skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wouldn't FOIA mandate that it's released?

FOIA has a number of things exceptions, material subject to it's exceptions is not required to be released, including:

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Exemption 1: Information that is classified to protect national security.

Exemption 2: Information related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency.

Exemption 3: Information that is prohibited from disclosure by another federal law.

Exemption 4: Trade secrets or commercial or financial information that is confidential or privileged.

Exemption 5: Privileged communications within or between agencies, including those protected by the:

1. Deliberative Process Privilege (provided the records were created less than 25 years before the date on which they were requested)

2. Attorney-Work Product Privilege

3. Attorney-Client Privilege

Exemption 6: Information that, if disclosed, would invade another individual's personal privacy.

Exemption 7: Information compiled for law enforcement purposes that:

7(A). Could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings

7(B). Would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication

7(C). Could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy

7(D). Could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source

7(E). Would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law

7(F). Could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual

Exemption 8: Information that concerns the supervision of financial institutions.

Exemption 9: Geological information on wells.

---[quote from: https://www.foia.gov/faq.html ]---

The sensitive things at issue probably fall into the existing exemptions (a lot in #3), otherwise business rules could be disclosed under FOIA now, even if the code wasn't the government’s to disclose.
I'd be interested to see what happens if an interviewee turns the table under the guise of "interviewing the company," which is a concept promoted from time to time in interviewing threads.

When your interviewer is telling you about their role in the company and a little about their history (if they have one), say it's a dev interview because why not, ask them how they rate their programming skill on a scale from 1 to 5. Ask them why they left their last company. Ask them what the most difficult thing they've ever achieved is.
Assuming you're not trolling (your first sentence gave me pause at first). I want this to be a surprising observation, because I consider following up on things to be sort of second nature, but I've noticed how bad people are in general at following up on something they say they'd do. Even professionally, finding the people in an organization who will do what they say they'll do, and, more importantly, not agree to something that they won't, is a big key in getting projects pushed through larger departments.

To add to this idea. I know someone who used to be very deeply embedded in an organization that has historically skirted the line of being a cult. Apparently one of the key tenets of this group is the importance of integrity, which they partly define as doing what you say you'll do. (From what I can tell, this is important for the organization, because then, they can set up environments where they can get you to agree to things then know that you'll follow through even if you come to your senses later.) What my friend noticed, is that people who moved on from this organization tended to be pretty successful in their careers, and they commonly attribute the ease of their success being that they simply do what they say they're going to do, and not in a woo-woo self-actualization sort of way. They simply do the types of simple tasks that others don't bother with, or forget about, like forward an article to someone who they said they would.
One might consider it somewhat condescending but I find that I rarely have emotional reactions to people I don't know. Only people close to me, people whom I've come to have expectations, can bring out my emotional side. The rest, I chalk it up to forces of nature.

Terrorism? Force of nature.
Someone being shitty on public transit? Force of nature.
Littering? Force of nature.

We can change our environment though and that changes the genre of nature we see around us. So I concentrate on that.
The rising Western skyline
Distributed Workflows for Clojure and Java
>Really? I googled "what causes depression", first link

So, even the first link agrees that "it's often said".

Now add how many times depression is treated immediately with drugs as a physiological disease of the individual.
Another great text on the historical cultivation of "whiteness" and European racial taxonomies is Neil Irvin Painter's "The History of White People". Michel Foucault's late 70s lectures on the history of race war in European discourse from the Norman Conquest onward are also available in printed form in English though I can't recall the name right now.
A night raid against a prepper seems like it's even more likely to wind up with a big firefight than this. Think about it they're then going into their house knowing they're stockpiled food and arms there. Trying to arrest them on the road avoids trying to storm their home and avoids endangering anyone else like doing it in town might.
Do you have anyone on fivver you'd recommend in particular? I've had pretty bad luck with designers just reusing logos but charging full rate.
Used BMW i3s are going for sub-$15k.
MissingNo.(Pokémon)
This is the same bullshit excuse people use to justify subscription licensing.

If they can't get the interested labs to contribute towards the development without the coercion of a commercial license then it sounds like it's either done, or the development roadmap is misaligned with the users' goals. In either case, stopping the abusive current practices would be an immediate improvement for everyone involved.
"Filipino Time" or even "Mañana Time" where you either can never plan for something to start at an exact time and have to wait around, or you show up for an appointment only to find that the people you're supposed to meet/help/interview didn't bother.
With the Deere Gator, you're paying a bit more for quality, and more for brand recognition. There are very likely competitors in this same category that have both lower prices and less famous names. Sometimes higher prices for better quality is good, or at least ok overall.
>2. Stoplights/traffic control cameras.

If you think this should be open source, do you then carry that logic to demand that all government vehicles run on open source software as well?

In my local community, the government does not own the traffic control cameras. They contract out agreements to maintain cameras at intersections that meet constraints.

I'm not necessarily against the idea of the government being restricted to using 100% open source hardware, but that's super radically different than "software the government owns should be open source".
I really like the typeface, it’s one of the first things I noticed.

It‘s Chiswick Sans, by the way: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/chiswick_sans
The interesting thing about these direct list IPOs is that if you have confidence your investors will hold, you don't need the bank for stability, you have stability as a result of such low volume. I'm no pro but I think the real risk is introduced when you don't know your investor base well, hence traditional underwritten IPOs have worked well. If the company doesn't need to raise money, seems like a fine way to let the little guys find liquidity. Will likely follow a similar chart as $ESTC.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Secret Service (who regulates counterfeiting) works directly with printer/copier/scanner manufacturers.
Government scientist here.

IANAL, but my understanding is that all software written by US government civil servants is in the public domain. It cannot be copyrighted or otherwise licensed (although the government can patent things). This does not necessarily mean that it is available to the public, as noted in the other comments; it may be classified, considered For Official Use Only, or restricted from release by ITAR regulations.

Barring any of those cases, you should be able to get a copy by filing a FOIA request. The problem with FOIA requests is that you have to know specifically what to request, usually by name. Obviously, it can be hard to put your finger on exactly what software you are requesting.

The bigger problem, though, is that much of the US government just isn't technically set up to release software (as opposed to documents). Setting up a git repository, in the DoD, is an utter nightmare. Every single patch has to be pushed through a public release process that can take weeks or months and involves review by as many as ten to fifteen different offices, few if any of which even know anything about software. If you're setting up your own server, getting the server itself approved and provisioned can be an exercise in bureaucratic frustration, and can take literally years to accomplish.

Those of us writing software very often want it to get out there. But the structure of the organization makes that excruciatingly difficult.
Keep your eyes peeled for "doppio zero" flour. Seems to be the highest quality.
true, but I believe ethics is partially wired in us (except sociopaths and similar conditions), but it's a bit like a muscle
and one step behind just having them hunt regular people.
Consider the Feds tried doing this with IP post WW2 and the results were disasterous. Turns out govt. employees aren’t allowed to be paid enough to make 100 hour work weeks reasonble - the level of effort required to get some ideas off the ground.

Once the Bayh-dole act was passed to allow citizens to take ownership of IP related to publicly funded endeavors, only then did the public start benefiting.
Agreed on WebAssembly... I'm thinking/hoping that a number of binary packages will be migrated to, or at least tested via webassembly. There are some modules in C that are impossible via webassembly, but a great number of them are.

Having the wasm versions in npm could be really useful.
I had such a wonderful visual in my head, of drones with tiny machine guns doing night strafing runs on rats...

Sigh.

(Also was looking forward to the next article, about the rats scavenging from the drones and firing back...)
If you've found what they're good at, and it matches what your needs are, does the information on what they suck at help you decide between multiple candidates?
It would be nice if that analogy worked, but there is no psychological equivalent of antibiotics and although psychological and psychiatric treatments can be helpful, they often aren’t, and equally people actually do frequently recover from mental health issues without treatment.
If I had intended to do it regardless of legality, I would not have asked about legality.
Well the general startup model is to figure out a revenue stream after either an exit or going public, so you're probably onto something.

Yes, I know, you can pay for slack, it's absolutely a viable product for free so most users don't. Does that sound like something a publicly traded company would be happy with?
I doubt you can back that up with numbers.
I have just had a look on Wikipedi for the list of road deaths by country [1].

The figures are from 2013, so very out of date, but for the UK (where I live) it is 5.1 road fatalaties per 100,000 motor vehicles. For the US it is 12.9, and for China 104.5. I think that shows pretty starkly that the reason we are paying so much more for our cars is for a massively higher chance of surviving an accident.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
It's really, really good.
I really like manipulating the number lines, which I think is important (the basic action in a game should feel inherently good)
Dividends do not solve this problem.
oop! Thanks for noticing. Fixing that now!
>I didn't do that? There are "genuine" "why" questions, they just are nonsensical (when not asking about a demonstrated conscious entity).

If you accept that why questions are only applicable in the context of a "demonstrated conscious entity", and you are a believer in strict determinism, then there are no genuine why questions.

>Also, if you are interested in a longer explanation of why the concept of "intrinsic value" doesn't make much sense, you might be interested in this video: https://youtu.be/2ASKV7Wg2jE

If you want to learn more about the concept of "intrinsic value" I suggest you start here for a history of the concept and a summary of current work on the subject-- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-intrinsic-extrinsic..., and not on a popular speaker's YouTube channel.

Rejecting the concept of intrinsic value raises many problems for ethical frameworks--none of which have been adequately solved. Don't pretend that it's a settled topic because you said it is.

It's only during the last century or so that philosophers have even entertained the idea that it might be possible to have an ethical system without the concept of intrinsic value.
You have to ask yourself what's the primary threat. Yes,the point in strong sense of a second factor is a fully independent test. But the actual threat it mostly protects against is credentials threats. Not loss of devices or compromise of a keystore. SMS as second factor is way way worse because of the porting problem. Otp inside 1password is a compromise but it protects against the primary threat.

If you crypt your disk and use a good passphrase or a long pin and passphrase on a phone you are not that badly exposed.
They'll own stock they can trade publicly. It's their call now, rather than holding on to a bunch of fictional dollars.
> irritability — a reduced control over one's temper that results in angry outbursts — is listed as a core symptom of depression for children and adolescents

There are a lot of "this is me" comments ITT. Can anyone touch on their experience of anger/temper as a result of depression in their children or even in themselves as a child? I didn't realize there was established research on depression symptoms in children. I always associated it with "sadness"/darkness and feelings of worthlessness that the [adult] mind can suffer.

I have two wonderful boys. The youngest always had a bit of a tendency to overreact/outburst on little things. For example he'll lose/die in a video game and just utterly lose his mind. Since my ex and I separated when he was 5 things have been the same and I never connected that it may be due to depression. Maybe he has been carrying this for a long time.
This is very well done, both in the results I got from using it and the UI experience while using it.
I've beaten this drum before but another area to look at is network connectivity. When visualizing a neural network we typically see a fully connected network from one layer to the next, but if you set the value of many weights to zero you'll find that they have absolutely no effect on the function of the network. So basically we're looking at a lot of spurious interactions and this just clouds our thinking. In fact the network topology is what's driving network function here but we're not doing a good job exposing that intuitively. Computational research on Gene Regulatory Networks--which are also modeled with the same NN math--have shown how network topology is really the key driver of function.

For anyone who is interested, I published a paper during my PhD that has about 195 citations. It shows that under an evolutionary process that Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks select out spurious network interactions, leaving you with what's functionally necessary (Also see the supplementary). I came from AI before starting my PhD and believe that this could be important for building a foundation for NN as well.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2538912/
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Remote Monitoring and Control of Livestock
Countries a, b, c already can reuse their code/don’t duplicate effort. Others will join for sure. They’ll also get free code/bug fixes from people who want to contribute. People do it for many reasons, just listing you’re contributor to gov project can look nice on cv. No tax money is paid for that. If other countries want to use but not contribute back - so what? I don’t think it ever bothered anybody that their open source lib/whatever was used by people who don’t contribute back to it or by people who themselves don’t have open source projects.
An interesting list structure, part 1
Hopefully they raise enough money to build a native desktop app.
Completely agree. To be clear, I'm not expressing this opinion. I'm agreeing with the parent that it's all too often the view of society, and that it actively prevents people from seeking help.
‘They were so good that even I accepted them as legal tender!’
Plato's lure
FWIW, that sounds like The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact%2C_the_Truth...
"ERROR: It looks like your device does not support the Color Match game"

iOS only?
Disagreed, safety and essential infrastructure should definitely be open source. Right now your typical infrastructure project is about as leaky as they come compared to a typical web app. Exposing that stuff to broad daylight will certainly help to harden it.
We’ve never met, but from what you’ve said in this thread, it sounds like you have a low opinion of the people around you. You’re good at finding flaws. That’s a valuable skill, but when you direct that fault-finding toward other people, they will become defensive.

It’s rarely productive to ask someone that was wrong, why did you do that? You may have steel skin, but for most people, that feels like an attack. The person you’re questioning can perceive in your body language and tone of voice the “he’s just another illogical idiot” thought that’s running through your mind. The basic instinct when faced with an attack is fight or flight. Productive adult humans have usually learned that diffusing conflict by disengaging works better than fighting back. This means that you are unlikely to get the answer that you are looking for.

This doesn’t mean you can’t question people and find out why they do what they do! The importing thing is to be nice about it.

Don’t think: I wonder if this illogical idiot can come up with an explanation for his bullshit?

Think: It seems like this thing X Bob made contributed to a problem with thing Y and that’s making me angry at Bob - but I bet Bob thought a lot about thing X when he made it, but he didn’t think about thing Y, and now he knows thing Y is broken and he feels guilty about it. Why don’t I ask him about what he likes about working on X so I can appreciate the good ideas he had, and maybe tell him a little about what I like about how Y works so he knows not to break it next time.

Communication is hard. It requires two brains that are full of different memories and habits to sync with one another. You really have to want to understand the other person. I’d go further and say you need to care about them, and know what they care about, for your interactions with them to make sense and be satisfying for the both of you. I’ve found that intentionally caring about the people around me improves my relationships with those people and makes life more enjoyable.
I completely agree that it’s not an inevitable state of affairs.

And I don’t think your point about Manhattan necessarily refutes my point. Just because a place is wealthy doesn’t mean it will have great infrastructure, but there are wealthy places in the US with good infrastrcture.

I also don’t dispute that it’s not a priority in most of the U.S. I just take issue with the idea that it’s easy to figure out what to do and we just need to look at a place like Zurich.

The U.S. is huge. It’s certainly more homogenous than Europe, but it’s big enough and variable enough that a lot of people deign to call the middle 2,000! miles fly-over country. Zurich and Istanbul are only like 1,400 miles apart, and are such drastically different places, but people expect the whole U.S. to have it’s infrastructure together when 1,500 miles gets you just halfway across the U.S.
I was on a sports site a while ago reading an article.

After a bit over the top of the article played an entirely unrelated video from that site because man they wanted me to watch their video content. There was no way you could have read all the article, you were guaranteed to be interrupted.

Out of curiosity I went to an article on their site that was just a video and started that video.

After a bit over the top of that video played an entirely unrelated video from that site.... on top of the video I chose to watch.

It was just mind boggling.
You just rekindled my long time desire to own one of these. I saw them all over the place in okinawa and I have a die-cast toy car of one somewhere around here. I remember there was someone who put that longhorn decoration you see as a texas cliche on one. They definitely are pretty neat. It would be great for hauling landscaping items from my local nursery without having to get a full sized truck.
The problem there is "how lazy is VendorX"? With \Program Files\ Microsoft has a ton of top level ACLs to lock down access to the directories that everything just inherits by default. How much work does the OS need to do to allow something like "folders named `data` under \Programs\ have ACLs XData and `code` have ACLs YCode"? Does it need to watch for silly mistakes like Devs that localize `code` (`Código` for instance) or misspell it (`ocde` or `coode`)?
A frustration I have with Seattle local politics is the property taxes. The increase land value from tearing down the viaduct already results in higher assessed values that get paid by the property owners perpetually. Throwing in $100+ million "local improvement district" special assessments is a money grab, or as some have called it a "wealth transfer."

It's like saying everyone within a radius of a new light rail station or interstate on-ramp has to pay a one-time assessment, instead of infrastructure projects being for the common good.

The local improvement districts smell like corporate socialism, and selective taxation. More money for government to spend, more money for developers to receive, and the public don't care because it only affects rich people with waterfront views. Until the next "local improvement district" affects their neighborhood. It's a recipe for corruption and a slippery slope.
That's just so cool. I don't know why. It's somehow got this giant "I do what I want" attitude written on it. Muscle cars seem so conservative and formulaic.
Oh right, I forgot lua! I love lua and would enjoy that shell (and the metaprogramming available makes it much easier to let unknown commands call programs, which I've tried once).

But I expect for adoption it'll need to be a more widely-used langauge
In a finite system, it is.
Writing Rules to Disregard
How secure is your VPN