skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but far more unsafe than using a car !

> “The Dutch data for last year (2019) shows that in absolute figures more people died in car crashes (237) than on a bicycle (203). If you calculate the figure per kilometre travelled that is reversed. Per one billion kilometres travelled the figure for cycling is 11 while the figure for car occupants is 1.6 fatalities.”

Why do I have to google these self-evident facts ? No matter how good your bike lanes are two wheels are very sensitive and unforgiving and the vehicle offers 0 protection (and in fact gets in the way of softening the landing/balancing back).

The bike enthusiasm seems to override rationality - like if I strapped a child seat on a rear seat of a motorcycle social services would take my child - meanwhile if I do it on an ebike I'm praised for being environmental - despite the similar risk factor.
Elon brings wrecking ball and mass layoffs causing mass exodus of social media site

nailer: doesn't look like anything to me
Interesting; Google engineer previously published Datalog variants for BigQuery: https://research.google/pubs/pub43462/ & https://logica.dev/

This new language seems similar to differential-Datalog (which is sadly in maintenance mode): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33521561
Interesting; I must have a fairly unique style as there are no matches over 0.40 for me.

I’m a native English speaker as well, so I’m unsure how to feel about that.
You probably know that, but there is smartparens mode which does similar magic to non-lisp languages: https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens
> "Part 1 provides a historical overview of the relationship between the news media and far-right manipulators..."

It's noticeable how the "far-right" is always being blamed, but the far-left is rarely ever mentioned in books or by the MSM.
Severance pay from layoff and having 6m emergency savings.
Really shortsided position by the land owner, and I have no doubt he’ll end up with far less rights than he started by raking people over the coals.

Pulling straight from Franklin Covey’s seven habits: think win-win. Simply allowing people to cross at the corner and encouraging them to do so by building a path works keeps them off his land and in public areas. Hell even charge them a reasonable fee for the crossing to keep it from becoming a free for all!

But the no compromise, ‘7 million airspace violation’ position will lose badly in the long term, even if he can convince if he can convince a few local juries for a few short sighted temporary wins. Worst case scenario is the federal government decides that there has to be land access and forces a road onto his private property. Now _that_ would suck.
Good point - I've been running john on that md5 for a couple minutes :)
Not saying there isn't lobbying efforts underway, but trying to limit Chinese-based video and audio equipment that's unaccountable to US laws or oversite from government locations seems like a reasonable thing to do. Dahua and Hikvision have a long history of backdoors. Many of these things chat like crazy to servers in China if not firewalled properly.
That’s frequently true. This was an unusual situation. In our case, they wouldn’t have been able to better our financing. Our credit union was giving us 1.75%. The best the dealership could do started at about twice that.

We had also contracted ahead of time to buy that particular car at almost exactly MSRP, and between the overly eager sales rep who wrote it up with no dealer add-ons, and Toyota’s allocation system deadlines, they were incentivized to walk us out of there as fast as possible. We were there less than an hour.

Edit: proofreading
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but referring to companies by their stock tickers in casual conversation does not impress anyone.
Link to the list: https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist
One consequence of American, especially historical, racism (including things like the one-drop rule) is that the experience, and over time the identity, of people (and thus their descendants) who were Black and something else tend to be heavily weighted on the Black side.
Interesting that the Op doesn't come up in the search: https://stylometry.net/user?username=costco
0.39 for myself, I’m a non-native speaker.
I switched from Scrivener to a two app approach: Obsidian for all of my own writing, DevonThink for all research materials. I love having this distinction and find both my mind and workspaces feel less cluttered as a result. I also like that all my writing is completely portable. I can link between the two apps using either app URLs or using Hookmark but I haven’t used this much yet. If I needed timelines for a particular project I’d buy a copy of Aeon. I used to have a version on an old machine but it’s since been updated and I haven’t worked on anything that needed it yet although I imagine I will do at some point.

Should also add that I do have a soft spot and gratitude for Scrivener as, coming from Word, it was the first software that I used that allowed you to organise all your notes together in folders and contained other cool tools for writers such as the built in name generator (which I still use), the corkbord organiser etc. Scapple (made by the same company) is also great if you want to do some quick mind mapping and integrates really well with Scrivener as you can import all the bubbles and get to work fleshing them out.
It's cool that a German SW company can sue the US Navy and win. Take a moment for that to sink in.
Ask HN: Resources on reverse engineering web-applications?
I've been trying to dig into reverse engineering web-applications, I thought it would be fun to write my own desktop applications (using Go currently) that would consume web APIs (HTTP and possibly WebSocket) of some websites I use.

However, I've found this pretty hard to do, relying on Firefox's Inspector to capture requests and trying to figure out how they work - and it often gets complicated and I get cornered with some weird mechanism I can't figure out.

I was wondering if anyone has any resources (books/tools/hints) for this, and if they'd be willing to share them with me.

Thanks!
Honestly i think most devs can do this. The difference is in the US our tolerance for seeing our savings go down is super low. I can live for 3 years with my current savings(just cash with invested but non retirement funds it would be about 8) but i still don’t feel like i can take any time off.
Thank you for advice. I see you're not too fond of Unity. Care to elaborate why? Also, which language/framework would be the most balanced choice, i.e. not too hardcore for newcomers and not too drag-and-drop-like?
I've just started a new job, a startup hedge fund with friends and former colleagues, so not really that applicable to the question (but also, my god how nice it is to just get a call from someone you know and respect, get offered a job and not even have to interview for it :)

However, I've noticed that the LinkedIn spam is getting increasingly outrageous in their offers (I'm in quant finance in London). This surprised me given the market is supposedly cooling off with lots of free agent talent, but I'm getting multiple offers a day promising 300-500k (GBP) compensation, sometimes even fixed base comp! It sounds a bit too good to be true but the frequency of messages and the numbers in those messages have both been blowing up over the last 3-4 months.

Not sure what's driving this but it's definitely unusual given the market and location. I'd say it's about double the top range I've seen in previous years.
Grasp: Grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes
>I don't think I'd be willing to use a Citroen for branding reasons.

Why???
It might very well be her basic German holding her back.

Any chance of upskilling her quickly through some intensive German lessons over the Christmas break?

From memory the German market can be surprisingly insular in its use of German. Not as tough as the French, but close. Also, maybe she can work remotely for a Dutch company? If she speaks good English the Dutch don’t care at all.
> quick browse of the comments of the recently active ones, they look really likely to be alts.

Hmm isn't a spot check of comments somewhat tautological, since that is how the tool identifies alts (rather than something like IP address or time of day)? If this had been promoted as "find accounts with similar writing style to yours" would people immediately assume alts?
I wonder if gpt3 has a use case here?
I would consider myself a fairly unserious paredit user and I still think it's immensely useful. The things I use most of the time are really just barf, slurp and splice yet it makes so much more sense to me now to think of S-expressions structurally rather than just editing text.

Both the advantage and disadvantage of lisp are its lack of structure and paredit forcing you to keep your code intact really prevents a ton of issues just by having it on.
I think just by inertia we will end with future languages copying Python syntax and spreading its influence, just like lots of languages copied C syntax after it got popular.
Another problem is that it's a small set. If you had a list of all HN users, you could compute md5 for all of them in seconds.
This seems already almost valid Prolog syntax, which is also a syntactic superset of Datalog.

The main question I have for implementors of Datalog and Prolog variants like this: If you are that close to using Prolog syntax, why not go all the way and rely fully on Prolog, a language for which a well-defined ISO standard and several interesting implementations already exist. One of the key benefits you get in this way is Prolog's strength for meta-programming and reasoning about programs with the same formalism you use to state the specifications and queries. Abstract interpretation, query optimization etc. can be easily implemented in this way, instead of having to parse an additional formalism.

It may be possible to implement such Prolog-"variants" entirely within Prolog by defining suitable infix or prefix operators, or adding conforming extensions in implementations. A conforming extension is one that does not conflict with existing ISO syntax. For example, something that would be a syntax error in conforming Prolog implementations could be used as an implementation-specific extension.
A friend of mine was doing an almost week long (thankfully paid) interview with Automatic for a senior data engineering position. These are the folks being Wordpress and Hey — the DHH company — anyway.

Long story short while he was working on tasks in this weird ass way to interview about half way into the week he gets a message saying the role had been closed. Suddenly. There was no inkling or hint that the role was tenantive.

Shortly before he he process to interview and maybe hire my friend there was some message or rumor that they were trying to scoop up laid off Twitter employees.

I dunno. It seems shady. Avoid Auromatic not for the politics but because it’s not well run at all.
On the contrary, aside from a passport, my driving license is the most valuable thing I own and will stay within the law to retain it.
“Invisible fiber” makes food healthier with no flavor or texture change
Giving: positive feedback and encouragement, trying to help teach skills
Asking for: The same as what I'm trying to give, the ability to interact with like minded folks in non digital formats
In 1972, I worked on a project at the Center for Research in Management Science (part of University of California, Berkeley) developing an APL-based timesharing system. We rented time on Resource One's SDS-940 to do our development work.
Sounds great, except there are many different similarity measures. Which one does the algorithm use?
My closest is 0.40, so I’m right there with you.

Native English speaker as well.
I always assumed that some actors had this capability and acted accordingly. The existence of a publicly available tool merely democratizes this power. Anyone seeking complete and perpetual anonymity should have been practicing better opsec from the beginning.
Jury nullification is the negative right of not punishing jurors for their verdicts, not the positive right of jurors being able to pick verdicts that rule against laws they don't like.

We can talk all about how jury nullification allows the jury to dismiss unjust laws, but do keep in mind the oath a juror is required to swear:

Do you and each of you solemnly swear that you will well and truly try and a true deliverance make between the United States and ______, the defendant at the bar, and a true verdict render according to the evidence, so help you God?

Threatening jury nullification is a clear violation of the oath (definitely not "a true verdict rendered according to the evidence") and the judge is well within their right to hold you in contempt of court for violating that oath.
I mean, even if they don’t get hired they’re still contributing to open-source. Seems like a good outcome either way
That's bad driving, sorry. If you don't have good visibility, just don't turn right on red. It's a stupid law that allows it anyway and if makes streets more dangerous to pedestrians.
Let Taiwan resolve that like a sovereign nation

Otherwise it's US (actually commonwealth) influence vs China influence

Taiwan is culturally closer to China then to the US
It sounds like you created a thread to avoid doing work?
Do we throw too many people in prison: yes

Do the rich almost always avoid prison: yes

Maybe if we applied laws equally and actually jailed rich people who committed crimes instead of giving them fines/slaps on the wrist we'd have a few more powerful advocates for prison reform. And I'm not talking about sending them to white collar prisons [0], it's absurd how there are 2 sets of justice in the country.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IURcVw--Rg
You are speaking with a lot of assumed authority about what "rural people" as a large category think
Let go of the fear. Everyone has tens of thousands of bad words in them that need to be written down before the good words start coming out.

Practice wise, write about the same thing several times. Write. Then reflect for a week or a month. Then write again. Then do it 3 months later. You will see a clear improvement.

And of course, teachers are invaluable. See if you can take an evening class somewhere, or if you have money hire a tutor - you can pay a grad student at your local university.
If not intentional, it at least points to a culture that cannot be trusted with producing secure devices.
No, engineering students don't take those courses. We teach as appropriate to the students in each course, unlike what urthor claimed.
While I agree a bit that this particular link might miss the mark a little, this isn't the only SMB relevant material from CISA.

For example, the Cyber Essentials (https://www.cisa.gov/cyber-essentials) and Cyber Essentials Starter Kit (https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Cyber%...) both seem structured better.

Upfront tells the stakes, a tiny bit of a more holistic view of cybersecurity, then a quick pragmatic checklist things to just do first (backups, MFA, keep up to date with updates/patches), and then diving into the same frameworkey stuff.

Greater federal intervention into SMB cybersecurity beyond this type of material and bulletins is politically challenging, particularly given the foundation of cybersecurity if risk assessment. It'd be incredibly challenging for any federal agency to set true baseline requirements for cybersecurity measures (since that would constitute doing part of the risk assessment for SMBs - and that just screams nanny state).
URL could be used if it COULD be used. If you don't have any clipboard, you can use QR-code.
1) Open first instance of app on you PC
2) Open second one in side the VM
3) Open both QR-codes by your smartphone and add keys with enabled checkbox "send all my keys"
4) Profit! You have all your three devices (with smarphone) connected with eachother
Imagine using this across different platforms :/, and let alone using different techniques in addition...

edit: maybe you'd catch some criminals if you tried to match reddit against dark web for example
Exactly. HN emphasizes long-form posts much more than other forums which makes the commenters here very susceptible to this kind of analysis. Plus you can fit every single HN comment in RAM on a mid tier gaming laptop so it's even easier. I was trying to think of applications of this kind of data and the only thing I could think of was moderation tools/detecting ban evaders but what you've done seems much more profitable lol.
Multi hour take home exams are such a shit show. I haven’t done one in a very long time.

How clearly was the marking criteria or rubric communicated to you?

If you’re getting frustrated and have the financial capacity for it, maybe consider a break during December?
Pharo.
Most of you here who are under the age of 40 probably do not appreciate how we came within an inch of having the world run on a monopolized MSInternet(r) in the late nineties. Microsoft had its foothold in every aspect of consumer facing computing save for mobile computing with PDAs and such (it was rathern niche then and yet they soon attacked that space with Windows Mobile).

The death of Netscape in the late nineties and the explosion in popularity of Internet Explorer was an imminent threat as Microsoft was ready to roll out their proprietary APIs such as OLE (rebranded as ActiveX) all over consumer facing internet. As the memo articulates in a few places, the goal was to embrace the formats and extend them with proprietary Microsft shit so they would not work or work poorly on non-Wintel platforms running Microsoft products.

The academia was the last MS free stronghold because Sun still had a lot of foothold and from there emerged companies like Google who in the early days provided the last shred of hope and almost miraculously it kind of worked. Now Microsoft and ironically Google too continue to be threats to the open nature of the internet until the present day. Hopefully neither ever succeeds but I see a lot of younger people that scoff at Google's unfair practices give way too much credit of trust to Microsoft that is absolutely undeserved and unearned.
He's the CEO and a huge voting share owner of his companies, why would he need to pretend to be working? Also, it's probably hard to make breakthroughs in space travel and electric vehicles doing fake work.

There's been a huge amount of leaks, rumors, and reports about Elon from within and from without his companies. He's been accused of a lot of things, but fake working has not been one of them.
Poor choice of words.
Why use John? Just run down the list of Hacker News usernames; it'll take less time. (Or, better still, don't; just because the privacy's theoretically compromised doesn't mean we have to exploit that.)
Amazon Alexa Deemed ‘Colossal Failure’ Following $10B Loss
I doubt they asked 78k users for permission when there's no standardized way of reaching out if you're not a site admin. It's opt out if anything.
I was referring to the overhead of development time. Rust is more complex than C, at least, and even after having gained proficiency coding in Rust still takes more time than writing an equivalent C program.

And "zero-cost" is misleading. There are definitely performance impacts from the implicit (and unadvertised explicit) bounds checking some of Rust's features come with. Writing a C program to an equivalent level of safety would have similar performance impacts. Hence, for as close to the same safety as possible, Rust and C should be almost identical in terms of performance.
> There is no online video service analogous to Steam where you can buy movies and then watch them forever or even while offline.

You've been able to do this for at least a decade, it's called the iTunes Store. I believe Amazon Prime lets you download movies now too.
*was defending them against USSR.

Russia has neither the military or the political clout of the USSR. NATO would have probably already been dismantled, if that wouldn't sink the US military-industrial complex.
Exactly, the difference between unconnected wild areas (public access wise) and connected wild areas is massive. The landscape in large parts of the US is totally fenced in and splintered in a way that even if there is lots of public access it isn't effectively connected in a way that people can actually utilize it.
I believe they're referring to 802.11bf "WLAN sensing"
Civilizational Primitives
“Sounds like they saved your company the cost of those services; we'll reduce the damages accordingly.”
> Let Taiwan resolve that like a sovereign nation

Sovereign nations often do that with allies (or at least, enemies-of-their-would-be-oppressors) support, see, e.g., France in the US Revolutionary War.
I want to love Pentiment, and for the first 5 hours or so I did. The art is gorgeous and you can really tell that the creators of this game poured their passion into it. There are so many small but extremely thoughtful details, like a character's dialogue font changing when the protagonist's view of them changes. I found the writing to be generally compelling too.

The problem I have with Pentiment is that (at least for me) the core gameplay loop is not very engaging. They intentionally stripped out anything but movement and dialogue. There are a few fun little minigame/QTE things but they're few and far between. Compare it with something like New Vegas (made by some of the same people, a game which I loved) - the combat gameplay is decidedly mediocre and the storytelling and dialogue is less nuanced than Pentiment. Nevertheless, New Vegas is way more fun because the possibilities are way broader - you can either talk or shoot your way through things but the fact that the solution space is way bigger was much more engaging for me. In Pentiment there's not really any loot or combat or stealth or trade. It's just talking. Even your "build" doesn't really feel super impactful - I suspect it's intentionally designed to be equally optimal regardless of what you choose. It seems like it's more designed to be more flavor than anything else.

Also, I found the third act a slog. I see what they were trying to do but it really took a lot of momentum away from the game.
I have no alternate accounts and visited the site out of curiosity, because I used to worked in the domain like this.

What I found was worth visiting the site. Somehow notably many accounts with (relatively) high similarity to mine's are sharing at least one of my personal traits.

Which is fascinating, to me.

And I think is worth to be noticed by others - what and how you write can disclose who you are.
You linked to something about wind turbines.

Did you link to the wrong article?
A couple of my favorite inspirational art sites are SketchFab and DeviantArt. Both have some amazing talent on display on a regular basis, and both have given me inspiration when I'm running short on ideas or creativity. Both also have a quite wide variety of liberally licensed content (creative commons, etc) that you can legally re-use as a starting point for your own works, as long as you conform to the requirements of any given license.
Yeah, it’s like shooting ducks in a barrel it works so well.

Easy to overuse then people just get annoyed though…kind of like commas, I suppose.
Ask HN: What do you like/dislike about Golang?
What I like:

- Ecosystem. Very easy to install and use libraries.

- Can compile programs to single executables easily.

- Easy to work with (Very productive) while also running fast.

What I disliked:

- The syntax but I'm starting to like it. (It seems that Go's syntax is an acquired taste for me)
> You absolutely do feel the same feelings consuming porn as you do actually engaging in sex

I can't believe someone says this. It's so not true in my experience. These feelings have a lot in common, but they are definitely not the same.