skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its one thing to read this story and understand the tragedy that occurred on that day.

But its another thing to understand the tragedy that has been standard fare for hundreds of thousands of people around the world, every day, as Americas illegal wars continue.

One bomb dropped every twenty minutes for the last twenty years, is the context we need to understand - mostly on innocent people.

Americans cannot ask for sympathy while ignoring their own aggression. It is high time for the war criminals that put us in this position to feel justice. That means Cheney, it means Bush, and it means Rice. America has become a criminal thug nation, and its people callously ignore the victims of America's illegal wars while demanding justice for the blowback suffered by the entire country on 9/11.

If 9/11 upsets you, consider Mosul. Consider All Raqqah and Aleppo and Baghdad. These places have suffered 100x worse than any New Yorker ever did. And the reason it continues is because the American people don't have the courage to face the truth: America has illegally invaded, and utterly destroyed, civilization around the world.
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Well it could reduce load if making a call is a much more expensive than a connected call. If the call, fails, I’ll try calling back and so will others. If I’m connected, I first need to establish comms with the person on the other end and determine it’s a misconmection before I can hang up and try again.
Grandstanding before the 2020 election. Google's big, successful, and there have been enough tech scandals in the past few years that it's an easy target.
The only commonality with rsync is that both algorithms split file into blocks and hash them, a common trait for any algorithm that does block-level updating.
First world problems. I have watched chickens getting slaughtered and dressed at a local butcher and that didn't prevent me from cooking them, nor enjoying the cooked dish.
Support small businesses & financial independence instead.
come to europe for extra cookie and gdpr requests
Will this also work across browsers--say a user has a the same site open in Safari/Firefox--can broadcast-channel connect the two instances?
At first I thought this was pretty garbage content for HN.

Then I realized how many people on here aren’t native English speakers, and might need years of socialization to understand these nuances. Bravo
How we built the largest payment channel network on Ethereum
Visual programming languages are great in concept until you actually start using them. Luna-lang, for example, promises so much but severely lacks in delivery. This claims to convert sequence diagrams to code, but is it really production quality? If not, is this purely for prototyping? Not that that's a bad thing. Honestly, these claims are all starting to sound very repetitive.
Node.js is not equivalent of Rails. Rails is a framework, while Node.js is a runtime. Node.js is equivalent of MRI.
> The current state of the wiki isn't great but we're also not seeing a lot of people care about it.

That may be because people who do care use a different product. Be careful you don't metric your way to extinction.
SEC Chair Clayton: There’s work left to be done on Bitcoin ETF
> Poor customer service is not an antitrust issue

When you control both ends of the market (advertisers and consumers) it becomes antitrust because of the consumer harm.
I am pretty familiar with it and how it failed the Hong Kong people, when government worked in the interest of billionaire real estate developers. The house ownership ratio will itself reveal the reality.

Singapore learned from Hong Kong but did it much better and today one of the best example of public housing (they call it Housing Development Board - HDB). I will not go into details but its a topic of its own to discuss issues of Hong Kong real estate and get rich quick ideas based on it.
It passed 72-0? Why only now is this finally happening? People have been talking about this issue for years, and apparently it's not controversial at all (in California).
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Would be more effective if he titled it "Dont click this ad | Click the first organic result below"
The HK police, at the behest of a leader chosen by the CCP, are attacking journalists, beating and killing protesters and violating the Sino British joint declaration that determines that HK has their own civil and criminal law. Why would it be bigotry, rather than simple judgement of the CCP for the CCP's actions?
I'm new to the Rails ecosystem but from what I've seen and also with many years using Django (which is very similar), I would agree with your assessment regarding Rails. The complex monolith that speeds up development very much has its place, especially at the beginning of a project. You can always cut it apart later as needed.

Regarding Node.js, however, I would say the pain is not worth it. For the same purpose I would now reach for Go (for networking stuff) or Rust (for high performance). This is after several years in a Node shop.
AFAIK in Sweden it is legal to listen to the Police but not legal to disclose sensitive stuff. Of course, since a few years all communication is encrypted so it's not relevant anymore.
What do exceptional product managers focus on?
IMO some of those aren't american only.
When I lived in Ireland, everybody kept looking at me oddly when I talked about my well being after being asked "how are you doing".
Took me a while to realize they only meant "hello".
Reasons for Sustainable Investments
Old Computers Never Die - Their Users Do!
> Brexit is bad because it’s a shitshow that was never seriously believed would happen let alone be properly planned. It will leave the UK in an objectively worse position in terms of power, economy and politics.

You're not wrong I suppose, but I don't quite understand why it's not considered possible for a nation to have sovereign independence and still function reasonably well. I'm sure being a member of the EU offers some advantages with respect to standards and efficiency, but I don't get why a nation can't remain independent and interact with other nations (complying with any necessary standards), at a cost of say 5%-10% to their economy due to the disadvantages of not being fully integrated.
Merge statements in SQL.
Sadly i have to work with piece of shit called firebird, which is both slow and full of exceptions. If you are forced to pick a file based DB - pick sqlite, don't touch firebird.

I also have to work with a database schema designed by someone mentally handicapped - i know for fact that it was designed in early 90s by someone self taught.. and it never had a single refactor. They just migrated their own file-based 'database' to firebird. Sadly this piece of shit software is used very commonly in my field.

Merge statements make complicated updates blazing fast compared to any other way.

That my engineering field is basically dead and i should've changed to software development sooner.
Do you know of any good resources talking about considerations for handling adversarial nodes in these networks? For example, what's to stop a rogue implementation from advertising that it has a low cost / short distance to every other node it's ever seen, reporting that data has been sent successfully that actually wasn't, etc? These links give some good background but I haven't seen anything on there about trust in a hostile environment.
Not just the Vietnam war, but continuing now against Chinese occupation of Tibet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_protests_by_Ti...

I sometimes wonder if Buddhist monks are powered by lithium batteries.
Hey, I thought it was obvious. "Yes, there is nothing you can do right now, just sit in your seat and do nothing until I come get you" is not something a manager want to say. That seems downright incompetent. So the idea is, don't put them in a position where they would have to say this.

I'm not saying it's always like this, but it happens.
I only worded it like that because of the way he described his long and often unfruitful efforts over several years before he finally hit upon the right keywords and documentation to describe what he was seeing over the air...
You deploy the Python model to a backend service and expose a simple HTTP-based API, maybe using Flask? You should preferably keep the web part and heavy lifting separate.
I’ve found the complete opposite, I can always tell when it has been frozen.

It’s probably better than what you get at most fast food restaurants though.
Even police have been caught on camera calling protesters "cockroaches".

https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/search/?q=cockroaches&incl...

If worst comes to worst, the people who try to silence you today will tomorrow lie about having done that.
You are talking about 10-12 year old stuff and he still has his shop.. so I guess he is successful in being in the business - if that makes you happy.
And disallowing scraping or making it difficult while refraining from providing an API for the same data is the arbitrary kind. The default state of the web is that it's trivially scrapable - you have to go out of your way to make it harder.
> Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept.

This is now widely considered a terrible idea because it encourages software that doesn't conform to specifications, e.g. HTML's "quirks mode". https://i.stack.imgur.com/teQdv.png
or they cant find the link to click. seriously, they are tiny and greyed out and the SERP content fills the view already
I found it a little unfortunate that one of the threads was so dismissive of NYT [1] due to a SCMP article [2]. I checked archive.org's original snapshot of NYT article [3] and Newsdiff [4] to try to make sure that NYT didn't edit the original article in response, and sure enough they were all worded "planned to step down" and "Mr. Ma will remain on Alibaba's board of directors and continue to mentor the company's management", which is accurate.

I suppose the lesson I'm taking away is to not buy into a counter-reaction immediately. It's obvious in hindsight: SCMP is owned by Alibaba after all.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17940919

[2] https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2163376/jack...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20180907230109/https://www.nytim... (may need to turn off JS)

[4] http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/https%3A/www.nytimes.co...
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Bitcoin price drops to a support level below $ 10K
nice use of 'slightly', i.e. kids do actually play games for homework nowadays :)
My goodness. That’s why one really has to love you Aussies!
As a Brit some of these seem fairly universal, "no offense" for example. Although my Grandparents don't say it before announcing something outrageously offensive, I just put that down to mental filters breaking down due to old age.

There also needs to be a section on Americans aversion to discussing bodily functions. "restroom", "powder my nose"?
While the findings are solid and the denial is despicable corpspeak, I fear the data is still way safer this way than letting the same kind of contractors build a "secure" app and then finding all that data neatly ordered in an open S3 bucket or MongoDB a year later.

Nobody‘s gonna put up an antenna over years collecting all this noisy stuff.

On top, my condolences for the hospital IT staff having to exchange thousands of real pagers with real doctors, and train them again over the course of several months, all for a pretty synthetic finding that took them a couple of hours.

Builders vs. breakers all again... Well, you got your attention, guys.
I enjoy flyfishing and eat my catch. I kill the fish, gut and scale it myself none of that prevents me from enjoying my fillets of trout, steelhead, and salmon. I don't currently have enough land to do so but plan on raising some poultry for meat and eggs. Animal slaughter for food is not that bad.
Yeah, to me it felt that's when the 90's with its optimism were truly over.
HIPAA is such an awesome law. I have to work with it daily as an engineer, and I'm continually amazed that the US government requires so much security. Normally the US is extremely hands off when it comes to privacy and security. Congress almost never passes laws that have such far reaching scope. And HIPAA actually has teeth, with significant penalties for companies who don't comply (and of course people can sue as well over the violation).

I think aspects of it could definitely be improved. I see HIPAA violations at doctor's offices all the time - but they are usually still fairly minor, and doctors and nurses grow concerned quickly as soon as you mention a possible violation.
> had different ideas about "white lies."

Maybe, without going all sapir-whorf, the common use of an idiomatic "white lies" expression might mean something, like, say, the existence of "jeitinho" in brazilian portuguese.
I would argue that under spirit of net neutrality you either serve your site to everyone equally(the public facing part) or to no one.

Hosting costs money, servers cost money.. but maybe create a public facing API that is way cheaper and easier to use than scraping your website? I see that ruling in positive light that it might promote more open and structured access to the public facing data.
> So only those oppressed by brutal dictatorships deserve self determination?

No, everyone deserves it. It's just that people not under brutal dictatorships observably more often already have it.
For me two things really come to mind:
1. YNAB (you need a budget)
2. Yoga

During my 20's & early 30's i had always had a well paid job but nothing to show for it. I also had big overdraft which I'd never done anything about. About 6 years ago I picked up a copy of YNAB 4 for about £8 of Steam. Within 3 months I'd completely changed my spending habits.
Roll on a year or two and I'd paid off all my debts. And this program has allowed me to save for some big life events and trips - things I'd have probably borrowed money for in the past. Last year I bought my first car in full without the aid of a loan. The program also helped me when I went self empoyed a few years ago. Both mine and my long term partners finances go thought the program and we know exactly how little money we can live on - this is valuable info if times get hard. The program is basically a spreadsheet with a nice GUI but the methodology behind it work for me. If I'd have found something like this in my early 20's I'd be a lot better of than I am now. But hey, better late than never.

I do Yoga every day. Prior to me getting into Yoga I thought the only real way to exercise was to join a gym. I live in a rural part of the UK, so for me travelling to the gym is timeconsuming.
A few years back I'd been suffering back pain due to long stints sitting at a desk all day. I'd also started to put on weight due to inactivity.
Anyway, during one painful day I decided to Google "Yoga for back pain". I tried it and I was hooked. Not only did it fix my back pain, it eased it for around 3 days. Since then I've really got into Yoga and try to do at least 20-60 mins a day. Sometimes I might do it twice a day if I know I'm going to be sat down a lot.
Like everyone else I have days when I'm worn out - for these days I have a couple of 10 min routines which I try to do. I'm a firm believer of trying to exercise every day, even if it's just for 10 minutes. It's a good habit to have and doing it daily reinforces the habit.
Since doing regular practice I don't really get any achy joints. I also do HIT style Yoga 3 times a week which helps with body tone, strengh, and cardio. When you really get into Yoga you realise they're many different styles which can help different aspects of your health. For me, my main driving force was back pain - I've never done any exercise which fixed my back as well as certain Yoga exercises.
For me Yoga is great because it's easy and free. You only need a Yoga mat (a beach towel can suffice at the beginning) and Youtube to get started. I keep myself in reasonable shape without having to travel or pay any gym fees. I never knew exercise could be so easy and cheap. I wish I'd known this in my late 20's, when I put on a lot of weight, and was suffering with back pain and other achy bits.
Atari's dominance is a major factor of the video game crisis in the 80s. The home console industry almost collapsed because all the consoles were licensing without quality control. Games would be broken or just badly designed for full price.

It's archaic now, but when the NES came that golden "Official Nintendo Seal of Quality" saved the industry. Amazingly, the Nintendo CEO who was granting this seal did not play video games. He would have an employee play the game in front of him and he would decide whether it was a good game or not.
What are the Top reasons companies implement an ERP solution?
Neal Stephenson addresses this problem and solutions to it, among other topics, really good in his newest novel "Fall, or Dodge in Hell".
Bombs dropping every twenty minutes is a heinous evil that most Americans are ill-prepared to confront.

It takes a great deal of courage to learn the truth of the American military endeavours that have plunged the world into chaos and war for decades now. This concept is too scary for most Americans - even, Westerners in general - to deal with, and therefore: it continues.
“high tech, low effort” — brilliant!
My two cents is the sweet spot for node is as an auxiliarily tool rather than a whole web app framework. For instance adding some realtime functionality to an existing app, as a server renderer for SPAs or some microservice glue. The community has resisted large rails-like frameworks from the beginning and I think it just shouldn't be used this way.
The USA started World War 3 almost two decades ago.

Just because it hasn't hit any Western shores doesn't mean civilization isn't being utterly destroyed by those with the military means to do so.
It should be pointed out that the word 'Seppo' meaning American comes from the rhyming slang of a septic tank rhyming with 'yank', and then seppo being the shortened form of septic tank.
An aside, but I see this a lot on HN:

> so I was just told by a female.

What does "female" connote (not a native speaker)? To me, and translated into my language, it sounds like you're talking about a pet, a dog or some other animal. "Oh, it's a female". Translating it to eg Swedish or French, it sounds really weird, whereas the respective word for "woman" would sound normal.

Is it different in English, or is this more a quirk of this forum/certain subcultures?
> The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits 'atrocities' but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future.

-- George Orwell

And it's not continued murder and pretending it and Tiananmen etc. never happened, all sorts of flowers can bloom on that:

https://shanghai.ist/2019/09/05/this-group-of-scholars-have-...
Not only you have to sync it through their server but you probably also need to go through their specific app or website to read the data back. And sometimes they don't even have a way to download the historical records if you want to archive them or process them yourself.

I find tracking weight still invaluable so I get along with it but was also disappointed to learn I needed to send everything their way.

I wonder if it would possible/legal to intercept the requests from the device and route them to a local server implementing the same API endpoints.
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Not op, but we've frozen pretty much all bread for years. You don't get the freshly baked feeling, but unless you live on top of a bakery you aren't going to get that anyway. Defrost either leave it out or microwave. Alternatively if making sandwiches for work, make them frozen and let it defrost during the morning.
Laziness I think. People wanted to use the same language for the backend as the frontend rather than picking their tools based on what does the job the best.
+1. Infrastructure as code is exactly that, code. For AWS it is Cloudformation template code, Cloudformation service and some CI/CD on top, like jenkins or ansible. Or Terraform for unlucky ones. K8s is container orchestration, like AWS ECS, totally different beast.
Cigarettes kill a lot of people per year, but they take decades to do it. Not many lifelong smokers in their 20s, 30s, or even 40s are dying from cigarettes.

With that said. Vaping has been around for about ten years and this appears to be the first thing we've seen like this. Some of the victims are 18 or 19. I've been vaping on and off for 6 years. I only feel better when I vape vs smoking. Of course, that is purely based on my feel for cardio, lung capacity, and how my chest feels. Who knows under the hood at a cellular or other level. I've never been a big cloud guy, but I know big cloud people who have vaped twice as much as I have and they are still alive. The whole situation is very confusing. I'm hoping science prevails here.

If the FDA wants to outlaw vaping, so be it, but please be even-handed and outlaw plant-based nicotine products as well.
Fukushima: Japan will have to dump radioactive water into Pacific, minister says
This is not helpful for a Dutch person like me (who are usually very direct) when the IT has been outsourced to India. You ask them to do something, they say yes and when time comes it hasn't been done. This got me so annoyed.
His recent 8-year annualized return is 1.56%. Very successful indeed. Hope he keeps his job.
I'm comfortable there is certainty. There is considerable evidence that the passengers attacked the hijackers, from multiple different sources including mobile calls from passengers to family, air traffic control and the plane's black box. Each one of these lines of evidence involved at least dozens of people who would know there was a cover up, maybe hundreds. None of the people involved in accumulating that evidence have any vested interest in supporting a cover story. So the cover up would have to encompass civilian, government and military personnel, employees of multiple companies and victim family members. That's way too many for me to accept as remotely reasonable, especially when much of the evidence came out very quickly, before any possible cover up operation could have come into play.

As with any of these conspiracy theories, it's useful to consider who would know about the cover up, who would have to be actively involved in promoting it, and what their motivation would be. Take the flat earth as an example. There are tens of thousands of aircraft in the air at any given moment, all of them navigating using systems that assume the earth is a globe. Before modern systems, pilots and navigators calculated routes by hand. They all assumed the earth is a globe and if they were wrong their calculations would all have been massively in error. So essentially every single aviator in all of history and every nation on Earth would have to be in on the conspiracy. I've not even started on marine navigation.
But it pays off. With do you can spend more time on chasing data corruption bugs with Rust you spend more time (initially) on learning it.
Lake found at 11,000 feet in the Alps proves climate change is real
To clarify the "yeah, nah". It often depends on the order, e.g:

"Want to go out tonight?"
"Yeah nah let's stay home." ('nah' last = no)

"Should we leave now?"
"Nah yeah let's go." ('yeah' last = yes).

Sometimes "yeah nah" by itself said strongly can be synonymous with "no way". Sometimes "nah yeah" said strongly can be synonymous with "hell yeah".

Australian is the best dialect of English.