skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highwaters are in in the US, too, at least judging by what basketball players wear to the NBA draft
Consider Russia (or the middle east) where it's still Not ok to be gay. Encryption helps you text your significant other without being thrown in jail or sent to a reeducation camp.
"Astoundingly" complicated???? ACH/NACHA isn't any more complicated than any other API. If anything it's easier than most if you're used to string processing, because the file format is just 80 character rows with 9 different types of rows starting with that numerical digit. The schema is well defined. In many cases a "transaction" is executed by simply FTPing an .ach file. What did you find so complicated?
As someone who has nowhere in the vicinity of 1% of the responsibility to insuring that a code base is clean and performs its intended function- who is reviewing all these pull requests? It cant be Linus, right? How are the folks with PR privileges vetted?

Fully admitting to ignorance here, but to me it seems that this problem is way to big to prevent bad actors from participating. I would love to hear thoughts to the contrary.
I think credit card transactions are even worse -- most transactions (besides authorizations) are also communicated via daily batch files, and there are several middlemen involved, with potential delays at each step. Hence "refunds usually show up in 5-7 days."
Possibly, historically speaking, atomic bombs had to be used - on cities - at least once for humanity to realise the full horror of these weapons. Maybe no-one would have believed the destruction had they not been used at that time, and instead a far more terrible demonstration (with multiple actors?) would have subsequently become inevitable.
you state that "Google has this level of certification" as if it is a certification which applies to organizations. It does not. Specific hardware and software cryptographic modules are given FIPS 140-2 certification. Google currently has 8 cryptographic modules which have active FIPS 140-2 certifications. 5 hardware and 3 software. The software modules are all versions of BoringSSL. Google can replace their kernel as they wish because they don't use the cryptographic api's in the kernel for anything which requires the use of a FIPS140-2 cryptographic module. Not everyone is in that position or they use a commercial Linux OS in which the non-kernel certified cryptographic module provided is available on only certain releases. If they want support for their OS they must therefore use the kernel provided with that release of the OS.
Not so: the DPJ was in power from 2009 to 2012, although admittedly they accomplished little and the LDP took over again in 2012.
Microsoft Fast with Snowpack – Get Up and Running Fast
Not understanding when or how to use the gas or brake pedals. Toss a clutch in the mix and it’s a disaster.
Fortunately it is not a claim in the text you quoted. If a change is necessary, it has already happened everywhere. So neither t-flapping nor th-fronting are necessary, but both are more likely than [t] > [k]. There is no specific reason that one of them advanced through one country and the other spread through another, even if there is a good reason the third change hasn't happened. Or equivalently with the abandonment of “reckon” vs the substitution of “autumn” for “fall”.
Banking in general and international banking, predate the US

London, Glasgow, Budapest and Paris all have metro systems that predate the New York Subway

There are multiple bridges that are still in use that predate European colonization of North America

While the oldest airport is in the US, (College Park), Hamburg, Bucharest, Bremen, Rome, Amsterdam, Paris, Sydney all follow very shortly after

AFAICT Skyscrapers is really the only example you give where the US canonically built the v1.0

I think that there are probably other reasons, my suspicion is primarily rent seeking
I feel a huge pain of resignation when I am forced to use multiple lines to describe a single commit. There is almost no audience for any line of the commit message other than the first line. As far as line length goes, any practical means of displaying the messages, like gitk or git --oneline, is unfriendly to lengthy lines. Gerrit will display all the lines of the tip commit's commit message, so one can amend that commit to create a summary of the others, but then of course the other commits are not as visible.

The character limits are a real thing in git culture. One could start here, with a question posed by an apparent skeptic:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2290016/git-commit-messa...
I just wrong a little tutorial on FAST with Snowpack if anyone interested: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/microsoft-fast-snowpack-ramon...
Safest? https://youtu.be/yInNecEQjeg
Hello from Poland. Milk is actually the item that runs out fastest in my home. I'm drinking half a cup with each coffee which I can drink more than 5 a day since I discovered decaf. Sometimes I drink pure milk when I'm little hungry and thirsty but not enough to bother with a proper meal.

We were given glass of boiled milk every day at school, and I don't remember any kid being lactose intolerant. I didn't like it back then. I prefer cold.

When I'm eating cooked buckwheat grains, glass of milk suits me best to wash it down.
Only on this over moderated site would you be downvoted for telling us the truth. America is in deep trouble. Why do tech companies know they can exploit most workers with their apps? America has way too many desperate people. Amazon, Uber, and the rest, know they will get hungry people to drive, and deliver food, to guys like the founder of this site. Oh yea, his “Insightful” writing is community college level, and lacks heart, or substance. But we lick his boots because we don’t want to offend the spoiled American? After all, we are all going to be at the rich boys club one day? To you that have that cushy tech job with just watch what happens when you hit fifty, or get eaten up by a monopoly. Why do I feel like 99% of you people actually think you will succeed in America? I guarantee it will be a handful out of thousands, unless you have the proverbial empathetic wealthy parent. Hacker News has become a place where wealthy boys can feel good about their lives, filled with delusional fan boys who believe they will be Zuck boys eventually. I was hellbanned for no good reason years ago, so you probably can’t read this, but I needed to write, even to know one. (Oh yea, ban a person from commenting. Don’t email him without permission, and degrade them with petty demands, especially without agreeing to any TOS. Hellbaning is caddy. I still read these comments daily, but quality is lacking. It seems like every comment is filtered for, what’s the word—-conformity? America was not built on Conformity!
Unique to every individual

Oh, wow. I laughed at that one.

Come work in healthcare IT, where in some geographies if you were to pick a group of 50,000 unique person records, you'd find that dozens, even hundreds, of people are using the same Social Security Number.

Sometimes you'll find eight or ten people with the same SSN in the same household. Or more often, several dozen unrelated people in the same state who have the same SSN because they all bought it from the same guy at the border.

Unique keys are a bitch in healthcare.

assigned from birth

Also nope.

I'm an American-born American citizen. I didn't get my Social Security number until I was 17.
Simon Property, Amazon look at turning mall space into fulfillment centers: WSJ
I dont buy this we were first to do it. Plenty of other countries do continual upgrades to subways, banking, bridges, financial systems etc. My reasons are partly these;

1) I think US tend to think of itself as No.1 nation and makes it less likely to look at other countries doing things better and looking to follow. I think this becomes a mental limitation for many US citizens and policy makers.

2) There is too much corporate capitalism. Money in politics etc. Look at the internet system where Google tried to roll out fibre and there were regions passing laws stop competitors even going into the market. Look at the prices you pay for mobile services. For the world leading free market, there is way to much corruption where markets are restricted rather than government pushing to open established markets to new business when they become entrenched.

3) Over investment in military. US could have that budget, still be the largest military by a mile and be dropping hundreds of billions in building and repairing infrastructure.

4) Too much focus on making money vs doing things well. The desire to keep building a nation seems to be gone. same in my country of Australia. You read history from earlier in the 20th century and they had a view to get things done that would benefit a nation overall. Now its 'would a rail line really pay for itself and be cost effective' type mentality that limits visionary projects.

5) Career politicians. Like other nations I think many career politicians want to take the safe route for reelections. There is endless media criticism of these guys if something goes wrong, and big projects, things do wrong and no-one wants to hear were putting up taxes this year to pay for stuff. No idea how, but we need to filter better for people that believe in what they are doing and have a vision vs popularity based vote for me campaigning. And generally vet them for brains and ability vs I always vote for this party.
I would watch this movie
It also arguably made The New Yorker magazine. It’s identity is still strongly influenced by this piece. Each article they have published since has had to “follow” this one.

Prior to WWII, its tone was more playful and humorous. The somewhat-detached, illustrative and poetic exposition originated in the war period, and resonates today.
Solar went negative last summer. So that's not totally accurate.
Do you mean simple/complex? short and fast describe spacetime, fundamental nature of reality breaks down to more fundamental concepts right?
Reeeeeeeeeeee.
I have to read the code to understand it?!?!?
That's one of the non-technical reasons for sure.
During Covid-19, Belarus became a kind of international aviation hub. Those mercenaries were on there way to Middle East as part of the private armies Russia sends to places like Lybia. Even Russian government officials acknowledged that, althouth this makes them look bad internationally.
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Usernames and passwords are just one "privacy" related item that are transported over networks. Without encryption they are trivially easy to retrieve from any number of points along the network.

I've retrieved plaintext usernames/passwords out of network traffic, both intentionally and accidentally as part of larger captures. Encryption ends the ability of countless bad actors to do that.
Presumably like historical encryption, available to the government and the super wealthy. That was what they were attpting when they tried to classify PGP as munitions.
Canadians vandalizing American license plates to deter US coronavirus visitors
What does this change from my perspective? No more waiting 2-3 business days for all my transfers between banks or 3rd parties?
MobiTV!
How Trump Allies Work the Refs in Silicon Valley
People actually allow this!?
Especially the use of unlicensed spectrum has the potential to make this technology accessible to consumers (say, in lieu of wifi). So does device-to-device communication when not mediated by a network.
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

Only move instructions
Not effeminate at all. Look up reporter bags, smaller than a messenger bag. Classy, not effeminate. Mostly older men wear them in the UK (I’m on my third) whereas the younger men wear cross-body sports-type bags. Most majors make them. I can completely under the rise because of the increase in phone size. Phone + wallet + headphones + tissues, sanitizers, and a mini Fulton umbrella. Then I’m set :)
I also imagine the compiler developers population has a high overlap with the "neck beard" type c developer, unix person that would prefer not to use a web app as part of their development workflow.

It turns out that there's already a really easy way of executing compiler output on your CPU without the use of JavaScript...
This would have been a great way to deal with Facebook's attempt at building out a single backend for their messaging platforms.

Because yes, the ability to use a single protocol for cross-service messaging, with E2E by default, disappearing messages, and text (or presumably email) fallback would actually be spectacular. But as a spec.

Hell, as a spec, this would create an argument to migrate toward a user@service model and finally start relegating phone numbers to legacy status.
What's the concern about national ID and political enemies?

Because America has seen what happens when it's used in other countries.

The HN crowd is mostly too young to remember these sorts of things, or to have learned about them in school. But it's a very short ride from "What's the big deal with national IDs?" to "SELECT * FROM 'residents' WHERE 'religion' = 'jewish' ORDER BY 'national_id';"
Because the second parent commit of the merge commit gives you the pointer to the list of commits off the main branch where the feature is implemented. Without the merge commit, there would be no easy way to group commits that implement a feature.
Finding IoT vulnerabilities generally requires some degree of skill. Turning that into a pre-packaged tool that anyone with a computer can use is not much harder.
> I think people can handle the truth.

I disagree. Look what happened when to toilet paper, which was less scarce and less important than PPE.
Thanks for expanding on my simplistic remark. Have you considered offering your services as a FIPS consultant? Because my ex-Google experience with this aspect of the industry is that management hires a consulting firm who come in and says things like everyone must use this RHEL kernel, this (incredibly broken) openssl and so forth. Those consultants are not offering the nuanced perspective to the management, who aren't technical enough to understand it anyway. So the word comes down from the top that we're married to kernel 4.15 until the end of days.
Interesting point about corporate interests. I do think Pre COVID there was something genuinely charming about living in a human scaled place where you could walk or bike to a bunch of interesting small businesses. Recently I’ve started to see the benefits of space and privacy with everything thats going on and staying in a low density area was an unbelievable increase in quality of life.
Sure. But it's more important what people do than what's possible.
Ask HN: Why did Apple deprecate OpenGL and OpenCL?
So John Oliver's $15 million donation was worthless because people still get sick?
Not since Lukashenka turned away the proposal to form a political union with Russia, which made Putin look like an idiot when rewriting the constiution just for the sake of staying in power.
Steve Jobs at MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series (1992)
The GOP doesn't want more people voting; they hang onto power mainly through gerrymandering and various voter suppression measures.

If you think this is unique to the GOP, you missed the last century of politics in Chicago.
https://developer.apple.com/metal/
Google 'accidentally' left Google Home devices recording your every word
You're describing Bitcoin.
Using git blame and looking at a commit that last updated a line allows one to check the message for the reasoning behind adding or updating that line, and the context that line was added or updated.

This could help in terms of preventing regressions by making further updates for example.
It’s because an aspect of work is gamified. People may compete with each other for promotions or commissions. Academics compete for fame, grants.

Also there are students who don’t stop learning when they know they can ace their school exams... sometimes they are genuinely interested in the topic.
Not really. Python has exactly the same structure as all other popular languages. Lack of brackets doesn't make it much different.

Ruby is weirder.
There is some governmental discrimination, notably in the military (Malays are effectively excluded from sensitive positions) and granting residency/citizenship (reportedly virtually impossible for ethnic Malays from Malaysia or Indonesia). Both are officially denied though, and yes, these are nowhere near as wide-ranging as Malaysia's policies.

https://coconuts.co/singapore/features/ns50-celebrates-50-ye...
I don't think natural gas is actually a carbon-neutral alternative to coal, my understanding is that methane leakage makes it almost as bad as coal in the long term.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/30/1864381...
For having spent some time playing with ripgrep and hyperscan (https://sr.ht/~pierrenn/ripgrep/) the benchmarking part looks really odd to me.

The T5/T6/T7/T8/T9 are no way extensive enough to show a difference between hyperscan and ripgrep. Plus, the benchmark already includes the pattern compilation time in the hyperscan benchmarks so this makes even less sense.

So the only upside left to this tool is usability. And from a quick test I don't really see the point. I'd prefer to use something written in a safe language (e.g. Rust) than this so I guess I'll just stick with rg.
I try to avoid horrible things like that at all costs. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes not so much. The rule of thumb is that all branches (unless there is a really, really good reason to do otherwise) are created from the master, and are rebased before the push (by the person, who did the development in this branch), and if there are conflicting changes, before the merge as well.

With the absolutely rarest exceptions all patch releases are done in the same manner as the regular ones, i.e. from the HEAD of master. History must be as linear, as possible.

So there are basically 2 general cases when you really need to share a commit. In the first, you find out in your branch there's something to be fixed, which you know I already fixed in mine, in the commit X. In this case it's better if I reorder commits in my branch so that X is the first one, create a new branch with X, which then is merged in a proper manner. You can rebase then.

Second case is when 2 people with different skill-sets or responsibilities must work on something that "from the above" looks like the same piece of functionality. Then, however hard you may try, it all turns up much messier and they will end up needing to share branches (so they cannot rebase them) with multiple commits. In this case I name one of them responsible for changes made within this task as a whole, so when the work is finished the second (3rd, 4th,...) person doesn't touch the branch(es) in question any more, and the first one might rebase and clean up it as needed.
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Seems this is biggest in terms of # commits / lines of code / etc.

But does anyone have opinions on what the most “impactful” linux releases ever was?
Yeah, kind of like what I except but with ascii graphics.

But my implicit point is "people actively looking for work" has been a quantity whose definition shifts and who method of measurement shifts and which is inherently difficult to measure.
A spelling reform could keep “mention” and still significantly improve the orthography were it to simply apply the rules more consistently. And when words are genuinely different, like “ask” or “of” it's not going to hurt to spell them differently.

a spelling reform cud[] keep “mention” and still significantly improov the orthography wer it to simply aply the rules more consistently. And when wurds ar genuinely different, like “ask/aask” or “uv/ov” it's not going to hurt to spell them differently.

[] although how to spell put/putt is an open question. here I have sided with northerners and decided to spell them the same.
While earthquakes are frequent in the broader region, Singapore is very seismically stable and sheltered even from tsunamis. For example, the Boxing Day tsunami had zero impact.
You could ask the same thing about light bulbs, but they do.
Well said. Aside from formalwear and tattered outdoor work outfits my clothing may as well all be identical. Every morning I reach into my closet and grab a shirt and pair of jeans without looking.
I had my first experience with reverse engineering recently. It's an online MMORPG, and I wanted to figure out what makes my character do emotes (hug, cry, sit, etc). Seems simple enough, but after 30 hours over the course of 3 days of looking at x64dbg I just lost it. There are so many things that can go wrong, and every time it felt like I was close, after another hour or two I was back to square one.

I gave up after the third day, but even though it was a frustrating experience I also learned a lot about how assembly works. I don't know if that'll ever be useful but it was fun to learn.
Clone the srsLTE repository [1], and use it to set up a demonstration system with a core network (srsEPC), base station (srsENB) and a mobile phone (srsUE). It's several hours work to set up a system that runs on a couple of Virtual Machines and bridges the IP networks together on your two VMs. You can then do pings and file transfers over your newly minted LTE network. An Intel i7 processor is fast enough to run a multi-megabit link in real time, with all three of the above components running on the same i7.

Use srsLTE's simulated channel model to start with, as if avoids the cost of hardware and the regulatory restrictions on making an actual radio transmission. Only buy radio hardware if you graduate to wanting to experiment with actual transmissions and have developed the knowledge to not get in trouble with the regulators.

Once you have the demo running, download the standards [2] and start digging though the srsLTE source code with the standards by your side for reference. The source code makes the standard digestible and includes comments with references to documents, teaching you the best places to start. Because you have a live system running you can experiment as needed to understand something.

5G is an evolution of 4G (LTE), so whilst the srsLTE isn't a complete 5G implementation it will teach you enough about 4G (which is the foundation of 5G) that you will probably be able to understand 5G.

I've found this approach to be a valuable way to learn about LTE/5G, but I do have a background in such systems. My feeling is such an approach would work for someone with a software background, even if lacking the radio knowledge, as the srsLTE source acts as a "roadmap" and the necessary background reading (MIMO, coding, ...) could be done on an as needed basis as the concept is encountered in the source code.

[1] https://github.com/srsLTE/srsLTE

[2] https://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/latest
From 9:30pm, when both kids are asleep, I can spend 2-3h feeling exhausted, trying to get myself to do something, trying not to fall asleep and failing at it. It's fun.
Can you link to where this is stated? I can't seem to find it.
Is linear regression AI? How about logistic regression? Many people would consider the latter to be ML/AI while the former statistics.

Ultimately, I think the distinction is pretty meaningless.
> Didn't IBM have an ALU design that were more harden again calculation errors?

I'm genuinely confused what is meant by this in practice. Like some sort of redundant ALU architecture or rad hard encapsulation?
Photosynthesis in Animals (2014)
I mean it was created before internet/computers but sure. I don’t see your point though as we can and do scan media to combat that creation, without nuking the internet... Without the ability to scan, the battle seems seriously kneecapped. If currently reported counts from automation in the US are in the order of magnitude of 100 million (I forget exact numbers, but it was near this) from a small number of companies, there’s just no way to combat that manually with “good old fashioned police work” and I don’t know of other options besides those two..