skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone who drives a motor vehicle in public should probably read this back to front.

> 1-5. People emit certain conscious and subconscious signals indicating their mental states and intent. Humans tend to follow predictable patterns of behavior. Continued observation of behaviors and the surrounding environment reveals patterns that can be used to derive other information about the person or people being observed. The goal of this observation is to determine the relevance of the information provided to the matter at hand.

> 1-6. Soldiers can observe indicators based upon an established baseline. Soldiers can identify the enemy among civilians. Baselines are established when the enemy is not present because the lack of enemy presence allows the observer to determine the most complete baseline.

Consider the "enemy" here to be the idiot who is about to pull into traffic without seeing you coming, and the signal to be how they did an aggressive stop, they blew the line of the stop sign completely, and they're displaying aggressiveness and impatience.

Your foot should already be coming off the gas and covering the brake pedal, and if you see them move forwards at all you should be already actively braking.

Generally any vehicle waiting at a stop sign I mentally label as a possible threat, but you can often be better prepared when you observe someone's actions in their vehicle that seems different than baseline. You don't need to react as strongly every time you see a vehicle waiting at a stop sign at a cross street to you, but when you see signs of aggressiveness, you should increase your own defensiveness and preparation to act.

I'm sure I'll hit the sections on visualization and preparation for action later.

If you watch r/roadcam vids on reddit you'll often see accidents that are the counter example to this where people speed at a consistent 8 mph over the limit all the time, and don't adjust their velocity ever for hazards or even just intersections and are caught completely unaware when another vehicle that displays a deviation from baseline, immediately then does something really dumb and collides with them.

Related article:

https://gedandclaire.com/downloads/a-fighter-pilots-guide-to...
If you are a Brit (or even otherwise) I really recommend taking a look at Hurley's work [0]. The taglines for each resort are just superb - e.g. "Cleethorpes - The Final Resort"

As an aside, I'm reminded of the old joke that Cleethorpes doesn't have a twin town, but is in a suicide pact with Grimsby.

[0] https://www.pinterest.co.uk/christinefbosha/jack-hurley-post...
have you had any problems using the open source version of pytype? we've tried to make it easy to just drop in to your setup.cfg and automatically analyse an entire project; if there are things that don't work we'd love bug reports for them!
Ask HN: How do you build referrals and incentives into your app in 2021?
Noticing that a lot of B2B apps (Superhuman) do referrals today, in addition to B2C (Airbnb) -- wondering if all companies building referrals into their app spend engineering resources on it? Or are there any common wisdom SDKs which make it as easy as integrating GA/Segment on your website.

If you've built this before, would love to know the challenges and iterations of doing this.
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I think mostly they're forced to use Windows server because of their proprietary software like outlook, active directory, iis etc.

It was maybe easier to find people to support Windows servers... Just click here here and here to install.
Humans have determined that chimpanzees and other species do communicate, and in many cases how they communicate, even if those who study such things don't understand the communications in anything but the broadest sense. Being able to communicate with aliens isn't really what we're asking for, but merely detecting that communications are happening at all.
"Design" can mean a lot of different things. UI? Data structures and algorithms? API? Database schema? Whichever of these we're discussing, and whatever process we're talking about, I find it much faster to think and sketch and describe in words before writing code.
Did you try Pcapng specification? I believe it is used by new syslog, and this is the packet format for logging both network interfaces, syslog files, and many more things together in a single format. https://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/PcapNg
I like how this is so low-effort that it still says "@ Things Of Interest" despite not being hosted there?
> The name is a play on the 80’s Italian design and architecture group Memphis, which positioned itself as a garish and child-like rejection of functionalist styles.

From the article.
For what it's worth: US patent law has now changed. The law is no longer "first in invent", it's now "first to file".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inv...
This didn't protect Ross Ulbricht.
I think you're spot on. I'm an avid reader but I enjoy all the "low-brow" stuff. Tropey high fantasy, cheesy sci-fi, formulaic legal thrillers, I love it all. If it has "spy" anywhere in the description I'm in.

But you're right - the only books I ever hear about from a marketing standpoint are the ones my wife is reading for her book club. So either Oprah talked about it, or it's part of the "book club marketing machine" or whatever.

I wish the publishing industry could turn things around. I think the low percentage of people who actively read fiction is ultimately a bad thing. Binge watching Netflix is not the same as binge reading a good book series imo.
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> The park does not sell alcohol, according to its website, but patrons bring their own beverages.

https://www.yoursun.com/charlotte/news/redneck-mud-park-has-...
This is seriously short changing the giants of 19th century.
Police aren't soldiers.
A possible point of confusion is that 'soldier' means different things in different contexts.

Sometimes 'soldier' means anyone in the Army.

Sometimes 'soldier' means anyone in the Army but not commissioned officers.

Sometimes 'soldier' means only private members of the Army.

In this case obviously 'soldiers' are intended to read it - as people in the Army are intended to read it. But also 'soldiers' are not intended to read it, as private soldiers would normally get training and would not have to read it.

Reading requires context and domain knowledge.

If you have context and domain knowledge, this document is perfectly clear on the audience.

(I've had multiple training jobs in the (British) Army.)
I don’t really see the evidence backing this claim. Most popular fiction books on Goodreads are not exactly “deep.” Publishers aren’t some stupid ideologues either. It’s far more probable that books simply can’t compete with the addictive, visual, social entertainment that is growing by the day.

This isn’t such a big problem either. The minority that does read books are still huge in absolute terms, and we have more options than ever to read.
Did he ever write it, or is this the Fermat's Last Theorem of authorial metacommentary?
Media on all sides cannot be trusted. You're being downvoted by people that trust media.
Lol and soccer are extremely different. It's much more analogous to basketball or fighting sports. You want to get more jabs in than your opponent so that when you go in for the kill you have more strength/stamina left than they do. The question is more along the lines of how do we cause the most damage? Preventing yourself from being damaged isn't as important because it happens naturally if you control the tempo.
"Single system image" clustering - or in plain language, a single operating system running distributed on top of a bunch of (often commodity) hardware.

Your program runs just like it would on a single PC. The OS is designed to ensure that it functions correctly regardless of which underlying resources are doing the compute.
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I think that the aim of this style is a type of corporate PR, to give off a safe, unoffensive feeling.

I then think that this feeling is intended to preempt the user's knowledge that the company is doing unethical things. Either environmentally, or with the user's private data, or otherwise.

A good example is Google, (see some corporate memphis here, https://blog.google/technology/health/when-it-comes-mental-h...), who needs to project this image in order for you to feel safe while sharing your most private details with the company.
What. Python's `sum()` works on anything that defines `__add__`, which can be numbers, strings, lists, or your own custom classes.

sum([[1, 2], [3, 4]], []) == [1, 2, 3, 4]
Part 1 says that they use SSL-stripping attacks to replace cryptocurrency addresses with their own address, allowing them to capture e.g. transfers to a crypto mixer.

https://nusenu.medium.com/how-malicious-tor-relays-are-explo...
SNL = Modern Shoeshine Boy for Crypto and Stocks
>Purchase some hardware with cash and distribute it around the world to tunnel through.

how do you keep the hardware physically secure? What prevents a gov actor replacing it with their own mitm proxy?
I see we're now firmly on the "extend" step.
this project fucked over freenode so bad, would still not recommend joining that organization
My experience is mostly server-side, and there, I have found that smushing these things together leads to sadness.
My personal anecdote. I'm still very good friends with all of my friends from high school and college and it is almost entirely due to the ability to constantly group message. We all talk almost every day and I've since lost contact with most friends not included in the 3 group chats I have. We're all in our mid 20's now so getting together is more difficult but since we talk so often it drives us to hang out in person more. In the absence of constant communication we would probably all drift apart and rarely if ever hang out in person. There's a big difference between generic public social media interaction and smaller more intimate direct messaging and group chats. It's definitely different for kids cause they are forced to spend all day together in school but I think there is immense value for adults.
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I think its interesting that the flat look was pioneered by Microsoft going back to the days of the Zune2 and later lumia phones that had the first Metro interface. Then google and Apple and everyone else started following. People don't think of Microsoft (and especially Zune...) as a leader in design, but I think they have had a big impact on the industry, and deserves some recognition.
Because we're not working from a sample size of one. But if we were, then what other possible conclusion would there be?
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Unless we're very lucky.
> But as a person who loves the EU I’m very much opposed to enforcing EU values and views to 3rd parties.

I'm not quite clear how that's different from ICANN? Ostensibly they're now
"multistakeholder", but were under the United States Department of Commerce until 2016. And were infamously in denial about the GDPR impact to WHOIS.

To be clear, I'm not saying the EU proposal is in any way good, I have no idea. But this issue has been brewing for a while, and I don't think it's unreasonable to be critical of ICANN et al and preparing for eventualities. Even if it is the status quo, leaving a major part of the internet in the hands of some unaccountable NGO is a huge risk.
Who said I was talking about Java?

There are some abstractions which objectively reduce complexity: i.e. the C programming language abstracts over assembly, and essentially formalizes a subset of assembly in a way which reduces cognitive load for the programmer. This is a good abstraction, but this is not what streaming libraries do.

> If a steam makes you uncomfy because it's doing O(n) things "under the hood" and you "like to know what the computer is doing" that's probably just a personal comprehension issue.

If you have to reach for "you can only not like this because you don't understand this", it means you don't have a real argument. I have implemented event-stream-like systems before, and I am perfectly aware what they do "under the hood".

I can give you an example of how these libraries go wrong. I was working a few years ago on a project which made heavy use of event streams, and one of my colleagues opened a PR which passed all unit tests locally, but failed when the CI system ran the tests. After about half a day of trying to figure out the problem, we determined that it was because a different scheduler was being used when the tests were run during the CI pipeline, which resulted in some concurrency related issues. What's worse, it didn't fail reliably, but only intermittently, so this made it extremely difficult to track down. This is what happens when you hand over your flow of control to another system: it makes it very difficult to reason about.

Abstractions are good when they reduce boilerplate and provide a shorthand for monotonous work. When abstractions try to be smart or magical and do work for you, it's almost always a bad thing.
Or bury things 20 feet down. [1] [2] Seal the items in a tube surrounded by AirCrete to avoid detection and water damage. Cut a notch to remind you where to cut the container open safely.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L4EjtXyg6k [video, auger]

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo7yu84s7Dc [video, rock auger]
It boggles me that ServiceNow succeeds even though their most ubiquitous product, IT Service Management, is also their worst. There are less half-baked products besides the ticketing system.

For example, the IT Operations Management suite includes tools to collect specifications about devices without installing an agent, aggregate alerts to better assess outage impacts, and automatically generate topology maps by analyzing network traffic. It's a wholly different product that justifies some weird design decisions in the Incident/Change system, but it can help explain where Lightstep falls in the ecosystem.

Source: ServiceNow ITOM consultant who has seen customers fare better when they look beyond Incident/Problem/Change/Catalog
>The software is dreadful to use.

The people buying it aren't the same people that have to use it.
Go to jail. The one I was in had a fire extinguisher full of pepper spray that they occasionally used on the entire room when two people were fighting in a corner (it was an excuse). I was also tased in the shower and split my head open, requiring stitches, after falling naked onto the tile floor because I didn’t hear orders to line up over the water and other voices. I lost consciousness to the sounds of laughter from the staff.

Those are two of my tamest stories. There are more. Public whipping, no, but far worse happens in the American correctional system. If you’re inclined to disregard such reports or ignore what they’re saying because they’re not exactly to your liking, I’m not inclined to regard your opinion — it’s also how I know you haven’t done time.
Are modern programming languages context-free?
Yeah, specifically <iframe> has done almost everything what these UI-based component technology wanted to achieve.
Half of reason I even bother with full frame is wide open.

Any smartphone these days can give perfectly good sharp photos. I lug the beast around to get shots you can't get with a smartphone.
I agree completely, what I'm trying to do is describe how these words are used by people with a stake in the matter. Woodworkers, for example.

Canes take the adjective "woody" but not the noun "wood". Bamboo can make some interesting laminate materials, but these are not normally referred to as wood either, although they are lumber.
Similar to The Plague by Camus. The progression basically goes:

1. Everyone ignores it since it's "not serious"
2. People play it down for political reasons
3. People start dying
4. People lock down
5. Alcohol sells out

At least where I am, this is exactly what happened.
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Yes, if someone can enlighten me - what is so great about this software, by looking at their product's growth and popularity i was expecting something extraordinary. Then i had to use it and it was pretty boring, unintuitive, unsophisticated CRUD framework for tracking stuff and it wasn't clear at all where is the value it provides over thousands of other applications of such kind.
Yes PoS is _part_ of the consensus algo for this coin (Decred) - only 30% of the block reward goes to PoS while PoW miners (60%) and the the treasury (10%) receive the rest of the reward
I think it would be mis-leading to specify what his crime was. If he had, it might be interpreted as trying to say that he didn't deserve to be treated the way he was treated simply because his crime was relatively minor. In fact, I think the point he is trying to make is it doesn't matter what crime you committed in the past - no one should have to endure the conditions he experienced.
I keep hearing people reiterating this idea, but can you show at least one example where this has worked, anywhere in the world?

Or is it a case of 'it will work this time', just like communism?
And, as in many other creative endeavors, all the hobbyists who just want some readers (or viewers or whatever) end up competing with people trying to put food on the table. Even if individually many do not have much of an effect, in the aggregate they do.
Some context can be found here: https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/ccsu-professor-sus...
Somewhat ironic that you don't let your children use social media but here you are posting on a social media site.
Yeah given user's goal with a doc is to ... communicate or otherwise do a thing. Working WITH the doc, picking components, or picking among a bunch of document editors, thinking about document technology is not their goal.
For an OS that achieved this look at OpenVMS https://vmssoftware.com/products/clusters/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMScluster
most of America isn't making $100/hour. I don't make $100/hour. Heck, 2 years ago, I wasn't even making $50/hour.

I get your point, but for a good bulk of people, their time is in fact worth less than their total individual income for that day.
can anyone who uses Rust explain what's going on with regards to this release & breaking builds?
Sorry, it's too late to edit my other reply, but it occurs to me that we have some similar rules to what you proposed in finance. Robin Hood had to eat millions of dollars in losses because they overextended leverage to some people who lost it all, because they were worried (in addition to the inability to collect all that cash) that regulators would find out they had overextended margin to people they should not have.
Not as frequently asked, "when was everybody?"
> We got a Lovevry subscription, and learned about the “mental leaps”.

All that mental leap stuff is conjecture. I was unable to find any data to support it, and the person behind it (Frans Plooij) was discredited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonder_Weeks

I assume any claims about mental development and personalities and whatnot is bullshit. We don’t have the technology to test it, nor even the ability to properly define things in order to test them.
Is that feasible for millions or billions of already manufactured, exiting devices?
One of the scenes I enjoyed in "Patton" was when Patton defeats Rommel through knowledge of Rommel's tactics. He yells, seemingly across the field to Rommel, "I read your book". (The movie actually makes it seem like Patton could read unpublished manuscripts of his opponent [1]) This exemplifies that famous people wrote books. They wrote memoirs and they wrote manuals. I couldn't say how the gatekeepers dealt with such books, nor how the potential readership found or regarded such books.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_Attacks
Defund the FBI really?

You can read a history book to find out why the FBI was founded and why every country has its own variation of it.
Let me rephrase, I think it's often a fundamental flaw from a practical, security perspective. Reflection and constructs like 'eval' are often at odds with security. You could more generally say that utility is often at odds with security.

Maximizing utility on a website might look like dropping a user into a root REPL so they can perform arbitrary actions and are unlimited in their capabilities. Maximizing security might look like shutting down the website and all its associated servers. In reality, from a security perspective, we try to achieve a balance between the two by maximizing utility while minimizing security risk.

Personally, I think code as content, reflection, eval, etc move the slider too far in the utility direction. Of course this is a difficult problem to solve because nearly all our systems are built on the idea of code as content, which is also what makes it such a generalized vulnerability class.
Or keep it turned on and get used to it so we can all finally start enjoying high frame rate video!
Because he walked away from his computer and left it unlocked. Wear a hidden bluetooth device or something to lock your computer and use USBGuard if you're that worried.
Well, you can, but you'll annoy people even more than if you had a mechanical keyboard ;) I do have a little needle-felted rubber duck I keep on my desk while working, remotely, though, for just that reason.
Serious question: how do you do that when the organization running the boxes was selling anonymized services?

There's a Vice News article on this same event that's been shared elsewhere in the comment thread, and that article includes an advertisement the company put out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT5AJh_j-GE

The company is openly marketing itself as refusing any form of identification in order to provide total anonymity. Aside from the one user who claims they added identifying data to the exterior of the box, how do you propose identifying the owner of an otherwise-featureless box without opening it?
> The probation-violation charges Shankar is facing stem from Aug. 7, 2012, when state police charged him with driving with a suspended license, criminal impersonation, and failure to drive in the proper lane, court records show. Because he was on probation for fraud and drunken-driving convictions in 2011, Shankar also was charged with the probation violations.

https://www.journalinquirer.com/page_one/board-of-regents-to...

> According to records, 39-year-old Ravi Shankar has been in and out of the courtroom more than 20 times.

https://fox4kc.com/news/jailed-university-professor-gets-pro...