skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think semantic details like whether a headline uses "key" or "keystone" are significant impediments to figuring out what's going on when it's easy to read what's going on and make the judgement that way.

There is plenty of distortion in the emotional affect created by phrasing, and plenty of ignorance in the abstract theory-of-policy level comment thread discourse, but fortunately there's nothing restraining us to operate on those once-removed levels.
I see your point, thanks for the elaboration. I'm not a fan of the format either.
Nowhere in the article does it mention a jury trial or judge.
> All they had to do was tell the kids to stay home and that's it. No deprivation, no negative effects.

I think that kids are absolutely deprived of beneficial social interactions when they are sent to be schooled at home versus in-person. Schooling is not solely about academic achievement. Source: I have a 10 and 12 year old who lived this on and off for the last 16 months.

Thought about another way: if there truly was no negative effect, why isn't the education being done 100% remotely in normal conditions? Why have such expensive buildings and transportation needs if there's no benefit?
It wasn't validation, it was labelling.

The AI correctly identified that the faces of people in two videos were the same person. It did it's job. The person responsible for correctly identifying the person in both these videos failed to do their job correctly.
The proof is in the pudding. Where is Assange right now?
Doubtful. The maximum damages that a court would likely find for the defendant -- even if Apple admitted all the allegations -- would be much, much smaller than that. (Consider that even wrongful death settlements or injury settlements are at most a few million; and this alleged victim's injuries were only reputational.) Settlements often boil down to a fraction of the maximum theoretical damages, so I expect the value to be in the 5 figures at most.
Yeah. I'm not anti-police, but if they're doing that it's not a good sign.
There's no way to put this into a calculator, but this decision isn't purely monetary. Do you enjoy having to maintain a home and property? If not, maybe buying a house isn't for you. Even if you hire someone, that can be a massive hassle, you have to worry about being ripped off, ...

If you're not settled in your career to where you can comfortably take off long stretches of time during the day, you probably shouldn't buy a house. It's generally a bad idea for someone at the beginning of a career. There's so much to learn and it never ends - that's valuable time that could go to refreshing your mind or building up career capital.

There's also the matter of risk. Are you willing and able to handle replacing your air conditioner, furnace, and roof in the same year? If you rent, you call the landlord and have them replace those things. You'll be okay if you have a big savings account or you don't mind putting it on a credit card with a high credit limit. If you've been in your house for two years and you spent everything on the down payment and furniture, you might have trouble sleeping at night.
That hinges on the extent to which Assange personally exfiltrated documents.

NYT vs US established that its totally OK to publish documents you receive. They're trying to make Assange a 'conspirator' in the exfiltration for working with Manning. Apparently the extent of his alleged direct involvement was receiving a password hash but not actually cracking or doing anything with it: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1153486/downl...
I was in France when the US started the Iraq war, now I live in China. Sorry if I doubt lol, it's just impossible to trust them now. And the attacks and humiliations I faced as a French (soft ones, ofc, in the US medias) really didn't help.

So no, having a lot of countries saying China bad poopoo together is not enough anymore for me.
Neither would I. If Neuromancer wrote about 80's Japan corporate culture it is because it was written in the 80's and tried to extrapolate that to the 21st Century.

Cyberpunk has only become nostalgic lately.
> That is also not a justification for extradition

correct. Hes in jail because hes a flight risk, whilst he is await the outcome of extradition. This extradition is _different_ to the one he was originally hiding from.

> Assange is accused of did not meet the test of dual criminality.

knowingly publishing government secrets is certainly going to be a specific crime under the heaps of crap thats in the official secrets act.
That's definitely a good point, and worth thinking about. But most people don't go to the trouble to rebuild dependencies like openssl. Unless you're actually implementing crypto, it seems unlikely you'd expose anything, although you do have to consider the possibility that a crypto library could call an instrumented function which could leak state.
Or just use TOML when it's appropriate; that's what I do, and I haven't had cause to regret it.

One can usually answer the question "am I going to frequently have deeply-nested tables and/or long strings for keys" in advance, and if the answer is no then TOML is practically ideal. If it proves to be wrong occasionally than JSON is a reasonable fallback, as is just coping with the verbosity of TOML.
In the words of the great Ivan Stang: "I'm joking AND I'm serious!"

*I'm not the author, just thought the sentiment from that quote applied here.
10% is more than 3x the average rate in the US for a 30 year loan period, and rates go down further for shorter periods.
Fibonacci Coding and a Card Trick – Teachers of India
Ask HN: Is there a software model that can generate math questions?
This is nice. I definitely played around with some calculators like this when I was deciding to buy a house a few years ago.

Off the top of my head, some things I'd add to make this more useful to a wide audience:

- I don't know what I pay in state income and sales taxes. But I do know my income and my state's tax rate; income tax could be derived from that. I'm not sure how you'd estimate sales tax, though - you'd have to know how much of my spending is taxable.

- I've heard a rule of thumb that home maintenance costs are 1% of the home's value per year; maybe default to that, especially since a first-time home owner doesn't really know what those costs are. However, older houses will require more maintenance and that cost probably scales with square footage, not cost.

- you're assuming a 30-year mortgage - I'd put in the ability to change mortgage length. (Also, maybe a link to somewhere where I can find out what mortgage rates are.)
One key element of UK<->US relations is that the US can do literally anything and the UK will quietly accept it. Good example is the Anne Sacoolas case, where an NSA operative killed someone in a traffic accident, driving on the wrong side of the road, then fled the country, claiming diplomatic immunity. She avoided any charges, and the US won't extradite her - despite her lying about the immunity and fleeing from the country - because US.
I think it might be all in the how, not in the what.

If you specifically deny your kids sugar and tell them it's the debbil and all that, you're gunning for the disorder when they finally rebel and try the forbidden carbohydrate.

However, if it's just not a thing. You never point it out, you never mention it, you just don't have sugar around, then they're more geared for the dismissal of it.
The problem is that you need to find it. There are thousands of things you've done those hundreds of times, scattered throughout all the code you've ever written. Going to find it can take as long as deriving the information from scratch -- again.

I often end up solving it by repeating my Google, and frequently the StackOverflow page will still be marked as having been read.
Nah, Amazon has a cozy relationship with intelligence agencies (CIA, for instance, uses Amazon for cloud services) and they probably don’t want to step on any dangerous toes or lose money and business.
That's why I wrote "individual travel" in my original post. The core of what I was getting at is that for many of those fascinated with the bicycle at that time the human powered aspect simply wasn't part of why they loved it. They moved on to e.g. motorcycles as if it was just the next stage of the same thing. Or directly to aviation, as a certain pair of brothers who ran a bike shop did, not before contributing a design tweak to bicycle technology that's still present, unchanged, in almost every bike available today including for example those that were used to win this year's Tour de France (and most likely every iteration before).
They're not digressing. There is no such thing as not vulnerable software. Especially if the attacker is the government of one of the most powerful nations on Earth.
Agree with the terminology being confusing. Houses can be rented and apartments (condominiums) can be purchased.
Automated state tax generation. Historical house appreciation by state or even better, city.

Option to account for income from money in sp500.
There are good points here, but I think the author slightly undermines his message because the layout and typography of this particular PDF is so poor. Probably because it “was written in the world’s greatest web authoring tool: LibreOffice Writer”.

In other words, one advantage of PDF is that free authoring tools such as the TeX family can create typographically beautiful results that are nearly impossible to achieve with HTML, but he leaves that on the table.
This is a neat tool! There’s one more feature I’d want before using it seriously, which is a field for stock market return rate.

If my down payment is 50,000, then in the rental (apartment) case I want to estimate how much I would be earning with 50,000 in the stock market.
But treating them as a homogenous malign group is a making a political statement.

Although I doubt any of the personnel making these decisions could be reasonably described as rich. It would be interesting to know if there are any internal investigations, procedure improvements or disciplinary proceedings going on in SIS or Apple. I suspect we won't find out until after the court case outcome, if ever.
What Are Casual Creators?
Yes, this is the first time the Espionage act will truly be tested against a journalist.

Ellsberg only got off because the prosecution was bungled, but they sure wanted to imprison him, just like they really want to imprison Assange.
https://archive.is/xgVXz
The goal of the interview shouldn't always be to get the job. If you have any length of career, you are interviewing the company as much (or more) than they are interviewing you.

My approach would have been to go with the new idea and see what discussion can come out of it. If they don't have time to get into it, that's one thing but if they are simply not open-minded to new ideas, I don't want to work there.
I do not know anything about drugs, but I searched for "heroin", and was brought to the "Diamorphine" page, which seems a bit different.

Regarding your request on unit tests : do not do too much of them, too low-level.
Try to write tests whose output should not change, should you refactor, this way they will help you avoid side-effects of refactoring.
If your unit tests are too low-level, you will need to change them everytime you change your code.

One good think to test would be your fuzzy-matching logic, with edge cases taken into account.

Happy hacking !
My last dishwasher had the analog buttons go bad twice, so when it was time to get a new one I went with the capacitive touch button one, just for that reason (no moving part to break there). Been about 12 years, not a single problem, and the buttons work all the time. Granted, I know a well spec'd/designed hardware button can last a lifetime, but that one didn't even get close, so for me the capacitive's been a pretty good choice.
> The US was built with basically just a few kinds of people in charge: farmers, lawyers, businessmen, and military officers. It was already wealthy before there were any Ivy League professors doing anything.

The Ivy League wasn't the "Ivy League" back then - just a bunch of fledgling colleges without much of a reputation. America was a different country. Smart, ambitious people went into planting, trading, or soldiering. What things were like 200+ years ago has no bearing on how they should be today.

> Marx was a PhD and a professor and his political philosophy was the basis for several quite unsuccessful efforts at governance.

One academic's theories led to some failed governments, therefore academics are bad at country-building? Marx wasn't even in charge of any of those countries. Other people (such as Lenin, a lawyer, and Trotsky, born to a farmer) read his work, went "this shit sounds dope", and tragedy ensued.

I can point you to any number of countries run by "farmers, lawyers, businessmen, and military officers" that weren't as successful as the US. As I already mentioned, Lenin was a lawyer. So was Fidel Castro. I hope I don't need to go through a list various military dictators.

> But I want a farmer actually running the country.

I want smart people with good ideas, integrity, and communication skills running the country. You can find people like that in every field. I couldn't care less what their background is.

The US succeeded (in part) because the early leadership was of incredibly high caliber and integrity. George Washington stepped down voluntarily from the presidency after two terms. It seems normal to us but it was unthinkable back then. Everyone just assumed he'd stay in charge until he died.
Genuinely curious about the downvotes on this. I know political stances often trump generally reasoned arguments on HN -- is it that this thread isn't _outright_ anti NSA?
> - Its super verbose, and hard to read. When you're staring at 200 lines of XML, you're brain has to parse all the verbose namespaces and what not in order to pick out the data.

Namespaces are high on my list of decent IDs with botched implementations killing the concept. The thing which made working with them so painful was that the tools pushed all of their work off to the user and did inconsistently.

It's not just that you have to know they exist but you have to know that, for example, you're going to need to pass namespace declarations to many APIs because the implementers chose to require those as parameters rather than reading the declaration out of the document being parsed and depending on which tools you have the misfortune of using you might have a source like “myns:foo” but the parser will require you to use "{http://example.org/myns}foo" for queries. Similarly, the default could be inherited so you could simply write '<myns:foo bar="baaz"><quux /></myns:foo>' and assume that everything unqualified is in “myns”.

Imagine how much better this would have been if, a couple of decades ago, anyone had cared about the developer experience enough to fix the common tools. Non-broken namespacing, good error messages, easy to use validators and formatters, etc. would have removed so much constant friction which lead everyone to run for the door as soon as JSON started to get momentum.

> - The a part of the standards community, feels more like schema designers than actually implementers. It feels like whenever a committee designs a standard they're like "WE'RE DONE!" without actually implementing it themselves across languages and see how hard actually is to generate something valid. These organisations are head-acheinducing money sinks where there bad schema ideas trickle down.

Imagine if 10% of the money which went into barely-used standards development had gone into maintaining libxml2 (and maybe xerces). Basically any bit of work which went into XPath or related specs after 1999 was a write-off because those later versions effectively never shipped for anyone outside of exclusive .NET users.
and yet, we were able to accurately attribute the code released in that leak as being developed by NSA.
I'm an artist that doesn't like photorealism. I can appreciate the skill without wanting to spend much time looking at it. The imperfections and accidents are what make art pieces interesting to me.
Does it have to be mutually exclusive? My current mortgage and previous rent are almost the same.

A friend of mine bought his house in 2011-2012 for $200k. Now, it's worth ~$500k.

>stocks have a higher longterm ROI than property.
That's debatable. And, it depends at what point you were in and for how long you can stay as there'll be set backs during the ride. Unfortunately, if you have to cash out due to emergency during a dip then ROI would not be favorable.
I live in Hong Kong, and I don't care either lol. It's not that bad, so far.

The genocide, I stay a bit careful, I tended to consider direct immediate murder as genocide to respect a bit the Holocaust, but I would say they'll pay for it a thousandfold. They're building the Xinjiang country like never before by giving them a shared oppressive history. Israel "started"
(or at least really took off) like that so...

I cannot fathom how they don't see it, and that's the weakness of the party: it's so top down, if a stupid idea comes from high enough, it'll get implemented to the most stupid detail.
Exactly. Language is for all its users. I can insist that my name be rendered only in 14.5 pt Comic Sans colored with Pantone 19-3336 ("Sparkling Grape"). But people get to decide for themselves how they're going to speak and write. Corporate branding guidelines constrain only their employees and people who want to curry favor with them. Everybody else can do as they please.
Random wiki pages are one of the things that give HN its pleasant Old Internet atmosphere to me. Sometimes I've thought about sampling over wikipedia uniformly at random, submitting to HN, and observing the trends in what rises to the top.
> Part of me wonders if privacy advocates will be on the same level as doomsday preppers in a few decades, at least in the Democratic world

Related is the fact that people making waves about privacy now have actually made a difference, and even if we're not in a "100% privacy" world, maybe it's good enough.

Reminds me of Y2K. Consumers at the time heard it was a big deal, and then nothing happened. But industry fixed a ton of things that were broken before Y2K so that nothing major did happen.
I think it's really more a keystone element, thank you very much.
The argument was that the only reason Assange wouldn’t turn himself in (even though he did initially, and was released) must be that he is guilty, not that there was a superpower trying to throw him in jail for the rest of life for unrelated reasons.
Every store operator in the U.S. has the so-called "shopkeeper's privilege" with respect to suspected shoplifters. It's not limited to Apple.
Or entire trees...
Agreed that paper straws are garbage - but the equivalency you are making doesn't work for gas stoves which have health impacts on their users - especially in smaller spaces/older buildings. Even my parents house, built in 2008, has no external venting for their gas stove/oven.
I call it an iPad and an iPhone, not iPad and iPhone like Apple wants me to.
but also the reverse applies.
If you want to make alterations or improvements to your house, better not rent
The article is only about prevalence of P. Sem. (Liberty cap).

In my experience and in a network of many other people, there are precisely ZERO little brown mushrooms having BOTH a passing resemblance to p. sem. in any conditions (dry/wet or young/old) AND are noxious let alone dangerous.

If its your first time, be cautious, take a good book. On a dry day P. Sem. is easier to distinguish from other species that are safe but wrong. One day of successful foraging and you will know P. Sem. well enough in the wet too.

If it has the characteristic nipple, it is certainly what you are looking for. If not,well it may be, but you can just leave it until your skill improves.

Finally, needless to say, the moment the first mushroom enters your mouth, foraging is over for the day.
Sure, and we should be willing to entertain skepticism of specific incidents when justified. The idea that there's no such thing as real attribution, that it's always fabricated based on political convenience, is just unproductive nihilism.
Good for you! Thanks for the reference caprover, I'll take a look.
Agreed. At the very least, if Apple-the-company isn't being fined (or their employees held criminally liable) for failing to produce exculpatory evidence in a criminal case that was later found during discovery, the court itself isn't doing its job.
My computer has multiple USB-C ports. It would be nice if I could plug both ends into two of these ports and have an app report back to me all of the capabilities of that cable. That's not as good as being able to know just by looking at the cable but it would at least give me a definitive option instead of playing the Swap-the-Cable game until things work (assuming the cable is the issue, which it might not be). A handheld device would be even better.
Yeah, no. Try it with any other page, and see why nobody would be inclined to even try "Save As.." a web page anymore.
That's because a glass of juice isn't the equivalent of eating an orange, it's the equivalent of eating an orchard.

An exaggeration, obviously, but it is really bad. The number of fruits you have to eat to equal a glass of juice is significant.
Their biggest customers are middle eastern governments according to the WaPo article. US certainly has bought the software but it's mostly Saudi, UAE, Qatar, etc. US has NSA so they don't really need some software. Middle eastern powers dont have the same type of technical expertise to develop their own in-house.
I wonder if Amazon kept a copy of all their images?
So don't sell. Rent the house, take the income and move on. I'm building house #8 right now and the rent from the other homes (some of which are now paid off) provides an income to my family that would keep them housed and fed should something happen to me.

Of course, you have to consider this when you buy because many homes are terrible investments. If you come in with the view that you're buying what will eventually be an investment property you'll make better buying decisions.
But then you are using SMS, which your cell carrier can absolutely see and intercept because it's decrypted.

So in either case... turn off native messaging and use Signal or something if you are paranoid. You aren't really using the "phone" part anymore, so buy an iPod touch or something.

Also, iMessage is fully E2E if you disable iCloud Backup. Which can easily do in Settings.
> I got nothing out of it

That would be true if you paid that rent, and then went and lived outside in a cardboard box. You DID get something out of it. You got a place to live (potentially maintenance free)
Medicines A-Z (from the NHS in the UK)

https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/

This is aimed at the general public. An API is also available:

https://developer.api.nhs.uk/nhs-api/documentation/5b8e85b39...
> Do you enjoy having to maintain a home and property?

Better question is, how much would you pay (or want to be paid) to maintain a property.
For me, what really stood out were the rocks — real rocks just don’t have those sorts of textures.
You'd be playing a variant that directly evolved from pinochle. There's an undeniable lineage there.

If you reverse-engineered your own rules from scratch knowing nothing but what a deck of cards looked like, it would be silly to claim you'd rediscovered pinochle.

Say we fling a chess set out into space and ten million years later and alien civilization discovers it and concocts a game where they take turns placing pieces on the board like some elaborately-scored tic-tac-toe, would you say they rediscovered Chess?