skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the Russians will reprise their role and do an encore as the baddies part deux for us —they are super safe guilt free baddies.
Cool, so let them litigate if they so choose. A court can decide if the pump and dump broke securities laws and penalize accordingly. It still doesn't matter for any of the people acting personally offended.

It's absolute within softbank's right to act "antisocially" as long as no specific laws were broken.

What, should we take them to thought crime court for improper antisocial thought?
You expect Billboard to be neutral on this? That seems possible, but unlikely.
right, should have said "has oft quoted". Thanks for the correction.
I’ve structured my career (work from home, not management, no on call) and my finances (in my 30s) so when my father needs care (my mother has already passed), we’ll move him in with us and if I need to take time off to care for him, I can. This is an implicit generational contract IMHO. My parents raised and cared for me for a third of their life, it would be unreasonable to not do the same in return.

Why would we expect others to do this work? Or that it would scale to do so?
I'll say it until I'm blue in the face, Boston built the Valley.
Nothing prevents you, but keep in mind options are an option to buy at a strike price that is generally non-trivial. By exercising early you're basically doubling down.
Isn't the >> notation easier
> when using HTTPS isn't the method encrypted?

We're talking about caching proxies run by sites. These terminate SSL and work in the clear, because their whole job is to take the response one user got and efficiently distribute it to all the other users who want the same thing.
> If they implement Go-style concurrency that would kick this project up to the next level.

I don't think that would work given the fact that it still runs V8's event loop.
That's an interesting idea. Is there some way to follow or subscribe to anything for updates?
Most of your comments are dead but nothing seems obviously off about them to me. I vouched for this one.
J Paul Getty said this first, allegedly.
Presumably they may have opted for a very ominous debt package, which would have been senior to Softbank's equity, which is another thing SB would have liked to avoid.
I can't think of any node.js painpoints. Can you list some examples? I've been coding in it at a high level for the past 5 years.
I got a call from them after a cousin I’ve never met traded the stock of the company I was working at. Anybody who works at a public company sees insider information every day. Anybody who thinks they want to profit of it, especially if they think doing so would be easy, can expect a run in with the SEC.
Those things are the mainstream.
Can you point out some of these mistakes? Also, traditional finance has had it's share of blowing up in their faces. The difference with DeFi is that economies are being being build on an economic model rather than an economic model being built on an economy.
> The left exists everywhere, one man does not.

Check under your bed, there might be Marxists hiding there.
Pension fund puts $50M in blockchain fund
PG&E is a corporation, not a government agency.
VPN barely affects speeds on my end and I have a gigabit connection. Usually the bottleneck is the torrent itself unless it’s extremely popular.
Ahh yes, the good old protect the children argument.
Seems like there's plenty of CO2 to go around. What's the issue?
this is really cool. i'm currently in Melbourne (but from the USA) -- http://bit.ly/elasticventures-growpotbot

I posted on another thread -- but basically the innovation in this area was stifled by lack of military applications in the USA and farmers "not being real good at technology" and good ole' fashioned corruption in the academic institutions.

If you'd like this to be full time - I know a guy that manages a tycoon fortune and he might like to help you.
hmu - http://elastic.ventures
How do you get around the paywall? The usual tricks don't work... Besides paying money.
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> ... with increased adoption of CGNAT and an ever-increasing amount of devices per household, it just isn't a reliable data point anymore.

I know this is not a popular stance on HN, but ipv4 has built in casual anonymization, whereas ipv6 had built in casual identification. Both systems are defeatable, but what bothers me about ipv6 is that the invasion of privacy is the default.

Coincidentally, Google, Facebook, et all are pushing ipv6 very hard.
that could happen with the right investments in public transport infrastructure...

so... no.
This redefines failing upward.

The lunacy of this is astounding.
Webkit mother is literally KDE code.
I don't think they have many assets on their books, relatively speaking. They lease most, if not all, their property. Neumann took personal loans to buy properties, keep them off balance sheet, and leased it back to wework.

This news came out well before the s1. It's a miracle it took the s1 to get investors to give a damn when there were so many governance issues and conflicts of interest out in the open well before.
You always eliminate the position so you don't have to pay severance, oldest trick in the book.
Recap of the Startup Pitch Contest at the Canada Fintech Forum 2019
I haven't setup a formal mailing list yet but send me an email at sam@richardson.co.nz and I'll make sure you get updates.
Interesting. I knew there were malicious peers around but that's the first I've seen that's so loud about it.
What could go wrong with that pracfice?
Yeah, Terry Gilliam is a funny guy.
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I think Range Voting is easier to pitch. You vote each candidate on a 5-star basis similar to your ride sharing and delivery apps. As a bonus it collects more fine-gained data per voter.
I bet they change their name after the story, like the new Magnum did (from NYT article)
Wow, pensions use to stick to fixed income to avoid dropping risk on the people depending on them. This is quite the pendulum swing.

This has got to just be a hail Mary from the pension's perspectives and that probably says a lot about their solvency.
The Omnibox UI Hide flag has vanished for me. Once again my urls are truncated.
So how do we help people like me (independent, small shops) monetize their work effectively to try to inject a smidgen of sanity into the world to counterbalance such lunacy?
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Ask HN: Resources for Designing a Declarative Language that uses AI
With the constant improvements in hardware technology, it's becoming much more practical to design applications in a declarative style.

We can say what we want, with out describing how it's done...

It may even become practical to use neural nets or some other machine learning strategy to compile applications, based on some programs input.

Are there any resources you'd recommend to start designing an declarative language of this nature?
Hit Esc a bunch while it's loading.
That is very interesting and I hadn't seen it before. IRV still does better than plurality by quite a bit, although it doesn't do well compared to the rest. As the chart shows, one of the biggest outliers is 100% honest voting with plurality.

I hadn't heard of 3-2-1 voting before but that is interesting. Maybe it would be one of the best. I generally prefer ranking to scoring (I'm not sure how much better someone prefers a candidate should really be part of the process) but the simpler tallying and presentation of results is nice. I also like that in the "scenereo type" breakdown the easy case gets the best results, condorcet cycles get the worst results, and the rest are in the middle (all with little effect of strategy). It seems like the right distribution to me, but none of the other methods measured get that distribution. IMO a ranked preference is usually much easier to determine how to vote (although it can still be an issue when some candidates are much closer than others), although I guess the limited effect of strategic voting should hopefully mean that it usualy doesn't make much difference exactly how you vote. OTOH, at least the names of the options should be changed; it is the rare race where I could describe any of the candidates as anything other than "bad".

https://electowiki.org/wiki/3-2-1_voting

IMO, proportional representation would be a much better change of voting system rather than just changing the method. Voting for one person is almost always going to leave lots of people unrepresented.
> one is also a valid abbreviation of their language's word.

No, you can't abbreviate "ou" with "o", it's a different sound. Similarly in English, you don't use "t" for "th" in abbreviation (maths vs mats).
Or at least the users who conflate their being forced out with a lack of commitment to infosec
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One of the most annoying things in hacker news is people downvoting any opinion that doesn't match their world view.

I don't necessarily agree with the poster above, but it is obviously not an instance of trolling, also it is not offensive or damaging to anyone.
Yara is an awesome tool
Maybe just don't watch videos inside your Browser. You know there's youtube-dl+mpv?
Not disagreeing - I didn't say a verbal agreement isn't binding.

What I'm saying is that a verbal agreement is binding if there's an intention to create binding relations, and not binding if there is not that intention.
This is where having someone on the executive team with technical experience can be such a boon. I know I'm lucky with this, but our exec (chief admin. officer) spent years in the IS ('s' is for services) department at our company -- starting as a VB dev back in the 80s. Luckily leadership is fairly forward-thinking for a nonprofit and we've been doing Angular and C# for years now. She consistently goes to bat for our director and has managed to get our CEO to understand the great difficulty involved in keeping an IS operation running smoothly.

I mean, think about it. Hospitals wouldn't fire the surgeons for consistently executing error-free operations.
Yeah, bigcorps, corruption, and a big shiny ball.

L.A. has serial killers, disaffected body builders, criminal surfer gangs, kung fu sidekicks, crooked magicians, new age cults, disgruntled aerospace employees, gratuitously wealthy people, pornographers, and loads of driftwood in orbit around Hollywood, flitting from project to project. Chicago has Catholics and Perogies.

Any crime story set in Chicago could be better done in New York or Philadelphia.
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https://heavywateraero.com/ Heavy water aero is trying to do some pretty cool stuff.
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I run the product team for https://farmdog.ag/
Our mission is to significantly reduce the use of pesticides.
You do realize that you are writing this comment on a site literally called "Hacker News", right?

(and yes, that is simply their technical blog)
> notice all the other (non-US) countries in the list using .gov.<two letter country code>?

no, Spanish speaking countries use "gob"
Can you elaborate? The only '>>' notation I'm familiar with is to append to a file.

The purpose of this technique is if you have a script running on, say, a master host, has a bunch of functions, but has a couple functions that need to run somewhere else (like a backup script that needs to put a remote database server in hot backup mode). You can either write the remote commands to a file, sync it to the remote host (somewhere), then execute it. Or, use this technique to pass the function "live" to the remote environment and run it unmodified.

I personally use it in the front-end client script (snebu-client) for the Snebu backup system.
The NYT had been hiring like crazy for a few years. Given the financial state most of the traditional media is in, this looks more like plain old cost-cutting on intermediary management layers.
You could report them to AWS for violating the acceptable use policy. They have a line in there about interception: https://aws.amazon.com/aup/
> 7 megatons is approximately 4% of national emissions

What makes up the bulk of national emissions?
>injects own custom http headers so advertisers can uniquely identify you even easier

>takes crypto donation hostage and opens funds in other people's names (i.e. scams crypto to artificially create demand for that BAT)

If you use Brave you literally are part of the problem.
The article mentions that the author tried Lightroom, twice, in case the newer version was a better fit.
Honest answer: a beautiful thing about capital markets is that if you understand some piece of info which isn't being priced you have the ability to make lots of money.

And being rich is a pretty good starting place for large scale change. You essentially get to take money from something you disagree with and reallocate it whatever way you see just.

So basically go beat them at their own game. It seems like there are chances to do that.
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They can always rebrand as FIGG Demolition.

I get that mistakes do happen but this was a bloody footbridge...
they're one of (if not the) largest lessees in NYC (and other cities around the world), with long-term leases. A lot of landlords would have a conniption if these guys went out of business. Would rock the commercial RE market.
Have you also structured your finances so that you can take care of aunts and uncles and in-laws and grandparents? What about older relatives without help that live in different states? I think you're making a lot of assumptions about others here, and it (and all of the edits you're making to your comment) seems kind of silly and unnecessary. Have a nice night.
GCP us-west1-b network issues
I wonder if the default values for offset and thickness will respect those declared in the font. And also whether sub-pixel values are allowed? I don’t know how many fonts declare these values, but it would be a shame not to use information that provides values tailored to the font in use.
Just an aside, I also quit Lightroom because I don't want to be tied to a subscription. Since I have a Sony Camera, I am currently testing Capture One Express.

How does the Capture One Pro version work for you?
Apple makes high-quality phones and tablets. Which is kind of the point.
It's open source, there's nothing stopping you from integrating it with the payment platform of your choice and contributing the code back to the project.
I mean... SoftBank sunk a lot of money into it. So, from SoftBank's perspective it is too big to fail...
I'm not sure why that would be the case. Why would they face any more opposition than any other candidate being elected would to put in place their electoral promesses?

In fact, I'd expect less opposition, since more people approved of their proposed platform.
It is funny though, because both sides use the same "think about the children" argument. One side: surveil them for their safety, and the other: do not surveil them for their safety. I omitted the reasons, just merely wanted to point out how both sides use the same argument. Personally I am in favor of less surveillance of everyone, not just kids.
and less catchy.
I use pia, they are inexpensive with plenty of traffic to blend with.
This. The most likely scenario to me seems that NYT is seeing a very clear trend after several years of flaunting a complete lack of accountability, highly controversial (not in a good way) hires, and obscene levels of bias for "the newspaper of record".

Like most Leftist media agencies, it's probably seeing some tough times coming up, so it makes sense to cut costs in areas that are not attracting subscribers.
VCs are supposed to diligence that. They fail they loose.
It seems NordVPN fucked up themselves are are now trying to avoid responsibility:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/21/nordvpn_security_is...

""All servers we provide have the iLO or iDRAC remote access tool, and as a matter of fact this remote access tool has security problems from time to time, as almost all software in the world. We patched this tool as new firmware was released from HP or Dell.

"We have many clients, and some large VPN service providers among them, who take care of their security very strongly. They pay more attention to this than NordVPN, and ask us to put iLO or iDRAC remote-access tool inside private networks or shut down access to this tool until they need it. We bring [iLO or iDRAC] ports up when we get requests from clients, and shut them down when they are done using this tools. NordVPN seems it did not pay more attention to security by themselves, and somehow try to put this on our shoulders.""
Very weird, there are much less prominent and less targeted corps with ciso's lol. Their loss,lady is a freaking legend.

Bit of a perspective: Companies sometimes keep security staff but have them report under a director of some IT department. Companies are also horrible just horrible about how they perceive the value of an infosec position, the ROI is you don't get pwned. Period. No money savings,no contribution to the bottom line. Not dissimilar to a good insurance policy. I partly fear because it's up to the whims of some exec or some catch phrase they hear somewhere that changes their perception of what value we bring to the table where as engineers build,admins run systems and fix breaks.
People need to stop calling it (just) stalkerware and call it what it obviously is: malware. It's no different from any other form of malware. Just the criminals are probably people you know rather than online opportunists.
In normal automation, Ansible (or similar) may be prefered. However this is for use cases where your app runs across multiple hosts, and some functions need to be done on the other host.

An example is if you have something inside a KVM instance or a docker container, and you need to ssh outside of it when it boots up (or a service starts) to play with IPtables settings on the base server.

For most cases, you would use a higher level language, that has clean remote procedure execution (in modern terms, doing "curl" to a remote node.js served API). This however is when you have a need to do everything in BASH scripts.
The candidate who is everyone's 10th choice can't win. To make it through the first exclusion the candidate has to be more people's first choice than at least one other candidate.

In practice the most outlandish result you get is someone winning from third on the primary (first choice) votes (eg https://results.ecq.qld.gov.au/elections/state/State2017/res... or https://results.aec.gov.au/15508/Website/HouseDivisionFirstP... ), but such a candidate still needs a considerable amount of first choice votes to be in the running (and of course a very strong flow of second/subsequent choice votes).

The legitimacy argument of IRV is that the winning candidate needed to accrue 50%+1 of first-and-subsequent choice votes, so they are at least the preferred winner over the second-place candidate by a majority of the electorate.
Starting with kindergarten at my kids' school, they send home photos of the kids every so often during the day and also periodically have the kids post assignments they're working on (on their iPads—yes they give the kindergarteners iPads, god I wish they wouldn't but they do, and this is one of the good schools in the area).

I worry about the effect this near-real-time performance thing will have on them—it seems different, somehow, from just knowing your parents will see a graded paper come home in a week or two, to do it and immediately post it, where parents can comment and everything. It's creepy.
Excuse my ignorance. What does Firefox have to do with f.lux? I thought f.lux was a separate package that tinted colors on a level lower than the applications themselves?
Tidbit - they have a post on /r/netsec for application security engineers (so they are at least growing the team)

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/dc9zia/rnetsecs_q4_...
Yes, I am willing and able to take in any family necessary, regardless of relation. If they’re unwilling to relocate, we are (I work from home, and we live light).

I’m not saying it’s easy, by any means. I’m saying it’s necessary, unless you’re financially wealthy enough to outsource all of the support services elder care requires, which most people cannot (I am not at that wealth level, but I can take time off to provide care).

My intent is not to poke at you specifically by any means, but to point out these are systemic problems the country will face as an older generation ages and the wealth doesn’t exist to provide them white glove service until death. The solution is not startups, it’s community and family (along with having enough savings, FMLA, and vacation time).
That's one of my reasons too, I use Safari on iPhone and iPad, and FireFox on my desktop. It's great to just be able to use 1Password everywhere.
https://cruip.com/

Surprisingly well designed static templates with reasonable free and paid options.
Magnetars, soft gamma repeaters, and strong magnetic fields (2003)
> If someone steals your car and crashes it are you responsible?

I know of at least one country in Eastern Europe where this is true. If someone steals your car and kills someone with it, you are in serious trouble. I do not agree with the law.
I’ve thought deeply about that too. The whole, if I hate practicing stupid word problems so much, why have I convinced myself to spend most of my waking hours doing this software thing?

Then again, it’s decent money and in time I do plan to do something else entirely. Hopefully I’ll have an idea or get involved early enough at a startup to move into management / less technical things?
Amazon Web Services' DNS systems knackered by hours-long cyber-attack
Absolutely this. Linear algebra has been the gift that has kept on giving since the 1800s underpinning everything from quantum mechanics to video games.

Unlike most mathematics where you quickly hit a usefulness ceiling, the more linear algebra you learn the more useful it gets - linear algebra is just such a rich subject that there's an ocean of useful things to learn and apply.
As a passive supporter of capitalism I’ve enjoyed reading Ha Joon Chang’s critiques of capitalism.
You might like some of the other posts on the blog! I’ve written several other posts showing how Geometric Algebra can be used in plane geometry problems that would typically be treated with lengths and angles.

Most recent post, which links to other parts of the series: https://www.shapeoperator.com/2019/02/10/proving-theorems-ab...

An older post applying GA to the geometry of sunsets: https://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/
If you enjoyed this post, you'll probably love "The Elements of Euclid"[1] by Byrne which provides entirely visual proof for ALL the basic proofs of euclidean geometry.

I actually first came across the book when I saw it mentioned in Beautiful Explanations by Tufte. The beauty of the images is just on another level, the book will just make you feel good when you stare at it and after staring at it you'll absorb a proof accidentally with barely any effort on your part.

There is a mistaken belief that visual proofs are less serious than algebraic ones but I believe this is mostly due to a lack of imagination when it comes coming up with good visual proofs. Byrne's book will help you see just how powerful pictures can be. There's lots of good work happening in the Category Theory community to turn diagrams into first class objects in constructing proofs so I'm very optimistic about a boom in visual proof construction.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Byrne-Six-Books-Euclid-Multilingual/d...
There's work going on to adopt Core Animation more deeply in WebRender. Patches in review right now, in fact.
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