skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would be very wrong in British intelligence at least - lot's of the WW2 generation of Soviet spies in the UK were openly communist, but their bosses simply couldn't believe that a well-bred englishman could be a Soviet communist (Or simply a communist, for those who were more subtle). Vetting only began in a roughly modern form decades after the first signs of infiltration became apparent.

The thing about many of these people is that they were very complex - they were very effective servants during the war, but would've gladly handed orders of battle to the KGB or GRU after the war. The case of Anthony Blunt is particularly interesting: If you read Peter Wright's account of his interrogation, Blunt was no longer the KGB man he once was but his allegiances remained with his friends (i.e. other double agents).

Although most of these men were sharp, Philby in particular knew exactly what he was doing (e.g. in betraying potentially hundreds of soon-to-be victims of the KGB bullet), however they nearly all possessed a deranged view of a grand communist society awaiting them upon defection - this is ignoring the obvious naivete of (I believe Blunt) either believing or choosing not to question his handler's word that those who he betrayed would not be shot. Of those who did defect, they all lived out their days surveilled and unhappy - Philby died an alcoholic who missed the cricket greatly, for example. George Blake actually only died recently, although it's hard to be sure given that he was wheeled out when convenient, but he apparently converted to Putinism.

There is probably a parallel with political extremism in these spies - beneath the ideologue (unlike Aldrich Ames, for example, these men were not doing it for the money although it is potentially worth considering the economic environment they were i.e. a rich life did not solely mean money unlike during the 80s) there is often a more complicated individual, dining on deceit.

As for little ladies, Melita Norwood comes to mind. On the opposite side, although not a lady, Vasili Mitrokhin had a fairly dull and tightly managed job - luckily he was very brave and we have a lot of information because of him.
That's why they make hammers. For the use case of needing to ensure your burner phone never draws global attention.
> As programmer, what I want from leadership is product vision, basic knowledge of software quality economics, lack of scope creep, technical debt control, good people management, and respecting the law. More often than not, you get zero out of these six.

These are all great things to ask for. I'd also be tempted to add "Ethical decision making and respect for the end user's time, attention, and privacy" but now we're moving into crazy-land.
ps auxww|sed -n '/ doesnotexist /d;/banana/p'

When/if grep is not available
Ask HN: Altoira.com is down for 3 days.Support isnt responding.What can be done?
I was just thinking a few days ago (while on a van trip to Yosemite) that one of the great things about moving to CA would be never hearing complaining about Californians moving there and ruining the place.
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> I also use nifty and unique tools like this, which helps me learn languages in my sleep (I use it for engineering coursework too!): https://github.com/Frederik-D-Weber/cosleep

o.O Does tbis work?
"paying for protection services as needed."

I can't wait untill we have two different "protection services" come into conflict because they are "protecting" different things and we have shootouts on the streets.

Much like the latest incident with Vigilante app, but imagine both entities had good for hire

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447446/citizen-app-inte...
I'd love to see old video game fonts here. Pokemon, Zelda, etc. Though I'm sure there would be rights issues.
Google and my bank account. That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
> you can use NAT reflection (hairpin NAT), but those are a bit of a hack.

You think that hairpin NAT is a hack, but that split-horizon DNS isn't?
I love Altoira.com a lot. It enables me to invest to many platforms directly using retirement funds.

I urgently need to download my statements but their website is down for 3 days. I sent a few emails to the support and even the CEO. I get no response.
I haven't seen anyone say that the end of population growth will stop the growth in climate emissions. I have seen it almost universally said that the growth in people with a certain level of wealth (e.g., enough to buy energy-consuming technology such as refrigerators and cars) does cause climate emissions to grow.
I think this is just dangerous thinking. A real street/bar fighter will head butt your nose and then while your hands go to your face trying to stem the fountain of blood will (if you are a guy) reach down and twist/crush or knee your testicles. The fight will be over in 10 seconds and no amount of knowledge learned on the mat is going to help. The real problem with martial arts is you really can’t train for real fights without being seriously hurt all the time. I say this as a black belt in TKD who still practices but knows the only real winner in a fight is the one that walks away before it starts.
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This is no more complicated or evil a business model than insurance, where you make money in aggregate despite some individual outliers.
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On the other hand, DeepL (made by a small German company) is better than Google Translate.
In South Korea, pretty much all elevators have this enabled. Pressing a floor button a second time cancels the request. It's pretty useful (if not abused).
And only the best and the brightest get into Columbia!
> Any tips for how to break into the US market?

Most people I know doing this have a network, but there are companies that would probably interview you without a referral. In particular fully-remote companies like Zapier and Gitlab would be good bets. (I don't know if Gitlab pays global salaries, but Zapier definitely does.)
wow. and here i've been ps auxwww | grep banana | grep -v grep all this time

edit: saw someone else posted this as well. should have known
Thank you for the insight--which I missed.

Here is a review site for Nomad Capitalist detailing his scam methods (which has "positive" counterreviews--especially towards the top): https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/nomadcapitalist.com (Control/Command + F = "Just don't do it" to find the gist of his scheme)

Here is a whole website calling out Nomad Capitalist being a scam: https://nomadcapitalistscam.com/

Here is a Reddit page of somebody who was scammed by Nomad Capitalist: https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/ita1i4/a_disg...

Here is another Reddit page where people are skeptical of Nomad Capitalist: https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/6wl962/is_and...

People on these pages have advised instead to get both accountants and lawyers on both sides (USA and country abroad) and looking into stuff yourself, instead of relying on businesses such as Nomad Capitalist and others. For the lawyer side, especially abroad, you will want both a business and immigration lawyer helping you out. The place to go for that is the US/Canada/Australia/UK/Ireland/etc. embassy to your target country's website, and get those lawyer lists. Obviously the list is not an endorsement of the lawyers, and lawyers can be sketchy. It is important to look for red flags such as painting an overly perfect picture of themselves, or positive counter-reviews (to negative reviews). My lawyer (for Croatian citizenship) was also head of an international commerce association, and therefore it meant that he probably had to deal with complicated laws, had to get along with people, and had to get things done.

I hope this helps.
“Regular” is the key point, that doesnt include frequency. Im in australia but did 6 trips to NA/EU in the year before the pandemic. Ideally Id aim for ~3 to cover the major business process/planning/promo cycles. Thats not too frequent, but still regular.
the NYT article is very political for no good reason
True but I do wonder if there has been a shift in primary residency among the wealthy. You have to have a residence in California if you're rich, it's just part of it.
I am guessing that the previous post is about the S.F. Bay Area anti-tech backlash peaking in early 2010s. I also think that the people who were expressing that backlash would not distinguish so much between Big Tech and Hollywood/Media. I think the peak after 2010 has more to do with economic stress following 2008 and the glaring wealth inequality.
There are people leaving California, and California's population is huge. But the rate at which they are leaving is less than that of many other states, and the main migration is within the state. You are seeing a lot of Californians because there are a lot of Californians.

This isn't new: a couple of decades ago you saw a ton of people from California buying up property in the Portland area back when California's population was booming and Portland real estate was cheap.
I think those small samples need to be larger than that, and they have to be representative samples.

> I am not trying to push a political narrative, and that the people who are should kindly jump off a cliff.

I am not at all saying that you are. I'm saying that the narrative affects the situation. I agree about the cliff!
> The supply chain is a symptom, not the disease. Our hypothetical billionaire could close down (or increase prices, for the same effect), but his piece would either be grabbed by another ruthless business man wanting to be a billionaire or simply merged with the existing competitors. Unless you make people change their lifestyle, closing carbon-intensive production lines is just playing whack-a-mole. So, in reality, he really has not that much more power than you.

That might be true if votes weren't for sale (lobbying, campaign contributions, etc), but they are and thus political power is proportional to wealth. Our hypothetical billionaire can advocate to preserve policies that allow him to profit by polluting the environment, which is to say plundering society (in that the environment is a shared resource--it belongs to all of society).

To use your metaphor, the disease is that there isn't a mechanism to decouple political power from wealth.
There are daily direct flights to/from Germany.

So yeah, it's a good sized runway.
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this should do it:

^((1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5]|[1-9]\d|[1-9])\.){3}(1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5]|[1-9]\d|[1-9])$

Was the second problem "the interviewer"?
It's likely we used pesticides to kill their food source.
this does tend to play havoc with $? values if you're used to using those to test grep's results.
tl;dr: This article is great. An in-depth analysis of the current state-of-the-art for common LED light bulbs.
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Please make sure to use the level of regex that is standard on your team and be very selective about going beyond that.

Always over-document your regexes and assume people only have very basic regex skills.
Ask HN: Building a Better Google
If you had the 4 billion pages Google had on its index in 2004 in elasticsearch today, what would it take to replicate 2004-era web search quality using that static index?

What relevant research or projects are trying to make these sorts of algorithms and data accessible as a future commodity people can build on top of?
Yeah agree, ISP choice here in Australia (at least in the metro areas) is plentiful and in my experience all my ISPs have behaved pretty ethically. I'm on Aussie Broadband now and their service has been fantastic, they even let you run your own line tests and connection resets from their customer portal.

I spent a number of years in the US at the mercy of Comcast and Later TWC in new york city and it was a very different experience. Also had a weird experience in Chicago where my building provided internet to all the Apartments with ads injected on 404 pages and the like. Really odd and no option to change.
Many high-level businesspeople travel from ~US to ~China and back weekly. There's no way I could do it as jetlag is brutal on me, but you and I don't mainline young boy blood.
> (a) one of them licensed their process from the other, like IBM/GloFo/Samsung back in the 2010s or (b) you planned for this in advance and designed a custom "least common denominator" process (like MOSIS SCMOS) to target which means making very large performance sacrifices.

The availability of open design rules improves the feasibility of either approach. Any other foundry implementing a 130nm process will be able to refer to the open rules quite directly, with no strings attached - and they will also have very clear incentives to push in that direction. So no, this is not a full fab process, but it's getting remarkably close compared to what we had before.
Are people supposed to call animal control in situations like this? Like, if I find a dead animal in general, is there someone who gets paid to know about that?
My old Sun 3/60 ran X11R4 with twm just fine in 24MB... and I had to walk up hill to school in the snow, both ways!
I work for a bulge bracket bank and have been on a VDI for the past five years, currently on my third desktop. This is extremely common in finance, most developers are running on VDI's since it's much easier to manage and lock down. First generation was terrible, 8GB RAM made life difficult. Second gen was much better, had that up until earlier this year. That one was based on Windows 7, so my firm was paying through the roof for extended support (7 was EOL a while back). Current VDI is actually based on Windows Server 2016, not Windows 10. Performance is respectable, I've got 64 GB RAM and 4 virtual cores, but business users get less powerful desktops that aren't as great. In my firm job title dictates what you get, so as a SWE I get better hardware than people on the business side, including those who may be doing data-heavy work in R/Python. My complaints:

* Machine loses settings since not everything was set up correctly. Outlook won't retain my settings for autoformat (disable everything), due to forced weekend reboots I have to redo my settings every Monday morning.

* Heavily locked down.

* Non-standard configuration, common Windows files aren't where you would expect them to be.

The good:
* Software request and installation fully automated, quite easy to get the applications I need with the caveat that the software is approved and packaged internally. I can select from a list of approved IDE's, for example, but if I want to use something less common, next to impossible to get it approved (tons of paperwork & reviews). Typically not a problem since most of what I want is available.

* Can log in from anywhere. No machine to lug around.
Worked in Higher Ed for years, we had a home grown time keeping system. Cost less for us to source and hack together physical time clocks and a web app than paying ADP, no question.
Well, it would make sense that the people who left California feel unhappy with California; Not that it's what you were saying, but just because it's likely that those who left the state are unahppy with it, that does not mean most people in California are unhappy with it.

In fact, I love California so much that I buckled the popular media narrative and moved _from_ Texas _to_ California. Funnily enough, people talk about the California-to-Texas pipeline as if it's a new thing, but it's been an observed phenomenon since at least 2005, and it's a lot smaller than the media would have you think (usually net ~40k year leave CA for TX, with about 80k going to Texas and 40k coming from Texas). That is 0.1% migration.

https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2021/03/03/californians-mo...
All the Google staff commenting in this comment section?
What are you trying to do with an asteroid, and why does it need to be decently sized? Neither is relevant.

You calculate mass fraction, i.e. for a ship to get to orbit using kerosene, the ship must be 97% made of fuel my mass.

If you have an antimatter ship, if you can produce, store, and 100% efficiently use antimatter and carry nothing else as your reaction mass and don't have issues with waste heat or radiation, your ship will need to be over 90% fuel by mass to maintain 1G acceleration for years.
iPhone yea, I don't recall any configuration, I just get a weekly notification about screen type broken down by app category, app, and usage percentage change form the prior week.
I didn't think anyone else remembered Miro!

Do you remember when Revision3 hosted their own torrent tracker for their shows? And MediaDefender hacked it, then DDoS'd them over Memorial Day weekend 2008? https://web.archive.org/web/20130721014755/http://revision3....
I believe pretty much every politician in the world, no matter their political side, would do the same. Politicians either do nothing or do too little when it comes to solving problems having very long lifespans, the reason being the need for immediate public approval; every action would require loads of money spent now on something whose results would be visible in decades, long after they would seek for a re/election.
Books under copyright in IA are either available to borrow digitally, in which case they're packaged with Adobe DRM, or are restricted to the blind, in which case they're restricted with Daisy DRM. A quick look suggests these are the former - mousing over them will show "Book to Borrow."
draw a circle. draw the rest of the fucking owl.
Not sure why you are surprised or annoyed by this. It doesn't matter what you sell, aren't you going to avoid the self-described "super picky" customer? Salespeople work on volume, a customer like you is a time suck with limited probability of resulting in a sale. You're welcome to be as selective as you like, but certainly don't expect salespeople to want to deal with you.
Doesn't that prove the point though? Immigration into the state has clearly decreased.
> the vast majority of the time it is simply a combination of selection bias and the human tendency to want to believe things that support your own worldview

Citation needed.

Given Jeff Bezos success in growing a business from scratch, this is clearly one of his secrets and why "Are right, A Lot" is an Amazon leadership principle. I'm always surprised that people are so easy to dismiss insights from successful people.
I'm honestly not sure to what extent that is true. I definitely don't think it is 1 to 1. Apartments are advertised at $X rent per month. The broker fee is just an extra month of rent due at signing, it is not reflected in the main list price.

The majority of apartments in certain cities charge this fee, so if you care to find one that doesn't you'd have to look for advertisements explicitly mentioning "no agent/broker fee". Maybe it's just my circle, but even the people I know that will look in less desirable locations for cheaper rent do not bother to look for this. It's also not far off from various psychological tricks seen in business - consumers do not behave rationally.

I'd argue it's even a bit worse than other sticker price bait and switch situations, because how many people know to look for this? Mostly only people that have signed a lease in one of these cities before, which for a place with a lot of transplants and subletting can be a surprisingly small number.

At some point I wouldn't even call it irrational to ignore the fee. Once you've decided on a place and receive the rental app to fill out, are you really going to turn back because you found out about the agent fee? Especially as time runs out to find a place and you realize more than half of them do the exact same thing?

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if some landlords have come to an agreement with the agent they use to get a bit of a kickback from the broker fee, unbeknownst to the buyer.
Let me clarify. Without actively and purposefully doing so we are killing off species on a grand scale. We do by how we acquire food, how we manufacture items for consumption, etc. Just by existing, in the sense of local optimization creatures who seek comfort and pleasure, we are killing the planet.
I suspect that Bezos made that remark in a very particular context and didn't mean it to be generally applicable.
I'm very confused by:

> The Department of Justice has charged multiple people who allegedly worked for Anom in part for obstructing law enforcement by using this [remote] wipe feature.

I thought anom was a government company the whole time- why would they be charging themselves? Is this simply a case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing, or did the company used to be actually a sketchy outfit and got acquired/pressured to play along with the sting operation?
The consensus that this was an unjust "murder" was absolutely engineered. If it wasn't so deliberate, why aren't the facts in my previous comment widely known by the typical naive young activist radicalised into marching in the streets for BLM?

Injustice is bronze statues erected to glorify feral black criminals in a country where White children brutally murdered by radicalised blacks barely make the local news.
Define 'much worse'. Even basic heat pumps in traditional air/air split systems can achieve COPs of 3-4 above freezing air temps. The modern mini splits can do that well below freezing.

Nowhere has electric so cheap that a 2x or 3x reduction in the amount of electricity used to heat wouldn't result in massive savings.
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This MITM sounds like what Sofort payment in Germany did. Absolutely bonkers.

You know what's funny? Polish banks also have wire-transfer online payments roughly like Sofort since forever, but without MITM - Przelewy24, PayU et al. They seem to use proper methods to pre-fill wire transfer forms and dedicated accounts in each participating bank to settle the payment immediately.
Erik is a legend in the modern data world. Wrote Luigi and built Spotify's first recommendation engine. He has the ground-level experience to lean on
I'm convinced that the same 5-step pattern, stated at the bottom, is Elon Musk's core operating principle.
>"If we could solve the energy problem"

Energy is a fundamental currency of the universe, up to heat death. It's not something to be casually 'solved'.

We are more likely to 'solve' hibernation, aging and death, and then we can travel to the stars with ease - current tech can get us there in a thousands years, and that isn't much in the grand scheme of things.
On top of that, it seems questionable to use a survey from this year to show that fewer people are considering leaving California. Can't that just be survivorship bias? Maybe fewer people are considering leaving California because so many already left. This seems consistent with the states own numbers for 2020, which show that more people left CA than migrated in.
Yes, tokenization is regular.

Parsing the tokenization result of a Dyck language still requires as context-free grammar.

It's not a badge of honor or a great trick to try that with regular expressions. It is using the wrong tool for the job.
Smartass answers only. Ask autopilot to write a proof with --nojargon so juniors will get it! Write a single unit test and call it good! Step through it in a debugger on that one unit test to be sure? Sure of what? I dunno but it sounds diligent...

When I watched Idiocracy, a small optimist in me said "but surely the techies..." That optimist has died. We're fucked
My dog did my software demo
There's also one in Texas
Black Mirror / Light Mirror
funny question: can they dig deeper basements now?
If someone wants a different take on why cancer treatment has progressed very slowly, there is "Cancer, Incorporated" by Ralph Moss.
The somewhat frustrating solution is to simply realize that “copyright” is one of the worst abominations humanity has ever conceived…

It’s literally being used to stifle research as we speak, but for some completely insane reason we are protecting a handful of publishers as a cartel…

It really is so simple: “don’t be a bigoted fascist”, but just have a glance at the fascists decrying my stance as a degenerate liberal, in the answering comments