skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Considering the students were allowed contact with an American and allowed the free access to the Internet and software you describe, I conclude they were children of the elites of the country.

My assessment is different.

I currently teach at an "elite" US college (liberal arts college ranked top-5 nationally with more than 20% of students having parents in the top 1% income bracket) and previously taught at a mid-ranked UC school. My impression is that the student demographics at PUST more closely resemble the mid-ranked UC school than the elite liberal arts school. The elite students in the DPRK tend to prefer their version of elite colleges like Kim Il Sung and Kim Chaek universities. For example, students from these other universities are regularly lauded in national newspapers for their achievements (which exceed those of PUST students), but PUST students have never been mentioned in a national newspaper as far as I am aware. My understanding is that students at these other universities have similar levels of internet access as students at PUST, but they do not have regular in person contact with westerners.

> Probably they were given this education so they could learn to deal with westerners and potentially to improve their training for cyber warfare and intelligence gathering in the west.

As someone who has professional experience running/developing cyberwarfare and nuclear military operations with the US military, I can unequivocally state that the work I did at PUST was not developing these capabilities for North Korea.

Western experts who study the DPRK largely agree with me that educational exchanges are a great way to improve relations between the US and DPRK building on the model of how educational exchanges improved relations between the US and USSR. See for example https://www.38north.org/2010/11/pyongyang-university-and-nk-...

> I'd bet within a few miles of the experience you enjoyed that there were families starving in substandard housing.

One of the major goals of the PUST project is to help improve and internationalize the North Korean economy. The longterm effect will be to improve the standard of living of all North Koreans.
OIN teams up with Unified Patents to protect open-source from patent trolls
For those asking what's wrong with renting, some problems from a UK perspective are:

1. Security of tenure. You can be a model tenant who never misses a payment, but if a landlord wants to do something else with your home for any reason, you've got two months and you're out. Wife, kids, stuff and all. Maybe with a change of school thrown in for good measure too.

2. Exclusion from the biggest one way bet in town. Forget the best index tracking ISA, nothing beats using massive leverage to invest several hundred thousand pounds of borrowed into existence money in an asset class that the elite will happily throw the rest of the economy under the bus to pump up. Much to the benefit of our politicians, flipping their tax payer funded second homes.

3. Welfare unfairness. Got a bit saved up? Maybe even for a house deposit ironically? Well if you fall on hard times, you'll need to burn through your years of savings until you're poor enough to receive benefits again. If you have a fortune of equity in your house though, you won't have to touch a penny of it.
Assange's living conditions were entirely self inflicted. He could have surrendered himself to the Swedish authorities, undergone a trial and had he served time would have spent time in a prison system known for its humane treatment and low recidivism rates: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/26/prison-swede...

I am of course assuming that he wouldn't be extradited to the US, in which case not surrendering was the correct choice.
Our Constitutionally protected rights???

Amendment 1: Why is "In God We Trust" on our money?

Amendment 3: The only time it ever was litigated (in Engblom v. Carey) the government won because a bureaucrat cannot be faulted for not knowing such an obscure law.

Amendment 4: Have you seen what the NSA is doing? Also "unreasonable search and seizure" is, under the doctrine of civil forfeiture, perfectly permissible as long as it is your assets being sued and not you.

Amendment 6: Our out of control plea bargaining system makes a joke out of "fair trial".

Amendment 7: The point of a jury trial is that the jury can choose not to enforce a bad law. The legal system misinforms jurors about this to keep jury trial from being meaningful.

Amendment 8: The overuse of solitary confinement, recognized the world over as a form of torture, certainly qualifies as "cruel and unusual punishment". I don't see that the USA has kept the spirit of this one!

Amendment 10: I'm guessing that you are not familiar with the massive growth of power of the government due to the systemic misinterpretation of the Commerce Clause starting in the 1930s. But the ability of the federal government to regulate local workplaces was not intended by anyone.

It is easy to wave a phrase like "our Constitutionally protected rights" around and believe that things are OK. But if you actually pay attention, you'll find that that Constitution has been a lot less protection than most Americans believe it has.
This is awesome. Is there (or will there be) support for pipes?
> He was engaged in what was legal on a local basis.

Local jurisdictions don't grant security clearances on behalf of the federal government, FYI. Cannabis is a Schedule I drug and illegal to use for any purpose outside FDA approved research programs according to existing Federal law.

> Does the violation of any federal law or regulation disqualify someone from holding a security clearance?

If you did it they'd pull your clearance. This isn't speculation. It happens to little folk all the time[1].

As cynical as it might seem the parent isn't wrong in pointing out the obvious disparity in treatment of wealthy and influential people vs plebs. Musk has the contacts and the lawyers to commit a federal crime on video and keep all of his privileges in this life, and you don't. I can't fault anyone for concluding this sort of double standard is a great dysfunction.

[1] https://www.fedsmith.com/2019/05/30/revoked-security-clearan...
>CS:GO and DotA 2, which are both some of the most played games in the world?

Yes, I mean exactly those games, which are neither new nor ground breaking, and which were originally authored by outside firms/contractors, not valve. Since then, most of Valve's additions to the games are in the form of monetization.

If you didn't notice the news articles, they even laid off almost all the people responsible for HL2 and its episodes, including the writer.
Yet depression and isolation are at an all time high. Who's to say strengthening family and community bonds would result in a failed society? It would certainly have negatives and positives. It's only purely negative when viewed through the lens of individual economic achievement (which may not be possible to the level seen post-WW II in the west).
They had trouble getting permission for people to be allowed on the roof back in May, because there was a chance for visitors to be cooked alive if there was an accident.

I wonder how they solved that, likely with a waiver, as it might be a risk you take if you ski on a power plant.
The Unexpected Benefits of Pursuing a Passion Outside of Work
If they accused him of performing actions that, if true, meet all the elements of the crime rape, they have accused him of rape.
Nah, it is just grumpy old men, who when they were young were castigated by the previous grumpy old men. Capra excoriated Coppola for Apocalypse now, and others of his age did the same to other younger filmmakers and their subject matter.
Indeed, maps and sets cannot be constructed from sums, products and recursion. They can be approximated if you throw exponentials in there.

Instead, you can extend algebraic data types to combinatorial species, which do allow exactly the kind of quotienting you speak of. While they're unexplored in programming, they are believed to be programmable similarly to ADTs.

https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=177...

I must take issue with the "objects are products" characterization you implied. Structures are products; objects need existential types: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/compobj.ps
> There is an assumption by many that DNS encryption requires DNS centralization.

A lot of the discussion recently, like this statement, conflates "DNS encryption" with "DoH". Encrypting DNS does not require centralization, but DoH does require[1] centralization in in the RFC. DoH doesn't even "improve user privacy"; it simply changes who can record your DNS queries. Instead of the ISP, Cloudflare/Microsoft/etc gets to see your unencrypted DNS queries.

The way to actually improve privacy is to perform the recursive resolution locally[2]. The actual communication with each individual DNS server needs to be encrypted, which is where work needs to be done. DNS servers need to support DNS over TLS (DoT) or some other type of encrypted transport. Hypothetically, DoH could be modified to support this, although that seems more complicated than simply wrapping the DNS protocol in TLS.

You don't get privacy by centralizing all of your requests onto one server. To protect privacy, you limit the data that any one party can see. DNS was designed for this purpose: only the NS record of a domain needs to be sent to a centralized server, which is easy to cache for a long time. Most requests then go to domain-specified authoritative server[4].

It's good to see Microsoft at least trying to address this at the OS level. App doing DNS without involving the OS seems to be more about taking away control from the user. I'm sure Google would love to be able top bypass DNS based adblocking.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21110296

[2] Which is easy: follow NS records until you get to the server that has your authoritative answer.

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21348328
There is no secret, because if there was then it would be used by spammers and then cease to work.

And if there was a secret to building a reputation you could make a lot more money as a brand consultant with it than running an email server.
> Israel attacked a Turkish ship in international waters.

Like they did the USS Liberty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
I see it too. It's like the correlation vs. causation error, but less rigorous. More like coexistence vs. causation.

Now that you've caught this trend, you'll start seeing the more generic form of it everywhere.
>I am talking about exchanging a keyboard, battery, SSD

None of those things are as simple as you're making them out to be in the form/spec of the Macbook.

The things aren't as difficult as you make them. There are plenty of devices which have reasonable repairablity without being larger than the MacBook.

>And if people don't care about the time, they do care about the cost.

Apparently not as Apple has the highest customer service scores in the entire computing industry by a large margin. People care about having working computers and, by and large, people who buy Apple computers buy them knowing that out of warranty repairs may be expensive.

Most people who buy Apple computers don't know about the costs of out-of-warranty repairs. It will be interesting to see how big the shitstorm will be once people have to throw away their butterfly-keyboard machines becaus thy can't typ th lttr "E".

>why do they charge more than the cost for the broken part?

Because it's costly to recycle those parts. You can be cheap or you can be sustainable. Right now, you can't really be both.

Yeah, as if it would cost $500 to recyle a pound of aluminium. They do it because they have to machine a new part and want to push the money on the customer. But with a proper design, you wouldn't have to throw away large parts of your laptop for minor repairs.
This guy edited his comment, a Shitty thing to do. Own your mistakes.
To hand him over to the US they would, under EU law, need the UK's permission. So it would be harder to hand him over from Sweden than from the UK, and the latter is well-known for being America's lapdog. If the accausation is false, why did they not make it in the UK instead of Sweden and make things easier?
When I was a little kid and started using computers for the first time, Office 97 was one of the only programs installed on my family's PC. I swear the only reason I ever opened Office was for Clippy and its fellow animated characters :)
Can we do blockchain next?
My experience is that if you don't participate in social media, people call / message you personally, or meet in person. I don't think communicating with family or friends by broadcasting into an abyss and fighting for their attention is an improvement on one-to-one dialogue.
I also have no issues like this (I do SPF/DMARC but not DKIM)
Why is an intellectual dark web site at the top of my feed? Thoughts on WTSocial
> [...] its definitely not for everyone hence the preference for sheer barriers to entry

So, keeping in mind that you said you'd had your issues with exiting nano (despite the instructions being on-screen at all times), is CS for you?

Besides, people have other reasons to be messing around with Linux/Unix than studying CS.

I'm sorry, but you're presenting exactly 0 arguments for gatekeeping except gatekeeping itself, and that just seems rather silly to me.
Can Bots Surpass the ‘Realism’ of Human Dialogue?
The node tools & chrome dev tools just seem very poorly integrated by comparison with the go tools. In go, if you have a unit test and you want to profile the code in it, it's just a few code changes to set that up. To use the chrome dev tools, you have to connect to some running process with a browser, which requires at least rearchitecting whatever you're doing so that it's an indefinitely running process. The built-in node profiling is sort of medium in ease of use, but low quality in the information it returns. Often it's hard to figure out what high-level function calls correlate with the low-level performance info.
I have never heard of anybody fly from Austria to the US because the medical care here wasn't good enough, or because some procedure was not available.

I've only heard of people travel to get dental work done cheaper (not to the US).

The only complaint I've heard is that some procedures (eg. joint replacements) have a waiting list, so if a doctor decides that you don't need it urgently, you may have to wait a few months. I don't know what the situation for these procedures is like in the US.

Just because it's publicly funded doesn't mean it's bad quality. It just means there's no incentive to charge ridiculous amounts for procedures.

Also, Doctors still earn a decent salary here. Maybe not comparable to US salaries in absolute numbers, but it's enough to live a very comfortable life, and they don't have any students loans to pay back...
How to be a cherished man of the house
That being said, the protocol is called scuttlebutt (which means gossip, or water cooler) and all the clients have more palatable names like Manyverse, Patchwork, Patchfoo, etc.

Fortunately, the protocol name is almost a filtering function that removes anyone so immature as to be put off by the name. The rest embrace the name, who doesn't like a good butt?
Huh, that's the first time I hear of rejection due to a TLD. What is it?
Amazed nobody thought of virtualizing the old hardware.
Cowboys are the antithesis of the superhero. They don't have fame and glory, they don't live well, they're usually struggling to make ends meet, and they're barely able to save themselves or a wagon train, much less the country/world. They definitely have no super powers. They are the hard-working common man, the underdog. Part of their admiration was about a country which had become wealthy and powerful that wanted to re-imagine itself in rough-and-tumble working-class ideal. Even in the 19th century, stories of the West were fodder for most of the "civilized" cities throughout America, more for their salaciousness than anything else. Shoot-outs at the O.K. Corral were sold alongside gangs of thieves robbing trains.

Although, the "hero" cowboy was very much what Moore is going on about - symbols of white supremacy bringing order to the native savages, killing who they wanted, chivalrously treating women as inferior and delicate, ignoring the law when it was convenient, though somehow still revered as symbols of righteousness. They're more akin to Old Testament figures than Captain America.
Yes, quite a few dynasties in Chinese history for example. At a few points China had higher GDP than the rest of the world combined with much better average standard of living for its people. The early Tang dynasty comes into mind.

There were no serf class, but of course there were peasants/farmers of course since someone had to grow food.
As someone who has professional experience running/developing cyberwarfare and nuclear military operations with the US military, I can unequivocally state that the work I did at PUST was not developing these capabilities for North Korea.

Western experts who study the DPRK largely agree with me that educational exchanges are a great way to improve relations between the US and DPRK, building on the model of how educational exchanges improved relations between the US and USSR. See for example https://www.38north.org/2010/11/pyongyang-university-and-nk-...
EDI is a global phenomenon. There are different standards and it applies across industries. For example, X12 is the North American standard of EDI. It's used in B2B trade, banking, health care, insurance, etc.

Meesho is interesting. It's like an ecommerce store in a box.

We aren't a conventional marketplace ourselves and we integrate with the systems that both the sellers and buyers are using. On the network side, we make introductions to buyers and sellers in our network rather than listing products from sellers on a mass marketplace (like AliExpress). We basically vet each retailer to see which suppliers in our network would make sense for them then make introductions if there's a fit. We also tend to be focused on larger retailers and distributors rather than people who are just getting started in ecommerce.

Thanks for the feedback on the site. Will fix the hamburger menu too. Good catch.

I like your copy suggestion. It makes sense for people who might be new to dropship. The "digital destination" line came from larger retailers we talked to that wanted to expand their existing product catalog, so we aimed that at them. They tend to already do dropship today with larger suppliers, but they struggle with onboarding smaller ones. The thought of having a wider assortment of products is usually what initially piques their interest. That starts a conversation around new tools that they could use.
There are lots of ways to measure outcomes. First, you can look at institutional metrics like nosocomial infection rates. Second, you can look at metrics for that procedure like rate of surgery revision. Many of these kinds of metrics exist, but are never exposed to the public.
Summary Judgment Denied in Vernon Unsworth vs. Elon Musk [pdf]
I remember steam games were made in Flash a few years ago. Doesn’t it just export to HTML5 these days? Isn’t it used / couldn’t it be used to make a steam game?
Everything lives publicly on diez.org now.

There are a few places we need to update beta.diez.org => diez.org in our codebase & messaging. The beta site existed for our private beta. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

For now, until we update the urls: you can just manually remove 'beta.';
I pay about £3.50 or so.
> Personally, I think the benefit of truly global broadband internet from space is worth the cost of an hour of observing time per night.

SpaceX isn't the going to be the last company or nation state to put up a network of satellites like this.
The literal folding is specified language behavior, the other is just an optimization.
Yes. After many years, I think the algorithm is this:

If the FROMs top level domain is in the top 500 websites OR is a .edu NOT SPAM, ELSE, send to "proprietary spam filter". The "proprietary spam filter" is some random crap code that is unique to each email server company. You could spend years trying to figure out how to game "proprietary spam filter" - but it is a fools errand.
Whenever I try to use Canvas caching I run into an issue I don't yet fully understand that causes my images to come out of cache blocky and terrible looking. Something about a max canvas size? I don't quite get it. Happens whenever I use fabric.js caching.
This team is incredibly strong. I had the chance of hanging with them for an afternoon at their office and was blown away by their humility and knowledge.
It showed how to fail spectacularly.
> If they do stuff I don't want I can complain and switch.

You must be one of the lucky few.
Peak Office imo is whichever Office version introduced that blue underline that let you immediately undo whatever frustrating autoformatting catastrophe was just inflicted by hitting the tab key or resizing an image.

I think it was 2002?

Everything afterwards feels like change for change's sake. But I haven't used any version after 2016, thankfully, so maybe they finally got collaborative online editing or less obtuse revision tracking.
In 1997?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amager_Bakke
I especially like that it can transition between heating and electricity production. Community heating is something I think North America needs to embrace more.
Most concerts I've been to (not all) have been at eminently listenable volumes. There are definitely acts and venues that know not to crank the volume to 11, even for what could be described as "raucous" music.

I remember being pleasantly surprised when I saw Porcupine Tree (a post-progressive/metal act) in concert about a decade ago. I was near the stage yet the volume was so eminently reasonable I didn't even need the earplugs I brought. (No doubt this is related to Steven Wilson also being an audio engineer.)

In sharp contrast, I saw The Mars Volta – similar genre – around the same time. Unenjoyably loud even with good-quality earplugs.
Ten years ago two guys managed to enter in Noth Korea by train from Russia spending 36 hours without a guide.

https://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/

They obviously went to see the USS Pueblo as well...
It's kind of a long read, but very interesting, imho.
>The device we asked them to wear has four vibration levels. Half the volunteers (the control group) had the device set to the lowest vibration (level one), and half had it set to level three (the experimental group). Level 3 is the effective vibration level for motion sickness reduction.

Shouldn't the control group be wearing the device but have no vibrations active?
"Real social networks"? There is nothing in "social network" that requires the relationship to be equal in real-life or that you even know the identity of the person you're writing with. Most would consider Twitter social media, and most people I know constantly interact and discuss with people they don't really care who they are and that's not what's important anyways.

I would say in general, places where you interact with other people ends up building some sort of social network of it's insides.
Curious why you're so attached to the qmail style subaddressing. Personal preference or is there a technical advantage?
And as I said, SharedArrayBuffer is a fixed length, number only array. While it may work well for some use cases, it really can't for many others. Or am I missing something?

By the way, browser compatibility is not a concern if you develop for Electron. Just target Chrome and you're done.
FWIW, I grew up in Roundup (and am shocked to see it on HN). I remember the hanging tree being put up downtown sometime in late 80s or early 90s to (I suppose) add some Wild West decor. It’s entirely possible the whole hanging cattle rustlers and bystanders tale is apocryphal or loosely based on actual events. That’s not to say such things didn’t happen in the days of open range cattle ranching.