skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which would you prefer in general: Being forbidden from doing something at all, or allowed to do it at high cost?

There are plenty of government policies or state run services that prevent or completely avoid this dynamic in the name of pseudo 'fairness'. When usually it more often restricts options for more people rather than makes it more fair.

It's easy to see why from a populist perspective, look at the outrage on Twitter:

>> I don't have to use it, but it's effing outrageous. Armed robbery.
$34.50 for 10 miles? New tolls on I-66 kick off with some high rates. https://twitter.com/andreas_adriano/status/93772317073970790...

... he admits he never even uses it but he still finds it unfair 'highway robbery' regardless.

And it's not just a policy helping the wealthy as it would be using the service to maximal efficacy rather than below capacity. It's a net gain for average users. As there will never be a high number of people willing to pay that fee, not slowing down existing traffic. Plus the additional revenue gained could otherwise be used to improve the operation, go back into the economy via employee income or spending, etc. It's a net gain.
It's you who should take the "No true Scotsman" card back.
PM if you are in Austin, TX. (my current HN username @gmail.com)

I've been in similar situations. Having people to talk to matters.
Dollars are created and exchanged for TBills (and since 2007 a lot of real estate) on the free market by the Fed.

So TBills are in fact a kind of 'faith in the governments ability to pay' - but that is a measurable, tangible, verifiable thing.

Euros are generally backed by real estate and other 'high quality' assets.

Most good national currencies are managed that way.

So - the central banks basically control how 'one asset (i.e. real estate) is turned int currency' back and forth, keeping enough currency going so as to allow for economic expansion, and to keep inflation at about 2% and unemployment in check.

At least in theory.
why is it a problem?
> In a letter to the judge before the sentencing, Mr. Schmidt said his loyalty to Volkswagen had led him to be “misused by my own company.” He cited a meeting in 2015 with a senior official at the California Air Resources Board at which he concealed the existence of software that allowed Volkswagen to cheat on emission tests.

> “A script, or talking points, I was directed to follow for that meeting was approved by management level supervisors at VW, including a high-ranking in-house lawyer, ” he said in the letter. “Regrettably, I agreed to follow it.”

None of that implies he was ordered to lie to regulators. It says he concealed software and followed a script, not that the people who wrote or approved the script knew he would be lying to regulators by following that script, or that he was concealing software.
Awesome! True the returns wont be in money, but they'll be in GAINS.
Yeah, that part seems fragile. Which is why I'm against magic do-what-I-mean logic unless there's only one reasonable way to make semantic sense of it. And preferably only one way to do so, reasonable or unreasonable.
I was lucky enough to have gotten a good chair from my wife as a present already, so that didn't really apply to me, plus my list of stuff was already getting close to $1000!
Diet too. Dropped lattes in favor of Americano's. Stopped eating office snacks and eating really clean. Did the Whole 30 for a month.
It didn't freeze though, it fought against 3-4 crocodiles in deep water, shaking them off for long enough to walk on land while guts were spilling out. If you mean adrenaline numbing pain, sure, and both fight and flight were present, true. But what point are you making in the context of my point? Is there one?

And do you include humans in "nature"? Because the suicidal behaviour a parasite can force on an ant do also serves a purpose "in nature", but mostly for the parasite. For a biologist, it might be all fine, for the ant, it's not.
Curious, how do you monetize?
Thanks for link... sorry to learn that TST won't have the auto-hide + transparent overlay feature!

Didn't find a donate button, but this is one of his side projects and looks great: http://system-admin-girl.com/
I would avoid Authy's desktop app. It's a 144MB app (due to Electron) to show OTP keys. Kind of ridiculous...

For standard OTP, I use 1Password. It integrates well, syncs with my devices, and is still locked behind a secured central password (or fingerprint, in the case of my mobile device). It's secure enough for my needs while still being performant and encouraging of good habits, such as randomized, unique passwords.
$17M
Can you handle missing data with Python? I don't think so.

https://www.statmethods.net/input/missingdata.html

https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/r/faq/how-does-r-handle-missing-...

https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Analysis-Missing-Roderick...
I am not tracking closely to be honest since I have not being working with Illumos based distros for 5 years +/-
when we were using omniOS I do not remember things being too bad. Not sure what % of vuln. are Oracle Solaris specific given that majority of orig. SUN eng. left long time ago Illumos might be in much better shape vs Solaris.
The biggest problem I see with microservices is the pendulum now swings way to far the other way.

Now you end up in microservice soup, too much overhead, no standards used in between them with differing levels and quality of execution.

I’m not sure what the long term answer is but remember that every decision to put code into production is a decision that not only affects you but the team and company as a whole.
I don't agree with that. The US market remains Google's primary moneymaker, and of course, their headquarters. And beyond every other continent except Europe, they're investing heavily in taking over India right now.

I mean, sure, their stock price would probably crater if they got kicked out of the EU, but they've got half a trillion dollars lying around, it's not like they're actually in need of money.

But such a outright hostile act as you suggest would lose them every partner and resource they have on a global scale.
How do you figure? Everybody needs to be evacuated, not just the wealthy.
New Firefox Preference Center, Feels as Fast as It Runs
It Is No Longer Worth It to Build an Ethereum Mining Rig – Motherboard
TIME’s Machine of the Year, 30 Years Later
I only realized quite recently that you cannot trust many of the highly ranked sites on Google. I got into contact with highly ranked sites that feature content in area of business I am involved with including having features on some competitors. I get in contact to ask them to consider looking at what we offer and see if it's something their audience would be interested in. I'm asked for a bribe immediately, sorry, an upfront fee, there's no hiding it or anything, it's brought up in the first email. Google says they don't rank paid links highly but despite what they say I know they do. It's all a load of nonsense. I didn't realize quite how bad the situation was until recently though and only because I have a business myself.
I think this question is only answerable with specific numbers. If UBI = $1 / person, then the difference in pressure is small. Also, you presume that people only work for money. I think with UBI, you'd see a revitalization of community oriented, but low profit pursuits.
My 1 year Krav Maga membership, a self defence system. Went from heavy smoker, no-cardio-at-all-person to feeling confident because I know how to defend myself, picked up running, swimming and regular body weight exercise on the side. Looking and feeling pretty good nowadays. More energy, brain activity, focus. Defo most bang for the buck.
UBI encourages marriage whereas traditional social programs discourage it. What's the problem?
I have to say it’s a completely inappropriate comparison to make since Stockfish was forbidden from using its opening book. I would like to see the results when both are at their best.
The thing it does require is specialized hardware (TPU) to run at a reasonable speed.
They didn't seem to do any novel work. Just cite the work of others without even doing a meta analysis of statistical significance.
Step 1: millions (?) of dollars of hardware.
As a particular hilarity, Google Fiber has repeatedly dodged being classified as a telecom so that it isn't subject to the regulations Comcast and Verizon are.
Skyrocket to 7, 8 figures? Bitcoin is the anti-economy.
An engagement ring is not an investment and, furthermore, its not even a requirement marriage - you can get married without one (I did).

The subtext is more unpleasant...
Under 1000$ I did a life design workshop in Montreal for 40$. In just 3 hours I figured out what I really wanted in my life. Thanks to the workshop I now make 300$ more a month on a side project, moved to a house with a jacuzzi where I can rent the basement out (about 400$ a month and communal life which I love), and negotiated a 5 hours a week reduction in work.

The reduction of hours might cost more than 1000$ though... but it is well worth it!
"If any pentester would download more data than necessary to prove a bug exists, they would be fired."

I disagree, sticking to that would even be foolish in a full scope pentest. It depends what the data is. I would, and have, download any data of operational value using a bug that was found. If I can dump the entire company's employee password hashes, I'm going to. And after the engagement, a company-wide email is going out to roll those credentials, which, whether I personally viewed them or not, are now considered compromised. There are some exceptions if there is reason to have high confidence that no one else ever exploited the bug, but that's taking a big chance.

Data of no operational value would be difficult to explain, and customer data or credentials would be off limits beyond proving the bug. Even though it's likely legally fine in most cases (note: a work-for-hire contract or an internal pen test team have very different rules of engagement than bug bounty spec work), it would be highly unprofessional. You're going to be putting the customer in a very awkward position at best. But if you're hired to perform services on behalf of the company, breach disclosure laws don't apply any more than if you are hired as a contractor to migrate their database from one system to another.
Ask HN: Recommandation for a self hosted chat system
Hello HN,

We currently have an (very) old version of Openfire running on a Windows server.

Before updating it, I would like to know if there is a better (and non JVM dependent) alternative.
I found plenty alternative but I would like qualified opinions on them.

We have no budget for this. We don't need fancy features, just something that I can setup and forget (auto update would be a must).

We're currently using Pidgin clients but it's not a problem to use something else. We have a dozen users.

I would rather let it on this Windows server, but I can find a Linux host if it's necessary.

Thank you.
If you look at the C language then there are two compilers: gcc and clang.
Clang uses LLVM as its back end, and is basically an Apple project. It is heavily optimized for arm64 (guess what: Apple uses arm64). LLVM is also the back end for Rust, Julia and many other languages. LuaJIT for example is pretty good on arm64 too.
I saw a zebra get caught by two lions. It ran like crazy until they caught it up, one of them standing on its hind legs leaning on the zebra. It then stood completely still for a few seconds before the lions pushed it over and finished it off. I hadn’t considered shock as a possible reason but it certainly seemed to have given up.
If a people and their state have decided that a million cars are beneficial enough to cost 100 statistical deaths through pollution, it isn’t up to executives at the manufacturer to decide that they really meant 200 deaths.

It’s the same with other faulty products on an individual scale. People make daily decisions based on vague ideas about the risks involved, not with the idea that they avoid all risk. For example you aren’t allowed to pack a parachute incorrectly on the basis that skydiving is dangerous anyway.
This extension makes me sad. Not that this extension isn't done well, but I think the existence of it, and that it's on top of HN reflects a sad state of UI in our browsers.

Let talk about tabs. The reason that tabs exists is because we don't want to switching between windows when we have multiple tabs open. But think about it, why are tabs any better? When I have about a dozen tabs opened on Chrome, all I can see is a tiny favicon. Any more than that I only see an (x). Firefox and Safari are a little better in that their tab bar scrolls, but still only slightly.

The reasons we open multiple tabs is primarily for cross-referencing, and secondarily "preview", i.e. the intermediary state of article quality evaluation, the state between I-dont-want-to-open-this and I-want-to-save-this-for-reading-later, and/or I-like-it-so-much-I-want-to-bookmark-this-for-eternity.

How are tabs, tab ordering, top sites, tab preview thumbnails, tree tabs and any of these incremental "improvements" on tabs going to help us do xref and eval articles?

For cross referencing, I typically open one "root" page, and then drill down to the rest. For this use case, a hierarchical arrangement of pages is probably a good idea. An MRU and/or stack on top of that is even better because maintaining a tree traversal ordering in the head all the time is hard. Too bad FF took this one feature that doesn't scramble my thinking process away years ago. I know there's control tab, but that's not good enough because that's a "cross hierarchy" mechanism. As soon as I click on a tab that belongs to different "group", MRU is messed up. I really want MRU by groups.

To address this, I need to address why I'd click on a different tab in the middle of xrefing a group of tabs. This is usually because I'm taking a break, so I press Cmd-T and introduce a new group. The problem with how tab orderings are typically done now is, what the break is over, I still have a bunch of "pages" opened waiting to be evaled, but I do want to get back to the previous grouping. How do I do that now? My tab bar is full of tabs in various different states now. To solve this problem, I can open a new window and put a new group there, but the problem is, the screen is not that large a laptop, and I frequently maximize my browser. So any extra windows are just going to be hidden in the back and I'll forget about them until a month later.

I don't really need an actual side bar that takes up screen space all the time to show me the hierarchical relationships of tabs. I mean, it's only useful if MRU doesn't do what I want.

I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like the 40 year-old GUI pattern just doesn't work for browsers anymore.
UPDATE: My "pending" transaction was marked as "complete" and the coins appeared in my coinbase wallet this morning (almost 11 days after I initially moved the coins). I'm not necessarily chalking it up to this comment, but I suppose it's possible.

Fortune favored me this time around, but I don't know if I can trust coinbase again. If the price had dipped, I'd be out a bunch of money. (Just to be clear: they received the coins days ago, just didn't credit them to my wallet.) I wish there was an option to sell BTC directly from your local wallet, which would set a strike price and ensure that users don't get screwed if/when this sort of thing happens. (Note: This option may exist and I'm just not aware of it. I tried to log into coinbase just now to verify that ... but the site is down again.)
Mozilla, Yahoo Sue Each Other Over Firefox's Default Search
An async code runner in SpaceVim
> Ecommerce providers often follow a process of cycling an immaterial test product through a real credit card for pennies, with a petty cash credit card, to exercise the purchase/refund cycle, end-to-end, depending on the activities of the project.

That sounds familiar. I'm sure that was being done at the last place I worked, an e-commerce 'agency'.
Interesting. I started taking it since I've started working inside for my day job. Apparently I should be upping my dosage. I take a multi and one or two D tablets and probably get a max of ~5600 from that outside of any absorbed from foods.

I also eat a lot of eggs. My girlfriend will be pleased to know that I'll be upping our egg intake!
But now please Houdini and the rest. Stockfish doesn't play interesting, and has less ELO than Houdini.
Though that new search will beat Houdini also I guess.
Because many (most?) markets are buyer's markets.

You try to increase prices, you are out of business which is eaten by competitors.
Blast from past! Too much time spent on that 11/70's front panel switches.

One thing I believe Bell missed in "what we learned." Of course, maybe it's hindsight. The regular instruction set in the '11 and the VAX was fertile ground for all sorts of innovation in compilers and optimization technology. Without those innovations it would have been harder for the gnarly-instruction processors (386 line, I'm looking at you) to gain users.
No, it would be "would you expect the camera settings"
Shameless plug: try https://cretz.github.io/doogie/ which is my Chromium-based browser with trees. It is not the most mature thing out there, but I use it for most things. But geez, that process-per-tab of Chromium approach can really blow up your memory.
one week on a dating site cost $1000?
Ok! I put the clip out to my many professional musician friends, and we discussed it. Everyone agrees that it's probably a clip from a Dvorak imitating composer or a wedding gig book. None of us has played it. Everyone was stumped. We all thought it sounded like a cross between the Glazunov you mentioned and Dvorak. Since your cellist plays a ton of weddings and parties (from his website) I'm going to guess it is from a gig book. If it were an actual Dvorak or Glazunov, he'd remember it, or at least one of my string playing friend would recognize it. Shoot- I really thought we were going to solve this for you. Oh well- I guess you should dig into some Dvorak. I can recommend Goldmark- he wrote some beautiful quartets and work in film scoring in Hollywood for a long time. I think you'd love his string pieces. Cheerio!
>Implementing socialist ideas like providing health care and education to all,

Sir, you are a noble soul! Where can I send a cheque to you, so that you can implement healthcare and education for all?
Winter tires + wheels. Driving in the winter used to freak me out and it was so worrisome to feel as though I was at the mercy of all sorts of yahoos. Now, I feel in control and I don't have to pay more for an AWD/4WD vehicle.
> There are specific sets of problems that they're good at, but we don't run the OS on them.

Kind of.

Xeon Phi's predecessor, the Larrabee, was designed as a GPU. Intel now has a Phi that can be the only CPU in your computer.

It all depends on the code that the GPU cores run.

Some time ago, while musing about what a modern-day Amiga would be, I'd imagined it'd have a GPU and run all (or, at least most of) its software on it.
Couple questions:

1. How does this compare to other distributed streaming systems in terms of latency, throughput, fault tolerance, and message processing guarantees?

2. Why Pony? I’m not super familiar with the language, does it give you any major gains?

3. How does this handle shared aggregations - i.e. I have one stream updating a table constantly and another that reads from the table. This is useful as it decouples the two event streams, meaning my reading job can have better latency guarantees with the tradeoff of possible having stale data. I didn’t see how I can link together two independently deployed streaming states, unless the idea is any stream using some state will be declared in one place.

4. Does this support transactional event processing, wherein my originals HTTP call is returned with a success or failure, or does it just ack the event was received, even if the event fails downstream of the source?

5. Are there any major, novel differences in this stream processing system versus the next that I’m not aware of? I didn’t see anything too unique in this post.
>Only institutions where profit motive is not helpful, like prisons, should be run by government. I am against private prisons, but for private almost everything else.

In telecom we've got companies screwing over their customers in a myriad of ways, in gaming we've got companies turning their games in slot machines for kids, in medicine we've got $1000 pills that cost $2 in India, in tech we've got the indiscriminate gathering of every piece of consumer information we can gather (and subsequent lack of security placed on it), agriculture's struggling with dicamba drift and so on. It doesn't seem clear to me that you can draw a strict line between the profit-seeking behavior of those private enterprises and that of a private enterprise like prisons.
How wedded are you to central Kansas? I see from your other posts you want to stay in the area, but how about Kansas City (either side of the border)?

It's a large enough metro area to have quite a few jobs, and I know several people (non-degreed) working in software development and sysadmin work there. I'm not connected enough to offer any greater insight than that, unfortunately (I live very far from the area) but you'd probably have better luck there than your current area.

But I'll also reiterate jklein11's and others' point: If you impressed these guys they can help you out. If you're getting rejected immediately by systems due to lack of a degree, you need a network to help you. Even if they don't hire you, they can vouch for you to other employers for at least an entry level or internship/apprenticeship position.
While I somewhat sympathize with Nakamura in that in case of AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol, Lee certainly had an "opening book", I disagree with your characterization that opening book is "usual". TCEC is widely recognized competition for chess engines and TCEC rule specifies no opening book. For engine-to-engine evaluation, no opening book is the usual method of evaluation.

One problem is that in a sense AlphaZero has an "opening book" encoded in its neural network weights. But just like it is unclear how to construct "Lee Sedol without an opening book" at all, it is unclear how to construct "AlphaZero without an opening book in such sense". So indeed, while unusual for engine evaluation, it probably is best to play against Stockfish with an opening book.
I thought it was burning that was associated with an increased cancer risk, not just tanning in general?
Now that is patently false. Maybe you should start with your disclosure of working for a competitor before spreading such misinformation. Hourly checkpointing is a thing and built into frameworks such as Tensorflow. Making it very easy to save your work just before interruption, that is IF you are interrupted given your spot price is too low, and then resuming whenever you'd like, i.e. when prices fall back down below your max threshold. I've compared cost with Paperspace and it's not even close. The cost saving on AWS are huge, especially on the most expensive gpu instances which is what we machine learners use.

Look, as a consumer of gpu compute, I want there to be as much competition in this space as possible, so I root for you guys, but as it stands you're nowhere even close.
Yes, they do. My father, a life long outsdoorsman and forest ranger for many years regularly had/has skin cancers removed once he got into his 70's. The cancer causing sun damage from your youth/working years doesn't tend to catch up with you until you're older I believe.