skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say they're not the same as far as the world is concerned, because the legislative branch is not responsible for diplomacy, and they're also mainly 'downstream' from the agencies actually producing the information.

…I was writing a rather long comment that tried to defend the Post story as, in retrospect, probably true, in light of the current report and other more recent showing a pattern. (In particular, the current report actually shows a VNC connection to some kind of generator system, though presumably not Burlington Electric's.) However, the Post's own followup report [1] suggested that (contrary to the company's original statement) the government had not found any indicators on the Burlington Electric laptop that were uniquely linked to Grizzly Steppe:

U.S. officials are continuing to investigate the laptop. In the
course of their investigation, though, they have found on the device
a package of software tools commonly used by online criminals to
deliver malware. The package, known as Neutrino, does not appear
to be connected with Grizzly Steppe, which U.S. officials have
identified as the Russian hacking operation. The FBI, which declined
to comment, is continuing to investigate how the malware got onto
the laptop.

Initially, company officials publicly said they had detected code
that had been linked by the Department of Homeland Security to
Grizzly Steppe.

I still don't think this does much of anything to invalidate the current story. It seems like that was mainly a mistake on the company's part, as they incorrectly treated indicators that were non-uniquely linked to a hacking campaign as evidence it was targeted by that campaign. They then reported this to various authorities, and the information apparently found its way via the state police to one of the state's US senators - probably without the details being vetted by anyone with relevant experience. But both the the US-CERT report and the Symantec report provide evidence of an ongoing, targeted campaign against energy facilities (which, for that matter, was active at the time of the Post report). And one would expect that both reports originate from people that do basically know what they're talking about.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russi...
This should be more than possible with Pythons type annotations, when done right. I.e 'iterable[str]' can accept a generator, list, tuple, any class with the right __iter__ and of course a string itself.
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If the goal was to imply to the audience listening that the mayor likes to pass people's issues onto the state instead of addressing them, then that goal was accomplished successfully. Not bringing it up would have simply resulted in the mayor passing the buck without the audience being aware of that context.

Calling a politician on a radio call in show is typically very unlikely to result in any actual action, on any issue, regardless of tact taken. Making the audience aware of the problem, and your distaste for the mayor's proposed solutions ,may be more useful to one's goals.

I also don't think pimping your product on a radio call in show is very tactful either.
Maybe happens to a small degree in San Franscisco proper, but in all my visits to the city I’ve never seen anyone parked in the bus lanes on Market for example.

As for the rest of the Bay Area, I skinny you’d find anything close to a tithe of NYCs illegally parked and stopped vehicles. In my town you’d find as close to zero as makes no difference, as would be the case in most others I spend time in.
Can't recommend "The end of alchemy" by Mervyn King former CEO of Bank of England enough.
Do you have online resources to recommend for a beginner looking to learn more about these topics, in order to make educated choices on future house projects?
HN comments are free but the platform is owned by YC and YC enforces certain rules as they see fit. In Ethereum there is no owner, but looks like you have to pay for that
The two largest impact craters we know of are on the Moon and Mars, and those happened about four billion years ago. Of course we'll never know for the gas giants. Not doing the math, but this makes the odds seem pretty low after the initial "flurry" of our solar system's birth, barring Jupiter perturbing an existing asteroid into a collision into earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_craters_in_the...
My buddy had to shoot their translator. Funny how you don’t see things like that on the news.
It's the streamer who's trust you need. Whether they have their patron's trust is a separate issue.
The people downvoting might want to look into incidents such as Gamergate to see what I mean
Thank you for asking.

I define an infinite number of new sequences twice over in the example above. Between "---universe begin---" and "---universe end---" is listed the state of the universe. After inspecting the current state of the universe one can add new sequences with numeric codes as I have attempted to describe. The example above shows two iterations of this process. In each case an infinite number of sequences is added. So really your program will describe an infinite sequence of infinite sequences. And, if you never stop programming, then you are actively directing an infinite sequence of infinite sequences of infinite sequences!

The purpose of the language is to be "general purpose". Any programming problem can be modeled with this language. Because a number represents anything at all, I would not hesitate to use the language anywhere I have need for an algorithm. Input transformed to number is manipulated by algorithm then presented to the user as output. A gui is typically used to control this process.

Impressively, it is possible to write relations with very little knowledge of specific algorithms. For instance, you may know how to square a number but be totally ignorant of methods to find the inverse function (the square root). Not a problem - you already know enough to direct the computer to take square roots. This might seem magical. It certainly is magnificent, but there is no magic involved. It all has to do with the design of the language.
Gold?

Computational work is not Gold.

Database tokens acquired though a software game of number guessing (Satoshi's PoW algorithm), rewarding less and less as the number grows larger would be more akin to fools gold.
Can I ask, as somebody that hasn't dived into Compiler's yet; not out of not wanting to, but more a 'so much to learn' scenario

How does it make a developer better? I see this repeated often, but I don't really see how.
>"Surely low turn over will result in more relationship formation"

This might be true, but it also isn't necessarily a good thing. What kind of relationships? And with whom?

The kinds of people who will accept below-market compensation in return for "security" are likely to be relatively risk-averse, passive, disinterested and uncommitted. Which in turn would create what would be, for many people, a stale, depressing and moribund environment. Some
amount of turnover is healthy. Fresh personalities, energy, ideas and perspectives spark conversation, connection and change. And the impermanence of workplace relationships is part of what makes them meaningful and worthwhile. Kind of like what mortality does for human relations on a slightly longer scale.
> https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ixs8sfqT3Wp...

You know the article has a clear agenda when they use fancy graphcs showing the increase of 60 years old crime without showing in comparison the increase of 60 years old in general population in the same time frame. Which would make sense, you know, because we are all aware Japan is aging fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan#/media/File:Jap...

Actually hardly any difference in ratio.
This probably doesn't qualify as a modern version, but I occasionally play Civ2 (the original Win32s version, in a 32-bit Windows 7 VM) and the empire splitting happens there as well.
To be fair it's not the same thing at all - because the whole point of the article is that by all accounts we shouldn't fit into the hole we're in, we should have been wiped out of our hole long we even had a chance to evolve by comets, asteroids, ice ages, volcanic events or a multitude of other phenomena poised to end life as we know it. That's really what the article is about; sort of a 'humanity, it's improbable that you managed to evolve at all'
This so much. Worst company I've ever had the misfortune to interact with, integrating with them is a disaster, don't waste your time. As a developer or CTO somehow they seem to get the ear of someone in business management or finance or accounting who believe their reporting lies, and they may attempt to cause this company to be forced upon you. Do not acquiesce, they are terrible, just so terrible. And if you let them in you're stuck with them and their professional services etc. We ended up just hiring one of their now former employees full time just to make sense of it. Bottom line if you're a big enough company for Zuora, you're big enough to negotiate a deal with stripe for reasonable pricing.

Heed this warning!
Yeah, this shouldn't be flagged IMO. I don't see how it breaks HN guidelines - it simply finds evidence (albeit far from conclusive) for something many HN readers may wish weren't true.
Zuora IPO: S-1 filings to go public
Unplugging from the Internet Nearly Destroyed Me
Code doesn’t necessarily have to be confidential. “Secret recipe” algorithms, maybe.

It’s about trade-offs. If you must have “trade secrets” amongst your code, perhaps you can keep that code available only to whom you trust will follow your wishes with it, and have separate repos to share wherein you do not care as much about collaborators “stealing” the code.

As soon as you let someone into your codebase, almost anything can happen, right?

There are cases where it would make sense to sacrifice risks related to code-copying in order to have faster/better development.

Also, what’s stopping anyone working at ANY company from taking the company code and doing whatever they want?

Code is seldom everything.
sshfs is slow on macosx. Also, you have to remember to have a separate terminal opened on the remote machine if you want to do any git stuff. Using your local terminal and just cding into the mount point should work, but in practice it doesn't. The commands are just super laggy.

Also, you have to remember to mount and unmount the drive outside of the editor, (especially if you close your laptop for a while), whereas if the editor manages the connection, then it's transparent to your normal workflow.
If I remember correctly, Google has done this with the `.dev` TLD they own, so we're already seeing some of it.
Multiple dispatch is overriding virtual member functions on argument types, not just receiver type.

Overloading and overriding are duals; the former is statically determined, the latter dynamically determined. Just like you can overload on the full argument list, multiple dispatch lets you override on the full argument list. This lets you do things like implement the visitor pattern without double dispatch. And C++ doesn't support it without libraries.
My point was, make the river a private resource worth money to some organization or someone, and they will fight that corporation where it matters. Counter-balancing incentives work best, and we have already seen this kind of system work better than regulations.
Yes, they are. The reason "the people who would do this don't yet have 100% coverage over society" is precisely because, at least for now, principles in the West find this sort of authoritarianism repugnant.

I'd agree that there are a lot of people who find that kind of authoritarianism repugnant. Then, you have lots of people who work at various tech companies who basically engage in censorship. There are also a lot of people who will wield institutional power to engage in censorship. There are entire academic fields where professors and researchers are fearful of discussing their findings in the mainstream, because they can be castigated for doing so. There are large numbers of people who will use physical violence as a means of political coercion, and there are many, many people who will give their tacit approval of this.

A lot of people in the West find that kind of authoritarianism repugnant. A lot of people in the West find satisfaction in exercising repugnant authoritarianism.
If we fast forward, I do think we’ll see at least a marginal improvement in safety. The cameras would never go away though, and the laws would have to be rewritten in a way to maintain revenue through minor infractions. That cost would land hardest on the poor and working class.

I’m a careful driver, wealthy enough to pay the fines without a care, so it wouldn’t really affect me. Neither would congestion tolls, or the numerous other solutions involving regressive taxes or fines. Less traffic would be worth the cost...I find myself often wishing they’d just triple tolls and gas taxes so my commute would be shorter. Not proud of those thoughts.

TBH, I would have agreed with you a few years ago, but lately my perspective has shifted. I don’t wish to muddle the safety argument with inequality, but it is part of my aversion.
Yes, this will help. But how many people will do it since many people listen to books so they can multitask?
Finally an original source. I was wondering what the original text of "once untrustworthy, always restricted" would be. I think a more accurate translation should be "untrustworthy here, restricted everywhere".
> Even today using PGP Email is not something I would trust the average computer user to pull off and pull it off safely

I'd argue it is not that complicated once you take the time to explain how it works.
> Have your extensive comments about the CCP on HN caused you any hassles?

CCP currently cannot monitoring all foreign websites, so (currently) I don't think people will be hassled because of few archived comments on HM. But who knows, that may change in the future, and somebody may report you just like what people did during Cultural Revolution[0]. So, keep yourself anonymous under another name is always important.

In China, domestic websites are required by law to verify you and record your true personal identity (Phone number for example) when you trying to post anything on it, so you can't be anonymous. When I using that kind of website, I never do anything sensitive (Or even post anything useful).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
i admit to knowing very little about blockchains and some about distributed databases.

from previous readings each verified statement needs to be folded into > 50% of the entire population so that there effectively a global quorum. so..that makes it somewhat paxos-like, except with a strong desire not to partition quorums for scalability (as suggested in one of the later sections). which would make performance/node point entirely in the wrong direction.

the article acknowledges this problem, but really doesn't address technical solutions except to link to two company's main pages.

can anyone shed more light?
physics PhD, then wall street HFT.
That's an interesting idea! But I'm not sure such a system is feasible.

Judging by historical bike registration programs, the realistic implementation of such a system would be expensive, underachieving, and offer noteworthy levels of customer disservice. No one would accept the idea of a bike registration fee over ~$5, meaning the system would not be self-funded. Identification would probably be easily counterfeited. Bikes lacking identification would be ignored.

Technically speaking, what ID would be visible to traffic cameras? A giant QR code fairing over the front wheel? Bikes come in many shapes and sizes so it's not as simple as a license plate. About the only guarantee you have is that it has at least one wheel that is at least 10" in diameter. You could maybe go with a radio beacon or something invisible but enforcement of requiring ID becomes very difficult.
Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook
For those here that love Civilization as I do, I recommend checking out Stellaris from Paradox (who make some.other popular strategy games).

Imagine Civilization, but in space, and maybe crossed with the Foundation series by Asimov. It's really really good, and the new patch (2.0) makes it much more enjoyable (in true Civil fashion, where you wait for the mature DLC or big balancing summer patch to really bring the game into its stride).
10x Performance Increases: Optimizing a Static Site
But in most people's workflows there is something special about the central server: it is the source of truth about the state of public branches. That is why losing the central server is so disruptive. It means you have to re-establish the source of truth somewhere else and get everyone to transition over to that new source.

With a truly decentralized system the source of truth would be content addressable. For example, it could be obtained via a public key rather than a server's domain name.
Let's share and learn from failures on the app SoBummer
In Oregon, moving into the bike lane to make a turn will get you a ticket. I see people do it pretty often however, and I have only ever known one person who got caught.
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I basically start anywhere and study the call graph, taking notes as I go.
I work in the CDN industry and am also heavily involved in the FreeBSD community. I find Varnish to be kind of a tragic curiosity in that is has nice fit and finish but is pretty unsuitable for high scale workloads due to the influence of its creator phk@. Ironically on the OS he should know like the back of his hand, sched_ule(4) has fairly expensive depth searches to ensure process fairness. Doing a thread per connection is about the worst conceivable design for web acceleration. It is probably ok for low connection count high bandwidth (like chunked video streaming), but you're still going to be dropping performance on the floor vs other I/O models as you get into the 1000s of connections, and as Netflix has publicly shown that is modern reality on FreeBSD with 100gbit networking.

My understanding is that fastly has rewritten the I/O model upon more industry standard event polling worker threads. They also reworked a lot of the memory model using https://github.com/fastly/uslab. None of that I/O work is upstream and it's unlikely it ever will be because of the phk@ influence and perhaps fastly sees it as IP. So be prepared to do some deep systems work if you need high scalability out of Varnish.

Apache Traffic Server is the most ready "out of the box" caching software for rolling a CDN that I've seen. If you're going to do custom development, nginx is a good I/O and HTTP model but be prepared to roll a complete cache storage model from scratch.
> The cheaper model isn’t much of a danger if stolen—unless it’s stolen prior to setup—but at 4″x 4″x 2″, the unlimited model could be pocketed fairly easily, along with its token, if stored nearby. Once off-site, it would continue to work.

Presumably even the cheaper model could be reverse engineered to reveal the exploit used. But once it becomes known, it would be patched.
"Avoid instant messaging at all costs" is definitely good advice. I usually forget to take three breaths before answering there, but I usually remember before I answer an email. Plus, I have GMail's "undo send" feature enabled so I have a few more secrets to repent before my message cannot be untyped.
In a world with affordable and effective birth control having children is a choice so it's really a question of why young people are choosing not to have children. Why do you think that is?

Birth rates in the US are plummeting. They peaked in 2008 at 2.1/woman(the replacement rate) and are now down to 1.7.

I can only offer anecdotes but I know several people of prime child rearing age who don't have families. From my discussions with them, they don't feel secure financially. Maybe people raised in a middle class environment aren't willing to risk poverty to have kids?

Or maybe it's the endless distraction we have available to us. Or maybe it's the increasing isolation of modern life. If you weren't raised in a coherent household maybe you feel less of a need to create one yourself.
Shooter and Farmer.

http://peterbutler.me/the-shooter-and-the-farmer/

When the members of the Frontiers of Science discussed physics, they often used the abbreviation “SF.” They didn’t mean “science fiction,” but the two words “shooter” and “farmer.” This was a reference to two hypotheses, both involving the fundamental nature of the laws of the universe.

In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: “There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.” They have mistaken the result of the marksman’s momentary whim for an unalterable law of the universe.

The farmer hypothesis, on the other hand, has the flavor of a horror story: Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: “Every morning at eleven, food arrives.” On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn’t arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flock.
If you read what I wrote I said "stop at red lights." Do cars "usually" blow through red lights?

Also why does bad behavior by car drivers makes bad behavior by bicyclists acceptable?
Am I the only obsessive-compulsive weirdo who would do stuff like this? https://imgur.com/a/ZDzzi
their bankruptcy is 100% due to their leveraged buyout
Any tech site that provide private user data via an API needs to make sure that data is guarded like it was their own site, as if their own employees were accessing the data.

Maybe what's needed is a PCI-compliance standard or a HIPPA-act for general user data?
Thanks yeah I should add a where are you text box and a map
It is very interesting to me that going to prison is a better face-saving technique than accepting help.
I remember spending many hours playing Civilization. I wish someone like GOG would pick it up and package it for modern systems.
Yup. Literally the worst. I've implemented 4 different payment providers and they're in last place, far behind any of the others.
This is a subfield called anomaly detection.
Repetition is the secret to audio or visual learning, at least for me.

If I like an audiobook/podcast/documentary/movie, I'll listen/watch it multiple times. I've listened to my very favorite stuff dozens and even hundreds of times, so I know the content extremely well.
Hopefully you continue to follow his example.