jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
the US and Britian have turned a blind eye to the opium trade and the associated corruption in Afghanistan in order to appease the local anti-Taliban population.

I watched footage last week of British soldiers fighting to free large opium fields from Taliban control so that the real owners can get back to farming. All par for the course.

The war on drugs takes a back seat to the war on terrorism
What is actually state-of-the-art in parsing?

When I, as an Amateur, last looked into it, PEG[1] and extensions like OMeta[2] seemed to be the best options. I've heard good things about Parsec[3], too.

[1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar)
[2](http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/)
[3](http://legacy.cs.uu.nl/daan/parsec.html)
"leak" is a pretty popular suffix for these kinds of things.
Should really read the Guardian instead: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/12/david-cameron...
these should be everywhere
Ah, I don't want to make a fuss about it (my comment was tongue-in-cheek), it's really not a big deal, but it is annoying to spend 2-3 seconds trying to figure out if you're having a stroke, and then some more trying to suss out what the sentence is actually trying to say.

If you want to honor Greece, use the letters as they're meant to be used! "Acτuaλλy πoρτabλe εxecuταbλe" would be much better (though I've intentionally tried to give English readers a stroke with this one :)!
Europe is much more "dense" and many obstacles therefore requiring more towers to cover the same surface area.
> People should start making more onion services.

A practical DNS replacement would be nice. Something not amenable to governmental or legal attacks, or straight-up corruption like this.
well that sounds like safer and more lucrative opportunity than poaching ;)

p.s. thanks for doing something about it
"I am pretty sure there is a vim-base orgmode as well. I assume it can do most the same things."

vim has some org-inspred plugins, but last I looked they were very limited in functionality compared to org-mode.
Just in case: I've started publishing Sciter.Lite that is HTML/CSS/script UI engine for devices:
https://terrainformatica.com/2019/11/20/sciter-and-sciter-li...

One of use case is precisely a WebOS alike UI shell for devices.

I am building it for ARM based devices too: Android, Raspberry and others.
The information was still available. You might have had to send the FCC a letter though.
Around the last recession, I had this distinct feeling: that this exuberance is a little too irrational. The press was constantly talking about how great the economy was, and people I knew around me were splurging on things they could in no way afford.

I used to trade domain names at that time, mostly to fund my college. Everyone in my industry was talking about how the value of certain domains will 10x in the next 5 years and other irrational projections.

Maybe its that experience, but I've since maintained a personal theory that a serious recession hits when people least expect it. When there is too much easy credit in the system and business optimism isn't grounded in any fundamentals, that's when you should fear a recession.

Not when everyone is telling you that a recession is just around the corner. Because then you're already more careful in your decision making

Not sure how much of this is founded on economics of course
No, silly, it's only in months with an ɹ.
Absolutely right, I updated the post.
But this kind of artifact must have been expensive to produce, requiring time and skill of one or more masons. I can't find the weight mentioned, but given the dimensions and the density of schist, it should be around 3000 pounds.
But he did construct the proof! (So, the argument can only be about what axioms the proof is based on.)
It's more nuanced than article or commenters on HN want it to be. If there's a constant communication channel between companies and there's a reason to believe that patch can't be created in 90 days, sticking to deadlines seems to prioritize the wrong things.

On the other hand if MS wasn't responsive enough and upfront about the time it'd take to patch and reasons for that, then sure, 90 days seems more than needed leeway for Microsoft. But I don't know how things worked and I've seen enough to assume that both scenarios are possible.
Probably pretty much the same as China or Indonesia or wherever it's being made at the lowest cost right now?
The model is a fairly quick development cycle, fast early adopter sales, quick conversion to cash flow positive. Well, that's a lot of things that have to go right all in a row with only $100k to start.... It may be enough to start some kinds of businesses, but many will require significantly more in startu pcapital to brave even an accelerated road to break-even.

As to the model, the question is does it fully factor in the risk level? The idea is lower the goalpost and manage the cash burn more carefully, to ultimately obtain a faster break-even and then ride growth through reinvesting profits, to some point in the future when you can actually start making distributions. The premise, possibly flawed, is that by not shooting for the stars you should be less likely the fail. They don't need to win as big each time, because they will win more often?

Businesses need capital to grow. It's that simple. $100k is a bare minimum startup fund for a sole founder for less than 6 months. It's not a serious amount of money. You can't expect that $100k to buy enough revenue to sustain full-time employees and also be paying out a meaningful dividend.

If the idea is to really, truly, avoid VCs and institutional investors.... I think you need to be able to seed about $2m. For example, structured as a Line of Credit, drawn over 48 months, but with warrants to convert into common stock at some ratio. The conversion ratio in the warrants adjusts to provide anti-dilution as needed.

That would provide a real amount of money for a 2-3 person team to potentially solve a real problem. And that would give the investors a meaningful percentage of the company and choice between a cash payoff or taking shares. That would be a really appealing alternative to VC funding which some strong founding teams might take notice.
Makes sense for a startup, but if you are part of an existing large company, I don't see why rights holders wouldn't jump ahead to taking action even in stage 1 and 2.
Yes, that is exactly what I am asking. I want ready-to-use exploit for vulnerabilities in major Android versions after 90 days from disclosure to Google from Project Zero.
That's incredible. I wonder if you could say she's technically still alive, then, if cells with her DNA are still living?
> If Amazon won't let me, maybe it's time I reconsider where I buy my books from.

I want to encourage this on general principles. Many deserving book outlets are suffering because of Amazon, and Amazon deserves to feel some competition -- that can only improve their business and the marketplace in general.

So, as the Australians say, "Good on you, mate."
One Apple blogger accusing another Apple blogger of being a fanboi? Does this really need to be top of HN?

Edit: Can you at least reply when you down vote? I know this was voted to the top of HN so it deserves to be there.
Bloviating waste of time.
Perl script.

That should help you find someone to fix it, should your sysad disappear.
>Is this correct?

No, it's not. A C&D letter is a legal threat or warning. I could send you a C&D for sneezing too close to me.

Having received a C&D letter myself from CL, I can assure you there are multiple issues they claim. You can find this C&D letter at DocStock. CFAA violations are one claim, copyright violations are another.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/76524735/Craigslist-Cease-and-De...
Portuguese: "Há muitas coisas", "Temos uma vez"
Yeah. Red/white looks like the pool of possible patterns might be relatively small, and you can carry 50+ rolls of retro reflective tape in a backpack. If you knew every variation it would be easy to carry them to an event, and then apply the correct one there.
Wow, I didn’t know there was so much backstory to this one. Thanks!
> If anything communism gave you more social outlet and company then capitalism.

Communism gave you lots of (forced) company, but it also banned the previously existing communities.

For example, the Scout movement was banned, and the communist version - the Pioneer movement - was made mandatory for kids instead. Seems like "okay, if it's pretty much the same thing, only more kids are involved, that's great", except it wasn't the same thing.

First, because mandatory fun is not fun anymore. Instead of kids who enjoy some activities, and adults who want to try some fun activities with kids, now you had a classroom full of bored kids, with some bored university student who was assigned to the task, doing the most boring version of "fun" (such as playing the same simple game at every meeting) in order to avoid punishment.

In theory, it didn't have to be like this -- there was a lot of thought put into it; the communists have printed literature for the Pioneer leaders, like encyclopedias of games (I know because I have found a few such books in a library) -- but in practice, no one cared. The leaders didn't care, because they didn't volunteer for this, many of them probably didn't even like kids, and they knew the kids don't have an option to leave anyway, so why bother, spend one year doing the "Party task" and hopefully never again.

Second, because if something is mandatory and universal, then instead of an escape from reality is become just another part of the reality you want to escape from. In the Scout movement, you go somewhere else and meet with kids from other schools. In the Pioneer movement, you have the mandatory "fun" with your classmates, probably in your classroom, so it feels like yet another school lesson.

And for the adults, you have the "workers' collective" at your job, and it often expands into your free time. But if you instead try to regularly meet with adults who have similar interests but are not your colleagues... it will probably be investigated as a suspicious activity. (And then you had family, which was the only collective outside your work that wasn't treated as suspicious.)
Its pretty much the cutting edge of engineering I'm told.
TSMC is planning to invest like 20 billion this year alone to stay ahead of their mainland, south Korean and potential US rivals.

Still I wouldn't be surprised that TSMC will be gutted by the US and get their tech stolen just to prop up failing Intel. That pretty much what super powers do, US has planned this really well making sure key component are all made in the US. Like the needed materials and the light source ASML uses for their EUV device.
Atleast JIRA isn't confusing. Finding or adding a task in azure devops takes forever because of its cryptic UI.
How did he deal with going to the bathroom in the crate? A topic the article does not touch upon.
Indeed, when I was a kid around 1960, it was perfectly normal to see someone off on a flight by getting on the plane with them and looking around, then going to the cockpit to sit in the pilot's seat and "fly" the airplane for a minute before climbing back down the stairs to watch it take off.
Now that you mention it I am pretty sure v3 is not entirely backward compatible with v2. Which could explain some oddities on older e-readers or out-of-date software.
He would no doubt comment on the absurdity of companies like Google, the unprecedented level of human talent and inventiveness dedicated to tasks such as allowing us to view pictures of cats, or get into petty squabbles with strangers.

There's also the matter of Google users who inexplicably lose access to their account, and the response is so utterly obtuse it would cause a Vogon to blush.

I would never wish for any Google or Facebook employee to be "First against the wall" but I do admire Adams' unerring prescience in this matter.
You pay the whole premium more like. The plans in the state exchanges are pretty decent at least in WA. Gold level plans are about equal to a decent average company plan (not like a Google level one)
Exactly the same thing played out for Oculus, so it we can't say that it's surprising. It is sad nonetheless
No, the GOP will continue to push the myth that the democrats didn't win. The democrats will rightfully claim that they won. Despite all talking it is just that easy.
If you ignore the dead and dying, yes, everything is just fine.
> So, er, what if the growth trends are suppressed by the tighter lockdown, as seems likely? Will things then be better than the "best" case scenario?

There's two lag factors to consider. The first is the lag between restrictions and cases dropping, this takes a couple of weeks and cases and the growth isn't likely to even slow for 1 week. The second is the lag between infections and people getting seriously sick and needing hospitalization, that takes 3-4 weeks. There's also the serious possibility that the restrictions arn't strict enough to make a big difference.

This scenario is basically baked in, avoiding it required action weeks earlier.
I agree that this would be effective against most people.

But when this happened in Italy, a large number of the conspiracy crowd just said the photos were faked.
How do we know that lethality ("a") has increased? My understanding is that there is an evolutionary pressure to become less lethal.
What evidence do they have, or is it process of elimination, like source code built normal binaries locally, but malicious binaries when built in CI? Hope they have some VM images of the CI boxes for forensic analysis.

Really hoping I don't have to go back to Eclipse.
interesting, thank you for the pointer!
Getting a bit precious about typing is IMHO a weakness of the Haskell community/mindset.

It’s not my favorite language, I’m a Lisp guy, but I stand by my assertion that a random sample from the Haskell population is a better bet on a hard problem than a random sample from the GraphQL population.
In that case, it sounds like you wouldn't mind if a car was able to play audio recordings of engine noises that you could not distinguish from noises coming from the engine.
> A good neutrality implementation won't outlaw prioritization

I think to have true net neutrality, the provider needs to make no distinction about the traffic that's going through it. People pay for access to 1s and 0s at a certain bandwidth and that is provided without prioritizing one type of traffic over another (save for upload/download speeds). At least, this is how I hope it works. If you want QoS, you'd do so on your own network with your own router.

> Anti-competetive capitalism certainly also is.

Free market and democracy are two separate issues, although it would be my argument that they are in constant disagreement with each other...at least in the case of American Capitalism. In the US, you have large corporations lobbying for less and less regulation generally at the expense of the citizens (and thus the republic).

When something becomes so pervasive that society as it exists cannot live without it (like the internet), it's my belief that it's in the hands of government to regulate it ferociously so that it's not at the whim of a company which doesn't have your best interests in mind. This is especially true, in the case of internet, in places where only one ISP exists and the usual ridiculous argument of "Just switch providers!" doesn't work. Even if there are two providers, they are generally both terrible anyway.

There comes a point where people in the US need to realize that yes, free market is great, but it doesn't mean that the citizen's best interests (or customer's interests, even) are represented by <insert corporation here> and this is where regulation comes in.

There's a balance. Anti-competitive capitalism can, in moderation, be absolutely great for democracy. The free market is not the ultimate oracle of truth, it is yet another weight on the scale of a free, open, and intelligent society where common good is the ultimate goal.
I think it's probably a good thing for now. People are still trying to figure out how to do frontend programming well. Eventually one/a few good models will come out of the chaos, and some frameworks implementing them will start to stabilize. Of course, I have no idea how long that will take.
It gets really interesting when you don't allow apps to see your contacts. Take Clubhouse for example, I never allowed it to see my contacts but it does show me all the people who have leaked my personal info to the app because it's made them auto follow me.

So yeah cool I can see that my boss, 4 ex-coworkers, my ex-bosses ex-wife, and I think a recruiter have all leaked my personal info to Clubhouse.
This seems exactly backwards. The EU's involvement in vaccine and PPE procurement was at least partially a propaganda exercise to try and undo the damage done when member states with more manufacturing capacity cut off the supply to other states with a more desperate immediate need like Italy and the EU was impotent to stop it. Which was a potential existential threat - the whole purpose of the EU was to encourage trade and interdependence between European states and ban them from using protectionism to ensure the existence of local manufacturers, and now, when a crisis had hit, this was literally killing people

Changing the vaccination schedule in the UK, on the other hand, was an informed gamble that - based on what was known about the vaccine at the time - would likely result in much fewer people dying and being hospitalized than sticking to the original, basically arbitrary, vaccination schedule.

Also, blaming AstraZeneca for the EU falling behind the UK in vaccination is 100% pure propaganda. As far as I can tell, at this point their vaccine deliveries to the UK are about as far behind schedule as the ones to the EU, and the UK is a lot more reliant on AZ vaccinations than the EU. The EU just didn't order enough - their initial AZ order was about the same size as the UK one, for a much larger population, meaning they ended up with less production capacity relative to their population than the UK. The reason it seems like the UK vaccination scheme is going to plan is because the UK contract had contractual clauses with teeth requiring AZ to promptly notify them of how much they were actually going to deliver once they had their plants up and running, and the UK's plan was based on the actual delivery schedule. The EU... didn't. At all. I don't think they understand this even now, judging from all the conspiracy theories about how the yield problems are an excuse and AZ are really just sneaking off doses to the UK.
>Are there any other good references that give a good underlying understanding of HTML/CSS without just giving examples of the various elements?

Yeah. The W3C spec.

A few years ago (before css flexbox and grid were really a thing), I was in your shoes. Anytime I needed to do something non trivial, I'd have to find some snippet from some tutorial site that would kind of fit with what I was looking for. At some point I got tired of that and just read the W3C specification. That's when I finally got the CSS layout manager. The specification was very accessible and explained exactly the layout rules. For example, here's the spec on the CSS box model: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-box-3/

Now that flexbox and grid are universally supported in modern browsers, css is actually quite easy.
The work toilet paper is more likely to be 1-ply recycled toilet paper in large rolls than what people would buy for a home. The factories that produce commercial TP may not be able to convert to the preferred residential products quickly.
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I have the same situation, and I mostly work at night, and put around 4 hours (but I am more productive with it than with 8 hours in the office -- zero distraction helps). Meetings are a problem, though.
I like facts. Article says only French study exists but at least a couple of other studies exist from China. I wish when someone makes a very important argument to check all internet sources.
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The drug is used for ages in Africa without severe side effect and people are dying.
Payments and mobile service are some of the more weird things about the US given how easily startups or new tech is developed there. There last time I was in the US was years ago. I still had to swipe my card in a few places and getting a new SIM involved me having to talk to someone. By this time in Australia contactless payments were almost everywhere and you just needed to go to a convenience store to get a SIM and activate online.

It looks like they are going through similar weird things with instant bank transfers. In Australia all the major banks just have instant transfers built in. I use the bank app to transfer to friends and they get notified. In the US you Venmo or PayPal or whatever.
Get grades good enough to keep you in college. Then eliminate all nonsense: partying, extra-curricular activities, recreational sports, etc. and go all-out on your startup, as if you were studying part-time and running a startup full-time.I'm also a junior running a start-up, and I make it a point to dedicate 32-40 hours a week regardless of exams, vacations, etc.
I am in the same situation.

I'm a Junior majoring in Computer Science and I have several side projects that I have been trying to finish up. However, school work takes up a majority of my time so I rely mostly on my winter/summer break to get the bulk of my personal projects completed.

You might suggest I code on the weekends but that is not a possibility as a majority of the time I have so much homework that I need to dedicate weekends to completing the assignments.