skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one thing I miss from windows is that alt access to the menu. While search menu is great when I don't know what I am looking for, using alt menu and then a chord to access features was great and less painful than some of the macOS shortcuts that require three modifier keys at the same time.
Even though replay attacks will be of no use after some time, one could MITM during the vulnerable timeframe to prevent a critical (0day) security update from happening and therefore gaining control over the system, so if you're specially targetable, I believe it's totally worth switching to an HTTPS mirror instead.

Other than that, most should be safe ig.

One annoying thing is that the page name is misleading. apt does use/support https, it's just that Debian chooses for its default mirrors to it be optional.
I work in Google Cloud and this comment makes me sad. Not everyone is a sellout and I didn't forfeit my soul for a nice paycheck.

What motivates me to go to work every day is making our customers' life as easy as possible. And not because I want to make Google even more profitable, but because running on GCP is greener. In fact, since 2017 all Google operations are offset by renewable energy: https://sustainability.google/reports/environmental-report-2... .

So, please don't generalize. I firmly believe that the vast majority of Googlers still care and are not evil.

(these are my personal thoughts and by no mean I speak on behalf of Google itself).
"The food shall be cooked and served, served if ready to eat, or discarded within 4 hours from the point in time when the food is removed from temperature control;"

https://www.ehso.uic.edu/UserFiles/Servers/Server_82316/File... pg 36

It's in a different state (each has their own code), but it'll do.
> If you interpret indicators correctly, there is no problem.

Right, but when the indicators are used for ragebait headlines and editorials, for most people the reaction is outrage, and ends at that.

So a more sober, considered discussion about the issue of wealth and inequality - which is an important discussion we need to have - can't happen.
the ride fare is necessary to scare people off public transit, otherwise the service would be overused.
Matterbase beta release is live
> The deal was tax-positive

i'd like to see evidence of that. Amazon could've have still chosen new york for the HQ building. There's plenty of incentives already.

Therefore, only if there's reason to believe that amazon won't have built it in NY would the 5 billion tax break have been worth it.
Except that most expensive AAA games don't have free counterparts...
It's not an obsession. It's an easy way of illustrating a point that gets a portion of people to consider the current situation unfair and do more to change things. They keep publishing these because they keep getting press attention and as a result get more support and are able to improve the lives of more people.

> like a whiny entitled asshole

I won't say what I think about calling someone entitled assholes for wanting less death and suffering.
Quite old. Latest 2014. Still relevant?
I agree with your comments, but let me share my 2c on "trendy framework bs".

Most of interviews I've done to candidates ended up in discussing technology trends and googling around for cool open source projects, libraries and so. This, to me, is a good indicator - as long as you bring them up when discussing relevant problems, this means you thought about a problem and researched prior art to avoid re-inventing the wheel.

Also we tend to end up discussing pro and cons of any given technology and so on. This at the end is a key indicator you're talking to a passionate developer. And passion usually makes someone good at programming.

When it comes to soft skills, usually having such a kind of discussion you can figure out also someones behaviour in most work scenarios (to me, having a good "discussion" mode means you're likely to be fit for team work).
But breathing helps your body burn. Doesn't deep breathing cause you to turn to cinder faster?
They were also self-documenting and training. Do an action and while you're doing it, right there next to the description of the action, is how to do it quickly.

If you realized that, were doing the same thing frequently, and used the keyboard action after the first couple times you learned the memory of how to do it the quick way.
yes but privacy is a whole another thing that is maybe not worth it. with mirrors and so on getting https to properly work is not trivial. sure it would be nice.
No, but a fifteen or twenty minute walk or bike ride can lose out to a free bus. At least some walkers will be enticed onto the bus, which will require more capacity, which will then improve frequency, which will then attract some more walkers, rinse and repeat.

Above a certain frequency buses become extremely unreliable and dwell times start impacting travel time because bus stops only have so much room. With trains you have more room to work with, but once you run out the marginal cost of building new lines runs in the hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars.
> I'm not going to argue for a hypothetical.

Huh? But you said:

> [their] complaint is primarily that if a system is too simple, it's much easier to raise taxes.

which sounds pretty hypothetical to me! In fact this whole discussion is hypothetical!

> The reason? CA has a lot more deductions for people of my income or lower. CA can get you in all kinds of other taxes, but not income tax

To me, this sounds like a pretty good justification for a simpler tax system ...
Quote away. The great workplace in question is EPFL's DEDIS lab.
End user documentation, wysiwyg or generated?
At our company, we've been struggling to find a good way to store, version and publish our customer-facing documentation pages.

We've tried a couple of open source wiki's which are supposed to be documentation-oriented that ended up not cutting it at all (among which Xwiki), mostly due to the lack of support for versioning, batch modifications, poor support of code snippet visualization, etc.

Since versioning our documentation alongside our code (not --IN-- our code though, API documentation is only a fringe part of what we do) is one of our key requirements, we've been thinking about ditching wysiwyg tools and instead just writing simple markup documentation with simple link & image insert patterns (a la Github wiki) and then working on building a simple web app which would assemble and present these raw pages to the user.

I've spent quite a bit of time (in spurts) over the last few months but never could find either a decent wysiwyg tool or some sort of blue print for the markup / code-style management approach.

Does anybody have tips or recommendations regarding this or would anyone be willing to share their experience and what has worked for them?

Thanks & Best Regards
Inconsolata doesn’t even have italics!
Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants
Nothing requires privacy. However, the HTTPS movement is about making privacy the default, not the exception.
I use, to this day, Screen from SGI. Someone converted it to ttf.
Nike's new self-lacing basketball shoe is actually smart
Why would you plant more when you can satisfy all your ugly customers with your existing production?

If the total demand is stable then you'd need less perfect crop and you could actually plant less to sell the same amount at the same price.
Let's not forget the old favorite: burn it in an alembic and drink it!
They cover this - timestamps are embedded in the packages, and also signed. If they're too old it won't update and you'll know something is amiss.
It's not just price. My problem is that brick and mortar stores often simply don't have the selection nor the knowledge I'd expect.

Of course the alternative doesn't have to be Amazon - there are countless shops that serve specific categories and niches way better than Amazon or your local store, if you even have one, ever could.
> Short of implementing a federal law against it, there is no scenario where cities were not going to compete to lure Amazon. Fortunately no such federal law exists

i would say that's unfortunate rather than fortunate.

Cities competing for businesses is a net loss to the tax payer. If a business is to build a new HQ or invest, they should do it on the merits of their business needs and general condition applicable to all businesses.

If a particular company gets an unfairly good treatment, then it's very anti-competitive for other businesses. Why should tax payer shoulder any burden for a private business specifically, rather than building general infrastructure that benefits all businesses?

> If I'm Detroit and I want to rebuild my collaped city ... offer up incentives such as tax breaks for businesses

that would be great - if it was a general tax break, rather than a tax break targeted at specific companies that others can't gain access to.
> "Furthermore, even over an encrypted connection it is not difficult to figure out which files you are downloading based on the size of the transfer"

>> "Is it really not difficult? I bet if you sorted all the ".deb" packages on a mirror by size a lot of them would have a similar or the same size, so you wouldn't be able to tell them apart based on the size of the dialog."

Human readable sizes: Sure.
Byte size info: Not so much. And even if: Things would become very clear to the attacker after one update cycle for each package.

If you really want to mitigate information about downloaded packages you would have to completely revamp apt to randomize package names and sizes, and also randomize read access on mirrors...
> Maybe some may have some sort of "house," or property, but that's about it.

People with a house (of any kind) or property are typically not part of the poorest 50% of the people.
>Are there advantages to this communication style that I'm missing?

Wokeness points
I use 2 x 24" monitors to. I've tried various other combinations, but this seems to be the sweet spot. The real advantage I find is you can maximise your apps to each monitor and just flick between them if needed. They're also cheap.

I have tried the 3rd 24" and I found I just leave mail and stuff open on it, mainly because it was there. Two seems to work for me.

I have one for my IDE to edit code, and the other one for other stuff. I keep thinking I should do something more sophisticated, but I always come back to this.

I find larger monitors I have to move my head a lot more as well, with the 24" eye movement is enough.
Not all fonts have free counterparts. “Serif” and “sans serif” don’t always mean fungible.
Forgive the naivety, but after a certain point doesn't cash just make more cash, and didn't the Saudis hit that a long time ago?

I figured they got rich on oil, but could now stay rich through investment.
Show HN: Generate a Spotify playlist based on the tastes of more people
Well, this game can be played cooperatively or adversarially. For the latter approach, everything is a zero sum game.

Getting back to your points:

> food

We already (can) produce way more food than we consume. The main problem is distributing it and the lack of economic incentives to make this distribution global and fair.

> housing

We have the tech and resources to provide everyone adequate non-slum housing. It's again a problem of global and fair distribution. More than that, more people need to accept that we need more high density urban environments. This point will come back later :)

> energy

From an energy point of view, we're kind of at the "food" point. The real challenge is converting energy production to renewables. Which brings us to...

> not wrecking the planet

We absolutely have all the tech and know-how to not wreck the planet. But it's a tragedy of the commons.

Not wrecking the planet is the final end game, the ultimate cooperative move. Heck, it's the final anti-zero sum game move.
Instead of JUST that third party knowing what (possibly vulnerable) packages you have, you are now letting everyone know what possibly vulnerable packages you have.
There is a huge difference between the third-party knowing what you're doing, and everyone in between knowing what you're doing.

The HTTPS everywhere movements are attempting to make privacy the default rather than the exception, but are of course done knowing that the server will always know whats up. The point is to make it so that only the two parties concerned, the server and the client, comprehend the communication rather than the entire world
https://t.co/RHZKjvseIT

"I've decided to make pdf's of my ray tracing books available at "pay what you want". This can include zero, which I encourage for students and any other cash-strapped people. 50% of gross proceeds will go to programming education non-for-profits."

Peter Shirley

https://twitter.com/Peter_shirley/status/984947257035243520
I am fascinated of how important font is for some, I tend to stick with the default font and not think about it. The only time I have really noticed a font is libre font (or what its name was) after installing LibreOffice, I did uninstall LibreOffice and bought MS Office instead because of that font
from the pdf: https://opensourceradiotelescopes.org/
the downright fearmongering about a "75% tax rate"

If everybody just paid the taxes they were supposed to, then we wouldn't need high taxes.
> It's much harder to see it all at once, so you end up just treating it as a free floating space to organize things, much like a real desktop (do you layer all your items our to maximize used space on physical desks as well?).

If it wouldn't take ages to properly align paper with a 1mm border but they would magically align themselves - yes of course I would :)

Not that I work a lot with paper anymore, but I see no advantage of not aligning stuff in the real world just like a tiling wm would...
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/Hacked%20Team/FileServer/File...

Matasano used to mail it to all their potential candidates and told them to read chapters N throgh M.

Unfortunately I've forgotten the values of N and M, so just read the whole thing. It's worth the time.
I was thinking that - there would have to be zero latency between requests to avoid leaking package size information. Not impossible, but damn hard.
Fizzbuzz is an example, I've never seen it on its own. A company doing a pre-screen test would normally put 2-3 small tests, the easiest one fizzbuzz-like, for a total of 1-1.5h.

Multiply that by the number of companies you are interviewing and that can easily be 8-15h in total. I'm glad I didn't have to do that.
The RER contains the western world’s busiest train line with over a million passengers a day. It’s become a victim of its own success. In fact moving block signalling was invented to boost capacity on the RER.

The government is currently investing $25B in building more relief capacity, but who knows how much investment you’d need to handle the unlimited travel demand caused by a free fare.
5G Wireless: A Dangerous ‘Experiment on Humanity’
This is exactly what I'm looking for!
> It is possible to not know much about the agricultural industry without being "classist as fuck."

If you start a social movement, that's the point where you should do some basic research.

> While the content is interesting, I find the condescending tone off-putting.

Pack it up fellows, the tone police has arrived!

> Are there advantages to this communication style that I'm missing?

Ordinary people love it when affluent urban do-gooders get teared a new one. That just can't happen with minced words. As a leftist, you had better find some common ground with common folk when you're carrying around a PhD.
It's good in fried rice too.
The claim is odd though. In my experience, the selection of fruits and vegetables differs mostly in variety, not quality.

If there is a quality difference, then it might be the other way around, because supermarkets targeting well-off customers tend to have more organic produce, which is almost always grade B.
Yeah true, but the arguments for tls default ring a bit hollow, to me at least.
Someone who really wants the defense-in-depth should probably be switching to onion sources anyway, I was impressed with how quick they were.

As the article says, replay attacks are voided and an adversary could simply work out package downloads from the metadata anyway.

I personally use https out of general paranoia, but understand the arguments for not changing. It's two extra lines in a server setup script.
A bit of meat, a lot of veg – the flexitarian diet to feed 10bn
> The federal government doles out at least $2.3B every year for transit projects

That's about a fifth of what just Paris spends per year. For a 300-million inhabitants country, it seems a bit low.
Working with Files in Python
In the past cryptographic export was illegal in the us and many other countries, it can still get you put on a list.

In some countries messaging apps like signal and telegram are illegal.

There is no telling what seemingly benign software will be made illegal in the future for political reasons.

Privacy is always a requirement because of these reasons.
Ahh, ashen one.
Last year Jeff Bezos earned more money than every other Amazon employee put together. Does this distribution of rewards fairly reflect the contribution of each person to Amazon's success? If either Bezos or every other employee died in an accident, which would cause more damage to Amazon? Even accepting that Bezos deserves a huge pile of money for his achievements, and that the economic system isn't his fault, it would be reasonable to view the status quo as "contrary to justice or a sense of fairness".
I will check it out and do some research on it. I am giving antihistamines and nasal steroid sprays a final try, along with testosterone replacement therapy. Found out I am hypogonadic, and hormonal issues also cause turbinate hypertrophy. If none of these work I will do a surgery.
With things becoming obsolete faster than ever before, I'm sure this scam could still work. I know plenty of stores where they only glance in the box when you return something, and if you bought it cash, you'll get cash back (no traceability).
Using a proportional font is also common (recommended) when programming in Bertrand Meyer's Eiffel or Niklaus Wirth's Oberon.
> be much better as a once-piece article

Not really. I hate articles where people ramble on and go full-dostoyevski instead of getting to the point.
That website is possibly the most beautiful and ergonomic website I've ever used.
HTTPS is really quite trivial, especially with the advent of letsencrypt. This is especially true for simple package protocols like APT, where a repository is simply a dumb HTTP server coupled with a bunch of shell scripts that update the content.

Assuming that we consider SSH-ing into a server a negligible effort, then adding HTTPS to a APT repository or mirror is also a negligible effort.

As for whether privacy is worth it: Absolutely, especially in this day and age. There is very rarely a cost too high when it comes to privacy, and in this instance, it comes for free.
Also see https://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/
For a theoretical example, hiding the fact that I have installed encryption or steganography from my government.
Let us know how your situation works out
In the end that's what the government will do anyway: you file a return, they double check it on their end and they will be rather nasty to you if your numbers disagree substantially from theirs.

The "optional pre-filled forms" scheme forces the governments hand (to show what it has on you) before you have to show your cards. In a way that reduces the IRS' power.
Interesting. How did you get that data?
A law can be evil and or stupid...
Seems pretty simply? All those things exist in greater quantities than yesteryear. There's more farms, more houses, more power plants and accessibe energy sources.
Wouldn't this invite some kind of oyster-predator or oyster-disease? Biodiversity would be more sustainable ...
Can I implement fast hashing functions like Cityhash, Farmhash, xxhash,
I think op means we should have zero enemies in fixing our environment. If we were truly all on the same page and freaking out, taking meaningful action would be a lot easier.
I use IBM Plex. You should add it to the list, I think it's free.
Perhaps, but none if the other issues are particularly short term.
Past a certain point the cost of new marginal capacity is hundreds of millions, or billions of dollars, or even tens of billions of dollars in new metro, bus rapid transit, etc. That’s money that could be invested in welfare, housing, healthcare, etc. And it has to come from somewhere. And this is before you consider that it takes a while to build such projects.

Guangzhou had to pull the plug on free transit during the 2010 Asian Games because queue times for the metro increased by half an hour just to get into the station, let alone board a train. What’s the use of a free train if you can’t board it?
Genuinely: it's 2019: shouldn't privacy be the default?
I thought those sets of tweets interesting and would love to have the views of other people in this field.

I have some friends in silicon valley that subscribed to this online delivery service for ugly produce: https://www.imperfectproduce.com

It looks to me like a mix of too much disposable income, and getting brag rights at dinner party for virtue signaling.
This was discussed elsewhere in the same discussion - basically the size of a download would be too similar for many packages and the fact that there are keep-alives would make it look like on impossible to decrypt stream anyway with no sizing data at all.
> It's the very antithesis to exploitation.

Only if you believe in the fantasy of an equal exchange between people with vastly different economic positions. This is such a fantasy that hardly a country in the world does not confer additional legal protections to the worker to try to at least to some extent level the playing-field.

Historically, it took people dying to secure even basic protections, Like example stopping employers from locking people in, like what caused 146 deaths at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. It took nearly a century, and dozens of people killed in demonstrations and strikes to get reasonably widespread application of the 8 hour working day. When people worldwide march on May 1st, they do so in part in memory of the Haymarket Massacre [2] and the AFL's subsequent move to resume the fight for the 8 hour day.

Nothing in the history of the labor movement suggests there is anything like an equal exchange for most people. Some of us are privileged enough to be in positions where we have something resembling an equal exchange that is truly voluntary in am meaningful way, but for most their economic position is weak enough that the employer always has more power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
The word you are looking for is dichotomy.
Yeah, I'm thinking about this every time I see puffs of smoke from exhaust or airplanes pass by... It probably took the earth a few hundred thousand years to bind that carbon, and here we are puffing it off in a matter of decades.

Human short-sightedness never ceases to amaze. It's an evolutionary problem I believe as we're to smart in a micro-sense, but as a whole we fail to take the holistic approach.

A bit like driving at 100MPH -- the human brain is not evolved for that scenario and perspective gets skewed.
I don't mind this cultural practice. Mildly amusing and that's what makes this world fascinating to visit. What I do mind about Chinese (and East Asian) culinary culture is the insatiable demand for rhino horn. That's gotta stop.
> I can't help but wonder about the upbringing of the folks who act out in anger, in public...

Come on, man. It's just a rant. I seriously have to wonder about your upbringing.

> The internet is not any different - they're someone's parents, peers and kids, reading your posts.

So what?
Gap between rich and poor growing, fuelling global anger: Oxfam