skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This hardly seems like invasive tracking.

For now. Give it a while and they'll be looking up your credit score as you walk through the door.
I took this as follows:
Don't plant a flower, because it will wither and die, and it's beauty may be gone forever. Also, some people might not see what you have planted, so don't do it.

There's more to it, but I stopped caring and went to reddit and made some contributions there purely out of spite.
> That's actually exactly the kind of skill I'd look for in a new hire. I don't care which crunchy items you list on your resume so much as your ability to learn and integrate new technical information quickly (as well as a host of other skills, of course).

Of course, but asking someone to spend a lot of hours on this in a week, with no guarantee of a job at the end of it is not a direction this industry needs to go. People have full time jobs, and parenting/carer/community responsibilities.

I was hired for a job a couple of years ago which required a lot of work on a new framework I had never touched before, and rather than the interview being around the framework, they gave me a month of full time employment to get up to speed - on the understanding that if it just wasn't clicking then we would both walk away with no hard feelings.
I'm sorry I was rude to you, I didn't mean that and I apologize.

I didn't mean anything more than what I literally wrote, which is I don't think you're the target market for code review tools and your suggestion may not be a good fit for people looking for review tools.
Stock, Currency and Crypto API
You can access the all these data with finage to build your own financial data.
Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never Was
Multi-database support is not "basic". At what point do you need that? What percentage of users do?

Regardless, it was fully supported in gems for years before it went into Rails. It's nice to have it in core. But to say that Rails doesn't feel mature without it?

Come on.
Netflix Raises Prices as Competition Increases
>"All of these new materials, the authenticity of which has never been disputed by Hunter Biden or the Biden campaign"---absence of a denial is not proof of its validity.

He explicitly explains why he thinks it does serve as some additional evidence of such, and I agree with it. It's not proof, but it's evidence:

>Why is the failure of the Bidens to claim that these emails are forged so significant? Because when journalists report on a massive archive, they know that the most important event in the reporting's authentication process comes when the subjects of the reporting have an opportunity to deny that the materials are genuine. Of course that is what someone would do if major media outlets were preparing to publish, or in fact were publishing, fabricated or forged materials in their names; they would say so in order to sow doubt about the materials if not kill the credibility of the reporting.

>The silence of the Bidens may not be dispositive on the question of the material’s authenticity, but when added to the mountain of other authentication evidence, it is quite convincing: at least equal to the authentication evidence in other reporting on similarly large archives.

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>Facebook, through a long-time former Democratic Party operative, vowed to suppress the story pending its “fact-check,” one that has as of yet produced no public conclusions."---an unnamed source told me that Facebook is really trying to push the election to Biden…

He doesn't name him in this article for some reason, but he links another article he wrote, where he explains this: https://theintercept.com/2020/10/15/facebook-and-twitter-cro...

>Just two hours after the story was online, Facebook intervened. The company dispatched a life-long Democratic Party operative who now works for Facebook — Andy Stone, previously a communications operative for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, among other D.C. Democratic jobs — to announce that Facebook was “reducing [the article’s] distribution on our platform”: in other words, tinkering with its own algorithms to suppress the ability of users to discuss or share the news article. The long-time Democratic Party official did not try to hide his contempt for the article, beginning his censorship announcement by snidely noting: “I will intentionally not link to the New York Post.”
Most HNers here including yourself are writing comments with the comfort of anonymity. I don't want to worry about anything I have to say being tied to my identity, whether it's even my thoughts that there's nothing wrong with a "master" branch much less my much more unsavory thoughts in the tech space.
Secret NFTs: Privacy for Verifiable Goods and Experiences
Why not display a warning if the character set is different from users?
There was an article I saw recently quoting from a right-wing political operative about smears. The takeaway was that a smear has little value if it stays contained within right-wing echo chambers. The goal is to get the mainstream press to talk about it non-stop. That is the mark of a successful smear campaign (this is tangential to the information's accuracy).

The fact that the mainstream press hasn't talked about the controversy much outside of the context of twitter et al blocking its dissemination, or it being a suspected disinformation campaign is a win for Biden. Denying the content of the controversy suddenly allows the story to be reported as a he-said, she-said, giving the story a life of its own. This does a disservice to Biden because now the reporting can be neutral between the parties. The battle here is over swing voters, and a he-said/she-said controversy is exactly the kind of nebulous "concerns" the GOP hope to raise about Biden. It was the specter of something going on that defeated Hillary and they're hoping to repeat this with Biden. Not addressing the specifics of the controversy allows the story to stay where it belongs, as a right-wing media hail mary.

As a comparison, mainstream press didn't report on the Trump dossier until Buzzfeed's reporting of the dossier became the story. Once the story becomes reified, mainstream outlets can then report on the controversy. The winning move is to keep the story from becoming its own controversy. Not addressing it directly helps to accomplish this.
A Simple Method to Prepare for an Interview at Y Combinator – Updated 2020
Same for me. The demo is really cool, this seems like a fantastic concept. But getting my back button hijacked drives me crazy.
> Netflix said Thursday its standard streaming plan will now cost $13.99 a month, up from $12.99. Its $8.99-a-month basic plan will remain unchanged, while the cost of its premium plan will rise to $17.99 from $15.99.
And yet earnings for YouTubers through ads have declined!

Apparently.

To the best of my knowledge anyway, and my own limited direct experience :-)
Looks a lot like VSCode.
He was an editor with contractually guaranteed editorial freedom.
I'd posit that even if they already voted, people are still checking the news to see if there is late breaking news that will affect the broader opinion, even if they "know" that it won't affect theirs.

Anyway, my broader point is that Greenwald, and likely many others, feel immense pressure to get this out before the election, so that people have "all the relevant information", but the truth is, we never have all the relevant information because information exists in a continuum not a binary space.
In which case investors will lose a lot of money: https://www.theinvestor.jll/news/maldives/hotels/the-maldive...
It's also a lot harder to move away when they actively suppress any discussion of or links to alternatives and even collude to do so. Or when they punt toxic users over but not the toxic yet profitable ones (such as the president...).
Can decompression cause issues with real-time applications? Say a packet of data takes a little longer to process than another.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Even without climate change a world without dependence on fossil fuels is still significantly better than one with where we still burn fossil fuels.

If all the "impossible" technologies necessary to stop climate change existed today then I don't think anyone would say we should go back to the old fossil fuel days.
It's at least worth keeping in mind that this discussion thread is happening on a link to an article describing an occurrence -- the Laptev Sea not freezing by late October -- that aggregate data up through a couple of decades ago would not have predicted. Global warming itself is arguably a radical break from what aggregate data tells us about climate trends, and the (originally good faith) argument against it for decades was, essentially, that the "alarmists" were mistaking statistically insignificant temperature drifts for new statistically significant trends.

The theory that global warming is going to lead to food shortages in the relatively near future is not an out-of-the-blue flight of fancy on the part of random HN commenters; a UN panel in 2019 warned of this possibility, as did a 2020 IPCC report (pre-pandemic, no less), as did a 2016 study in the Lancet; this is just from a cursory examination of the Google results for "food shortage predictions global warming".
They had the hard drive for over a year. Plenty of time to try and do a proper investigation. But instead they sat on it. If they were willing to sit on it for over 12 months, I see no reason why mainstream media can't insist that they continue to sit on it until they verify their sources.

And it is worth mentioning that both Fox New (the news side, not the opinion side) and the Wall Street Journal turned the story down. And the journalists at NY Post refused to put their name in the byline. If I worked at CNN, and saw that right leaning orgs were staying away from it, maybe skepticism is warranted. And keep in mind, they are refusing to release copies of the source material to other journalists. So no one other than the NY Post has the ability to authenticate (even fox business can't get access[1]).

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/media/523087-giuliani-goes-off-...
I'm not sure the vocal Google hater comments are representative of tech savvy customers. It regularly ranks at the top of best-regarded brands lists.
Yes, but, a Starfleet officer doing something blatantly unethical in an official hearing probably wouldn't sit well with command.
Device tree doesn't really have an embedded focus per se. It comes from Sparc and PowerPC workstations.

And ACPI doesn't really have a standard root bus, it's a soup of descriptor tables and virtual machine blobs you have to run and trust, along with veritable mountains of patches for those vm bytecodes to fix firmware issues.

IMO Device Tree is the right way to go for nearly all platforms.
This article, despite being an obvious advertisement, was informative. But I’m a bit confused about why this is considered a tricky problem, and why we need technological solutions. I’m no computer security expert, but I don’t think I will be affected. I don’t click on links in emails or (good lord) in text messages. I don’t download executables. I suppose I could end up on a counterfeit site by following a link, say, from Twitter. But I wouldn’t be following a link from Twitter to my banking site. So where is the vector? Am I being naive?
> Nobody is talking about phone calls

Literally I was the one to bring up this example in the very beginning. It was my example, that I chose at the start. So yes, that is relevant.

The fact of the matter is, that me being banned from ever making phone calls again would absolutely be a larger problem for me, and many other people, than if we were banned from using facebook.

> It doesn't matter that you use Facebook more than anything else

Of course it does. It is a point of comparison, so as to show that it would be a bigger problem to be banned from facebook than it would be to be banned from making phone calls.

> that's just your personal preference.

I can assure you that there are many people for whom it would be a bigger problem to be banned from facebook than to be banned from making phone calls.
This is tabloid level trash. No different than the email-gate nothingburger that dogged Hillary or made up the Birtherism claims against Obama. Greenwald should be ashamed.
Zendesk Q3 2020 ($1B annual revenue run rate) [pdf]
> Prominent liberals like Alan Dershowitz

While at least notionally a Democrat (and one who claims to be a liberal one) Dershowitz is to the right of even the mainstream of the dominant corporatist neoliberal faction of the Democratic Party. And sometimes quite far to the Right, such as his eager advocacy for (not defense of something already being done, but advocacy for a new and novel policy) a systematic and public policy of specific collective punishment by Israel against the Palestinian population in violation of international humanitarian law, or his proposal for "torture warrants" in the early 2000s.

> say they're being socially blacklisted for not taking part in a pile on against Trump

Dershowitz has been one of the right-wing's favorite "liberal Democrats" for a lot longer than the Trump Administration, and has been marginalized by the left of center and increasingly the Democratic mainstream for that from the early 2000s, even before the accusations that he wasn't just Epstein's lawyer, but also a significant client, and his recent campaign against the ACLU.

He's not been marginalized just because he hasn't taken part is a "pile on" against Trump.
> The emails are real, probably sourced in a scammy way by Giuliani, but still real.

Agreed - and to be clear, I count Giuliani as the scum of the damn earth (and I say this as a New Yorker).

But do you think that you can say, on one hand, that the emails are real, but that "The entire spectrum of details around the Biden emails has been roundly debunked"?

> They just do not contain any content that suggests or corroborates any wrongdoing or questionable behavior in any sense other than Hunter Biden has a big mouth and is a bit immature, that’s it.

It shows that convincingly, yes. But, we also know that he received a $600k salary as a result. Isn't it worth investigating why? What did he do to be worth this salary?
The hypocrisy on both sides of this debate shows how disgustingly Machiavellian American Politics has become. The ends always justify the means now; no consistency of ideology is required.

A party that hates regulating business suddenly sees the light when powerful businesses start removing them from the public square.

A party that pretends to be for free speech and free journalism suddenly has a change of heart when it benefits them going into an election.

A party that purports to stand up to big business suddenly supports the largest megacorps in the history of man because their interests are temporarily aligned.

A party that thought Citizens United was terrible because it gave the rights of citizens to corporations suddenly cares very deeply about Twitter/Facebook/Google/Apple's freedom of expression when used to eliminate critical voices on their platforms.

A party gets rid of the filibuster for judge nominations and then gets mad that they can't filibuster the other party's judge nominations -- or a party deciding it's suddenly ok to seat judges during an election.

Both parties are about power. Neither party has any remaining principles.
Yep, this one is great.

Curiously it has a Figlet.js:
http://patorjk.com/software/taag/js/figlet.js

/*

FIGlet.js (a FIGDriver for FIGlet fonts)
By Patrick Gillespie (patorjk@gmail.com)
Originally Written For: http://patorjk.com/software/taag/
License: MIT (with this header staying intact)

This JavaScript code aims to fully implement the FIGlet spec.
Full FIGlet spec: http://patorjk.com/software/taag/docs/figfont.txt

If you use this for a public app, a link back to TAAG is appreciated
but not necessary.

*/
It's bizarre. All these people have fallen hook line and sinker for blatantly obvious far right conspiracy nonsense, but I guess it's easier to see from the outside looking in?
It would look like an automatic transmission
STM (STM32F429) Hardware and Ethernet Puzzle
Hi all. I'm working on a hardware issue and I'm completely stumped.
I am essentially trying to use Ethernet on the STM32F429, using FreeRTOS2 with CMSIS2 and C.
The problem seems is that there's no guides out there for this setup (CMSIS2 is too new?). Does anybody know an Ethernet example for STM32 series done with CMSIS2?
sprints, epics, kanban boards.

They seem to use their "milestones" as sprints in the examples, but its a little clunky.
Average revenue per user is about 3-4 times higher in the US than in Europe (slide 4). Any ideas why? Do we just have a proclivity to spend more or are we more influenced by advertising?
What if the attack is targeted at new users. Work on signing people up for Netflix then drain their bank account.
Interesting Learnings from Zendesk. As It Crosses $1B in ARR
Sorry but if you're taking their argument at face value that decals might be the way to go here and everything would be fine if only they were there, then they've basically won.

Don't get side tracked.
>The connection between the Vice President and the company isn’t strong enough. And excluding the possibility this is disinformation just makes the connection that much worse.

>If Greenwald would tighten his prose and strengthen the persuasion, this article could rule.

Holy non sequitur Batman!
I don't understand the expectation that every prediction from a climate scientist should be able to hit inherently stochastic dates precisely. On the scale of geologic time and the level of inherent randomness and epistemic uncertainty, predicting things within a few decades is amazing.

> I rarely see climate change projections tempered by probability.

Honestly, if this is true, then it seems like the only thing you have ever read about climate are popular press articles. The error bars on every single prediction are on every graph or study that climate scientists produce. Mean sensitivity itself still has large error bars, but beyond that the amount of emissions we produce is inherently unpredictable. It is not possible for a climate scientist to say with any certainty how much coal we are going to be burning in 40 years.
I definitely think the most likely case is that the documents are genuine, but the Biden campaign is ignoring them for tactical reasons.

A separate question then becomes "are they a big enough deal for it to be a legitimate news story?" and your answer to that will depend on whether you are naive enough to believe Hunter and James Biden were able to peddle influence without Joe Biden's (perhaps entirely off-the-record) involvement.

Yet another separate question is, "should this sway anyone's vote from Biden to Trump?" and that will depend on how you weigh this instance of corruption against Trump's many ethical violations, and how important considerations of corruption are in picking your candidate.
1. There is a little explanation on how I manage to do it on the README, but it uses HTML meta tags for this https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H76.html

2. I left it in `urls` it allows the YAML to be extended. For example, you can define a `http` field which allows you to run the project in a server (if you want to migrate from static and use 301). But yeah, that was something I was on the fence when deciding the YAML model.
[edited to note that I missed this was ironically reframing words back to the first commenter, which zaps my grump out of the water. Sorry!] Interpreting "I am always doing everything in my power to ensure my children do well" as "you won't risk having the potential of any hardship yourself" is startlingly ungenerous.
"now with Gitlab" is overselling it a bit, no?
Ironically enough, when I was writing that comment. If you read the comment chain you'll realise why.
Damn, citing game on point.
I think it would be better to think in terms of information theory, rather than the hypothetical color of bits. If I have a legally obtained copy of a copyrighted song (that is not permissively licensed), then I am restricted in my right to share copies. Certainly I can create a one-time pad and communicate that to someone, and I can XOR the bits of the song recording with that one-time pad, and the author would argue that I now have colorless bits. But I send it to you along with instructions for how to decrypt it, I'm using a mechanism to communicate a perfect copy. It isn't that the ciphertext is now "colored", it's that the net effect of my mechanism is that I've communicated the original song, with perfect fidelity. That's what matters: the net effect of the system as a whole. I will have created a communication channel (perfectly legal), and used that channel to share a copyrighted work without the creator's permission (not legal, depending on the details).
> I would be very surprised if this were true.

At the very least there must be some kind of a trajectory model which implies that multiple observations of the same object are analyzed as a sequence. How would it work without object permanence? Would it just erase objects undetected in the current frame and pretend they never existed? I suspect you're too focused on the vision aspect of the vehicle control system.
I'm thinking we could at least implement a whitelist for banks, and show a banking symbol in the url bar. Then educate people about this.
Thank you, this is beautiful and deep. I think I will try to imagine people as children and imagine them growing up more. Much easier to project loving-kindness that way.
And what about reading the email exchange with the editors where they provide feedback?
The argument being made is that this wild speculation is enabled by the money laundering. If you know laundering will keep happening with impunity and that the whole thing is tacitly approved and backstopped by the Canadian government, then it becomes rational to participate too.
Why do you think suffering is worse than not existing? If they find their suffering to be unbearable they can end their lives, But unlike us they will have more information to make such a decision. With suffering they have a chance to at least achieve something, so we should not be ones deciding to discard their lives.
Note that what makes this notable is that the time bound is proven (according to the paper, anyway). N^1/5 is much slower than we normally think of GNFS as being, but the thing to note is that GNFS isn't actually proven to run that fast.
What I'd like to see is a way to turn on plaintext email replies only for certain recipients. I know you can't do that in Outlook it's a global setting or nothing - can any other (non-cloud) email client do it?
This also works great if you are a regular employee.
I think the article is good and does a good job outlining how the legislators have basically abandoned their regulatory position for showboating.

I disagree that we have lost anything substantive here though, or that new regulation around this might even be necessary; When in American history would all of the major book publishers refusing to print someone’s words mean the publishers should be made legally liable?
They could later choose to sell this data and the buyer could deanonymize it by merging it with other purchased databases.
Google plans to launch VPN services
People use VPNs to run away from companies like Google...
Why Kubernetes is now ready for the enterprise
>>Greenwald stopped being a credible

hmmm, was that about the same time he came to understand that the Authoritarian left that was taking over the Democrat party was illiberal, regressive, and not at all out to advance individual freedom like the "liberals" used to be?

Did he "stop being credible" when is politics separated from your own?

Greenwald has always been left-libertarian, it seems today the "left" only has room for left-authoritarians
The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 years (2004)
Incredible that some how a tax appears less political to you than suggested behavioral change