skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you took all the reasons the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 and had to assign assign percentages for how much each one contributed to the decision to invade, what value would you assign to "securing lucrative contracts for defense and oil companies"?
> “Many believe that automated recommendation algorithms have little influence on online ‘echo chambers’ in which users only see content that reaffirms their preexisting views,” observes Bisbee, now an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University.

Really? I was under the impression pretty much everyone was aware that these recommendation algorithms can help reinforce existing views. Discussion around “filter bubbles”[1] was a big thing a few years ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
The "problem" (if it's real, which I think it is) is that youtube's recommendations don't show you more "skepticism" content, but will continually try to push you further down rabbit holes. It works great if you are learning and suddenly interested in woodworking, but if you don't trust government, it's just going to take you to all the crazy people saying (((they))) are trying to keep you down and that's why your life is bad and you should hate and wish violence upon the people trying to "destroy your way of life".

After owning the same very active youtube account since 2007, youtube finally tried to radicalize me a few months back. I watched a single video from a more radical leftist (I guess class solidarity-ist) channel, and the very next loading of the homepage was at least half extreme leftist and extreme far right channels, trying to tell me that "democrats are trying to kill millions of babies a year" and "republicans are trying to instate a theocracy tomorrow" and "why you shouldn't believe anything (((they))) tell you". Google has known my political affiliation and opinions for over a decade, and still tried to show me OAN stuff, because hey I'm radicalizable right now and that's pretty profitable.

I've watched slightly leftist youtube videos for years now, and youtube never tried to radicalize me, but the second I dipped my toe into the dark and disgusting pool of extremism, that's all youtube wanted to show me. These videos were not meant to inform, but to enrage. The fact of the matter is that extremist content is just way better at activating much more extreme emotional responses, which fun story, leads to more engagement. So the algorithm LOVES pushing people towards extremeism, because it's super effective at doing what Daddy Google tells it to do, which is to get people more "engaged"
Fail2ban serves no purpose other than bloating your firewall's denylist. You can mitigate most blind bruteforce attacks by just changing the port number of your SSH server and by using a public/private key pair instead of passwords.
I contribute to this forum in good faith, I strongly disagree with this ban.
he said, without evidence
Not certain about "tremendous necessity driving" SpaceX. At the time few would have bet that SLS and Starliner would become the duds they are. Maybe Atlas and Ariane incrementing without re-usability and costly Starliner would be viewed positively since there wouldn't be an alternative story (unless BO did better).
I would just like to say that 'thwack' is a fantastic word and we should all strive to use it more often. :)
Not necessarily a bad thing, TBH. Think of it like our Senate in the US. The Senate is a longer view, while the House is the shorter populous public-opinion. Not sure of the Parliamentary influences, but someone who was as respected and revered in an status where one COULD get the longest view on staff (so to say) - why not?
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Utah https://github.com/divegeek/utahcode
Whenever AMZN asks my opinion about something (say AMZN music) I put in a few words to the extent that "I hear you don't treat the help very well."

AMZN being so solicitous is ironic since AMZN is now the only online store that doesn't see fast shipping as a way to impress me. I guess they figure that being subscribed to AMZN prime for 10 years means I've gotten into a habit that's hard to break. That's not true.
Don't even get me started on Unreal's Python API docs.
Dont underestimate recent changes. Your grandma never saw a smartphone, modern electric car, online food ordering, Netflix nor went on a Tinder hoookup. :)
It's not really possible to compare the performance of webservers apples to apples. Really, you need to do your own benchmarking to determine which solution is best for you. But keep in mind that the web server is rarely the bottleneck, usually your app and database IO are where it takes the most time.
Then next day news will say Apple is trying to kill 3rd party chat app by fencing it with Google using RCS.
Don't have sound right now, sorry. But that thing cost about 10kUS$ (and even more early on), that's nearly 14kUS$ inflation corrected. Might be the reason people didn't buy them for home use ;)
I think the distinction between public and private wealth is sophistry

That ‘private’ wealth was acquired because she was head of state
I had never considered before what the right course of action for the Queen (and now Charles) would have been, but this is it.

That said, I do think it’s an unrealistic ask of someone who’s entire life and all those around her are dedicated to reinforcing her (absurd) status.

Those I really fault are the BBC who report her term heading this fundamentally antidemocratic institution so uncritically. Monarchy in the UK has majority support, but it is much more evenly split that you would imagine from our media.

Radio 4’s correspondent was on just now fondly telling tales of how the Queen had intervened by “raising an eyebrow” to save a favoured army regiment. If true this should be a national scandal in a constitutional monarchy. That it is reported with so little awareness of the media’s role in entrenching privilege is unforgivable.
I don't think it makes a lot of sense calling Ketamine a psychedelic. It is very much unlike any known psychedelic, and acts in a very different way in the body as well.
The author of this also did a writeup of an io_uring exploit a while back that you might find interesting https://www.graplsecurity.com/post/iou-ring-exploiting-the-l... (the September 8 date is definitely wrong, probably an artifact from moving blogging platforms)
Huh? The Concorde was designed with afterburners right from the start. It certainly did not enter service without them.
They had money, those engines seemed technically possible given RRs history and RR delivered tests and whtnot. And Boom paid RR for it.

Theranos could have easily found a medical lab equipment manufacturer to conduct some similar testing and early stage development.
Thanks. I was in Google Patent Litigation, and there was a book I wanted to see. I didn't know it was valuable; if it was, there'd be no problem buying it, but most of the time, these things were false positives.

Someone in Books offered to let me come over and see it on HIS screen, because he couldn't give me the link even as a Google employee.

But I guess Sciences (or GAS, or whatever it's called), got y'all to help. Good for them (and you).
>saccharine platitudes

This is a very common criticism when one happens to disagree with the target of some positivity. Sometimes it's a reasonable criticism, but usually it's an oversimplification we allow ourselves to indulge in. Positivity can have intrinsic value even in the absence of some accompanying objective substance.

On the other hand, and similarly to my first point, I agree that indignation too is not inherently value-less. However, there are miles between useful indignation and snarky tangents.
I'd love to see a git history for our current US legislation
I just stopped leaving reviews. Airbnb pesters you so much to leave a review, and for what do they give you for it? Nothing. In fact, writing an honest review can be dangerous.

Contrast with a hotel, which -might- send you a short survey a few days later and then never bother you again. And if you do fill out the survey with a legit complaint, execs take notice and are motivated to give you discounts/free nights. Or at least an apology.
Tell HN: Latest Windows security update is locking all our computers
It is a known issue : KB5012170 security update will lock the computer and show the bitlocker screen after a reboot. Apparently that's not the case for all configurations, but the bug has been encountered on Windows 8, 10 and 11.

We are a small startup with ~20 windows laptops, with recent hardware and legit licences. And since a few days it's chaos because everyone is having the bitlocker message and is not always able to find its recovery key (without the key you lose all your data). Because finding the key requires you to remember which email address you used to create your Microsoft account, and because for some reasons sometimes the key doesn't even show up on the account.

I'm the CTO in charge and I'm doing all the sys admin stuff myself, which is probably not a good idea as it appears now.
Up to now I had never heard about bitlocker (I don't use windows myself). I guess that's the case for many small organizations or individuals. This bug is a ticking time bomb for all of them. I'm baffled to say the least, that such a scenario can even occur. It has caused more damage to us than any ransomware attacks.

I'd be interested to hear if some you have experienced this situation and how you dealt with it.
Cheers
We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments. That's not allowed here, and you've been doing it repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32502544, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32287960).

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Why is a 5yr old article being posted now? If this were to catch on, it would've. I just dont see it being used anywhere.

Having a full Linux kernel available is a major benefit that you lose, right?
Yes, aka "progressive encoding." Like a JPEG file that gets clearer and clearer as each chunk is transferred.

Start with a introduction and summary of each related discipline. Go back to the beginning and build another layer on top, with as many iterations are necessary.

Has much in common with the Spiral methodology of software development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_model
The queen of Britain is not elected.

Many monarchies have been elective[1], and in some, the monarch is often picked from the same family. Even that is a better system than "first-born child".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_monarchy
No doubt, I just think too often leadership is looked at as an afterthought to the skill they are managing? It's akin to the Peter Principle. Just because you are a good developer does not mean your skills translate to great leadership.

People would laugh at the idea of a good leader being thrust into a SWE role based solely on their leadership skills. Yet we often think transitioning from a SWE to a leader is just picked up. I'm asserting that they are different skillsets. Will being a good developer help lead a team of SWE? Absolutely, but that alone doesn't provide the requisite knowledge and skills to perform a manager role, but we often think that's the bulk of what's necessary.
I never said you couldn't get a very prestigious job without a cover letter. In fact, I'm positive top 5 companies are far less likely to care about cover letters than many organizations. They want to hire people who are mostly excited about the code and solving exciting problems that come up while the company does its thing. Get a stack of resumes, sort by pedigree and experience, put them in front of a whiteboard to make sure they weren't lying, get them in some interviews to make sure they aren't total jerks, and you're off to the races.

If you want to work with a think tank, a nonprofit doing exciting and important work, a startup with an amazing idea that really captures your imagination, or any other org where the big picture needs to matter as much or more to everybody involved than the content of the PRs, then the cover letter likely matters more than the resume.

No judgement. I use those top 5 products. It's just pretty myopic to deem cover letters as unnecessary when that's only true for people with very specific goals and ideas about what matters in a job, even if they happen to be very common.
Hardly, she’s had to smile at a procession of increasingly less capable prime ministers for decades. She was well used to this.

Not getting a real day off for 73 years probably had more to do with it. Or, you know, just being 96.
I recommend the travelogue Arabian Sands, by William Thesiger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Sands
Something something about common sense isn't all that common. :) China has had some issues with planting absolutely massive monocultures that end up looking nice on paper but being bad in the long run.
You can marry in, which amounts to choosing the royal life. (Maybe not you specifically, but people have married in)
I don't understand why all criticism is being considered flamebait. Yes some of it is flamebait, but the worship is some pretty juicy bait too.
The French President just gets a nice office and a limo for a few years, he doesn't inherit hundreds of years of imperial money and retain strange godlike reverence for life.
I'm not a SF resident and don't understand this at all, can someone explain what happened here?
I was talking about empty positive comments like "RIP". (or, in a different context, "thanks" or "congratulations" - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html)

Perhaps I should take bit out as it obviously wasn't clear enough.
Maybe I missed it while glancing through, but does this return the actual voting by congressperson for each bill?
Harvest is growing // and hiring for Senior SRE, SRE II, Security Engineering roles. We're an eng team of 30, company of 70, globally distributed, we hire anywhere :) Salaries listed in job posting.

Thanks for considering!

https://www.getharvest.com/careers
Wrong. 2000 was stolen, as was 2004.
it seems to me anachronistic Kings in Britain felt to me from another period. (save for 50 ish years post 1901.)
Not to mention, in the paper, the lightvm only had an advantage on boot times. Menory usage was marginally worse than docker, even with the unikernel, and debian on lightvm was drastically worse for cpu usage than docker (the unikernel cpu usage was neck and neck with the debian docker contaner).

I could see it being an improvement over other VM control planes, but docker still wins in performance for any equivalant comparisons.
Trust is earned; it should not be given freely. As I’ve already said, it’s already a gigantic burden to try to corroborate claims and distill biases from all media, so there’s little reason to spend time doing so from sources I already know are biased, especially if there are other sources available.

> Does this automatox mistrust applies to all victims of aggression/imperialism/genocide like Yazidi, Jews, etc?

It applies to any party that is making assertions about something where there’s a clear conflict of interest. It is not saying what is being said is false, just that it is not automatically true and requires more scrutiny because it’s from a biased source. I think Ukrainians are victims of a Russian invasion but that does not mean that I think that Ukrainian news sources are particularly reliable with regards to reports on the war. That isn’t asserting that they are lying either, just that those claims require more verification.

> As in, this logic means that you are determined not to trust victims of something, purely because they are victims and talk about it.

Determined to not trust implies that I’m actively going out of my way to think that anything coming out of a victim’s mouth is a lie or deceitful. I’m not saying that at all.
Then mourn the social democratic consensus that built that prosperity, rather than the symbol of empire and privilege that it replaced?
What do you dislike about NS documentation? I always found it very thorough and useful. Definitely much better than Apple.
Cool idea.

Some suggestions for missing interfaces:

DELETE/Representative
POST/Bill
> and I think it’s because unlimited texting plans did not catch on with carriers there, so they had very strong economic reasons to prefer data messaging instead.

In case it's not clear to anyone outside the US who reads this: unlimited SMS/MMS is available from virtually every carrier in the US including the budget MVNOs, and that's been the case for many years. But the "unlimited" data plans are expensive enough that there's still a significant market for cheaper plans with limits of a few GB per month—limits that SMS and MMS don't contribute to.
Okay, I lol’d.

The good news is that Google now supports reactions since they fall back to plain text.

https://www.macworld.com/article/610908/google-messages-andr...
Do you think this will break the Commonwealth?
One Week Without the Internet
And then after some forced upgrades to versions she doesn't want and said "no" to, but Microsoft knew better and did it anyway (what happened to us), you can explain the alternatives and your experiences (stability, works well on old hardware, fewer viruses, free upgrades for life, local trust and control if/as desired, never a forced upgrade, easy and essentially no re-learning required [see my other comment in this discussion, with XFCE and some desktop icons and CUPS there was practically no re-learning as a user, but I was available to provide support as a long-time user], and let her decide differently if she wants.

That's my general experience anyway. Though I admit, there have been some minor adventures with printing.
It's more from sed/awk/shell I suppose.

eg, open FH, "<filename"

vs FILE *fh = fopen("filename","r")
I wish he'd used a different metaphor. Fried frog legs are delicious.
I get my friend to cut the ads out of a newspaper I bought. Maybe I make a machine to do it. Now I read it.

This is somehow immoral. Cutting paper I have in my possession.

Nah, that's insane, sorry. It speaks to a lack of logical thought processes.
I think in the future it might be better to say "This comment is not up to HN's editorial standards to produce curious conversation" rather than asserting that it is "flamebait tangent". Using such strong language is a type of flamebait in itself (and the number of comments criticizing the moderation of this thread should be evidence that others agree).
I think it strange that there is no conversation or talk about Android adopting iMessage -- is that something Apple has previously refused?

I mean if you're going to dictate a standard to a duopoly, you need both to agree. I haven't seen the opposite side of this discussion anywhere yet.
My father made a wonderful tongue & beans soup; must have been 45 years ago. Little brother and friend come home, I tell them, "You've got to try Dad's soup!" They both raved about it, until I mentioned the meat was cow tongue. Years later I was still catching flack about that little incident. But he'd grown up on a farm and meat was meat; I thought it tasted great.
> Here's your data.

No. It's the source.

> disclaimer: I work on this team.

Good then: is your research reproducible? As in, do you have some code and data somewhere that can be used to verify your results?

By that, I mean to run it on the input dataset to create something that gives results similar to you GNN results for whatever testset you used (in your example, predicting the mosquito repellency of a set of molecules)
Turbines cost less to operate part-time than full-time. One operated 4 hours / day, or one day / week, costs a lot less than one run continuously.
Not for nothing, but isn’t the post they were responding to equally flame bait? If you’re of the opinion that she had serious faults, claiming without evidence that she was unfaultable is just provoking a fight
The article mentions how in the past, the Patriotic Order Sons of America didn't allow black people to join. They eventually changed but I'm wondering if the change was forced. Is it legal to discriminate on the basis of race or sex today?
Low dose amphetamines are pretty safe. We've given a lot of them to kids with adhd over the years
> ...I'm not a huge fan of the royal family on principle, but Queen Elizabeth has been such an excellent head of state for us...

This is a vastly underappreciated aspect of government, and of human social institutions in general. The principles-on-paper version of something can be mediocre, or just plain horrid. But if the actual people running things are sufficiently capable and caring, the on-paper failings doesn't much matter.

Flip-side, even a perfect-on-paper system, implemented with incompetent & uncaring people in charge, will be crap at best.
Multi user dungeon, basically like early MMORPGs, usually text based. MMORPG are massively multiplayer online role-playing games, like World of Warcraft.
Stores in my state are legally forbidden from selling alcohol to very very drunk people. Casinos in my state are legally required to help problem gamblers get better and to work with them to limit their problem gambling, even to the business's detriment.

Why should ANYONE be allowed to profit from an addiction/slippery slope/radicalization mechanism?
I wonder if they allow positive reviews mentioning things the host can't change. Say the location is great, isn't that unfair to all of their hosts that are in less ideal places?
Shallow dismissals and insinuations I’m a racist(?) are not compelling arguments I’m afraid.

Also, three paragraphs do not a rant make. Nice try though.
Was very surprised that the US was not on that list and then read:

> The OECD have not included the United States in these reviews, but if added the country would have the highest or second-highest rate
This!

It might be an interesting historical event for people who don’t live in the UK

But some of us have to live with this… a family that have got immensely rich from being head of state, a family that have interfered in laws to their advantage, a family that we have no choice over whether they continue to be the head of state
I love this type of education - do you know where I can find more content like that? I really have trouble finding stuff like this just by Googling; rather, I seem to stumble over it from time to time.
Multi-user Dungeon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
> "Do we really need that packet of pasta or bottle of shampoo at 11 o'clock at night? Can it really not wait until the morning? We managed perfectly well before quick commerce, didn't we?"

This is a terrible attitude. If nobody thought it was nice to be able to get shampoo at 11pm nobody would be ordering it and this wouldn't be a problem. Maybe we "managed" before quick commerce, but that's not an argument against it.

Obviously not everyone wants to live next to a warehouse and that is exactly what 'dark stores' are so I have no issue with France classifying them that way, but quick commerce is progress and there's no point acting like people had it "good enough" before so they shouldn't strive for anything better than what they had. Force the dark stores to adapt to minimize the problems they cause and we can all have the best of both worlds.
The issue here is that videos aren't actually "recommended" in the sense that your considered preferences are reviewed and a genuine recommendation made. Youtube isnt a friend, an academic supervisor, or a doctor. It isnt even aware of your interests, let alone "has them at heart".

Rather, it's a casino. And that's not value-neutral, freedom-neutral. It's pretty antithetical to freedom, as you can see from all the people destroying their lives at the gambling machines.
World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds
Find lobbyists who wrote parts Is this usually noted on the document?