skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that was not to rip off their technology. Not similar to what China is doing at all.

I’m not making a moral judgment about which is worse, just pointing out that they are very different activities and outcomes.
Even $5k for three months is comparable to the low end of the range for PhD stipends, and $12k is well above the high end.
That will be most of ad tech and 100% of arbitrage publishers in the least.
Interesting about the scapegoating of automation.. arguing against it makes you sound like a Luddite, so not a bad approach. But yea an interesting thing I’ve noticed in China is that more and more factories are automating plastic molding — except in super cheap cheap factories that don’t want to spend money for automation. I think the party won’t totally be able to stop it, just slow it down. But lots of new govt funded factories are being built to employ quite a small number of people — like high tech stuff like making special parts for electronics especially.
Couldn't that cronjob simply be: 0 0 8-14 * 0? (I think 0 is Sunday)
God Mode: Modal Interface for Emacs Users
Everytime you see news of a company" not being able to operate due to" or "shutting down because of" GDPR, the only actual reason is "our business model is unsolicited unrestricted access to, processing of, and selling of personal data."

So sad to see these businesses go (not)
I find it interesting how you make a jump from 'religion' to 'religious beliefs'. I think the distinction is a very important one, and it bothers me a ton that precisely the people who argue 'against' particular beliefs seem to use the two as if they are synonyms.
Thanks for the link. This app will solve some needs I have.
Highly recommend plotnine if you are looking for the python equivalent of ggplot and only need static visualizations.
Oh and Kivy of course!
The problem is a catch 22, you cannot be stable until you gain volume and you cannot gain volume until you are stable.

Simply using a smart contract between two parties doesn't give the underlying coin stability, and it introduces the risk that one party ends up with an undervalued/overvalued coin. The average person will still earn in dollars, shop in dollars, pay tax in dollars and do accounts in dollars. The demand for crypto as a result will be restricted to speculators, criminals and (some) geeks. I cannot see stability anywhere on the horizon.
I just took a look at delphi. What’s so unique about its ui builder?
A superset of C++ would be unwise: same issues as those C++ inherited from C!
I imagine something similar to CPY could be created for different domains like:

- Pure functional style (Haskell subset that is usable from C++)

- GC'd higher level gluing code (calls C++ but maybe not necessarily callable from it)

Am sure others are more qualified for suggestions, but I imagine other subsets like some for interfacing with representing relational data querying, different concurrency models (like Go, Erlang...)

Is this a sane suggestion?
CDNIC isn’t catchy enough. What’s a better shorthand for “Correlation does not imply causation”?
> We have no idea of the physics behind red shift "caused by the metric expansion of space".

What do you mean we have no idea? Redshift is one of the few simple concepts in Astrophysics, whether it's doppler, cosmological or gravitational.
If we work hard to bring all these manufacturing jobs back, won't this just increase the cost of goods by a great deal, and make people upset because of that? Sure, shipping goods from overseas isn't free, but it still seems like US workers will not accept wages that will keep prices as low as they are now. And I don't blame them; I imagine the salary of your average factory worker in a developing country wouldn't get you very far even in areas in the US with a pretty low cost of living.

Then again, I guess it's better to have a job but be unable to afford the the latest and greatest toys, than it is to just not have a job at all.
Disney never really did make games, they licensed out their IP to different companies.

Not sure which DuckTales you are thinking about, but the NES one was made by Capcom.

Frankly all the good "Disney" games first and foremost were mechanically good games that happened to be dressed in Disney characters.
Are you feeling ok? I didn't expect such a hostile reaction for what appears to be no reason.

If you want to ruin six years of pseudonymity, you're free to do so of course.

In the context of the original thread, the claim was that modafanil use is uncommon in startups. I merely pointed out that adderall (which is mostly interchangeable) is quite common. I personally know at least one founder who uses it, for example, and he made it to YC's interview process last batch.

Beyond that, we've certainly interacted enough for you to have a pretty good read on me, so it seemed worth pointing out.
It doesn't have access to the host keys, so it can't do very much unless you intentionally bypass the "someone is intercepting your connection" error your ssh client will give you in that case.
This seems easily googleable. Are you really completely oblivious as to controversy surrounding the GPL, especially as opposed to LGPL and ASL/MIT/BSD?
How configurable is fail2ban? Is it service based? Am I in danger of locking out a legitimate user like someone who makes 25 ajax requests within the span of 3 seconds? Can I make it work for authenticated HTTP endpoints as well?
The efficiency quandry is really interesting to me. It makes me wonder if there is a practical limit to the utility of pure efficiency for a society? Obviously there are huge upsides to efficiency in resource usage etc. but it seems to harm portions of society at a certain point.
i self censor because of dragnet surveillance
I don't believe there to be an ideal cut-off point, as the value of the trade-offs are largely situational.

Questions you should ask:

- How does the monthly rate change as we grow? (i.e. Do you have an architecture that doesn't scale well?) Maybe what you have is fine as you will grow into it. Maybe your cost growth will out-pace your revenue/user growth. This one is really important to understand.

- How optimal is my current RDS/S3 setup? Are you using instance types above your needs? Are you retaining more data than you need? (i.e. Are you simply over paying?)

- How optimal is my application's usage of AWS? (i.e. Are you using indiscriminately?)

- How severely is the growth of my business impeded by the loss of $2k-$10k/month? Where else could it be applied to grow the business? (i.e. Is thinking about this the best use of your time, or is it just the most glaring, easy thing? Remember that saving on monthly expenses doesn't get you customers or grow your revenue.)

- What hidden costs might there be from switching away from the status quo? In addition to the monthly costs, what will the development/operational costs be? Are you making trade offs in your availability or your ability to quickly recover from technical issues by switching?
>39. (alternate formulation) The three keys to keeping a new human space program affordable and on schedule:

1) No new launch vehicles.

2) No new launch vehicles.

3) Whatever you do, don't develop any new launch vehicles.

Funny to see this on the list while NASA violates it year after year.
Yep. I meant we don't use it for track reconstruction.
I am increasingly tempted to VPN everything through Europe, and maintain a token postal address there.
The Birth of a New Hindu Goddess
Yeah, it would make more sense to just add the new line printing shorthands and leave cin/cout/cerr alone. Overloading "for" as a loop over a range of integers also seems questionable, and it seems you'd need to pollute the scope outside of the loop each time you don't want to start from 0.
There are other costs associated with moving out of RDS. You may spend less on your hosting/storage but you will likely be spending more time on maintenance. You'll now be in charge of executing snapshots and making sure they work.

If you have someone on hand that has the time and is willing to be on call for managing the DB that's great and it's probably worth it. But if you have to hire someone or have to move someone of of other work to take care of the DB it may not be worth it. And if you can't hire someone and don't have someone with experience in managing a prod DB it could be a risky move.

Speaking of moving, the move itself can be risky. It can be tricky to move data like this depending on whether or not you can take some downtime, how much downtime, what your data access patterns are, if you can easily dual write and how long it will take to transfer the data are some things to think about. The cost of the move itself in dev time and testing costs (you will probably want to make sure this works before doing it for real, which means starting up copies of your DB in both AWS and your new provider) might blow away any savings you might make for some time.

It also depends on the DB tech you are using. Some are more reliable than others and require very little attention.

I don't know enough about your situation to give you definite advice but those are the things I would consider before moving. There are a lot of non-direct costs associated with something like this so it's best to think through everything. Some other things to consider are dev familiarity (they used one tool now they need to learn another), monitoring and observalbility (you didn't mention using cloudwatch but it's there), security and upgrades/updates.

Good luck with whatever you decide on.
No because the dom field (8-14) and dow field (0) are treated as a logical OR by cron, not AND.
So, just syntactic sugar for frequent use cases (stdin/stdout with iostreams, returning tuples)?
Good point. That may also partly explain China's shopping spree - if they control foreign businesses, they control where to manufacture stuff.
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>Cowboy Bebop is perhaps the best example of what I'm going for. Its a hardcore scifi space opera filled with Jazz: the American-influence on the anime cannot be ignored. But its still an anime with big eyes and the unique "Japanese" drawing style.

Also one of the greatest English dubs of any anime ever.

>EDIT: And then there's "Power Rangers", the weirdest thing to ever happen between the USA and Japan. Its neither fully American nor fully Japanese.

It's not an entirely new phenomenon - G1 Transformers, Voltron and Robotech were all welded together from various Japanese toy lines and series. Robotech wound up being as re-imported to Japan and became more popular than the series that composed it.

And it's probably also worth mentioning the original Western release of Godzilla with Raymond Burr spliced in.
Show HN: AsyncQ dotnet thread safe async queues
Someone also has a "DROP TABLE" license plate, apparently it once worked against a scanner too.

https://hackaday.com/2014/04/04/sql-injection-fools-speed-tr...
"Confluence is one of the best designed products I've ever worked with" is something I never thought I would hear. Building a wiki is admittedly a very hard problem, but you're the first person I'v seen, that loves Confluence.
Please send me an email, same issue in my firm, keen to discuss. I may have a solution.
Looks like it didn't work!
The registrant himself:
https://pizzey.me/blog/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-hou...
In the late 1970s, nuclear energy was very much out of favor. It's no coincidence that The China Syndrome was made in 1979.
And GPL isn't permissive.
I mean. Digital Ocean provides infrastructure too. Nothing is stopping you to run something like OpenFaas on DO.
I want to like the article, but the lack of units on the axes are killing me! With the automation one... what's that mean? 300 what? 300 robots? And similarly with jobs declining and such. Some of them describe what's going on in the title, but a lot are sort of handwavy. I'm sure there's real data under it, but it's not presented very well.
Is there any example of SQL injections that worked IRL ? That's so funny.
Or they are not actually doing anything shady, but the revenue coming in from the EU is not sufficient to justify the increased costs and liabilities.
It's not a theft. Whatever information they took from hacked computers probably stayed on those computers, why would they erased it. It's copying. Not a theft. Theft is when someone break in to your apartment and steal your CD collection leaving you with nothing.
The “,0,0” makes me think the person had inside knowledge
This should be indexed in google, facebook and twitter too
Or it's a free pass to cut out a less profitable market segment. Or it's an excuse for bad developers. Or its an excuse to shift blame from your already failing business.
Whoa, 575,000 IOPS For Random Read on a single drive.
Sure. But your pitch is incredibly unrealistic for actually convincing anyone systems is obsoleting cron (except for linux distro specific packages, i’m sure).
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/327/
Is this even real? I can only imagine the look at the chambers of commerce when somebody registered this.

Also, this looks a typical system that would be vulnerable to this. At least where I live the details are always entered by a clerk, the systems are old and were never meant to be used directly by outside parties.
I'm curious to know how they enforce the limit on EU users
The way I see it, offline isn't primarily designed for websites, it's to replace apps that you'd install on you phone.

I agree on the installation confirmation - you have to agree before installing an app and the whole point of the blog post is that the line between a native app and a service worker site is getting smaller. So a similar level of permission should be requested before installing something locally.
Sequential read is still outpaced by Samsung. So if you're optimizing for boot time or other reading-big-things tasks, this may be slightly worse. And certainly not worth the markup.
That's because Qt isn't a Python library. The API is made to be compatible with the actual Qt API, so you can write label->resize(800, 600); in C++ and label.resize(800, 600) in Python.
I was a homemaker for a long time and then I had a corporate job for a few years. I have worked as a 1099 MISC contactor for a few years. In the past year, I have finally started making a few bucks in an entrepreneurial fashion. (I'm apparently addle brained about such things -- I mean, my life was not conducive to learning such and it took me a long time to get the hang of this, but I feel I am finally getting it.)

Here are a few things I have done over the years:

I went to free classes given by the local Chamber of Commerce.

Read books and articles.

Started a list called "Business Bootstrappers" so I can forward things from HN and have a record to return to. In theory, this might someday lead to actual discussion with like minded others.

Collected recyclables while incredibly poor and in desperate need of the money. This taught me a fair amount about making decisions like "Do I just need The Money today, no matter how much time and effort it takes me? Or is this is a situation where the extra time and effort costs too much and is really a bad idea? Where is the sweet spot here for making money at a reasonable margin of return for what it costs me to do this?"

Over the years, I have spent a whole lot of time pondering the question of how and what to charge other people.

I was a good student in high school and I sometimes felt like the teacher's were vindictively taking points off because I didn't spend enough time on it in their opinion. It was what I thought of as "sweat equity grading." It didn't really matter if it was right, they were just (seemingly) mad that I had the answer with seemingly no effort.

This experience has had me long wondering how to price things based on value to the customer rather than on time and effort on my end. There are sometimes comments on HN that indicate that you shouldn't really charge by the hour as that keeps you trapped as a wage slave. You need to figure out how to charge for value delivered as a separate question from time and effort on your end. That is the only way to really get rich.

It is also the only thing that makes sense for selling high level expertise. Kind of like the joke about the invoice that says something like "$1 for tapping the thing. $999 for knowing where to tap."

So I am trying to figure out how to sell my services by the "piece" rather than by the hour. I don't like selling by the hour. I am trying to commodify my services and say "X item costs $y amount" rather than charging by the hour for most things. That way if I run into a snag, I am not charging customers for what I didn't know and had to research, but, by the same token, if it was easy for me because I have years of experience, I am not undercharging because it only took me 10 minutes.

I am charging for those years of experience and the knowledge I have. I should get paid a reasonable amount because it saves them hours and hours and gets them something better quality than they could create on their own, not for my 10 minutes per se.
In the UK you can easily get all your vitamin D from sunlight for 6 months of the year[0,1].

That said, more and more foods are being vitamin supplemented, or available in fortified versions, especially for children (eg milk, yoghurts). I doubt it'll become "standard" like thiamin and others in flour (in the UK at least) because you can overdose.

[0] http://www.bad.org.uk/for-the-public/skin-cancer/vitamin-d (footnotes 24, 25)

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Summerhealth/Pages/vitamin-D-sun...
When did you need it? Because PySide is not new.
This is fantastic news, if a company can't behave responsibly with user data, it deserves to go bankrupt. It's like a restaurant saying it can't comply with health regulations. Absolutely unacceptable. If the business model is to exploit and sell personal information, then the world is better off without that company.
Took me a couple of days to grasp Mojolicious as a Perl programmer. Really well thought out framework.

2 months sounds insane. I guess you did not click with Perl?
This goes for programming too. Plus writing things down forces you to explicitly examine your thoughts, abd helps you catch contradictions before spending valuable time implementing it and realizing what you write was bogus.
The main code contributor to both projects is Red Hat.
> It's so much better if it's one-to-one. You can use the same documentation. The same search terms. You don't have to translate back and forth in your head all the time.

Those are things that make it better for the library maintainers, sure, but presenting (and documenting) an API that is idiomatic, both in structure and behavior, for the host language is better for library consumers, as it doesn't force them to context switch between the idioms of the host language and the idioms of the foreign library.
KYC: I don't accept customers that I can't reach or traffic I don't believe.

I don't actually pay on "ad views"[1] directly. If an advertiser wants to buy brand awareness (CPM/CPV) then I need to understand how they're measuring the ROI on that brand awareness. Once I understand that, I can test traffic -- basically mix it in -- on each of my publishers to see if they are generating that ROI. This takes time for brand awareness since good tests usually take months, but for CPA/CPR/CPL deals are faster, so I end up doing more of that.

Nevertheless, if I thought someone had figured out a way to cheat me, I'd stop their traffic; I'd talk to them, and explain my thinking. Maybe they can convince me I'm wrong.

[1]: I'm not requiring clicks, but "impressions" as the IAB puts it are insane https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11901567
Why is this flagged?

It is written by Michael Hayden who is a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2006 - 2009 while the president was G.W.Bush) and the National Security Agency (1999 - 2005 starting while the president was Clinton and continuing under G.W.Bush), surely somebody who's opinion is worth reading (and discussing!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hayden_(general)

"a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hayden currently co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center's Electric Grid Cyber Security Initiative"

Moreover:

"This essay was adapted from his forthcoming book, “The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies.”"

This all of course doesn't mean that he should be idolized, or every his statement accepted uncritically. During his years the Iraq WMDs were falsely claimed out of thin air to exist only due to the wishful thinking of the leaders he served, which lead to the Iraq War, and he wasn't openly against that. Which is also relevant to know when reading this opinion of his, as well as the fact that he never admitted that.

Even then more people with the spine were needed to save the US (and the world) from itself.
In my cronjob, I like to log the target process output, and ensure that only one timer jobs runs at a time, and apply resource limits, and have an easy way to know if the job is still running.

Right now, I am doing this all with a mess of shell scripts (flock + logger + echo calls + pgrep). This is fragile and ugly.

Since systemd provides all of the above easily, a better approach will be one-off systemd jobs. In this case, my crontab entries would be a trivial -- "1 3 * * * root systemctl start cronjob1". This only requires scheduling functionality -- background execution, env vars, email notification and other things no longer matter.

From there, it is just one small step to move scheduling into the init process itself -- after all, compared to what other things init does, scheduling is both simple and safe.
Thank you! I have heard this (keep trying other therapists before finding one that works for you) before from others but never from someone who went through it. So I really appreciate you sharing this.
Autonomous agriculture is coming everywhere and faster than autonomous cars
I didn't downvote you, but if you think the only thing that makes salad healthy are it's probiotics then you also don't know enough about food.

Any cooking method that would kill ecoli will also destroy those helpful bacteria.

Factory farms in the US wash their vegetables with chlorinated water.
How Did This Bone Broth Company Raise Over $100M?
Discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280494
> For general usage, one has to consider that its lowest bits have low linear complexity and will fail linearity tests;
It was online so no 'looks' but I did end up having a very odd phone call at one point.
I mean sure, but what extent does creating competitive advantage become unfair and immoral? At what point is it a long term liability, both to industry and civilization as a whole? The US exploded after WWII because Europe and Asia were in ashes. That sure is a competitive advantage. We could attempt recreate that competitive advantage by bombing cities and manufacturing centers in other countries. We could create competitive advantage by invading and subjugating other resource rich countries. How about slave labor (chattel or coerced) sold it at pennies on the dollar?

How about Standard Oil artificially lowering regional prices to put all competition out of business, only to raise the prices once dominance is attained?

The question is really did China achieve that competitive advantage in unfair and unscrupulous ways? Should other countries be free to regain competitive advantage by finding even more unfair and unscrupulous methods? What does the world look like after walking down that path for another 50 years?
I only ever share to friends/messenger and Twitter, yet ever since I started using Android in 2010 or so, these options are always halfway down the page.
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