skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone have a copy of the full archive? Will it live on at a torrent file somewhere?
Yes, AMI deserves outrage and prison.

But big as they are, they're a tool. Saudi ordered the hit. As far as I, a lowly democratic individual contributor, can see.
That’s going to be fun when someone decides to use your connection to make a bomb thread, or worse, upload copyrighted content.
Labour, Identity, and Hustle in the Time of Capitalism
Texas cancer researcher was called ‘foolish’, then won the Nobel Prize (2018)
Anyone interested in this article should also take a look at some of Pearl’s work on causal inference. Here is one article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836213/
imagine a small open-area bullpen workspace, but just big enough for one person. now imagine there's a door between that area and others like it.
Not exactly, it's been enabled for few folks in India. The screenshot I have posted is on Groups page on an Incognito Chrome window, where there are no extensions or plugins installed.
Full Title: A Texas scientist was called ‘foolish’ for arguing the immune system could fight cancer. Then he won the Nobel Prize.

It got a little mangled with the length constraint.
No goal. I lost my appetite, and I don’t eat unless I have appetite.

Took about 20 days for it to come back. Actually felt hunger at that point, which is a distinct feeling from appetite - one rarely felt in the 1st world)
More power to those who have the resources to get the digging done for them. Even with a perfect AI interface, you could only ask "Alexa" so many questions in 24 hours. Lowly individuals would gain absolutely nothing, they have better things to do than sniffing each other's data trails. That investment of time would in the overwhelming majority only be worthwhile for malicious use cases.

Even in the simple stalker/stalker evasion scenario: the stalker would enjoy digging into the data, but for the stalkee, keeping track of the stalker for avoidance would be a terrible chore.
Ask HN: How do you help your team “level up”?
I'm the lead software engineer at a company with about 10 other software engineers. Part of my job is coaching them on technical matters.

We organize biweekly talks about various technical subjects. And while these are fun to do, I'm not entirely sure that this approach will scale as the company grows.

How do other lead engineers help their team grow their skills?

Thanks!
I was thinking timecube, myself.
Playing devils advocate here, i want to build my understanding out further.

My question is: So what?

If we have good privacy laws tomorrow (assume temporary magic), how does that do anything but change the modus operandi of manipulation?

wait for a large event, and then flash your ads. Similar to pre internet behavior, true. But it’s still at internet scale, and you could target via groups right?
It's definitely not nationwide, but I've been to several schools here in Sweden that only had "catch-up" homework.
I think that it needs to be hexadecimal. But not sure.
The ability to generate echo chambers at scale is a direct product of the loss of privacy, even if generally voluntary in this case. Now regardless of how extreme your personal views may be, you can find a group to affiliate with where you'll probably be pretty much a moderate. This in turn drives further extremism as people fall out of touch with reality and slide further down their own distorted world view - left, right, white, black, man, woman -- it's happening to people of all persuasions.

The problem is that most people are more comfortable around people that they identify with. This naturally trends towards echo chambers as people gravitate towards 'similar' others. And this is probably unstoppable. Companies rapidly accelerated the process of it by doing everything they possibly could to drive "engagement" but in the digital age you're not going to be able to stop people from forming 'like minded' groups, regardless of whatever rules and regulations somebody might try to dream up.
Yes, you're right. Scheduling is one reason to store timestamps with timezone, to prevent information loss.
To be honest, I just jumped right and in and figured it out. I was having the local chain do #3 on sides and back and scissor-cutting the top "finger length". I paid a little attention to what they did and then tried it myself, guessing what finger length was in clipper combs. I also have a hairstyle that is semi-chosen to be compatible with this DIY cut in that as long as I remember which comb I have on the clippers, I pretty much can't screw it up. If the clipper can reach the hair, it's supposed to cut the hair. With the #3, I just go over the sides and back until it (largely) stops cutting. With the #6, I go over the top until it stops cutting. Then I go back to the #3 to redo the intersection between side and top, then take the comb off to do around the ears and neck. (This is the most likely place to make an error of cutting too much off, but your hair will grow back if you make a mistake.)
Those 4 POWER9 cores (16 threads with its 4-way SMT) will obliterate this ARM. Depending on the benchmark, this 32 core ARM box will do 1/2 the single thread performance and about 2.5x the multithreaded performance of my venerable Sandy Bridge i7 desktop (so it does 2.5x the MT performance with 8x the amount of physical cores). This is a hardware class from 2011, which you can usually pick up for under $250 from eBay in second-hand corporate desktops. On the other hand, the POWER9 in the Talos II can go toe-to-toe with Intel's Skylake in both single thread and especially multithreaded use cases.

The reason to buy a workstation like this is not performance, but rather being able to natively develop ARM software locally. That's the only real killer feature it has over Intel/AMD/IBM processors, but a legitimate reason to buy it given the availability of ARM servers at cloud providers.
Some of my teachers had a policy that homework grades could only help you. If you got a higher grade on the final exam, homework couldn’t bring it down.

Of course some people like doing homework: like Donald Knuth. Or I guess people who like writing unit tests.
It's a proxy for social class. If you accept informal language as standard usage, how will you filter out the plebs?
> useless code of conduct

#Code of Conduct

This is not a community project. This is my project. I know that will disappoint some people, but I do this for fun in my own spare time. If it stops being fun, I will stop working on it, which will pretty much kill the project. There are millions of projects in the world and the only reason they continue (if they actually do) is because the maintainers stubbornly stick at it.

With that in mind, here is the code of conduct: If it is fun for me then it is good. If it is not fun for me, then it is not good.

Things I find fun include: Bug reports that explain what you saw and what you expected to see. Suggestions for features that would make your life better. Stories of how the software so far has already made your life better. Entertaining stories of how you used the software (bonus points if it includes pictures of cats). Offers to volunteer to improve something (super bonus points if you actually improve it). Questions about how the software works. Offers to write documentation (super, executive class bonus points if you actually write some). Answering questions that other people ask (bonus points if you get the answers right).

Things I don't find fun: Drama. That is all.

To some extent, I will accept drama in exchange for money. But it has to be a lot of money. Think FANG level money. If you don't have FANG level money that you are willing to give me in exchange for drama, just don't do it -- even if you think it is the most important thing in the world.

There is no other code of conduct. I may arbitrarily declare some things fun for me and some things not fun. Please pay attention when I declare one way or the other and act accordingly.

Thank you.
Do you ever have a problem saying no to people?

Some times I am wrangling internally and that has an emotional cost. I find that being super crystal clear on where I stand is absolutely necessary to be able to say no.
WYSIWYG is kinda difficult for developers to control the allowed HTML part as it can generate a lot of gibberish and null characters. The same goes with contenteditable too. The good thing is, if you have Markdown, you can export it to HTML, text, doc, PDF, or any other format.
Have you tried https://bazqux.com ? It was built right after Google shut down Reader and very much resembles and improved upon it in multiple ways. Super fast too.
>Most doctors are already at capacity.

Physicians are at capacity. The American Medical Association has capped entries to medical school.

Other doctors are not like this.
playing video games all day long is probably just to fulfill a deeper need for something else.
> One of the Scandinavian countries

What works for a relatively mono-ethnic / mono-culture (generalizing a bit here) of < 10 million people usually doesn't scale well to the wild free-for-all of 330m+ people in the United States.

The Federal government meddling in the education system has basically never produced good results.
I wonder if you can implement that in this demo by inferring the speed from the thickness of the stroke in the font.

Making pixel area fill rate constant is probably another decent approximation.
> data portability

This is the important part. And it has to be in real time. So you could just switch from one "Social Network Access Provider" to another. Fb would just be one of them.

They screw up privacy? People can just go somewhere else.

Too many radical bs shows up on your timeline? Move to a provider that gives you a event stream you like.

Real competition.
Does Playing Music for Cheese During the Aging Process Change Its Flavor?
Greenwald's response: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1106195880393297920
I meant individual as working on your own, individually, not in a group or under guidance. Personalized homework would be great but is a bit unrealistic to expect on typical school budgets.
Author references the makemehanzi project: https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi
wondering if playing R-Kelly to it makes it smell like piss
New York's Tech Gender Wage Gap Is Worse Than Silicon Valley
Interesting, I would have assumed no correlation with unemployment statistics.
Is it just me or does this blog not have links for each entry? There seem to be two entries at present but no way to link directly to either of them?
Keybase is great, use Hacker News as an additional source to validate identity, provided you have at least 2 Karma points :)
If you don't like job burnout, then:

1) Take on as little debt as you can. This means you'll have more control over what job situations you will be forced to tolerate. Don't fall into the trap of 'rewarding' yourself for your hard work with expensive vacations, cars toys, whatever. Debt is slavery.

2) Leave your work phone in a drawer at work on Friday night, or turn it off. If they bug you about it, tell everyone you went on a camping trip, or went on a multi-pitch rockclimbing expedition or whatever. Keep your work stuff off your personal phone too.

If you have the kind of job where you are truly expected to be available all the time, start looking for another one. It's not worth your life.

And if you're wondering why the boss doesn't seem to burnout even though he's always there and works weekends, it's be cause he has control over his work hours. If you don't, then look for a way to either change that or get out.

These kind of work conditions can seem innocent enough, but if you keep that up for six months or a year and you are likely to burnout.
English has a serious problem with ambiguity around the word "free". In the closely related Scandinavian languages, there is a difference between "fri" (as in freedom) and "gratis" (as in free of charge). Unlike in English, the Latin borrowing "gratis" is the common everyday word for things that are free of charge. Free software is known as "fri programvare", whereas free-of-charge software (a.k.a. freeware) is "gratis programvare".
Interesting. I suppose "Sky" (original name of Flutter) would've been pretty hard to market.
> There is a strong argument that much of the above would not have been feasible without large centralized states.

Precluding that was small states engaged in constant warfare. Note that I'm not saying that centralized states are necessarily the solution, but that the US Federal Government has been successful in its objective of preventing further World Wars and that itself is a huge achievement.
There are lots of methods, but the simplest is not allowing anyone to commit to the repo without having at least one other person review the code.
Are you OK with other people using this ? This looks to be the perfect #Code of Conduct
I've been thinking quite a lot recently about how grass is generally made using particle systems, and while it works reasonably well, it never really matches a lawn. If you go outside and get dirty in it, you'll see two things: horizontal runners that criss -cross that then grow upwards. The more the grass is walked on, the less upward growth you have and you're generally left with the horizontal runners.

ok. I have spent way too much time thinking on this, but ever since I was writing my own engines and modellers (before 3ds max, blender and unreal engines existed), I've always expected realism of 3D to be a thing -- and to a large extent it has become that... but the 3D modelling is still taking some serious shortcuts imho, and particle systems -- although really cool -- are not really addressing realistic models of organic life, despite them being used in that way for landscapes.

So, although I encourage any and all work in this area, I hit a mental bump when I read this article, because it seems that particle systems have become too much of a thing, at least to me, and it might be hindering a next gen of organic modelling. I find it ironic that great leaps have come in material handling: modelling skin, as well as Physical Based Materials (eg Blender's new eevee renderer), but fractalish/ high poly natural organics are stuck back in the 90's. Is there someone working in this space that I've not come across perhaps?
This was nonsense. thanks for correcting me.
I think the main driver for Swift is that it's a modern replacement for Objective-C, which feels very dated at times.
There are European countries with 5%, 10%, 15% unemployment numbers. It'd be insane if they had that percentage of completely recluse population. And they obviously don't.
Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Fedora 29 / rawhide kernel is awesome, cannot recommend it enough. Best keyboard on any 14" laptop.

Only issue I have is the nipple thing doesn't work after a wakeup even, but I don't use it so don't care.
Who can I hire to hack me?
Admittedly it's a different model, but I can't even get my Surface Pro 4 to boot from a Linux ISO. I followed Microsoft's instructions meticulously and it just didn't work when Linux was on the USB drive. I don't think the Surface line of products in general is great for Linux support.
> and it's stupid anyway because even if you're getting paid you're still trading even more of your life away.

when you 'trade' you get something of value in return. if you're getting paid and you think it's a fair pay, it's not automatically 'stupid'. saving more now to pay for future expenses, nest egg, rainy day fund, whatever? how can that be 'stupid'? You have an opportunity to provide the means for a more secure future for your family, today, when that ability may be in doubt - take the pay now for more work.

your dad being a 'hard worker' may have been able to provide things to you that you never knew about at the time (or may never know about).
I can remember several teachers who really cared about helping the students learn, and who always tried to do their best for them. They'd even go beyond their official duties, e.g. I learned the basic concepts of trigonometry before I was officially allowed to learn them from an off-duty math teacher.

But despite them being personally good people, by accepting the job they bought into an oppressive system. If they tried to improve things too much they'd be fired. Existence of good teachers doesn't make the system as a whole good.
>Just kidding! It’s only me, Barrett Brown
One of the morals of the story is to never leave your wallet out of sight or out of feel when you’re in public spaces. Leaving your wallet in a back-pack and the back-pack in a corner of a restaurant/pub is asking for big trouble. In the very few cases when I have to leave my wallet unattended (like in a backpack at the side of a basketball court) I previously leave my bank cards and ID at home, I only bring some cash with me.
Deniability is a popular feature to add to cryptographic protocols and it seems in vogue to complicate protocols significantly to get it. But does anyone really care?

I'm struggling to think of a single case, ever, where someone embroiled in a public dispute denied the contents of conversation logs, even in cases where it'd be trivial to do so because the logs were just screenshots of WhatsApp or copy/pasted emails. People have deniable communications already in so many cases and yet nobody cares, nobody actually ever claims "I didn't send that".

To take the Bezos case, he could have just let them leak some dick pics and then said, "not my cock, not my problem". How would anyone have known otherwise?

The only case I can think of where cryptographic proof was used to prevent deniability were some Wikileaks email dumps where there was some very small amount of skepticism that all the emails were real, that maybe some forged emails had been put amongst the real set. The messages were all DKIM signed though, which proved it wasn't true. Which in this case would appear to have been beneficial - the leaks revealed various political shenanigans that were of a public interest nature. But I don't think DKIM ever made it to public consciousness: journalists don't know about or don't care about cryptographic proof.

Now maybe none of that matters, maybe deniability is near-free to implement so why not? But this paper suggests it's more complex than it looks. Any auditable generic computing infrastructure can be used to break deniability. In the unlikely event that disclaiming screenshot-strength evidence becomes a widespread tactic, anyone who wants to defeat it can just use a TPM and trusted boot. Getting deniability back may either seriously complicate already complex implementations (which is the enemy of correctness), or just fail entirely.

Moreover it seems to me that most people, given the chance, would rather than undeniability, as that would be useful in all kinds of regular situations like contract disputes. It'd make casual verbal-but-over-internet-chat type contracts meaningfully useful, along with other interesting capabilities.

Perhaps in the end this protocol feature is a bad tradeoff.
I suppose you are speaking of A7 II? Overheating is a problem for video only, and fixed on the A6400. Their technology is ahead of competition, not "meh". But it is a shame they do not have full touch screen, for some reason.
that's because it's actually (if I read it correctly) satire. That's an email from Barrett Brown speaking in the voice of Michael Bloom; later in the message he explains:

Just kidding! It’s only me, Barrett Brown; I used to
write that column for Intercept about comical prison
stuff, and then later I got mad and quit, as is my custom.
Which is why our rpc services accept json in addition to protobuf. Yay, problem solved.
Harmful content as in all that vanity driven public posts by otherwise normal humans. Wait who specializes in that?
Murders per Month from 1976 to 2017
My opinion of the whole Intercept operation/Snowden affair: "…When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."
> Privacy? With DNS over TLS/DNS over HTTPS, your ISPs can't see what you are doing. If you run DNS locally, they can.

Use DNS Crypt Proxy. It acts as a DNS forwarder, cache and ad blocker for your entire network whilst also encrypting your lookups to 8.8.8.8 and 1.1 (Fun fact: did you know 1.1 is short for CloudFlare 1.0.0.1 BTW?)
Doing Scrum in a Project Management and Structural Engineering Context
I’ve been planning to make this for a long time, so some suggestions:

- Remove the buttons and switch to a Tinder swipe. Saves space on mobiles

- Prefetch content for next follower

- only show last 3 tweets

- option to hide RTs

- Sort by last activity. The people I just followed are the ones I’m least likely to unfollow now, so show either old accounts or older follows first.

- bio is important. It needs to be present for context.

For a rough implementation of the Tinder idea, see https://github.com/captn3m0/quick-list-select which I made to help me filter large lists manually.

Disclaimer: I've only tried it on my mobile so far
We don’t have that many bomb-threats in the country I live in and fortunately the big media companies haven’t yet got the local authorities by the balls when it comes to copyright infringement. Agreed, had I lived in a country like Germany I might have done differently.
I've found it to be annoying in the other direction. A type system like protobuf isn't rich enough for the problem domain. We end up building a lot of additional validation into the servers and clients that could have been enforced by the service/types spec.
Read Greenwald’s response, he specifically addressed this point.
He said 1:1 correlated, not 1:1 equal. I.e. if for the sake of argument one in five unemployed are shut-ins but nearly no employed people are, then you have a good starting point to estimate populations.
They are only the tool, but they are also almost completely under our (judicial systems) control, as opposed to the foreign power (that is just trying to maintain it's control).

Just like if someone spies for a foreign country, then while that country might be acting in an unfriendly way, and we should be wary of them in the future. Their agent is a traitor, and should be handled as such.
Seconded. I still have an original xperia tablet Z that i love and use daily. And being waterproof i can just rinse it when it gets dirty from using it in my workshop.
Serious question: are there any large (say >2,000,000) cities in western-style democracies (for example, Singapore is quite safe, but I think their system of government makes it a little easier to fight petty crime) in which the police really do take that stuff seriously? It makes me think of that scene in The Big Lebowski where he asks the cop if they have any leads on his car breakin.

I completely sympathize with this guy, and hope I don’t wind up in his situation, but how seriously does any big city resident truly expect the police to take relatively small-value nonviolent property crimes?
Actually I think you could both be right. Like for like cities are more efficient but I recently saw a statistic that said 50% of us live in cities but cities consume 70% of our resources. Consumption clearly has as much to do with wealth as where you live.
Did you change DNS using the BT Hub?

Mine forces me to use their DNS, would love to turn it off at a router level. I know I can buy a new router but I can't justify that right now.
In case anyone isn't aware, Stephen Colebourne was the specification lead for JSR-310 which eventually became java.time.* He had previously written Joda-Time an open source library which prior to the release of Java 8 was the de facto date/time library for Java for about a decade.

He'd be someone I want on any new RFC effort.