skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notes on Landauer's principle, reversible computation, Maxwell's Demon (2003) [pdf]
> The other thing of course is that it's not just Republicans surrounded by only those they agree with

"Not just"? Let's do a thought experiment. Take two people, and let them come to a random Silicon Valley Company - Twitter, Facebook, Google, whatever, or to a college campus - and publish on a company public forum, or campus forum, etc. - a slightly controversial article - one with some left-to-the-center bent and one with right-of-the-center one. Which person would have a higher chance to earn the vitriolic scorn of the surrounding public, face HR complaints and ultimately may get fired?

Did you ever read the political spectrum distribution on university faculties? In some places, there's no single person that is not ideologically left on the whole faculty staff. In others, you get ratios like 1:10 to 1:20. This is where the students spend their formative years.

I am assuming for now that the political spectrum is one-dimensional, which is obviously wrong. But if we keep this simplifying assumption for a minute, and consider how one can form a bubble, "not just Republicans" would be quite an understatement.

For the non-lefty person in most tech, academic, entertainment, press and many other areas, there would be literally no way to live in a Republican bubble - there would be no material to form the bubble from. Of course, there are such bubbles too, and places where you could comfortably form them - but I think I would not be too wrong if I say at least 90% of HN readers are not in those places. You can form your own bubble of course by carefully selecting what you read, who you listen to, etc. - but even then if you're in one of the places enumerated above in the US, you'd encounter people who hold views different from yours - and are very open, outspoken and sometimes forceful about them - literally every day.

The reason why the right wants their own apps is not because they don't want to ever hear from the left - though some do, of course, but not all - it's because they feel the left does not want to hear from them, and is actively pursuing silencing them. And they have a very good evidence to show for it.
No, insurance is categorically different. It protects you against a loss of some kind, and only provides that protection while you are paying for it. As such, only a difference between the predicted and actual risk covered by the insurance policy can cause an insurance program to become insolvent. A change in the number of people buying insurance from year to year will have no effect on the solvency of the insurance program, as long as the actuaries predict the risk covered by the insurance correctly.

Social security is a pension. It guarantees a future stream of income in return for payments now. It is subject to the same actuarial risk as insurance (so, predicted payout period ends up being longer than expected, or returns on payments are lower than expected), but it is subject to an additional risk if it is unfunded (which Social Security is). That risk being that inflows become insufficient in the future to cover the outflows promised 40 years prior.
I don't know. There are lots of weird design decisions in Windows. We shouldn't underestimate inertia in large organisations.
Author of article has no background/understanding of the "sunshine" laws in effect in WA. Those laws may (do) explain a lot of why things go this way with any/all FOIA in WA.

Source: 100s of FOIA requests to various WA government agencies.
I've had 3 jobs in the past 6 years (5 in 10). So I spend about 2 years/gig on average. Reasons:

1. Learning. I find that I learn 80-90% of what I will learn at a company in the first 12-18 months. Staying at a job for too long is risky because I will miss out on new things happening in my area. In the long term this is the most important, because this is what will get me more money, and make me competitive/valuable. Example: it's hard for people in traditional data roles to do ML/DL without switching jobs.

2. I prefer dynamic equilibrium over static equilibrium. I very strongly prefer being able to go out and get a good job at any time over having a "cozy job". The only way to be good at getting a job is having practice at it.

3. Impact. I find that I deliver most of my impact on the job in the first 2 years, after that it levels off and I tend to do more maintenance stuff of all the things I've built (both systems and teams).

4. More money. This is almost a side-effect of 1-3. But also in itself: if I want to get more money in my current job, it's partially up to me, but it's also up to my manager and the company/culture. If I get unlucky with my manager/company, I'm not going to get it. Also, sometimes I hit a glass ceiling, and there's simply nowhere to go (eg. I'm already the Head/Director whatever, but the company isn't that successful and/or/but pay levels aren't that high). On the other hand, switching jobs is entirely up to me: if I am good at what I do and have a good track record to prove it, practice interviewing to be good at it, and play the numbers game (apply to lots of companies), I will succeed at finding a higher paying job.

Overall:

1. I have to be ruthless and watch out for my own interests. Nobody else will. The world doesn't owe me anything, I have to go out, work for it, make smart decisions and then pluck the rewards myself.

2. I don't think this is unfair towards companies. If a company/org is badly run, people leaving is valuable feedback. Assuming a company can hire good new people, those will deliver new impact, bring new knowledge, etc.

Having said that, there are companies where you can work and make more and more money (usually stock options play a big role here), and keep learn more and more (because the company is growing like crazy). These are the startups that are run well and are rocket ships (the FAANGs were like this).
Are you literally claiming you tried to find any Republican (I include here obvious conservative people who are not elected officials but would obviously vote Republican and are outspoken in support of causes associated with Republicans) who got deplatformed on social media, and could not locate more than one person? I would suggest to put more effort into it, because there is definitely more than one case.
Noob here, when it comes to security and dnssec. Can you provide some information why the article is bad or some other source ? Nothing but for learning purpose.
Why is it ironic? These people surely don't have a problem with getting the Trump's message in. And to read Trump's tweets, they don't even need Twitter account. What they have the problem with is getting their own messages out, getting their own communications. Trump has nothing to do with it - his message is not the problem, he has the biggest megaphone in the world, anything he wants to be heard will be heard regardless of platform.
Me too. One of the most challenging things about establishing an exercise schedule for me is that, without fail, it makes me feel exhausted for the rest of the day. Therefore, morning sessions just don't work. In the afternoon, there's far more variability in availability and motivation.
This is very fascinating, and I wish there were more resources or channels available to here directly from scientists such as this. Even the automotive sheetmetal advancements would be interesting to me, though no details given unfortunately.

As an aside, it is probably pretty hard being a metallurgist on the internet. There are so many people who parrot blatantly wrong info, and present themselves as authorities while having essentially zero training. I learned this the hard way by attempting to google comparisons of knife steels in particular, only to realize nearly every single resource gave different answers.

Additionally, I remember one very long thread in a gun debate, where several of these authorities were badmouthing Ruger for using cast vs forged parts, and how that seemed accepted as fact. One person took the time to write to a metallurgist at Ruger, who succinctly stated there was no inherent weakness to properly cast steel, and that their formulas are designed to exceed performance of plain forged steel(im leaving a lot of details out as im working from memory). It was a bit eye opening to me to realize these people who work behind the scenes existed, but at the same time how frustrating it must be to constantly be told you're wrong due to the nature of what you do. Luckily in CS we don't have quite the same issue. Sure people get things incorrect, but the barrier to entry is higher(using a computer and the internet vs using steel), and such a large amount of tech savvy people and CS profressionals exist that these are often cleared up or refuted. Metallurgists and other specialists don't have such a network to rely on.
Upvote for the link.
The problem is not what I can and cannot distinguish. The problem is that the Big Tech companies want to make that decision for me. I despise Alex Jones and don't want to read him, but I want to make that decision by myself and not trust Facebook to take it for me.
I was burnt by a third party application using mmap over NFS recently. Definitely not fun by any definition of it.

And it gets a SIGSEGV and segfaults.
The fertilizer plant where I used to work also sold feed. Used to import semi-loads of cottonseed for use as dairy feed, the cows just loved the stuff.

I think the fact that cottonseed can now be fed to other types of livestock is far more important than it being used by humans. But unless there is something that you can specifically see or a very simple test the chance of getting the wrong kind is high.

Here in Michigan flame retardant got accidentally mixed in animal feed causing the PBB crisis. As a result most citizens of the state have measurable levels in their blood. There was even a TV movie with Art Carney and Ron Howard. I was friends with the farmer who wrote the book upon which the movie was based.

http://www.michiganradio.org/post/michigans-toxic-1973-pbb-f...
From my user point of view, yes, you did. Something nice now is dead.
While supporting SSO authentication is relatively trivial via SAML2, which is supported by virtually every identity provider solution in the market, configuring this is likely a frequent point of support contact and configuration problems.

Something that is typically much less trivial is user provisioning from an identity provider. Most companies availing of SSO will require an automated user provisioning process also be in place. While the SCIM standard is pretty good, and support for it is getting better, implementations of it in identity providers are quite varied and often incomplete, not to mention poorly documented. Companies often also need to provision data that is not stored in the identity provider, so you can imagine the challenge in providing alternative solutions to make that work.

As others have already pointed out, it’s far more likely however that vendors see the requirement for SSO as a signal that a company is larger and falls more in the “enterprise” tier of pricing, allowing them to instantly provide something of value at a higher pricing point. SSO is treated much the same as things like premium support and SLAs - you charge extra because the customers who want it can afford to pay for it.
Seems like a neat project.
My manager does it mostly like this:

Scheduled every two weeks, but we're both quite busy, so we often let it slide unless one of us has something that we've been wanting to talk about, but we're both available at that time if either of us does. We're both easygoing with rescheduling or canceling.

First chunk is the "how's it going" bit to gauge general mood. Then a bit of feedback (he's been hearing good things about me, or maybe that I've been too quiet lately and need to communicate more, etc.) Then a prompt for me to talk about whatever. Finally, sometimes there might be a bit where I bring up scheduling vacation or he brings up a side task/project that he wants to ask me to work on.

I usually ask about big-picture and long-term stuff - where we're going as a company, how some big initiative that I haven't heard about recently is going, how it's going to affect our plans that we're behind schedule on some things after having had to re-prioritize others to the front, etc.

My former managers never did 1-on-1s, so I'm still not really sure what sorts of things I'm supposed to talk/ask about. I'm learning a bit from this thread. Maybe useful to use one of the meetings to hash that out - what do you want to get from it, what you want them to get from it, and vice-versa.
Thank you for putting this in words, I had thought about how people react to questions and how some would just dismiss them while others will explore and try to know more about your thought process but never could put it in words.

the first paragraph in your post reminds me of the Dunning-Kruger effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
He wasn’t, that’s the kicker. They included it “because we have no way to filter the output”. It’s a good read top to bottom :)
Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System (1979) [pdf]
Interesting read to learn of challenges cities have and what mistakes they make along the way, but the author comes across as defensive and quite arrogant.
I, too, hate exercise. For a subsection of them, they are just uncomfortable. Horribly uncomfortable. But mostly, it is so boring. So very boring. Soul-sucking boredom is very hard to overcome. I dread most of it.

However:

If my home life is stressful or bad, I enjoy walks. I don't suggest having a bad home life for this.

I enjoy walks if someone else wants me to go with them. A great way to do this is to see if a senior center or other such place has a program where you can walk with other folks that could use some company.

I don't mind walking as my primary mode of transportation. I'm quite comfortable with a half an hour walking commute both ways, though an hour seems to encourage bus use one way (at least). I walk to the grocery store a few times a week. If you can work some of this into your schedule, I highly suggest it. It is no longer exercise, but transportation.

I keep thinking that I could probably find time to ride a stationary bicycle as well. I have youtube and other such entertainment. The spouse reads while on the machine. Unfortunately, I do not have the physical space in my apartment for such a thing, since I have a small but cheap apartment with two people living in it. I also do not have access to the spouse's training facilities at work.
> Wealth and race are highly correlated.

Certainly you understand that correlation does not imply a cause, and it makes absolutely no sense to make racist accusations just because some people are able to buy their way into being admitted to a school.

This line of argument, based on shoe-horning baseless accusations of racism with no substance whatsoever, onlu contributes to not take race-based accusations seriously, and that's a major problem because there are clear race-based problems in the US.
And more:

https://consensys.github.io/smart-contract-best-practices/

http://dasp.co

Disclaimer: I contributed to the first link.

Also, I wrote this a while back for any experienced engineers that want to learn Solidity:

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/solidity/
I'm confused as to why you think the article you cite supports your claim.
I also liked Windows 2000, very much. I used it on-and-off (though mostly on...) while I was learning Linux. I switched around 2003 or so, I think. After that... up until Windows Vista or so I was just being a l33t h4x03 hipster kid. After that I was legitimately getting better stuff in Linux land.
Citrix, MS RDP, TeamViewer, VNC and the majority of those other tools you mentioned use fundamentally different architectures to X: they’re based on either local framebuffer mirroring (VNC, TeamViewer, etc) or proxying the local (2D) graphics and windowing API (Citrix, MS RDP). All of those systems are still based on fast local-only graphics and windowing systems, not the “network-first” design that X brings.
Since they revised the cost for the data they actually sent him down from $33M to $56 (90 days of data at $1.25 for 2 days data), was a ballpark estimate that's over 500,000 times higher than the actual cost really reasonable?
Presumably this should be considered overreaching should be considered an important though: if there’s an authorization process in play, then more information has been given out than the public servant was actually authorized to hand out. If me as a citizen starts receiving sensitive information despite only being authorized to receive insensitive info, that could easily become a significant security breach.

In fact, a known security check was actually bypassed in this case: the email review, reserved for the content of the email, causing the whole problem in the first place.

It seems to me imperative that they actually deliver up to the amount authorized. Ideally exactly the amount, but never more.
Disagree. Our house here is just under $3M - not a mansion, but a big house with ocean view in a desirable neighborhood. We just finished renting it out for 4 years at $4500/month.
I've reported many bugs in projects that turn "URL" to "PDF".

You need to be sure you're limiting the kind of URLs that people can submit. For example ensure that nobody makes a PDF of :

* file:////etc/passwd

* http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-hostname

* http://localhost:8080/

I'd say over half of the "PDF-creation" projects posted here have been vulnerable to some/all of those attacks. (I continue to be surprised at how many web-to-pdf services exist. I guess there must be a lot of people paying for them?)
> if a privately owned bar refused to allow (...) based on their appearance

You've described how bars operate on a regular basis. Some establishments even employ staff dedicated to control who gets in based on their appearance.
These kinds of actions are why the bill mentioned at the end of the article were put forth in WA (vetoed by Gov)
Better than chocolate-covered cotton, anyways.
It's a power scheme, NOT a mere standard money scheme.
Can you provide more details? What is it about WA sunshine laws that make the government misunderstand a request, overestimate the cost of providing the requested data, and then provide data that was not requested resulting in a breach of disclosure laws?
>They complied with a far reaching request and got told their response was too far reaching?

He requested metadata and they sent actual email content, kind of a big difference there.
Ask HN: Can one trade stocks for a living
I want to test this idea using the ‘HN Brain’: Is is possible for an individual to make a living in Bay Area and attain financial freedom by trading stocks? (Not nessacarily day trading but value investing, short (months) to long term trading etc)

Main Motivators for considering this :

1) I want to attain financial freedom where I don’t have to work for money anymore
2) I have a family (2 young children) being there for them is very important. A 9 to 5 at big co.+ commute dosnt really help with the cause.

3 I would like to be my own boss, control my destiny as much as I can rather than be a cog in a wheel where my progress - both financial and professional - is dependent on too many variables (boss,right project , “doing well” on said project etc)

4) I would like to work from anywhere. If I had to move to take care of ailing parents etc I can continue what I am doing and keep working towards my goals.

5) my (retirement) number is say 5 or 6 Million. My current household income is say ~$250k annualy

Does anybody here solely trade stocks for a living?
Is it possible to use Haxe for anything except gamedev and keep the crossplatform aspect? For example for backend webdev, it seems like you can compile to nodeJS and use express, but then you can't really compile to any other platform. You can compile to PHP, but you're also stuck with PHP frameworks.

Basically what I'm saying is that for Haxe to be truly crossplatform, it requires Haxe-native frameworks in the target domain. But that doesn't really seem to be the case outside of games, so that advantage is lost.
Regex on Steroids with RL3
Unsure how relevant this is to your situation since I primarily lift weights but I find the best way to get myself to the gym is to have small rituals that you do on autopilot as part of a larger routine. For instance, I have headphones which I only wear at the gym - for me, the act of putting the headphones on seems to signify to my brain "hey, we're engaging the 'go to the gym' routine now" and everything else just sort of happens. It could be something else comparatively simple like putting on your workout shoes or filling up a water bottle that you take with you. Also, for me at least, one of the things that helps overcome the boredom is goals/metrics, which is pretty easy with weightlifting - it's "did I lift more than last time or not?". Personally, I find the stationary bike boring, so you might want to look for something else that you enjoy.
I'm not sure where you get a sense of entitlement from my comment. But my point about the fee is that even if it is low compared to other fees, that doesn't mean all developers who want to publish in the Apple ecosystem can afford to do so.
SF homeless aid workers did not “create the problem” of increased homelessness. Skyrocketing housing costs due to tech boom did.

Funding has never been enough. SF spends only $3.8K per homeless person. Cost of keeping people housed is enormous.
The writer has fessed up to reading a lot of the emails. As evidenced by summarizing the content (e.g. cheating spouses, zabbix etc.). Wouldn't the responsible thing to do be stop reading the emails once you realise what is going on?
Hi Priyank,
That's a great app. My few wishes:-

1. Reminders could be categorized as social, promotional etc. This will help in setting up priority as per the goal of your life.

2. Having priority based reminding. The app could learn based on long term training and ML, what reminders you generally want to take and then set you up to do the things that you least want to do for times when you are most likely to do them, so that your overall long term productivity goes up.

3. Incremental reminders.
"For the people who absolutely can't afford it, there's a lot of good information for free online. My point is that for many of us, we treat professional help as a luxury or explain it away rather than embrace it as a necessity."

Only that the good information is often vague and mixed in with horrific information. Or is grand information for someone in decent shape but horrible advice for you in your health condition.

I'll add that there is more to it than simply getting the right advice. There is basic equipment. I'm not talking about anything fancy: For example, I wear an odd bra size. I'm thin and have large breasts. I have not had surgery to enlarge them. I have to buy at specialty stores here (Norway), and could not find my size in stores in the states (indiana). A regular bra is expensive.

I've never had a sports bra that fits. I often can't find them large enough and the ones that come close and actually offer some support are expensive - plus I have to order them. These are, in general, $60-$100 each. I have a similar issue with bathing suits, so even if I had free access to a pool, I couldn't actually use it.

Shoes have been an issue in the past as well. Buying the cheapest shoes possible, I was wearing through shoes withing 2-3 months and trying to keep them for 4-6 months. This is without exercise putting additional stress on the shoes.

The other issue I found with such things while being poor was hunger. Even if I walked, had an active job, and/or wasn't too strenuous with motion, increased hunger was an issue. $25/week for food doesn't go far. Especially not in a house with bad heat (60 degrees if it wasn't too cold out). More activity meant that I was miserable more simply due to hunger.