skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point. To add a slightly different perspective, I work for a US company that routinely has to deal with cyber attacks by Iranian professionals, probably government sponsored. I think most people don't realize how incredibly serious this is, and how basically there is already a global war being fought. And the nations with the most freedom have the most to lose.

Certainly most of the people in Iran are similar to most of the people around the world. In kindness, compassion, in just trying to get their daily job done and enjoy time with friends and family. If only it was easy to distinguish between the good, the bad, the indifferent. Probably a lot of sanctions don't hinder the most threatening of Iran's activities, while impacting the population. But it does have an effect (not always the ones intended, perhaps).

If the government in power over you is in conflict with others, and/or in conflict with it's own people, it's going to impact you. If you want your life to be better, look for ways to improve your government. True for the USA and everyone else. Another lesson that the USA has been illustrating repeatedly recently is that it's probably better for a nations citizens to reform their government themselves, instead of a foreign power. Until that happens, yes their lives are not going to be as free as they'd like. It's hard and there is a cost to be paid for those freedoms. Many of us are fortunate in that those before us did the hard work and we get to enjoy the benefits. Good luck to the author of the blog, hopefully they can find good solutions.
This function would be one of the last remaining things I’d use on FB (the others being marketplaces & messenger - I disabled the news feed a while back and don’t use FB on mobile).

Unfathomable to me. I’d really like to see who of my friends are in a given city so when I go visit said city I can reach out and say hi. Don’t really understand it either
> When 80% of traffic from an IP is malicious and the other 20% is regular traffic, but both sources look like the same traffic (impersonating browser headers, sometimes running headless chromium), what else can you do?

Accept the traffic, taking the bad with the good. We all know the ills of visitor profiling regardless of effectiveness.
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> Lots of studios seem hungry for anyone with experience.

That's because once someone has experience, they can 3x their salary outside the industry.
That wasn't even true, was it?
Actually, a: negative mass would have the opposite effect as dark matter - gravitationally repelling all nearby matter - so you'd need even more dark matter to make up for it; b: negative mass is actually attracted to positive mass[0], so quantaties of dark negative mass small enough to not have noticable gravitational effects would follow the same orbital trajectories as positive dark matter.

0: Eg, if you have two particles with equal and oppositely-signed mass in otherwise free space, they'll "fall" in the direction of the positive particle. The two-particle system has zero mass, zero kinetic energy and zero force driving its accelleration, which could be taken as a pretty good argument that negative-mass particles don't actually exist.
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I can’t think of a historical example of economic sanctions even moving the situation toward the putative goal of regime change in the target country, let alone achieving that goal.

I’ve lived under UN sanctions imposed on Serbia under Milosevic regime during the nineties. Two things happen: 1) people in the regime leadership don’t suffer 2) the little people who do suffer feel attacked and rally around the leader. Pretty much the opposite of what the sanctions ostensibly aim to achieve.

This same dynamic played out in Cuba, North Korea, Iran, you name it, for decades with no good effect.

What brought Milosevic regime down was the aerial NATO assault and its aftermath, not the sanctions.

As far as I can tell sanctions are a way for US politicians (they may be imposed by all the western countries, but I can’t think of an example where US wasn’t the leader) to look like they are punishing the offending country without going to war. They just don’t seem to work.
Our lives are in danger ya beatnik!
I'm perplexed by age discrimination (I don't get it) so I was excited when you wrote "It's clear why tech companies keep practicing age discrimination," -- I thought you'd finally give the reason. You didn't.

What's the reason? What do they get out of it?
> I hope you enjoyed this read as much as I enjoyed doing this research.

Redmond's quirkery has been a pleasure these decades, for "yelling obscenities" values of "pleasure".
Before Obamacare, you weren’t covered until you were 26. Was it 19?

In less than a decade, the world comes to an end if you can’t be covered until you’re 26.

Healthcare and education have outpaced inflation for several decades, and now neither are affordable.

Perhaps the solution is to figure out how to reduce the costs?
South Africa is seen as a success.
Francis fukuyama puts greece and (mainly southern) italy as places where political development and high social trust did not emerge, hence we have a state in a state of retardation. There is also a lot of pessimism in greece about the stubbornly stagnant attitudes expressed in politics. Add to that the abysmal demographic prospects and it's easy for a certain desperation to develop.

https://books.google.com/books?id=j6hzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA97&dq=Fr...
Just checked the App and it looks like you can't sign-up using the free option anymore.
The sanctions hurt from the bottom up. The elites who own the economy lose some money but they are eatill comfort.
Please delete this. He is a grad student with a serious vision impairment.
Does this mean if you had a rock of negative-mass and a rock of positive mass in space they would chase each other?
Well I don't really have any insider knowledge but it seems that Republicans didn't want Democrats to have this win therefore didn't pass it in the congress and there was a ton of propaganda against it.

Trump, riding on the wave of propaganda, just called it the worst deal ever only to have something to criticize Obama's foreign policy over.
There are various restaurant apps that are available out there, but for me the Pomme app is a list of Michelin recommended restaurants that do not burn a hole through my pocket.

Some of the great suggestions are:
- Zareen's at Mountain View,
- Broadway Masala in Redwood City,
- Doppio Zero Pizza Napoletana on Castro, Mountain View,
- Din Tai Fung, Santa Clara

and more.
Most doctors will tell you that they only use about 10% of what they learned in medical school or had to memorize for boards.
What was involved in their mentorship plan?
Equity value (market cap + debt) the real measure of company valuation, since debt holders are owners too.

Ford's EV is 145B (42B market cap + 103B debt).

Tesla's EV is 56B (44.5B market cap + 11.5B debt).

Ford and Honda are still valued considerably higher than Tesla.
Sanctions may be harsh but they're effective.That always has been the case and will (always sounds presumptious) be for a long time.
It's sad but it is a reality.Thankfully if we look at history it is less and less applied(as conflicts are declining, in general)

What i would say that is that sanctions themselves do not have the mission of "change", they're only meant to enable change.Leading by example is indeed the right(and kind of the only) way of change.But to reach that without straight-up violence is very hard and slow.
> You have to synchronously report the error to the application depending on the fsync, full stop.

Why? As reported above, Google itself isn't even doing that. We're not talking about a network timeout here. Hardware failures are hardware failures and not in the general case recoverable by software no matter how strongly held the opinions are about how that software should work.

The fsync behavior on Linux was surprising and wrong. But fixing that won't fix any of the stuff you're yelling about. API hygiene can't fix machines, and the machine broke.
Light? Sure

Fast? Nope. Look at http_write_response for example - it does 5 syscalls instead of 2 required. And there is no caching headers support, so the browser will download things more than necessary.

For simple things, I highly recommend a small C-based server. This server has educational value only.
I'm not sure the entire plan is to get the country to do what you want. It's also about not supporting your enemies. Why send them raw materials, hardware, software that they will then use to fight against you? This seems to have worked for the countries you listed and a few more with the possible exception of Iran. They are much weaker than they could have been and are therefore not as significant a threat.
> If you are trying to argue that every single country in the world today embodies a roughly equivalent version of the traits of "Western Civilization", then we evidently don't live on the same planet and there's no point in further discussion.

Depends on what trait you're talking about. But I also don't believe that there's an objective definition of Western Civilisation, so trying to argue that some country does or does not embody its tenets sufficiently is fruitless - its always arguable.

> No, I'm saying that the state simply not interfering in people's beliefs is (supposed to be--again, it's hard to tell these days in many western countries) an important element of western states. The state doesn't have to "sponsor" non-interference; it just has to not interfere. (And this whole idea that the state has to "sponsor" anything significant in a society is also not supposed to be part of Western Civilization.)

Awesome, so you're saying that the character of the Roman empire in the 5th Century AD was not Western, given their state-level rejection and criminalisation of paganism.
Software is not a field of dreams
Well, whistleblowing, by definition, requires the target to be doing unsavory things. Otherwise, it's just "leaking" and many companies have ongoing problems with things like product plans being leaked.
I wasn't talking about online banks, which I know nothing about. I was talking about ordinary everyday banks and credit unions, which allow you to withdraw money from shared networks[1] of ATMs nationwide for free. Like, this is a thing, you don't have to have $20,000 in a Bank of America account to get free checking and you don't need a nationwide branded ATM/branch network. You don't have to have direct deposit either. Or be white. I've literally been in banks and have seen with my own eyes how it works.

[1]https://www.allpointnetwork.com/locator.aspx
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Every NPT-signatory has the right to enrich.
That’s a good example, albeit a special one where the regime was not accepted as being of the people by a large majority of the population.
I can crash Settings on my up to date Galaxy Note 9 by entering enough 'a's as SSID and password. Wonder if it's more than a crash?
(Based on a comment I made on another thread)

For more photos and videos of the triad attack, check out https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/

For another reporting of the triad attack, see BBC [1] and the Times [2].

It was leaked a few days ago that the government was planning to use triads to do the dirty work (See point 4 in [3] and [4] in Chinese). Using triads happened during the 2014 umbrella protest, but this time the attack on arbitrary citizens (not necessarily the protesters) is on a completely different scale: a terrorist attack.

And there are videos showing that the police “co-operated” with the triads (by turning a blind eye: arriving at the scene late [5] [6], chatting with the triad attackers [7] [8], closing the police stations and not responding to cases during the events).

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49066982

[2]: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2c35b094-abe5-11e9-b657-1....

[3]: https://www.facebook.com/ChanKamShui/posts/2336638383089638

[4]: https://nextplus.nextmedia.com/article/2_682569_0

[5]: A video showing two policemen turning their back on the the subway station right before the attack: https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/cg0hm2/hkpf_leavi....

[6]: A video allegedly showed how the triad members (on the left) left the scene when the police (on the right) arrived at one scene: https://www.facebook.com/ChanKamShui/videos/477470036387268/

[7]: https://www.facebook.com/paco.chor/videos/10157511842948537/

[8]: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=316880969036144
We regularly did this in Scouts in the UK in the eighties. We would have map and compass and know where we were supposed to get to, but there was general disorientation and disinformation about the starting location. IIRC we were always dropped somewhere such that the obvious path would lead us away from roads and there were certainly adults and/or venture scouts (16-21?) keeping some kind of track of us, but usually done subtly enough that we weren't aware that they were around
Usually, when people say “universal library”, they mean a library which can work with almost everything.

This is not it. This library only talks to shrimpy, and nothing else. The fact that shrimpy can talk to multiple exchanges does not make the library universal.
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I imagine any bank that charges a monthly fee would tell you that.
Sure. When I said "everybody" I really meant "almost everybody".

Of course, in preindustrial times, obesity was a sign of wealth, and that statue might be an ideal to strive for, made by paper thin worshippers.
We did 'escape and evasion' orienteering courses that ran 12hrs from 6pm to 6am from about 13 years old in the 90s. This was through bush and farmland in Australia.

There were always incidents like cases of hyperthermia, being chased by wild pig, running into things blindly etc. But the 1000's of kids partaking always ended up ok at the end.
From what I have read here, the underlying theory is that someone younger doesn't have kids/spouse/family/etc. So they are more willing to work long hours (I guess without pay since salaried?). Also the theory is that someone older means they would want more money for their experience.

Note that I don't actually know, this seems to be the running theory as I understand it.
In Greece, you tip 1 or 2 euros. Maybe 5 if the bill is over 100 euros or something like that.
At some point that goes away. Your future educational history eclipses and sort of "hides" all that.

I got a GED in 1991, in lieu of traditional high school graduation. I'd been in foster care. Once I'd been in college, the pre-college educational history no longer matters.

Since I finished my degree in 2013 (finally!) that I'd started in 1991… anything before it is irrelevant. There may be an outlier company where this doesn't apply, but I feel like that's the exception and not the rule.
storing dietary fat works best when you eat carbs, because then your body will run on carbs and carbs will spike your insuline to signal the body to store the fat. Also the insuline spikes and drops make you crave more carbs...
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That link is returning a 404 now, but an archive was posted: https://archive.is/hi5o1
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YouTube comments.
Clearly someone the author forgot to bribe.
Anything that is bad for NVIDIA is good for the FOSS. This company is the enemy of opensource, with its stance against nouveau, monopoly for GPU calculations with CUDA, etc.
Why don't you overthrow the Iranian dictatorship?
Article cities this essay by the brilliant Zadie Smith -- though sadly behind a pay wall:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/11/20/two-paths-for-th...

Smith has read aloud several of her short stories in free podcast form at The New Yorker. All are cunning social satire, wielded against on a wide range of deserving targets.

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction
i m not in the industry but i couldn;t find a definition such as the one you re mentioning

> Capital-intensive industries use a large portion of capital to buy expensive machines, compared to their labor costs. The term came about in the mid- to late-nineteenth century as factories such as steel or iron sprung up around the newly industrialized world.

i dont know, computers are dirt cheap, and IT is famous for being particularly easy to enter into as a sector. I don't think i m the exception
I wish I had that 'spend some time settling down' excuse. We've been living together for over two years now, and we bought a house together a year ago.

It'll probably be something else, though, like "I need to get caught up with everything around the house we've been neglecting for months" or something.
Ask HN: How much data can you scrape?
I was just wondering using python/other scrapers how much data (number of websites/data points/observations) can you scrape in a sitting
If you had passed a supported font to the font-family tag it would have rendered it (it will not download a webfont). Since people really don't like seeing square boxes instead of characters windows tries very hard to find a font that will draw the character. Based on historic precedent Times New Roman is normally chosen.

You'll note the fallback-families he lists are exactly those supported by the GDI LOGFONT structure which dates to windows 3.0. This is old creaky stuff we're dealing with.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wingdi/ns...
JRR Tolkien worked closely with CS Lewis and they formed a powerful workflow -- go ahead and believe whatever you want but each of us has a unique ability and we're superstars in our own right but we rely on context which is sorely lacking in the technological industrial complex
It's spygear requested by the US Gov't to spy on adversaries like Russia and China.

When Vladimir Putin heard about it and realized he'd been duped, he ordered all communications inside the Kremlin to be through old fashioned typed pages only. Google it.
> Needle in a haystack

As a practical matter, Tehran’s domestic governance is irrelevant to most Western readers. My FT, WSJ or Bloomberg subscriptions tend to touch on it about twice a year. Given I have zero influence over the situation, that plenty for me.
The point is fun of pointless tinkering in the shed. As someone mentioned in HAD comments this thing doesnt have decoupling, bypassing, impedance matching, nothing, its just someone playing with electronics in his spare time for fun.
You're still trying to be anything but yourself, why not start at first principles?
Why don't more companies "engage and attack shorts"? Aren't people taking short positions on companies effectively lowering the stock price of the company compared to someone just not buying their stock, and therefore doing potential damage to that company's valuation and future?

I'm surprised any company has the time to engage and attack those kinds of threats, but I'm not surprised there is an incentive for them to do so. Is it just the lack of time (or maybe optics, for whatever reason) that other companies don't "fight back"?
Because I don't live in Iran, if there is ever a solution to the Iran tiranny it must happen from the inside and from its own people.
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There are many parts of this game that are burned into my memory. It was such a deeply voice-acted game with so much emotional content. The gameplay was fun to repeat because there were different ways to approach each challenge. Reading up on the lexicon of the US military explains the use of the word “pineapples” to describe hand grenades when Snake is speaking over comm on the first level. This article gives context to many of the lines that have stuck with me.

There is a chapter of Metal Gear Solid 4 that takes place in a modern remake of the first level and one of the later levels of the original. There is even a playable version of the original that comes up in a dream sequence. The dedication that the crew has had for their work from the original and on is remarkable.
Sure, you can get an example of a React component working on a webpage. I'm talking about the daily lived experience of a working junior developer trying to build something real using typical tools for 2019.
Do you have more information about this? I'm wondering what the new program will be like, given as a member says in that article from 2008, “OA is very Native American-based”.
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Sounds like it works like an intercooler on a turbocharged car engine. It cools the intake charge to increase its density to cram more air into the combustion chamber.
Google's play seems to be to encourage more and more folks to learn CS and be interested in learning programming and AI. Google Research, GSoC, PhD research grants, publishing their results in leading journals, and their OSS contributions all point to a company that is a friend of programmers and academics. For these very reasons, the company is viewed very positively outside of SV.

On the contrary, I don't see a similar desire to contribute back from Amazon, Apple, Facebook or Netflix (although the last 2 do contribute a ton to OSS).
This feels a bit like the "if you don't like capitalism why do you use an iPhone?" argument.

The reality is that Hacker News is a generally high quality technical forum and that's the reason a lot of people are here.
The argument for keto/carnivorous diet does not depend on human adaptation to digesting starches. I understood it as:

* Evolution works at the level of genes, not individuals. It will select for short-term reproductive success at the expense of longevity or quality of life.

* All living things evolve to avoid being eaten (at least while they have the potential to reproduce or aid the reproduction of their kin).

* Animals primarily defend against being eaten by fleeing or fighting. These defenses can be 100% neutralized by killing the animal.

* Plants primarily defend against being eaten by producing toxins. These defenses can be neutralized by metabolism, but evolution has no incentive to select for 100% neutralization. If 100% neutralization of plant toxins is difficult then dying young with a lot of children might be a better strategy.

However, there are plants that defend with spines/shells/hiding underground, and plants that produce fruit to attract animals for seed distribution, all of which change the selection pressure for toxin production, and any food may be healthful or harmful purely as a spandrel (a byproduct of evolution of some other characteristic). There are examples of human populations maintaining good health on a wide variety of different diets, so as is usually the case with nutrition, there are no clear answers.
Some YouTubers went on to try launching dating sites again after the Google acquisition.
Ah, this is good to know. My site doesn't yet need to scale, so this is definitely A Problem I Would Love To Have ;)

EDIT: This seems to help with the ranking problem: https://github.com/postgrespro/rum
This weirdness also polluted my history with the page at different scroll intervals. I had to click back about 20 times to get back to HN because ever scroll action was in my history.
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There is no fine here. It's a settlement.
I wish I needed to, let's just say that!
Good find, bookmarked!
It was also made possible entirely by Macromedia Flash. (Purchased by Adobe the same year).
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