skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just found out that my sister posted this. This wasn't supposed to be shared and no, I didn't in any form or shape tried to promote any work, etc. Or pretend to be somebody else. The project was an experiment and was created as a code challenge after an interview. and design or whatsoever was not a requirement. So decided to take the time to experiment and in any way was my decision to use the hacker news api. Also just worked on it for a few hours to have something to show to the company and no other intention than that. Thanks for insulting me, nice of you!
If the tests are as unreliable as has been reported (and a lot of rubbish gets reported) then those released passengers travelling around Japan seem like a bit of a risk.
This is better than the canonical approach of using CMake's configure_file as that runs at compile time while this runs at configure time. The problem with generating your version file at compile time is that it is always newer than an existing output, therefore every make causes a relink/re-ar.
Using a trendy small base image doesn't make the intermediate layers any smaller.

What you're describing is what cloud native buildpacks are intended to solve: sensible, efficient, auto-updateable OCI images. I worked on them for a while and it just hardened my heart against Dockerfiles.
You know what. I'll accept that it's not that good of an argument and scratch it, leaving the other.
Fascinating story. I think there is value in the service provided by Lambda School but the questionable revenue tactics like selling ISAs or using ISAs to secure loans means students can't really trust them with placements.
If I encrypt a message and put the secret on an sd-card I hand to my friend at the park, I can mail him encrypted messages over plaintext e-mail and we are safe.

Most people don't use it this way, but to say it's impossible to secure e-mail is arrogant and not true
... unless you're the Polish government?

regardless, the critisism of the ECJ still stands: it operates as a political court that almost always rules in such a way that extend the EU's power over that of its member states

even when the letter and the spirit of the treaty was the complete opposite (as in the above example)
The graph above that one is totally wrong. The frame overhead graph may be correct, though.
Why not just use RDP? It is because it as hard to get an enterprise to stop paying for a software license as it is to get one to start?
It's investment into the ISAs themselves. Students will sign up for an ISA with Lambda School who will then package up a lot of ISAs and sell a percentage stake of them to investors. Lambda School gets some of their cash upfront and investors (in theory) get a revenue stream as students pay them back.

They've partnered with Edly, a marketplace to sell ISAs founded by Chris Ricciardi, the "grandfather of collateralized debt obligations".
How many servers are you copying the image to?
Instead of instructions for how to use PGP to you could give instructions on how to use Signal.

A new SIM card isn't free, but it seems like it would be easier to reliably cover your tracks by buying a burner phone with cash than concealing your PII through the process of setting up a new email account.

That's at least the case in the USA; I don't know if you live in a country where it's more difficult to anonymously obtain a new SIM card.
A point you can make here that really upsets technologists is that organizations with real practical security concerns (for instance: most technology startups) can and do use the email infrastructure to have conversations that involve secrets --- but (1) almost none of them use encrypted email and (2) they rely heavily on GSuite for their security. And, for business-level secrets, this is usually fine! Better (more secure!) in fact, than the outcomes they'd get from trying to make the same workflow work with encrypted email! I feel like there is a kind of technologist whose head explodes when you tell them that links to GSuite documents are a safer workflow than PGP, but that is sometimes the case!

This, of course, goes out the window when your threat model is extrajudicial.
The coordinate system is a logical division of an oblate spheroid; something which could be derived by knowing the dimensions of the earth.
For what it's worth, base-60 were used by Babylonians, which were somewhat contemporary with Egyptians; it's not unreasonable for them to use the same 360-degrees-in-a-circle scheme.

But quick glances at Wikipedia don't suggest anything concrete, and in fact it seems like Egyptians used base-10 numbers. So yeah - it does seem to be a stretch that they'd set the bases of their pyramids to be exactly 1/1440th of the Earth's circumference along two different great circles.
Since the laws are identical wouldn’t it still mean that any business complying with the GDPR (in order to do business in the EU) would already comply with the UK’s version of it, and vice versa?

How can you comply with one but not another given they are exact copies of each other?
It would take years for the first cohort of students to be able to pay back the cost of running the business, so this is exactly the sort of thing you really do need venture financing for
Larry was influential in the development and the missions of both ATG and the Human Interface Group, both of which are now gone now. He believed in conducting practical experiments with users and collecting objective measurements of how well UI worked. He wanted to find general principles that could be used to make all software better for everyone.

Steve Jobs killed both ATG and HIG. I think your point about times being rough and money being tight are valid, but three years earlier Steve Jobs sat in my office at NeXT and told me that if it was up to him, Apple would kill ATG and HIG--not because they were expensive, but because, in his words, they had too much influence.

Sure enough, when he took over Apple again, he wasted no time in killing them and replacing them with himself.

You're probably right that cutting those expenses was important to Apple's recovery. I think your other point is right, too, though: we'd be better off if Apple--or somebody--reconstituted something like HIG to show the industry what's possible if you take user experience and human-computer interaction seriously.

Unfortunately, Larry can't help us with it this time.
But breaking it down into 360 (or really, 1440) parts is non-obvious.
Thanks for sharing this extra detail. Your industry is obviously much trickier to navigate than the service industry our worker co-op is in.

Do your members get any voting rights or other feedback mechanisms?
I.e. the Texas sharpshooter fallacy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
In Denmark we use Jan 1st too. That turned out to be a problem because our personal identification numbers (CPR-numbers) contains the birthdate, and suddenly we started running out of them for Jan 1st some years.

The solution was to remove the checksum requirement (it was a weighted modulo 11 checksum), which is still sometimes causing problems with software that tries to verify it using the old rules. But for some reason that was thought to be better than adding another digit, maybe because it "only" requires every piece of software working with CPR-numbers in existence to be updated but not the data storage...
I don't think any of what you said supports keeping the EC. The slavery brush is just the most obvious reason to get rid of it. The electoral college has never increased unity in the country. Issues of federalism and culture are still unresolved, and the EC has only served to exacerbate those tensions by awarding the office to the popular loser multiple times in the last 20 years.

> Something like an electoral college itself encourages compromise over divisive issues.

I can name exactly one time this has happened and I don't think the Compromise of 1878 is something we should be holding up as good governance. Our current issues are a direct result of that compromise.

The EC only served to increase tensions at several points in our history - 1800, 1860, 1878,2000, 2016. I can't think of a single time it has served to increase unity or harmony. We have had a few individuals who were more-or-less consensus candidates (Monroe and Eisenhower), but that had nothing to do with the EC.

> You can't make just an appeal to populous coastal regions to win. You can't just make an appeal to moneyed northern industrial cities. You can't just make an appeal to agrarian southern interests. As we continue to change shape, candidates have to learn its shape and pull back to the middle if they want to win.

So instead the candidates spend their time raising money to run ads and pandering to about 6 swing states, which winds up leaving far more people out of the process than if every vote was worth, you know, one vote.

> I like that modern candidates really have to get out there to so many different states and "press the flesh". They need to know a substantial portion of the country. A national vote would slowly put an end to this. And I think that's dangerous.

See above. Trump literally knows New York City and nothing else. He lost by 3,000,000 votes. How is a national vote more dangerous than a system that happily elected an unpopular demagogue? Especially when the stated function of the EC is to prevent such an event.

> Consider today's angry issues - the debate over the 2nd amendment or Roe v Wade. A national vote would result in situations where a candidate can take a very strident position on topics like this and win - but it would ultimately lead to more division rather than trying to wrestle ourselves to some sort of compromise.

We've had the Electoral college for the entirety of the existence of those issues. They are more partisan than ever, with no compromise on the horizon (in large part thanks to the EC appointing 2 unpopular presidents in 16 years).

> So I think it's really unfortunate to dismiss the EC as though its some sort of slavery preserving institution. It really promotes compromise and chills regional passions even if they are a large majority.

You have demonstrated no proof of your claim. The fact that all of these issues are at historic highs really underscores the fact that what you are arguing simply isn't true.
No and yes. Assange was never formally charged with a crime, but allegations were made against him. Officially, Sweden wanted him extradited to be investigated (although, of course, he offered to be investigated in the Ecuadorian embassy due to his being persecuted in the UK).
Fair enough. I think the more important thing is that Bloomberg registered as a Republican and then ran (and won) as a Republican for elected office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayoralty_of_Michael_Bloomberg

You can register whatever party you want as a regular citizen, but it doesn't dictate who you vote for or what you believe in or actually do.
> A sweetheart deal or sweetheart contract is a contractual agreement, usually worked out in secret, that greatly benefits some of the parties while inappropriately disadvantaging other parties or the public at large.

> A "sweetheart settlement" may also occur in a legal context. For example, in a class-action lawsuit the attorneys representing a class of plaintiffs may reach an agreement with the defendant in which the primary result is a lucrative fee for the attorneys rather than maximum compensation for the class members.

> Noted instances and allegations

> In a 1947 unionization dispute, San Francisco area grocery store owners claimed that other stores who had "given-in" to union demands had signed sweetheart deals with the unions.

> In a 1949 dispute between the rival American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) involving unionization of the laundry industry in Indianapolis, Indiana, a lawyer for the 42 laundry and dry-cleaning plants testified before the National Labor Relations Board that an AFL union contract was not a sweetheart deal between the employers and AFL union officials, as alleged by the CIO.
ActivityPub will bootstrap public keys from WebFinger (over TLS/HTTPS).

Keybase has an even more complicated key escrow-based system (that works for any of their "Proof" types, not just domain ownership) if you trust their clients, where your client generates an ad hoc key for the recipient and essentially a "for bob's ears only" claim and on verifiable Proof from Bob securely exchanges the ad hoc key to Bob's new public key. Which is interesting because it allows for people that haven't yet setup keys to eventually receive them so long as you trust Keybase's clients and their Proof infrastructure.
> The Great Pyramid is a scale model of Earth, at a ratio of 1:43,200 (a significant number)

No, it's not.

It's a rectangular pyramid, and the Earth is a slightly oblate spheroid. If you were given a task to make a scale model of the latter and produced the former, regardless of measurement, you'd be laughed out of the room.
It's a hexadecimal encoding of the ASCII character codes: 53 41 4e 54 41 20 41 ... etc.
And yet, we spend all our time lecturing Third World countries and don't plant any real forests here.

It's easy. Couple billion Euros and we replicated the entire Borneo/Kalimatan forest.

THEN we can lecture others. Not before.
Yes, but they aren't (in most of the world, anyway).
The original, which presumably was not on the "Subliminal Messages TV" channel, appears to have been taken down.
So use a secure messenger that isn't tied to your phone. Wire is an example. I'd strongly prefer Signal, because the reason Signal is tied to your phone is so they can piggyback on your contacts database and not keep a plaintext contact graph serverside where it's vulnerable to interdiction. But Wire is still vastly better than encrypted email.
It's quid-pro-quo all over again, whether true or not, it didn't matter, there were only interested by a public statement from Assange.
I am so tired of generic Tech Crunch articles like this that add no new/ meaningful information.
You can do authentication with the party you're communicating with as your real identity or as a pseudo-identity without letting everyone else know who you really are.

With PGP, just use an identity that identifies you to that party and sign your emails with it. It doesn't matter what address you send them from.

However, anonymous emails where you don't even authenticate yourself to the party your communicating with is also useful. It's like when someone wants to make an anonymous report to the police. Why leave a trace with the phone company? I imagine people that make these reports typically use street phones (in countries where they're still plenty).
This is exceptionally good. Fantastic journalism.
Talking from the consumer perspective, I completely disagree - things have very much improved. Google and Facebook now make available everything they have on you, easily accessible. Companies now have to tell me why they are asking for information and what they are going to do with it. I can ask companies for all information they hold on me, and they have to comply.

This is a big improvement - there is a sense of companies going from hoovering up every PI data point they could, to treating PI as a liability. That's a big deal.
> True north doesn’t change

The alignment of a structure fixed to the ground, relative to true north, will change over time, because the while the axis of the earth can be viewed as fixed, the land on the Earth is not fixed with respect to that axis, but moves.
So does this announcement mean they have sold 100mn worth of isas on edly already?
Is there somewhere he elaborates on his No Modes philosophy?

Is it a blanket rule for him for all interfaces, or just text editors?
For a long time, everyone said saturated fats and meat fats were a one way ticket to heart disease. Vegetable fats took over and it’ll take a while for anything to change.
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Ask HN: How do you find/screen an employment lawyer?
I’m looking for a lawyer to help evaluate and tune-up a job offer (at the intersection of tech and biotech, in California, but hopefully the question is generally interesting).

I’d love to hear how you folks found yours, how you screened them, and any other advice you might offer.
Random Numbers Created from Crystals
Can someone provide insight into why Google is hosting fonts for free?

Anytime an advertisement company decides to do something for free, my cynicism goes on high alert. I am genuinely curious though - what's the business model? Are they collecting massive amounts of data while offering fonts?
The world does not have to run this way. We can make other choices.

Part of the solution could be:

Walkable "first world" cities.

Better public transit.

Passive solar design.

A less is more ethos in developed countries.

Actively valuing and protecting small businesses rather than crushing them under our boot in our rush to cater to big business.
The CA/Browser Forum publishes the Baseline Requirements to their web site

https://cabforum.org/baseline-requirements-documents/

In recent years the BRs are using RFC 3647 structure. This RFC gives an outline for how to write policy documents for PKIX (X.509 Public Key Infrastructure for the Internet) and rather than wrestle with each organisation having its own preferred way to organise much the same information the trend is to require RFC 3647, so you know the stuff about names will be in section 3 for example

The RFC 3647 structure doesn't break down as far as 3.2.2.4 but 3.2.2 is where people explain how they're going to validate organisation names, and so in the Baseline Requirements 3.2.2.4 is where the "Ten Blessed Methods" are described, the authorised means by which public CAs can determine if the name you want a certificate for is really yours.
I do not understand the "dummy output" technique. Since nothing depends on _version.cpp, why does its existence force the command to be re-run?

The usual technique is to have some script check the git version, then output two files: the version.cpp file, and a "witness" file which changes every run. The script should be careful to not perturb the mod date of version.cpp unless it has changed.

This is coupled with Ninja's "restat" option. Without that option, Ninja will observe that version.cpp will be recreated and schedule all of its dependents (such as linking). With that option, Ninja will behave more like Make, check if the file was actually modified.

See CMake's (weirdly-placed) docs on this: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/policy/CMP0058.html

Here's fish shell's version gen script: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/master/build_t...
Effective crisis management of this nature requires rehearsal and drilling, even if just an administrative / tabletop exercise. The chaos described is a classic symptom of not doing so.
Because email and secure messaging are not the same thing, and the latter does not replace the former. Now, there could be a distributed infrastructure for "email" that's not SMTP-and-IMAP/POP3-based, theoretically, based on what is now used for secure instant messaging - but I can't just recommend this to individuals.

Also, my suggestions do not make email private, they reduce the exposure to large-scale surveillance and make it more difficult to target individuals. Also, they do not involve "shoehorning" as far as user experience is concerned.
Is the article wrong in saying that the metadata isn't encrypted?
It feels like germans pushed this law in order to hide their tendencies from the rest of the world, like Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is by far the most popular book among Germans. Ditch the EU altogether, it’s just a market for German goods.
If you're executing the script with add_custom_command, what's the benefit of writing the script itself in CMake's scripting language rather than (e.g.) bash or Python? The CMakeLists.txt file is treating the script as a black box anyway.
> it's been really hard to get concise, clear information about how it works, even from the main project website.

I'm really glad that you said this. I was just all over the website and was feeling a little dumb because I was having trouble figuring out what this did in any sort of detail.
FAANGM has left us with an impression that if you build a decent product you will magically make so much money that you can divert portions of it to a fancy office, great salaries, open source and other philanthropic causes, with no consequences. The truth is few industries carry that much of a margin especially when VC, founders, and seniors, take so much off the top.

It's my opinion that some companies should never be done for profit, particularly Political Tech but also other social tech including portions of ed tech.

These industries should be left for FI/RE folks who are rewarded with various social credits, like awards, tax credits, and peer validation.
One neat thing I've seen that doesn't get called out enough, is a high priority timer that has a slightly smaller period than your watchdog. When you let the watchdog, you pet this timer too. Then in the timer ISR, write out the trap frame to brain dead non volatile memory (we had battery backed SRAM, and then MRAM on newer boards). Then when the board reboots, and checks in, you can pull down what it was doing when the watchdog triggered.
>I don't know if you live in a country where it's more difficult to anonymously obtain a new SIM card.

ie. most countries.
Exponential improvement in quantum error correction of dephasing
I'm one of the founders backed by Pioneer and Daniel Gross, we make Karma: peer recognition and appreciation platform (https://karmabot.chat). We have passed a 'Python script' phase and actively enjoying the tournament.
An advantage JPEG XL has over previous efforts is that it’s royalty free and that JPEGs can be losslessly converted to JPEG XL (and back again) and still get about a 20% file size reduction. Being able to convert to JPEG XL with no quality loss will help adoption.
> Patreon signed its own death warrant when it started censoring certain artists and creatives it deemed to be "unacceptable".

I think they signed their death warrant with unsustainably low cuts of revenue, personally.

That something makes some folks very, very angry does not show that it makes many, many folks angry enough to impact a business.

> Creativity and censorship cannot live side by side.

This might be a tad hyperbolic. Creativity is ever-present and constraints create new forms, shapes, movements and pressures in art. Solzhenitsyn without Stalin was invisible. Goya without Napoleon probably made unremembered, unremarkable (but slightly creepy) portraits. And so on.
This is to be expected, as the article notes —

"Japan lacks an agency like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, charged with applying research to public health ... NIID is focused on basic research."
Don’t forget to pay your exit tax.
Not exactly the same, but my dad told me the story that when he was in computer-lab in college, it was the first class in his school to have brand new Apple II computers. They drummed into the students' heads "these are not all connected to the central mainframe; if you ever break something, just reboot the computer and everything will be cleared and it'll be fine".

Well, I guess my dad took that as a challenge, and doing something using some weird recursive assembly and trying to reclaim some extra RAM by using the ROM chip (not 100% sure what he was trying to do), he managed to completely brick the machine, permanently breaking it.

Apparently they were pretty pissed at him, but he rebutted with "Well, you guys told me that I couldn't break it just by coding!" I guess they begrudgingly agreed and never tried to make him pay for it or anything like that, but they did announce to the class the next day that apparently you can break the machines, and to not do anything too clever without a professor looking at it.