skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be for Windows only as I tried to do it with PowerPoint for Mac and I couldn't seem to find the option.
I would like to be given the exam.

I would fail the two example questions: can you tell me today's date. No. Do you know what season July is in? No: I'm from the southern hemisphere (additionally we don't have Fall down under).

I couldn't remember my own name when I went to the emergency clinic a while back (kidney stones, very hurt, going into shock), which at least got me immediate attention (I wonder whether it would if I looked elderly?)
I don't think any traffic network is ever wasted, as traffic seems to perpetual grow, especially in countries with a strongly growing economy. A long-distance maglev wouldn't make the HSR redundant. Having two train systems increases the total transport capacity and the HSR would be more for shorter and medium distances while the maglev could limit to long distance connections. Any cities in between would connect via HSR to the maglev.
I know I'm somewhat of an outlier but I really don't like wearing earphones when I'm out and about. I don't even like walking in the woods with them in. I certainly don't like wearing them anywhere there's traffic or other potential hazards. Just makes me feel cut-off from the environment.
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Why? Why would anybody build trains like that instead of adopting the hyperloop technology which is faster, much more cheap and more safe?
Why would I need logging inside a pure function?
I'd make a bet that the resiliency of your average crontab is greater than most SaaS companies.
Yep, I read Hesse's accusations about "l'age du feuilleton" and got the picture, but somehow the Russians seemed out of it.

Rocambole (French serials) still lends his name to adjectives ...
We wrote our own ERP and accounting system. OK we partnered up with someone who did it for his factory (he's an accountant by trade and a FOSS lover) and hired a programmer to continue development. We are a small company (~GBP1.5M pa) but we have some fairly complex needs.

I'm the only full time Linux user in the firm but as the MD I get by quite happily with Arch on my desktop and laptop, Libre Office and Evolution instead of MS apps - we use Exchange exclusively btw and Evo has a very stable EWS connector and supports Kerberos. Add winbind and I am "domain joined". I use an auto mounter that makes the Windows server shares appear under my home directory as needed. I have CUPS which is also Kerberized. My machine is quite often used by the staff as a handy set of utilities on the end of PuTTY, which supports GSSAPI for SSO.

I own an IT company and also find entrenched tastes hard to combat. Oh well, Rome wasn't built in a day. The main trouble is MSDN and NFR makes cost/benefit hard to fly as an argument. Just like the drugs industry, the pushers get their drugs/apps for free!
Lack of proper security (i.e. lack end to end encryption) always reduces public safety due to bad actors being able to snoop on the data. Not that anyone should trust Facebook to begin with for exactly the same reason.
Don’t take a job unless you know what job you plan to take afterwards.
Depends where you live. In America, no chance. In the UK, easily.
I am so glad California did not spend $80+ billion on the high-speed SF to LA rail project. It makes no sense. Flying from SF to LA would be faster than the train. Driving isn't that bad either and once you get to LA you need a car to get around. If you really want to take the train to LA there is already a beautiful route on Amtrak along the coast.
That famous picture of Bezos with a spray-painted "Amazon.com" sign above his desk was also a lie and for show. Bezos was very certain he would become a billionaire and planned carefully to appear rags-to-riches. You have got to admire that kind of long term planning and conviction. What a brilliant guy.
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People are so much on board with govt surveillance, and so indifferent to privacy technology that it is now the duty of tech to teach people the tools they should use. If , of course, tech is on the side of true privacy
During our team's recent move/restack, about 80% of our desks were replaced with adjustable standing desks.

The door desk is dying.
> Especially throwing other people under the bus.

Hard disagree with this one.

I've seen better success with 'compliment everyone behind their backs, giving a good reason'.

Throwing everyone under the bus can be very very effective, but it's got to be for a very short run at the goal, typically. If you end up working with those people again, you're cooked.

I'd say, if you don't see yourself working with that person ever again in the next 6mo. to 1 year, you can throw others under the bus, provided you can get ahead of them on the org charts and the cocktail talk. If you are going to be working with those people again and they are in your radius of org chart or cocktail talk, compliment them all behind their backs relentlessly.

Don't be a doormat, of course, but sing other's praises. You'll get a reputation for being a great person to work with, and everyone wants to work with a great person to work with.

Everything else on this list is spot on, great write up!
Hmm... how about adding displays on the pillars connected to cameras that fill in the view (adjusted to whatever the driver's head position is at any time)?
Well the question I have posted before is simple, with self driving cars who is at fault when they break the speed limit. I am pretty sure distracted driving accounts for far more accidents than speed alone does. Even taking people's licenses won't stop many from driving.

however - we could force the issue of speed limits within city spaces for cars that are newer, like you said we certainly have the tech and any car with traffic aware cruise control should be able to have a limit forced upon it within city limits

We also have the technology to capture your license plate as you zoom down the road. Do we want to have tickets just mailed out for violating the limit? Perhaps make it random which roads are enforced so to make it feel as if all are enforced?

as for scooters

scooters stand a good chance of being out right banned in many cities. right now Atlanta has a curfew hours on them and considering that four deaths this year occurred on them as well as over two hundred responded to calls for injury I would not be unhappy if they were.
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> We rarely condone murder in the name of the betterment of humanity: some tried, didn't go so well.

sounds like "War" to me.
It is not that simple. Two potential unintended consequences of this no-encryption rule come to mind that might actually not just not help, but in fact make it worse for the victims.

1. They said that FB captures 99% of those illegal activities by themselves. What makes us think that government will be able to capture that last 1% on their own?

2. Encryption gets removed, potential perpetrators move to another platform that uses encryption and doesn't have the capability to catch those illegal activities that FB already catches using their internal systems. Congrats, now those perps that would have been caught (even if FB implemented the encryption) won't be caught at all.

And with the uncertainty that comes to mind with both of those points, one thing that is definitely guaranteed to come is further erosion of personal privacy.
What's wrong with using AES in CBC mode?
I was going to say this. This looks like a job for an https web app that is difficult to block...

or perhaps just make a massive group text in an existing tool like discord or whatsapp?
Not sure how this reconciles with the decision to limit "right to be forgotten" to just the EU when it came to Google searches.
I'm 6'2" and my 2019 Forester left mirror does not move far enough outside for proper sight lines with how far back I have the seat.
And exacly why is that better than cron?
I wonder what kind of change resulted in that first before/after image, where Allentown PA disappeared at that scale and Philadelphia appeared. It seems more right than before, but also, why not both?

Also wonder why some town names are in the same exact location, but others move just a few pixels. Updates in annotations, or in a constraint solver?

Cartography is such an interesting topic. I experimented using Douglas-Peucker on 3D images of protein molecules in grad school–cool stuff. I find myself often using cartographic principles in analogy to software architecture and codebase organization.
The great thing about being given 6 hours to do a 6 week job is that you know it's impossible. So you say "I'm going to need to work from home". Then off you go to the beach. Or a job interview. Pull a Paula [1]. Then come back and say "Oh it's waiting for app store approval".

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_brillant_paula_bean
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> the social equality was better

If you skip the whole rulling class. High-level bureaucrats, managers and so on. With separate hospitals, shops, apartment queues and whatnot

> you had guaranteed work place

Likely on the other side of the country thousands of kilometers away. And it was easy to loose that if you stepped on wrong person's toes or came out against glorious communism. Then you'd have super hard time to get any job.

> you had guaranteed home

Likely a komunalka and then getting your own apartment in your 40s when your kids are about to move out.

> you had guaranteed education

Higher education had super tight quotas. It was common for people to take exams over and over again for years to get in. And it was easy to get rejected if you did something politically stupid back in school. Or your parents did. After you eventually graduate - you'd have to go wherever you get assignment. You get to choose from several options if lucky. But if you don't get married while studying (families get assignments to same city, so likely a major one), you're likely to be sent to bum fuck nowhere. Because all assignments to bigger cities are taken by couples.
People want cars not trains because current trains are such an awful experience. This wouldn't necessarily be the case if trains were improved to the standards of some other countries.
I haven't been in your exact shoes so forgive me if this sounds judgmental. I have worked remote for several years and if there's one thing I can say, it's that I don't think your job is your problem. The problem is that you don't feel challenged, and you're expecting your work to fulfill that for you.

Find a way to fulfill that on your own. Start a blog, side project, or a hobby. I have all 3 going, plus more. Work is where I get work done and support my family. LIFE is where I get fulfillment ;-)
Why do you think "hyperloop technology" would be "faster, much more cheap and more safe"?
Alright then. I have a little lightning adapter that goes to a headphone jack.
I wonder whether this "leak" was planned, it just looks like a PR stunt to me - at least that's what I would do in Zuck's place.
Quoting the README:

> Remove[d] unused code with non-BSD licenses. There's still a pile of unused code hanging around, but all non-BSD licensed bits have been removed to make the licensing situation clear. Picolibc is BSD licensed.

From my understanding, Newlib is a GPL-licensed project that has some GPL-licensed contributions and some BSD-licensed contributions (in the sense that these aren't original code written by contributors, but rather are copy-and-paste inclusions of pieces from various GPL- and BSD-licensed codebases.)

The author created Picolibc by (doing the moral equivalent of) cherry-picking out a small base of the commits to Newlib—all of which were copy-and-pastes from BSD-licensed codebases.

---

In some sense, Newlib is very similar to how a Linux distro works, repackaging upstream code components (of various licenses) together.

Picolibc, then, would be a lot like creating a new Linux distro, derived "from" Ubuntu, that happens to use only the packages in Ubuntu that are themselves directly copied in from upstream Debian (pretending for a moment that Ubuntu does this rather than re-signing packages with their own keys.) Is such a distro really "derived from Ubuntu"? Or is it derived "from" Debian, with an Ubuntu mirror server just serving as a pipe that some Debian packages went through on their trip "from" Debian's hands "into" the hands of the new distro?

---

Either way, worries that the GPL could infect this effort are misplaced—even if it comes to a legal battle, at any point, the same codebase could be recreated (with a bit of a schlep) by just going to all the same BSD-licensed upstream sources that Newlib's contributors pulled from, and doing the same copy-and-pasting that Newlib's contributors did.
Sure: most divisive and inflammatory topics are far more important than the stories that get discussed on HN. That's actually a reason why we have to limit them. If we didn't, they would take over the site completely, because of their importance. Then HN would become just another political flamewar comment section.

The thing to remember is that HN is not trying to be all kinds of website, just one very specific kind: a place for intellectual curiosity. Curiosity is not compatible with flamewars and battles about high-stakes things. Indeed it is the first emotion to disappear when those get going.

If you want to help HN be a good HN, please use it in the spirit of curiosity. If you don't want to do that, please find a more suitable website—there are many out there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not the "only" path, but it is a better path than most. You're right about everything else though.
Mountain ranges didn't seem to be a problem for Japan's high speed rail network.
There are ways for them to investigate via warrants. That covers all use cases for FBI/CIA/cops. They don't need any other techniques. It's the only logical interpretation of the US constitution to modern electronic communications. Otherwise you become what China is currently.
Yeah, a process like this is applicable to maybe 5% of development projects out there, and is definitely not ripe for abuse by all and sundry in the other 95%.

Demonstrate you're producing valuable work on a regular, fixed cadence. Use whateve process you want to do so.

The hard part is defining value somewhere below "the whole project is done." Harder than it sounds, people get it wrong all the time, astoundingly so, almost to the point where I'm convinced it's some sort of evolutionary defect.
Yeah that was another of their tricks. Bury sipes into the rubber so that new ones open as the old ones wear out.
> didn't they say that when they arrived 400 years ago

Didn't x say y 1,000 years ago?

You're talking about different people: literally, morally, culturally - in most every way in other words. What does the average American today have to do with someone that came over from the British Empire in September 1620? The Pilgrims were not a mixture of German, African, Mexican and Chinese. Today is not 400 years ago.
> that's the main reason of a map

That's what you might think is the main reason of a map. There are many various reasons to want to use a map. I assume one of the main uses for most of Apple's customers, and probably even Google's given they're also working towards 3D topography, is to find particular buildings, particularly businesses, or landmarks.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that your use case is everybody else's.
What makes you sure that is the right way to think about the world?
Sorry to tell you but a droplet of your DNA ended up in the vial of a serial rapist. So sorry that we tore your life apart when you were so obviously guilty. Mistakes happen, eh?
It depends on where you get the doors from, you could probably get used ones from building recyclers or ebay for very little.
For those of you interested in this topic, check out Internet Identity Workshop: https://internetidentityworkshop.com/

Great little "un-conference", hosted semi-annually in Mountain View, CA. Where a lot of the nuts and bolts were worked out for OpenID Connect.

In fact, today IIW 29 is coming to a close. Next gathering in April, 2020.
You didn't address my question though. You're just thinking about the cost to you personally if you don't have end to end encryption. I'm asking you to think about the cost of having it. What's the cost. Compare that probably real cost, a thing that is a real problem right now, with your own personal alarm at some future imagined problem.
"The compiler has many bugs and limitations, but it works for
tinyasm purposes, and it's freely available. Supposedly it should support ANSI C, but I couldn't fit a
standard ANSI C function definition"

I've tried

25.07.1988 15:39 54,272 C88.EXE

from c88v31_1.zip (disk 1 on http://www.desmet-c.com/ver_31h.shtml ) with

int f( int x, int y ) { return x * y; }
int main( void ) { return f( 3, 4 ); }

and it didn't complain? What's then that that didn't work?

(Also, I used Borland's C compiler for these platforms, and there is an official version now available for free, but it's a little annoying to download).
Simple: Build the binary you upload to the App Store with the code from the repo ;-p

OSS ist the only solution and finally also governments seem to accept that.

I don't trust most OSes, that includes iOS & Android. My phone is being considered an unsafe device and I don't trust it with the data I'd like to query with an app like this.

I don't even want to have to block the app's access to internet etc. but simply be able to trust it as an OSS app that runs on my linux for tasks like this.
This was the highlight of the mandatory washington state history I had to take in 9th grade.

That and something about socialist electoral victories in the early 1900s. I don’t think I remember anything else. 5 months of state history for a state that was barely 100 years old might have been a bit much for a bunch of 14 year olds
> I hate the fact that an autocratic and repulsive Government

The Chinese government is much more autocratic yet it obviously does a much better job in building infrastructure

The problem with the US government is lobbyism. It does not work for itself, it does not work for the people, it works for big corporations and lawyers.
> value to society of catching the perps in these cases is large enough

That is for a judge to decide. While signing (or not) a warrant
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
because it is Deprecated™
Huh? Are you actively advocating for everyone's car to send location data, and have the ability to be remotely controlled? Terrible idea. The difference between cars and scooters is that you buy a car that you OWN, and you rent a scooter for 10 minutes.
Google's also moving towards adding 3D topography to their maps so I don't quite see what your point is. This isn't an Apple vs Google thing; they're both doing the same things, they just seem to have different priorities about the order in which they do it.
Then everyone requested an ergonomic height-adjustable desk and they had to move those door desks somewhere. Very frupid indeed. I wonder how many warehouses of door desks they have somewhere.
There is no precise boundary, you are correct. However delivering a blob of minified, obfuscated Javascript code that renders the entire UI is obviously an "app", not a document. Web stuff that does entirely client side rendering is an abomination, IMO.
Indeed. The word is that's the new policy and standard (adjustable height desks for all).
Sadly, in CA, this already happens and it is VERY hard to opt out: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-biobank-dna-babies-w...
Because it integrates nicely with the rest of systemd. If you use systemd, there's no real reason to also have a crond running.
The onus is not on Linux to support devices. The onus is on the devices to support Linux. Linux support is a selling point, that should be leveraged.

The current way of gathering initial entropy should not be the default, it should be a fallback. If a device have neither persistent storage (32 bytes for crying out loud) nor a hardware random generator, they should be treated like second class citizen, with only best effort random numbers.

Right now, everyone is a second class citizen. Kind of insane, don't you think?

> it's not as trivial as you paint it

It is, under one (extremely hard to fulfil) condition: collaboration from hardware vendors. It's just 32 persistent bytes. Just bury them in a chip and memory map the damn thing! The driver can be reduced to an offset.

> I think jitterentropy is a better and more easily tested use of developer hours than implementing 1000s of SoC drivers

That one? https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/zircon/jitterentropy/config-...

It's one of the first links I found, I hope it is obsolete: they say the internal state of Jitterentropy is puny 64 bits number. What were they thinking, we need four times as much! That kind of thing is why people are tempted to shed the system's RNG, and ask users to wiggle their mouse instead.
> No. Speak for yourself. You simply and repeatedly omit the part about the moral dimension, and fighting against injustice, a person or nation becoming the enemy just because of what they did to others.

I've been on the other side of this sloganeering. I'd say I'm a relatively patriotic American. I recently went to Europe and talked with a lot of very liberal Europeans, and they asked me precisely the same questions. To them, America had long ago become the enemy just because of what they did to others. They put kids in cages. They flagrantly violate international law. Their healthcare and police systems kill their own citizens just for the sadistic fancy of others. How could I live in such a terrible country, they asked me, and not spend every moment trying to leave or overthrow its government? Didn't I know that America had no respect for human rights?

The problem was that their favored news sources were incredibly biased, reporting nothing but the worst events happening in America, and ascribing the worst possible motivations to all Americans. They had literally heard about nothing good happening in my country in years.

That's the kind of distortion you get if you listen to stories for only one side. In that kind of bubble, you can be convinced that any group is morally reprehensible. That's why so many people enthusiastically signed up for the Nazi party so many decades ago. That's why I met Europeans that think America is its successor.

If the narratives you hear are so one-sided that you can't ascribe any motivations to your enemies besides pure hatred, then you don't understand what is actually going on. Think about the number of news stories you have read that attempt to paint a group in a bad light. Divide this by the number that try to paint it in a good light. If this ratio is worse than 10:1, then you never actually made a moral choice -- your emotions were decided for you by editorial slant.