skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the author is here, thanks for writing this up. I did something similar years ago, but I neglected to write it up. My process was essentially the same as yours, although I used some thrown-together python code to analyze the protobuf data.

After I finished, I found out that the raw .proto files were embedded in the web app, which would have have saved a bit of time, but also taken away some of the fun. So if you want the official schema, you can look there, but it might not be legal to redistribute as-is.

Also, if anyone is poking around with protobuf forensics with ObjectiveC code, I once threw together a script to reverse engineer protobuf definitions from ObjectiveC executables. I haven't tested it recently, but it should work for ObjetiveC code generated by protoc (i.e. if _PBDataWriterWriteInt shows up in nm output):

https://gist.github.com/dunhamsteve/224e26a7f56689c33cea4f0f...
Duplicates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24411758
ISPs are regulated, and operate in the country I live in. They know my real identity, bill me regularly, and have (IMHO) a pretty strong incentive to violate my privacy -- either for commercial purposes, or by law. VPNs are not necessarily in my jurisdiction, exist in a highly competitive space, and live or die by their reputation for privacy. You can buy, e.g., time on Mullvad by mailing cash in the post -- or via a whole string of privacy-preserving altcoins. It doesn't get more anonymous than that.
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It sure is simpler if you know what standards your USB-C port supports, but if you don't it's way easier to have the older ports where you can have one glance at them and know their function instead of having to look through the spec sheet.

There was an article on HN a few days ago discussing just this issue.
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Cowboys and Rodeos exist in a bunch of places (Australia, Brazil, etc.) but...

For the purpose of Cowboy/Rodeo culture, Mexico and the US are (figuratively) the same country. That is, there was a cowboying cultural region and a border got put down the middle of it very gradually. Texans were cowboys before they were american, californians, etc.
> Literally obscuring the thing, but thieves only broke into the apartment where they knew there's something to steal quickly. A napkin over your wallet might not help in a bar but it did help in this case.

The same approach works well for leaving stuff in cars. Visible bags or electronics tend to get stolen. The same thing under a sweatshirt doesn't.
I've been in otherwise pretty friendly games where string bets were disallowed. Or at best, the first time it happened (generally by a new player), it was accepted but the table agreed not to allow anymore for anyone.
Competition with any larger entity is more difficult in metrics that are improved by scaling.

My point was that Amazon has many capable competitors.
Thank you. In my country, the people have right to make recordings in the court, unless specifically limited by the judge on case by case basis.

Looks like the difference is that there's no jury to be prejudiced, because trials are decided by the judges only.

I wonder though if the extradition request is going to be decided by the jury at some point, in this case in particular.
British did burn down the Summer Palace, which action is now considered one of the worst acts of cultural vandalism ever perpetrated.
and the dead drop location from:
https://www.numbers-stations.com/articles/trigon-numbers-sta...

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.7272732,37.5479753,3a,75y,15...

(unfortunately nowhere near close enough to see if the sign is still there)
This isn't dynamic scoping; this is just a global variable with a stack of values. I appreciate the syntax is sort of the same (though the * makes it different in a very important way) but the meaning isn't. You should at least implement this with thread local storage, though, if you are going to do this.
What interested me in WebThings was:

* independance of any device vendor

* independance of operating system vendor

* independance of cloud vendor (local data)

* true openess that would allow some hope of device vendors contributing integrations

As a former developer of a proprietary home gateway who has studied and implemented many home automation protocols I know too much the mess of the home automation ecosystem. Just walled gardens. And gateway APIs are one way to lock-in users and software developers.

I wonder if that "new commercial sponsor" will not change the balance of independancy.
Some of the .Net examples literal calls into native code.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

vs

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

That is hardly a fair comparison.
Always cool to see right-wing propaganda on hacker news first thing in the morning.
A director once pontificated in a meeting that, "culture eats strategy for breakfast!" I said, "so without strategy, culture starves?"

So enlightened, they then set to managing me out.
Is there a significance to this designation?
Well, the grass doesn't seem to be much greener elsewhere, and it seems most of folks here are confusing hobbies (things you do at your own pace for fun) with work (things you've to do for others, at their own terms, for money/material stuff).

If you google "being doctor sucks", you will find very similar complaints (see link below), and it seems some doctors were envious of nurses, but I didn't bother googling "being a nurse sucks" because I know what to expect.

https://www.google.com/search?q=being+doctor+sucks&oq=being+...

and here is another one about being carpenter sucks
http://www.bbcboards.net/showthread.php?t=828471

and this one is about how hard is it make money from woodworking
https://thewoodwhisperer.com/articles/why-i-dont-offer-woodw...

here is an interesting take away from that last thread:

"I have built maybe 6 pieces I really liked in the past 10yrs. Thats someting you’ll face in any craft business. Making crap you don’t like."

Well, welcome to modern capitalism, adulthood and work. The underlying assumption here is life supposed to be fun and easy, it is not, it has never been and perhaps it will never be.
Yes! We are excited to invest in Cheyenne and Wyoming. Several members of the Kraken team are moving to Cheyenne, and we will be hiring more locally. You should expect to see more job postings there over the coming year.

Some of our team has also expressed interest in visiting Cheyenne to work for a period of time, even if they are not moving there full-time! We will continue to have many fully remote positions open for hiring globally (as we always have).
I do believe there is a substantial amount of people that just bow to whatever the perceived experts say. That's why you would be called a conspiracy theorist if you said that Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction. Proof be damned and Skeptics should be burn at the stake.

What bothers me the most is that Assange only crime in the UK is that he had skip bail from a crime without evidence. Where is the European Court of Justice ? Human Rights ? It's all a political weapon now ?
I would argue the scope of the stories Wikileaks has broken are of extreme historical importance. I would also consider how he has stuck to his principles despite years of house arrest and now international prosecution also historic in a journalistic context.

Given the same treatment now do you think Chris Cuomo, Rachael Maddow, or Don Lemmon would have done?
Any radio that uses a mixer is also a transmitter.
We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg
I'm sure Disney will be there too. After they acquired Star Wars it's been a looming presence ready to swallow and regurgitate forever any entertainment properties.
After watching what the US did to TikTok, the EU should close down Facebook in Europe the same way. Its an out of control security threat with no benefits for the EU. It should be banned.
No shout out to my hometown Minneapolis??
It effects Federal funding these cities and states can receive.
Thanks. Is the guilty plead about 1mdb?
This would help businesses, but it would take a long time to pay off. Furthermore, just because a language is taught in schools doesn't mean people become competent at it. Schools don't give students the experience required to become confident in the use of the language. If you don't achieve that then people will prefer their native language solution instead.

That aside, there's a much bigger problem: sovereignty. How many Europeans would just accept a foreign language being made mandatory in their country? Eastern Europe still remembers Russification. We also have the example of French and its spread in France. I'm afraid that this kind of a rule would threaten the entire European Union project.
To be honest, SEC has not been doing its job for the past four years since this admin took control.
It's cheaper than the eventual divorce.
Some context beyond the Justice Department memo is probably useful:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/doj-designates-new-yor...

https://nypost.com/2020/09/21/nyc-branded-an-anarchist-juris...

In short, the Trump administration plans to defund these cities because they permit violence and destruction (...whatever that means). They don't actually have the legal right to do that, so if they follow through with this there will almost definitely be a lengthy court battle. If there is any sanity left in the US the Trump administration will lose in court, but it's not clear what will happen to federal funding in the meantime.
Anecdotally, I have a machine with an exposed SSH, on a high number port. I get brute force attempts on a regular basis against it, just way less than when I run it on the standard port number. Security by obscurity is just one part of the steps I take with that machine. Using a high port number is dead simple and easily handled client side too, so I just do it.
People find a lot of comfort with the validation of their own ideas from others. And since that comfort translates into community, they seek out others of similar feather.

I am afraid that this behavior paired with the "personalized" algorithms are a big part of the problem. Instead of pushing people to facts and figures, new ideas and uncomfortable positions, the systems are instead designed to do the opposite. Hide those things in order to hold attention.

Remember: Attention is the currency of media.

Pair the online phenomenon with the false equivalencies created by right-wing media. That "their ignorance is the same as your knowledge", and you create our current political and social environment ripe for exploit. We now have a whole lot of people who think they're right because they find others who also think they are right.
Being a decent human being pays off at least in terms of self respect. I guess for certain people it does not matter how they earn money, be it through fraud or honest work. But I don't think I would be happier if I was a fraudulent multi-millionaire.
I was definitely surprised by the cue for the ending arc to begin. I have gotten a fair bit out of the sidequests though, so I've still got lots to do.
USB provided device portability over ADB and higher transfer speeds, lightning doubled the data transfer rate available to any other device available in 2011 and stopped ports breaking due to 'fluff', firewire provided faster transfer speeds and networking features.

USB-C provides zero insertion force sockets, a single replacement for any plug of any kind from monitors to networking, 24 pins, and 40Gbps speeds.

Reliability. Speed. Adaptability. User convenience.
Shady in what way? OpenJDK is licensed under GPL2 with linking exception.
I'm not sure I would call this "American Crap." As I see it, the wealth of the American economy has driven the rest of the world to create a world of low quality goods to sell to us. I have made it a point to collect very little low quality equipment. But as I look around, most of the stuff I have collected says "made in China" or something like that.

I'm doing my best here to make my point without flaming other cultures. We as Americans get blamed a whole lot when things go bad. I think this writer is engaging in lazy projection. Stop buying the crap and you'll stop seeing the crap. (I don't like this piece, if you can't tell.)

I'm a big believer in buying quality stuff and repairing it when it breaks. I try to do my part to NOT buy the junk. But this fake history lesson in how all this garbage is the fault of American's is just low-rate in my opinion.
> In the film, Tunisian farmers describe how local seed varieties were superseded by inferior imported varieties, contributing to a landscape of agricultural neocolonialism and an assault on food sovereignty.

Amazing how many ill effects importing capital, seeds, and food, has. Fortunately importing people is completely different and has no drawbacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_camera_tube
What are they going to do, invade their own citizens a month before election? They have no leverage even if there were veracity to their claims and a legal basis for DOJ to interfere.
This.

Ok perhaps not FBI breaking down your door at 3am, but for sure "earn your place" on a list, in some three-letter-dept, and your name will stay there forever. And one day, on your way back from vacation to country XYZ that is not the favorite of the sitting (at the time) president you may be greeted by people in uniforms wanting to scan you laptop, phone, etc.

It has happened before, so yes it is a valid worry.
Id agree but can we stop using "obscene" in this way and TBH a average SV salary is nothing much to write home about compared to some other professions.
Right, but we really don't know if that fear was justified or not. The CDA came very early on and created a legal shield around these companies that prevented these problems from reaching the court system. We don't know how courts would have dealt with forums like HN, nor do we know how forum moderators would have operated in that legal environment.

There's something slightly disturbing about the idea that a group of businesses who feel threatened by the public can rely on Congressional diktat to protect them from the law.

Speaking in 2020, I think we can say that giving all internet companies blanket immunity to lawsuits from the public was clearly not a good decision. Everything people complain about today on the internet, from censorship, surveillance, addictive design, and centralized control, is being implemented by companies that would never exist without the CDA.

With all the bitching and moaning people do about large internet companies, it's not a fair assumption that the internet we have now is the only internet possible or even the best internet possible. Sure, HN may not exist without the CDA. But we don't know that for sure, and it's shortsighted to limit our thinking to just one website or subculture of society.
These kinds of articles always make me think about how big a privacy risk the laws that make these possible are. We're worried about user privacy, so we mandate that companies build a way to connect PII to otherwise-pseudonymous browsing data in case the user asks for it. What if someone else asks for it? Huge security risk.

That's not to say these laws are bad, just that the giant additional privacy risk they pose is kind of funny to think about.
Given how many of the PS4 exclusives were absolutely amazing (some of the best games in the last decade in my personal opinion), I have no reason to think that PS5 won’t have some incredible games too. Hell, between Demons Souls and the next Horizon Zero Dawn, there’s enough there to make me want one.
I think its nonsensical to condemn the rate of progress because we didn't achieve a vision of science fantasy grounded in what people thought in the 1950s. A lot of those ideas are "thing that exists, but more magic." We have helicopters, but it turns out zoom calls work just as good to meet people, without the air traffic control nightmare. We have the internet at our fingers, an advance so monumental that its nearly impossible to imagine life before this. Teleportation and antigravity - I mean - at a point- thats just plain magic. I will grant the space stuff though, we should have been way further along there. But this willfully ignores the mind bending amount of technological progress that we've made in the most rapidly technologically changing period in human history in computation, biotech, nanotechnology, etc etc just because we didn't achieve some of the magic that soft sci-fi or science fantasy writers envisioned.
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This is absolutely true. I use fail2ban and I often find that it's using rather more CPU than I'd like. Sounds like moving my SSH port might solve that!
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Can't go into details yet, but we do expect the SPDI setup to benefit all our global customers in various ways -- from easier funding options to totally new banking products. Stay tuned.
I lamented about this to a friend of mine recently. The first half of my short career were at companies where all we had were users. Endless customer support and feedback, endless eyeballs looking at anything you build. Every decision was based on ... reality.

The second half of my career, even at larger places, was building MVPs where you go forever without a single user ever seriously using it.

This duality in my work experience created an odd existential crisis. Push to prod after awhile felt like fake urgency. Ideas being thrown around by team members after awhile felt like needlessness. New hires and growth initiatives felt stupid, we barely saturate the existing team. Demos/Presentations felt futile, with a part of your soul just screaming ‘Who the fuck uses this!’.
I get sucked in pretty easily and play for ages. I don't feel satisfied if I only play for a short while, as I feel like I've just completed a task rather than immersed into a world.
My current project is one file with html,css,js all in one. I am using Vue, stripe, and three.js. To deploy I git push and then render handles all the rest (including provisioning a free certificate).

Honestly it’s easier now to do things like that than 15 years ago when I first started.
> Documentaries are made a clear statement of narrative intent. You can disagree with the positioning, but a documentary never pretends to be something other than a documentary.

Except that the masses believe "documentaries" = truth. I know I did when I was younger. No documentary claims to be "agenda ridden 'movie' from biased individuals funded by even more biased individuals".

> If it's not defamatory I can post it on YouTube. If it's solid journalism with an original and interesting angle there's even a fair chance I'll be able to sell it a media network.

Except that you still depend on social media. You depend on youtube or netflix to give you preferential treatment.

> If I want to create my own global social network - that's a slightly more challenging project.

It's also challenging to get the money, not only produce the film, but get netflix to it special treatment and of course buy the "ad" push we see on social media ( ironically enough ).

"The Social Dilemma" isn't just a "documentary". It's a part of a well funded propaganda campaign. There is obviously political and financial backing for this behind the scenes. Not that I'm against the sentiment because social media monopolies or any monopolies are a threat to society. And I also include netflix as a monopoly threat.
Chinese authorities threatened to detain ABC journalist’s 14-year-old daughter
If you think git sucks, which VCS sucks less? I've only tried TFS and SVN myself, but I find git the best option among them.
Naw, any place reasonably serious will have a string betting rule and similar. The reason is that you could start out with "and I call your 500" then pause slightly to see if your opponent starts moving/reacting in some way that signals their likely response before deciding whether to follow up with your raise. Likewise most places have a rule that you have to count out your bet then push it all out at once, or declare the full amount clearly verbally. Even the piddling little $100 buy in tourneys I played in during the poker craze 15 years ago had these rules.

Dealers tend to just shut down anyone that plays silly games around delaying or feinting what they're going to maybe do to. I was at Acapulco Joe's one time playing the cheap limit tables with a dealer that was out of patience with this one guy that was acting like he was on national tv for the world series finals. Finally at one point when he was dickering around she just looked at him, said "he calls" took his chips and moved on lol.
Please do release it to the public! Just for Proton and to experiment/bechmark.
I don't understand what's wrong with that?

IRL that is exactly the type of thing VB is used for. It's easy for non programmers to design interfaces, relatively intuitive to program, and it doesn't require compilation or other fancy or complicated processes to use the completed program.

It's literally WYSIWYG programming.
Have you tried... looking for one that isn't?

I've been in the biz for coming up on 25 years and I've never tried to make anyone click on an ad.

It also may help to downgrade "doing genuine good" from "solving the world's biggest problem once and for all" to "helping people get food reliably" or "keeping this industrial process that provides value to thousands of people going" and so on. Sometimes I do lose a bit of track of what I'm doing, but in the end the jobs I've worked still end up helping people do useful things, or protecting people, not making them click on ads.

There's a lot of jobs in programming that don't involve making them click on ads. Even in the heart of Silicon Valley, there's going to be a lot of jobs that don't boil down to that.

But you may have to, you know, change jobs.
I sort-of know Jeff, and I think he comes here sometimes, so: hi! Funny thing: the same company "inspired" both of us. The best minds of my generation are figuring out how to get two broken systems to talk to one another.
It's in a class - it only executes when startExistence(new Creation(0)) get's executed ;)

Ironically HN isn't a great paste code into as the formatting is horrific </3.
The writing (and especially the 'humor') was completely miss for me, some of the visual was just ok and the gameplay was so-so. Of course to each his own, you might enjoy it more than I.
A fun read, but worth noting up front that this is an excerpt from (and hence, essentially, an advertisement for) a book:

https://bookshop.org/books/crap-a-history-of-cheap-stuff-in-...

Arguably an actual example of its own subject matter.
re: dupe.

FWIW, this does contain some new/different information. IDK what the dividing line is for dupes, but would like to see new information as it's released.
Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, but for Evicting People
How Covid-19 is accelerating the shift to a cashless society
yeah, I didn't implement payments yet because I'm not sure about the model. Maybe a one time price makes sense... it sucks that I just launched on ProductHunt, maybe it would have been a good strategy to launch having that in mind. Thanks for the feedback!
Is the large image right in the middle of the article supposed to be a slideshow? It looks like one, but I just cannot get it to show the next image. And I have the feeling those images are important.
ok, here are a couple!

1) daringfireball.net - mainly Apple related

2) http://highscalability.com/ - All things tech
How is this much different from BRK.A and class B super-voting shares for Facebook, Pinterest, Shopify, and Alphabet? It's certainly more byzantine, but the end result is the same: founders and insiders ensure majority governance and retain control over their company.

It's up to investors to determine whether this is good or bad.