skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia: "Liberal democracy is a liberal political ideology and a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of classical liberalism. Also called western democracy, it is characterised by elections between multiple distinct political parties, a separation of powers into different branches of government, the rule of law in everyday life as part of an open society, and the equal protection of human rights, civil rights, civil liberties and political freedoms for all people."

I promise you, I'm not in league with Wikipedia editors to make this stuff up. It is literally textbook.
Most companies outside and inside the Bay Area are things like individual law practices and barber shops. I'm a bit surprised to find such companies a topic of conversation on HN.
DNS root server keys?

Wonder if this has been used in any commercial transaction escrow systems.
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> And America tried the same tatic with Cuba and many other countries.

Do you have more information about this?
Most of the world, including the UN, the US, EU, Japan, South Korea, India, Russia and practically everybody else is not formally recognizing Taiwan.

Handful of small countries have still diplomatic relations with Taiwan, but I don't know what the significance is.
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In the system you envision without stacking, are all of the large blocks suspended from the crane simultaneously when the system is fully "charged"? That would require the crane to support a much higher max load.
>I am a Taiwanese millienial and I am deeply offended by this comment. Why would you say that the claim is understandable? ? Taiwan has been an independent democratic country with its own military, economy, culture, government, rules of law, and international relations for over 50 years.

Doesn't this answer your own question? 50 years are nothing in historical terms.
I don't know the law in the US, but here your medical information is private so they legally aren't allowed to give it to others
Russian interference in US elections has made a lot of Americans more hostile to autocracies. The effect varies in strength with political affiliation, and different groups within the country have held different levels of animus to autocracy over decades. But there is a base level of fundamental conflict between liberal society and illiberal society that never goes away.
"most fast and break things" only if you have an idea about the implications of your actions and you are confident you will be able to fix the broken parts which in production without losing revenue or customers.
Oh, I hadn't considered that interpretation of "need." I thought of "need" as being "the low floor below which I wouldn't accept an offer," which has nothing to do with how much I "need." I need so much less than I make to stay alive lol, cause I been there before.
Tourism drops.

I'd contrast that with other countries, which e.g. topple governments or downright invade, but that would be whataboutism, and whataboutism is bad /s
Don't buy stuff that's made in China, and optionally (but importantly) then email that CEO of the company whose stuff you decided not to buy that was made in China, explaining why.

The dragon doesn't care what you say about it so long as it's still being fed.
Reviving the Nixies
Hej, I'm one from around 16 people in the world creating nixie clocks out of soviet era old nixie tibes. So far I have built clocks with IN-14 and IN-12 tubes. What differs my nixie clocks from others good clocks is five transition effects, three flooring light effects, automatic tubes brightness control, easy replaceable tubes (I do not solder them and use special small PCBs for the tubes), IR remote control, I offer custom casings, premium package (really premium) However there is always a room for improvement and I would be glad to hear what you'd consider what also worth to add to the clocks.
I did not realize. Thanks for the correction.
They ADDED? Solid find, congratulations, that is extraordinarily rare!
Of course not. PRC is itself engaging in trade with Taiwan.

This is about handful of tiny countries who still maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan. For example United States is not formally recognizing Taiwan as a country.
Be critical and unsupportive of American businesses that work with the CCP. Cite explicitly their human rights record and policy on Taiwan. Don't swallow narratives about the vaguely positive outcomes that could come from collaboration with the regime, nor unquestioningly embrace ideologies that requires expansion into the mainland as a moral or logical necessity.
Yeah, it was decent. My experience was that it provided a lot of leads in a short amount of time. In a matter of a week, my plate was completely full, doing phone screens, take-home problems, and on-sites. Got several offers from some pretty cool startups at the end of it, and it was nice to have salary expectations up front.

I would say that I completely underestimated the amount of time required for it. It skews more towards startups, and it seems like take-home problems have become the norm in their application processes now. If you're going to take this route, I would recommend taking 2 weeks PTO from your day job to dedicate to this.

For my last job change, I took a much more passive approach. Over a period of a couple of months, I engaged with a couple of recruiters who reached out to me, only interviewing at 2 companies, and then took this job. Far more relaxing and less pressure. The only downside is that I felt like I had less negotiating power at the end.
By that logic, you could say the same for any country that has gotten its independence recently (say, Singapore)..
Spreadsheets are not databases... but everyone insists on using them as such, so this happens.
> But if you already know your range. All the steering in the world is not going to convince you to take a lower paying job.

Sure. But if the top of my range is $150k, and I'm talking to a company that would be willing to pay me $175k, it's not in my best interest to tell them that $150k is enough to hire me.

> My experience is that recruiters get paid a percentage of your first years salary from the company.

Generally, yes. But the exact percentage may differ from company to company.

Typical example are bad employers with high turnover. They need the recruiters to get a lot of new people in the door every year, while convincing these candidates to walk in the door is typically harder due to the employer's poor reputation. So they end up paying recruiters more, sometimes a lot more, per successful candidate.
Nice post. I've seen techniques like that used before, and I recommend their use.

One problem I see is that what counts as an "error" is ambiguous. I might call something one error, but others classify it as two errors. A more clear definition might be needed, but to first approximation the naive approach should be fine.
Yep, it is Portuguese (and a strong cultural ingredient in Portugal and Brazil)...
I remember this basic "argument" from my childhood. After getting caught doing something of dubious moral value a child would say "Well everyone else is doing it". You knew it was wrong but you did it anyway and justified it by pointing out that "everyone else" did it. One of these days I'd love to see a grown up country come along and just do the good thing. Probably never happen since people are the same everywhere and really only like to point out shortcomings when they aren't the beneficiary but it would be so nice to find that there actually is an adult somewhere in the room.
I think it is reasonable to expect China to topple foreign governments in the near future. It has a powerful military, a highly nationalist government and an ambition to own at least everything within the Nine Dash Line, or more.

And that's pretty scary because we in Hong Kong have felt the chilling effect of Chinese meddling into the judiciary, media and government.
The fake scrollbar on the documentation page is infuriatingly nonfunctional.
Don’t make the user provide information that the system already knows.... well, in several systems that I've worked on we "knew" several different versions of the information we were asking from the user. The question was : what did the user think right now. Truth... that's a different thing!
what does that even mean??? South Korea was established in 1948. Estonia was established in 1991. The world recognizes these legitimate countries.

From your past comment histories, it is clear you are pro China in every sense of the word. Maybe you should reexamine your values and see why you are so supportive of a disgusting government.
> why not imagine one where a properly managed and funded state or federal agency takes responsibility?

Why bother? Existing property law should be enough. If you poison water on my property, you pay me to make things right.

There’s no need for any government involvement besides civil courts, and investigative bodies (FBI, local detectives, etc).

In practice these property owners don’t really believe in private property. They think they can just dump contaminants onto other people’s property because containment is inconvenient.

It’s not a consistent moral position and their time is coming. There will be a reckoning and they will (financially) pay for their crimes. The arc of the law is long but bends towards justice.

Don’t get me started on the upcoming resolution of Native American and chattel slave property rights, which are as yet largely unadjudicated. Most (not all) property in this country was illegally seized, and he courts have yet to rule on the true ownership of most of those plots.
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The British tried a similar narrative with the War of 1812, and we in America are still alive and kicking. I hope the same for Taiwan and their independence.
The other side of the story is that Taiwan was was ruled as part of a single China for centuries, it was the final holdout of the KMT government that was defeated when the communists took over, and it too would have fallen if it had not been protected by the United States.

I'm on the side of independence as you are, but I can see why the PRC makes the claims it does.
Ask HN: Dynamic lowering “fast” graphic settings in games : Save a panda !
GTA V does it good : when ingame hardware is used at maximum capacities, when game menu open (pause / escape) hardware (GPU / CPU) consumption is 3-10 times lower and when game is alt-tabed, hardware consumption is near 0 (excepted data loaded in memory).
When I run some other games (Monster Hunter World at least) Hardware consumption is always 100%(or 100% of what requires 30-60 fps).

I wonder if some kind of norms exists in game engines / best practice in video game world to make this feature more generic (I'd like to avoid killing extra polar bears when playing).

I think lowering consumption in games could be done automatically or with a manual option

Any sources / ideas / suggestions ?
...and apparently the same issue exists in Dropbear up until current version (2018.76 / Feb 2018), which has an entirely different code base. A comment on /r/blackhat [0] led a colleague and me to look at Dropbear's sources, and it happens to have logic that is sufficiently similar [1] for the same PoC to work; tests against v2018.76 and a couple of earlier versions (e.g. v2013.58) are successful.

Shodan shows some 66k services identifying as SSH-2.0-dropbear [2], as opposed to some 15k identifying as SSH-2.0-OpenSSH [3].

Issue has been reported to the vendor today.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/blackhat/comments/97ywnm/openssh_us...

[1] https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/svr-auth.c#L175-...

[2] https://www.shodan.io/search?query=SSH-2.0-dropbear

[3] https://www.shodan.io/search?query=SSH-2.0-OpenSSH
Sometimes there's side considerations which are technically simple but logistically hard to work around. Technical differentiation is only one way to gain a competitive advantage, but it's also not necessarily the most important advantage. For example, it would be incredibly difficult to compete with Walmart unless you had a network large enough to compete with its effects on the entire production chain. Only someone else like Amazon can compete in that space, and it's not because they're technically superior, it's because they're friggin' huge.
Could US be the first in a few years? Given the outrage when Taiwanese president visited a Taiwanese coffee shop in LA last week.

European countries appear to be content to please the Chinese government, be it on trade or in academia.
Don't. If you're going to name a number, name the number. Don't hem and haw about it.
Go back further and Taiwan was under Japanese occupation and the People's Republic of China didn't yet exist.

So if the short timescale discounts Taiwan shouldn't it also discount China?
As the past 60 years of US Military action have made abundantly clear, even for the best military on the planet by quite a margin no war is “easy” to win. Now, granted, China won’t agonize about collateral damage the way we do, but even then it’s not “easy”, especially if you plan to take permanent control of the territory afterwards. For that to happen, the overwhelming majority of the country has to _want_ such control, and the remaining people have to not be too heavily invested in the idea of independence. It’s pretty much the opposite of what you see in Taiwan.
It's entirely possible if Taiwan has an even more pro-democracy government than it has now.

I can imagine China can easily sacrifice the entire trade with Taiwan if the sensitive issues are concerned.
Yet another article with misleading information about “psychopathy” (“sociopathy”, “antisocial personality disorder”, etc).

The fundamental pattern these terms are all trying to address is the same: antisocial behavior, or a consistent pattern of behavior that harms others. Do we all have it in us to act selfishly sometimes? Yes. Just like we all have it in us to act altruistically. Psychopathy is a spectrum with Mother Theresa on one end and Hitler on the other. (I realize Mother Theresa may not have actually been all that saintly in real life, but bear with me for the sake of argument.)

The major flaw in the article is how it focuses on someone who was eventually diagnosed as a psychopath after seeking treatment. The issue here is that the people who are actually dangerous, i.e. very high on the Hare psychopathy checklist, i.e. true psychopaths, are never going to voluntarily be diagnosed. Real psychopaths don’t seek treatment to change their behavior. If they get caught, they try to destroy whoever exposed them, and if that doesn’t work, they move on to new targets and start over.

My point is that we need a consistent way to refer to people who are dangerous social predators. It doesn’t matter what the term is, sociopath, psychopath, ASPD, whatever. What matters is that the term doesn’t get watered down or confused with other so-called personality disorders which don’t share this aspect of harm to others. For example, aspergers/autism has absolutely nothing to do with psychopathy. If the term “psychopath” becomes meaningless, then it becomes harder to talk about and expose the real predators in our midst. In other words, the psychopaths win.
Please accept my sincerest condolences for the death of your family member.

In some ways I followed a similar path to that of your relative, in part because I often obtain validation by publicly satirizing elements of society I think are wrong. I've found satire the best tool in my toolbox at sparking conversation and even changing minds.

I've considered your proposal, and respectfully choose to continue the path I'm on. Whether or not you agree with it, I hope you'll believe that my motive is to cast a negative light on the victimizers and not the victims.

Best regards to you and yours
> This kind of data-driven accountability (or surveillance, depending on your opinion) is anathema to the culture of many public agencies.

There are already cases where the public ignores legitimate data and records because it contradicts their narrative. For example, instances where body cameras have unequivocally exonerated police officers.

Ultimately, on some issues which have become unnecessarily political, I believe that the public will decide to ignore the data to the extent that they make the same decisions they would if ignorance were the only option.
So, what shouldn't i do in production? This article was unhelpful.
Working with interns at hospitals is so frustrating, when you have a real problem. W were assigned one that added zero value, and in fact caused harm by waking my kid up to do meaningless checks in the middle of the night. I snapped and told him (and his friend who was attached at the hip) to fuck off, and we didn't see him again. I know interns need to learn, but there's got to be a better way than this, seriously.
The FN ones haven't been refreshed, therefore they're MacBookPro14,1 (mid 2017). I can't find a link right now for a source but it was mentioned in various sources from teardowns to discussions about provisioned setups and Linux installs.
From your comments, it is clear you are pro China in every sense of the word. Maybe you should reexamine your values and see why you are so supportive of a disgusting government.

That's quite an overreaction, considering the person you are replying to did not mention China at all.
It's a card that they only get to use once per capability, unless it's in a discrete manner.
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If you want to learn more about the life of Barbara Payton, the brilliant Hollywood history podcast You Must Remember This did an episode on her last year: http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2017/4/3/...
The US claimed Cuba as a part of its territory?
Nice page, but http://m.clinmed.rcpjournal.org/content/17/3/263.full
> My main reason for that claim is simply that I live in Britain

Me too, currently coming up to 50 years.

> https://yougov.co.uk/opi/browse/Tommy_Robinson

That's favourability of Mr Robinson, not his beliefs though.
Unfortunately a lot of that focus on c spine has been driven by insurance providers (public and private). The costs of someone surviving with a long term spinal injury are much higher than someone who dies.

In wildness first responder training they use to focus so much on c spine it was assured. If someone has an arterial bleed are you really going to make sure you are slow and careful with the spine or are you going to put a tourniquet on it as fast as possible? You should certainly be very careful with possible spinal injury, but it's not always the most important thing.
Pseudo constant time implementations ofTLS are only pseudo secure
This is precisely why FOIA and its complements are so important. :)
>Just install ssh on your phone

Which ssh app would you recommend?
If VC's stop pumping money, Uber might not exist, but I highly doubt the 'ridesharing market' is going away.
>sign up for any of the providers of free shell accounts

Recommendation?
How Dock.io Will Challenge LinkedIn Business Model
Michael Nielson open access case study
The snippet of code copied from a blog into production software was only a small detail. You obviously missed the entire point of the article.
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One thing I discovered recently is that the most common vitamin D test significantly undercounts D2, although there is another test that is more accurate in that case (I'm guessing it is also more expensive). Since D2 is added to a number of processed foods these days, many people who test low with the common test may not actually be low.
It’s not exact, and depends a lot on conditions, but the half life of DNA is reportedly around 521 years. Maybe if it was frozen that would slow down considerably, but in this case I’d guess were at least 98 million years too late.
Hello all, sorry I actually lost the burner password. I will look now over the comments.
A lot of things contain errors because of Excel "helpfully" changing data. Speaking as someone who's spent a lot of time dealing with databases and spreadsheets provided by non-technical people to input.
China's current government is 69 years old. China and Taiwan governments are roughly the same age, arguably Taiwan is older by 2 year based on the earlier formation of its constitution, the government fled to Taiwan the same year the PRC was formed, 1949.
Using a throwaway, because of my position.

I recently withdrew an offer to a VP candidate because he negotiated too much (without being a jerk). He probably took advice from an article like this, and he wanted a) higher pay b) more vacation time c) special dispensation for items involving pay and time whose effect is even more pay.

He has been pursuing me to accept my original offer for the past 2 months and I have been lukewarm because I got turned off.

Summary: all successful negotiation comes down to leverage and it all comes to who has the leverage in a given situation. If you don't have the leverage, you may want to think about how much you negotiate. I have been in situations when I had no leverage at all, like my first job - where I had only one job offer, due to a) irrelevant educational credentials b) tough economic times - and thankfully, I had not read articles like this and that job led me to life outcomes that today I am quite successful and wealthy.

One of my classmates negotiated hard for that same job, and while he got more money, he left a bad taste in people and eventually got fired (I won't say he got fired because he negotiated hard in the beginning but he started out with a negative vibe, and I heard that from managers, and it went downhill from there). In fact, later on, when I became successful, he approached me for a job, and again negotiated hard with me. I passed him on.

So don't just blindly follow advice like this article. In fact, don't just blindly follow any advice, including mine. Negotiate if your situation permits, and know when your situation doesn't permit.
HP-15c is a work of art. I made it through college using the Voyage-200(souped up TI-89).
> It’s touched on obliquely, but psychopaths are impulsive and in constant need of stimulation, which, because of their diminished emotional responses, they largely derive from anti-social behavior. Its adrenaline inducing response is one of the few ways they can “feel.”

Another way to look at this is that psychopaths seek and respond to different kinds of stimulation. They have little interest in gossip, hanging out or generalized bonding rituals. Instead they may be drawn to competitive, "results-oriented" games where individuals or groups have a clear objective. They may also, on the whole, be more drawn to "high-stakes" games because they perceive less downsides and more potential upsides to such games. Again, this doesn't suggest any real malicious intent. Psychopaths are just using different risk metrics. While some people may shy away from high-stakes status games because they are very sensitive to the potential loss of status, to a psychopath, "loss of status" isn't a thing and so such games can be perceived as pure upside.

> It’s a typical psychopathic lapse into bragging about one’s ability to manipulate or inspire fear in others, albeit under the guise of the ability to “feel concern.”

Again you seem to deliberately attributing some kind of malign intent without justification. This woman is trying to explain how she relates to others and why. There's no reason to think she is lying or that she cannot actually feel concern.
[2016] One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel