skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A thread from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23368109. The current article quotes from it, in fact.

This article looks like a fine overview but when it comes to follow-up posts, the test is: does the new submission contain enough SNI (significant new information) to support a substantially different discussion? In this case it looks like not, but I can't really tell.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It's better now that Windows has gone all-in on Powershell.

Now, I said "better" but still not "good" as the powershell APIs for many critical windows features are a nightmarish trashfire of multiple buggy overlapping implementations of the same thing, but they exist. It is now very possible to admin a Windows box from the console. And as much as Powershell is a bad programming language, it's a very powerful and expressive one that bridges the gap between shell scripting and full-fledged programming.
There is no reason to give elected officials a free pass. It biases elections by giving them an even bigger microphone than the other people running. Apply the same standards to all.
The SIEM that's giving SMB's something to write home about
Why? Would it be wrong for a restaurant to provide meals for free to those in need?
Price discrimination in healthcare is out of control. Simple addition to Medicare regulation that requires any provider (including Pharma resellers) to have a public price and not charge anyone more than they charge Medicare solves a lot of problems.
Then they should rethink their priorities. Ideals are far more important than party affiliation.
IANAL, but it's my understanding that anything written and viewed by a third party is considered "published" wrt libel. so it's already trivially easy for an ordinary person to commit libel.
Yes, private code. Basically there was some mutex fairness thing that was written on a SKX and on a Zen CPU where PAUSE is 50x faster it didn't have good fairness, it was too tight.
I really like the idea. Push to talk is a proven concept when a lot of people work together and should stay informed (e.g. fire fighters). I see a huge potential for it...
But if he had a dead man’s switch, wouldn’t it have been easier and lower risk to use state resources to penetrate his network and disable it? It’s not like a dead man’s switch is insurmountable, and when you’re entertaining these ideas of people who have vast amounts of power, doesn’t the simplest solution still make the most sense? How does an institution with an infinite amount of power fear one man? That’s the lazy paradox I see here. The government is all-powerful but wants to let one guy with a bunch of dirt on people live, even though they have the power to do whatever they want? And they choose to fake his death instead of coercing a prosecutor to slap him with charges that don’t stick or manipulating the jury? There are just so many more plausible ways that this plays out instead of faking his death.

As I said above, I think there are legitimate reasons to suspect foul play in his death. But a conspiracy involving the prison, the coroner and EMTs, the DA, whoever transported him, and whoever else you’d need to carry it out just gets so fantastical so fast. I’m not saying I believe the official story here, but people don’t consider the social implications of some of these conspiracies.

It’s like the people who think the moon landing was fake. Thousands of engineers, scientists, builders, etc. worked to get us to the moon. Anyone can read the source code from the mission today. Even with all of those people and resources poured into that project, nobody blew the whistle or leaked the press, how? That would’ve been one of the biggest political scandals in history if Kennedy/LBJ/Nixon got caught dumping tons of money into running fake NASA missions.
Offshoring anything requires more efficiency from the start because a company's management problems will be amplified by offshoring.

Of course if a company is remote first it will already be at advantage, but most companies I know are not known by it's management efficiency.

So a trillion dollars are lying on the ground, but its buried deep and you require the tools to dig.
I'd like a law that makes policing without a body camera illegal and a low felony/misdemeanor
Oh god, pretty much everything. I would say the largest thing is editing, including simple things like color balance and overall exposure. My retouching used to be awful, but to be fair to myself very few photographers have the retouching skills I know have. A bit of it is overall composition, lighting, etc.

In short, there are images that I used to be really proud of that now are honestly a bit torturous to look through.
It could have been worse if it had not been for Congress:

> The damage would have been far worse had Congress not stood in the way of repeated defunding attempts by the Trump administration. In its first two years, the Trump budgets proposed to slash the CDC’s appropriation by 18.2% and then by 17.1% (accounting for inflation). Today, its FY 2021 budget still seeks a cut of over 10%. Even when Republicans controlled both houses, Congress roundly rejected these aggressive Executive-led cuts, to maintain the agency’s funding near the previous year’s level.

https://envirodatagov.org/an-embattled-landscape-series-part...
Well a big problem not included in your post is that police officers can't face liability for violating people's rights in many cases because of qualified immunity.
Gay marriage is not legal in many countries.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-where-...

Calling being Gay fashionable is certainly a mindset that could only be developed in the last 5~ years in the USA or a very select few other countries.
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Is this regardless of legal structure? The choice to incorporate as a corporation comes with a side effect of double taxation but the sole proprietorship doesn't...

Not sure where you're based, but do the recent economic events in the US change your tune here at all? Given 'too big to fail' how do you prevent organizations from retaining zero earnings and then asking for loans when liquidity dries up? Double taxation is an incentive against this behavior
> As would anything that can compare hashes. Or heck, make(1) can do as much.

Of course, language like Python is Turing Complete so you could implement the same functionality . You could also add functions that behave and perform operations lazily.

But you're missing the point though, those are properties that Nix provides natively that are tuned to what is required for this domain. Because the only side effect in nix is a derivation, and because language is lazily evaluated it is made for this purpose.

If you would use for example Python, you would need to write wrappers that would provide that behavior and it no longer would be Python, it would be some kind of DSL written in Python at that point and the risk then would be that it would be very easy to introduce iterative code that's not functional and not lazily evaluated (kind of like it happens with Chef recipes).

The Nix Language actually is not the problem here, the language is fairly simple, the biggest difficulty is actually nixpkgs which is huge and poorly documented. You often have to look at its code to understand what's going on. If it was written in Python you would have the same issues.

There is one thing that Nix Language could do better, a lot of people wish it was a typed language, because if it was typed it would be much easier to find a definitions, and wouldn't require as much of greping the code. But python again wouldn't help here.
Alternative view from a very different kind of professional photographer -- I'm an in-house photographer who produces all of my company's marketing materials and product photography. I shoot mostly in a studio, and am using a 6D these days.

But my personal photo kit since 2010 has evolved from a pile of Nikon gear in a Pelican 1510 to a Lowepro shoulder bag, to a little body-and-two-lenses bag, to my current setup - which is an iPhone and a drone. And that setup covers about 98% of what I want to shoot.

Superwide? iPhone's got that. Panorama if I need wider. Stitching if I need even wider than that.

Nifty fifty? Got it. And Portrait Mode has gotten significantly better. Yay fake bokeh.

Underwater? I love that I can just stick my phone underwater and take photos. I had to carry a second Pelican case just for my old DSLR enclosure.

Telephoto? Ok so this is probably the biggest weakness. With a couple of exceptions where I got lucky, I've never been happy with the quality you get shooting through third party lenses or telescopes with a phone. But to paraphrase an old adage about how use a prime lens -- zoom with your drone!

I do agree that phone photos break down when you zoom in and pixel peep. They've got noise, artifacts, aberrations, all kinds of gross stuff. But you have to zoom to like 100% to see that, and the only person peeping pixels on my originals is me.

Edit: I also like that in questionable lighting conditions, my phone produces photos of a quality that would require multiple exposures and editing in photoshop to do with a regular camera.
Here's what a BX90-type diamond anvil cell looks like...

https://aip.scitation.org/action/showOpenGraphArticleImage?d...
What about Chile, Contras, the KKK ... ?

What about the Videla's coup d'état supported by US that lead to hundreds of thousands of desaparecidos?

One cannot simply point the finger and judge, without taking responsibility for their own wrongdoings
There’re many Better replacements, I’m using workshopx.app Now,works perfect anyway.
The party has shifted considerably in the last 4-6 years. Democrats have had virtually no power at the national level during that time. At the state and local level, we have seen significant changes towards things like drug laws, climate change, minimum wage, healthcare, etc.
> read a lot of papers

In order to do this, those that are serious need to be able to access papers, but paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for Elsevier can put them out of reach.
90% yes, 10% pharmaceutical/alcohol/tobacco companies lobbying.
Fuji XF10 is also a great choice, smaller than an X100 but no VF.
> The reason they have special protection is because the constitution grants them special protection.

I'm not a lawyer, but it doesn't

> There is no precedent supporting laws that attempt to distinguish between corporations which are deemed to be exempt as media corporations and those which are not. We have consistently rejected the proposition that the institutional press has any constitutional privilege beyond that of other speakers.

Supreme court in citizen's united, internal quotation marks omitted. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf

> protections of the First Amendment do not turn on whether the defendant was a trained journalist, formally affiliated with traditional news entities, engaged in conflict-of-interest disclosure, went beyond just assembling others' writings, or tried to get both sides of a story.

9th circuit in Obsidian Finance Group, LLC v. Cox http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/01/17/12...
Better to enforce the current laws. That should be sufficient.
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Yes, regulatory capture is a problem, but it's somewhat ludicrous to make a blanket statement like "government is the tool used to suppress competition". It's one tool in the toolbox, perhaps a significant one, but hardly the only one.
Git Hack to Fwd to Teams Cluttering Git History
We're not planning to open source it. Some features down the road will become paid but the free version will always contain at the very least what you see today.

The heavy lifting is done P2P falling back to our TURN servers if NAT traversal is necessary.
Why? It has pretty much the same functionality as ag and comparable speed.
Could you give an example of this?
Important to note that Take Two is a huge, publicly traded, corporation with a market cap of nearly $15 billion. They owned 2K Games, Rockstar, and others.

The tactics described in this article would be extremely shady from one small business to another... but a massive corporation swooping in and basically ruining another company? Wow.
Unless he's playing the long game where he is betting the farm on a Trump victory, and is trying his best to not antagonize him.

Which seems more likely than him being ruled by a small impact on a few months of ad revenue.
No obviously not, but you are creating a system that allows them to operate and shields them from being discovered. And if we're going to turn the political tide on E2EE from being the thing the "bad people" use to "the standard for private communications" then we have to have a better answer to this.

You don't win any political battles by being the preferred tool for child molesters and then telling the gov't to pound sand when they come asking for help finding them.

E2EE plus the client looks up images from the NCVIP database and refuses to send/receive messages would at least be something.

If the FBI comes knocking looking for access to a particular user's messages then have a system that kicks that user off the network until they agree to add the FBI's key into all their chats for a specified time. Make it a bright-line visible action to the user being monitored. You have PFS right, so they can't see old messages, and once the FBI's access is revoked you can prove that all your chats are private again.
> The most private solution is end to end encrypted and doesn't require a credit card and doesn't collect metadata etc.

The most private solution actually doesn't involve a computer at all. It's not very useful though.

> How can privacy be full of trade offs and security not when privacy is a subset of security?

See my initial comment:
> Security with encryption is about trust guarantees.

I'm not meaning "cybersecurity" when I say security here. I'm talking specifically about the security of encryption. Privacy and crypto security are two distinct concepts within cybersecurity.

Privacy hides the existence of a thing. Encryption (security) keeps the thing safe.
Hah. When we did IVF, they had me sign up for that CVS plan. It was sold to me as an "insurance program" offered via CVS, and only good at CVS.

It saved me many thousands of dollars, which I assume was charged to people who had insurance that covered IVF drugs (mine did not).

I thought it was a pretty clever workaround on CVS's part.
This is a false dichotomy. If a leader publicly prods his followers to attack some one on FB or Twitter, should they stand back?
You can join any Windows 2k+ client to any version of Windows Server from 2000 onward, with the exception of Windows 10 to Windows 2000 Server, due to Win2k relying on SMBv1 for stuff. If you activate SMBv1 on Windows 10 it will join fine. Schema extensions are a different story, but I'm almost certain that nothing in that department has changed since Windows Server 2012. If you are doing a new Exchange install now and can't buy some upgrade licenses (or get an EA with Microsoft), you probably should be on Office 365 anyway.

There's issues with Windows Server, sure, but AD and its relatives aren't one of them.
Disolve Police Departments and let citizens organize new police force that they will trust.
You are paying more for your insurance because the doctors offer different prices to different people (since insurance prices follow cost). This likely locks some people out of insurance altogether.
I think cynical and sarcastic jokes are blunt, and are something that arises when the culture is open about discussing problems but people don't have the agency to solve them.
It seems like a bit of a crapshoot. Some countries had huge spikes in deaths (Spain, Italy obviously, France, Belgium, Netherlands), and some did not (Norway, Hungary, Greece). Sweden's spike is a bit longer and bit flatter than other countries.

I'm not denying that Covid is a real disease that is causing excess death. I'm mainly challenging the narrative that lockdown is the only way to address the problem, that it's to correct approach, or that Sweden's approach is causing some sort of doomsday scenario of mass deaths.
> On the other hand, we've seen so many cases of people more interested in contradicting Trump than being logical about their positions,

Examples? His list of gaffes - that would be considered career ending for anyone - else boggles the mind e.g. Making fun of a disabled person, McCain, the Khans, accusing Joe Scarborough of murder, go back to your country, not knowing a verse from the bible, david duke etc. etc. (My point being there's enough to go on that being anti-trump on a case to case basis is almost indistinguishable from what you say for many topics in the news)
How do you feel about the rise of mirrorless?
This or asciidoc, and I literally just git to my server with post-receive hooks that push to the public webserver dir. No sftp or rsync required.
The 4-Hour Life problem.
I think a large portion of people would not bother building an estate if it could not be passed on to teir children. Most people work hard and build businesses for the benifit of their family.
I think the first version wasn't graphical.
Minnesota Attorney General elevates charges against Chauvin to 2nd-degree murder
This project seems like its the farthest along in this endeavor on linux:

https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback
Alive2 Part 2: Tracking miscompilations in LLVM using its own unit tests
I just don’t see how you can avoid it unless you’re an elite learner.

Even just one course in a CS degree on ML or NLP has a ton of advanced concepts.
Being a teetotaller is incredibly difficult in many parts of the world. I realized later after I started drinking for the first time in my life that many people feel that teetotallers are judging them for drinking even if that is not the case.
All colleges, especially graduate schools, are working tirelessly to recruit based on skin-color, as such diversity is now a significant component of the US News Rankings.
Well, if I had to program in Java I'd probably use IntelliJ :) Love everything coming from JetBrains. I'm a huge fan of Resharper. PyCharm and GoLand are top-notch.
using weapons or injurious force to facilitate:

interfering with the evidence of, or the report of a crime?
for the purpose of evasion of prosecution?
tampering with a witness?
From some perspectives charging everyone the same amount is wrong. In fact I'd say my intuitive notion of what a "fair" price was was closer to that when I was young, even being American. If a shopkeeper makes little or nothing selling an apple for $.25 to poor locals but does it anyway, but then successfully charges more of people she judges richer, she is any of remarkably charitable, grossly unfair, or simply doing what's right and expected, depending on one's culture or perspective. Similarly, the mechanic who could charge more but instead charges a smaller amount at what seems to them a fair markup is either an idiot or a good citizen, depending on one's perspective.
Are they? Russia, for example, is neo-feudalist, not capitalist.
*its entire existence

(I wonder if HN has ever considered pulling the headlines from the link directly as that could help with avoiding editorialization)
A study from the UK's Transport Research Laboratory showed that all drivers in the study had a critical reaction time degradation when interacting with Android Auto and Apple Car play.

> "The increase in reaction time when interacting with either system using touch was higher than previously measured forms of impairment, including texting and hand-held calls".

It's a small sample size N=20 but their conclusion was that interacting with these touch infotainment systems created a reaction time degradation that was 4x worse than the reaction time of a drunk driver (80mg of alcohol per 100ml).

They followed up this study with a call for urgent shifting in the auto industry to voice controlled infotainment systems.

[0] "Interacting with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay when driving", R Ramnath, N Kinnear, S Chowdhury, T Hyatt, March 2020.

https://trl.co.uk/reports/interacting-android-auto-and-apple...
When ACLU brings a lawsuit on behalf of an individual, it’s common for the government to moot the lawsuit by changing the treatment of that one person, or offering a settlement to that one person, or even deporting that person, without changing its behavior in general. A class action means the government can’t avoid the lawsuit that way.

What you’re saying is a real issue in general, but not relevant to class actions as used as a civil rights tactic by ACLU.
works goes into "repo/<project name>"

personal stuff go into: ~/files, then ~/files/archived, then ~/files/archived/archived. At some point I just make sure it's backed up, delete it all and start fresh with ~/files.
Fair enough, thanks for the info. Looks like I was wrong.
This is co-authored by Larry Summers, whose main ideological bent is that economic activity is good only as long as it serves US interests and can be directed by the US. He is on record as saying that African countries are underpolluted.

This is not to disavow any of the conclusions in the document, but only to provide a framing and context for the kinds of problems he is capable of identifying and the kinds of solutions he is comfortable proposing.
There are very few soft landings in the Kerbal Space Program.
Just Stop the Superspreading: 20% of Covid-19 cases accounted for 80% of spread
Besides picture quality, there's definitely something to be said for using a device that's exclusively for photo/video. You've got better UX (hopefully), amazing lens options, no notifications or distractions, and a different state of mind (at least for me). It's also immediately obvious to everyone in the vicinity that you're taking pictures and not just messing with your phone.
Ask HN: Programming certificates for high school students
I am an "industry advisor" for my son's School District (in the United States), which is engaged in a multi-year program to broaden the range and quality of technical education available to students for Grades 8-12.

I have been asked to comment on industry certifications for Python, JavaScript and Java programming. Specifically:
• Are these certifications needed or helpful to the employment process for entry-level jobs?
• Of the three certifications mentioned above, which certification(s) should we focus on? Are there others?
• Would industry recognize certifications from a provider like CodeHS (https://codehs.com/info/certifications) or is it more valuable to earn them from Microsoft, etc.?

I have views, but would welcome comments and thoughts from the HN community, particularly anybody engaged in recruiting or working with entry level programming positions.

Please remember that the focus is high school students, and not all students are targeting college. Also, this is a good faith effort by the District to assist students develop real skill sets - snark about certificates is not particularly constructive.
Go compile to native binaries, and is used for a lot of tools and CLIs.
> See general state of development/corruption for all ex-soviet countries versus the rest of the developed world.

The delta in development between ex-USSR countries vs. the West has only increased since 1991 (the fall of USSR).

So whatever they do today means they are doing worse job than they were doing under communism.
It's not obvious to me why Zoom should have any less right than, say, a hotel to block people using its service for criminal activity.

A hotel that suspects you're taping child porn in one of its rooms is well within its rights to call the police. If Zoom has reason to believe you're distributing child porn in a Zoom room, why shouldn't it be allowed to take action, too?
Wow, that's fascinating. That's a political move, like marriage used to be among royalty.
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