skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Devil's advocate here:

They believe the Palistinians are mistreated by Isreal. The USA has a (selective) history of not supporting oppressive regimes and there seems to be some hypocrisy here.

That said, no one in that conflict is on the side of the angels. The Palestinians bomb a pizzaria, so the Israeli army cracks down with mass arrests and shootings at the border. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I remember watching the anime "naruto" and seeing bandai as one of the companies involved in it .
> I keep hearing this argument about the Blue Line from people who really don't sound like they've tried it.

Yep. I traveled from the Loop to O'Hare on the Blue Line with luggage. Once. Never again.

The L just isn't designed for people to be carrying anything larger than maybe a small bag of groceries.
> the dev who deleted his signing keys will probably just foke a new code base with a new name

"I can't continue CopperheadOS without Copperhead. I need to think about what my options are in terms of finding a new job. [...] I'm not starting many things over again from scratch and I'm not founding a new company." - strcat

I offered to help him try and find funding to work on it without copperhead, but that's what he said.
Yea this is key. It's possible to have Signal on your device but not implement any device locking passcode or passcode for unlocking Signal... That would make it trivial to recover data if you have the device.
As I understood the last set of tariffs the EU enacted specifically targeted industries operating within the districts of Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and Nancy Pelosi. I’d be interested in figuring out which politicians Xi is targeting with his tariffs.
Elixir is suited for reliable and fast servers, not computing workloads... It could control other processes but it could hardly compete with native ML libraries. Also calling foreign code from Elixir messes with the beam scheduled if it takes more than a couple millis
> The letter to Judge Kimba Wood stated that "the Government was advised that the FBI’s original electronic extraction of data from telephones did not capture content related to encrypted messaging applications, such as WhatsApp and Signal... The FBI has now obtained this material."

I don't get this. How could you possibly decrypt encrypted messages without WhatsApp or Signal's assistance?

Isn't the whole point of encryption that no-one can decrypt it unless they have the necessary keys?
You might be able to "fake it til you make it" with some kinds of products, or business plans, or interactions with customers and partners.

You can't really fake science.

This may have been faking too hard in a place where experimentation, or R&D, yielded nothing usable.
What are they now if not a "real software company"?
Ask HN: What’s driving Dropbox’s stock today’s?
Seems rather strange, potential acquisition?
How did Evernote grow?
Why guess about documented history?
I remember reading that a lot of CEOs and generally people in leadership positions have psychopathic traits. This probably is an asset if it's balanced by other traits.
Your comment proves too much. It would equally apply in the scenario where the foreign country is dumping goods to destroy local competition (i.e. the "Walmart destroys local stores" story writ large). And yet, in that scenario most people would be in favor of tariffs.

More generally, as I understand it, the reason economic orthodoxy is against tariffs is because of "comparative advantage", and the idea that different countries could produce different goods or services more efficiently than others, not just more cheaply, due to subsidization or other distortionary interventions like that.

You could make an argument along those lines here, and that would be valid, but the superficial observation that your prices went up isn't really enough to say either way.
Yes, and where do you imagine the money comes from?
Doesn't the eviction process take at least a month? How long will it take you to land a new job? It seems pointless to have to be homeless if you're able to land a job within a month or 2.

Are you in a position to borrow money? Maybe even an online lender like bestegg.

You could setup a bitcoin wallet and livestream yourself coding, I feel like a person in your situation is a kind of person I would be willing to donate to.
I wouldn't so much say a happy ending. The article about her returning speaks about her desire to not burden anyone in her life with her physical pain and instead suffered through poverty.

"Unable to work because of it and subsequent injuries, she had long lived in poverty, sustained largely by the religion she had come to early in the decade."

I wonder what religion this is. One is quick to think Scientology, but to make such an assumption is too quick and heavy-handed I fear. It seems to be the best outcome, but not one that is pleasant at all.
It won't never be even close to native code because of the BEAM overhead, lack of typing, memory layout. It is suited for concurrency not computationally intensive workloads. Not to mention the use of gpus.
"Societal viability includes, at a minimum, being able to survive one's enemies."

By that measure, fine, yes, the US strategy in Vietnam failed, and it was basically due to the fact they left.

It had nothing to do with 'bad measures' like 'body count' and nothing to do with military failures or ventures.

The misleading metric of 'body count' really didn't change the fact that the US wiped out the VC and destroyed most of the North's ability to fight.

Militarily it was a definitive victory for the US.

And then the US bailed and it fell apart.

Let's not confuse the fact it was a terrible and ugly war, with way too many civilian casualties with things like 'bad measures'.

The 'bad measures' of 'body count' did not create an existential problem for the US strategy, really.
Sure. That part wasn't even illegal. The early investors were honestly told that Theranos was trying to invent a microfluidics solution.

It crossed over into serious fraud when they stopped taking money to develop an approach, and started taking money on the pretence that they had developed an approach, when in fact they were just lying and performing the tests on commercial equipment they'd quietly bought elsewhere and hacked to use smaller samples (with resulting extremely poor accuracy).

And then they really fucked up when they doubled-down on this fraud by showing FDA inspectors a sham microfluidics lab instead of the actual working lab that just used standard equipment they'd quietly bought through various shells.
> This is only benefitting people for whom 25 minutes is worth $20/$22.50.

Many of whom get reimbursed by their employers for transportation costs, don't forget. $20 for an airport run is going to look damned cheap to the people who process the expense accounts. It will never be questioned.
> This has nothing to do with how he worked with rust developers, and even Graydon made it clear in that thread that strcat was always justified in his interactions with them.

No, Graydon really said nothing of the sort. https://slash-r-slash-rust.github.io/archived/2u1dme.html#co...

"[strcat] is an outstanding technical voice, everyone knows that. He is also an uncompromising technical voice who quickly becomes defensive, critical, sarcastic, belittling, insulting and accusatory when his (often correct) views are not acted-upon by others quickly enough or to his satisfaction. He needs to work on his communication style. He's stepped way over the line of the CoC repeatedly, and if I were still in a leadership role, I probably would have had to ask him to leave by now. It pains me to say that."
I meant for excusing yorself.

I'd tend to go to "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I'm wasting your time," for example.
I'm aware of that. This is a case where one right is in conflict with another. There's no good answer. One group of people is going to lose and another is going to win.

The disadvantage women have is that they can't hide a pregnancy forever. Men can go to extreme lengths to hide their relationships. Although rare, it is not unheard of for a man to have two families at the same time, each one hidden from the other, and maintain this state of affairs for years before getting caught (otherwise we'd never hear about it).
How is this whataboutism relevant?
Pregnant employees are undoubtably less of an investment for the company when you consider paid leave. In fact the company might actually lose money on you.

This is a lot different than racial, sex, or age discrimination as a result of social bias or stereotypes.

So it makes sense there is discrimination from companies and managers - especially competitive companies where the managers are paid based on their team performance. In a truly capitalist market you would rarely hire someone at risk of becoming pregnant.

That leaves me to believe the only good solution is some type of mandatory leave for both men and women. Rather than trying to avoid the discrimination (via penalties, laws, etc.), force an equal leave rights for men and women so the companies no longer have to consider a particular gender over the other.
It should not be. Society should rightly shun you for it, but government should not make it illegal.
I didn’t start a business but instead made an open source website as no one wanted to or still wants to hire me.

Funnily the website solves the problem of how to learn anything in the most effective way.

Website: https://learn-anything.xyz
I haven't used Whatsapp or Signal, but you don't login every time you use the chat app, right? The phone could have just been unlocked by the owner or the PIN or pattern guessed, assuming the keys are stored on the device.
Could that not be used to reveal the password? Sure it won't work on this site anymore, but now the random attacker has a username:password combo.

Also, doesn't that just hand over the user's password to the site hosting major.service//password-check? Maybe the user is security conscious already, now their strong password is sitting in plaintext on major.service's misconfigured logs.

This just doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

Edit: Or a hacker gets into linkedin, now he's literally being fed the actual username/password combinations of every single person that signs up to any website anywhere. This just gets worse the more I think about it.
It was all ideas and plans. They built machines that performed significantly worse than standard tests. Their idea was one machine to run virtually all blood tests with a few drops of blood, their final machine only ran a handful of tests and was so inaccurate that only reason the FDA did not shut them down instantly is they used a loophole to claim it was not a testing machine but just in house lab equipment to assist with testing or some nonsense that meant they did not need FDA to sign off on the machine. Holmes was just a smooth talker and convinced everyone, it also helped that she had major players on her board and even Bill Clinton was supporting her.

The one really weird thing i noticed about her is she never blinks. Watch her give talks and it is like a robot never blinking
Sun also initially named their zones project “Kevlar” that they got a notice for...

https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Community+History
That's a useful snippet. I wanted to download all the repos of a different organization the other day. Thanks!
OK. I meant a Tier #1 admired software company ;-) Own language is a must to earn admiration of developers :)
Well, yeah. Bernie Sanders has a very high rating but even at 70 percent his high rating hardly budges the rest of Congress. The problem is they just don't work together. I wouldn't be heart broken if we decided to just break into smaller City states that came up with laws on their own so there were more options. Progressive states could have legalized weed and universal health. Red States could have no public safety net at all and really strong military and no regulations on corporations.

Logistically, I think the USA is just a mismanaged nightmare, the government is dysfunctional because it's too big and it could use a modernized Constitution a lot has changed since 1700s
What's the password for your local machine before you can launch the password manager?

What's the password for the password manager?

What do you do on a shared machine that doesn't have your password manager software installed?

What's the password for the place where you could download your database on a new machine?

Password requirements so complex humans can't remember them is just slang for DIY 2FA where the factors are a weak password and possession of your user's database. You might as well just require actual 2FA at that point and lax the requirements.
Yes, kind of. I helped my aging father pivot from manual labor to running his own contracting business. It was, and continues to be, a lot of work, but it was the only way my parents could continue to pay their bills (Especially here in the Bay Area).

There was a lot of learning when getting started, but the business is roughly a 10-person concern, and growing — all completely bootstrapped.

Edit:

More details on what it took to get started

- Studying the materials one needed know to get a contractor's license

- Actually getting licensed

- Setting up an online presense

- Acquiring our first customers

- Earning a good reputation

- Incorporating, hiring, worker's comp/various insurances ($$$$)

One of the biggest ongoing challenges is competing with unlicensed contractors, and being able to hire enough skilled labor.
Encryption in transit doesn't imply encryption at rest.

For instance, WhatsApp on Android will happily back up to Google Drive, if you allow it, and it does so in cleartext.
{ print $0 } is the default action if you don't specify one.

Using "200" in quotes makes sense if you're looking for an exact string match; this will fail if the datum is 0200, or 200.0.
Seriously impressive to make something to empower people to solve their own problems.
Are you in Berlin by any chance? :-)
Drawing is not great, but color is nice and faces are expressive. I wouldn't buy the paintings but they're better than I expected.
Costco's dog is "1/4+ lb" so I'd figure 4 oz for convenience. I suspect their cost is $2/lb or less or $0.50-0.60/dog.

Costco drinks are a 20 oz cup, and they sell them for $0.59. They use non branded /Pepsi branded cups.

I'll update with their retail price for the dogs in bulk if I go over this evening for a chicken. Are you using retail /small scale wholesale pricing for your calculations?
I concur. There seems to be a common thread in entrenched entities when their hegemony erodes before their very eyes and their well worn levers of power suddenly stop bearing fruits.

It's like when someone loses their wallet, and their first instinct is to completely discount the possibility they just misplaced it, and jump straight to the conclusion that someone stole it.

Start at your only acceptable conclusion, and work backwards to construct a plausible scenario that you can parade around as the obvious culprit.
C17: rvalues and function types drop qualifiers
If that's a problem, you just grab a relatively* cheap cab or Uber/Lyft from where you are to the Boring station.

* "Relatively cheap" compared to taking the cab all the way to O'Hare.
less is more.

less

is an improved version of

more

Hence, the joke.
I was already started do moving to my own (a-la VPS on digitalocean) this just added some extra velocity to it.

its not that i dont like github, i do. But keeping internet decentralized is important (imho).

Also given that I live in Turkey, government can block all github just because someone shares bad stuff about current leaders in gist. (ps. they did block google drive because someone posted some photographs/documents)

Many people here using somehow their own vps, just adding push-hook to sync with other github/gitlab is not a trivial thing.

tl;dr: push to your repo, sync with cloud providers' one.
How did you conquer the IBD?
I shop at Costco regularly (once every two weeks at least, sometimes weekly). Yes I gasp drive a car. But I put less than 3k miles on my car a year since I work from home. Maybe shopping at Costco isn't the problem for most people. It's working in an office.
Because many people smoke weed, but only some are jailed for it.

THAT'S why whataboutism is important. Enforcement bias.
The US actually did this extensively during its own industrialisation, stealing IP from Britain and shielding its own fledgling domestic industries (textiles was the tech sector of the day).

Britain took steps as extensive as banning skilled people from travelling to the USA.

All this is just historic and doesn't necessarily feed into what should be done in the present situation, but it is useful to note that this is a common path that developed countries have followed in the past:

- ignore/steal IP

- protect and subsidise domestic equivalents

- upon domestic industry being competitive, reciprocally lower tariffs

- once fully developed, lobby for free trade and strong IP protection
To see whether a new kernel, designed 25+ years after Linux, can do things better.

Linux is already there, what insight would it bring to do the same thing again?
The great thing about microG is that you can configure everything in it that communicates somehow with external services. So for instance you can disable Google Cloud Messaging (I think it's even disabled by default), or enable it only when you need it, or configure it so only one app can use it, etc. The same with GPS augmentation - backends for it are switchable, so you can use Google, Apple, Mozilla or even offline database for that. I'm glad microG exists, I use it on my one Android device I keep for testing Android ports of my software and for occasional emergency situations (like having to use mobile bank app or get some transport data that's very helpfully only available as a mobile app for platforms I don't want to use on my main device).

Otherwise I just keep using Nokia N900, which replaced my old Openmoko Neo Freerunner. I'm waiting for my preordered Neo900, Librem 5 and Pyra.
How many days/months/years between a) joining the company and b) informing of the pregnancy?

I know the law doesn't care, but I care. There's a difference between informing your manager one month after you're hired that you're pregnant (been there, felt totally fooled - as the manager, that is) and will need to take time off quite soon, and doing it like a year or so later.

The "always positive performance reviews" bit implies some sizeable amount of time before the announcement, which is why I'm asking.
This is almost me. I wouldn't be where I am if I got hired from specific companies I applied to. I found it impossible to get a job I wanted before I learned programming.

Triplebyte denied me in a phone screening and at that time I had just read all Paul Graham's essays and would have sacrificed a lot to move back to USA and work for a YC startup.

At this point I'm very happy things turned out the way they did. One thing I will never miss is having my life controlled by an alarm clock.
Phil Knight's autobiography Shoe Dog was really interesting. This is what he did when he started Nike. He kept his day job as an accountant for a while.
That's good to hear, although I assumed that one of the benefits of React Native was that the UI remains appropriate to the host platform
An interesting observation is that medman77 would seem to be particular about FDA clearance vs approval, which is one sign of someone who does know what they’re talking about.
Thanks. I've edited & updated my links.
U-Chicago drops SAT/ACT testing requirement
How India’s Defence Secrets Were Traded for Whisky
The VM trick is old hat. Even Infocom used it to allow their games to be playable across a range of micros. Oh and they developed their games on a PDP.
Pipeline operator ( |> ) in functional programming languages (Elixir, F#, Elm)
Later backronymed to "disk destroyer", of course.
Fathers can definitely formula feed. Even if mom is pumping, getting the milk into the baby is non trivial.
Huh. I suppose it makes less sense to the non-danes, then.
CS6 is from 2012.

And by fully support do the mean clone stamp overlays, smooth zoom, basically anything that requires graphic acceleration?
Most busybox installations include awk. This is a literal lifesaver.
>but I have never been so utterly _disoriented_ by bad code

One of these days, when the mood strikes, I'll upload the matlab script I inherited from my Ph.D supervisor.

Scientific programming is, by and large, an abysmal state of affairs.
If we assume that this sort of thing is of short-term detriment and long-term benefit, isn't now the best possible time for it? Admitted unemployment is lower than it has been in a long time and admitted inflation is still quite low. Complaining about protectionism now and calling for it when the economy is in the crapper would be reminiscent of the Arkansas Traveler...

Of course we don't have to make those two assumptions, but they're built into common arguments for protectionism.
Their malfeasance was worse than that. Their "invention" gave people wrong information about their health, which in some cases put their lives in jeopardy. And they operated in a highly-regulated marketplace and tried to evade government oversight. These two aspects of Theranos put their fraud into a much more serious category than that of a typical narcissist-led SV vaporware company.
> Before you argue the world is like this, let me just ask you why do superfund sites exist then?

The vast majority exist because the operations predated environmental regulations. Also, a significant number are a result of government activities at various levels.
>They knew it didn't work, but kept selling it anyway, which is where it went from just faking it to outright fraud.

I'm playing Devil's advocate and not justifying or defending their fraud and the physical harm they caused, but if we were to look at Holmes' intentions, I'm suspecting it was something like "we just need to do this for a few months/years until our technology works", rather than "let's just run this scam forever and get rich". As for how close they actually were to developing that technology (and assuming most of their talent didn't leave) or if it was even possible for them, who knows. And of course, regardless, they still intended to commit fraud and should pay the price.
Is it really a problem, though? Having a high false-positive-to-real-positive ratio isn't as bad for this application, since a user can just pick a slightly different password, with no significant negative outcome.
Yes, definitely true.

If (1) everyone is highly effective in getting tasks done, and (2) working on tasks that are reasonably well prioritized by both technical risks and business value, why exactly do you need to know more?

There are legitimate reasons that a business may need a date. But making sure people are working harder than hard by beating them over the head with a date coughed out by a gantt chart is not one of the legitimate reasons.
It’s actually good for every country not affected by it.
Given your background, maybe you or someone else here could help me. I am about to start a new mobile project, and I have yet to decide whether to use RN or Ionic.

My project will be nothing very fancy: mainly "forms" and use the camera and audio recording. But at some point in the future I would like to use hardware features more heavily (real time audio processing, GPS among others). Would you think RN would be a good fit for this? Have you had experience with Ionic? If yes, how do you think both of this compare?

I know that Ionic is not native, but I am more looking to understand how many headeches will I get to use the phone hardware on each of these two platforms.
No one would choose to walk from the Loop to O'Hare carrying luggage (and of course, some people can't walk).
Scripts in which you have both cut and awk are not simpler or clearer than ones in which you only use awk.