skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me LAMP, other people? maybe other stuff.

Picking a stack is a combination of the tools which will effectively solve whatever issues you have that work for how you develop as well as work with your computing platform(s) of choice.

a) start with whats readily available and what you can understand and learn/build from there.
b) find what widely popular for your market (solutions will vary) and start with that.

A better question is "I am wanting to do [this] (and maybe [that]), what stacks work best for it? and why?"

I do data based web APPS, PHP/MySQL are well suited, they are pretty unrestrictive and very flexible - in that you need to be aware to code for security: watch your inputs and how code can be called and learn some good programming practices to avoid spaghetti code. They also scale pretty easily. They aren't bleeding edge exciting but get the job done quite easily.

Besides just asking find web apps you like and research what they are created with.
Good bye Giroptic
China as a superpower will cease to exist if its economy crashes. Its economy is very dependent on EU and US. So yes, they will have to respect the rules.
Just to add a bit of context and describe a subject where such generator can be useful.

Let's say we are building a turn by turn game in JavaScript or TypeScript (2048 for instance). Each time the player plays a round the IA uses an internal random generator to guess its next move (adding a 2 or 4 in the grid). If we want to add some kind of cancel operation, then replaying the user input might lead to a completely different situation given we use unpure random generator. Using a pure one we just have to ask the generator again for its value.

Such problem can easily be encountered in implementations of 2048 allowing the back operation.
I had the same thought, but then realized the tech could plant images on the computer himself.
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I don't think it's a scam. It's more that any averagely attractively woman gets a huge amount of attention online, so woman are permanently in filter mode.

Women get between ten and a hundred times more messages and contact requests than men do. The only practical way to deal with that is to ignore most of it, and that inevitably leads to false negatives.
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I'm running https://ipdata.co which is an IP Geolocation API.
It's been 5 months so far with 20M API calls served last month.
The project is not yet providing the majority of my income however there's been tremendous and very promising growth!
LTC was just surpassed by BCH in transaction volume. It's creator peaced out two months ago.

Dunno if an unused payment channel means more than stuff like that.
This is a classic example of the cobra effect where Geek Squad employees are incentivized to plant child pornography on customers computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Which is better depends on whether you need short term accuracy or long term. On the long term, grid clock is more accurate. In the short term, crystals are more accurate.
How is it manifestly wrong? From the article:

"The documents also suggest that Geek Squad technicians report only material they happen to find while doing repairs, rather than actively searching for illegal content on customers' devices."

Oftentimes child abuse imagery isn't hidden at all, it's very likely that Geek Squad employees will come across it at some point purely by accident. It's no different from hitting the report button on a website if you see similar imagery.
Bingo.

Digital evidence is really easy to fake, often leaves little if any evidence that it was planted, and the prosecutors don't have much incentive to look for evidence to determine whether the digital evidence was planted or not.

A good analogy is imagine if dry cleaners were paid by the FBI every time they found a dime bag accidentally left in someone's pocket. How many of those dime bags do you think would get planted by the employees to collect their $500 reward?
That's surely valid to some extent but I don't think it goes back far enough. I've seen this trend firmly in place since 9/11 or shortly thereafter and across virtually every segment of society.
The artificial islands are in response to the US holding the first island chain [1]. Without a foothold in the South China Sea, China's military and economic access to the outside world is at the mercy of the US. This is the same reason you see so much Chinese interest in Burma — unbridled Indian Ocean ports [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_island_chain

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_of_Pearls_(Indian_Ocean...
I've seen scripts that can take a keyboard layout from http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/ and turn it into a PCB, how realistic is it to get a working PCB generated by code?
I'm pretty sure I'm shadowbanned by the HN-righteous-bot, but are you sure the FBI pursues with vigor? Have you seen how long it takes them to make a case? Years up to and including never. We have a nation of arbitrary laws, arbitrarily enforced between a spectrum of convenience and political metrics. The FBI is an asset-gathering agency, pursuing small timers is to turn them into assets.
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The previous submission which treated the essay as a blog post seems more in line with the spirit of Show HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461892
How can you say that not knowing yourself has more utility than knowing yourself?
Don’t answer these questions. Each of what you listed is an identity you are trying to stick to yourself like some kind of bumper sticker. You become limited when you identify. This is hard shit. It’s not easy to shed these things when you grow up being bombarded by them your whole life. With companies and groups vying to stick their bumper sticker on you. This goes as far as realizing your body isn’t you either. You borrowed that from the earth.
I haven't had my coffee yet and missed the perverse-incentive / fraud aspect... thanks for pointing that out.

It's definitely a problem. Imagine you hire a plumber to snake your drains and he places a bag of weed behind the pipes, snaps a picture, and reports you to the police for possession. He gets paid for the plumbing job, paid for the reporting of a crime, and keeps his weed.

Much easier with digital imagery. Just create a "new folder" in someone's "My Documents", plant some illicit imagery, and boom-- easy pay-day.
For me, knowing myself well is done by asking questions, and journaling about it.

I built a platform where I ask myself deep questions https://www.deepthoughtapp.com/

For me, it has helped give me a better holistic view of myself. At the moment I have over 35,000+ questions, and almost 2700 topics/keywords.

It is mostly me sharing at the moment, though there are some other users.
Languages rarely get replaced though. We are just adding to the pile.
It's humbling and exciting at the same time. You realize how much there is to know and how little you know. The big realization for me was that you can just decide "this is who I want to be," follow it while ignoring other possibilities, then try something else.

You can opt out of the chaos of possibility and see how far you can go with one path before hopping on another rocket. You can't do all the things, but there is enough time to give full attention to one thing for a while and have time left for quite a few more things. Some people even manage a few things at the same time! I use a software synthesizer made by someone who is somehow a math whiz, programmer, and musician all at once.
In my country that's highly illegal... Be sure to check first.
I guess hesitance is a relative :)

In any case, I hesitate a little, for the above reasons.

Criticizing papers is..erm.. good and proper, I think. Sometimes the criticism will be crap, but a critical instinct isn't a bad thing here. Bias is, c'est la vie.

Critising academics... I feel we're far too comfortable dishing out personal criticism in the internet era. Leave that one there.

Criticising the system... All those "flags" that I raised are actually common and recurring criticisms of the system, within academia. But, they seem to fall short on how meta they go. Publish-or-perish & grant systems, the insider criticism sounds more like "my boss is a moron" talk, cheap shots.

What I'm hoping for is big ideas from academia, I guess. Ideas about how to structure the institutions of academia: publishing, grants, whatever else determines what research gets done, by whom. Something that promotes efficiency.^ Something that promotes completion/conclusion so that we end up with knowledge, not a collection of research findings. Negative results and data pooling. Seperation of data & interpretation. Replication. This is not an excel-vs-R problem. It's an "incentives-within-academia" issue.

^Remember, there're problems that these grant bureaucracies are clumsily trying to solve. This is a market, and a bad market can be a lot worse than a good one.
Anybody dumb enough to go source a bunch of kiddie porn to plant on computers to collect bounties probably doesn't have the smarts to actually pull it off correctly.
Before I started programming in College, I worked as a Geek Squad "Counter Intelligence Agent" and this is something that definitely came up in conversations with veteran employees. State police were contacted and arrests were made.
If people don't know themselves very well, shouldn't we be more skeptical of men/women who claim they are women/men, when there is objective evidence that they are not?

Is there an epistemological discussion about that topic which I don't know about? I've never seen anyone arguing what we should believe.
Recent discussion (different article, same topic):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16533403
They don’t have any responsibility to protect you from law enforcement.
First of all, I should say that I feel like bringing up Rust in this thread is inappropriate, and I’m glad the OP was downvoted.

To comment briefly on the learning curve, the trade off is basically, C++ is easier to get started, but harder on the high end. Rust is a bit harder for C people to get started, but then the high end is much easier. Rust’s curve is flatter, in a sense.

Oh and also: learning one will certainly help you learn the other in many cases. I advocate learning many languages :)

This week I’m visiting a ~700 person company in London that’s moving away from C and towards Rust. They’re not doing a Big Rewrite, obviously, so they still have quite a bit of C too. They chose Rust over C++ though. It always depends!
The parent comment was rhetorical baffelgab. You are unlikely to get a meaningful response.

Your questions have little or nothing to do with the topic at hand, which concerns state laws that restrict state and local law enforcement officials, and private companies, from voluntarily sharing certain information with federal agents, and a law which allows state officials to review and inspect federal detention facilities in California.

What are your views on the topic? Can a state prevent voluntary sharing of information with the federal government?

I know of few people who call for truly open borders where the government has no authority to stop people from entering the country, so I don't understand why you posed your questions.

The one exception I know of is Svalbard. You can move there without a visa, if you can support yourself, live there for 7 years, and then get Norwegian citizenship.
They don’t have a fiduciary responsibility. But even if they did, reporting a crime isn’t a breach of that duty.
Yes, it needs to be perpendicular to the direction of frankfurt for best results

You can find more details in the second page of this datasheet

https://www.gemischtwaren-haendler.de/shopdateien/3942_1.pdf
Yup. D had a shot, but they screwed it up with (effectively) mandatory garbage collection.

Ada also had a shot, I think, but they screwed it up with no C compatibility and expensive SDKs - or something. For some reason, Ada is just not perceived as "cool". It actually seems like a pretty good language!
There's a lot of freedoms being taken when it concerns child porn or terrorism though.
Incidentally, SIMD is just waiting on stabilization now; it’s RFC was accepted and the implementation landed. Soon!
> When Netflix started, people were not used to torrenting (or Napster-ing, or Kazaa-ing, etc) movies

Can you provide a source for this that adjusts for the increase in worldwide internet use as well as bandwidth?

When Netflix started, it was an overnight DVD delivery company, not directly competing with online movie piracy. Pirating movies in 1997 meant making large sacrifices over quality and convenience, not because people "weren't used to it".

By the time Netflix entered the online movie streaming market to compete with piracy, the DMCA had been in effect for years. The world was very used to filesharing before the DMCA went into effect. And Blockbuster was already suffering poorly not just because of Netflix but because of a general shift in how people consume their movies.

> Whereas by the time iTunes Music rolled around, people were already comfortable with having the whole world of music at their fingertips

Through YouTube? Because otherwise I don't know of a truly comprehensive legal streaming service. Unless you're referring to filesharing?

> Perhaps the most interesting part about all this is that there was never (to my knowledge) such a thing as a store where you could rent records, tapes, or CDs -- Blockbuster for music.

Music-ripping tools were ubiquitous at the time (everyone had a CD drive), movie ripping tools were not nearly as popular. It didn't economically make sense.
The way I read that question is that nobody should use any app or cloud service that has personal information for fear that it will go out of business. In this regard, CloudDash is no different than any other service. Of course, you can always print everything out and put it in a drawer as a backup to address that concern.
"They aren’t exactly alienating the non-pedophile public"

We only know about the deep dive CP searches Geek Squad performs for the FBI, that doesn't necessarily exclude other criminal activity they may be looking for or reporting.

Besides, Geek Squad actively browses through photos found on the computer looking for CP. It would be unnerving to many to find out that their personal family photos, or "risque" photos, are all fair game for GS.
Such capabilities obviously exist, but are almost never worth deploying.

Attribution rarely seems to be a significant concern for the people running these ops.
I don't do devOps but if I did...

http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljNabciEGg
>> to fix the education system that has been messed by the previous administration.

To be sure, 'administrations' would be better word, given what the current ruling party did to school text-books, in its earlier regime during 1998-2004. See this snippet from 'Argumentative Indian' by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen:

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=gcGiwyBS3YwC&lpg=PT29&vq...
The worst kind of betrayal is the kind you inflict after your own death.
I'm not as worried about techs planting the images because even among people willing to break the law to make money, this is an area often considered too immoral to touch and the consequences are massive if caught. I'm more worried about people over reporting images and people having lives ruined over the mere allegations and investigations. Photos of your own kids running around a water sprinkler on a hot summer day can be enough for some busy body to call inappropriate. Even fully clothed images fall on the copine (spelling?) scale. Or maybe there is some films of people who specialize in looking young, but who are of age (I remember a court case where a court expert testified than someone was clearly underage, until that person showed up and proved they were of age and were a professional in the industry; imagine what could've happened if she hadn't shown up).
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That is definitely the idea. But, the point here concerns the opportunity for crime-making by the incentivized Best Buy employee. Nothing in that process raises the barrier to that happening.
It was pretty amazing to program in assembly and work with the Antic, etc. chips. I got to compare it to the Apple IIe and the Atari 8-bits were really much better because of the added capability of those custom chips.
Thank you for this! They give a surprising information about companies and their practices. This will definitely help with purchasing ethical and quality clothes.
Yeah, in general I agree here. I wonder if the payout is at the time of the report, or at the time of a conviction or even indictment?

It would be quite easy to plant some pictures but another matter to build a case solely on the existence of them. That chain of custody issue would likely be an argument brought up by the defense. Also, not to mention the act of acquiring the images to plant is probably also a crime. It's a lot of really risky moves and effort for a very small payout (500 dollars? Much easier to steal small valuable parts for that)

So, yeah - paying for tips, I think it's a bad idea, but the abuse likelihood seems pretty small.
Hey HN! Thanks for checking this out! Sorry for the crazy permissions requirements, unfortunately I don't think there's any way around them. I also don't think there's anything I can do to assuage a highly skeptical person that I'm not a bad actor. But the code is here for anyone interested enough to look at it: https://github.com/willcosgrove/retweet-rip

The app also does not save the access tokens it gets back from twitter. They get thrown in a background job to be worked on, and once the job is done the access tokens are forgotten.
These people weren't being paid to find things "by accident" (or at least they weren't when this was first reported a year or two ago). They were being paid to look for what they suspected were crimes. This is more akin to an electrician being called in to rewire the kitchen, seeing a locked basement door, picking the lock, and rifling through the boxes in the basement to find illicit materials.

This was the FBI trying to skirt around the 4th amendment by having someone unrelated to the FBI do the seizure and search bit of investigating, so it could be done without a warrant. The problem is that the FBI both ordered and paid these people to do it, and I personally don't see a difference between that and having an FBI agent take your machine from you and perform the search themselves. There's also the ethical problems for Best Buy, plus the incentive (payment) to create a crime (copy illicit materials or visit sites that would make it look like the person was going to do something illegal) and report it.
Discord has stronger authentication methods than any of the 8 or so financial institutions I have accounts with.

All 8+ do their auth quite differently yet they're all broken and they all fall back on SSN. Why hasn't this industry standardized around one process that is actually effective?

Recently I made an account with Fidelity brokerage. Username maxes at 12 chars or something, password at 20. Not the worst, but then I had to get phone support and to authenticate over the phone you need to enter either your username or SSN on the keypad, and then the password on the keypad. The charspace of both the username and password have thus been reduced to 0-9 and * for all specials.

Another institution is for my employee share purchase plan. The phone support can initiate sells and transfers I'm pretty sure, yet their only auth is for my full name, employee number, and birthday. My employee number is literally printed on my laptop and some other stuff next to my full name, my birthday easily googleable with my name.
This is something that would be beneficial to blast across social media. Best Buy would have to get on top of this if a simple explanation of "why the techs at Best Buy are incentivized to put child porn on your computer and report you" started going viral.
Sure it is time-based? What I've seen is that the meter sits right on the power line, and can measure the energy consumption quite directly. As for peak/off-peak, this is usually signalled by the provider, using AC as a carrier wave, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zellweger_off-peak
Would you believe me if I told you that because of the legal situation (Northern Kosovo does not pay any electricity), there have been tons of crypto mining operations that have sprung up. There are stories of Russians coming all the way to set up warehouses full of mining rigs and generate cryptocurrency using free electricity.

Source: I live here.
It really depends. I can imagine this incentive was started because either employees came across images and didn't think much of it, or dismissed it because they didn't want to deal with the hassle. The article mentions a picture of a naked child; didn't mention any abuse or sexual acts, so it could be the owner's own, I mean just look at how many naked baby pictures are out there. It's a gray area then. With this incentive, it was reported; without it, the employee may have shrugged it off. I think they're incentivising "better be safe than sorry" with some monies.
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Ask HN: What is the most reliable storage media?
I have hundreds GBs of ebooks, pdf, video tutorials, scripts, software installers, OS ISO, photos... I just find it is really difficult for me to figure out an easy and reliable way to backup them.

What do you use to backup data?
Larger stations could take a long time (like a day) to start up, as there are trade-offs between start up time and operating efficiency. During that time, you still have to be able to run all the plant equipment - pumps, fans, coal grinders, conveyors, all the monitoring and control equipment. I expect there will be many stations that don't have anywhere near sufficient diesel generator capacity to allow start up without any supply from the grid.
Ask HN: Example of successful exits for distributed team
One of my peer was arguing that exits (like acquisition mostly) is (almost) not possible for distributed technical team.
Main argument being that the buyer would want to have the technical team at one place..
Do you have any counter arguments or examples of such acquisition?
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I usually recommend Effective C++ as the C++ book that everybody should read second. I'm still not sure what the best book to read first is, though...
Yes, the core problem is the law. But until the law is fixed, I'll take issue with something that extends the application of the law.

And I think it does get to the essence of it, because of just how we quantify something as illegal. The laws are very poorly written, where the worse images possible are treated just as no more illegal than images that are on the borderline of legal (not to mention that the border itself is very fluid, especially when considering artistic images that would be illegal if they weren't artistic but which is left up to a random jury to make a judgment call on).
Best way to learn anything new, is just pick a pet project you've been thinking about, and implement it in that language/database/system/whatever. That's how I've always done it over the years. You end up constantly building upon the last projects knowledge.
Handling OOM in C
Like I said, they have solid financials. The loans they sell are at much higher rates.
Wow, how did this fall into oblivion?
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I pretty sure you can skip arbitration when a company kills people.
You could use D in -betterC mode. It allows compiling code that doesn't rely on runtime (has some limitations though, most notably lack of garbage collector, forcing you to use manual allocation).