skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a bit tangential, but do you feel if regulatory bodies were given more power to execute on already existing laws and to investigate this kind of fraud, we could prevent 2008-style crises in general?
OT question: what do you do in the meantime? Usually, those months prepping for interviews are:
- if a graduating student, while you are graduating?
- grabbing a "worse" job waiting for the interview?
The last paragraph is pretty damning. Apparantly the mother had an argument with a senior physician, then they labelled her as having mental issues, and tried to take her daughter...

But luckily everyone (the biological father, the court, the police) refused to play along.
Surely this is at the very least a breah of privacy, and possibly a warrantless search? A hotel room, while occupied by a paying customer, should be treated as private property.
Less fires != good.

If you have less forest fires you build up fuel for the fire and the rare fire that DOES happen will be much more violent and extreme.

Natural forest fires burn away a lot of fuel for the next fires so it's smaller.
That's always been my objection to pension arrangements in the UK. It's a cushy deal between the Government and financial institutions to lock-away money for 30+ years, and then tax the contributor when he becomes eligible to access it.

Pensions should be tax-exempt at withdrawal, or else be accessible. Otherwise what's the incentive, other than when pre-tax contributions are possible?
There are no stupid questions, only people who failed to prepare for the questions.

Interviews are a sales process. The test can never really be an accurate assessment of how well you work - we don't even have that for full-time employees over a year, so how well it works over a couple of hours is never going to be that great.

Also, preparation is part of the test. Some interviewers like to ask questions about what you know about the company to see if you've prepared by reading their website etc. I've seen people be marked down with "obviously he didn't prepare for this interview, so he wasn't that motivated".
Configure React PWA to make your own progressive web application
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Not sure if it really runs well. I can't import a ca. 50 line library (too little memory, I guess?).
Only residential cables run underground really, high voltage is most of the time high up above ground because isolating it is nasty business.
Plus a lot of technology, scientists and engineers taken from Germany. For example the AK-series of rifles were in 'production hell' until the Russians put the captured Germans responsible for producing the STG-44 onto the task.

Much of the productive capital assets in Germany were simply lifted up and taken into the Soviet Union.
Very neat! It would be great if it were also available as a desktop app. How does it compare to ImageOptim (or does it use it in the background?)
They don't make it clear at that point, but the section on the interrobang makes it clear we're talking about old typewriters. "[backspace]- would result in the - being directly underneath the " on a monospace typewriter.
> Is empathy desensitization a thing?

Factory farming wouldn't exist if that wasn't a thing.
Ask HN: Article about how string comparison is not enough
I was digging through bookmarks looking for something I for sure found on HN sometime in 2018.

The article was essentially discussing how "unique" in the database is worthless in a lot of situations, namely:

- email addresses (with +sub@addressing)

- case sensitivity

- unicode folding (ᎻoⅿоglｙＰᎻ attack, puny code)

- a bunch of other cases around visually similar, but byte non-identical data

The article was discussing this in the context of "unique" or "equality" in terms of a database unique key, which is not enough to ensure uniqueness.

Popped back into my head today because of the unicode.style link that just landed on the frontpage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17752680)

Does anyone know the article I'm talking about?
John R. Boyd (1995): The Essence of Winning and Losing:
This was true when I lived in Georgia, but in San Francisco the farmer's markets are easily double the price of grocery stores like Safeway and Costco.
As the owner of a very basic 2003 car, I can assure you that the mental arithmetic remains. I know that each 8th of my tank on the gauge is worth ~50 miles, entirely dependent on how efficiently I'm driving.
Good article well written. africasiaeuro
As far as I could tell, none of them actually contain tweets (e.g. any JSON), just IDs, and mostly user IDs at that.
The happiest man in the world?
As someone who spent 4 years working for Kink.com (NSFW) building and running their entire IT infrastructure, this guy brings up some valid points. We had to build some extremely complicated systems to handle payments, performance, security, etc. It was a really fun learning experience. We used top of the line equipment. We got lessons in scaling. Even came up with creative ways to tell people where I worked... 'Educational video company'.
Someone did a PR[1] with something similar. He also found a way to speed things up by creating a Proc first and feeding it to the eval instead of the string.

[1] https://github.com/thisredone/rb/pull/2
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There is also Jacob Haugaard. [0] He was actually elected to the Danish parliament in 1994 on the promises such as better weather, more tailwind on bicycle paths and shorter queues in supermarkets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Haugaard
Yeah, it was interesting for about 20 seconds and then I got to the first code block and my brow furrowed.
We live in a sad world when hotel room searches are normal and accepted.
[webcomic]FreeBSD Daemon is confused by a penguin
Bit of a disappointing article. It finished before going into much depth.
Incorrect. Farmers were closer to slave labour and paid in "work-days", which could be accounted for handouts by administration. Farmers had no freedom of movement outside their farm territories. Life in Soviet villages was largely subsistence based. Slavery for farmers was abolished in 1974 when they were issued domestic passports (the primary ID in USSR) just like townspeople.

As for countless prisoners, they were working for survival with no compensation.
> Do women have fewer interpersonal conflicts with their peers than men?

Perhaps not, but I believe women are more likely than men to resort to using words rather than physical violence during an interpersonal conflict.
Interesting to see OpenSUSE performing so well. It was one of my first distros way back in the late 90s (when it was just SuSE Linux) but it seems to have fallen by the wayside somewhat and I certainly haven't looked at it for a long time - I'm a full time Fedora user now.

I'm going to have to revisit it soon.
Two thoughts about all this pop up. You'd think porn companies would charge with sensible names?
And I'm surprised Stripe wouldn't build an off brand company to handle this part of the market. Seems like it's just giving up on a lot of money for 'reasons'

Though similar problems exist in business for things like weed companies. Banks don't want to touch em.
Some of the provisions are rather bizarre in how badly they seem to be drafted, eg:

> What can be done undera computer access warrant?

.... long list, then:

> any other thing reasonably incidental to the above things

So "thing" is now a legal concept and any "thing" that can be done if it happens to go along with the other "things" ...
I'm not arguing the possibility of seeing them but whether you visibly flag them or not. A bad prediction might turn into a self fulfilling prophecy. At the very least it could make a dent in the people's trust. You do this on an election year and you'll pay for it. You might get the shaft regardless if your prediction makes someone powerful look bad.

So when you're playing close to home positive stuff gets the fanfare, negative predictions are underplayed. You're talking about your own market after all. Why do you think it's so easy for these publications to hit at anything that's not domestic? The further away, the less friendly the player, the more scathing the prediction.
There's one neat trick to stop 'them' getting your money. It's so easy you'll be amazed!

It's "not speeding" /savedyouaclick
Erlang is 37.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-program...
Currently downvoted by zealots. However this is a real requirement. I have friends who focus mostly on Git knowledge, in their interviews because it informs a lot about general knowledge of the developer. Trunking, merging and so on.
Interesting. I'll check them out, although I'm not getting my hopes up.
For those who do not know, the above is a quote by our current Prime Minister, who said “The laws of Math are very commendable, but they are not higher than the laws of Australia”

This is the same muppet who claimed that nobody needs more than 25 Mbps of network bandwidth.
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Three crypto-playlists your government really doesn’t want you to listen to
Have you tried mpy[1]? Should help fit a bit more.

[1]https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/mpy-c...
Even if I grant you that $10 million is reasonably close to being able to "get rid of any problem", that doesn't seem to imply profitability of the company.

Perhaps solving the problems costs $4 million and the revenue is only $3 million.
Thanks for this heads up.

I remember years ago, us developers would spin up slave program overnight so that the graphics guys could eke out a few frames of ray traced images.

It's hilarious to me that Blinn's Law is alive and well (although the state of the web itself shows it). It was pre 3d card (and up until 3fdx/ early nvidia days), and drove me nuts that every time we managed to get another fps, the graphics guys would add a few hundred polys to be rendered by the realtime engine.
The big "legit" payment provider is cc-bill.

The "tube" sites are more exploitative than the rest of the industry in that they don't actually pay the performers, they're simply piracy, and because small independent producers don't have the political leverage to impose an equivalent of content-ID on them they stay that way.
"Not only Youtubers test on Windows, virtually the whole tech reviewer community tested on Windows exclusively. And many concluded that Threadripper problems were due to memory problems, and only few blamed Windows for it."

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

Still, over 2x increase in performance on Linux over Windows seems insane.
Four of the Biggest Reasons Your Emails Are Sent to Spam
I looked up the tool that this website wraps. I hadn't heard of exiftool before and generally use mediainfo, font-config, and ffmpeg for this sort of data. I haven't read perl in a very long time, but this library is clean and well written.

Primary Site: https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Github: https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool
>But doesn't this end up sending the message that you shouldn't share your OS and software with other companies? Keep everything proprietary like Apple and make your own phones.

Sharing Android with other manufacturers is absolutely ok, that's not what the EU fined them for. It was the anti-competitive contractual clauses they used to strong-arm licensees on order to get preferential treatment in other ways that were deemed illegal.

Apple isn't using it's market position to coerce anybody though. There's no law telling Apple that they have to provide an App Store at all. The equivalent case would be if Apple were to make approving a company's App on the App Store conditional on the company agreeing to some other contractual conditions preferential to Apple, using app store approval to hold companies ransom. That sort of extortion would clearly be an abuse. For example Apple only approving App Store apps showing ads if they used Apple's own ad network might be a step too far.

In the case of browsers, Apple isn't using approval of other browsers on the App Store as leverage to extort anything out of anyone. They are simply selling a product that has this feature (a browser) and not this other feature (the ability to install browsers based on a different rendering engine). It's the extortion that's the problem.
Current reading material

Dark Matt and Trojan Horses by Dan Hill

Interaction of Color by Josef Albers

Simplicity by Edward de Bono
I am not part of the DEFCON community, but every year I hear about warrantless searches, equipment seized art the border and hacker arrests. I wonder why anyone, not least security researchers, would take the risk of going there. Just so as you guys know, we have conference facilities in Europe...
HTML is included, yet it is less "popular" than Assembly? First I hear of "Processing" and it is more popular than SQL?

While they explain their methods here:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/ieee-top-programming-langua...

Could it be, that languages like Assembly are searched more often than others, but are not necessarily popular?
Yes, "thing" is effectively the word they're using to mean "task", "activity", "modification", etc etc. What word would you use instead?

A judge would interpret the word according to standard English usage. The judge would also interpret the words "reasonably incidental" in a... reasonable way.

Law is not code, it gets interpreted by lawyers and judges.
The web of trust isn't really helpful here. Ideally we'd have government run certification authorities issuing official X.509 certificates to individuals and corporations.
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I wouldn't bother. It's still quite horrid.
I don't think this is about the soldering irons per se but rather about the trespass. Misleading title.

Tweets referenced in the article:

"Current status: two members of hotel security banging on my door after I asked to go into my room and verify them with hotel security. I'm on speaker phone with hotel security, asking for a supervisor to come verify. I'm terrified. What the hell is this @CaesarsPalace #DEFCON"

https://twitter.com/k8em0/status/1028375035285630976?s=20

"This evening, a man in a light blue collared shirt with a walkie talkie, entered my room with a key without knocking while I was getting dressed. He left when I started screaming. @CaesarsPalace is investigating whether it was a hotel employee. @defcon has also been alerted."

https://twitter.com/maddiestone/status/1028498769732460544?s...

A commenter on Ars put it pretty well:

> They are sort of lucky nobody apparently called the police. I would have called the police and started recording.

For the (contradictory) responses from Caesar's and DEFCON, scroll to the bottom of the article.
This would obviously only work if the encrypted messages can also be decrypted.

And that's the worrying part. As soon as that mechanism exists, all assumption of data safety goes out the window.
Make little sacrifices today - with the additional money you save in us, you can invest in your retirement - buy plenty of places in france and live off of rent income.

Having worked in the us for a bit over 6 years full time, I am ready to retire in my home country. I just don't want to, i will probably die in the states - that's where home is now.

But that's not even what I mean. Life in United States is really good - especially if you are healthy. Plenty of outdoors activities. People love their outdoors - they invented even more exciting sports to take advantage of it. A really good food scene (due to its diverse culture - you can find great indian, chinese, japanese, italian etc food).

As you said, healthcare and social net is lacking, but you make good money to make up for it.
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>You'd think porn companies would charge with sensible names?

If they're doing legal business, why should they?
Ask your recruiter what the test contains and how it relates to the position they are interested in hiring you for, and then just strait up tell them, that you are not strong in algorithms and data structures, but you are strong in ECE and machine learning, and they should hire you for those things.
Athletes train and are selected for teams in a way that is directly relevant to their job. Programming interviews are unrepresentative of the actual work of programming. No other industry to my knowledge does this.
Has this been widely known? I always wondered how cells know what structures to grow into, especially those at the fringes of tissues. I also wonder what taking things like calcium channel blockers do to our bodies, or how that relates to photobiomodulation, which is known for regulating calcium channels.
very interesting example of data analysis and it's practical implications. awsome blog post, and you won't hear me say that quickly.

"This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate. Please point out any mistakes if you see any!"

KEEP IT UP MATT! and data munging, not sure if it's a word, but it sounds nice :D
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I don't think it is Stripe that is the issue, it is up the chain. Mastercard, Visa, Amex, etc... also remember that we wanted to be able to take cards from all over the world, so that was another limiting factor in who we dealt with.

We had to do all of our own bare metal hosting cause at the time cloud companies wouldn't touch us.

What we ended up developing was our own micro currency 'kinks', which enabled a lot of other possibilities for us, like pay-per-minute video. Charge one larger purchase for something tangible and it helped prevent chargebacks.

We were also one of the first companies to do near realtime, live streaming 1080p HD video. I remember having to search around for an HD mixer cause nothing existed yet.
That's all fine and dandy but irrelevant since Crystal doesn't have a GIL (or, indeed, an interpreter). Threading does imply parallelism in this context.
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> China's military is 2x the size of the US by number of people.

And yet china has ~4.5x the number of people as the US.
Don't need to be ashamed of working for kink.com, or any adult site in that matter, especially in this day and age.

My fiance was upset at this news, to this day she is sad about it: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jan/25/porn-bdsm-ki...

(I'm not really into it, but I fully believe in to each their own!)
I've seen this too, but I've found ego is much more of a problem. I've seen doctors get locked into a course of action and get fixated on it. At that point, facts don't matter. They HAVE to be right. The other staff fall into line, because they have an ongoing work relationship, and only a transient connection to the patient.

It's good that at least for now there is still choice in facilities in our country. This would have been a much different outcome otherwise.
Tell him, not us.
They're not allowed to ask for a "systemic" change, which I think is how they're trying to get around the impossibility of an app providing stuff it doesn't have. They can ask/demand that whatsapp delivers an app update that only targets a particular person or persons, with some sort of backdoor, but not one that is a backdoor for all users.

Of course, there's a whole cost thing there as well as whether an overseas corporation is required to co-operate with AU law enforcement.

So theoretically, they could say "Whatsapp, give us a backdoored app. Telstra, push this app to these phones."

Or course, Whatsapp could argue that releasing a backdoored app is creating a "systemic vulnerability" which is specifically carved out of the requirements to co-operate.
yup. "git push -f" - allow it or ban it? Should git hooks run all tests locally?
What is the current recommendation for dependency management in Go for a new project?
They don't make any sense. Anyone planning something will now anticipate this. It only discourages honest people from staying in a traditional hotel. You can either relax in an air-bnb or worry about the hotel service demanding entry to your room (while being reminded of horrific mass shootings).
Yes, it's illegal, but it's part of every real market that has ever existed, and will ever exist. The circular logic IMHO is in thinking that the market can prevent this by itself, without having to go through corrections like we had in 2008.
You say you imagine different layouts cause problems and sending Unicode characters would be better, but you did not give a single reason.

I regularly use different keyboard layouts and it has never been a problem. It does not suppose any lost of time or engineering effort. When you have to usually communicate in different languages (which is common for the most part of the world), it is very useful.

I have also built several keyboards, and I cannot imagine the pain it would be having to define a key for every Unicode character.
Jgroups
Hi all,

Has any of you got any experience with JGroups in big enterprise applications ? I understand it is the default clustering mechanism for JBoss but that does not necessarily mean it is reckoned to be the best choice.

Googling for it does not return the same number of hits that a main project would return - let us say Google Guava - which per-se does not mean anything but give me another reason to ask.

Any enterprise hand-on experience with it ?
Ghana needs to develop laws to match its outer space ambitions
If any product presentation should be accompanied by lots of high quality demo videos, then this.
> We don't write C manually these days.

I do.
Is the interface for such a search publicly accessible?
I'm guessing 29h is kind of an upper limit on the most complex scenes.

But not all scenes have the same number of lights and elements.

It won't take 29h to render the title screen for example.
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To be clear, I was never ashamed of working for kink. My ex-wife was worried about her conservative parents. I was ok with respecting that.

I wasn't really into it that much either to be honest. It was fun and novel and I got to learn a lot, but I'm like you, to each their own. =)
Never though about it that way, it really seems that Factorio is a very good representation of actual software development without actually containing coding (except for the logic you can do through the cables if I remember).