skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Top 10% nationwide or state wide? 10k in state tax in California should be hittable with an entry level software engineer job at Google in the Bay area.
There's no LDAP Group Membership Reviewer Union. Management could declare "LDAP group membership requests are now self-service" at any time, if someone presents them with a compelling case that it's better for the company.

At public companies in the US, people get paid to review your LDAP group membership requests for a simple reason: CEOs and CFOs don't want to go to jail for failing to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley.

If you're at a private company, though, and you think the change controls at your company are a net loss in value, that seems like something to discuss with your CTO.
This has been true forever. Everyone is broke after Christmas and refunds turn the lights back on for retail starting in the end of March.
I completely agree that those areas should allow more 5-10 story buildings, but let's not kid ourselves about what they would look like. They would be One-Plus-Fives [1].

1. http://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-one-plus-f...
IRS actually has a documented policy on the "12-check plan":

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/409a_presentation.pdf

Wonder how many teachers understand that the net financial effect amounts to a zero-interest loan from themselves back to the school district?
I think part of it is the context that JSON and XML are used in, particularly the era of software that uses these formats for configuration and the design implications that has.

Recently I've had to work with XML config files for a tool called Oozie, which is a data pipeline scheduling tool within the hadoop/spark ecosystem, and it has been soul crushingly tedious for me. Everything feels verbose and opaque, the documentation seems to prioritize enumerating every possible configuration option over providing minimum viable configs for common use cases.

JSON configs often just feel more simple and developer friendly. I'd say this has less to do with technical differences between JSON and XML and more to do with how "modern" software systems have been designed to be more ergonomic for developers/administrators and these modern systems happen to be more likely to use JSON.

It's also fun to hear non-technical people at work talk about "Jason files".
That's not the recommended way of loading data into BigQuery, though.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data
I've considered that. When I buy my best next car (hopefully 3+ years from now), I'd like to upgrade the model year for the marginal gain in safety. 2015 or so might be my target year.
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I'm not really sure history that long ago really is a good way to measure such things.
May be that's why politicians use Nokia 3300
> For example, I shudder to imagine what shopping sprees politicians might engage in, were they bequeathed with the nation's entire yearly budget in one day!

The USG has more flexibility with spending relative to liquid resources than pretty much any entity in the world. I can assure that having tax receipts directly in the bank has nothing to do with the way we spend and would have even less to do with the psychology of our representatives
Whole bunch of other ports into different languages too: https://github.com/lightbend/config#other-apis-wrappers-port...

Thanks for pointing me to that - I'm working in Scala on server-side and JS on browser-side for a couple of years now, and sharing config would be nice. Still need object merging and value concatenation, which hocon-js doesn't support, but I'll keep an eye on it!
You are absolutely right that we need laws and regulations to govern all the tracking that's going on, much like how call-tapping is illegal.

Bruce Schneier has written a book on the topic, and you can view him speak on it here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GkJCI3_jbtg Highly recommend it.

I'm no expert but I do not agree with the 'failing battle' part... still quite a way to go in that regard, I think, specifically because the Math behind crypto hasn't failed us yet (ocassionally, the implementation has) and because the government agencies themselves need tech that helps them stay underground (Tor, for instance, continues to get funding from the US Government).

Is it getting difficult? Yes, absolutely. People still hold the 'nothing to hide' stance and most are okay giving up privacy esp if it means their life becomes a little more secure and things get more convenient (most would support AI powered street surveillance that helps keep tabs on criminals, for instance).
> This inequality of result, and the inability to attribute such to intrinsic factors, is the great "gender bias."

Ok I don't have the energy to keep this conversation going, the distance between us is too great.
The first book led me to discover Erlang, which literally changed my life. Great resource.
JSON as config files with node programs works pretty well though - especially when you want to have easy access to those values in the program. I really don't find the lack of comments to be that bad... if comments are needed relating to the config you can just stick it in a readme lol
There are some things that should genuinely be historically preserved.

But overwhelmingly it is a pretext for NIMBYism as part of the overall strategy for always having an excuse to not build anything anywhere.
Thank you for the macro suggestion, I just gave it a try and I was surprised that it was so simple and practical as define: F3 keys/text F4 then run: F4
Scale is the important thing here. Even if you're a magical superior human programmer variant, json sucks once you cross over 50 lines.

Cloud Formation is a great example of the failures of JSON. Specifying just a single dynamo table with indexes and scaling roles in JSON is a hard to read cluster of a mess. Even with a good idea and json collapse / expand help, large json files are just insufferable to deal with as a human
Alaska, along with the rest of the far north, is seeing both the largest shifts as well as the most obvious shifts. Waving my hands a bit, a twenty degree difference in Arizona means it's hotter; a twenty degree difference in Alaska means melting permafrost, retreating glaciers, and widespread brood failures for migratory bird populations.
I was referring to one project that I know about in New Mexico. $2 billion is definitely not the entire budget for environmental remediation, and it also is funded through DoE etc, not necessarily the military.

I think it would be easy to support the assertion that military spending is out of control. Just because it was worse in the 60s doesn’t mean it isn’t wrong now. Our military has very sloppy accounting and has lost a couple trillion dollars, but we keep handing them 3/4 a trillion a year and rising. The amount of potential other projects which would be extremely useful for the populace, and we could find with just last year’s increase of over $50 billion, is staggering. Not to mention, a good portion of this is borrowed money. Military activities continue to create pollution that we’re going to have to clean up in the future. Given the government’s other financial obligations that are going underserved such as infrastructure and health care, it’s obvious fiscal irresponsibility, to say the least.

I’m all for being able to defend ourselves. I would feel a lot better if I felt like our resources were being well spent all around.
FYI, I don't assume that Chinese companies don't do hacking. It's just that the article was about hacking by the Chinese state and why American companies have been reluctant to come forward as victims of this hacking.

And this question in a sense has little to do with China in particular. When someone is victimized by an individual or institution that has considerable power over them, are they reluctant to come forward? You bet they are. The only thing that can convince them is an individual or institution that can protect them.

The US government cannot protect a US company doing business in China. Is this something like an "abusive relationship", sure but so are a lot of things.
Men and women are not always treated equally under the law, it depends greatly where you live. Some examples would be rape laws excluding male victims, compulsory military service, and infant male circumcision.
But what if, compared to London or San Francisco, places like Guangzhou are the only places normal people can afford to live in?
He wasn't just publishing them. He is accused of trying to crack the NTLM hash of a DoD admin login.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-julian-assange-indictme...
> Trains are also more expensive to run than planes because they need more infrastructure to operate

Cost to run includes more than just the underlying infrastructure costs. Look at how much it costs to ship goods. Rail is over two orders of magnitude cheaper per ton mile than air, and about an order of magnitude cheaper than trucks, and about 1/3 of the cost of than boats. This suggests that the high infrastructure cost of rail has little impact on cost to run.
I meant to completely brick a mobile. As a newbie, it's possible to get into a boot loop, a black screen, etc. which are easy to recover events, but might seem as the end of the world.

I even remember having to short two pins in the motherboard of my mobile to recover from a particularly bad brick. And it worked fine.

But a complete brick, as in you have to throw away your mobile? Impossible, I'd say.
I don't see why the US would want to spoof GPS, given that it runs the constellation, and can just re-enable encryption of high precision data ruining it for everybody but the US Military.
I would be a bit reluctant to run CopperheadOS now. Sadly the main developer left after somewhat hostile actions from the CEO, and there have been lots of changes in the organization.

IMHO the best option for a secure phone is pure Android without Google blobs. That is, AOSP on a Pixel phone. Plus an F-Droid userland.

If a Pixel is too expensive, you can always try to get an AOSP device-independent image on a new phone that supports Treble. For example, the super cheap Nokia 1 seems to work well [1].

[1] https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki
No offense but I'm not prepared to inform my policy opinions on the basis of your assurance.
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Yeah, I always assumed that ban just means the chain has to bribe the right officials.
> I'm increasingly of the opinion that config files formats should be treated as a compile target not a file that you edit.

I think this makes sense as far as it goes.

The first choice, no matter what the config file format, should be editing within a tool. The tool can check values, be accessible, assist in coordination, etc.

However, I think it's essential that the intermediate format be human readable and have the ability to contain comments. Because if something in the toolchain goes wrong, determining what the settings are right now on a particular system will be very useful. Being able to modify those settings by hand, though not your first choice, may save time and money and (depending on the system) lives.

Also, if the tool breaks, you can still change configs (though obviously this is not what you want).

Essentially, you should have a tool that edits config values with full explanations of their purpose. That tool should output a machine-readable format (JSON5, YAML, TOML) that supports comments with each value preceded with the comments containing their explanations and, ideally, a list of comments made when changing config values with previous values listed.

You get the best of "both worlds."
I was discussing Machine Learning in particular. The wider use of automation is certainly something goes along with building at scale, so yeah that deserves mention.
Related: this C library for parsing JSON that allows comments and trailing commas.

https://github.com/andrewrk/liblaxjson
This looks nice!

Is there a way to have comments, such that when the file is read and then later written (by the program), the comments are preserved (even if some of the fields changed)?
> Withholding is an awful idea designed to favor the government over the taxpayer

I don't understand this claim. Why wouldn't be the baseline be to pay tax on taxable events as they happen (ie per paycheck)? This seems completely reasonable to me.

I don't even see how it softens the psychological blow: again, the baseline of "every time I get paid, I lose X amount of taxes" seems like a pretty reasonable visceral signal of how much you're paying.
:( few months ago NAB didn't have this problem. :(

The guy actually built a P2P moderation tool (anyone has their own "glasses" that filters based on your policy).

notabug.io is suppose to be running a curated homepage (nab.cx not curated) but I think he said it broke a week ago when he was modularizing his code.

NAB usually isn't this bad, lot of the people on it are anti-altright, but altrighters certainly can drown them out.

But it does look like NAB has become more toxic over time. :(

Previously, I was pretty neutral "do what you want with it".

Now, I shifted to be more opinionated about what I want to see built on top.

Primarily, apps that spread Open Source economics through art (music, etc.), to draw a crowd of lovers/creators not haters/destroyers.
What about UCL? https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl
I had a bit worse experience. I was a bit careless with posting personal info under a quite specific username I reused on multiple websites, it took me nearly 10 years and changing that username (you might also note that my usernames are more or less random) to finally not be able to google myself (which I consider to be the real test of anonymity). Various forums finally dying in 2010s were a great help.
It usually happens in good code if the language supports it. But I agree, not enough and comments are great as a stopgap until the thing you need to explain can be explained in the programming language. But sometimes that can’t be and so you do need to resort to comments. It’s like types in doc comments being used as a stopgap until a language added types. I hypothesize (I plan at some point to crunch some data here) the more comments the worse the language, and so you’d see a pattern like Python 3 code having fewer comments on average than Python 2 code.
>US. Government property is publicly/collectively owned by the citizens of the nation, while private property, while coming with certain collectively agreed responsibilities (tax, licenses, codes etc), is controlled entirely privately by individuals. Invasion of private property as you say is unambiguously morally wrong, but I don't think the same can be said about collectively owned public property

Even if this ridiculous argument is true, Assange was never a US citizen or taxpayer.
You also see that leaving the EU is not a clear benefit despite "evil" Germany is on its throne...

That's why "Brexit" is taking almost 3 years now and still there is no ultimate progress. Other countries will surely be interested in how this experiment turns out before doing the same..
A fun thought exercise to break the "can't do it" perspective. Imagine someone says they'll give you 10 million dollars to get it done, could you do it then?
Japan has 126 million people, while in 1910 it had 50 million. Populations are at similar historic, unprecedented heights throughout most of the world, developed and developing.

We are nowhere near having to worry about extinction due to not enough people.
Yes, D.Tube, The Internet Archive, Notabug.io (warning: its getting spammed by altrighters currently), etc.

Only saw your comment now, will reply on Twitter too - long time no see since #hashtheplanet !
He's also a former columnist for the largest IT newspaper in Sweden, called Computer Sweden.

A search for his name brings up lots of columns (Swedish only, sorry):

https://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.50095?actionType=search&queryTex...
In this case, the timezones probably line up to make Chinese working hours the best time to do this work.
Edit: adding a link to the Clean Code bit about comments, which I think is great advice : https://gist.github.com/wojteklu/73c6914cc446146b8b533c0988c...
> Privatised rail makes no sense anywhere in the world.

It makes sense in Japan. It is a small country with a high amount of population that is very concentrated.

In any other part of the world governments are the ones paying the bill for the rail networks meanwhile "private" companies are just adding their profit to the cost. There is no competition, there is no long term investments (until the government pays), customers are captive, ... It just doesn't work.
Because you don't actually have that money.

Suppose that the state and the federal government each had a 55% tax rate. Then you would make $1 and owe $1.10. You would owe more in taxes than you make, so you would quit your job.

Of course, there is a simple way for the states to fix this -- move the taxes to the business side. Instead of having state income tax, have payroll tax paid by the employer. Then the employer can still deduct them from its federal taxes. This also improves eligibility for people in your state for various need-based federal programs, because nominal wages will be lower by the amount of the tax when determining eligibility for federal assistance. And it gives everyone a de facto raise until wages adjust to the shifted tax burden.
Because this is HN. It's a forum about tech, startups, and entrepreneurship. If you want polarizing politics go to Reddit.
Then there's also S500 now, which can shoot down anything that flies, including stealth planes, ballistic missiles, hypersonic planes, and LEO satellites. This is a typical example of asymmetric warfare. The US spends 1.5 trillion building a super plane, Russians spend 1/1000th of that building the thing that can make use of such a plane a costly proposition (even if it can't _reliably_ shoot it down), and offers it for export eventually, too.
How is it the only option? If withholding is less, what’s stopping people from saving the reduction? A refund is essentially an interest free loan repayment from the government. Refunds should ideally be zero.
That is super cool!

With some clever keyboard controls perhaps one could learn to actually "talk" with it?
Gross? Most vegetation sits in shit all day. Shit has been and still is central to the human diet.
doesn't NYC have more foreign born immigrants (3 m) than all of Japan (2.23 m)?
The Pence remark was completely unnecessary and infuriating. I thought this was some educative chain of tweets and it ended in "orang man bad". Very anticlimactic.
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I haven't seen mention of it in comments: There is a config file format used by some unix programs: the fortune cookie format. I think Eric Raymond compared it favourably with the windows ini file format, in his Art of Unix Programming.
Twitch’s first-ever video game is a free karaoke title built for live streaming
Yeah, he's great there, almost uncanny how different and cold he is in that role.
We're rather far from discussing any substantive changes in policy, leaving aside the fact that you only have a single vote to cast.

This is an incredibly bizarre response to someone making the case that you have a factually inaccurate model of the way policy works. On the other hand, I appreciate your comment in that the psychology on display here is another data point in helping me understand the psychology of how an ostensibly voter-driven government can be so consistently stupid and backwards: If people's response to "you're misunderstanding how this works" is effectively "my opinion is as important as any fact"
Why not? The nature of the news industry hasn't changed fundamentally since the 1800s.
A conspiracy to commit a crime is a conspiracy to commit a crime whether or not it was successful. An attempt to help a break-in implicates him in the conspiracy. Assange, by his own words, indicated that he was trying to crack the password hash that Manning gave him. Assange appears to be admitting through his own words that he was assisting in the attempt to commit a crime. What he said is written - verbatim - in the indictment. The indictment was approved by a grand jury. We'll see whether he is guilty if he pleads out or if he is convicted at trial.

The law is pretty clear here. You, on the other hand, are making up the law as you go along. And you're also saying Assange is a liar.
Sure; the point of paying them a percentage is to get their incentives to roughly align with yours. Short of giving them 100% you should expect that at some point that breaks down and they will figure the next optimization isn't worth it when it would be to you with your larger share.

But that's very different from this situation described here, where the agent serves a different and in fact diametrically opposed master.
I think we are meant to take "as reliable" here as "not particularly". I found that the NYT in the Bush era supported Cheney falsehoods long after they had been exposed elsewhere. Of course they were big boosters for the Iraq invasion debacle even long after the fact.

Thomas Friedman obliterated any credibility he ever had over that.
Which OS was the vscode running on?
A DDoS is by definition also a DoS, so the OP's statement stands just fine on its own.
Pro tip: hit the speed up or down button any time in that three second window to buy yourself another 7 seconds of activation. Annoying, but potentially hackable!
I did, and it was mostly painless, both from IntelliJ and from Emacs.

I do know about a number of gotchas, and stepped on some briefly. Yaml is not ideal, but its set of tradeoffs is more suitable for human-editable configs, from my point of view.
suggestion, add section explain OS hosts file. When, why, how to use and how bypasses dns lookup.
AOSP is clean, but doesn't have anti tracking measures available in CopperheadOS: fake IMEI or MAC addresses (this has been mainlined in Android Q, though), for instance.
Attempting to crack a hash with the intent to access a system you have no authorization to access is illegal. The intent is proven by the chat logs.
One really striking thing is going between {Go, C++, C#, Java} and getting the sources of documentation confused between each one. Not even the languages themselves, but the ecosystems, can be really confusing.
Without the hyphen configs value would be an associative array. With it it’s a list.

I’ve been editing long sublime-syntax files recently and I do not like it much. But I’m also not sure if JSON would be better for such a thing.
That's why you should use YAML.
Fair enough, although I believe the goal is equality, laws can be unjustly applied in either direction. However, I don't see how "focusing on males" or "future is male" solves that problem, as opposed to preferring one inequality over another.
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For real though--you're happy with paying $45K for that advice? Rather than do a bit more research, you're okay with letting a realtor take away almost all of the economic surplus?
I wrote a working compiler (learning type exercise level) effectively in pseudo-code resembling Java once because I didn't know the syntax very well, then commented it all out and translated it to Java line by line. Surprisingly, it had no bugs that I ever knew of. It definitely freed me up to think purely about the logic.

You might just throw down whatever and let the next compile/interpretation cycle let you know if you didn't get the syntax right.
This is the most tragically inspiring story of the modern era.
> The German national train service was mostly privatised in 1994, because of the public cost.

This is wrong. Deutsche Bahn is 100 % owned by the Federal Republic of Germany: https://www.deutschebahn.com/en/investor_relations/ir_tochte...