skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am of the opinion that all truckers (or people in the delivery profession) pee in bottles to save time, not just Amazon drivers. Why is Amazon being singled out here? I suppose the argument is that it is caused by their aggressive delivery metrics and policies, but would t this be true of any shipping company? If drivers are incentivized to by the number of packages they deliver to meet bonuses or certain payouts, isn’t it logical they would do anything to save time? How would you even change the compensation or penalty structure to account for this?
Why does it need to be a little note at the end. Change the title to so and so cleared of charges of rape if its so and yes I would give them a fair chance.

What is the alternative? I do not know anything about the particular case and make no claims about it but suppose the charges were dropped for political reasons or because the victim was intimidated? Shall we in such scenarios silence them entirely in order to protect a criminal?
sell some of the deno artworks [0] as an NFT?

[0] https://deno.land/artwork
Interesting. If I see correctly on https://www.vesselfinder.com/ there are three big ships going into the canal north to south now. Seems a bit inefficient! To speak in TCP terms, they should increase their window size!
> I've never regretted a short TTL.

I've seen enough people complaining about overloaded DNS servers.
> non-striking teachers union..

These sorts of unions happen in health, nursing in particular. And then the members end up overworked, underpaid and exploited.

My profession has a strident and aggressive union which I have not always agreed with, but they have improved pay and conditions (and have organised strikes).
The list of fruits is really incomplete. I hope this is a WIP.
What's Next for Sigstore
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26614482.
As an atheist apostate who was raised in a fundamentalist, Baptist, Christian church in the Great Lakes region, it hits pretty close to home.

I was last in church a couple weeks ago for a funeral; it was a little weird hearing about the ways people from various highly-similar churches talked about Grandma's spiritual history as she was enlightened from her Christian Reformed early childhood to know a living and true God. Did she know the theological differences at age 10? We talked about the effect she had as the matriarch of our extended family bringing everyone together for decades by sponsoring an annual summer trip to a nearby Bible conference ground, and about how she justifiably ended that when the Bible conference lost their way and endorsed some speakers with relatively minor theological differences.

It's not "conflict" in the sense of the Spanish Inquisition - no one, as far as I know, would genuinely push someone off a bridge for being in a different sect - but around here they'd pray for the person to accept the truth, call for church discipline/excommunication/speaking bans if in a position of power, or they'd leave the church and find a slightly different sect that didn't make the wrong call on whatever issue was brought up by the council of 1912.

There's a paradox of intolerance at play: A group that aims to be universally tolerant cannot actually tolerate intolerance, and fundamentalist Christianity advocates a singular, accurately understood, unique truth at its core. You can and tolerate love those who hold different theologies all you want, but if you believe in one absolute universal truth as a lot of Christian culture does, then anyone who believes even a little bit differently is not right, which is to say, by definition, they're wrong.
You have made three claims:

> The document itself that they used was probably at best a re-creation

> the content of the document was not invalid and verified

> several [verified] that such a document did exist at least at one point and time and said exactly what it said

How did you come to believe these assertions to be true? I'd be inclined to believe them at the level that favoritism is often shown for the offspring of wealthy and politically connected folks. My assumption is that a claim of special privilege is likely true. I don't see any justification for any truth to the document. You claim that "several" verified such a document existed. Who are those people?

When I was very young, Dan Rather took over for Walter Cronkite. Their evening TV program I would watch under strict orders of silence in respect for the seriousness my grandfather gave it. Their credibility came from the prestige of an organization with wondrous information processing and distribution capabilities with a multi-generational reputation for seriousness and veracity.

Dan Rather and the CBS institutional response to the blatant and pointless forgery recklessly published before an election was an "emperor has no clothes" moment. In any possible interpretation their response to the revelation of the forgery destroyed their prestige derived authority. Were they incompetent, partisan, indifferent to facts? Whichever direction they demonstrated deep contempt for their audience and are at least part of the reason some are not likely to trust media organizations by default.
You could view it as Bezos or Amazon simply coming to terms with the fact that they are not subject to any rules of decorum, or at any risk from ever failing due to their public actions. That they, as the mega corp, have reached the point of being above society and have no need to be polite or conform to inconvenient social norms anymore.
> "...but its impossible to tell a vaccinated person from vaccinated just by looking at them. So I understand making everyone do it."

no, that's the same kind of ignoble lie that degrades trust, and blindly accepts mass coercion to boot. we shouldn't promote such dishonesty, nor ill-defined use of force.
is this a rebuttal or an agreement? I think the point of the example was that most people can't rigorously defend their strongly held opinions. they just throw gotchas at each other.
Well, as a counter example, a similar thing happened in France in 1973. ATC went on strike, and they were replaced by military controllers.

This was a direct cause of a mid-air collision[1], which resulted in the government folding, and the start of French ATC terrorising European skies. To this day, ATC unions are really strong, and their compensation/working conditions are crazy good compared to their European neighbours.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Nantes_mid-air_collisio...
Wow this is the coolest thing I've learned this week.
FWIW, it's not just Hoare. It seems that nearly the entirety of the Rust community, people like Klabnik, Cantrill, etc, are solidly Woke.

Which is mildly funny, since one of the early guests of On The Metal, Jonathan Blow, is decidedly anti-woke. The kind of guy who definitely would have been fired from Joyent for improper pronoun usage. Fortunately, the interview was very good (as is the case with nearly every OTM episode!) and stayed away from community politics.
The elders used this logic to mock Christ suffering on the cross for many hours: "He trusted in God; let him deliver him now".

And yes, Christ told us to ask for the things we need, including material things.

Other reasons for prayer: thanking God; glorifying God; offering things to God, like our happiness or our good works but also our misery and our flaws. Contemplation; meditation; or just being silent and inviting Him to do the talking.
I think Amazon needs to ask itself how this barrage of reputational damage is going to affect tech recruiting. Its been very slow to get on the remote work as the future train, its anti-worker crush the little guy cred is through the roof, and the hypocrisy of the LPs in light of recent company actions is blaring. Each of these is particularly off putting to a sizable portion of the typically left leaning US dev set Amazon tries to recruit. I guess Amazon has recourse as they can double down on hiring H1B's to sidestep negative perceptions in the US.
At least now Amazon cannot say they know nothing about it.
While our ships have grown greatly, so has our ability to salvage them at the same time.
Hello, HPy
The "strawberry tree", is relatively common in Spain, where is called Madroño. You can find them in gardens or house patios as decoration, as their fruits get very colorful.

While I don't remember finding the fruits on the market (probably because they ripen and ferment quickly), I've taken the fruits directly from the tree, and there are liquors and jams you can find in the market.

As a curiosity, the coat of arms of Madrid has a bear and a straberry tree. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Madrid )
"Virtually every youth-serving organization used to not handle abuse of youth properly."

This again? The existence of others committing the same crimes does not indemnify the Church.

Love the "Society has changed" argument. Clearly, recognizing that pedophilia is wrong by the Church is a product of changing times...not like they moved clergy from parish to parish to avoid them being caught.
'safe'? ha Come on, we're talking about HD images which clearly there are some popular sources/google image search perhaps?

Anyways, didn't hate this thread as much as I thought as I thought searching HN would turn up more recent ones but whatever....yeah, unsplash etc should be go-tos. But also saw this one https://www.dynamicwallpaper.club/
Not everyone who is a programmer starts with undergrad CS. Why not ask them to build a basic web app in their preferred framework, or read and process a basic text file, or any number of things that are more practical than implementing a low-level data structure?
> More importantly indeed no client gives a shit about the language

Amusingly clients can be the ones who care the most about a certain language being used. They see another business succeed using it and associate the success with the language choice. Cargo culting happens at all levels.

> The choice is about making YOUR work easier, enjoyable, better

And there is some sense to this, for example if you find work easier, enjoyable, and better using FORTRAN to build websites it doesn't make it the best solution for your client or business.
I've been doing python for 14+ years now. Never been asked about linked-lists, but was asked about prototypical inheritance in javascript (didn't get that job -- in retrospect, very glad i didn't). Now that I'm on the other side of the interviewing table, i always start off by saying "I think coding interviews are stressful as heck, so you should know that what I'm looking for isn't the "right" answer, it's that we both learn something. You can google your way to the right result, but it takes much more skill to implement in a team." Basically I try to turn interviews into a learning experience. With that lens, I tend to have a much better appreciation about a candidate than forcing them to pick up a marker and write a loop on a whiteboard.

Aside: Linked lists in python have a built-in deque: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/collections.html#collect...

(I still had to google that one)
You can't fix systems that ignore your TTL by specifying lower TTL values.
As far as E-Ink goes, my understanding is that it works by moving charged ink particles from one end of a microscopic capsule to the other, so that white and black particles switch places, resulting in a visible color change. All this is to say that the display surface isn't exactly changing color or opacity, it's just moving it around, so I doubt it could be used to create a surface that goes from transparent to opaque and vice versa.

On the other hand, LCD could be used to create an opacity-changing window, but LCD panels block a lot of light even when they're fully "transparent," which is why they consume so much power (their backlights have to be very bright).
Do you mean dashboard widgets? Dashboard hasn't been actively developed in maybe 10 years now.

If you were still using it I'm interested to know why – I stopped because it felt clunky to use and there weren't many widgets.

I'm not sure it's much of a criticism of an app if they don't have a Dashboard widget.
> Real economics includes game-theoretic incentives to distort reality and craft narratives, including framing what is allowed to considered "real economics".

You're not wrong, but you could replace "economics" with almost anything and it would still be a valid (and usually meaningful, although context matters) statement.

> Real engineering includes game-theoretic incentives to distort reality and craft narratives, including framing what is allowed to [be] considered "real engineering"

I mean how else are you going to push back against the clueless PMs who can't be bothered to learn how to code?

> Real art includes game-theoretic incentives to distort reality and craft narratives, including framing what is allowed to be considered "real art"

Of course, how else do you expect to create value for something unique that is not easily priced by the market?

> Real science includes game-theoretic incentives to distort reality and craft narratives, including framing what is allowed to be considered "real science"

I'd say this accurately describes academia. Honestly this last one is eerily insightful.
I don't think Lando would be happy with you.
So if SpaceX needs video of the landing/crash sites then you could buy a few drones instead of a single dog. Because of possible debris and fire on the ground I also expect a drone would be better, and if teh land is clear then a drone could also be configured to land and film from the ground(because you could afford multiple ones you can have different configurations).

I might be missing something though, a scenario where an robot with legs can do better then a flying or wheeled one.
> I'll never understand why companies think directly involving themselves in the political discourse is a good idea.

Because the capacity to ignore politics is inversely proportionate to the danger politics poses to you.

Large incumbent corporations are deeply dependent on preserving the status quo, in order to preserve their business model. Preserving the status quo requires active politicking.
Regardless of whether Amazon is in the right or wrong on this particular issue, I find it far more disturbing that Warren apparently thinks she should be immune to criticism (whether that criticism is justified or not).

For the record: Amazon, you, me, or anyone else is absolutely entitled to send Elizabeth Warren snotty tweets. Or send her snotty emails. Or make snotty phone calls to her office.

She is a public servant, not a noble or a pope or whatever.

If she can't handle people being rude to her, she needs to find another line of work. The "RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAH!!!" attitude is not a good look, either.
> A few contrarian papers sponsored by big corporate interests aren't going to change that.

It's more than that. Not just big corps but sometimes prominent scientists, or political movements have agendas and biases that influence research (studies related to racism, sexism, and diversity/equity come to mind). There are also research "cabals" that won't let you publish research contrary to the groupthink. And on top of all that there is a "reproducibility crisis" that especially impacts social science/medicine.

> and when in doubt, lean towards individual freedom over society's view of something.

I think this is the right stance. Too many people (in my opinion) cherry pick papers on topics that do not have a "preponderance of evidence" (or have even been reproduced a single time) in order to fight for policy changes or otherwise bolster their stance.
I don't think 3rd century Christians were comparing different accounts and selecting them on the basis of how well they would function as allegorical myths. I could be wrong, but as far as I know that is a modern invention, developed to reconcile the supernatural elements of scriptures with the naturalistic worldview that developed during the enlightenment. To understand the setting of early canonization, you have got to picture a world of persecution, faith and martyrdom that is hard for us to imagine in our liberal, secular and comfortable world.

I understand that the view of the Bible as a product of natural selection is a way to transpose the belief that it was not made through purely human forces to a philosophical system where all nonhuman forces are natural. However, the argument for relevance to modernity is severely weakened by this rebasing. It is not the present environment that determines the shape of the animal, but the historical environment, and while the survival of a species is a testament to its adaptation for the historical environment, it is not a testament to its adaptation for the present environment. Since the historical environment was a combination of true faith, and later illiberality, there is no reason to think that it should be adapted for the modern environment of the allegorical view and religious freedom. That is why I do not think the naturalistic view works as a justification for the providence of the scriptures.
It looks too empty, so I'd add here some tips.

[spoiler alert?] If you press about, you get

> about

> universal database, webserver and language.

> why: 100 times faster than redshift, bigquery and snowflake.

> who: arthur whitney and janet lustgarten

> eoin whitney[1920-1966] multiple putnam winner

> ken iverson [1920-2004] turing award winner

> how: $$$ sales@shakti.com
It's time for a new movement, a new cultural and legal framework that will protect key project founders and contributors from undue pressure from angry mobs on twitter and other latecomers. Maybe RMS will start something on his own, maybe a new person will step up. Either way, look out for one such and give it support - progress in software engineering, and maintaining freedom to hack depends on it.

re-posting an earlier comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23690039)

This.

The underground in underground programming refers to maintaining low visibility, as to present low target silhouette. Additional benefit is not attracting too many participants that are in it for the clout, rather than for solving problems & good engineering.

Open Source is no longer sufficient for software freedom; the current 'battlefield' is maintaining security from activist pressure or gradual take-over.
Notice the fourth yellow circle in the image.
Right. For compiler development you just need proper tree handling libs, proper generic types and proper macro abstractions. Static langs rarely have these features, besides ocaml and mercury, but most dynamic langs have it. Hence parents comment was being critized.

Javascript is of course torture for other reasons, but lisp, prolog, clojure et al do make sense. Lisp being the language with the most implemented compilers. Prolog probably being the easiest. Prolog compilers are usually much shorter and better than lisp ones. Super fit is only OCaml because it already comes with all the infrastructure, C parsers and such. In lisp you'd need to write 50 lines.
Communication is a hard problem.

Can you say the same thing to a small amount of seasoned pros that you can to a large number of New Guys?

No: I've perturbed the question in terms of size and skill. You're going to say something dumber and simpler (and likely less efficient) to the New Guys.

So I can get 20% the way to empathy for Fauci.

The larger conceit of government, by no means limited to Fauci, is that the federal government can boss everyone around like cattle. A year on, it kinda looks like these pencil-necks were just a bit over their skis.
I'm really not sure what the point of this message is. From a PR perspective it is an own goal. It was obvious from earlier statements that self-critique was underway. The right time to send another communication is once some improvement has been made.

What is unfortunate is that the project has not publicly defended itself, which is what core should have addressed -- that the situation has been broadly and unfairly misreported. The history of wireguard is bizarre, Donnefeld is hellbent on total control of both the protocol and implementations. He blew the same gasket on NetBSD developers for implementing his protocol http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2020/08/22/msg007842.h.... The real story here, that the Ars reporter missed because he allowed himself to be compromised by Donnefeld, is how this single person is accumulating and aiming a cult following as he chooses and what are the security and business implications of this in the future. This is a simple tunneling protocol. I don't expect WG to end well. At the very least, you are subject to public zero days and shakedowns if you don't do exactly what Donnefeld wants. A new black hat open source business model of monetization by mob rule and "scooping" low intellect reporters instead of license and implementation.
A couple of notes:

- When I first loaded the page (FF 87), the page was blank and I had to reload the page to see anything.

- Looks like the site is scrolljacking. Dont do this... using mousewheel scrolls the page like 3-5 lines per scroll and scrolling quickly doesn't increase the scroll speed, this is _way_ too slow. (Yes I realize that you can click+hold to scroll, but that's not intuitive for PC).

- It's nice/refreshing to see a new job site showing results for more than just US jobs

- Seems like it is missing important features like filtering or searching

Overall, nice aggregater which I could see saving me some time.
Right I expect anyone that just graduated 1 or 2 years ago to be able to write it in 15 minutes.

But someone who is an expert in machine learning or SQL ... and have not used data-structure for the past 20 year would need to study for it.
Do you want to hire the programmer that have 0 deep knowledge of the specific thing you are working on but can quickly tell you the content of CS 101 books or do you want someone that have skill set, experience and knowledge that complement your current team?
whatever you are on, I want some too. I could really take a edge off (or the whole side - judging by your comment).
That’s not true. It was long debated, and finally clarified in the Vatican II (in the mid 1960s.)

Any Catholic still saying that today is going against the Church.
I'm going to hazard a guess, that because ancient browsers sometimes displayed html tags they didn't understand, the author has deployed a hack to ensure the correct character encoding is used on a new browsers without soiling the rendering on older systems.

Also, I was hoping that 68k.news supported HTTP 1.0, but it doesn't, it's a virtual host on the IP, so needs the host: header variable set, which is HTTP 1.1 - that's a bit of a shame as it means the original browsers such as Mosaic can't access it.
I mean exactly what you did - "The vulnerability that is of interest is the one that allowed these commits to be injected".

Yes, it will be evident that the commits appeared in the git history, but not necessarily how they got there. If the git repo on disk suddenly has that commit, and no other usual indicators of compromise, that doesn't really give you anywhere to start looking for, what we agree is, the interesting vulnerability. All you have is "we know this box/service was definitely rooted, so look at all our infrastructure end-to-end".

They care about the exploit enough to move - of course. But do they care enough to investigate and find the actual exploit? Or hand over the server image to someone who does? Unless they've wrapped it in some PHP, it's probably not their core competency.
I don't follow the PHP project, so I don't know the answer to that.
> if you want to know if someone knows CS fundamentals, you don’t want to give them a problem they can trick their way through

Right. But this is a critique overused questions the candidates may have already seen rather than linked list questions.

In my experience, linked list questions come up because they're a simple data-structure that gets at ordering vs look-up tradeoffs.