skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Goes into Curl?
> The wreck is actually from a 1986 crash that saw no fatalities.

I'm obviously as unsure as anybody of the correctness of this analysis, but I found a source that wasn't Facebook for your alternative:
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/06/16/folsom-lake-plane...
Livebook-Driven Development
> I would accept Apple using something other than Helvetica

At this point, Helvetica itself would give a retro feeling if used by Apple. They’ve been all in on San Francisco for several years.
Great, thanks! It does seem like they might be using something like this for social graph. Somebody gave neat explanation on Quora [1]

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-has-Facebook-modeled-its-social-gr...
This is how the SEC spends its resources? This is considered newsworthy? $2M is considered material in 2021?

If they'd been in charge of the WW2 military, instead of Omaha Beach, we'd have a press release about one random dead Nazi.
I tried to learn PDP-10 assembly language. I was just baffled by one concept after another (what's an accumulator? what's an addressing mode?).

But then I did some programming for a 6800 with something like 40 simple instructions, and I "got it", and the -10 became simple, too.
It's a huge, huge leap from "Unexplainable things are happening" to "These are alien spacecraft."

Agreed.

You can't stop at "Unexplainable things are happening" without being told "They can't be, because interstellar travel is impossible."

Also agreed. We need to be able to divorce analysis of the actual phenomena - whatever they actually are - from one specific speculative hypothesis.
Geez, this is such a negative outlook. I know this is the trendy, anti-capitalist, labor-friendly view of the world these days. But it is still possible to believe the tech product you are working on is contributing something positive to the world. Or to simply enjoy creating and improving on things that are used by many users, even at a big company where your own scope of work might be much more narrow than on a personal project you have 100% control over.

It is possible to be motivated by both the money and other aspects of the job, and in my own experience this is the case for all of the best coworkers I've had over the years.

> telling people to fake motivation, when all they actually want is the money - just increases company bullshit.

With this perspective, anyone who chooses to see the glass half full instead of half empty is bullshitting. Anyone who says or does something kind to somebody else even though their own life is not perfect, is bullshitting. You could make that argument but that's not what most people would call bullshit.
IANAL, but I assume these penalties be on top of the seizure of the illicit gains. If not, I completely agree with your sentiment.
Why is it that whenever a story involves "followers", you know something like this is coming?

>This person has asked followers to pick up machetes and attack me.

Some people have gotten very rich creating a world in which unpopular people can now expect to be threatened with machetes.
The queue has to be stored somewhere and that takes either memory and disk or memory. That's not finite and prone to spikes (e.g. from another service suddenly waking up and calling you)
And I’m sure a company that found a way to still sell to the Nazis won’t adapt by having this guy sponsor their new water brand for soccer-focused countries.

Side note:
If you really think about the power Coke will amass in China, it feels staggering. Imagine having a quarter billion people (being conservative here) pay $1 for a can of soda. That’s $250m on a Monday. Do it again Tuesday, maybe have them buy two. It’s crazy money.
> designed to go after the smallest possible players

SEC doesn't have infinite resources to go after every possible financial crime. They go after the ones that have the highest likelihood of successful prosecution. This is the case with most prosecutions like this.
Fortunately, the claim the Israel is an apartheid state appears to be false, according to those who lived through apartheid. [1] [2]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcEL-NlxBk0

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocNttZV4G_0
Sugar water has probably done more to change the world tbh.
The criticism of Assange I'm stating isn't that he's choosing his targets, it's that he is fundamentally dishonest.
At least you can scrub past those for now
Java Properties Deep Dive
If they did, it would be a massive improvement to public health, wouldn't it?
Ask HN: Developer Portal Recommendations
My team is going to start development on a new API for our company soon and we want to have a developer portal. We want it to be a place for devs to find documentation, discover other APIs we have, and get access (auth tokens/api keys). Have you had any experience with any "out of the box" solutions? We are on google cloud, so most likely we wouldn't want to use AWS tools but we are also open to any 3rd party options. At my last company we rolled our own developer portal, so I know some of the pitfalls of that approach. I've never used a 3rd party solution, so I'm interested in what is available and pros/cons.

Thanks!
It’s All in the Angles: Joan Didion’s Long View
Yes, good catch. I did mean DES-56. I got the encryption name confused with the company that issued the challenge. The RSA algorithm is completely different.
Most likely 2, but you can't put Pogba in the same sentence as Ronaldo when it comes to influence lol
I think that episode is one of the good ones. Because in it he's challenging the standard narrative of a well known piece of history.

You need to take it with a grain of salt (and I think it's fair criticism that he goes a bit ott on presenting alternative perspectives as dominant)
The idea that you run into a problem and use
Google to solve it hardly constitutes skill development.

You need to understand a domain somewhat well in order to Google effectively.

For example, I don't know anything about flowers.

Sometimes I see a flower that I'd like to identify, but I can't really Google it -- aside from color and perhaps the number of petals I'd have no idea what terms I'd use to describe a flower and therefore what I might possibly type into Google.

(note: This is just an example. Never really tried to identify a flower w/ Google. Perhaps I could use Google image search, etc.)
> The best VPN services won't even have hard drives to store logs in: that way, even individuals with a court-issued warrant can't get your info

Courts can compel them to log this information, so all claims about not keeping logs are just theater. The second they're ordered to by a court in the US, they will.
So it’s no longer in use?
Svix the name.
Indeed! And in reality eggs are basically a superfood.
I wouldn't say sugar is unnecessary for us:
“The brain is dependent on sugar as its main fuel”
https://hms.harvard.edu/news-events/publications-archive/bra...
Grumpy Economist on Meritocracy
> decentralized stable coins like DAI that have smart contracts to ensure a level of backing

Which has been collateralized by centralized stable coins including tether, if i recall correctly..
> Nathaniel Brown, [..] repeatedly tipped Infinera’s unannounced quarterly earnings and financial performance to his best friend, Benjamin Wylam

> Wylam, [..] and also tipped Naveen Sood

> Sood allegedly traded on this information and tipped his three friends Marcus Bannon, Matthew Rauch, and Naresh Ramaiya

It's less a ring and more a tree

One of the issues with leaking the info - you have no control over what is done with it and who acts on it, and it all potentially leads back to you

There was a case in Australia where a gov insider was leaking government data. He thought he had a partnership with a co-conspirator where they would make low-tens-of-thousands

He only found out after his arrest that his co-conspirator who was placing the trades was making millions - which is what got them noticed (he was one of the largest individual currency traders in the country - and never missed)
So, it encrypts sms messages and is still in use?
Yeah, this irritating "muh culture is best" kind of attitude is actually very patronizing to Indian culture, and to humanity as a whole
Forget trailers: The best upcoming games we played at this year’s E3
Perhaps EU should own software companies developing open-source software that each country can adapt to its needs. It is common with state-owned energy and water utilities. Why not software?
On the decade time scale the negative effects I've heard reported are mostly clustered in the amphetamine psychosis category
> but inevatably greed kicks in and you start thinking what if you minted coins without the backing.

Yet another tired implication of Tether printing coins without backing, so let's break down the NYAG's announcement of Tether's fine. The fine was for:

1. Buying a bond (= lending out their backing) in a related party transaction, and

2. Not updating their customers that Tether backing had changed from 100% cash into a mix of cash+bonds.

The guy with the handle bitfinex'd was an extremely prolific screamer about fraudulently unbacked tether and folks seemed to believe him. If you still believe him, it now means you believe that NYAG Leticia James looked at Tether's books and gave them a pass on fraud in order to collect a few million dollars in a fine. Not bloody likely.
Take a look at the company's stock price over the last year (KO). This sort of drop is indistinguishable from random market fluctuations as far as I can tell.
For anything worth securing we have security engineered into it, like passwords, encryption what not. But for insider trading we are just supposed to assume that the players play right without any checks or balances? I don't think just the SEC is sufficient to prevent this.
"What does he describe upon setting foot in this solemn space, a site dedicated to the very subject of his book? Himself."

So he's writing like a blogger.
The stock market should be an honest unregulated casino. Don’t invest if you can’t afford to lose it all should be the name of the game.
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. [...] If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

(From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
On the same topic: API Practices If You Hate Your Customers https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3375635
Just a fun little aside - Heineken introduced Heineken 0.0 a few years back, and as non-alcoholic beers go, it's the only one that doesn't taste "off".

Even Athletic Brewing Company, as nice as it is to have non-alcoholic stouts and IPAs, hasn't nailed what Heineken has.

(Incidentally, it was a 0.0 that Pogba removed from the table, so perhaps it wasn't the alcohol that bothered him)
>If people were actually fined 100 million for 1 million of insider trading I bet you it’d stop happening.

>For comparison $250 or more stolen is grand larceny and has a max fine of 25K and/or 5 years in state prison.

And as we all know, there's no more grand larceny
Is it that hard to roll out MFA post-hoc? Feels like it shouldn't be, if it's a huge priority.
> SEC doesn't have infinite resources to go after every possible financial crime.

So that makes token gestures acceptable?
It’s called “I don’t care about cookies” but I think it accepts all of them.
Change the “upload filter” to “total upload filter” smaller chance but still relevant. Also it was a silly sci-fi example, I’m sure sufficiently advanced societies can think up better forms of planetary dead ends.
Beware: Location can affect Map Charts in Excel
It might just be that email is read to create calendar invites for flights, etc. And not for ads.

That would seem make both statements true.

Disclaimer: views are my own, not of my employer (Google)
From the actual press release:

> An internet search of research studies in scientific database such Pubmed, Research Gate, etc., did not locate this study and the detailed methodology of this study has not been provided by the magazine.

It's here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352170008_Prelimina...

>> There's a lot of indicators of bad faith in the OpIndia article, but I don't see any in the Economist article.

> claim was it is true and nothing fake there, so you did a strawman there

...sorry, the claim is that what is true? I'm not following you on that one. For me to have "done a strawman" means I would have asserted you were making an argument that you weren't making. As I understand it, you said the Economist was making claims in "deliberate bad faith", and presented an article to rebut the Economist's claims. It appeared to me that was exactly backward. I don't see how that qualifies as anything close to a strawman.

>> In early March, India's health minister declared the pandemic over,

> NPR has not given any source for this claim and if you look at the Minister's twitter timeline for the period, it shows the opposite.

I think they're talking about this:
https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-india-...

...which I admit isn't the same as "declaring it over" but which could arguably be considered wrong. Which is fine; I'm wrong all the time, as is every other human. Acknowledging when you're wrong is one of the requirements of arguing in good faith. Wrongness doesn't imply incompetence, but failure to admit and correct mistakes does.

Anyway, I have zero interest in "making India look bad", and I wish the people of India well, as I'm sure you do. Here is all I am saying:

* I don't see "deliberate bad faith" in the Economist article, and I see an above-and-beyond effort by the New York Times to explain their methodology

* I have seen with my own eyes members of the government of the United States play down the impact of pandemic out of short-sighted self interest, and so it is easy for me to believe another government would do that

* The arguments made in the official press release linked above strike me as overly defensive and don't offer anything more than "no, that's not true" with no additional evidence provided

* And once again, I wish the people of India well, and I hope the government of India acts in the best interest of its citizens with competence, pragmatism, honesty, and efficiency.

In any case, best of luck to you! I hope we can both think critically about the information we consume.
The author of this article is writing for the casual reader of Gladwell's book who comes away thinking they have learned some history. That person may weigh their enjoyment of the story more or less strongly against whether it says something true about history, so may or may not appreciate Gladwell's emphasis. Either way, this article allows them to put the story better into the context of the history it purports to describe.
> So either Ronaldo has more influence than Pogba

I am not even a soccer fan, and I know who Ronaldo is. This is the first time I have even heard of Pogba. So likely Ronaldo has more influence than Pogba.
Turns out people will drink more of something if you make it a little addictive. Hell, the drug of choice has changed but it's even baked into the name.
I am kind of on the same page as you. Before the Pentagon stuff came out, my adjacency to UFO's was really liking the X-Files. I casually started digging into this stuff and it's clearly a global phenomenon; but when you look at comment sections like this one, a lot of the conversation is centered on explanations centered around the United States or it's rivals (China/Russia).
Use August.
Protecting Human Rights from AI
That column is pretty much always a must-read
Facebook launches a new grouping feature designed for video game streamers
Carlin's interview on the Lex Fridman podcast was great.
The penalty should be:

- Seizure of all stock holdings: logic is it's all tainted
- Ban from all future trading for life, except index funds
I wonder how effective and blockers are on their own. I don't mind consenting when I know that the third party trackers will never load anyway.
Because it, too, has a story to tell?
Coincidentally, I just started reading Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B. Frank [1]. The very first chapter details survivor accounts of the March 45 fire bombing of Tokyo. Later chapters go into the difficulties LeMay had when trying to precision bomb industrial facilities and how ineffective the bombing was.

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Downfall/cJXtAAAAMAAJ?h...

For a general; history of bombing as a tactic, I recommend A History of Bombing by Sven Lindqvist [2]. A short and unusual book in that the author gives instructions on how to read the book in two ways, either chronologically as a history book, or thematically, following the themes and ideas of bombing strategies.

[2]. https://books.google.com/books?id=Wws_HAAACAAJ&newbks=0&hl=e...
We need to crackdown harder on large powerful corporations braking the law thinking they can just get away with it. By not holding them accountable, others do the same thing and it will get out of control.

Space X also launched without permission before and should be held accountable for all infractions. The fines also need to be much larger and/or set according to the size of the business.

We can't have a country where the wealthy can just do what they want.
For some context, in case, like me, you don't recognize the author by name:

> Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie... is a Nigerian writer whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction. She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [which] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature", particularly in her second home, the United States. [1]

From the article (last paragraph) that I think sums it up nicely:

> I have spoken to young people who tell me they are terrified to tweet anything, that they read and re-read their tweets because they fear they will be attacked by their own. The assumption of good faith is dead. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness. We are no longer human beings. We are now angels jostling to out-angel one another. God help us. It is obscene.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie
One reason for tests to hit a real external API is if you're using a "record and replay" test framework to capture the interactions so that you can run the tests against the recorded data quickly later. But because the API calls you make change (and the external implementation changes) you need to re-record from time to time.

This strikes a balance where 99% of the time you are making calls that never leave the process for fast testing, but can validate against the real implementation as needed.
Tournament theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_theory
Don't forget the section that requires companies doing business with the government to share data about any possible bad actors.. hence anyone using encryption.
This is why I pretty much stopped using mobile internet on my phone outside of looking up stuff on maps or maybe wikipedia. The mobile web is unusable now on iOS. I have a ~5 inch long screen, most websites give me an inch of readable space between the banner ad and the massive autoplaying video ad consuming the bottom of the screen, and the footer ad. All of them have the tiniest close button imaginable, even using my index finger can lead to fat fingering it and clicking some ad that instantly takes me to some entirely unrelated app on the app store instantly, or fakes a popup notification that my device is compromised. Even if I do manage to successfully hit close, another ad pops up in that space a few seconds later. Its like the internet before ad blockers in the early 2000s, full of malware in the ads.
Larceny sentencing is also incredibly lenient in practice. This month an Erie County bookkeeper stole 90K from her clients and only had to pay 50K in restitution.

My general point is that white collar criminals are hardly punished in practice - not that insider trading should be treated as larceny. (Because as I pointed out the sentencing is generally light anyway)
Ok so I know this answer! They lost money through exchange hacks and bad banking relationships so they could never rely on 1:1 backing and fees, they had to make it up through bitcoin price increase which they contributed in pumping and then backing with commercial paper from their sister exchange.
That's the approach taken by Google's gVisor (at the cost of I/O and network performance).
It may shock certain commenters here to learn about something called 'fractional reserve banking'.
Billy Mitchell the general, not the gamer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell
Or, apparently, we can just use https://login.gov

(link from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27530920)
"Microsoft, like all other big companies, has to deal with political and diplomatic demands. So, we weren’t surprised to hear reports that Taiwan is treated differently in Excel Map Charts depending on the users location."
Except, they have video footage of radar screen spotting objects flying at high speeds and disappearing into the sea. Not sure that there is any other way to explain it than acknowledge that there are physical objects that pop up randomly, move at high speeds and disappear. What you make if it is up to your imagination, but you cannot dismiss as optical illusions. Maybe this planet is capable of producing physical objects that fly at high speed and then disappear into the sea. Some kind if illusive sea creatures that pop up to say hello then disappear?
Directional EMP development, here we go!
I'm not going to respond point-by-point to this nonsense. There's enough genetic evidence now to refute your claims, alongside the linguistic and archaeological claims. Read primary sources and the latest research instead of quoting people who have done absolutely zero peer-reviewed research.
Even great journalists have editors for a reason.
"or change the world"

"change the world for the better, right? right?"
Just about my favorite thing about using Ubuntu on Windows via WSL is that it does not use systemd: it uses a minimalist systemd shim instead that implements enough of systemd's interfaces to keep other essential dependencies working. So on WSL Ubuntu you have init for PID 1:

$ ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 9952 764 ? Ssl Jun15 1:06 /init

I'm sick of Microsoft telemetry and I would like to go back to native Linux, but non-systemd options are very limited:

- Devuan is most promising, being 'Debian without systemd', but the project has mountains of work to do and few volunteers to do it, yet so far seems to be managing. I'll be keeping my eye on Devuan....

- Alpine Linux doesn't have glibc, which is a very good thing except that so many precompiled Linux binaries depend on glibc, so you are stuck doing time consuming builds for some programs you will need.

- Gentoo and Artix are rolling releases, so no long term 'you only need security updates' option for servers that just need to do one job and do it well.

EDIT: I wrote Arch instead of Artix, as a commenter below pointed out. Artix is basically Arch without systemd.
I see you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

A drone cannot effectively damage a tank or any other major equipment.

The payload a swarm-drone is just way too small. Why have 100 needles when you can have 1 sword.

We have rockets, which are way more effective than any number drones.

A "drone" that can do proper damage is already the size of a plane. Anything less is only useful for recon.
That's called "revenue policing" and the only people who like it are the people high status enough to not be subject to it.
Apple CEO Tim Cook criticizes European law that would break App Store hold
0 soda or juice / day is positive

whole fruits are extremely positive on any day
> throwing clothing as fast as I could

I wonder if the same effect could be achieved with a single piece of clothing, by repeatedly snapping it in the same fashion that one would playfully snap a towel in a locker room.