skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought to convict someone of conspiracy to murder, one of the conspirators had to commit the 'overt act' of murder?

In this case all the accused are conspirators, but which one committed the overt act? Calling a false report to the police is not an overt act of murder is it?

If this was a contract killing for example they'd be in conspiracy with the hitman, who was clearly the murderer. Who's the murderer in this case? The police officer isn't committing murder.

I think if you charged with conspiracy to murder you risk facing a jury who says 'ok I get they conspired but which one do you think committed murder?'
> Lobsters isn’t good enough because [...] people are really afraid to comment there because they might mar their image or get their invite revoked.

This is the real problem with HN and with pretty much all other more serious social sites. And the best example of it is you, posting this slightly controversial reply, using a brand new account. Yes, you might actually be a lurker that just created the account to post this, while reading the website for many years, but while I can't prove that's not the case, you can't either prove that is the case.

I wonder what will happen to HN if the karma system gets removed.
I can't make heads or tails of your last statement. Is there some sort of magical connection to the rest of the world that we have that twisted by looking at these terrible liquid crystal displays? Sounds more sentimental than anything.
> The officials didn’t say when the hack of their Web server occurred or precisely what the malicious version of go-pear.phar did to infected systems.

From Twitter (https://twitter.com/pear):

> What we know: the tainted go-pear.phar file was reported to us on 1/18 by the Paranoids FIRE Team. The last release of this file was done 12/20, so the taint occurred after that. The taint was verified by us on 1/19.

> What we know: The taint was an embedded line designed to spawn a reverse shell via Perl to IP 104.131.154.154. This IP has been reported to its host in relation to the taint.

> What we know: no other breach was identified. The install-pear-nozlib.phar was ok. The go-pear.phar file at GitHub was ok, and could be used as a good md5sum comparison for any suspect copies.

> If you downloaded go-pear.phar before 12/20, we have no concrete evidence you received a tainted file... but it would be prudent to check your system if you used go-pear.phar to perform a PEAR installation in the last several months.
On the one hand I think this is great on the other hand it seems to mainly suggest aliases and I am somewhat ambivalent about those because when you move to someone's computer that doesn't have those aliases your muscle memory betrays you.
Awesome!

I looked at Reason several months ago and my impression was, that if you want to do frontend stuff with bucklescript, you are one git-pull and npm install from a working scaffold, but if you want Reason with ocaml for native stuff, you would mostly be scaffolding yourself.

I am really glad I was mistaken :)
Autonomous weapons and the new laws of war
To be fair, the entire Haskell tool chain is finicky as heck in my experience.
I feel you - it seems that most ReasonML blogposts are around JavaScript usage, but this is completely native and therefore faster (no VM necessary)
I hate how the push (even lobbying I'd say) for pads and tampons is never questionned. It's expensive, it produces tons of waste, but most of all it creates dependent customers. Yet it's acclaimed as selfless ?

Give these women cups and they're settled for life.
And I get that, I think I heard somebody from Reason community to say on some podcast once "We want to get the frontend stuff right first", or something along those lines :-)
Oh yeah, I completely agree on the "tastes like X" thing.

The veggie burgers I talk about tastes nothing like meat and the texture is different, but they do not market it as meat replacement just a delicious veggie burger. The different ingredients are displayed on the package so it all looks very good too :)

I often find the "meat replacements" rather disgusting and I prefer to eat real meat over those.
Why Scotland loves haggis
In Australia, recently just about all maternity and menstrual related hygiene products got added to the Health Goods GST (10% tax) exemption list[0], along with few other like Condoms and Sunscreen that used to be there since 2011.

I suppose that is one step.

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2018L01624

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2011L02714
If you look into the failure rate of apple products, the defects in things that all other manufacturers seem to get right then you begin to build a picture of how this is going to turn out.
I think that comic is about people who voluntarily stop maintaining/publishing something other people rely on, not about more general supply chain security.
I have several dozen tests that run in completely separate DBs. With SQLite, the test suite runs through in 1 second:

$ time go test github.com/sapcc/limes/... | grep -v 'no test files'
ok github.com/sapcc/limes 0.004s
ok github.com/sapcc/limes/pkg/api 0.515s
ok github.com/sapcc/limes/pkg/collector 0.449s
ok github.com/sapcc/limes/pkg/core 0.006s

I doubt that you can setup and tear down several dozen Postgreses in that time.
This is how we felt after knowing we were going to be acquired by Tiny Capital
> What you’re missing is that in all these cases, some sort of series economic fallout was inevitable. The German economy was going to be forced into crisis & deep, unending depression by war reparations that it couldn’t afford to pay, Zimbabwe was going to collapse due to inability to pay for food imports.

No ! That's EXACTLY my point. There was a serious problem (self-inflicted or otherwise) and monetary policy, whichever one was chosen, was just not going to resolve it.

Just like TODAY monetary policy choice are NOT going to save us from the impact of, say, free healthcare, or massive economic efforts to "fight" climate change, or ...

We should choose to implement (or not) those policies assuming that the cost for those projects is a very real cost that will have to be paid, one way or another. It will be paid in real resources that individuals, meaning you and me and everyone, won't have access to anymore.

If some policy costs 1.5 billion dollars you should judge that policy on the basis it's going to cost you 1 less coffee at starbucks per month, or some other 5$ worth of resources. Because that is true for government expenditure regardless of where the money actually comes from.

And I would still argue that Zimbabwe, and for that matter Germany, got into the issues they got into because of their ideas of "justice". Racial justice in Zimbabwe's case. Imperialism in Germany's case (which they of course considered just at that time, and it's just a fact of life that justice changes over time). But you're right too, these were not monetary policy choices.
Which is the best job oriented course after 12h?
That is what I meant by past history.
I was wondering about the "truly sordid" story on Tommy the Cork. I think it is probably this, about his trying to lobby the Supreme Court in favor of the El Paso Gas Co. monopoly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/12/03/l...
How do you explain the rate of Alzheimer’s being higher in developed countries where oral care is statistically better?
A people's traditional diet does not necessarily correlate to their longevity, there are many other factors one needs to take into account (way of life, access to healthcare, access to food, etc)
Never said it was. I just was saying it's quite different from ICANN policy and plus there are old defunct country code domains which still have domain records even though you can't make new domains records.

It just breaks things like E-Mail, and cause problems such as making phishing more believable since the cTLD is still active. Plus numerous other things. It would have made more sense to block new registration, but it's a cTLD so not entirely governed by ICANN.

Plus I mean petty as in such a small thing to worry about. People who are not in the EU already can use an intermediary. So what's the point of breaking a bunch stuff?
I don’t understand why tampons and pads are the primary recommended methods for dealing with period blood (at least in the US). Cups are more sanitary, better-suited for extended internal use, and are often reusable. Some cups can even be worn during sex. I think it’s largely a matter of being uninformed, in turn likely because of the stigma associated with a perfectly natural bodily function.
You are probably thinking of Sweden. I have heard it is actually more now, like 200 years (the article says 140 years). Maybe even excluding the mortgage of the co-op. People are essentially renting from the banks, without any means to default. Apparently they have capped it at 105 years now for new mortgages. (People were actually a bit upset).

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/mortgages/swede...
Of course; it wasn't a criticism, but an observation. Just because many of us here speak English, even though we're not from Canada, we can know what is recommended in Canada, and how that compares with our own. I wouldn't expect them to make it available in other languages :)
In short, the Russians had a project to transmit psychic messages on submarines. This was of vital military importance if it would have worked. So the US tried that also, and then they also tried to use LSD (for interrogation, and other drugs) and subconscious hallucinogenic orders (for agents). This worked better, but of course was also shut down (MKULTRA).

They still rely on the equally unscientific lie detector tests, which works even worse than Scientology methods. But very similar.
Agreed which is why it's an interesting choice.
All that math is not going to help you when your government puts you in jail for not paying your taxes.
I too remember reading this, but about Stockholm not Norway.
I think if you divide the food on the plate over the course of a day that might be a reasonable amount, maybe a bit too much. Generally the site tends to focus too much on the problems of overeating while some people (myself included) might rather have problems to eat enough (healthy) food sometimes.
Historically Germany has been a very decentralised place, have a look at a map of the Holy Roman Empire. It was also in recent position of being split in two, with the capital of West Germany not being connected to the rest of the country. This almost certainly why it's industry is spread out to smaller towns and cities.
>With that kind of logic, you could justify any kind of price/attachment gauging. Like selling expensive laptop without batteries: "You already paid $3k for the laptop, why are you cheaping out on the extra $500 for the battery?".

Depending on what I was buying the laptop for and the variety of batteries available, that seems totally reasonable.

I mean, not for the mac model of "you pay a lot extra but it works out of box, without having to make too many decisions" of course.

But if I was buying an expensive laptop 'cause it was powerful and customizable? yeah, it would be totally reasonable and even desirable to let me buy the battery I wanted; I'm a big fan of the old thinkpads, and they often come used with the giant battery that sticks out, which I dislike, because they make the laptop bigger and heaver. My buddy who is also a fan just bought a 'low profile' battery for his, which is even smaller and lighter than the regular battery I use.

I usually buy my desktops and servers entirely as parts, because I want to choose the parts I want.

But that's not really Apple's market. (of course, I do also have a non-pro macbook and an iphone; but in a lot of ways, I have different expectations for those than I have for my old thinkpads.)

>In that context, $20 might not be "that big if a deal", but it would be even less of a deal for Apple to just include that stuff, while also making for a generally more customer-friendly experience without making them feel like being nickle&dimed every step of the way.

right my point is that it's not the $20 that is the big deal there, it's the fact that you've gotta go order another thing, when you paid apple big money for it to work out of box.
Some say it has to do with SEO purposes. There is a browser extension that directly shows the recipe itself called Recipe Filter.
There are announced security holes in every operating system. But unlike Android, iOS users can actually get security patches for years after they buy their device.

Android still has a horrible permission system after all of these years and privacy is laughable.

And as far as “iPhones sells are drying up”. They are still predicted to report the second highest revenues this quarter of any company in history - only surpassed by their previous record.
Life expectancy. When the life expectancy is 50-70 years, there is less Alzheimer compared to countries where it's above 80.
What's wrong with nodenv?
History of Computing: Extending Interactivity
How does it compare to n?

https://github.com/tj/n
Several months ago that was probably correct. Recently, we've released new tools like esy that make it... easy, especially if you come from a JS background or are familiar with JS tooling.
There's still a lot to solve, and native is just inherently harder than targeting JS, but a lot of progress has been made recently, and there's more to come.
Wow interesting, it didn't even occur to me that the Voedingscentrum would have made available English-language content. To be clear, I wouldn't expect the Canadian food guide to be made available in Dutch either.

It's just that I often compare Dutch guidelines with foreign (usually American) ones, and they often diverge. For example, in the Netherlands it's common not to use anaesthesia when giving birth, where most other countries AFAIK do.
Thanks for posting that I didn't realize that's how Apple worked.
Ask HN: Have you paid for the photos/headshots you use in professional setting?
And if so, why?
A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
Go and Dogma (2017)
Olive oil can easily sustain 160C for hour long period of time. You can use it for saute and pan frying. What you are refering too is deep frying with temperatures above 190C. That is what the consensus is, also my personal experience: it smokes really fast and tastes rancid.
They Build Spacecraft and Fight Epidemics; Shutdown May Scare Them Away
Not true. You can code your prior knowledge into the model, and make do with way less x/y pairs.

Data is a substitute for doing engineering by hand. If you do the latter, you require less data.
I see you didn't actually read the comment.
exactly, data that is not about play does not preclude a potential predominance of play, especially relative to the past
> Now women have to work just to be able to afford a house on two incomes which previously cost only one.

I frequently see people argue that you now have to have two incomes to have a normal middle-class lifestyle, but it doesn't square at all with my own experience. I come from a pretty conservative sub-culture, where it's much more common for a husband/father in a family to be the primary breadwinner and for the wife/mother not to work. Sure, a lot of our friends are highly-paid engineers and the like, which makes that easier. But others aren't - off the top of my head, I can name teachers (in a state known for terrible teacher pay), law enforcement officers, city maintenance workers, etc. All of these people are figuring out how to live a fairly normal middle-class lifestyle on one income.

How is that possible? We make other choices that support the goal of a single-income family. Most of us shop at Aldi, not Whole Foods. Nobody drives new cars (our nicer car is a 2005, for example). We do a lot of home maintenance ourselves. We share clothes, toys, and kids' supplies with each other, or get them on consignment. You get the idea. (Oh, and we also don't have to pay higher-tax-bracket taxes on the second income, high property taxes on big homes and new cars, or pay for daycare when we're at work.)

There's of course nothing wrong with women working or with nice cars or shopping at Whole Foods, and I respect the fact that different people choose to handle these issues differently. But don't be deceived - it's still possible for most middle-class Americans to live on one income, as long as they're willing to choose to make the sacrifices in other areas that facilitate that lifestyle.

(I won't claim to be able to speak to how this goes for poorer classes.)
Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting into Class
> Give these women cups and they're settled for life.

Comparing to sterile-packaged pads/tampons, cups need access for the wearer to a sterilization source - be it a microwave, clean (!) hot water, or chemical agents.

Cups are something for Western populations where reliable access is given, but not for unsanitary conditions in developing countries.
The “user experience” for most users trying to use a third party router instead of the one bundled with their internet service where support comes from their ISP would be worse.
What's the story regarding high availability for InfluxDB 2.0? I know it is a commercial offering in the current release, and while I'm not super thrilled about that, I do think it's reasonable. It would be nice if you could buy the self-hosted version with a "contact sales" step which I honestly will never do. (I would just put a proxy in front of the multiple instances that tries to write to as many of them as possible and does reads from one at random. What could go wrong!)

The other thing I never figured out in the current version is how to write the following query. I store samples like (device, network, direction) -> packet count. I then want to know how many packets were sent across the network in total.

With monitoring systems I've used in the past (internal to my former employer), this was easy. You would do the delta calculation at the lowest level to convert device packet counters to number of packets sent in the last time interval, which varies randomly because samples are not necessarily arriving at discrete intervals. Then you would do an align, to bring the randomly-added sampling times into alignment across all the "streams" (which is a unique (device, network, direction)). Once the data is aligned, you can then do a group by to get rid of a certain tag, like device (and just have (network, direction) -> total packets sent in the time interval).

With InfluxDB, I can't figure out how to do this. It has the group by time concept, but not alignment, so I can't write a query that will work. I ended up just computing the deltas before inserting the item, at which point everything works fine.

I have not tried the same query with Prometheus, but I suspect it would work like I expect, as it seems very heavily inspired by a certain internal monitoring system I am most familiar with.
Scans of early RFCs
As opposed to Google with their world class customer support or Uber with their great reputation for safety and ethics....
You are likely to be eaten by a grue
Plus, I don't quite get what is the privacy being violated when taking a lot of pictures of red traffic lights...
There were some enormous UX issues with the old look & feel of TFS/VSTS as well. Navigation was nearly impossible to understand, for example.

While I appreciate the work they put into DevOps, it still feels like the same person that designed the Azure Portal UI has had a say in the UI redesign of TFS into DevOps and that must either mean that a) Microsoft never realized what a horrible UX the Azure portal is, or b) they do realize but they are too invested in this new "design language" to do anything, so instead DevOps adopted the same style as Azure.

I'm in the process of migrating TO DevOps (on prem) so obviously I have a keen interest in the direction its taking. Build pipelines being declarative, navigation being clean up etc. are fantastic improvements. But it still feels clunky to use, especially around the backlogs/boards.
Why Flutter is better than Android native
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone, PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”

Former CEO of Palm.
There isn't any true difficulty; people are running multiple sites that could all fit into 1 dedicated 64gb RAM server from Hetzner on a different infrastructure that allows them to develop their resume...
Reliability? They can't make a laptop keyboard that survives an encounter with a crumb and if you open your laptop too many times the video cable gets severed: https://ifixit.org/blog/12903/
Let's #TalkConcurrency with Sir Tony Hoare
Toyota Finally Has the Power in Electric Cars
How to stop Chrome from draining your battery
Lapis Lazuli: A Blue More Precious Than Gold
Although, the same applies to packages and libraries. So I would called related, but not entirely on topic.
How does NASA attract software talent? Not all smart people are in silicon valley selling ads or spying on people.
Humans are so smart that they can't be modeled by AI. Humans are so dumb that they can't even design a system that does the same things that they do :)

I find it amusing that AI vs Human is actually 'A group of humans working on a technology' vs Humans. If we say AI sucks it actual that we probably aren't good at making certain type of software. Its funny when we talk about AI like it has some Sentience -- when all the onus on improving it and why it sucks is because of humans. Guess someone should start a 'AI shaming' hashtag! :D
I esp. like the multiple dispatch and the unifying typesystem. I'll definitely steal something from it
yeah, come to think of it, I don't get a lot of blocked ID calls anymore, either. But I do get multiple spam calls a day, which is what I took OP's complaint to mean.
Yes because the board is knee deep in the design of Mac hardware.
"They are paying 1000 EUR or more for the glasses by themselves"

Where is that?

I have strong short-sightness and astigmatism so I need special lenses, and on top of it I usually ask for the thinner model.

Together with frame it cost me about 300EUR just recently, in Madrid, Spain.
I wonder if a noble goal for queuing systems would be to eradicate the need for the queue all together. E.g. more frequent public transport, designated security screening times at airports and gigs, supermarket checkout without tills or home delivery as an alternative. Theoretically it would be nice, but could it be ever be practical...
SpiderMonkey dev here. As others have mentioned, Cranelift is one component that's being written in Rust. Eventually we want to use Cranelift as compiler backend not just for WebAssembly but also for JS. After that it might be feasible to port more of the JS JIT to Rust. It might also make sense to use Rust for the parser or regular expression engine, who knows.

There will probably always be C++ code in Gecko, but I firmly believe that writing more components in Rust instead of C++ will (in general) improve security and developer productivity.

It still amazes me that we're actually shipping a browser with a CSS engine (and soon graphics engine!) written in Rust. Even more amazing is that these components are mostly shared with an entirely different browser engine.
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Not all women can wear cups comfortably.