skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure "non-cuttable" is the best description, it is cuttable, but it messes the tools

"Cutting resistant" might be a better description, and it is an interesting material regardless

Sounds like it works for applications where you need something to absorb "stopping" energy but without wearing out (too much)
It appears to be. Zinc is the default http client/server package.

$ curl -I https://www.pharo.org/features
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 05:18:23 GMT
Server: Zinc HTTP Components 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 27546
Connection: close

Not sure how common it is to have it serve traffic directly instead of through a reverse proxy like nginx though.
As a revenue-generating project I was able to share the burden by paying people to work on parts of it. I think that was a more effective way than waiting for others to join in.

Note that my paying commercial customers are pharmaceutical companies, where employees must present their presentation materials to their legal department before they give a talk.

In some cases I've heard that that extends to non-trivial code changes, which reduces the number of people who can help out.

Even setting that aside, I've been working on FOSS project for 20+ years. Outside code contribution is rare, and substantial code contribution is like hen's teeth. Bear in mind that most people in my field are chemists-who-program, not software developers.

One major exception is the RDKit, which was primarily funded by in-house R&D. Open sourcing it benefited the company because 1) it was primarily pre-competitive (the internal version included competitive features not in the FOSS version), 2) it lowers the price of commercial tools in the area, and 3) the differential cost of organizing the FOSS distribution was a net benefit.

This is similar to other successful FOSS projects. However, this model implies that one must be an employee of a large company in order to work on FOSS projects. Which is not for everyone. Clearly small profitable proprietary development shops exist, so why not FOSS ones?
I worked for Bloomberg for five years and Twilio for four. They're very similar in that regard.
What is domestic and what is not? Is a company with assets abroad domestic or fair game abroad? You are aware these agencies share most data across borders aren't you?

Tempora is domestic hacking, Stellar Wind is domestic hacking (sweeping up data from all Americans), and these agencies share data extensively, so domestic vs foreign has very little meaning to them at least.
This includes migrants who claim to be children, but who are actually 18 or older, as well as adults who falsely claim to be parents of minors they're traveling with, according to Brian Hastings, chief of law enforcement operations for Customs and Border Protection.

[1]https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/711850056/fake-documents-a-gr...
Thanks for the examples. Is it possible for a weak opinion to be something other than "IDK why X is happening"? That is, can it be an affirmative opinion about some causal relationship or future event?

Honestly, if someone asked me whether the WO example above was strong or weak, I would tend to say it is strong because it is a categorical statement. To me, a weak statement would be "I think my car won't start because there's either a battery problem or a starter engine problem or a wiring problem". That doesn't take a strong stand or eliminate many possibilities.
Sorry, I don't really have one. It's all in my head.
There are plugins for various editors using that kind of highlighting scheme if you'd like to try it. Usually it is called "semantic highlighting".
He bought it and cleaning products the day after.
Looks like a conventional cut off wheel in the video, not a diamond blade.
and Kinder Eggs are not allowed?!
How difficult was it? Do a lot of people leave empty handed?
Sounds like these shithole countries need to solve something else first.
Even the index of The Pleasures of Counting has its gems. (A footnote remarks that a discarded alternative for the title had been The Joy of x.)

On having broken 4-rotor Naval enigma decisively (p.389): "A more demonstrative age might have celebrated such a victory with a massive piece of statuary, perhaps showing a handsome but well-draped female representing Science with the armoured God of War prostate under her foot, or perhaps the giant figures of Blackett and Turing gazing forever over the Western Approaches."

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23597523
> A trap I see /a lot/ is that people focus on delighting their users before they even know what delights their users or what their users care about.

That's odd. The point of focusing on users is to discover what users want. If you're not doing then you're not really focused on users.
Writing an iOS Kernel Exploit from Scratch
Yeah, I wanna see what happens when you thump it with a hammer.
Note to grapefruit tossers: Please practice safe science. If you're going to throw an object 10 meters straight up in the air and see how it impacts the ground, you need to not be the ground it impacts, or at the very least your science will be ruined, if not your day as well.
Decoding Reliance’s Master Plan: Jio Glasses, JioMart,JioMeet
A Simple REST API in Clojure
> I'd say there is more transparency around unethical behavior by elected officials.

And politicians using inordinate behaviours as political currency and more people to condone the same absurdities
These people are being arrested and released - doesn't sound like kidnapping to me. Sounds like law enforcement doing their job.

People are arrested and released because they haven't committed a crime. Arresting people who haven't done anything wrong is not the job of the police.
I love doing that, not only with Portuguese but also with other languages that I speak.

Something that plays a role is how the book looks like, there are some copies closer to our days that kind of preserve the form, but update the orthography, while others are just as they were written originally.

So one gets to decipher stuff like effe => esse.
"It said that while in high school eight years earlier, Mr King had tweeted two racist jokes about black people."

This insanity needs to end.
I do this with software related things, but what I noticed is that I implement just enough of my own tweaks until I’m comfortable enough taking the credit for the whole idea. My defense when people call me out is to highlight my differences and understate the similarities, even going as far as to say without my features the idea was half baked from the start.

Why do I do it? I don’t know, a lot of developers do it. Just how we are I guess. Not Invented Here syndrome.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/09/paypal-co-fou...
Interesting that you mentioned Haskell. In my experience, I've found that every type having a bottom makes a lot of abstractions leaky.
It can be a recipe for serious anxiety issues, I suppose.
They seem to move pretty fast when things are broken for non blind people.

Are you saying it's ok to discriminate?

I know there are varying degrees at play here, all I'm trying to do is point out your priorities are fucked.

CloudFlare is working on something right now, why not this?
I’d take the opposite side of the trade on several things. Hertz being one of them.

Also, I think you mistook the meaning of “overtrading at bad prices.” Buying Hertz at any price in June was overtrading it, and at a bad price to boot.
The perverse incentive in the last point has been bugging for years and it's true of proprietary projects too. As soon as you start selling support as a separate product/service, anything that makes the software easier to use creates a conflict.
How are the data needs for such a doctoral and post-doctoral evaluation program different from the data needs for https://collegescorecard.ed.gov ?

Data:
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/

Data documentation:
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/documentation/
Why Do So Many Programmers Lose Hope? (2018)
i remember back around 2003, just after Bush invaded Iraq, when the bobbleheads on Faux and Toby Kieth were responding to critics of Bush's Global War on Terror by telling the critics "America, love it or leave it."

i also remember how this made the pundits on the Left very upset and reconfirmed in their minds that Bush and the Neocons who hijacked America were open Tyrants who eventually embrace stripping American dissidents of their citizenship and deporting them.

so when you say we are free to leave, it reminds me of that.

why should i leave the place where i was born and abandon my people after i conclude "there is no political solution"? that is PRECISELY the moment to stand and FIGHT. it's what George Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Franklin etc would do if they were us today.

i dont want to roll the life dice and pick another lesser country to escape to. what do we do when there is no political solution because the entire edifice of govt from Federal down to local is rotten and hopelessly unfixable?

we seize territory from that tyrannical govt and create a new country with a new govt, that's what we do.

that's also what the people in China ought to be doing too.
You evolve into the architect role as an IC. No new grad is hired like this. You design things and keep going up in scale.
I look forward to reading that
At least nobody died, unlike this competing sugar water promotion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Number_Fever
Trump's Twitter account has extra protections
Actual Churchill quote would be "My dear you are inedibly bitter, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be inedibly bitter."
> Anyone, anywhere can rebel against the system with Stripe.

If you consider working with a system that the government has perfect transparency into and that is deeply integrated into every major financial institution in the world rebellious, I just don't even know what to say.
Work at startups.
A Man Who Used 50M British Pound Worth Diamond as a Paperweigh
> For example, the eaves are about 2 feet deep.

Eaves are supposed to vary based on the latitude. You want to exclude the sun from the windows ans doors during the summer. But they also need to be short enough to allow the daytime winter sun to hit those same openings. That passive warmth, and light, is very valuable during the PNWs 8 months of winter gloom.
> It is quite difficult for the human mind to vacillate between one strong opinion to another

The author has apparently never met someone on the autistic spectrum with ADHD and who has enough life experience to know how to be wrong gracefully.
I asked this elsewhere in the thread to a different user, but it seems relevant here as well:

Curious how your service would handle a app that mandates non-email based MFA like SMS or TOTP.

Additionally, what about testing a onboarding flow that might require some form of manual approval?

Thanks!
Here's the longer version for you: https://twitter.com/PDXzane/status/1284733976582615040

Not really sure what else to say, even if he had done something to provoke a response aside from shouting(you can read the multiple articles for details) he wasn't resisting arrest, was stationary and the federal agent broke his hand in two places[1].

I can't think of any situation where beating the shit out of someone who's standing still and not reacting is an appropriate response. Much less from someone who is expected to uphold the law and supposedly trained to deal with stressful situations.

[1] https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1284849286237151232
I'm not sure I'd want my customers to associate my product with a "foul-smelling liquid."
> This material sounds cool but I hope it's better than my grapefruit.

Flavor-wise it undoubtedly is.
I get that you meant that sardonically but it's worth pointing out that it would be even more unprofitable implementing ways to catch and redirect you.
"Marc A. Franklin, a professor at Stanford University's law school and an authority on product liability, said that anyone who drank the liquid could make a strong product-liabiity case.

''All he would have to do is hire an attorney, sue the Coca-Cola Company, and he would win,'' said Mr. Franklin, the author of a standard textbook on personal-injury law. ''The only question is how much he would win.''"

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/24/business/problems-pop-up-...
The "fully scriptable" link (configure dijo to track your git commits!) seems to be broken.
Could you expand on what you mean by "reduce the cost by switching from the MIT license"? On your licensing page you also state "Open source licensing is still available, though it is the most expensive option by far." I think understand what you mean here, but still feel a bit confused.
It would work, but physics research would benefit far more than the DoD would, especially since they have other methods to communicate with submarines.
I've been happy with strip. The only other payment processor I've used is PayPal, which is a nightmare.

What do you mean by "there's no support for transactions"?
You need to read the journalist's own account as to how this all blew up. He provides a lot more context and nuance as to who tweeted what and when, but basically screwed up and should have checked his own online history as well.

https://www.cjr.org/first_person/aaron-calvin-viral-story-tw...
Past a certain zoom level it displays historical imagery. Zoom out to get recent photos.
This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4f1H6mYHOI
It helps that basically the only other option, PayPal, is a complete disaster.

So, even if Stripe is suboptimal, everybody is so much happier to be away from PayPal that they're ecstatic.

It's the equivalent of having a mediocre sandwich when you're starving.
I never understood why they didn't fill the sealed container with regular coke anyway.
This basically outlines my current job. Huge system with many, constantly moving/upgrading parts and services across teams, all while utilizing dozens of internal services, tools, and navigating corporate policies. I’m thriving in it, but totally recognize it’s a steep learning curve and takes longer to onboard newcomers.

Eventually you get to enjoy deprecating old services as much as building new ones, simply because you never have to teach others about them again.
Ask HN: Options for a “computer programming” topic for homeschooling
With things going on as they are, the GF is coordinating with friends of hers to form a home school group (using a program offered through the local district). I was asked if I could maybe do a 2x/month computer programming related tutorial. This would be for 7th grade girls. Are there existing programs worth looking at to leverage? If not, what would be some recommendations?

My plan is to gauge their interests and go from there, but I do think something that encompasses some form of easily observable results/progress is important.
No. But it is very cheap, because they are right there and possibly also get course credit for participating in a psychology study.

Hopefully this can be seen not as the actual study, but rather a pre-study and that the real one features an actual broad selection of the general population.
There is no NDA in this trial. For the control, they used an unrelated approved vaccine with very similar expected side effects to prevent accidental unblinding.

The one thing we agreed to do was not to get an antibody test as that would unblind ourselves.
I'd go even deeper

Did they see the product in action? A concept? Or all they saw was powerpoint and empty words

I agree, it's fraud, but I sincerely believe there's a point where "don't blame the victim" stops making sense.

> to have developed a machine-learning tool to analyze videos on the internet

Ah yes of course.
Can you ?

Cause the patriot act has been reconducted for 3 generations of presidents since 9/11, including obama, along with legalized mass surveillance, torture and deny of habeas corpus.
Not a great study but this is my ex to a Tee. She was obsessed with FB and whatever. She was also constantly mean and provocative.
It's not a bad thing if people are careful about giving credits. I have seen both extremes of that:

1) The type who does exactly what the OP said, treat people like trash and think when they commit to an idea, they are often right. When they change their opinion, they don't give credit either, since they want to maintain the image that they are often right. I have seen great teammates left due to those people. I would not want to work with those people either.

2) The second type also hold strong opinions. When they change their view, they attribute it to people who brought it up. They don't care about maintaining an image that they are "often right". They genuinely thanks the people who brought them good arguments that changes their strongly held opinions. It's not about who invented the idea. But they understand it's good to appreciate people from which you get the new idea. I love working with those people. I try to give proper credits to people when they show me new ideas.
Don't forget disfiguring Michael Jackson in a pyrotechnic accident while filming a commercial, leading directly to his drug issues and two decades of publically-acceptable body-shaming about his nose and other issues: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/pepsi-nearly-kille...

"Jackson underwent a series of surgeries to fix his burns. The hair on his head reportedly never grew back, forcing him to wear a wig. The accident has been pinpointed as the start of a string of plastic surgeries that would come to define Jackson’s life and image, the medication he took to ease the pain becoming a life-long crutch."
Well that is another 25 years off but cool idea I guess.
1. Every type has a bottom in every mainstream language, most of them are just less explicit about it.

2. Bottoms do not make abstractions leaky in some generalised sense. The "fast and loose reasoning is morally correct" result applies: any abstraction that would be valid in a language without bottoms is still valid wherever it evaluates to a non-bottom value.
Check out the advert for the MagiCan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBCKnhFwE_4

"If you see anything other than coke, don't drink it!"
As a solo tech founder of several sites, I’ve had the pleasure of digging into each of these problems and more over the past few years. Some topics worth adding to the list for consumer sites:

1. Prototype and benchmark each of your stack pieces before you pick a stack. It is far easier to fix architecture mistakes when you don’t have 10000 users expecting overnight customer service. If you are using new technology, find good open source products to see how they’ve structured their projects. Your architecture, designed for speed and experience, will be your key differentiator. Inherent speed at core task, design to user needs, and name choice are the 3 musketeers of a solid growth.

2. Prepare for abusers to attack your system from every direction, especially if you enable users to publish content under your domain. You will see bots looking for Wordpress installations, users trying to fill content with SEO links, users trying every hacking vector known to market. Collect known vectors and test for them and never refuse a legitimate bug bounty request.

3. There is an eternal debate about the trade off between building a quality product at start or opening early to get user feedback before you get too deep into features. There is merit to both choices as a solo founder. The moment you open the gates to users, your ability to make changes comes with very high friction. With time, trying new features becomes a tremendous luxury hidden under bug requests, roadmap, customer service replies, etc. Build your biggest riskiest assumptions first.

4. Testing is hard as a solo founder. Selenium is your friend. If you don’t spend time with them, your users will take that time in multiples after a mistake.

The best way to learn is to come up with a product you really want and build it in your own time. You can test launch in a weekend.

When I started launching consumer sites solo as an engineer, I went from a tight specialization to being unafraid to try any tech if it gives me an advantage in solving a problem. Once you’ve simulated enough problems and dealt with the consequences of your choices personally, you can play that 10 level chess game with the architecture of each new feature much faster.
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Yeah, I found this out when a relative got stuck in a wheelchair for a while. It was eye-opening. A lot of it is simple stuff like "make sure the bathroom door is big enough". At least I made sure there wasn't any nonsense like sunken living rooms.
This says nothing about the momentum of the cutting tool. My immediate instinct is: "New non-cuttable bike lock defeated by - Cable Cutters - "

Great engineering regardless, would love to work on a project like this.
fun fact:

back in 2003, after Bush's President's Surveillance Program (NSA STELLARWIND) had been up and running for 2 years, hoovering up all domestic phone calls, emails and web traffic, the whole program was so secret that you could count on your hands who outside of NSA knew it was happening.

guess who was the 9th person outside of NSA and the WH who was "read into the program" and told about NSA STELLARWIND?

House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi, that's who.

guess who was the 14th person read in?

Deputy AG James Comey.

guess who was the 17th person read in?

DOJ Criminal Division chief Chris Wray, who is now FBI Director.

every single Democrat leader who has been in DC for their entire career LOVES mass domestic surveillance. they have known about it all along and they never once blew the whistle or tried to stop it or simply resign their jobs in silent protest. they all went along with it, "just doing my job."

voting new people into office isnt going to work.
> There is never, ever, ever any possible excuse for kidnapping people without due process.

I don't know if you are a native speaker, but the word kidnap might not be the one you should be using. "Kidnap" has strong connotations, and while sime people will happily use that property of the word to create feelings I don't think it is appropriate here.

kidnap: abduct (someone) and hold them captive, typically to obtain a ransom.

There's a lot to be said about police, federal agents, TSA etc, but lets keep this serious.
I had a Mirasol tablet. It sucks. Contrast is super low and I think image flickered until it would “settle”. Refresh rate wasn’t great either.
Had very similar experience with Cypress here as well. The command queuing API that abstracted away async operations sounded awesome in theory and I totally drank the coolaid.

But once I started to write tests with it, I realized the model was optimized for simple tests where you can afford to act only as the end-user, whereas for the more complex flows we're interested in testing, you need to act both as the end-user as well as, say, someone in the operations team doing a bunch of manual approval steps, or say, the email/sms system that delivering some secret out-of-band (through a staging backdoor API), interleaved between the end-user actions, and not being able to precisely coordinate those async interactions between these distinct actors made those tests extremely awkward to write compared to something using playwright/puppeteer, where you just coordinate promises like you usually do.

That's before we get into the limitations around single domain per test which meant we couldn't effectively test our login flow that uses a separate domain for login for OIDC.