skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why was implementing it by memorandum lawful?

Because both implementing it and rescinding it are potentially lawful. SCOTUS hasn't ruled on that.

The Court simply says rescinding it in a particular manner that violates the Administrative Procedures Act is not lawful. It's a technicality; "go back and try again". The administration didn't dot their Is and cross their Ts, so they got a smack on the wrist for it.
I didn't pay much attention to the contracts proposal; is this just simpler because dynamic dispatch is vaguely similar to static dispatch, so it uses one syntax construct (interfaces) to denote both? I'm not opposed to this, but these aren't "interfaces" even though they use a similar syntax, notably the "constraining to a set of types" is supported for constraints and not interfaces.

The thing I worry about the most is that Go without generics works very well for 95-99% of code. The code is very clear and not overly abstract. The remaining 1-5% of code is hard to write in an efficient, type safe, and DRY way, but I don't see how we can have generics and clear, appropriately-abstract code. I strongly suspect this will change the quality of the ecosystem for the worse. I don't think people consider this tradeoff very often.
For a time, free OTA Universal Sports was probably my most watched channel. Then, as you say, NBC bought it and most of the content moved to cable channels or behind online paywalls at NBCSports. The NBC Olympic Channel captures the vibe of the old station pretty well if it's available to you. I know YouTube TV has it.
How to Breed a Pomsky and Other Questions About Dogs and Sex
No. It's perfectly fine (and even amazing) to make a living from a cause that is important to you.

But it's disingenuous to believe that activists 1) will not see what "obsess" them everywhere (that's a common psychological bias) and 2) will not try to make their cause as important as they can by inflating the numbers.
Show HN: Stealthcheck – Maybe you don't need Kubernetes/Prometheus
Yup, but there's waaaaay too much variety in software development to make this work for all disciplines and languages, so I will bet that it has always been optimized for JS/Full Stack.

I'm an Apple native developer. We aren't usually high on anyone's list.
I was able to start a sailing team at my city high school because the park district gave us free boat and coaching time. They also had extremely cheap classes that anyone can take.
This sort of rank incompetence about executive power and legal justifications has been a persistent trend with the Trump administration. I've been following energy policy closely for a while, and despite appointing a head to the Department of Energy who said in his presidential campaign that he wanted to abolish the DoE, there has been almost no significant change in policy. There hasn't even been any policy on coal that could stand up to the least bit of scrutiny as being legal and authorized.

If there was even a basic level of competence from Trump and appointees, we would be living in a far different nation by now.
IIRC Telegram always was willing to share with security services message history from non-secret chats and groups. The problem was the idiotic requirement to give keys for E2EE chats.
Signatures and sandboxing are independent. You can have either one without the other.
>I bought into this mindset, and regret it.

I feel you. We did the same, but that's because our son has ADHD and public or private schools in the city weren't cutting the mustard. We all miss the city and our friends there, and I miss walking everywhere. It was an awesome place to raise a child, but circumstances forced our hand.
I view Privacy Policies as a type of a labeling law, like the ingredients lists on all of your food. Even though only a small fraction of people actually read it, it's still doing its job and its important that it's there.

Some people care about the ingredients in their food, for a variety of reasons. Maybe they're vegan, or Kosher, or allergic to bananas, or are wary of processed sugar. Those people have the ability to make informed decisions, because they are informed. Similarly, privacy-conscious consumers can choose to avoid services based on their particular values when they are informed.

Another important use case is advocacy and/or journalism. If data-sharing arrangements must be public, then a motivated researcher is able to connect the dots, like finding how many sites send data to Facebook/Google, how many of them are health or bank or porn sites, what non-public-brand companies are actually collecting lots of data. Then it's possible for the gestalt "public" to be informed even if each individual isn't doing the reading themselves.

[edit] People are rightly pointing out several of the differences between ingredients lists and privacy policies, especially readability. I agree with this, and view it as a focus for regulation. Ingredients lists are useful in part because they're highly regulated in both contents and format. Privacy policies could be made more useful if they were to take some cues.
In general, i regard GWAS as fishing expeditions that are more or less guaranteed to find spurious correlations. Von Neumann's old saw about "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." absolutely applies here without other information.

That said, finding associations with ACE2 and blood type regions are not totally insane!
Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn design(web, mobile app)?
The common generalization of semilattices and groups are inverse semigroups which are one way of capturing the idea of partial, or local, symmetries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_semigroup
> Most recently it was successfully used to disseminate guidance on COVID-19.

Or propaganda, given the (credible) accusations against Russia on misinformation campaigns.

edit: I'm referring to the fact that Telegram is the most popular service for German conspiracy myth spreaders (e.g. former stars Attila Hildmann and Xavier Naidoo), especially in regard to the COVID19 crisis. Unfortunately I'm unaware of decent English articles, but here's a good German starter: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/messengerdienst-teleg...
Some Lua features can make it more pleasant to write the config files by hand. For example, comments (!) and local variables.

More powerful features can also be helpful if you have a large config file that would typically need to be generated by a separate program. One example of this is shown in the linked blog post, when they use a for loop to initialize a large array that has many similar objects.

It can also help if the config file starts gaining special "PRAGMA" fields over the years. There is a certain tendency for configuration files to slowly evolve into an ad-hoc and poorly implemented scripting language and in those cases, switching to a proper programming language cuts the problem at the root.

That said, for data exchange situations JSON has the advantage that it is more well-behaved in the case of malicious inputs.
... produced in any country.

I wonder if the money Crypto AG made will have been worth any future reputation cost for Zug's economy.

https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/wirtschaft/bund-stoppt-nachfo...
"... verkaufte die Crypto AG im Auftrag des US-Geheimdienstes CIA und des deutschen Bundesnachrichtendienstes Jahrzehnte lang manipulierte Chiffriergeräte an diverse Staaten."
Thanks! Amazing that you can get documents look so nice by using Word only. It looks almost as good as if they used TeX.
This is nonsense. No one said Java will disappear overnight. No one said Go was the solution to every problem. This is just straw man flame bait.
> would appreciate a few recommendations

I'm reluctant to give my best recommendation, because it's a fragile community, but hopefully this thread is far enough along that it doesn't have a lot of traffic at this point.

Currently, the discussion at http://slatestarcodex.com is the best that I've found on the internet for hearing intelligent views from people I otherwise disagree with. The "open threads" are very long, and contain a lot (50%?) of dross, but there are also a lot of gems within them. Post-Floyd, I was surprised by how many people whose opinions I generally respect were at least conditionally supportive of burning the police precinct office in Minneapolis.

If you are interested in this question, you could pose it there. It would be considered "culture war", and thus only acceptable in the "fractional" open threads. That is, the ones that end with ".25", ".5", or ".75". To reduce visibility, these aren't officially listed on the front page, but are available from the Recent Posts or from the Archives link. Create an account, post the question there in as fair and open-ended a manner as you can, and I think you'd get good responses.
I’ve gone back and forth on this issue.

Some thoughts on home ownership that I’ve had:

- Oftentimes furniture and decoration does a lot to make a low end rental feel high end. Check Craigslist in affluent areas. Or just splurge.

- It never hurts to ask your landlord if you can upgrade something at your own cost or by sharing the cost. Don’t just settle for white walls and junk appliances if you plan to stay a long time.

- You can make smaller spaces work better by using vertical space. Mount stuff on the wall. Install closet organization. Get permission if you have to, but also a lost deposit is still cheaper than buying/selling a home. Anything you can do to make you tolerate your cheap rental enough for it to be more long term.

- Don’t be a child, share bathrooms. More bathrooms are a waste of rental money and square footage.

- In the same spirit as “furnishings make the luxury,” don’t bother with high end apartments. If you want that kind of thing I think it’s better to buy. High end apartments are always overpriced and “fake nice.”

- A lot of “stainless steel appliances” are not as high end as you think. See that that silver Frigidaire dishwasher with the black plastic top? Yeah that thing costs like two hundred bucks. It’s no Bosch or Miele.

- Ultimately owning a home isn’t just a financial decision. It can also involve your level of control and power over your situation. Landlords are allowed to enter with 24 hours notice, for that reason alone a lot of people would rather own (but that’s also not a big deal, and certainly not as bad as having to fix everything yourself on your dime).

- There are often features available to purchased homes that simply aren’t common or don’t exist in the rental world. This most certainly varies by market.

- Consider the government subsidies and encouragements of home ownership but don’t overemphasize them, and certainly don’t make assumptions on what they are. People seem to assume that getting married and getting a house is a huge tax break - it’s not.

- Property tax abatements sound great but often just make up for local home prices being lower than construction costs.

- Consider whether job mobility will be impacted by home ownership. I don’t think anyone who is career minded should be tied down to a particular locality until they’ve got at least 5 years industry experience.

- Entire suburbs, towns, neighborhoods can go under. As a renter none of this is your problem. But it’s a very real risk of home ownership. Is Austin or Denver any more safe from future atrophy than Detroit or Cleveland?
seriously, for most of us it's just faster statically typed Python and it rocks at that.
Graphviz and Golang: The geeky tools to speed up technical brainstorming
Etymology of “Slave”
No, GitHub has some aspects that make it very useful for me. It's the de facto standard for sharing code, or presenting a portfolio.

It also has a great API, and people have written some nice tools for it. The API is probably not unique (or even the best one), but it is well-supported by third parties.
Effect of the rotation of spacecraft in an atmospheric close approach with Earth
Interesting! Would you compare Roberts' book with Boukreev's response to Into Thin Air, The Climb?
IIUC, you're saying that the genetic markers in question correlate perfectly with blood type.

If so, then why would it matter whether the comment framed the issue in terms of blood type vs. those genes?
You probably already know this, but the line is paraphrased from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is an amazing book if you like that style of humor.
Mindsets and approaches to be more effective and efficient at reviewing code
How do you define 'spying'? It's near impossible to invent or discover almost anything, without something tangible to observe.

I suppose the purpose of why certain collections of data are put together is where all the anger rightfully comes from, but calling for a complete armistice on all (even innocuous) forms of data collection is a little churlish.

You do it in microcosm too, you know. How many pictures do you have on your phone, that contain people you don't know?
The definition I used comes from the same team behind the Oxford dictionary. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/war
OP specifically said the constraining mechanism was unique, hence why GP (and myself) are curious about what makes it more interesting/powerful than what exists in other languages like C#.
I’m ignorant to golang’s generics saga, but I’m painfully familiar with Java’s (to the point where I wasn’t overly sad when golang didn’t have them). Can anyone explain what golang is doing better?
If people read privacy policies, then why don't we start clones of every major online service, but with good privacy policies?
Haha, I’m only playing devil’s advocate, it’s a terrible idea clearly.
Yes, my bad. I meant arrow functions.
Why do you think he's a poor spokesman for this?
"hr" is Croatian, Hungarian would be "hu" (and no doubt it sounds cool too).

And yeah, a "necropsy" (synonym for autopsy) definitely sounds cooler than a "dump"...

Otherwise: great summary, almost more interesting (and more compact) than the original blog post!
The problem is when the host goes down. Most kubernetes installations will handle that. Is it worth the administration overhead? Perhaps for a large company.
I imagine this type of approach will replace TypeScript in the long run. Instead of some wonky half-assed typed language that's chosen for running on a server and client, you can compile Java to wasm that can run on the server and client.
Navigating the Venture World as a Black VC
Shipping Linux binaries that don't break with Rust
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18161623
The statistic in the article that 85% of seizures that are kept are the product of people not showing up to court, does indeed suggest that.
Both are good. But, even better is an enforced US GDPR.
I respectfully disagree with this comment. I banged my head against The Art of Electronics for years before discovering that the problem wasn't with me... but rather, it was just a very poor book for a learner.

It may be a great book for those who already have some grounding in the topic.
https://outline.com/EEgJNA
Cool, thanks for the info =)...

Sounds like when I start sharing it a bit more I'll need to budget some time to put together a discord.
By doing so they would send the wrong message though "feel free to use it against us; we're neither closing nor monitoring it", which would be like shooting in their feet. Unless they're just pretending it.
Every government fears what it cannot control, especially communications networks that could be used to subvert the status quo; this applies to all governments in all countries, including so called democratic ones.
To me they're still actively monitoring it, and I'm 100% sure they have the means of shutting it down just in case of real necessity.
This is when I stop using it
What's new for V3?
I'm (early) in the process of writing Ultimate Electronics Book [1], which has interactive simulations built in. It was discussed extensively here on HN 4 months ago [2].

Take a look and let me know what you think.

[1] https://ultimateelectronicsbook.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22315899
In what way do they prove the rule? They fact that these exceptions exist prove the rule is no rule, but just a guideline.
Spies used LinkedIn to hack European defense companies
> 1. No matter what operating system you're on, you'll eventually run into an application that doesn't render in high dpi mode.

I haven't had this experience (MacOS, 4K monitor for 2.5 years)

> 2. If the 4k screen is on your laptop, good luck ever having a decent experience plugging in a 1080p monitor. Also good luck having anyone's random spare monitor be 4k.

shrug - 4K and 1080p seem to work together just fine for me. I've currently got a 27" 4K monitor and a 24" 1080p monitor both running off my 2015 13" MacBook Pro; the 4K is on DisplayPort (60Hz @ 3840x2160) and the 1080p is on HDMI (and it happens to be in portrait mode). I use all three screens (including the laptop's), and while the 1080p is noticeably crappier than the other two, it's still usable, and the combination of all three together works well for me. A couple of extra tools (e.g. BetterTouchTool) really help with throwing things between monitors, resizing them to take up some particular chunk of the screen, etc. - my setup's quite keyboard-heavy with emphasis on making full use of the space inspired by years of running i3 (and before that xmonad, ratpoison and others) on linux and freebsd.

> 3. Configuring my preferred linux environment to work with 4k is either impossible or just super time consuming.

That's a statement about linux and i3, not monitors. (And again, I like i3, but stating this limitation as if it's a problem with monitors not i3 seems... odd.)
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William S. Lind, fourth generation warfare, conservatism, and “cultural Marxism”
Original title was clickbait and lacked context. It was:

Donald Trump Meets William S. Lind

Background

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Lind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_warfare
How I Lost 50% in a Single Stock
Developing with users. That is one strategy I am trying out now. But these are internal users.

There is no best way to be honest. Sometimes you just have to say, I am not here today. Or I am not here for two hours. But there can always be outside calls or meetings in between. Sometimes it is worth while to recognize the power users and learn them how to do things themselves. This will pay back eventually.

Also make sure you move enough and have time to reflect. And don't be shy to move things of your back upon others. A lot of people are willing to help.

You can follow some methodology, but in the end they are too inflexible or just not right for your situation. So oh well, just reflect day to day and you will learn the patterns.

E.g. Monday is for me meeting day. People come back from the weekend and have new ideas, so I need to talk with them and integrate it.

Wednesday is usually the day to reflect on how things go and to spew out designs and documentation.

Thursday is helping out users day, I sit with them and help them with their problems. This is very insightful. I make tickets for them and write down their problems. Sometimes we code together.

Friday is relax day, I can build a new feature and present it, people don't like to work on fridays, so I can do some hobbying.

Saturday is for deep serious work, nobody works then, so nobody is bothering you. I have Tuesday free.

But this pattern changes often. Sometimes it is just busy. You just have to ride the storm.
The most obvious fact is that Mr. Durov is not walking with a hole in his head, as a double digit portion of anybody who had balls to be audacious about their opposition, and is not known to have an extensive security detail.

The mob has sent hitment to people whose offences were way lesser than that.

Their ways are unyielding, and uncompromising. Putin has a record killing people who grieved him more than a decade ago, keeping trying for years on end. People he killed some times survived 2-3, even 4, assassination attempts over years, just to be eventually killed by yet another one.

Knowing that, it's hard to explain how Telegram kept maintaining an office in Russia.
For our production deployment we have 2 instances of stealthcheck on separate EC2 nodes. AWS takes care of keeping the nodes up and stealthcheck takes care of the rest, in 10 lines of config.
Like I said it can happen anywhere, but the likelihood and ease of it happening in less free countries seems significantly different.

I don't believe any country means all countries are equivalent as far as the risks go.

The amount of news / data about it will of course be higher in more free nations.
Quick GUID's in JavaScript

Math.random().toString(32).slice(2,10)

Gives you an 8 character GUID.... but maybe don't use it for anything important....
Maybe, I'm not really a polite person. I think using a working formula for f would greatly help to evaluate the consequences of actions and helps to detect outbreaks early.

In my area they made masks mandatory and cut down the protection of hospitals - now we have an infected nurse. I think politicians currently are using seriously wrong models for their actions.

I had a discussion with one of the "official" epidemiologists. It went like the discussion with you - just at the point where we are now he decided to go into all-caps swearing, said that he will never look into this, called his models perfect and then blocked me.
or (most likely IMO) they've never seen the web without them. Browse the web with ad blocking on and then go back to the "normal" experience; try watching network TV after a significant break; it is pretty much unbearable - did you know they inject ads into the middle of youtube videos, or make you watch them before you see the content you wanted? ;)
>At least in popular media accounts, a very common description is that a state like 0.6∣0⟩ + 0.8∣1⟩ is “simultaneously” in the ∣0⟩ state and the ∣1⟩ state.

>I must confess, I don’t understand what people mean by this.

I think they're just trying to tie it to Schrödinger's cat somehow since that's the only other topic that seems to be covered in pop science.
Also, it's important to bear in mind that during the time period the UK needed to impose travel or quarantine restrictions on Europe, Italy was reporting two cases of coronavirus total, the most recent of which was someone repatriated from Wuhan and quarantined. That was less than the UK. There has been a chorus of articles from every corner of the British press insisting that the current quarantine is stupid and ill-thought-out because most of the countries it applies to are reporting fewer cases than the UK. The only way the media and pundit complaints about the UK not imposing quarantine earlier are anything but a cynical use of hindsight is if they'd have somehow been more supportive of this before the vivid demonstration of how a country reporting almost no cases could doom us all than they were after it. Which is absurd.

(The reason Italy was reporting so few cases seems to be that they weren't testing people who were hospitalized with symptoms unless they'd travelled to China or had contact with someone who had. There were a few other countries like the US which had similar criteria on paper, but they were generally willing to test other patients based on clinical suspicion. Italy apparently managed to genuinely fail to test hospitalized patients right up until the point where, by sheer coincidence, someone was hospitalized with coronavirus after contact with a traveller from China who turned out not to be the source of the infection.)
because most people don't actually care what's in the privacy policy. "X but with better privacy" is not a selling feature outside of a very small group of people.
I have found Yubikey evangelism terribly difficult in both my enterprise and defense industry engagements, hence my smart card statements. For whatever reason, Yubico still has some perception challenges.
Do the 10,000 people who gave their information away to a teenager have no responsibility here?