skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have fond memories of these. These were often seen as the highlight of a week of camping. In my youth we did not have mobile phones, even not everybody had a phone at home. Because the Netherlands is so densely populated, it is very difficult to find a place where there are no lights visible. I remember that usually, we knew within 10 minutes where we were and in which direction we had to walk. Never met any wild animal. Never felt I was in danger. I remember that in my youth, it was very normal to be away from home on your own. When I was about 12, I would go on biking trips of 20 miles and more, all on my own. When I returned after some hours and my mother would ask me where I had been, I just told her that I had been biking and she would be happy with the answer. Of course, she knew me and knew that I was careful person and would not do stupid things.
Yeah, because when I look at all the problems with online dating, what I think is that it could all be solved if only people would treat eachother even more like commodities.
Plaid is just one of 01org's projects. There are dozens of other projects (and compilers), which when combined can be used to build very intricate HPC applications and pipelines. Though for some core projects, most of the tuning development is only available on Intel platforms.
I watched ‘Clue’ last week and the girlfriend lost her mind over the secret doors. I sent her a link to the hiddendoorstore and now she is flipping out all over again.
What Is a Computational Essay? (2017)
If you're into this and you still use Gmail, switch to HTML mode. I've done it for all my accounts and it's so much better than the JS-laden garbage they've switched to recently.
So it's not bad at all when anti-govern protesters beat polices, destroy buildings. And it's only really bad right now? Good point!
I guess I was giving the benefit of the doubt, since that's such an irrelevant nit to pick...
not on production db servers, no.
Google is not blocking access to Google Search, or Gmail, or Calendar, Drive, Photos, Maps, etc. Only access to dev tools (e.g. Android Tools) is blocked.

I am not a lawyer, but my understanding, based on the actions of companies with larger legal teams than most companies have employees, is that only a tiny portion of the apps need to be blocked in Iran to be compliant with the sanctions. Simplenote (hosted on GCP) is inaccessible in Iran while Google Keep is accessible, not because of sanctions but because Google's company policy blocks access to anything on GCP. I am sure the Simplenote dev would not be in jail had he chosen to host on Azure.
In Belgium we do this as well. It does sound a bit strange perhaps, but for us it's not something worrisome.
What makes integration of HarfBuzz difficult?
> the author used a text classifier and had a 70% accuracy rate predicting if a book was published by a conglomerate or an independent publisher

Genuine question: is 70% actually a very successful rate? It's hard for me to tell without more information; if 70% (or 30%) of books are published by independent publishers, then 70% would be the same rate as just guessing the more common one every time.
I think this stuff is great. I'm a big fan of the real world and meeting people where they are. If your plan for saving the world from spreadsheets is to convince people to use Pandas instead (and there are certainly people on HN who think that way), you're not really serious about fixing things. Developing these kinds of checking tools, which could realistically be rolled out to many Excel users is a great step forward.
I do still release Wekan also for Sandstorm, and I will make more fixes and features for Wekan Sandstorm version. Sandstorm is still great tech, only those grains are running that are in use, so it saves huge amount of RAM, when compared to Docker that needs to be running all the time. All of Sandstorm is Open Source including Blackrock clustering. It depends are there interested companies and developers contributing to Sandstorm.

It also depends, are companies selecting software freedom. At those companies, they control their own data on their own servers, and have their own company developers contributing to Open Source they use, or sponsor Open Source project developers. So when size of company grows, there is no license cost per user licenses.

Propietary companies just keep buying propietary software, and then wonder why they are locked in.
It looks good except for a few standout things.

The reflection of the cube in the stapler is too sharp, like a perfect mirror finish.

The book in the background seems to lack and sort of ambient occlusion.

Still a good scene, it's the fact these stand out so much to me is evidence of how good it is :)
It's the best deal they could negotiate. It was done by moderates on the Iranian side who have now been discredited and the hardliners are ascendant.

If you think military provocations and escalations are a sign that sanctions are "working" you're in for a surprise. All it takes is one side to make a little mistake and it escalates quickly and unintentionally.

Trump has emboldened the Iranian military by pulling his punches. Now they assume they can take action without a military response from the US because Trump is not willing to go to war. That logic unfortunately makes war more likely.
Isn’t corruption basically legal in the US under the name of lobbying?

All the PACs and Super PACs that donate endless money, without divulging origin to candidates, so that they’ll push through their agenda?

Like where’s the fiber broadband the government paid billions for to the telecoms?
textarea manages client-side state just fine in the HTML version.
Which, prior to TypeScript, wouldn't have been an option. The ever-evolving front end ecosystem!
In Russia there is no punishment for bypassing blocking. But if you publish information about bypassing or proxy server addresses, your site will be blocked too (but no punishment for you personally).
Just to confirm, this still happened in the early 2000s for sure. It didn't stay in the eighties :)
It seems like some of those obstacles are also opportunities. For example, the point about not being able to get a MasterCard or Visa and therefore not being able to use AWS makes me think there's probably an opportunity for a neat business renting out VMs to Iranians with whatever payment they can use.

Of course AWS does a lot more than just rent VMs, but it seems like a relatively straightforward part of the business to copy.
Multiple CGIs under worker and event get their own processes, they don't run in the same process as Apache nor eachother
Only if they have alignment.
Where do people get these talking points from?

Intelligence chiefs have testified in front of congress that Iran was following through with it's end of the deal. The US then unilaterally decided to tear up the treaty and put in economic sanctions based on nothing. It's almost as if they want Iran to build nuclear weapons. It's also putting pressure on Europe to pull out of banking and business ties that were built after the embargoes were ended.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/us/politics/kim-jong-trum...
That's much closer than I would have guessed. What poll is this?
Did you and the OP actually watch some of the videos posted in this thread? There are literally gangsters sponsored by the government using weapons to attack women and children in broad daylight, while the police is nowhere to be seen, and tells people to not be outside.

There is NO comparison to anything in a civilized western society
I have no perspective on the merits of these claims, but the approach smells a bit off.

1. Make a name as a whistleblower

2. Invite further insiders to volunteer new negative stories

3. Solicit "the right people" to fund your operation

The concern here is insider trading. It's implied that funding contributors (Tesla shorts) may receive preferential access to negative news stories.

Edit: insider trading is not the correct legal term. Extortion perhaps? Which law would prevent them from just coming out and saying "fund us and get the scoop on bad news for Tesla"?
There is an open source "concept map" platform known at Compendium available from the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute. It was invented precisely to help tame conversations in a conceptual space known as "issue-based information systems". Let me explain: Compendium is for "dialogue mapping", not "argument mapping". Dialogue mapping grew up in the fast-moving arenas of town hall planning meetings which frequently turn wicked ("over my dead body you'll put that freeway through this town"). There, the cognitive overhead of recording what is being uttered must be at an absolute minimum. Jeff Conklin invented the approach and described it in a paper about "gIBIS", and that approach eventually became the open source Java platform Compendium. As an alternative to explore this space, consider visiting http://debategraph.org/
Iranian living in the U.S. here.

During Obama it was:

We will choke you to death unless you give up your nuclear ambitions.

Now it is:

We will choke you to death unless you shoot yourself in the head.

U.S. is bullying Iran right now and people are starving to death. All because of a partisan issue. Unbelievable.
Your site is great and the perfect usecase for traditional links, but it's literally like 99% content, with very little markup. The difference is more stark on design heavy pages.
I'd love to have something like ExceLint for Google Sheets, called Google ShizNits.
Tesla (or at least Elon) has a terrible habit of engaging with critics in deeply unproductive ways, such as all the anti short seller stuff they pulled. It makes them look very defensive and seem like they feel vulnerable/cant face the criticism, and maybe it's because they actually are vulnerable and doing things that merit short selling and whistleblowing.

At least from a PR perspective you dont want to engage like this if you have nothing to hide, so either they're doing something wrong or they have terrible terrible PR sense. Both seem equally likely right now.
> The Timing Subsystem is a central timing facility for the ARIA electronic system. Its primary function is to generate time codes and precision pulse repetition rates which are recorded with the data to allow for time correlation in interpreting spacecraft events when the tapes are processed. In addition, the subsystem provides each equipment operator with displays of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Oh wow, crazy: in 1969, the UTC time would have been a negative number!
I wonder -- are there benchmarks out there of fastcgi vs reverse proxy via http server for various languages? I'd expect that fastcgi would be faster, but everyone uses reverse proxying nowadays.
Set-UID (by itself, at least) is not a feature to drop privileges. On Linux, you must also use setresuid to set all ID's to the EUID. And then you must hope that you were able to execute setresuid before any vulnerabilities can be triggered.

You should tell your web server to run CGI processes as a different user, instead (f.e. suexec).
Several people have looked into the issue over the years but so far no traces of malicious intent have been found.
> Per the manufacturer you're supposed to bounce them off the ground at someone, not shoot them directly at someone's head.

I think those matters are separate. The ricochet technique is for when you have a rubber bullet or buck shell that is loaded too hot for the engagement distance. When engaging belligerents at short range, some very hot rubber buck (and I'm not sure about single-projectile bullets, but I'd believe it) should be deliberately ricocheted to reduce energy.

However, as far as I'm aware, a lot of riot control shot shells today have considerably lower muzzle velocity and/or projectile mass because they are designed for direct fire in these shorter distance engagements; so it's not always misuse when a less-lethal shot shell or bullet is used without deliberate ricochet, and firing directly should reduce the chance of stray/negligent/accidental hits to soft targets.

Though generally speaking, these measures in CCP-run Hong Kong are extremely brutal, the proper or improper use of rubber bullets is the least of the worries, as they aren't riots to begin with. The government is starting the fight.
Outsourcing legal choices to google and others? In that case you better integrate real tightly with GCP so that nothing will work if GCP does not work. Or else...

Or else some Iranian, by accident, might find your endpoint that just happens to load. What then? You hope he does not rat out your company to the feds?

>Just because you don't know about them and don't care won't be worth squat as a defense when the police will come knocking on your company's doors.
There's this whole biohacking/open source insulin pump community out there which is deeply terrifying. Medical devices go through the regulation they do for a reason, and it's scary that people are resorting to these ticking time bombs of hacked together devices because costs are so out of control.
That's just a restatement of the PG point in the linked thread. To which the reply was "it's better to do this at the system level", thus the rejoinder "but that's a workaround" and my "no, it's a perfectly valid way of solving a problem at the same level of abstraction", and now we're full circle because you're picking on my defense (which I did not make!) of the linux fsync behavior and ignoring all the context.

You have to do system level reporting of errors, full stop. You can do that with a fixed fsync. You can do it with dmesg. You can do it even with the current fsync behavior. Pick one. Arguing about fsync is pontificating over the wrong problem.

FWIW: I'm all but certain you're wrong about the "POSIX-violating" part. My read of the standard says the author was thinking only about the current request. There's certainly no language in there saying that fsync should return EIO because of a previous failure, nor even what the state of the system (c.f. remount-ro) should be following the first one.
Clear your cookies for the NYT and you'll likely be able to access the article.
It's poking fun at how there's a new flavour of JavaScript framework seemingly every week: Angular, React, Vue, Mithril, etc. Each one has a killer feature or some new spin on how to write your JavaScript code.

The word "vanilla" is used here as an adjective to describe something that is "lacking distinction: plain, ordinary, or conventional" [0].

As such, the joke is that Vanilla JS is being presented as some amazing new framework, but it isn't anything more than regular JS that you would write. In a sense, it's the anti-JS framework, requiring no additional scripts or dependencies.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanilla
Every US companies must block Iran, it's not Google it's everyone.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/programs/...

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Sanctions/Page...

630. Is the provision or delivery of goods or services to an Iranian counterparty after November 4, 2018 allowed?

The wind-down period has ended and the United States intends to fully enforce the sanctions that have come back into effect. The provision or delivery of goods or services and/or the extension of additional loans or credits to an Iranian counterparty after November 4, 2018 — even pursuant to written contracts or written agreements entered into prior to May 8, 2018 — may result in the imposition of U.S. sanctions unless such activities are exempt from regulation, authorized by OFAC, or otherwise not sanctionable.
Nope. There have been multiple reports that validate the claim that the deal was terminated by a combination of Trump's personal distate for a deal negotiated by his predecessor and a proliferation of Iran hawks in the Trump Administration.
The same is generally true in Iran based on my experience.
> For the research project to work, we need some source of video that never ends and is sufficiently interesting to attract a few hundred people to watch. Broadcast TV is the most interesting thing that we have access to and are permitted to retransmit.

The most interesting thing about this experiment is that the most interesting thing that a research group at a top tier University finds to retransmit are Broadcast TV channels.
Oxygen is such a beautiful double edged sword. We need it to live, but we need complex biochemical pathways to be able to survive it. If our ancestors hadn't evolved their way through this event we wouldn't be alive, but if the event had never happened we wouldn't be multicellular intelligent life forms. And now we need it to live.
> Is there an actual reason to disable highlighting?

Some browsers, Chrome especially, show the focus outline when elements are clicked with a mouse and some people think it looks unacceptably bad.

Focus-visible is a CSS property meant to solve that but it’s only supported in Firefox and requires browser heuristics to do the right thing.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-focus-visible

https://css-tricks.com/keyboard-only-focus-styles/
Right, and as I explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20488446, if you have negated versions of all the literals available, you can make not just XOR but any arbitrary Boolean function as a sum of products (or a product of sums, CNF), just like a PLD does.
And the Yuen Long Police Department building closed its front door gate 15 minutes before the assailants appeared, and sent in the cops 30 minutes after the assailants left the station. Also one of the pro-China legislators was videoed shaking hands with 1 of the assailants' leaders thanking them for 'saving Hong Kong.'

Couple with the riot cops now hide their faces behind masks, and assailants hiding their faces as well. Watchmen, anyone?

Never change, China.
Ok I thought this was just an overdramatic headline but ticks actually killed a cow by bleeding it dry? What the hell? Holy $&@!#%@!

I would hope humans could at least fight them off if it takes them a while to suck out the blood - jump into an river or something compared to a cow which probably couldn't swat at all of them like a human would. But this is the stuff of horrors
The CCP wants to destroy the civilized way of life enjoyed in Hong Kong (and Taiwan), because it demonstrates that brutality is not the only way to lead Chinese people.

Many naiive young people from PRC I've talked to here in Canada sincerely believe that brutality is the only language Chinese people respond to, it's painful how broken the mainland people are.
Or... maybe developers should not play the games the Iran goverment want them to play and every effort should go towards throwing the current dictatorship not to stop using what they want us to stop using?
I actually found the that endearing and the post was /. insightful. I'm not convinced that it is somehow less harmful for the 1% to be corrupt than the 10% but it was an idea I had no considered because of my class envy.
Here's the proof-of-concept extension by gorhill for anyone interested: https://gist.github.com/gorhill/b0316e35d4e7e4a44df39e8b7fa5.... Looks like his tweets regarding this have also been deleted.
Images are mostly a superset of text use cases. You can always put great text into an image, and doing so gives is more context and emotional color.

I disagree, it should be optimized for high density text-only content.

HN attracts the kind of people it attracts because of its simplistic design, no images and focus on content.
Short sellers have been causing the company a lot of trouble, Musk is correct in pointing them out so that their activities become known.
As crazy as it is, the somethingawful forums have remained relatively good (give or take) over the last 20 years. I semi-chalk it up to the fact that the average age of the forum users is around 30-35 years old.
True cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission
It's not clear from your one word comment exactly what you're "whatting" about. Perhaps it's the silliness of the demand. Perhaps it's the "Colombian" thing at the end?

If it's the Colombian bit, what you didn't quote makes clear what's happening. The lawsuit alleges links to a Mexican drug cartel. The Colombian comment at the end was to make clear that the Escobars are (allegedly) part of a different drug cartel.

Here's the full paragraph:

Paragraphs 16 through 19 of the lawsuit identify thefts ranging between $37 and $150 million dollars, along with links to a Mexican drug cartel. (Pablo Escobar’s brother recently demanded $100 million in cash or Tesla shares from Musk for purportedly stealing his flamethrower idea, but the Escobars are Colombian.)
The only good reason I've seen to have client side navigation is when there's a permanent sound player embedded in the page, so you can keep listening while you browse around the site (possibly for other things to listen to).

Although really, for longer-term listening, playing the stream in a separate media player is a better idea. But sites tend to hide their stream addresses, and this is also usable.
And it still works!
Imagine fifty to one hundred million people protesting in the streets in the U.S; that's the rough range of credible ratios of protesters to overall population in Hong Kong.
Seems near impossible to keep up with modern tech advances if you can't even google stuff properly. :(
I also remember Austerlitz. Camped there in the woods two or three times. One time in the winter. I also remember that we biked there from our home town, a little more than 20 miles. This was when I was 14-17 years old.
Just try to develop subscription payment system by your own if you are developer - comes with AppStore. Or for example the practically free CloudKit. Or handling all payment issues. Or doing the App analytics in iTunes Connect. And much more. Whoever complains is having simple Apps and don’t realize the benefits from AppStore at all.
No, they really haven't. The best way to deal with shorts is to have a good quarter and crush them all. Or wait for a short squeeze. Lots of companies have misinformation spread by shorts all the time, but very few companies engage and attack shorts.
Effects of sanctions totally slide off the elite and shit all over the poorest members of a society.
Evidence of stable individual differences in implicit learning ability
If you have any examples of companies who weren't doing something unsavory and had a recurrent problem with whistleblowers I'd love to hear them.
A new thrust technology for nanosatellites could make them more efficient
Nothing has been learned since the 50s it would seem. Unbelievable indeed.
Quite topical as Jamboree starts this week. I was flying out of Ecuador late last week and saw a bunch of excited scouts on their way to Jamboree and it made me smile. Are there any other bizarre coming-of-age scouting traditions that other countries follow? This article immediately made me think of USA’s similar tradition, the snipe hunt:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt
Your comment doesn't have anything to do with the article, but even so -- insulin costs are not the reason people are doing the open source insulin pump modifications. They're doing them because it allows them much better fine grained control over their insulin levels, in essence giving them an artificial pancreas. This gives them much greater quality of life than having to continually use test strips and injections.

Yes, we have medical regulation, and it costs possibly hundreds of millions of dollars to bring new devices to market. They got tired of waiting.
For some reason I'm reluctant to use these. Feels like cheating almost? Or that I'll be missing out on some deeper understanding
Those clips make my every hair stand. It is a movement of unquestionable legitimacy.

P.S. watching on Sway, thank you Drew.
Generally you tip 10-15% for a proper sit down meal, that's all.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely grab a copy.
I can kinda-sorta see what you mean by a "permanent underclass", but in what capacity does america "maintain" that class?