skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of the South Vietnam Viet Cong leaders/organizers were upper class and educated in Paris as well.

Most them were kept out of power after the Communists took over. Many believed they were fighting for some kind of socialist democratic state -- they were duped by the northern Communists.
Not to mention the blame on the current administration for the current situation, when it is well known that US diplomats and dignitaries where routinely targeted with microwave weapons, some of which, have as of so far, suffered permanent brain damage, time will tell if they will fully recover. As well the previous administration killed wet foot / dry foot.

It's pretty customary to break off relations with a country when diplomats are attacked, it goes against the very fabric of diplomatic immunity. Sure everybody tails them, everybody spies on them, but physical attacks are so far outside the norm, that I was actually surprised that it took as long as it did to disconnect the small ties that had been established. I have my issues with the current administration but to chalk one up against their side after US diplomats where attacked is wanting at best.

There is no doubt the US meddles and sometimes (maybe even most times) for the worse, but to attribute Cuban or even Venezuelan strife to primarily the US is an overreach. The US has backed some bad players in response to communism (Pinochet comes to mind), but to attribute the misdeeds of the ones that actually went left, to the US is more of this fantasy-land, we want to try communism again and this time we will get it right thinking.

What someone says, when they say, "if it where not for the US and capitalist influence it would have succeeded" is actually that they are saying: that they are smarter than Engle, Marx, Lenin, Castro, Che, Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Stalin and the rest of them; if we just implement their non-dictator, non-western influenced, idea of communism things will be great this time. The problem is, all the above mentioned thought the same thing.

I lived thru communism (had family that lived under it in East Germany, father-in-law was a refuge from Castro), I never realized it would only take a generation to completely forget how bad it was.

Honestly what scares me more is, I always thought Fascism and the Nazis had run their course and there would be no way anyone could make that mistake again. Now watching the apologizes for the failings of communism, I am really not so sure, now I realize if these fringe Nazis find the right voice, appeal the the right social triggers and pull on the correct emotional strings, they could actually become a force to recon with.
A managers job isn’t necessarily to manage people but outcomes. People are essential for that, of course, but there’s often a lot of other moving parts to it that warrant a full time manager. The problem is often that building a good management structure is not only extremely difficult but also exceedingly rare, meaning many of us have either worked with bad managers or with managers that were poorly equipped to do their jobs effectively.
I think saying something that is not essential to you cannot be essential to somebody else is absurd.
lol.....couch change!!!!

try harder Belgian's!!!
> Iran had no democracy

Oh, it’s totally fine then.
It really depends on what I'm doing. If it's something I fundamentally don't know how to do and it requires all my concentration, I don't really do it on stream. But there's plenty that I know how to do but others don't. For example writing a parser/lexer can be interesting, but I generally only have to solve fairly local problems and not large structural ones.

Really hard things I _could_ do on stream...but I start to feel like it's too much of me staring really hard silently. I have to wonder how much of that is true and how much of that is personal anxiety. I do enjoy streaming though and should do it more.
For something like this, it really matters which part of the federal government takes the action.

The important part is maintaining separation of powers... making sure the Executive branch doesn't overstep its authority into the legislative branch territory.
I go to a major grocery store every day and buy a single diet coke. Self-checkout changed things a bit (less lines, generally).
My parents survived this awful tragedy. They shared stories of how they dealt with the intense hunger, exhaustion, and living in a state of perpetual terror. More often, they'd speak of the family that were taken from them-- uncles, aunts, and grandparents that I'll never meet. My grandpa was a musician that composed much of the popular Khmer music of the 60s influenced by American rock. Nothing has been more devastating than not knowing the whereabouts of loved ones. One of the most brutal legacies of the Khmer Rouge is the separation and destruction of families and communities.

Through a DNA testing site, we recently matched with an unknown relative, leading to a joyful reunion between my mom and an aunt who cared for her before the war.

DNA analysis has helped identify the unknown remains of Pearl Harbor service members[1], bringing closure for families. I'm certain this technology could do the same for many Cambodian families.

[1] https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Recent-News-Stories/Articl...
House Oversight to Apple, Google: Step Up Security on Apps with Foreign Ties
Thanks for asking the question and putting so much care into stating it.

I have no idea what kind of methods HN employs. I personally always check the posting history when I'm in doubt about the intentions of a poster. Most of the time, I find an extensive amount of fairly well considered comments on a variety of topics. That leads me to the conclusion that the account is 'genuine'.

To state it a bit more naively: if a Sybil attack would require the attacker to craft so many constructive comments in order to evade detection, it could actually have a net positive effect on the community as a whole.
Websites that override my scrolling are almost as obnoxious as sites that auto-play audio/video.
It all depends on where the downlinks are. I would expect the US government will require all US customer traffic to be handed off to the public Internet in the USA. Then it's subject to standard legal intercept.

There was an equivalent project (satellite internet) in New Zealand which was killed off because the government required that the downlink happened in NZ for legal intercept (and censorship) reasons. The costs only worked if the downlink happened in Australia (the project could share costs with Australian telcos)

The downlink for NZ customers _had_ to happen in NZ, having it hit Australia and be routed back to NZ wasn't enough.
but how were those pings to game servers in North America? I'm guessing they take too long no matter the bandwidth to the local exchange.
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How is VT the most rural state? Both Wyoming and Alaska have a significantly lower population density.
This rings very true to me. Unfortunately the subtleties of development like code quality aren't well represented if you only look at cards moving on a board.

In a lot of ways what you are describing is how it should work, that the tech lead works on the hard problems and big-picture problems, like abstractions and architectural issues, as well as mentoring junior devs.

In my opinion any manager (especially a non-technical one) should only measure the team as a unit. This is particularly important when evaluating the performance of a tech lead.

One thing I like to look for is natural lines of conflict in a situation that can arise when different individuals are working towards different goals, and question the underlying reasons why a manager may be acting the way they are. In a lot of cases you can get to a win-win situation if everyone is willing to play ball. Of course if the conflict arises from a fundamental organisational flaw, like poor management methods, or poor company culture, then it is time to move on.
Yeah but Germany is a shit hole.
I interviewed at YikYak shortly before they released the feature that killed them. I actually got to talk to the CEO at some point. They discussed adding something personally identifying to fight bulling, which was a huge problem with YY at the time. I also asked how they planned to monetize, but honestly the response I got didn't seem very fleshed out or just not thought through very well.

Sucks because they actually had some very impressive engineering going on at the time, and I really wanted to absorb some knowledge from those guys, but unfortunately it didn't work out. YikYak shutdown less than a year after my interview.
Nope.

“As confirmed by the company, Starlink will be able to provide speeds of up to a gigabit per second with latencies ranging from 25 milliseconds to 35 milliseconds. Elon Musk has previously stated that it has been designed to run real-time, competitive video games.”

It will be plenty good to replace anything else available out there for home internet.
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/07/14/july-2020-securit...

> Today we released an update for CVE-2020-1350, a Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server that is classified as a ‘wormable’ vulnerability and has a CVSS base score of 10.0. This issue results from a flaw in Microsoft’s DNS server role implementation and affects all Windows Server versions. Non-Microsoft DNS Servers are not affected.
I think the idea is to determine whether or not it is indeed miniscule. Once people realize it is miniscule, they will probably accept it.

Personally, I think it makes accounting more annoying for businesses. I say leave the penny as it is, and move everyone to plastic.
SketchDeck (YC W14) Is Hiring a Senior Business Development Rep (Remote, US)
Oil temp and vacuum for me. Only 1950's, so not quite WW2 vintage. :P
This is an argument for less levels of taxation, ie sales tax should only be at state and not county level.

Almost every other country in the world works fine without bait'n'switching their citizens at every single transaction.
This was my initial thought too, but reflecting, I think at least part of the reason they aren't naming the guilty party here is to protect the identity of the whistle blower. If you could reason from knowledge of the guilty party whom the whistle blower is, knowing they just got an $8.3 million payout, it just might be worth your time to go after said whistle blower. I don't think it's unreasonable that someone could figure that out.
No he isn't. That's total bullshit. He was repeatedly kicked out of every conservative outlet or conference he appeared in, he was denounced by all mainstream conservative politicians and he himself claimed that he invented the term "alternative right" to distance himself from conservative politicians.
Original title was too long. It was:

House Oversight Lawmaker Wants Apple, Google to Step Up Security on Apps With Foreign Ties
I'm sure I own some product with a non-backlit LCD where you can push a button to have the backlight turn on, which times out after some time. Can't for the life of me remember what product that's in though.
Trusting the isolation like this is absolutely misguided, to the extent that it’s in conflict with understanding how computers work. Those who do not remember rowhammer or spectre and their kin are doomed to repeat them.

As for your example, there’s no difference between that and OS mediated mandatory access controls, separation of uids, chroot etc. Those capabilities are present irregardless of whether you’re using containers.

Anyone selling you on containers as a security measure is pitching snake oil. They are a resource allocation & workload scheduling tool. They may help applications avoid inadvertently treading on one another’s toes e.g. avoiding library conflicts or easing the deployment of, say, QA and showcase environments on the same metal, but it’s intrinsically a shoji wall.

There’s even a cultural downside, since developers may make exactly these flawed assumptions about runtime safety, or hard-code paths for config files rather than making them relative to deployment location, make assumptions (implicit or otherwise) about uids and so on, i.e. containers can breed sloppy dev practices.
not sure if this comes across as dehumanizing, but trust me, the employers don't give a shit if the maids judge them. i don't know of anyone who has ever worried about being judged by their maids.
The title implies that it's going to replace ML models. But it seems that it still uses ML models, but provides a different interface. It also seems that it's using some AutoML training system, so that in theory little ML expertise is required to use the system.
That's how the Inquisition worked, it's not an uncommon pattern. It's a twisted sense of justice.

Also, confessions include names which extend the inquisition. It's the same thing the Indonesians did when exterminating communists in 65-66, or South Korea did during the Bodo League massacre, or Chile under Pinochet, or Guatemala when slaughtering the Maya.
> For example having the REST gateway so you can support the curl scenario without any extra work.

I would agree with you except for one thing--it's very clear that's a second class citizen. There is this totally extra thing to support the original use case of etcd, and it comes with all the extraordinary quirks of how gRPC protobuf -> JSON serialization works (a strong term in my opinion).

It is very very hard for me to not see an unintentional conspiracy to push this very bad standard of gRPC. It does NOT make 99% of real-world programs faster. It does not make operations easier. It is not even a "data" format at all: go try changing an enum in downstream systems.

The standard is bad. Objectively, terribly bad. Someone somewhere on HN said that "Google was a ball-pit for gifted children." I kinda laughed at that, but really, after k8s and protobuf3, I won't even grant "gifted".

Google is a ball-pit for autistic children who can be funded by their monopoly on search. I'm tired of dealing with their protocols that make everything worse.
> At least you're open about your opposition to free speech.

"Free speech" is about the government suppressing your speech. If private individuals find your speech odious, they are perfectly within their rights to shun and ignore you.

> In your mind, are your political cohorts always going to wield the power to cancel or can you imagine a world in which the far right wing holds that power and persecutes you and yours for your views based on the same arguments you make above?

I'm already standing in a culture that "cancels" me.

For example, a bunch of people hooked up to a well-funded political propaganda apparatus believe that a global pandemic is "a liberal hoax" against the backdrop of 140,000 dead and a global economy in shambles.

A pandemic isn't up for debate--it's a fact.

So, these people get exactly what they want at my expense and I'm just supposed to take it in the name of "free speech"?

What is MY recourse? Where is MY justice?

Yeah, I'm not happy about "cancel culture", but right now it's the only damn thing sticking up for me that is actually effective.

Feel free to suggest what I should be doing instead.
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Who is doing more collective discovery (and making it accessible to the public at a price an average person can afford)? I can only think of a handful of organizations that are serious candidates (Reuters? The BBC? Wikipedia?).
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Reuters, Bloomberg, the Associated Press, and Fox News all come to mind for the metrics you've brought up. The NYT is not a peerless entity. I'm sure people will bemoan Fox News being on that list but they're none the less one of the largest news orgs in the country and their actual news segments aren't wildly different from what other orgs pump out.
Look at the totality of his comments:

They wrote that the refugee stories of Khmer Rouge atrocities should be treated with great "care and caution" because "refugees are frightened and defenseless, at the mercy of alien forces. They naturally tend to report what they believe their interlocuters wish to hear."

It's quite ironic that it was Chomsky himself who was dismissing evidence that didn't fit with his own world view.
I do think that's highly optimistic. It'll be worlds better than Geostationary consumer VSAT or a crappy wisp, but not as low latency or with as much throughput as a wireline docsis3.1 network or GPON FTTH.

The most optimal market is not somewhere like a northern suburb of Seattle with a well-developed Comcast network that also has CenturyLink GPON 1Gbps available, but more rural and fringe areas.
a) I think it probably can't do any things.

b) They addressed it by trying to make them go home, get it now?
Tesla has only been promising "FSD" on cars sold after 2016. The service life for most vehicles is on the order of about 10 years or so, meaning I don't think you'll see serious pressure for a class action until the mid 2020's (but I do think it's coming).
The key words are ‘preferably’ and ‘obvious’ (although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch). It's fine if there are merely multiple ways to do something, as long as you're not actually giving people tough choices.
Honestly, my life got a lot better when I cancelled my Netflix and stopped watching TV. I’ve taken up actual hobbies like playing guitar instead, as well as working on personal projects. I still use YouTube, but I’m trying to ever so slowly wind that down too.
>the company’s five-year strategic plan, released in April 2019, charted the path forward: “double men’s, double digital, and quadruple international” revenues.

Do men actually buy lululemon clothes? I didn't even know they made men's clothes. Honestly, I didn't realize they made anything other than yoga pants and bags with terrible slogans like 'children are the orgasms of life' or some shit like that.
To be fair, my 300mbps connection is rarely ever actually 300mbps, even at times like 3am. I don't have access to a gigabit connection where I live, in a well-developed suburb.
I had a copy of the Programmer’s Reference Guide and I read The Transactor magazine, both of which featured lots of low-level stuff. And I grew up in a place that commonly had one to two metres of snow on the ground, so I was inside a lot staring at that blue-on-blue screen.
Yep just tested this morning, 33ms to my next hop on the network. ~15M/800k ADSL2 in Ohio.

I think folks in regions of Ohio will provide an interesting test bed as we’re in fringe coverage of 4-5 of the total set of planned ground stations.

(Speaking of ground station, would be interesting if we could talk to starlink over AWS’s ground relay service.)
I wonder if you can talk a little about how you determine whether or not astroturfing is going on. How can you be sure that a given post with a political or nationalist slant is made in good faith? You seem pretty confident that it's not a widespread problem, which is great, but it would be good if the rest of us could share at least some of that confidence.

Is it really enough to look at the account history and observe that the same user has participated in other unrelated threads? Or are there more subtle cues that you go by?
> In the course of the controversy, Weiss, in a tweet-essay that began here, finally addressed her own history of trying to ruin the careers of Arab and Muslim scholars for the crime of criticizing Israel.

It's possible that Greenwald is... I think the technical term is "full of shit". In seriousness, how is anyone supposed to take this seriously? If you ignore all of the transparent ad hominem, the only bit of substance in the article is that Weiss accused her professors of racism--there's nothing to support the idea that she was trying to ruin their careers (in 2004, allegations of 'racism' didn't ruin careers--indeed, some proponents of cancellation even argue that these allegations don't ruin careers in 2020).

Anyway, even if Weiss's accusations of racism were intended to harm the careers of her professors, it was nearly 2 decades ago and she was fresh out of high school. When Nikole Hannah-Jones was her age, she was writing that whites were "the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world" and that "the descendants of these savage people … continue to be bloodsuckers in our communities". Ibram X. Kendi was writing that whites are literal aliens. Thankfully, these titans of race (and much beloved by cancellation advocates) have somewhat moderated their views before assuming command of their prominent, powerful platforms. Sarah Jeong was named Forbes "30 under 30" and hired onto the NYT only a few short years (if that) after writing some of the most overtly racist stuff I've seen in my life (worse even than Hannah-Jones' collegiate ramblings) and virtually the whole media industry went to bat for her. Let's put this criticism of Weiss' college remarks into perspective.
What other accounting frameworks exist, that are better than double-entry bookkeeping at promoting fiscal literacy? Or perhaps easier to deal with or understand for a layman?

For reference, I don't understand double-entry bookkeeping.
Oil pressure. Engine temperature. Pump operating speed.

All of the things which used to be the domain of the flight engineer but have since been phased out by automation.
Coronavirus is a cold?

How many people die from a cold?

Coronavirus has disappeared because it is summer? The original article was published in early June and maybe written in late May?

May/June was a temporary lull. As of the first week of July cases are increasing again.

I really wish Professors Emeritus who have long been out of the game would stop pontificating and use their positions as they were intended to be used: advertising for the university.
I got this email and I'm in the bay area, though admittedly up in the SC mountains. Not sure it means anything.
It's too bad populist has become a dirty word, because in theory it sounds great - i.e. democracy.
I wonder if this could be used to test out GPT-3 without having access to the beta
FCC official broadband number is 25Mbs per household. I, personally, think a good number is whatever is enough to sustain productivity, entertainment, and education - so about 5 down/2 up a person (obviously, more is better).

In a household with 5 people, that is 25/10, which does fit into the FCC's definition.

WISPs are popping up left and right that can do 1000/1000 per access point, which can be shared with all customers within about a 500ft radius. That's definitely doable with the above definiton of broadband. Basically, it's one wifi-based access point that has a uplink, and each household has an externally mounted wifi antenna that then redistributes to a conventional home router.

On the other hand, I personally have a WISP in a dense urban area. I pay $45~/mo for guaranteed 100/100 - usually, my sustained speeds are closer to 200/200, or 300/300. It's an antenna on our building that is the backhaul for about 50 households.

WISPs are viable in rural areas - they bring broadband to those who can't get it.

WISPs are viable in urban areas - regions where installing new copper or fiber would be prohibitively expensive, they allow upstarts to challenge the duopoly.

Just about the only awkward middle ground where the economics get a little tough is in spread suburban areas.
UAE plans to launch Mars probe Friday after weather delay
I don't care, I want to give a middle finger to CableCo
I did this for LEDs, and I also took the opportunity to cover up all the logos on my electronics/appliances. It's nice having my home now be entirely free of Samsung/Sonos/Apple/Dell/etc. logos.

Took several different colours and types of tape to get everything looking nice.
I wonder what goes through the whistleblowers head in terms of timing and how much they should help the crime. If you wait a little longer or help the crime, the payout increases. Maybe there are already people designing schemes in which they can do the crime, whistleblow, and get a legal payday.