skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The description isn’t inaccurate. Instead, in what has become an EFF norm, it’s selectively accurate. The CASE Act creates a voluntary small claims court procedure for low value copyright claims: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/466742-the-.... That is currently impossible today because the Copyright Act requires claims to be brought in federal court. Parties can, at their election, proceed before the Copyright Office, with or without lawyers. There is still an adjudication of sorts, but the procedures are relaxed just as they are with small claims. Parties can also exercise their right to go to federal court.

The EFF has some legitimate concerns here. The CASE Act lowers the barrier to asserting copyright claims, which might be a bad thing. The same point could have been made in an article that didn’t read like a Trump tweet series.
NYT Opinion piece that requires login: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/opinion/trump-impeachment...
When you scroll down the site, “Intelligent” is misspelled as “Inteligent”
Ask HN: Why doesn't Google offer a Google-wide tracking / ads opt-out plan?
They do similar with Youtube premium. Why isn't there a $25/mo Google wide ad/tracking opt-out plan?
I wonder if this could be related purely to stress.

People with more brain activity tend to have more stressful lives, as they also tend to move upward the social economic hierarchy. Empirically speaking.
Postgres Case Statement Basics by Example
PIA does.
Because he has control over the company. If they don't pay the 1.7bi, then:

- SoftBank loses 15bi

- 15,000 employees lose their entire paycheck

(I don't disagree this is insane. But it what it is.)
I've worked for one of the NYT's subsidiaries and personally witnessed how their security posture changed (for the better!) after they were acquired by NYT. I was told that these downstream changes were due to policies laid out by Runa and Runa's team.

NYT will come to regret this decision. Hopefully, for their employees/readers/journalists/sources/etc. sake, it's only because of the bad publicity.
> A subpoena would be required to reveal your source IP, and perhaps your VPN provider is telling the truth about not keeping logs.

I doubt this is necessarily true in the US due to the 3rd party doctrine (which I abhor). I think they may refuse and request a subpoena, though. But, nothing stopping a company (generally) from handing over your data if asked for. Maybe T.O.S?
I find Jackie Chan's physical comedy to be superb. It also doubles as incredible fight scenes.

His fight scenes and stunts are riddled with humor.
This tutorial introduces to the basics of using CASE statements/expressions and also cover comparison operators (greater than, less than, equal to) and BETWEEN.
How do you tackle fear?
How do you drown your fears?
No US services have head of line privileges.
Stop! It’s a re-structuring, not abandoning of infosec. This was one person out of many. Still sucks, but should be seen within context
It might not be perfect, but allowing only web workers (if you agree on getting push notifications from a page) might be the solution.
Not just delays. Being able to drive a transistor fast can be important for reducing power dissipation. That is, for switching one wants the transistor to spend the least amount of time in the non-saturated (linear) region where it acts as a resistor.
Bandwidth is cheap.
Unfortunately anything screen readers can recognize as invisible, a more sophisticated bot can too.
Yes, that's what I was wondering about.
I've never tried Ghost, although their website always appealed to me (one of the best designed website I know). I've been using WordPress for the past 13 years, for personal and also professional projects, which means the familiarity I've built with building custom themes never drew me towards trying another CMS.

But going through this blog post announcement, I saw that Ghost can be used as a headless CMS with frontend frameworks. And since I started using GatsbyJS extensively in the past year, it seems like something that would work _really_ well together.

(It turns out that the official website is actually built with GatsbyJS, so the integration is probably really robust.)

Gonna try it out! And congrats on remaining true to your initial philosophy.
Chrome does this for a long time now and I don't consider it an issue. You see a frozen version of the last decoded keyframe until the next one is decoded. Elegant solution IMO.
I believe this is an unsolvable problem. The math just doesn't work anymore. Back when exponential population growth was more of an option you'd just have 6 kids to spread the cost of elder care across. It doesn't matter whether you care for your parents or hire someone to, the fact of the matter is there is increasingly just not enough young people to provide the elder care and also perform the other kinds of productive work we need to get done in society.
Grants and RSUs are just income. Especially at the big players where they vest predictably and you can immediately sell them. And, sure, I walked away from half a million in Amazon shares when I left, but it's not like any role I took wouldn't immediately set me up with the same or better pay scale.
> I would get asked "will you stake your career on it never happening?"

Was anyone being asked to stake their career on all the existing security practices? I've worked on a couple of projects with politics similar to what you described, yet they had encrypted (unsalted, decryptable) passwords in a database, and only about 3 tech people seemed to understand the implications of that.

Who was staking their career on that?
Ask HN: What have you built with Google Sheets?
I'm always surprised by the things people have built using Google Sheets or on top of Google Sheets such as sheet2site or Tiller. It made me wonder what other things people have built or used it for.
I'd love to know why you think you know what's better or worse for a stranger on the internet. Have you discovered objective reality that completely accounts for every subjective experience of every human being and can conclusively prove what is better or worse?

My, those foolish philosophers and scientists can finally retire - Andrew Kemendo has arrived, we just need to listen and do as he/she says.
Slightly off-topic but I visited Arch Linux's forum with Tor and it says I have been banned with the reason: "Never come back". I wonder if they were referring to Tor users in general.
Season of discontent: protests flare around the world
Retroshare – Secure Communication for Everyone
I believe they are using census areas, which are constructed by looking at population and then how they connect (e.g. do a reasonably % of people commute within this region, etc).
I like the idea. Who else do you know of that is working on this?
Not disparaging the company whatsoever, but depending on the job you're looking for at Indigo, make sure you take a look at Glassdoor. Indigo looks impressive from many angles, yes. And while it's anecdotal at best, I say with all honesty that I have a few close friends that have interviewed there and confirm the central themes of the negative reviews.
You think the rank and file got their just desserts?
July 2018 NY Times article about the person who just lost her job:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/insider/meet-runa-sandvik...
Chile has descended into chaos: the military is indiscriminately killing people
Bloom+Hybrid+Coupon+Awesome+Night+Sale
There can be gender differences at play. As a guess, jen_h sounds like a female name.

Women tend to be saddled with caretaking work in a way that can easily be abusive. In some cultures, the social contract is that women get taken care of financially for doing the women's work, but that's not universal.

White American culture can be very ugly about treating women like they are all undeserving, lazy mooches who need a paycheck on top of their obligation to provide care for relatives. Not all subcultures do that.

So it's possible that there are both cultural and gender differences that involve a lot of implicit, baked in assumptions that neither of you are explicitly spelling out in comments and are the source of different viewpoints.

Without addressing such, you may be unable to reach some kind of agreement because you can't even effectively communicate.
Two Periodic Functions with Sum as Identify Function [pdf]
Also, parents overestimate their explicit influence on kids and thereby their importance and responsibility in explicitly teaching them by setting rules and "preaching". Instead, kids brains are very good at filtering out the bullshit, learning by observing actions rather than talk and learning from peers and other adults.

However, a truly dictatorial parental surveillance scheme, as is now possible through tech, may inhibit the information transfer even more. Combined with practices like constant parental transportation, structured extracurriculars every day, no recess at school or homeschooling a very dystopian picture emerges.

I really hope this wave won't hit Europe.

And the effects are already showing: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/02/27/generati...
Huh. Just when I thought nothing would surprise me, it turns out that not so long ago, people in one the most advanced civilizations on earth at them were eating freaking mummies... for medicinal purposes.

The screenshot of a medicinal book of the time, recommending "skull of a man ought to be such an one which dieth a violent death and never buried" for grinding down and drinking, is also priceless:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B0wp2PB7GU0/VmJleJf7SHI/AAAAAAAAC...
Deep learning. Unlike Crypto, actual companies are actually implementing it for real non-illegal uses cases, like camera Night Mode, translation, self-driving cars.
I just turned the router off and on again and the IP is the same :$
How are RSUs like playing the lotto if you work for one of the big 5 (GAFAM)? I work for one and my RSUs vest monthly and they are autosold so i get a USD based direct deposit each month. While it does very slightly, I wouldn't consider it the lotto.
The NTSB document - https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/2019-HWY18MH009-B... - is absolutely phenomenal.

It's so fact based, well articulated that it gives me faith in government.
Approval Voting
To us perhaps, but most western users are only a fraction of people on the world. Even if you take BRIC out of the picture you still have billions of people that either nave no computer or a computer that is so old a recent PC with a rotating disk is still way faster. It's very easy to get lost in a current context.
The biggest value I've seen from VPNs is when certain networks block SSH. This happens to me all the time when staying in hotels. For my work I need SSH.

I've also had edge-cases where I need to obscure my country of origin. For instance, I couldn't stream Game of Thrones via Hulu/HBO Go this Summer while in Mexico. For some reason, Mexico is blocked. My VPN solved that.

For security? It's unlikely to help unless I am on an unsecured wireless network or something like that. Good read nonetheless.
Did you and your child know about that systemic monitoring in advance? I mean were you explicitly told that search history (and presumably other activity) would be monitored by the school in real time?
Hey. I am 22 (from India), suffering from depression and with zero skills which can get me a job. I have wasted last 4-5 years without doing anything or learning anything. All i do is sleep, laying on bed and daydream through out the day. Can you tell me how should i go about improving my life?
Classic HackerNews "

This is so easy and I, a software developer with no actual experience in that area, know the obvious solution that eludes that hundreds of developers with actual experience in the area. Meanwhile, I take umbrage when my product manager tells me that implementing the next feature will be easy and I'm exaggerating how complicated it is."
Ask HN: Do you use unmaintained libraries?
What qualifies as unmaintained to you?

In my experience I have come across engineers that are very dogmatic about this, and won't allow unmaintained libraries even for developer tools, or very small helper libraries that do very specific things.

Do you think this rule should apply always or analyzed by individual scenarios?
Back in the days of core memory I remember restarting a machine after the power had gone out. No need to reboot (unless power had gone out while the monitory ("kernel") was running) -- only the running process, with its semiconductor registers, would die. Everything else was persistent.

The original Multics design did not make a distinction between memory pages on disk and in RAM. Files were just a way to describe a collection of memory pages, wherever they might be.
You aren't asking "why" enough. It's not just a bad actor... Why was it possible for him to do what he did? Why was he allowed to personally succeed and leave others the debt?
Strangely enough I'm in LA right now. In the U.S. for another 2.5 weeks. Will ping you. Thanks for the comment.
Not exactly. In French, adjectives can both precede or follow the noun. It's stylistic more than grammatical in many cases, and depends on how the sentence is constructed. Nuances (e.g. proper versus figurative meaning) can be elegantly conveyed by switching the adjective.

Examples:

"Un homme grand" means 'a tall man', but "un grand homme" is more commonly 'a great man' (although it could also mean tall, depending on context or sophistication).

"Une voiture bleue" is the only correct way to say 'a blue car' ("une bleue voiture" would be grammatically wrong).

"Un petit homme noir" ('a short black man') is also correct, but "un noir homme petit" is absolutely wrong, as any other variation...

Generally, when both orders are allowed, emphasis is put on whichever comes first —the noun or its adjectives. Unless the sentence ends there, in which case the last word obviously resonates more.

Don't ask me why... It's logically as weird to me as it may seem to you. I only know from practice (like most French people I suspect) and I'm generally bad at explaining grammar (again like most, for it's really complicated). There's probably some rule somewhere about that, with three dozen exceptions, as usual in French.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What reputation? Where is the dispensing of knowledge? And how do you know violations are evening coming back to the surface? With the ease of starting a new service, and the typical anonymity of who is running it, I don’t believe one bit in being able to let the decentralized world determine is trustworthy here. The space is full of shady operators.
Also,

> Errors in design may occur, but systems should be in place to catch those errors when they do occur. In this case, a firm was hired to independently review the bridge design for errors. However, [...] Although the design reviewer recognized that he should have examined the nodes and stages, he indicated that there was not enough budget or time to evaluate those factors. Contributing to this review failure was the reviewing firm’s lack of qualification to do this work.
Holy shit... what?! People have been stalking their partners using hidden apps? Is jealousy this powerful? WTF - that legitimately sounds crazy to me.
I worked in Unified communications for many years and is a very well established and solid technology with protocols like SIP, RTP, sRTP and webRTC as we move to space and that area is growing, inter space communications Is an interesting are to work on. How to transmit via other media (radio, light) to be able to communicate across the solar system
You’re still contributing to the Chromium engine monoculture, though.
If a company gets to an S-1, the VCs are complicit. Seems like the only people losing are Wework employees.
> Who was staking their career on that?

Potentially - everyone who worked there, including you. :/
This is absolutely beautiful. I get the clear sky argument, but personally I think there's something amazing about having a city full of these at night. Imagine seeing such a city from the ISS.
I’m curious if there is any kind of post-processing being done to these pictures. They are beautiful in a strange way
ssh user@domain.xxx << HERE
echo "HELLO"
cat /etc/hosts
HERE
Since I can't edit my above comment, I want to be clear: I'm talking about the browser chrome, not the widgets (select, input, etc) inside a page.
Echoing a bunch of common responses: a lot of the crash and burns were reality catching up with wild expectations — we had business with pets.com and there were times where they had a room full of “technical” staff who had no idea how the web worked but were more or less openly counting down the days until they became rich. If you’re working somewhere where there isn’t a realistic plan for the numbers to work, that’s a good cue to reconsider your risk exposure.

That didn’t mean that people who were good didn’t also get hit, so there are two other points I’d consider: lots of the dotcom bubble workers spent money as quickly as they made it, often locking in fixed commitments like car payments or mortgages so they had only a short period of solvency if their income changed dramatically. Having reserves is a great peace of mind measure, as is knowing which expenses you could cut quickly if needed – especially if, say, you went from $$$ at a cool sexy company to $$ at a boring but stable job.

The other thing is considering correlated failures: if everyone around you works in the same industry, you’re going to be competing with them for jobs and unable to sell a house at a good price if the market sours broadly. That doesn't mean you should flee SV but you would want to be prepared to stay put for awhile with large reserves. Similarly, focusing your investments in the same field can end badly — here I’m thinking of a trend-following sales guy who got laid off and had to explain to his wife that he’d also put most of their savings into dotcom stocks which all tanked at the same time.
M mode isn't a hypervisor mode. It's more like x86 System Management Mode, or ARM's EL3. Hypervisor was originally going to be a separate H mode, but they made it orthongonal with S mode instead as a sort of bank switch.

And if CSRs are bad, then POWER's SPRs are bad; they're basically the same thing except POWER makes much less effort to be consistent or introspectable.

POWER is way more braindead in it's supervisor state. For instance they finally gave you a sane radix tree page table with POWER9, but now you can't address all the virtual address space you could before, which, yes, is its own problem for some systems.
And then there's this accidental destruction of the phone of the engineer who stamped the plans for the bridge.

"Denney Pate, who stamped the plans for the bridge, told a judge June 12 that his wife accidentally put his pants with the phone in the pocket into a washing machine, inflicting damage that destroyed any call records or images."

https://www.enr.com/articles/47108-bridge-designer-testifies...
I felt the plus/minus in the coordinate is unintuitive.

Let's use an example

07:00:00+01:00 is equal with 08:00:00+02:00.

How could 7+1=8+2?
Since when is it part of a scientist's job to "get people to worry?" That's contradictory to what scientists do, which is to be unbiased observers who deal with facts and theory. Not political and cultural activism.
I belive several of the companies involved already settled their lawsuits.
Most production changes require a second set of eyes, sometimes from a particular team, but it's all "just" code review. You put your change in the team's queue, their oncall engineer reviews it the same day, you land the change and it gets executed automatically. Most have implemented namespacing so that changes that only affect your own team's stuff can be approved within your team.

This is all on owned hardware. The difference is that we're a SWE driven company (corporate IT is off in its own world, run in the more traditional way, but they don't touch engineering's production datacenters). Infrastructure teams provide APIs, not JIRA forms.
Have you seeked medical professional help?
> It most certainly does not affect them if they don't choose to update.

This has been addressed in other comments by others and I.

> And, frankly, I think your statement about reeking of "fanpersonism" is unfair

I based it on the things you have said about what warrants or does not warrant an article. In any case: no hard feelings.
Every action has a consequence, and intentions do not matter. What will the consequences of millions of non-life-saving interventions be? We need to keep in mind that we are rolling these technologies out in an entirely blanket fashion, affecting millions of children and adolescents, and we are doing it to prevent exceptionally rare events. In the aftermath of Columbine, schools received lists of "warning signs" derived from nothing objective or accurate. These lists painted targets on the back of dozens of kids. At every single school. Every single year. The lists claimed to assist in identifying potential school shooters. Shooters who were students we know for a fact were present at only a single school, and only one or two every couple years. Why weren't these lists discarded immediately as they were very visibly and provably wrong? The answer to that question is what will support the continued expansion of surveillance in schools relentlessly, even in the face of evidence that it does more harm than good.
School administration operates under a not unjustified terror of having their careers ruined if anyone successfully accuses them of "letting something happen", whether it would have been reasonable that they stop it or not. Where "something" is usually bullying, any sex stuff, or self harm or suicide.

If you assume that for every decision they make the #1 concern is to make it as difficult as possible to personally blame them for anything, that'll be a good guide to understanding their behavior.
I am surprised they can't subpeona the phone company for these records.
Bitmex looks very interesting, any fun stories to share?
Tesla “Sentry Mode” catches man who keyed car
Softbank is trying, rather clumsily, to avoid "losing face". Looks like they came to the conclusion that should they let wework follow the natural course of things, it would taint the image of all their other investments.

The thing is, this is not going to work. Public market investors are wary and are not ready to buy over-valued assets without some really good reason. The party is over, and it doesn't mean we are entering into the apocalypse, but rather that the time of irrational dreams is over, and that we need to think things based not on irrational ideas, but by paying more attention to the fundamentals.

Money can still be made, but the whole VC world needs to stop thinking that every business is going to generate the absurd returns facebook and google gave. Those are black-swan events. Not every startup will give 6000% returns. Those were anomalies, it is not going to happen every day.

But, the thing is, even a 200% return over 5 years is a great investment. Most of time it would beat DOW or NASDAQ indexes even reinvesting dividends.

So, maybe excessive greed is breeding irrealistic expectations, which in turn is feeding terribly bad decisions.
> Parents who sue schools are actually suing society.

As a member of society I, for one, appreciate their efforts to protect our collective privacy.
Thanks for this! really interesting.
Meh I regret selling any GOOG in the low $200s
The 5 foot ground rod and its use in the National Electric Code (2018)
Communications is a big factor: if you can’t make good software in house, adding a time delay and lack of business knowledge won’t help.

The savings are almost always overstated by a huge margin: people with equivalent skills charge more or move. Most of the sales pitches assumed you’d get good results at, say, 20% but don’t work when that’s really 85%.