skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that [1] is indeed the stable version of [2] - [2] contains things that [1] does not because it has new bits merged into it that have not yet been in a stable release. I think some of the confusion stems from them also swapping to a new version of the webpage in [2] that hasn't rolled out to the stable spec in [1] yet.

Good warning on the JS stuff, I actually just started reading through the E2EE docs again to prep for my client, and I appreciate the heads up!
Spherical Gear Mechanism
A current tactic of the Christian-right is to enter into alliances with people they would otherwise despise (radical feminists, "scienceologists" like Dawkins) on certain shared causes which are even more important to them - the bonding cause currently is opposing transgenderism. Dawkins happens to be transphobic - he even lost awards over it.
So a small shop that can only pay 1 fresh bootcamp dev who is trying their hardest doesn’t get your business because they can’t keep up with several hundred Frontend google devs. Seems a little silly and absolutist.
4:11

OMFG this is brilliant and somehow made me happy and angry at the same time. Well done.
...what?

GOPATH has nothing to do with GitHub. It is one of the places that has special case handling, but is absolutely not the purpose of GOPATH. Case in point: the VM I have to build some legacy stuff using GOPATH does not have a _single_ dependency from GitHub. Not one. Nor does it contain any open source code, besides the standard library.
I can appreciate Nihilism-derived Humor.
But it's good to keep the facts straight. No need to delude ourselves just to make sure they are always the bad guys in our head.
The only thing they left out was swamp gas as a possible explanation (RIP Hynek).

Seems like another whitewash, "it can't possibly be happening" report.

If you spend some serious effort on this and stay away from the crazies you'll come to the opposite conclusion of this report. A good starting point is Vallee's books.
Customer Support Strategies for the 21st Century
Without an expansionist- one could say evangelical- ideology like communism in power in Russia, why the heck would Russians care to push west? As any great power they want influence, yes, but it's odd to imagine that 20th century dynamics at their most tumultuous and bloody overshadow all of the previous centuries' default policies.
Let users side-load and use as many stores as they want. Or let them choose an "Apple only mode". Monetization models will follow that won't be affected by monopolistic practices. I also think IAPs are ok. But the lack of choice makes everything feel wrong

>>That's exactly the case and I have receipts to prove it. I have financial records as proof of money flowing from Apple to my bank account.

Are you sure that money came from Apple and not from your own users? Don't forget, they chose you. Apple doesn't own them
Yeah, but I'm not trying to save the world. I'm just trying to play with robots and eat tomatoes. If you're looking for something consequential, this isn't the right project.
> Go is much more stable than Rust, you know how many Rust libs need nighlty to work?

Rust libs that use nightly do so because they're opting in to new features, not because released features are unstable.

Even then with the releases of const generics, proc macros, and a couple other big-ticket features, fewer and fewer Rust projects require nightly anyway.
It's hard to believe that the voters I talk to face-to-face are the same human being, the same society and community, posting online.

We perhaps need to bring offline behavior norms into the online world.
I think this is an interesting idea, but I don't know how well it scales.i think it is a high bar for individuals to explicitly manage every single donation of personal data.

What I have thought might work is that individuals could donate their data to a non-profit entity that would have a legal responsibility to protect contributors' data. The non-profit would act as a data broker for researchers. It could sell aggregate data, but the sales would go to charitable causes. Contributors could opt out of specific research or specify specific charities.

The result is a little like a non-profit data brokerage. It would put experts in charge of data protection and confidentiality, and it explicitly acknowledges that data has value. The broker would have legal recourse and financial means to track down data abuse.
Either this: https://piano-scribe.glitch.me/ or my own cobbled together piece of software. Depending on the content anywhere from 80 to 95% accurate, good enough to get you started and typically the errors are reasonably easy to deal with because of repeating patterns.
Agree. Unstable land/foundation may be a contributing factor but my guess is that shoddy/cheap concrete work will be the root cause.
Google and Facebook are amongst the most important sponsors of scientific research in the world. Why would you want to destroy that. The internet is a winner take all industry , all things considered the current winners are pretty good. Why ruin that for narrow political goals
Notably absent of is any recognition that we live today in a very global marketplace. FAANG companies are all American. If they are broken into pieces by the US government, what if that just provides opportunity for non-US companies to now fill those ecological niches?

The end result will be the US anti-trust action accomplished nothing but enabling foreign replacements.
Oh yeah that makes sense. I assumed the commenter was just looking for any system to run SQL over Parquet files. If you don't want to use this system that makes it easy, fair enough.
Contrary to popular opinion, UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, not Aliens From Another Galaxy Visiting Us For Some Damn Reason.

Objects that fly and are not readily identifiable totally exist and are a concern for the military as they may be aircraft from another country violating our air space on a spy mission or some such.
My homework extends to knowing you're a lawyer, and given you do contract law for start ups I'm willing to bet you help them steal via the protections of the corporate veil.

Again, the 14th Amendment says we're all equal before the law but I don't see a lot of boards / c-suite scumbags going to jail or having the previous decades of 'earnings' clawed back. And definitely not seeing any corporate death penalties. As far as I can tell, you're one of the dudes that helps them achieve a superior legal status to mere flash and blood humans like myself.
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena [pdf]
VS' debugger allows you to manipulate code while debugging it, with some limitations e.g when you're writing COM code, but generally the craziest thing I did was putting breakpoint after SQL bad call, editing SQL string, at function exit adding call to itself with passing the same args, going into the same function and catching the same breakpoint while executing new SQL and then removing that function call and letting program continue.

it allows you to evaluate expressions at fly

it allows you to back in time (move e.g 2 LoC above)

it allows you to use the Immediate window to debug and evaluate expressions, execute statements, and print variable values. The Immediate window evaluates expressions by building and using the currently selected project.
Hard to quantify, I just can't rely on that delineation.

Congress doesn't even know what laws they pass and isn't scrutinizing like "wait, enthusiasts expect the FBI to do domestic things, unless you rewrite this Defense Spending Bill we're all blocking it from getting out of committee", instead, defense contractors pre-write whatever they want that expands the role of the agency they already have the most contacts with so they land the ensuing contract.

There isn't any law or constitutional issue that would add a redundancy to limiting the change of these agency charters.

And finally, we just have to assume that these autonomous agencies with $10bn annual budgets are operating professionally within the bounds of their mandates.
Iceland has close to 90% partial vaccination + antibodies, more then 75% of 16 years and older are fully vaccinated. Iceland also has a lot better tracking system and quarantine protocol then most (all?) states in the USA. There hasn’t been a new unaccounted for Covid case in over a week in Iceland.

These might be some of the reasons for why Iceland is taking this step now, but not the USA.
AT&T was a government granted monopoly - it was illegal to compete with them, it's not at all relevant.
I'm also afraid of that, good point.

I'm a fan of Serious Eats for cooking content. Again, ATK was great except for the subscription thing. Looking at their Support page, it looks like nothing has changed with their cancellation policy[1] (the fact that you can cancel your physical magazine subscription online, but not the website subscription is hilarious). I would LOVE to know if they have support for online cancellation for California customers, that they just disable for non-California customers. I've heard of companies doing things like that.

Not sure if Playstation did the same, but Xbox doesn't make this difficult this anymore anyways. In fact, recently I started a Game Pass Xbox subscription on my xbox account and used it for a couple days. Then I realized I should do it on my main microsoft account instead (so I don't have multiple accounts anymore), so I cancelled. They gave me a full refund automatically without me needing to ask or do anything. So companies do change, although I imagine it's just easier to implement it this way anyways. Phone-based customer service is really expensive.

[1] https://www.americastestkitchen.com/support#change-membershi...
There were intimations at closing down the border from President Trump, howls of racism were made. Nancy Pelosi went down to Chinatown and asked what was the president afraid of.

The president tried to take action, but politics was and is involved. We have a report from last week saying that scientists were afraid to speak up because of fear for saying orange man bad was correct.

If you believe these super simple arguments of hard lock downs would have worked, then look at how the guy at imperial college who screwed us all over with his horrible forecasts. He said “lockdown to save is all.” Then proceeds to visit his mistress, one of the two had coronavirus! How do you think we could legitimately implement a lockdown when the people who scream lockdown do not implement it themselves (athletes sneaking ladies, Newsome, Whitmer, etc.).
I'm a little more inclined to forgive that, but dashes in the domain have been valid for decades.
I don't know why this hasn't come up in any of the threads.
With the GDPR this is illegal. Your data officer would be furious and your VP probably out of a job for getting a 100.000€ fine.
There is no reason you need that when the user did not submit it, so you have no explicit consent.
As a developer in Europe I live the GDPR. I love my privacy and the privacy of the users. All the marketing and sales stuff has been proofen to not work very well, so what the heck?
Hosting page: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-...
"The datasetdescribed in this report is currently limited primarily to U.S. Government reporting of incidents occurring from November 2004 to March 2021."

So what happened to observations from before 2004?
I suspect the "fix" Samsung is hoping people use is to buy a new phone.
You haven't noticed some changes in politics in the West in the last 10 years? The rise of polarization and conspiracy theories is very well documented.
> CDRT used to be “outrageously slow” for something like a document editor, Milich says, but that’s not the case anymore.

What is their trick for this?
The pricing/FAQ/Sign up page on the actual BugBust site linked all tell you. E.g. from the pricing tab:

> When you create your first AWS BugBust event, all costs incurred by the underlying usage of Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer and Amazon CodeGuru Profiler are free of charge for 30 days per AWS account.
Nine pages? All this hoopla for the month leading up to the release and we get NINE measly pages with no supporting documentation? am I missing something? I expected to see something similar in quality/detail to an FAA accident investigation, this is a worthless executive summary.
That country dropdown selector had me cracking up. And all the flags are not only unordered, but in black and white!
The government made it illegal to compete with AT&T. Their monopoly position was not the result of free market capitalism.
Really the entire idea of client/server-side email "validation" kind of seems like an ancient, cockroach-like anti-pattern that is impossible to stamp out. Like, what is the problem they're even solving? One validates email addresses by sending an email with a token the user then acts on. There are useful things to do with emails, like checking against already registered ones (including any blacklists), but I can't think of any that would result in any in-page user feedback since that would generally be a dumb information leak. Like if someone tries to register an already registered email, send an email about it don't leak that it's registered.

And as well as being useless most such scripts seem to date back a long ways and have very lazy and fixed assumptions about what constitutes a valid address. I mean, I've never been a fan of the explosion of TLDs, but it's also a reality and they're all valid. Even on the left side of the @ a surprising number of scripts seem to fail on things that are perfectly acceptable characters.

Strikes me as one of the many little minor GUI traps where new designers get carried away with the power of scripts and do without asking if they should, then further get too clever by half.
> The scale of Star Citizen is way larger than Freelancer

No it isn't.
It's also not even clear it will ever come even close to it at this point.

I also seriously doubt that there are so many backers fuelling this space video production company. It's pretty well known that there is a significant amount of whales who carry this thing around.
Go Devs Go
This is open to SF or Colorado based employees, visa transfers okay too!

House Canary is an early stage startup with great market traction in Real Estate Data Tech. We are growing fast and need great devs to build our product and onboard our growing customer base.
I really like C# as a language, but as a Linux programmer, I found it difficult to install the dotnet sdk without the root permission. With that barrier, I can't recommend C# over Java, D or Go which are much easier to install.
It doesn’t make sense. Why it is fair to compare matrix multiplication with generic float operations? It should be either comparison of matrix multiplication to matrix multiplication or generic float to generic float.
This is use case dependent, but one of my favorite methods for implementing e.g. threaded comments is closure tables:

create table post_paths (
descendant_id bigint not null references posts (id) on delete cascade on update cascade,
ancestor_id bigint not null references posts (id) on delete cascade on update cascade,
depth int not null,
primary key (descendant_id, ancestor_id)
);

At the cost of O(n^2) rows per hierarchy, it will allow you to do some pretty nifty things, most notably being able to get a count of all descendants of a parent in O(n) time. Updating entries may be painful, though.
This seems awfully brief and doesn't have much detail. The tittle says it's a "preliminary" report. Is this the expected UAP report or just a preliminary document about it?

I would want to see summary statistics for each reported incident and descriptions of the most compelling phenomenon. This document raises a lot of questions and answers few.

The document says they have 21 reports of UAP that "appear to demonstrate advanced technology" including moving at "considerable speed" "without discernable means of propulsion." I need more detail! Are these reports among those confirmed by multiple trustworthy sensors and observers? What do we know about these UAP? What speed? Do we have video?

I'm also not really impressed by their idea to use "advanced algorithms" and "machine learning". Are UFO encounters so frequent we need to resort to big data? I do think it's an excellent idea to process recorded radar data looking for UAP signs though.
I like whatsapp a lot, personally. The stickers aren't as good as Telegram, though.
Something like that sounds plausible. If they knew for sure, I doubt they would want to dump all evidence at once. Would be incredibly interesting to see how the world would change if that happened tho.
Related

Ask HN: Do you create Architecture Diagrams? If so, which tool do you use? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26552387 3 months ago

Ask HN: How do you personally diagram code? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26936635 2 months ago
Experian's FreeCreditReport.com (in)famously, within the company, sells off your email many times IF THAT IS ALL YOU FILL OUT on the site.
I'm not sure that the existence of a core spec negates this though - you could similarly write an MSC for whatever thing you wanted, like a new low-bandwidth transport using CoAP and CBOR (MSC3079 - https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3079) and it may or may not end up being accepted into the core spec, but the MSC exists regardless and people can implement it. (and indeed, people often implement MSCs that they like before they land in the core spec, and before something lands you generally want an implementation or two anyway)
Not supporting E2EE (cite: Telegram is not E2EE) and E2EE being not on by default are two very different things.

Not being on by default has an impact on other things, that the users value more. If they were on by default, they would lose it and Telegram would lose part of its appeal. This way, users themselves can choose the trade-off they are happy with.
Exactly! This reminds of the recent case of the AMA increasing the suggested age of regular mammograms. More testing means earlier detection of breast cancer. But a false positive means an invasive biopsy. These are the two sides that need to be balanced. The AMA decided that since the base rate of cancer is so low in women under 50, the posterior probability that you have cancer given a positive mammogram for the under 50 age group is considerably low. Therefore they decided that the increased costs (monetary and emotional) do not outweigh the benefits.

From https://www.ama-assn.org/sites/ama-assn.org/files/corp/media...

"Screening mammography reduces mortality from breast cancer, including in women younger than age 50 years. However, screening mammography carries harms such as false positive results that can lead to additional imaging and invasive biopsy procedures, and overdiagnosis that could lead to treatment in patients who may not benefit from it. The USPSTF considered the balance of benefits and harms using a commissioned targeted systematic evidence review of randomized clinical trials and a decision analysis that compared the expected health outcomes of starting and ending mammography at different ages and using annual and biennial screening strategies; it concluded (in part) that routine screening should begin at age 50 years and continue biennially until age 74 years."
As someone who has never worked for a FAANG company, nor wants to (FB recruiter email I got this morning will go unanswered) the mind boggles at these $200K-$500K salaries. If I were making a salary in that range I'd think it would be possible to retire after about 5 years if one was frugal.

> I just feel like the worlds software talent could do better work in more interesting and varied fields.

Agreed, but I'm not sure how these measures will do anything to provide more interesting work. It would probably just be more of the same, but more different companies doing it.
It is impossible to implement E2EE without the information in [2] that is not present in [1]. [2] is how you get access to the storage key that Element etc used to store encrypted secrets in your account data.

So if anyone's goal is to build a Matrix client that's actually useful, [2] is unavoidable.
That "break up", especially when considered together with the Act of '96, was a long con. Outside investors poured billions into "competitive" telcos, yet today the replacement for Ma Bell is two Daughters Bell plus a few scattered also-rans. In the meantime they got rid of common carriage, lots of PUC rules, limits on broadcast monopolies, etc. The monopoly profits they stole on the wireline side funded their anti-competitive merger spree on the wireless side. We don't have to wait for the inevitable merger between ATT and VZN to call this a giant failure.
> You can.

My understanding is that this will be reflected in credit reporting as delinquency- seems like a lose-lose in that sense. Can someone who has done this weigh in?
Yup. If you’re going to do validation on the frontend, it should be for the sole purpose of improving user experience, not for making life worse!
I guess you know better than Tim Cook because that’s what he told Congress.
A great read of a man getting high huffing his own farts -- like all of our billionaire overlords.
Could have remove the “the” or subbing American with “us” lol
Nice info graphic. I didn’t realise quite how many factories there will be.
> The other alternatives are either the same

Or non-existent of course, as the previous poster suggests and I stated I find quite believable.

> The other alternatives are either the same

Which other alternatives are modifying GPL covered code but refusing to uphold their requirements under the license? Or the same for another license?

> or fully closed.

Fully closed but correctly licensed (their own work and/or correctly licensed software from other sources) is preferable to taking OSS and breaching the licenses. It is at least more honest.
http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1
To me Telegram feels like the red corner district of a city. I simply don't feel like I can trust it, there's something very shady about it. I wouldn't be surprised if Telegram reads those exclusive Bitcoin whale groups and uses that insider info. Group chats are not end to end encrypted.

That being said, WhatsApp is like the authorized garage where you know that you'll get the service which is officially recognized (by the government) and will keep your car's value "at its best", but which screws you over in so many ways.

Everything else is somewhere in between these two platforms.
I've heard the Comcast "retention agents" have a quota or retentions vs cancellations they must maintain, hence ask the disconnected
cancellation calls.

For a time, I resorted to having an attorney cancel my Comcast service to ensure it actually happened.

But once, months after the attorney forwarded my Comcast cancellation confirmation, I received a notice from a collections agency for the exact Comcast account I had cancelled. The attorney took care of that too.

My new (and best) method for dealing with Comcast is to use a fake name and social. I've been using the cats' names for the past few years, and it works great!

I recently wanted to quit Comcast service at one of my properties, so I went online to chat. No agents available, so I just removed my credit card from the account and stopped paying. They'll figure it out eventually. And good luck of they're going to try to collect from Westley the Cat. He's unemployed.
That's what the government wants you to believe.
This was written in the early 2000's.

Make no mistake: this is not one of those "I hacked a Lisp in C to learn about both languages".

It has a garbage collector, conditions (with restarts), a package system, macros (including local ones: macrolet, symbol-macrolet), stream, hash tables, structures, ... and even a compiler.

It has probably not been posted to HackerNews before, because the author's original site for this had been inaccessible for years, and the project fell into obscurity.

There are some derivatives like Lisp800 and Lisp5000 the latter of which tries to de-obfuscated the original.