skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything I’ve ever read about the “born secret” doctrine says that it obliges non-cleared people to keep secrets.

Most of what I’ve read emphasized how controversial this is. As you said, there are severe first amendment implications.

Yet the law ignores these implications.

It is probably unconstitutional, but the SCOTUS has never ruled on it.

I hate to be the guy saying “cite your sources,” but I have quite a few sources that say “born secret” applies to everyone. Can you show me some evidence it doesn’t?

This source is about a related, but distinct, topic. It contains numerous example of the US government attempting to obligate non-cleared people to keep official secrets:

https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

This source is a Wikipedia page, but it describes the government attempting to use “born secret” to censor a newspaper:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Progressive....

PS: From the first source:

In 1978, journalist James Bamford sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Justice Department. He wanted documents related to the Department’s investigation of illegal wiretapping performed by the NSA. Among the surveillance programs the Justice Department investigated was Operation MINARET, which spied on Martin Luther King, Jr., Jane Fonda, and other opponents of the Vietnam War. The chief of the Justice Department’s special litigation unit, the unit that led the investigation into the NSA, took ten months to review the request. In the end, the Justice Department declassified and released 250 pages of documents to Bamford. When the NSA found out about the disclosure, however, it argued that the documents should never have been released and demanded that the Justice Department label them as classified. The Justice Department refused.

Two years later, with a new administration in the White House and new leaders atop the two agencies, the NSA tried again. This time, the Attorney General agreed. Bamford recalled a meeting with NSA and Justice Department officials. “They threatened to use the espionage statute against me,” Bamford recounted, “if I continued to refuse to return the documents.” A letter from the Justice Department soon followed: “You are currently in possession of classified information that requires protection against unauthorized disclosure,” it said, adding that Bamford should be aware of his “continuing obligation not to publish or communicate the information.”Keeping quiet was not enough for the Justice Department, however. “It is . . . your duty and obligation as a United States citizen to return this information to the Department of Justice,” the letter insisted.
Yes that was my first thought. Offer to pay half the bill and pick up a giant yagi antenna for twenty bucks. Only downside is it's technically illegal to combine that much power and that much gain but I've known people who did it for a decade with no FCC call.
Unless the information is from someone with a fiduciary duty to the company, it does not count as insider trading.

Information that will impact a company or many companies that is the result of research is never insider trading, at least not by any legal definition.

Millions of investors do private analysis on things that could impact securities, trade on that info, and share that info with others to trade on. Just being information not publicly available doesn’t make it “non-public” for the legal definition of “material non-public information”.
I believe there are more international or cosmopolitan children in the decades from 1960 to now than in previous generations, but of course difficult to find data on that because Google is no longer any good.

on edit: realizing that I might have left myself open for someone to complain about my laziness and how I thought people ever managed to do any research before google, I will just note that difficulty is relative and for me it would be difficult because it is not the kind of thing my day to day life is geared towards - ergo, it is not my job to find this kind of data and thus I am unable to make the requisite investment of time to prove my conjecture without the use of a quality search engine such as was available to the general public about a decade ago.

It's sad I had to explain myself at this length, but I have had experiences that suggests it is prudent to do so.
> Counterfeit parts are an obvious and real problem - it’s good that it can be detected.

Rossmann had a bunch of legitimate replacement parts confiscated in customs at the behest of Apple.

> [GP] “Right to repair” thinking applies well to things like tractors

It's incredibly strange that Apple is lobbying against right to repair, in that case.
Just enable your web server's deflate middleware and you'll see that raw data sizes aren't very different from fully formatted HTML.
DNS resolution 12ms

First-byte time 64ms

CSS & JavaScript 148ms

Analytics 3,157ms

Images 250ms

someone who is good at the web please help me budget this. my store is slow
The crime isn't "beating the market," it's "insider trading" because it's supposed to be a level playing field for the good of the system and the people in it. It seems self defeating to decide the fairness of an unfair advantage by whether or not it panned out - which we don't even know.

The cohort is so small that there's a fair chance that the (vast, even) majority of Congressmen are really bad at trading, just due to random variation. Who's to say that without that insider information, the politicians wouldn't be homeless? The control group - say, all the people who can but have no chance at entering politics ever - tends to be very, very bad at investing and does worse than the market.
> I don’t think I suggested that I get to decide if a wage is livable.

You are if you're implying that wages are somehow unlivable today.

> And I guess I find it odd that you’ve, apparently, decided that all immigrants have lower expectations and standards of living.

No. They decided that themselves when they decided to spend their summer in hundreds of miles away from their family to pick strawberries for the summer to undercut domestic labor. Surely, they're intelligent enough to act according to their best interests.

> I take issue with the notion that immigrants inherently deserve less because of some perceived expectation of what is good enough for them based on where they came from.

I don't think they deserve less. Unlike GP, I'm pro immigration. I just pointing out the incompatibility between both demanding a "living wage" and laxer immigration. The price of labor is determined by supply and demand just as like anything else with a price. Low-skill immigrants consume less than the average resident, so they increase the supply of low-skilled labor much more than the demand.
Ask HN: Best CSS Specs for Novel Streaming?
hey!

have recently started uploading short stories to stream on website but am about to do the same with an Aladdin adaptation i've written - was wondering if anyone has a simple CSS font/margin/framework that makes a nice fit for longform reading.

uploading a short story volume to a website is one thing, but a longform (~200 page read) is not something I've done before & was wondering if anyone who currently a much preferred setup

i.e. is pg's "tiny text" on his blog "generally favored" for longform book? is bigger font better? i think Andy Weir streamed The Martian on his website - did anyone read that story & enjoy his font size / page length setup?

i don't know my target audience & have ~ 0 social media friends across all platforms to poll or ask so any thoughts/feedback posting/reading longform online would be wayy appreciated

thanks
Isn't that just self inflicted though? You probably wouldn't have had to write C/threaded code if you chose a faster runtime like C#/Java/Go/Kotlin/Scala instead of ruby.
Those colleagues could just look past the sex of the person doing the talking and focus on the content, just like we've done for a long time - just like we've been taught. MLK wanted his children to be judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin. Your colleagues are most likely perfectly capable of judging tutorials by their content, not by the sex of the narrator. Segregation is what we should be glad we left behind, not what we should strife for.
It seems to work for aircraft maintenance.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nepal-airline-odd-idUSEIC...
Raining cats and dogs would be a natural phenomenon, not an act of violence.

What if this has been the "idiom"?:

> I WOULD HAVE RAPED A NIGGER TO BE ABLE TO JUST USE FREAKING DIALUP!

Would it still be funny? Maybe this is an American thing, where violence is glorified and totally ok to joke about. If you said "I'd kill for ______" in my country, you'd get some very concerned looks from your peers.
This is a well-trodden topic. Maybe you should ask questions instead of spout answers :thonk:
Nope. That’s not enough.

This happens many times a year with company buyouts where many shares are accumulated first, then a buyout is announced, which boosts the share price further.
I would have assumed that meant it shouldn't be included inline; that referencing it via URL is fine. Do we know which they mean?

Edit- found this: "If a Web author desires to use SVG Native on the Web, the img element may be used instead"
> essentially just a hash of the contact’s public key

and yours*. They're concatenated with deterministic sorting such that they are the same on both devices.

Which is a big pain because that means I can't simply tell everyone my public key, I have to explain that half the number is their own key and that they can ignore the non-matching part, which is dangerous advice... it could have been so simple but moxie is moxie
I captured, isolated, and built up wild saccharomyces yeast from my suburban backyard last Sept and have been brewing with it regularly since. Currently have batch 4 and 5 on tap. If lambic producers can coolship in the middle of a major European city, you've likely got the fun stuff in your backyard as well.
>I would have thought there would be a combination of yeast/bacteria from the coolship cooling combined with that existing in the barrel.

Yes that is exactly it, they do steam their barrels, but Brett can survive very deep in wood and inoculation rate does not matter at those scales. The mythos of lambic is, that its purely spontaneous from the air, the more nuanced take is, its a mix of the the air, the building and the barrels.

>It'd be interesting if a number of breweries across the world made wort to the same recipe, with the same malt etc. and then let cool with their own coolship.

There are a ton of breweries making beer the way lambic brewers mdo and the beers have huge variance, though they always come back to the same template

I second milk the funk, I am a very active user on the forum and there are very few wikis that I know of that are as well researched and nuanced as milk the funk. Dan does an amazing job!
What a perfect example of developers pushing for technologies they want to learn. A web application stack in the flavor of the month systems language for correctness!

My eyes can’t possibly rollback far enough.
I see your point, but I see a huge benefit to standardization here. This will help with the 90% of tasks that all browsers are capable of - instead of two ways to do the same thing, you get one way - developers jobs get easier, cross compatibility actually works. For the remaining 10%, I agree there is some risk - but per the webextension group's charter (https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/charter.md) section on "Autonomy"

> Given this, we expect browser vendors to offer APIs and capabilities beyond what's specified.
Akira Miyawaki did a similar thing in Japan. He studied Shinto shrine forests, catalogued the species and observed how they work together which led him to develop a method for planting forests. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114425
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They also handle errors by having the user reload the page which means everything starts over.

My experience growing up is that you don't notice the issues on sane pages written by hobbyists/professors/researchers and then you go to something built by google and everything falls apart.
I doubt it since most websites have moved to using geo-distributed CDNs and sometimes app servers anyways.
HVIF requires some pre-tuning on the source icons so it may never be an apples to apples comparison.

In any way I find the author's statement that, because HVIF claims "you wouldn't really want to use HVIF to store generic
vector graphics", then HVIF should not be considered as an alternative.

Precisely HVIF excels as a "compact, binary format for simple vector graphics" and that is exactly what they mean when they say that it should not be used for generic vector graphics. So I could claim this is just reinventing the wheel...
maybe water. The sourdough culture itself likely shifts, changes, and evolve continued re-use.
That person used my very questioning of it as an example of something that "assumed bad intent", etc etc, as the memo said, "will not be tolerated". Scale that up to a workplace, and I can see how that could go sideways.
In a sense, shell programming using pipes and i/o redirection is functional programming.
A lot of people use “pedophilia” to mean “sexual abuse of children” and “pedophile” or “pedo” to mean “sexual abuser of children”. (E.g., RMS’s infamous defense of “consensual pedophilia” which, merits of the intended sentiment to the side, isn’t even a coherent thing to defend or oppose except under the misuse of “pedophilia” to refer to an act and not an inclination.)
Is it? The last four years seemed like impunity under constant scrutiny.
That would make them like reddit :/
>To me inflation is taxation without representation. It is theft of purchasing power by Central Banks.

I guess, in the end, I see central banks as "indirectly representative". While they have some free hand in day-to-day policy, in the end, their leadership has to answer to elected officials. If they drive the economy into a ditch, the head of the Federal Reserve/Bank of England/ECB will get fired.

So the decisions they make aren't much more "taxation without representation" than when the city sanitation department has the authority to adjust the rates for trash collection. Eventually, there's accountability.

>I am less concerned with the needs of lenders to compensate for inflation than I am worried about the disastrous effect it has on those who wish to save for the future.

The point was more that it's already priced in. Inflation doesn't seem to be hindering us from building projects like railroads or semiconductor fabs where the real payback may be many years after the first cheque is written.

As far as I can tell, the primary loser in a managed-slow-inflation scenario is the person who is saving via the "wad of banknotes under the mattress" strategy or similar equally naive choices (i. e. a main-street bank savings account that pays below the inflation rate).

It's not hard to build a very conservative investment portfolio that beats managed competent-Western-central-bank inflation. Hell, you could just buy something like TIPS or Series I savings bonds and be done with.

From that perspective, it's less "robbing savers of purchasing power" and more about converting savers from "dragons sitting on top of a pile of gold" into actual investors participating in the real economy.
Yeah, autocomplete can screw things up. It can do so in a browser when you show a friend (or co-employee or your child) something as well. It is something to keep in mind.

If you use a VM or burner device the chance of such happening is negligible. You can also use a second account which has less rights than your main account. A feature which Google's Android conveniently has (guest mode).
Actually, we don't - there is no legal/treaty reason why a government could not offer a negative corporate income tax rate (at least in the lowest N-1 tax brackets), and we may actually see that if corporate abuse of political processes is allowed to continue far enough.
Microsoft says error caused 'Tank Man' Bing censorship
Sites that were not getting enough people coming in to use all the doses they had available were doing that in my area. It was not all sites all the time but at a certain point, lots of places switched priority to getting doses to people regardless of demographic so that they didn't spoil. And lots of that info was word of mouth or social media posts, because there was little way to centrally coordinate it.
I eagerly await the broad recognition that economies are non-linear complex adaptive systems.
It’s a standard English idiom, universally understood not to be taken literally.
I find it easier to either use conditional compilation or traits for test substitutes. Using dynamic dispatch for it is more trouble than it's worth IMO.
They can make all the agreements they want, but it's not a legal treaty until 2/3 of the Senate agrees, and even then, this stuff requires that laws be passed -- many laws affecting jurisdiction, accounting standards, and the tax laws themselves. None of this can be done with an executive agreement.
> Rust does have a lot of complicated stuff, but almost all of it secretly turns up if you wanted to be good at C++ too.

This is mostly true. As FP and Rust have shown us, if you can treat an input data set as immutable, while building up the result data, you have a much easier time. I bring those patterns into my C++, which speaks to your point.

I'd offer one exception though: mutability xor aliasability on a per-object basis is something I wouldn't take to my C++ code. It may be the core of Rust, and it's a neat tradeoff that enables some of its other benefits, but the indirect complexity cost is too high, IME.

> Oh there is just no way it's harder to learn than C++.

I think the jury's still out on this one.

C++ has complexity, but has the benefit of a gradual learning curve. You can start with C, slowly add `virtual`, then add templates, then add the STL.

Rust has just as much complexity, and forces it all on you at once. Because of that, it is harder to learn.

Some people say Rust's rules are intuitive. I have to disagree. These years of working with Rust and teaching Rust to others have made it clear to me: though the basic concepts are simple, the architectural implications and workarounds are not.

I'm not saying C++ or Rust is better. But C++ is slightly easier to learn, IMO.

I commonly hear "But it's hard to learn how to use C++ safely!" and I generally agree with that. ASan has made things much easier in that regard, but C++ will probably never catch up enough for some use cases.
> Python also checks during runtime, but Haskell doesn't have that feature. Right?

I don't know Haskell so can't answer that, but typically a statically typed language doesn't need that.

Sometimes languages still provide runtime check, typically happens when their type system is lacking. For example in Go, if you use interface{} type, the type checking happens at runtime. That's why it is discouraged to use, because could be reason that slows down your code.

> Julia's dynamic typing, and hence its ability to do specialization using runtime information, is part of why it can (sometimes) beat Fortran in numerical performance.

I'm also not familiar with Julia, but from what I read is that for numerical types, Julia uses native types instead of using objects like Python.

It looks like well written Julia code can enable the interpreter to infer types and then JIT can use that to optimize the code. Python doesn't have that functionality at least not yet.
Sure! When I mentioned everything, I really meant it :p .It may be the small things in life, like an obscure bookstore near your home, a contraption that you didn't even know existed but then changed your life once you discovered it or a beautiful hike so close to your house that you were surprised to know you didn't discover it before. You get my point.

We are always looking for something, I just wanted to know if there is a better way to discover the things already known to other people. Search engines are good at showing us what we ask for, but how do I search for something I don't know? Is there some place like Beng's blog where I can find exciting new stuff?
>background compression and we used JBIG2 for text image compression

Are you aware of the downsides?

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...

It stands to reason that not only Xerox had problems with JBIG2.
Separating planetary reflex Doppler shifts from stellar variability
The world population doubled in those 60 years. People like to eat fish. They also occupy space - many people live in big cities, where wild animals are not commonly expected at the front door.

Insects also need space to breed, which is taken away by farming, roads, buildings and pesticides.
> The last four years seemed like impunity under constant scrutiny.

Are you referring to the scandal ridden Administration where many officials went down in disgrace before the Administration itself was defeated?
Even terminal programs that just write to stdout depend on the OS to some extent.

On Windows, writing to a terminal window has different effects depending on the type of terminal. The classic Windows Console doesn't understand VT codes but there are API calls to do the same things (position cursor, change attributes etc). Recent versions of Windows Console can be told to understand VT codes, but require an API call to enable VT interpretation, then they understand a subset. Windows Terminal isn't the same as Windows Console. Then there's running things under Mintty, or Cygwin Terminal. Control+C behaves differently under those than under the Windows Console. Then there's running things under "winpty" in a Cygwin Terminal, which uses a hidden Windows Console and translates the resulting character matrix as best it can to terminal codes. There are other terminal emulators too.

Linux terminals have a lot of diversity regarding which VT codes they interpret, but at least there's a common subset for most of them. There's also some variation about codes for keypress, such as modifiers with function keys.

If it uses terminfo or termcap to work with various terminals, there are some OS dependencies regarding what capabilities are likely to be indicated.

The color capability varies. Sending 24-bit color to some terminals will not have the desired effect on others.

Unicode support varies among terminals, and this toolkit uses plenty of Unicode in the demos: Radio buttons, check boxes, box drawing characters, and the bar graph demo. What counts as a wide character (two cells) also varies.
Question to you, did you learn programming through OOP?

Cause when you say "OOP is how I think. There is no reasoned argument one could make to undo that", it isn't clear what is the chicken and what is the egg. Do you think naturally in a way where OOP is compatible with your thinking process, or did you learn to think that way?
Marvin Minsky Inspired Artificial Neural Networks
The large services with user content care a lot. If you are Reddit instead of Facebook performance starts to matter.
The joke is on them (well, yeah, but figuratively too). The VPN is only slow for external sites that the developers can not fix, while internal ones load at the full speed the middlebox can handle.

Companies are grooming the developers so that they will never have difficulty hiring people that can diagnose a broken firewall, but they are not getting faster web pages out of the deal.
I also have bugs in my backyard, in a 5 million people city. Also saw more foxes while living here than in I ever saw in the countryside.