skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd just like to throw in that as a wargamer for decades, and military history buff in general, this blog is absolutely worth every post.

The Gondor and Sparta collections that have been posted were both very illuminating and I look forward to browsing more posts for the sheer curiosity.
Yes, this sounds like the most likely explanation - they were already involved in some way, and admitting it would be far worse than merely not catching the bomber. Wasn't there something like this with Mexican gunrunning? And isn't there already a record of the FBI effectively creating suspects by "recruiting" them as terrorists?
> Since when are products in stores or the stores itself property of the state? Or personal property inside and outside houses?

I don't think they are. Why do you think they would be? The laws of war specifically exclude personal property.

That paragraph in the article is referring to for example 'musket, sabre, bayonet or ammunition pouch' on the battlefield. They're state-owned and aren't personal property. (Well, historically an officer's equipment might be personal purchase but I don't think the law would interpret any fighting equipment as being legitimately a personal effect.)
Faking it is really a bad model - the number of Steve Jobs "prepared to use sleight of hand to hide loading times" is vastly out numbered by expensive failed replacements.

The most defensible practice are at least inherently modular and could be stitched together - really the deception would be highly unnecessary
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It had better not be, or else civilization will collapse when fossil fuels eventually run out (if not before).
Where does he mention that? I don't see it.
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That wasn't my point. And actually I am not sure what are you trying to say with your reply cause it's not related to what I was saying. My point was that those engineers working on those problems have a good impact on economy as a whole. Efficient engaging ads are great for everyone, it's great for growth.

> To me, if I was promised "the most meaningful work of my career" then I was assigned to anti-ad-blocking I wouldn't feel my Facebook career was delivering on that promise.

Then you could easily just quit.
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But it’s not a mess, there is a clear chain of responsibility: * consortium -> font developers -> app developers. If anything is broken, bitch to the first level (typically app devs) and wait for your grievance to percolate upwards as necessary; if it doesn’t happen, you know who to blame.

* most modern operating systems have hopefully sorted out their issues a long time ago.
It's one of the two phases. We're back to the other one, wait for a couple of months.
I was just a few of years out of school,I think it was 2006. Walked into a local bank branch to get some stuff sorted out.The women tried to sell me some private pension scheme,which was popular at the time.I asked her what would happen if the bank would fail,to which she responded with uncontrollable laughter and finally managed to say: banks don't fail. Well,I thought, I'm sure as hell I won't be buying products from this bank..We all know what happened 2 years later.
Ask craigslist.org about that.
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I think you fundamental mistake is thinking that you can separate technical and political concerns or that those two things really are always distinct and cleanly separable.

To me having that kind of discussion really doesn’t make a lot of sense. You know, since “we live in a society” (at the risk of quoting a clearly thought-terminating cliche).

Unicode contains within itself thousands of design-decisions, many of them trade-offs. After the fact it’s always extremely easy to swoop in and nitpick those trade-offs. No possible world exists where all those trade-offs are made correctly and what’s more defining what a “correct” trade-off even is is frequently simply impossible to know.

(Just one example to illustrate the scope of this problem: A certain trade-off might be worth making in one direction for use case A and in another direction for use case B, however it’s not really easy to find out whether use case A or use case B are more frequent in the wild. What if both use cases are about equally as important? Now imagine the trade-off space not being a binary space but multi-dimensional. Now imagine not just two but several use cases. Now imagine use case usage changing over time and new use cases emerging in the future.)
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When did such prediction start to become popular?
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> You can have a Facebook account and only use it when it benefits you and not Facebook.

I used to think so too, but then I realized that Facebook would let people add me to group chats or something without my knowledge and that these people would then blindly assume that I had read the messages in those chat groups. I find that "I have a Facebook account but I almost never log in" tends to get misunderstood, whereas "I no longer have a Facebook account" gets the message across quite clearly.
I still can't really believe someone can sell a building block of the world wide web like .org tld. Who runs .net? .com? .edu? .info? Can they be sold, too?
> [District Attorney] Blodgett gave no explanation

> The FBI declined to answer

It's a sad state of affairs when authorities see no reason to even bother with any kind of justification for what is obviously a much deeper issue. This is one of the very things that set democracies apart - accountability towards the people.
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> Alcohol was associated with feasts

Was it now? Alcoholic beverages were seen as a nutritious (!!!) staple food from it's discovery until recently. It was also the only thing to drink in areas that lacked clean water (and one cared about avoiding it).

And yes, people have been trying to deal with people since there were people. And people have always been stressful.
The behaviour of ratings agencies is very well depicted in 'Big Short', which essentially says that if one company won't do it, other will always agree to issue AAA rates.
"I was trying to very politely tell you you're arguing a strawman."

Even if the policy was a misguided bad idea, the intent behind it was to protect vulnerable people from viral bullying, which has ruined people's lives to the point of suicide. Whether their focus is on protecting the vulnerable people or to protect themselves from a future publicity disaster, it seems clear that they're placing fault in the hands of bullies. Still, you asked "why is it the victim's fault?". That's a fabricated intention that you created so you could then claim that it's "literally victim-blaming". That's strawmanning.
I'm getting a rather strange rendering in Firefox 68.2.1 on Android 9

http://imgur.com/a/Q2isAPT
The cited "How to Study in College" can be found in PDF form via Google.

I like this tip, it seems handy.
If they’re rewriting Windows core bits with it, that’d seem a fairly strong indicator their involvement with it is serious. That’d be unnecessary technical debt otherwise.

Windows on ARM is probably fine. Windows Phone and the like eventually lost (losing? I haven’t kept up) support, but phones are traditionally a 2ish year supported device and then they’re not targeted (specifically in the Android OEM arena). Windows proper they have business clients and if they don’t support it for a reasonable amount of time, Microsoft is basically hosed. It is, I imagine, why once they decided to kill off older IEs everything prior to latest and greatest was killed at the same time: they had supported them for far too long and it required killing them all Off in one move.
Yep, here’s a case of the FBI recruiting a “terrorist” for the publicity of stopping an attack on a holiday:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Portland_car_bomb_plot
Wasn't there something like this with Mexican gunrunning?

You're likely referring to the ATF gunwalking scandal[0], the best known piece of which was "Operation Fast and Furious"[1]:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast...
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> If it's anything more structured, why exactly?

It is way easier to input / type and change / update. And compared to lets say JSON, YAML or friends at least 5x times more compact (less typing is better). See the world cup all-in-one page schedule in .txt [1] and compare to versions in JSON, XML and friends that are page long dumps, for example.

[1]: https://github.com/openfootball/world-cup/blob/master/2018--...
The FBI has a long history of masterminding terror plots, recruiting foolish people (some who are mentally impaired) to carry them out, providing them with the means to do so, and then arresting them just before they carry out the plot and declaring that the FBI has protected America by thwarting another terror plot.

Given the facts in the article that Morley is the likely bombmaker, knew the brothers, and the feds particularly the FBI are protecting him, it now appears that the Marathon bombing was yet another terror plot thought up by the FBI, Morley was working under their direction and was their handler, and the FBI lost control of the situation in this case and failed to execute the arrest before the bomb was actually deployed.
Yes or "Is there a reason we don't use sshd here?"
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If anything?? There seem to be a few problems that are unrelated to hiring practices. These warehouses are deathtraps regardless of your age or other attributes.
They weren’t called NINJA loans for nothing; No Job No Income no Assets. I don’t think they were lying about anything.
Because GDPR states that consent can be withdrawn at any time, and that provision of services can not be tied to consent. That’s the law here in Wales.
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The majority of times people have said “why don’t you just...” to me the answer is that if they understood what $thing was trying to do they wouldn’t have asked the question. They’re not being “assholes” they’re just headed toward it from a wrong assumption (they’re assumption is that they understand what $thing does, but they don’t.) so my advice to anyone suggesting just do $x is that they need to try to understand what they don’t understand about $thing, don’t even worry about $x.
He's only been gone for five years. The Titanic didn't turn fast enough to miss the iceberg either.
Please check some of the online papers on Posit numbers and Unum computing, especially by John Gustafson. In general, Unums can represent more numbers, with less rounding, and fewer exceptions than floating points. Many software and hardware vendors are starting to do interesting work with Posits.
How would they prove it wasn’t just forgetfulness? There would be no “mens rea”.
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These are things that kernel developers are surely mindful of when coming up with and implementing eBPF functionality.

Regardless, I'm sure I've run this same test years ago and seen the system call count still in the same order (that is, a couple of million per second). I really doubt Spectre mitigations are what are causing what should be a few dereferences and function calls to take around a thousand clock cycles.
I don't know about you, but if I talk to someone about a problem, the "why didn't you just $FOO" suggestions are exactly the ones I'm looking for.

Because the tech environment has become so complex that there is probably a simple API I could have used but I wasn't aware of it.

How about we stop assuming people are out to hurt us, and start assuming everybody is well-meaning but they have social issues just like me? Just like every other nerd in tech!
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Enlighten us grey one.
The phrase "you are wrong" is one of the fastest ways to get someone's back up against the wall. In your example, completely removing that phrase doesn't change the meaning and it eliminates negativity.
- Old grapheme clusters and new extended grapheme clusters would be the same.
Interestingly enough, HN comments are the only other reference I see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16757807

A lot of internal Amazon ideas eventually make their way to the public as AWS offerings, typically with limitations due to them needing to be public offerings without dev teams that can sit in a room at a moments notice and decide on any necessary changes. Typically that means the AWS offering is lacking features compared to the internal version, but eventually teams are encouraged to migrate (I’ve been away from Amazon for about 4 years, but that’s still the impression I get). Lambda, DynamoDB, Code Deploy, Autoscaling Groups, ALB/NLBs (load balancer tied to an ASG), Cloud Watch, SQS, etc. all had internal equivalents which often were better (imho) than the AWS offering. Some were hosted (by another team), some needed to be managed by each team (which made the move to AWS more compelling).
>Mexican gunrunning

You are thinking of Operation Fast and Furious I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
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Let me apologize for my comments, I should have paid more attention to both the article and your comment.

Now I see that we basically agree about the numbers, we just have a different opinion on the fact.

They were not made in ill will, I was just trying to make a discussion. I agree that I could have toned it down on the loaded questions, I was a bit undercaffeinated this morning.
Given you're in Europe, are you seeing any change from PSD2? New service providers offering the service you outline?

PSD2 background: https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/12668/psd2---what-chang...
Thanks for a much more detailed account of the crisis. Yes, I simplified in my post, but your more complex story still doesn't read to me as "people were being incompetent"; I see in it a tale of a complex system getting exploited in several different places at the same time, and shaking itself apart in the process.

Entirely tangential: the first time I saw your handle here several years ago, I initially misread it as "trust vectoring" (don't know why, I knew of the term "thrust vectoring" before). Ever since, this phrase stuck with me, and I feel it applies to the 2008 crisis.
> The top performers in reading were four provinces of China — Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang

I am not stunned at all. The comprehensive vision of the Chinese government is incredible (and reflects the brilliance of the Chinese people). The Chinese economy continues to grow at a blistering pace (with actual productivity growth unlike in the west) despite the naysayers. They use a state-sponsored industrial policy to force investment in key areas, and soon they will become the world's biggest R and D hub. They also essentially have a eugenic birth policy (with payments that can be made for more children), unlike American which is (let's face it) pretty much dysgenic with the poorest having the most kids and that burden becoming larger and larger on the greater populace. The gap in scores is only going to get bigger as America (already a much diminished country) becomes more and more irrelevant on the world stage.
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If you're going the Javascript way, you could have a look at how Wick editor was built. It's a Flash like animation editor whith simple drawing tools and is open source.

https://github.com/Wicklets/wick-editor
Helicopters have a height-velocity diagram with some areas marked unsafe (low speed, low altitude); when operating in the forbidden areas a pilot cannot be reasonably expected to perform an emergency landing using autoration following complete engine loss. In all other areas this should be possible. Coincidentally, that's why helicopters avoid taking off vertically (they only do that in video games...); they want to gain some speed before gaining significant altitude, because forward speed helps autorotation. If a helicopter just climbs straight up at zero speed and the engine goes out, it's going to fall pretty much like a rock.

Average multicopter designs would seem to be incapable of autorotation for aerodynamic and technical reasons. The technical reason being that the BLDC motors used are typically permanent magnet synchronous machines, which develop significant holding torque in most (driver) failure modes and there is no clutch to disconnect the motor from the propeller.
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The local county library, which is quite a large system, doesn't have 3 of 16 books from the NY Times December 5, 1999 non-fiction bestseller list: HAVE A NICE DAY! by Mick Foley, THE NEW NEW THING, by Michael Lewis, and THE CENTURY, by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster.

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I'm anticipating a transition from filtering to scrapping. I've already switched to "reader mode" and RSS feeds as much as possible. Mostly for ad avoidance and battery guarding.

I'm also anticipating applying differential debugging techniques to automatically compile ad blocking filter lists. View the top X sites via multiple personas, diff the content, anything static is more likely not ads.
See above the world cup match schedule [1], for another other examples with geo tree (e.g. country/province/city/district/etc.), see the Belgian Football clubs, for example [2] or for yet another example the Football leagues [3] with tiers (1,2,3, etc.) and cups and supercups, playoffs, etc. The .txt version are pretty compact with "tight" / strict error checking and JSON, YAML and friends I'd say it would be 2x, 3x or even more effort / typing.
[1]: https://github.com/openfootball/world-cup/blob/master/2018--...
[2]: https://github.com/openfootball/clubs/blob/master/europe/bel...
[3]: https://github.com/openfootball/leagues/blob/master/europe/l...
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>Money are really best dealt with as integers

I wish I could up vote you more than once. You are bang on.
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> I was thinking about [the problem] and was wondering if sshd would also work [because of X benefit], what do you think?

I would probably phrase it something like that. State why you're bringing it up (I'm trying to solve the problem, not just criticise your solution), assume they have already considered it, ask what they think about your idea instead of just offering advice about theirs, both options are still on the table.
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For 127.0.0.1 it will try to connect and fail, either right away or on timeout depending on the on-box firewall setup.

For 0.0.0.0 it won't even try to connect (or fail instantly depending on how you look at it).
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