skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that’s really the salient concept underlying the forces at work here:

Now thrive the armorers.

The key feature of prevailing marriage statistics is that there are exploitative forces operating a narrative, to profit from both sides of the conflict.

Legal representation for divorce is a volume-oriented practice. The more, the better, and anything to fan the flames of strife from both directions.

“Make sure everyone falls into the trap, and make sure at least someone is making money off these morons, so we can all play golf together, after we rip them apart, and rifle through their wallets, and get our cut of the profits from whoever might win. Make sure the guys are paranoid and fearful of getting taken to the cleaners, and make sure the girls are salivating at an early retirement. Then either version of clientele will pay through the nose for our services.”

Basically, what tech recruiters do, except lawyers do it to families, while recruiters do it to companies.
> "Many Microsoft employees don't believe that what we build should be used for waging war"

Someone is lacking in perspective. The modern US military cannot operate without Windows, SharePoint, Exchange, Internet Explorer, Office, and most importantly, PowerPoint. It's both frustrating and sad.
Could you explain one of the home showcases? Sounds like an interesting idea.
Representing such an example of work in a job application / resume / interview would be more valuable to me than a college degree. Due diligence and persistence — in the face of real-world, difficult, hundreds-of-moving-parts technical issues — are worth every penny.

EDIT: Yes, college degrees require due diligence and persistence, but they offer no indication of the willingness to exercise those skills _after_ college. This work does.
It’s still in NEW - don’t see any chatter yet
That's the exact scenario that I would love to ask an ancap about, tho unfortunately I don't know any to ask.
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You infer incorrectly. Regardless to what Congress will decide in this case, land that was sold will not go back to the previous owners.
moved a lane over

In other words, you were outside the bike lane?
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I don't like feeling like a conspiracy theorist, but those signals look really clean [0]. Not necessarily the military, but... it's so intentional-looking.

> “They're too nice; they're too perfect to be nature,” she jokes, although she quickly adds that an industrial source is impossible, since no wind farms or drilling are taking place in the deep waters off Mayotte's shores.

And

> For now, though, the lack of data makes it tough to say more about the wiggly forms. Hicks' preliminary models hinted that the waves emanated from subsurface inflation, rather than a magma chamber draining or collapsing. But with a little additional data, the model flipped and pointed to chamber deflation instead.

Does lend a grain of salt toward the military theory.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/matarikipax/status/10615909538765...
You dont have to imagine, just see what happen in relatively weak governments: Drug cartels, war lords, mafia syndicates, union busting, etc, etc. This is just a hunch but I wouldn't be surprised if the biggest part of actual monopolies is enforced by illegal means.
Is there a private train company that has good service, regularly invests and is profitable without government assistance?
As I expected, this is an opinion piece from a teacher whining because they got bad ratings:

> I got a terrible rating, and its publication humiliated me.

While this doesn't mean that the article can't make valid points, large parts of it also complain about "today's youth".

I suspect this got upvoted mostly based on the contrarian headline...
I just TODAY finished Nemisin's Broken Earth series.
I've been engaged for the past 3 years. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've always received very quick answers to questions. I've had inferior support from paid offerings in comparison to be honest.
I've commented about this before with the same quote. But since the propaganda campaign against all that is coming from the East has left an enduring mark in US, it will always be received with a sneer.
But, irrespective of that, Lenin, more than 100 years ago, said something like this:
This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important — if not the most important — phenomena of modern capitalist economy. He gives ample evidence of this with official market and financial data regarding the steel industry. Even then, a few conglomerates dominated the marked.

But, again, since the story of how capitalism is the greatest, the one and only salvation of the people (does it sound like religion?) is so pervasive, no amount of evidence can undermine its foundations. If reality proves that it doesn't work, the reason HAS to be that "it wasn't implemented right in this or that country. So we must take bolder steps to implement it right". Sounds like slaughtering goats to me. If the gods didn't favor our army in battle it surely must be that we didn't slaughter enough goats at the altar and NOT that our army was ill prepared for the task at hand.
But vast majority of migrants ain't highly paid nor highly skilled.

All countries drool after certain professions nowadays and those people are doing pretty well pretty much anywhere. Head hunt for those people is a tiny dent in demographic trends.
remember when google left china, the good old days of don't be evil
Current Generators
Huh. I don't feel like that was a "concrete" rebuttal to the point I actually made, especially when you really look at the "numbers" they cite next in the article, but I want to take a step back.

I think it's getting lost in the noise, so to reiterate, my main point is that I'd just like journalism to include a little more analysis, to put numbers in context, and to avoid relying extensively on emotional appeals as a substitute for chalkboards or backs-of-napkins when dealing with complex social problems.

Based on your username, maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like you know what it's like to wrangle data and communicate findings. Sometimes you don't have all the data you want, but you have to make sense of what you have access to, get signal from noise, and make reasonable extrapolations even under a lot of initial uncertainty.

Now imagine you have access to everything the journalist had. You could ask additional questions at the hospitals or conduct additional searches in the public record.

If we asked, "what else could we learn about this important trend?" is your response really, "well, if the companies don't just tell us and there's no fully funded federal study... we just can't possibly know anything aside from the fact there were some number greater than fifty headlines in six months."

When we stop there I get terrified that Paulos was just right, we struggle to use numbers in public settings so nobody tries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innumeracy_(book)

I feel like we could have, say, talked about the populations served by these ERs, or the fraction of overall ER cases that involve scooters and how that's changing over time. Anything to give us a sense of why these ERs vary in their numbers by a factor of ten, to determine how representative they are, or anything to give us a trendline. Even headline counting COULD be rigorous if you add more methodology than this article's "quick search." The gun violence project is one example of that approach.

The journos I really respect take these sorts of next steps. They do more with less. Sometimes they have to hedge and caveat, but they take a shot. It's not impossible, so I just wish we held more journalists to that higher standard, that's all.
I was thinking primarily of my history with stem (really, specifically the t and e); I feel like the arts are still more classically oriented, because a degree isn’t anywhere near as required, and theres weaker guarantees on income streams, such that its been relatively unaffected by the university trying to fulfill the role if trade schools. The same would be true of mathematics, phds in general, and probably most of the hard sciences.

Undergrad feedback I wouldn’t trust at all regardless of major, Masters is major-dependent (ce, cs are particularly screwed) and phd candidates are probably fine. Simply by looking at the why the general population is even in the major (eg ask an undergrad and the reason is probably not actual interest in the subject: parents, jobs, money, dropout-major, couldn’t decide, best grades in hs, etc). Their feedback will naturally reflect the misaligned incentives

If your interest in feedback is to make sure the teachers are actually good at teaching, anyways.
Does anyone know why NFS is such a pain? In the past (10 years ago) I just assumed I was doing it wrong and stopped using it, and have not used it since.
It's not perfect, by I made a more legible single-page layout here:

http://n5dux.com/taming/
This is a very good advise. And it totally will payoff. I know how the hard work can generate income. I also know how time demanding and life consuming this is.

I am wondering now if I can find ways where the money can generate money and therefore I can enjoy of more "free" time.
Man, this paper is a classic. I love traffic analysis attacks like this. I did something myself six years back albeit with a somewhat contrived example figuring out what someone is looking at on Google Maps via request and response sizes. Example video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skQNwd9Jij4 and https://ioactive.com/ssl-traffic-analysis-on-google-maps/.

I am speculating that nice traffic analysis attacks can be done on mosh (which is a great tool btw) to, similar to the paper that is in this thread. It's been sort of on my "todo/research" list but haven't been able to sit down for a few days and mess around with it. And I'm sure that QUIC (HTTP/3) will open up some interesting avenues of attack here too.
We're getting there! :) I've asked my team to balance learning K8s with new learning lower level debugging tools like bcc and it's cohort.
This is incredible work. Very well done! Have you posted this to Show HN yet?
Thanks for the responses everyone! Definitely some entertaining stories here. Don't worry, I wasn't thinking of rewriting one, just wondering aloud how often this happens, and it sounds like a lot :) Really cool to hear from those of you who deal with this all the time. Thanks for the great reads.
That would be good under this model, wouldn't it, because you could buy back your privacy at a very low price.

I don't believe this to be the case though.
Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces [pdf]
It looks pretty cool but the containers, inputs, balloons look a bit funky on Android mobile.
The sale of any business that makes use of cryptography will generally include the private keys and passwords necessary to ensure business continuity. Code signing would not necessarily protect you against a human-approved transfer of assets as occurred here, whether as part of a whole-business sale or as a simple open-source project handoff.
I read the headline thinking it was a purchasing deal, not a fine...
That work is great. A related paper on earlier work where traffic analysis on skype was being done and where the researchers were able to extract individual phonemes and then reconstruct speech that way. It's one of my favorite papers. It's titled "Phonotactic Reconstruction of Encrypted VoIP Conversations" and you can find it here:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fabian/papers/foniks-oak11.pdf
Ask HN: Do You Use OpenShift or Cloud Foundry?
Hey HN,

I am curious if people here are using open shift or cloud foundry? It seems like they're pretty similar products that essentially try to provide a PaaS (heroku experience) that you can host yourself on prems or pay for cloud.

Wonder what has people experience being? Also when compared to something like Dokku or Openstack or even running "raw" Kubernetes?

There are quite a few systems available in the wild that seem to have a similar use case!
You meant "Supreme Court" there, not "Congress".

The question is, does allotment of tribal land dissolve a reservation without a clear statement by Congress, when the Supreme Court has already ruled that a "clear statement" is required. That has nothing to do with the examples you mentioned earlier.

Do you believe that means that non-Native American ownership of plots on (re-recognized) reservation land will be reverted?

Because I didn't get that from the article at all. In fact, it says:

> An entire body of law already governs states’ relationships to tribes and those tribes’ relationship to non-Indian residents. Half the states in the union have reservations, and the majority of those have reservations that — thanks to allotment — have non-Native owned “fee land” where tribal jurisdiction is already limited. Reservations comprise 27 percent of the land in Arizona, and it functions just fine.

It also points out that this happened two years ago in favor of the Omaha Tribe, which also non-Native residents.

It appears, therefore, that the question isn't one of ownership but jurisdiction.
Interesting that this is the conclusion you've come to, because I've heard from some colleagues that this is actually the correct approach for management to take. Their argument would be that either way, to accommodate the new functionality, the codebase would have to be refactored. And if it is refactored proactively, well that will probably be in a way not compatible with the future design, because you can't anticipate something you know nothing about.

So it's a matter of 1 vs 2 refactors, and the management chose one by delaying as long as possible.
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Mixed pixel scaling and incorrectly offset items make this seem a little cheap and doesn't really give me the NES feel. Colours are also not necessarily so well picked either. Meh...
Education comes with higher life standards. You want your kids to have their own rooms instead of whole family living in single-room shack, education for them etc.

"Freedom of career" for women is more like freedom to have to work. It's hard to raise a family on a single salary. Previously, a woman would work at home and husband would work outside. Now both of them have to work outside of the house to pay for appliances that do stuff back at home.

IMO one of the top issues is housing cost. Increasing specialisation, both parents having to work and urbanisation means people are crammed into more and more condensed cities. Space comes at expense. Children need space. Cheaper space out of the city means more transport costs and/or less job opportunities and likely lower wage. All in all, children is damn expensive.
I didn't use iTunes for Windows, but I did use one for Mac a couple of times. I can imagine how terrible the Windows one must be if it's worse than the garbage they ship for Mac. No use case I needed from it was ever easy or worked as I wanted...
Driving is far less safe than flying, but people choose to drive all the time.
Balance the competing tyrannies

- individual / majority

- class

- age

- ability

- and many more

The messy reality of balancing interests tends not to fit to any impossibly idealistic -ism, but somewhere in the middle between the unworkable utopian extreme goal-posts of libertarian-anarchism and communism. Call it democratic socialism or socialism, what works seems to be a hybrid of many ideals.

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Caring about prize money more than the title is not sportsmanlike, in my view.
China has had very little protection of IP, and until recently the government never intervened in the IT industry, yet monopolies like Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent still arise.

In fact, many people in China attributes Tencent's growth to its shameless copying of other people and companies' work and products. If that kind of view is true, than China's monopoly comes out because of lack of IP protection.
Correct.

Trade cannot happen without the threat of violent attack against those who would otherwise freely use particular land or possessions, aka rules, aka law enforcement, aka government.
Maybe I didn't parse it but is there anything here that couldn't be preserved as a video? Video can be stored as a series of images, which can be (and often are) stored as a list of RGBA values. Those are as timeless as a WAV file (a series of amplitude values) or a vinyl record.

It would be trivial to read those 1e5 years from now, assuming we're still around and not living in caves.
I believe the major difference here is that credit bureaus are open about their business models. Can’t say the same about the ways in which Facebook monetizes data.
It's almost as if every piece of technology is a double edged sword. Anything that can be used to disseminate information can also be used to disseminate disinformation. It's the nature of things like this.
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I wonder as polar ice melts and the weight distribution on earth changes because of it if the planet wouldn't twist a little bit while spinning and cause earthquakes, even if just small ones.
Lenovo is behaving as an attacker against its customers. That sophisticated customers had defenses for this particular attack is irrelevant. Imagine if iPhones started trying dictionary attacks against their peers on WiFi networks. Would you shrug it off and continue buying Apple products because you trust your password complexity rules?

It’s great that the countermeasures worked this time, but Lenovo is still your adversary. They deserve the same response as any other insider who tries to MITM your traffic: immediate termination, a thorough search for any remaining implants, and an FBI battering ram through their door.
Posix semantics and networks just dont play well together. Notice that binary storage systems these days avoid the filesystem integration (s3, etc.)
That's really interesting, and definitely agree knowing the requirements is hugely important. I've heard from people at BigCorps about inheriting projects where no one at the company really knows how or why a piece of code behaves the way it does. That seems like one of the more terrifying scenarios, where you can't even ask someone what a particular piece of code is supposed to do, and you have no way of knowing how it's supposed to work (and then you are tasked with fixing bugs when they crop up). But I guess those three conditions are unlikely to overlap probably (hopefully).
signature looks like penis, is this intentional?
Thing is, Thinkpads are still the best productivity laptops on the market. Which isn't to say that your observations aren't true, but more of a comment on the general state of that market...
Usually when people talk about SRS, they mean flashcards or Software. At the very least you would need to keep track of the learning schedule and what you forget. Which I found impractical for learning large amounts of stuff.
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If you want to understand and improve the Linux / some other OSs boot process.
> If a teacher grades a student poorly, there can be repercussions.

Yes, but the above poster was talking about TEACHING poorly. It is easy enough to expect students to know things at the end of class, but harder to be of use in them learning that material.

> Teachers are also subject matter experts in the material being graded.

Some are. Maybe even most. But definitely not a universally true statement, particularly in areas where teacher pay is dramatically out of line with industry wages.

> Students aren't trained as educators, so why would they be any good at evaluating their teachers?

Fair point. But as pointed out by others, there are few other forms of evaluation/accountability. And while a student may not be able to identify WHY they struggled to learn, they can certainly evaluate IF they did. If many students agree, that's a problem best addressed quickly.

I teach a university class (just one, my day job is coding) and I've been utterly amazed at the lack of accountability applied to me and my peers. Meanwhile I have friends that teach teens, and the bureaucracy and policies they must follow seem just as bad, but in the opposite direction.

If you have a good alternative to student evaluations, please share, otherwise I'll agree with the flaws you listed but still find them better to have than not.
Because most of the time you don't need the features that demand backtracking, and it's simple to use a NFA approach that avoids those kinds of issues.

Besides, people make mistakes all the time. Why not prevent the possibility?
IMX, universities are not influenced by companies as much as they are influenced by the inertia of established curriculum and limited interest from the professors to use a different tool that offers minimal benefits. Even if I'm teaching a class and using Oracle, I'm probably mostly teaching general relational databases where one is as good as any other. It's not the job of a conceptual RDBMS class to teach you the implementation details of arbitrary offerings; quite the opposite!
I wouldn't think he plays for the money, just recognition and from being fiercely competitive, having to prove oneself.