skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
perfect seed material for the list. Start from an empty Little Snitch config and whois everything that tries to connect.
(Not even specialists -- 2nd-3rd year undergraduates in engineering/math/physics!)

In that case the word 'trivial' means it doesn't require complex machinery to solve. A simple consequence of arithmetic manipulations, say, may be extremely difficult to think of yourself, but once you know it it's trivial to see the validity of. I believe that counts as 'trivial' in mathematical terminology.
> I would like to see internet access treated as an OS permission.

That would be nice, but it wouldn't fix the problem I've been talking about, because you would have to give your browser the internet access permission, and the OS has no way of knowing which of the connections your browser is making are legitimate and which are not. Only you know that, which means you would have to continually be interrupting your browsing to approve or disapprove connections.
I will fully agree with you that many interview practices are bad and "cargo cult". I'm just saying that I disagree on where the burden of proof is. The fact that large fractions of the industry do it and seem to believe that it has some value is , in my mind, what establishes this belief as the norm — in distinction to the belief that these practices have zero value, which is (again in my opinion) an extraordinary claim.

I'm saying "lots of people do it, I can give theoretical arguments for why it might be useful, and it seems common across industries, and this is the only industry I've seen that has a meme about it being totally useless ... so I'd like to see some evidence that it's useless". You're saying "prove that it's useful". We disagree on which direction bears the burden of proof.

Edit: to provide something a bit more explicit, the kind of thing that I would consider persuasive here (again just my opinion) would be several companies that have succeeded like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft but have employed hiring practices based just on FizzBuzz and communication skill evaluation.
> FB provides gossip and entertainment

other users, not FB
Ah yes. I thought through it picturing the diagram in my head rather than looking at it. In my mental picture the board was sitting on top of the edge of the top floor, rather than coming up to flush with it. Which obviously doesn't make sense in retrospect!

What's coming to mind next is a horizontal cut as first described (placing at the angle you want). Flip, then vertical cut, and finally trim the end with the horizontal cut by making a parallel cut offset by the amount the board extends above the upper floor. I'm sure there's a better way though. Non-trivial indeed. :)
Pentagon Plans Citywide Drone-Catching Dragnets
I've seen my grocery store sell corn from Argentina and other places. So maybe the original commenter is thinking of out of season stuff shipped from other countries?
Holy smokes. Can we get a BlockIFTTT? Block anything if something isn't done.
I want to drop that list into little snitch. In fact, when I install Little Snitch, I want it to ask me "would you like to subscribe to iamdave's list?"
Hands-free AI navigation is still worth it to not totally disable though. Now paying to not have all your personal driving data, preferences, and in-car conversations uploaded to the cloud is another story..
Ethereum Yellowpaper
Here's WizTree which is similar to WinDirStat but runs much faster: http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-f...
Heh, it is amusing that the quote ends with "far-off Palestine". In the mid-90s I returned from living in the middle east for 6 months as a student (Jordan, Israel and Egypt). I personally witnessed an event and upon returning I was reading about said event in a US newspaper and was shocked at how wrong it was. This was the first time I experienced this effect. However, instead of turning to other parts of the paper and trusting what they said, I lost all faith in newspapers on that day and have not read one since. If I know they lied or, more generously, misunderstood what happened about something I know personally about, how can I ever trust anything they write about things I don't know about personally? I can't, I won't, and I haven't.
I think performance is not the main reason for going stateless for most people. With stateless you can more easily achieve HA of your auth server. Since it is all stateless your auth servers dont need to know about each other. However with stateful you need somesort of special HA construct between instances of your auth servers otherwise they don't know which sessions exist.
"Keep in mind that the market clearly values Tether at around $1USD, almost always. That's a good sign that the market as a whole does not think Tether is going to suddenly collapse and take the entire ecosystem into it at any point in time."

This is not the industry to make some sort of "efficient markets" argument. Bitconnect was an obvious ponzi scheme and was valued highly up until it collapsed a few days ago. Same for any number of these coins. And for Internet stocks in 1999. And housing in 2007. People are FOMOing and flooding money into the sector, buying random Alts that a friend told them about, without any clue of what they are. It's not surprising that nobody is thinking critically about Tether.
This kind of system is notoriously difficult to switch to. In theory a centralized system with a good algorithm should easily do better than the local employee who only has local information, however before you switch the system on, you only have the data which has been collected before and this is probably incomplete and inaccurate data, so the algorithm will miss some peaks and suffer out of stock issues, which will generate more garbage data as you cannot measure demand of an out of stock item.
Is it that it would be impossible to write an SVD file for another architecture, or just that vendors don't do it?

If it's possible, and this tooling makes SVDs a really powerful tool for porting, then perhaps it would be easier for the community to write SVDs for non-ARM chips than code.
I first did a Myrinet driver for DEC OSF/1.

I then worked on the FreeBSD port to DEC alpha. I helped with initial bringup and all the various issues around that. Then did a lot of the platform support, and the alpha-specific part of the Linux ABI compat layer, as well as the DEC OSF/1 binary compat layer. I ran a box on my desktop running FreeBSD/alpha as my primary workstation for years (API UP1000).
The journalist have no leverage. The job market for journalist is horrendously awful. It won't be difficult to replace the them quickly and easily
> It is interesting that programmers (as a whole) seem resistant to it.

Mostly because our working conditions are not bad, we are more or less paid fairly, there are a lot of options to move around.

Also it'd be bad if we had other people negotiating on our behalf, for what we probably feel is less pay than we are worth, and the concept of seniority would ruffle and stop a lot of newer grads from getting higher paying jobs over people that have been working already for 25 years in the industry.
It absolutely is. I niether need nor want end to end encryption in slack. Yesterday I searched for a months old message which would not have been possible if everything we're encrypted all of the way through. We're not the CIA and slack is secure enough for us.
As a frequent customer at (New York area) Whole Foods I can echo the experiences shared in this article. Many items I have been buying regularly for years are now regularly out of stock. Not just produce - items of all types. Its gotten so bad and persisted for so long that I've shifted my shopping habits to other stores.
> I thoroughly enjoyed his old lectures, but I've avoided watching any of his newer stuff for fear of finding out if he's begun to pander to his (largely) awful followers.

I think he did pander a bit, but then realized how far to the right many of those followers were, so drew a clear line in the sand that pissed off and alienated all the fascists and racists (something about ethnic nationalism being an "idiotic ideology" or words to that effect). Peterson is no alt rightist.

However, if you look at places like /r/JordanPeterson, most of his followers were more alienated centrist and liberals than the alt rightists even before he made clear exactly how he felt about the far right/alt right.
Not at all. I'm using google products and I'm paying for Google products with real $$$, not fluffy feelings. I also use products of Microsoft, and I pay for products of Microsoft with real $$$, not fluffy feelings.

I am prefectly OK with Google and Microsoft's position being "Eff you, we only support our customers and those who are not our customers can become our customers so we can support them".

The general view on HN for some reason is that Google this benevolent do gooder. That's the view that needs to be dispatched. Google is a standard company. It happened to be quite big and have quite a big market. To defend its market it needs to be involved in security research. For lots of reasons, of which I would say PR is one of the most important, it also cannot afford to sit on the vulnerabilities that it discovers forever as someone else may discover them independently ( think Chinese competitors of Google ) and may use them against Google's interests in a way it cannot currently identify.

HN user base gets lots of Googler who are pretty fanatical about the company -- which I guess is understandable as without Google they may not be able to support their lifestyle.
Not to mention that winter often brings big weather events that can disrupt supply chains.
The unions aren't for the A-list, they're for the struggling actors who would get paid minimum wage otherwise (or worse, you'd see a lot of "unpaid internships").
They're replacing MIPS with ARM as fast as they can but I wonder which endian they're running. Certainly ARM servers will run LE but I wonder if they will bother to produce a BE SDK for networking to ease porting from MIPS BE.
Lack of availability is the real killer for me. Walk into a Best Buy, and you'll be able to take your pick of a zillion different car chargers, and they must have something like 200 square feet devoted to cell phone cases. But all of that is stuff I'm not going to bother hauling myself all the way to Best Buy for, because Walgreens is just around the corner and has that stuff, too. Things that you'd actually go out of your way to try and find, like, say, a decent-quality tablet stylus that isn't the Apple Pencil, just aren't to be found. Even the selection of things like keyboards and mice is weirdly spotty.
That assumes that Apple hasn't automated the process of hunting those particular targeted applications out, which is not a safe assumption anymore.

To be fair: I'm pretty certain Google also automates detection of this stuff. The problem with Android is sideloading. Apple was right about this.
Hrm. I think you've given me something fun to spend my weekend on
That won't help you, Amazon comingles their "sold by amazon" stock with "fulfilled by amazon" stock.
I wonder if it bothers someone like Terry Tao that a question of this requires so much machinery to solve. I'd like to believe him that, say, the work to renormalize the Hamiltonian there is totally correct and rigorous -- he's the best person to believe that it is, anyway. But why is it... necessary?

It seems so completely unlikely that the universe would require going so far afield from the original question in order to prove something that's relatively simple to state about it!

Of course, it's probably because there's some big piece missing -- if you knew how to prove the RH, this would probably be a comparatively trivial corollary. But it still feels kinda weird that all those conclusions couldn't be 'reduced' to something simpler.
Only if you accept the dishonest sleight of hand, in that the Human Rights Tribunals are not courts of law. They are "kangaroo courts" by my estimation.
Probably, what did you have in mind?
-> is already in for lambdas.
> I'm a programmer who's currently in a union position - I want out.

Why not quit and find a non-union job?
We had this same thread 997 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451284

If big endian was effectively dead back then, I guess it's really dead now.
Why is quicksort better than other sorting algorithms in practice?
Well, there's no way I can see that you can say anything and prevent people from reading into it what they want it to say. (This is especially true if they're doing it deliberately - trying to use your stuff as a smokescreen to give support for their pre-chosen position.)

You can make it harder for them. But you can't stop them.
My apologies on the commute, can't be pleasant to go through all that traffic. I don't think the the GWB tolls are congestion-based though, they're more for maintenance of the infrastructure that hundreds of thousands of people drive over daily. From my understanding of business in NJ, there are relatively few people doing your sort of commute, so perhaps with congestion prices in Manhattan, the amount of wear on the GWB and related infrastructure (along with maintenance costs) might decrease, which could result in reduced GWB tolls.
For the sake of argument, you could ask for protected work hours, overtime, etc. I don't think we need it for this industry, mind you, but more so because there's no monopsony on the labor market from a select few large employers, not because of the supply and demand.
I don't think it's trying to be a definitive reference. It seems more like those posters you put around the office to remind you of things you value or you think are important.

Everyone is taking this fairly seriously. I doubt HN is the target demographic for this sort of thing though.
I’d do a one time fee of $10 or something. But a fee forever is not appealing.

I would rather commit to running a certain number of compute jobs a month to trade cpu or storage or whatever. And do that forever.

I barter my unused cpu for your whitelist service that aggregates community activity.
It doesn't matter what they use it for. They can use it all they want as long as they pay me for it.
In a negative connotation: because insurance companies and hospital owners are taking you for a ride and politicians sit back, sipping their whiskeys and enjoy their lobbying. And if anyone DARES to make such comparisons to Sweden or Finland, some republican will start yelling "down with socialism!!!". One day USA's citizens will "have enough of this" and perhaps do something about this, but this day is anything but close.
I'm sure there's an argument lying around somewhere that would tell that the best time to start a union is in a seller's market.
What I wrote with many many words, you wrote with 1 :)
> Also, can't the LA Times easily just buy up more freelance material from non-employees (not only journalism, graphics, web work, etc)?

Not if the union's any good.
> we know that if Google was not in fact "doing things for the community" here by finding and disclosing them, they'd still be unknown to us, and there would be no mitigations at all.

Not only is that a hypothetical what-if scenario that you've invented whole-cloth to support your argument, it's provably false since there was parallel discovery from three other teams at approximately the same time.

https://www.wired.com/story/meltdown-spectre-bug-collision-i...
It's a pro and a con. You have less european competition, because it's a hassle
I am not sure how this comment applies? The choice for oauth2_proxy in my case was, because it is a solution that already existed. You certainly could put a stateful session service as the auth-request backend, my Lua script is agnostic to that. As an example: For one project I put a service that validated IP addresses against Tor's RBL behind nginx' auth_request module.
> the concept of seniority would ruffle and stop a lot of newer grads from getting higher paying jobs over people that have been working already for 25 years in the industry.

That's not a required part of a union. I think one of the misconceptions people have is that if you have a union it looks and operates exactly like one on a Ford factory floor. If you formed a union it could do exactly what you want it to do, and not do the things you don't want it to do. If you wanted a union to do nothing other than negotiate payment for overtime and a new Macbook every year you could just do that.
My view is that this shows again that worse is better. The old form is better because it is awkward and it can only be improved by turning it into a function.

Within a function, each switch branch can be a return. Then you get the benefits:

* Make the original function shorter.

* Give a descriptive name to what you're computing.

* Make the computation reusable.

It's what I find lacking with lambdas: it makes it too easy to forego good refactoring because it makes too easy to write one-off code that in reality will be rewritten many times in different places.
This isn't capitalism. If it was capitalism, somebody would come along and offer to let you give birth in their buildings for less than $32k.

I'm not sure what is going on here, but it isn't capitalism.
AWS Auto Scaling
I am too ignorant of musical history to evaluate the analogy, but taking the myth-story as given in popular understanding (presumably based on "Amadeus") I think the content of the argument is clear, even if he picked terrible examples to highlight his case.

Having said that, I appreciate you pointing out these facts about Salieri and Mozart. Thank you for educating me a bit today!
I get that. Maybe this was before "Ships from and sold by". So it just showed "Sold by". This was several years ago.
They don't need to 'focus' on that, since there are various strategies to achieve it without redesigning the blockchain as a whole. For example, there are light clients [1] you can run which only download part of the blockchain and still provide some guarantees.

[1]: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Light-client-protocol
Sure. But a lot of the A-list started as struggling actors. It helps everyone in the industry over the long run.
Bartering cpu on a laptop sounds like a good way to have a hot lap and a short battery life.
Also don't forget it would make it much easier for individual engineers to argue back at Management about employing dark patterns, or directives to make apps/websites addictive and generally harmful.

For as much as people like to gripe about LinkedIn and their variously deceptive practices, marketing heads and executives don't write code. There are engineers in there making that stuff happen.
It’s the charge for upgrades that I don’t like. I bought it once, upgrades should be free. Or so significant that I want to pay.
Where I live, broadcast TV has just become a waste of time. If you don't have a car, there's no time/need to listen to a radio.

As for billboards and other "in your face" advertising, i'd love to see it disappear, but there is one important factor that differentiates it from explicit tv, youtube, and radio ads: there isn't an explicit opportunity cost between their presence and the activity you're usually partaking in. So if you have you're attention elsewhere, they won't capture it and stop you partaking in the activity you're actually doing.

Indeed, my mind has gotten so good at unconsciously filtering out those ads, I can't honestly say I see them. But then, I'm the kind of guy who will walk past a new store I'm not interested in for 6 months before someone else has to inform me it exists.

Now, i'm not naive, I know that there's bloggers and newspaper articles and product placement (and all the more reason to stop reading the ones that deliberately do it), but its like junk food.

Ok, maybe you can't get it down to zero. But you sure as hell can try to cut it back to a minimum, and its good to do so...
I think it's not just Sweden or Finland, most of Europe has socialized healthcare and birth is one of the things that come free.

AFAIU in general you pay for stuff like private rooms or such.
With regulatory capture and corruption of the government, isn't our problem a textbook definition of facism (in the academic sense of the word, not in the nazi sense of the word)?

Personally I think the word is overused and too heavily charged, and a more appropriate and descriptive term is corporatism.

I also agree with Chris Hedges and Sheldon Wolin that inverted totalitarianism is an apt definition.

According to the Princeton study of congress, we are also an oligarchy due to the public having almost no influence on legislation, meaning we are not being represented by our elected officials.

I would also argue with the increasing disparity of power and resources between the uber-rich and the rest of, and as the middle class is attacked from all sides and shrinks, that our system also matches the definition of neo-feudalism.

So, to put it all together, America has allowed itself to become a neo-feudal oligarchical corporate inverted totaltarian surveillance state.
Right, but there are no struggling software engineers. Even college kids won't touch an internship for less than $20/hour, much less be forced to take a gig for "exposure".
It's Capitalism applied to something that doesn't have a market, shouldn't have a market, and who's participants are unable to properly participate in it in any way that resembles a market.
In this case, 0 is contained in R which is a Borel set and is part of the sigma algebra on which the measure is defined.
When my son was born, I paid $5K to a birthing center in Boise, a couple of blocks from the hospital.

We visited frequently over the 9 months, and each time stayed for about 4-5 days in a birthing room with a hot tub. Also true after my son was born. And then for a few return visits for checkups. And then for a return visit just to visit Boise and hang-out and chill with other parents, expecting parents, etc.

$5K, all inclusive. Just like Club Med (been to the one in Cancun... lovely vacation spot).

I had insurance... if anything would've happened, an ambulance would've picked us up and taken us to the hospital and then insurance coverage would've kicked in.
So a hospital can theoretically have everything out of network and the patient will risk financial ruin just by using hospitals in America.
OP, I don't think it's necessary to submit the same story three times like that. Once will suffice.
End to end encryption isn't incompatible with full text search.

More to the point, end to end encryption is necessary (but far from sufficient!) to keep communication secure. If you don't need your communication to be secure, that's fine.

The thing about the modern, networked world, is that you don't have to be the CIA to face a sophisticated, global threat model.
Yeah, but this is not a function.
You mean it isn't capitalism as it's supposed to work in theory.

But it is capitalism like it turns out in practice when the population fears "socialism" and caps on corporate greed.
I dislike the forum posting approval policy for Whole Foods executives (in the code of conduct). It was not a good solution to the problem.
I just think it’s especially ironic that the Mozart piece everyone knows and loves is in fact the one that’s a bit crowd-sourced!
I was thinking that the article didn't come close to describing the Whole Foods store where I am which is as well stocked as ever.
We've had this problem at the Whole Foods near me in Raleigh. It's likely we'll switch grocery stores soon if they don't fix it. For the past 3-4 months, most of the time we do our weekly shopping trip, the shelves are basically bare in the produce section and often there are other popular ingredients we no longer can rely on finding there. It's pretty annoying and has been a frequent topic of conversation between my wife and me.
That was my thinking.

BI has a lot of fluff content, but they do some good work.