skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of goofy theories about the JFK assassination, but I don't think you can dismiss all of them. The theory that makes the most sense to me is that Oswald was part of it, but that he also was set up to be the fall guy.

There is evidence that Oswald was recruited by US intelligence when he was a teen in the Civil Air Patrol, and that he had gone to the Soviet Union as a false defector (the Soviets did the same to the US). He was part of operation to kill JFK, but then he was set up to be the fall guy behind his back. He claimed he was a patsy before he was he was killed.

If he wasn't working for the government than some of his actions and associations before the assassination are just baffling. It's also a mystery why he was able to return to the US without any issues after defecting.

https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/1290
https://jfkfacts.org/was-oswald-a-cia-operative-or-not/
I just meant a tech-oriented project that was image-heavy. Same question though, I'd just make a repo readme but github really doesn't seem geared towards loading a lot of medium / large sized images quickly.
Your point about employee costs rising with healthcare is terrific and needs wider cultural recognition.

This increases the cost of labor, and therefore cost of goods across the economy. Its a big part of the reason why US based manufacturing is increasingly impractical.

Your point expands to all social services our government has outsourced, from retirement benefits to transportation, too.
Interesting. But, so...don't tell me "knowing the territory helps you move faster" is the new blitzkrieg-means-lightning-war?
> TLS only cares about the security of the socket. It doesn't know anything about the content flowing through the socket.

Not sure what that means precisely, but if you're stretching definitions that far, the same is probably also true of your application checksums/hmacs

> Additionally the TLS connection may not even be between the server and client but a proxy between the server and client, client and server, or both server and client.

So its the same as your hmac check. That can also be processed at any layer.

> While TCP and TLS can get a message over the Internet correctly and securely they can't make any guarantees about the contextual validity of that message.

Can anything at the http protocol layer provide that?
I want to thank everyone for their comments. I'm a long-time and avid Hacker News reader and this was my first real post I guess. The community here is really solid and is largely what got me hooked on programming.

All your responses -- from don't give up on web dev totally because it can open doors, to try embedded software (I hadn't even heard of the term until today) -- have given me so much to think about.

Thanks again, and I know what I'm getting myself for Christmas. An Arduino.
Pick a new-to-you technology you're interested in, do File/New Project... on it, and just build something. Give yourself permission to be a beginner again. Build something that no one else will see, but that you'll regain your confidence with by proving to yourself that you're still capable of learning and growing. You'll see that something that took you 20 hours to do in week 1-2 will take you 20 minutes in week 8.

And remember: this is art, not science. We all make artistic decisions about how to do things in programming all day (we pretend it's science or engineering... it's not) and you will, too. Give yourself permission to do things how you want to, it's all just a learning opportunity.

I did this when I turned 40 after years of being an architect... it refreshed my love for coding.
You are right, I was being a little snarkey. I apologize and I agree its a murkey thing, but I dont think generally people approach it with with the same kind of critical patience you have, and its not like tin foil hat types are the hegemonic voice on these matters.
The Texas Monthly article you've cited makes a pretty strong case that (1) everyone in Dallas wanted to kill Oswald and (2) Ruby's involvement in a conspiracy theory is what really doesn't make sense.
I'm not that smart. I don't have a high IQ or anything. I'm not even a professional software engineer. But if I need to use a tool, I learn the right way to use it. I don't expect it to be easy to use.

The biggest lie in software is that new software is better than old software. Anyone who's used software for long enough knows this is ridiculous. You introduce some new software which has some new features indented to fix an old flaw. But then it turns out there's new flaws in the new software that become more of an issue than the old flaws.

Most tools in the world don't change significantly over time. Instead of changing the tool, people learn how to use the tool to avoid problems. But that doesn't work in a world where nobody learns how to use the tool right, or is constantly picking up new tools and never learning lessons.
How? I just tried, and I could only remove it from the home screen.
Congratulations, honestly, and there's nothing wrong with working at WalMart, so the context is unnecessary. But here's the thing: you both violated your employment contract with WalMart, which I doubt explicitly forbids it, but it is exceedingly unlikely your job was ever intended to include romance, to literally pay you to meet and romance your future wife, or vice versa. That's why it is clearly unethical, and obviously many have succumbed to this moral hazard and unsurprisingly incorrectly believe it is appropriate behavior. What you do when you're not working is your business. What you do while working for your employer is their business. Either you made your romance WalMart's business, or you have deceived and stolen wages from WalMart.

I think one of Kant's categorical imperatives may make this clearer: "act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law.”

Imagine you have 100 employees working for you and your business is competitive. How many coupled romances initiated among them while at work would you tolerate on your dime? If your answer is not "50," then we have a problem, whether it is psychological egoism, narcissism, or just run-of-the-mill hypocrisy. And if your answer is "50," it is likely your business won't be able to compete for tolerating your employees screwing around at work, because you're just paying them not to work. I doubt that could be profitable.
> Intellectual stimulation, or goals that stretch one's abilities, don't have to come from work

Just different definitions of "work". I think the sense meant by those saying people "need work" is "meaningful toil". Something that requires focused effort, and done for some tangible purpose.

So cashier, janitor, waiter would fit that broad definition, even though they are not a focus of intellectual life. But there can be other types of work that also fulfill intellectual needs, that might be more fulfilling for many (most? all?) people.
... or why your next design review should probably ask "is this input format a Turing-complete language?"

This shows how un-theoretical that question is.
First though: anti-grav.
London Breed also violated ethics seriously several times [5]. She asked the governor to release her brother who killed his own girlfriend [6].

[5] https://sfethics.org/ethics/2021/08/ethics-commission-fines-...

[6] https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/mayor-breeds-brother-will-ge...
same. especially the ones that try to go for "and if I get downvoted it's just proof I'm right"... because it basically never is.
I sense that more projects will come where similar microcontrollers will be simulating the machines from the 8-bit golden age. I wish I had the time to do it but I can’t wait for someone to do a tandy color computer/dragon32/zx spectrum/bbc/c64/etc. running on an off the shelf cheap adafruit/sparkfun/arduino board.
Isreal classifies it as a weapon. In contrast to companies that make guns and bombs, spyware seems mild by comparison.
>bullish on blockchain technology (which I see as basically git with trust/consensus features built in)

Blockchain and smart contracts are the perfect technology for managing a company's assets and voting rights, especially for startups. Imagine how much lower the risk for investors would be if the terms of share creation and dilution where completely spelled out in code. Option grants and lockup periods could be completely visible. Trading/hedging/derivatives could be available for even the smallest companies. Very tiny minimum investments could be taken with almost no overhead.

ICOs have the right idea, but they are just 99% scam illegal security offerings. An SEC sanctioned version of an ICO that is tied to real shares in a company would be a game changer.
I don't think any of what you said refutes the point that this is deeply technically impressive.
Most likely not.
I'm hoping that Apple releases theirs using LIDAR instead, and that sets the tone for the rest of industry.
Yeah that isn't completely false. However, frontend work is SO much better than it used to be. Having to support old versions of IE made everything suck for a while. We won't have to worry at all about IE at all soon: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/int.... That said, the testing story for frontend isn't as good as it could be. Cypress has gotten us really close to a place where frontend testing can have really good coverage. But it's not quite there yet IMO. All things considered, with a modern web stack, I think fullstack work is overall less stressful because web frameworks make it so you don't have to make big architecture decisions that you may deeply regret down the line. I do miss making those decisions because they are fun to think about, but having to make those decisions is a huge liability and source of stress IMO.
7. Form an LLC and lie about your experience as you worked for this company for so long. This joker recruiter is an inconsequential gatekeeper, you need to be forwarded to the technical interview that you have to pass no matter how big your open source contributions are.

There are many popular developers whose libraries get used by large organizations, yet cannot get hired by them due to the brainteasers.

All you need is the callback so forget the reindeer games described in this article.
It's almost as if the people designing SQL engines realized how furiously inconvenient null boolean semantics were and chose to ignore them wherever it suited them.

I just wish they'd ignored them in one more spot: equality checking.
Let's assume that I did decide to walk to work for $0. Even though the cost is free, I may have to pay for better walking shoes. Additionally, I may have to buy a umbrella to prevent getting rained on. I also may want to think about the safety and security of the streets that I walk down. And lastly, I may after some time walking, have a foot/leg injury that requires either medical attention or physical therapy. My point is that even though the cost was $0 up-front there is additional costs that show up because of my prior decision to walk. These indirect/future costs need to be considered especially as a business deciding to utilize OSS for some operational need.

In a way, you should evaluate each OSS tool/library as if it was a business which further corroborates the blog post's point.
The US Government's top-secret bioweapons lab (2020)
I don't know anything about the details of Amazon's policy in this instance or the specifics of what happened, but strictly going on what you wrote, I'm not sure that this tragic outcome necessarily means the decision was bad.

There are multiple ways of looking at any decision: perhaps, for example, employees with cellphones were more distracted and thus more prone to accidents.

My eleven-year-old daughter has no cellphone because we don't think being connected at her age is good for her (she also seems indifferent to having one, unlike my son, who is all about being connected). We also let her walk home from school on her own, and have for a couple of years now, because we believe she should be independent. I can imagine (although I try not to) situations in which those two decisions interplay and lead to a bad outcome, but I still think they are the right decisions for her.
AKA working age people that will have to choose eventually between getting the vaccine and losing their job. A pretty rough choice for those hesitant.

(I am vaccinated please don't post hot takes about how I am a anti-vaxer.)
He put them in the same accommodations as Obama and Biden currently uses.
> Why is it silly to expect it to be less extreme?

It's silly to expect that national distribution of political thought to be approximated in every geographic subdivision. It has never been even approximately, the case. Structurally, the US electoral system encourages coalition building and dividing so that factions that nationally are roughly balanced form the major national parties, but there is no reason that that's even a privileged frame to decide what is “balanced”.
Harvard chemist on trial: a guide to the Charles Lieber case
well, because, ls, lsblk, ps, and a host of other table-based outputs aren't reliably parseable. Their columns overflow. They aren't durable to line breaks in indentifiers and other UTF8 and control character oddities.

You know what is? A decent data output format. And JSON is the best of the compromises that exist now. YAML would be nice because if you are outputting json, yaml output is easy and it's a bit more readable.

That doesn't violate the UNIX philosophy of text output. It probably improves it.

Underlying APIs aren't as universal, portable, or well-known. We are talking basically GNU cross-platform programs.
There's some evidence that he gave U2 spy plane secrets to the USSR. They didn't trust him and put him to work in a toy factory. He later came back to the US with a Russian bride that was related to a KGB officer. Unlike everyone else who came back, he was not debriefed by the CIA. They just welcomed him back.

Compare that with how they treat Chelsea Manning.
It's because the people who are saying that the FDA needs to wait 75 years to release the vaccine data are at best writing statements that are misleading and at worst outright lying.

The implication of that statement is that the FDA isn't going to release one iota of data for 75 years. That isn't anywhere close to the truth. What happened instead is that there's a court battle going on over a FOIA request against the FDA. The FDA is swamped with FOIA requests (it has ~400 pending right now), and the FOIA request in question asked for a gargantuan grab-bag data--over 300k pages of data. Redacting responses to FOIA requests takes time, and the FDA was proposing to drop ~12k pages by the end of the year, and then no fewer than 500 pages per month.

It should be noted that the FDA's comment that it takes ~8 minutes to redact a single page for production, which is not unreasonable. So at a guesstimate, that's 20 man-years of effort to redact the response to this FOIA request. Maybe if you want to get your request finished in a reasonable amount of time, you should ask for something more than specific than literally everything the FDA has on the topic... or maybe instead the government's hiding something because it can't get it done by like tomorrow or something.
Ask HN: Best toolkit to build any web or mobile app (for developers)
I was debating with a friend about the benefits of no-code versus code tools.

We're both devs, and we were arguing about the best, fastest way to build a good web app.

There are clear best choices for no-code tools (e.g. shopify for e-commerce).

But are there equally obvious choices for web apps that still require devs?

If helpful, my personal goals when building a web app are speed, quality, and flexibility.

Speed: how quickly can I go from design to shipped app.

Quality: can a new developer quickly onboard and understand the code and how to contribute.

Flexibility: I don't want to be limited in what we can do. This should be a solution that can work for (most) any kind of web app.

I think my default would be
Frontend: React;
Backend: Google cloud functions;
Data: Firestore;
Infra: Firebase

But tbh it still takes much longer / more effort to spin up a web app with moderate functionality than it does to create a shopify store.

Maybe these aren't the best / most up to date tools. I'd love to hear what other people think is best.
People know of da Vinci because of his execution, not the random tech thought experiment sketches. He painted perhaps the most famous painting of all time, the Mona Lisa, and the most famous mural of all time, The Last Supper. Many of his sketches were of human anatomy (e.g. Vitruvian Man), which he did mainly to help him paint more realistically. Less well known today were his work in geometry, architecture, civil engineering, optics, etc. He wrote numerous books on a wide variety of topics. Most were meant to be helpful "how to" guides for people of the day.

IMO, da Vinci would not be as well known today if he had not executed magnificently. Lots of people come up with random ideas. Few actually do anything with them.
This is the main reason why I am not interested in being an app developer. Your business is in the hands of someone who can cut you off and get away with not even giving you the time of day. Not worth the risk.

(That being said: I'm not sure I would have approved an app like yours since it is designed to invade privacy)
Semantics.

Some people still consider tasks they enjoy doing a form of "work". Work doesn't have to be compensated activities engaged in out of a desperate need to provide basic necessities.

Just different people using the same word to mean different things.
Some subset of their expansive customer list.

This isn't a one-time thing. They're a funnel.
Thank you for laying this out. Exploring these are the ideas I had in mind when exploring the work-survival substitution. If I may also point out, the conceptualization of work is self-reinforcing too. Jobs are defined from the assumption of the work-fact. This in turn transforms peoples' subjective experience of work into definitions of work as an objective reality.
This is less about vaccines than about polling methodology. It was a rare opportunity to compare polls to definitive data: we knew for sure exactly how many vaccines were administered.

Traditional polling did fine. Other methods -- one from Facebook and one from the Census -- did poorly, despite more data, because of systematic selection bias. In fact the amount of data made it worse, because it magnified the effects of small systemic biases.

This was taken early in vaccine delivery, when the total number vaccinated was small. That, too, would magnify errors. I wonder if the same survey methods work any better over time.
Show HN: Realtime calendar generation with LaTeX
Just a multiplier... multipliers are a big deal. And of course multiplication is commutative so execution is just a multiplier of ideas. In short they're both crucial, either can bring the total value of a venture to 0 or less.
"Or will smaller players go from single-AZ to more expensive multi-AZ"

Yes! When you have a service interruption pay 2x more! With a region down I am sure other regions wont have any interruptions either! /s
I can just point out, that is the reality in the Latin/South America. We expected that South/Latin America would become like North America, but looks like it comes the other way around. What a mess can do a small buch of bad politicians!
Dude, resign and take some time out. Don’t fret, plenty of opportunities.
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”

~ Jeff Hammerbacher, fmr. Manager of Facebook Data Team, founder of Cloudera

This quote isn't just about people working directly on ad tech and ad targeting algorithms, but any product that is "free" and ad supported.
Elsa · An open source .NET workflows library
"Work" and "jobs" are two very different things.

We need action towards results.

We do not need 16 hour workdays.
Way to miss the rest of the article:

>Unvaccinated people cannot rely on those around them being jabbed to remove their risk of getting infected, they warn.

>Vaccines do an excellent job of preventing serious Covid illness and deaths, but are less good at stopping infections, particularly since the emergence of the more infectious Delta variant which is dominant in the UK.
To give credit where it is due, I remember one member from the project mentioning that Apple actually did quite stellar work to enable other OSs while still maintaining a secure booting mechanism (for both osx and future third party ones!)
The brand is strong if you’re really the owner
I don't think not being part of an organized conspiracy and being a weird dude acting alone are the same thing. Especially in recent years the term "stochastic terrorism" has come up a lot, where people become part of a group where acts of violence are not explicitly ordered but nontheless tacitly encouraged. I think most so called "lone wolf" attacks fall into that pattern.
So...parent is correct.
absolutely brilliant, genius work.

I was confused about how they got the thing to run for an unbounded amount of time, but I guess they probably have the final operation at the end of a "processor cycle" be to overwrite the next SegRef so that it loops back to the current SegRef.

I'd love to see the thing in more detail - what the shellcode looks like, how the CPU was designed, everything.

a scummy company but such transcendental brilliance..
Notre-Dame restoration slammed by critics as politically correct 'vandalism'
> So don't buy/install it. But don't take away that choice from other people.

You mean the choice to install malware on other people's devices? Why shouldn't it be taken away?
What a silly headline. What's wrong with doing a good job at your 9-5 and coming home with a clear mind to be with your family?

To be honest I work too hard, but I'm not deluded that I'm somehow an especially good person for doing so. The world is full of awesome people whose energy mostly goes to things outside their jobs, and who make more meaningful contributions because of this.
This is a horrible story: Someone works so much that falls sleep and kills his family members.

Working so much is the definition of "negative returns": Working over the limits of exhaustion means you do not only not create wealth, but destroy it in huge amounts. And killing people is an invaluable loss.

If you work so much that fall sleep with your truck and destroy your truck, if you only destroy material things like your truck you just evaporated years of work. If you kill people you just have destroyed your entire life.

When I started working on a warehouse as an adolescent, a working colleague fall sleep for working so much with the forklift and had an accident. It meant hundreds of thousands of euros in medical procedures for the insurer, and never being able to walk again normally for the rest of his life.

It is not worth it but people do it again an again.

People that do it are not role models. It is a toxic influence.

Pick role models of people that work reasonable hours and are wealthy and healthy.
Full article: https://archive.md/MkQio
Wow. only 3/10... I live in an echo chamber I guess.
I would have guessed 6/10.
I think for a large number of people it would make no difference as they are in the browser at all times, or the software they use on the daily is available for Linux, too.
I switched my office workflow to Manjaro.

https://leduccc.medium.com/improving-the-performance-of-a-wi...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Is...
Ancient Indian Seismograph?
not a HR, but i'd much rather prefer a candidate with 5 years of experience and no degree to someone with a 5 year degree and no experience
Who is funding this institute.

Looks like the Brazilian Serrapilheira Institute: https://serrapilheira.org/