skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I followed pretty much an identical path 14 years ago. Here's what I've learned.

Yes, she's right that you don't need a lot of school to develop the trade skills of programming or other tech work, and people will hire you. However, it can easily replace the time when young people normally used to develop social skills and potentially critical future relationships (personal and professional).

It's also easy to fall down the rabbit hole of learning as much as you can about technology and abandon all other pursuits, because you no longer have the outside influences found in a traditional education system. This limits your exposure to alternative ways of thinking, which at the very least limits effectiveness in your career (a creative one) to say nothing of stunting personal growth.

My biggest regret is not learning more about the ancient Greeks and Romans, and Myceneans and Minoans, and Egyptians and Chinese, when their foundational achievements could have inspired me in both my personal and professional life. Learning languages is great too as it exposes new kinds of culture and different ways of thinking.

I'm not saying this is a bad path to take - it worked for me! - but I wish someone would have told me all the things I was missing, or provided some sort of path to experience the rewarding parts of it.
My point is, that this "everything's fair in love and war" attitude is without moral basis. It's not magically OK to be evil just because you are at war, and using wartime tactics when you are not officially at war is not worse than doing them during a war.
Hangzhou is 9m in the urban area, and I’d never heard of it when I went to visit a friend there. There are very few points of interest there: it’s a bit like Fresno, only with 20x the population.
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The project has been used in production since the summer of 2016. It is being used by a number of teams, and has been contributed to by more than 20 developers (there is a CONTRIBUTORS file).

The backup will take the data stored in DynamoDB (or a file) and serialize to an encrypted file. It will not backup the KMS key, or IAM policies. Hence, it is useful to take snapshots of your state, but not a full disaster recovery.

You can take a backup by a click of a button in the GUI, or using the cli: `strongbox group backup --group team.project --dst-path my-file.backup`
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> And despite that, the US had slaves long after European countries had abolished that practice, it had segregation long after Europe has done with it (which was rarely an issue here), and is still uptight about race in ways Europe isn't.

And Europe is extremely uptight about Holocaust-related things in ways that America isn't. This isn't surprising; we should expect laws and norms to be directly affected by a country's history.

That the U.S. was, as you point out, a latecomer to the abolition and desegregation, would seem to justify the U.S. being more "uptight" (some would say, "vigilant") about racial discrimination issues. Why should that be seen as being "crazy about race"?
Back in the day, a typical newspaper made about 80% of it's revenue from advertisers (including the classifieds), and about 80% of its costs were printing & distribution. So free Internet distribution should have been 80% of the revenue at 20% of the cost... :)
Do you mean: "take a few thousand rows and map them to a different data structure"? Because I benchmarked that recently and mapping 16,000 rows of GPS points using haversine distance in pure Ruby takes about 12ms, and about 5ms in Go. It's not that much slower. There are tasks where Ruby can be ~100x slower than Go, but a simple map isn't one of them.
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This is clearly based on Goo Create, which went bankrupt a few years ago: https://goocreate.com I never figured out how bought the assets as it was never announced.

Take this screenshot of AWS Sumerian:
https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2017/Sumerian-07-Ma...

And this screenshot of Goo Create:
https://learn.goocreate.com/manual/editor/create-ui.png

They are the same.

Here is a side-by-side image of the two: https://twitter.com/BenAtExocortex/status/935158702180417536
You're right -- that's amazing.
Someone has to say this anyway: asians have highest average IQ, blacks lowest and whites are between them.

Companies want smart people.
I don’t think they’d sell well at all in laptops. I don’t think the tech is far enough. The ~1 FPS performance and occasionally needing to flash the entire screen to clear artifacts are really poor selling points for productive work.

Things like for example scrolling a document or moving a mouse pointer would be quite painful and streaky.
Are you referring to more than just the author's Instagram photos in her post?
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Yeah, but that's a one-time cost. Once you build the rig, getting it on site isn't all that expensive, comparatively. And you can relatively easily resupply it, repair it, and upgrade it.

Whereas a space mining operation requires additional billion-dollar launches every time you need to resupply fuel or parts. Plus, as mentioned above - as far as we know, there isn't anything on the moon of significant primary value.
GNU/linux usage has been growing along with MacOS. If you include just kernel variants or anything other than desktop computing GNU/linux has been the market leader for a bit now comprising most supercomputers, servers, ChromeOS(variant not GNU), and Android (variant not GNU).

I use Ubuntu for everyday work and have no more problems (sometimes less) than my Mac and Windows co-workers.

Let me know when any real modern OS becomes "unstable". Aside from literal testing and beta releases modern platforms for Windows, MacOS, and linux based platforms are all relatively stable and show significant improvements over 10 years ago.

The only reason I can see for using a Microsoft based platform over any other platform is if you're heavily invested in VBA and macros. If you're not then there is no reason a company cannot use a GNU/linux based platform such as Ubuntu. LibreOffice, Google Apps, Zoho, Collabora/Nextcloud all provide platform agnostic tools that allow for easy use no matter what you're using.

You're working from a very old mindset of operating systems.
As far as I understand meetings (and lectures) are to derive consensus. Slides are regularly available before meetings while reading is normally required before lectures. Lecture presentation is not the time for the details of complex unfamiliar derivations, but for familiar motivation of larger goals and big questions.

If you feel the need to take notes of every point rather than summarising the most salient/important concepts, or recording your questions/disagreements, someone is doing it wrong. At a lecture communication should be about conclusions, possibly single critical details, but not the entire texture and flow of every detail.

If the material is so unfamiliar and surprising that you don't understand and can't ask relevant questions, I would say it's a failure of the speaker or yourself. Certainly, after a convincing talk, question, and answer, you should feel like you understand both the material and the motivation/goal better even without notes.
Thanks for this, I recently did the same and it's nice to have others work to compare to.
The gig economy is individuals leveraging their time and personal assets to make money. They aren’t employees, just like a musician playing a pub isn’t an employee. purpose of a company to provide a product or service on a scale larger than one person could provide. A company’s primary goal isn’t to police employees the same way Facebook isn’t responsible for the content I write on their website. They have some duty to clean up afterwords but they do very little in the way of supervision. If someone does an investigation and finds criminal behavior the company has a responsibility to report that behavior to authorities. A company wants to avoid damaging its reputation over something like a laundering scheme.

The Uber and Airbnb model is more like a credit card gateway for a specific industry and their ideal user is, ‘I’m an individual who does whatever I want with my time and property and I would like to make some money on the side’ that is not an employee’s mindset.

Its a little upsetting that there are people who are more invested in their Airbnb and Uber status therefore claim employee status. If my YouTube channel takes off and I make a bunch of money on views can I claim employee status at yt? Clearly the answer is no
Try to convince every website owner ever to accept the same payment methods.

Both Brave and Flattr are attempting the same, both have little to no success for that simple reason.
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why not just use parameter store? https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/systems-manager/parameter-store/. Plus: don't use credentials directly, use the assume role feature.
This is really cool! I haven't read through the real paper yet but it's very impressive that this method does not incur a significant performance cost. I had assumed that using a genetic-style algorithm would be costly since you would need to train a large number of networks individually, but treating all variations equally in terms of training time now seems naive. Distributing the training time using intelligent exploration and exploitation is an awesome idea to fix this.
When deciding whether or not you should go to college, always look at the big picture and weigh your options. The kind of work you do in your early twenties probably doesn't require a college education or a strong network of college educated peers, so initially it will seem like you are getting by just fine. But what about your 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond?

No one needs to go to college for coding because coding is a blue collar job these days. In fact, when I went to university they didn't teach much coding beyond a programming 101 class and you were simply expected to learn various languages on your own time.

That class also certainly didn't teach you about the latest frameworks or trends either, just straight C and Java, which in hindsight I think were smart choices but at the time I didn't understand why they didn't teach more practical stuff.
Money-Laudering is sometimes confused with different crimes because, in the modern world, it is often a necessary adjunct to financially motivated crimes.

Criminals often do business in cash and can't report it on their income taxes. Money laundering is getting this "dirty" cash safely into a bank account or legal investment without revealing the crimes that caused the accumulation of cash.

In the US, banks are required to "know" their customers. Moving between cash and bank accounts is only possible with an account at the bank and every cash transaction over 10K is reported to the government. Furthermore, traveling with more than 10K into or out of the country requires paperwork to be filed with the government. All of this makes it difficult to use the cash sourced from criminal activity.

AirBnB appears to be an easy way to launder a modest amount of money. Heidi Fleiss was the Hollywood Madam and would have had a "dirty" money problem, not a huge dirty money problem like drug cartels, but nevertheless, lots of cash and no way to explain it to the banks: one million dollars in her first four months[1].

It doesn't seem like AirBnB would be practical for such a large operation; however, think of one of her operatives, they might be able to hide a couple of thousand dollars a week of cash income by pretending to be renting out their place as an AirBnB. The challenge would be on the payment side to AirBnB, setting up enough cards under fake names, etc. because the government also tracks these and would detect any trivial cycles between a set of cards and or people.

The Netflix TV series Ozark, a Breaking Bad kind of show, but staring an accountant rather than a chemist, revolves around this problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Fleiss
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> it's basically about creating way more complex models than those used in previous research and feeding them lots of data

Those are instructions for over-fitting. Deep learning neural networks escape from this problem somehow, but it's not a given that other models would escape it too.
You can hack one together at https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/kindleberry-pi-the-second/
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It allows you to ssh into raspberry pi.
I'm not at all surprised that there are women who code and want to share that with others. I'm thrilled that there is more and more of this type of stuff on Instagram. This is how we reach audiences we normally wouldn't.
That might be true for the US, in the EU both Parmigiano Reggiano and Parmesan cheese are protected.
That sounds like an acquaintanceship, not a close friend.

All my close friends, I direct message them almost everyday.
I just typed it directly from my phone. That must have been updated.

Haven't read the article, because I've seen numerous others from the news source. The issue I have with an article with a title like this: Why is it a bad thing to support Milo? Why is it "men who need to be called to fight"? (I don't care about reasons why you don't like Milo. I'm suggesting they're a person with different opinions, respect that)

TL;DR: It's been getting obnoxious that platforms have been used to push political stances. (Such as this) I see this as supressing the opposition and has caused a massive swing in action. (i.e. Trump is "magically" elected despite "predictions" saying otherwise, Brexit happens despite the upper class talking down and ignoring the larger population)
Thank you for saying how it is.
Assuming that I'm speaking to someone of Western European descent, I see no reason to jettison the tradition that your ancestors (i.e. people with similar genetic, cultural, and temperamental factors) slowly developed over time in order to experiment with random things unless you are specifically anti-Christian. The truth is that spirituality can be quite dangerous if you do the wrong things, and if you're gonna start pulling things out of random traditions or the pharmacy with no cultural context for them, I think you're gonna be taking very unnecessary risks.

For whatever reason, foreign religious figures such as the Dalai Lama have more cachet than Christian figures in the minds of many modern people, and from what I understand he has stated the same thing:

"Whenever I give a large teaching, I always make clear that it is safer to follow your own traditions, rather than change to another tradition," he said. "There's less confusion. Here in the West, I do not think it advisable to follow Buddhism. Changing religions is not like changing professions. Excitement lessons over the years, and soon you are not excited, and then where are you? Homeless inside yourself."

Some folks get so tied up to their anti-Christian sentiment that they'll try to join foreign religions they have no understanding of instead of just reading what the doctors of the Church have to say about the interior life, and admitting that maybe they were a bit hasty in writing off such a complex and beautiful tradition.
This is not money laundering. This is a simple case of extracting money out of stolen goods. Since unauthorized transactions on CC would be reversed, it is at most inconvenient.
Recently, on national TV, the Director of Cyber Risk Services from Deloitte Netherlands told people that they shouldn't be using free virus scanners, but that they should invest in their security. I was flabbergasted, because this is a person that is being hired by the government to advice on cyber security matters and is often involved in public discussions.
Yes, exactly. I don't think a new grad should be taking their $10k savings and putting it into a vanguard. They're at a unique point in their lives where they can take a risk and start a company. It'll probably fail, but even if it does, there's lessons that usually come with that that's way more valuable than the $10k lost. Also, even if it's not a smash success, there's plenty of businesses you could start that might bring in a nice side income for many years while you go do other things such as get a real job. That's also much more valuable than 5% / year off of a vanguard.
If you have a safety net (wealthy parents, personal wealth, strong social welfare), it's not really a life-altering decision anywhere.
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Bought a DX for reading PDFs, I would have loved my DX too, but they hadn’t and said they likely wouldn’t update the software to support the kindle document cloud, so I had to manually email all my PDFs to it, or move them via USB.

Ended up returning it.
A typical B-format, medium sized paperback is 7.8 inches by 5.1. Hardbacks are often signicantly larger.

So I think to say that readers wouldn’t prefer larger screens to match typical paperback or hardback books is false, it is just expense that puts them off.
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Yes, both of those would work.

The "service with an API" approach dodges the GPL by keeping the client and server separated in separate processes or even separate servers, which is fine. (The AGPL was created as a stronger version of the GPL which prevents this dodge.)

The "proprietary plugins" approach dodges the GPL by having the end user be the one to combine the main GPL program with a proprietary plugin. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLAndPlugins

That FAQ has a lot more information which you may find useful.

The sibling comment does not know what they are talking about, like most people when it comes to the GPL.
I see EUR 629 at https://remarkable.com/store/reMarkable-and-marker

Not cheap, but for that niche it seems a good iteration on the Kindle DX. I don't know how much better/faster the screen is, but the weight reduction looks good ... (226 dpi, 350 grams vs. 150 dpi, 535 grams)
They are also run directly on github, but you can't edit them. Still useful if you just want to read, though.
The charges are for the AWS services that Strongbox uses to implement its functionality. That's $1 per KMS key, which can be used to manage multiple secrets, plus the cost of the storage backend. In the most common setup, DynamoDB tables are being used for this.
Third-party app? OpenVPN Connect is first-party, and I've been using it for years now with no trouble.
> Nobody actually uses bitcoin for payment

Is anyone else fatigued by repeating the same arguments over and over forever? If I just state them here once maybe we can talk about new ideas (pro or con, doesn't matter).

1) There are no "real" cryptocurrency transactions

2) It's all speculation

3) There's no intrinsic value

4) Tulips I say, TULIPS!

5) If you can't pay taxes with it, it's not "real money"

6) Governments will shut it down

7) Transactions aren't really private

8) Mining uses more energy than entire nations

9) Nobody will ever spend a deflationary currency

10) It's only useful for drugs, assassinations, gambling and ransoms

11) It doesn't scale, not enough transactions per second, blockchain will get too big

12) It's too volatile to be useful

13) Since the exchange rate keeps rising it's not useful for payments

14) Since I can't buy coffee with it it's not useful

15) Since fees are high it's not useful

16) It's a scam, Ponzi, pyramid

17) The "market cap" is (a) too small to be relevant, (b) evidence of a bubble

18) Will never completely replace gold / national currencies / corporations so there's no value

19) There are a lot of shady exchanges that (a) get hacked, (b) steal customer deposits, (c) are secretly insolvent

20) If the cryptography gets broken / bugs or exploits are discovered and the whole thing goes to zero

Maybe so many new people are just now getting involved that we keep rehashing a decade of stale thinking?

Let's talk about some new ideas!
I strongly agree.

A lot of the "teach skills early!" advocacy seems to come from people who have little contact with teaching or teachers. Teaching someone a skill they won't practice for 5+ years is a basically hopeless project; there's no incentive to learn it and little chance of retention if it is learned.

I remember learning to balance a checkbook in 7th grade. Why? What on earth did that teach me? Certainly not how to balance a checkbook as an adult; the seven year gap between learning and having a checkbook meant I learned it from scratch as an adult, and frankly it's not a hard skill to gain without formal training.

If we're going to push 'practical skills in the classroom', it ought to be done with an eye towards what's age-appropriate and likely to be retained. The same year I learned to balance a checkbook, I learned to use Microsoft Office competently, work a simplified email account, and handle basic cooking and laundry. All of those things got steady real-world practice and I retained them nicely. Instead of teaching tax returns and budgeting in middle school, I'd love to see high school students get trained in things like public speaking, studying skills, or critical reading of the news.
The big worry is that this doesn't work for local news at all. The nitty gritty details of governance happen at the local level - municipal and state/provincial legislatures. Journalism on that stuff doesn't scale.
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The price isn't really different: €629
If you're running multiple containers of images that are themselves derived from a same image, is it still a one-time cost? Is Docker smart enough to run "only one" instance of Ubuntu, for example?
Why clobber an allocated segment, is 10.0.0.0/8 not large enough for you? (e.g. never have I ever seen 10.11.0.0/16 in a network)
Computer science programs don't teach the latest frameworks and trends because they're teaching concepts and theory. The implementation is a side effect. That's why so many CS grads have never used git.

In addition, it seems pretty obvious that with 20+ years of industry experience, a reasonably competent 40 year old candidate would be as employable as one with a degree. Who cares about university degrees that far removed from obtaining one anyway?
You’re probably right, but are these insurmountable hurdles, or just problems that exist because no one has solved them yet? Someone has to start making them, and they need to improve over a couple of generations. At first, the software would need to navigate around any issues they can’t solve. Surely there’re alternatives to scrolling and mouse pointers, at least as primary UI elements. I mean, is a good email client or word processor really impossible in e-ink?
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It's #1.
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These are interesting links, but off topic because there's no machine learning involved.
Also, unlike ads, which make you chase page views at all costs, paid subscribers will incentivize you to keep writing quality content, otherwise they will quit. Even if they sign-up because of a few sensationalist articles, they will eventually get bored with them, when they'll realize that 9 times out of 10 the headlines are just clickbait.
I was a Speakeasy DSL customer in the late 90s. They were great, IIRC it was the line sharing deregulation was what did me in as a customer. They got priced out. We hosted our own Q3A server on that connection. So many happy memories.
See my problem here is not the analytical over-reach - it's an editorial that mentions Taylor Swift...
The parameter store was not available at the time Strongbox was designed and developed. The Strongbox project page has a nice matrix comparing how Strongbox stacks up against Parameter Store.

In terms of not using credentials directly, relying on AWS KMS for encryption keys, and the use of IAM policies to control access to secrets, Strongbox and AWS Parameter Store share a similar design.