skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
best intentions situation?
bullshit.
This was to beat their culture out of them.
In fact, when I was growing up in Germany there was a discussion about whether the US' noble goals of achieving a balanced media was possible or even desirable. The general agreement was that recognizing news sources implicit bias made more sense than trying to balance out reporting. This was in the 70s and 80s, I've been away from Germany for so long now I have no idea which direction things have taken there.
Debugging on a computer that is down is not a very exciting process.
You used to be able to get data on armed vs. unarmed at killedbypolice.net, although it took a bit of effort. The site was simply a chronological list of all the known police killings in the US, for each giving name, age, race, gender, location, and linking to news stories covering the killing.

Unfortunately that site shut down, someone else got the name, and it now redirects to RoBarGuns.com, a gun review and buying guides site.

You can still get the data from archive.org here [1]. That has all the 2020 shootings up through July 20th, and has links for prior years back to 2014, and the last month of 2013.

I remember a couple years ago going through the then previous year and picking something like 50 at random (via a random number generator) and looking into the details, but I don't remember if I specifically took note of armed vs. unarmed.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200723033637/https://killedbyp...
I'll have to implement something like this, I guess finding that perfect time for me will be the real challenge. I'm even considering going as going on a sabbatical from all my devices for a extended period, hopefully it does not come to that.
Is there evidence of either yet? I’m not sure how you get from “potential” failure mode to “most likely”
Can you elaborate on the ad revenue vs subscriptions issue?

Naively it seems like people are more likely to subscribe to news that aligns to and reinforces their political ideology, which could lead to more polarization/bifurcation, not less
I specifically wait The Guardian. That newspaper has gained my trust because of Snowden.
All airspace? Not even airspace above, say, 500 feet?

Am I literally walking through federal airspace right now?

The U.S. Constitution is pretty explicit about physical space that is allocated to the federal government and the reasons (post offices and post roads, military installations, and that's about it), so laying claim to every square inch of "air" above that land seems to be quite a stretch.
Interesting. Are you aware of any blog/channel/whatever where I could read honest reports from elected officials on the nuts and bolts of their jobs?
> Popular media in the U.S. often favors narratives about industrial China that associate it with poor conditions and cheap products. But in the chaotic TikTok world of diaper factory motivational videos, pseudo-Scandanavian luxury retail sites, and laser-based fast fashion, Chinese factory owners are taking control of the narrative. Here, assembly line aesthetics are pulling American customers in and selling them a romanticized snapshot of Chinese factory life –– and maybe a set of new gardening gloves.

As an American, I certainly default to assuming that Chinese factories have terrible working conditions (see Foxconn suicides [0]). I guess it's not clear to me if these TikToks should disabuse us of our mistaken assumptions of Chinese factories, or if they're pure PR fiction with attractive actors smiling as they "work".

Anyone with lots of on the ground experience with Chinese manufacturing care to chime in? Is there a range of factory work, from terrible to pleasant? Or is it all terrible and these videos are just to try to convince Western shoppers that those stories about poor working conditions are nothing to worry about?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
> Between 1863 and 1998, more than 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in these schools. The children were often not allowed to speak their language or to practice their culture, and many were mistreated and abused.

This is still going on in Europe today. Denmark has a large scale cultural genocide program similar to what Canada did to their indigenous population, except it targets Muslim children instead. The openly stated goal is to sterilize Muslims in Denmark of their own culture and force them to be acceptably Danish. The Europeans seem to be entirely fine with it, apparently, judging by the near complete lack of serious political effort to try to make Denmark stop the attack on Muslims and their culture.
Exactly this. Open floor plans always punished me for gathering folks around my whiteboard and talking through things and bantering like we would at the water cooler and companies want things to be as quiet as a library
The job is supposed to be hard, I don't understand the problem. Perhaps we need 1-4 years of crisis training instead of 6 months of how to shoot.
You hit the nail on the head.

The internet has opened pandora's box of mass psychological hacking.

The only way from here is to wait and see whether we can survive like this indefinitely - maybe we'll all collectively build a resistance to media constructed to hijack our emotions. In the meantime we will each have to one by one watch our friends and relatives dive down rabbit holes of propaganda and rage. I've seen this firsthand over the past year and it's not pretty.
Canadian schools are pure trash. The only people surprised by all of this are as always Canadians.

They treated left handed people pretty shitty too but luckily they didn’t get the chance to send us to concentration camps to die.

I’m definitely never sending my kids to Canada, I’ll send them to Beijing way before that.
One large country in Asia is notably missing from this list.
A lot of people are excited about that. For good reason too. The very idea that two people exchanging private value should be subject to “democratic oversight” is a totalitarian nightmare.
Go where workers are and organize with them
totally agree with other commenters - guy just over-engineered non-existent problem
I do appreciate the structural parity that this has with Laravel's Eloquent ORM models--that is, a class to represent a specific database resource. It makes API requests feel like a close analogue to that Laravel-esque functionality.

That said, REST API endpoint are effectively just functions--you pass in params, you get a response. They only have a single operation possible on them, unlike ORM models which can do many things.

Whenever I've implemented a custom API client in PHP, boring old OOP seems to solve the problems stated in the article reasonably well:

class ApiConsumer {
function __construct($baseUrl, $credentials);
function operationFoo($paramOne, $paramTwo): FooResponse;
function operationBar($paramOne, $paramTwo): BarResponse;
}
I’d it can work over carrier pigeon [1], it can work over long distance radio.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
I know that, at different times, NASA has used Forth[1] and Lisp[2] in some of their space applications. Both of these languages offer REPLs that generally accelerate the debugging process, and while your "average" Lisp might be unsuitable for hard real-time applications (due to the presence of a garbage collector, usually without the hard real-time constraints that you can get out of garbage collectors with extreme effort), I wonder if they have some equivalently interactive system on-board the Hubble.

> Most of Hubble's components have redundant back-ups, so once scientists figure out the specific component that's causing the computer problem, they can remotely switch over to its back-up part.

Wait, then why don't they just switch over each component in turn? The "divide and conquer" debugging strategy.

[1] https://www.forth.com/resources/space-applications/

[2] https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
Last I heard, it's not running any version of Windows.
A rather thoughtful analysis here, worth a read.
Thanks I am going to make a small bookshelf there for myself or something and keep a few there. I think that will help get back into the habit.
I don't think you're wrong, but consider that posting "I heard" with no source is pretty close to just posting misinformation
I'll settle for the post-mortem
It’s not from the 16th century
Though it would rhyme with "orange," there was not a norange:

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-norange.html
I'm going to call BS on this. So many sensationalist stories were written about how there's "a spike in crime," but they're comparing this year to last year! Of course there was a spike in crime, last year there was a pandemic and national lockdown. Crime shifted to online and domestic, and now that the country is opening back up it's shifting back.

Take a look at the actual reported felony offenses and you'll see that yes there's a YTD spike this year, but it's still below where it was in 2019.

YTD crimes:
2019 - 10,963
2020 - 9,022
2021 - 9,928

Really the only scary increases in crime have been in domestic violence (which I bet also explains the increase in murders).

See https://www.atlantapd.org/home/showpublisheddocument/3037/63...

Also I'd really question wanting to retain police in a department that were so fickle they'd allow violent crimes to occur because they aren't worshiped enough. That is a type of self-centered police officer I'd like to leave anyways.
Those aren't unarmed, though (you pointed that out but I wanted to make it clear)

One of the most pernicious myths about police shootings is that officers shoot unarmed black men at an alarming rate, when in fact just 2% of the people who were killed by an officer were unarmed and black. Since the beginning of 2015, law enforcement officers across the country have actually killed 33 more unarmed white people than unarmed black people.
A few years in any professional field like software engineering is enough.
I am as well. Further, many of the people who perpetuated these crimes are still alive. Residential schools were still around in the 90s. Where are the arrests and charges? Where are the actual criminal investigations? Thoughts and prayers pretty much are meaningless and commission reports are meaningless without action.
Probably forever. AFAIK IANAE (I am not an engineer), to change this would require breaking compatibility with all iOS and macOS ARM binaries and telling developers that for optimal performance without using Rosetta 3, they need to compile toward "(new) Apple Silicon." It's probably not going to happen.
I keep seeing allsides.com recommended here but I don't get why people find it valuable. First, it locates things like NPR and BBC news services in the "Center" (whatever that is). I had radical leftist professors that would be to the right of today's NPR. Second, the left->center<-right spectrum is becoming less and less relevant to today's media/political industrial complex. A relevant question for any media outlet re "trust", imho, is of partisanship rather than political preferences. The major media outlets are extremely partisan today and will generally not report outside of their affiliated party's talking points. The DNC/RNC control the Overton window. The distinction between outlets like NPR or Fox and Jacobin or American Conservative is on a Partisan<->Politics spectrum. The other important factor is that the Media is the cultural arm of the Professional-Managerial elite and represents that class's interests. Most on HN are also in that class and can't see past their ideological blinders.

Personally, I find the https://realclearpolitics.com model of just putting headlines from different outlets in a list to be more useful than outsourcing some sort of "bias rating" and "fact-checking" to YAMO (Yet Another Media Outlet).
>> And such measures can be pretty useless and only amount to rent-seeking. I did hunter education in Colorado with the Makhaira group. Some students were unable to hit an 8.5x11 sheet of paper with a .22 bolt-action rifle at a distance of 5 yards (which is absolutely pathetic for someone who thinks they can hit a deer at even 100 yards with a hunting rifle). These individuals were granted their credentials because they failed this exercise while not breaking any of the gun safety rules

Gun safety is the point, not marksmanship.

In this case the point is safe drone use. There have been incidents of people flying drones in controlled airspace around airports, which is dangerous. The FAA doesn't give a shit about some dude and his drone, they care about the safety of the general public. A simple course like this will cut down on the number of people doing things that endanger others.
Have you given much thought to the opposite idea - that web innovation is ultimately bad for users?
At a minimum, it's good to skip comments with a header that starts with "epistasis X minutes ago..."

I would instead recommend something like this masterpiece from Yakov Feygin, The Delationary Bloc:

https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/deflation-inflation
I doubt this. People are willing to reupload videos that they like, so why wouldn't they seed? for example this video has been reuploaded quite a few times because people like it so much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhu-EA1ruNk

The whole point of a video hosting service is to act as an easy directory for finding videos you like. The fact that the same service happens to host the videos in this case is inconsequential.
If a tree maps nicely to your way of thinking about the problem-space you are in, then it is not complex (at least not more so than other structures). Right tool for the right user for the right job.
Plastic is an almost meaningless word (at least with metal you can point to part of the periodic table ... until you have to deal with stuff like silicon.)

The only shared property among plastic by definition is that it can be worked using some of the same processes. If you want to know anything else you have to pay attention to the particular material.

ABS is not recyclable, PLA is extremely recyclable etc.
let's guess: they'll announce they've cured it,but won't share the actual results, or the code, and then everybody will just "forget" after ten years.
For pure comedic value:
Someone deployed a K8s cluster on hubble and now its lost DNS because the master nodes connected to a starlink satellite
You don't need a pilot's license* to fly ultralight category aircraft in the US, but for the category commonly called "small planes", you do.

Ultralights are governed by Part 103 and limited to: single-seat, day-only, VFR-only, weighing less than 254 pounds, carrying 5 US gallons or less, and having a top speed of not more than 55 knots [calibrated].

* - Technically "certificate", but practically the same.
I think many will interpret this as sarcasm, but it’s actually spot-on. If you watch Apple’s history, they’re strongly opinionated and they always do what they believe is best for users, regardless of what developers or critics think.

This usually works out well. I think the one big conflict is that Apple is also very diligent about it’s profit margins, and while this usually doesn’t conflict with “what’s best for the user,” where Apple gets in trouble is when it does.

One prominent example: there’s really no reason to think that the 5GB of free iCloud storage is sufficient anymore. Maintaining cloud storage isn’t free, so I understand why they don’t want to offer more than a “free trial” so to speak, but I would guess this hurts a lot of users who have a degraded user experience on their phone because they don’t have enough storage for iCloud backups, for example. It would make more sense to me if they would offer something like “system backups don’t count against your storage cap” and then include two years of iCloud 50GB with the purchase of the phone. That conflicts with the profit margins, though, so the 5GB teaser stays around.
> Which is a good thing. More high educated people is better

That's a dangerous statement in isolation.

For a country with a median income of $35k, imposing debts worth $200k for degrees with questionable employability and no clear resolution (Can't pay off, can't default) is insanely dangerous.

Education is also not a monolith. Some careers need education, in that gaining skills in the profession requires a degree of instruction or apprenticeship (Medicine, Pure Sciences, Engineering etc). But a large number of them end up being paper pushers or knowledge from a single course or learn everything on their first job. For this second cohort, education can be burden with terrible payoff.

A lot of educational fields are also entirely unemployable. This includes 3 type of professions:

1. Pyramid schemes - where the only real job is in instruction of the next generation.

2. Priest - where they create a dogma that mandates them as essential in the system, but have no use in isolation.

3. Professional disk golfer - where there is only 1 employable position, and about a million wannabes.

As of now, progressive society is pushing people to consider all kinds of professions as equal. However, the equivalency is flawed. The risk/reward ratio of getting educated varies massively across professions. It can vary from a ticket to the upper-middle-class to being entirely useless equivalent to homeopath or hucksterism in terms of unsubstantiated merit.

The university system was never created for everyone to get educated. The concept has existed only post GI-bill and seemed to work in a Boomer-era post scarcity America. (Nothing that worked well in America from 1950-1980 should be taken as an example that can be replicated. It was a special time in history. It would be like trying to be Saudi prince without an oil well in your backyard)

I am strongly in favor of higher education for all. However, it needs to either be fully distanced from the present university mafia or the universities must be compelled to produce economically productive graduates across their various offerings. Universities sell a financial product. It is about time we see their variables-controlled return on investment with th fine grained granularity that we evaluate any other financial product. Lest we get stuck with sub-prime graduates bundled into funds that are considered AAA because there are a large enough number of them in it.
They distinguish between news and opinion, but CNN is definitely left. I'd call them the equal opposite to Fox.
I agree. If the maintainer is here, you can use certbot to add HTTPS easily on your existing Apache 2/Debian stack. If you're on Stretch or Buster the official instructions are the same: https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/debianstretch-apache

One note: I hate snaps and don't use them personally, but it would make it very easy for you to add HTTPS without changing your existing stack.
What if you backup is failing in the exact same way?
I'll parse my concurrence to @LinuxBender's suggestion: Go with the CIS benchmarks[1^] vs. the NIST, at least initially.

The former is written in "common engineering language," while the latter uses a lot of governmentish/ pseudo-legalese that often raises more questions than it answers (IMHO).

[1]: https://www.cisecurity.org/blog/cis-benchmarks-june-2021-upd...
They did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_Observatory_for_...
I’m not aware of any state where you can hunt wild game on private land without a license. Including states where you would expect that to be the case if it were true anywhere… ND, SD, MT, and KY to name a few. Non-game species and preserve “hunting” are a different matter.
Facebook keeps recommending political groups
tput uses the terminfo database which is usually located in /usr/share/terminfo.

If your terminal ($TERM) is not known to the operating system, you can also import the terminfo definition from another OS in a directory and point the TERMINFO environment variable to it (useful if the legacy OS you connect to via SSH doesn't have full support for your fancy terminal emulator).
This is an extremely naive view of economics, and not how things work in reality. Delivered food is a substitute good for take out or non-delivered food. Artificially cheap delivery services shift consumer preferences to delivered food. It is likely that losing 30% margin on restaurants is worse than the overall growth of the market. But if delivery apps distort the market, restaurants are forced to play ball or lose out to competitors in a classic prisoner's dilemma, bringing everyone down together. Regulation to limit the proportion of revenue taken from restaurants helps prevent cash flooded delivery companies from just burning cash to fuel their own growth while leaving the restaurants to eat shit and die.
I could have gotten the same by staying in the military 20 years, without the headache that comes with being a cop.

At least where I live, you need (or needed, it could have recently changed) a bachelor's degree to become a police officer, and it pays 53K per year. It doesn't seem like a great gig to me, at least financially.
This kinda already exists: https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/
Well, and even if they weren't, it costs a lot of money and means you loose access to your existing apps and ecosystem.
I'd usually agree but in this case, I'm not sure. The residential school system is a stain on our past that continues to hurt the future. As one example, Indigenous women in Canada are subject to almost unspeakable levels of violence.

If you're interested in an absolutely awful read, you can read the final report from our National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls here:

https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/

Indigenous people in Canada are several times more likely to live in poverty, several times more likely to find themselves imprisoned and many Indigenous communities in Canada don't even have clean drinking water. The explicit genocide is over but the system still remains.
How to solve the biggest localization issues for developers [pdf]
I prefer "chicken me in" and it should be a thing.

So chicken me in on something, what is it, exactly, that you'd say you do around here?...
I had a grey patch at 27, it went away. But it's not true that most people don't have grey hair at that age, most people actually do, just not enough to be super noticeable.
More likely they got it to run Doom.
Honestly, what conversation can we have about policing with a person who thinks a delivery driver has a more dangerous life than a cop? Only thing I can tell you is I hope you have a lot of delivery drivers living next to you if police shortage becomes a reality and crime trajectory continues on the same path as in 2020 and 2021. Or perhaps your keyboard can be as effective in self-defense as it is in the spreading of nonsense.
Off-topic but it reminded me of that story about using LISP for debugging a spacecraft remotely from the Earth:

https://baltazaar.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/a-story-about-lis...
hnnnnnnnggghh the former ibanker in me likes and appreciates this a lot. Simple and elegant.
Could there be a plugin for googlesheets?

Also - can I get a sign-up with my google account?
For those interested Ted-Ed did a neat video on the topic of grocery bags.

https://youtu.be/3_fjEc4aQVk
Wonder if baldness is the same?
Along with Cygwin tools, this would be a blast
Depending on the municipality (ie, tax payers) police are paid really well or really poorly. My city, Miami, police probationaries start at $55k, and that's just a high school diploma. On the flipside, the highway patrol, who work the same areas, start at $37k.
There was a back-and-forth on optimizing this (see the link Steve found). The WASM version got faster too by adopting algorithmic changes proposed here, and the conclusion of Rust authors was that you do need WASM if you want predictable performance.

High-perf JS relies on staying on the JIT happy path, not upsetting GC, and all of this is informal trickery that's not easy to do for all JS engines. There's never any guarantee that JS that optimizes perfectly today won't hit a performance cliff in a new JIT implementation tomorrow.