skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only non-US critique is Stalin ignoring or not believing intelligence about the German attack, but I don't think Stalin is exactly a good example of a typical analyst of intelligence.

One should also not, that we now know more about this thanks to Steven Kotkin work. Stalin had a lot of evidence that the German might attack, but he also had a lot that they might not as the Germans both ran a major counter intelligence campaign and native disbelieve that such an operation would not be smart.

The evidence he had was not as bullet prove as the histories often write it, if you look in real time at the information Stalin had.
And IIRC, FAT being in the UEFI specification kind of solved the patent issue over FAT being in the Linux kernel tree.
> she reported her adviser, Dr. Elizabeth Byrnes, for allegedly fabricating data

Is way too cautious of a wording.

She reported her advisor for fabricating data, not for allegedly fabricating data. You can't report someone for allegedly doing something.
HN only displays the top level domain, which is org.hk
I think for this to be truly successful, Tesla would need to vertically integrate better.

that is:

- run the insurer which effectively bet against you crashing your car

- the repairs, we can fix it better/faster/cheaper than 3rd party

- and obviously the manufacture and distribution levers.

Seems like it's an economy of scale problem, but given all the data that they have about their cars/drivers and rates of accidents, they probably can say with some degree of statistical certainty that they can cover their losses paying out on claims; otherwise they probably wouldn't have done this.
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You are not your Kubernetes
This is possible only in capitalism, where the demand doesn't come from people's needs but is simply created by the sellers themselves. I've seen successful online businesses based on selling people animal feces.
Are you hydrated adequately? Drink more water! brought to you by Coca-Cola and American Beverage Association. Those bots spamming about hydration in twitch chat? thats them.

>Coke and ABA also spread deceptive messages about hydration—giving the misimpression that many people suffer from dehydration, according to the complaint. “We don’t believe in empty calories. We believe in hydration,” said Coca-Cola executive Katie Bayne.

https://cspinet.org/news/lawsuit-alleges-coca-cola-american-...
TL;DR - He made a post on indiehacker that got 100+ comments. This is literally the only thing he did.
Gamergate from one side, then things like this https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/world/europe/sweden-immig...
I am not really familiar with India's government but I suspect they suffer from the same problem that hard core "States Rights" people in the US Suffer from

When I say Distributed power, with Checks and balances, that does not simply mean small regional Fifedom's with unlimited power. I suspect India's weak central government has limited power over the local regional governments making them very corruptible.

"Distributed power" is not synonymous with "small regional power"

One of the things the US gets right is neither that state nor the federal government is "more powerful" than the other, each have their place, and both can in different circumstances overrule each other, this has the benifiet of ensuring States do not go crazy with power and corruption, and that the feds do not go crazy with power and corruption

Over the last 200 years however we have consolidated ALOT of power into the Federal government, this is making things very very bad if you enjoy and prefer an individualist society with personal liberty
I'm not sure I'm right, but isn't ork.hk the TLD? Similar to co.uk or com.cn
The important part about implementing something like the great firewall, or how Iran runs the Internet (All ISPs need to be downstream of the government-run ASN), is that you need cooperation from the people with network engineering talent.

If all of them refuse to help implement your new internet censorship regime, it's a problem for any authoritarian government, just as much as if your police force stops following orders. You can start firing people and hiring replacements who will toe the line, but at a certain point you're going to end up with second and third rate talent, and correspondingly shoddy ISPs.

Talented network engineers such as those who have the equivalent of 'enable' on the twenty largest ISPs in HK can choose to go elsewhere and work in free countries. There's sufficient demand for their skills that refusing en masse to cooperate is not an incredible risk for them.

I work in the field and try to teach junior NOC people that there is such a thing as ethics in network engineering. Just as there is in any other professional field where people rely upon critical systems. This means, among other things, don't try to MITM your customers' traffic (Kazakhstan, recent incident comes to mind), don't get into intrusive DPI, don't fuck with neutrality of content, and absolutely never cooperate with anything that slightly resembles the great firewall. The combination of modern technology/human tracking systems plus full autocratic state control of ISPs could result in something that would be the wet dream of east germany's Stasi.
Meanwhile, they're amassing enough capital and information to make sure the regulations look exactly the way they want.
Does anyone have an alternative that behaves closer to Google Alerts, i.e. alerts for when a website or brand is mentioned on HN? Looking for something that's also realtime :)
Which looks like a bug, I take it, considering that this one shows up as going to "bbc.co.uk": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20817583? (Also, I think the TLD is still just ".hk"; ".org.hk" is an eTLD AFAIK.)
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> Ryanair don’t fly to London btw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airports_of_London
I don’t want audio recordings or transcripts to rain in their servers.
I don’t even want “smart” Siri. I want stupid Siri aka proper speech to text locally + a fixed set of commands I know/learn/discover

There is no need to send all of this to them. If I want to suggest a command, allow me using a simple form.
Some links to peruse:

https://www.innocenceproject.org/

https://www.innocenceproject.org/eyewitness-identification-r...

https://www.innocenceproject.org/overturning-wrongful-convic...

The National Registry of Exonerations:

CURRENTLY 2,481 EXONERATIONS

MORE THAN 21,890 YEARS LOST

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/browse.a...
Ironic that this would appear below a banner with the slogan "Making Web Content Available For All"*

*Screen cap: https://i.imgur.com/tnTvaAJ.png
China doesn't need Hong Kong network talent, they have plenty of Chinese network talent. The same people who built the system to oppress their contrymen can build it to oppress semi-foreigners.
Not sure what you're saying here, is it that you got out because your boss was incompetent and delusional, or you got out because he was effective but you needed some sort of external validation despite your work being effective?

Very confusing comment, whichever is true.
There is no way any of this process takes less time to solve than "I got a red squiggle in my editor and fixed the variable spelling". I don't think typos are really the only things type systems fix (type systems provide powerful ways of preventing screw-ups by allowing you to encode invariants about a piece of data and how it may be used), but if typos are indeed the extent of it, it seems unimaginable to me that the process to fix would be faster by going through code review -> CI pipeline -> deploy and then back again, no matter how fast it is to revert a change in production. Honestly that's just the compile-time safety advantage of types, half the time saved in typescript is just not spending time having to read someone else's source code to figure out how a function may be used because cowboy js devs were too lazy to document them (knex is an especially egregious offender in this regard that I thankfully don't have to use anymore).
You mean like my country, where plain packaged cigarettes came into effect? I'm not sure where you're getting negligible from. Anyone who smokes has stigma attached to them and the only ones still smoking are those who have too little willpower left over to pull themselves out of that social hole.
It's possible (especially if you're in a criminal database) that this might actually paint a bigger target on your back - if a traffic camera caught you going toward the bank and facial recognition picked it up in an automated sweep... then the fact that your phone was broadcasting as being in a different location might be a red flag on it's own.

While humans are doing the piecing together this tactic will probably be pretty decent, but it wouldn't be super hard to marry those datasets after you've seen it happen a time or two.
India has habit of being at the golden opportunity than missing it completely.

The problem with India is that internal demand for products is negligible, people aren't spending, everyone's saving! And a lot of people don't have employment. It's overburdened by taxes.

Country has many manufacturers but no retailers willing to sell the produce.

Country is developing very fast, when you can't buy pvc pipe, MDF, custom cut glass online?

There is no company selling screws online in India, strange!

Local businessmen do not want to take any risk.

When internal demand and supply is dead. Opening market for iPhones gonna put downward pressure on currency.

I am not saying, it's a bad move. It's welcomed move, I suggest India open its market for foreign manufacturers and companies, so that they are able to sell here anything duty free.

But this will lead to a massive correction on the currency value which is long overdue.

If currency loses it value entirely, I think the government will mandate private household gold be sold to the government at fixed rate set by government which will be used to pay for gas/petroleum import once the currency tanks.

India's currency will definitely tank if it opens itself up.

But there is massive amount of household gold which can be used to support the currency and bring it back up.

This will honestly make people more equal specially in country where there are many havenots, strengthening the currency should be lot more important.

Annexing private gold holding should be next big step after demonetization.
I’m guessing they probably only put in a handful of common country-level TLDs...
> The article is clickbait

The article is a review of the book "Reframing Superintelligence" titled "Book review: Reframing Superintelligence".
I think it's probably more accurate to say that they cemented and popularized what's now the canonical image of santa (though there was lots of prior art).

If you want a more indisputable fact of Christmas influenced marketing, check out Japan & KFC Christmas:

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-kfc-became-a-christmas-t...
The difference is that one presupposes the other. In other words, there fact that the government started guaranteeing and subsidizing loans created conditions that led to excess debt, which set the table for a need to remove the ability to discharge that debt in order to make the risk of lending acceptable. I believe much of this can be traced back to The Great Society program.

I don't think you're wrong, I think you're just focusing on the wrong aspect. Its the supply of easily incurred debt that is incentivizing high tuition. The laws regarding discharging of that debt are predictable blowback.

It sounds like what you're advocating is a return to the way higher education was treated prior to the 1980s, a time when many less people had degrees. The problem is that return is no longer a simple solution, especially when we live in a society that now requires 4 year and even graduate degrees to be competitive, regardless of whether the position necessitates it
>eating wild animals (modulo overfishing) is unquestionably morally right

How did you come to that conclusion?

I don't think it's anywhere close to "unquestionably".
That is probably true, if they accelerate a full political takeover and removal of HK autonomy. If HK autonomy is gone, all bets are off. At least the HK network engineers don't have to be complicit in it. Come to Canada and build something as awesome as PCCW [1].

[1]: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/1451
Thank you very much for being there and pushing forward the maintenance and development of Thunderbird.

It is a wonderful piece of software, the daily email driver for lots of us, and it would have been a huge pity if we had lost it during the crisis period...
At the time Ratners already owned Kay and Jared... I think “destroying” the company is a bit overstated/exaggerated. The company itself came out just fine. They still own Jared and Kay, and Zales more recently.
That certainly looks like what they're doing here?
Because HN is full of Lisp zealots. (Which may be partially because Paul Graham is also a Lisp zealot.) And there is of course also a selection of people who click on certain threads.

Many other platforms are similar in that regard, but from HN I would normally except better.

(I am the same person as grand-parent with a different account, btw.)
A friend worked at a base years ago where cellphones were not permitted.

He said there was a shooter at some point, and nobody could call for help, so they changed the rules.
> "When you join a startup, there’s a lot of emphasis on the design of the application, reusability and clean code, and the ability to conduct and undergo code reviews, as well as the ability to think of and build systems that can scale based on users and geography"

How can anyone take the article seriously? These are all problems that startups punt on until after they've suceeded.
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I don't think people realize how much cars have ruined everything!

The USA wasn't bombed during WWII, but look at pictures of American cities in the 1940 vs. the 1970s; tens of thousands of small towns wiped off the map.
I feel like, as soon as you enabled this feature, your phone would start broadcasting more.

I suppose we can sorta thank the FEC for their crazy broadcast device requirements when it comes to suspecting whether airplane mode actually stops a device from dialing home.
Exactly. Also, smart Siri is so stupid, it recently started correcting the contact I want to call to someone else, even though it was properly recognized and transcribed.

Funny thing is I call this person daily, and the other one was 6-7 years ago

Frustrating as hell
Perhaps due to preferences against bookmarking the customized url you get on that page? The shortest canonical URL I know to access html version directly is

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=h
Once worked for a great manager who kept track of huge amount of information in Sticky Notes.

I always shied away from it because I could not come up with a simple way to export the data. Of course I could have parsed the huge plist file...

This looks very cool.

This is great.
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Or they could just, you know, leave the phone at home...
Right - this is more parallel to the service offered by Google Alerts.
Yes I forgot that exFAT is a whole new thing from 2008.
Never centralize logging. Log at the leaves and store it there. Push search predicates down to servers running on each leaf when/if needed. Log to sockets always; your FD can be a regular file if you want but keep the flexibility to change it later.
I had a similar experience at Stripe and it was the low point in an otherwise (what I felt) great interview.

I was interviewing for a forward-deployed/field engineer role and they expected me in an hour to come up with a nuanced strategy, down to SOAP vs REST with timelines and specific commitments, on how I'd do a large-scale payment integration with a partner. The interview was a disaster. Not only was it clear that my interviewer had little real-world experience in the sort of environment we were roleplaying (with internal politics, tons of legacy, teams of varying quality and type of skills, etc) but it seemed they were looking for something really specific I just couldn't grasp.

It went horribly and I didn't get an offer. So maybe a counterpoint to an otherwise great company with great process. To their credit, they said they didn't really have a bar for this (newish) role. But still, it was amateurish and all-around bad.
> Handling money is serious business

How do you say this without knowing that governments around the world feel the same way and so heavily regulate this space? Do you know any publicly available recommendation from these regulators against MongoDB?

> replace Mongo with a real database to be near the top of the todo list

This is where the businesses separate themselves from technology enthusiasts. Let's assume this is made the top priority, in your opinion, what task immediately follows? Or what former priority does it replace?
Only tangentially related, but I find that there is a massive under-appreciation of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom[1] which was left in the wake of Alexander's eastern conquest. Some of the artifacts[2] that they managed to produce in the 2nd century BC in what is now Afghanistan is truly remarkable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monnaie_de_Bactriane,_Euc...
There are large differences in wrench quality. Cheap wrenches have poor tolerances in the heads leading to burred nuts. Also there can are superior designs in some ring spanners to reduce burring. Ok if you only want to use a nut a few times, but if it's a machine you want to be servicable it's very impotant to use decent quality tools.
Sentry is not for logging really. It's designed for errors/exceptions. I believe you should use rollbar/sentry/airbrake regardless of whether you use centralised logging. Or even before it.
BPay gets you close with that. Had that for years and years at this point.

Now we have Osko and PayID which is immediate free payments without needing to remember bank account details. It’s neat!
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Inaccurate, but a close enough approximation for values of "laws of physics" that equal "things we can experience in our universe."

Mathematically? No. Practically? Yes.
This is actually really cool! Are you just searching for content in the description, or do you scrape the link's contents too to get your curation of content?
Like straight out of movie Hell or high water
Finally. Next steps — MS can release active sync without patents, and also start supporting Vulkan and drop DirectX 12 diversion.
I have a No Stylesheets bookmarklet which helps on a wide variety of web pages, also for colour/font/obscured text problems etc:

javascript:for(i=0;i<document.styleSheets.length;i++) {void(document.styleSheets.item(i).disabled=true);}
How? How it's not close to typescript? I mean what are features that python's type annotation (and mypy) lacks in comparison to typescript?
But could you change it to km-per-litre?
> (the technical term for that, by the way, is "ruthless default")

Thanks! Appreciate the lesson. That's a pretty cool technical term, btw.

> Have you looked for evidence of defaults in the late 60s and early 70s? Where did you look?

Yes. Semantic Scholar. No luck for things in earlier than the 1980's. Have you found anything?

Later, after reading the paper you cited

`the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education who oversaw the Education Amendments
of 1976 (Rep. James O'Hara) objected to the introduction of a student loan nondischargeability rule. 15 O'Hara protested bitterly that Congress was "fighting a 'scandal' which exists primarily in the imagination" and that the amendment "treats educational loans precisely as the law now treats loans incurred by fraud, felony, and alimony dodging".'"`

...

"The evidence of a lower than 1% discharge rate of federally insured student loans in bankruptcy did not block the nondischargeability provision from entering the Bankruptcy Code - this even so under a comparatively liberal Congress that passed the debtor-friendly 1978 overhaul of the Bankruptcy Code."

So indeed, there was never a real problem, and the law was enacted in the 1970's at the last minute on behalf of frauds and felons.

Thanks very much for the reference. This is an issue I care about deeply (clearly), but my arguments are a bit sloppy.

That being said, it's very much a military tactic being employed by people who want to preserve the status quo to pretend this is a complex issue, when it's really pretty simple.
Talking about Coca Cola, they spend literally billions in advertisement annually. I find it quite fascinating to think that maybe nobody would drink Coca Cola anymore, would they stop advertising it. What a crappy product if you think about it...
The code I provided doesn't let you receive notifications when certain strings were in Hacker News article titles but you could certainly fork it and modify the code to do just that. If you do, please share the version here so we can all use it.
In my view, too many software companies have adopted the horrid practices that marketers like this guy have been inflicting on us.

We don't need more of this.
To flip the question: can you show any that were inaccurate, other than the Iraq WMD stuff? One major fuckup doesn't necessarily mean everything before and after should be discredited.
How long did it take for the employee take to push the silent alarm? Seconds count. (I realize you have no idea and simply made that up anyway. We don't know if someone did push the alarm.)

Look at the grainy pictures.

https://fox6now.com/2018/10/16/recognize-them-hartland-polic...

"Our system zooms in on people who carry firearms. In addition, our network of cameras coordinate and will take several pictures from different angles and zoom levels. Furthermore, our AI looks for identifying features (e.g. moles) on the suspect's face, arms, etc"

How many bank robberies and convenience store robberies are there every year in the US? Why stop there? There's lots of gun violence in the US that lends itself to AI based security.
Yeah, Lisp especially is one of those mind-expanding languages, I think everyone should at least play around with it at some point.
Multiple UC campuses have ABET accredited software engineering BSE degrees.
I still disagree. I used Linux almost exclusively because it made my job easier and I don't like switching between operating systems, and I use cloud services like Gmail and Dropbox. I also use the free version of onenote from ms. I just use whatever is convenient.

Then I switched jobs, they gave me a new MacBook that doesn't run Linux so I use osx.

Ten years ago I cared about privacy, now I feel like that ship has sailed. My own privacy is not that important. The privacy of my fellow citizens is gone. I mourn it kind of, but you can't close Pandora's box.
I'm grateful for walrus's comment. And yet I feel they are in the minority.

We are long past time for real professional ethics in our professions.

If we are so bold as to claim the title "engineer," where are our obligatory professional standards? Our licensure? Our - gasp - liability?

If a structural engineer designs a bridge in a way that ignores established best practices, and the bridge fails and causes injuries, the engineer is held responsible.

Why are our professions different?
Yeah definitely don't take this as a reason to avoid F#. It's open source anyways, so it'll be maintained regardless. Plus the team has gone to heroic lengths to integrate an ML into .NET. Their unification process is insane and probably technically undecidable.