jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Before you get to the point of scouting for deal you need to be able to show bank records proving you've grossed $200k/year (or $300k/year if you're married) for the previous two years, or have over $1m in assets. This is because our great grandparents got bilked, and as usual, we're paying for the sins of people who died before we were born.

These numbers were set by old white men in 1982 to make sure the only other old white men could invest in this manner. The same rich old white men, and their rich white children are now trying to adjust that for inflation, which would mean something like $450k/year in gross income or $2.5m in assets.

Look up Rule 501 of SEC's regulation D. Then smash something. I did.
in case you're wondering, we use a simple queueing thing called redpack:

https://github.com/luxdelux/redpack
Actually, no: http://imgur.com/XsoGv.png
This move will greatly reduce the stress on the quarantine system (MIQ) that returnees from other parts of the world still need to go through. There is currently a massive under supply of quarantine hotel slots compared to demand, with slots being snapped up within minutes of being released.

It’s common for people to be refreshing the MIQ website constantly for weeks trying to find a slot (I’m not exaggerating), including getting family and friends to help find slots. It’s an incredibly unfair system and removing the large number of Kiwis in low risk Australia from competing against returnees from higher risk countries makes sense all around.

I just hope the border is fully reopened once the vaccination program has reached enough people (>80% seems enough to me ... there will be some vaccine holdouts I’m sure!).
> "Which part of the world has "natural immunity" to Covid? The fraction of people who had Covid compared to those who had not is almost negligible almost everywhere?"

It's been reported that more than half of the UK population now has Covid antibodies, either through recent infection or through vaccination:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/about-50-of-pe...
This argument ("it's not implemented because it's to difficult to do properly") was debated ad nauseam in the past. Well, look how others implemented it and you will see how to do it.

A simple example: S3. Currently, what happens when you exceed your credit card limit is that they send you an email they weren't able to charge you but they continue to provide the service for the next two months, and during that time everything works fine: you can access your buckets and you are charged for storage and transfer.

Now, what would happen with hard caps implemented? You didn't pay, so you're locked out of your account. Nobody can access your S3 objects, including yourself. If you care enough about them, you need to make a payment and settle your account. If you don't do it within one month, the whole content will be deleted.
Clubhouse's advantage over Twitter is that it's not recorded and you can't get reply guys. I know minor bluechecks on Twitter who are pretty annoyed by the platform because someone always yells at them or quotes them a month later no matter what they say. It's nice to have things disappear.

…It's really not fun to listen to, though, it is just a WebEx meeting with even worse audio.
> That strikes me as rather emotive phrasing for an discussion about SSD upgrades.

Only emotive in the context of people using HN for clickbaity Apple bashing that is unsubstantiated by actual facts.

If you could be bothered to actually read the Apple Support document, you would see the reason access to Apple Configurator is required is because the SSD is tied to the T2 security chip. So you are not "just swapping out an SSD", there is a security element too. Frankly I think that is a good thing that changing hard drives is linked to the security chip.
The Australian federal government has been aiming for a suppression strategy while the states have been eliminating the virus any time it appears anyway. We’ve had a few minor outbreaks over the last 6 months, just like NZ - and each one has been eliminated down to 0 cases again. Just like NZ. Practically speaking our policies are pretty much the same. And if either country has covid start spreading, I’m sure the international border will close again just like our interstate borders.
It's interesting how these have held up:

Do you use source control?

Source control is much more common now than in 2000. I worked many years as a software developer before encountering any team which used version control as a matter of course. Before crapping on those developers, consider that version control before DVCSes like Git was slow, broke frequently, took up valuable storage space, and usually required a server which was non-trivial to set up and maintain.

Do you make daily builds?

Not so relevant now that we can build on every commit for free.

Do you have an up-to-date schedule?

Not sure what to make of this. Software development is as difficult as ever to estimate.

Do you have a spec?

Not unless I'm implementing an ISO standard or something. Sounds a lot like waterfall.

Do programmers have quiet working conditions?

Haha, nope! Dilbertian low walls have completely taken over.

Do you use the best tools money can buy?

Depends where you work, but most places have onerous acquisition processes.

Do you have testers?

Only in big projects, where this seems pretty ubiquitous.

Do new candidates write code during their interview?

Still relevant in lots of companies.

Do you do hallway usability testing?

Did this one actually ever catch on anywhere except single-product shops?

Can you make a build in one step?

Do you fix bugs before writing new code?

Do you have a bug database?

Still super relevant.
Yes, I agree with you that organisational scaling is easier when having BE and FE handled by different people.

I am not yet convinced that optimising for organisational scaling could be technical benefits.
So after longing it out, today I had a look on haveibeenpwned, and it seems I am one of those whose data has leaked.

After re-reading all of the events of this breach, it seems that the exploit was fixed in Aug 2019 (as claimed by Facebook). I had deleted my account some 2 years prior to that.

Either these attackers have had access for over 2 years, or Facebook has not deleted my data, and likely everyone else's data either.

What can an individual, or perhaps everyone affected, do in this scenario?
The trouble with the 'pyramid' is it doesn't take into account interdependencies. For example, it is very important for code to be clean and understandable in order to ascertain correctness (to the extent possible via code inspection). And the whole notion of 'value', which is subjective, typically dominates code reviews. The 'value' question is basically whether the change must be rethought from the ground up to pass muster as a net value add to the customer. For example, if the code is extremely dense and complicated but essentially correct, then the value may be very high for an earlier stage product, versus for a larger, established product where long-term maintainability costs can overshadow the value derived from the change.
>- It doesn't play nicely with a lot of the rest of the python ecosystem. Want to swap in SQLAlchemy? Sorry, no dice.

Being extremely opinionated about stuff like ORM and admin is partly how it developed such a rich ecosystem of plugins. Those plugins exist because they can build upon those foundations.

Flask, by dint of being unopinionated doesn't have solid foundations that its plugins can build upon. This is why you get stuff like quokka (a flask cms plugin built on mongo) while other stuff assumes sqlalchemy and other plugins built plugins for various different storage backends.
I can say that at the state police level, self-investigation is a joke.
One can do that on SystemRescueCD; I don't understand your angle.

It comes with internet and a web browser.
>It is becoming apparent that the U.S. needs an independent agency focussed on transgressions by law enforcement / a civil rights enforcement bureau.

YMMV, but:

Many agencies have an Auditor General with a cadre of agents whose entire role is to investigate and publicly report on what that agency does wrong. Sadly, I can't think of any Auditor General's office with the power to punish. So if the agency is acting unconstitutionally or illegally because the governor or agency director wants them to, it's on the public to push for change. That's a hard ask.

For issues with state agencies, contact your District Attorney or state Attorney General. I've never done this, but it's stuck in my mind as the path to go. If other people want to report their dead end stories of doing this, I'd welcome the lesson.
im a little confused what the argument is here. TFA is implying a bunch of server code is being updated without telling anyone, violating their open-source stance. then they release a post, possibly in response to criticism, saying they've been working on a major feature thats ready for its beta release. so now youre arguing the feature they chose to work on feels yucky? this is textbook goalpost moving.

i use signal and my impression of moxie is extremely positive. at face value, a payment system built by moxie and the signal team with cryptocurrency screams "incredible". kind of taken aback by the overwhelming negativity around here.
Being the first free generation out of Portuguese dictatorship I never understood this American belief that three letter agencies are angels following the law.
There ought to be a "emergency shutoff" threshold, period. And there's just no customer-centric excuse for not implementing it after these many years.

Here's how to implement it:

"Amazon, what do you do today if my credit card fails and all the retries fail?"

Do THAT if billing hits <my emergency off switch threshold>.

Will it disrupt the heck out of all my AWS services? Of course. That's the point, if something went so seriously wrong that my billing hits an absurd level that will put me out of business, I'd rather have downtime.
Yeah context plays a big part here. We wanted to make the experience of looking at "interleaved diff[s] on Github" a lot better. So we made https://www.codestream.com/ which lets reviewers look at pull requests (github) and soon merge requests (gitlab) right in their editor, leveraging the entire context of the file and all the things they love about their IDEs.
lotus effect
Is it possible to build an app that demonstrates its efficacy?
Signal's by default e2e encrypted chats can be used across platforms, e.g. synced across desktop and mobile.
Telegram's secret chats are only available on the device where you initiated them. That's a major disadvantage.
Sorry, I should have quoted. They are “unable to pull something like this” due to being a federated protocol. If they try to add crypto to their app, another app can be used to communicate to the same people in the same way.
"devops" is really hit or miss. I used to do devops consulting and all I saw were people who had no idea what they were doing and so they constantly had fires to put out. There is no time to fix and automate when you are putting out fires all day.
I've never even tried to debug someone else's library - life's too short, and it's not what I'm getting paid for.

What is your general strategy to deal with bugs in other code? Sometimes just stepping through other code and fixing something small there is by far the fastest way to get things done. Not life-shortening at all :) I.e. way faster than alternatives like submitting a bug report and hoping it gets fixed, or hacking around the bug, or looking for another library. I do not understand why you'd abandon the idea out of principle. Perhaps you had some really bad experiences with it when you just started or so?

Have you looked at the source for (say) your Standard Library implementation?

Very often. Usually not to 'debug it' in the sense of finding bugs but to figure out in detail why my code invokes UB or asserts or whatever somewhere else. Or in case of documentation not being clear to find out what really happens. Also a good way to learn by seeing how others write code.
Yes, many jobs are working on projects one isn't interested in. It's a job one has to do ...

However to me it seems you're trying to make it worse.

What about trying to find a job in a field you are passionate about? Assuming you are an experienced software developer you should be able to analyse problems and solving problems. These are qualities not only in software.

There's a large field of things one can do outside a job, which can be interesting. Be it with a NGO or some other area. Such jobs won't pay much in money, but they can give you a purpose. Instead of writing code for solving a problem which you don't care about solve problems you find relevant.

Maybe also only for a year a two and then see how things are going.
My assertion is... just no. The parentheses are a complete red herring. You think they are bad and somehow annoying, and yet json gets by with requiring quotes in the official spec for the keys, which is far more annoying. (And, as an aside, one of the few things I give YAML credit for nixing.)

Further, while there is a bit of truth to needing a few extra parens for a lot of math based code. For code that is heavy in calling to other code, it is primarily a switch from curly { to regular (, and to put the function name after. That really is it. Oh, and a comical reduction in commas.
My limited understanding seems to indicate that for AI to process input it has to be handled / processed carefully for any good to come from it.

Accordingly making decisions based on human feedback could be super difficult / impossible at the moment.

The result though seems like a super narrow minded system that wouldn't know when it is dead wrong ...
You might like Alan Weiss's "Million Dollar Consulting"
At Google nobody gets a promo for maintaining stale product.
There's some silly Moore's law variant buried here: The programmer demand will double every couple of years.
Warehouse workers were never working remotely, they got laid off.

Re: your last point:

1. That 34% would quit rather than return doesn’t mean the other 66% would prefer to, just that they might not quit over it.

2. It’s possible to employ both remote and on-site workers.
This implies that your entire social life exists at your occupation which is the most depressing thing I've ever heard.
https://j648931.typeform.com/to/eLkVy9QX
I wish I could make sites like these. However I have the aesthetic sensibilities of a fridge magnet, so I think I'd better stick to code.
I've never used one for anything. I think part of the appeal was that it worked something like Digg or Reddit - the social aspect.

Without the appeal of seeing what other people have bookmarked, it would work just as well to maintain my own list on an HTTP server. Then I can access it from anywhere just the same.
I wonder if the US will seize their servers if we save Wikileak links ?
If everyone is educated the same way, that's the human way of doing it, at least in the sense of human usability. It's irrelevant if we could theoretically do it another way. Language is learnt too, but that doesn't mean that (for English speakers) writing our programs with kanji keywords would be just as usable and readable as writing them with English ones.
Of course. FB has taken a leaf out of Microsoft's book. They are now dedicated to copying smaller businesses, and using overwhelming market power to overrun the people who actually thought of novel ideas and businesses.

True to the MS style, first they try tr buy you. If you say no, or want too much money, they'll just copy you. Examples: twitter, foursquare AKA 'the wall', 'facebook places'.
Even though Google has a consistent color theme in all of its interfaces, I strongly believe that black background here would make it much more usable. Pretty awesome though!
Yes, that's important, but it doesn't address the question of information storage/retrieval.
I don’t think the translation is the amazing part – as one of the creators said here, at the moment it mostly does word-for-word translation. Google’s statistical machine translation is mightily impressive technology, I’m not sure whether you could even theoretically put it on a phone at the moment.

You would ideally want the OCR and text replacement together with Google’s translation algorithms, which, besides requiring a network connection at the moment, would also introduce way too much lag that would kill the experience.

(Word-for-word translation is a perfect compromise in the meantime.)
This sort of thing seems to happen a lot. Corn ethanol, anyone?
Here's a piece of good advice. Before declaring that someone hasn't linked out, double-check. Because, I did:

"In John Gruber’s article today, Title Junk, he gets upset about title tags that produce a bad display or readability situation."

The link is in there in the words "Title Junk." I even specifically called the article out by its name and used anchor text to it. I wanted the link to be next to John's first quote in the story.
Securing only the login page with SSL is mostly useless, except for preventing the password being transmitted as plaintext. See: Firesheep.
One of the reasons I'm leery of using products made by startups, in addition to the risk of them failing, sometimes when they succeed you lose just as much as if they'd failed.

We got burned pretty bad with a product a few years ago when our payment provider was acquired and basically just shutdown without providing any means of migrating. It was a subscription based data service and half of our customers canceled because they no longer trusted us with their data after we "lost" their payment information and they had to re-enter it.
I think "WakeMate" is a terrible name. Before I read the explanation, I guessed that it had something to do with wakes, you know, like funerals.
The sites are on the same IP address so I guess that answers that.
Just like governments need to do some things in secret to protect themselves against enemies. That is not to defend all secrecy but secrecy has its purpose and to pretend, as some want to, that everything governments do can be transparent is moronic.
I worked at a solar SCADA company that rolled there own APT packages.

In the pre and post install deb package scripts there was all kinds of crazy shit, like upgrading grub to grub 2 and manually messing with boot sectors. All this stuff in packages innocuously named modbus_driver.deb or what have you, and all in absolutely the most archaic bash syntax possible.

Eventually somebody mixed a rm -rf /bin/* with rm -rf / bin/*, and the rest is history. They bricked about 100 embedded PC's, all in remote locations, all powering powerplant SCADA systems that did stuff like connect to CalISO for grid management or collect billing information. It cost hundreds of thousand of dollars to fix.
If your garage says "Come on in" and, when the person takes your golf clubs, you say, "OK!" then yes, it's OK.

And that's exactly what publicly accessible URLs and a status code 200 are.

You had a chance to issue a 403 (ie, "You can't take my clubs") but instead you said "OK."

I think it's egregious that anybody anywhere can be held criminally liable for accessing information available as a the result of a 200, with no former contractual arrangements in place.
I worked at a solar SCADA company that rolled there own APT packages.

In the pre and post install deb package scripts there was all kinds of crazy shit, like upgrading grub to grub 2 and manually messing with boot sectors. All this stuff in packages innocuously named modbus_driver.deb or what have you, and all in absolutely the most archaic bash syntax possible. I did suggest, strongly to jail all application binarys that we twiddle around with, with something like chroot, but was rebuffed.

Eventually somebody mixed a rm -rf /bin/* with rm -rf / bin/*, and the rest is history. They bricked about 100 embedded PC's, all in remote locations, all powering powerplant SCADA systems that did stuff like connect to CalISO for grid management or collect billing information. It cost hundreds of thousand of dollars to fix.
Reminds of this TED with Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake - http://www.ted.com/talks/phil_hansen_embrace_the_shake?langu...
I would have loved to hear a bit more about the RSI and the issues that it caused her. The writing left it very unclear to me what the extent of her injury was, and made it seem like her hands were virtually useless.
> You don't care, they don't care, no one really cares

Well, why should they be in this list then? I really don't care if some local rag told their city of 2000 the intricacies of cow speech, even if completely fabricated. I think most of us have learned to collectively skip the nonsense anyway. What I do care about are large institutions that are manipulating the thinking of entire voting blocks, swaying the public discourse, and affecting the outcome of elections.
What's even worse is that the whole issue of the wage suppression saga has been conveniently forgotten by the tech elites and media. The case is still ongoing after the judge threw out the settlement Google et all offered, but the last begrudging mention of this in the tech or mainstream media was in Aug.

Nothing at all since then.
That would be absolutely outstanding, and I'm going to spend some time on some emails and what not to see if I can make it a reality. Thank you for this.
? No, the multi-process tab feature is all about one process per tab.
Exactly so. And those particular examples (lowering them for revenue or aesthetic purposes) can actually mean decreases in safety and wellbeing, beyond the ordinary dangers of arbitrary set speeds, as stakeholders internal or external to the police department pressure officers to spend too much time tending the road.
Good way to run a business. Run your business and on the side create a speed test on the side and call it the only accurate speed test and explain the business model of other speed tests and how the ISP prioritizes speed tests sites and how your site is the only accurate test around.

Then when your speed test gets popular. ISP's will think they're clever and start prioritizing your site!

That's when you BOOM! switch servers and point the DNS's to the new servers! Flip the servers running your business to the speed test servers and flip the speed test servers to your business!

Be sure to switch it back during off hours. Now you have a SUPER fast business operation and in addition to that a speed test site that is STILL more accurate then other speed test sites.
True. When people starve to death, or die in prison, etc, under Marxist countries, the deaths are attributed to Marxism.

When the same happens in liberal, capitalist countries, or due to those countries imperialism, the deaths don't seem to be attributed to liberalism or capitalism.
The short answer is that we absolutely need more trees than we currently have, but trees alone won't be able to get us there.

Trees are great at capturing CO2 from the sky, but they suffer from an impermanence issue. Trees capture CO2 for the duration of their lifespan, but when they die, they decompose and release that captured CO2 back into the atmosphere. They also require dedicated use of large swaths of land to get to significant capture amounts.

More info can be found at section 3.2 of this report: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aabf9f
I wonder why the conversation is all about avoiding nitrates and nitrites in bacon and never about avoiding celery, beets, radishes, chard, lettuce, spinach, etc. which contain far higher amounts.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6240834/

Nice table: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6240834/table/t...
What stops you from unlocking the parental controls?

If that’s not a recurring issue for you then you may not have an executive function disorder.