skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would not be normal in a few years. The US is also a very large manufacturer, much of which is in more "essential" goods such as large equipment. Individuals and governments across the world hold US treasuries, so the US disappearing would wipe out trillions of dollars of assets. The US currency is a common reserve currency across the world, and would become worthless, creating a massive domino effect in banking across the world. Many important internet services would no longer function. Countries like Japan and Israel which rely on the US for defense would suddenly face a decrease quality of life and even existential threats. The countries which rely on US aid would suffer greatly.

Is the world dependent on the US? No, you're right that dependent is a very strong word. However, the US, for better or worse, provides a very high amount of global stability. The US has a massive economy and a very strong military, and the world would be very different if any country like that were to fail.
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Yep, sorry for the confusing wording.
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... just like we could do in Windows 7.

Apparently basic common sense is harder to implement than machine learning algorithms.
Russia is a hostile state to the average Russian, too. It's an unaccountable kleptocracy.
I will attribute this to the ignorant of management.

The local government here mandated all website to have w3c AA grade accessibility. But all the management fellow it by the letter of standard. None of them provide us the time or resource to do accessibility testing. They explain away the accessibility issues raised by the concerned groups.

So, yes plain html is better. They have a higher chance works without any prior testing
This sounds less like a one-time-pad and more like a random string broken off into multiple individual one-time-pads.
Not really, the city government works with the county government, which works with the state government, which works with the federal government.

The Port Authority of NY and NJ is just such a agency.
Nope, we make a point of not doing that. See https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for lots of explanations.

Your submissions were flagged by users, presumably because they were sensational cryptocurrency stories, which users here are tired of.
> 10.5 over 100m

I can run a 10.5 after a lot of training, so maybe it's my ego talking here, but I refuse to believe this! I think you must just not have been aware of the training this person did. If they could really run a 10.5 in high school with no training, then with minimal effort they could bring their time down enough to qualify for most any country's Olympic team. A 10.5 100m is good enough to win the high school state tournament in an average US state.

> From time to time we would have some new guy come who clearly didn't know anything about boxing or fighting. But within weeks he would learn and get better than almost anyone else in the gym. He would be faster and punch harder.

These people must have had prior training in other sports. Once you've done strength, agility and speed training and have good coordination, it's easy to pick up another sport.
In my opinion, among all the tech behemoths, it is Amazon that has the best long-term (stock) prospects. Whereas most tech companies build their businesses on ephemeral software-based services, Amazon possesses logistics and infrastructure that are among the best in the world.
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Well you are the person who started things off with Americans don't like trains.
Obviously not applicable to Linux since it is hosted on Git, but Mercurial has this "clone bundles" feature built in.

If you e.g. `hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central` to clone the main Firefox repo, your client will connect to a CDN to download the pre-generated bundle then go back to the server to pull recent changes. Bitbucket also has the feature deployed.

After I deployed this feature on hg.mozilla.org, server-side CPU load dropped by like 90%. And with IP filtering to detect clients connecting from AWS that allows us to serve URLs direct from S3 (as opposed to going through a CDN), the total bill is like $20/mo for CI usage (S3 intra-region data transfer is free). Literally thousands of hours of CPU-core time and >500 TB/mo offloaded from the Mercurial servers.
Does anyone here tried Druid? I hear at Druid performance is much better in terms of response time, especially for arbitratry queries over large set of dimensions. Did anyone do an in-depth comparison between Bq vs Druid?
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I don't think the violations of H1-b law are coming from the clause you quoted.

It's coming from the parts about:
1) the employer must try to hire Americans first for the job and needs to be able to show that they haven't been able to hire Americans for the job
2) if the employer laid off people in essentially similar jobs recently before or after the H1-b application, the application is not supposed to go through
3) they need to pay the H1-bs the same wage as similar non-H1-b people at the company, or the prevailing wage of the area (whichever is greater)

I have personally seen all of these violated, would not be surprised if the vast majority of H1-bs are violating at least one of them. It's violated intentionally and everyone is doing it, because they can hire H1-bs cheaper and they have better retention (or less job mobility). Frankly it's a disgrace.

I personally am not anti-immigrant and would prefer the immigration laws to be more efficient, and spread the immigration over a wider range of jobs, instead of disproportionately affecting my profession (software engineering).
And really the blocker could be (and probably already is) implemented at the DNS level with something similar to PiHole's blacklist. I'm sure big switch/network gear manufacturers have something similar to block ad/tracking traffic.
Yes, I want backspace to remain larger than other buttons. So putting it on backslash key doesn't sound like a good idea.
And Non-Directional Beacons [1]. Maybe not so popular in the USA, but common around the rest of the world, and comparatively very cheap to run.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-directional_beacon
When something is valuable economically, this shift seems inevitable... the same happened to electronics, electricity (telegrams etc), steam etc. (Probably, it was different before the industrial revolution and modern corporations.)

The actionable question is: what's next? What promising technical field is not yet economically valuable?
Definitely. While you're at it maybe you could throw in handwriting pointers too. I've found my handwriting has become drastically worse after college.
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I can't think of another great power I'd rather had won World War 2. Even those countries it defeated were prosperous in a couple of decades. Contrast that with how France treated Germany after World War 1 or how the Russians subjugated eastern Europe. Not to mention what would have happened if Germany had won.

Still, the drug war has been a huge waste of energy. It enriches some very evil people. And actually makes these drugs much more dangerous, as potency is all over the map as a result of it being illegal.
Agreed. iTunes went from a joy to use to something I avoid at all costs these days.

It’s awful on iOS, Mac and Windows.
JD.com has far better logistics and infrastructure. They also don't send you fake products when you order online as their guarantees seem to actually mean something unlike Amazon.
>>In my observation these fact checking organisations usually fall down on the left's side of things, so either it's predominantly the right that lies, or the fact checkers conveniently ignore controversies that are open and shut bad behaviour on the left, or my perception is incorrect.

As the saying goes, truth has a liberal bias. :)
This is your Captain speaking, I’m turning on the fasten seat belt sign
Many of these SPOFs are tolerable because attackers are easy to track down, and those points of failure are not so bad as to destroy the ability of the system to track down and punish attackers. Where things get scary are when this deterrent effect disappears:

1. The attacker might be too powerful to deter, or might be able to make a coordinated attack that would prevent their punishment. A general great-power war would bring down many of these systems in the first few hours.

2. The attacker might be able to avoid detection or identification. This is the bucket most of those security fall under - if an attacker can take advantage of these systems anonymously, there's no deterrent effect.

Cambridge Analytica is a bit of a hybrid case; it was used by powerful probably-state actors for deniable attacks.
We do that mostly in an effort to prevent discussions from bogging down in predictability. We read HN more than (almost) anyone else does, so we've got the patterns of boredom in our bones.
Ignore the comment above, obviously ignorance :) Thanks for explaining.
911 was an inside job
I've been a guitar teacher for about 20 years, and my experience disagrees with your feeling. Some people have much more aptitude for the guitar than others; I've had some kids who have picked up playing chords in a tiny fraction of the time that is typical. While generally the ability to learn seems to correlate with their general intelligence level, there have been some who are far better than you would expect.

This is not to say that practice isn't the most reliable way to achieve gains (it is!), but some 'just get it' and have ability (either musical or dextrous) on the instrument that most take a lot longer to achieve.
> Victim shaming pisses me off.

Yet you’re going right ahead and assuming that someone else’s experience is not _real_ cancer because they survived it and your mom didn’t? You really don’t have the right to be calling anyone else an asshole.

> and neither is minimizing people who actually search for cures rather than preaching lifestyle.

It seems like your feelings about your mom
are preventing you from thinking objectively about this. Lifestyle can be a cure as well as a preventative, an extremely effective one, but that’s often overlooked because it’s easier and more profitable to get someone to take pills than it is for them to change all their dietary and exercise habits. Attitudes like yours, that say it’s wrong to call it anyone’s fault, really don’t help.
Does anyone know if a hobbyist can pull the time from TV signals like you can with an RPi/GPS-hat/etc? I'd love to have a bedside clock that pulls from TV signal for no other reason than I didn't even know that existed until now.
> Bitcoin/crypto would have been my next best

You probably would have sold the bitcoins before it went crazy up.
They've already announced they're not going to renew their military contracts. What would Google have to do for you to be ok with Captcha challenges again?
Satellite based SMS would be pretty amazing for hikers/campers/etc.
Or falsely implies a causal link?
> This is on iOS but their app definitely went downhill pretty severely in the past year.

The VLC/iOS is getting a full rewrite, to be way more modern. (I can share screenshots if you want). So the transition is a bit difficult now, I agree, but it will be soon better.

> It's hard to say Huawei is exclusively to blame when their primary video playing features (including background playback) is already so buggy.

The code on iOS and Android is totally different. But Huawei is breaking all apps, including Google Photos or PodCast Addict. This is not VLC, but all apps that are affected.
Nicely done! This is not trivial work. Have spent a lot of time working with ImageMagick + lots of tweaking to try and get background removal working.

Getting it working for a more rounded, universal set of images is the toughest bit but you seem to be using a tried and true method for content identification.

Have you had any success applying it to images other than of drawings?
What information does the data point provide you?
You are so full of dead beef. You wrote "Instead of redefining common usage you could just use a different word or words", but he used the word as correctly defined. It's a pity that you aren't helped by knowing what the word means, but that's your problem, and the consequence is that sensible people write you off as a silly troll.

Over and out.

P.S. Yeah, go ahead and downvote me, troll.
If you keep a job for a long time at one company, using the same platform, techniques, and not progressing with your skills you really will be stuck there forever and will be locked in forever. I found that to be the case for me.
Please don't inject religion into HN threads. Nothing good ever comes of it.
(Assuming you’re familiar with Git internals as well:) do you think there’s anything in the architecture of Git preventing it from having this feature? And, if not, should we Git developers push for it / work on a PR?

It’d make a lot of sense to integrate it if it’s possible, I think. The design direction of Git is somewhat subservient to the needs of Linux (i.e. Git is a thing Linus made to replicate BitKeeper, but it also was made to scratch—and continues to scratch—many of the LKML itches re: their unique patch-management workflows.)

So if Linux is having to do something re: “SCM ops” tooling, that could be better solved in Git, then why not solve it in Git?

(If anyone who was responsible for this Kernel.org Git bundle setup wants to chime in, that’d be interesting; I assume they likely considered making this a Git thing first, so there might be a good reason why it’s not.)
Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?
I came across Perkeep[1] project today. I know some other self-hosted solutions like Rocket chat[2](Slack alternative), Redmine[3](Project management) etc. Curious what other self-hosted are there and which one you are using?

[1]: https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep

[2]: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

[3]: http://www.redmine.org/
Are you specifically excluding the last few decades from your evaluation of the negative impact that the USA foreign policy has had on humanity?
Having to deal with the elderly or disabled adds overhead from employee time or premises adaptations. All that changes is the disenfranchised group. All should be considered discrimination. Maybe it's the European perspective but I welcomed it when the UK required all premises to be wheelchair accessible, even though I am able bodied. I'd equally welcome making accepting the country's currency mandatory as I don't believe society should be excluding any significant groups.

Another reductio ad absurdum? Like I replied to bena before you, with well known adages and slogans it's the core idea that matters, not to take it so literally as to permit payment in corn. Corn is not the currency in general use, cash is. Do you take every slogan and adage entirely literally?
I'm aware of that attack. I'm not sure if you're aware; but the only modern browser it still works against is Firefox.

Chrome patched in in Version 58, Opera patched it not long after. Safari and Edge quickly followed suite (or always displayed the punycode) and I believe IE has always shown punycode. Leaving the only browser with significant user share that's susceptible to this attack being Firefox. At least for users who haven't enabled `network.IDN_show_punycode` in about:config, which is probably most (if not all) users who haven't heard of this attack. Firefox is 6%~ market share - so this attack would fail on 94%~ of your viewers as long as they were paying any attention to the domain. Probably the only way Mozilla will stop dragging their feet in joining everyone else is if someone creates a malicious punycode version of Mozilla with a cert and brings the battle to their doorstep.

This isn't an argument against TLS/HTTPS - this is an argument against Firefox as far as I'm concerned.
Would you please not post nationalistic flamebait here? That's definitely not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How does gevent handle spawning kernel threads? Last time I tried Go I found that it spawned unlimited kernel threads. For example, a thousand goroutines calling stat() would result in as many kernel threads.

I ended up tracking down which goroutines were likely to spawn kernel threads (gross global reasoning), and applied a rate-limiter to that set.
I care debugibilty and maintainibility.
Many projects on github have very short life cycle. If it go unmaintained, how easy can I take over it?
At this point, given track record and impossibility of future-proofing morality almost certainly nothing. See Sourceforge as one case history.

The real problem is that captcha has reached EOL. Alternatives should be found.
Yes, but I thought it would be nice to have a separate, not always displayed, list of reasons. Having five comments saying "rude" displayed all the time is not making the reading experience for everybody else any better. The poster seeing 5 notes "rude" associated to his post might help them adjust the tone.
Please don't rant like this on HN, regardless of which LEO you're talking about.
Bloat and slowdown for the customer is not worth the dev convenience and no library can fix poor work organisation.
I am really disappointed in humanity when not only a snake oil saleswoman is made successful, but is also seen as some kind of example to follow.

She is a con artist. End of story. I’d have more respect for conventional criminals - at least they don’t pretend to be legit and don’t give lectures to students.
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I think the right approach to drugs is to regulate use by neighborhood. And with monetary fines only.

Outright bans cause too many problems. Illegal production makes drugs more dangerous. And allowing everything has some social costs too. Each approach eventually leads to many people wanting the opposite policy, so it will just go back and forth.

Regulating it by neighborhood will allow people to keep drug abuse away from their kids, while still allowing those who want to use drugs to access it without too much trouble. They can just travel to a neighborhood where it's allowed. Avoiding fines will give them an incentive.

Neighborhoods that do allow drug use will pick which drugs to allow and be able to tax the activity and have rules to handle the activity. There are red light districts for prostitution. Why not handle drug use the same way?
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That wasn't quite what they were talking about. They were talking about IDN Phishing [0] and not http-->https redirection (which is what HSTS is directed towards). But since we're talking about DNS redirection the http:// handshake against the legitimate server never happens, you're only ever visiting a malicious website (which the certificate checks would all fail - except visually in the case of IDN phishing which only works against Firefox users).

[0] https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/

[1] https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/ (this will show the punycode domain on HN, visit it in Firefox it will look just like https://apple.com )

[2] The cert still shows punycode though most users wouldn't check the cert: https://kimiwo.aishitei.ru/i/MMFWtvE5ZgYdHWki.png
> The idea that life should be a pursuit of pleasure is very modern.

No it is not at all new, greeks already discussed hedonism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism
To paraphrase Popehat: The kind of personality that gets people into trouble in the first place also compels people to dig deeper once they're in trouble.
At Discord, we use distillery to package, and salt to configure our Elixir machines. We also bake golden images using basically the same thing.

Our CI builds our elixir artifacts, updates them to GCS, then our minions pull the artifacts, untar them and move them into the right place. Aside from deploying go binaries, Elixir binaries have been the next easiest thing.

We have one (very low throughput) service that runs Elixir inside of a docker container, however, the rest just run BEAM on the VM directly, with no containerization. BEAM at higher load does not enjoy sharing cores with anyone. Most of our Elixir services sit at 80-100% of CPU on all cores. BEAM likes to spin for work, and is CPU topology aware. Two BEAM scheduler threads running on the same core is a recipe for disaster. Since we're fully utilizing our VMs, and shipping the tars is simple enough, Docker gave us too much operational overhead for it to be worth it.

We've also had our fair share of troubles running the BEAM VM on GCP at scale. I could go into this in more detail if anyone's curious.
So this is why my smartwatch can tell me my speed before it has a GPS lock, including indoors? Very cool! But of course, as you say, the reports of my absolute position are very inaccurate.
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Dismissing an argument because it's often repeated by many people sounds like you're making an argument against popularity, maybe even a fallacy fallacy.

Other than the link at the end of your post, I don't think anything you said actually challenges the opposing argument.
Given that the average salary in many countries is way below 1000 € per month, I would disagree with "world class computers accessible to the masses".
It also has the benefit of being one of only a few epics that survived from that time.
well, for instance, in Qt Creator, if you have a type not available you can right click on it and it will propose a list of headers to include it from that it will add in the file.
I missed the three companies that were not part of the lawsuit since they settled individually - Pixar, Lucasfilm and Intuit.

But why was he the only evil one and not the CEOs of Google, Adobe, and Intel.

But still the idea that Jobs was the mastermind “bullying” these other companies instead of all of them being equally responsible doesn’t pass the sniff test. And one of those companies - Pixar was also run by Jobs at the time.
No, HSTS relies on the server sending the relevant header to the web browser. In this scenario you have total control over all servers the user connects to.
Receiving the signals is only a part of the problem, and even getting a "fix" isn't all that hard. Maintaining an accurate fix, and at the same time refining away previous errors, on a fast moving vehicle, is a dark art.
> I could go into this in more detail if anyone's curious.

Please do!
The water's a mile down. Duh. Here's a clue for you: the people who make these decisions as to where to send rovers are intelligent. That's why their choices aren't the choices you would make.