skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI for those not getting the reference, "Main Street" is typically used to refer to investors who aren't large institutions, in contrast to "Wall Street". https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mainstreet.asp

(Neither of these terms are particularly accurate—I used to work a block away from Wall Street, and all the actual trading happened by ssh to New Jersey—but they're metonyms with specific meanings.)
Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM
Yes to all, and I think it’s our responsibility as democratic citizens to be aware of them. What’s the point of having the right to vote and having people represent us if we’re not aware of what they should be dealing with wrt foreign policy, say? If everyone buries their head in the sand or only considers domestic issues, we don’t really have democracy. It becomes a charade that helps us feel reassured that we have freedom. Real freedom, and real democracy, come from an educated and aware populace. We can’t and shouldn’t look away from atrocities at home or abroad. It’s a global world, and we need to be able to direct the politicians who work for us.
Both the author's own words and the quoted ones use big words to make the writing appear more intelligent and insightful that it really is.

The gist of the concept seems to be that a utopian future predicted long ago never came to pass, and despite globalization, fast communication, and free movement of goods and sometimes individuals, people devolved into narrowly scoped groups instead. There's contention about control of institutions, control of capital, fruits to the gains of economic activity, so these groups are often at odds, and traditional solutions to their conflict are either too ineffective (government, compromise) or too drastic (protests, unrest, warfare), creating an awkward passive-aggressive state of pervasive discontent no one is happy with.

And all of the author's quote-mining seems to be a response to another overwrought essay that noted that tools like protests, angry mobs, identity politics, and the Internet, that were used by progressives to further their causes, did real damage to the credibility of institutions, and both the tools and that mistrust are now being repurposed by nationalists and fascists. This seems like non-news, and is completely to be expected, but somehow the author implies they find issue with the thesis, yet arrives at a very similar conclusion.

All these are too many words to say people will opportunistically group together and machinate towards a local betterment for their in-group above most others. Technology has generally lowered the cost and drawbacks of this opportunistic behavior, and free discourse and free assembly laws enable much of this in parts of the world, even when for-profit surveillance is prevalent. In other places, authorities have cracked down on dissent against the regime, so people who have more to lose than gain are too afraid to make waves online. But the factor limiting unrest is their desperation, which has little to do with technology.

To me, all of the author's points seem closer to realism, than technorealism. Technorealism tries to have a nuanced conversation about the things that change and the things that stay the same while living in an Internet-connected world, while this writing raves a lot about the decline of society itself and the supposed fault of a loose mob of electing a demagogue for the laughs. It's hardly deserving of the attention it's getting.
Well they took a huge hit with their investors when leading up to the 2008 real estate bubble they were pushing and selling toxic assets to their clients, while they were liquidating their own positions of those very assets.

Initially they claimed there was no conflict of interest and that’s simply how finance works, but then internal communication leaks showed they knew the assets they were selling clients were not just shit (but knew the underlying mortgages were fraudulent themselves going back to 2005) and they were doing that in mass as part of an effort to artificially prop the asset value up as they were liquidating their own.

It all came out in a case they settled for $5B with the government. From the department of justice : “This $5 billion settlement includes a $1.8 billion commitment to help repair the damage to homeowners and communities that Goldman acknowledges resulted from its conduct, and it makes clear that no institution may inflict this type of harm on investors and the American public without serious consequences.”

yet they still operate, are more powerful than ever, and there is a revolving door with them and top levels of government...so I agree with you reputation is irrelevant to them. Plain and simple everyone knows they are scumbag oligarchs at the top of that organization, but they are oligarchs nonetheless.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/goldman-sachs-agrees-pay-more...
Most major governments have already admitted to it because it's the only way to study how to counter such attacks without actually engaging in said warfare.
your willful misunderstanding is making this thread unbearable.
"Fact-checking" is itself vulnerable to political bias. Outside of the truly ludicrous (i.e. things like "pizzagate", and all sorts of conspiracy theories in general), I don't think you can call people 'irrational actors' merely for seeking alternative sources of fact-checking and "non-fake" news media. Even the New York Times acknowledges that there is such a thing as an "intellectual dark web", which goes to prove that "information anarchy" is occasionally useful and worthwhile.
"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA
A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzV04T_kec
If only more trade secrets were shared, stolen, distributed whatever you want to call it, we'd all be progressing at a much nicer pace.

Cheers to all the software pirates out there making the world a better place.
Why is HATEOAS (which is simply a description of how sites work) half-baked?
Try your hand at being an operator at the Roseville Telephone Museum
> there's really no reason to be panicking.

The top comment here is a person who has had the unfortunate experience of realizing that their cultural and genetic family are at high risk of being trimmed away from the tree of life. That's a pretty serious existential dread to swallow. Have some sympathy for them.

I mean, if all of humanity were going extinct could we say something like "well, at least there's a good chance that squids will evolve sentience someday so we will live on through squidkind no reason to panic" and make you feel better about it? And if that worked, maybe we ought not to even worry about the entire solar system being wiped out since there are plenty of other solar systems (no need to be such a xenophobic solist). And if that made you feel better maybe we ought to not mind the whole galaxy being wiped out because ... and etc... etc... c:
That's a ridiculous complaint and you know it. Oh no, you have to wait 5 minutes for DNS propagation, what a scam!
God I love these clean blogs whenever they pop up. Looks great on the phone, nice and high contrast, loaded in about a half second on my parents terrible internet. Wonder if they just hand wrote HTML or used some sort of generator?
I think that if discoverability would be there from the start, we wouldnt have things like Hateoas

HATEOAS is there from the start; in fact, it's an integral part of the concept of REST.
The results shouldn't be that bad. There may be a bug in the implementation.
How Orwell gave propaganda a bad name
How is that any way relevant. A small single website integration with Usenet vs a general method of chat that is pretty much available on every single used device.
"The Design of Everyday Things" is a great book, I enjoyed it.

Part of why I put it up with no instructions is to get feedback on how intuitive it is to use without any explicit instruction. I've gotten mixed response; some people seem to get it, others don't. So thanks for this bit of feedback. There's a basic help panel now.
Oh well, a suspect did something illogical, we can't prosecute. The case must be dismissed, because it wasn't a perfect crime.
That surprises me (as an American). Just about every map I’ve ever seen here, and all the ones used in school, have the Atlantic Ocean in the center and the US in the top left.

Actually I’d point out this annoys some Alaskans in my family, as that projection usually cuts part of Alaska off and leaves it dangling on the far right of the map. But we’re so euro-centric it just seems like the “correct” map even though it makes looking at part of our own country more difficult.
>> You also can’t force societies values to change around you

I see your point but would you advocate the same stance for other ethical issues - refusal of restaurants to serve African Americans before the civil rights movement?

Having said that, I agree that I don't like the sense of entitlement many people have in restaurants where they demand to be served something the restaurant clearly doesn't usually provide. But I do hope these "abstraction layers" of animal raising, slaughter, meat cleaning and packing and then buying a clean, small pack from a local store get "leaky". People need to see what other species go through for that meal on our tables.
Because if we don’t dramatically cut our CO2 emissions quickly we’re irreversibly fucked? And part of that means moving away from ICE vehicles carrying a single person.
>More bugs and the support was horrible.

^^^Yes, this.

In 2018, we reported nine different substantive security holes to LastPass. At least two of them were security issues. All of them took far too long to fix; some of them still aren't fixed.

There's a tenth bug which impacts many of our users on a regular basis which we haven't bothered to report to them because by the time we started running into it, our users were like, "Meh, whatever, that's just LastPass being LastPass." It's not good when you stop reporting bugs to a vendor because you've become convinced that they just don't care.

They've had 12 outages of varying severities and lengths in the past six months.

Pretty much every time I reported a bug to them -- and believe me, most of my bug reports were extremely detailed and often included videos or screenshots demonstrating them -- their first response was, "Try uninstalling and reinstalling your plugin." I hate that. HATE, HATE, HATE it.
Matrix is very much there, and a very cool thing about it is that it allows bridging between e.g. IRC<->Matrix<->Telegram!
Is there a demo of a working example app using this library?
Japanese customers, too. Back in the day, there was a gentleman's agreement among Japanese automakers to limit power output of JDM cars to 276 hp.

In reality, Japanese performance cars were all spectacularly underrated. Your "276 hp" sports coupe is probably making 350 hp. It was more of a gentleman's agreement to lie about power figures than anything else.
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that's wind data, not air pollution
How Craig Barton wishes he’d taught maths – Gowers's Weblog
I don't really wanna call this a "solved problem" because it's certainly not, but there /are/ off the shelf anti-drone munitions and have been for a while:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG7hUE2BZZo&feature=youtu.be...

I too think it's very weird that the UK government apparently doesn't have /any/ specialized antidrone munitions around and refused to attempt to fire anything at these drones.
Yes, as long as every corporation continued to invest at the same rate despite the fact that their trade secrets would be worthless and they'd be undercut by cheaper competition.

This fantasy of "if only all commercially valued knowledge were free" ignores the realities of economics, which pays for the development of technology. Even open source software development exists largely on the corporate dollar with a few companies funding most development.

If more secrets were shared, stolen, distributed, whatever, that will change the equation for companies deciding to invest. You're better off optimizing for time to market and making a half ass product than trying to achieve technical differentiation/superiority only to have the results of your research and development stolen outright.
Sure it makes sense to jump to conclusions, that's why we go on HN! ;)

Seriously though, it's interesting to discuss this case. Clearly we don't have all the information. Some of us may change our minds later. Right now, the evidence that is out there isn't convincing on its own. It's okay to point that out!
I'm glad they're going to try to get multi-line strings right, but seriously, I (and many other people) have wanted this feature for 19 years.

This is not an exaggeration. I was writing code in Java to access SQL databases in 1999 and needed it to express long SQL strings.

One would think they could move a little faster.
For sure, the light is super dim. I'm not sure it's possible to focus the energy enough to light a fire. I'm just sure the reason is not because moonlight is entirely composed of radiation from a 100C blackbody. This is just immediately obvious because we can see it, so this whole article is a little weird.
It's http://txti.es, which you could have checked for yourself.
Check out the number of top athletes who are vegetarian or vegan. Go to a typical Spartan race in your state and you'll find a ton of top performers who don't eat meat. If you are in the US, there are enough healthy alternatives even outside the two coasts.

Also, this choice doesn't have to be binary. One could eat less meat - either smaller quantities or fewer meals with meat each week. The end goal is simple - reduce the number of animals who have to be raised and killed for meat each year. If one agrees on that (and one might not), then even reducing your intake by 10% helps a lot.
ICYMI, iGEM organization's overall goal and the projects that are carried out as part of the annual competitions are highly related to this topic: http://igem.org/Main_Page

In general, it is hard to find a biological system that will give you a reliable and generic compiler framework (a la LVM) unless you better scope your problem and/or goal; but there are small problems for which we have nice implementations/solutions (a la software design patterns). The challenging part is to mix and match parts that will help you solve specific problems.

So the answer really depends on what you want to do with such a system and what parts of the already available solutions that you don't like.
> In hindsight Stalin was a bad dude

That's a great understatement for the single guy responsible for an amount of deaths 10 times greater than WWII casualties.

edit: number typo
From Deconstruct:

Nabil Hassein: Computing, Climate Change, and All Our Relationships
https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-hassein-computing...

Tom 7: Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0
Maybe there were some, can you elaborate. Where's the evidence? I always thought there were a few american communists walking around then, but they had few misconceptions about the evil of russia if they paid attention at all.

The big thing was the leader of the us was dying, probably of cancer.
Being able to regurgitate the locations of countries doesn't mean you are educated; it means you sat down with a map for a few hours and did some memorization...

Saying the entire United States population is proudly uneducated is roughly equivalent to saying all of the UK hates Europe and wants to leave the EU, or that all of Germany is racist because of recent violence against migrants, or that Italy is full of lazy alcoholics who don't want to work. Just because a subset of the population holds certain views (and I don't think anyone is really proudly ignorant, just apathetic because they can be) doesn't mean the whole country or even most of the country thinks or acts that way.

You attack our population for being uneducated and culturally ignorant and yet here you are regurgitating tired stereotypes...
One headline from 1913 was talking about New England.
That's not true though. There have been countless of instances where perfectly reasonable positions have been branded by leftists as 'Fascist' in order to justify themselves in initiating aggression - unprovoked. Then they perform Olympic level metal gymnastics to justify themselves on how they are not at fault but the other side's fault for 'spreading hate'. People are starting to see through authoritarians like those and have increasingly stop falling for that bullshit.
Stalin was a terrible actor for his country but calling his actions "Be inconsistent and unfair" is a fastfood-history propaganda.
As dguido posted below, the details are a bit different than the tiny pair of sentences you're basing your analysis on.

> On 12/12/2018 at approximately 10:30 a.m., Tan contacted his supervisor, advised he was resigning from Company A, and gave his two weeks' notice. Tan told his supervisor that he was returning to China to be with his family as he is the only child to aging parents. Tan told his supervisor that he did not currently have a job offer, but was negotiating with a few battery companies in China.

> Tan's resignation prompted Company A to revoke his access to company systems, and conduct a Systems Access review of Tan's computer activity.

> That review confirmed that Tan had accessed hundreds of files, including research reports. The reports included not only how to make Product A, which, according to Company A, is a complicated and technically difficult process, but also Company A's plans for marketing Product A in China and in cell phone and lithium-based battery systems. These files included information that Company A considers to be trade secrets and outside the scope of Tan's employment with Company A. The review revealed Tan downloaded restricted files to a personal thumb drive. In the course of his regular duties and responsibilities, Tan should have used his company issued laptop. Tan did not have authorization to use a thumb drive to download Company A files. Tan's supervisor confirmed that nothing in the downloaded files was within Tan's area of responsibility. Further Company A confirmed, through Tan's supervisor, Tan did not have a work related need to access or download the restricted files.
This is marketing trash and cloud 101 dude
> Update: By the downvoting I know that you all know I mean the Clintons.

Except for the late-1970s cattle futures investment (which was legal and documented, just surprisingly unlikely), I think everything about the Clintons can be explained by their straightforward participation in private business like speaking engagements, consulting, and selling books. If you count their "official salaries" as salaries just from their jobs as public servants, you'd get a lower number, yes, but you don't need to speculate about bribery or corruption to figure out where the rest of the money comes from.

(I suppose you could construct an argument that these forms of private business are in fact morally equivalent to overt corruption, but I'd be curious to hear the details of that argument, especially as basically all of them were after Bill left office. There's a huge difference between bribing a current politician and a former one, in that the current one can meaningfully look the other way or send you kickbacks.)
I really enjoy Kelsey on all his talks. The most laid-back and funny presenter. All my initial Kubernetes knowledge was drawn from his lectures.
That is untrue.
You supposedly can get 10GB near Minneapolis,MN.
I checked Chatanooga,TN (municipal broadband) years ago. You can get what you want. It'll cost you more for business service.

1. Herndon/Oak Hill, VA (1st city to get Verizon FIOS)
1a. I get a Service Level Account (SLA) at my home

2. FIOS is symmetric
2a. My sister, who lives a block away, says she gets residential FIOS at an advertised 1 gigabit
2b. I would get an SLA just to be sure.
2c. I was told I could get 2 or more lines

3. I was told I could run a web server. Note that this was years ago.

4. N/A

5. I seem to remember you being able to get a static IP address. Naturally, it costs more. I just use DHCP and AWS. Zero to global reach in no time.

6. I don't know if Verizon would be upset if I mention price. So I won't. I really, really like my Verizon FIOS & AWS service.

Hyderabad, India has 1gb now.
Ask HN: Founder selling some shares
Writing from a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I am Founder at a small but fast-growing startup, and my and co-founder we got an offer to sell some of our shares and continue to build the company with the old and new investors. Both of us are worried that it is going to alienate some of the team members who will see me and my partner make a (small) windfall. It won't be anything big by any means, but we fear that it will upset some of the folks who have been with us through the trenches. We obviously mean to continue building the company and do right by all the employees in the long run. Either way, are there any founders here who have been through similar situations and can offer some words of advice?
True. He was very smart and built up a network that kept him alive.
2013 though
Take a look at the subsidies that the MTA receives from the state and city. Add to that the money consumers spend on the service, and divide by number of rides. Now ask yourself why this number is more than it costs a person in Dallas to drive across the city in his own car, listening to his own music, and sitting in comfort while the air conditioner is set to his precise desires?
We didn't use the word "comprehensive", "complete", or "thorough", and obviously we didn't include every password manager in our evaluation, so I'm not sure what reason you have to believe that we were aiming to be "comprehensive."

We were aiming to evaluate the features / issues we care about against the password managers we were most likely to want to use. We published the results of our evaluation because we thought it might be useful to some people, not because we thought or intended for it to be all things to all people.

We didn't include security audits in our evaluation because, we are skeptical of their value and do not consider them a significant differentiator.

For example, in our experience trying to keep our own application secure, our HackerOne bug-bounty program has identified far more issues than the white-box security audits we've commissioned, at far lower cost.
Bioweapons are
1) Cheaper
2) Harder to control
3) Less reliable
than traditional arms.

This makes them great weapons for poor countries who don't care about indiscriminate killing, but bad weapons for large countries that want precision strikes against specific enemies.
Feeling a slump early afternoon after midday meal is not anecdotal evidence, it's biology.

edit: At least, it's a common issue that people have . A simple google search for "afternoon slump" reveals tons of related articles and suggestions to address it.

Besides, those who feel otherwise likely don't give sufficient context. Such as, likely that they work from home. Or that they run their business so they can work afternoons and like to get up at 11 AM everyday. The article is talking about "staff" at "companies".
Could this explain why women may be considered more empathic or compassionate considering gender imbalances across societies?