skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can somebody explain the images used to represent men and women on slide 16 of the Facebook pitch deck? [1]

[1] https://starthouse.xyz/facebook
There are no rules for ccTLDs, which their countries like to claim as sovereign property (see https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/wed-ccnso-me... and https://gac.icann.org/principles-and-guidelines/public/princ... for some of the views)

Some ccTLDS voluntarily agree to abide by the same rules and operational requirements as the gTLDs - https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/cctld-2012-02-25-en has more details.

This means, for example, than ccTLDs aren’t bound by the findings from SAC053 at https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-053-en.pdf which have been included in the gTLD contracts.
It has only a 1.4 star rating as of right now. It clearly didn't do anything to help the rating of the app.
Why the VM-T Atlant Is Such a Badass Plane
I suppose that's a fair point, though if there is a problem with my house I can work from the library or the supermarket, etc, just as easily.
The biggest trouble people get themselves into with this kind of thing is if they, upon being contacted by the company, ask for money instead of immediately offering to transfer the domain to them free of charge. At that point it's trademark cybersquatting and they have your own words in the email as proof.

Speaking from personal experience here: being on the end of any kind of notice with the threat of legal force, even if it's not a lawsuit yet, is the kind of stress you just don't need in your life.
"Conspiracy theory" is set equal to "pothead crazy garbage" because 99% of conspiracy theories are just that. An instance of Sturgeon's Law, if you will.
The 'paradox' in this experiment lies in believing that you can have a voltage across one of the capacitors and zero volts across the other before you hit the switch. In other words, you can't have two connected locations resting at different voltages.

--------| |---------------| |----------
--- +6 -6 ------------ 0 0 -----

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NOT POSSIBLE!

Two capacitors in series are equivalent to one (combined) capacitor, just like a bunch of batteries can be considered to be one (combined) battery.
I've led teams from India. The skills and talent were fine, although the interview process to find good talent was harder then in the US. I'll skip the horror stories of people googling interview questions... because that isn't really what you are asking about.

There were challenges - The communications needed extra effort, and the results were not as good when they were given autonomy over their work. They also were not happy being on a project long-term - they always were looking for their next promotion. Which means it was difficult to get a true senior-level talent on the team, because the better someone is... the quicker they move on to something else.

Ultimately, my answer is yes, I am willing to hire people no matter where they come from -- but I'd be far more inclined to hire someone who has already spent a couple years working in the USA, so they have a better understanding of both how we communicate, and our business culture.
> redirects all traffic to (and I'm not kidding here) urls like "www.terriblesecuritycompanyname.com/www.originalurl.com" when the user accesses www.originalurl.com.

What is the theoretical security feature they are selling by doing this?
Is this really the place to call out individuals? Maybe it is. I don't know.

But in today's call-out/shaming culture, I think we'd all be better off if we held back the urge to call people out like this whenever we can. The leader of the company has already taken responsibility and he's here replying to people in real time. No matter how we feel about the situation overall, calling out more individuals seems to server absolutely NO purpose.

Maybe I'm wrong, but if I am then I just won't participate in these sorts of discussions any more.
You seem to be blaming the EU for the choices freely made by Greece and the UK. The EU doesn't exist to coddle self-destructive nations at its own expense.
I've a precision 5530. On paper it's a lovely machine. In practice, lots of graphics issues, docking station issues where screens flicker, etc. It's such a shame for something so costly. It's a work laptop, I'd have returned it long ago if I'd purchased it myself.
So Go Daddy after the first "We're sorry..."?
With no restriction on what kind of dependent types are allowed the type system should at least be Turing complete.
> I didn't suggest this. You did: "labeling Bernie Sanders far left as opposed to, say, Sweden"

Sorry, that was unclear. Swedish leftism in politics. Not currently enacted Swedish law.

> It is generally accepted that the greater government intervention in the health care system the more "left" you are. The more health care is left up to individuals and private enterprise the more "right" you are.

This is just flatly wrong. Chomsky, for example, believes in non-government health care solutions and cites numerous ways individual communities have pursued this. We might imagine short-term pursuing these interventions because they reduce harm, but there are massive segments of the left that are deeply uncomfortable with a state run health care system.
Before clicking through I thought this was going to be a subscription service that wrapped cloud providers while reducing the amount of in-house knowledge and skillsets required to use K8s.
I know of a musician who has been performing online shows for the past couple of months. He does them solo, just singing and playing guitar. He streams video using OBS Studio and Crowdcast.io, and all of us attending the show participate through text chat. His video has a latency of about 30 seconds, presumably because it's using a typical RTMP + CDN setup, designed for non-interactive broadcasts. So sometimes after he finishes a song, there's an awkward moment, because even though we're sending our equivalent of applause through the chat, he won't see it for another 30 seconds. He knows about the latency, and he believes it's necessary for a reliable, high-quality stream. So he just tries to carry on like it's not there. But I wonder if it's possible to do better. FWIW, his most well-attended show so far had ~170 people watching, and the audience is usually much smaller.
Twist was a true game changer for our remote team, been using it for over a year now after 3 years of slack. Before, with slack, we also experienced the typical frustrations of it being very distracting, and the synchronous communication could often lead to unneeded tensions within the team. Since adopting Twist, our workplace is now much calmer and more productive! They also dogfood their own product, and their team has been remote from the start AFAIK.

(fyi, not affiliated with them in any way, just really happy with their product, they deserve a shout-out!)
When running Xorg/X11 they do still run, that protocol from the old days has not changed much, its the libs that the programs use are the moving target, but if you have a nice static compiled X11 App, it will still display!
People have gotten in serious hot water over Internet traffic that was accidentally sent to them. Owning someone else's trademark as a domain name seems liable to increase the risk of that happening. Even if you aren't up to no good, you've now placed the onus on yourself of proving that you weren't, whereas if you weren't squatting on an obvious TM domain that wouldn't be true.
City of Spies
Of course they've seen everything, don't you know Tech Support are basically computer geniuses?
"The British forcefully drugged an entire country"

It may be comforting to think in such simplistic black and white terms, but they weren't giving it away for free! Chinese traders gladly swapped tea for opium since there was huge Chinese demand. In fact opium production in China during this time skyrocketed, becoming far larger than imports by the end of the century. You may argue that it was immoral for the British to sell opium into China and I won't disagree, but the real reason Chinese authorities wanted to stop opium imports was simply protectionism (even though it was technically illicit). They wanted to protect the prices of opium produced internally and they were very happy for their own people to be drugged on their own supply.
I'm struggling with your question, yet intrigued by the problem.

When you are new in an organisation, it is very common to feel awkward in making smalltalk and being remote would make it even more so. What technology are you conducting your conversations with? With Zoom you can read body language, etc. Using messaging alone provides far less clues.

I presume that you have been assigned a mentor and some tasks to perform. In which case, I would expect that your conversations pertain to the work you are doing and not shooting the breeze by the water cooler. Perhaps a good starting step would be to talk about aspects of the tasks at hand and then expand from there, asking about the decisions that led to the design / architecture / tool choices and from there the roles and personalities involved.
Not sure how you could get this so, so wrong.
No, a dialog or a negotiation is reasonable. Deciding things for both parties is not reasonable.
https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/clarke_business_...
I don't know what method GH is using, but the standard attack on hashed passwords is the use of rainbow tables[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
I suggest disabling autoplay when you open the link. I got startled pretty badly with the very loud and unexpected beeping sounds
I believe it's the view you'd see under a toilet stall.
Yes, the diesel-electric ZiL-135Sh. [1][2] 120t payload, zero-turn radius. The prototype looks deceptively small, those are motorized Il-18 landing gears, and the payload was supposed to go on top of them. The full-scale vehicle was being tested but there are no photos left, apparently.

[1] http://www.gruzovikpress.ru/article/6377-zil-135sh-transport... (in Russian)

[2] https://truck-auto.info/zil/304-135sh.html (less info, some more photos of the prototype with the wheels turned 90)
Read the source to Putty sometime.

The main program is one big, big function with a big, big loop and switch in it. Each place where it does something that would (otherwise) block, it sets a state variable to match a case label right after, does a non-blocking version, and breaks. (This is done with a macro.)

After the break, it stashes the state, and if anything is ready, switches to that state and re-enters the switch. Otherwise, it sleeps waiting for work that can proceed.

As a colleague remarked, "I love it, and hate myself for loving it."
OP wrote "When I logged into" so presumably at this point the website can check the password against a password strength/complexity algorithm or top 1000 lists. Ther user had to change the password immediately. Only if you try to skip the step it will auto-reset.
If a company is making a "Generic" charger using a proprietary connector(only used by Dell in this case), it is their responsibility to make sure it works. Otherwise, it is a bad quality knock-off.
Tiktok too takes an extreme viewpoint banning anything remotely close to offending China.
Imagine being on the dev team and hearing this. I'd probably quit. Good grief ...

Having said that, it's weird that no-one raised this as dodgy while working on it.
I think that’s what he’s saying: that this system of hundreds of TLDs means that companies can easily miss one and that becomes a vector for phishing, etc. It sounded like he was blaming ICANN, not Netflix or Google.
Why does it turn white after going in or out after a while? Technically fractals are infinite when zooming into them. Could you add an infinite loop to give this illusion?
I agree, it's not a binary solution. But there is a significant portion of the American public, including Trump for a good while, and off and on today, that thinks the government should be doing little or nothing.
Wikipedia entry on protothreads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine#Implementations_for_...

The source code is interesting. LC_SET is particularly neat:

/* WARNING! lc implementation using switch() does not work if an
LC_SET() is done within another switch() statement! */

/** \hideinitializer */
typedef unsigned short lc_t;

#define LC_INIT(s) s = 0;

#define LC_RESUME(s) switch(s) { case 0:

#define LC_SET(s) s = __LINE__; case __LINE__:

#define LC_END(s) }
Germany has more than twice the GDP of Russia. They could reasonably handle themselves. US and China are considerably larger however.
Seems like a ton of extra work with no real upside. For one, if your migrations fail to complete across all databases for whatever reason then you could hit a point where you have databases with differing schema.

Additionally, like someone else pointed out, trying to run any reporting data across multiple customers will become difficult code wise and less performant.

Realistically, if you are handling the sort of scale that would require more interesting scaling solutions for typical db software, you are most certainly making enough money to implement better approaches.

FWIW, I worked for a company that was handling a few hundred thousand customers with millions of order records on a relatively small AWS RDS server. Set up a database cluster and you're rolling for a while.
Gee, remember when Windows wasn't an abomination of counterproductive spyware?
I've maintained an enterprise saas product for ~1500 customers that used this strategy. Cross account analytics were definitely a problem, but the gaping SQL injection vulnerabilities left by the contractors that built the initial product were less of a concern.

Snapshotting / restoring entire accounts to a previous state was easy, and debugging data issues was also much easier when you could spin up an entire account's DB from a certain point in time locally.

We also could run multiple versions of the product on different schema versions. Useful when certain customers only wanted their "software" updated once every 6 months.
Soft White Underbelly: interviews and portraits of the human condition
Germany like Japan and Korea might be because although they don't have the population they are punching above their weight but any other European country is indeed too small and insignificant.

I still think Brexit is a good idea, the UK got the commonwealth and the US, speaking the same language is a powerful parameters when it comes to relations between countries so it is not the same thing as if Italy or France have left. Spain has latin America but the overall value of the Spanish speaking world is smaller than the English one.

Not to mention all the other benefits you gain by running your own country without intervention from some entity that nobody really elected or understand what they do.
Ever hang out with a sociopath/narcissist? They give the best heartfelt apologies, they almost make you feel guilty or something.

Not sure I agree with that. There's a very obvious example of clinical narcissism that we frequently hear about these days who seems to be a strong counterexample, in that they have never gone on record apologizing or taking responsibility for anything, even when doing so would be a clear, unambiguous winning move.

It's usually perilous to diagnose other people with psychiatric conditions over the Internet, and I don't think the case can be made for the Triplebyte CEO.
Many national TLD holders (ccTLDs) control a TLD in local language.

.lk registry, for example, also controls .ලංකා and .இலங்கை (sounding "Lanka" "Ilangei" in Sinhalese and Tamil, the two other official languages in Sri Lanka), and they do not cost $185K. In fact, ccTLDs don't cost any money as far as I'm aware. DNS servers are run by the government funding but there is no cost to pay to ICANN.
Is there somewhere the source PDFs or PPTs can be found? I'd rather be able to browse the files than have to go to a website controlled by someone to page through.
I think autoplay is important to draw people in, but I'll implement master volume control, and set it to 50% by default.

EDIT: Done.

EDIT2: I've disabled autoplay anyway, because on some browsers it doesn't work properly.
Me neither. Chromium 83 with plenty of adblocking and privacy extensions.
Random over-generosity is not a particularly effective charity pattern. If you feel that Hacker News denizens like ourselves happen to have too much money, there are a variety of organizations which can transmit sums of money to those in need: not just a one-time $15 at random with a special tax diverted to prop up the Cuban government, but on a recurring basis, every month, as part of a program to help eliminate worldwide poverty in a targeted manner, and sensitive to the dislocations that can come about as a result of carelessly deployed aid.

I use WorldVision to do this, personally (some of their non-evangelizing programs) as I appreciate their efficient organization, but there are other ones out there too. I can supply links to https://www.worldvision.org/donate and suggest interested parties consider a $40/mo sponsorship of a child's health and education at https://www.worldvision.org/sponsor-a-child
https://eshop.macsales.com/
Awesome. It seems to me the browser has eaten almost everything but music creation. That is too bad, because each year sounds seems more important in social networks.
bruh. is the RF better or worse now? how are those term limits working out for you? was the west better or worse during the years 1932-33 during the famine (the same years that the US hit peak unemployment)? were the pogroms and the gulag better or worse than jim crow and segregation and racism? was state owned means of production better or worse than the gilded age?

like you're sitting here glibly dismissing something that's more nuanced than either yours or my hottake. what are you trying to accomplish?

edit: also how come you translated mine but not yours? and also why didn't you translate all the way?

>даже если мы согласны с тем что коммунизм не был идеальным это не значит что берёзки доказывают это

translation: even if we agree that communism wasn't ideal that doesn't mean beriozkas prove it.
Can we just link to the source instead of this political rant?
Ammon was also a cofounder of Socialcam, known for a ton of dark patterns. He employed similar techniques here. If he didn’t use so many dark patterns I could forgive him.

He made the feature opt-out. He sent out the email on a Friday before Memorial Day weekend hoping no one would notice. He made the opt out button hard to find. He made the process of deleting accounts very hard, saying they required government ID and it would take 30 days.

He knew exactly what he was doing.

He made preparations for the blowback. That’s a fact otherwise he wouldn’t have taken these dark measures ahead of time. What he didn’t anticipate was getting caught and the level of vitriol he would receive.

He honestly thinks he is smarter than us. I think a person can go to the well only so many times before we have to assume they are insincere and lying.
> The current position is "sorry for breaking your trust, please trust us". It's hard to find it compelling.

Why is this a hard thing to do? It’s literally what everyone who ever messes something up is asking you to do.

Just because someone once committed a broken build, doesn’t mean I’ll never again trust them with access.

It’s argubly more like “sorry for being a moron, but I hear you. Please give us another chance”?
This classic treatise from 1831 might be a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right (for the full text, use the link to Wikisource at the bottom).
And the master Plan was to irradiate all the gold in Ft. Knox so it would be out-of-play for the duration of the half-life.
Yeah, same here. Can't really help them until they've worked out the problems with data input. :(
One very special use-case for org-mode I have in "my life" is literate programming. I've not used any other tool, that can do this as well as org-mode.

(1) I can export to many formats.

(2) I can choose what to code export (source blocks).

(3) I can choose what code to run on export.

(4) I can give names to source blocks and then link to them in other source blocks, basically building a code dependency tree with them, allowing me to focus on one aspect at a time.

(5) I can link to other source blocks out of order.

(6) I can specify how the output should be put back into my document.

(7) I get syntax highlighting for any language, that is usually highlighted in my Emacs.

(8) I can use multiple (programming) languages. For example I could output a data table and then have another source block using GNU Plot to make a nice diagram.

(9) I can write explanations next to the source blocks in a lot of detail.

There is probably more, that does not come to mind just right now. Then there are some git hosts (notabug), which can render org-mode files like the usual hosts render markdown files (readme.md). So when you upload into git, you get instant readability in a rendered version, plus possibly syntax highlighting on the website.

That is only one aspect where org-mode really shines. I find it also indispensable for to-do lists. Using shortcuts to check or uncheck items and recalculating done/to-do count or percentages in a higher level of the to-do list. One can prioritize headings and use tagging, to enable later filtering of headings and narrowing down visible content.

One can also render Latex formulas inline for preview. If you need only standard document classes, you can go ahead and output to latex. Or you can create your own document class in your init.el file and customize everything as you would in writing Latex yourself, only that you get the benefit of writing org-mode instead. Much more focus on the content.

And then of course everything is plain text, which makes this even better and easy to manage in version control.

I just love org-mode! For me, easily one of the huge selling points for Emacs. The only other easy to use plain text format, that could get close was reStructuredText for me. Unfortunately there are few good reStructuredText parsers in many programming languages.
He originally said they got around 2000 deletion requests since sending out the original message. That comment appears to be gone from this page now, but another commenter concurs with my recollection.

It's hard to gauge significance without knowing a number of total users, but I imagine it is a relatively strong hypothesis that there is significant correlation between regular browsing of HN and having an account on his service.
Yes, and that's the point; to answer the paradox you have to explain where the seemingly-"vanished" energy goes, and that's relatively straightforward in the single-capacitor case.

It's then equally straightforward to see how the same explanation applies to the more contrived case of two capacitors.
I have a 5520, so, the generation before.

Specced the heavens, max memory, ECC, Xeon.

I also had issues with the dock, but it was exclusively the dock, the TB16 is a flaming hunk of garbage that has no business being on my desk.

The issues mostly stem from the fact that the USB controller (which powers nearly everything in the dock) is shockingly terrible.

But, regardless, there are more issues because the 5520 (and probably 5530) have only 2PCIe lanes to the thunderbolt port. I was surprised to learn that "thunderbolt3" != "thunderbolt3" in all cases.

I have a 5k laptop that is a buggy pile of trash because someone tried to save a dollar on a USB controller.

Honestly if I could lug this thing at Michael Dells' head I would do so I'm so frustrated.

But anyway, the laptop by itself is fantastic, it does get toasty under full load but I tend to disable the GPU so it's bearable. I considered getting the new WD19 thunderbolt dock before I realised about the thunderbolt PCIe lanes.
The more interesting question is how to make reviews valid again. There was some liberterianish hope that reviews and ratings could replace regulations and it does work to some extent but not as good as people hoped.