skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there were a couple that lasted into the 90s!

While true, I think this is generally misleading without context.

The federal government took control of the schools from the churches around 1970. By the mid-70s, control of most of them had been transferred to the band councils in some form or another, and a third of the staff at the schools had Indian status. By 1980, only 15 were still left operating.

It's really hard to find any actual information on _what_ the schools that remained open were like in the 90s as most easily discoverable documentation is about beginning to unravel the abuses that had occurred prior, but what little I've ever been able to find sounds like they continued to operate as a school (presumably because the community needed a school), not as an implement of cultural genocide.

This would seem to be backed up by some sources saying that some of the communities that housed the schools resisted their closure. Not that it's a particularly great situation, but it's likely that it was the only source of formal education available to them at the time and they didn't want to lose it, rather reform it. The current school situation on reservations is abysmal, so this is... understandable.

None of this is to try and discount the atrocities that occurred at the schools, but I like to think saying "They operated until the mid-90s!" is a bit sensationalist, implying that the kidnapping, experimentation, abuse and murder was occurring at the same time Seinfeld and Friends were airing. I think there's more than enough to be horrified at here without implying a worse situation which may lead some people to discount some of the actual atrocities.

That said, if you (or anyone) can dig up some information to refute any of this, I'm more than happy to hear it. I am genuinely interested and I have a lot of difficulty trying to find concrete information.
That's a a big valuation for a company which doesn't have a single successful product which people actually want to use. Beat that Oracle.
Is nobody else bothered by the fact that it took impending government intervention to cause a change in practices?

To me it raises all sorts of questions as to their profit margins, anti-competitive practices, and what the money they're sucking would have done for the other smaller businesses that actually wrote the apps they're profiting off of.

When things get this "bad", it seems indicative of a market disorder. There is an imbalance that can't simply be solved via raising capital to start a competing service. The degree of vertical integration in the mobile device market makes supplanting their position all but impossible.
But even with the same cut of meat, fat cointent, etc. the USA style of cooking burns it to a crisp, which ruins the taste of good bacon...
Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine linked to rare blood disease – Israeli study
I don't agree with the parent's way to put it, however, there is at least some truth.

There as been an interesting case - Aaron Greenspan vs Google: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-google-bothered-to-ap_b_2.... It's a very interesting and even entertaining read.
I'd love to see more discussion about what success actually looks like for content moderation on facebook (or the internet, really).

We don't seem to care that the legal system doesn't get remotely close to catching everyone who commits an ACTUAL crime so why do we need to be perfect (whatever that even means) for content moderation?
I know you're trying to make a point about censorship existing, but I'm not sure if loli porn and scam online pharmacies were really contributing to the internet.
Also Unity, and others.

https://www.blender.org/press/unity-joins-the-blender-develo...
Does anybody have any paid or open source solutions that they actually like? All the open sources solutions I've tried don't actually work for real world use cases with highly dynamic policies, users, groups, and objects (e.g. Google Docs). Often the issue is the inability to easily push down filters into the database or search index.

Aserto looks very promising (https://www.aserto.com/), but it still in private beta.

It's crazy this still is part of the stack where there are no great solutions.
There's one prompt in ZSH, the adam2 prompt[1], that I completely fell in love with due to the automatic horizontal rule since it makes tracing histories so much easier when dealing with long-scrolling outputs. I've never been able to find a similar feature in another prompt/shell, nor have I had the inclination to try and replicate it, but I'd be much more inclined to switch shells/try new prompts if that were available.

[1]: https://imgur.com/1X9bY8X
No way he'd be able to add an article about himself. He'd need to be somewhat famous/notable for the article to stick...
No 1st gen AMD Zen support:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/min...

Zen+ supported.

I wonder why.
Oh that is interesting. This must get very complicated for officers or directors of companies in the S&P 500. Could you not buy index funds that hold shares of the company you work for?
If Google refused to fix it, it might be different. But I expect that, if someone were to file a suit, not even trying to get it fixed wouldn't be seen as acting in good faith.
I believe Apple is working on getting iOS apps working in future versions of Mac OS. Microsoft being able to run Android apps in Windows is probably in part a response to that.
Yep. There is an option in the leaked build, which is pretty old, to pin it to the left.
Ah, perhaps.

I’m excited to see that Apple is unifying their hardware architectures across their various form factors of computing devices.

That’ll be interesting in the future.
It boggles my mind how we went from a google search result to white supremacy.

I'd like people to please exercise restraint, the world feels like it is falling apart where every conversation becomes political/racial. If this is going on HN, I wonder how it is elsewhere.
It's the old correlation/causation problem. Being white is at the present time in history correlated wih privilege. But being white isn't the problem. The problem is how the privileged use it to lock out everyone else from the benefits they enjoy. Race and such like are irrelevant distractions.
Good for him. I don't think this is a problem for a lot of reasons. First he didn't break any laws, second, US taxes are a waste anyway. They'll either be used to fight pointless wars, sent to special interests (See Pelosi's family), or used to fuel racial injustice with militarization of police. The only way out to is to stop feeding the beast.
Responding to some of the comments suggesting that Tesla is going to capitalize on this...

I've seen enough of Elon's talks and read enough to know that he is trying to save our species from killing ourselves. Hence the whole reason to inhabit Mars, as he wants to make us a multi-planetary species.

So yeah, most other companies would probably do that but I don't think Tesla will. Tesla even open sourced some/all of their patents so that other electric car companies could enter the market and create more access to electric cars, that lower the carbon foot print of our transportation needs and therefore extend the time we have on earth.
Well, apparently it's a meme. Yes it's objectively terrible, but I'll bet 80% of people searching for "how many raccoons can fit" are actually looking for those results. (I mean, unless you're buying a container to transport your twenty pet raccoons, it's just not the kind of phrase most people would spontaneously search for.)

Basically, it's as relevant as searching for "the answer to life" and getting results spammed with 42.
Do you have any supporting evidence of this?

Unrelated to the topic, from your comments and post, you seem like you are a rather smart person, but you are also accepting a lot of negativity in your life. I really do suggest you disconnect for a bit from TV, news, and the Internet and look for creative outputs for your energy that aren't Red vs Blue.
Russian hackers ordered by Putin to embarrass the United States
a very fair, honest review. yes, software ages with time, and with time piles of new layers are added and others cannot be removed for very obvious reasons.

people who fail to understand this have basically no clue about complex systems evolution over tens of years, or have only produced their own cloud-managed service.

so, yeah, Microsoft is faring very well. OSes after windows 7 are extremely stable considering the diversity of components and packages that run on top of it.

apple killing all backward compatibility is not necessarily a good thing. we are talking right to repair? then what what right does an OS vendor to kill backwards-compatible components?
Love the initiative; I'm sure you'll run into some of the same lessons that I've learned building Saasify: https://transitivebullsh.it/saasify-vc-feedback

Happy to chat further about this space if you're interested && keep up the great work building for devs
Looking through the source I see that a cell can contain a grid, which is a collection of cells, and those can nest.

I see why you don't want to worry about addressing cells, it would kill a lot of the utility of the program.

What are the tradeoffs in your mind?
> They're running a fair bit of math (probably Reed Solomon matrix multiplications for error correction) over all the data accesses.

Do those run on this machine? I imagine backblaze has redundancy at the cluster level rather than machine level. That allows them to lose a single machine without any data becoming unavailable. It also means we shouldn't assume the erasure code calculations happen on a machine with 60 drives attached. That's still possible but alternatively the client [1] could do those calculations and the drive machines could simply handle read/write raw chunks. This can mean less network bandwidth [2] and better load balancing (heavier calculations done further from the stateful component).

[1] Meaning a machine handling a user-facing request or re-replication after drive/machine loss.

[2] Assume data is divided into slices that are reconstructed from N/M chunks, such that each chunk is smaller than its slice. [3] On read, the client-side erasure code design means N chunk transfers from drive machine to client. If instead the client queries one of the relevant drive machines, that machine has to receive N-1 chunks from the others and send back a full slice. (Similar for writes.) More network traffic on the drive machine and across the network in total, less on the client.

[3] This assumption might not make sense if they care more about minimizing seeks on read than minimizing bytes stored. Then they might have at least one full copy that doesn't require accessing the others.
Amazon games?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Games
The strategy here for Microsoft is pretty obvious. Windows is becoming a tablet OS first and foremost. However it is at best a 3rd target for app developers, once they have finished their iOS and Android versions.

Natively supporting an Android app store allows them to get apps so users will want to buy the hardware, which in turn generates market share that gets developers interested.
You know a zaku explodes when you hit it because it has a gas turbine nuclear reactor in it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAbiaRsY7xc
What are some of those negative effects.
I expect most things they'd do wouldn't actually require a fork of Blender, just developing Blender extensions in Python, and integrating existing and bespoke Python modules into Blender.
Zero percent is a very strong statement to make.

I've got two close friends, one of whom has diabetes, the other has cystic fibrosis. Neither of these is common enough to show up significantly in the testing. Both conditions predispose to a very, very bad outcome if they do get sick without the vaccine.

With the vaccine... I don't know. I don't think the testing has enough information to tell me. But it seems to me that there's a 5% chance of the disease getting a chance to start, and have its effect amplified by the pre-existing conditions.

Therefore, I'm wearing a mask right now, on top of being vaccinated. It probably won't help. A year from now, the odds are probably something under .01% that it makes any difference. But I don't like those odds, and the mask is a very small imposition.

I'm just saying that there's a big difference between 0.01% and 0%. I don't base my entire life on those almost-but-not-quite-zero odds, which would almost certainly become exhausting if I gave them a second thought. But in this case I have had to give it lots of thought, and the cost is small.
>Would gladly keep paying for security enhancements for it

You can (until 2023) via the (expensive) ESU program. There's also 0patch, not sure how effective is their approach.
As reported in the article, Thiel's income was below the income limit in the year of contribution, and he only needed one year's contribution to execute the strategy.

Also, income doesn't matter nowadays. Because Congress removed the income limit on Roth conversions (also reported in the article), anyone is free to make a nondeductible traditional IRA contribution and convert it to Roth, which achieves a similar effect.
I think it was preinstalled on a lot of "consumer" machines, the boxes you'd buy did not usually have 2K instead they replaced 98 with ME.

I had one friend with an ME box, and that was the worst POS around, it was so bad.

Everybody else was either 2K or linux.
Running a music venue isn't a violent crime either, but if I'm failing to moderate and protect the space my business and its customers operate in... I won't have a business for long.

My point is that their excuse of "there's too much volume for us to manage" is complete bologna. Any physical business with a similar issue would be forced to reduce volume to a rate that's manageable. If Facebook can't moderate their content effectively, then they need to either scale their moderation or reduce their content. I'm tired of this "well, it's a hard problem what are you going to do" nonsense.
YouTube loves to recommend me far-right channels despite rarely if ever watching politics on YouTube. Interesting enough I've never gotten left wing channels as recommendations.
Eh... his point is largely making lemonade out of a situation of lemons. It's a healthy mindset for sure, but it's still forcing yourself to look on the bright side of a crummy situation.

Interviews test your ability to quickly solve silly problems under stress. This is a muscle you can get better at with training. And, yep, there's a non-zero chance that it make cause an epiphany or insight into something else. However, there's a much higher chance that it does not. Years into my career, my interest in grinding those type of problems just for the purpose of performing during an interview is effectively zero.

The thing that I love about CS is how broad it is. There's a great big world of things to dive very deeply into which aren't graph traversal algorithms or solving word problems. Being forced to halt your own personal research, hobbies, or interests because of our current broken interview system is lame even when spun as "I'll think of it as probably useful".
Bash ransomware DarkRadiation targets redhat and Debian based Linux distros
I highly recommend the podcast Re:Joyce by Frank Delaney if you're at all interested in Ulysses.

He reads Ulysses and discusses it - sometimes an episode is dedicated to just one sentence, sometimes a paragraph.

Tragic that he died before completing it and that his website has gone untended.

https://feeds.feedburner.com/libsyn/sQtR
seems rather expansive. as the sibling comment notes, it wasn't relevant to the states for some time.

and until there was a nontrivial number of older students in state run schools, there wouldn't have even been opportunities for case law to arise. (mandatory) public schooling started with younger students and expanded from there.

(while children of any age should have their freedom of speech, i think we can both agree that as a practical matter, they're more likely to put it to use the older they get.)
The Roots of Lisp [pdf]
bing is not showing his picture though
What a take! "Success and non-whiteness are incompatible."

For the purpose of discussing the lack of privilege of homeless people, should we consider them black?

It's almost as if race is just a confusing distraction in conversations about privilege!
Yeah. FWIW, I had considered modifying it to capitalize "Uncle" as well, but honestly I don't know the rules for that, and the original copy of this I was quoting hadn't done so (though I had seen others which had) ;P.
Windows. Office. XBox. Azure. VS Code among a ton of others

What are you talking about dude?
Hubble has only lasted as long as it has because it was serviced on 4 separate occasions--although one of those was to fix a manufacturing defect. I don't think any of the spysats had service missions.
Such nice smile on a corporate picture, that's hilarious
I don't know of anyone above their mid 20s that uses a Mac that isn't in the tech industry, so I looked up the numbers just out of curiosity. 17.1% of users use Macs as of December 2020.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha...
I hope this is not frowned upon here but I believe the domain in question is canna[dot]sx. You can confirm this by taking some of the URLs in the report and substituting the blacked out domain with it and it indeed shows the Evanescence album that the document points to.

(I got this by doing reverse dns lookups on some of the IPs they list without censoring)

Edit: I have tried resolving using 9.9.9.9 and get the same answer as other DNS servers, even running from a VPS in Germany. It appears they have not blocked it yet?
I always wondered if a WINE for Play Services was possible.
> They don’t need to be 100% accurate.

In many cases, abusing such data will also be profitable even if the result estimate is highly noisy.

Just as an example, let's assume that an insurance company knows your given name when you apply and they have statistical data which shows that if your name belongs to one set of names, you are smoking with a probability of 51%. If you have another name, you are smoking with a probability of 49%, because the correlation is noisy. It is still more lucrative for the company to exclude applicants from the "more likely to smoke" names group, because smoking causes cost. You might never have tried a single cigarette in your life but with the information the company has, it is more profitable to not insure you.

Of course the above is an exaggerated example which would not work out quantitatively (the profit they make by insuring you might be higher than the expected value of risk from smoking) but the principle still holds; it is used for credit scoring and similar things.
I need a local account. I set up my PC with multiple profiles. I start with a local admin account and then I add Microsoft accounts for my day-to-day work. I have one profile logged in to my personal Microsoft account. Another is logged in to an Office 365 account that belongs to someone I do work for. Etc..

Why is MS encouraging people to have one giant admin account with a work or school account connected? That's stupid. My personal account should be considered untrusted. Having it acting like the root account is just dumb, right?
I don't think he's care anymore. Not because of recent events, but because he stepped away from MS a long, long time ago. He's not captain of that ship anymore and MS's performance is not tied to his actions.
Not only did I say that but I also gave the specific Ubuntu version as well!
In reply to your edit, you also need to account for the same training that may or may not be provided in all the other cases. This review article did not highlight any such data, but it likely exists in the research under review or in other available research
It's against Wikipedia's rules to create articles about yourself.
> Instead, consider something like this
[snip]
Scoped down intial launch requirements

...and after all that, don't forget to use your spell checker _and_ then get someone with good language skills to proof-read your application.
I was just throwing a number. I don’t work at Google, but I have heard from friends who work at that scale that when bugs only affect a few thousand people, it is “safe” to ship.
Hm. Maybe I can just spoof my user-agent as Safari when using Google drive.

Kind of ironic that I need to spoof as non-Google device to use a Google product with a Google browser.
But younger than Apple’s arm64 ABI, and younger than ARM’s ABI docs which reserve it for platform use. Any software intended to target multiple platforms should never have been using it.
Ghidra 10.0
Well, chicken me out!!
Weather Forecasting Tricks Series: Timing a Front (2004)
and a time-traveller
it's basically Aero. and the widgets are basically the Vista sidebar. what's old is new I guess.

my main beef is moving the start button to the center of the screen. that makes it less accessible for mouse users -- you can't just wack your mouse over to the bottom left anymore. I use windows key, but it still seems like an accessibility fail.
> This is the education I use all the time to make money.

I'm curious what your degree is in and what you do. My degrees (undergraduate and graduate) were in CS, and I've been employed as a computer programmer my whole life. It's rare to nonexistent that I actually do something for work that I was specifically taught to do by a university professor; there's a pervasive belief here on HN and elsewhere that a CS degree is useless for a programming job (a smaller minority might even suggest that a CS degree disqualifies you from being capable of programming computers professionally). Since I can't say that I learned how to, say, debug a program, or construct a SQL statement, or isolate a performance issue, or diagnose a network connection problem in college, the only counter I have to this viewpoint is that college exposed me to more general problem-solving techniques that are more abstract but broadly useful. Of course, I'll never know if I'd have been just as effective a programmer without ever having set foot in a college or not.
The BIOS vendor would need to prevent you from turning off secure boot. Windows can't do that, except where they also control hardware, so possibly on the Surface?
Well yeah, but you now have listed basicly 3 companies with most of them having a majority market share in their domain. (Gmail, FB, FB, Amazon; respectively) Plus google search is the end-all-be-all answer. People treat these results as the truth.
In addition to this silly page, this website has a bunch of really cool technical details on weather prediction! I know nothing about weather forecasting, but I've enjoyed reading some random articles on it.

Here's an interesting one about how the timing of front affects the forecast: http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints2/424/

Here's another one about forecasting ice on roads: http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/7/

Websites like this remind me why the Internet is great.

(re-posted at the invitation of dang)
No, this is what DNS sevices like uncensoreddns.org is for.
I don't think it helps that MS have been trying to build new UI and app development frameworks for the past several years, each one with varying capabilities. I've lost track, I think UWP is the latest one but it's not UWP any more, or something?

It just seems harder to build and sell software that has that same quality look-and-feel that many MacOS apps have.

I just wonder what they'd be capable of if they had a separate OS that didn't have to concern itself with backwards compatibility. It'd be a monumental undertaking to do all that from scratch, not really worth it from a business standpoint, but it'd be interesting to see what they'd come up with if they started off with Linux.