skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The people responsible for the Iraq disaster are also behind the Ukraine disaster

Please elaborate because this sounds delusional to me. Especially, please describe Putin's role in the Iraq invasion.
Or seafood, in some (coastal) parts of the country[1].

I’ve had shrimp pickle from Andhra Pradesh, it’s delicious but doesn’t seem to be as well known.

[1] https://www.vahrehvah.com/shrimp-prawn-pickle
If this is not done, your emails are “non-repudiable”, meaning that if they are leaked, anyone (eg, journalists, haters) can verify that they are authentic, and prove that to others. This is not desirable (for you).

Not convinced, the bigger problem today seems to be that someone claims that you sent something you didn't and if you do the above you can't disprove that.

You could sign your emails, but then the whole point of publishing the private keys is negated anyway...
If Russia is your friend, you don’t need enemies.
Thanks, I never heard of it before and it looks really interesting.

However, it seems that it does not cover all of my needs: https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/discussions/1510#discussi...

Maybe I should use Ansible for system-wide configuration and chezmoi for dotfiles in $HOME.
Very good point!

Along those lines, it is interesting that as much as “evil” Microsoft dominated computing and leveraged their power in the 90’s, they still provided a very open (in terms of building on) platform for an enormous number of third parties.

Now Apple manages an enormous platform re iOS apps, but it is not open technologically or economically.
> "utterly obsolete technology"

this annoys me a bit. if something is still functional and provides value it's not obsolete.

as a web dev for 16 years, japanese design seems like a nice antidote.

the web used to be closer to publishing and documents and now it's more advertising and marketing oriented.

nowadays i can't even save a jpeg without it appearing as a webp in my downloads folder. everything has become so annoying.
i have also noticed this trend in western mainstream media where they publish an entire article that doesn’t really inform more than at a superficial level.
Yes, it's fairly common. "Prisoner's cinema" and "phosphenes" are terms used. I used to entertain myself during boring classes by closing my eyes and watching the light show.
Honestly, why?
Does the word mean something different in England?
The article is basis a precis of the book refereed to at the end of the article: "Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us" by Michael Moss [1]. It's well worth reading.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Sugar_Fat:_How_the_Food_G...
Right, and the "-a-" following "hydr-" is the initial letter of the word meaning "pipe" in Greek, so at its origins hydraulics was about water pipes, but now "hydraulic" is used for any devices that transmit forces through liquids, while "pneumatic" (from the word meaning "blowing") is used for those that transmit forces through gases.
well played! I just realised my spelling.
As is so often the case, the fundamental problem is that people realised that could use it to make money. And once the big companies move in and monetise something, it's never going back.

People used to make websites and post on BBS/forums because they enjoyed it, and they didn't expect anything back. But as the Internet became more mainstream, the corporates started to wipe out many of the small sites - because they could make money from their views and that data.

And it's not just the Internet - think about how much gaming has changes with microtransactions, lootboxes and pay2win compared to how it used to be. Or how much YouTube has changed since people were trying to make money and a career out of it, rather than just making cool content. Or how much cryptocurrencies changed when they shifted from being largely supported by people who really believed in them as the future, rather than day-traders trying to get rich.

> But it felt free. You could just make a thing, and put it up for the whole world or no-one to find, and it felt like the future was condensing rapidly in front of the whole world. Like everything would accelerate from here and that we were going somewhere incredibly exciting, and then we went somewhere.. else.

Nothing is stopping you creating your own website today and sticking it on the Internet - a domain and hosting is dirt cheap. And there are still plenty of sites and communities out there - you just have to go and look for them.

The mainstream has moved on and will never come back - but that doesn't mean that everyone has to follow it.
Well it’s fairly self evident - “the happy couple” - we’re not talking about three or four people, we always mean a pair, comprising two people
I've been in almost exactly this situation, although the issue was rather that I have a Linux tower without camera/microphone and a Windows laptop for playing some games or doing Microsoft / office stuff. Setting it up to anything resembling my real dev experience is probably a day or two of work, and the first time I used it for a job interview I probably seemed less than competent...
I also have a work MacBook, but so far haven't used it for applying to other jobs, that would be kinda weird.
> (edit - I may add the product probably wouldn't be so harmful if people kept their consumption to under five cigarettes a day.)

Even 1-4 cigarettes per day is very harmful:

> Results: Adjusted relative risk (95% confidence interval) in smokers of 1–4 cigarettes per day, with never smokers as reference, of dying from ischaemic heart disease was 2.74 (2.07 to 3.61) in men and 2.94 (1.75 to 4.95) in women. The corresponding figures for all cancer were 1.08 (0.78 to 1.49) and 1.14 (0.84 to 1.55), for lung cancer 2.79 (0.94 to 8.28) and 5.03 (1.81 to 13.98), and for any cause 1.57 (1.33 to 1.85) and 1.47 (1.19 to 1.82).

> Conclusions: In both sexes, smoking 1–4 cigarettes per day was associated with a significantly higher risk of dying from ischaemic heart disease and from all causes, and from lung cancer in women. Smoking control policymakers and health educators should emphasise more strongly that light smokers also endanger their health.

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/14/5/315

Cigarettes also happen to create an addiction, which makes it harder over time to stay below 5 cigarettes per day.
Great, yes treat police as nodes in a network. And regulate the nearby nodes and how those nodes are connected. Graph theory.

Can’t ever get something besides a “justified” ruling on the violent action the police officer did?

Well prosecute the partner for giving a different instruction to the civilian that conflicted with the other officer’s that needlessly escalated the situation.

The police report doesnt match the video footage? Prosecute that for both the officer and the partner. Dont worry that the DA is going to rule the violent action justified, or that the prosecutor is going to be biased in telling juries what to do so that they always reach a justified verdict. You can still pin these procedural things on them as straight up crimes, or liens on the pension fund.

I can think of many permutations of this.

Use “broken windows theory” logic for civil and criminal sanctions on police officers.

Itll fix itself nationwide overnight.

Everybody can still “fear for their life” as a foolproof legal argument for split second violence, but they might fear their finances more. This satisfies partisan positions.
This actually sounds really interesting to me, as someone who does generative modeling. You got a good intro?
I'm aware and I'm not an apologist for US.

What I mean to emphasize is that net net, one expects more of the semblance of a rule of law in western jurisdictions. It's why cases like Julian Assange are as controversial as they are, with public organizations in USA willing to make the case to support him and inquire on his well-being.

Our media is controlled but there is semblance of free press. You don't have even that in China. If you're a dissident in China you'd be hard pressed garnering support from any org.

I don't presume to have a complete picture. Maybe if I did it may suggest USA is in reality more like China. But from all that I've seen, authoritarian governments like China continue to have serious shortcomings in the kinds of freedoms we take for granted in the West.
> If these aren't enough - look around Japan outside of the 5 major cities. So much of the mid tier and smaller parts of Japan have been starved of cash. Cities built at the peak in the 80s and 90s with no signs of new development in 20-30 years.

I live in a small Japanese city of 40k people, and your comment is... way too gentle. Yeah, outside of the major cities the infrastructure was never very good to begin with, and now is seriously decaying, which combined with the extremely chaotic Japanese urban development results in a level of ugliness that is pretty much unthinkable in a normal developed country. But the worst part is that you tell the local people, and nobody seems to care or even realize that something is wrong.
Even just the bare minimal size for testing this concept conclusively?

Ok then, perhaps using ULV lithography (aka microprocessor design) could do it.

Pity those machines take billions of $$$ to work with, so it's unlikely someone would try. Hmmm, unless there is a research institute doing something like those lines.
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> If these aren't enough - look around Japan outside of the 5 major cities. So much of the mid tier and smaller parts of Japan have been starved of cash. Cities built at the peak in the 80s and 90s with no signs of new development in 20-30 years.

FWIW I live in a "mid-tier", depopulating city in Japan, and there's been a ton of development. We got a bullet train 12 years ago, and since then we've gotten like 2-3 large new modern hospitals, 3-4 new large fancy shopping malls (replacing old dilapidated shotengai), big new beautiful parks, an expensive decade-long tunneling roadworks to reduce congestion, lots of roadworks and constant, constant construction of new modern condos replacing old buildings and single-family homes. We also now have so much solar they're paying home consumers to use excess generation on sunny days.

Compared to a similar-sized city I'm from in Europe, it feels like we've being lavished with money. And it makes sense - this is where all that debt is coming from!
Would you say that e-scooter wheels are too small? That's the first reaction I get when I see one. Maybe child BMX wheels instead?
The January 6th committee has been Democrats hunting Republicans.
And we don't draft women or children to the military, and we put them on the life boats first.
Well, you have not.

You doing the propaganda work for a regime that tells their people that they were fighting "the Nazi regime in Kiev" to ensure their loyalty.

My ancestors were also (if you don't just plainly lie about that fact, too) Huguenots and they would have not wanted you to cite them in this context after the had to leave their country not unlike millions of Ukrainian people have to right now.

So, wherever you lost that insight, I'd recommend to
pick it up again and recognize the irony in you propagating the Kremlin's world view.
My father knew he had a year, or two at most, left. On a sunny day in May 2020, he bought green Kairi mangoes, pickled them, and passed on his recipe. He made three batches to last at least 5-7 years.

He passed away from NAFLD in 2021, but we have his memories and his handmade flavorful pickle.

RIP wherever you are, Pops.
https://www.sourcenext.com/product/0000000618/

Relatively famous software reseller (repackager) but focused on individuals
Ok, I am going on a tangent but then I'm surprised why many companies use Performance Improvement Plans when that can expose themselves to such risks. I know PIPs aren't always about immediate terminations, but often they end up leading to terminations, and employees usually sense it coming
Theoretically or just current technology? Big difference.
I think most people with some degeree of aphantasia used to think like you - that no one can really visualise things.

But then I started asking around and people REALLY described visualisation as a vivid clear picture of things in their heads, almost like they are there. Like literally projecting the image on their brain as you're saying.

I now think I do have some degree of aphantasia. I can describe as having low RAM, so I cannot paint the entire scene. I am able to briefly visualise some details and aspects of a scene (usually as flashes, and I cannot sustain them), but never the entire scene. If you ask me to visualise a beach, I can have visual "flashy" perceptions of the sand or the waves, but it's extremely hard for me to put everything together in a visual manner. It's much easer for me to imagine the feelings, sounds, and smells of a scene.
> I’m single so it’s hard to cook for 1 without re eating the same thing 5 times in a row or having wasted food.

That is what a freezer is for? Cook once, eat 4-5 times when you want it, not dictated by leftovers going off in the fridge [1]. That's what I did when I was single and it is what I still do since having ready-made food in the freezer to take along as lunch, for when my daughter comes home hungry from school, (etc.) is quite handy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH3UncRagXY
I used to think like that, too. If you ever have a child, you will understand, like so many of us before.
In Praise of Pull Requests
There is a story (my Dad told me) that Rolls Royce took the part from General Motors and refined it by polishing surfaces and otherwise correcting what they thought were manufacturing defects. But after the refinement, the transmission no longer worked! There was no longer sufficient friction inside the mechanism to transfer the mechanical energy.
Maybe they have a "gifted children" training program, where they give technically talented 7yo access to everything and grow them into hackers.
Interestingly 4x8 1/2" OSB at my Home Depot is the same price as their 4x8 sheets: https://www.homedepot.com/b/Lumber-Composites-Plywood/1-2/N-...

Plus, fewer cockroaches per this appealing comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37722691
I still think it will be a finicky and difficult to produce "1D" topological superconductor, that conducts in only one direction.

So not the bulk superconductor we need, indeed, but that could be interesting for microelectronics.
> Why? If 99% of code bases are bad and it's the baseline condition, why should I try to move things in a better direction?

Code is like entropy: it's natural tendency is to become disordered and not suit the current problem domain.

In order to fight entropy, you need to perform the unnatural act of ordering back and sorting out the code you wrote based on your current understanding of the curremt state of your problem domain.

Also keep in mind that developers continuously gain experience, and gather insight into what works or not, and refine their expertise with time. Your yesterday's code is worse than the code you'd write today. By definition this means that when you look at all the code you wrote, it all needs improving.

> OP proposed better coding practices and got ignored.

He didn't. He proposed wasting time adding comments and dump onto someone else the responsibility of cleaning up his mess. That is not helpful and should be laughed out of the room.
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You only need to succeed once against a company full of people if your job offer is enticing enough. We don't know how many people said "never mind" when asked to do weird tests.

The stupid thing is that that it's remarkably easy to sandbox and application these days. Sandboxie is free, though not guaranteed to work (but it may very well have done, or at least would have made the strange behaviour obvious) and Windows Pro has had a right-click menu option to run an executable in a sandbox for a while.

When I read the title, I initially thought it was about infection through IDE ("do you trust the authors of this project" is there for a very good reason and in the case of VS Code attackers can get code execution before the prompt through Git config trickery).

I'd be wary of executing a program, but I bet I would click the "sure enable code execution" button if a recruiter sent me a coding challenge in the form of an incomplete project with a Git repo. Especially if they could set up a remote interview process where they want to go through code live "to see how I approach problems".

Right nowt he attack is super basic, but it's not hard to make the initial infection harder to detect in time.
I think they may be correlating it with the similar sounding word “hurl”. Huel on the other hand is readily available in shops in pre-made form, and I’ve seen it in vending machines in Heathrow.
Like the entitlement that comes with wanting to own the roof over their head?
I’ve had pickled pork from Goa before.
Again, just because you understood doesn't mean I or others necessarily will. It seems to be just like religious belief, in a way, only the risk is much higher and more concrete than Pascal's Wager.
Or at least which country?
That approach works fine in gerrit. I always preferred it.
Oh they knew, they just did not care. Eventually someone got the guy on camera and people started to ask questions.
I am sorry you are not very well informed. The reason France had to import was an extreme abundance of caution: one corrosion case on a safety circuit, not even the main circuit, leading to complete stop and overhaul of all plants having the same design. There are plenty of chemical plants with less paranoia...
* For large employers you can no longer apply directly without an inside connection to hand carry your resume to the hiring manager and vouch for you. These large employers are required to post open positions online and accept applications online for EEO compliance but otherwise ignore all incoming resumes. They are receiving too many resumes online and so now ignore them out right.

* Third party recruiters are expensive for everyone. Yet, they can bypass the stupidity of the prior bullet point.

* Developers, in most cases, are a commodity. A meaningless replaceable gear in a larger machine. Talent and skills are largely irrelevant in many areas of software now, but years of experience still appear to be tie breakers. You resume should account for these considerations if you want to achieve employment.

* I am noticing lately hiring is walking back from that prior bullet point because commoditization of candidate selection does not work for more senior positions. For example you cannot substitute competence for a framework and cheaply achieve security, accessibility, test automation, architecture, and so forth. Eventually making decisions becomes more important than putting text on screen. In this case your only goal is to land an interview by any means possible so that your experience can do the talking.
> 911 obviously doesn't have to work given the blatant disregard Google has had

Revoking all of their FCC approvals will fix this problem, and right quick.

Use of the PCS cellular spectrum is conditioned on several things; spectrum purchase by a carrier is necessary but not sufficient. Correctly-functioning emergency calling is one of the other conditions.
Hey driveby comment but maybe focus on showing rather than telling…

Also a big part of why people choose something like parquet is ecosystem/interop — Is there any kind of on/off ramp to Parquet/other formats that people can take at the beginning/end?
We don't feed kids with heroine, morphine, and laxatives anymore, so it's a progress I guess.
This is an incomplete view of complex systems. It is more accurate to say they operate constantly in recovery mode.
Interesting. For mobile games, it has become a very annoying trend to see heavily-produced, 100% fake, videos of the game in ads. Since advertisement is not as regulated as AppStore/Steam screenshots, I pretty much assume now that all ads are fake. I'm pretty sure some AAAs were accused of doing that in the past too.

I wonder how much this will last. On the other hand, maybe the point is not selling the game to people who see the ad, but merely to use them to prop up download numbers.
I can see why they changed it. I expect in last 3 decades amount of computer evidence grew up to amounts where there is no practical way to prove computer was operating correctly.

If I present a digital photo as evidence it would be dismissed by defense lawyers to easily. Then basically any digital evidence would be dismissed the same way.

I can see how it was easy to manage in the 80’s and not anymore in 00’s.
Double DKIM?

The first signature for your future proof-of-authorship needs and the second for regular DKIM mechanisms to accept your email?

The first key isn’t ever published but you keep it if you need to prove your email was written by you.

The second key is rotated regularly with the private key published so that always have the ability to claim “I didn’t write that”.
The story I may have heard from a talk by a Dutch cyber security organisation is that they train their hackers inside the country and then ship them off (under heavy oversight, of course) to China, where they'll operate from internet cafes.
Ever since getting an M1 Macbook Pro, I don't care if there aren't any outlets, because the battery life is so great! Now I can sit anywhere I want, including outside in a park under a tree. And I just plug in my phone via usb and keep it charged while using its flat rate unlimited data for internet. Works just fine! And anyway, now most of the coffeeshops in Amsterdam lock up their plugs and have pay stations for recharging phones (for those damn instagramming tourists).
> some projects also invalidate review on force push

Those should also invalidate on a "normal" push if any changes are made. But yeah, it'd be nice to have the option to keep reviews valid on force-push if diff is identic and the only difference is rearranging commits/messages while still invalidating on any actual changes.
I believe "couple" meaning two or more is a US usage. My (Texan) ex used it to mean roughly "more than two, less than seven". For me (Brit), it meant "two, give or take one", i.e. a sort of fuzzy two.
Unless they're downsizing, companies don't generally want to fire people, because it's expensive to replace them, and it wastes all the time and effort spent training them. If an employee isn't performing well, it's in everyone's interest to address that issue, rather than just firing them and then trying to find and train a replacement.

And if you live somewhere that had decent employment rights, companies are often required to do a PIP (or something similar) and to demonstrate that they've taken reasonable steps to try and resolve the issue before they resort to firing.
In the 1990s I think it was recommended for at least C++ to use at least two different compilers to catch as many errors as possible or to get a more understandable error message.

linters and staic anaylsis did not really exist then
This came up with the hunter biden laptop, DKIM doesn't really validate that you sent an email, but that an email was sent through that server at some point in time when said signing key was still being used.

i.e. I demonstrated to others that I could have a DKIM signed email sent through gmail that was from a spoofed from: and it passed all DKIM tests (i.e. telnet gmail smtp server 25 (well with ssl, so openssl connect or something). smtp auth and do the standard MAIL FROM "SoSo <so@so> RCPT TO so@so data...... and it will look like a legit mail sent from SoSo.

DKIM's job isn't to protect against that.