skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chomsky is a very famous leftist (an anarcho-syndicalist) that is a former MIT Institute Professor that did foundational linguistics research and also made his bones protesting the Vietnam war. He writes voluminously on topics like the manufacturing of consent for war in the media, who has power, inequality, the role of science, the role of the state and market in science, and capitalism. In recent years, he has made a big point to talk about nuclear war, climate change, and the decline of democracy -- crises that threaten the world. During the 2020 election, he said to vote blue no matter who.

On the left, Norman Finkelstein, a former protegee, noted that Chomsky became known for an approach to politics and history that was very empirical at a time when many communists were very dogmatic and missed certain predictions about Maoist China. In my opinion however, Chomsky is also dogmatically anti-Marxist-Leninist to the point of caricature. I suspect that is how he retains his position in high society.
The code to extract metadata is easy. I’m talking more about whether or not there is a deliberate process in place to actually write the code, run the checks and provide all available metadata and context to law enforcement. Apple has not indicated that process exists, thus far.
Are they jumping into the dark or tossing their users over the edge and listening for a splash? Or maybe a splat.
One of the Afghani refugees here in Australia spoke of how confusing it was to be welcomed into a completely secular western culture, and then have to cope with Sunni dominated mosques and expectations of behaviour. The Sunni imams were a bit distressed they weren't showing up, noting that if you didn't live close to the mosque here, and hadn't yet learned to drive, (drive: She was functionally illiterate, and dealing with a 6 month old baby with a hole-in-the-heart who was born in refugee camp. what a nightmare) that was .. hard. (because we don't somehow welcome mosques as much as we might, and they wind up being in bush locations, away from public transport, and only do Shia-imam stuff on alternate tuesday afternoons type things)

It sounded like a next to impossible balancing act. Somehow, a lot of them wound up in construction: specifically tiling. I wondered if the "silk road" building culture of decorated tiling had paid off, as a work model for them or if this is just that one lucky Afghan who gets a job and then hires his friends, to make a "thing" happen.

I was also told the whole Fasi/Dari thing was really funny from the Farsi side of things. The Dari speakers sound like they're enunciating olde-english, chaucer style, to modern english ears (if you see what I mean) -and the Afgans said that the Farsi interpreters were often mis-interpreting things which made for horrendous Immigration problems.
The more people, especially geeks and programmers, use and improve completely free systems, even if they have deficiencies now, the sooner we as a society are free. There is a responsibility for knowledgeable and competent people that goes far beyond the selfish need. It also makes fun and appreciation to do the right thing, more than any convenience can ever give.
Excellent introduction!

It can really be overwhelming when you realize they control all of the major institutions in our country.
I have fond memories of this site. I used to refer to it extensively when I was in high school a decade ago. It's a great resource.
Yes Internet is a very good example. It was not originally developed by private companies but later yes. So it looks like state has a big role in developing innovations which don't seem to bring immediate profit to any one company. Even the whole patent-system is something that only governments can provide. And patents drive innovation I think
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I would posit that Chomsky has performed far more research on this question than you have. Your assertions require citations, but even if true, they ignore the role of wealth and power in the world that allows highly advanced rich countries to dominate science and technology. Furthermore, the obvious counterexample of the USSR showed that state finance of science allowed it to compete toe to toe with the US for quite some time.
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Rosewill cases are affordable. 4U cases supports 12cm fan so any silent fan can be installed.
>and more with each OS version packing more features and being more resource-hungry.

planned + designed obsolescence
The links you posted contain discussions about how the OP did not account for overall job posting collapse during the pandemic
q: why do you ask people to use the word area instead of market?

a: Because imprecise language clouds thinking and makes things less intelligible, and Google is a company that makes its money from intelligence. People have been incorrectly referring to areas as markets, in order to better communicate we laid down guidelines. We often lay down guidelines about corporate communications to heighten their efficiency, as do other companies

on edit: I'm not saying that this is true, but one can easily make an argument as to why you use area instead of market in communication and ask your workers to do likewise. I would think the courts would require more evidence than that.
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I used to like anime, but have fully moved to manga due to art preferences and time availability.

I dislike the juvenile underpinnings of many of these 'seasonal' anime that get a few seasons of generic tropes until it gets axed.

That being said, I also dislike how a medium gets chasitized for its content. Many anime have had profound impact on me and stand alongside movie/tv greats in the live action world.

I would love to see more creative explorations of the medium like Mob Psycho 100 did in the anime adaptation.

Lastly , anime does superhero and comedy better than anything the west's TV shows have to offer. Japan truly has a superior understanding of these genres.
How is straightforward is using an eGPU? Are there issues with drivers, throttling, etc? Also how is the eGPU support on Linux?
Big fan of JQ. I like it more than the traditional UNIX suite of text manipulation commands, because I get closer to "querying" rather than just filtering. It has really made me rethink where I want "interacting with a computer" to go in the future -- less typing commands, more querying stuff.

I have a few utilities involving JQ that I wrote.

For structured logs, I have jlog. Pipe JSON structured logs into it, and it pretty-prints the logs. For example, time zones are converted to your local time, if you choose; or you can make the timestamps relative to each other, or now. It includes jq so that you can select relevant log lines, delete spammy fields, join fields together, etc. Basically, every time you run it, you get the logs YOU want to look at. https://github.com/jrockway/json-logs. Not to oversell it, but this is one of the few pieces of software I've written that passes the toothbrush test -- I use it twice a day, every day. All the documentation is in --help; I should really paste that into the Github readme.

I am also a big fan of using JQ on Kubernetes objects. I know what I'm looking for, and it's often not in the default table view that kubectl prints. I integrated JQ into a kubectl extension, to save you "-o json | jq" and having to pick apart the v1.List that kubectl marshals objects into. https://github.com/jrockway/kubectl-jq. That one actually has documentation, but there is a fatal flaw -- it doesn't integrate with kubectl tab completion (limitation of k8s.io/cli-runtime), so it's not too good unless you already have a target in mind, or you're targeting everything of a particular resource type. This afternoon I wanted to see the image tag of every pod that wasn't terminated (some old Job runs exist in the namespace), and that's easy to do with JQ: `kubectl jq pods 'select(.status.containerStatuses[].state.terminated == null) | .spec.containers[].image'`. I have no idea how you'd do such a thing without JQ, probably just `kubectl describe pods | grep something` and do the filtering in your head. (The recipes in the kubectl-jq documentation are pretty useful. One time I had a Kubernetes secret that had a key set to a (base64-encoded) JSON file containing a base64-encoded piece of data I wanted. Easy to fix with jq; `.data.THING | @base64d | fromjson | .actualValue | @base64d`.

JQ is something I definitely can't live without. But I will admit to sometimes preprocessing the input with grep, `select(.key|test("regex"))` is awfully verbose compared to "grep regex" ;)
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The Russians got the Zeiss factory as spoils of WWII so they made at least some decent optics.
Still Using the Average?
I see! I think we just have differences of opinion/preferences here.

Bootstrap does provide most of those:

Carousels - https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/components/carousel/
Tooltips - https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/components/tooltips/
Collapsible - https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/components/collapse/
Tabs - https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/components/navs-tabs/

For lightbox functionality, you'd indeed need an external plugin (or just combine modal + responsive image), but i see the fact that such plugins are even available as a plus, since that means being able to download one and start using it, without spending days or weeks developing low level functionality.

I think that the difference here is that you seem to prefer to focus on the design part a lot more (which is valid in projects where the brand is front and center), whereas i care more about implementing functionality quickly and prioritize that. For the latter case, Bootstrap works nicely. Probably less so for the former.
By turning Airbnbs into refugee shelters people will make the association between the two.
Or without ignoring the concepts of self-sovereignty and the right to ownership. The horseshoe theory strikes again.
When the free market is allowed to work, people find unexpected uses for things, that raise utility, that people didn't forsee.
How Does Authentication Work in a React App with AWS?
I wrote a PWA for reading RSS feeds. It works fully offline and should be installable in Chromium based browsers (I develop in Firefox, but Chromium definitely has better PWA support).

https://readr.nz
Its a shame, is there an equivalent out there?
I love anime despite all of it's warts and blemishes and worse (as mentioned by others here). And I've been in and out of it heavily since I learned what it was my sophomore/junior year of HS (around 1996/7).

I've learned that for me it comes down to the different way of storytelling and emphasized.

A great breakdown of some of the differences are can be read here.
https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-horror-structure/

especially the diagrams from

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20198301?seq=2

tldr:
"In a Western story the plot is moved forward by the character’s goals."

while in Japanese story telling they might go like this

"In a simple-reaction story, the character’s own actions and the universe’s reactions to them drive the story to a conclusion that may or may not have anything to do with character goals."

and the ending.

"This leads us to the second significant difference between Japanese and Western story grammar: the conclusion. The Japanese story grammar ends with “events and/or emphasis,” whereas the more western model ends with a “resolution.”"
Love the fact they haven't updated the website to more modern web technologies.
You realize you're using the descendant of a computer network created by the US government so that military command and control could survive a nuclear attack, right? I could give lots more examples of things you use every day that were developed or funded by the US government, if you like.
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> He was an absolute disgrace of a human being, treated people like garbage, a borderline psychopath.

So what? Many celebrated people (artists, scientists, architects, leaders) were actually quite miserable people to be around and work with.
Android does not require an account. It only requires an account to use the play store.
The difference is probably below 1 microsecond. A modern CPU running at 3GHz roughly performs 3 instructions every 1 nanosecond. It varies a lot but character by character comparison, especially one that’s happening often and thus cached is one of the most trivial usecases so let’s assume this nominal throughput.

I’d estimate a naive comparison loop to be around 20-30 cycles, for compare and control? And let’s wrap it in 250 cycles more because someone decided to use Python. 300 cycles, then, are about 100ns (tenth of a microsecond).

Not saying it can’t be done with a timing attack over the internet but you’d need a huge sample size.
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Ophcrack works too, at least if the underlying machine still runs Windows XP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophcrack
That's true, but if this didn't make news then what would've happened in the future? Thousands, millions maybe, of documents talking about areas and no mention of markets make discover more difficult for a future anti-trust case.
You can test this with a camera at home. Take a single exposure photo of the full moon so that it’s exposed correctly (the looney 11 rule can be helpful), then count how many stars show up.
Firstbase, Stripe Atlas, and a few other options. There are everything handled for you services.
WHy not incorporate in Sg? Start in Sg and once you have people incorporate in the us if you have to
Why are they using AirBnb rather than hotels, is it just price or is there something hotels don’t offer?
I have no idea if I am reading the chart right, but it looks like biscuits are the worst for scalability. Why is that?

I would imagine that if the entire policy is encoded in the biscuit, it is very easy to evaluate without needing to call external services. And it can be extended like macaroons without needing a central authority, assuming I groked your blog post correctly. The only issue I can see is revocation.
Is ScreenRant moving to doing actual journalism now after years of clickbait?
I didn't think it was satire, but I'm at the point of my career where I wouldn't want to work for a company like this.

If I'm expected to make a 3-days homework exercise plus a half day live coding session, and then I'm expected to jump at their every whim too (respond email when it's convenient for them, honesty seen as a weakness, expected to be proactive but not too much or you become argumentative), I'd rather look somewhere else.

This reads more like "how to screen for people who will blindly follow your orders". And sure, if you have a small startup maybe you do want people like that. But as a developer I don't think this guide has my best interests in mind.
update title to: Ask HN

Does the H1B Visa status allow you to start your own company in the USA ?
Healthier way? This is wrong. First, to admit your goal is to crush your competitors is completely appropriate. That is the exact way the market is supposed to work. Thoughts about hiding this inherent part of any businesses strategy is, well, fine for lawyers, but essentially ignorant for engineers. Lawyers are not paid to make things, nor to develop your strategy. They are paid to manipulate laws and the truth. To write ethical issues off as lawyers just lawyering is a terrible way to approach business or technology.
Sold!

Now, how do I also get your software that will work with this hardware?
I was keen to explore (even if it's a bit dated) but unfortunately the combination of mobile-browser and dark mode makes a bit of a mess of things.. (making it quite a bumpy ride) I wonder if there are any 'translations' to other formats around?

"Second Law of Thermodynamics: In any cyclic process the entropy will either increase or remain the same."

I need some clarity about what is meant by 'cyclic' here. Is it perhaps to refer to feedback loops/self-sustaining phenomena?
> science alone can never legitimate itself

What does this even mean?
Not to be confused with CAN-ZUCK, the FTC's ongoing effort to stop Facebook.
> This is the forum for a VC firm.

It may be, but that’s not who posts on it and determines the content.
This is going to go over like a lead balloon. Think the anti-mask/vax rioters are a nuisance? They're going to have a field day with this one.
I've always found this cover like... really really uncomfortable. I'm not shocked the kid's finally realizing how he was taken advantage of in the moment.

Do I think the folks who took it or marketed it were pedophiles? No. Do I think this is a cover that should probably be stricken from public display and distribution? Yes. At the very least, it's now a naked photo of someone who was legally unable to consent to that photo being taken or displayed.
A cyclic process is a thermodynamic process that eventually arrives back in its initial state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_cycle
would a Neural processor be easier to understand than the Microprocessor ?
That's because making money in a market environment is hard. "Free market" theory predicts that there is no long term economic profit to be made in the face of a truly free market, in which there is perfect competition among the participants. That means that all profit in the so called "free market" comes from exploiting the conditions which make it not a free market, most prominently, information asymmetries.
Ask HN: A single offline news publication as your only source of information?
Hypothetically, if you could only choose one news publication that's offline (print) to read about world events, what would you choose?
If you can, use Scylla over Cassandra. The performance difference is tremendous in my experience and replacing can be trivial (easier if you start with Scylla on day 0)
no, cyclic in this context means that all macroscopic system variables (temperature etc) return to their initial conditions
I didn't say we'd do advertising. I said social found a business model where the buyer was on the other side. The point is that there are many companies who want to offer APIs or want us to leverage their infrastructure who we can potentially partner with.

Pricing models aside. I think there is some value to a core set of free APIs which we haven't really seen from a single provider like this. Maybe it just ends up with some liberal request limits, I'm not sure but as a user I know I'd not want to be limited by it and most likely pay in a team or company setting.
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Ok, so the mnemosyne doesn't contain the answers. But just a prompt/question. And then you write the solution/answers on paper every time mnemosyne shows a particular card.

From the way you described it, you change all statements/theorems/etc. in the book into questions? To put inside you mnemosyne deck. So your deck in the end has a lot of prove this statement/theorems/etc. and the problems that come with the book.

I was expecting some magical shortcut. But it's the usual tip of doing shitton of problems. Your way is especially comprehensive of course since you basically memorize/know/practice how to prove/solve everything in a book.

Impressive. This takes a lot of time and discipline.
I'm sure this can (and does) happen basically anywhere, but according to this article one state in India alone has 40k ""dead"" people, so the scale is way different.
A lot of discussion of 1984 here in US. The truth is most of the people here have no idea of what 1984 looks like, unless they've lived in China for more than 5 years. That's the combination of money, power and brain power to lock the intelligence and wash the brains.
To be precise, the original iPhone can run third-party apps, but couldn’t from the beginning. The AppStore was introduced with iPhone OS 2 a year after the launch.
The privacy comes from the system being censorship resistant, so the platform itself can not require you to KYC yourself to the state in order to use it, or be shut down or blocked by the state.

The irrepudiable public record of transactions is needed to make it censorship resistant, and does indeed come with severe privacy risks, though those can be mitigated with zk-proof cryptography (e.g. https://aztec.network/).
President Biden to host infosec roundtable with tech giant CEOs
Would you rather have your offsite in (1) a Tahoe ski cabin (2) a beach house or (3) the Holiday Inn conference center suite 2C?
The proper title should be: "Airbnb will ask hosts to offer accomodation"

It is great initiative but Airbnb does not own locations .
Hey guys, I just wanted to say that it looks completely natural that a short sarcastic post about social media in general gets followed by two suppressing posts that very specifically defend Facebook, completely have each others backs and also delivers a little ad hominem.
No. You got to eatablish structures that can resist voting the wrong people, this means mostly seperation of powers and a working law system. Political movements that have direct military and jurisdictive power can only be voted out if they feel like it. Political powers that have enough military power to break the seperation of power can then force courts with weaponpower to decide their way.

So democracy is not about "letting people vote" it is about establishing a system that resists attemptet power grabs an keeps power in the hands of the voters should they want to vote people out.

The day the party in power can just ignore/fake the result of an election without consequences is the day a democracy started dying.
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I usually just connect the "smart tv" to the internet once a year and update the firmware (after checking the change log for useful fixes). Then I disconnect it again and use my chromecast to stream.
That's likely because you've incorporated the "phone battery dance" so strongly into your life, that you don't even notice it anymore.

I agree with GP here - most adults (and teenagers) organize their day in part around keeping their phone charged.
Yeah, I don't know about "slap." We want you to have deep production experience with these systems. Designing them, deploying them at significant scale, predicting their pitfalls and avoiding them proactively. Diagnosing systemic problems and finding reasonable solutions.

If you can't magically put out production fires, on huge high-throughput systems, potentially in the dead of night, we are unlikely to pay you $300-400K.
I don't quite understand the details of file sharing (https://www.kryptor.co.uk/tutorial#using-a-private-and-publi...)

If I want to send an encrypted file to someone, don't I just need the recipient's public key? What is the role of my private key here? Is my private key used for adding my signature?
Every now and then I'm reminded of a) how much of HN has never worked for a large company, and b) how unfamiliar much of HN is with common business and legal practices.

Too many thought leaders masquerading as engineers.
Well done Sébastian - I have been waiting for this. Having seperate SQLAlchemy and pydantic models always seemed like a spot where the whole FastAPI developer experience wasn't ideal imo. Looking forward to try this out :)
Note: this article also includes a helpful summary of the major infosec incidents this year. This meeting is presumably motivated by those incidents and the recent memorandum that described the US information security posture as “woefully insufficient” (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/29/biden_memo_on_critica...).

Personally I wonder if the main thing missing is legal and financial liability for infosec incidents, to motivate industries and public agencies into action.
I sometimes wonder if getting hired as a self-taught programmer is only possible in the US. Because their software industry has so much money. And perhaps cultural difference. It seems everywhere else requires you to have the relevant degree. To get your first job at least.