skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people believe that being a journalist, and thereby enjoying the lawful protections guaranteed to journalists, requires press credentials. It is important to attack this belief whenever it is suggested, as it endangers all those journalists who are not fortunate enough to have a regular salary and a large media group backing them up.

If you take your camera out, and point it at something happening in the street adjoining your home, and plan to post the story to YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, your own web page, send to your local television station, insert into a blog or print book, or have any other form of intent to publish, then for the purposes of exercising your rights, you are in that moment a journalist.

There are no special rights that Clark Kent enjoys as a staff reporter that Peter Parker cannot invoke as an independent freelance photographer.

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I believe that specifically, the NDAs in question have a clause requiring personnel who intend to publish books to allow the agency to perform a pre-print review, to ensure no accidental spillage of classified materials through publication. Due to the nature of the contracts, the sole arbiter of whether information is classified is the classifying authority, so even if something has been published internationally in a globally-recognized newspaper, and is now common knowledge to hundreds of thousands of people, the information is still classified until the authority declassifies it. Those subject to the NDAs are technically not even allowed to read that article in the newspaper, or that chapter of the book, unless they then immediately take steps to control the classified in it and report it to their security contact. Which is to say that you are supposed to wrap the newspaper or book up in an opaque cover and drop it off at your security office.

The actual security apparatus has evolved, but the legal framework is still very much from the 1950-1980 Cold War era, so if you do not do the patently ridiculous thing, you can be sued or prosecuted.

Snowden didn't give CIA, NSA, DIA, or whomever else he may have had NDAs with, the opportunity to edit his book before going to print, for obvious reasons, so he's in violation of the contracts. It is unlikely there is anything in there that has not already been published in newspapers. It seems like they're refusing to declassify information that can no longer seriously be considered secret, with the potential to cause harm to national interests, solely because as long as it remains classified, they can use the contracts to silence, suppress, or retaliate against the whistleblower.
What is the main difference you see between WhatsApp on KaiOS and that of android/iOS.
Neo4j would become the standard while being far less used than Gremlin?
This is nonsense isn't it?
The Latex plugins really make things interesting. The LaTeXText package [1] allows formula rendering and editing from within the Inkscape canvas.

For tidy circuit diagrams the CircuitSymbols plugin [2] produces exquisite results by hooking into Latex's circuitTikz package and dumping the rendered result on the canvas. Typically I generate a bunch of circuit promitives and then connect them afterwards using snaps and the line tool.

[1] https://inkscape.org/~seebk/%E2%98%85latextext-render-latex-...

[2] https://inkscape.org/pt-br/~fsmMLK/%E2%98%85circuitsymbols

edit: wording
Healthcare is about 18% of GDP or about a $3470 billion a year. It should be shrunk down to about 12%, but that would require terminating millions of employees who work in healthcare and are the major cost component. The industry also needs to get rid of lots of real estate. Shrinking healthcare would cause a bigger bloodbath in commercial real estate than the one currently going on in retail stores.
I am on a friggin contract. It includes the three useless movie channels at no extra charge, and the landline is now over fibre but they still give me forged CNID. Why can't they give me ANI (why?) . If I delete the movie channels I pay the same. There is a means tested tier for basic offerings that's much more affordable but it's only available to those who can prove Medicaid eligibility.
Just out of curiousity, who uses JSON in excel and why? (I work in corp finance, and use excel extensively)
In general I agree, but in practice certain nominal prices can be monotonically decreasing due to improved technology lowering prices faster than inflation raises them.

For instance, in terms of $/GB, data storage costs have been strictly decreasing in nominal terms even with the existence of inflation.

That said, I am not sure how much innovation is going into the costs of maintaining a fiber network, so it’s possible that it won’t decrease as fast as 2-3% a year on average. I would be really interested if someone had those numbers!
It's not a XOR proposition. That's why it's called "the public option". If you want alternative health care to what's provided by the government, you can pay for it.
Nothing scares me more than my medical records on internet. I have close to zero confidence into any of the hospitals or medical companies to implement their IT securely.
> If UK detaches from the EU and it becomes successful, the EU project is over.

I think that's a big _if_ here. Most probably the economy will crumble and there will be fights in Northern Ireland again. Also whatever kind of border has to be established, to separate UK and Ireland, as people would obviously not be allowed to enter the UK/Schengen area without proper border checks...
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Mind you, most peer-to-peer sharing protocols work by having everyone be distributor and downloader at the same time.

This is why they are "peer to peer". The bittorrent protocol for example downloads files in fragments, and every fragment that you have downloaded becomes available for other clients (i.e. you start becoming a server as soon as you have downloaded one fragment)
Waterscrumban is my favorite method.
I was lucky enough to spend time with the San people, and it was one of the most moving experiences of my life.

http://theroadchoseme.com/the-juhoansi-living-san-museum
So far, my go-to has been Vudu. Sure, you have to rent/buy. But $3 to watch that movie you're itching to watch, or $9 to own is very reasonable.

When I was a teenager and Napster was huge, casual piracy was a thing. Now that I make digital things that I ask people to pay me for, I think differently.
You can't beat simplicity, but software aren't planned entities. They evolve from the collaboration of multiple persons with a variety of skills and personalities, working together to meet deadlines.
As Kyle mentioned << Because these problems involve schema changes (e.g. creating tables), they may not impact users frequently. YugaByte doesn't think they're relevant to the core transactional mechanism in YugaByte DB, which is why they're not discussing them when they say "Jepsen tests passed". >> the impact of this is very limited, and not core to the transactional mechanism in YugabyteDB.

Most "Distributed DB" vendors do not support transactional DDL yet to our knowledge, and haven't been subjected to this specific test. In any case, I have updated the post/blog to clarify this:

<< Given that DocDB, Yugabyte DB’s underlying distributed document store, is common across both the YCQL and YSQL APIs, it was no surprise that YSQL passed official Jepsen run safety tests relatively easily (with the exception of transactional DDL support, which almost no other distributed SQL database vendor supports, and we plan to support soon. The real-world impact of this open issue is really small as it is limited to cases where DML happens before DDL has fully finished). >>

The ticket tracking this open issue is https://github.com/YugaByte/yugabyte-db/issues/2021.
A more accurate car analogy may be a lane assist system with access to the steering system having an undocumented fire hydrant avoidance module added that causes a car to veer into a jersey barrier because it happened to have a truck loaded with fire hydrants pull in front of it and brake.

At least in terms of the pilot's POV. I can't quite torture anything else to sufficiently resemble what chain of business decisions Boeing made to end up having their process drive them into this error state. It'll just have to stand on it's own merit. Though I've commented on it many times with much greater detail this year.
The sad truth: "Many scientists spend more time writing grant applications than actually doing science."
The expensive part of fiber to the home is laying the fiber. It's extremely unlikely that we are going to discover a transport medium better than light pulses over fiber anytime soon.

What about wireless? Well any wireless technology you can imagine needs wireline backhaul at some point. So the bigger your fiber network, the better your wireless technology will work!
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>ATT brought 1gig fiber to my neighborhood (probably because I'm in NASA's backyard).

Could be because Sonic is in the area and is a better ISP.
Lowlifes who steal tv shows don't really need a push to keep stealing.
Thats because there is more competition amongst pirates than rights holders

Turns out complaining about free things is actually an effective strategy for improving quality
I use VLC on iOS to copy movies and shows to my iPad from a Windows share. Works perfectly fine.

In some ways it's better than Netflix/Amazon offline mode since I know my files will always work in VLC whereas I don't know ahead of time which streaming content allows offline mode or not.
You can use dozens of android phones with custom ROM without any google services. It's usable and a lot more private than iPhone(which is only better than google because they failed to build a successful ad network) But for example if you are in any authoritarian state like china, Apple will hand over all your data to authorities, just in case. And Google at least some time before hasn't agreed to do that and got screwed over(now they are trying to get back to mainland market by building censorship search, sucking up to Huawei and other CCP(Chinese Communist Party) branches)
It is a huge shock for those that haven't been on both sides of employer paying half (or more). But I still agree with you - but we shouldn't be paying THAT much for health care. Right now (under an employee plan) I'm paying about $200 per month (me + wife). When I was on my own I was paying something like $400 for the two of us. That was 5 years ago, looking at the same plans available now, it's no less than $550.

Health insurance is one of the strangest insurances - a single month costs more than a year or often at least 6 months of car insurance.

Honestly I wish someone would just be a whistleblower and reveal the profits and operating costs (claims) of an "expensive year" at a health insurance company. The government would likely have a price collusion case.
Same with Conrad too, English was his third language, after Polish and French, yet he wrote his widely praised oevre almost entirely in English.
This is an elegant and simple formulation of the problem and shows how bad SQL is at this. However, you can do this in SQL.

with recursive bacon_movies as (
select
a.id as actor_id
, 0 as bacon_degree
from
actors a
where
a.name = 'Kevin Bacon'
union
select
r1.actor_id
, b.bacon_degree + 1 as bacon_degree
from
bacon_movies b
join roles r on r.actor_id = b.actor_id
join roles r1 on r.movie_id = r1.movie_id and r1.actor_id <> b.actor_id
where b.bacon_degree < 6
)
select
a.name
, min(b1.bacon_degree) as bacon_degree
from bacon_movies b1
join actors a on a.id = b1.actor_id
group by a.name
order by bacon_degree asc;

...not saying it's a good way to do this
I used to think the way you do (or the way I'm inferring you think), especially coming from the OO world to functional.

But, functional programming is really about programming with types, not named things, and so a lot of the time we work with much smaller functions that are expressions. It should be trivial to follow the intention without explicit names.

Having terse and concise names can make it much easier to read if you're following the types. Occasionally, if a piece of code is more challenging to read, I may use single word variable names, but mostly it's trying to get the names out of the way of the types and operators.

For example, if I have a type (where `a` is generic):

a -> bool

Then this can only be a predicate function. If it's provided as an argument to a function, I'll call it `f`, not `predicate`, because the type itself is the documentation.

It's definitely a mindset change for a different approach, functional programming is much more about function composition, whereas imperative is about a list of steps to perform, and so that composition is much more about whether the types fuse or not, the names become slightly less relevant, especially for general purpose library functions.

Personally, I feel it helps. But this is probably one of those subjective things like tabs vs spaces.

(spaces are correct)
I pay the same with Cox: $60/mo for gigabit internet (with bundle). There's a Cox store in my neighborhood with helpful service. I don't see the issue here. Why can't the town just invite competition instead of doing it themselves? My experience is that government is the least efficient method for delivering services.
Right, the Business Roundtable, led by venerable and respected institutions such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Exxon, Chevron, General Dynamics, and--wait for it-- Amazon.

It's virtue signaling.
I'd rather pay more money to a competitor than stay with comcast at this point.
Read from the HPSCI report here:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/hpsci-releases-full-snowden-repo...

> Again, any evidence besides some half-baked government PR? He didn't have any documents with him by the time he left HK.

What evidence do you have that he didn't? His public denials? Do you think someone in his position would have any reason to lie about such a thing?

But let's say he didn't take any materials with him to Russia. What was stopping Russia intelligence services from debriefing him?

Here is the quote from a member of Russian parliament (deputy chairman of the defense and security committee, Frants Klintsevich)

"Let's be frank," he says. "Snowden did share intelligence. This is what security services do," adds Klintsevich. "If there's a possibility to get information, they will get it."

That was in a NPR interview transcript: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/29/483890378/during-tenure-in-ru...

Maybe there's something missed in the translation there, but it seems pretty plainly stated there. And in the HPSCI report they claim ongoing contact with Russian intelligence services by Snowden. Now maybe they were just acting as chaperones for him and expected absolutely nothing in return. But that to me seems hard to believe.
Richard Stallman is fucking scum[0]and a rape apologist and if you defend him, so are you. So watch what you say, Hackernews, lest people come forward with reports of crimes you committed.

[0] https://youtu.be/iARHCxAMAO0?t=236
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Of course, people are going to expect more as technology improves.
So it sounds like you're talking about doing multiple things at the same time. Fair enough, I just think 400Mbps is beyond even the point where that matters for me living alone. Though I don't torrent much, perhaps if I did I'd feel the difference.
I'm in Texas, no Sonic here.
Everything's free when you steal. Lame argument.
If using Unreal, the assetto corsa competizione video game is pretty good for simulations and it offers a commercial license.
https://www.assettocorsa.net/assetto-corsa-pro/

As does rFactor2 but it may not be so easy to use with unreal.

http://www.vesaro.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=130
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/87719/for... : Christopher Hitchens ..characteristically did not hold back in his book ‘God is not Great.’

[..]In God is not Great, Hitchens notes uneasy similarities between humans and pigs: Porcine DNA and human DNA are very similar, so much so that porcine heart valves can be transplanted into humans; pigs are noticeably smarter than other farm animals; and pig skin looks almost human, so much so that the smell and look of suckling pig and roasting human infants is, according to those who have had the misfortune of smelling and seeing both, disconcertingly similar. And make no mistake about it—many ancient Israelites had that misfortune. Hitchens thought this was the basis for the Jewish taboo against eating pork.

Hitchens’ understanding makes complete sense—especially if you extend the argument even further.

All meat consumption by Israelites originally required the animal be sacrificed to God. The choice parts were burned to soothe God—a necessary precaution in a world where natural disasters, disease, rampant infant mortality, death of an alarming number of women in childbirth, and famine had no other explanation than an angry or distracted god—or given to the priests to eat, and the remnants were eaten by the Israelite offering the sacrifice and those joining with him for that meal. Generations later, long after the taboo against eating pork had already been in place, non-sacrificial meat was allowed to be consumed. That means if pigs were kosher, Israelite worshippers would have smelled something eerily similar to the smell that emanated from pagan places of worship—if, as the Hebrew Bible claims, human child sacrifice was indeed practiced by the Israelites’ neighbors—and the Israelite priests would also have been seen consuming meat that bore a disturbing resemblance to those horrific pagan sacrifices. Would Israelites, who were then mostly illiterate, think that the Torah allowed human sacrifice? Would pig sacrifice cause Israelites to sacrifice their infants the way Torah claimed Israel’s neighbors did? Or could it be that the similarities alone were thought to be displeasing to God, regardless of how Israelites would or would not react to them? When understood in this context, and when we take into account the alarming frequency with which the Hebrew Bible says our ancient ancestors reverted to pagan worship, the taboo against eating pork takes on new meaning.[..]

The whole piece is fascinating.
No, I don't get the difference. The company keeps what it would pay towards my insurance but I don't have anything deducted from my check for what would be my share of the insurance either.

Edit: My wife though pays more for her company insurance as they would need to insure me as well.
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Here's an example of why I still can't take writing about Agile seriously. I'm not saying there aren't a lot of process improvements under the banner of Agile (and plenty more that Agile is retroactively claiming credit for), but writing like this turns me off:

>Henrich still had a process where success was measured by reports, not outcomes. It was the same reporting process used to measure projects that used linear, step-by-step Waterfall.

What are reports, if not documentation of outcomes? What are outcomes without evidence that those outcomes happened?

I can see what he's saying, but the more accurate description of the problem "the reports included unnecessary and distracting information." But that doesn't make as good of a blog post as casting it as "paperwork vs understanding outcomes."

The whole thing feels like it needs to invent a "paperwork = evil" boogieman just to allow a process change that throws away useless paperwork and allow a team to focus on the paperwork that you just don't call paperwork anymore.

Email is paperwork. Version control is paperwork. Change management is paperwork. It doesn't matter if it's software updating a database instead of a secretary updating 3-ring binders. Most of development is paperwork. In fact, online databases mean we do way more paperwork. If we were bottlenecked by that sea of file cabinets in the basement containing all our the legacy projects, we would have way less paperwork just out of necessity.

Standups are paperwork that just happen to not use paper.
I think it is far more common than you think, many Indian novelists write in English, despite it being only their second or third language.
Why not just share or publish a locked Google sheet?
It the demo video it popped up"Advanced Physx car model". Physx is designed for a good enough approximation in games, not an accute simulation.
I would agree the word "sprint" can conjure up a bad picture, but the agile manifesto clearly states the team should work at a sustainable pace. Nowhere in the Scrum Guide does it say you must work at a breakneck speed.

Inputs for sprint planning include the relevant empirical data (velocity, burn down/up etc.) to help with planning. In my experience, these data points are used to measure productivity, which is dangerous. Companies end up measuring success by outputs, rather than outcomes.

Business units need to stop weaponizing Agile and realize they too need to change in order to inspect and adapt towards building things people want.
Sounds like he found the PI on craigslist
Thanks. Though with this big a list, a list of what's missing might be more useful.

The Muppet Show seems to be missing, though there's lots of other muppet stuff. Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal are also missing, perhaps because Netflix made a new Dark Crystal show.
not to mention, writing in english means being unable to use a host of things that other languages have (and viceversa, of course).
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If a project starts having large companies relying on it, traditionally there have been 2 mechanisms to address this: - start a company around providing enterprise support services;

ask for the large companies to provide some resources such as a part (or all) of an employee's time to work on the project, for the parts that are more dear to that company.
If a company is unwilling to pay, either in the form of a support contract or employee's time, it should look at another solution. Not just because they are being disrespectful/annoying/distracting to the maintainers of the OSS project but also because it means they don't have a good contingency plan for when things go wrong.

For a larger business, the value of using OSS is not to save money, it's to get the right level of customization for specific needs.
Okay, so that means certain services out there actually do let you download that fast. I guess that's different from loading assets on a website?
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It's questionable when you can turn bank passwords over to a random third party to check/verify your account information or import the data into another system.
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The Taliban were scheduled to be at Camp David last week. Why? The AK-47.