skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A marketing email.

Just because I am a user of some of your products is not permission to market me your other products.

Your example even reads like a marketing release. You've really somehow determined who my family and friends are, and you now support instant transfers to that specific group of people? If it were true it would be creepy, but it's unlikely. The reality is probably that you support instant transfers to other accounts at the bank, or within a network of banks, which is obviously useful, but you have no idea who might own accounts I would transfer to, and you're citing friends and family because it plays as more social. You know what the feature is, but you didn't describe it accurately--that's not exactly a lie, but it's certainly not honest either. The reason you're not just saying what you mean is because you're trying to sell me something you know I'm not that interested in.
FOSS or GTFO
His management system seems similar to nonviolent communication. He uses radical honesty among employees where everyone’s rating each other. That’s extreme but it probably has benefit.
Sorry, I'm really not seeing the jump to "treason" here. I also think the author has a personal vendetta against Twitter based on the final sentence of the post, but regardless - they acknowledge that declaration of war is a congressional power, and that contempt of Congress is a possibility - but somehow this means that removal of a post from a member of the executive branch is treason?

Would the New York Times refusing to run a story about how war was declared be treason? What about CSPAN cutting away the broadcast in the middle of a war announcement?

I don't think so, in either case, and I don't think it's the case for Twitter either - because them not carrying the information doesn't change the material facts of the declaration. They're not interfering in an official congressional process in any capacity, because they're not part of an official congressional process.
Pg13-py: fast(er) SQL mocking for Python
really good, I wonder if there's a "Earth and Moon"?
changing practice is not a technical problem that can be solved by ticking off boxes on a checklist but a social problem of human behavior and interaction

successful system change requires demonstrating the need for change, engaging institutional leadership, collecting data, and most important, providing training in teamwork so that everyone feels respected and accountable

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1315851
If it were safe to fly the Max in the US, and the problem were the pilots, it would be in the air now. It isn't, as the problem is clearly with the plane. It was likely just a matter of time before another Max fell out of the sky somewhere in the US, Europe or elsewhere.
What's the issue there? As far as I can tell that's intended behavior - for most randomness /dev/urandom _never_ blocks, and for the paranoid /dev/random blocks when there's no entropy.
How do you get to the comments from your page? I couldn't figure it out.

Edit: I ironically chose a link with 0 comments. So let me amend that: You should indicate when a link has no comments. :)
Samsung: Statement on Fingerprint Recognition Issue
I'm pretty sure the developer is not a native speaker. The email in the contact link looks like a Chinese name and I've seen this site shared in Chinese technology forums before.
That's a lot of assumptions.

1. The people can keep track of a card for 10 years.
2. They can afford to pay 20-30 Euros for something they only use for voting, since apparently they aren't involved in any other part of civic life that involves having an id.
This was my main plan, is hosting .Net Core easy to do on a bare-bones image like DO or Linode? Or is it worth to pony up for a Azure App instance?
If you try, you'll discover it is much less useful in Java. That's probably the reason it's not available there.

Pure languages get a lot of hate, but this is the kind of thing you get when you enable better static analysis of your code.
You'd also get no new airplane designs.
What’s VO and PTC?

My mic is on a boom with a shock mount so the clacks really are just mellow background noise. I hate the loud bangs too.
Whoever has the greatest number of followers gets to be the arbiter of truth.
No, for assistance to an enemy to be treasonable, war must actually have been declared, and only Congress can declare war. Actually waging war on the US is treasonable without a Congressional declaration, but the definition depends on a state of "open war" in which you're part of a recognized assembled group of people engaged in open armed hostilities.

The short answer to almost all these kinds of questions is "it's never treason".
Not to disparage your coder skills, but I think this is a good example of why the "brutalist" style of HN is superior. In exchange for a 5MB deluge of scripts that takes 20 seconds to fully load (actually it just jumped up another 3MB while I was typing this) and a 20s finish time I get maybe ~3 HN entires on screen at a time, versus the main site where I get 20+ entries on 50kb of resources

Also drop the google analytics & addthis trackers man. If the main site doesn't need it then your <1000 hits per month scraper don't need them either.
Sounds a bit like what Apple are doing with the Siri face on watchOS. It surfaces what it believes are relevant tiles/cards in a timeline based on your interests, appointments, interactions, current location, and daily activities.
Thanks. You can find some of that code here: https://github.com/twosigma/postgresql-contrib

I need to finish the open sourcing of tailfhttpd though. It's... an open-coded HTTP server, written in C, specifically tailored for tailing files over HTTP. It uses epoll and inotify, and is C10K, and blazingly fast. You have to front it with nginx or envoy to get TLS support, naturally. Because it's so simple, open-coding HTTP/1.1 seemed reasonable at the time, though nowadays writing this in Rust with some reasonable framework would be better.

The key to tailing files over HTTP is to have a server that supports:

- weak ETags (st_dev, st_ino, generation number)
- If-Match and If-None-Match conditional request
support
- Range requests
- when the right end of the requested range is
left unspecified, use chunked transfer-encoding
and don't send the terminator chunk until
a) EOF is reached, and b) the file is renamed
out of the way or unlinked (which the server can
detect using inotify or similar)

With this clients can tail a file. Heartbeats can only be supported by the application itself -- HTTP/1.1 does not have the ability to send empty non-terminating chunks (HTTP/2.0 doesn't have that problem).

If client loses its tail, it can simply resume by using If-Match and Range starting at the next byte offset after the last byte received before. So recovery is trivial.

And presto, super cheap, simple, and reliable pub/sub.
Oo. Thx.
> I like Git commit messages. Used well, I think they’re one of the most powerful tools available to document a codebase over its lifetime.
1000000% agree!

One of my co-workers in my previous job, I miss reading his PR and git message. It's such a joy reading his PR. I still remember reading his PR on introducing Babel to our big, old Rails 4 app before webpacker, Ruby Babel Transpiler came to life. It's like taking a journey with him. You can see his smile, struggle, surprise and all the emotional moments in his commits. He put his findings, why he made this decision, and where he found this solution in the commit msg. I learned a lot just by reading his PR.
I think reading a well organized PR, clean git commits and descriptive commit messages (even the code review comments are very useful) is one of the best ways to learn in work, especially for new hires.
It's not like fingerprint sensors are all that secure.

From Mythbusters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAfAVGES-Yc

"Remember, according to the manufacturer says this lock has never been broken...."

Watch the whole video --- even the photocopy of the fingerprint was sufficient, which was the third (of three) attempted methods.... all of which worked.
The "same thing way too many times" is common in most oral epics, it helps the teller to remember, and the audience to follow along. So you get formulaic things in Homer like "darkness covered his eyes" each time someone dies in battle, for example. Gilgamesh and Enkidu walking and walking to the forest to battle with Humbaba also helps drive home just how far away they went, which is to say, to some magical far-off land, another popular trope in plenty of stories.
How to protect a website against hackers‎
> Their record is not dismal with the 737MAX.

By what metric?

By every metric I can find (passenger deaths per trip/flight leg/flight mile, hull losses per delivery/year, etc) the MAX is an outlier.

In fact, I can't find any other airframe in the last 50 years that even comes close (including the DC-9 and TU-154). What other airplane has killed 300+ passengers in its first 4 years of operation?

So, what metric have you selected to show that the MAX isn't dismal?

(and please, no lie-with-statistics stuff like hiding the MAX in 737NG data, or claiming that crashes by foreign pilots or on foreign soil don't count)
Have you tried this [1] English reading by George Guidall? It's incomplete but I think it is possible to start anywhere and the performance is very enticing, at least to me.

[1]https://archive.org/details/audiogilgameshnew/01)+a.mp3
More than half of all US doctors get money from pharma each year
> If twitter wanted heads of state off their platform, they would have asked them long ago. They put up with everything because like me and the rest of the internet they’re celebrity vampires.

Maybe they don't put up with anything. I couldn't find any official complaint of a Twitter inc. spokesperson about having to "put up" with what any head of state is doing on their platform.
Doesn't your argument suggest that a functional national health care policy should focus on both controlling payer-side costs and provider-side costs? Like the Swiss system does—payer-side costs are capped as a fraction of household income, and provider-side costs are tightly managed so that the total economic burden remains reasonable.

To me it seems that both sides are presenting a false dichotomy where none need exist. We should bring our health care costs under control, and we ought to simplify Medicaid from a patchwork of state laws that are "mostly, kinda" universal to truly universal, like the Swiss system. I suspect that, in terms of raw dollars, Medicaid spending is already sufficient to fund basic health insurance for everyone who can't afford it; it's just distributed inefficiently and in need of reform. Replace the patchwork of state laws with a flat subsidy for those who can't afford basic insurance, and replace the punitive individual mandate with automatic enrollment.
Thanks for that feedback about the battery drain. If you do notice something is off there again, please don't hesitate to email us about it, as that kind of thing is very useful feedback.
Please, forget about Python. It is not really a programming language.
Mind to explain how these concepts are rather different?
Although I only skimmed it, this article is about hand-written dedications that you might write in a book when you give it as a gift.

I went looking for some of the information about why authors write dedications, but I didn't see any of that.
You and me have an extremely different definition of personal vendetta!
So podcasts are the perfect media to spread discrimination?
I imagine that it's more nuanced - people expect biometric security from their phone today.

The Pixel 4 removed the fingerprint sensor, relying on the face recognition. I imagine that what happened is that the full functionality wasn't ready for launch, and they had to decide between shipping a partial implementation or postponing the phone's launch date.
I'm saying that a doctor's contribution to society is a lot more than a health insurance CEO's and yet that is not reflected in their salary.

It wouldn't surprise me if doctor pay was a larger factor in healthcare costs. But doctor pay is an inherent cost of healthcare, and while we can certainly lower their pay, it's not entirely clear to me what a fair pay would be.

Health insurance CEOs, and indeed most of what a health insurance company does, are not only not inherent costs, but active blights on the healthcare system. A fair pay would be zero, with fines for literally killing people. So they're much higher priorities than doctors for the axe.
1) You're assuming this ONLY discusses the possibility of the US declaring war via tweet. The article clearly talks about ANY country that could declare war via tweet.

2) It specifically addresses the question of the US and Congress. https://abe-winter.github.io/2019/10/18/tweason.html#can-a-t...
Obviously not, since the account can be compromised. (Especially when it comes to Twitter and how they handle 2-Factor)
What I like about using COMMENT with JSON content is that it makes it trivial to extend the schema in powerful ways, and then Aquameta's meta can be stateless views (and instead of triggers). That makes it much easier to swallow meta.
I'd use Gunicorn instead of Django dev server.
VO -> Voice Over I assume. No idea what PTC is.
Chinese Imports Destroyed More Factory Jobs Than Robots
Which, interestingly enough, was another issue before the Code of Conduct changes. In particular, community members were asking about SE changing from CC BY-SA 3.0 to 4.0, and what legal implications that had. I rarely check meta, but it appears to have warmed up the distrust. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan...
> They're not interfering in an official congressional process in any capacity, because they're not part of an official congressional process.

This is the crux of it I'd say.
>the bigger question I think is, if he could do it over again, would he have tried to spend more of his short time on earth with his family and relaxing/enjoying life rather than working?

Kai-Fu Lee writes about this in his latest book and he came to the conclusion that he should have prioritised his family much more and that it was pretty much his biggest regret in life. Seems to be very, very common among people who come close to death.
The Unbelievably High Cost of the War Against Huawei
I didn’t know the rendering was done server-side, but if that saves time then that’s a plus of course.

I don’t agree about installation at all, with mac app store (and probably on the PC as well) installation is a one-click affair.

As to tutorials, I don’t see how the choice of platform would make it any easier to use, how do you mean?

Oh, and my point was that These points don’t really seem to be arguments for a browser app.

I would think that this makes most sense for casual video editing. If you can be bothered paying for a subscription you might as well get adobe or some other established, native app. Installation is trivial.
In tech communities, we often have discussions/debates about the value and/or necessity of hosting content and data on servers we own, because we fear losing everything stored on cloud servers beyond our control. The current White House seems to be the very opposite in its lack of qualm or reflection. Which is ironic because the WH has long had a decent software stack (made even better by federal budgets and staffing) to publish, host disseminate, and secure content on servers completely under their control – arguably as close to reliability and digital permanence as the Library of Congress or Internet Archive.

I know the federal archivists have logistics and software in place to automatically collect and archive digital content [0]. But that doesn't do much for real-time current announcements made on Twitter or Facebook. In the hypothetical event in which the President posts something that could irrevocably lead to diplomatic disaster and war, it's not impossible to imagine a tech executive, or even low-level employee, having a Vasily Arkhipov moment and making the unilateral decision to censor/ban the president.

From the perspective of the White House and the President, of course, it's deeply undesirable to have a main communication channel cut off, especially during an emergency. And yet President Trump has stoked a mindset among the public and media to see his Twitter as the direct feed of executive-level news and decision making, without any concern that Twitter's execs have ultimate veto power over his channel.

[0] https://archivesocial.com/whitehouse/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov_(vice_admiral)
Imgur won’t support Reddit’s NSFW communities: they put its ‘business at risk’
> the humor is repetitious and hard to embrace

the world's oldest joke - a Sumerian rib-tickler dating back to 1,900 BC which goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/01/oldest_joke/

Explain ancient humor to me. I am all for embracing it.
Would it be possible for Twitter to commit treason against another country at all?
A simple but difficult arithmetic puzzle
They can use the last release of Xwayland, whatever and whenever that is.

But more likely, they will need to be run on some ancient OS or distro version and thus containerized or virtualized anyway.
Yes, its analysis of the US and Congress is, I believe, simply wrong. The President can effectively levy war in the 21st century without Congress, but such "wars" do not create the conditions required for treason. Treason is incumbent on war being properly declared.

Even John Walker Lindh couldn't be charged with treason, and he had the weight of an actual AUMF against him.
Even in terms of usability I find fingerprint scanners much better. At a minimum I they should offer both options and not just eliminate fingerprint.
If a fortune cookie declares war, is it treason to eat it?

If a roll of toilet paper declares war, is it treason to wipe your ass with it?

If war is declared with a telephone call, is it treason to hang up?

If a beeper receives a pager notification to call back a number so that war can be declared, is it treason to ignore the page?

If wars might be declared via twitter, huge portions of human civilization are about to go up in smoke. Those using twitter to declare war will probably lose.

It's probably treason to use twitter as an escalation channel.
what a stupid thing to waste time thinking about. One would think the actual declaration of war would be the interesting event here.
> the best

The best at what? I think that’s the real existential question. The best at making money? Okay. Maybe I’m not as interested in having “created significant shareholder value” on my gravestone.
I was thinking it's odd because, in the one video from this article I watched, the keyboard sounds were among the quietest and least noticeable I've ever encountered.
My Biggest Regrets About Retiring at 24
What is that on the ground that rolls by it, stops by sewer grate, and then rolls some more?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrMfU2FtSBk&feature=youtu.be...
This seems like a foul-mouthed, unfunny tirade against Apple not fixing a clearly non-Apple related hardware issue. Why is it on HN at all?
Yes, this is how the government works...
After HP fired Hurd Oracle/Larry Ellison hired him. A bit later Larry Ellison gave up his role as CEO but staying President of the Board and CTO and the CEO job was split between Safra Catz (financial side) and Mark Hurd (sales, marketing) and the three of them worked together splitting the responsibilities.
Splines are totally ML if gaussian processes or markov random fields are ML...
Also, not saying that I agree with the definition or any sensible cut between statistics and ML, just my mental model for interpretation of what people are talking about when they talk about ML
Link? I'm interested in using something like this at work.
Why every browser switching to Blink could be bad news for the web
There is 'sysclean' in packages, which make that step easier.
Keeper Tax (YC W19) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Developer in SF
There are 57M gig workers in the united states (ex: contractors, uber drivers, etc). We believe that every single one of them is overpaying on taxes. We're building Keeper Tax to solve that problem and we're looking for our second engineer.

What we look for:

- You have 2+ years React and Node experience. You can point to React and Node apps that you have shipped and that customers are using.

- You are a self starter. You can get stuff done without a significant amount of supervision. You find ways to unblock yourself. You find valuable work to do, and get work done quickly.

- You are a good communicator. If you get blocked, you talk about what you need. If you are frustrated about the code, you talk about what you need to do to fix it.

- You are creative. You are passionate about learning about the customer's needs and coming up with creative solutions to address those needs.

- You want to join a seed stage startup. This is a high risk/high reward opportunity. We are a small team with a lot of work to do, and that type of environment excites you.

Compensation range:
$100-120K base + 0.5-1% equity

Examples of what you'll be working on:
- Making bookkeeping more efficient and delightful on web and mobile
- Automating tax filing with web automation tools like Selenium
- Scaling up our data processing jobs

Our stack:
- web app: React/Redux
- mobile: React Native
- backend: Node/MySQL
- data processing: Python

Who you'll be working with:
- Matt King https://www.linkedin.com/in/mking8/
- Paul Koullick https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulkoullick/
- David Kang https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-kang-001b177b/

KeeperTax by the numbers:
- 30% monthly growth
- $40M in tax savings found so far

----------------------------------------

Interested? email founders@keepertax.com
Wow, it's taken us so long to get (something like) this thing going. 37 years now, and Boston Dynamics is only now in the final steps of productizing v1.
I’m not sure how it would benefit them to “lie” about their criteria, unless they were secretly racist or something (clearly not the case). If anything they would want to encourage the kind of founders they actually accept, to make the process more efficient.

I’m sure the process isn’t entirely fair, since picking winners at such an early stage is incredibly hard and they have so little time for each candidate, but I’m also sure that they _try_ to be as fair as possible.

And I write this as someone that has been rejected about half a dozen times...
The Eye-Popping Cost of Medicare for All: “According to New Figures: More (Cont)
Oh for crying out loud, can we not do this for once?

No one, literally no one, using the incredibly common idiom of "dead in a ditch" is thinking of or referencing anything to do with Native Americans, alcohol or this person you've just referenced who I've never heard of before.

There is roughly a 0% chance that someone saying that phrase means it, or has ever even heard of it as, the weird imaginary negative stereotype usage you've claiming here.
These are arguments about making people feel better about the system, but not about making the system meaningfully better.
Execute as you write Python [VSCode Extension]
That's fair, "vendetta" is too strong of a word. "Personal bias" is better-suited. It's just hard to read a post calling them "internet vampires" and still assume a neutral author.
That comment says the code author actively stopped to think about the function and didn't find anything worth noticing about it.

It is a completely different situation from the lack of such a comment, that implies that the author didn't stop to consider the function, and you can find any kind of strange things when calling it.
Another instance of Android copying and iOS feature poorly. What exactly is Google even working on these days?