skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> p.s: It's a good story, but Yeltsin went to Texas less than two months before the Berlin wall was taken down, people in USSR already knew about supermarkets at that time. Especially in East Germany. That's not the reason why they teared the wall down.

I beg you thing otherwise. I spent my first 5 years of life, 1990-1995, with my mother shuttling in between a country which I would rather not name, and Russia, where my father lived until she was able to secure Russian citizenship, and a Russian birth certificate for me.

People in early nineties Russia were going crazy from all novelties they saw for the first time in their lives. Either in 1995, or in 1996, the first Western (actually South Korean) supermarket in the town was JAMPACKED with people for months after opening despite it being quite a huge
warehouse store style supermarket, and very far away from the city. People were making reservations to get into it.

On the other hand, people previously in position of social prominence, affluence, and power were in a such deep shock for years on end, that some very literally died from starvation because they didn't know how the money are supposed to be earned from something that is not a government.
What facebook has that none of the others do not is a value almost like infrastructure. They ARE your online identity in a way that pinterest/snap/twitter are not. Wechat is comparable (probably even more than FB) but only in China.

What FB has been able to do is smooth out those up and down waves by acquiring challengers (Insta/Whatsapp). They tried to buy snap too but when that didn't work they just copied features and now also copying TikTok.

So I don't think they're subject to those equalising forces as has been the case previously (and which do still affect everyone else - RIP Vine).
> This is not criticism, but I'm wondering why there are so many people developing their own alternative product.

Recent privacy laws introduced requirements which Google Analytics can't meet out of the box - at the very least there's is lots of uncertainty. Website owners like to avoid having to annoy their users with consent banners. Of course it's hard to get a definitive answer but it seems using Google Analytics without a consent banner doesn't comply with local regulation in Germany and/or Europe.
Agree, as far as 'I left Apple for reasons...' posts go, this one is very weak, there really is nothing in that article that is not irrelevant or trivially fixable. Even the 'things I miss' paragraph makes very little sense ('the fast browser', like Safari is in a special class of its own compared to browsers on other systems)?

IMO I think there have been way too many of these 'why I left Apple' posts, I don't see the point, they rarely add anything meaningful for anyone who hasn't already made up their mind and the discussion afterwards is always a repetition of the same tired anecdotes.

I'd guess anyone who doesn't like or need macOS is already running something else, and for those of use who still like macOS but also use other systems like myself it is trivially easy to run things in a VM so you can have the 'best of both worlds' (my opinion, YMMV).
The only faith I have in government is their ability to mess up things in the stupidest way possible.
> if your wages keep pace with in inflation as they historically have, it's not stealing anything from anyone.

Are you forgetting the progressive income tax? It will take a larger portion of your income even though your inflation-adjusted income is still the same.
from this profile, Matt is very probably underpaid vs his earning potential (probably at least an order of magnitude) and should leave to substack or his own operation. but I respect that money really isn't everything.
Ask HN: Can you recommend a book for founders on how to do founder-led sales?
Ukraine Takes ESports Seriously
On September 7, 2020, eSports was declared an official sport in Ukraine. While Ukraine does not export electronic games, Ukrainian software developers are very active in eSports game development and design. Several of the world’s top gaming and eSports companies have development offices and partnerships in Ukraine.

Are you looking to get into the eSports market? If so, there are 3 reasons to outsource development to Ukraine: 1) major game and eSports companies agree on its cost-advantage, 2) Ukrainian developers have the high-quality programming skills you need, 3) Ukraine’s government will take you seriously.
Donald Trump signed multiple peace deals this year
Ask HN: How to climb up in tech technologically (not by becoming a manager)?
I'd say I'm past junior and entering senior dev experience. I want to advance in my field as much as possible, but I'm a technical person. I don't want to manage teams or sit in boring corporate meetings, which is what I see around as my peers advance.

I want to earn as much as possible while tackling more and more exciting technical problems.

What positions should strive for in 5, 10, 20 years? I'm willing to study and work hard for it. I don't have certificates or degrees to show, but my work can speak for itself, hopefully.

I'm involved in client development, beginning to work on cloud and microservices. Love coding, math, and open to learn completely new fields.
> A few connections per minute hardly classify as abuse in any reasonable sense of the word.

That's for one individual who's scanning something. On the receiving end, you're not dealing with one individual, you're dealing with many individuals who are probing for vulnerabilities.

If one guy intentionally steps on your foot, that's mildly annoying. If a thousand people intentionally step on your foot, that's a very different issue.

> Most cloud providers for example do not allow port scanning from their network (for various reasons).

They don't? They are often the source I see. Is that a policy thing where they say "yeah well please don't" or will they actively shut you down if you're doing it from their infrastructure?
do they handle sales taxes? for in country vs out of country sales?
This is incorrect, to the best of my knowledge. 3900X and 3950X both have a 142W package power limit (PPT, 35% above TDP) at stock, with a properly working motherboard. As I understand it, not even short boosts are allowed to use more power than the PPT.

The limit can be lifted in the BIOS (or e.g. Ryzen Master) but that would no longer be stock operation. And there was a defect in the initial BIOS of ASRock X570 and maybe other motherboards, which broke PPT but that was running the CPU out of spec, not stock operation.
If you walk around town looking in every window, you’re probably not gonna have a good time when you get detained or shot. Let’s not pretend like there are legitimate use cases for scanning ports of networks you don’t control.
More like ringing the door bell and running of to the next house?
The series is about ancient and medieval processes so I think it's unlikely.
Nobody famous ever contributes to forums. This is a law of the universe.

However, emails are an area where something better could be done. Imagine if you were a famous person and you had a definite idea of who you wanted to hear from.

Friends and family would be whitelisted. Amazon too.

Everyone else could then be spam filtered to 'reject' or 'discard' their emails.

At the server level you could reject everything in a foreign language. Or with an attachment.

You could also have your own stop words. So Eno could have 'Music For Airports' as a phrase that triggered the response 'no, sorry mate, thanks for writing though'.

Now what would happen if people did get stock 'don't bother' emails? If they were well written and had some politeness to them then I think people would prefer that to 'well, he never replied, sob, sob...'.

It is about using a customer service ethos, which could be hard to imagine if you are a famous person and therefore centre of the known universe.

There is an aspect of 'proof of work' with email as it is. DMARC is a thing, reverse PTR checks and everything else an email has to get right shows that your email has at least tried.

There are also 'header checks' for proof of identity.

Right now, if some producer at the BBC needed Eno to star on Desert Island Discs then they would be able to contact Eno's agent, give their BBC email address and title, then get a yes or no straightaway.

In this the 'proof of work' would be going through the agent who would obviously think 'yeah, Brian would like that' to forward on the enquiry. They would check the person was from the BBC and it would all be good. Heck, they would probably know the producer anyway and the producer would have LinkedIn and other credentials.

The agent might not be replaceable by a postfix main.cf/master.cf configuration but it must be possible to get something better than anonymity.

I also think that emails received - even if never replied to - is an important metric. Imagine you thought you were really famous and that everyone was wanting to email you for that to not actually be the case.
I love masscan, I guess the author won't read this, but thanks for this tool, it's very useful.

If you hadn't made it, someone else would've written it in Python so it would get stuck on CPU all the time, heh.
> Yes, and do you think you have a better understanding of the situation than the security and risk management folks that work there?

You could have said the same to this team, "do you think you understand cyber-security better than Apple's experts?"
The book in the original post and the other book from the same author are short surface-level summaries of the field that don't go in depth at all and don't provide any meaningful new content. It's like someone took their personal notes, formatted them in a pdf and called them a book. It's an embarrasingly transparent cash grab or just something that helps the author's social media presence because they can now say that they "have written an ML book".
No, dang is purposely vague in all of his warnings, as if he wants to make sure people won't be able to follow them and it will be up to him to decide whether they did or didn't.

If somehow he slips and they manage to do it, he will rephrase them next time, make them more vague and more subjective to make sure they don't. Like I saw a warning he gave someone to stop creating new accounts every couple of comments, but then in other warnings he stretched his definition farther and farther to include more comments and more time.
Ask your client to supply the account. I do that for social media sites since I don't use most of them. Don't actually know about TOS, but it hasn't been a problem and certainly isn't mine.
I got to read his columns while working at Bloomberg, and it was really the only thing, besides a few friendships, I took with me when I left. Still subscribed and missing his take on things while he's on parental leave (but of course happy that he is taking so much time off for the sake of his family).
Here in The Netherlands, everyone is charged sales tax (it's always included in all prices that's communicated to consumers, required by law).

Companies pay sales tax to the state and can deduct sales tax they paid to other companies.

There are rules for applying sales taxes to other EU countries and it get's complicated fast; once you do more than X amount in another EU country, you're supposed to register in that country and file taxes in that country. Thresholds here: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/r...
I was more thinking of a stick like a spear without a tip. Not a bat or a short police baton.

One challenge with all these examples is that they are used because they are handy not because they are efficient. The police baton is perfect example of something used to NOT kill (manifestations would be terribly bloody if the police was responding with swords or daggers), it's better than nothing but you don't want to go to battle with that.

If we're talking medieval fighting the other party has significant padding if not a gambeson, and they're not waiting idle to get your best hit. If training with wood weapons is any indication, the one with a stick variant loose everytime, they can hit but they get closed upon anyway and stabbed/slashed.

If you make the (long) stick a spear, a tip that can cut and stab, it's a great weapon. You'd certainly want to have a spear not just a long stick.
The argparse builder, this looks like sth you get for free by any advanced IDE, like PyCharm, right? Any IDE will always tell you what options / parameters there are, and their type, and documentation, so it doesn't matter if you forget them.
> How is that different from casing a house for entrances?

If you don't see a difference then I hope we don't share neighborhood.

> It’s behavior only two types of people would have: criminals and security professionals.

consider also curious people seeking knowledge; the Internet is a massive space and an interesting phenomenon in itself, scanning is one of many ways to learn about it.
Front End Developer vs Back End Developer: WHO Is Best for Your Business?
The big problem with comparing with flu is that many people think that their colds are "flu". This means they think of flu as being 3 days feeling a bit rubbish. In reality influenza is quite nasty and involves at least a week of being very sick.
>How is that different from casing a house for entrances?

Your House is not a Server, compare it to a Butler, i yell into your house and if a Butler answers i ask him whats on the table.
You just posted a link that does a lot to disprove your allegation of organized fire starting.
If they are remanants in people's DNA, they did become common ancestors, no? Everyone's family tree collapses to the same individuals at 5500 BC, after the other humans went extinct.(1) That means we are all descended from non Homo Sapiens humans. What I'm trying to say is that they were not "purged," we are their descendants. We got most of our genetic material from the Homo Sapiens side, but there is continuity with the other species as well.

(1) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-mo...
So di@egihosting posted a list of all their public ip addresses, this seems like it would help an intruder more than the port scanning??
Stopping a Project
The U.S. Air Force Has Tested Kubernetes on a U-2 Spyplane
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/06/15/how-my-fathers-idea...
Is there actually a new PyTorch version? I can't seem to find anything about it online.
No one can sincerely follow those rules, because they are too subjective. The only reason people tolerate them is because they are not enforced. But when you do enforce something from them, it's always unjust and unfair, like in this case.

> When someone is routinely dropping lit matches in a dry forest, "he only started one wildfire" is obviously no defense.

He has lots and lots of comments of which only a couple that you didn't like. Absolutely nothing like "routinely dropping lit matches".
Thanks!

Losing work is expensive.

A project file could get corrupted for a myriad of reasons. If the format of the file is proprietary or could not be deciphered easily, you would lose your data. This is a very common problem with Microsoft and Adobe files to name a few.

Having a standard xml format makes it easy to repair had the file get corrupted by accident. Also, it makes it easier for anyone to run scripts to get the data out of the files. Ex: Custom code generate with a script that scrapes the xml file.
I would love to see that happen. But it will also depend on the outcome of Oracle v. Google regarding the copyrightability of APIs
> firehose of misinformation

Relative to what? The last decade has been devastating to the credibility of conventional news sources. With the advent of the internet, they are literally just ordinary people voicing badly thought out opinions and generating gossip.

The number of stories that turn out to be low-key hoaxes where the story was fabricated are probably the same now as they ever were, but an order of magnitude more are being caught. I'm often speechless by how badly all politicians are misrepresented when I compare reporting to actual transcripts of what was said.

I don't especially trust social media news. But people who are paid to generate news aren't about to admit nothing is going on today. And too many important media stories were just wrong.
Yeah, I read it correctly but am just now realizing I wrote "tech companies" instead of "big tech companies", my bad.

So this is more a move to preven them from bullying smaller tech companies? I can see it from that angle, but it still seems to me that they want the power to block acquisitions.

For instance, would the following acquisition/merger be allowed: a big tech company acquiring a small company, which the owner wants to sell, that does not influence public welfare?
Radiative Cooling as a Green Alternative
> Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro, two common gateways to the "alt-right."

That's like saying left wing news sources are gateways to Antifa and domestic terrorism. Something either supports a white ethno state (as the creator of the term 'alt right' does) or they do not.
https://archive.vn/ODsP3
Relevant DEFCON talk from the creator and friends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX9JXI4l3-E
He's the guy that is content with using Ed over Vi as his text editor of choice...

I'd say the author is in a niche within a niche.
Hehe, and the experience comes from books...no need to do it with your own hands. Same with pilots just read a book and that's it...maybe some Microsoft flight-simulator hours too.
Bad window management and keyboard shortcuts compared to Windows, seriously. What does that consist of, to be exact?
The ledger templates in Baker are the result of following the instructions from the book. Isn't the correct analogue to the API code the instruction book rather than the resulting ledger templates?

Baker says that if you write a book that contains instructions on how to do something, you might own the copyright to that book, but your copyright doesn't extend to the results of other people following your instructions and creating their own versions of that thing. In the actual case it happened to be ledger templates, but it could have been anything else.

For example, if you write a book that describes in detail how to draw an owl, you own the copyright to that book. If I buy your book and then follow your instructions to draw my own owl, I own the copyright to that drawing, not you. Your copyright over your book doesn't also grant you the copyright to my owl drawing just because I followed your instructions.

If Oracle was only alleging that Google's implementation of Java (their version of the ledger templates/owl drawing) infringed on Oracle's copyright of its Java API (the instruction book), I could see how the reasoning in Baker might apply. But here they're alleging something further: that the API (instruction book) itself has been copied.
Finally there seems to be more widespread realization that large society-influencing corporations could be intrinsically not-such-a-good thing!
How long until the one drink I had too many at a bar whilst dating turns into a statistically higher insurance premium. Or my church finds out about my in-progress divorce and excommunicates me.

The ability for the individual to reveal specific information on their own terms is necessary for social cohesion.

Let's not pretend we have transparency on what our information is being used for, nor are we likely to ever get it. The devil's in the details.
On the other hand, that's quite the accomplishment nowadays.
> If you walk around town looking in every window, you’re probably not gonna have a good time when you get detained or shot.

Dude, what kind of town do you live in? It sounds scary!

Here in Europe many towns have narrow streets with houses directly by the street (with no front yard). It is essentially impossible to not look through the windows of people unless you make a robotic effort to avoid it.
I meant chaos in a more casual sense of "disruption of status quo." Old media was a lot less inclined to get behind any old revolution that comes along.
Interesting! Leaves me wondering, what independent implementations of Google APIs are out there?
resulting in the much loved venn diascan.
This can still happen at any time. Microsoft had been slowly tightening the screw for non-store apps since Win10 (or even Win8?) was released. Only when their own store tanked (and maybe because the company focus moved to Azure) did they slow down a bit.
> but that something is not that obvious to people up on the social ladder.

I think that's a bit of simplification.

The idea that people in charge cannot understand them it's as old as modern humanity (hence 5-6 thousands years old)

I believe that a good part of that "being easily pissed" has been engineered by the same people you think are too up on the social ladder to understand.

What bothers me is that most of those who are genuinely pissed are pissed about things that don't actually matter for them.

What does it matter to the proletarians if a famous person (say an actor) says something pro or against Brexit (for example). You have your vote, you cast it and that's what really matters to your category: representation.

Have you ever read the comments below some of these tweets?

I do not think that kind of reaction is really genuine or has anything to do with the situation of working class in 2020.

I could be wrong, but I think that that kind of knee jerk reaction has been fabricated.

To make an extremely simplified example: in an episode of "the boys" (the TV show) one of the new character says to an old timer who's have more followers than her (the incumbent in the posted article) something on the line of "you have followers, I have soldiers"

People up on the social ladder are up there also because they are good at exploiting human weaknesses and aren't afraid nor ashamed of doing it for their own personal gain.
The fact that these activists were being unreasonable does not mean they cannot be reasoned with.

I imagine transitioning is a very emotional and vulnerable thing to happen. Hence it being awkward that someone apologized for misgendering isn't unreasonable at all. Advocating that no-one should even do that would be unreasonable. But just presenting "this happened, this is how it made me feel" is a very natural thing.

From such a presentation general rules cannot always be derived. That is not the point of such a presentation. The point is for someone who is having feelings to have those feelings heard and recognized. Maybe that can lead to a bit more understanding for people who were never in such situations.

It seems like a waste of time to make these meetings all-hands company wide. But don't dismiss these activists just because they pushed for an all hands meeting. It wasn't a good thing to push for, but people get things wrong sometimes. Having been wrong is not the same as always being wrong.
>One wonders if your ISP would detect you running this thing, and kill your connection.

My home ISP just resets the router and let it reboot.

Source: Me
Download Spectacle or Rectangle for keyboard based window management.

What keyboard shortcuts are you talking about exactly? Also you can map any menu item to a custom keyboard shortcut in macOS for any application
The Peace prize's reputation is very low for a large number of reasons, including perhaps the one you list.
If a thousand people intentionally step on your foot, and it bothers you, maybe take your foot off the pathway.
Wouldn't your compensation imply that the employer is paying you for your time and expertise so that you further their business? If you disagree with what they're trying to do and management disagrees, then shouldn't you just quit?

I'm not sure what politicization of the workplace is intended to lead to. At some point people have to put their differences aside to work on a shared goal. If you disagree with the shared goal then why join in the first place?