skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>When only the state has a stake in all of companies and everybody is an employee of the state, there is zero interest for things to work out the way they were intended to.

This can easily be rephrased to:

"when all the major politicians have stakes in all the major companies, there is zero interest for things to work out the way they were intended to."

And now there's no actual argument to what you're saying. Both systems have flaws. That does not prove one's better, you need more then that.

Seeing the flaws is the first step to asking yourself the question, "is there a better way to do this?"

Do you think we're better off because our corporate funded politicians have all the power, and we're just living in their fiefs? Is that the sign of a good system?

Capitalism uses minor successes in it's lower classes like bread and circuses. They're distractions. Don't say to yourself, "at least I'm not starving in some South American country", ask yourself "why can't we all be doing better?" Is this system really the best mankind can do?
That would be a really brilliant move. I doubt, however, that's the move that was made here.
are you fucking posting qanon as a legitimate source for anything
Yes, it means exactly that.
What is the alternative? If you don't trust the information that is sent with the file, do you expect the user to decide on the format of each file?

The file type is an inherent pair of the file content, and must move together. Otherwise your images and documents become only a meaningless set of bytes. The information that "this is a png image" is as much a responsibility of the machine that is sending you the file as the pixel data.

Also, yes, accepting random data from a network is a big security risk. It's up to your OS to handle that data in a secure way, but this is not done by removing the "this is an executable" mark.
> I investigated case with planning in USSR and found that all planing was done by single woman.

That's interesting. Are you saying that the functionality of entire Gosplan organization from the 1920s all the way to the end was done by one woman? What was her name?
A few more good pop physics books:

Maxwell - Matter and motion. Written by THE Maxwell, what more do you need to know? long out of copy-write and available on the web for free

Born - The restless universe. discusses atomic theory and describes some of the more down to earth parts of quantum theory, especially how the theory explains quantitative properties of atoms and the periodic table.

Einstein & Infeld - The evolution of physics. pseudo-Historical exposition taking us from the mechanical universe to fields to quanta, and from Galilean relativity to Einstein relativity.

Reichenbach - the philosophy of space and time. technically philosophy of science, not pop science, from the logical positivist school of the Vienna circle. very readable discussion of abstract mathematical geometry and various relativity principles, if you don't mind skipping some of the more bloviating bits.

Pask - Magnificent Principia. Fantastic overview of Newton's Magnum Opus, although it doesn't give enough historical context to what newton was building on. Assumes some knowledge of calculus.
The thing that would seem to be most distasteful about being a vet is putting down animals because the owner is tired of them.

Other things would be pets weighing three times what they should, never given exercise, etc.

Those are covered in your unreasonable owners, I guess.
I saw the title and thought “just read Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain”.

Of course, this article is by Bordain (RIP).

It’s worth a read.
Ask HN: How should I build a simple marketplace website today?
I think I'm over-engineering so I could use a second opinion. Let's assume that nothing off the shelf met your needs, so you had to build the website from scratch, what programming language, frameworks, databases, hosting platform, etc would you use to build your application.

Requirements:

* 500 daily active users

* 1,000 product listings

* Very low maintenance

Features

* Browse items for sale

* Search, filter products

* In app messaging (Buyers can message sellers, sellers can respond)

* CRUD interface for sellers listing products

* User authentication

It feels stupid asking the question, but it seems like none of the "modern" web frameworks fit such a simple use case.
Uber's valuation is insane
I should’ve specified, I live in America. I also did not live to see the 1970s in person, so my final paragraph should be taken with more salt than the preceding ones.

> Firstly you argue that "the right" is responsible for villifying government action, i.e. the population at large were basically static in their views until "the right" came along.

To be fair, “the right” is a fairly large section of the population. I don’t think it’s unfair to say that in general Americans are much more skeptical of the utility of government than they were 50 years ago.

I think your last paragraph is plausible, but it’s not my favored explanation.

For me, I think the decline in public opinion towards government programs started with racial integration. Around that time a surprisingly large chunk of white people appear to have willingly degraded their public institutions to avoid having to share with black people, sometimes going as far as literally filling recently integrated pools with concrete rather than share. You also see private Christian schools pop up with the explicit goal of being segregated.

Fun fact, organized evangelical involvement in right wing politics began with segregation. It’s only after the association with segregation became toxic did they pivot to abortion and homosexuality as their bête noire. They’ve tried their best to downplay this though, because it’s kind of an ugly truth.

Within this framework, the anti-government anti-public institution movement got rolling in the 1960s, and started to get a large political head by the 1970s and 1980s. The political turmoil within that period on the left in universities was a response and symptom of that anti-government swing, not a cause of it.

It is for certain possible that certain antics by academia during that time period came across as unpalatable to moderates, undermining their position. I just don’t think it was the cause.
Street-Level Surveillance: Iris Recognition
Tangentially related, the missing maps project http://www.missingmaps.org/ is also working to map communities whose populations have often never been represented on a map, though in this case to help humanitarian organizations to access them.
Right, it should just have either NAND or NOR. Much simpler.
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Say you have a medical office, and you installed a cheap door lock which most burglars can easily crack, then a burglar breaks into your office, steals Ssn and other private info, should the doctor who runs the office go to prison for that?
Collaboration.

How to read and work within an existing codebase. Especially a large one with its own patterns.

Version control. Collaborating via version control.

Automated testing.

Code review.

Software development process.

How to learn things and find answers to questions and solutions to code problems without having them spoon-fed in a lecture or a book.

To get experience in these topics, internships and participation in major open source projects can help n
Misconceptions about Student Loans and Student Loan Debt
So, security is intrinsically difficult for an organization to get right, because the learning landscape is not continuous. You don't have gradually increasing costs from going in a particular direction; you have apparently zero costs, maybe even rewards, from going in that direction until suddenly OMFG WE HAVE A PROBLEM! This is hard for any machine learning algorithm to deal with, and it is hard for individuals to deal with, and so no surprise that it is hard for organizations to deal with. Lax security, in most cases, yields zero apparent costs until suddenly it is very expensive.

All of which is outweighed by the fact that dealing with this kind of thing is the CIA's reason for existence as a separate intelligence agency, outside of the military (since Pearl Harbor). I am not at all convinced that we would be doing worse to fold intelligence back into the military as it was pre-WWII, because having a culture that understands this kind of problem is the CIA's whole purpose for being separate, and it doesn't seem to have worked.
With Google they decided it was a good idea to organize interviews for me (a woman) in a window-papered-over room with exactly one other person (a guy).

Not exactly comforting...
I know it’s silly, but Americans won’t walk. The average single car trip in America is 5.95 miles long, with many rides falling into the 1-2 mile range. That is already easy biking range, and lots of Americans could walk that, but they dont.

If electric scooters change that, even only for the able bodied who don’t need to carry a ton of gear, it would be huge.
Adam Curtis has a piece, in the style of Adam Curtis, wondering if spies (well, in this particular case, mostly spy catchers) simply aren't very good at their job; http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-...
Then line buffer stdout and stderr to the same UI element, and also provide an option to toggle showing just one or the other. Sounds pretty useful to be able to switch between just showing one or the other, and showing them line-interleaved by timestamp, even if you do want to default to the latter.

If line buffering isn't enough, you can use heuristics around read sizes and non-blocking reading to guess whether a given write to the pipe was intended to be done as a block.
Prison time for executives is the only thing that gets taken seriously. Fines to executives can just be paid by executive insurance, and unless you crank them up to 4% of global revenue like GDPR, fines to the company will likely simply become cost of doing business.

But threaten the executives with prison, and they'll suddenly make sure that the company complies with the law. I bet e.g. SOX would be taken a lot less seriously without those teeth.

Besides that, I don't see a reason why wilful privacy violations should not be met with prison terms. Don't want to go to prison? Don't collect/share data that you're not allowed to collect/share.

Even for negligence, there is precedent to send people to prison, although that usually requires the negligence to result in death. But the scale at which software mistakes can cause damage is often higher than the scale at which mechanical/structural engineering does: A collapsing building kills hundreds of people. A collapsing Equifax database doesn't kill anyone directly, but affects over a hundred million people, and has the potential to ruin their lives (imagine e.g. private Facebook profiles outing people in intolerant areas - would probably lead to a larger number of deaths than most modern-day building collapses).
Windows security has improved a lot in the last ten years.
Try using a proper front slash in a file name.
> I wonder how many people worry about supplying clang a file that doesn't end in a new line? That is undefined behaviour

It no longer is, since C++11. Check Phase 2.2 here: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/translation_phase...

> clang won't delete your source file, even though it would be perfectly within its rights to.

UB allows the execution of the compiled program to wipe your hard drive, but it certainly does not give your compiler that right. I mean, the standard doesn't say what side effects invoking a compiler is allowed to have (because that's out of scope), so none of it can be predicated on UB.

(Mandatory mention: https://github.com/munificent/vigil)
This makes sense.

Poor contingent hires couldn't even get basic auth, eh
That's not equivalent. The equivalent would be the database or S3 bucket having a low quality password like "password".
are you saying leaving open filesystems and databases is the same as using a cheap lock?
> If I apply for a company and they don't get back to me, or pull some stunts as described I assume they have better candidates in the pipeline. I'm not their priority.

This! I'm reading in the thread here about people not arranging the right times, and people responding to recruiters who clearly don't care, and people jumping through all kinds of hoops, and I'm just here kind of in disbelief.

A good way to think about interviewing/being recruited, is in terms of dating. If an attractive woman says she's gonna call you, never does, then when you see her on the street she gives you some "Oh my dad's aunt's cousin's dog was sick" excuse, you're pretty much an idiot for ever thinking she was into you in the first place, and continuing to want her.

Another thing is that these folks have no idea that by continuing to be straddled and dragged along (and basically bullshitted), they're confirming that "Hey, I'm desperate for this job, so sure, I'll let you walk all over me". Which thus reduces their attractiveness as candidates. A recruiter misses a call with me? No reply. A company doesn't follow through on what they said they'd do or bullshits me in the slightest way? No reply. This approach is definitely a gamble, but you have to have confidence in the fact that "Hey, I'm great at what I do and anyone who gets me is lucky to have me".

Again, not that different from dating.
I will make a few speculations:

1) ML algorithms will be able to adjust stock art to have a common look. Think MM fonts on steroids.

2) Common themes will develop in stock art libraries. In other words, I'll be able to pick a world, have a wide array of objects, and it will all fit together pretty well.

Will this be as good as a Hollywood-budget animation? Almost certainly not. Will this be good enough, given good plot and writing? I suspect so.

Will we see fifty different movies with the same-looking characters playing different roles? Almost certainly. It will be almost like having the same actor play Tarzan AND the Terminator AND a police officer.

Will we see animation well behind the state-of-the-art? Almost certainly. On the other hand, I'm perfectly okay watching cartoons from 50 years ago, and I think we can do much, much better.

I think the major problem right now is that to do a movie, you had to be competent at plot/writing, animation, distribution, voice acting, etc. That took a movie studio.

Digital platforms are already taking over distribution. Now, a group of five friends can make a high-impact video. As other parts of the channel get subsumed by advances in technology, eventually it will be down to one person in a room with a good idea. That will be transformative.
In San Diego last year I saw evidence of habitation in most downtown ramps where there was shade, no matter the ambient noise level. Friends who moved away from the Bay Area only 10 years ago came back and were shocked at the homeless encampments off of 101 in south San Jose.
>> But if techno monstrosities can use open source software to create
upheaval, so can anyone else.

The thing is, most people don't want to create upheaval. Most just want to
make money. Because in our modern capitalist democracies, money is the highest
value, the moment someone has power, or knowledge that goes beyond the
ordinary the first thing they do is try to make it make money. And if they
succeed- well, out goes all the democratic, free-thinking, hacking ethos.

This is not an easily hackable system. You need people who have skills and
knowledge and also, well, let's say higher ideals. People who don't care about
money because they can have all of it that they want, but who decide they
prefer to go Buddha, and give everything to the poor. To actually "make the
world a better place", by not selling you stuff.

Are there people like that? I doubt I've ever met any.
Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams
The book it’s from, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is full of creative orthography designed to reproduce the English pronunciation of slaves in the pre-Civil War South.
The SR-71 didn't use a cartridge starter, but an AG330 cart with two V8 engines mounted in it to get the jet's engines RPMs up high enough to start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjdyQpEUYzI
In a way, there is already however it is not very popular in society at the moment.

The answer is for the woman to have kids, or at least 1 kid, when the woman is younger. Varies by woman, but late teens or 20-22 years of age, greatly reduces risks both in that first pregnancy and in later pregnancies.

My personal view is that the high school--> college --> job track should be allowed to be interrupted or otherwise modified, so that people don't have to wait until they are almost 30 to start thinking about kids. But I don't have a fully fleshed out theory as to how to do that.
> Innovation works best in competitive capitalistic environments

Well, a huge chunk of innovation in capitalist countries happen on university campuses or within government funded organizations like DARPA or NASA, or within communist-like arrangements like Open Source (Linux, Apache, etc). Which are then appropriated by private interests to be monetized.
Supplementing Your VPN with Little Snitch
It applies anytime minimum wage is a separate number to market rates for work when there's a competitive hiring environment.

The target demographic of HN, for example, we all value ourselves well above minimum-wage rates.

You can always make the numbers really stupid if you want to get bizarre looking answers, but that's not the reality we live in - minimum wage just barely covers living expenses sometimes.
When Will Digital Night Vision Catch Up? [video]
I have an addiction to trying out budgeting apps the moment I find a new one. It's like the search for the Holy Grail or something. I know that an app by itself isn't going to magically make budgeting a success, instead I see these them as sort of a financial sidekick, something that helps me out get out of my own way just enough so we can save the day (literally ).

The description is accurate. Putz is the simplest of budget trackers. Categories / Expenses and a progress bar. Nice. Fun to play with but won't unseat my current toolset.
Giving China an ultimatum, "do this or we will stop trading with you," is a surefire way to guarantee that they will not do whatever "this" is.

In the history of the world, trade ultimatums have never worked. For example, the US has issued such ultimatums to pre-ww2 Japan, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. Needless to say, in none of those cases did the embargoed country alter their behavior in the desired way.

And it is trivial to understand why such ultimatums don't work: they are political suicide to anyone that capitulates. Imagine if China gave such an ultimatum to the US. How popular do you think that would make China with US voters? A candidate campaigning on the platform of "we better just do what China tells us to," would be dead in the water.
Easily disproven.

The 2008 crash is full of executives who did not comply with the law, and did not take the threat of prison seriously. I think to this date you can count the number in prison on two hands, and most of those were more foot soldiers than masterminds.
Driver's get to rate the cheap (bad) customers appropriately.
Thankfully, Haskell supports much nicer types than only `Object`
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8312151
Okay, thanks, I thought I might be crazy.
I think this sort of ideal is more likely to reward than punish bad actors. I'm certain you can think of a million and one ways companies/PACs/individuals/etc could influence others in ways that would be difficult, if not impossible, to trace back to them. The player that tries to play by the rules and ensures that all of their messaging on the up and up is simply going to get burnt.

The wisest form of regulation is to assume bad actors from step 1 and try to create systems where the bad actors are encouraged to abide the rules, not out of threats, but because it benefits them in some way. For instance, the EU are aiming to force Netflix (and similar operations) to have 30% of their catalogue sourced from local productions... or else. It's not tough to predict the result. They'll license the premium stuff (which they probably already have) and then just stuff the rest with filler to hit the minimum.

Imagine if instead that Netflix and other companies received a tax deduction which was proportional to the percent of time their customers spent consuming locally sourced material. Now suddenly there is a positive incentive for the good behavior, and Netflix would almost certainly be going out of their way to try to get you to watch locally sourced material. On the other hand people often want to have their cake, and eat it too.
An adversarial system can only work if there are neutral referees in between that make sure certain rules are followed. In this case it would be election officials. If they are partisan themselves then the system is just corrupt.
We might both be guilty of bringing pre-existing grievances to this conversation :)
I prefer to think about it as there are three special types of numbers: zero, units (invertible elements), and prime numbers, which exclude zero and units. In the integers, the units are +/-1, so that’s why they are not prime. In the rationals, every non-zero element is a unit, which is why there are no prime numbers in the rationals.
Conservation of energy and conservation of vector momentum directly explain the
phenomenon of coastal rip currents, a mortal danger to beach-goers. Whereas if you go by the usual public sources, they're as mysterious as sun spots.
It's not like those same complaining fans aren't going to all play it and throw endless money at microtransactions.

Remember COD:MW2 protests?

https://kotaku.com/5403286/what-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-...
This is going to make it impossible to start a startup. We need to organize a movement against this.
I think it would be reasonable to have a law that says you need to have X level of security for certain information. Then it would be criminal to provide less than that level of security, especially just to save money. I just think it would have to somehow have exemptions for honest mistakes, and clever attackers.
There's something wrong with your sample. I personally know multiple mothers who deeply regret the physical damage done by pregnancy and birth, and don't feel even a little bit stronger for having spent a month on hospital bed rest with pre-eclampsia, or tearing their vaginas during birth and being unable to lift their own newborn baby, or weakened abdominal muscles from pregnancy so she still isn't allowed to run with her baby now five months old, or spending six months unable to keep down water and losing weight due to morning sickness. They're grateful to have the kid, yes, but they don't delude themselves that it was a wonderful spiritual experience.
And work with the standard library’s string functions? You can’t.
well that's because it wasn't enforced properly. we need prison time and to enforce it.
Yes, we have. But we also typically just tossed the corpse into a pine box and buried it.

Now we bury a hell of a lot more than just the corpse.

Coffins in particular are just straight up weird to me. Polished and plush, why? They even come with rubber gaskets to “protect” your now ex-loved one, which is quite creepy when you think it through.
What's your current toolset?
Good point. Though I'm not so sure it's such a big deal in comparison of using a language that's not entertaining.
Show HN: Open source hashtag wall that displays hashtagged social media posts
Of course, Europe has had no startups at all since the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) was passed in 1995. /s
Huh? Doesn't this prove the point? None of the people went to prison in the end, and the message remained clear: you won't go to prison.

That's why it's not taken seriously.