skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most emotionally unsettling things I've seen is a fake BBC broadcast that was posted on youtube shortly after Trump was elected. Is was clearly labelled as fictional, but still.

It was about an hour long, and started off with a news report about some kind of stand-off in the Black sea, with footage of jets taking off from aircraft carriers and so on. The reporters say they're not really sure what's going on, and military officials aren't taking their calls. They switch back and forth between footage of non-specific military activity, and the exterior of some building as cars stop and this or that important government or military official gets out with a serious look on their face and enters the building. Then it cuts over to some people on a roof in Poland, talking about flashes of light on the horizon and how the phone lines are down and they can't reach anyone in the neighboring town where the flashes of light came from. Things go downhill from there, and the reporters eventually say they've been told that helicopters are evacuating the U.S. embassy in London and the Queen and her family are also evacuating to some unspecified safe location. The video ends shortly thereafter with the BBC going off the air and being replaced by their equivalent of the emergency broadcast system, announcing a list of cities town and neighborhoods where residents are advised to seek shelter immediately. The list goes on and on until eventually the video cuts out.

I haven't been able to find the video again, I'd guess it was either taken down by youtube or by the original poster. The message I took from it was that in the event of nuclear war, it'll be over before most ordinary people have got any idea of what's even happening, much less why. The fake broadcast was disturbing in part because it didn't have any sort of coherent story or plot.

By now I think most people's anxiety about Trump getting us into a nuclear war has gone down a bit simply because it's been over three years and it hasn't happened yet, and because we have other things to worry about. I don't think it has been quite front-of-mind like it was in the 80's or thereabout, but I also wasn't old enough to remember the cold war much.
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I think generally those European schemes involved paying people less than if they were working normally. The UK one was 80% of people's normal paychecks, others were worse, some were presumably better. That detail seems to have been mysteriously omitted from a lot of the US media coverage.
Well, just want to point out, "money for everyone" is not true. I'm sure there are workers here on HN that did not receive any due to income.
You are free to leave the country if that so upsets you.

Meanwhile, I'm glad I'm a citizen of a place that values people's lives over "the economy" or a "more optimal allocation".
Historically, white/blacklist did not have racial origins, but history is always happening. The original intent of a word can be erased by its proximity to new taboos and new circumstances, and in this case, white/black have been racialized.

See also: the disappearance of the words "niggardly" and "feck" from common English usage, or how Thais are uneasy using the word "fuk" (gourd, pumpkin) [0]

[0] https://sci-hub.tw/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808190.013.10
According to Wikipedia (maybe not optimal source), via the PATRIOT Act, groups can be designated as domestic terrorists.

I don’t know anything about this topic. Can you expand why you said that there is no “...legal authority to designate a domestic organization as a terrorist group”.

I’m no asking about Antifa specifically but generally.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_Un...
[1] argues that a second degree murder charge would be more appropriate

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/31/opinion/minnesota-pro...
Hard to say since ppl are also spending less right now
Thanks for the feedback, what browser are you using?

I do know that it's broken on mobile Firefox (but works on desktop) - works on nightly mobile so I didn't investigate further. I should put up a banner or something for mobile Firefox.
Master of Space Studies – International Space University
And the Germanic tribes in the British isles even had a discourse among them - "what can we do to avoid ending up like the Celts when the Romans came?"
Not to imply you're not ready, but in response to "I've been coding since I was young, so I'm not worried about struggling academically":

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

Depending on the nature of what your department offers, be prepared to learn about, spend time on and potentially struggle with concepts that have nothing to do with coding or software engineering as you might be familiar with it, or even sitting in front of a computer.
On my Note 8 this feature works directly in the stock camera app. I didn't know about this, but I just tested it on the linked site and it works.
I enjoy the dry de-baiting of a good double negative.
It does feel better knowing my mistake didn't cost $125-million dollars.

Is there a book that lists many bugs and weird IT stories? Like the 500km email or the FileNotFound boolean.
> I realized that they approach socializing the same way I approach engineering and the like.

That sounds like a dishonest way of treating people, and might be a reason why some people prefer to be more introvert.
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Full name vs. first/last name – to split or not to split?
> 50% are at least L5

I don't think half of software engineers are senior or above.
Should We Purposely Infect Healthy Volunteers with Covid-19?
Make friends with the TAs. In a year or two, they’ll be able to refer you for internships.
Apparently the physical controls below the screens can perform all of the mission critical functions in the event of a display failure.
And while there were complaints, Bootstrap was the big behemoth before React. It’s not new to want to standardize on one front end design standard.
ye, but these are action or action/rpg
Could you or the @mods change this title to "cryptocurrency". Crypto is not the correct term for this.
> This is not fair at all.

Nyet, comrade. My points were perfectly valid and to not acknowledge them is willful ignorance at best.

Black bloc and others are a problem but that actually feeds into what the authorities want, which is to completely suppress protest and civil disobedience.

Challenge: explain away the arrest of compliant CNN reporters on live tv, as well as the intentional targeting of reporters elsewhere (with rubber bullets), and last, but very much not least, the police shooting people in their yards for the act of filming them.
Woah, do not get into the habit of putting your wifi network password into a website if you care about security. This particular site might or might not collect it now but it's a terrible habit to put your sensitive data into another site.

Imagine if this was a web-based password strength meter.
> The intent of React is to drive new developers away from the building blocks of the web.

That’s not React’s intent.
This was the first song that came to mind when I read the article :)
I'd be very curious too. My son's university is proposing to do the next year (mostly) remote, which sounds like a perfect way for me to go back for a couple of classes too. I always wanted more letters after my name.
I don't know what to make of this comment. On the one hand, it makes sense, on the other, corporate control over politics in the US is near complete.

Maybe it just goes to show to show that corporations can not control themselves. They need to be guided.
Not OP but Chicago was built on marshland which I suspect plays a part.

https://gizmodo.com/chicago-was-raised-more-than-4-feet-in-t...
Is HOPS something that could be discussed publicly on HN? are there sources and examples that people could look at? If so, we could arrange some sort of thread about it.
Whilst I agree with the general sentiment, the Space Shuttle was the single most capable spacecraft that has ever flown. You are not being fair in measuring it simply on the basis of how much mass it could put in Orbit.
I'm white, I've been in jail (not prison), I've been put to the ground by an officer, I was doing dumb shit when I was a dumb shit.

But as soon as you introduce color, aren't you seeing color and preventing the fundamental problem from fading away?

You can't force it away, you have to teach it away, right?

Do children see color naturally or do we teach them how? Where are they primarily learning this? (I suspect from video screens more so than IRL, sources widely varied)
There is a good case to make that you’re analysis is a false dichotomy.
Da, comrade. Theses protesters are all criminals and should be shot on sight!

Edit: the above intact for owning my words.

There's plenty of evidence of the police engaging in unnecessary force and provocation of clearly peaceful demonstrators.

It's a straw man argument to make this all about the violent demonstrators and looting. The police are now literally above the law -- that is the real issue at stake.

No one except a "libertarian" is going to advocate for the elimination of the police. There's countless cases of clear police misconduct and effectively no accountability for that.

You can't have honest dialog with that without acknowledging the flaws in "your side".

If you can't acknowledge that any abuse exists, then you are engaging in monologue, not dialog.
Some thoughts I have as a CS student right now (for context, I grew up the in Bay Area and am a rising senior at UC Berkeley):

- I started coding when I was young, and I still struggled academically. There is a difference between knowing how to code and understanding computer science. For me, I found discrete math and formal proofs extremely difficult.

- It is very, very easy to get caught up in a constant mode of grinding CS hw/projects, especially if you're around a lot of studious people. Work smarter, not harder.

- Grades aren't everything! If your main goal is to get a job, you don't need straight A's. No recruiter or manager has ever asked for my GPA.

- Take classes outside of CS. Have hobbies outside of coding. Make friends who are studying different disciplines. You need outside perspectives to better understand the impact of technology on the world. Be aware of life outside the tech industry. Recognize software engineering as a tool to apply to issues.

- You'll meet people from so many different backgrounds. Some people come from high schools that taught Java and some people come from high schools that are not able offer any technology-related classes. Remember that some people are learning to code for the first time in their life!

For getting an internship (assuming you're interested in a SWE role):

- First of all, it's perfectly fine to not have an internship!! You can take classes, do research, work on side projects, etc.

- If you don't have prior job experience, spend some time on side projects (that are meaningful to you!!) to demonstrate your technical abilities.

- Have someone who is more experienced review your resume.

- You might hear that it's very difficult to get an internship straight out of freshman year. Honestly, at that stage, it's just a numbers game–the more online applications you throw your resume at, the more likely you'll get an interview.

- Don't discount career fairs on campus! I used to think they wouldn't be helpful because they were so crowded, but I got my internship after freshman year by talking to a manager at a career fair.

- Be able to clearly and succinctly describe yourself and your goals. What are your interests, and why? How do your hobbies and/or past experience support those interests?
Unfortunately they are really annoying to use.
it is wrong and I hope more FOSS projects move to gitlab
There's a reason there were no complex-state MMOs at that time -- there simply wasn't the residential bandwidth to perform continual full state updates (latency aside).

E.g. grid & turn-based vs 3-D free-motion worlds

They say they specifically made the deterministic lockstep choice because it was the only option that (a) allowed the multiplayer gameplay they wanted and (b) fit within the computing and network resources of the time.
Isn’t this the exact opposite of what we want? If a stimulus results in decreased spending we are literally just flooding the market with dollars that are being saved. If that money isn’t being spent it isn’t triggering the desired effect of a stimulus package... creation of goods and services. It’s basically just a big middle finger to people who don’t take on debt and who are still working, especially service workers. If they announce an extension of the bonus unemployment I will definitely ask to be laid off, 3 months of making $4500 a month with infinite free time to pursue side projects?
Can face blurring be regulated as a protected form of encryption?
Slightly OT:

I feel like the NYT is no longer breaking big stories/going deep on little known things. Recently it feels so opinionated and not nuanced at all. Maybe I only think this because I disagree with a few of the most recent articles I’ve read, but I wonder if others agree with me (or not).
because it's a breeze to read Golang, due in parts to the lack of generics
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The post you replied to was a little snarky, but there is some debate here, a lot of which boils down to financial options and “financial literacy.” For example:

> Poor people do have surplus money to save, find Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. Even people living on less than $1 per day spend money on many nonessential items such as alcohol, tobacco, and televisions.2 And when poor people increase their earnings, they spend only two-thirds of their windfall on food. These findings suggest that poor people are not just living hand to mouth; they do have funds to save.
So the question is, what financial products could help the poor lay away some of those funds for the future?

Source: http://www.pensiondevelopment.org/documenten/Helping%20the%2...
Shouldnt the UN condemn what is going on in the US? Police ramming protesters, shooting people filming from their own property, and so on reminds a lot about HK protests. Rohynga, Uyghurs, Black Americans, Native Americans are tortured in these 3rd world countries and the UN does NOTHING.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
We changed the URL from https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway to the project homepage, which is generally preferred when a project is being discussed for the first time on HN. Especially if it also links to its GitHub page or other repository.

I found previous submissions, but no comments except https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22610510.
If the government paid you to dig a hole and fill it back up, all day everyday, for absolutely no purpose, would you feel happy and fulfilled?

What about if 50 years ago the government paid you to create typewriters, and because there is no change and everything is static, they are still paying you to make typewriters? Except now they go straight into the trash.

The march of progress is important. Jobs need to be destroyed if they are no longer necessary. Paying people with tax dollars to continue to do the same thing for life is absurd.
at least to me, the lack of generics was a benefit. I'm probably not alone :)
This is super helpful! I really think you're onto something. Thanks. :)
What's barbaric is the low income, low savings, and high credit card/student debt that many Americans are saddled with.
On the other hand, the amount of leaded fuel burned is tiny compared to automotive fuel. Roughly 0.1% of all fuel sold in the United States.

Yes it's bad. Yes we need to get away from it. Yes it's being worked on and will happen eventually. Also please at least recognize that it's a hard problem.

https://www.flyingmag.com/when-will-we-see-unleaded-av-gas/
Well this is the NYT Magazine, not the NYT proper.
> How would you find their identity afterwards?

Only responding to this part. I've seen enough people get dox'd on the internet from static photos that I continue to be impressed each time by the skill of volunteer/angry people on <internet forum>
These are two separate things happening at near the same places. This is being done on purpose by people with anarchist tendencies -- to hide among legitimate protesters.

Some agitators are anti-government. Others are full on anarchists. Others want to bait people into race wars (a la the Turner Diaries, cited by white nationalist mass shooters and the Oklahoma City bomber).
True - but I am referring to useless open source posts. Forgot to add those claiming OOP, code documentation, and so on, are useless. Waste of time and are a distraction from what you mentioned.
Sorry if that weakens the argument to you. It is a separate thought. My point is that "asset pricing" theories are too reductive, and should at least factor in undercapitalized people that do not wish to speculate that can perceive information. Or just abandon reductive asset pricing theories and focus on other things. Promote liquidity and increases in transactions, "efficiency" in that context, not "efficiency" in a "it already is and has been all the time and forever" context.
While death at the hands of police might be infrequent, you can find plenty of longitudinal studies showing that “pro-active policing” like stop and frisk and pulling people over disproportionately is aimed at Black people.

Not to mention that statistically, Blacks are punished far more harshly than Whites.

This isn’t new, it’s just being filmed more often. Rappers like NWA and Tupac have been speaking out against police brutality since the 90s.

All the while White people preach to a Black people about how we “should act” not to the be beaten and shot by the police.
Says one doctor.
This is an interesting idea. On the one hand I'm outraged by what the protesters are doing and want to see them brought to justice. The idea of using mobile location data to retroactively find who the looters are and persecute them for their crimes is satisfying to some degree. On the other hand, it's a very terrifying pandora's box which could allow the surveillance state to reach new levels of intrusion.

It's even scarier to think that reconnaissance satellites are now actually really good and can probably trace you even in the dead-of-night. So, even if you left your phone at home to avoid location-tracking, just the act of venturing outside your house creates a tracking-trail as exposed by satellite imagery. Theoretically, law enforcement could use this data as of today to persecute the looters. Again, satisfying in a way, but also scary to think about.

How libertarian do we really want to be? I think the goal should be to opt for whatever leads to the greatest good for the greatest number of people. There's a spectrum, on one hand you have free libertarianism, and on the other, you have authoritarinism and strict social control. It's interesting to watch how states on different sides of the spectrum operate; namely, the contrast between liberties for citizens in the US and China. Which one is better?

In the US we operate under the premise that we should ensure our liberties are upheld at all costs; yet, this comes at a severe cost. China's authoritarian approach allows them to withstand epidemics in ways that we couldn't even dream to; and, overall, their centralized approach will allow them to surpass the US in terms of economic output. They also enjoy much lower levels of crime as measured by many different data points. In many ways I think the non-libertarian approach to life there will eventually lead most people to living better lives overall. Not saying that their approach is correct; but it's just interesting to think about.
The closest I've found to making and keeping friends has been the FBI interrogation manual, which explains how police officers who would normally scare a suspect can get them to disclose intimate details of crimes.

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/hig-report-august-2016.p...

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/hig-report-interrogation...

Obviously you're not entering an interrogation, and you also want to level the playing field by sharing information yourself.

I think it's an evidence-based guide to how first impressions are formed, and what people often get out of social interactions.
> OK so why the negative connotation ...

This is to be expected in the Daily Mail's treatment of any news item on a subject about which it has a political stance. It is a successful middle-market tabloid, but it is not aging well. Wikipedia's entry is, in my opinion, fairly accurate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail

I was surprised to see a Daily Mail article linked from HN, the newspaper is not renowned for accuracy or considered reporting.
>> We now have the capability to put up another ISS today, resupply it, and staff it, at a fraction of the cost,

Capacity to put mass into low orbit, but building a multipart space station requires far more than cobbling modules together KSP-style. Shuttle and the Canadarm(s) built the space station. SpaceX doesn't have that construction/manipulation capacity. It doesn't have the spacewalk capacity. To match Shuttle and build another ISS SpaceX would need to send people and cargo on the same flight, something that is certainly physically possible but remains logistically complex. NASA doesn't spend millions training astronauts in that giant swimming pool because they like the water.
That chart shows Robinhood as randomly above and below S&P500
> because that's actually not a thing he's legally able to do

This has not helped a whole lot over the last 3.5 years. When something is illegal, but no one is willing to enforce it, the legality doesn't have much impact.

This president, and the current administration, has demonstrated little regard for legality, and a clear intention to grab as much power as they can.
Only if you do these first: https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/nypd-officer-plows-into-crowd-...
That's strange. I just tried it on my Note 9. It recognizes the QR code but just displays the unformatted WiFi string. Doesn't attempt to connect at all.
In his tweet, I do believe POTUS was referring to Antifa in the same way as the question--as a fictional, hierarchical organization.
Literally no one is condoning assassination of police officers on- or off-duty. No one is condoning rioting or looting. But we are adult enough to understand that rioting and looting are the result of civil unrest when the people do not feel heard.
Recently came across a QR Coder [1] that can generate for a variety of different purposes, including Wifi (e.g., Bookmarks, Email, Contact, GeoLocation, SMS, URL link, etc.) - the same website also has a encoder/decoder and an API [2], but I've not tried those features.

[1] http://niftypdf.com/Barcoder/QRCoder
[2] http://niftypdf.com/Barcoder/API
This structure is very similar to the "polder model" used in the netherlands.[1]

As far as i know, this has grown historically out of a post world war 2 tendency to keep a fragile balance between the various organisations in society as a method to prevent the enormous turmoil of the pre world war 2 period.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder_model
Yes. imagine if you retired you could turn to programming full time just for fun!
They added support built into the camera app starting with iOS 11 (released in 2018).

https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/16/how-to-qr-codes-ios-11-iphone...