that you want me to treat it like one. I just ignore these and if the person goes on to ask their question I'll deal with it when I have time.
the Android API and parts of its libraries are Java, the real engine behind that is C/C++.
I think on Linux there's madvise syscall with "remove" flag, which you can issue on memory pages you intend to completely overwrite. I have no idea on performance or other practical issues.
Just in case anyone failed to read between the lines: all new non-US Teslas have CCS.
Since this is such a cheeky thready, my reply would be ask Facebook or Alexa. It would probably know!
It sounds like the meat of the article is:

> “After a concert, I logged onto Facebook and was talking to a friend,” Birch recalled. “I was on my laptop and I accidentally sent a partial nude photo. A few minutes later, I received an alert that Facebook blocked me.”

I'm not adventurous enough to try this, but that sounds like the reason. It could also not be and the banned person is leaving out information.

The rest of the article is detailing the massively one-side "appeals" process and how it did nothing to help.
I ran my account through both Botometer and Bot Sentinel. Got 0.4/5 on Botometer, and 0% on Bot Sentinel.

Kind of annoyed that Botometer requires me to authorize it to access my Twitter account, when all my tweets are public (and who cares about bots that make private tweets, if that's even a thing). Bot Sentinel didn't require this.

https://botometer.osome.iu.edu/

https://botsentinel.com/
How do you avoid malicious users publishing your content public? Or is it just not an issue yet?
Indeed, they don't provide the pleasure to dig out bugs caused by mishandling bytecodes or the verifier.
The 'reasons' given in the article are vague and onesided.
There are a few CCC talks of interest around this:

https://media.ccc.de/v/ARMP3D
https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11406-spot_the_surveillance
Announcement of Kattlo
I am glad to announce the very first release of Kattlo. It's a tool to manage configurations of Kafka topics, ACLs, Schemas and more. Very much like database migrations, but with batteries included.

You can run Kattlo natively on Linux, MacOS and Windows.
> ... launches those apps in crosvm sandboxes in seconds.

Technically true, but the initial VM launch is not all that quick. E.g., on a Pixelbook i7 launching a terminal session without the VM started, it takes about 20 seconds for the VM itself to initiate, and another 30 seconds for things like volume mounting and starting the container running Debian, for a total of 50 seconds.

Subsequent launches once the VM is started are much quicker, just a few seconds.

> I looked for but couldn't find ChromeOS GCP instances

You're looking for Container-Optimize OS: https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/ , which is Chromium OS based.

It's the default OS for e.g. GKE nodes, so Google probably runs pretty large numbers of them.
Less than four reasonably attractive consumer choices, says the EU's study commission on that.
That was interesting: I tried https://botometer.osome.iu.edu/ , and got a score of 0.2. I then asked it to look at my followers and it spotted several obvious spam followers, and correctly identified some "quote of the day" accounts as bots.
Smudge factor is a really important point. I think that should be measured in seconds. Maybe call it "smudge time" or "drying time"? Test it at different intervals until it doesn't smudge: 20lb paper, a 1 cm straight line and a kleenex for smudging.
Unfortunately I don't use simple software, we have specific software we have to run based upon our client's requirements.
Unfortunately, the same thing also happens around small airports, and there the NIMBYs-come-lately often prevail.

https://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/runway-removal-t...
I carry the Constitution with me wherever I go. It is my guiding light in these times of darkness and despair. without it I would be lost. Praise be unto the founders who crafted this incredible document for our great nation.

I also carry my phone, keys, wallet and chapstick.
... says Google.

But this does ring true, and the come-to-Jesus moment on Tesla’s valuation will be when people realize this is the case. If they had a legitimate shot at being the first true players in self-driving, their valuation (which currently prices them on par with something like the sum of the top three automakers...) isn’t insane. But if it really is just lane-keep assist with intelligent cruise control, I’m pretty sure the Mercedes S Class had that... back before 2010?
Wallet, keys, phone, knife.
Indeed, thanks to a background daemon that needs at least 2 GB ram and an SSD to be competitive with Maven.
I can easily see that being abused to only force an explanation if the one banned is a politician, and the bannee(?) is the same political party as those in charge. Not to mention that the FTC is already a thing.
I'm not sure I buy that example; if it's a time-sensitive issue, Co-worker can't just fire something off into the ether, receive no ACK, and then wash their hands of it. That's a deeply broken process.

If they don't hear back from you in scenario 2, they should find someone else. If they absolutely need you then there should be some way they can escalate to a higher-priority channel (phone probably). (And I certainly hope you have an "on-call" status of some kind.)
Pocketknife: Spyderco Dragonfly. One handed open and close. The thumb hole doesn't catch on stuff as a stud would. I preferred the version with the molded clip rather than the wire clip for the same reason, but I lost that one and had to replace the knife.

Good blade, well made, small enough that people who don't 'get' pocketknives don't lose their shit when you pull it out to open a box or envelope or cut up an apple.

Everything else in my pockets is pretty mundane, though I do keep my bifold wallet in my hip pocket instead of my back pocket. I find that's a lot more comfortable for sitting or driving for long periods. Supposedly it makes it harder for pickpockets as well?
That is a bit uncharitable to call users stupid in this context. From the story it seems that there is not even a warning before the rug is completely pull out and burned.
> not to mention the incentive to start blocking many more accounts

I’ve seen this simplistic “incentive” thinking in many many arguments of this kind recently. I don’t see why this would at all be the case here. Do you think the team responsible for this service will be graded on the total amount of fines collected as one of their OKRs? What does the chain of decision making from top to bottom look like for that to be the case? Not everything is as straightforward as revenue = more of that thing.
Noodler’s, which sibling comment mentions, makes some fantastic inks including smudge proof and archivalinks, besides a veritable rainbow of great and imaginative colors.

https://noodlersink.com/
Why not it's what computer power supply have done for decades.

1500W PSU!!! But you'll never know how we came up with that figure!
Then just say "never mind, figured it out" when it's no longer relevant.