skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Antiwar sentiment goes up under Republican presidents and down under Democratic ones, which suggests that it has something to do with domestic politics.
They kept it no set agenda. My manager tried to tell me we should fight management.

I left.

Either (he|she) wanted me to leave or that place is in the middle of a fight I don't want to be apart of.

Stay on topic of technology please.
Paul Romer was supporting a similar idea to this a few years ago, but more as an engine for smaller, less developed countries to attract international talent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Romer#Charter_cities
This article only evaluates self-balancing binary trees. Binary trees have terrible cache properties and something like a B-tree (or LSM-tree for the write-heavy variant, or B-eta trees) will have much better performance than an AVL tree.
Also stops being cool when all the self-surveillance and tools end up being compromised by adversaries.

Don't create a weapon, if you don't want your enemies to have it too.
Do you ever post your before and after projects with maybe some tips? I’d love to see that.
And the guy in charge of that got fired. Apple held itself accountable for that mistake. Meanwhile at Google, they continue to double down on privacy-hostile business practices.
I think it's this way so that people can't steal things and say 'oh I thought it was rubbish'.
I would love to see biofuel done with surplus milk. It's full of excess fat, so it shouldn't be too hard to convert it to biodiesel or candles.

I have heard of vodka made from milk[1]. I would really like to try that one. There's also milk beers[2]. Although I don't like the taste of them.

[1]: https://www.blackcow.co.uk/

[2]: http://allaboutbeer.com/article/milk-stout-2/
There is a difference between term life insurance, which you’re referring to, and universal life insurance. Social Security is indeed similar to universal life insurance.
It's not about a 'licence' - we don't have licenses for rubbish collection - it's about permission from the person who owns the rubbish.
Ask HN: Have you designed or created a physical product? If so, what is it?
I suspect that the majority of developers today are creating digital-only products.

But what about those of you who have created a physical product? What is the product you created and what motivated you to create it?

It doesn't have to be computing-related - anything physical counts e.g. a piece of electronic equipment, a board game you designed, a custom mouse mat...the list is probably endless.

Would be great hear your thoughts. Thank you :-)
There's no need for a greater purpose or a deeper need or a technical goal.

Someone wanted it and decided to make it. That's all there is to it.
Once again, no. It was response to "Someone would need my apple id, my password, access to one of my apple devices."

The Elcomsoft's article explicitly claims that no, you don't need Apple Id and password when you have an access to the device and the passcode.

And nobody was able to disprove these very specific claims that are the actual topic of Elcomsoft's article.

What you assert, in the words you assert "the sum of changes would make this a weaker target", was claimed nowhere as the "argument". From the two paragraphs I've quoted the first was a mere introduction (how the reduced security level was achieved, specifically, "Combined together, these seemingly small changes made devastating synergy", and yes, such changes can actually make the system easier to exploit, everybody wit experience in this field knows that). The second was explicit:

"The passcode. This is all that’s left of iOS security in iOS 11. If the attacker has your iPhone and your passcode is compromised, you lose your data"

It was just your interpretation, based only on one of the only two paragraphs I've quoted (and your unawareness of both the second paragraph and the whole article) which obviously missed the whole point. Yes, the user "convenience" decisions did lead to having the Apple Id password irrelevant (obtainable by just a plain and typically simpler passcode). Sorry that you missed that. Any I won't reply to this thread anymore, because I've written all the arguments. Anybody can check the whole thread and compare.

And yes, also read the Elcomsoft's article and prove them wrong, if they are wrong. But I haven't seen anybody achieving that up to now.
I'd say def not rare, but it never feels very common to me either relative to the posts on similar technologies like Lisp, Prolog...etc. So I can understand the parent comments view.
> based on requester identity or motivation

No, but they should decide based on the data requested. And in this case the data requested is none of the requesters business since it involves the privacy of other citizens.

Which definitely could be in contravention of other laws and in cases like that judges usually get to decide which weighs heavier. If I were a civil servant faced with a request that releases information that I felt would infringe on some other law I would definitely not decide to be the one to make the call and release it without a sign-off.

There isn't just one law at work here.
If you're interested in this you can dig deeper at https://farm.ewg.org
The "rebuild from scratch" integration server does not.
Perhaps Canada isn't sufficiently "grand", but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Garneau
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Payette

respectively the first Canadian and just one of the twelve Canadians to have been in space.

How about Spain? Recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Duque

(There are at least two current MEPs who have been in space, but I will grant you that few people in most EU member-states can name their own MEP, let alone any of the others elected from their country).

One might also compare John Glenn, who while alive, was certainly well known in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn

Certainly there are many U.S. and Canadian astronauts who have never been anything close to well known public figures, but both sets certainly have enjoyed state propaganda (even on the official state broadcaster): https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canada-s-astronauts-1.875... (for example)

Perhaps "grand scheme" implies international name recognition?

How soon Chris Hadfield's international prominence fades away is an open question; he certainly appears in the UK often enough (he was a "get" -- as in an invited guest the production staff felt fortunate to have present -- on more than one of the the annual BBC astronomy shows put together by Brian Cox and Dara Ó Briaian) and he has been on a number of other broadcasts as part of an "outreach" programme. You yourself may well remember him from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
Like all things involving subsidies and the economy, there is an amazing Planet Money episode on this.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/05/02/607787950/epis...
Apple does not.
Standford?
Do you mean the US (territory) itself is threatened, or do you mean the ability for "power projection" (to arbitrary places around the globe) is going to be hindered? What exactly is it that you fear?

If another country were to surpass the US military capabilities, more budget, more high-tech, more soldiers (let's say all of those), do you think that alone would mean a territorial threat to the US?

I mean, given that ever single country that isn't the US has lived with this exact situation for many decades, even if we assume it happens, why is that a problem? Even from a US point of view. When I say "US" I think we may also have to look at who exactly benefits, is it the majority of citizens?

I think there are a lot of potential very interesting questions that could be asked and answered. Just saying "this is bad" is not enough, not by itself, but mostly because I think you can start some really good discussions if you look at details. This includes questions about how and why one comes to the opinion that one chooses to express, not just that opinion itself. Seeing the path, the justification, is I think very valuable. Even more so when such fears lead to such extraordinary results as never before seen weapons and same for military spending.
sure, got a link though?
Saying “you didn’t try hard enough” is not a counter-argument.

Providing examples is a counter-argument.
It's not sloppy, it's what the law allows for. You seem to have a misunderstanding in stating "the metadata should have only contained anonymized entries for the email addresses of the counterparties." That's simply incorrect in terms of what is allowed under law and for the request, though there is some variation state-to-state as to their FOIA.
Are companies like Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics not tech companies?

Why do people think DARPA funds those challenges?
Kids don't work like cars. For cars, you can trade them in and buy a new one when you feel like it if you have the cash. You can buy a clunker, treat it poorly, and then when it dies nothing is stopping you from buying a Lexus to replace it (if you have the money). Kids don't work like that. You can't give a kid a mediocre childhood for until 10th grade, and then throw enough money at it to make it as though your kid had a great education, upbringing, and enrichment opportunities throughout all of childhood.

Of course there are people who don't have much money and still do their best to raise their kids as best they can. But the reality is that things like education and upbringing do have a significant impact, and often getting the best out of those things takes a significant mount of money.
With the statement from Wozniak saying that after Apple bought Siri the results from queries became way worse. Instead of coming up with the actual 5 lakes it now comes up with some realtors.
I don't think it's anti-war per se, just anti-current-US-MIC-activities. Given an enemy worth fighting, I don't think the sentiment would be that strong. Who really wants to work on tech focused on bombing brown people far away?

No matter, the budget is vast to train up people in house, plenty of young people will relish the tech for the tech's sake.
I mean the 'things' that appear on web pages, the prompts to sign up for newsletters, accept cookies, create accounts, install apps. They are difficult to block because they're part of the document (rather than a new pop up window) and can be implemented a million and one ways.
This recent rash of stories has generally involved on the order of dozens to a couple of hundred employees making mild protests, generally not even employees anywhere near the actual defense/government projects.

Probably they should just spin those divisions off into a different sister company under the Alphabet umbrella.
Pharo has something called the playground or something along those lines which is basically a fully editable REPL and editor.
While this is true, why not just get a raspberry pi zero or whatever?
Something that just occurred to me after reading this description of it: would "programming-as-teaching" not be the ideal workflow for something like Kubernetes or Docker containers running in volatile cloud VMs?

Basically I'm a "code-as-carpentry" guy who's progressively being required to write applications in a way that DevOps can readily consolidate in our cloud provider for optimal resource use. But I don't have a lot of experience developing for this environment, so some problems like scheduling tasks are proving difficult (apparently this is doable with message queues but I haven't had much luck with that so far).

Your description sounds like it solves all of these problems. If you ran this in a container/pod/whatever, when it received a signal from DevOps to shut down for consolidation, it could immediately respond by saving the system state to an image and picking up from that state when the container/pod/whatever was started back up. This would also solve the problem of long-running processes since they could freeze in mid-run and pick back up like nothing happened, if I understand how this works.
He mentions that he had previously requested this info in Chicago. This is the relevant previous blog post:

https://mchap.io/a-tale-about-requesting-chicagos-mayors-off...
Same here. I live in a small village near Ghent, Belgium and the monthly repair café consistently gets a reasonable number of visitors.
You can't just assume some piece of food is safe. You need a credible and dependable 3rd party - be it a bureaucracy like the FDA or something else - to let you know if it is. And there's no shortage of food that was assumed to be safe to eat in the past but turned out to be toxic.

Bidaou (aka Tricholoma auratum), for instance, grows in south-western France, and was rated as delicious in some mushroom books as recently as 20 years ago. Selling it has only been banned since 2005. The last recorded death it caused was in 2009. [1] [2]

Fools webcap [3] and Deadly webcap [4] were likewise thought to be edible until last century.

[1]: https://www.mycodb.fr/fiche.php?genre=Tricholoma&espece=aura... [French]

[2]: https://www.mycofrance.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Lettre-... [French]

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_orellanus

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_rubellus
This talks about some of the multiple precedents that have been reinforcing this for centuries.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13037808
This is an interesting case. I always pronounced HIPAA as "hee-pah". That has the advantage of approximating the spelling, but the disadvantage that it's not really a natural way for an English word to be pronounced.

People in the medical field, who deal with HIPAA all the time, pronounce it as if it was spelled HIPPA. It's a short step from there to actually spelling it HIPPA.
It is hard to state directly, and there is a lot of ambiguity.

The difference I'm trying to establish is between directing specific actions (post this at 3:45 Tuesday) and directing behavior (every hour upvote all posts positively portraying hot air balloons)

Digging too far into the difference between automated and autonomous obscures the larger point I was trying to make.
And with Shortcuts, Siri can control pretty much anything you want.
They do if they want to control the price for the rest of the world and make sure that oil is traded in dollars.
The two caveats of the blockchain is that it's really large, and you don't get much precision it. I'll admit though that not all applications need a lot of precisions, and if you need additional precision you can use good old unauthenticated NTP and cross-check with the time you got from the blockchain.
Would you please stop taking HN threads in flamey directions? Hopping straight to Bolshevism is a perfect example.
The real question is whether it's good for anything else.
Ok, but that isn't mentioned either.
have you acquired super powers, and or become an evil villain since?
The unique story of unique games
If you see multiple indicators that rapid and increasing population growth is assured as a sign that 'the world is getting better', I fear for our future.
I don't blame them, some of the stats in this article are astounding.

"The US is militarily involved in 76 countries."*

"The U.S. spends more on arms and armies than the next seven biggest spenders combined"

"U.S. and allied airstrikes in Syria and Iraq killed 6,000 civilians"

*7 countries with drone strikes, 15 countries with combat troops (?!), 44 with military bases, and 58 with with counterterroism training programs, 2015-2017
I think this is callled Location Based Alerts and based on Significant Locations: https://ibb.co/eBzOQf
Show HN: Hacker Lab – an easy way for netsec students to practice hacking
Raspberry Pi TV HAT: Watch TV with Your Raspberry Pi
Hm, no, but I could. That's an interesting idea, thank you, I will use that.
This is an awfully untrue and xenophobic narrative that the press is promoting. A lot of people not in the drug trade are buying real estate. And the illicit drug trade has been with us forever.
75-year Harvard study has revealed the most important factor in human happiness
Hi I'm pretty new to netsec, I haven't even started on OSCP, just working through some of the common prerequisites I've seen recommended.

Anyway, I'm a frontend webdev by profession, wanted to see if anyone was interested in a little side project I've been working on as I've been learning: thehackerlab.co

I'ts similar to vulnhub or hackthebox. Just sets up vulnerable boxes like webgoat, dvwa, metasploitable or whatever, but there's no download or setup. The site just self-hosts it. let me know if you'd like to try it out, or feel free to leave any kind of feedback as well. Even if it's just something like "you're crazy for hosting vulnerable boxes on the internet!" Also any questions that pop into your head are super helpful too, I'm trying to build up an faq with the common ones.

Thank you for the help!
yes, I understand, but I would also like to not have the entire lining of my mouth and tongue obliterated for 3 weeks again. :D

also I wonder if the fact that I'm actually experience outbreaks every now and then might imply I'm more at risk.
> You're frankly thinking into it too much.

I think that was my line.
Of the two systems they list, there is a nuance and a difference between the two, one is an facilitating technology which just makes the DoD work better and another directly helps them kill better. A similar difference is the difference between someone who say designs bombs vs designs bomb hard armor that lessens soldier deaths on our sides. It's similar to what anti-war people have done for years during drafts, which was to volunteer for medical service as opposed to fighting.

It's a hard decision to make, and an easy thing to say is just if you do anything for the DoD, you're making it easier for them to kill people and hence it's wrong. Blanket statements like these however put people like janitors and paper pushers in the same bucket as those who manufacture arms that are shipped to Saudi Arabia.
I think this shift is a result of the immorality of American warfare over recent decades.

If the last war we had participated in was WWII and the cold war then who would object to advancing our weaponry in case we had to fight a terrible war again? Conversely, if we are routinely killing civilians in pointless decades long engagements in the Middle East, supporting both sides of civil wars in foreign lands, selling weapon systems to brutal monarchies, etc it's easier to see why people have doubts about participating.
It is cheaper
Who's into the Paranormal-Cool new site
No, that mechanism is orthogonal to flagging.
Users clicked 'flag'.
Who Are My Investors?
I support Scottish independence as well.
Do youth typically own property now days? Maybe things have changed since I was young but I was a renter and had few possessions in my youth.
Wow. I was hooked right away.

Worth reading.

Complaint written on TP. Hard to imagine that hell.
alternatively if you want a SaaS REST API:

curl https://service.prerender.cloud/screenshot/https://google.com/ > out.jpg

curl https://service.prerender.cloud/pdf/https://google.com/ > out.pdf

curl https://service.prerender.cloud/https://google.com/ > out.html

https://www.prerender.cloud/
HN Search has a box on the bottom of every page, and ought to find it for you.
Seems like that would be awfully inefficient. We use oil (fertilizer) to grow corn and soybeans, which we then feed to cows, which then convert it to milk. Each step in the process reduces the efficiency. Why not just use the oil for fuel? Or convert the corn the ethanol if that type of oil is not useful as fuel? The efficiency of ethanol is already in question due to the use of corn.
> About 500,000 people in greater Vancouver have Chinese heritage, representing roughly 20 percent of the population, according to Canada’s latest census. The proportion is highest in Richmond, just south of Vancouver proper, which is more than 50 percent Chinese. The suburb’s main commercial drag is No. 3 Road, a boulevard lined with big-box stores and shopping centers fronted by Chinese signage. The most elaborate is the Aberdeen Centre, a curvy mall sheathed in a colorful grid of translucent glass. It was built in 1989.

> Over a lunch of steaming soup at Chef Hung Taiwanese Beef Noodle, a bustling second-floor restaurant, the mall’s developer, Thomas Fung, explains how he arrived at the idea. Fung, 67, is slim, with spiky black hair and delicate features. The son of a prominent Hong Kong financier, he arrived in Vancouver in the 1980s and did everything from running bakeries to film production. He soon grasped that the city was about to change dramatically. “I believed that in the coming 10 years, because of the 1997 issue in Hong Kong, there would be a lot of new immigrants coming over here,” Fung says. He knew they’d want the comforts of home, which led him to conceive of a shopping center that would stock the same goods as the megamalls of Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay.

This capital influx problem has been decades in the making. I'm curious: what social problems are brewing today that we won't see the effects of until 10, 20 years down the line? How do you identify these trends? In Fung's case, it seems he identified the trend correctly by living directly in the midst of it. Is it possible for an observer to find these trends as well?
The US also spends more than any country in healthcare. But most of that money only pays for administrative overhead like insurance companies, doctors filling endless paperwork to avoid being sued, or overpriced medication. It does not result in patients being healthier.

Similarly, measuring the performance of a logistics company by gallons of gas consumed would be pretty dumb right? People would just drive in circles to consume more gas.

Spending is about input, not output.
MiniPlenty - 1984
That might be how the free market is explained to a tenth grader, but it's not remotely the full picture.

- Do you spend on production or ramp up marketing instead?

- Do projections support taking out a loan to expand future production?

- Do you have other products where your capital would be better directed?

- Is there a point where marginal cost exceeds sale price?

The list of further considerations is endless. Nobody is just blindly producing as much as possible.
On the other hand: Sources for the historicity of Jesus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of...
PS: sci-hub: https://sci-hub.tw/
Most Squeak/Pharo Smalltalk development takes place these days in the context of either git itself or a git-like DVCS called Monticello.

Use of git/monticello within the image directly mirrors use of git at the command-line in Unix.

You use git/monticello to clone a remote repo, installing the code it contains into the live image. Because of other aspects of the Smalltalk design, this has an additional effect of being a bit like package installation - the code isn't just present, it's installed and ready to run. Unlike Unix, the lack of an explicit system-compilation step in Smalltalk means it's also ready to edit in-place, which means, if you've started some service instances, ready to edit live.

It's very much like Docker or working with a Unix VM: you start from a known image, like a Docker FROM command or a Debian ISO, and install files/code/packages from there, using version control tools or not as you like.