skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I suspect too, a guy so smart, how couldn't learn to read even after being in contact with a lot of books?
Thanks for that non-hyperbolic view.
Perhaps they are looking at Habitat which is a cross-platform package manager that competes with Chocolatey somewhat.
Wow. Thank you, that's very interesting.
Stop gaslighting.

Neither the Islamic colonization nor the Anglo-Saxon one nor the Christian one (by Portugal etc.) was ever a 'benign' entity. White guilt over the brutalities of their ancestors does not automatically render the previous mass-murderers any better.

The scores of destroyed temples/shrines/statues all over the Indian sub-continent, and the utter lack of any ancient ones in the North of India should be evidence enough, but then again, in the prevailing age of unreason, the the race/academic pedigree of the writer has far more importance than actual archaeology or indeed historical documentation.
Is unfortunately behind a paywall, but this podcast details the scam at the time. http://www.keithandthegirl.com/show-detail/251/the-podshow-c...
I've seen lots of articles about different cases, but this one is dominating the Google rankings right now:

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-featur...

The car was bought from Tesla, but the features was disabled AFTER the sale, and indeed, after a resale had been agreed to. So it's not quite with no involvement from Tesla here, but I've seen ones in completely private resales too; just can't find them right now.
The main problem it solves, as mentioned in another comment, is that this project is not beholden to a corporate entity which is in turn beholden to its shareholders. The "censorship of conservative content" has never been about politics but about making advertisers happy: advertisers who demand that their ad buys not be displayed with/alongside content they deem inappropriate for whatever reason. It was the political right who used this tactic to great effect in the 1980s, going after advertisers and boycotting companies advertising on "non-family-friendly" media content (usually television). The media companies want to keep the ad money rolling in so they made a content pivot/censored content. The same thing is happening now; follow the money: that's where the effort to silence is being bought and paid for. Companies like Apple, Google/YouTube, Reddit, and Facebook are simply caught in the middle of a political tug-of-war and trying to find the least crappy path through it.
> They would like to unwind the past 75 years of Chinese economic development...

The entire reason that development existed in the first place is that the US allowed it despite completely unfair market access and more than a few provocations. Maybe if the CCP equalized market access relations would be better - but that's incompatible with their iron grip over society.
Years ago (when the jailbreak scene was still a thing), I heard claims that Apple could detect if a device was jailbroken previously (and wiped/restored since), presumably to deny service claims on the basis of a voided warranty. However, there were also claims that “restoring your device removes all evidence”. I’m partial to the latter being true, but I’ve never seen any evidence of either.
Actually don't say you are going to "porter plainte" in a café, you will look like a Karen with extra steps

edit : Porter plainte means filling the papers to a Police station to start a judiciary procedure against someone, you'd do that for violence, theft, rape etc...
It doesn't prove the UK are any more protected while part of the EU - the EU has American trade dependence too.
I’ve never used LinkedIn, do they have any real competitors or is this just a monopoly being a monopoly?
Back in the day, Progress offered hands down the best platform for developing multi-user database-centric applications. They still sell it, but the product is now called OpenEdge and the company is called Progress (it used to be Data Language Corporation).

They have a lot of other products now as well.

Their website is marketing puff but the products are great.
Indeed, the site admits it: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/commit/d14ae625edd685f7...
That’s great that he has a lifestyle business he can support on donations. But I wouldn’t rely on one of his projects for my own project. If I’m going to be beholden to the whims of someone else, I’d rather be beholden to one of the actual directories that has all the content out there.
Where you use each field and what you use it for depends on the context.

The furigana can be used for search, sorting or display. It's most useful stored separately.

It's also not necessary to display it nicely with the ruby text as it's just a name, so dump it anywhere on the screen where someone can find it is good enough. Furigana displayed with Ruby text is useful as a reading aide in proper passages of text, usually reserved for rare words one is not expected to know and/or as a guide for children in texts aimed at younger readers.

You have to put yourself in the position of an overworked, underpaid call center worker with a CRM in front of the who has just been phoned up by a customer called Junko and they are now tasked with locating which record in the system belongs to this customer.

You see, there are something on the order of 4 or 5 different representations of this name in Kanji. If you weren't able to search by Furigana the call center staff would have to enquire which kanji it's made up of and then receive a verbal description of the radicals the kanji is composed of and in what order.

Now once they're able to find all of the "Junko"s in the system they need to narrow it down. If they were simply presented a fullname with no furigana they might well run into the prickly problem of not actually being able to read the rest of the name. At which point the conversation gets awkward again.
> Governments should require that all social media platforms investigate and disclose information operations being conducted on their platforms by state and non-state actors. Disclosures should include publicly releasing datasets linked to those information campaigns.

I thought the point of social media networks was so that governments can conduct surveillance and information campaigns.
I'm pretty sure I'm a bot to a lot of these sites - JS is disabled by default, selectively enabled sometimes.

When greeted by a blank page, I frequently "react" by just going elsewhere.
According to the Open Society Foundation, the UK did a lot worse than just refuelling planes: https://www.justiceinitiative.org/uploads/655bbd41-082b-4df3...

> this article you're commenting on goes into the large amount of work going on by the US government to remove observers, including Amnesty International, from the proceedings.

I think we all agree that the USA is acting like a bad guy here, regardless of how we feel about Assange and Sweden.
Arh... that is why I keep getting confused with the naming. Thank You.
SwissSign CA discloses DDoS attack
The terminology comes from signal processing, where a convolution in the frequency domain is equivalent to a multiplication in the time domain. I don't think anyone is thinking about the frequency domain in deep-learning, but they still call the operators convolution kernels.
It's a completely clickbait headline (like most things you'll find on sensationalist outlets like CNN). If you read the full article, there's not anything like a claim that "math is racist".

My only takeaway from this is just another point to deduct from CNN's credibility, rather than that this author is saying "math is racist".
A thermos bottle keeps things cold
"Last Change Broke It" is the rule. Nobody cares whose "fault" it notionally is that something doesn't work now, they will focus on whatever change made it stop working. This is not least the case when you paid $1M for this security appliance two years ago, and then a free Chrome update broke everything on Tuesday morning.

Are the vendors going to give back your $1M? No they are not. Are they going to fix the appliance? Maybe. Although perhaps not unless they can see how that'll bring in more money. So you blame Chrome, because that's what broke.

Now, for the sake of security sometimes, very gently, the browsers will push to fix things because there's no alternative. They have to co-ordinate (if one of the big browsers defects then users switch to "the one that works" and you all lose) and it takes a long time to do. So that's the last option.

For example, TLS 1.3 as shipped includes an anti-downgrade mechanism. It was not possible to ship this in draft versions so it was not widely tested. It turns out that some middleboxes from popular vendors did something so stupid and dangerous that it broke the anti-downgrade. (Specifically they copied the Server.random field from a session they were having with an actual HTTPS server into the Server.random field they delivered to a browser, even though the standard is emphatic that you need to choose your own random numbers or it isn't actually secure).

So, for about a year Chrome did not enable anti-downgrade in order to allow for a fix to be developed, shipped and installed at most organisations that used the affected middleboxes. But today your Chrome (and presumably Firefox etc.) actually has anti-downgrade and any remaining middleboxes with that bug are just broken.
> Once you get foreign names, this becomes weird even with European names

Wait until you think about multi-heritage names.

My son is Spanish AND Ukrainian. Ukrainian naming customs are like Russian, then in Spanish you have two last names.

This breaks down as follows: in Spanish the second last name is that of the mom, but in slavic naming customs it changes according to the gender. So in Spain he won't have the last name of the mother, and in Ukraine his last name doesn't match mine.

So he's finally name+last name+second last name for Spain, name + ugly patronymic + long ass, unique in the world last name for Ukraine.

And in both cases, the name is invariably pronounced wrong, as Spanish doesn't have the Ukrainian и sound, and Ukrainian doesn't have the Spanish z sound. Even for us the parents it doesn't come naturally to pronounce it, so it's not like we can get offended by that.
Do you have taken any consequences for the narrative spun around the Iraq war? That cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

Assange didn't kill anyone just for your information and claiming ignorance can only get you so far before it becomes a lie.
I recently learned there are a few groups at ETZH working on traffic simulation and fleet planning in transportation networks. Are you affiliated with the Autonomous Mobility on Demand / IDSC folks?

https://www.amodeus.science/

https://idsc.ethz.ch/education/lectures/duckietown.html
You’re not getting it. I understand the aim. I’m asking how it can solve that problem if it doesn’t have massive mindshare for podcasters to use and submit to?

Because simply having another directory in existence and requesting people submit their feed to it isn’t going to be easy. And if the index doesn’t have the content, it is useless, regardless of its mission.
What fees do faang companies charge on an ongoing basis that can be avoided only using OSS, in a legal manner?
Fraud is not a valid way to fulfill your end of a contract ;)
Well, I said tolerant for the time. His entire Wikipedia article indicates a pretty serious commitment to pluralism and tolerance, especially compared to his contemporaries (and even his descendents.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar#Religious_policy
My job for years was developing and supporting Progress applications mainly on AIX. So much less crap to deal with than is common today. Things actually worked.
what the hell happened to negrounds?????????????
Oh yeah I remember this too! Good times.

ETA: was his the venture backed startup that hired Scoble until they ran out of money or was that something else

Edit 2: the Scoble podcast VC thing was different. But it too went up in flames in spectacular Web 2.0 fashion.
> how do you all cope with surveillance

I am doing everything I can, depending on how much free time I have. Using Qubes OS, Whonix, buying GNU/Linux phones etc... Searching with DuckDuckGo, using Firefox, OpenStreeMap etc...
Netflix’s Reed Hastings Deems Remote Work ‘A Pure Negative’
Is that a bad thing? Tesla's consumer base is not large or diverse enough to be representative of the national economy or population.
Just wondering if there's a full list of cities somewhere? I only see a carousel and a (non-clickable) map.

I see a city in the middle of the US but I can't make out what it is.

EDIT: Oh it's Toronto. I couldn't localize without the Great Lakes on the map.
Show HN: Graphics Programming in Go
I think CCP is a concern, however that is currently just in China. Which mean whatever china is doing with internet should be prevented in every where else.
Store in one field. Have a secondary field `order_name` or similar, and make a best-effort attempt at extracting the proper part of the name to order on at save time (I believe there are libraries that can help with this).
> LinkedIn Ads network is likely awash in mistaken clicks and bot traffic

Just like every single other adnet? The very fact of massive adfraud groups allegedly specialising on one or another net means that they must be making money somehow.

By the definition, those guy must be one step ahead of the adnet, or they don't make money, and fizzle in a few months.

My impression is that there are groups which have consistently defeated all, and every bot detection method the entirety of ad industry threw on them.
The Bulk of Software Engineering Is Just Plumbing (2018)
Not a huge Curry fan but I'm REALLY not a fan of the co-host of his podcast. I have been reading John C Dvorak, in real-time, since the mid-80s. I challenge you to find someone so consistently wrong about technology and be wrong in the most douchebag way possible.
Serious question, what is the purpose of sorting names? I presume you never give your customers a list of other customers, so such a sort couldn't be useful to them. Is it for internal reports or something? Some MBA says "get me a list of all our customers... and make sure it's sorted!" ? And is some arbitrary imperfect sorting order not adequate for this sorting need? Why not just treat the name field as a bunch of bytes and sort it with no special consideration given to the quirks of names?
The DOD has also spent tens of millions on a web application to track biological threats that will never see the light of day. I work on it :(
> If you need to follow a golden rule when debating, take this one: don’t take it personally. In other words: don’t feel attacked directly, as a person.

There are situations where you are attacked personally and need to respond. Whether the attack is direct or through sleazy implications. This is not some kind of rare occurrence, people who try to use debate to either show/gain dominance, get equal or just try to win by sleazy tactics exists. Pretending this does not exists does not make you win the debate, it makes the sleaze personal attack stick and makes you look bad (less capable or weak).

And I know, because when I was younger I listened to advice like this and that is exactly what happened.

Nowdays, I call it kindergarten rules of behavior. They sound good and are sort of what adults say to kids. Except that they assume that you are put in an idealized situation. They miss crucial "how to recognize and react when the sleazy tactic was used" and instead pretend it is not happening.
I wouldn’t say it’s irrelevant. If you are speaking to someone over a phone, over a counter, or through the mail, they interpret your communication through the same lens of assumptions, before it even reaches your application.
There was only huge problems with internet for the first few days of protests. Now they only censor specific websites, but internet is more or less working around the country.
I actually do have several friends and other people in my network (some quite accomplished professionally) who are very active on LinkedIn, and there's not much shady about them. But yes, it's weird.
Another source: https://web.archive.org/web/20010926063257/http://museum.med...
Reminds me of the story about the "NULL" license plate. The story where they got all the tickets assigned to cars where the plate reading failed.
That's not an argument though, that's a discussion.
I just did this.

I'm 38 and just started my first developer job 3 months ago after practicing law for 13 years and hating it. I started learning JavaScript/HTML/CSS about a year ago.

It's the best thing I've ever done for myself and my only regret is not doing it sooner.

You can do it!
On the other hand, if you made something that is still used "in production" for several years now, that's quite an achievement. Well done.
I can’t be more embarrassed rn
When I realized I can use a simplified version of my take on Agile and Scrum with a simple Trello board, and apply that on my side projects. And that could help me to build them twice as fast and actually finish them too.
The EU member states do not care. Is it better?

It was adopted 4 years ago, enforceable for the past 2 years. Still every single site that even cares about showing a nagbox offers only opt-outs. Those numbers listed are a joke compared to the 4% worldwide revenue stick. What's the point of the big words if we are not prepared to back them up?
Do you have a link for that? I've been listening to his Napoleon podcast and he seems left-leaning to me. They do talk about politics from time to time.
Security Advisory: ongoing campaign of DoS attacks affecting New Zealand
Under US federal law auto makers in particular aren't allowed to deny warranty coverage to a car due to aftermarket modifications unless they can prove that those specific modifications caused the problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson–Moss_Warranty_Act
In addition to runc, I'd like to point out an alternative OCI runtime implementation, crun (https://github.com/containers/crun). You can play with both either directly, or through Podman (https://podman.io/)

Useful for cgroups v2 too.
I made a chrome extension called Capsule that works perfectly for this use case. With just a click, you can create a publically shareable link that preserves the webpage exactly as you see it in your browser.

https://capsule.click
Low Barriers to Implementation
Unless you work for that ISP though, you don't know what the limits to their network are or how many people you actually share that line with.

It's gigabit speeds until all your neighbours suddenly want to download something too.
I did get a popup, but it was automatically closed before I could interact with it.
Impressive feat of engineering for one person!

But is it really an alternative to Zapier? I mean, while Zapier is obviously about automation, it always felt that their big selling point was the sheer number of integrations they provide.
I was excited when I saw the name because I thought it was about Kubernetes but it’s just a pun about podcasts...womp womp
Multiplying in frequency domain is convolution, in DL terminology convolution is that convolution with the weights rotated by 180 degree.
If you want to go multi day backpacking you’re taking on some risk. But most hiking is very low risk. I just spent some time in Mammoth and there are dozens of day hikes that are low fire hazard (I’m looking at you, Convict Creek trail).
Simon's TIL
Video: https://youtu.be/GnZUIuOzgQc
ok im actully going to fave this
Music, movies, tv, video games, books. Some trackers specialize in one type of content, some have everything.

Finding URLs of private trackers is trivial in google. Getting an invite usually requires knowing another user, unless they temporarily open signups for everyone.

Here's one of many lists of private trackers

https://hdvinnie.github.io/Private-Trackers-Spreadsheet/
I think there's some computer scientist (or similar) whose given name is just R, I forget what their last name is though.

And apparently Johnny Cash was born J. R. Cash.

From Wikipedia:

His mother wanted to name him John and his father preferred to name him Ray, so J. R. ended up being the only compromise they could agree on. When Cash enlisted in the Air Force, he was not permitted to use initials as a first name, so he changed it to John R. Cash. In 1955, when signing with Sun Records, he started using the name Johnny Cash.
What is interesting is to see the evolution of the system used to fold pop-up tents.

The most successful tent in France is, by far the Quechua 2 second, by Decathlon. Go to any festival in a country where Decathlon is present and they will make up the majority of the camping ground (make sure to remember which tent is yours!).

The tricky thing, of course is to fold them back. Over the years, instructions have changed, the design also changed slightly to make it easier. In the latest version, you just have to pull a cord and you are more than halfway there.

All these improvements are not just for helping the customer. Decathlon has a very liberal return policy, and they had to deal with a huge number of broken tents because people didn't fold them correctly.
It's a little contrived in this case, but another common example is a related suggestion for `read -r`:

get_nix_version_parts(){
local major minor patch
# shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2162
IFS="." read major minor patch < <(get_nix_version)
local -p
}

$ get_nix_version_parts
major=2
minor=3
patch=4
Fiat financial systems are full of most arbitrary restrictions. My anecdote: I once wanted to deposit money, came to a bank, gave them a bank card,

They: What is this?

Me: Money.

They: No, bring money.
Wouldn't they get penalised for having massive/slow page load requirements?
I don't think exploration of timbre has been novel for just as long. EDM has been around for decades now which is where a lot of that exploration happens, yet count how many Top40 tracks just use the 808 and call it a day. Modern artists and classic artists all explored timbre, and there are modern artists doing just as much with timbre and musicality.
SEO TRENDS FOR 2021: The world is changing. Be ready
Fanboys excluded, it is bad for those who've speculated on a demand if the company is included in the index.
Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?
Are there any well funded tech startups / companies tackling major societal problems?
Any of these fair game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_global_issues

----

I don't see or hear of any and want to know if this is just my bias or if there really is a shortage of resources in tech being allocated to solving the worlds most important problems. I'm sure I'm not the only engineer that's looking out for companies like this.

Ran into this previous Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24168902) that asked a similar question. However, here I wanna focus on the better funded efforts (not side projects, philanthropy etc).

One example I've heard so far is Tesla. Any others?
It's bad for Tesla shareholders. Doesn't mean it's bad for anyone else.
Mughals were neither about art nor science nor they were tolerant. Post partition and independence India had 5 education ministers who were hardcore Islamist and sympathizer of Pakistan. They have created this aura around Mughal tolerance.
These websites make their mobile websites good enough so you won't leave, but bad enough so you feel like you should download the app (such as gigantic banners that make mobile browsing miserable).

The A/B testing shows that it's a very effective dark pattern.
. . . We conclude that the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally generated public health costs of approximately $12.2 billion.

Wow.
Grab a No Agenda episode at random and give it a spin.