skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than that, a unique id for people would make tracking and cross referencing database even easier.

We are already moving fast toward a distopian scifi novel, let's not speed up the process bu 3 orders of magnitude.
The "word-break" property is set to "break-all" on paragraphs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/word-break
Or a massive waste of time. Some days I'm not sure which. :P
For some reason he has word-break: break-all in the css
Maybe management just feels that waterfall is more tractable and easier to control. I feel like a good scrum-master has to subside their ego a bit to let the programmers write and bid tasks without intervening.
In economic terms, suppliers will continue producing so long as the sale price is greater the marginal cost of production. The average cost is irrelevant in the short run because it includes sunk costs.
Since John Stuart Mill, we've known that "cause" rarely refers to a sufficient condition, and that multiple necessary conditions always apply to real-world events (positive or negative.) We generally reserve "cause" for the necessary condition that is easiest to change. I think it's also legitimate to emphasise general solutions over particular ones, however; as you do.
If you enter a URL in the suggested format – with http:// – you get an error.

> Invalid domain: http://http//www.coruscade.com

Either change the placeholder or, preferably, detect whether the user’s input contains http:// and adjust accordingly.
Ok, makes sense. The 70C for my unit was the temperature of the plate to which the PA was mounted.
Yes, and Shift-W to float when falling.
That makes sense. Is it really so complex that there needs to be a licensed technology?
Have you ever employeed a programmer, or worked as one?

Stack overflow is a valuable resource. I'd be pissed if my boss told me not to use it.
Yes - 220-250k is average total compensation for a senior in the bigcos in SF. Upwards to $500k+/y is not unheard of either... the variance is pretty crazy
Sure, I'll paste a link to a gist or something later
Do you have any first hand experience with buying gold from local dealers? I've never really looked into it but the vast majority of gold dealers in my city are also pawn shops geared toward purchasing gold rather than selling it. While I'm unsure as to their exact pricing model for selling gold, the way in which pawn shops are known to buy precious metals leads me to believe I'd be paying significantly more than whatever the current spot price is if I was to buy through them.
I don't see how taxes are in any way relevant to this discussion. Definitely do pay your taxes. I was answering to a specific question, the bad guy here can just as well be somebody who is trying to rob you.

But if it helps you, think about some other government, not necessarily the US one. Do you think they all do the right thing? Should you or should you not be able to help your starving family in Venezuela?

They really can't all be doing "the right thing" because they have wars between each other. And those are legal in their books. But you probably want to play along however imperfect rules your government sets, that is until you want to escape the country and you don't want it to be your government anymore. Because e.g. you don't feel like killing every Jew you know and that just became the law.
Your answer doesn't answer the question. You ask what type erasure is and then answer with some very specific information on Java's generics. Nothing in your question indicates that it's about Java or generics.

> Maybe using it for precise definitions is the wrong way, as that might be more like remembering 20 things in a row.

This is exactly what it can be like. The 20 rules from SuperMemo are really useful for trying to formulate and transform the cards.

https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules
Please try that again, first lock your biometrics as Aadhar App & Website agressively push to secure it, then pretend for this experiment's sake that your SIM is lost, then go to the store asking for a new sim.
If you want a more complete (although dry) overview of how we got from NHK's MUSE to the USA's NTSC-8VSB / MPEG-2 system, the book Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television is a good resource:

https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Vision-Broadcasters-Governme...

The TLDR is that the USA took so damn long to make up their minds about a standard (while cleverly keeping the spectrum tied up and away from others that wanted it) that digital coding and compression was able to develop and mature into a system that worked. MUSE was an analog standard that would never fit into a single channel in the US system.
I had totally forgotten about WAIS, a pre-web information service architecture that was, like all other such schemes, swallowed whole by HTTP/HTML. It even had a URL scheme which I’m pretty sure I resolved a few times via Lynx.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server
A technical manager without political skills can hurt the team. They can’t get raises for them, resources, or recognition. A non technical political manager can easily outmaneuver a technical manager. It’s good to have a technical manager to get things done and learn, but expect to have to change jobs to get ahead.
This logic is flawed because it doesn't consider the fact that we have more efficient heaters than electric space heaters. In particular, the two main alternatives are gas (more efficient because you skip inefficient fuel -> electricity steps) and heat pumps (more efficient because you draw in heat from outside). Compared to these alternatives, Bitcoin miners make very, very inefficient heaters.
Israel Only = Isaiah 49:6 Explained
Great post, yeah sometimes doing nothing or something that seems unproductive pays off quite well actually! It's why I'm a little more lax when it comes to enjoying life nowadays. Ultimately, in my opinion a lot of luck is involved, so why bother? Enjoy the ride. Having said that, I still like to build things and hack just like you :)
At any given time I track a half dozen people. They're bright and what they're saying really resonates with me. I read everything they write and watch any interviews that I can find.

After reading PG's essays he went on my list. I was really busy at the time so I was behind on my reading and didn't learn about HN's creation for 2-3 weeks. Joined when I did and it quickly became a daily habit.
Finally we have irrefutable proof that videogames cause guns.
Yes, the prevailing attitude is that someone's GitHub, knowledge, experience, and portfolio might as well be entirely a lie if they can't solve a particular dynamic programming LeetCode toy problem du jour on-the-fly on a whiteboard.

It's also a potential killer advantage for startups to be able to recognize budding coder talent that doesn't check off all the boxes that say FAANG recruiters have. It's still very much an inefficient market, and people that can't code aren't necessarily the best at recognizing coder talent.
Well I mostly got out at $200 because I thought competent people regulated our economies and figured crypto would be banned by regulators, so it was pretty easy to spread it out over a couple wires. The remaining chunk I sold at the $10k-$20k window. I still think it could hit $50k/coin, but it was too large a percent of my assets and I figured I'd already made such a crazy return (1000x on average I think?) that squeezing out another 4x or 5x seemed reckless.

If only I hadn't been relatively broke when I bought in. I was suffering burn-out and basically working odd contracts here and there to keep the lights on.
This post tries to abstract programming away into the OSS community, stackoverflow community, hardware providers etc, and takes the position that programming today requires you to use and direct those resources. Programmers create open source, write helpful SO posts and design hardware and OS.

This reminds me of the assumption that the 'cloud' is making IT personel obsolete, when it's just someone else's computer and IT staff.
I was taking a Japanese course couple of years ago. The course was difficult and if you did not pass mid-term and end-of-term exams you had to repeat the term which costed a lot of money. Fearing that I could fail I decided to invest in Anki. Needless to say it was the best spent $25 ever.

$25 is surely expensive for a simple app, especially if you are a student without a steady income. But if anyone wonders whether Anki is worth this much money - try thinking of the potential benefits.
No clue. Everybody's route is different. This is just how I've figured things out (and I'd still say there are many things I definitely have not figured out).
In earlier systems of Ration card for food, it was very rare to hear that somebody dies because they couldn't get ration because they bio were not getting authenticated. In Aadhar case there has been these cases in double digit.
Yeah I don't see how a country can actually function WITHOUT this but that might just be my first world bubble.
Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847119
I can use Bitcoin today, right now, right here. I actually do occasionally, it's how I pay for VPN service. So is it a failure? No. It's a successful payment network. It didn't cause a libertarian Utopia or whatever, but that's a pretty lofty goal for a conceptual currency based on cryptographic hashing. I have nothing else to say here.
It uses a similar algorithm, yes.
I think it was this article https://techcrunch.com/2008/03/10/little-known-hacker-news-i...
And you'll have to quit when your headlight goes out and needs replacement, right?
Sends a tiny bit of dummy traffic every N seconds, keeps a NAT router from just forgetting about your client's state. I imagine Algo doesn't include that line because the generated config is for Android phones but for a laptop or desktop behind NAT, you pretty much always want it. This is especially true for things like public WiFi where the routers can be particularly keen to forget you.

Edit: There's a blurb about it on the website as well that is a little less handwavey than what I typed:

https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/#nat-and-firewall-trave...
You'd have to look at small businesses or startups if you wanted to go straight to a CTO type role IMO -- having not held something equivalent prior. But assuming you interview well and have the right skill set you could probably pretty easily do that. Startups need people that are more versatile and willing to take on a lot of challenges. Generally the one negative with early startups is the pay will not be what you are used to, so you have to weigh that based on your personal situation.

You could also look at product roles, e.g. where you are a product manager or something similar. Again since you want to be hands on technical you'd have to do this in a smaller company or startup where you could do so.

As for my experience, it wasn't that difficult to do. I just sought out positions which seemed to gel well with my experience and desires. Honestly, when I joined the current startup I am at, I joined as a Senior Firmware Engineer. I am doing more now that uses more of my total experience, but that was how I joined and I loved it cause I initially really wanted to spend some time just in code.
Hey shpigford, I am curious about this terrible CPA that led to a $10k IRS bill. If you had to look for a new CPA can you tell me what you would look for and what would be warning signs?

Also, great list! Did some of those affiliate sites make money even though you eventually shut them down and didn't sell them?
UIDAI keeps switching the stance almost every week: it is secret; it is not; it is kind of; repeat.
Human relationships and projects are not mutually exclusive.

The people you meet along the way ("marriages") often carry forward into future projects.
I think the best and most exciting projects to contribute to are the ones you actually use and want to help make better.
What works in China lately?
How is it differentiated from Octotree?
I thought the coup by the Supreme Court elected the president in 2000.
omg in my dreams: then it would be an asset on the balance sheet and it would be a shareholder value increasing move to improve it. CIO becomes = CFO.
Free Drug Samples and the Opioid Crisis
I'm not sure that I don't, I've followed new IT-related laws in the Netherlands closely so I'm pretty sure I know what's included without looking it up. I'm more sceptical of someone who says "you have no idea" without anything to back that statement up. But for other readers, I'll elaborate.

Blocking UDP is not treating all traffic the same. Even if the law would be about treating services equally and not any IP packet equally, then it still has a different impact on services like VoIP (which are often UDP) than it does on other services. Blocking certain types of packets is not compliant with net neutrality -- at least, not in the Netherlands. If there is a different definition whereever you come from, please tell me about it.
https://www.startupschool.org/help might be able to help
Aadhar also makes government owner of one's civil life. Act literally says they can switch off Aadhar, and no appeal or question can be made.
I just checked the mechanism, not bad after all since app itself directly communicates with the server I can provide. So, my concern converged into if evil cooperation modifies my app in order to replace purchase button action with an internal buy strategy then call my purchaseDone function inside. I think that is still possible :)
Didn't know about no-referrer, thanks !
> I have to say it's just the first ever VPN to offer no bandwidth penalty

By protocol design it incurs a 4%-~50% (1500 byte and 64 byte packets respectively) bandwidth penalty over the internet due to headers. The encryption of the payload is extremely fast though.
"Programmers do not need to write much code anymore; all they need to do in most cases is wire together already available components."

As a general statement, I feel like this is objectively false. Just look at how much code gets added to Github daily.
https://livestreamfails.com/post/27783

Video cuts out before it starts, but you can hear the gun shots. You can also see the laser presumably from the gun.
Every two weeks, roughly.
Some Fundamental Theorems in
Mathematics by Oliver Knill - Linked PDF is a survey of modern math
in 133 pages, in the form of the "fundamental" theorem in each of
135 areas, all in the first 62 pages! Followed by rationale and
explanation of "fundamental", by 13 two-page lecture summaries on
key topics, by Twitter math: 42 140-character statements of theorems
with proof summaries, and more. "Teaching a course called “Math from
a historical perspective” at the Harvard extension school led me to
write up the present document. This course Math E 320 ... I’m
reporting on many of these theorems as a tourist and not as a
local."
I'm lucky enough to still have both my parents - but this has turned out to be one of my favourite articles - coming from a generation so different to my parents (and as a third culture kid to boot, albeit in a crap culture) it resonates very much.
https://wallmine.com/
Well this is slightly true in part — but I don’t remember the US news ratings being that high profile. I fact, at that time (at least) MIT was not particularly selective compared to other schools in the area because a lot of people didn’t even apply. IIRC they accepted more than 15% of applicants (presumably why I got in).

Nowadays with the common app and common essay it’s easy to apply to lot s of schools. In those days every school had a unique application and needed different essays.

A friend of mine who works in the Harvard admissions office said to me once that things haven’t really changed: lots of people now apply just in case as it’s so easy, so once they toss the egregiously unqualified they end up picking through around the same number of applicants as they used to in the 80s. This was a convo at a bar so take it with whatever sized grain of salt you think appropriate.
As an aside, was a gigabyte of memory only $1000 back in 2000? I seem to remember it being higher than that.
Since net neutrality laws came into place a few years ago, I've been seeing it less and less. A few big ones (like the biggest rail company, NS, which offers free on-board wifi) got into trouble for blocking things like video streaming and it seems others took heed. Now most networks even allow TCP/25, and without any abuse that I've heard of.
A friend of mine told me that in his company people write ETLs, send them to an external service for processing, and get that back - this is what they call "doing data science" :)
Not in my opinion, no, but the MPEG group is notorious for abusing their patents.
Incarcerated in such a body, man's only hope is to avert these characteristics through the use of ritual and ceremony. Every household has one or more shrines devoted to this purpose. The more powerful individuals in the society have several shrines in their houses and, in fact, the opulence of a house is often referred to in terms of the number of such ritual centers it possesses. Most houses are of wattle and daub construction, but the shrine rooms of the more wealthy are walled with stone. Poorer families imitate the rich by applying pottery plaques to their shrine walls.

This is fantastic stuff
This is so horrible.

E-Sports seems like such a prime target for this type of attack. The security isn't as large as a football stadium because there are fewer people actually on the scene, but the terror is broadcast to millions.
> it is always deflationary

Except for the fact that it is currently, and always has been, inflationary.

You need to learn more about economics.

Inflation/Deflation is a separate phenomenon than rising/falling value — though they are sometimes related.
I would recommend listening to the catalogue in reverse order. I agree with the broad criticisms in this thread, and I no longer listen. But for the first 4 or 5 years they produced a lot of fascinating shows. Probably around Jan 2017 it takes a nosedive.
What you have described is (mostly) how Swedish society already works. Even the SAML part — we'll be forced to support eIDAS as of next month!

Everyone resident in Sweden must be registered in the Swedish Population Register, and receives a personal identity number. Due to the Swedish constitution, information held by the government must be publicly available, so people's names, dates of birth, addresses and indeed identity numbers are not secret (though the last of these isn't on Google). This means that in order to prove your identity, people use ID cards and corresponding digital ID issued by the government and banks. Said digital ID is a passcode-protected certificate, either on a phone, a computer, or a physical ID card.

The government doesn't have your DNA here though, although citizens' passports and ID cards contain fingerprint data.
It's a democracy and a republic. The UK is a democracy but not a republic.
Of course I was exaggerating a bit. But...

I've been trying to setup OpenVPN for ages, and it always eats about 60-80% of the bandwidth. No matter what I try with it, I just cannot get the full speed of my internet connection through the protocol. With Wireguard I haven't noticed any difference. fast.com is as fast with or without WireGuard. I have to say it's the first time in my life I see it working this easily.
If you're curious to hear postulated explanations then a good search keyphrase is "The theory of the Firm"
Great work and thanks for solving the Crypto FQ bug making ath9k faster! Looking forward to using the fixes and the speed improvements we will get. It seems like you needed the WPA IV packets which are the same as for WPA key handshake.
It must have been extra elusive to find the bug since the traffic was encrypted.
Thanks also for working on solving buffer bloat, buffer bloat is annoying.

https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction...
Wonder why it was flagged?
Fiat currency is not convenient when it comes to international trade. And it is not convenient as a method of storing large masses of wealth.

The fact is, if you were once super rich in Venezuela and you had all your wealth in stacks of Venezuelan money, now you are no longer rich.

Which is why most rich people in other countries like to exchange their tangible money for other nation's currency. Because in the event that their country's economy goes belly up then at least not all of their money has become worthless.

The problem is that not everybody might be willing to exchange your country's currency for theirs. Which is why the US dollar is the international standard for currency exchange.

The big problem the designer of bitcoin saw is the fact that when one country has the ability to make money that everybody wants, we end up in a situation where that country has an unfair advantage to strong arm other nations into a mode of compliance. Like all the US has to do is say that nobody from the US is allowed to exchange their money for Venezuela's money, nor are they allowed to exchange their money for somebody else's money when said person has a history of exchanging currency with Venezuela.

The fact that a few countries can get away with such behavior, means in the end that countries are placed into an economic ladder and nobody is allowed to take a step up if that comes at the expense of somebody higher up on the rung having to take a step down.

In other words, the US has become a monopoly on all other countries when our dollar is in the middle of international trade.

Bitcoin in theory is supposed to replace the dollar role in this sense where no one nation gains the ability to strong arm other nations into behaving in a way that might be contrary to their best interest.
Right, the useless cruft that makes your program impossible to read, let alone reason about
Is Wireguard stable and ready for general use? The Wireguard devs seem to think it's not:

https://www.wireguard.com/#about-the-project

Work in Progress

WireGuard is not yet complete. You should not rely on this code. It has not undergone proper degrees of security auditing and the protocol is still subject to change. We're working toward a stable 1.0 release, but that time has not yet come. There are experimental snapshots tagged with "0.0.YYYYMMDD", but these should not be considered real releases and they may contain security vulnerabilities (which would not be eligible for CVEs, since this is pre-release snapshot software). If you are packaging WireGuard, you must keep up to date with the snapshots.
Since you mentioned security note the security implications towards the end of the page as this is actually pretty insecure without additional components. Also note this results in:

application data in
IP+<L4 protocol> in
IP+UDP Tunnel (Wireguard) in
IP+TCP

So securing the component mess and header bloat is becoming as bad as OpenVPN/IPSec which you abhorred. Still probably faster than OpenVPN though as that implementation is amazingly bad.
That seems rational, however we have always lived in an irrational world where the Fed just continues printing money and the national debt continues to soar.
I feel very sorry for her loss. This article and the NYT one by the Chinese daughter posted a few days back are really hitting me hard. As someone not really raised in the culture of my parents, it saddens me to think that I probably won't give my kids the same "immigrant parent obsessiveness" experience I had growing up (pros and cons of course, but a part of my upbringing I wouldn't change for anything)
Hah! I used the Meetup.com API for the same reason. Super annoying that lots of people use avatars though right ;)

I also do this for friends and the ever growing list of baby names that I can't keep track of.
> I was expecting more along the lines of actual code like assembly

You mean like the MIX (and later MMIX) assembly code used extensively throughout the books?
Also, there are cases of people with multiple DNA signatures in one body (chimeras). Really rare, but it goes to show that there will always be a corner case ;)