skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where there is smoke, there is fire.

Ask yourself this: why is it so important to leak information that is being held in secrecy by a state that is committing war crimes at an alarming rate?

The answer is: because the 5-eyes War Coalition is committing war crimes at an alarming rate. It literally started what it hoped to conflagration into World War 3, by invading Iraq illegally and on false pretences in 2003. And every day since that invasion, the world has been on fire.

The world has not forgotten the victims of these wars. Millions of innocent people have been massacred by the USA and its War Coalition in an utterly dire conflagration. The sheer SCALE of the war, of which the Western public are indeed extremely ignorant, is staggering.

If you had two criminals in the room, one of them was thieving the cutlery and the other was burning a pile of dead bodies in the corner, which would you want to deal with, first?

The USA and its War Coalition has a lot of criminal activity going on. Like, a lot. And every twenty minutes for twenty years, it has been dropping bombs - mostly on innocent people - for its own economic purposes.

That is a fire that the leaks will put out.

(The leaks will continue, because the crimes are huge.)
You'd assume that licenses are centrally managed, and always given out by authorities with good credentials that are hooked to the central database, and that this becomes even more true the "higher up" you get, e.g. for certifications on bigger planes.
None of them are flying commercial jets. This is the US, no commercial airline is going to hire an unlicensed pilot.
> a service organization that comes to you to fix things

Even if they come to you to service your car, aren't there still issues with actually getting fixes in a timely manner? I recall reading about customers who needed replacement parts and having to wait weeks/months to get it fixed.
Operate like the Shanghai factory, done.

Tesla doesn’t care unless there are steep penalties. They wouldn’t get away with this in their Shanghai factory.
It would be useful if possible to add that ability to this specific "Deck" application
I'm just gonna put the popcorn on the stove, because I'm looking forward to watching the contortions of Elon's many fans as they deny/rationalize/whatabout this latest news!
I was expecting a hard data approach to a style of unarmed combat. Wouldn't even be the first time something like that's been written: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1904658849?tag=duc12-20&linkCode=og...
Or programming tool companies selling to programmers who notoriously will question why your tools aren't open sourced?
Yeah, this. Low code has been around for decades. It just results in greater complexity with an additional reliance on a propietary tool that few people understand at all. Honeycode is just a slightly better Microsoft Access. Good for doing mockups and POCs though.
Auditing large corps is a profitable business with only a few players "capable" of doing. If one auditor asks too many questions the competitor is happy to take over.
You'll love how Orwellian this page is ;)

https://apple.com/privacy
I was never in the market for a Tesla car, but I have been very intrigued by their Powerwall units.
> That's the real crux of the problem. That is not evidence of a mature corporate environment. Broad policy statements and occasional emergency directives can come directly from the top, but day-to-day HR policy should come in writing after being signed off by appropriate directors/managers.

Funny that we give local govs way more power with way less accountability.
Jump to this timestamp in the video: https://youtu.be/O4ldpyIE5t4?t=1196

He shows you what a normal hive looks like.
The AIDS might have been identified by the CDC in 1981 but testing of remains shows that the virus was in the US and killing people well before then.
UK industry presents nuclear roadmap to net-zero
Auditing is required by law.
New electrostimulation patch claims to boost energy more than caffeine
If you're going to make such grand accusations against the Swedish police then at least cite a damn source. With all the baseless claims this thread almost reads like /r/conspiracy ffs.
Shanghai, the symbol of freedom
That was the banks and insurance companies.
Too busy for me :/
If you can't capitalize on this connected world, your business is missing
But it also has 3rd world demographics. AFAIK Asian / Jewish / White Brazilians hold significantly more wealth than the Pardo and Black populations.
Most people I know only use WhatsApp specifically with friends who came from/are in other countries. Even then I personally know more people who use LINE than WhatsApp for some reason. Internal to the US, very few people I know use WhatsApp for group chats. (I expect its an age thing though, and that younger people are more likely to be using WhatsApp).
Other than years of patches, clang/LLVM, and WebKit? Apple is far from perfect but the odds are good that you’re using a browser which uses or was compiled with open source they’ve supported.
Having a university acceptance rescinded isn’t government interference?

Being protected because of your age but not because of your speech isn’t government interference?
I'm not rich enough to own tesla car so I buy tesla stock instead.
I host my name server's myself. If Mozilla is really doing this, they're misguided. All this does is make it impossible to serve requests from nearest webserver. You are getting the ip address anyways, so why do this? This means if I get someone from netherlands I'd have to redirect their requests from www.example.com to nl.example.com or buy an ipv4 block, set up anycast and then serve from the closest ipaddress/server. The end result is same. I'll always get the end user's ip address unless they use a VPN or something.

This is a stupid decision by Mozilla. Too bad Firefox users when visiting websites making their own CDN's without anycast/country level redirects will see much slower sites.
Maybe the way this plays out is it becomes very difficult for companies to innovate in communications, so open source peer-to-peer tech will end up dominating.

Of course then they'll probably legally attack the open source model.
Nice. Quick feedback

1. Trim top part to add more spaces, 2. Link the column headings to /best, /ask, respectively, 3. Remove "Discuss" and link "comments", 4. Fix height (Getting double scroll in small monitors)
That’s fair. Many support this impacting the black population of the US. When you live in areas with gang violence, as many of them do in the city, it is hard to focus on education and resource gathering.
Your comment helped me realize my alternate opinion - what I think is healthy about the SV ecosystem.

Changing the term, "natural market dynamics" to "regulatory captured markets", we get:

> or by throwing so much investor money at undercutting incumbents that the [regulatory captured markets] are temporarily skewed

And, taking my sibling comment from @simonkafan, let's change his term "well-functioning industry" to "regulatory captured industry":

> I feel that SC startups are like a horde of locusts flying over a [regulatory captured industry], pretending to improve it positively but all they do is destroy the competition

Consider, for a second, Uber and Lyft. Was the taxi industry well functioning? Did it have natural market dynamics? Definitely, assuming you acknowledge the predicate that the industry players are effectively cartels who control regulations.
A comment that avoids the entire subject of safety and health at work but immediately changes the subject to politics. Constructive!

Tesla is a hypocrite company, Larry Page is on the board and donates millions to a climate change denier (Trump).

They only care about making money. If they can skirt protocol to save cash in the US they will.
Why acquire Canonical when they can just create a Redmond Linux distro and cherry-pick the best aspects of RHEL, Debian, or Gentoo -- or just plain fork something out there now and add the option of Microsoft corporate support for any manager wanting to buy a throat to choke in case there's a production hiccup?

Or better yet: a Windows-like or Windows-compatible desktop that can run on any number of systems (and maybe corporate support is available for Debian, CentOS)? Let's not forget that the co-founder of Gnome has been working for Microsoft since 2016.
Balancing Privacy with Public Health
> And the fact that they could do damage to their company by their speech outside the context of their employment is nothing wrong with the employee, it's symptomatic of the cancerous state of modern western society (and as an expat, I can tell you it's mercifully absent outside the west)

I can assure you that there are no shortage of people on the receiving end of non-Western boycott threats for making comments deemed to offend, say, religious sensitivities in India or support calls for democracy in Hong Kong. The idea the rest of the world is some paragon of free speech or labour relations is not one well supported by reality.

And needless to say there's no shortage of things that can be said or done outside work which call into question one's suitability for the role or commitment to actually helping the company succeed which have nothing to do with 'cancel culture'.
How transferable are the skills you are learning?
Exactly. But the Honeycode people aren't going to sell it like that. They are going to claim it's made of unicorns all the way down and that it can be used to build real applications. Ever port Microsoft Access "solutions" for a business?
Fine, but then it's a question of nuance - you could say James Joyce's command of the English language is better for instance (or whatever, this is just an example).

Saying that one believes it would be as bad to lose Scott's writing as Twain's is not saying he believes Scott should be thaught in English classes. It's just in essence saying "I value this a whole damn lot".
Cool to see that the same open source dynamics that make it possible for three engineers to ship a great web app in 3 months (Linux, Node, React, etc) also have made it much easier for people like your brother to use off the shelf tooling like Arduino to solve their own problems.
Wait. Are you taking these accusations at face value and saying that is okay here? Or are you contending that the accusations are false? I think it is a pretty big deal if you ask a hacking group to hack for you.
Is this going to be the thing that causes a Tesla implosion?

After all of the issues, the magical tents?
I heard this anecdote in India, and I'm not sure if it is apocryphal. There was a small airline flying turboprops to service a Himalayan region. Someone asked whether it was safe to fly these planes and the response was as hilarious as it was scary: "Yes, sir. It is very safe. They used to have 11 planes, 10 of them crashed and now they are really really careful with the one left" :)
> I hope people don't forget that Wikileaks has never published anything that has been proven false.

This talking point is frankly irrelevant. Actually it itself illustrates how only cherry picking info to reveal is as deceptive as out right lies, but even more difficult to combat.

Want a clear example of how showing only true information is deceptive? Google Mormon bubbling. Yes the example is distasteful but it’s a very clear illustration of how easy it is to use selective information to deceive perception and make people appear to be doing something they are not, potentially hurting them.
There is a lot of economies of scale to be achieved by more growing cycles, better customization of growing conditions, improvements in LED in the future.

The bottleneck will always be cheap energy. However the industry will progress from non calorific high value foods like lettuce and leafy greens (they may be low calorific but have a lot of value in terms of nutrients etc. and are expensive) to stuff like cherry tomatoes, cucumber as renewable energy starts getting cheaper.
I am long term Apple and Tesla shareholder. I have in the past freaked out over stories in the media... remember antenna gate? What about when all Teslas caught on fire?

My advice to anyone with any money, or any ambition to have any money. Is to ignore these stories in the short term and take a long term view. They are mostly bullshit. And for the fools that don't have any money... and want to stay poor. Go ahead. Spread the bullshit. It increases wealth inequality...
>They are bankrupt, people are buying the stock and Hertz was even allowed to issue more shares.

Eh, sort of. The bankruptcy judge said they could, but the SEC said they had some "questions" about the offering's prospectus and Hertz basically withdrew the offer after that. It's not clear whether the company actually sold any shares.
r/pcm?
Do we need another strongly typed language that compiles to JavaScript? If that's so important, why don't people use C/C++ and compile that to WASM for best performance too? We've got TypeScript... is it necessary to have yet another language??
Stanford has an excellent physics course, "Back-of-the-Envelope Physics," based on Mahajan's work. On the first day we worked out how much to feed a baby every day assuming they are spherical heat emitters of radius 1 meter... (also, you got points off the problem sets if your answers were _too_ precise).
What I liked best about the old Linux Skype client, was that it would let me edit messages after sending. But not only mine, everyone's!! My friends were sooo annoyed. Good times where had!
Ha! My chemistry teacher did the same! Killed all the fish in the pond one time, or so he said.
Feinstein (D-CA) co-introduced EARN IT. She might be up for re-election one more time before she retires.

She votes according to Trump’s recommendations more than any other democrat, and more than many republicans.

Her history of supporting right wing causes and overt corruption spans many decades.

As a California Democrat, her position has been unassailable most of her career. I suspect getting rid of her was a motivation for open primaries.

Californians, please stop voting for her!
One thing I've been wishing for in the mobile OSes, is for them to copy web browsers, and offer a UI to change all these security/privacy permissions for an app quickly from the context of the app, rather than by going into Settings and navigating down to the app (which nobody ever bothers to do, and especially nobody ever bothers to do more than once—so you can't put stuff that'd be useful to change temporarily in there.)

Of course, the naive implementation—giving the app itself control over the system's settings for it—would be a disaster. (I think early iOS had something like that, but quickly got rid of it—right around the time the App Store stopped being so heavily curated.)

I'm suggesting something more like: if you pull up iOS Control Center while an app is open, it'd have either an "app settings" submenu, or merge "app settings" into the view of system settings. Then, within "app settings", you'd have a little privacy-lock, sort of like the one that appears in a browser's address bar—and which would allow you to change very similar things to what clicking said lock allows you to change in a browser: in est, the states of all the system confirmation prompts the app has triggered.

Less on-topic, but contextually-accessible app settings would also allow you to do neat things like provide the ability to set accessibility settings on a per-app basis in an intuitive way, or to start something like Guided Access Mode (https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202612) without needing to enable+remember an arcane gesture. I would especially love the idea of being able to change the perceived system font-size/scaling-factor, or the perceived system language/region, on a per-app basis — basically equivalent to Safari's display settings "A" menu. Maybe even a switch to enable that "monochrome to reduce addictiveness" mode, so you can have it on only within social media apps!
The Brits moved the plutonium or HEU (don’t remember which) for their first bomb around in quite ordinary lorries:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk_zpjK3cTo

I’m not saying it’s a good idea, but there’s certainly precedent.
Me and my daughters love Krita. Even with a cheap pen tablet it's a lot of fun. I set up a monthly payment of 1€, a small contribution to its development.
I'm curious, do you think that early information-limited reporting of alleged unethical treatment of two employees is enough to decide to shift your purchase over to Ford, Toyota or Volkswagen? Have you confirmed that the company who wins your vehicle purchase have, statistically speaking, done unethical things to proportionally fewer employees?
I remember taking a road trip with my then-fiancée in 2002 and thinking how neat it would be to be able to access Google maps, etc. on the road easily. I had my first Titanium Powerbook back then and when we needed internet, we would find a high school and pull into the parking lot and nine times out of ten there would be an open wifi network with internet access.
Loved this TedX talk that Michael gave a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWR31GRu3_A

"I really think the act of making and doing things is the salvation of our crumbling society. It has to be as someone commented over lunch -- creation is the opposite of destruction."

RIP
Yes, maybe I was unclear: it's both that Moorcock is British and anti-Tolkien (seriously: read his essay "Epic Pooh" [1] about Tolkien: Moorcock hates his guts). Moorcock's writings are pretty much a subversion of the usual Evil vs Good tropes, the Hero's Journey, etc.

I agree with you Tolkien is indeed a good exponent of the Good vs Evil mentality.

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[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20161013045857/http://www.revolu...
Rust Async and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Bad Day
I disagree. While this could still be an honest mistake, if done intentionally it definitely goes beyond civil disobedience. Given the decision to reopen the factory and terminate employees that do not show up, there's no justification for misleading them about their options.
Show HN: An ESLint plugin for inclusive language
Snowden undoubtedly committed a crime, I don't think even he disputes that.
I feel like right now is a good time to buy a new one, because you would still get the intel processors. I believe that Apple will do a great job with their ARM but usually the first versions of any product are not that good.

I would wait a few models before making the change so that most of the bugs are solved.
Is the point that the murder happened in a nicer climate?

This is the same rhetorical slight-of-hand people use to ignore Guantanamo. One tends to learn more about the speaker than the topic.
The style is one of the appeal (without being the totality of it - I definitely would like the straigth version as well).

Personally for instance, I read "Shame & Society" once, found it fascinating, but couldn't really pinpoint what I had learned, so I re-read it and took notes, as well as try to summarize and articulate the big points and how they related.
Adrian Chen actually complained about how people were exaggerating and misusing his reporting on the Internet Research Agency.[1]

> The thing is, I don't really want to be an expert on the Internet Research Agency and Russian online propaganda. I agree with my colleague Masha Gessen that the whole issue has been blown out of proportion. In the Times Magazine article that supposedly made me an authority, I detailed some of the Agency's disturbing activities, including its attempts to spread false reports of a terrorist attack in Louisiana and to smear me as a neo-Nazi sympathizer. But, if I could do it all over again, I would have highlighted just how inept and haphazard those attempts were.

Adrian Chen also gave an interview with Chris Hayes on the Internet Research Agency, in which he made the point that it was an unsophisticated marketing campaign, staffed by around 90 people with a poor grasp of the English language, American politics and culture.[2]

1. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/a-so-cal...

2. https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/inside-the-russian-troll-...
I was responsible for porting a fairly large C++ app to Symbian (this was like 15 years ago, so memory is hazy). The big problems were that exceptions were weird and non-standard, and you couldn't throw them from constructors, so anything using RAII had to be rewritten.
I've read his Runestaff cycle and it felt pretty Good vs Evil to me. Maybe because I was like 13 then so I mostly read for cool fights etc :)

I've also read a few books about Elric and they felt a lot like Conan which I guess is another example of non Good-vs-Evil fantasy in English, so that's 2.
Firefox Relay protects your email address from hackers and spammers
This is a standard corporate job.
C#,.NET,aws,linux,Xamarin etc
TextAttack: Python NLP framework for adversarial attacks, augmentation, training
You confused Larry Page with Larry Ellison.
The northeast states are built on a legacy of making life hard for anyone who didn't hail from the right country or worship in just the right way. The west coast treated Asians like crap. The plains states had to kick the natives out and that wasn't pretty.

It's harder to fit that crap into something short and sweet enough for history textbooks so you don't hear about it whereas simple skin tone based discrimination in the south is easy to make a bullet point out of so everyone knows about it.
> I respectfully disagree. Because it's an EPIC pain, and it's absolutely hostile towards "average" users.

Are you sure you didn't mean "EPOC" pain? Maybe "EPOC32" pain?

;-)

- a Psion owner
I took this course during a January term. It was great fun and Sanjoy was a great teacher, with tons of energy and enthusiasm.
That does make sense and in practice I think this does currently work for a little while.

But given enough time, isn't someone always going to come along and provide open source packaging for the project?

If so that would mean you're choosing to trade ease-of-install and community goodwill against revenue -- and revenue with a limited time horizon, at that.

I can see how that could appeal in situations where decision-making incentives are not aligned with long-term value of the overall ecosystem.

Selling services and expertise seems more sustainable, since offering those doesn't imply that you should add complexity or difficulty to your project. By providing expertise you can continue maximizing community goodwill and contributions, while reducing your own maintenance costs.

Providing services also enables the creation of an ecosystem around your project; that may include competition for your services, but it also implies a larger customer base and project adoption -- and more job creation and skill development.
> and the game counts how many times you have choosen each and gives you good or bad ending.

Yep. And in dishonored, the bad ending is talked about as "punishment" or consequences for the player.

You simply cant make good choices ethically and get bad ending.
I'm a fan of Elon. Also in this regard he's plain stupid. You know you can be a fan of somebody and don't 100% agree with him, no?
Get your resume together and start looking. You don't need to accept any job you get, but at the very least you'll have options.

While you can wait to get laid off, it could be a while. Depending on where you're based the severance package may be small or medium-sized.
Such blood-thirst...