skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had a (paper) subscription to this and other quality news papers, but in my experience most of the content is news, opinion, sport / entertainment / culture, or advertisements / infotainment, and only a very small part I would consider to have journalistic depth. I would not mind paying for those articles, and I would even prefer they would extend these articles to a substantial read (say 1/3 the size of an average novel). However, somehow, newspapers keep holding on to the news paper model that exists since the late 19th century.
No it doesn't. B12, K2 and DHA based Omega-3s that your brain runs on are non existent in plant foods. Cholesterol, Choline, calcium, Vitamin D are difficult to come by in plant based diets. Finally, the plant based form of Vitamin A (beta carotene) is only bioavailable to humans in 0-8% of the quantities consumed depending on your individual genetics. And women can convert this better than men.
Earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965319
I'm struggling to imagine how advertising could ruin billboards, given that they seem to have no purpose beyond ads?
Well he's right that the legal fiction that a minor below the age of 18 in some countries and 17 and 16 in other countries can not consent is arbitrary. And that logically taken at face value the only way to consistently justify the gap between different legal systems to acknowledge that they are in fact legal fictions and if the lesser of those ages can consent in some jurisdictions and it's acceptable then it should be the case that anyone that age or older can consent. But we don't live in that world, we live in a world of legal fictions which are then used to punish those that transgress against the laws. At the end of the day all of this drama is about money and power and its distribution among the rich who exploit and the poor who are exploited and feel that they deserve a greater piece than they got.

This though is different from Epstein who was allegedly a much more dangerous predator going after young children who are not considered to be able to consent in any jurisdiction. At some point it's not longer arbitrary and highly wrong, and he was squarely in that camp if the reports and accusations are to be believed.
Lamborghini and Porsche Won the Grand Prix Trophies at AutoVision 2019
I've never actually played Supreme Commander Forged Alliance or any of the Supreme Commander titles. But I love watching gameplay of it.

Gyle's channel on Youtube has some of the best replays around if you're like me and just like watching competitive RTS gaming.

https://www.youtube.com/user/felixlighta
Ig Nobel: Pizza might protects from death
You say you cannot write a C++ program faster than your C program, and I believe you. I say I can, and you may believe me.
Recasting legal terminology into dehumanizing nouns is a propaganda technique. It's very obvious that you're here to grind an axe and your axe is a style I'm very familiar with.
It's more complicated. To find the best, you have to convince them to apply, which means doing things to improve your rankings. So, colleges will try to get more students to apply, even if they have no chance, to try to lower the percentage of applicants they accept.

If it works, this is sort of a "fake it until you make it" strategy.

But as a result, many colleges have lower acceptance rates and students have to apply to more schools to make sure they get in somewhere.
Are you saying OpenGL wasn't on Mac OS before Mac OS X? That's not true. Apple released OpenGL for Mac OS 9 in 1999.

WWDC 1999: Mac OS 9 - A work in progress
https://youtu.be/LkmSrCsKPLk?t=1360
Off topic, but I have subscribed to the NY Times. I still have a problem with the newspaper tracking my reading habits, and thus object to having to log in to the paywall. At least I can read the print newspaper without being observed.
One liners are not necessarily part of a codebase; one might use them for text processing on the fly.

An argument "against readability" is culture. For sysadmins, Perl is a well-known language; it's not unreadable¹. Note that the same applies to Bash, and Bash scripts are still popular. This doesn't imply that Perl/Bash scripts should be universally used, but that within a certain culture, they make perfect sense.

¹=when talking about oneliners
Compile speed. Feature completeness. Tooling maturity.
Edit: yes, I got the numbers mixed up

I really don't see why having a Danish number in a Swedish registered company is a big deal.

The phone might simply their contact for whomever is responsible for the certificate and it might be possible these contact is in Denmark.

I mean if it was a Canadian company with an US number and most likely they wouldn't even know.
i came here to say this. More along the lines of kingdom rush, but an excellent game. For me personally i spent ages trying to research a mobile game i could just buy and play and not be harassed for micropayments. Bloons is where i ended up. Yes, of course you can show them with extra monies but it really isn't needed at all. Excellent fun game, where you can see your progress over playing it.
This is the point I wanted to make. English is terribly imprecise about these things.
Scott isn't trying to mislead us here, but one sentence from the article seems like it needs expanding certainly for a lay audience like HN.

"One thing that we can do with CT logs is search all certificates for things that we're interested in"

The CT logs themselves implement only a terribly simple API and you can't search them per se. This makes good sense because they are required to hit really onerous availability and performance targets to remain "qualified" as logs. You definitely wouldn't want to put a sophisticated "search" feature in this code.

However, since they're public we can either read all the data (my employer does this) and process it however we like or there are two famous services which already did this for you, crt.sh (operated by Sectigo, one of the CAs) and Censys (from an ex-University of Michigan team). Scott used Censys for this article, and either Censys or crt.sh are good places to play around with this if you have a passing interest that may not last.
With $3500/mo budget you could get 15 AMD servers on Hetzner, each with 32 cores and 128gb of RAM. You won't get autoscaling and other nice stuff available in other cloud providers, but nothing beat dedicated servers in term of price vs performance ratio.
I love taking Amtrak, but my god the food is terrible.
Is chroot a security feature?
VW plans a new OS for cars
DevOps absolutely existed when the author started as a developer. It was just called systems administration back then. There's been a focus on developer-specific systems administration over the past decade, and a particular developer-focused role has been carved out and labeled "DevOps", but make no mistake: it is systems administration. Just a niche within it.

When I mention "systems administration" to younger coworkers, they look at me like I'm a crusty old relic out of touch with modern engineering. People have no sense of history and little understanding of where the devops role came from and what it really means. I had a CTO tell me he hadn't heard the term "system administration" in ten years.

What were our devops people doing? Running web servers, managing networks, configuring DNS, managing backups, configuring cloud services. Absolutely none of it in support of the dev team I was on. The developers were responsible for managing their own CI/CD pipeline and deployments. The people called the "DevOps Team" were responsible for managing production. In this case, they were systems administrators and were not in any way a devops team, but the terminology is so skewed now that they were labeled as such, and I was labeled an out of touch old greybeard.

This isn't to demean devops in any way; it's a valuable role, an evolutionary step in software team organization, but by no means is it new and by no means is systems administration a dead role.
A better title would be "Our Brains Are Not Multi-core' - so multitasking, just like multi-threading on a single core CPU, will incur a penalty of context switching, cache misses, and so on.
there isn't anything quite like it still. There's something about it being 2.75D that makes it approachable even though it's 3-D, and the attention to the art was a big deal, too.
No, it’s more of a JSON to CSV converter.

I prefer gron. I primarily want the output to be greppable and easily processed by tools like sed and awk. I don’t care so much that the data is column oriented and each data element is separated by tab characters.
The only difference may be that you care.
There are "F--k you Greta" bumper stickers in Germany which is not in the anglosphere unless you get really technical.
> If you are figurehead of some big cause, never talk aloud publicly about controversial subjects outside your field.

I rather think people around him should insist on explaining to him that minors can't consent to some things, certainly not sex with adults, trafficking and prostitution, period. The age may be arbitrary but that doesn't make it "absurd". For him to claim otherwise, no matter how benign the intent, isn't something I'd let slip by.
This is really awesome, I'm going to keep digesting this but hope to get more people to read this for debate. Thanks.
Congratulations !

> Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just referrals and word-of-mouth.

Any hints what do you do ? How lucrative is contract based development / consulting in general ?
On the perception that cheap prices equate to poor quality
> is that top-down communication ends up taking the form of commands

Another problem is that it’s not suitable for marketing. How are you going to hook the reader if the copy is clear? Same in private life: How do you get loved if you communicate clearly your intentions? That’s what people hate the most! The whole left brain is high on imagination (or emotions fed by imaginated expectations), as are most people, and as an Asperger it is very hard to talk to people on this channel.

I’m serious. Marketing mostly relies on unclear information when needed. Example with the front page of Atlassian: “Atlassian helps teams work smarter and faster, together.” is not BLUF at all. BLUF would be “Atlassian sells an intranet, an issue tracker, a Git repo and a build engine”...
It was always a tough call for me when I went home from Berkeley. The door to door time was almost identical, including going to airport, security, and going home from the airport.

Pretty much the only time I flew was when there was just one of us and I would either need to leave or arrive during rush hour.

But I'm curious, why did you drop off your spouse and then pick her up? Why not go together? Are you really afraid of flying and she's afraid of driving? I'm just trying to imagine a scenario where it makes sense to split up like that.
The views on ads are something of a self inflicted wound. The deeply negative feelings about online advertising are heavily due to the efforts of journalists. Look at all the stories about advertising privacy issues that pop up here.
There's only a paragraph's worth of information in many stories, or there's just a cutesy headline and a momentary desire to find out what the story is about. Here it's 'procrastination is kinda good actually.' Big whoop.

Yes to both of your other questions.
You know this isn't going to stop until bad things happen to polluters, who are perfectly content to wreck the biosphere for everyone else as long as they get theirs. Existing economic incentives are perverse and many people will fight tooth and nail to maintain their ability to extract economic rents rather than sacrifice for the public good.
XRP Utility
Yeah the court challenge is the big issue here.

Google haven't done anything illegal. The so called "loophole" in the law is actually the way the law was explicitly designed to work. If France pushed this too far Google might win and France would be left with nothing

The people cheering for France here are really just cheering for the end of the rule of law. Google pays little tax in France because it's not a French company, not because of "loopholes".
He completely overlooks the argument that minors cannot make the decision to consent as they lack power and psychological maturity in the transaction, while the other party (the adult) has far greater power and maturity.
Today marks 250 years since the birth of Alexander von Humboldt.

From my understanding Europe is known for celebrating this day along with other cities/groups in the environmental space.
Does it?

Windows is my daily driver, and I'm security-minded - yet I haven't noticed different colours for UAC dialogs depending on signature type. I notice if it's not signed at all, of course, but otherwise... no?

I would imagine most typical end users are the same. Similar to how browsers are not actually, where they make it really obvious if a site doesn't use TLS, otherwise it all looks the same.
These certificates aren't in the Web PKI and so they aren't covered by (most of‡) the Web PKI's rules and there is no requirement to log them publicly before use.

For example they would lack the 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1 EKU which says their purpose is to identify an SSL/TLS server.

The market for these certificates is pretty different from the Web PKI market.

‡ When they're issued by a CA which would also be trusted in the Web PKI some requirements cross over because of that, particularly Mozilla wants to be sure that certificates issued under these hierarchies are never "accidentally" valid in the Web PKI without obeying its rules.
That works like a charm and takes care the most obnoxious aspects of reading something in medium but there is a caveat: Images seem to be loading gradually as you scroll, so if you disable js you might miss some of them.

This is the add-on I use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-javas...
Long after they’ve mastered its syntax and vocabulary, a lifelong accent may mark them as latecomers to the language. Arnold Schwarzenegger was the star of many American movies and the governor of the country’s biggest state, but his Austrian accent is a constant reminder that he could never run for president.

Unfortunate Daily Mail source[1], but Mr Schwarzenegger says he can speak unaccented English, but he keeps his accent deliberately because it's what people expect of him.

And the popular claim is that he uses a vocal coach to help him keep it, after using a vocal coach to lose it early in his career. Can't quickly find any source for this claim, but it's plausible enough that it's part of his brand and image and worth a lot, that it doesn't seem a good idea to use him as an example in this article. Doubly so when he did run for Gov. of California, the largest economy of the individual states, and his accent didn't stop his success there.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3141778/Arnold...
Why? America has historically had very high corporate tax rates relative to the rest of the world, that's what trump's tax reforms fixed. This idea in Europe that Google lives in a low tax environment is really very wrong. Their effective rate had historically been somewhere in the upper 20 percent ranges, no?

Certainly, tax is not the reason there are no Google competitors from France.
The Culture Factor
I think it boils down to four things:

- RTS games, since the first C&C, used an interface for selecting rectangles and pointing them at a single target. It scales extremely poorly. Innovations in this area have failed to catch on. Keyboard used for shortcuts only. Come on, we can do better than that. We have Vim. Action, range(movement key). Alternatively, the Kakoune way: selection first, action second. Either way games lack a fast way to select only certain types of units, and especially - to point them at targets of certain types. Harvest: Massive Encounter is a low budget tower defense games which allows you to set targetting priorities for each type of your tower, but RTS games need much, much more systems like that.

Meanwhile Starcraft has been busy embracing and glorifying primitive user interfaces. It has its caveman charm, but - by design - it scales only by clicking faster.

- RTS games were popular at a time when computers were predominantly used by nerds. RTS games appeal mostly to people willing to get better at a game. Publishers discovered less demanding games sell better.

- RTS games are highly demanding to make from technical point of view. You get all the joys of pathfinding at large scale. Optimizations are very important.

- RTS games are not that immersive. This is true for all "topdown" perspective games.
Just one more turn ;)

Productivity is a Protestant value (labour is the way to a good life and thus God). I find that, even though you and I are probably no longer religious, such values have huge staying power.

I for one accept that this value deserves a bunch of footnotes. You are very right: Labour amd our society is something to recover from. We (from this cultural zone at least) should start to accept we don't have to be temporarily embarrased hard workers anymore. Hard work is outdated and overrated, it's time we stop seeing this life as a means to get into heaven, or at least have values that boil down to that, but as a goal in its own right.
> One sentence in and I know what it's talking about.

And that's were I stopped reading, because I don't believe there is anything more interesting for me after that inital sentence. For me it's a win, I learned something new in almost no time. Now for the author or publisher it's a win too if they solely want to inform their readers.

If the intention is to keep the readers on the site as long as possible it's completely different though. Good long-form articles that keep the suspense till the end have their place too.

Where it gets muddy, and this is my opinion the majority of blog posts nowadays, is when the authors can't make up their minds. I understand that a lot of authors have a journalistic background or at least some journalistic training, where the "Inverted Pyramid"[1] (which is similar by idea to BLUF) is held in high regards. On the other hand they are pressured by the metrics to keep readers on the site. Add to that the common SEO wisdom that Google loves long pages better than short ones[2] you end up with Chimera articles where one half want's to build suspense and the other is afraid to bury the lede.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)

[2] I don't know and don't claim it's true.
Does this imply that in order to pump blood at the top of a very long neck you don't necessarily need a stronger heart, but just stronger muscles or thicker blood vessels in your legs? In that case the solution to the dinosaurs' problem might be very far from the the heart or the neck.
Should I play 1 or 2?
This is throwing the baby out with the bath water. Let's redefine it so it's useful again and reform academia. I'm running into more and more people who use headlines like this to ride bikes with no helmets.
How long does it take you to walk 7 miles? Walking threadmill?
Well yes, exactly. That's the original use of the word, 'meritocracy' being portmanteau of 'aristocracy'. It was originally used pejoratively (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology)
They Are Billions is amazing.
Counterpoint: there are literally tens of millions of people working 60-80 hour weeks.

How many of them are producing anything even remotely useful, never mind being outstandingly competent and successful?
Thank you very much for sharing it! This paper is not only poignant, but surprisingly readable.
The problem I have with modern art is that it baits the viewer into 'experiencing art' with tricks; by exhibiting the work in exclusive places in fancy ways, putting a long-winded placard about the artist or the piece, attracting certain kinds of people to the events, and creating value around 'getting it.' This context enhances so well that it can enhance nothing into something. It is interesting that it can do that, but to me it was interesting once, then I understood.
We need worms (Gut worms may be a cure)
Little silly to say "I revoked $1M worth" since the price paid for each certificate includes unlimited renewals to fix problems like he identified. They are still worth $1M despite everything he did, they just have different private keys now and slightly improved data.

Maybe a better title would be, "Humans not 100% reliable about ensuring accurate information stored within thousands of data records, despite such accuracy kinda being the whole point."
> You know this isn't going to stop until bad things happen to polluters

I think this is the problem. It’s not them doing it, it’s us. We need to change what we are doing.
Am I the only person missing the old C&C style games, before Generals?

I'm not saying C&C:Generals was a bad game - it was quite popular - but from design point of view it was a Starcraft clone. They abandoned the old, quirky Dune2/C&C design with low count, remote harvesters, multiple factories which only sped up the rate of production, instantly deployed buildings, instant selling etc. These things had some flaws, but also advantages, and most importantly - they resulted in a different experience. I think C&C: Red Alert 2 was the high point of that design. Optimal action speed, counters that weren't too hard, varied units.
I think it's a bit unfair to label the situation an "obvious honeypot". You weren't there, and neither was I. What seems obvious in hindsight often is far from that back at the start of it all, especially when emotion is involved.

(Agreed that his recent cloak-and-dagger routine is a bit silly, though.)
It is a little more than two.

OpenJDK, IBM J9, PTC, Aicas, Ricoh, Xerox, Gemalto, SAPVM, GraalVM (delivering your tweets)

Niche products that have been in business since Java is around, which are a couple of years now.

So they do matter, on a age where many developers don't want to pay for software while feeling entitled to be paid for.

Yes it is pedantic, which is why Linux happens to be written in GCC C, not C. Good luck compiling it with another ISO C 100% standards compliant compiler.

Regarding TIOBE, neither Ctrl+F Oracle nor Ctrl+F OpenJDK turn out to find anything, just plain old Java, zero references to implementations.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-defi...
Looking for that osteocalcin rush? Skeleton holds the key to “fight or flight”
I know of two wealthy welders. The one lives in Northern Ontario, is technically pensioned but both the local steelmill (Sault Ste. Marie) and a large mining operation kept asking him to solve their 'unsolvable' problem, which he would do without much ado or noise. He would fix stuff while it was running because shutting down a smelter is very expensive, either through remote control (pantographs) or other trickery to get close to the welding spot.

The other is here in the Netherlands, works in off-shore and has gradually transited from welding to safety officer. He made a ton of money doing welding though (diver / welder) and has a lot of property that he rents out. He could retire anytime he wants (and is still < 40).
Dropbox's Drew Houston: How to Beat the Goliaths