skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Saudis and a few other resource-rich countries essentially have this for citizens.

I still wouldn't want to live there.
Wow! The team in charge of digital at UK Govt are rockstars! Simply amazing for a govt agency to be this good!
I think Python (if nothing else) has good syntax. Forcing students not to write spaghetti is probably the only thing I actually like about python.

I really like the philosophy behind Haskell, for example, but I really think it's syntax let's it down - it encourages very snippet-y programming which in turn means structure can be require parsing rather than glancing at and also variables name that are very short.
Not really. Unions often operate as guilds, restricting access to potential employees and restricting the trade of members.
Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor
Ok, but you could opt out of the phone book. You know about unlisted numbers, right?
Something I really enjoy at Taiwan is the bike sharing system they've put all around the country. Liking it at a point where I've wrote an essaye about it[1]. It's cheap, everywhere, and built on a really high standard

[1] https://erickhun.com/posts/taiwan-youbike-bike-sharing/
They could just swap the Tether for some other stablecoin that tracks the US dollar. There’s quite a few of them now. In that case, nothing happens to the price of Bitcoin.
> Would you care to elaborate for why that is? Would you care to elaborate for why that is?

To put it bluntly, if Microsoft's guarantees are good enough for Linus so as to merge the driver in the Linux mainline, they're good enough for me too.
I know who’s not getting promoted
This is not how most unions in America work. Usually the entire workforce is represented by (and pays dues to) the same union. Today's Google/Alphabet thing may be an exception to this.
It would also certainly be more efficient.
“Stop the spread, stay in bed”
Great rant, I liked how completely irrelevant it was
That didn't have anything to do with the GDS.
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When Apple rejects your App you receive an explanation and even screenshots and a call from the reviewer with suggestions how to fix it.
Sure, but the point is that it requires more discipline, since the REPL can encourage you to be more lazy/sloppy.
Well, the concept is glorious. It's not accessible at the moment though.

(Memories of me and my mom buying a weirdo european-phono/antenna-to-cable-shoe adapter from a local TV store to make the ZX81 work with the black and white TV from the 1960s we had in the summer cottage, so that I could continue my obsession with the ZX81 I had "inherited" from a richer relative in 1984. I was 7. I'm amazed my parents believed in me so much. And that they spent insame amounts of money, realtive to their income, later on...
Pretty sure the judge is "she", not "he".
My hospice patient had a ghostly visitor who altered his view of the world
On the surface, looks like poor bureaucratic communication. FBI agent gets a tip that someone said something that triggered an alarm at this address, but with zero other context. Agent proceeds to play Bad Cop and interrogate the subject.

What seems stupid to me is why wouldn't you at least do some due diligence on the address? Are they really hitting so many houses in a day they can't be bothered to figure out who lives there, and are their snooping tools so poor they only get a single point of data "Possible bogey at this address." Real good way to get someone shot IMO. The reason for a visit and the context around it should be much more front-and-center. Like, from their perspective either this was completely innocent, in which case you don't need Mr. Bad Cop in the first place, or you're walking into a house with a bunch of would-be domestic terrorists, in which case you're going to need a lot more than two plain-clothes officers with guns.

Now what seems alarming to me is the idea that Zoom is automatically SWATting people, just like they used to say about the phone lines. If I say I'm going to "bomb the capitol" on a zoom call am I going to get a visit from Mr. Bad Cop?
Yeah, I think this is a strong reason why bitcoin as a 'store of value' makes little sense over long time periods. If ultimately you need to burn a substantial fraction of the value of the pot to keep someone from running away with it, in the limit where no more bitcoin is being created then you basically have an asset which has large maintenance costs but no productivity. If a cryptocurrency is being used to transact reasonably efficiently (which bitcoin absolutely is not), then there's value being created by this which makes the costs worthwhile. But if it's not and the idea is people mostly sit on it, it's hard to see how it works out in the long term. (I mean, gold is the same to some extent, it costs some money to run a vault, but what's the relative costs? certainly it doesn't cost as much to keep the entire world's supply of gold secure as it does to run the bitcoin network, and gold's market cap is 20x that of bitcoin)

Unfortunately I think there's a lot of supply of coin and cheap electricity left to keep fueling it for far longer than it makes sense.
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It's not only that - they are also reducing the contributions unpaid contributors will make (Qt was maintained to some degree by non-Qt-company people, only few will contribute to a commercial-only version)
> whenever a game asked questions to the videocard using DX7 APIs, it would lie,

This makes me wonder if Wine would run it better. Usually, Wine only "lies" if Windows itself does and if not doing so will cause things to break.
I tried doing it through 101domain.com and couldn't because I didn't have a registered business in Cape Verde. I tried again using Marcaria.com and they handled the registration process and I haven't had any issues so far.
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I agree with what you've said. I like the site and I think it's very nice, but I dislike headshots. https://twostepsforward.co/2015/10/on-web-authorship-trends/
Etherium seems quite promising. They recently moved to Proof of Stake, which gets around many issues with Bitcoin like energy consumption, miner consolidation, and 51% attacks (it would by definition be more expensive to pull off than you could possibly gain by faking a transaction). Add to that the possibility of staking Etherium and you have an asset that generates returns.
If unionization were bad for employees, I'd expect the employers to be able to make that case persuasively. If they don't, I assume there's not much of a case to be made.
I was super motivated by the money when I was doing leetcode prep, and then when negotiating and playing offers against each other. And that makes sense, the work I was doing had a direct correlation to the total compensation I ended up signing for. But now that those fat pay checks are coming in, they provide zero motivation, it's just a slightly bigger number in my bank account.
The question that immediately springs to mind: "What? Again?".

Why do I keep getting a flashback to the annual styling somersaults of 1950s-1960s Detroit auto manufacturers? That was just 'planned obsolescence' too.

I still think Windows 7 was the peak of usefulness. It's all been downhill from there.
There is a long history of using mental illness and "anti-social behavior" as a convenient excuse to silence large groups of people, political opponents, and dissidents. Nazi eugenicists, FBI's COINTELPRO, and more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry

It's often not until after the fact when a society recognizes the atrocities committed under a false pretense of public well-being.

There is no easy way out of this crisis. "Eradication of a widespread mental illness that causes dangerous political ideas" is a pseudo-scientific way of describing a dictatorship or civil war.
Their image appearing on a CV feels (inaccurately) like an endorsement of that CV, given people's typical goals when looking at a CV.
Are you talking about Nazarbayev? (Not sure about the anglification of that name) Is he not still in a position of power?

I remember some proclaiming that his resignation was nothing but an act...
I see that time and again - people lump ALL unions in with the WORST unions for some reason. It's like any union that's had some success isn't really in the news.
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You don't have to type up stuff in repl literally. You can write regular functions in emacs and send pieces of code to the running repl.

For adhoc testing code you can type on the repl buffer.
Many cars of that era are still delightful to drive:

https://youtu.be/6u8xlg-q5Xc?t=576

https://youtu.be/v5whGoNQK6I?t=172

A lack of safety regulation allowed for cars significantly lighter and simpler than what you can buy today. They're definitely not _fast_ cars, but they are _enjoyable_ cars.

It's mostly the interior that ruins the KITT cars.
The charges are of espionage and illegal access to computer systems. Those are also illegal in the UK.

Whether the actions Assange took amount or not to espionage and illegal access to computer systems is a matter for a fair trial to decide, not the extradition judge. I happen to believe that they did not in any way, but it should be a jury trial that decides that, not an extradition judge in the UK.
That's an unfortunate drawback of a constituency trained to prioritize short-term goals.

I wonder if it's possible to change this and have a 'wise' constituency that is able to do a more long-term prioritization.
Welcome to the Era of Nonstop Stimulus
They surely make some EU countries look like amateurs. It's not usual to run digital services in-house like this in southern Europe, instead all this stuff is outsourced to consultancy firms that deliver unresponsive, buggy sites for absurdly high prices.
Be careful aiming for sound isolation, it can be counterproductive.

Generally speaking "sound isolation" means reducing where sound can escape from the case, and putting some noise absorbing foam where you can to dampen the noise.

The counterproductive part is that having a lot of airflow would be the opposite of "sound isolating" -- anywhere air flows freely sound does as well. So by definition a sound isolating case has poor airflow. Poor airflow could require you to run your fans at higher RPMs to compensate, which is then introducing more noise than you would have had with a more open case that could run low RPM fans.

Gamers Nexus did a good piece on this https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3391-airflow-vs-silent-ca...

(as he points out, there are still reasons to prefer sound isolating cases, it's just not as much of a clear win as it might sound at first)
It looks beautiful, but please increase the contrast. Some texts are #aaa on #fff, which is almost illegible. This is an accessibility issue not just for people with impaired vision, also for people checking a page on a mobile phone on a sunny day.
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Love the clean look, certainly a break from LinkedIn.

Some minor feedback, it's strange that all the external links in your CV have an arrow next to them apart from the one at the very top of the page under your name [0] where you link to your website.

[0] - https://read.cv/andy
What do you suspect?
> No, EMail has fundamentally bad UX for a lot of use case slack and similar are used for.

The opposite is also true.
> Also, how many of the Ryzen units (and nVidia) are being scooped up by bots?

Why does it matter?
Is it really though? If I take a look at a random modern IRC desktop client - how is it more difficult to setup than say your email program?
The amount of information needed on setup is about the same: server, username, password (in fact email can get a bit more confusing in big corporate email setups with differing imap and smtp servers, etc.)

Also there are plenty of modern web clients for IRC, such as https://thelounge.chat/ or https://kiwiirc.com/ (which is supposed to work on mobile too).
This was much less about the topic at hand and more-so about a worldwide fact about governments that I often see some HN users forgetting about. Not that it's a HN user thing either - I run into it quite often in life. So many people that just aren't aware of or don't understand that a monopoly on violence goes hand in hand with a non-failed state/government.
> I have heard dollars are popular with crime orgs all the world over, who are unlikely to use or be able to use the dollars in US courts.

I think once you've laundered drug money into dollars, it's spendable just like dollars are spendable. But it also makes sense they want dollars because dollars can pretty much be spent on anything anywhere.

>> If someone takes your Bitcoin
> This is one big if, and it will still be prosecutable by courts, as evidenced by all the current legal cases about crypto theft.

Well first you have to find the perpetrator -- then you have to find the money. Do enough transfers and mixing currencies together and it becomes near impossible to trace. This gets worse if it's state sponsored hacking (Russia or China, say)

> A lot of countries with good military might (e.g., North Korea) don't have valuable currencies.

That's because NK doesn't have a lot of trust. Saddam Hussein hoarded US dollars [1] even though he could have used Iraqi currency instead (since afterall he was the leader of Iraq and the currency had his face on it). That's because nobody really trusted Iraq's currency -- not even the leader himself.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/world/nation-war-baghdad-....
Yep, Typescript shot up. Expected that.
Compare that to the economy Germany could have had.
Yeah, the origin story described sounds like Replika's.

In case Verge's story isn't the right one, here is another from Quartz that might be the coverage you remember:

https://classic.qz.com/machines-with-brains/1018126/lukas-re...
Camp X-Ray is a criminal enterprise against humanity. There are no "better parts" of an extra-judicial detention and torture center. You must be one of those "new" Americans who grew up watching "interrogations" on cable tv shows. [I'm one of the "old" Americans who stopped watching TV as soon as torture was promoted on American airwaves.]
Do you really think you’ll be treated the same by management if you pull that?
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Not really, it will include who is accessing this data, which can be used to infer information on UK citizens.
> Even worse, this basically hamstrings it as a standalone application. The workflow to _use_ the application becomes "start the REPL under emacs and launch it"

This seems like an incidental property (symptom of poor engineering discipline, which manifests itself in other ways in other development paradigms e.g. lack of documentation from "agile" teams) of the particular applications you've worked with and not an essential property of the (architecture decisions resulting from the) REPL-driven development style. What makes you think that this is actually due to REPL-driven development?

I develop several tools from the REPL and was able to easily convert each one to a standalone tool (when I attempted to do so).
Most journalists are not "an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States" and therefore it's not a crime for them to retain them at all.
Stackpath dissapointed us heavily. We thought this as well, bought a subscription to test it and talked with their support telling 500 websites cost $500/month. We spent time setting this up and when we asked a second support person, they said for over 100 websites we need to buy their $2000/month package.

Nowhere in their pricing page shows this and support reps don't even know their pricing clearly. We ended up wasting time with them.
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If you do not claim a state actor as the culprit you would be considered negligent, doing so removes any whiff of guilt since who could compete against a state? Claiming 'Russia hacked me' is the new dog ate my homework. Reality is that it COULD be a state actor, but there is no proof ever presented in these attacks.
Heya Nate I thought it was you when I read the comment just has to look at the username.
>Thanks for sharing, for some reason I think about this story a lot. It must have been such an emotionally difficult time for everyone involved in piecing back together their processes.

I was there as a consultant and didn't know anyone there when I went.

I won't provide any details out of respect for those fine people, but the grief was so thick, you could have cut it with a knife. As I said, I didn't know anyone who was there (or wasn't there) but after a day, I wanted to cry.
Oh, I missed the "?", Which completely inverts the meaning of your statement. Sorry.
Out of the box thinking, following, "The best part is no part. The best process is no process."

Parts eliminated: landing legs.
Process eliminated: Move Superheavy back to the launch pad.
>XMPP is supported by a large number of clients, but running a server and getting everyone on clients with comparable featuresets is a nightmare.

XMPP is, well, extensible. If things don't match in the clients then that particular feature just doesn't work. These days all the clients pretty much try to match the feature set of Conversations. That applies to the servers as well. There is a server tester for that:

* https://compliance.conversations.im/

So the tooling is pretty good these days.

The great thing about XMPP is that basic messaging always works. That stuff is just too simple not to.
Authentication != Authorisation.

You wouldn't use this to determine if the user really is who he says he is. But in determining what a user has access to, DNS is pretty slick. The DNS server doesn't need to be public either.
Young lebanese made an app and are giving proceeds to the Red Cross
Ever since the nuke in Beirut port, nothing was the same
A signature in this context nearly always means an IoC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator_of_compromise

Which in weak cases can be an artifact observed throughout the attacks though not necessary for the behaviour to occur (e.g. compiler timestamp), and in strong cases the artifact is tied directly to the malicious behaviour (e.g. explicit registry key or anti-infection marker)
Uh, source? I’m doing business in EU and haven’t heard of this?