skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it more important to audit cargo than it is to audit your dependencies?
This is a brutal world viewpoint
Facebook plans to launch 'GlobalCoin' currency in 2020
> but that is kind of a normal thing in our legal system

Ok, well if it is normal then nobody should have been calling anyone at all a conspiracy theorist for saying that the US was going to have an extradition request the moment he stepped out of the embassy.

We were right. He stepped outside and now there are charges.
This article can be summed up as: "Don't worry, nothing to see here. You're making a 6% higher minimum wage than a decade ago, so there is no problem, but be more productive anyways."
For the Love of Goats
In a world where even Rudy Giuliani is able to become a renowned 'cyber security' expert with his own consulting firm, job titles can obviously be misleading.
and then you end up with grotesque injustices like mandatory minimum sentences.
Absolutely, only the litigation is a penalty. The article specifically and explicitly stated, $700MM in legal costs.

> Lawsuits and investigations have cost $690 million in the first quarter of 2019 alone,
...or ICE concentration camps, or the fact that the US is responsible for imprisoning 1/4 prisoners on earth right now. Many, if not most, people just don't care enough to act.
Whistleblowing isn’t to the NYT, it’s to the government itself.

Also;

> ...existing legal protections for whistleblowers are limited and generally do not extend to leaks of classified information. [1]

[1] - https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/F...
Sorry but it seems like you just aren't getting many streams . But let's say I give you $5/month for a year. Do you want it?
> I wish grocery stores near me had better bulk goods sections.

Do you have a wholesale near you, such as Costco?
I think so, but am not sure. The spec answer is “who knows” because it’s not defined, but practically I’m not 100% sure if the compiler does it always today.
> Notre Dame is an original, irreplaceable structure.

And, from it's original state, it is gone. We cannot replace the irreplaceable, but we have the opportunity to modify it. Such is life.
That was an emotional journey for such a short comment, thank you. One thought from the example of the penny lick. You could decide not to have reusable packaging because of that, or you could decide to have reusable packaging that is designed to be cleaned.
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> It is not knowledge that is lacking. The educated general public has always largely known what outrages have been committed and are being committed in the name of Progress, Civilization, Socialism, Democracy, and the Market.
Donald Trump says Huawei could ‘possibly be included’ in deal to end trade war
Take a look at countries in Africa and Asia. Anger turns into rioting, revenge attacks and all out civil war. Preventing this by encouraging harmony is a good thing.
eBay's blog post. It's a bar code reader:
https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/blogs/tech/webassembly-at-eb...
So yet another company vying for personal data on millions of people, and making a business model out of it. Great, just what the world needs. (Not.)
It's worth noting that Manning already had access to the classified system. Assange conspired to help her hide her usage of that access, something Greenwald has called the duty of a journalist. The law itself would violate the First amendment, so he would not have broken anything.
I'd love if something like requests was included along with Python. But requests uses urllib3, so it's not like you could get rid of that. The main page for requests says they're working on a v3...you wouldn't want that kind of churn in the stdlib. Personally, I kind of like the structure of low-level libraries and fancier high-level libraries I use most often.

So I'm not quite sure what is the best thing to do. It sounds like requests III is a Python3 forward version. So it might make sense to ship that?

Python has decided to include packages developed outside of the stdlib before; I think json, pathlib, and maybe optparse.
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And that 90% was effective, not marginal rate? Talk about being daft...
>I'm having a very hard time believing your statement, because all you need to do is substitute $500,000,000 for her name and ask yourself should people have more wealth than that, with all the inequality in the world right now?

Imagine a world where every human being on the planet had another $100 a month in wealth but Beyonce happened to double her wealth as a result. This seems like a good thing to me but others may disagree.
How do you imagine people living off $1000 a year live around the globe? Most of them live in tin shacks with dirt floors without indoor plumbing or electricity subsisting on a diet of vegetables often grown by themselves. Frankly, I'd prefer a San Francisco tent city to that given the public services available here, not to mention the economic opportunities available.
What makes you think he doesn't have this? Iron Man probably has one too.
Joining the flight, a restored "Miss Montana" departed from Missoula, MT earlier this week.

https://missoulian.com/news/local/miss-montana-bound-for-nor...
You can't make movies with them though... It would make an expensive camera. ;-)
Plenty of people fund the Python Software Foundation. Their revenue is around 3 million dollars a year.
I’ve heard early (~2008) Facebook employees bragging about this type of thing. They used to specifically look at who was looking at other people’s pages (aka “stalking” them). They were absolutely doing this for purely personal reasons and thought it was cool enough to brag about it at parties.
How would you calculate the value (to society) of Amazon? A lot of small businesses have folded as a result of pressure from that behemoth. Yes, consumers have benefited from lower prices, but the total value is unclear. There is considerable debate in antitrust circles concerning what to do about Amazon [1].

[1] https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.p...
A failure to issue a warning is not a refutement of the standard. As I said, yes obviously you can force it. You can force just about anything you want in C/C++.

But if you do

int& r = *((int*)0);

You'll find it will warn, and tell you that what you're doing is illegal:

<source>:2:14: warning: binding dereferenced null pointer to reference has undefined behavior [-Wnull-dereference]

Same if you try to naively return nullptr on a method that returns a reference:

int& iref() {
return nullptr;
}

<source>: In function 'int& iref()':

<source>:6:12: error: invalid initialization of non-const reference of type 'int&' from an rvalue of type 'std::nullptr_t'

6 | return nullptr;

| ^~~~~~~

Compiler returned: 1
It may be a good thing, for historical/backward-compatibility reasons.

But there's no reason that fixed-size ints and IEEE floats can't be intermixed with arbitrary-size/precision numbers, even in a small language, such as Scheme:

https://schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-...

Racket adds a bit more:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/numbers.html

IIRC, Brendan Eich was aware of Scheme when he defined what's now known as JavaScript, but on a crazy-tight schedule, and JS wasn't intended to be an applications language.
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They're running the Amazon / Apple playbook in media.

(1) Start as a service provider, brokering sales from legacy producers who don't yet have distribution through this new market, (2) pivot to original supply, as legacy producers recognize how much money stands to be made and stand up their own distribution channels, (3, optimistic case) become so large that producers are forced to renegotiate with you, from a weaker position, because they must have distribution on your platform.

I don't think they're going to corner the market like Amazon or Apple did, as they lack the moats (respectively a hyperscale logistics system and first party hardware).

I'm kind of surprised Netflix isn't cross-licensing their back catalog to alternate channels. E.g. trading rebroadcast rights to the first season of Stranger Things to Comcast or a cable network in exchange for {insert popular program}.

That feels the most like an analog to Amazon Marketplace (context: remember, there was once an Amazon without third-party sellers).
At least half of the public wont even know they are on a max. Boeing still makes the 777 which is the safest aircraft of all time. With only one real crash at london due to an engine problem (not Boeing) and an intentional crash Malaysia 370. MCAS is frequently confused with a flight augmentation system which isn’t true. It’s designed to counteract a confused pilot and if you look at the history of the 737 NG some of the few crashes not from the vertical stabilizer issue are from disorientation leading to a stall. Now granted Boeing made serious mistakes in the implementation of MCAS (1 AoA sensor and not checking for disagreement is a cardinal rule they broke) but I believe that the plane will go on to be quite successful because this was a serious learning moment.
Maybe, but piracy skirts that issue. Who's going to protect you when someone breaks the NDA? When someone steals your production copy? Piracy is a broad brush.
100 MB for a terminal emulator? Debian's package for xterm is 200 times smaller, but OK, let's try...

Google Analytics? Thanks, I'll pass on this one!
Is this effectively dead on arrival, or does it actually have a chance of gaining bipartisan support in the Senate?
> which is what you seem to be implying.

That's not at all what I'm implying.

> You never define what "persons enjoying privileges and immunities" means.

I copied the text directly from the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations[1]. From my understanding (as a non-lawyer) it broadly means embassy personnel, which would exclude Julian Assange.

However my point is that there is a case in 1984 where a suspected criminal for a crime committed in the UK (who might not have been embassy personnel) was allowed safe passage with embassy personnel. It's possible they didn't want to deal with additional scandals or didn't think of this avenue, but it is quite strange. However, the fact that the UK threatened to storm the embassy and cut of ties with Ecuador does indicate the political situation is much higher than it was in the 1984 incident.

Ecuador tried to instate Assange as a Ecuadorian Ambassador, but the UK refused their request for diplomatic immunity. So it probably isn't a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (though the UN did state that the UK's actions are a violation of the Geneva Convention on Human Rights[2]).

[1]: https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/1964/06/19640624%2002-1...
[2]: https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
Hey HN, this is a new open source tool I launched. It's a way to create directories like DMOZ, Awesome Lists, Yahoo Directory and Reddit on the blockchain.

The big idea is when people upvote, everybody who contributed to that content (the submitter, the category creator, even the original person who uploaded it to the blockchain) gets paid.

I know Bitcoin (SV) doesn't have a great reputation on HN, but I'm mostly interested in building new things (like this) and seeing what's possible. Let me know what you think!

Here's some more info if you're curious: https://twitter.com/synfonaut/status/1131670653889859586
Commercial mail processors. They accept mail on your behalf; they'll deposit checks, scan paper mail, and ship packages to your physical location. Cost is anywhere between $20-$500/month, depending on fanciness desired.
Although I am a customer of some streaming services (they are convenient and have good and bad stuff), it is often nice to just get a file for a specific song or movie - and that is most convenient via torrenting.

People do sign up for streaming services, but not for like, 10. Furthermore torrenting got really convenient and is very fast with adequate Internet (let's say 10MByte/s), so you get a decent quality movie in under 5 minutes (obviously only if there are enough seeders - but the availability of torrents completely dwarfs the availability of streaming providers - if it's really unpopular and maybe a little bit older you just won't find it on streaming services).

Beside the fact that BitTorrent is an interesting protocol in itself, imagine just how much simpler Netflix or Spotify could be implemented, if we wouldn't stream DRM encrypted blobs, but download files? You just need many big fat file-servers and put your media there - if we wouldn't have DRM (AFAIK all streaming providers enforce DRM), this is technically a solved problem.
If that were true, there would probably be less of "why packaging is considered single use is beyond me" going around. Anyone who understands how diseases work will understand why you wouldn't want all your food to come in contact with the same single physical object.

California tried to outlaw grocery bags provided by the store, instead encouraging you to bring your own bags from home. The morality having been established, it's now very important to my mother to live up to the environmental ideal and bring her own bags. She's been doing it for years.

Those bags have never been washed.

Also, she's a doctor.
Either that or Imperial Rome was even less virtuous than I thought.
The x86-64 FPU state is quite large so normally the user task's FPU state is only saved/restored on a task switch.

This means that if kernel code wants to use the FPU (which includes the SIMD instructions), it has to explicitly request access and return it when it's done. The functions that do that are the exports being referred to here.
> Can you blame Snowden for accepting that "hospitality"?

> [...] I cannot blame him for choosing what is likely his only opportunity for any amount of freedom.

It is my understanding he didn't "accept" Russia's hopitality as such, nor did he actively chose it. I thought the US Department of State cancelled his passport, effectively forcing him to stay put in Russia.

On a side note, there seems to be some confusion with regards to that: some sources state that his travel documents were revoked a day before he boarded the flight to Moscow, whereas Greenwald maintains the opposite (his passport was cancelled while en route to Moscow). The whole Hong Kong episode seems very foggy and confused in places and its likely it will be a good while before the whole truth comes out.

EDIT: some spelling. Its late here.
If ever there was a case for criminal charges against corporate officers abusing their authority, this would be it.

But here's betting it won't happen.
This is the correct answer right here.
I wonder if there might be any trademark Apple terms that haven't been properly trademarked in China yet? Ponder, ponder...
I generally avoid pip, but have to use it once in awhile. I don't like that pip installs globally by default. I've messed up too many OSes because of a library I only needed for 5minutes. I always use --user, but I don't think that obliquitous (I don't tend to use venv, either).

I was trying to upgrade a package. I first looked for a "pip upgrade/update <package>"--doesn't exist. I then tried "pip install <package>" to see if it would offer to upgrade--it didn't. I think found "pip install --upgrade <package>".

I'm sure I'd learn these things if I did them all the time, but it's some slightly poor defaults (so slightly bad and impactful I can't imagine them being changed), and some discoverability and friction I don't see in package managers I use way less often.
There seems to be a substantial turnover in such companies. What reliable, long-term companies exist in that space?

(Asking because such companies are also useful for individuals.)
It's mostly important in the context of codifying nullability. If a function returns a reference it's part of the contract that it doesn't return null. Similarly, if a parameter is a reference it's part of the contract that you can't pass it null.

It doesn't mean a method that takes or returns a pointer must allow null as a valid value, of course, Optional<> is better for that. But standards-enforced non-null is a very practically useful aspect of references that differ them from pointers.
Or if all else fails, putting it on a high interest credit card.
Again: Ellsberg says otherwise. Let's quote the whole passage:

"Julian, meanwhile, is being charged with having gone beyond the limits of journalism by helping Manning to conceal her identity with a new username. He is also charged with having encouraged her to give him documents. That is criminalizing journalism. I can’t count the number of times that I have been asked for documents by journalists or for more documents. She had already given hundreds of thousands of files to Assange and he wanted more. This is the practice of journalism."
Or, you know, it's cold out and the hood keeps their head warm. The fact that there's a great debate over wearing hoodies in a comment section on 'hacker' 'news' for an article about Canadian airports accomidating people taking photos of planes is mildly entertaining though.
I do this when I have a team that's partially remote. If any part of the team is remote, the whole team is remote, so you have conversations electronically for the benefit of the rest of the team, so they don't miss out.
lol, fighting to keep out "toxic people" who "want to focus on politics" means you hire people cool with making weapons of war. I for one am glad the person who asked you that did so, because I do not work for defense contractors, and I don't need to waste my time looking into a place that would filter out anyone with conscience.
Ah whoops. Thanks "themindcircle.com".
Lack of Japanese genes
The game in question is Clicker Heroes (a pretty popular idle/incremental game), and the post is by the CEO of Playsaurus.

From the thread:

> It looks like we can't challenge it. After reading the comments and doing a bit more research, it appears that China's trademark/IP laws are completely different from any Western countries, and Apple just has to do what they say.

>It sucks but that's how it is. If you make a game, unless you have ridiculous resources to spend on registering properly in China in advance, you just have to accept China to be a loss. Someone there will steal it.
You can have e2e encryption and authentication in centralized systems, p2p is not really needed for it. See Signal for example.

> but it could be solved with a DHT

I think that tox is the solution to what you are asking for.
I'm fascinated that tortoises are in fact reptilian since I'd previously thought that reptiles were a strictly meat-eating class. Also that an ancient battle formation was named after them.
It depends. The one which fools you would still be useful when it’s warm and uncomfortable but not hot. It’s dangerous if you are overheating and it’s fooling you into thinking you’re okay.
Getting Medicaid is very time consuming, and people making minimum wage don't have a lot of extra time.
Why do you need a start up to do this? How would a start up even do this?
> You could decide not to have reusable packaging because of that, or you could decide to have reusable packaging that is designed to be cleaned.

One of those alternatives is vastly inferior to the other. The ice cream dish has to be cleaned by someone you don't know, producing a result you can't observe.

Glass bowls are designed to be cleaned. That was the original system.
Who receives & handles all the mail though? FedEx does?
Yes absolutely.

http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Evil

For a spacemacs experience, see also which-key-mode.
> youtube play in the background on the phone

There are simpler ways :)
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On Linux Firefox suffers from lack of hardware decoding and encoding (it doesn't plug into vaapi), which makes performance quite bad on laptops. I suspect something like WebEx, for example, works horribly in result. Or may be it's just Cisco not doing a good job. Conferencing experience with their WebRTC client in Firefox on Linux is horrendous.
Yes, refusing to testify to the grand jury... in the WikiLeaks case.
But, we are largely unchanged in basic human behavior. Just because we can sterilize things consistently and reliably, doesn't mean it will get done, particularly when doing that costs more.
That was my reaction as well. Small palm-sized lizards are so common I'm amazed no one has observed a chimp snatching and eating one.
If it changes too much, will it be the same Japan you left and loved?
>Disease.

Well, surely it doesn't matter as much for non-perishable items? To say nothing of the non-food items.
Fair point. This problem could be alleviated by @InflatableDodo's comment of using other nodes (devices) on the network to cache the video, so even if the sender went offline, another node could make the connection with the recipient when they are both online. Sort of like seeding a torrent, except in this case, the video gets wiped upon confirmed receipt.

Of course, this is more viable if this gains a large network.
Value (valuation) is proportional to cashflows and decentralized systems have decentralized cashflows
They took it down worldwide? Or just in China?

Worldwide, I have the st00pids.
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Glad to see the comments here do not genderify the plane as female. But the article does. I don't mind people giving normal first names to boats/planes/trains/cars/bikes and then using 'he' or 'she' but the idea that all ships and planes are female and to be imagined that way is just wrong.

Next time I hear someone refer to their car or other vehicle as 'she' I am going to humour them about it, enjoyably so and possibly pejoratively. There are many options, 'oh, so your car/plane/boat ovulates then?' probably being the most inconspicuous innuendo possible on HN.

There is also the class of individual that refers to vehicles as 'she' instinctively but then fails to get the gender right when it comes to living animals. You could introduce them to pet dog, e.g. 'Jake', for them to then ask 'what breed is it?' as if they see the dog is pre-op or something.

Needless to say there are instances of male/female use in electronics, my phone has a 'female' headphone socket and my charger is obviously 'male'. But I would probably let my pedantry be put aside if working in an all male engineering department when it comes to these things.
There's the very good Trivia library for pattern matching: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/pattern_matching....

(and I think libraries are better maintained that Racket's)
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> What evolution compels us to do is have sex. We've just disconnected that from reproduction.

It compels is to do everything we do in life. There isn't a single trait ever measured in which the heritability was zero.
> World's richest 10% produce half of global food.

I'm probably in the world's richest 10% (I earn a decent salary in the SF Bay Area), but I don't produce any of the global food. I know how much a close relative earns on his farm, and his net income for a family of 6 is much less than my income. The bank owns so much of his farm and equipment that his net worth is less than mine too.

Some of my stock market investments likely go toward companies involved in food production, but that's a pretty indirect way to claim I'm responsible for any food production.
Seems like a really comprehensive way to monitor an app. What sets it apart form other services like New Relic?
You’re right. But the overall point still stands when comparing with net worth by age graphs. People have median low net worth till later in their careers. And early on much of that worth is equity, not retirement savings.
Adjust your air balance to cool your room more. The vents for your A/C have little control flaps to increase/reduce airflow. Open yours all the way up, and slowly reduce the others until everyone is comfortable.
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