skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm this seems to conflate various things.

As anyone who has had to make code interact with GnuPG will attest, I very much agree its interfaces are not ideal to put it mildly. I'm pretty excited, though, about things like Statless OpenPGP CLI (SOP), or Sequoia's CLI f.ex., and several of the other tools referenced up-thread to handle package signatures are also CLI, so I don't think that's an inherent problem.

Regarding packages, apt supports pinning specific keys or keyrings to specific repositories (via the signed-by attribute), as does debsig-verify (which can pin keys or keyrings to specific policies). On Debian, packages get signed by the maintainers (both the source packages, inside the .dsc file, and for the entire upload, inside the .changes file), which get uploaded and then the repository software takes over and signs both source and binary packages in the metaindices. This was made pretty much designed on purpose, and independently of GnuPG CLI's speed or design shortcomings. The repository needs to handle key rotation, due to expiration, algo renewal, security compromises, maintainers leaving the project (and as such their keys not being trusted anymore), etc. Embedding the signatures into the source or binary packages would mean that they would change content, which implies massive mirroring costs, simple digest verification oddities, and similar. Adding detached signatures for each individual source and binary package would make the inode count explode. The metadata still would need to be signed no matter what, and doing either of those per package signing would also make signature update and repository metadata generation and mirroring extremely painful, as you need to be able to do that atomically. In addition the repository needs to be signed as a whole, because it's really a snapshot of a known state, and while it should be fine to mix and match various repositories (at the user request), that should not be the default (at least within a specific repository state).
Points 2 and 3 are also being accomplished by corporations being willing to sponsor politicians that will reduce them no matter how horrible or unqualified they are in other domains.
Relativity has a bold plan to take on SpaceX, and investors are buying it
The API doc is incomplete and outdated, and I'm embarrassed to share it in its current state. I will update this thread once it is presentable.

The Electron app is indeed an over kill (hence the repo-name "bhari", meaning overweight). But it made it easy for us to reuse stable code that performed authentication, decryption, data-sync, etc. Also, we did not want to commit to the overhead of maintaining another stack (say a CLI or a native app) at a point where the value it would provide to a customer was unclear.
O(N) per user for the initial key exchange when you join a room, and then O(1) thereafter - although you should re-key when someone joins/leaves or every N messages or X days (where N is typically 100 and X is typically 7).
I would question if this weren't the case often enough that people would demand it be compatible with their teleprompter.
I don't think these vague emotional statements are constructive.

The rules outlined in the article apply to everyone, not just the rich, and they should be fixed for everyone, not just the rich.

In this case leaking Jeff Bezos' tax returns targeted one individual and provided no new useful information. It's exactly what we already expected about his taxes.

...and frankly, the "rich are evil - look how they don't pay taxes on unrealized gains" is a huge distraction from fixing the actual problems with the tax system.

We need to eliminate foreign tax havens, and severely limit non-profit "Foundations".
the default mode in apache/apache2 used to be _process_ per connection (pre forked workers) not thread per connection. threads came much later.
Sticking to your principles too much when the opposition is perfectly willing to do whatever it takes may lead to you dying on your hill.
Russia and China would in fact be a better solution as most Westerners are never going to be subject to Russian or Chinese authorities.
Chainlink 2.0 and Hybrid Smart Contracts
I recommend breaking out your terraform code into separate folders and calling them "components". Write a wrapper around the terraform script to pass in -var-file which uses an argument called ENVIRONMENT that you pass to the wrapper. I think the built in support for modules is less useful for what you actually want to do because you end up with variables spread between variables.tf, outputs.tf files.

I use a tool I wrote to layer my infrastructure with layers called components and I configure it with a Graphviz file.

My tool, called mazzle (previously devops-pipeline) would run parts of the graph that can run in parallel in parallel. It can also run parts of the build on SSH workers. You bring up the workers at the beginning of the build.

Here's an example of a graph generated from graphviz file:
https://github.com/samsquire/mazzle/blob/master/docs/archite...

This graph brings up a hashicorp vault server, Java application, bastion proxy etc.

here's the graphviz file: https://github.com/samsquire/mazzle-starter/blob/master/arch...

It describes the ordering of the infrastructure, the invocation of Ansible, packer, shell scripts to set up vault etc.

The idea is to be able to bring up a new environment by changing one parameter. There's a React GUI too.

https://devops-pipeline.com
According to the 2020 figures, national defense was 11% of federal spending. Discretionary vs. mandatory seems irrelevant here. We might as well say military spending is 100% of military spending. It's just dividing it by something to make it sound higher, usually for propaganda purposes.

Nevertheless I totally agree some part of that 11% will benefit business and commerce. But it is still a terrible deal. In any other context no one would ever buy something with a 90% "commission".
Jared Diamond, in his book "The Day Before Yesterday", talks about how children in Papua New Guinea when he was an anthropologist there would play at making a garden or raising pigs. The kid would have a toy, wooden pig, and then eventually be given a piglet, and then gradually their "play" would become more realistic until it shaded into adult work.

My daughter, as a youngun', wanted to play "coffeeshop" where she would set up a coffeeshop at home and charge her mother and I for drinks. I think this says something about how much she saw the inside of coffeeshops while I was programming there.

The main obstacle to still using the play-better-until-it's-real path, is that we don't have a good way for kids to see what adults are doing, in most jobs. Otherwise, their natural instincts are still to "play" at doing what they see the adults doing.
I tried using this for a few days. I found it incredibly frustrating, partially because the subtitles in Finnish were so dumbed down from the actual English-language dialogue.
I do

But that's irrelevant

Not loading images will nix >99% of what people actually use the web for
The tab redesign is such a nonissue. "Is it a tab or is it a button". UI is very contextual, and in Firefox's case they're very obviously tabs.
Sadness.

There is a solution for all this mess and I'm blocking HN and a few different domains until I implement at least the first step after which I can share it here.
The essay starts out okay, but then kind of goes off the rails:

> Instead of telling kids that their treehouses could be on the path to the work they do as adults, we tell them the path goes through school.

There are two things wrong with that sentence. First, there's no tradeoff because kids have enough time for both. Second, a treehouse is rarely the path to riches. Let's not kid ourselves (pun intended). Most kids do not have projects that are valuable from a career perspective.

> And unfortunately schoolwork tends be very different from working on projects of one's own.

Well sure, because the average kid needs to learn to write and do basic arithmetic. The author may be unaware of what most kids are like.

> So as school gets more serious, working on projects of one's own is something that survives, if at all, as a thin thread off to the side.

That's true, but that's because teenagers would rather spend their time hanging out with other teenagers than working on a startup idea. Most high school kids in the US have time for projects but they choose to spend time on other things. And that's good, though maybe not for the VCs of the world.
A counter example from your field: Would a human add value adjusting the boosters to vertically land starship?
Which is why we need to curb these non-profit donations and trusts.

The estate tax rate itself is fine - the issue is the exemptions.
> they did have multiple large castles and entire armies ready to do their bidding

But would you rather live as a king a few thousand years ago, or live as an average person of modest living today?
What!? I absolutely pay a rolling cost in the increase in value in my home — to the tune of 3.1% of its expected value, every year.
The mobile web is nearly unusable for me without Firefox + uBlock Origin. I haven't even opened Chrome on my Android phone in a very long time.
It’s still not acceptable. At least the tax minimizer is following applicable laws, this vigilante is not.

They are taking it upon themselves outside the law to settle disagreements, but they want to leverage new laws to make taxes more aligned with their policy (but obviously they are okay with ignoring other parts of the law —that’s a disconnect).
Poor Homeowners Will Pay Less After Flood Insurance Overhaul
For maximum effect I also use:

* browser.compactmode.show=true - enable compact mode

* browser.menu.showViewImageInfo=true - show menu icons
That's why most partitions have the nodev mount option. An (one of the rreasons) why there is pushback on a single big partition for everything.
I'd love to see an example of this actually working, because I have had the opposite experience (explicitly with the Kubernetes and Helm providers); I've had to do applies in multiple steps.
Finding the time I will try out Python-based Nikola [0]. Its features are very intriguing to me and as it is based on Python, I could (potentially) write my own extensions.

What always drives me away from SSGs or what I don't understand: to create new content, you need to have your development environment.

What I would like to have would be Grav [1], but based on Python. With Grav you can log in, create or adjust your Markdown-files and you instantly have your new or changed content, from every browser in the world. You can also easily create your own backend/frontend forms within the application. I know that this is basically a CMS and not a SSG, but it allows me to adjust the content of a basically static site.

I also know that there is also Python-based Lektor [2], however I found Nikola more intriguing than this one.

[0] https://getnikola.com/

[1] https://getgrav.org/

[2] https://www.getlektor.com/
NASA’s Juno Set for Close Encounter with Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
I've always thought of apps like Retool as a Frontend as a service, and even as a mostly-front-end-person I've started using those more
Ah. Good ol' carbon nanotubes...

The only application CNTs fail -completely- at, is leaving the laboratory.

Unlike those pesky CNTs, I'll just see my way out now.
And you think this new gov department won’t become politicized? Whatever affiliation you are, imagine the opposite side running these offices. That is very scary.

Then there’s the question about your so-called “nonpositive rights”. What does this include? What does it take to remove these?

Your vision of the future here is terrifying, and I will personally fight against a truth dictator and the removal of rights with every ounce of my being.
Most small businesses - even those little shops owned by immigrants, are valued in the millions.

The step up basis will probably be limited or eliminated this year with Biden's tax plan.
There are likely dozens, if not hundreds of criminal kingpins with more wealth. It’s just not in their name, only controlled by them.
I absolutely agree. When I started evaluating the project I was positively surprised about the performance of Node for this field. It was a perfect fit so I continued with it
Decoded: What Are Neurons?
the normal solution is that owner/operators or owner/residents don’t pay the LVT until time of sale, and could instead pay modest interest on the LVT.
> how do American financial statements show "wealth"

That's the point though. This is a tax on income, not wealth. And, until you sell the asset, it's not income.
How you feel about this is going to depend on where you are on the political spectrum. I fully support this decision based on where the country stands on inequality and socioeconomic power imbalances. It’s in the public interest to demonstrate the result of poorly constructed public policy (and thereby stoke inertia to fix it and erode wealth inequality).

I’m happy to make my tax returns and income history public if the wealthy are required to do the same.
Encrypted network run by de FBI led to at least 800 arrests
When it goes away you can try teddit.net
> "This is in the hands of our American partners,"

> The United States and other Western countries began imposing sanctions against Russia in the wake of its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

Is there any chance they would cede Crimea back at this point? Or, are there other conditions they would have to satisfy for the sanctions to be lifted. Because it seems they can do something too to lift the sanctions.

The last time I remember a statement by Rogozyn was when he said the hole in the space station was deliberately drilled from inside [1]. Presumably, blaming American or other astronauts. It seems like he is purposefully trying to provoke a conflict.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/science-enviro...
I mean, long term rate is 20%, so taking a margin loan at 2% to finance consumption is a bet that you have less than 10 years to go…
No Back Doors
This would significantly degrade the HN experience for me for two reasons. Firstly it would make submission titles much longer and therefore make the hn page less compact. Secondly it would open the door to editorializing in the submission title, which is generally undesireable.

In this specific instance, terraform is not exactly an obscure piece of tech. Do you really think your suggested title is an improvement?
your company sounds like they know what they are doing. Cloudformation will take your infrastructure from point A to point B or roll it back in case of failure. Terraform, not so much.
Hmmm. Grafana Live looks interesting. Does this mean Grafana now hosts and serves timeseries data [1], like InfluxDB? Or is this only temporal, only for events, alerts, etc?

[1] https://grafana.com/tutorials/stream-metrics-from-telegraf-t...
Normally, I would take this at face value. But from the company that just started charging users to allow them to skip upgrades, it feels like more nickel and dime tactics to me.
I'm using Arch Linux (which is a rolling releases distribution) and just did an upgrade. Then visited this post and was pleased to try out the new features I did not know about "in real" on my desktop.

The Linux OSS desktop is really very sweet. Thanks to all this work, nice people of KDE!
Almost by accident, I started using KDE for the first time in years about 9 month ago and as someone who dumped KDE for XFCE back in the KDE4 days I have to say I'm really surprised and impressed with the current KDE. If like me you haven't tested KDE a few years I can highly recommend giving a modern KDE based distro a spin.
This company's customers / clients and suppliers might of course care... But if the suppliers exist only to supply this, and the clients in turn don't produce anything otherwise useful either, maybe none of them really matter. So if someone else would step in and do it, that might just mean that then someone else would be doing an equally bullshit job.
>It traps 86% of the trash that would otherwise flow to the River IJssel and further on to the North Sea, according to Philip Ehrhorn, co-founder and chief technology officer of The Great Bubble Barrier, the Dutch social enterprise behind the system.

>Commissioned by the municipality of Amsterdam and the region's water authority, the Bubble Barrier was installed in October 2019 in under five hours.
Deutsches Museum – German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology
Not all news is made equal, though maybe you implied this by using the term mainstream.

There's a profound difference in what you get out of a curated editorial in the Economist and the talking heads on Fox News.

I'd argue the former has tremendous value and isn't presented in a way that pokes at our anxieties.
I was asking how to get kids to explore things where they might find something that sparks them to desire to spend time on "A Project of One's Own".

Competition in school or school-like activities is a fabricated incentive that doesn't have anything to do with kids doing what Paul is talking about with "A Project of One's Own". Chasing a GPA leads to a feedback loop akin to "keeping up with the Joneses" and basically the "plodding along" path in life.
They are not doing whatever it takes. They are following the laws we have enacted. The only one doing whatever it takes is this person who seems to think taking justice into your own hands is an acceptable thing to do.

I'm not saying we should not close loopholes. I'm all for that, but I'm not for willy nilly leaking illicitly obtained private documents that do not describe illegal behavior nor anything we didn't already know.
Wow, is this really all true?
How could he find out the hosting was on AWS?
How did none of the criminals get to see this blog?
Did the police intervene and had him remove the blog?
> being competitive in school-like activities provides them

To an extent. I keep wondering, wouldn't it be better if schools/universities were structured as PvE challenges, not PvP ones? Trying to elicit a culture of collaboration, instead of pitting students against each other?

I may be strongly biased, because I hate competition outside of games[0], and competitive incentives generally make me stop caring.

--

[0] - Particularly, games in which points are fake and only matter for brief status rewards and after-play joking.
I don't know if people have even tried Pulumi before recommending it.

I've tried it, and it has buggy defaults, diff generation, etc. Each time I applied the same code, it would generate a diff based off of some internal defaults and... recreate the exact same infrastructure by _tearing it down_ and making it fresh. Not ideal.

Would advise using the TF CDK specifically.
Intresting fact from 2011:

"Second, we’re also excited to announce one of the first (of many!) projects that Amjad has worked on with us: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to play with JavaScript, Ruby, and Python online." (http://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/amjad-joins-codecad...)

Hmmm...
It's just enough to annoy you but not enough to make everyone leave the platform
Yeah, I found this weird: "We treat "playing" and "hobbies" as qualitatively different from "work". It's not clear to a kid building a treehouse that there's a direct (though long) route from that to architecture or engineering. "

There is not really a route from such playing to engineering except for the general kinds of reasoning involved. It's a cute idea, but does not seem very useful.
Going from plan to finish is extremely valuable no matter what the project is. I myself was always a dreamer, just planned stuff, and that tendency carried all the way into adulthood. Perhaps I should have finished more projects when I was a kid, maybe I‘d be a bit more productive and less of a dreamer today.
I know what PG is saying. And I'm saying that it is stupid and is (consciously or not) part of a larger culture designed to allow owners to extract ever more labor from workers without paying them more. It is so easy for him to make wild decrees about the best way to live, because he happens to hold the keys to the kingdom.

Even if I care deeply about projects and software and even entrepreneurship in my own time - that should have precisely zero bearing on my work.
I always wonder how this is legal in the U.S.A? Creating a fake bank in another country sounds like committing fraud in another country. At worst it can be they would be charged with money laundering themselves.

What is the line of what is acceptable at entrapment in the United States? What stops any agency from creating permanent fake banks for example?

I am glad drug lords get busted. I hate them, but I think if there is no line, then we do not need any kind of law. Just declare drug traffickers as not human and exterminate them. I do not think the outcome would be good.
Altium is definitely mid-range on the price point. Mentor and Cadence are 10x.
Serious question. What value does Terraform provide?

Two years ago I looked into it and rather then having an abstraction from cloud providers it seemed to require to still target (and code against) each one specifically.

So, I was quite disappointed as I thought the value proposition was to not have to know x cloud provider specific terminologies.

Any insights much appreciated.

Edit: I was a little worried asking such a naive question but the comments are super useful! Thanks everyone for sharing your insights.
Also, one thing that is found does not preclude existence of other things to be found. The first discovered problem may attract so much attention that potential others are neglected.

Tl;dr: the first diagnosis tends to stick with the patient.
Yes, but these regulations are not well policed. They effectively take the accounting books provided at face value.

It's almost never investigated, and there is, in the normal course, so much overlap between expenses that benefit ME as a person, and ME as the owner of the charity.

Travel is a big one, for example.
> I expect a few prominent politicians to be soon either arrested or "convinced" to step down.

Won't happen because the media and FANG runs cover for politicians in the west as opposed to reporting on them.

They keep burring anything that can be slightly damaging to politicians while they dox private individuals with impunity.
4D chess theory:

This analysis was written by law enforcement in advance of the takedown to promote the next backdoored app.
I disagree. It is an opportunity for alzheimer's patients that cannot be missed; FDA approval is conditional and can be revoked if further studies reveal lacking evidence.
I think "at a disadvantage" may be the wrong framing. As a member of (say) the 1%, but not the 0.01%, my personal take is this:

- My money does more good, dollar-for-dollar, by my own personal definition of "good", when I donate it to specific charities than when it's collected as tax and then spent.

- We would nonetheless have a net benefit from more aggressive taxation of people like me because a) the reduced effectiveness, per dollar, is counterbalanced by increased overall spending, and b) more progressive taxation would help address inequality of wealth and income, which has other, independent, pernicious impacts.

Because I believe those two things, I both a) advocate for higher taxes on "people like me" and b) to the extent legally possible, minimize my tax burden and prefer to make voluntary charitable contributions.

I believe this last part is fully consistent with the first two bullet points if we take them axiomatically, though they each may of course be themselves wrong.

Edit: I also want to add: I think when we talk policy, we often talk in a "if I were King of the World" sort of way. So, if I were King of the World, we'd raise tax rates but not spend the money on stuff I disagree with. ;) If you told me, "Yeah, we can raise the top income tax rate, but all the extra money will go to drone strikes against civilians," of course I'd oppose it. I think a lot of our "should dos" assume we get other policy outcomes we desire as well.