skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you're right, but I'd like to better understand how a city surrounded by sparsely inhabited wasteland could have a shortage of anything of which those other cities have plenty. Austin is practically a suburb of San Antonio anyway, and has no obvious qualities that aren't shared by ten other cities and big towns in Texas.
That didn't aged well...
If the system wasn't functioning "period" the protesters wouldn't even be able to protest though. They wouldn't have gas, they wouldn't have food, they wouldn't have phones, they wouldn't have any sort of protection and the powerful would kill them and they would disappear from history.

That's not to say there aren't serious problems or the system couldn't be improved, nor to say the system functions well for everyone at all times because it doesn't. It obviously favors some people over others. But taken as a whole, it functions and we have a pretty good life.

You know what life has been like for most people in most places and times? What the system was in those places? The strong nakedly rape and abuse the weak. Hunger. No recourse. Zero justice except might and whatever charity came along. Gulags. Genocide. No say whatsoever and constant want and fear.

It's manifest this system functions fairly well all things considered. It allows you to sit here in comfort and say that for instance. To say any differently is either very naive or very disingenuous.

There are problems. There is injustice. There is corruption. We need to work on those things. But anyone out to overturn the system should do a little deep thinking first.
literally every person’s phd project contains mysteries ..
These people see 5G as this set of radioactive beams which is between the tower and the phone. Radiation causes cancer and vomiting as far as their information (HBO’s Chernobyl) is concerned.

They see the solution in the clothing of the liquidators from that rooftop scene, i.e. those thick black gowns of lead lining. They want coats instead though as the gowns look too poor for them.

They are looking to purchase such a thing for themselves to walk around in. I take it they missed the part about it being 70 lbs.
Call it deflecting, but it's true.

Neither parties hands are clean.
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The respond to peaceful protests with violence, which causes rioting, which leads to more power and money for police.
Bell is already using Huawei components in other parts of their network. When I opened my Bell fiber modem last year, I noticed Bell was using a 1.25 Gbit Huawei SFP+ transceiver. Is there any possibility of a backdoor?
The relationship between Canada and China isn't exactly cuddly warm right now, what with Meng Wanzhou detained in Vancouver at the request of the Americans, and China's execution of a few unrelated Canadians in retribution [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/china-sen...
Its a line item via direct deposit labeled "VA Payment" or something along those lines.
AWS KMS, and equivalent for other cloud providers. They are in every sense better qualified to handle encryption secrets than my lone ass is.
Trump’s executive order attacking social media faces its first legal challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0fAznO1wA8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YFeE1eDlD0
No, our new aircraft carriers don’t run on Windows XP

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-our-new-aircraft-carriers...
I mean, they managed to IPO so the founders probably made out alright.
Ya, this is going to end well for us.

From wikipedia...
Cumulus Media, Inc. is an American broadcasting company and is the third largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States behind Entercom and iHeartMedia, Inc. As of June 2019, Cumulus lists ownership of 428 stations in 87 media markets.
I don't have any resources beyond recommending searching something like "linux command line basics" in your favorite search engine, but I do have some advice. You have to conceptualize it at a higher level than "shell commands:" the shell is just a way to run programs, and pass arguments to those programs to do what you want. The names and parameters of most common programs like ls, touch, mkdir, etc[1]. will become second-nature over time. There's no fast-path to learning them, you just have to force yourself to use the command line in your daily workflows.

They look like 'commands,' but what's actually happening is the shell is searching directories that are listed in your $PATH environment variable, for an executable with the name you entered. Diving more into the mechanisms of how the shell works is potentially educational depending on your learning style.

Starting with Arch, you're setting yourself up for a bad time, since you'll be learning both basic command-line knowledge and how to configure linux from scratch. Ubuntu or Fedora might be better places to start. OSX will suffice for a unix-y environment, but there are definitely some quirks that won't translate nicely to linux-y distros if that's the direction you want to go.

Larger objectives you mention like starting a server, the first principle is still "what program can I run (i.e. call from the shell) to do what I want?" And in this case, it would be the program that manages processes for your system. Not sure what Mac uses, but many linuxes are using `systemd` nowadays. If you search `systemd basics` it will give a good sense.

[1] Shells also have built-ins (like cd) and you can learn a lot about the intricacies of them by doing actual shell scripting (e.g. "bash tutorial"), but it sounds like you're mostly interested in getting your feet wet with the basics before diving into scripting. Although it's a nice way to round out your knowledge.
Can I please do those horrible recaptchas on TOR browser already?
So they got off of Elixir and microservices, but their introduction of Typescript and GraphQL didn't pay off like they hoped, and now they need to get off GraphQL. I think the lesson of "Choose boring technology" applies here. One of the reasons rewrites are risky is that very often the new tech doesn't live up to expectations.
To some degree that's matter of luck. Sometimes all your assumptions are correct from the start and the requirements don't change much. But often a lot of things change over time until the first architecture doesn't fit anymore. I would agree there are better and worse architects but luck definitely plays a role.
I never put it together that for the the telecom-originating language Erlang, the "Er" stood for Ericsson. The more you know.

'The name Erlang, attributed to Bjarne Däcker, has been presumed by those working on the telephony switches (for whom the language was designed) to be a reference to Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang and a syllabic abbreviation of "Ericsson Language".' [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)
Funny you should mention it! I actually prefer Approval voting, partially for its simplicity, partially because it elegantly represents Consent of the Governed. I sometimes don't bother mentioning Approval, because RCV has greater mindshare, and "Ranked Choice" is a little stickier from a branding perspective. I kind of wish there were a better overarching term to describe multiple voting; either way, the priority IMO is that we get off of First Past The Post.

I'll check out CES, thanks.
> equipment from Nokia and Ericsson doesn't mean that you are "building and maintaining one's own infrastructure".

More than that, it's buying from allies, both political and ideological. I regard most of Europe as a liberalism ally, I'm entirely ok with my nation's telecom gear coming from eg Germany, France, Britain, Sweden, Finland and so on.

They use software from Microsoft or Adobe, and hardware from nVidia, Cisco, Intel or AMD. I'm more than happy to use their telecom gear, including paying a higher price.
It was at punitive pricing, to the point where you feared going off network. For example, Wind (Freedom's name at the time) charged 5c/mb for data ($50/gb). And Wind absolutely would not let you connect to the incumbents network if you were in the "Home" zone.

I think the voice pricing out-of-network was okay, but the incumbents definitely cooked the books on their costs on data.

They once had a plan for $39 with 6gb data and unlimited calls/LD in-network and anywhere in USA. But it had small limits for out-of-network in Canada.

Meanwhile, they incumbents charge cheap-enough prices to American or French providers so they can allow their subscribers roam in Canada with many gb included in the base plan. A French subscriber roaming in Canada would have 5x the data as a local plan at half the cost.
Hey i found this job really interesting just curious if you guys are looking to hire a graduate
Stop punishing one party for not being perfect but striving for better, but letting the other off for the most blatantly obvious destructive practices because that is who they are.

I'm going to be honest - attitudes like yours are the reason why politics is so nasty in the US.

Rather than take the perspective that everyone wants the best for the country, there are just disagreements on what best looks like and how to get there, you're just taking the perspective that the other side is broken, immoral and, in your words, destructive.

I'm on the conservative side of things and I don't think Democrats are evil. They just want the US to look different than I do. That's their right.
Just avoid touching anything complex :-)
Install a linux distro on your own laptop without X. Force yourself to do everything from the shell. {mutt, lynx, etc.}

That's how I learned not only to use a shell but also how I learned to program.
I'm Australian. It's definitely not perfect, but our politics has managed to stay moderate in a way the US has not.

I shudder to think what we'd look like if disenfranchising voters were a more viable strategy.
I forgot to add - I did this in the 90s you can do this in the 2020s. :)
Agreed, I think this is such a good reminder that slavery wasn't that long ago. There are many people alive today who grew up under legal segregation. In fact, it's not hard to see how today's modern Republican Party grew out of the "Southern Strategy" of the late 60s.
"the coroner said it wasn't asphyxia that killed him (despite all the videos) and a private autopsy found that's not true[1]."

The county coroner's report was technically true in a way meant to imply a false result.

Floyd didn't die from lack of airflow, he died because the knee stopped blood flow to the brain, that is the brain couldn't receive Oxygen despite the body being able to breath.

The county coroner carefully checked that Floyd could breathe, but not blood flow to the brain. Once asphyxia was ruled out (not really, since strangulation is not the only way to get it), the coroner was free to imply whatever was comfortable to the police.

I wonder how many other autopsies done by the same coroner were also misleading, and whether other cases will need a retrial.
Musk Took Costume Designer Jose Fernandez from Batman/Daft Punk to NASA
Wonder if any of the official apps are using reproducible builds, that can be built from their published source?
The Democrats are actively trying to give Trump even more police power. Just because they say some of the words you like doesn't mean they're on your side.

https://sirota.substack.com/p/10-things-dems-could-do-right-...
If you could do it in 4 months i seems to be a relatively simple system. It's also not clear how your new code will adapt to changes in the next few years. It may end up in a big mess again.
I recently got one and the touchpad is so bad, its infuriating to use.

There are also many posts in the community about quality of the touchpad.
I vouched for this. In other threads, an attitude I've seen is "well I'm just a tech worker, what can I possibly do to help?"

Projects like this are what you can do.
> I couldn't believe that anyone would want to mouse-around to poke through the available classes and methods.

So I dont know a ton about smalltalk outside of what I've read and poking aside in squeak for a few minutes, but is this how smalltalk apps were supposed to be distributed and run? Inside a sandboxes system like that?
Hmm, I'm sorry, but we have to talk.

1. Rubber bullets kill when they are used in the exact opposite way they were intended. They are not meant to be fired at people's heads. If used, they should be fired at the legs to incapacitate. This is covered in training. I very much doubt it's an accident that they wind up hitting someone in the temple.

2. I did not explicitly authorize escalation between my city police and protestors. If you want to know what works when it comes to preventing riots and looting, read: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/de-escalation-keeps-pro... I watched in my city as protestors were turned into rioters because the police reaction to the middle finger and some naughty language was riot gear and tear gas.

3. You're very confused. You explicitly say we should not confuse protestors with rioters, and then go on to say that rioting and looting is being done by people "within the protest movement". You can't have it both ways. What you don't seem to understand is that it can simultaneously be the case that there are people who are committing "crimes" to have their voices heard, and people who are committing crimes because it's an opportune time to commit them. What you fail to recognize, is that we may disagree about what a crime even is societally. And to wit, that is exactly what we're disagreeing about right now. By strict legal definition, looting is a crime. However, the motivation for the crime colors it. If someone was starving and stole a loaf of bread it would be a crime, but the motivations for that crime color it. I would not, for instance, tear gas a starving person for stealing a loaf of bread.

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In the end, your version of "clear-eyed" is code for "whatever I deem to be the valid laws of this society", not necessarily what is truly just.
This was absolutely a strategic consideration planned in concert with the government.

There are no surprises for anyone here.

Literally not making the public announcement was probably the decision arrived at by Trudeau et. al. I'm not sure if it was the right move, though it's almost assuredly a planned thing.
It's easier to mock someone for the strange sounding words comming out of their mouth, rather then try to understand the meaning.
If the telecom industry in Canada was competitive enough, you would have had the choice. Like in South Korea LG Plus is using Huawei while others are using Nokia or Ericsson
Disclosure, I work at Dropbox: but did you consider paying for a tool? Or were you mostly interested in free options?
It claims to be "fully Python-based Linux distro" but it seems to be just a buildroot config with an init.d script that runs the python repl in a loop. There's still /bin/sh, C tools, etc.

https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware/blob/master/snakewa...
I can't see Go as anything more than tripe aimed at commoditized development. Yay at being a cog in a giant machine.

Smalltalk and the ideas it was based on revolutionized personal computing. There is raw, unbridled genius in it and that should be widely recognized.
There's a lot of us, especially in the South. My great-grandfather was a child in the siege of Petersburg. My mom still tells the story of how the family house was struck by a Union cannonball as they were sitting outside it. She heard it directly from her grandfather when she was a child herself.
This reminds me that at least until recently, two grandsons of President Tyler (born in 1790) were still alive.
Wouldn't it have been more in their favour to choose Huawei, at presumably much lower cost? It's not like consumers who didn't like that idea could switch to someone else. The only explanation I can think of is that the government called the shots here, while sparing the telecos from a tough negotiating position.
The dream for me has always been to get LDAP/Kerberos tied into container/VM orchestration, and do everything that way with per-instance accounts.

LDAP is ubiquitous enough as an auth method (how do you auth to Vault? You auth to LDAP with it...) that any service you run or use is likely to speak it.

Why this isn't done more often is a mystery to me and probably the number 1 source of credentials being baked into things accidentally: oh we need a service account into the <enterprise system> which uses Active Directory.

Might have answered my own question there though.
Unfortunately Android has screwed up here resulting in the rise of WhatsApp. There is no competitor of WhatsApp that has the same reliability.

Also there is no feeds in WhatsApp, making it very different from Insta and FB. But it's still giving strength to the ecosystem.
> The entire time -- they are trying to book you full price. The hotel loses, because they cannot give you discounts -- they either get the sale or lose it alltogether.

How is that not considered fraud? You're falsifying your identity as an employee for services you cannot provide in order to collect a fee as a middle man.

But now that you mention it, during this absurd time I actually called the number of a Thai restaurant I frequented before by searching it on yelp only to get a dead dial tone. I always suspected they were just busy as they were still doing rather well all things considered, but the woman at the counter (a local baker in my town helping out her friends in the evenings) said she never got a single call when I showed up and ordered in person and talked shop of her new kitchen that got put on hold.
I don't see the source for the linked "Web App" here; just the markdown files. Would be good to be able to contribute to that as well.
When I work with frontend my not-so-secret trick is to do all development on Firefox.

If it works in Firefox it usually works in all modern browsers, so even without doing extensive cross browser testing I know it will just work.

I also catch most cross browser bugs from people who use Chrome.
The Lancet’s Politicized Science on Antimalarial Drugs
The search for a non-toxic, non-animal-based chemically stable red colour.
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You're not wrong about this, but it still doesn't bother me that they offer Huawei handsets.

I just wish they'd offer Sony's...
>The people who pushed the tax cut said it would lead to a huge increase in companies making investments that would lead to more good jobs in the US, and it just didn't happen.

Right, so are these the same people you want to have in charge of capital allocation? Because that's basically what it comes down to.
I don't think they're any more inherently predisposed to tyranny. I just don't want to manufacture additional opponents when I have sufficient to deal with. Surely you understand that, being trapped in a sleeping lion's den, I would not ask you to throw in a cobra.

You are right, of course, large companies often cartelize to harm and employers inherently have more power in the relationship so it's already unbalanced. I have no objection to ad hoc organizations that form to fight singular causes, but a long-term group? It will, over time, dedicate more of its energies towards ensuring its existence and less to the cause it ostensibly espouses. And then, I expect to look in a window and see Mr. Pilkington and Napoleon arguing over their cards, and I doubt I will be able to tell which is which.
But if Huawei is a Chinese spy, shouldn't the government put some restrictions on that too for public benefit?

But they can't with the ban-but-not-a-ban on Huawei. It would be too obvious that there was a ban if providers scrubbed Huawei consumer products entirely, and those consumers pay the price.

And while you have the option to not buy them, it's not so easy to avoid communication with anyone with a Huawei device.
I would really love a search engine or keyword that lets me exclude pages with ads (or too high an ad-content ratio).
Go does syscalls directly on Linux. Libc is only needed if you use a thing that only exists in libc (e.g. NSS).
I think it's far more difficult to build a competitive network in Canada vs the US. Canada is as big as the US, but has 1/10th the population. Building and maintaining infrastructure for low-density population areas is extremely capital intensive. I am not saying the existing Telco oligopoly is a good or ideal situation. Just mentioning that US and Canada have some differences in this regard
That's true for anything where difficulty is measured by a continuous function -- that is, everything is easiest for a state sponsored anything, good or bad, unless it can't be done at all. You're really just saying states have more resources than individuals... which is true almost by definition (they aggregate individuals within their realm)
Am I the only one that gets the feeling these riots have nothing to do with George Floyd at this point and are just a massive boiling over of tension from Coronavirus lockdown orders?
I think we already bungled that one with Nortel going bankrupt, and getting parted up and sold off. And I don't think the solution for that, should've been, lets bail them out because it's in the national interest. We're in this really weird state where these bailouts allow privatizing the profits and socializing the losses. Even if that didn't happen, would Nortel survive anyways with the major consolidations over the last 10 years.

It makes it really difficult, that within a country like Canada, can you make a competitive landscape of a local supply chain, and have it only cost a little bit more, across the millions of pages of standards that make up a mobile wireless network, when you only have 3 customers that make up the majority of the market, plus some regional operators. I think it ends up costing alot more, which is what drives the consolidation and integrated supply chains. And it's not easy to support from a policy perspective.

Edit: Another thought, although the hard part about bailouts is, in a worldwide economy, you're companies are also competing with other companies that may receive bailouts or other government support which makes this an extremely complicated topic.
>not interested in supporting violence or doing anything illegal

Who defines what is illegal? When the System and its laws are completely stacked against you, any change can only be brought about by going outside the System i.e. by engaging in "illegal acts". You are allowed to use anything and everything to bring about real Societal change. Racism and Police Brutality need to be stamped out once and for all in the US.
What we have now is a DDOS on free speech. How to solve it?
Lol - I just found out from a source at FB that this guy quit on May 21 and just using this situation as an excuse to get noticed. What a piece of shit.
We have a lot of weird titles in our industry. tbh none of them make a heck of a whole lot of sense. A "developer" is a person who builds residential buildings, "engineers" have to get certifications and they are liable for the work that they do, Architects? lol.

I basically just run with it at this point. It's hard to explain to my parents that I can train a CNN to identify them from a video camera and at the same time I might have to spend an hour to get the right look and feel for a button on a web page.

On the flip side, I really do wish we had some sort of title/ merit system that made sense to the rest of the world (aside from working for FAANG cos). The technical sophistication of individuals in our industry blows away the capabilities of other industries...
Probably the title should be “Why Steven Spielberg is a good director”.