skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other side, I absolutely despise polyester. I hate the way it feels to the degree that I absolutely refuse to wear anything containing it.

I do have some nylon clothes for camping, bit I wouldn’t wear them every day either. Natural fibers are just much more comfortable for me.
According to the article, the B-2 is of limited availability so while it could fulfill the mission parameters, it cannot meet the demand.
That sounds like an attempt at dictatorship or monarchy but not necessarily fascism. There's no strength through unity arguments, no pushing to seize economic power through state instruments and in general no consolidation of power in the executive branch.

I get that you might want to call the guy a nazi because he's racist, but that doesn't make him a fascist.
Unfortunately, I´ve seen it bring money and success a LOT of times.

Some of the most immoral jerks I know are extremely successful and very wealthy.
I have worked at a place that would refund up to $5k if I provided reasonable bills for trainings, conferences, coaching, theatre courses, and that was part of the perks.
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Let's talk about fashion and politics, shall we?
I am willing to forgo #2 if #1 is high enough.
It's very easy to measure the success of online advertising campaigns, because you can directly measure how many people your ads are reaching and which of those people end up buying your stuff.

Even if it weren't, I still don't see the incentive. If you don't think that it matters what your secret sauce actually is, why use mass data collection rather than something more popular?
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I found Capsule very valuable. The content is 2nd to none, they boil down some huge concepts that span thousands of pages across multiple books/papers into dense and digestible bites of material. Very high bandwidth and efficient.

I see a lot of commentary about the price being high. I'm not sure whether they have the right price point or not, but what I would say as someone who considers myself pretty frugal, I would compare the value I got from Capsule to a series of books and probably therapists that would've cost hundreds or thousands of dollars (and many more hours).
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Government generates a public/private key pair Gpub/Gpriv, and publishes the public part. It also requires the following scheme to be used: if you want encrypt a message M with a key P, you generate random key K, encrypt M with K to obtain Enc_K(M), encrypt K with Gpub to obtain Enc_Gpub(K), and encrypt K with P to obtain Enc_P(K), and then send this triple (Enc_K(M), Enc_Gpub(K), Enc_P(K)). This way, either of the P or Gpriv can be used to decrypt M (you just use it to first decrypt K, and then decrypt M). This scheme is as strong as the scheme used for encryption is, and no cryptography is weakened by its use, except of course a huge negative impact in case Gpriv leaks. With stakes this high though, you could bring likelihood of leak to be very low, and you could modify the scheme to mitigate the impact of the leak.

I don't like it as much as anyone else, but unfortunately I think this is viable in practice. Of course, nothing stops you, a hacker, from using non-backdoored encryption, but government is fine with that, as long as Google, Apple, Facebook etc. are forced to use backdoors.
This sounds like a worryingly bad idea on many levels.

1. "Such a system could find, fix and finish a target without external direction by a human controller."

The fact that human-out-of-the-loop kill decisions is a bad idea should not require further elaboration.

2. "Suddenly, a simulated threat radar activated. The pair of networked UCAVs immediately classified the threat and executed a plan to destroy it based on the position of each X-45 in relation to the target, what weapons were available, what each drone’s fuel load was and the nature of the target itself. The calculations happened in a blink of an eye."

Congratulations, now all of the adversarial techniques that make state-of-the-art neural networks fall over will apply to fighter jets as well. Does the system deterministically plan to attack everything it sees that looks like a threat? What about easy threats that show up first, followed by progressively more challenging / fuel-draining threats? Now instead of radar jammers, the signals guys will go back to building elaborate decoy generators.

Without a human in the loop, our current autonomous technologies are woefully inadequate for determining whether or not something smells like a trap. Our enemies are going to learn how to knock these things out of the sky with a $200 SDR and a power amp.
Attend or organize meetup for a FP language. Even go to another city or country. Niche stuff often brings remote gigs. After lectures there is usually a networking event in relaxed atmosphere. Don't forget business cards.
My philosophy degree has been extremely helpful throughout my software engineering career, for many of the same reasons. Clear, concise writing is crucial in code reviews, documentation, product requirements documents, and all sorts of ad hoc communication (Slack, emails, wiki comments, Jira cards, etc). This is doubly true for remote work.

Just like writing code, written communication is a difficult skill requiring lots of practice and feedback. A liberal arts degree provides that in spades!
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I was confused by your quotation, because I thought surely Barr wouldn't be arguing against his own point.

But it turns out that his opinion of what constitutes security and safety is completely opposite my own.
It's really not. Google, famous for never giving users control over UX, has a full-blown option to persistently save your preference to always open search results in a new window/tab.
Got to much attention.

Site's down now...
I'm hoping it is intentional, just to mess with people confused with nodejs.
Racism and prejudice have been hallmark behaviors of fascist regimes throughout history. Fascism itself relies on prejudice to create the in-group and the "others". In fact, historians don't even fully agree on what exactly fascism encompasses. We can't simply argue that there's some taxonomy of hate with clear boundaries when it comes to fascism. It's taken many forms throughout history.

Racism was inherent to the Nazi movement as we all know, it's impossible to separate their racist behavior from the rest of their "standard" fascist behavior. The two were deeply linked. The fascist movement in Italy wasn't considered racially-driven, but still relied heavily forms of prejudice to create a society tolerant of fascism.

You're essentially arguing that racist and prejudicial behavior, while abhorrent, can't be universally linked with fascism, while history has shown a strong relationship between them. Of course, we can't truly know whether the actions I've listed above constitute to a fascist movement until we actually see a populist takeover. In that regard, I truly hope that I'm wrong.
In addition to the lower labor and maintenance costs, you can also do open-road tolling - no booths needed, no slowdowns to wait for the gates to go up, you just keep driving at 60+ MPH.

You certainly can do both open-road and accept cash, but the traffic for the cash booths can back up onto the highway and slow down open-road traffic as well.
Where in your article does it describe something being sabotaged?
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I'm not sure the affected parties would agree with the descriptor 'exciting'.
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Dell computers are very easy to open. Desktops even don't need screws. Laptops might have some screws but that's about it.

That is also how they keep repair costs low.

I always think they are better designed than Apple computers and today they even look nice.
I used to maintain a set of bookmarks where people just complained about the name of a thing on HN. It seems like a really consistent theme for people who don't have much substance to contribute to threads. Any chance you could make it one of the disallowed/off-topic things?

I have never seen a developer respond to the comments with "Oh gee, you're right, I totally forgot about that, time to rethink the name!"
The difference between manipulation and influencing is whether or not something underhanded has occurred. You can sell yourself while being totally honest.

So many things in business are sales transactions, and it's better to come to peace with that early on. Sure, we're engineers but if you want your value to be recognized you have to learn to be a businessperson too.
It says the first week is free, but then it asks you to pay? How do we access the free first week without paying? @jc3110
Anyone who wants to play around with some Puppeteer examples, I built https://puppeteersandbox.com.

If you want to record your own scripts, I also am actively developing https://checklyhq.com/Puppeteer-recorder, a Chrome extension.
js as a semantic exercise left to the reader to fix
It doesn't mean they know who you are, either. That depends on what data is transmitted, what is stored, who has access to it, and what it means philosophically to know who someone is. There is not enough information to say.

If there is tracking data associated with a phone but it's not associated with your real name, in what sense can you say they know you?

There is a risk someone (who?) can connect it with other data somehow, and then all the pieces fall into place. But maybe it hasn't happened yet?

So, this is all preventative. Nobody knows what's going to happen, but better to avoid tracking, just in case.
The article is from 2015, at least in the middle I see updated sections marked with a January 2015 date.

Basic premise seems to be that Sergey Brin received part of funding at his work at Stanford. That funding can be traced to a CIA budget and the article says that's not unusual. Google was incorporated later, the funding made some of the core algorithm work possible. I don't see a claim the CIA had any active involvement, contact or plan before or after Google was created.
Anecdotal but "opportunity for professional growth" seems like the best answer to a recruiter trying to sell you. Flexible work arrangements on a high quality code base is what everyone I know wants to do....
Your point about interviewing is refreshing to hear. I'm a terrible interviewee, but I know I'm a kickass developer. It's rough, but honestly I don't know how companies should find great engineers that aren't good interviewees -- just networking?
You think Nazis shouldn't be allowed to march? What about communists? Why one and not the other? Communists killed far more people in the 20th century.
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Ask HN: Is it insane to start a Wordpress-based blog in 2019?
I'm planning to start a blog/site where multiple people can post their stories. My initial thought was Wordpress but that includes hosting charge. On the other hand, If I pick Hugo + Netlify, I am not sure if multiple people can post in it (due to their technical limitation of writing markdown)

Any feedback?
Haha, well I'm not sure I can honestly deny an accusation of being a genius, at the same time I'm not sure I can affirm it either - and just to talk about it seems to imply a lack of humility. Irrespective, there are lots of kinds of intelligence and I'm blessed with some of the less useful forms of it that happen to test well.
I'm stuck on the CDN because you need something like a CDN to serve any meaningful number of concurrents. The numbers I quoted for cloudfront were for the US.

If you believe otherwise, please enlighten me on how you can build a HD video streaming service for 100 concurrents without a CDN. Like I mentioned, on a 1GbE connection, you can serve a theoretical max of 45 users on one node. Where do you go from there without something that looks like CDN?
Seems to be refering to this study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27385...

> Design, Setting, and Participants: Forty government personnel (patients) who were potentially exposed and experienced neurological symptoms underwent evaluation at a US academic medical center from August 21, 2017, to June 8, 2018, including advanced structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging analytics. Findings were compared with imaging findings of 48 demographically similar healthy controls.
In a similar vein, I built this orbital simulation that shows the orbits of 2019 OD and Earth: https://www.spacereference.org/solar-system#ob=2019-od

Along with a more level-headed collection of facts about the asteroid, which is not classified as Potentially Hazardous: https://www.spacereference.org/asteroid/2019-od
"There are dozens of us!"
I offer an alternative perspective. After a few years you become skilled to the point where you are not learning on the job. Also you start to dive into tech that is outside your job.

At this point the job is not there for growth. Its not needed for growth. Like a chef, you are there to make good dishes known by the patrons. Not change the menu every week.

Well seasoned engineers want stability and professionalism. They want consistent processes that cteate stable systems. Learning new tech for learnings sake is not growth. Its a headache.
Had a look at touchdesigner?

https://vimeo.com/122273236
Well, assuming my very basic math is right. As said, I am not an expert, and I might be very wrong about how that scenario would have played out.
There is some cognitive dissonance that I can't seem to get over while reading your comment. While your statement is technically true, I just don't see it being true in the real world. Any time I have gotten a job that has paid better, it also came with more challenges and more difficulty and invariably more of a time investment(even if that means studying outside of work). Maybe I am just taking the wrong jobs...
A lot of the content here seems to be justifying breaching a law firm's security and disclosing sensitive attorney-client privileged information. Unlike some of the prior disclosures, there doesn't seem to be any allegation that the tax haven was being used for money laundering purposes (cf. Panama Papers), but just that the country itself was somehow acting unfairly to less developed jurisdictions. In addition to some of the sentiment below that the benefits in the form of capital inflows of such stabilizing treaties may exceed their costs in the form of top-line cap gains tax, etc., this distinction is striking.

It goes so far as to call out the specifics of an investment by the founder of Live Aid, without accusing him of doing anything illegal or, arguably, immoral.

While there is definitely educational benefit to understanding the potential effects of these sorts of treaties, at what point do these leaks cease to be newsworthy and begin to be gossip?
Hello, I have found your comment to my prev. comment, posted some months ago "Hey alexibm.
Since neither of us included contact info in our profiles, commenting here instead of a PM. I stumbled across one of your prior comments.
All I want to say is I hope you're now doing well. Or least better.
I'll delete this reply in a few days, or after you acknowledge, which ever comes first."

Thank you for looking out for me.
I'm pretty sure, I know the comment you are referring to. At this point, it is been over 2 years. I would not say, I'm completely healed over, but I'm in a lot better place than I was before. To this day, I have bad days.

Person in question, who caused a lot of needless harm to me, recently popped-out on my FB (haven't spoken to her in 2 years). She was not apologetic, instead, she told me how fun it is skiing in Alps. When I question, if she understands that she caused a lot of harm to me, she went silent. From what I understood, she wanted to see if I have forgiven her since then ... I didn't. Asked her to never come back to my life.
They are measuring against average sizes for people of similar group. Size being smaller thank average for all staff members is definitely raises suspicion.
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Of course they do... whose house do you expect to be tidier, an average woman's or an average man's?
> Maybe it's because I live in Silicon Valley, but my repair experience with Apple has been quite different.

This is absolutely the case. I've been in Apple services both in US and in many other countries in Europe and Eastern Europe. The farther from US, the worse.
Freeways were designed in part to help the US army traverse the county in times of war. Before freeways, the US did a transcontinental trip with all kinds of vehicles including a young Eisenhower who saw the importance of fast transit.

They were essential in the event on an invasion. I guess they could've been made federal and not usable by civilians.
Though I'd much prefer to have advances in the technology of diplomacy than that of war, I think having a number of semi-autonomous small drones in formation flight around a manned aircraft makes more sense than AI drones. The drone swarm could detect the attacks you describe destructively if needed, so the pilot can dodge.
I have seen employers grossly misunderstand "professional growth" to mean paying for tons of random seminars telling you the basics of being a professional like taking care of your appearance, carrying yourself, setting goals, etc. I don't think they understood that growth == promotions and income advancement.

I would have much rather taken home an extra $5k, or get a promotion two months earlier, than waste time sitting through self help seminars
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in my experience many developers want to be bricklayers (not to discount bricklaying, there's an art to it, but they're focused on the individual bricks, not the other aspects of the building). They get annoyed when they're asked to think about the bigger picture and just want to focus on the code, the architecture, and whatever is new and shiny. It is largely due to these sorts of developers that we've developed all the ritual around sprints/product owners/etc to put blinders on them because they cannot deal with deadline and thinking in terms of business value creation.

This sort of person is under-represented here on HN for obvious reasons but they represent the majority of people developing software. The opportunity to contribute more than just lines of code should be offered and encouraged, but don't be surprised at how few will be interested.
If only they could find malaysia flight 370.
Can't help but recall a relative episode of StarTrek in which an AI computer takes control of the Enterprise and starts targeting friendlies as it classifies them as hostile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Computer
In my opinion this line of thinking may be good for the employee but bad for the company and its users. I bet a large chunk of the “Google Graveyard” is comprised of projects designed to get a few people a promotion or keep them around. And we’re worse off for it.

My takeaway is that companies need to start focusing on matching jobs to skill level instead of always competing for the best
Netlify has a CMS front end that supports Hugo so contributors don't necessarily need to know how to write in Markdown, just FYI: https://www.netlifycms.org/

But for your use case of multiple contributors, and to answer your question directly; no I wouldn't say WP is an insane choice-if you're most familiar with it and don't mind the administration, go for it.
Volcanism is a much greater threat to civilization than meteors.

In the past 1500 years, at least three eruptions have caused global crop failures: Tambora, Samalas, Ilopango.
There is nothing wrong with circularity in dictionaries, though. This is a solution in search of a problem.

It may be the case that the definition A happens to use some word B, in whose definition we find word C, whose definition uses A. However, that isn't really a problem, because these definitions are not simply substitutions of exactly one word for another. The definition of A uses numerous other words other than B, that of B uses words in addition to C, and C uses words in addition to A.

That is, the existence of cycles in definitions doesn't necessarily make the definitions irresolvably circular.
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What's your hot take on web.dev?
I'm getting more involved in https://web.dev. Just want to hear your thoughts on it. Whether you've read content from the site, whether it helped, what content you want to see... any feedback is valid.
Road-laying technology doesn't develop at the pace that computer technology does. We went from room-sized mainframes to powerful pocket computers in 40 years. Working on "new things" is objectively more interesting and pays better - modulo the COBOL devs making $500/hr now.
I wonder how Benjamin Franklin would feel about its common usage nowadays. For specific context I used to use this quote in relation to my dislike of the PATRIOT act and similar, and I never really took any introspection as to whether I was truly defending my position through the use/abuse of the quote. Granted I was literally in middle school at the time, so maybe my lack of a more nuanced position could be forgiven, but a quote is not an argument.
He has a youtube channel that he started posting to regularly this year.

But yeah, unfortunately theres only so many ways you can get tell someone to not spend money.
> But the fact remains that I can write a compiler. I can program in C or C++. I do understand pointers.

EDIT: Note - I see your replies and reasoning with others on what you meant; I do agree with you there, too.

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I know you can do all of them without a CS degree.

Where a CS degree really helps, though - and this is something that I know I lack (but real-world experience has taught me enough that I can get by) - are what could be almost considered CS fundamentals:

* Data Structures

* Sorting Algorithms

* General Algorithms

Fortunately, in the day-to-day realm of most programming, you don't need to implement any of them from scratch, and most of them you can learn the basics of (or "best common examples") fairly quickly, which is where I am at mostly.

The problem happens when you run into a situation that isn't seemingly addressed by that level of knowledge (which again, thankfully, in most day-to-day work is extremely rare); by having that prior exposure via a CS degree, you would at least potentially know some words or phrases to look up to refresh your memory on concepts.

Further, you would also have the knowledge (or refreshing of knowledge) to be able to understand any new developments that may have occurred since you were taught (and so could easily read any research papers on the topics).

If I were in such a situation, I would need to break out some google searches on various xyz (ie structures and/or algorithms), use whatever understanding I have to understand those to a level to be able to pick out potential candidates to study in more depth, and maybe hope to run across more recent stuff that may be better (and pray I could understand it enough to implement it).

The one upside in this day and age, though, is that for all of these, for virtually any language I currently understand, someone has likely written an implementation of it - which can be extremely helpful both in the solution to a problem, and in understanding that solution.

But a CS degree would make things much simpler, were it something I had time to pursue. I could probably find the time, but the cost vs benefit ratio no longer works out to my favor, beyond self-edification, given my age and current life obligations.
Most academic literature attributes the complaints (which are inconsistent with each other and span ambassadors of some countries but not others), to a mass psychogenic event.
You can find out more here: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4603