skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've got a overkill desktop dev machine (previous gaming rig) that can make all the noise it wants in my basement and my front-end shell remains quiet.

I want to have the better of both worlds and a nice uncluttered desk so I ended up buying an Intel NUC 9 module plus RTX 3060 that I keep hidden in a closet and game remotely using Moonlight and Gamestream. Everything works just fine on a Gigabit connection and plays well with the Xbox controller on the M1 as if its local. I can play everything on 1440p@60fps which is more than enough to me.
I still remember when The Exiled were openly derisive of Assange. Now that they represent the same scene of broadly tankie-ish anti-American populism (not speculating on their reasons or connections to any regimes...), it seems it's a love affair.
> Print the page to PDF.

Even that usually sucks nowadays, because web developers don't care anymore. Probably 75% of the time before I do that, I have to go into the dev console to delete overlay elements that obscure content and garbage that will waste 10 pages (e.g. grossly oversized images, related article recommendations, etc.).

There was a time when most websites had a print view that gave you a simplified html page that worked well, but I think most of those are gone now. Now it's all some print "media-type" CSS that no one ever put the time in to do properly or keep up to date.
FWIW, JSON5 and Hjson share those goals.

https://json5.org/

https://hjson.github.io/
There seems to be some fuzzy matching logic gone awry. I searched for "insulin" and it brought me to "inulin" which are very different things.
You don't end up with that level of growth year over year for 20 years straight by accident. It is an unwritten assumption that missing 20% growth is a fail. I worked at Google almost 10 years and watched the dog and pony show (aka TGIF) from the inside. The real story is on the quarterly financial reports.
If you had paid more attention to that frown you might have passed the interview.

(It's Monday. Smile a little.)
How Boosted went bust: an inside look at how the skateboard startup fell apart
As a tech guy you missed the real story which was in the finance industry. Nobody is allowed to invent something in their parents garage and found lycos anymore due to federal IPO price-fixing legislation. A venture capitalist is simply not allowed to give you the money to compete especially not with the big entrenched megacorps who all have close government ties.
My five year old is the same, although he had a "breakthrough" last year and now loves pan au chocolate.
>And his story is now completely moot since the case is over.

As the ruling was appealed, Assange is still in prison over all of this. The now discredited evidence is still part of the case against him.
I think NLP technology should be used for your project :) I plan to integrate Gorse with NLP, but it might take years to implement it.
Cartman?
It won't affect it's usefulness in recording a crime or misconduct for use in a complaint. Frankly, blasting or playing music during an interaction is unprofessional and people should file a complaint against any officer doing this.
You and I both know that would be way too cool to happen in real life.
PDF

- does not reflow, major suck

- is binary format, another major suck

So no thx, PDF is outdated tech, while HTML and friends are just abused.
Yeah, it's all about card control. I used to work with someone who could shuffle and unshuffle a deck, and place any card into the deck and pull it back out (after one or more shuffles.) Takes years of practice.
You gotta draw the line somewhere - this is way over that line.
I have to begrudgingly agree. It's almost insulting that most apartment stove sets blow the ventilation exhaust right back in your face. It reminds me of the Victorian practice of burning gaslight fixtures all day long in sealed rooms.

With that being said... I hate electric fixtures so much! I know instant feedback is impossible, but do the electric alternatives really have to be this slow? It's as if everyone gave up on improving the concept 10 years ago and it drives me a little crazy...
Solarpunk Aesthetics Yogurt Ad
Julia Computing raises $24M Series A
In my experience I always give people the benefit of the doubt because I don't know what the constraints were. Multiple instances of being on the other end has given me that realization.

"Hey this looks weird"...That's because I wrote the code at 4am after production being down for 12 hours. It was meant to be a quick fix, but no one wanted to touch the code and I was sent to another project for 6 months. So yup, my stupid hard coded code is still there, and yes it breaks on leap years on February 28th...I put it in the story I wrote.

For some reason my worst code ends up being used the longest. That solution I wrote code for about 14 hours straight to save about 100 hours of wasted dev time per week. I put a note with a date "yell at me if you see this in a month", because I meant to improve it...but re-priorities took me away. Three years later I am fixing it, most of the code is trash, bad decisions made, some horrible configuration assumptions. Part of it was inexperience. Now I know any code I write might remain in the code forever...
Does anyone else get extremely powerful uncanny valley vibes from these AI-generated images? Even the ones that are pretty good give me a sort of deep existential horror.

Actually the original “this person does not exist” wasn’t so bad, but things like this, DALL-E, or the sheep one that was posted the other day I find extremely unsettling and can’t explain why.
Good find. I knew I'd seen it in a better format somewhere before but Googling just found 101 articles.
The hatred for "main stream media" quickly outpaced its usefulness very early on. The media do a bad job of a lot of things, but the undeserved portion of spite has now caused much more harm (both real and in the form of information noise) than good (in the form of enlightenment or exposure). Hatred for the main stream media is now more often than not just a way of rationalizing one's political side-taking. I think there's a fair share of that in this case. I don't necessarily agree 100% with the parent, but their point is totally valid. Look at how hostile your tone is.
I feel like we should find these kids and get them out of school where their time is being wasted. Let's get them into some proper practical training that lines up with their interests or hell, just hire them and teach them on the job. In fact, maybe we could do that for....all the kids?

"School is not a place for smart people" - Rich Sanchez
This story uses a technical question (MVC vs n-tier) as an example, but conforming your answer to interviewer expectations also applies to behavioral and soft-skill questions (perhaps more so).

There are some traditional corporate HR-screening questions that have flummoxed tech people since forever. Those who are savvy about people-skills in a workspace know instinctively how to answer these questions, but some techies have a very hard time with them because they're either being radically honest or awkwardly trying to second-guess what the interviewer wants to hear.

The best thing you one can do is to practice. Interviewing is a skill (for both sides), it doesn't come naturally to most folks.
Motherfucking Website (2013)
It's reassuring in the sense that I believe there is a very slim chance of runaway warming based on positive feedback loop.

These levels of CO2 are pretty low on a geological scale, increases to 400-800ppm CO2 have not caused a runaway global warming a la Venus ever before. More of the Earh's life as a living planet was spent above 1000 ppm than under.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henning-Haeupler/public...

In fact, there was a period in the past when the Earth warmed 10 degree Celsius (18 F) in 10 years, and there was no runaway global warming.

There will be warming, there will be positive and negative feedbacks, we don't know for sure how big each will be.

The true pity is that we're in the midst of a mass extinction event. Between pollution, loss of habitat and rapid warming - we're killing off species like we're a killer meteor...and there's no coming back for the Amazon rain-forest and countless species. Once they're gone they're gone.
So few phones have hardware switches.
> The challenge the NSA has is it possesses 2 separate missions that are often in direct conflict: secure the communications of the United States, and to collect, eavesdrop, and compromise the communications of other countries.

I don't know... isn't that like saying a military general has 2 conflicting missions: offense and defense? We trust military leaders with both duties, even though they could theoretically sacrifice everything to achieve victory.

> I believe both missions of the NSA are important. However I believe it should be split into two agencies each Enthusiastically pursuing a single mission to the best of their abilities.

If you split the NSA in two, wouldn't you just have two agencies working against each other? And it would essentially give the offensive agency full permission to hoard security flaws to the detriment of the nation it serves.

I think a better solution is to clearly establish the relative priorities of each mission. IMO, the NSA should always prioritize the security of the USA's (and it's allies') technological infrastructure over attacking its enemies'.
Multiple earlier discussions in Feb and Jul this year, linked from this comment by dang over 2 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27716367
I can't help but think "accuse" is a peculiar choice of words, because it implies that the accuser has any basis to feel wronged.

If they had any integrity they'd say: "I guess you got us back, huh!".

Entertaining to watch nonetheless.
Well it's more like backgammon
Nothing is perfect. I'm sure nobody here is proposing that. However the lack of perfect alternatives doesn't excuse Microsoft's or specifically MS Exchange's reputation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/194/Microsoft-Exchange-Se...
So much misinformation. Vegetarians don’t live longer. And cheeseburger eaters don’t die sooner in general.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/do-vegetarians-live-longer...
> [...] Websites should use HTML and not PDF in my opinion.

> On top of that the end result is not very readable on mobile, the font is too small.

Agreed on both counts. Was only commenting about browsers saving PDFs.

PDF is not a comfortable format for reading on a screen. Nor a comfortable format to extract text or data from.
Your experience is not universal.

I've been passed over for a job because I did not recite the right buzzwords (framework names, etc.). Your job in an interview is to please the person across the table from you. Some interviewers are looking for a sharp technical mind unafraid to challenge them. Others view any challenge to what they think is right as a threat.
Interviews aren't only just about skill. Sometimes you're just having a bad day, or the interviewer is. Either will prevent you from success.
Peloton plans to launch a game where you pedal to control a rolling wheel
I'm going to guess that banks didn't offer online check scanning until smartphones got popular because it would have been a tech support nightmare. First scan your check with a flatbed scanner, in the fairly unlikely event you have one, or maybe try your low-resolution webcam, which a website couldn't access through your browser in 2010, then upload it through a web form... how many users have we lost at this point?

Mobile banking apps with check scanning started showing up before hardware DRM was common on Android devices, and not all current apps make use of the hardware DRM. I think it's therefore safe to conclude the UX rather than the DRM was the enabling factor here.

Is there information available on actual breaches involving banking on rooted Android devices? I smell BS when banks and the like claim it's an unreasonable security risk.
Interesting idea, but wouldn't the resulting video technically be a derivative work of the copyrighted music?

Not saying that kills the idea, it's just an extra complication.
> But even if it was, illegally sourcing, publishing, and continuing to host secret documents is still very much illegal in the UK.

If this was even vaguely true then it would be what he is being extradited for. It's not, because it's not.

If you'd read the article, you'd know this. The USA is literally making crimes up, accusing Assange of them, and then finding "evidence" from a dodgy Icelandic criminal to support their case. Said criminal has now admitted that he lied about that evidence.

What should happen now is that the entire case collapses and Assange is released. That's not happening because the system is corrupt. This is important and we need to be making more noise about such a blatant abuse of justice.
It is not just giving more money to the property owner. It's increasing how much is produced in total. Higher GDP == higher per capita GDP.
Whether the Chinese government has control over these APTs, the crime originated on Chinese soil, and it's their responsibility to deal with these threats. What's so hard for you to understand?
If we have two different random number generators, and yours has various artifacts that make it non-random in some circumstances (and perhaps mine has different artifacts that make it non-random in different circumstances) then there isn't just some simple "mapping" you can do to go from yours to mine.
Long-shot request: Generate 3D models of beaches like this for a flight simulator.
I said it wasn't universal, which is somewhat different to the vague idea of being "open", and yes, PDF is technically an "open format" depending on how you define "open". The ISO 32000 spec. costs in the region of ~200 USD/EUR.

What that "openness" translates into in the real world is that there are zero non-Adobe viewers that support all of PDF's features, and even less PDF editors. The standard PDF editor costs ~200 USD/EUR (annual subscription).

This is before we even get into the nightmarish world of PDF parsing. Or PDF accessibility.

PDF is a great format if you're sending a document to someone for them to print immediately. It has no other valid uses imo.
Wars Obama gets to own (100%) (that is wars that would not have occurred without the Obama's administration encouragement, logistical support, and military intervention):

Lybia - (the US went in, as HRC infamously crudely paraphrased Ceser)
Yemen - massive logistical support (stat and intel) and sale of weapons. Probably foreign mercenaries (unconfirmed)
Syria - weapons and US boots on the ground (there still there). Probably funded and aided groups that became ISIS (relax, I don't think he did it on purpose. It was the same DC hubris that made Taliban out of Mujahadeen).

You can also add Honduras into the list of Obama's "Hope" and "Change" hypocrisy. You can't pin any of that on Trump, since these are conflicts he inherited.

As to Trump's 55 tomahawk missiles, taken out of context, is that the worse of it? Then Trump is the most benign (!!) president since at least Carter [1]. When you consider context, specifically that Trump called the Russians to make sure that the 55 pencils didn't start anything (they were launched to placate calls on CNN), then Trump comes out more favorably still.

As to Jerusalem, that was stupid and an unforced error. However, the ME didn't blow up as expected (unless you consider Lebanon self-destructing a consequence of that?). Also, he was executing the decades old bipartisan desire of Congress that previous presidents had, un-democratically, ignored. Stupid decision, for sure, but Congress gets most of the blame there.

Finally, you can't ignore that every time Trump tried to pull out of the ME, the military stymied him. They even directly disobeyed orders and they are on record as saying that they would misinform the president to keep the troops in.

[1] Carter, like Trump, didn't start a major war. However, his Iran intervention was much worse than anything Trump did (troops on the ground). Therefore, Trump might have been the most benign president for foreign countries since WW2 (when you consider colonialism, possibly far before that).
If you watch the video, they cover this ("Why aren't the cops hit with license violations for public performance of these songs?") - basically, a judge would have to be convinced by the rightsholders that they intended for the music to be heard by a wide audience, which is clearly the opposite of what they want.

It's the same reason that you can't be "hit with license violations" for listening to music in your car with the windows down, effectively.
Or, maybe we should stop testing asymptomatic people
> HTML can easily be offline-able. Base64 your images or use SVG, put your CSS in the HTML page, remove all 2-way data interaction, basically reduce HTML to the same performance as PDF and allow it to be downloaded.

I built a tool for this exact purpose[0] since the HTML specification and modern browsers have a lot of nice features for creating and reading documents compared to PDF (reflow and responsive page scaling, accessibility, easily sharable, a lot of styling options that are easy to use, ability for the user to easily modify the document or change the style, integration with existing web technologies, etc.). In general I would rather read an HTML document than the PDF document since I like to modify the styling in various ways (dark theme extensions in the browser for example) which may be hard to do with a PDF, but its more of a personal preference. Some people will prefer that the document adjusts to the screen size of the device (many HTML pages), and others will prefer the exact same or similar rendering regardless of the screen size (PDF).

Either way, kind of a fun idea making a website using just PDFs. Not the most practical choice, but fun none-the-less.

[0] https://github.com/chowderman/hyperfiler
You don't actually need a CDN or caching to survive being on the HN frontpage: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat...
"so many"

How many?

I've seen a number of articles on this and mostly the same videos. I feel like this is akin to twitter outrage where I don't doubt a thing happened ... I just can't gauge how much it happens vs. how much coverage there is.
I work with XML quite a lot for connecting legacy but also 'modern' systems, and there are some good parts and some absolutely horrible parts, let me go on a rant for a little.

I classify them as sane XML ideas and some as complete utter garbage.

Good parts

- Schemas for documents - If you have a single schema file, and a single XML to do validation its KINDA nice. If you limit yourself to a basic set of XSD types its okay ish.
- The general idea have XSD's express document structure and have a standard for it is kinda nice.

Bad parts

- people go absolutely bonkers with schemas, have schemas in schemas, do complicated stuff that can hardly be expressed in modern type systems, and even harder to generate code for. Things like PEPPOL or UBL are extreme horrible overly complex solutions, and you need an army of devs that have the patience to implement it properly.

As a result, everybody does the bare minimum and gets their own flavour and you're still making per supplier code since everyone just tries to make it work. Our code base has a ton of 'fixers' per supplier to convert their iffy files to something sane. We started by asking them to fix their files but in the end it was just waaaaaay faster if we dealt with it, because the complexity of truly understanding XSD's is quite complicated.

- 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.

- It can basically do too much, what you want is a tiny expression of your types.

- JSON Interopability: You can't just convert JSON to XML without schema knowledge. In XML this can `<user><name></name></user>` can either be an item in an array [], or a hash. You need to know the schema to understand how to deserialise or generate properly, you can't cheat.

- 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.

I also deal with +1GB XML files and then the tooling to support large files grows thin. And you resolve to SAX parsing and emitting nodes. It aint fun. In the end I had to write a lot of tools myself to make it manageable to work with many documents.

Anyway thanks for reading this far, I really needed to vent hahaha
Oh, if Five9 is far enough behind then perhaps Zoom can just tack on any needed features to their existing product; I had assumed there were enough features only on the Five9 side that actual porting/integration would be needed.
Careful of the Streisand effect.
And there are US states that can match and beat almost all European states on unemployment numbers.

But my point is that the parent comment is wrong: the US has a lower unemployment rate than the EU as a whole, and a much lower unemployment rate if you only count the regions of Europe with high social welfare spending.
Unless you absolutely need the job, I would consider this a great opportunity to figure out how his boss would react.

Getting into a lively technical discussion when you can see how well people can control their egos to find out the best course of action is very valuable. If I had a chance during an interview to find out how people behave in those circumstances I would definitely go for it. Who knows maybe the "boss" would be present in future technical discussions as well, I wouldn't want his presenc to change the discourse negatively.

And as I've personally been in positions like that (being the tech lead with the boss on the call), I'm usually thrilled to learn new information and discuss technical things, raising my opinion of the interviewee greatly.

Maybe that's because I come from a very straight forward culture where political subterfuge is frowned upon, but it wouldn't actually look very good to me if a member of my team would subtly alter a technical matter for the worse because of political pressure. Would I be able to trust that person? I would always have this doubt that they are "playing a deeper game", regardless if it was for my benefit or not.
There is another point if view, and that is that corporate marketing should not take precedence over correct use of language.

Some languages tend to be more strict about this. I think it's particularly common to see English play fast and loose with the language compared to other languages.

In Sweden, for example you will see media write Iphone, because it's a name, and names are capitalised.

The same goes for Digital Ocean, or Digitalocean if you prefer. It can definitely be argued fairly that the writer does not have to break language conventions just because a company says they have to.
"Why aren't the cops hit with license violations for public performance of these songs?"

Because when you're in a position of power you get to do what you want. But probably also that playing on a personal device is not considered public performance (although courts have ruled officer actions on duty are public and recording them is not subject to privacy most laws, which could make it public performance, but good luck getting a court to agree)
Self-hosting has essentially no ability to reach people. You'll be DoS'd off the map if your video is even remotely popular. You need a real platform to reach the public. That's why people care about the moderation and takedown policies of the big platforms. Self-hosting won't ever solve the problem.
It's also taken this long to stack enough layers of digital abstractions that kid pranks aren't running afoul of the draconian CFAA.