skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big bad military isn't going to end up doing squat, because the moment they are employed, odds are unless there are a hell of a lot more people out there perfectly fine with watching what are largely peaceful protests get steamrolled. Furthermore, it'll be a tacit admission that the State's legitimacy is significantly compromised.

Many in the military are, contrary to popular belief, quite patriotic, and very concerned withthe integrity of the system. It is not a foregone conclusion a dearth of volunteers to put the boot to countrymen may manifest.

Furthermore, to the sibling poster's assertion that's a great way to ensure gun control laws get passed, when the State's legitimacy is already in question, further clenching of the iron fist (particularly from the American viewpoint I grew up with) will exactly not yield the quiet compliance one might imagine. In fact, it would result in quite the opposite given any active attempt at confiscation.there's also the problem of who you intend on having do said confiscation, and just how bulletproof they are, and where on the "persons I'll comply with" spectrum they'll fall on .

Also, again, once the guns go, all the other far more destructive, nigh-impossible to regulate means of destruction and mayhem creation get put on the table. You don'thonestly think that all that new anger will just go home and sulk while you have the government of the United States running around fielding the least hyperbolic stormtrooper initiatives on American soil, do you?

If you think things are bad and violent now. Get back to me when you start actually pulling the pages from the dictator's population subjugation handbook.

This entire endeavor is remarkable in that it is trivial for this turmoil to bedissipated bythepolice deescalating and being open to a a greater degree of civic oversight,and being held to a higher standard. Or so the protestor supporters seem to repeat. The refusal to make a meaningful gesture in that direction suggests to me that it what we're going through is a macro-event. Something that's been building for a long time, and isn't going to ground out without substantive structural change.

It's anyone's guess how this'll go; but I'm wagering the first time the military proper gets involved it may be a sign of the end days of the country I was brought up loving.

Then again, I've been wondering if that was the case since 2001... So... Yeah. Take it or leave it.
http://daly.axiom-developer.org/hello.w

is a program in "whitespace". The original text is the standard C helloworld program.

Characters are converted to morse code. A morse 'dih' is converted to 'space' and 'dah' is converted to 'tab'
Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies
Works for me on the latest versions of MacOS and Firefox :)
How are they different than Grubhub or DoorDash? Their website looks just like the other ones
Not to take too much away from your point, but Cotton is the junior Senator from Arkansas
An organization dedicated to preserving the knowledge of mankind or... Greedy luddites attempting to use archaic laws to try to postpone the inevitable demise of their absurd business model.

This is quite the dilemma.
This is the way, but connecting to production database is not always an option.

Let's say there is a problem when adding some type of record... You want to avoid, if possible, the creation of "test" records in production while reproducing the bug.

That's why I think we all end having some sort of inhouse tool that grabs a full snapshot of the database, or if not possible because of really big databases, just a sufficient dump of relevant data for the bug at hand (ie. just rows from some date, just some "customer" data, etc. to be able to mostly mimic the data environment).

Do whatever is needed to do your job: squash the bug. To do it you need to be able to reproduce it NOT in production (or you're lost in guess-temptative-fixes in production).
I agree with only store what you need. But I can't think of many things in a professional setting that a company should store but not encrypt.
Can someone tell me why without having to watch a video?
"Pointless" only matters if it is "a lot" and "a lot" is relative. It seems like it has not been possible to resolve the question of whether the effort is necessary. If you suggest that existing monetary systems have orders of magnitude lower overhead, particularly fiat money, then people will argue that all sorts of costs are hidden. But I don't believe it makes up the difference, and I attribute peoples' willingness to believe it to the assumption/belief that anything that virally spreads cannot be drastically worse (in some dimension).
The answer appears to be build a new system quietly behind the scenes and then abruptly switch over to it one day without regard to the difference between systems.

The U.S. is more a tale of peacefully handing power between two separate systems that both constantly evolve.

From time to time, these two systems lead to a state of cognitive dissonance which threatens their existence until a time in which the rubber band violently snaps back to an equilibrium.
Yes! I don’t know why there’s so much apprehension about calling the restaurant. So often I learn more about the dish I’m ordering - does it come with X ingredient yes/no, should I order Y add-on, is rice extra. Simple questions usually omitted from online menus. Makes the experience just a tiny bit more human and that’s honestly enough for me
You're correct, I apologize.
If you ask me both titles are outdated.

If you google around you get pages like this:

https://www.electronicproducts.com/Education/Career/Software...

> Computer programmers receive specifications from software engineers and turn the program design into written instruction codes that the computers will follow.

In 2020, this is a load of baloney.

It sounds like it was like a term to distinguish senior and junior developers.

A modern developer is concerned with the whole process start to finish, and owns the maintenance and design of the software. A senior developer will know more about how to architect a complex application but otherwise the role is the same.

I wouldn’t worry about it. I’ve worked at companies that have called me a DevOps Engineer, SRE, Linux Systems Engineer, and these were all identical roles. Titles are just about ignorable, it’s more important to look at what skills are needed, what the day to day job looks like, and of course, compensation.
One of the great things about books is that it lets you see the world from a different set of eyes and experiences.

I highly recommend, "Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates." It's worth every minute of your time.
It was the same 20 years ago when I turned up to these things.
From the article:

"Leaders of three civil rights groups — Color of Change, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund — released the statement after a Monday night Zoom call with Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg."

Does anyone find this suprising?
I remember using custom boot disks for some games...

Makes me wonder if Windows 95 should have just rebooted into DOS for older games. Alt-tab was always sketchy anyway when a have was running.
I'm the person that you're replying to responded to.

This is exactly what I went through during that four month period. The existing tests weren't very useful and I was completely changing the structure of how the program was architected, but the input v output could be measured. I, like you, also discovered critical bugs in the existing implementation because I needed to cover the entire combinatorial set or possible inputs whilst the original implementers presumably went through them as they came up.
I've read more than one complaint about Debian's packaging process being a nightmare. I have no horse in the race, but since you're here, I wanted to mention this because it sounds like you're not aware of it (and could possibly help change things).
> If shareholders were risk neutral, they'd be buying bonds, or holding cash.

Huh?

Many people hold both bonds and stocks and other assets, like real estate.

Index funds give you broad diversification at low fees. That diversification mostly removes out company-specific idiosyncratic risk, but it still leaves you exposed to market risk, and no one in their right mind claims otherwise.

Even a risk averse person (and even more a risk neutral person) can rationally hold on to very risky assets. Risk aversion just means that you require a higher return for a given level of risk.

And a risk neutral person doesn't care at all about risk, they only care about expected returns. That's mostly a convenient abstraction like the famous home economicus.

I don't understand why a risk neutral person would want to prefer bonds and cash?
That sounds highly speculative. I imagine officers that fail to start their cameras appropriately are at the mercy of retaining their own legal counsel when questions of misconduct arise. The police department has shielded itself from liability by providing video recording equipment and when the officer chooses to perform their job without that equipment in violation of department policy that liability falls entirely on that officer.
I forgot about that. It's just a referrer check, it opens on cmd/ctrl + click just fine.
If a situation allows for shooting at the legs, then it is not serious enough to justify shooting at all.
I felt some of that last time I interviewed there. There was one guy who seemed to think that because I was older than him, I should also be smarter than him. Or something. Odd bar to set.

Anyway, I'm thanking my lucky stars these days that they turned me down.
I suppose the idea is Copyright.AuthorId is immutable but its member functions myCopyright.grantPrint() or whatnot() are callable
> The tradeoff you get with other distributions being quick, is less quality assurance.

I dare say, if Ubuntu is any indication, Pacman packages consistently feel higher-quality than deb packages. Unlike on Ubuntu, on Arch, you can actually update your packages without breaking something...
With all due respect, you may have built an effective tool to suppress malware, but I would be more excited had you addressed the complaint in the article.

It remains difficult if not impossible for a brand new developer to coordinate a new launch or for an open source project to release unsigned binaries without triggering SmartScreen's rather opaque and user-hostile reputation block. At first glance, the dialog does not give the user any information that it is even possible to execute the program. Of course it stops malware. It brings the average Windows user to a dead stop!

Based on the number of regular people I help on a daily basis who download completely legitimate, "esoteric, non-very-commonly-downloaded software" I must say that I do not find your arguments very compelling. This tool could have easily remained in your browser where it belongs.
Facebook, PayPal back Gojek to boost digital payments in Asia
I agree 100% with you. I think the expectations of the parent comment are very misplaced.

Restaurant owners are usually not tech people, nor can many of them afford to hire tech people. To expect all restaurants to pay exorbitant amounts of money setup/ maintain online ordering systems is not realistic.

Also, I have never had a restaurant ask me for a card over the phone. Order times are a rough guess based on current traffic, no matter over the phone or an app. And 9 times out of 10 the server repeats your order before hanging up. If they don’t, it is easy to ask them to.

To be fair, I have been surprised many times how difficult it can be to find an online menu for places I like in my area. Lots of places might not even have a website, but in these cases, I actually use GrubHub and the like to read the menus only. I never order through them.

Here is an easy way to beat these broken GrubHub shenanigans. Find an online menu, or use GrubHub only to read the menu menu if need be. Find the real phone number on Google maps. Place your order over the phone. Pick it up yourself and save tons of money on fees (and now apparently save the restaurant from getting screwed too). Make sure to pick up a paper menu on your way out for next time :)
"Kill Doctor Lucky" is definitely worth a try. Thematically you might also like "Save Doctor Lucky".
I've had far too many orders get screwed up over the phone, even when I've had them read back to me. Also, you still have to deal with physical payment when you pick the order up.
Great. One step closer to ending the war on drugs and re-deploying DEA resources toward crimes that hurt people.
Control the situation as in suppress the protests by whatever means necessary? Violate the protestors' constitutional First Amendment rights? Please explain.
A couple other designs I love.

https://lucumr.pocoo.org

https://http2.info

https://dwell.com (not text only but good use of imagery in a non distracting way.)
The image of people mining in their residences is the furthest from the truth about crypto mining.

It uses primarily renewable resources or is repurposing pollution directly. This is the only economical way to mine. The vast majority of mining power is done this way, upwards of 80%. How much energy is being used is a purposeful misdirection.
On reflection, option 1 includes like Taleb's philosophy. At first I wrote it off as leading to arguments like "no one knows so let's do what I, an 'expert' say", which I hate. But it's written generically enough to include rules like Minimax, where you don't need model estimates to make a decision. This rule is very conservative, though.

I think there are a fair number of people who succeed at option 3. I can think of a few people who I believe do option 3 well, but as you indicated, they're individuals. I think that the US Department of Energy is probably the closest organization that I'm aware of to succeed at this. (Or at least some DOE labs; I can say from personal experience that groups at both Los Alamos and Sandia take this fairly seriously, though I don't think it has fully permeated their culture.) I'll have to think more about this.

Option 3 is my basic approach, I'd like to think that I succeed at it, e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23397785

A major problem with option 3 is that it runs the risk of people claiming to do option 3 but actually doing option 2. I think this happens regularly but it's due to ignorance, not malice. Ultimately I think we need to change scientific standards and the STEM curriculum before option 3 becomes tractable on a large scale, but even then I'm not sure it'll work because it'll always be easier to claim to do option 3 while actually doing option 2.

I agree with the writer that option 4 is more of a long-term goal. I wish the comments on this article focused more on #4 than what was discussed...
The Australian senate which use proportional representation rather than two-party preferred preferential has a more reasonable spread imho.
If you scroll down on that page, pretty sure there are non ad results. Seems disingenuous to say it's the entire page.
Not to mention there's probably enough surveillance these days to allow us to identify the perpetrator, allow them to leave the scene of the crime, and then track them down later and a detain them away from the inciting incident. I would imagine that arresting someone away from the inciting incident of the crime would likely lead to a less-adversarial interaction because they're in a less stressful situation.
To bring $1 worth of US currency into existence, it only costs a fraction of that amount.

But to bring $1 worth of bitcoin into existence, it costs $1.

So, it seems obvious to me hash based currency is a virus that is many orders of magnitude less efficient, but many people seem impossible to convince of this.
Maybe it is because protesters are more of a threat to those in power than looters
Grubhub is nearly two decades old.
There was a post on Reddit where a guy found dozens of cameras hidden on poles that he could access with their IP addresses in browser and even control directly and get live feed into people's homes. Some of those said "Property of DEA". Eventually hundreds of people started accessing with the ip addresses that were listed by the OP and the feed was cut off.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy_commons/comments/gin79z/...
So why CAFEBABE ?
it is a random hex value looking like words or intentional to say that ?

edit, found it : https://dzone.com/articles/the-magic-word-in-java-cafebabe
Yeah, and DDG’s results for “mattress” aren’t much better:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mattress

Basically a map listing three mattress stores, followed by two ads. Then finally a few non-ad results, but still stores selling mattresses.

If you’re on desktop, there’s a bonus ad on the right sidebar, below the definition.
I submitted this story about a KPIX reporter detained despite clearly identifying herself as media. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/01/tear-gas-rubber...
The 1990s German rulebook to the Settlers of Catan followed the concept you are lining out. The rulebook one an award the Germans have specifically for rulebooks.
Restaurants and grocery/convenience stores are a bit different. Yes, owners of both are signing up for long hours and poor pay. But the motivation is often different:

- if you buy or start a grocery store, you know you're buying yourself a job; you won't get rich, but you will make more money than you would working for someone else, e.g. if your options are limited due to discrimination, lack of fluency with local language, literacy etc.

- if you open a restaurant, you might me doing it for all the same reasons as above (think an undifferentiated Chinese restaurants, or a local pizza place). But many people open restaurants because they are into food, because they think the way they make food is better than existing restaurants, and because they think the margins are going to make the restaurant ultra-profitable.

(My parents also had a grocery store.)
The burden is on the buyer to take that risk or not. If the buyer isn't sure, then they are free _not_ to buy from a non-authorized source.
"To those who are about to play, I salute you!" - Chris Oberth.
I think I see pretty many comments in this HN discussion that I'd say try to justify police violence
It wasn't an actual budget cut, it was a cut to a proposed future budget.
See this seems really weird because Giant Steps is super simple and makes sense to me, inherently. And I can't step back from that and see it otherwise except to acknowledge that your point is probably true. But that is purely an intellectual standpoint because I know people are different.

Maybe it's like some optical illusion pictures that once you see it you can't not see it.
This looks quite useful for cross platform transfers on the same network. I’ve been using AirDroid [1] for quick cross platform transfers on the same network and Firefox Send for transfers over the Internet.

When I tried this on iOS (different browsers, though they’re all using the same engine underneath), it was stuck on the loading screen. Turning off content blockers didn’t have any effect.

Edit: Figured out that this doesn’t work on iDevices (at least older iOS versions). There’s an alternative called SnapDrop [2], whose FAQ has this question and answer:

> SnapDrop a fork of ShareDrop?

> No. ShareDrop is built with Ember. Snapdrop is built with vanilla ES6. I wanted to play around with Progressive Web Apps and then I got the idea of a local file sharing app. By doing research on this idea I found and analysed ShareDrop. I liked it and thought about how to improve it. ShareDrop uses WebRTC only and isn't compatible with Safari browsers. Snapdrop uses a Websocket fallback and some hacks to make Snapdrop work due to the download restrictions on iDevices.

SnapDrop looks like a better alternative to me.

[1]: https://airdroid.com

[2]: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop
Ah thanks, if I'm understanding that correctly it sounds like the rhenium foil contained the nitrogen as it was being compressed. That makes sense.
Ask HN: How do develop a secure web application?
I've recently been using node and Java Spring so I can learn how to build fully-fledged web apps. One of my side projects is an API that has to be secure because it has access to private data. I used JWTs for authentication but I'm not sure if it is actually secure.

When developing a product, how do you build and test it so that user information is protected, your APIs can't be abused etc.? Where do you learn this information so you can apply it in practice?
Thanks so much for providing this service!

Here in San Antonio, there were over 1000 tuned in a few nights ago. Some local news channel management asked reporters on the ground to leave the scene quite early in the night, so this service was really invaluable in helping me understand what was going on in real time. The difference between live local news and reality on the ground was drastic at times.

How did you get into this business?
Totally agree.

Scientific breakthroughs shouldn't require commercial justification. That they are expanding the extent of human knowledge should be enough.
In a common law jurisdiction the law is made up of constitutional law, statutory law (primary), regulatory law (secondary), and common law (case law) derived from precedent set in the courts. It is a lawmaking body though not of primary or secondary legislation.
Monopoly is an awful game. I'm glad you don't play that.

But also have a look at the modern 'German' style boardgames. They are much better than the bad old American classics like Monopoly.

'Ticket to Ride' and Carcassonne are a good gateway games for example.
has anyone had to hear their crazy relatives go on about the dangers of 5G? Is there some penultimate youtube video or resource to point people to to assuage their fears?
FOIA is a federal law. Each state has its own law. For example, Texas's is the Texas Public Information Act (TPIA). The standards could vary state by state.
It's not about censorship. It's about allowing people to see the news. It's the same difference between a typical r/watchpeopledie video and the video of George Floyd. A regular person making a racist rant is just a racist rant. The president making a racist rant is the news.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. - Rumsfeld
For a temporary period of time, before it self-corrects back to ~2weeks. It's easy to leave this part out as it is an edge case that doesn't need the extra sentences qualifying the "normal case" that will be observed 99.99% of the time.
It's considered unsporting and is a poaching technique. Yes, some game animals will stare into a light not understanding the threat, but the real reason spotlights are effective is eyeshine; the light reflected from the eyes of game animals makes them easy to find at night.

There are many effective techniques that are not permitted when hunting game.
In Praise of Aphorisms
NotCurses: TUI library for modern terminal emulators
With infinite scrolling what's a page?
This is why I enjoy using my iPad Pro with LTE. I can mosh/ssh, I can even use vscode if I feel I need a GUI or am working on netsuite code.
For the unfamiliar, these are the bigger 2 of the big 3 ISPs in Canada. The basically own most of the actual telecommunication infrastructure, Rogers got some but not much.
Quite a lot, I imagine, but given they're (supposed to be) fully reusable, the idea is that testing will be $$ instead of $$$$.
Yes, it can
The significance of this article is that you don't need a big science lab like CERN to do useful experiments.

Diamond anvil cells are under $10,000:

https://diamondanvils.com/product-category/diamond-anvil-cel...