skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have spent weeks and months even on and off since 2009 in Hungary. Last visit, albeit just two days long, ended today, actually. I am well versed in the neofeudalism that Orban has wrought. And yet, look at my dates -- Orban is a symptom of much worse.

I do not know where you grew up but the playgrounds were fucking dystopian. Do you remember the ping-pong tables? I do. I remember them all too well. They were raw concrete with a piece of metal for a net, it had holes in , but still. Try to pay ping-pong on a non-at-all smooth surface if you can. I could continue with the slides, the see-saws and all.

As for the schools do not get me started. If you speak Hungarian I wrote down our education journey at https://www.reddit.com/r/hungary/comments/he9c9s/a_mi_t%C3%B... tl;dr: I financed a micro reform school for five long, long years, 2015-2020.

And the hopelessness is no longer valid because you can leave. Also: you should.
> They shouldn't have the data, they don't need it, and storing it long term is completely unnecessary.

I mean, I completely disagree. If the job of a public health agency isn't to use anonymous data to make informed decisions about public health what on earth is their job?
I made a (bad) habit of taking all the HN threads about people being in love with Elixir, and being a Grinch ;)

Mostly it's stuff that we did wrong, did not understand, a poor choice of lib, and a strong preference for staticly typed langages with a visual debugger that just works.

Nothing that should prevent you from using or trying it - it's Christmas time, peace on flame wars.
Strange that they thought people wouldn't read it. I don't read most fine print, but travel insurance is different. The fine print is what you are buying. You need to have a pretty good idea of what's in it, to know if it's of any value at all.
You were able to have a seven year long relationship. People spend their thirties or more without being in even one. I have tried and the best I could manage was 2 years. Second best was 4 months.

At least according to me you definitely are not inadequate :)
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Yes, that was the line. So everything was called socialist this and socialist that.
Oh hell yes! That's awesome, and so are you. Please, definitely DM me on Twitter if you run into any roadblocks at all. I will always make time to help someone learn this stuff.

Believe it or not, you managed to hit on the most lucrative long-term strategy, too. That's exactly the mindset that the best programmers have. If you like it, then a job is pretty much a matter of time.

Best of luck, friend. Take care of yourself, and prioritize yourself. You're worth it.
Sent the link to my son who is an avid gamer.

Got an one-word response:

"Winnienet".

Could not phrase it better.
TLS mitigates against someone evil on the network to some extent. It is possible to snoop inside TLS connections in a variety of ways for a variety of reasons.

If you care about your data you should client side encrypt it before you send it.
Be aware that C++ is the organ of programming languages. There are many jobs that require this complex of a tool, but there are many jobs that do not.

I went BASIC -> C++ -> Java -> Python (some years ago) while learning programming. Learning memory management fundamentals in an unmanaged language felt enormously helpful in recognizing the bigger picture in later managed languages.

... But! It wasn't required.

Advice: Know what language(s) your target job market (there's a lot of programming) uses, and spend more time / practice on those. Most hiring folks don't know enough to evaluate language knowledge from a theoretically similar perspective.
Here's the official NASA channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rARTOhbLDg
How is that actually possible, it baffles me that any website would have more hits than Google's home page, since it's the place people go to to get to other destinations on the web.
Or you should be using another browser that does what you want, not what Google wants.
It's a weird feeling. I like to be alone but I don't know, this Christmas I have the weird feeling of mix of sadness and loneliness. Usually I don't care, but somehow this stuff comes to me. Even that those are not my first, second or even third Christmas alone, I don't celebrate them, and I'm atheist.
That sounds like fanciful thinking.

There is quite literally nothing to suggest that having a higher intake would have created a single additional death or resulted in stronger or longer lockdowns.

New Zealand's own incompetence in not being able to come up with purpose-built facilities to handle overseas arrivals can't be written off with hypotheticals. It has been two years, no more excuses.
You can also check the comment history of these people to see if they are outright government trolls or brainwashed university students. Sometimes it is pretty clear.
Seems like they were hedging their bets pre-acquisition of Streamlabs to me.
It's impossible to tell whether a specific line of code makes a copy without knowing the types of all values. i.e.

std::vector<int> numbers = Func();

may or may not make a copy depending on the signature of Func. So it's not clear at the callsite how expensive that line of code is. This is unlike Go (which has this explicitly as philosophy) where you need to call a copy function/use append to make a copy of a slice.
I like the story-telling. As for the accuracy, I have not tried to compared it to anything, so not much of a clue.
Health insurance is heavily tied to your employer, though. It’s extremely rare to forgo your employers insurance and buy your own because the incentives just are not there. It’s also a huge consideration when you change jobs. It’s not unheard for people to go without insurance for 30-90 days when they switch jobs because the insurance doesn’t kick in until it kicks in at the new job.

(Not a huge issue in tech, though)
musician, acoustic. just in case computer is subjective
I must offer another data point. I'm British, and often find myself in these threads criticising criticism of China. Not because I'm being paid by the CCP, but because I believe that mainstream anti-Chinese sentiment tells us more about the West's psychological struggles to come to terms with its own historically unprecedented imperial past, than it does about China itself.
Always interesting to see what kind of mindblowing absurdities they come up with to defend the horrendous acts against the Uighur people. I also see it in German comment sections at this point.
My only point is the Christian schools or missions are not deserving of any of the praises you heap on them.

Their contribution to the actual school is 0. In fact it legitimizes their continuing hold of land and wealth grabbed from the natives and temples for a "good cause"

Colleges like Loyola in Chennai built on temple land manufacture derascinated Hindu hating Indians who go on to work in media, bureaucracy and judiciary and it does have a substantial negative impact, especially in a country trying to decolonise.
There's a small minority of college educated youth that speak english and are able to use VPNs to bypass GFW.
Yes, this is the real reason for the war. Had Assad accepted the proposal, he would be hailed in the MS media as a hero and a great leader who turned his country into a desert oasis.

Of course, this would have isolated and aggrovated Russia further, and Assad knew that. Nevermind that Syria is within range of Russia's missiles. He also knew what became of Sadam Housein (once an ally to the US) once he was of no use to the West.

In any case, causing a civil war inside a country just to punish a leader for making calculated, reasonable choice is criminal and evil.
Pretends to benefit you? Example, please?
Cool. Looking at Strapdown.js - https://strapdownjs.com
Interim releases receive only 6 months of support. They'd have to switch the runtime version mid-flight, or leave users with an unsupported runtime, or dedicate a ton of resources to supporting JDK themselves (in addition to all the patches they do now).
Whenever I read about countries banning sites, people post "just use a VPN, lol". But I wonder: If China really wants to, couldn't they just block VPNs? At the worst, just whitelist a bunch of sites and services and literally block everything else?
There are definitely signs of them here. I have another thread that had someone trying to steer my comment into a East vs West argument just for mentioning China. It seems like they are trying to pick fights out of nowhere as if they are getting paid. And if you notice, they come at certain hours like there is suddenly a wave of them all at once.
launch looks good!
I already gave you an example of a C library that provided that functionality.

And no, people don't reuse trivial libraries in C, this is not JavaScript.
No, because this isn’t being run through the shell, it’s directly exec’ing the program. So you’re just going to get a dir named “$(rm -rf /)”.
The problem here is that the uncontested ruler of said system languages, C, has a completely opposite behaviour by default. The C standard clearly states that "When opened, a stream is fully buffered if and only if it can be determined not to refer to an interactive device" (§7.21.5.3.8), which means that generations of developers have learned to always expect buffering when opening files `fopen`. Most higher level languages follow the C library when setting their I/O convention, and this has been the trend for most of the last 40 years.

The fact that Rust goes in the opposite direction makes sense from a logical standpoint, but as the article itself shows will almost certainly end up causing performance issues. You can rest assured that people *will* forget to buffer their files because it is something they almost never had to care about in the past.
But why do you need to sell stuff to anyone, once everyone else has shit economy? You can lie back and relax at that point, you're still top of the heap.
Well thats an intersting thing with high availability no?

If you do TLs termination at the load balancer you can easily use any certificate down the line that you would like and thus this is a Feature.

I think the general gist of "i am connected to a server that I trust" is a mood point in general if you do not control the network that you are on. All you can really make sure is that your outgoing packet contains a desired destination.

I liked what mega and others have done, encrypting the data in the browser before sending it across the wire. Its an additional step but it almost solves the problem.

The way i solve this for me is to use a direct wireguard connected jump host in the cloud and a router at home that uses openwrt and at least can be checked completely.
Why are Europeans controlling this?
None, MomoXenosaga has no idea how bad things are in Mexico and is just regurgitating alarmist talking points of right-wing populists.
There must be a good ELI5 intro to linear algebra out there that doesn’t assume a ton of background but…

I agree with other comments that linear algebra has limited relevance to learning programming. Your experience with Emacs gives you a far bigger leg up than mastering linear algebra would.
The moral is the importance of language-theoretic security: http://langsec.org/

>LangSec regards the Internet insecurity epidemic as a consequence of ad hoc input handling. LangSec posits that the only path to trustworthy computer software that takes untrusted inputs is treating all valid or expected inputs as a formal language, and the respective input-handling routine as a parser for that language. Only then can any correctness guarantees be assured for the input-handling code. Ambiguity of message/protocol specification is insecurity; ad hoc parsing is an engine of exploitation; overly complex syntax can make judging security properties of input impractical or even undecidable.

>LangSec explains why ad hoc "input sanitization", "sanity checking", and other advice to be more careful with inputs is not enough, and why numerous secure programming initiatives have not ended input-driven exploitation. LangSec is also a code and protocol auditing methodology.
My impression is that everything is introduced along the way and LA gives you intuition instead of expecting it from you. But I've never done any advanced stuff.
This year I decided to finally stop participating in other people's illusions. I was raised Catholic but stopped believing about 15 years ago. Still, each year I went through the motions. This year I thought: I don't believe, I don't care, so why bother? This feels quite liberating and I'm proud of myself
Not sure how it is now, but back then it was “last in wins”. There were tons of sites that claimed to have coupons, discounts, etc. In reality all they had were the same affiliate links that I did. And they were very successful at tricking people into clicking their link. So people would use my site to find the tires they wanted. And then searched for “falken azenis coupon” or whatever. Clicked on a fake link. And suddenly my commission was diverted to one of these fake coupon sites.
The other Google Maps tips I have is a bit less general; when searching for an anchorage for you boat you can often see the direction and magnitude of swell in the satellite photos.
Watch the James Webb Space Telescope Launch
Is this part of the playbook when training people on how best to deflect blame from China's sins? Seriously, I see it all the time.

Someone will share a well agreed upon anecdote of the horrors being committed by the Chinese, and without fail, one of the first responses will be whataboutism regarding the US government, as if that has any bearing whatsoever.

Nearly any civilized country around the world is in full agreement that there are horrific atrocities being committed by the Chinese, and it's largely due to economic bullying that we're forced to turn a blind eye.
The ideas in the article are similar (in a good way) to Shape Up by Basecamp [0]. I once got so inspired by it I translated it into Russian, just to better understand what's written :-) If you're intereseted in the topic, I highly recommend investing some time and reading it.

[0] https://basecamp.com/shapeup/webbook
I'm sorry for your losses. That's an incredibly tough year. :(

In my thinking, we live on in those who knew us. So he's cheering it on through you.
It's their launch facility.
It was always possible that someone in the group of those sailors was affiliated with KGB, so nobody would ever say to the foreigners what they actually think. There would be also consequences for your family if one defects. In the end why would anyone leave your own country without having any prospects and social ties elsewhere. There were of course few naive people who managed to flee, but those were certainly not the stories with the happy end, once they realized that all these shiny bright colors were just empty shell that hides the ugliness of capitalism.
I might be wrong, or it may changed in the meantime, but I had the impression that VPN traffic is also slowed down extremely. While it allows you to connect to any foreign service, it's so slow as to be nearly useless. I only tried VPN services that were located outside China though. Maybe there are Chinese VPN services which have a 'fast route' to the outside world (I'd be very surprised if this is legal though).
Looks like GDSCC will receive the all important imagery.
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I wrote a bunch of study materials and practice tests for passing the Chinese language exam equivalent of the TOEFL in China. It was doing well for several years, but the site broke (or was hacked) suddenly and is now making zero dollars. I have no idea how to fix it, but the business was completely passive aside from sending out the study materials, which were all digital.

Essentially, I'd get a purchase and have the files sent to the customer, costing me a couple minutes for the $20 or so from the sale. About one sale per day equates to around $500 a month.

The site is/was https://hsktests.com/.
One of my most-used X utilities is not even really a graphical one.

xclip allows putting stuff in the X clipboard for subsequent pasting into any application. I use it to “copy” canned email responses which I keep in a folder as .txt files and then paste them in the browser for sending by email. No need to bother with browser extensions or built-in crappy functionality (gmail canned responses used to just lose my responses every once in a while).
There's no reason why ownership of equipment would have a bearing on my basic rights, just like they have no effect on my enjoyment of other basic legally protected human rights.
Knowing the declarations of the various names a piece of code uses is of course a requirement in order to understand what it does.

In that example, there would always be a move or copy there, though there are scenarios in which it might be elided.
> Why should I trust what they have to say as opposed to, say, China’s government? Or any government at all that I did not vote for?

Yeah, the CCP has a great track record admitting their atrocities. Let’s totally trust them instead of the Uyghurs who are all collectively making this up out of spite.
>considered a type of imperialism

Interesting to consider, as sort of a tolerance paradox.
> Do people keep forgetting they’re dealing with an authoritarian dictatorship?

> ANYTHING is on the table, nothing should come as a surprise.

That does not follow from the first part. People and politics can, at large, still be predictable independent of the political organization.
I thought it's a NASA project.
IMHO, programming (the practice) itself doesn't require math.

Problems you solve with programming may or may not require math: the math requirements come from the specific problems.

Every time I've used heavy math in programming, I've figured out the math for the problem in isolation, then programmed that solution.
Interesting. I have the exact opposite situation. I would love a December without Christmas. Once my kids are older, I'll be opting out of the holiday permanently, and I'll probably start going away for the whole month of December.
This reminds me of another story about fake hitmen
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kill-list-dark-web-hitmen
Coworking doesn’t have to be an official business.

Coworking = people working together. You can self organize.

At one time, I just rented a desk space at a software agency. They rented a larger than necessary space for growth, and we’re happy to rent it out. I was there for 2 years before they filled up.

Many offices have empty seats and small business prefer to save ;)

Also known people who have rented an apartment together and just set up desks there. The legalities of that are murky. But if you don’t disturb anyone around you nobody cares in a large building.
Sounds like a you empathy towards people who actually do manual labour from food delivery to construction. You need way more than once a month experience and good look at the mirror, it's total bourgeois bs on display.
My dad also died a couple of weeks ago, but I feel like I've handled it fairly well (better than expected anyway). We used to talk quite a bit and I too keep finding myself thinking that I must tell him about things I've seen or read; you're not alone. Hope you're doing ok today.
> West's psychological struggles to come to terms with its own historically unprecedented imperial past, than it does about China itself.

oh come on. we criticise China because it’s whole political system, that was set up very recently btw, fights against basic rights we take for granted in the West. not because of what the romans or european empires did hundreds of years ago, but because of what China is doing right now.
This can be done, and indeed was done for an ancient photograph of an ancient record that no longer existed. In that case I think they used some photoshop magic to ‘unspiral’ the groove and something else to decode the image. The result wasn’t super high quality.
That's very interesting. So you think generally the news of vast human rights abuse we see coming out of China are due to the West's psychological struggles (?), and not due to actual suffering caused by the Chinese government?

Do you have any Chinese heritage in your family? This reminds me of the perspective most of my half-Chinese friends had from back in college. They always felt as if it was their duty to defend China from the biased Western media, despite all the real world evidence painting a very clear and unbiased picture.
> Everybody has their team of guides in the higher dimensions

Citation needed.

I'd rather be reminded that we share the planet with 7.9 billion other humans. A tiny planet all alone in an immense universe.

On this planet we are all alone, together.
We usually start by discussing the outliers on both sides.

This makes it easy to uncover simpler solutions (if everyone had a higher estimate) or pitfalls (if everyone had a lower estimate).
World Community Grid Finds a New Home at Krembil Research Institute
It's funny how easy it is to miss characters with special meaning. In this case it's the slash. You would get a directory named "$(rm -rf " with a subdirectory named ")"
Thank you for the revised link! Good that you mention Leto (which was a beautiful movie, despite many historical inaccuracies): Leto is set in the early, pre-perestroika 80s. The first link I posted - Elektrichka - is also from that era: it is about a man who on an electric commuter train (think Caltrain, but electrified: People’s Democratic Republic of California is behind USSR in that respected) that is taking him to a wrong destination. It is a metaphor for the state: as a result, the song was banned.

Contrast the song with Перемен (Changes): the unofficial anthem of my birth country‘s democracy movement. While the song is explicitly non-political (it is about making internal changes), it is able to convey the sentiment in USSR in the late 80s and early 90s (the song was written in 1985. prior to Perestroika.) To put another way, a song about the “gentle Nietzschean”/Schopenhauerian thesis of artists changing the world through their work, highlights the elective affinities between the agents of cultural change and the agents of political change.

An important thing to note: Kino’s front man, Victor Tsoi is of Korean descent. h Soviet Koreans, aka Koryo-Saram (there is roughly 1mm of them today in former USSR) came to Russian Empire during the Koryo dynasty (mostly from mid 19th to early 20th century.) They played an important role in the early days of USSR, but we’re deported to Central Asia as Stalin as he suspected them of harboring pro-Japanese sympathies (this would be equivalent to suspecting Jews of harboring pro-Nazi sympathies, which he also did in the case of my paternal grandfather the minister of transportation for Soviet Belarus.) Over 10% of their population died during the deportation.

Their plight was largely unknown until glasnost. The Kazakh film maker Rashid Nugmanov of Игла (Needle) fame - movie about drug addiction, a topic rarely discussed for most of USSR’s existence - which starred Tsoi and featured his music - portrayed their story in his critically acclaimed historical fiction film Месть (Revenge.)

In a tangential note relevant to HN’s usually discussed topics, Russia’s richest woman - she created e-commerce site wildberries while on maternity leave - is also of Korean descent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatyana_Bakalchuk
International

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/about/index.html
If you're reading this, you're welcome in Christmas spirit to my house with my wife and two little ones and our little Christmas tree and our piano. We'll be doing our best to keep the kids busy as we have been and will be this long holiday break from school :)
It's a kind offer.

I will mention that I suspect many people going through this won't be comfortable with Twitter as the means of communications....
This isn't a competition that can be fair or we (western world) need to win.