skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Third one of the things that did ultimately come out of the DNC leak they were a part of was that some of the documents were altered from the originals and so they were “mostly real” but did have fake things in them. The reason for that was that it was an intelligence operation by the Russians that was specifically designed to throw the election at the last minute.

Looking around, it seems screenshots of one document were marked 'confidential', the original documents without that were available, and media turned that into "Russia edited the documents". Is there any other evidence? I can't find it.
I work with physicists and circuit designers. To us, "whiteboard" is synonymous with freeform drawing...
Gallery 3.1
I don't see an 'extended discussion' section for MPN... There's one for "LifeSiteNews" below it though; are you sure that's not what you're referring to?
Or the ones that had silently truncated your password (e.g. JetBlue truncating to length 10) in every input and login box so the stored password isn’t what you think it is.

Then one day stopped doing truncating … but only in some boxes, not others.
“Chilling effect.” I see the same thing with unenforceable employment contract clauses, where people still avoid violating them just to be safe.
Found this https://github.com/MohamedBassem/spam-referrals-blocker

I was thinking that may be they are just opening the site with Javascript disabled. But that wouldn't trigger Google Analytics. Can definitely be done on Javascript side too. Thanks for the suggestion. :)
But nuclear is also the reason why it's still an ongoing expensive issue 10 years later.
It's an API + noCode tool to generate images on the fly.

Pass css like design and data into query string and get an image returns.

Example https://img.bruzu.com/?bc=gold&a.t=HN+News

Adding more templates https://bruzu.com
A big company contains a large number of units that are culturally distinct. That is a strength instead of a weakness because a monoculture will certainly go bad and not be responsive to reality.

All organizations fall short of their ideals in some places. I worked at a startup where the CTO thought monads were great for error handling in Scala. I was skeptical but I was working on Python at the beginning and wasn’t involved.

I got tasked w/ working w/ the Scala subsystem later and found that habitually coders would fail to implement error checking and these got through code reviews done by that guy who thought monads were so great.

I used the phrase ‘normalization of deviance’ all the time there and it raised eyebrows. One day I got let go because of the mismatch.

Where I am now there are gaps between ‘what we do’ and ‘what we say we do’ but the contradictions don’t bother me and we move the football down the field consistently so I am satisfied. When i make a mistake it gets caught in code review which makes me feel like they have my back.

Bad code is endemic outside FANG but you have to travel far and wide to find really good code. Good code is not expensive, actually it is cheap because devs are much more productive and they don’t have to hire so many of them. Those devs don’t turn over and the firms don’t hire many devs.

Places with bad code have awful productivity and hire huge numbers of devs to make up for it. They are always hiring.
If you want someone to stop bothering you about working at their startup just ask for the cap table.
Ask HN: Is there a standard founders agreement template?
YC have changed the industry with the introduction of the SAFE. Has anyone come across a similar one page standard founders agreement?

Things it should obviously cover:

- Vesting schedule
- Cliff
- Allocation of costs

Things it should possibly cover:

- Moving to full-time
- Dispute resolution
- Founders leaving voluntarily
- Kicking founders out
- Intellectual Property
Because Communist countries tend to have very messy transfers of power, if not through continuity or annointment of a new leader by the old?

And by messy I mean armed forces involvement and/or bodies in the streets.
Because deep down they know there is no point to consuming "real news" anyway. Intelligence agencies do not care what the peons think, and subverting the political processes of other countries is what they have been doing worldwide for generations, so accomplishing that at home is not a challenge for them. At this point most Americans dislike their fellow American to the extent that the very idea of "organizing" is almost comical. So because there is no real solution, they'd rather just watch some flashy and corny high-production bullshit which tells them who should be the safe target of their rage (for a while now it's been poor whites). They'd rather masturbate to some video of some guy on his deathbed dying and saying he regrets being an anti-vaxxer. The alternative is trying to get people to hate eachother less, which is antithetical to the entire "hope one day you hit the lotto and become one of the elites" mentality that sustains most people.
In the West privately funded media has increased polarisation over the last 50 years, so having stronger public investments in media could be helpful to stop this pervasive divisiveness. China has the opposite configuration where the state controls all information and you'll be re-educated if you say the wrong thing loud enough. These are both extremes that are undesirable IMO.
No it’s not, and a cursory glance at studies of human behaviour (what economics is really about, in a way) would dispel this notion.
I don't trust these tools as any Windows Update can override the setting, or Microsoft can add a new "feature" and continue collecting telemetry data from that. For example; Disk Space Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) tool has been trying to connect to internet since last year's Windows 20H2 updates. I use Binisoft's Windows Firewall Control (wfc)[0], set level to Moderate and check logs regularly. There is also simplewall tool [1] which has predefined Windows list to block.

[0] binisoft.org/wfc

[1] https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
Yes. The shared global board definitely has to go. Should have known not to trust people to behave…
This is obviously a rant for its own sake more than an answerable question.

The quality of software runs the gamut and is orthogonal to the size and brand name
recognition of its writers.

Also, every sufficiently large project, no matter how tight the ship being run, will
at various stages feel like it's about to collapse under its own weight.
> Built in the early 1950s... It conveyed phone conversations and television signals from the era of the Kennedy assassination through the resignation of Nixon

Even from the other side of the globe I can tell that it seems strangely short-lived. Built for a decade, then used for a decade?

Wikipedia notes tersely:

> The launch of communication satellites in the 1970s provided a cheaper alternative.
Water rights have long been an issue in the mountain west, and are highly coveted. They go back to the settling of areas, and directly influence property values. Even well-depth is regulated for newer properties so as to prevent them from usurping water in use by existing residents.
My old Brother printer has an installation utility for OSX that doesn’t run under modern Java for a trivial reason. I recompiled it and swapped in a library to make it work. The only point of the tool is to configure the printer (over USB) to talk to the right wifi.
Just for my own edification, is the suggestion here that a reverse takeover is inherently dishonest? I'm asking out of genuine ignorance.

I read up on reverse mergers a while ago and couldn't get a read one way or the other - felt kinda similar to a direct listing (which I understand even less). Anecdotally, the company that was considering doing it seemed suss af.
meh these days the important messages are delivered by WeChat.
I'm not ignoring any such thing, as Churchill famously said "democ­ra­cy is the worst form of Gov­ern­ment except for all those oth­er forms that have been tried". It's inconvenient even for those who are persuasive, but especially for those who are not and for those who are authoritarian - sets that tend to overlap, in my experience.

As to Poland, there are no publicised plans for changes to laws that directly affect gays, and they actually have many legal protections that you'll find lacking elsewhere. No same sex marriage or civil partnerships though.

If you think stripping away democracy so that Polish gays can marry is worth it then you're entitled to that view, but I'd hazard a guess that they've got long enough memories to avoid that kind of short term thinking and will carry on with the long term effort of persuasion, which is going well[1].

> Meanwhile, support for the legalisation of same-sex partnerships – which are currently not permitted in Poland – now stands at 36%, up six percentage points since 2019 and ten since 2015. Surveys by other pollsters have in recent years found a growing majority now in favour of same-sex partnerships.

[1] https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/08/06/poles-becoming-more-s...
Create a cheap coworking space.
I rented a house 15 min. Waliking distance from my home I share with 2 - 4 friends.

It is very important to have some space between family and work.
Would a Facebook Breakup Look Like AT&T’s Breakup?
> The reason why it is "filling up" is because the waste need too cool down at the surface for a few decades before being buried.

The reason it is filling up is because no one has the political capital to build or develop any of the longer term storage sites. Otherwise, for just storing during cool down periods, it would not be filling up, since they would be at exactly the capacity they were designed for (the overflow being dumped to the ocean^W^W^W being moved to long-term storage).

> But that's not a problem because there is not so much of it in volume

I'm tired of this argument. It doesn't matter if it is "not so much of it in volume" as long as literally a couple grams of leak within the next 10k+ years will lead to big $$$ in damages (think: permeability and water supply), and therefore no village wants to hear about it.

It is still quite premature to claim it is a solved problem when the mess due to the long-term storage (e.g. Cigéo) sites is still regularly on TV.
Linking this old project that is still somewhat maintained. I used this ages ago and deployed it for some friends. I hope some day people take interest and fork this project. [1] This is not my project, just something I have found useful in the past. Self hosting provides some additional control and reduces censorship. I hope there are still some PHP developers out there.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_Project
That looks really sharp! I’ve been very pleased with Miro for corporate use though.
I don't see this requirement anywhere, can you point me to it?
Just wait until you hear about smartphones
I come from the software consulting buble. Post it notes everywhere.
They may have changed it, but it was certainly working in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13426544
That's why all sorts of taboos exist in societies where it was common. Ask an older Chinese guy what is worse, eating fresh lettuce or smoking? Sure, smoking might kill, but raw vegetables will kill you quicker.
You have to define "stability"; it is a vague word.

If you're talking about price stability, this is an illusion. The appearance of price stability of any currency is created by 1) it's use as unit of account, and 2) high liquidity, usually caused by a state governing a large population decreeing its use as legal tender.

No currencies are stable in price, because the crux is what you're pricing them in. If you price dollars in oil as unit of account, the dollar becomes as volatile as oil appears to be when the reverse is the case, as it usually is. All currency prices are free floating. And really, commodities like oil (and salt, and plenty of others) are more stable currencies, because their production and consumption remain mostly constant, so the supply can be more easily predicted, multiple entities can produce it so there's no monopoly that can control supply entirely.

If you're talking about some other type of stability, such as infrastructural stability, bitcoin has been running for a decade with no formal governing body, and in principle is so stable that any Tom dick and harry can spin up a cryptocurrency network with minimal effort and it just works. That's pretty damn stable.
Because when people hear non-profit, they think NPR, which is wildly biased.

A true facts only news outlet is likely best, but provides little entertainment value.
Let's say you want to share your fix with people so you write a blog post with instructions. Without this ruling, you could be sued and forced to take it down.
I used to think this way once. But not any more.

Some people might do or were something that I won't like. I have learned to not let that influence me in way, and be comfortably ambivalent.

I especially felt bad after I came to know that Richard Feynman slept with many of his friends' wives and tried to sleep with even more of them. He burnt a lot of bridges this way. One Physicist had told me that Feynman hit on his wife twice, and when discouraged by the wife, he let it go as a perfect gentleman.

Despite this, Feynman remains one of my most revered icons and his picture still hangs on my wall.

I don't overlook what he did or try to find some naive justification. I know he was this way and that does not make his mind less fascinating to me.
Like ripping the tag off a mattress?

I think it's probably aimed at a business that claims it can fix software bugs by reverse-engineering.
I don't think it is funny, nor coincidence. A lot of people are poor and have to sell themselves out with privacy. They cannot afford a premium brand like Apple.
Well, that's a news organisation

No, that's a publisher. "News" describes the product, not the method of operation. Has the war on words been so successful that Americans univerally consider e.g. Cosmo "news" now?
Is there an easy to follow documentation for dosbox-x? And can it work with pre-built images?

I have tried to use it a few times but got overwhelmed by all the options. From the screenshot it looks exactly what I want (only for windows 98 though).
Active Volcanoes in the Continental United States
The bouncing things aren’t bouncing for me.
Sounds like, for your purposes, you can define an address type that you can map to columns. But I think you're the outlier.

We have fairly regular addresses in the UK. You can enforce a country and a postcode. You can enforce at least two lines of the local address. That's where it ends.

I live right now I'm a house that's described as one village everywhere except by the local council, who address us by the other village. We're in a lane between the two. But the lane is impassable in the middle except with an off-road vehicle. Google maps doesn't know that. Visitors get lost even with GPS and precise co-ordinates!

Before moving out here, I've frequently had to just enter "London" twice due to aggressive validation. I've even entered "London, London, Greater London". It works, but I know there's a senior engineer somewhere who's obstinate and wrong. Hell, I lived somewhere where flats B, C and D for our house number were a different door to A, because properties can be converted.

What is the value of structuring this data? Store a country, a postal code, and a multiline local field, and don't try to validate that field except maybe to clean up surplus whitespace.
> Most of the population won't have any use for it - they'll have no reason to question what's in the mainstream.

Exactly. The point of information control in closed society is not to avoid the exposure of particular events, but to suppress entire lines of thought.

F.ex. How would you begin a conversation with a North Korean about democracy?

Their very concept of the idea, inasmuch as they are likely aware of it at all, is alien to your concept.

Which means that conversation has to start all the way underneath, at the underpinnings and philosophical bases of democracy. Which is a much more difficult and lengthy conversation.

Which is the entire point, because most people won't make the effort. Anymore so than the average American is capable of and interested in learning enough to have a nuanced conversation on the differences between Soviet and Chinese communism.
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From apps and games page it looks like it will run all apps I want. Thanks.
I didn’t miss the point, he and his wife are just being needlessly stubborn. This isn’t a cause worth sacrificing the safety of your wife and kids for. Regulations exist for a reason. You don’t just get to say “hey I’m going to not vaccinate my kids for polio because I don’t feel like it”. How is this any different?
While this is true, governments are massively over-stepping their authority. Also, trust in government in post-soviet countries isn't exactly high to begin with. It's one thing to require proof of vaccination for places like restaurants, another to require an electronic pass to buy essentials like groceries.
I’ve seen this term around lately. What exactly is a “founding engineer”?

Is it a euphemism to give early non-founder employees a title that sounds like founder but with minimal corresponding equity?
He's being a bit of a stickler here about product-market fit.

I wonder if there are any counterexamples, where we can say that there is strong product-market fit without an immediate tsunami of demand.

What about the case where purchases tend to be large but infrequent or consist of long-term contracts? In that case, wouldn't you be able to say that you've identified product-market fit at some point earlier than when the actual purchases are made?
This is usual news fear-mongering, I’ve been in many shops and they’re fully stocked. Every fuel station has petrol and diesel
I have to disagree both in the case of animals and the volcano example. With animals, there are real underlying physics principles that dictate the strength-to-weight ratios at various scales that lead to smaller animals being able to move more quickly (muscle strength is proportional to cross section, while mass is proportional to volume).

In the case of the avalanche, the force at work is the same (gravity) it's just that we are zooming way out and so crossing the same distance takes much more time.
The type should always include provisions for manual fixes. IMO such an address type should even include a provision for manual geocoding for cases where automated geocoding fails ("This is how I write it, and this is where it's located").
Could you please elaborate on what you mean? Facebook is a company and therefore its success and failure is dependent on its customers/users, right?
> if a company directly contributes to decline in civil discourse and harms democracy, and thereby harms the users, then isn't it a government role to step in?

The chief problem here is “who decides?” If a government in power is being undermined, they have incredibly strong incentives to determine that those undermining actions are “harmful to democracy” (rather than merely harmful to their party). (I think we could point to many examples in US politics in the last 5 years where “this is bad for my party” is cast as “this is bad for democracy!”)

Which is why I think that, of all the speech that must be protected, political speech is of the highest criticality to protect. (And that claims by the government or strongly politically aligned citizens that ‘X is bad for democracy’ should also be viewed with a healthy amount of skepticism.)
You may enjoy https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/414688/how-can-i-r..., in which I figured out what was keeping modern Unity games from working on a very outdated operating system, and got them to run. I'm really quite proud of the writeup! :)
>It's as if people are far more irritable these days and just won't engage with the comment beyond hitting the downvote button.

Given the viputerative nature of discussions here, that's probably better for the health of the community (and your own mental and emotional health) than posting a comment most of the time..
Americans be like "our media is owned by these two large companies, we are freedom brave".
Massive amount of concrete, fossil fuels used to rapidly cool the concrete, methane released in the areas that get drowned during the process. Not to mention all of the best dam sites in the US were tapped in the 30s and 40s. That well is dry in terms of net new power.
As stated on the web site: "In order to be eligible to act on the committee, members are required to have an PhD in Mathematics or Computer Science related disciplines as well as being authors of FLOSS/Free Software. We are currently looking for new committee members." -> The PhD requirement is for sitting on the selection committee only.
Impressive indeed, but what is a sustaining engineer?
Reddit uses “reddit.com” itself as the endpoint for logging usage data
Except that doing so does NOT avoid signed overflow. You're converting effectively w-1 bits of precision (plus a sign bit) to w bits of precision, doing the calculation, and then converting w bits of precision back to w-1 bits of precision -- that only works for a limited range of input values.

Using int32_t and uint32_t, try adding -2147483648 and -1. The arithmetic result should be -2147483649, but a program converting back and forth between signed and unsigned will produce 2147483647 -- wrong answer and wrong sign.
Mostly, convincing and explanations are mixed together. But some examples of convincing without any explanation is advertising, including “submarine” articles (as should be known to HN readers).

Examples of explanations without convincing can be found in most academic writing.
I run a consulting firm that focuses on strategy, ops, and org for life science industry. I spent the first 10 years of my career in tech (worked at a few big names, ran a couple startups with nominal success). I still like technology for its applicability to business problems. Ive been on HN since 2007ish
I've come to believe that 'off grid' is about the establishment and maintenance of just enough infrastructure to allow the participant(s) to sustain the fantasy that they can replicate and maintain what they perceive as normative reality without reliance on any external factors. It is to maintain the notion that one can be independent of the broader society but still withdraw from that society any material advantages made available. In would seem to me a more benign outgrowth of basic human social patterns: specialized warrior-centered tribes who maintain themselves by raiding more agrarian tribes (particularly I think of the situation with the bandits in The Magnificent Seven as a more contemporary example.)
Could be useful in finding and confirming a bug in the first place. If you can decompile the code then you may be able to systematically find some types of bugs that would otherwise be opaque to easy discovery.

Personally, I did it once on a very old game with DRM that no longer functioned, though the game ran fine. I wasn't about to trust a random crack download, so I decompiled and removed the DRM check.
I spilled orange juice down in to the automatic gearshift of a car once. It would have cost a fortune to take it apart to clean it, so I just left it. It was sticky for a while, and then just gradually went back to normal.
Right, but it's user-hostile. I prefer thinking of, and typing, my phone number as a mix of numbers and letters... so why won't you allow me to do so?
This is definitely not "off the grid", except for very narrow definitions of the grid.

Perhaps "somewhat eco friendly" would be a better designation, or "light on corporate resources" (with the exception of Internet and GP's longish list).
Seems like China sees Australia as the front line in their battle with the West.

The recent nuclear submarine deal makes a lot more sense with that world view.