skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a long enough timeline, and with enough at stake, everything is an exit scam.

The only way to fix it is to reduce the stake and timeline. You design ventures around limiting exposure to both and you won't end up getting burned by them when the balance tips, because the balance will never get to the point it could.

One of the hard lessons I've learnt from my many years in crypto.
So what does this mean for people who don't have a Facebook or any kind of social media presence? Do they get excluded as well?
Trying to connect using terminus[0](iOS ssh app) asking for user/password

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/termius/id549039908?l=en&mt=...
Deep Learning Achievements Over the Past Year
Your article is interesting. But I see a problem in your exposition, in MCMC we don't know the probabilities of individual events. For example let p_n proportional to 1/n^3. We know that 1/n^3 converges but we don't know the sum. The key factor here is that we can compute the transition probabilities without computing the sum of the series. In the continuous variable setting we can compute the transition probabilities without computing difficult integrals. I hope you can incorporate this key factor to improve the quality of your article.
Trumps’s presidential coin subs MAGA slogan for “one from many” phrase
Wait, what's the advantage of dual-writing? My understanding is that there's a lot of cases where BigQuery is significantly cheaper, but if you're paying for Redshift, there's really nothing Redshift can't do that BigQuery can.
i could be wrong but i owned a minilogue and don't think it supports microtuning. only some really fanxy synths do.
It sounds like his signup went as expected but he wasn't given a chance to move his number back to GV when he cancelled Fi. The warnings are clear about porting from GV, but I don't remember anything about what would happen at cancellation (e.g. being subject to GV number availability).
> obsolete language

Huh?
Google makes this very clear when you're signing up.
Or Kodi only
It is, but without reproducible builds one doesn't know for certain that the available source is the running source.

I trust the Guardian Project not to insert backdoors, though. And I'm sure that the binary will be disassembled by some dedicated folks, for just this reason. Trust, but verify.
I read a great book which covers the Spanish Flu called The Great Influenza (https://www.amazon.ca/Great-Influenza-Revised-John-Barry/dp/...) by John M. Barry.

The book does a great job of expressing the history of medicine leading up to the 1918 Spanish Flu.

But above all the book goes into detailed recollection on the arrogance of leadership in the face of this deadly disease. From politicians listing it as merely a regular flu, to military generals choosing not to quarantine troops... leading to massive casualties and the spread of the disease. All leading up to a realization of severity, when proper measures are taken.

I believe a newer print also has a note about Swine Flu, my copy is fairly old and does not include this.
If you rely on JDBC support, BQ has a JDBC driver but it's written by a third party
Why you can’t cash out pt 2: Bitcoin and KYC/AML
In a previous naive world intoxicated by dreams of global citizenry and humanism it would be easy to get sanctimonious and posture about evil.

But cultural divides are real and are not going away. And these kind of events and stories simply become opportunities to target other countries weaknesses, reassert a jingoistic sense of superiority and perpetuate existing comfort zones.

Or there would be protests daily in western capitals about the sheer unimaginable scale of destruction, devastation and millions of families destroyed and lives lost in the middle east starting from Iraq to Libya and now Syria done purely to further geo-political and financial interests.

But that is handwaved away as 'necessary' somehow. The fact is people don't even care about the poor and suffering in their own cities and countries, so how can they care about an unknown people in another part of the world? It's posturing, China's problems will be only be fixed by those chinese who truly care for their people and country.
I certainly feel that if I were not remote I would be in a better position by now. Being one of the few remotes of the company makes me feel like I'm missing out on some of the office dynamics that enable your career growth. Maybe in teams where there are more remote positions this is different, but that's how I feel.
You don't have a job unless you create one for yourself. You don't have a paying job, unless you successfully sell services to clients, invoice, and get paid. Because getting paid is contingent, future cash flows should be discounted.

Notice I didn't mention doing the work. It's not that some work doesn't need to be done, it's that doing work for clients is not directly related to getting paid. Partially that's because sometimes clients don't pay. Partially because sometimes contractors don't invoice. Partially because, it is easier to make non-paying work such as ordering office furniture than it is to make paying work by identifying prospects, qualifying leads, and closing sales.

Good luck.
I'm in the same situation right now. I didn't back up my Authy keys because when I switched phones, the balance on my Coinbase account was zero (still is), so it wasn't a high priority to me.

Now, I'm trying to get back into the account so I can add some BTC to sell it, and I'm getting nowhere with the customer support. For an account with a 0 balance. And I still have access to the correct email, phone number, etc.

At this point it'd just be easier for me to sign up for a new account I guess, but I don't want to have to use a throw-away email for that. You'd think there'd be some kind of easy path to regain control of an account with zero balance, as there's no risk of theft. Nuke all attached bank accounts and the like as a safety measure.
Yeah, those. Watch the video and tell me how bloodless it was. Or how it's not a massacre.

I'm not defending a thing about Tiananmen square, I'm just marvelling at the power of nationalism to excuse anything.

Bunch of snakes in suits with American flag pins declare a war for no reason, knowing that hundreds of thousands will die, but it's all Legitimate State Behavior. I'm sure it's a huge comfort to the orphans.
That’s often my approach to diving into performance problems too. When a client says “it starts to slow down a bit at 2 requests/sec”, my first thought it “what happens at 20req/sec?”

I call it “turn it up to 11 and see what breaks”
Bobbie the Wonder Dog
This is not exactly correct. HK has pretty solid rule of law and has a Basic Law that guarantees freedom of speech. Beijing cannot interfere directly and activists face completely different consequences after speaking out. That's why Beijing can only abduct a few booksellers from HK and had to deal with the messy fallout.
The crimes of one country don’t lessen the crimes of another. A government ordering the wholesale slaughter of its own citizens should be roundly condemned by all no matter what.
It amazes me that people still want to exclaim “Democracy!” in the same manner others (ab-)used “Communism!” when Agamben's very comprehensible works are easily available.
A sheep in wolves clothing
Might be interested for layman like me to take a look:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread976484/pg44

Electromagnetism, UFOs, and the Weaponization of Alien Technology(page 44)
For 2FA, when available, I choose a QR code + google authenticator, then screengrab the QR code and save it in a password vault.

This way I can always retrieve it regardless of losing a piece of hardware or a cloud service.
Really sucks. Sorry to hear this happened to the OP and he can't get into his accounts and bitcoin wallet. Google should step up and do something.
As long as you turn a PG table into a BQ dataset with enough partitions (BQ tables) such that queries do not touch a disproportionate amount of unnecessary data, you utilize date partitioning, and you can deal with a minimum 1.5 second query time the service is truly amazing. My only frustrations are that the majority of streaming service degradations are never noted on the Status dashboard and that you can get really odd error states like headers stating that you should be getting json while the body contains a html error message.
Ask HN: Homebrew equivalent for windows?
I would be using windows for development and am considering using scoop as against chocolatery , but which is better from your experience?
As someone who's part of the culture being attacked here, it's interesting to note the stylistic differences between this article from 1995 and more current smear pieces from the likes of the NYT.

This reads like a conspiracy theory pamphlet although it brings up most of the same points we see in more modern attacks. What changed in the last ~20 years where arguments like this have hit the mainstream?

Well for one, tech is even more powerful now and old media is on its deathbed. That leads to a certain amount of sour grapes and irrational defense of non-functional business models.

Secondly I think millennials had a large part in moving away from techno libertarian ideals. Philosophy-wise they're basically baby boomers 2.0. I don't think they had enough direct exposure to that culture to understand the failings, thus are doomed to repeat them. Obviously this isn't true for everyone in that generation, just a generalization.
They recently released the Monologue, which supports it.
That line is especially great in the context of the preceding paragraph:

> At the time I was lead architect for the product and felt super-strongly that we needed to address the table size limitation of 2GB before we shipped. I was making that argument vociferously but the excellent counter argument was we were simply out of time. Any reasonable redesign would have delayed us significantly from our committed product ship dates. Estimates ranged from 9 to 12 months and many felt bigger slips were likely if we made changes of this magnitude to the storage engine.

>I still couldn’t live with the prospect of shipping a UNIX database product with this scaling limitation so I ended up taking a long weekend and writing support for a primitive approach to supporting greater-than-2GB tables.

It's amazing how often one person with a solid grasp of a problem can run circles around teams that are shackled by process and cya and politics.
It doesn't break down everywhere. This is one of the reasons why BTC is leading the way even though there are a lot of other blockchains which are arguably "better". Being the first kid on the block has a lot of benefits since the mining power is sufficiently large and distributed that it's near impossible to have a 50% attack now, unless the miners stop mining or cooperate.

If you think about it, there are many improvements that could be made to basic networking protocols (TCP, IP, HTTP), but since the standards were set "in stone" so long ago, it is difficult to change now.
Perhaps! I can't stand rural areas for that reason, tbh, I need things to do and be part of.
Yeah, but there's an enormous difference between closed source and "the very first public beta doesn't have a reproducible build system". Intent matters, you know.
You never cancel a phone line with a number you wish to keep. When you port the number away, the losing carrier will cancel the line of service since the number is gone from their network. You can’t port a number after you’ve canceled the line of service.
Linked Trees in a functional language
I'm reading the first paragraph of https://johnazariah.github.io//blog/2017/12-23-fun-with-trees/index.html
But I believe that parent linked trees are really needed in real world e.g. to get the path of a node. I think this use case is missing. There must be a simple sort of link to the parent tags.
I'd suggest

type Tags<'a> = {
Tag : 'a
ParentTag : Tags<'a> option
}
type Tree<'a> = {
Tags : Tags<'a>
Children : Tree<'a> list
}

With the path helper

let rec getPath (node:Tags<'a>) : 'a list =
match node.ParentTag with
| None -> [node.Tag]
| Some parent ->
List.append (getPath parent) [node.Tag]

What's your opinion? Thanks
To claim that the Latvia and Estonia, two of the most open liberal democracies in the world, are in any way worse than the totalitarian dictatorship Belarus is totally ridiculous. You're either being disingenuous, or you've totally bought into Putin's propaganda.
Nonsense names are great, like "MySQL" or "Kubernetes". Names that the people you're trying to sell it to recognize from normal language like "jails", "cockroachdb", not so much. If you're in a startup and you need to sell it to your CTO: whatever. If you're in a 2k+ employee company and you need to sell it to general management: you are not going to be using jails, or cockroachdbs, or anything else that makes non-tech people raise their eyebrows in the bad way when they hear/read them.
I don't think whataboutism, or exhortations to appreciate the complexity of global politics carry more value than the basic, straightforward observation that what happened at Tiananmen was horrible and unforgiveable, and should forever be held against China.

People don't have the energy to protest everything, because we're poor, exhausted, distracted, and yes, often confused and hypocritical. It doesn't mean the observations we make about atrocities are insincere or untrue or that they are unworthy of attention. And independently of our sincerity or consistency, I think the observation is simply true on its merits anyway, and it's bewildering (to me at least) why anything other than that should matter.
I think one of the confusing things is ARM holdings doesn't sell physical chips. They sell a spec (verlog code I believe) that can be turned into a chip. Add some usb, memory, video card, maybe wireless and you get a system on a chip.
The issue is that, even under your ideal scenario, where the Mississippi flows into the Atchafalaya Basin...

we'd still be evacuating, we would just be evacuating that area instead. This is a problem for EVERY port, and coastal area, that we built below sea level. As the sea level rises, a new reality takes shape. There's nothing particularly novel about Louisiana in this regard. In fact, that's the entire reason we hope to use the Louisiana experience as a blueprint for our plan of action in other areas.
Redundancy across providers. BigQuery storage costs very little. It was implemented first and we introduced Redshift later to deal with data issues we didn't want to handle long-term in ETL. It didn't make sense to kill off the bigquery integration and I've decided for $20/mo or so that the backup storage on a separate provider is worth it.

Redshift and BigQuery are both solid services. And BigQuery has gotten better with time. But I still have some reservations with it as a pure Redshift replacement.
Ask HN: What is the one thing that keeps you up at night?
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For years there was feedback on the web version. There was also an option to "don't save this for speech training purposes". The interface is spartan now.
I recommend the example in the book Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, in this book to motivate MCMC : A politicean want to visit all of US states and each with frequency proportional to the total population of the state. He takes decisions to visit a new state comparing the population of the current and the proposed state, He don't know in advance the total population of every state, but applying MCMC he archieves his goal. Here you may think that computing the total population of the US is a simple detail, but in other problem the computation involves a very difficult multivariable integral with thousand of variables, that in practice is impossible to calculate.
"[T]he stuff I was making was really weird, because I didn't have real-world, existing examples to work from. I mean, they were around, but I guess I wasn't interested enough. It just seemed beyond what a kid could buy with his pocket money."

His good intuition and willingness to disregard tradition seem to be the key to his success. Studying examples of the "right" way to build something might be a useful learning exercise, but it can also be mentally constraining.
Yup, just wait until somebody implements a SSD multibox plugin for captchas...
It seem fairly unlikely that they'd try to come up with their own CPU architecture for this.
How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
The only way we ever got this kind of stuff to work, back in the late 80s, was connecting Atari STs with MIDI cables. But if you're not on a LAN, the lag will kill the UX - so, a great way to procrastinate in the office :-)
I think that (and I don't mean to argue that you think this these are OK) "a sizeable portion of Earth will be unfit for humans, and human population will have decreased a great deal" is a pretty terrible outcome. Those people will be starving to death, dying in migration related conflicts, or choking to death on wildfire smoke. Not pretty. You're right, it may not cause civilizational collapse, but I find those other outcomes totally unacceptable and we ought to be doing more about it right now.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
Wouldn't life be wonderful if this was true.
Yes I am one of those (saw one) ... JF, Montreal Canada, I am a Techie ( 50 years old) and my life is pretty good( 3 good kids, my own company, been in a couple for 28 years). So I am not seeking celebrity or attention from others neither money for my stories. As it is for me, UFO do exist.. I saw one once when I was young with my brother and the way that thing was moving above the fields ( 1 miles from us) was very impressive. ( happen around 35 years ago )
I think there are a few valid "coins" aka technologies coming out of this space, but of the 1500 crypto currencies out there maybe somewhere in the range of 50 are actually going to amount to anything long term.
> Americans have always had state planning, but they prefer to call it the defence budget

So true, sad and hilarious all at once.
I don't know how to estimate the length of time it takes to build a piece of software if I've never built something like it. I don't know where to learn this skill. I don't know how to go about researching where to learn this skill.
There's a very easy way anyone can start fighting against a brutal regime like this:

Stop buying stuff from China. Just stop. Support local made.
>ideal scenario

I'm not actually advocating one way or the other. Its understandable why the ACoE did what they did. I'm simply saying this is the result of that decision.
Running Bleeding-Edge Kubernetes on AWS with Kops
But they don’t all allow you to install apps that have not been approved by the vendor and comply with vendor policies, which is what is actually relevant
In terms of cost - I've always thought that one reason Oracle can charge the many millions of dollars per Server for a Database License is that, over the total cost of a project (with sometimes many hundreds of engineers), and the value of the project (Driving 100s of millions or more per year) - that the Database License cost would end up being round off error.

The corollary to this, of course, is that anybody who isn't involved in projects of that scale, is going to be far better served with Postgres/MySql.

It will be interesting to see what the uptake on products that try and fit in the middle - like Amazon Aurora - High scale and affordable.
Well, I'm happy with neither of the two because in their exremes they are both disastrous and disempower individuals. Who knows, if the monetary system had been out of central control from the beginning, there might had never been a financial crisis to begin with.

So I'd rather make both choices impossible for my government and be in control as an individual, for better or for worse. Socialism in Greece has failed. Either failed to exist, or failed to work, failed regardless.
i grew up in a ghetto and kids with no computers or limited screen time were more involved in the gangs.
Everyone did not think either of those things. In fact most people saw a lot of value in both companies and used/invested heavily in both.

I've followed bitcoin from the beginning and personally think the only problem it seems to solve is a way for techies to get rich quick.
And here I thought I was being facetious.
How Africa got left behind
Edward Snowden's app to protect your laptop
BuzzFeed UK: Layoffs Coming, Unions Busted, Christmas Canceled, but Free Caviar
You could always port your number to Twilio and use their simple Twilio bins to set up text and call forwarding - you’d likely end up paying that $20-30 per month that you’re expecting.

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223134287-Forwa...
> we also must recognise that the potentiality of hypermedia can never solely be realised through market forces

Indeed the web needs a lot of infrastructure like: identity, authentication, payment, search, etc.

I don't believe that private enterprise so solve these efficiently or fast without government intervention.

I don't pretend to have the answers... But I imagine that identity and payment could be more secure and cost efficient, if not in the hands of private enterprises.
The Hiring Post
Should you call yourself a freelancer or a consultant?
You think there are no states outside the US?

Spain. Greece. Northrhine-Westphalia.
China wouldn't become as what it is today if they didn't do it. There could not be economic growth during political instability. Life of a billion+ people is now better and in hindsight i guess it was worth it.
Freelancing vs. Full-Time – Which Is Better?
If I travel many accounts often ask for 2FA...
Ask HN: Is Reno the next Austin for tech workers?
I prefer scoop since it installs in a central folder, so you know where things are installed, and you can make your own "Bucket"(1) which is essentially a bunch of JSON manifest files in a git repo

also there is a comparison in the scoop wiki about the differences between it and chocolatey if you missed it (2)

1) https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Buckets

2) https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Compari...
> Now they randomly vary the products/prices slightly, as they should have done all along.

That's less than clear to me. It may be judged that the risk of this was low enough (it went on for decades without this happening!) that it was worth the risk to make the show more appealing to viewers (it seems to me like a shift, as they say, to products likely unfamiliar to the show's core audience might make the show less appealing).
Damn, not sure what to believe now...
Healthcare as a Tax Deduction
Analyzing Inter-Application Communication in Android (2011) [pdf]
That's just the way phone companies work. If I go to AT&T this morning and cancel my account, that number is gone. I get that Google owning two things that look like phone companies could confuse people, but under no circumstances would I ever cancel the service on a number I still needed. And like OP said, I know from my experience that Google almost crossed over into belligerence in trying to tell me the implications of porting my voice number. Even if I didn't understand the technical terms, the sheer urgency of the messaging should give you pause about taking any action lightly.
Bruce McCandless, who made first untethered space flight, dies at 80
Healthcare as a Deduction Part II
I’m one of those youngish programmers who has never really worked on anything but Linux, so the idea of these IBM operating systems is pretty foreign to me. The article describes System i as “very advanced” but I have never even really heard of anyone using it or referencing it.

How do you write and deploy software for these things? I am so used to just being able to, like, build a Go binary and run it on a Linux box. Are they better in some ways that I am missing out on? Just curious.