skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess something to ask is if black content creators are among the most creative, and black consumers are among the most energetic and prolific users, are you only attributing their lack of success(?) on youtube because of algorithms?

If it's just a question of likes/subscriptions/shares, then the statement that they are the most energetic and prolific users seems incorrect.

If it's something else, can we identify what the problem is with some other algorithm that is not likes/subscribes/shares?

I hope your plans for blackoak is successful, but I'm not sure it solves the problem you're describing. The biggest issue is places like netflix and youtube have a huge market share, and if you are just hosting/moving content off those platforms, you risk your content creators having less recognition unless you can gain enough traction. On top of that, if you're competing in the paid streaming market, like netflix/hulu/prime/disney/etc., now you're telling your market to pay for another service on top of the things they already subscribe to.

So again, best of luck, hopefully you have plans to solve or mitigate what I just described.
Couldn't have said it any better!
The problem is that this country has an extremely long history being obsessed with race, mainly by systematically stripping away the humanity of anyone considered nonwhite. This was most prominently to black people, to the point where they were literally property to wealthy whites, and once they stopped being property it was common to extrajudicially hunt them down and kill them in many primarily white communities for things like staying overnight.

In america there are black people alive who weren't allowed to vote because of their race.

Given the history of race in america it makes total sense that america is still grappling with race while also there is significant pushback against that grappling.
thanks for the suggestion. Will watch!
>Know when to break the rules. For rules like "don't repeat yourself," sometimes a little repetition is better than a bit of dependency.

Glad to see DRY called out here. I've seen so much crazy code simply to avoid breaking, The Rule.
I'm currently researching ways to integrate org-mode based citation structures with more commonly used tools such as Zotero, and apparently it's possible to make them talk nicely? The linked article states:

> Zotero is a good option, and if you’re using it it’s quite easy to use it with Org Cite. Out of the box, you can tell it to export your library, or parts of it, to a .bib file and automatically keep it in sync. I’d recommend installing the Better BibTeX extension though.

A non-technical friend and myself are looking into creating a blog for discussing issues related to health care, hence my interest on this front. Hopefully it's straightforward (famous last words)!
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I really wish there was a cost-effective way to rent some of these low-usage, but high-carbon items like cars. I really don't want to own a car. I barely use it because WFH + public transport + company shuttle handles most of my day-to-day. However, it is difficult to do some outdoor sports in the US without one (e.g. rock climbing, mountain biking, skiing). I have a Subaru in my garage on a trickle charger to keep the battery fresh only for these kinds of things.

I wish I could avoid having to insure, register, and worry about this stupid investment, not to mention the guilt from having this barely-used thing expanding my carbon footprint.

However, the math on renting a car every weekend that has all-wheel drive still just doesn't work out, not to mention the hassle of retrieving and returning it.

I don't like the "you will own nothing and be happy" way things are going, but I could definitely do that with a car if the economics wouldn't be so rapacious.
"divisiveness inherent in the title" seems wildly overblown to me. Isn't identifying an underserved audience and marketing to them like a cornerstone of business? Do you feel that hair products marketed toward Black people are divisive? Subscription boxes for millennials? Shoes for moms?
I've seen that book case before. Is it IKEA?
Not everything has to scale to Netflix levels to succeed or be sustainable. Targeting a smaller market means you also won't face Netflix' bandwidth costs.
The smart home is a crappy idea because appliances, switches and fixed lights are supposed to last for decades before needing to be replaced. Companies have clearly shown close to no interest in maintaining and upgrading even reasonably recent devices - adding smart features to previously dumb devices is nice at first, but what about in five years when the software will start to rot and stop working, and probably become a serious privacy and security liability?

Until this gets solved somehow smart features will always remain a marketing gimmick. There's no way around it.

People accept replacing ageing phones and computers because their connectivity features are a large part of the reason they exist. This isn't true for a light switch, for instance, which is mostly seen as a way to turn lights off.
UPS and Fedex can do this as private companies, my understanding is the USPS actually can't due to the 4th Amendment:

"The Fourth Amendment protects the privacy of U.S. mail as if it had been kept by the sender in his home. Ex parte Jackson, 96 U.S. 727, 732-733, 735 (1878); U.S. v. Van Leeuwen, 397 U.S. 249, 252-52 (1970). It cannot be searched without a search warrant based on probable cause."
Might be a good idea to wait. It's coming soonish I think:

- https://github.com/openwrt/luci/pull/4994

- https://forum.turris.cz/t/wifi-6-ax-adapter/10390/77

I think the router might be my favorite open hardware piece:

- It was easier to setup then my old Asus router

- Schematics and source are easy to access.

- It has never not worked.

- It is made by a company that is a domain registrar with a good track record on open source projects (click the more button it the top right and you might recognize a few projects): https://www.nic.cz/

- And if you need to do something advance with it, you can. Mine is has Bird runing BGP.
Ask HN: Examples of Great Readme Files?
What are some of the best README files you have come across? What are the things that you look for in a README?

Do you like badges and contributor lists? Screenshots? Or do you prefer when the README goes straight to the point?
It is nice that the author is happy with Windows. But when it comes to windows, I am out. When it comes to the authors points:

1) Beautiful UI, for me thats MacOS or GNOME. The last Windows I liked was Windows 7. But I can accept that this will be very different for different people.

2) Unmatched Window Management, I like MacOS + Tri for tiling windows. I like the way that MacOS does Virtual Desktops, if I find something like Tri for Gnome I would be just as happy there. I don’t like Virtual Desktops in Windows but it might just be because of muscle memory.

3) Supports real Linux. I call bullshit, my experiences with WSL1 have not bin good and I am not interested in trying WSL 2.

Honestly, the settings mess, accounts, now 3 different shells and incompatibilities are driving me insane. I’ve had so many bad experiences with Windows I can’t take it anymore. To me it looks like Microsoft is chasing that “love me” moment that Apple got with OS X and Aqua where everybody was just gushing about Apple. Instead they get heaped with criticism.

* XP nice UI (for some, not for me) but you now need to activate it over the internet, not 100% compatible to 9X windows
* Vista they overpromised and got shat on for it
* 7 was nice, I liked update bars in the taskbar and Aero
* 8 was a catastrophe for the desktop
* 8.1 didn’t do enough to fix that (Stardock fixed it for me)
* 10 was what Windows 8.1 should have been to me but the account management is a catastrophe and its updates tended to kill one of my laptops over and over

I’m sorry to say this (I truly am since I’ve grown rather OS agnostic over the years) but for what I want to do with a computer, Windows is more and more likely to just make me sad or angry and I don’t want to deal with that. So yea, I’m glad you are happy with Windows but others, like me, are not and life is to short to get agitated by an Operating System.
I love the look of your site. Very slick. Hope you crush it.
Turks in Europe tend to watch Turkish TV and prefer Turkish language, so there's not really a market for Netflix-But-Every-Actor-Is-Turkish in $europeanLanguage.
Fn/Ctrl can be swapped in BIOS
There seems to be a lot of energy in LN, e.g. http://bolt12.org
Combine this with Apple’s new photo scanning tech and this could be a new way for bad people to SWAT someone else. Assuming you could fool Apples classifier, just text that manipulated image to the target and they will get flagged.

Any image on the internet that you save to your phone is now a risk to yourself, even if it looks innocent.
It's fun until PICO-8 says "that's enough. I forbid you from adding any more code/sprites/etc."

And then you realize you are being strangled by artificial, arbitrary limits that don't actually have any reason nor justification for existing.

Thankfully TIC-80 offers almost the exact same experience with more lenient restrictions.
I am not American but the overwhelming majority of the media I consume is American. Given the near hegemony of American popular culture, that is likely true for millions of non-Americans. All these people consume American content because they find it enjoyable and at some level relatable despite living in very different countries and not speaking English as their first language. At the end of the day, the human condition is universal in spite of the cultural frameworks in which it is experienced. I find it absolutely mind-boggling that Americans feel unrepresented by their own media because of the colour of their skin.
> Eventually, the forensics will return nothing. Your lawyer will succeed in getting you to walk free.

If you're lucky. If you're unlucky, they'll insist that you have it stored "encrypted" in a file whose extension their automated scanners don't recognize and keep you locked up until you produce the password. And insisting that there is no password and that the file isn't an encrypted file (it's some system file and you don't even know what it's for) is exactly what a criminal would say.
> It's not "Water Fountains for Black People". It's "Water Fountain - White People Not Welcome"

That's entirely your own interpretation and you might want to consider why you think this way.

There is nothing stopping a white person from subscribing to "Netflix for black people" if they think the content may be of interest to them.
Pretty slow to load for me on mobile.. perhaps just because of all the HN traffic?
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When you get above the 40th percentile in problem difficulty or novelty, there are no answers or even discussions on the internet.
Interesting. As far as I know discourse also has badges, ranks and leaderboards, but maybe they are not emphasized as much.
But it would take Netflix just one or two demo-specific properties to win that demo back. Unless the goal is to be acquired.
Supposing I'm wrong about that.

Are you saying farmers should drive teslas?
I have the same laptop with the 4K IPS display and the AMD 5850U, and I am pretty happy with it.
On Ubuntu I had to install the Wi-Fi driver manually [0], tweak the grub config to make the screen brightness control work [1], and install gnome-screensaver to make suspend/resume work properly. Maybe things would work better out of the box on Pop!_OS?
Otherwise, it's pretty good. It does not heat up much compared to the previous Intel laptop I had, and it is plenty fast.
I was not able to make Howdy [2] work properly, and the fingerprint reader was not reliable compared to my MacBook, however.

[0]: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89

[1]: Add this to the grub file : GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="amdgpu.backlight=0"

[2]: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy
I'm currently running into this but the shutdown didn't occur until I was preparing for launch this week. I've gotten some success reaching out to them on Twitter but it's been a slow process convincing them that my business does not violate any of their T&C...

Please let me know if you have any other tips on resolving this in a fast manner...
This is really helpful! Thank you very much.
Supposedly someday we're meant to have DDR5 with ECC built in. I've been waiting for that day as well.
If you broaden the definition of Other People to "you, 6 months from now" and "you, 6 months ago", then many SE principles still apply. Where SE principles don't apply is toy, one off scripts that you just hack together to get a single thing done and require no maintenance like a lot of stuff in science.
Yes, and maybe we should start doing the science before we make stuff ubiquitous in our environments, rather than trying to figure stuff out after the fact. Leaded gasoline is an example where it took us a long time to understand the effects, and we'll never really be able to quantify the damage caused. And the data you get later from phasing something out at a systemic level gives you only a kind of crude single crossover result, with lots of potential confounding variables. Why did crime in the US decrease in the 90s? We can't be sure.

I'm not saying microplastics are like lead of course. Just that in some cases, we're pretty sure we've caused a lot of damage by filling our environment without sufficient advance consideration.
I was in the mood to get a "mobile workstation", and ended up buying an HP Omen gaming laptop, which had an i7, 16GB of RAM, and discrete GPU. The idea was to be able to run one or more VMs and do hardcore development. And maybe play a few strategy games.

In the intervening years, I have hardly used the laptop for the purposes I had initially intended, though I do occasionally play strategy games on it.

I've mostly been using an inexpensive Chromebook as a remote Linux terminal, and then logging into remote machines to do development. With a little GNU screen startup script, it is easy to resume where I left off, regardless of my location.
What will Apple do when Iran or Qatar (or any of the other 71 countries where homosexuality is illegal) upload photos to the CSAM database that they consider illegal acts?

In some of those countries same-sex sex is punishable by death.
Israeli farmers have shown that crops can be grown outdoors in a water efficient manner.
> Using electricity for heat may work for some as an alternative, but AFAIK it's not terribly efficient and not well suited for cooler climates where it's needed more frequently.

It's actually incredibly efficient when using a heat pump, as you're putting little energy in to move a lot of energy. Newer air source heat pumps can extract energy from air as cold as -30F. But, as you mention, an additional financial burden. Living in colder climates has an inherently heavy CO2 burden to overcome.

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/heat-and-cool/heat-pump-s...
Then why do the "CSAM" perceptual hashes live on the device and the checks themselves run on the device? Those hashes could be anything. Your phone is turning into a snitch against you, and the targeted content might be CCP Winnie the Pooh memes or content the people in charge do not like.

We are not getting this wrong. Apple is taking an egregious step to satisfy the CCP and FBI.

Future US politicians could easily be blackmailed by the non-illegal content on their phones. This is a jeopardy to our democracy.

The only reason this was announced yesterday is because it was leaked on Twitter and to the press. Apple is in damage control mode.

This isn't about protecting children. It's about control.

Stop defending Apple.
Thanks for making the effort.

Why folks are down voting your post, especially here on HN - a group apparently made up of rational and logical thinking folks - beats me.

Feeding the world with animal meat is not sustainable, it requires more energy and resources.

I guess it's called meat addiction for a reason.
It's very easy to replace the displays on these business line thinkpads.
My takeaway from the metaphor is not the end of earth, or even the human species. But a significant reduction in population. Anytime habitat is lost, people starve and migrate. Not all starve. Not all migrate. We will have migration induced conflicts, not everyone who migrates will survive. Not everyone who stays in a comfort zone will be immune from the reality of resource shortages.

Our economics and political systems have no answer to long term negative growth. They assume growth, the occasional recession is a big problem but can be mitigated.
The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction (2019)
Internal Apple memo addresses public concern over new child protection features
Can you share more about the SEO limitations of bubble you experienced? I wasn’t aware that is a limitation.
Yep. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hejne-shelf-unit-softwood-s7903...
You can certainly try running it with a smaller heap, some of the modern java GCs can run at very close to 100% heap utilization.

Also, FWIW, it's the 10th largest item in my top listing, with even Thunderbird using more RAM (850MB). I suspect mutt, offlineimap and davmail would combine to be smaller than TB alone.

[edit]

Also consider getting your employer to buy you more RAM? A 32GB SO-DIMM kit from corsair is under $200, so nobody should have to worry about half a gig on their work machine...
Reasons hybrid offices won’t work
Can someone please ELI5 why we can't just blur every image before passing it to the classifier? Wouldn't this defeat this sort of attack? Obviously you lose some accuracy, but that seems acceptable.

Edit: I guess that's similar to "image quilting" (whatever that is) in this slide deck. This is the first time I've seen something like this mentioned. Seems like a straight-forward solution.
The announcement blog post: https://www.surfly.com/blog/webtoppings-surfly-browsing-with...
I’ve been burned by using Docker’s networking directly too many times to count, especially in the context of Docker for Mac (where “the host” sometimes means “your computer”, while other times meaning “the VM Docker runs in”, arbitrarily.)

However, Kubernetes on Docker (microk8s or whatever it’s called) has always been extremely predictable in its (development-time, single-node) networking behaviour for me. Set up the right Deployment + Service + Ingress resources, ask kubectl(1) for the external IP and port to talk to, curl it—just works. Does the same externally-observable thing on your workstation that it does in prod.

Of course, that requires you to learn Kubernetes… which is a much bigger pain than it should be. But once you've got it, it's pretty simple/lightweight to wield Kubernetes at a problem; and the results are much more widely-applicable to everywhere you'd want to deply than e.g. Docker Compose is.
> The number of insects have dropped dramatically

Are you referring to the 2017 "Insect Apocalypse" paper? It has not done well under subsequent examination.

https://ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2019/12/20/moving-on-from...

"From a scientific perspective, there is so much wrong with the paper, it really shouldn’t have been published in its current form: the biased search method, the cherry-picked studies, the absence of any real quantitative data to back up the bizarre 40% extinction rate that appears in the abstract (we don’t even have population data for 40% of the world’s insect species), and the errors in the reference list. And it was presented as a ‘comprehensive review’ and a ‘meta-analysis’, even though it is neither."
My house makes your house look like a simpleton.

I have a light that automatically comes on in the bathroom when someone enters, shuts off a few minutes after they leave.

With kids, it has turned out to be an energy saver.

No hub required.
Not according to the complaints here.
Apparently "It will also scan messages sent using Apple’s iMessage service for text and photos that are inappropriate for minors."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/05/apple-c...

That seems even worse. In the US we have this terrible situation where it might be perfectly legal for two 17 year olds or a 17 and an 18 year old to have sex with each other but if they sext then they're engaging in child pornography which is a huge federal crime. But it hasn't been a problem until now because it's very hard to enforce. But it looks like Apple is now going to take part in enforcing that law. It'll be tattling to the parents rather than law enforcement but I still think that's terrible.
And this service is another competitor to it.
The concept of "white" is not a consequence of the melting pot idea. The concept of "white" was explicitly born as a way to justify enslaving and treating a group of people as property for generations.

If one wants to solve the injustices of the past, its important to actually acknowledge the reality of those injustices and how they feed into modern day. The "melting pot" theory I suspect was always a form of injustice in of itself, because it expected people to simply forget what happened to them and accept that they'll never get an apology have amends made for them.
This is an easy fix. Make it “Netflix by Black People” or “Netflix by Black Creators.”

by, not for
Now I’m European, so maybe I’m not in the right cultural mindset for this, but your comparison really highlights what is problematic for me: based on someone’s skin colour you are determining their culture/heritage. What does a Nigerian have in common with a Jamaican, apart from the melatonin in their skin? Why would they have similar tastes in media?
That's the thing - if Apple can do this, they will do this. If the U.S. government will do this, they will do this. If the CCP can do this, they will do this. Complaining, protesting, boycotting, even passing laws won't matter - if they can do this, they will do this. The only way to stop it is to make it impossible - Tor, Freenet, I2P, etc. I don't hold much hope that truly encrypted, unbreakable networks will actually take off, though... because in an actually unbreakable network, the kind of censorship that people support is as impossible as the kind of censorship that people oppose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
I have to disagree with you "experts" are wrong ALL THE TIME. Experts in every field at every level are wrong constantly. Watch ESPN and get the predictions for the outcome of games. On CNBC, you have experts giving their predictions, and getting them wrong all the time. Experts change their opinions as new information becomes available. That sounds fantastic, until those expert opinions are used to set policy. I gave an example of bee colony collapse that has recently been disproven, how about something that actually drastically changed the US, the Food Pyramid. Expert opinions changed the way Americans ate and kicked off an epidemic of obesity, or at least helped it along. Expert opinions are only as good as the current study, they shift with the wind. You cannot base your life on expert opinions.
I find segregation to be gross.

When will hacker news fork into racially segregated communities?
"someone decided to come up with a way (race) to divide people into groups where one group is bound"

So close, and yet so far.
It's no wonder wallapop sucks so much when they employ someone like you.
I didn't really see anything in the design I saw as exclusionary!

> because we appreciate the HN community taking time to hear our story, for a short period of time, we’re making some of our original black TV shows available for free on our site

Like thousands of business before them they're marketing to an audience but it seems like they're more than happy to build a broader audience.