skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... fees have not traditionally been considered a requirement for probation completion ...

Is that the case? It seems like I've heard of cases where probation comes with requirements ("wear this tracking bracelet") that are provided by a private entity who bills the convict, and if the bill isn't paid, probation gets revoked.
Human rights? How about the cruel family/child separation camps at our southern border?
The polls got his popular vote margin correct. They also got the Democratic generic ballot correct in 2018.
We're getting pretty far afield from the original discussion - now you're talking about the U.S. rather than China or historical dictators, and we're talking private organizations rather than governments. But since I like arguing...

Liberty does not mean equality. The average common person cannot really do anything to Mark Zuckerburg other than delete Facebook (which I've done, and other people probably should do but for some reason don't). But that's different from saying nobody can threaten Mark Zuckerburg. There was nothing preventing Kevin Systrom from founding Instagram or Jan Koum from founding Whatsapp and then forcing Zuckerburg to buy them out for $1B and $19B, respectively. Nor was there anything preventing Brian Acton from quitting FB once his options vested, donating $50M to a competitor, and starting to work for them. Under many other regimes, these founders would've been offered a small payout to toe the party line in the beginning, and then disappeared if they refused to play ball.

Similarly, there's nothing you can do to get Republicans to turn on Trump. Democrats have already turned on him (before the election), but there's plenty you can do to get independents to turn on him, starting with providing a compelling alternative and educating people on why his policies won't work anyway. The press attacks him on a daily basis, and he attacks back, but so far all of these are just nasty words that rally his base and generate pageviews for mainstream media. He doesn't have the power to actually shut down these attacks, the same way Xi Jinping has banned Winnie the Pooh memes in China. And ordinary folks like me who are just exhausted by the controversy can just tune it out; I largely just stopped reading Trump-related stories because all they do is feed his ego at my emotional expense and I don't want to be a part of that.

The most effective way to actually seize and exercise your personal power is to recognize what you do and do not have the means to change, and to focus all your efforts on the former.
Guess these ideas are sort of in the air this week. I just blogged last night some thoughts about my use of Redux (and redux-observable) in a Discord bot (no React in sight) I worked on a few months back.
Low touch once it's working, but took me forever to get right. I recently added wireguard + policy based routing + a second route table + a VLAN so that all devices connected to a secondary wireless SSID are NAT'd to the Internet over a VPN. I don't know how you'd accomplish this with anything consumer, or even anything semi-Enterprise.

The primary motivation for that one is that native wireguard (UDP) is blocked by several wireless networks I use on the move. So on those networks I have to use a shitty OpenVPN configuration over tcp port 443. OpenVPN on Android is buggy and prone to crash all the god damn time. Now, at home at least, I don't have to suffer it.

The device I use has a metal case, is fanless/noiseless, the size of an AP, has 4 gigabit ports, 4 x86-64 Bay Trail cores, 8GB of RAM, runs standard Linux, and cost me like $150. Honestly I'm done with plastic off-the-shelf crap.
money or free-speech, which one will you pick if it's you?
Dude, thank you so much. This looks like exactly what I need for a project I'm on.
If you can afford a bootcamp, you’re better off hiring a senior developer and learning from immersion by seeing how they work. If you’re lucky you’ll find someone who is patient, and a good communicator who can spend an hour a day on screenshares with you explaining how things work.
This reminds me of the issues faced by people developing apps that compete with facebook, or apps that offer a nice feature for iOS. There's always the risk that an ecosystem you don't control will turn on you, or change the rules of the game.

Except with China it's 1000x worse. It's not an app, it's not just an extra feature, it's the wholesale export of their authoritarian society to the rest of the world. When the statements of a user of your system (as with Hearthstone) risks your company being banned in China, self-censorship inevitably ensues. How long will it be until China insists that anyone, anywhere be deplatformed for this sort of thing?
Can hacker news be read from within China?
It happens all the time by the current President - and you see a diverse response from the American landscape. Some cheer, some ignore, some condemn. But if all the media simply decided they weren't going to air or even address the speech then I think you may have a point.
One problem is that Java lacked functions until Java 8. It still sort of lacks them internally, but tat least you can write free-standing functions here and there, and especially as lambdas inline.

Another problem is that Java lacks type aliases. If your data have a complicated type like List<Set<Pair<Foo, ? extends Bar>>>, you have to copy-paste this type everywhere, without a way to name it succinctly.

On top of that, Java lacks type inference, even the weakest syntactic form. This is why you often need to write a long declarations, so long that they exceed the space you may have saved by factoring out a small function. Lombok and the diamond operator somehow alleviate that, but not completely.

The lack of pattern matching, or named arguments, or null vs Optional vs Result, goes without saying.

This makes Java a very verbose language, even if the logic of your code is streamlined and economical. In many standard library APIs, it is not.

(Hence Kotlin, obviously, or Scala if you can tolerate the build times.)
Friends of mine worked 15 years to rationalize WA State's reenfranchisement of ex felons. For a time the most regressive in the USA. Kafkaesque. So vague and complicated, correctional and election officials themselves couldn't figure out how to administer the system. The whole mess was like a third rail (untouchable). Even explaining the actual system to law makers, to demonstrate need for reform, took a huge reverse engineering and research effort.
Data on that point?
What's the comparison to new ICE production?
For Florida politicians, it's a feature, not a bug.
Agreed. Clearly a negotiation tactic. I expect nothing material to come out of the upcoming meeting. I work in public equities and this has been such an ongoing headache... anyone remember when a full deal was supposed to get done by end of March 2019?

What a joke...
I had no idea about this behavior until after he had stepped down from his various positions. I had only known RMS from youtube and his writing. I agree with his views on free software and respected him for presenting well thought out arguments. That was the extent of my interest in him.

I think making people feel objectified and uncomfortable is one of the worst thing you can do in a personal or professional setting. I have not witnessed this type of behavior in my life so far, or at least I have not recognized it.

I'm left with the following questions:

Why do people behave like this?
How can we better identify and report this type of behavior?
Is there any hope in rehabilitation?
The solution is quite simple: mind your own business. Let time and history to tell. China never send army or CIA to overthrow other countries. If the other side don't want to do the business that's fine. Westerner like to spread their values, often with force.
If the current administration is serious about the trade war, sanctions, etc. against China (which seems the case), I have to imagine that someone has thought about what it would take to cut off China from the rest of the Internet.

Obviously the fallout from something like this would be incredible, and I'm not advocating for it, but... do we even have the technical capability to do something like this? With the Internet being designed to be resilient, what would it actually take to do this? Can it be done by electronic means rather than by cutting cables / bombing ingress points?

They're already quite isolated by the great firewall, but it seems like cutting off everything at once could still be a powerful splash of cold water to the face. It's certainly not going to happen piecemeal when most companies are this spineless.
Philosophical Apps: How to Popularize Philosophy
Based purely on experience. People use the term to mean different things. That's why the first thing I do when I see a new "open source" project is check the license to clarify "what kind" of open source it is. But I wouldn't assume bad faith unless the license was clearly limited in some way that would affect a high percentage of people who are typically interested in open source projects. I see the value in having a single agreed-upon definition, I just don't think that's realistic without coining a new phrase (similar to how "libre" and "FLOSS" are used for viral licenses). Are you aware of any research showing the adoption of this definition is essentially universal? I'm genuinely curious about that. I'm fully willing to consider that my experience may be an outlier.

EDIT: Also want to point out that in my personal projects that I've made the source available I have exclusively used licenses that are compatible with your definition. But I'm currently working on a project that I intend to monetize, and I'm trying to figure out how to make it as open as possible without risking my ability to make money. Due to responses like yours that I've seen, I'm considering just keeping it closed. I think proprietary software gets less complaints than "source available" software, which is hilarious to me.
The equivalent would be Apple banning a Chinese app from the App Store because there was content critical of US government policy.
This article expresses one piece of the problem that's increasingly suggesting to me that it's not hiring or job-hunting that's broken, but the model of employment itself.

(For yet another example of broken hiring, see this story, also presently on the HN front page: https://medium.com/@bellmar/sre-as-a-lifestyle-choice-de9f5a...)

Skills assessment (and assertion) is difficult. Skills relevance is hard to assess. Incorportion and business as risk-externalising systems has worked rather too well (though the problem's hardly new), with much of employment risk being shifted from employers to employees, and from large employers to small ones (answering the anticipated small-business / startup response). The entities most able to manage risk are those most equipped to shift it elsewhere.

There's also the problems of offshoring, outsourcing, and shifting to the modern variants of endentured servitude, generally: employment-contingent temporary visa workers (H-1B in the US, similar equivalents elsewhere). And of gig, contingent, temporary, part-time, and other employment conditions, as well as of the tying of specific benefits (most especially healthcare) to employment status.

Don't even get me started on pensions/retirement, professional ethics, whistleblower protections, and labour organisation.
If you really want a revolution, take away the people's favorite televised sports.
> How exactly do you think she will execute that plan?

Like most Presidential plans, it requires Congressional support, but beyond that it's not unusually difficult; while the feds can't do it for all elections easily, Art. I S4 gives Congress the power to make or alter regularions for House elections superceding state rules and Congress can also adjust the safe harbor rules for considering Presidential electoral votes properly given to use Presidential elections as a hammer, and states are unlikely to separate out qualifications for different offices to limit the effect of such federal regulations, because it would radically increase the administrative complexity of elections.
> it would require a huge project to ensure every legal voter had some form of ID

Without an ID, how do people at polling places know they're a legal voter?

Using the honor system made sense a century or two ago when most people lived all their lives in the same place where they grew up and everyone at the polling place knew everybody. But that's not the case now and hasn't been for a long time. With all the talk about securing our election process against tampering (which I'm all in favor of), if it doesn't include voter ID, it's not secure.

> the number of voter fraud incidents is vanishingly small

The number of known voter fraud incidents is very small. But if ID isn't required to vote and we just accept people's word when they say they're eligible to vote, how could you ever prove voter fraud?
Now if only Hacker News would implement it!
I'm going to take a wild guess that you're not a Chinese citizen and you are not on any forum that they frequent.

I find it truly stupid that Chinese government intervened, but if you think this move wasn't popular in China you're dead wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Whataboutism is pretty annoying. Please don't use it.
Same here: https://phili.pe/

I've used CSS variables though, which make it even simpler. E.g. I have `--page-background-color` and `--text-color-primary` that are set to a certain default value. In dark mode, these variables are set to other values, removing the need to redefine the actual selectors.
Just spoke with support you'll be getting an update soon (part of the delay is every time it gets updated by the requester it automatically gets moved to the bottom of the queue due to the way they are ordered - it's a weird quirk).

Support should give you more details but it is indeed the case that some of the logs we have aren't tied to every process - so the transmit logs are paramount for debugging inherit backup state issues, but other log files wouldn't be. That said, we should totally fix the typo in the other log files, I've let the devs know about that!
Also interested in this example and the answer.
Yea all the work I did was accessibility after the fact. For most cases it is just annotating what is already there. Sometimes it requires restructuring the way the page flows. It would be slightly more efficient to design for accessibility up front but it is fairly easy to bolt on after the fact.
When a router ships you can't select a licensed band. This is a different concept than "product does something bad" this is "is the manufacturer responsible when someone modifies the product to do something bad".

Clearly not, the person that knowingly modified it to do something illegal is at fault. Preventing anyone from modifying anything is a backwards response to the real problem: the guy that wants to do the illegal thing.
You'll be delighted to learn Catalina contains Apple Arcade (you can find it in the App Store). Yes, Catalina is the latest version of macOS, 10.15. Queue the "what would Steve think" memes.

As for the topic. "(Computer) addiction" is a symptom of a (myriad of) problem(s). It could be depression, it could be the person is bullied, it could be autism, it could be "just" puberty.
Given that AI are often not explanatory (see my earlier comment in this subthread), access to the algorithm may not be strictly necessary. Though the ability to black-box test it against a wide range of possible inputs might be a good thing to aim for.
It really doesn't.

At this point I've mentored a lot of junior engineers and scientist, and a fair number of mid-career and senior ones.

One of the most common things they bring up is "I'm getting stuck", or "I don't feel as productive as I want to be", or "Sometimes I can't seem to finish anything", "I'm not sure I'm working on the right things", etc.

The article isn't bad at outlining some of the common failure modes that nearly everyone falls into from time to time. There is nothing in there specifically about quality of life, etc. and most of it applies very well in any type of organization.
Nice list. I almost want to pin it in front of me. It should include reading HN.
his latest video mentioned that he's still doing some research for the antikythera project.
That was intentional :)
Both the short story and the movie is pretty cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moebius_(1996_film)
I think the confusion is between rights, and societal privilege, or "legal rights". The waters can be a bit muddied here, and there are various political philosophies here, but most Western nations follow some form of classic natural rights.

So in the context of voting, you have no natural right to vote, because in a state of nature the only authority is your own, and you don't need to vote with yourself. A society comes along, and sets up a governing body, say, democratically, and says "everyone gets to vote!". However, this isn't a right, but instead a privilege, (or perhaps a legal right) which derives its authority from society, which means society can do what it pleases with it.

Natural rights cannot be removed by society, only infringed upon. I.e. you never "lose" your right to life, just because society decides to have you executed. They've just infringed upon it in the worst possible way.
Obama's response to contain China was the TPP. It could have been more (or less--no way to know) effective than Trump's, Obama just didn't tweet about it.
Didn't know that they use them, but still, if you can opt-out, not a biggie for me.
And I have yet to hear of felons rights being restored that includes their rights to bear arms.
Shameless plug: I did the same thing to my personal website and wrote about it with light/dark screenshots: https://www.reillywood.com/blog/dark-mode/

I like working in Solarized Dark, so I wanted my website to serve up Solarized Dark. I dim images in dark mode too, but I turn them up to full brightness on hover.
Just the link I was looking for. I haven't played in years anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_standard
Double standard is pretty annoying too. Please don't use it as well.
Yes, but they completely missed the point of the data. Popular vote is relatively easy to predict, but Trump's campaign reached really deep into quiet conservatives who wouldn't vote otherwise.

Those people are still not going to respond to polls, and since they live in low-population areas, they won't affect the popular vote much, but they hit the electoral college hard.

The Dem voters in the primaries are a predictable population, and polling for primaries is relatively easier.
Does it reduce friction though? It just creates echo-chambers and move people in different echo-chambers further away. The frictionless internet then causes much greater friction in real life where you inevitably met with people from another bubble.
If you want to see that sort of cognitive dissonance/hypocrisy on display, just go a few threads over and state:

> "Blizzard Entertainment is a private company and can deplatform whoever they want".
The Guardian isn’t above clickbait in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds.
It's not absurd. You just have to realize that it's not about being fair, or even about getting money. It's about suppressing their vote.

Viewed through that lens, it's quite logical. Evil, but logical.
Oh, and also many countries do not allow almond milk to be labeled as milk in any way.
I'm saying that you do the calculations retroactively on sale. No taxes are due until then. Even if the asset spikes, no taxes are due if ultimately sold at a loss.
Just a way to force other countries to open to color revolution attack? That's very naive thoughts. What happened in Middle East and East Europa already educated Chinese.

However westners themselves are not aware of the issue. They believe that's a human rights and freedom of speech issue.
Which section is that?
Very interesting read as I am considering a Grade 6 or 7 Technical role in the UK civil service (right at the top end of the GS scale) and am looking at how they recruit and to tailor my cv to suit.

I am lucky in that I have done board style interviews before and have contacts who know how the system that most UK techies wont have.

I think Marianne ought to touch base with Loren DeJonge Schulman at War on the rocks as She has written on the hiring challenges the US government faces
The fallacy is that it's good to break windows. Even though it's not good to break them, fixing windows that are already broken is worthwhile.
Regrettably, it is not just people in power - the HP newsgroups had plenty of individual contributors that favored things like poll taxes, voting for property owners only, etc.
There's the most power on the level of federal elections where congress has the power to dictate the "time, place, and manner" at any time (Article 1 Section 4). So for the whole of Congress they have pretty full and broad powers to make whatever they want happen. To get similar things at the state levels there's the ever useful strategy of just dangling a large pot of money for states. And ballot measures aren't completely binding they can be modified by the legislature of the individual states.

I do think money in politics is a big issue but with Citizens United it's hard to do anything about that since "spending money is speech" means there's very very little wiggle room in the 1st amendment for putting a stopper on the geyser of corporate money. [1]

[0] https://medium.com/@teamwarren/my-plan-to-strengthen-our-dem...

[1] Is a real messy problem. Personally I think corporations getting the full rights of citizens is a bit bonkers and I wish there was an easy way to draw a line between people collectively pooling their money for speech and a corporation doing the same thing. Maybe some test around profit making or something to tamp down on the feedback loop of companies spending money to make way more money in return from legislative changes.
TSMC begins 7nm+ mass production, prepares for 6nm trials in Q1 2020
Would this not also require some sort of exploitable CORS vulnerability?
In the US there is a faction that is extremely strong on "privacy rights". This seem motivated by the idea that you are free to do as you please so long as you can prevent others from knowing about it, rather than depending on having strong rights to do as you please whether others know or not.

Strong privacy is the "security by obscurity" solution to being free.
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For an overview of D-Link devices I created the following page a few years ago:

https://dlink-report.shodan.io/
Why there are so many political news on HN?
Article states:

"91.4% of respondents enjoy eating corn. Potatoes came in an extremely close second at 91.2%, while carrots and tomatoes were tied for the third-most-liked vegetable at 89%."

Article then states:

"One in four respondents say they’ve actually never eaten a vegetable at all!"

So which is it?
Women and 18-21 year olds got the right to vote after the 14th Amendment, and the way the Constitution gets amended (new articles that do not specifically update the provisions they modify) is prone to produce (at least, in the bare text; with litigation, some of this gets smoothed over in case law, though there's not a lot of litigation on the provision at issue to do that) incomplete updates and inconsistency.
The battle against America's loneliness crisis
> are born with a basic set of natural rights which exist regardless of how much or how little you can/do exercise them

There is no such thing as the "natural rights" except may be for the right to die (and even that is contested by many governments (and super-government-powerful organizations of the past like the Church was for example)). Any rights are created as a result of an [usually temporary] equilibrium between various participating forces established and supported by violence or a credible threat of a such.