skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. I guess I'm pointing out with cloze questions that don't hide all the selected text, you're perhaps making it too easy. I prefer hiding all, showing one. On a test, you might be able to get similar hints but if the understanding isn't there you might be thrown off by different wording. If I'm creating the knowledge for work, I'd rather simplify as much as possible, break up into different parts where necessary, and learn the answer exactly. Relying on additional context is not something I'd do. For those reasons, I'd prefer regular flashcards when possible. The other benefit of a single flashcard is it's easier for organization purposes.
Meh, it can go either way.

The first company I ever worked for was a sorta family business. The owner was also the CEO and was very responsive to the needs of employees. He would throw parties in their manor, and everyone knew each other well and there was much less rivalry/competition to climb the proverbial ladder. Very true about working for people who're married with kids; this gave the owner, and the company, a kind of professionalism that has served me well in my own career.
They were really kind-hearted people, until it came time to make some serious decisions about the future of the company.

Often times family businesses are unwilling to sell or dilute their equity since their identity is so tied to the company. This became a huge deal when there were talks of taking the company public, accepting outside investment etc.
Retired In Place is likely what was intended here.
Yes. It happens all the time and has certainly happened to me. I don’t have a simple answer.

It isn’t just small to big companies. I also had an problem moving from enterprise to a smaller web related company. In that case, I went back to college part-time and retrained. Hard work but it turned out ok.

I also did a series of government projects, which I really enjoyed, without thinking too much about it and then had a hard time moving away from that.

The truth is that whatever you do, someone is going to pigeonhole you. It is just human nature.

I try hard to build skills in what I want to do next and then try to work on projects that use those skills.

One other thing I did was to present papers at user group conferences – often about what I wanted to do in my next project!
Perhaps unwittingly, you just described PKI. Two keys: one is public and identifies someone (or something), and the other is private and can be used to prove your identity.

Encrypting with the public key can be done by anyone, but only the private key can decrypt. This allows encrypted communication.

But encrypting with the private key can only be done by someone with the private key. It can be decrypted by anyone, but only using your public key, thus proving your identity; or more accuractely, this proving you have the identified party's private key. So I ask you to encrypt some random OTP to prove your identity. Then I decrypt it with your public key to test your proof. This is how cryptographic signatures work.

Government-issued identification seems an obvious application of PKI.
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This isn’t about “trickle-down”, it’s basic supply and demand. If there’s a low supply of workers, and the demand is high, the price of workers goes up.
The military approach is interesting in this regard - generally you have a "leadership pair" of officer+NCO; commanding officer + executive officer, with quite separate duties, one is responsible for planning and giving the orders/deciding what needs to be done; and the other is responsible for "managing the troops" to get that task done effectively and ensuring that they have what they need to do it.

Business, on the other hand, tends to conflate these roles in a single position.
Listing Palin on the ballot did an unjust disservice to McCain's campaign chances.

It was easy to understand why she was picked, yet it turned the whole run into a farce and diluted his message. A meaningful lady VP (maybe Condoleezza Rice) would've won it for him. It seemed they positioned for that, but calculations probaly didn't support. It would've needed a different Republican party.

Great man passed.
Registering other people who are able to identify you is an interesting idea, although it would fail for the hermits/paranoid who don't know/trust anybody and who would be screwed if they lost the key.
This is also the primary topic explored in the well known book Godel, Escher, Bach.
On the android app I use, switching between accounts is as simple UI wise as switching to different instances (or spaces or whatever the top level division is called) in Slack. In two taps I can switch between tech themed and social themed for example.

I agree some platforms make multiple accounts hard to the point where you're registering multiple free email accounts, installing multiple browsers and using incognito mode, etc.

That is not inherently the case, and can be quite the opposite when allowing users to control multiple accounts is part of the software's design.
This is great advice and needs more visibility. Things that cause stress for someone may not be the same things that cause stress for another.

e.g. for me personally, working a stable, boring job was more stressful since I felt like my talents, my opportunity to have an impact was being severely affected.
Biometrics as a third factor to password and otp would be ideal. However biometrics as a second factor to otp is good enough, to make it frictionless.

If that's why it is broken, then I would be happy with it. Nobody is using fake biometrics to authenticate yet. And even then there is the second factor of otp.
I recommend https://supercocoapp.com - it’s my app, so I’m biased, but it has great content and one of the few apps that really focuses on listening and speaking.
Haha, sorry, that was a fictional title for the fictional story I have there. I would probably hate 98% of serials. Fortunately, time has winnowed the set down to the good ones.
Yeah that's basically my point. I want to state, though, that I'm not just beating up on the under 30 crowd. I empathize with all struggles. But the same way that some people have never known a world without the internet, some people have never been hit by an economic recession. So, you have a lot of smart, ambitious people aged 24-32 who have built an impressive ~5 year career during a time of great economic expansion. For someone in this category, my advice is this: find someone 10 years older than you who works in your field, and ask them what their life was like from 2006-2010.
I reached out on to your IRC. I'll help, if I can.
Truthfully estonia's id looks weak too. Stealing an ID is easier than stealing and impersonating biometrics.
Nice,but the hta payload in your screencap,i remember no av picking up my cactustorch payloads either.

Nextgen AV(like windows ATP) block your exploit when it tries to spawn a process like cmd.exe. Their starting to do ML on scripts too now.

Keep it up though,maybe the next APT breach will use your script :)
It's a lot better for the desktop app and the add-ons make it more powerful.
The qualities that made him a horrible father are probably also the same ones that made him a once-in-a-generation genius.
'it is my nature'
This is a "stereotype" and may be the case some of the time, but definitely not the rule.
I'm doing a product startup in fintech. Extremely high stress levels i.e. we've had 4 near death experiences in the first 3 years of our startup (one had to do with money running out, others more to do with specific business we're in). We've not just survived but improved! However there is no traditional work-life balance. I typically work 6 days/week and some/many others in the company do too. I have kids and working spouse but trade my time 50:50 with my spouse in terms of spending time with kids. Bottom line: Your mileage may vary, but just because a founder is married with kids is no guarantee of a 9 to 5 daily routine
> Haskell sees pretty widespread industry usage these days.

Yes, just for one example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/86cg1u/jobs_obsidi...
Changed “remove” to “attenuate”. Thanks again.
The five main projects of the Belt and Road Initiative
On the other hand, people trusted by other people are not necessarily trustworthy. If desperate or estranged they may sell out their friends/family for a little cash.
> The poor now have near universal healthcare coverage

If the rest of the unfounded assertions above are as incorrect as this one, we should completely disregard this comment.

In many republican-controlled states, for instance, it is impossible for a non-disabled male living in poverty to obtain health coverage.
I'm always a little confused when I see articles on the internet extolling the virtues of spaced repetition learning. I don't doubt that it's a good way to memorize things; it's just that I have never really found that memorization was ever an obstacle to my ability to learn something. I've always found that retention proceeds from understanding.

Time spent flicking through flashcards for vocabulary or formulae or chemical paths or whatever seems like a poor substitute for time spent reading material that uses the vocabulary, explains the derivation of the formulae, or describes the chemical process, or whatever...

Is this just about passing tests, or is this genuinely how other people approach learning?
Thanks. I didn't see that in the paper. Guess I get to hold on to my bitcoin.

I don't actually own any bitcoin ;)
tinc is not a secure choice! Have you seen their documentation?

https://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation/Security.html#Securit...

The default cipher is from 1993 and its creator recommends everyone updates.

32 bit MACs are hilariously tiny.

Home rolled authentication based around RSA.

Their own documentation even states: ”tinc’s security is not as strong as TLS or IPsec."

DO NOT USE tinc!
I have worked in midwest, east cost, south Florida and west cost. Believe me, location makes a huge difference. I.e new york was extremely stressful with lots of micro management and back stabbing. Midwest was really slow for my liking...for me I found the balance as a software dev in west cost. Working in mid level company with full fredom for schedule.
Ran this against my service https://jsonip.com.

https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en/results?url=http%3A%2F%2Fj...

Pretty happy with the results. I have to have access to referrer headers for it to work.

Beyond that, there are some things I can tighten up in regards to some other xss headers so I’ll take care of those.

Also, I don’t keep traffic logs. Sometimes (maybe a couple times a year) I will do a small log capture for a few minutes if I need data to test an upgrade or feature experiment but that’s it.
Just discovered this website, this philosophy looks really interesting!
The ultimate goal of early retirement is appealing, so the discipline has a purpose. This might get me somewhere, instead of saving for the sake of getting richer.
Thank you for this discovery!
In addition to tagging data with XML, I wont go into the misguided use of it in configuration files as its not really quicker creating checks using XML and XLS as a programmer in the "zone" :)

Point is that albeit nice, there is no need for something like this to even be in a browser. But by using AJAX it kind of have to be. In addition to advertisers being able to know due to Javascript that the user is present. And since the data is tagged arbitrarily in XML in addition to hashtags and the like, it's a lot less hit and miss for suggestions and advertisement.

For example getting flooded with bad things about people working or the US state just because they're in the vicinity of Trump to either reinforce or encourage guilt by association. After you've made a Trump pun for additional effect.
You aren’t wrong - they did and keep doing it. ;-)

IMHO that’s why Common Lisp is decades ahead of other languages. Lisp made its mistakes in the 60‘s and 70‘s and largely corrected them in Common Lisp in the 80’s.
Speaking to your question on construction companies ability to complete projects on schedule -- Inefficient structure, more specifically human resource inadequacies, may be the most apt description of what causes missed schedule and financial targets.

It's important to understand that the construction industry is a well trained, but poorly educated workforce. That translates to a lack of comprehensive planning and foresight. The better companies have solved this problem by identifying individuals with the right mix of "global thinking" and field experience and charged them with managing projects.

Lesser companies still win work (especially during economic boom times) and, as there are so many, serve as a constant reminder of how straightforward projects can go awry.
Yeah, I could see that happening. I'm not expecting it to be a panacea, just a mild accelerant I can actually do while waiting to finish with German.

What do you think of that plan? My assumption is that I'll better be able to learn the words in the Pimsleur course the second time around when I can see the writing, and that this will make the overall process easier. It felt like too much, cognitively, the last time.

And at my current pace, the Kanji are about 30 min per day, so it mostly feels fun. If I were doing more I don't think it would be worthwhile, it would be stressful.
Good question. You're the one that implied he must be a good CEO because he had been one for so long, which is silly if he can't be fired.

"Elon has a pretty good track record of CEOing SpaceX (12 years) and Tesla (15 years)"
Ah, then the plugin likely won't work for you, as Alki is already not a paragon of usability for editing, and since the plugin is bolted on the existing app, it probably results in an inferior experience for such an interface-sensitive task, compared to a specialized app.

I just thought that it might be of interest for people already using Anki and curious about incremental reading.
It's pretty easy to be caught though. The internet is public.
People use software, the value add Mastodon has over GnuSocial is that it's software that advertises itself to users on its own merits. (Well that and a moderation policy that's stricter than Twitter's, supposedly.)
The NY Times article (original) is a better read for this topic: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/books/steve-jobs-lisa-bre... (tip: open in incognito window to avoid using up your "credits")
Ask HN: What's the most difficult part of learning to program?
mmh... don't look like the real species of plants. The called snakeplant is not a sweet basil. Could be a very stylised viper's bugloss or even a heath.

"Streawerian" looks like an Ivy-leaved Speedwell. Both names have same letters in similar places (S_E_WE_), so maybe the image was mistakenly copied from a source damaged and partially deleted. A repainted P could be mistaken by a combination of TR and 'eed' could be reinterpreted as 'ea'.
Everybody Dance Now: Motion Retargeting
I agree, offering one product that sucked would not be a great strategy. That's why we offer many established recipes in high demand that customers can personalize, so they can work toward exactly the recipe they want. There is a ton of demand for this, not in the least because Chinese food is so regional and often it's very hard or impossible to get a good rendition of a regional classic elsewhere (and not for wont of ingredients).
This is what Jason said the last time it came up on the mailing list[1]:

"I think that given the WireGuard building block, it's certainly possible to build a 2FA framework around it. And I do generally like 2FA and short-lived credentials and such. Probably after getting the implementations buttoned up -- kernel mainline, windows, etc -- I'll turn a bit of attention to expanding tooling and full packages around the simple wg0 interface."

[1]:https://www.mail-archive.com/wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com/msg02...
Something very relevant to this discussion was this article[0] from a few weeks back. A bit of a clickbait title, but the points are very relevant: C, based on the PDP-11, has a computation model that no longer really tracks with how a computer actually works today, and in those gaps is where people insert in stuff like speculative execution in the first place to be faster while maintaining the guise to app developers of a "fast PDP-11".

[0] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

Old discussion (skip the first reply for meat!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967675
Pyramid schemes are very profitable if you get in at the beginning.

The problem is that, by definition, most people are in a pyramid scheme at the bottom.
Making Software Development Fun Again
It's still the early days of the internet when it comes to small business. Fully 40% lack a Facebook page or website and 60% lack having both. The vast majority of brick and mortar businesses to not allow online sales nor have even a mechanism for people to view actual inventory on a digital medium of some kind.

If you're looking for the next big tech opportunity it's in helping businesses with fewer than 50 employees expand their reach outside of the 10 mile radius around their physical locations.
I've been recently unemployed, I own a car, stretching to an extra $40 on top of other costs is actually tricky. I had no appreciation of this until just recently and now understand the hardships folks on unemployment benefits experience.

I was being paid GBP 76.00 per week which has to cover heat & light, food, telephone, internet, gas for the car, car insurance, car tax, etc....it goes on. There is nothing left. I was also being paid "housing benefit" which doesn't pay anywhere near the actual cost of rent.

You should try this some time before making such poorly informed and sweeping statements.
monads are; there's just no syntactic support for them in the language, so they're a little clunkier to work with than they are in haskell
> where do you suppose China's investment-centric economy is getting capital from?

From the Chinese central bank, which has massively expanded the economy through low interest rates and easy credit.

Wealthy people are are investing their windfalls, but not in production, but rather in rent-seeking FIRE assets. Those assets do not create middle- and lower-class wage jobs, in fact they suck income out of those classes.

> wage growth among skilled American laborers has been very high

You will have to support this with more than just an assertion. The wages for skilled trades, for instance, have not nearly kept up with inflation. Skilled manufacturing, same. Some of the professional categories, like software development, have seen some growth - but the outliers in SF/NY are outliers, not the median nationwide. Doctors net less, lawyers are mostly destitute unless they are in the 10% who make it in biglaw, and so on and so on.
Laziness is a superficially useful anti-feature.

I'd suggest waiting with OCaml until dependently-typed languages become more practical.
Good point about the testing system. Test coverage plus a good CI/CD system goes a long way to reduce "deployment anxiety", in my experience. Untrustworthy tools or broken processes can be a major source of stress.

But, I wouldn't completely discount startups as an option. There are startups that respect their employees time and offer a great environment for low-stress workers, at least at the 10+ employee level. (I don't have much experience with startups smaller than that). If you value self-determination, a startup can be a great option.
SSN is meant to be a secret but it's required at all the places you mentioned. At least with Aadhaar, if someone got a copy of my number, it can't be used without MFA.
Solving Meltdown absolutely does not require a new type of processor. Performing out-of-order executions of privileged instructions is something you can just not do, nobody except Intel is doing it right now in fact. Lots of Spectre variants likewise don't require entirely new processor varieties, such as the lazy floating point speculation vulnerability or the new L1 terminal fault vulnerabilities. The only one that possibly requires a new type of processor is the original Spectre, which is quite hard to completely stamp out all possibility of while retaining the concept of speculative execution.
There were some non-NASA boxes that had long periods powered off on the shaded side of the bus and had to operate at powerup at initially very low temperature. And then operate on the sun side for extended periods at an elevated temperature. Depending on the configuration of the bus there were sometimes challenging heat transfer issues. The plate temp wasn't 125 C (I don't remember the exact number) but there was assumed a significant temperature rise from the plate to the electronics. And then additional margin added on to that in case something wasn't quite up to spec in the thermal path. So we had to perform worst case analysis assuming junction temperatures of 125 C. It was pretty awful.
He's saying that the wage earners are in China instead of America and are recieving the 'trickle down' effects.
Cool! Can this be used with languages other than C++?
finally the end of lx* containers on the way. not the actual end of course, who knows docker guys could buy this one as they did to some other unikernel companies.
Ah yes, because what we need more of is exorbitant reward for building things more deadly than guns that tear the world apart.
i have to say that unikernels needs proper toolchain to be used widely.
Worth watching is Justin Cormack's recent presentation on unikernels, LinuxKit, eBPF and databases such as SeaStar:

The Modern Operating System In 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR2FH8z7L04
But if we can’t work any of that out for our nearest neighbour, how are we going to reliably do this for planets that are many light years away?
Side note: the audio-course mentioned in the article (https://www.audible.com/pd/How-to-Listen-to-and-Understand-G...) is probably the best Teaching Company courses I've ever heard (and I heard a bunch) and is highly recommended to anyone. I wasn't a big aficionado of classical music and opera before, and I am still not an opera regular now, but it expanded my education about what happened in that world and where things come from immensely. And Robert Greenberg's presentation is just excellent.
Any article from him is about self promotion.
He is trying to promote his views among which are extremely sexist and disgusting ones. He also promotes his startup and anyone backing it should know whom they're dealing with.
An excellent paper, especially reviewing the connections of Peano, Tarski, and Godel.

I'm surprised that he did not mention Jim Propp's self=referential aptitude test. It starts with:

> 1. The first question whose answer is B is question
> (A) 1
> (B) 2
> (C) 3
> (D) 4
> (E) 5

And, of course, Bolander's paper ends with an utterly delightful final sentence!
Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Terms
Tinc is also completely userland (as opposed to implemented in a kernel module), and therefore slow enough to be practically unusable unless you're on a very slow connection.

Compare this to something like IPSec, where the userland is typically only used for the control part; once a connection exists, the packets don't leave the kernel, so no context switch needed.
When you add an immigrant to the country, it's not just the labor pool that grows - it's also the demand (because every new resident needs housing, food and other services), and that demand translates to jobs.