skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I remember when Romney was running for president, he kept saying that Russia was a big threat, and that we were underestimating them.

That's why Russia didn't want Mitt Romney to become Trump's secretary of state:

"Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Russia-backed online “trolls” flooded social media to try to block Mitt Romney from securing a top job in the incoming administration, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows."[1]

"Putin’s former secretory, Igor Sechin counts Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump’s secretary of state, as a close personal friend, after the two men — during Tillerson’s time as Exxon Mobil CEO — struck a 2012 agreement that entailed investments by Exxon and Rosneft worth $500bn. When sanctions imposed on Sechin and Rosneft imperilled that deal and banned him from visiting the US, Russia’s response was to lament that he could no longer “ride the roads of the United States on motorcycles with Tillerson”."[2]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-trolls-tried-to-torpedo...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/dc7d48f8-1c13-11e8-aaca-4574d7dab...
That’s not because people suddenly don’t want houses. It’s because costs have inflated up and wages are lower and less secure.

There’s a lot of noise here about how houses are fundamentally wasteful, we should all be living in apartments, etc. Thats all reflective of a young audience dealing with reality.

Houses are no more or less practical than they were in 1978. The difference is that on average, each household today is poorer than the last two generations in real terms.
Ask HN: Trademark approach for global startup?
For those who run global businesses, how did you go about doing trademarks?

Submit in home country then madrid protocol or other? And did you do it yourself or hire a trademark attorney? In my case it's for a website and an app.

Thanks!
just don't post anything from slate, there is no way to opt-out from their tracking shit
This is why so called 'free speech' is dangerous on social media. Hate speech is not 'free speech' and these platforms allow vitriolic small-minded racists to stymie progress and integration.

I think anyone espousing backwards evil anti-immigration rhetoric should face legal action and probably jail-time, the effect of their actions is very real! People are living in fear!
It's almost as if companies roll out features to a certain percentage of users to test them before rolling them out to everyone.
I went down the rabbit hole.

Best terminal branches I found are:

* HP created something they claimed was a memristor [1]

* there were thermodynamic arguments about why it wouldn't work [2]

* HP discontinued the architecture based on the component [3]

1. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/hp-la...

2. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1207/1207.7319.pdf

3. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/29/hp_labs_delivered_m...
...and qualitatively different. Where children have the deep concepts/relationships and poor rendering machines fake output with rendering/mimickery ability. These attempts show where the weaknesses are. When the pictures get better then it's more sensible to allow more control (ignoring any singularity).

Having jokingly brought that up, it's the best reason for hybridizing implants. "We should all just learn to get along" still applies.
is it just me? i thought this old school email client is getting an update after a decade?
For fiction I read e-books.

However for all technical books, things like O’Reilly, No Starch, etc, I always buy physical. The decision to do that has very much 10x my learning. Even when it comes to long documentation (MySQL is an astounding 5,000+ pages) I’ll usually print out portions to cover if it’s reasonable.

I don’t know why this has increased my learning so much. The best I can come up with is that memory is based on some kind of spatial geography + other stuff. As I’m working on something, like configuring a CentOS server to a lengthy CIS Security Benchmark, I can recall in books what the page looked like, where I was when I read it, the feel of the page, and the part of the text I underlined in pen. Very strange.
I suppose my own experience differs from the symptoms of a chronic sufferer, but I used to completely dismiss notions of "panic attacks". My thought was "why can't they just take a breather and calm down?"

Then one day I smoked too much marijuana and then had to go to a kids birthday party whose family I didn't know. About 10 minutes in I had what I can only describe as a panic attack. My face turned gray. My heart was probably beating somewhere around 190bpm. I was sweating profusely. I had to leave the party and on my drive home I was worried I might suddenly die and then veer into traffic. I nearly drove myself to the emergency room because I thought I was going to have a heart attack.

If that was a panic attack, I can't imagine what it must be like to suffer something like that chronically. It was utter hell.
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Can you please share why do you advice to stay at a company for 2 years?
If someone is not getting challenging kind of work to push your knowledge and technology beyond limits?
And how to portrait your accomplishments in resume for such role when u r just building API's
Just FYI, when I tried to go to your site it doesn't resolve without the leading www.

Also you have a typo: "Outwith" -> "Without"

Best of luck with your launch!
Slightly related, but radio did in fact fuel Hitler and the Nazi party. From this wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempf%C3%A4nger):

> Most famously, Hitler's architect and Minister for Armaments and War Production, Albert Speer, said in his final speech at the Nuremberg trials:

> Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made the complete use of all technical means for domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and loudspeaker, 80 million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man..
The breast milk thing makes me think: If a substantial portion of the DDT is removed from the mother through breast milk, what difference does it make for subsequent children? And could it be somehow exploited to help remove more of the risk?
Someone made the same comment to me the other day.

I said "Either it's the Americans or the Chinese spying on my, either way I'm fucked". I feel like it's safe to assume that most consumer hardware is backdoored/cracked by one intelligence agency or another.
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Can you please share why do you advice to stay at a company for 2 years? If someone is not getting challenging kind of work to push your knowledge and technology beyond limits? And how to portrait your accomplishments in resume for such role when u r just building API's
My favorite fictional-sounding-but-real storage device is the Stringy Floppy!

When I hung out at Radio Shack after school to play with the TRS-80's, some guy came by and showed his off, and I was in awe, and so jealous at how fast it was! I was sure that Stringy Floppies were the wave of the future. You didn't need to rewind them like tapes, because they wound back around!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exatron_Stringy_Floppy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBfNy021K2Q

Then there was the Transputer!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
Ask HN: Seattle Smokey air dangers – scientific resources?
Hi all,
I’m in Seattle this week for work. As many of you know, there is a lot of smoke in the air from Canadian wildfires. I see a lot of mitigation efforts. Some seem rediculous. Others seem like overkill. Can anyone point me to scientific resources discussig health risks and mitigation efforts? So far I’ve only found mainstream media unscientific hyperbole.
Isn't that fantastic? The whole idea that developer productivity (and thus, tool support) shouldn't be a part of programming language design has been flawed from the beginning and I'm happy times are finally changing.
I had my entire marketing site copied, word-for-word. I still have no idea why (other than perhaps to damage google ranking due to duplicate content?).

I reported it to google, and they removed it from search results in a few days. I also reported it to the site's host, who took it down completely.
The point this article (and the research behind it) try to make is that the Filter Bubbles social media sites rely on to drive engagement are themselves inherently harmful.

If true thats the closest thing we’ve see to an attack on the heart of facebook.
Did you forget a link?
Is it possible that losing one's taste for Hesse is simply a result of age and career choice? Critics, professional readers, have a very different mission than casual readers like me. It's their job to sift through great piles of words to find what's important. I have no such burden -- I've found that time and exposure to the internet have made me more interested in challenging books, not less.
I'm not emotionally attached to the company. There are things I like, and those things outweigh the negative parts, so I'm not sure how this comes across as an emotional thing.

I'm not being paid below market, actually, I'm above market for a software engineer, but I think I'm doing more than "just a software engineer".

What I'm looking for is how to strategically do what I'm about to do keeping in mind that I see myself staying more than just another year to make it to the 2 year mark.
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I'm the same.

I still buy textbooks to this day because I find it far easier to absorb technical information from that medium.
More Ghostscript Issues, “I expect there to be several dozen unique bugs.”
"one of a thousand small influences"

That's the point. The election was so close there were likely at least a thousand different things that, had they gone slightly differently, would have shifted the election to Hillary.

Russian interference accounted for a small number of these, but there were so many more that aren't getting any attention.
Nothing too revelatory here, but I can certainly agree with the ideas presented. So many of us are used to a constant, reliable dopamine drip while reading things on the internet that larger texts bore us. The conclusion at the end of the piece is right, though--it just takes willpower.

Choosing delayed gratification in the form of good, rich, long-form writing is a lot like choosing a balanced diet. The benefits of traipsing through difficult texts may not be readily apparent but doing so invariably pays dividends for years to come.
I do remember Datomic and I think it's a great tool but I fell out of love with the Clojure ecosystem and JVM-based languages as a whole and don't think I'll be getting back into it/them.

I do remember wanting to check out Datomic (I believe after seeing a talk on how it was being used at a bank in southern america?[0]), but I found it unreasonably hard to find and download/experiment with the community edition -- compare this to something like Postgres which is much more obvious, more F/OSS compliant (I understand that they need to make money) and Datomic doesn't really look that appealing to me these days.

At this point in my learning of software craftmanship I can't do non-statically type-checked/inferenced languages anymore -- I almost never use JS without Typescript for example. Typed clojure was in relatively early stages when I was last actively using clojure, and I'm sure it's not bad (probably way more mature now), but it's a staple in other languages like Common Lisp (the declare form IIRC). The prevailing mood the clojure community seemed to be against static type checking and I just don't think I can jive with that anymore.

Thinking this way right now Datomic wouldn't be a good fit for me pesonally but I believe that it is probably high quality paradigm.

[EDIT] - I found the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lm3K8zVOdY

[0]: https://www.datomic.com/nubanks-story.html
How about server-side rendering ?
This is the most plausible rationale for doing it with blockchains (see also: many other blockchains)

The whole system appears to rely on a trusted group certifying the [probable] authenticity of an individual's records and Rohingya refugee status, in which case you might as well let them host it on a well-backed up regular database...
Oracle was my first guess too, but this isn't exactly proof either.
That sounds very difficult to carry around. I think for people who haven’t had panic attacks even impossible to really comprehend.

Have you tried any other treatments like CBT or EMDR? Sometimes after a traumatic event the brain can be guided into reprocessing / repacking the memory of the event in a way that somehow relieves these kinds of after-effects.
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Seeing that and liking Elm I have to tell that GatsbyJS (https://www.gatsbyjs.org/) outputs really fast end-products. Is that possible with Elm too?
Not to belittle panic attacks, for which I've suffered a couple during my lifetime and yes, they are quite scary, but am I the only one clicking on this thinking I'd be reading about kernel panic attacks?
Yeah, I have no doubt that it did. Powerful tools can be a double edged sword. A method of communication doesn't put evil in someone's heart.

Maybe they'll find a way to boot them off Facebook, but then they'll just use vk or another platform I'd assume. The same platform that allowed some bad actors to fester allowed us to be aware of their presence, write articles on how it happens, and become more aware of how hate breeds from cultural conflict.
I did not advice anyone to stay at a company for two years. And I wouldn't advice anything that drastical based on a short HN text and some vague interpretation of what op is up for.

IF someone is unchallenged as you imply I'd say a good first step would be to talk to your superior before following a generic "change company every two years" advice for no reason.
It seems very human to extrapolate from our own mental health to assume other people experience things like we do.
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Thank you! This site is beautiful. How is it sustainable?
Could anyone comment on the likely state of Linux drivers for these new cards?

I've anecdotally, previously been recommended to use either AMD or Intel GPUs, even when out performed by Nvidia, because their open source drivers will usually easier to deal with.

Is this still the case?

My own use case would be mainly for Blender.
Hoping for a corporate congress?
Congrats on the release! I have very high hopes for Elm in the future, and I think it truly shifts the paradigm of frontend development.

On an attempt to use Elm in production I ended up switching back to Javascript. The biggest issue I faced was lack of type-classes, which made certain parts of the code feel like I was pulling teeth to get Elm's type system to be happy. Perhaps this is more of an issue of expecting Elm to be more like Haskell than it is.

I hope Elm is able to get more adoption, and with it more examples of idiomatic approaches to problems in Elm's style. However this somewhat feels like a chicken-and-egg problem.

Regardless, this release looks great for people using it in production already!
The two years part was the “what works for 90% of the people 90% of the time” type of advice. From what I have read on HN and from my personal anecdotal experience is that a job stint of less than two years looks bad on your resume unless you have a good reason and a good story to tell - layoff, contracting, etc.

On the other hand, if you start interviewing after a year, what’s the harm? There are only two outcomes. You won’t find a job until year two and you won’t be considered a “job hopper” or you will and it doesn’t matter.
Exactly. I was advised since I was a kid eardrums are easy to puncture so don't go manually fucking around with your ears. If I have water in an ear I'd lay on one side and let it drain.
The real Elm has been at version 2.5.8 for many years. Why didn't these guys pick a name not already used by a famous piece of software?
Let's not get too far ahead ourselves in reinterpreting the past. Romney wanted a Russian threat for military spending, specifically another aircraft carrier, and to rally the base; at this time Russia was still the GOP's enemy of choice (how much things change in 5 years).

He did turn out to be right, but Im not sure how useful a Cold War mindset of guns and bombs rather than bits and propaganda really is in the 21st century.
One used to get excited with Apple's new Mac and related product, but after Touch bar, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, Keyboard, killing off AirPort, Time Capsule. I simply has lost all the faith I had. Luckily Mac mini and MacBook Air are mostly dead products anyway, any changes to them cant be any worst.

They might as well take time to make a better ( thicker ) mouse. Their mouse has been crap for many years.
I think that the over clocking cheat is a bit different if they are honest about and say the phone, when overclocked, are actually capable of this. The DSLR image is not possible in any case.
I Just Hacked a State Election. I’m 17. And I’m Not Even a Very Good Hacker
I don't buy this old argument at all anymore.

If customers are smart enough to figure out a 20% tip they're smart enough to figure out that your "tips included" pricing is still competitive compared to the place across the street.

Sure there is some marketing benefit to a lower number but regulars will make or break a solid business and they talk, a lot.

So no, I dont think staying competitive is an argument for anything other than lacking the balls to put a sign up and fix your pricing.

On top of that the net benefits from paying your staff a livable dependable wage, and advertising the fact you don't have to subsidize free loaders will likely outweigh any negative effects for all but the scummiest joints relying on one time customers.
I live in central Europe where inflation hovers between 1.5 and 2%, so anything in that ballpark would be just laughable, i.e. keeping my salary where it was until now.

I'm looking for something along the lines of "you are informally the tech lead, and starting with September you are also formally the tech lead, along with benefits and salary".
I think she has a very valid point, since I didn't finish the article at all, and merely hopped over various phrasea in the first couple of paragraphs before feeling compelled to post here, and then move on to other stuff.

Semantic dyslexia, perhaps.
Why do you think broadcast media was regulated?

Radio and video in particular is and was a threat to the democratic process because it magnifies the power the demagoguery.

Turn on AM radio sometime. It’s a sea of bizarre right wing syndicated propaganda 24/7. It’s no coincidence that the rise of unhindered broadcasting is correlated with modern fascism.
The water reflections are better, but the non-RTX water is already pretty good; the last link with the fire reflection is pretty baller though.
Or, you should see a big difference in breast fed children vs those that had formula. I'm pretty sure that variable has been heavily researched without any significant difference.
Apple, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Netflix, WhatsApp Are Hiring BSD Devs and Admins
Thanks for the shout out. Is there a good tutorial you could recommend for containerd?

I am looking for features similar to Norton Ghost bust faster than waiting for installers every time I build.
This is basically the idea behind the Language Server Protocol. The language toolchain provides a server and the IDE is a client.

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
The internet has been a series of echo chambers practically since its inception. That's how human society works most of the time.

You don't need algorithms for that. People will just naturally delete or block people they don't like seeing content from. And they will join communities containing people and content they do like seeing. e.g. Stormfront, which was founded in 1996.

The difference now is that it's just a lot easier for the common person to find one for themselves with the expansion of internet access and ease of use. And common people are just honestly not as progressive as the average person involved in computing technology.
I suppose that makes you feel better to know that you’re one of the 10% beat up because of some social media drivel.
There's a million reasons. "Pretend to take a selfie so we can check the lighting." "Let's try a few different poses so the director has some options to choose from for the layout." "Let me take one with my other camera for a wardrobe reference."

Have you never made up a dummy report in HTML just so the designer could check the colors and layout? Do you refuse to work on any prototype that doesn't use live data?
Surprisingly mild NY piece given Singer's reputation as a lowest of the low vulture capitalist.
https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/argentinas-ratio...
I kind of agree with you, startups have to fix 'mistakes' fast instead of just making others feel pleased? i.e. the so-called 'fire fast', otherwise it might fail more likely. In that sense, YC probably did a wrong move even though it's labelled as an experiment.
> Right after it happened I went to see my regular doctor and got a prescription for medication that can calm me down in that situation.

This seems so stereotypically American to me.

> But the real solution has come from many years of trying to understand the root causes of the panic and anxiety and working to deal with them.

What the doctor should have helped doing in the first place.
> That's how human society works most of the time.

No, that's how it breaks apart and dies.
Manufacturers are bombarded with phishing attacks
As a data point, we've recently moved our (sqlitebrowser.org) downloads from GitHub to 2 of those 3.99EU/month ARM servers (ARM64-2GB).

People are downloading just over 30GB/day (each weekday) per server, and the servers only seem very lightly loaded.

If the source for whatever runs the needed forums can work on ARM64, then these cheapo servers seem pretty decent so far. :)
It's not "anti-intellectualism" to be skeptical of the word of someone who stands to directly benefit from the course of action they recommend. I'm quite sure that the ASCE is a fine organization populated by conscientious and well-meaning people, but there's a reason why scientists use double-blind studies, and why judges recuse themselves from cases in which they have an interest.

I agree that we shouldn't take skepticism of expertise too far, and I'm rather baffled at how you'd attribute the sentiment you're denouncing to my comment. What I want is more evidence from more sources. Only the most uncharitable reading of my point would conclude I'm advocating any srt of anti-intellectualism.
I feel discomfort reading “I feel discomfort and uneasy” because discomfort is a noun and uneasy is an adjective.
Does anything stop the scraper from using DCMA on the original site?
I have never had this problem. I have felt panic but it never became a full blown attack. I'm not sure what the difference between an attack and anxiety is.
Russia can’t do anything, Unless you are Ukraine(invaded), Georgia or Europe (remember that fuel crisis and pipelines) that is.

Or the United States in our case.

Or Syria (Russia is assad’s Primary backer)..

So yeah, remember when Democrats ridiculed Romney for his Russia statements and Obama and HRC declared it was time for a “reset button” for the bad relationship betweeen the Bush white goose and Russia?

Or how about their efforts to back certain black lives matter groups and pro police group on the other hand to stroke racial tension does that not matter?

Or their current effort to discredit Republican
Who have split from Trump.

We still live in that world, And the consequences for people both in the United States and outside of the United States are immense.

At some point this stops looking like normal relationships and start looking like an act of war