skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This type of suppression of "the other" is incredibly common around the world but it usually, but not always, stops in the current era once it is brought to everyone's attention.

The point isn't to condemn the countries involved (e.g. country A is bad and always will be), but to get the suppression of the minority by the majority to stop by having others around the world speak up for the minority (e.g. country A should stop doing action B because it is wrong.)

This is actually the fundamental principle of human rights groups - speak up for those oppressed when they can not effectively help themselves.

It only appears to be an unchangeable condemnation if there is no chance that the oppression stops. In this case, like in many modern hard cases, there is a lot of denial doing on, both because some want the oppression to continue, and others because they identify with the country involved and believe that all those raising human rights issues are suspect.
A good friend of mine died unexpectedly recently. I have no experience with stuff like this, I've only had one other friend die before, and we weren't nearly as close.

It still seems pretty unreal, but, at the same time, it feels like this is the only way, and the anomalous condition is that any of us are still surviving him.

In a very short time, we will all be dead, too, and a very short time after that, everyone who ever knew us will also be dead.

It will be that way much, much longer than the few blinks of an eye in which we build little sandcastles on the crust here.

You know that big rock in the ocean out in front of the sutro baths ruins, the one covered in bird shit? That thing has been sitting there for a dozen times longer than the tall apes have been making sounds that map to concepts.

It'll be there long after, too.

Life is the temporary anomaly.

Sorry if this isn't a helpful comment, it's just some of the shit that's been going through my mind recently whenever I think about my friend. I wish I could hang out with him for ten or fifteen minutes more, or had known the last time I saw him that I would never get to see him again.

Tell people that you love them.
I wonder how much the situation is exacerbated by IP address exhaustion. It's practically impossible to start an ISP of you don't already have IPv4 addresses, and whatever small allocations you might still be able to get won't allow you to grow very large, at least if you want to provide good service.
You are the universe experiencing itself.
Hi guys,

I have designed my own laptop stand cause I really wanted more keyboard space, as a digital nomad I find that a lot of tables aren't very deep, and the next/roost stand I had before was taking up too much of that space.

Any feedback about the design or website is appreciated.
When I care, at home, I use a VPN (Private Internet Access), and I also use BRAVE browser.

At work we use a tool call SILO. It enables fully anonymous browsing. It is like a VPN but it runs a virtual computer somewhere else, and sends you the images. When your session ends it throws the virtual PC away. So any bad stuff is gone.
I guess as you don't watch movies you missed this cover. Which got pretty close... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggGO8rF4jJM

What I like about Dylan is that his lyrics seem to try to avoid cliches rather than over use them so he uncovers truths that go against the social memetic way of thinking.
Where does it say that is how they are being used?

I doubt that is what they are for.
I don’t think Dropbox are GAAP profitable either, I was looking at their financials a couple of weeks ago.
The Edwardian Ball in San Francisco is a fantastic Gorey themed ball started by the denizens of the larper/renaissance faire/gamer/goth/hacker scene of the early ‘00s.

It’s one of those special costumed events which makes San Francisco magical.

https://www.edwardianball.com/
You do have that right, yes. I have the legal right to call you slurs and insult your mother; that doesn't make it right.

If I were the person who had to go through the database and delete your comments the second time, I'd delete the row corresponding to your account while I was in there.

No idea how HN would handle it. You can find out if you want to.
yeah but not on this list
I once had a similar situation with the question "Is everything OK?", which is slightly different from "How are you?".

I am a German living in Germany and i once caused a car crash that made another car spin into the ditch on the side of the road. That car was driven by a family of Russian heritage.

After getting out of the car i spoke to the other parties wife first and I asked "Is everything OK?" with what i ment: "Is there something very wrong beyond the things that are obviously wrong. Like, is your child bleeding to death or is it only the car damage."

But the woman did not understand it this way at all and was a little bit furious because to her obviously nothing was OK.

Of course she had every reason to be upset, but the likelihood of a German interpreting my question in a rude way would have been way lower.
You are right about info. density. I will try to make it better. Thanks for the feedback.
ah sorry you said never heard one that DOESN"T sound better. lol. just realised.
Susskind is great, and he's very much inspired by Feynman.

Of course there are plenty of good professors that will help you understand physics, but I haven't heard anyone lecture in such an interesting way, have you?
> Two flashcards from the same set contain the squadron name “701 MUNSS”, and a phrase to make someone surrender weapons in Flemish, revealing that the security details in it apply to Kleine Brogel air base, Belgium.

The phrase is "Halt politie, leg uw wapens neer! Handen op."

There is no part of this sentence that would be unique to Flanders. In fact, "Handen op" is something I would expect to hear from Dutch people and never from Belgians, in Belgium it would be "Handen omhoog", but both ways the sentence is correct and would be be perfectly understood in both countries.

I'd also expect that the small inconsequential and intricate differences between the way Dutch is spoken in Belgium compared to the Netherlands are not taken into account in this context - they probably use the same for both countries, which would make sense considering it's already difficult enough. I think Bellingcat is emBellishing.
Show HN: Production Ready Demo Project in Hexagonal Architecture
We tried to demonstrate the followings in the demo project.

* Implementing two microservices with spring boot
* Designing the apis with hexagonal architecture
* Packaging by functions and screaming architecture
* How Ports and adapters separate business from integration points
* Writing behaviour focused unit tests at domain module
* Writing integration tests isolated from business at infra module
* Using gradle to configure microservices and modules
* Using mono-repo to handle all apis in single git repository
* Implementing consumer driven contract tests
* Creating different testing styles for validating data adapters, event consumers/publishers, controllers
Discord server every developer must know
On DataFrame datatype in Ruby (2016)
I spend a good portion of my time creating / cleaning / structuring / feature engineering / running ml on data and I am extremely skeptical of automated ways of doing that.
Everything I have seen so far was so laughably besides the point. This whole process involves an extreme amount of judgment and tradeoffs and most importantly a lot of knowledge of the respective domain. I have seen so many people with no domain knowledge trying to run an "automated approache" and horribly fail.
The daily mail is a few steps below Fox news in terms of accuracy and unbias reporting. They're quite literally the paper that supported Hitler. They're not a source of anything. Please don't post them here.

(Edit:)

Here is Full facts review of the claims (which apparently don't appear in the paper's peer review version):

https://fullfact.org/health/richard-dearlove-coronavirus-cla...
It's not strange, it's exceedingly common in the motorcycle community.

I don't have loud pipes but I think it could help in blind spots, that's about it. I just don't ride in blind spots instead.
You shouldn't be taking sick leave daily. You (arguably, not everyone's cup of tea) should be dropping out of work to focus on mindfulness daily.

It isn't at all clear this reflects bad workplace conditions. It could be innovative.
I talk to my parents on an almost daily basis. Sometimes I dont even have topics so I just ramble and bore them. But why not ? One day they will be no more and that day I don't want to have things that I wanted to tell them. I am sorry for your loss. I am just happy that you were physically present when he passed away. Its been a challenging year so take your time to recover.
Thanks for the feedback. Interesting thought!
https://imazing.com/ Is worth a look if you want to backup export old messages.
Ah, yes. Following in the delightful tradition of Flatland [1]. Rudy Rucker's Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension (1977) may be a fun read {perhaps less fanciful than Potato Chip World} for those interested.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
Twitter "sucks" for politics from a user point of view, but politics and other "inflammatory" topics (including fake news and misinformation) are fundamental to this company's survival, at least until they change their ways and move fully to a subscription service.

Politics is a proven source of infinite "engagement" which is how this disgusting company (and similar competitors) make their money on, which is why it's so hard to "opt out" of it - opting out of politics (and other potentially inflammatory topics) would decrease your "engagement" which while good for your time and sanity is absolutely against the company's business model.
Sure.

But at the same time, false claims of human rights abuses are used all the time to attack official US enemies. Remember the Nayirah testimony? It's merely one of the most visible examples.

The world isn't flat with equal power wielded by all countries. Some are exploited and others are exploiters, at gunpoint. We must be precise about claims made, lest we help the exploiter.
So there was no easy way to get a profile from the JVM version, and data came only from looking at the CRuby profiles where file access dominates. Then an informed guess: slower JVM file access.

This process and lack of data in itself sounds like a receipe for performance problems in the JVM version, unless there was some low probabvility coincidence that prevented getting the profile data only in this case. Good measurements are a prerequisite for sustainable and maintainable performance work.
The dirty secret is that, despite what they may claim, venture capitalists aren’t good at picking winners, nor do they need to be.

The real skill is in (a) raising funds from LPs, and (b) creating a wide enough deal funnel to service it.

The individual investments aren’t that important, just like a single bet doesn’t matter when you’re playing poker. It’s more about spreading the money over as many hands as possible and letting your mathematical advantage do the rest.
Thanks! Interesting comment.
That would be a good compromise, yes.

I think HN has enough 'karma traffic' that a timing attack against someone's Internet Points wouldn't be very feasible. But the easy implementation is to literally have a [redacted] account in the database, and point all the posts at it. I'm not sure it matters; leaving behind royalty checks for old posts is a fair trade for anonymizing the data.
Yes. I did come across:

https://github.com/topazproject/topaz

From: "When a Mouse Eats a Python: Smalltalk-style Development for Python and Ruby"
https://2017.programming-conference.org/details/MoreVMs-2017...

See also:
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/publications/index....

But it seems abandoned?

I guess maybe maglev ruby on the gemstone platform does move the needle a bit closer:

http://maglev.github.io/docs/persistent_code.html
According to the article the incident in question happened in 1978. It may be still happening, but this article does not make that claim. Rather it says it happened 40 years ago and there should be an investigation to its extent.

EDIT: I was wrong. In addition to the specific incident discussed and the focus on the past, there is this:

"New research shows the forced sterilization of Indigenous women is not just a shameful part of Canadian history. Reports from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and the territories suggest it is still happening."
How to Understand and Combat Your Team's Burnout
It sounds premature to me. "Big" science (CERN, Human Genome, etc.) were only possible and sensible because the subject matter was well understood, and getting more and more information about it required apparatus and manual labor beyond the reach of a normal lab.

The consciousness problem, however, is very poorly understood. The article contains some hand-waiving pointing at extremely large groups of neurons, jumping to irrelevant details such as its "anatomical footprint." But even the function of small groups of neurons is not understood, nor the interaction between them. How "big science" can get meaningful results then is not clear to me.

> and change the sociology of scientific practice in general

Right then.
you cannot be more correct. too many elite programmers are not only jerks, but also selfish egoistic masochists who deny any right to others to be wrong now and then, while still fit for work. yet - same jerks often complain having difficulties finding help (typically overseeing the quite obvious reason for it).

no, this is not a hate comment, but a sad one, as rarely people ask why so many opensource projects are led by single person, and very rarely by more than 3 active developers. maybe it has to do with the fact that arrogant top-notch jerks also like to showoff as they expose narcissistic traits and opensource is a good venue to do so.

perhaps also because is difficult to argue with total jerk (have you tried). or convince him/her/they/them that your not-so-up-to-the-standard code is still worth, and that in reality most of the code running the world is a total mess (for various reasons) but still runs (for various reasons).

the gift to be able to work with nice people that also develop nice code is close to blessing.
vscodium can also open ipynb files, to give an alternative.

I try to work mostly with "py:percent" script files now, in the same jupyter notebook style but without saving outputs.
Brrrrm brrrrm engine effect is more fun that ssssp sssssp engines.
Issue is that .net is a language oriented foundation, not a cyber security one. Sending the project there looks like an ad for a Microsoft initiative and not something done with the best interest of HIBP in mind. Just an example, there is foundation literally called Open Source Security Foundation.1 If I write a python security tool and it is useful for the community, I'd think first of transferring it to them, not to the Python foundation.

1. https://openssf.org/
Good suggestions. I don't think I'll be inclined to crawl or farm though. Thanks for taking the time to check the site out.
As the Geraghty article I cited mentions, the Wuhan Institute of Virology leak theory has at best circumstantial evidence, and very well might not be true. And in any case, the claim is not that it was intentional. While not impossible, there is currently zero evidence today that the virus came from anywhere else. There is zero evidence of any cases anywhere before those in China (indeed, before those in Wuhan). China is not known for having lax border crossings, making smuggling in vials unlikely. Wuhan is not close to a border, if someone came to Wuhan already infected, there would be a trail of infected people from the border to Wuhan, or other people would have been infected on a plane if a human carrier brought it in. If someone brought it in during the World Military Games as you seem to think in other posts, the timeline doesn't make sense, since the first cases of COVID weren't for at least a month after, in November (and besides the possible cases by the people who work at WIV, most cases started in December). Your hypothesis does not fit the data.

So I ask you: what evidence, even circumstantial, do you have for making the claim you do?
Looks great. Love the setup you have everything looks great together.

Why carbon fiber? Wouldn't aluminum have done the job just as well?
HN's business model does not rely on "engagement", which means they encourage interesting and in-depth discussions instead of flame-wars and low-quality clickbait content.

Furthermore the "algorithm" is well-understood and is driven by users as opposed to a black-box algorithm designed to optimize "engagement".

Finally human moderation here is competent and keeps things in check, as opposed to treating it like a cost center and outsourcing it to underpaid people working in terrible conditions who most likely don't speak our language natively and might misunderstand the context or meaning of things (which becomes a problem when you're supposed to draw the line between what's offensive/snarky and not).
Do soldiers get regular training in IT security? I assume there’s more rigorous security training for those who handle more sensitive information.

Were soldiers sharing flash cards or were they unknowingly posted online? The selling point for some flash card apps is lots of preexisting cards to study with and presumably app users are the ones creating them. That should hint that they’re stored online.

It would be great if app stores noted network access requirements. Does an app operate standalone? Is Internet access required just for ads or also for functionality? Where is app data stored? On your phone, in personal cloud storage, in a shared storage service just for users of this app or shared to the general public?

While Apple’s app store mentions none of this, there is a link to the privacy policy for each app. I’m not familiar with Google’s app store.

I wish browser extension repositories also provided network access requirements for each add-on.
Or izotope RX8.
Going full old school, your mailing address.

I am a little confused by the need for 'foolproof'. Do you mean they cannot type it in wrong? Or they might send you junk mail? Or are you worried the email will address will be abandoned? As in we are leaving school, and we always want to keep in touch?
To see the Manuscripts, drawings and letters you have to fill in a form and then wait for the form to be passed to another department for approval and then the form gets returned to you and you must get two extra signatories, who must be people who work in the department of co-signatories, but you are likely to find that those people have closed their department for a few months so then it is possible to use an alternative signatory but first that alternative signatory must be approved by the director of signatories, unfortunately that director of signatories has departed on a long voyage. As an alternative you can raise your request with the Controller of Forms but first you must see the clerk to ask for an appointment, the clerk will give you a form to fill in that must be stamped by someone in the aforementioned department of co-signatories.
thanks for reporting! Both issues should be fixed now.
One thing I have noticed from influencers is shameless copy and pasting of what other influencers have said, or even more shamelessly, some influencers going around after seeing some trite bit of wisdom and claiming they were the original source and demanding credit.

So they turn into sharks fighting over scraps.
Reminds me of the time needed to write an application that would be particularly hard to test (was critical, handled distributed state). Managed to write it so obviously correct, that I couldn't think of anything to test before releasing the clustered version. I only ever managed to find 2 bugs, both of which were silly and unimportant.

During development, I did use REPL to run/evaluate most of the functions, on 1-2 inputs, and found a couple of silly, immediately evident bugs. Development took a couple of days, testing was about as mentioned and I really didn't want to debug.

These days, I'm amazed how people can stand to write anything at all complicated in haphazard ways, but then get to spend similar or greater time playing whack-a-mole with bugs to maybe get most of the important bugs.

Yes, good tooling can make debuggers usable. OTOH, if you need debuggers, I would consider it a shortcoming of the programming methods/structures/styles and usually even entire stacks, where debugging is practically necessary.
Thanks rapnie. Someone else asked about that too. I'm not sure, I haven't thought about it. In your opinion, what would be the pros vs cons of having it either way?
I don't think you're quite understanding the endeavor at hand (which is my point): let's say they could replicate it, and now they have to deploy it in a live scenario.

So now they have to go off to the coast of the USA in a restricted area used for navy drills and testing, probably coming from the Pacific side. Let's say Penn and Teller get access to a brand new submarine from China that's has stealthy as they can be, enough to set up the experiment.

Then they had to stay there for days teasing both the ships radars and navy pilots by make things pop up on their radars and make them move large distances in short periods of time (seconds), and get them to chase radar blips.

Now comes the day that a squadron of jets are asked to check something nearby their location (which mean they have to tap into Navy communications systems), launch the illusion, make it react to the pilots unexpected behavior (one dove the other remained above), and then make it desapear (and then proceed to jam radars, to eventually exit out).

(This is roughly the story of the Fravor incident.)

I think just the first point, of entering USA waters, more specifically restricted waters and air space actively controlled by the Navy - which was doing drills - already shows technology superiority.

Which was my point.

They have to know what the radars and sensors are and how they work (hackers, compromised top level people), how to jam them (superior tech), how to be stealthy (superior tech), how to create illusions for jet pilots while fooling jet sensors (superior tech).

I'm not saying these are aliens, but surely looks like tech superiority or the whole defense system collapsing all together even the pilots.

If this was done by a couple of guys, with too much free time on a shoe string budget, that can fool the most advanced navy, well that's not good either.
More details here:

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

It does appear that the most forced sterilizations, which were part of a eugenics-like program, were stopped in the 1970s based on this article. And there were lawsuits involved by those affected.
You don't listen to Feynman because you want the most efficient way to prepare for your Physics exam, or because you want to hear about the latest developments.

You listen to him because he was one of the greatest minds of the century, as well as a very entertaining and charismatic speaker.

It's not hard to see why that combination of qualities attracts a lot of people.
Future of work will be 5-hour days, 4-day workweek, flexible staggered schedules