skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's even more brazen than I had imagined. It appears as though at least some spots are open to the highest potential bidders:

>One chain of emails revealed quite how calculating Harvard can be in these sensitive matters. Offering Fitzsimmons advice on a potential student whose family had given $8.7 million, a Harvard fundraising official said the family had been generous in the past, but that more recent years had been ‘challenging’. The officer added bleakly: ‘Going forward, I don’t see a significant opportunity for further major gifts. [Name redacted] had an art collection which conceivably could come our way. More probably it will go to the [name redacted] museum.’
You do know that Soros also funds think tanks, right?

Anyhow, you just cited 4 left leaning sites, so that's not helpful (and actually proves my point in other parts of this thread!) Charles Koch himself does not deny climate change (you can read about this in actual news sites like the Washington Post,) he is against corporate welfare like the government directly/indirectly subsidizing Tesla, etc. Which is perfectly in line with his libertarianism.

Even the one source you could argue is somewhat "real," was from an opinion writer. Here's the rest of his pieces, which uh, don't seem so unbiased. https://slate.com/author/mark-joseph-stern
I have been dealing with paste-from-word issues as well. The biggest issue is ordered lists. Word is very smart about keeping the ol going even if there are extra linebreaks in between list items. Most rich text editors mess up this enumeration when pasted from Word. One thing I noticed about slate.js is that it simply converts the ol into text, which keeps the correct numbering. This is a successful solution.

And my question to HN is: why do our web app users keep typing in Word first? I save drafts in local storage, but they still use Word first. Is it the formatting familiarity? Is it a Start Menu shortcut? What is it? What can we do to address users not using our web apps first?
I skimmed the UN migration compact and don’t see anything like “open borders” in it. It explicitly states, “We commit to manage our national borders in a coordinated manner, promoting bilateral and regional cooperation, ensuring security for States, communities and migrants, and facilitating safe and regular cross-border movements of people while preventing irregular migration.”
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That is super fascinating. Do you happen to have a link?
My physician and lawyer friends in Berlin have salaries in the same ballpark as my programmer friends.
Their main competitor should be considered Salesforce.

I know at my own company we moved to Salesforce NOT because of its CRM capabilities, but because it's basically a managed database with app-building capabilities. Lots of point-and-click stuff, and lots of development tools too.

I think we're just starting to see this space heat up. The basic capabilities have existed forever at the "enterprise" level (think SAP, Oracle, Microsoft with Access and Sharepoint, etc).

But the focus on making the promise of relational databases available to everyone -- with minimal computer science expertise required -- is what's sort of new and, in my opinion, now taking off.
When did we get the idea that biometrics were such a great idea? We literally wear our new "passwords" on our fingerprints all the time. We also leave fingerprints around, basically meaning we simply rely on people being too lazy to find a way to replicate them.

Secondly, you can't change biometrics. That's bad. Your retinae, fingerprints, etc. can't be reset if stolen.

Finally, there's a lot more legal precedent for passwords. As it stands, passwords are protected as "persons and papers", while fingerprints etc. are not.

Biometrics seem like an attempt to try to compensate for people's reluctance to make good, unique passwords. This is the cynic's opinion, but I don't think we can ever compensate completely for the human fallibility of any system.
For a lot of simple apps I write now I just use Airtable as the database with some caching to avoid rate limiting. It works great even at scale.
Weird valuation. Ok app, had to write it off because of lack of offline support.

I'm surprised this isn't a non starter for more people/companies.
A client has a popular t-shirt production business and brand that does around $60 million a year in revenue and they're using Airtable as their process workflow tool (inventory, shipping, production, etc). They'll eventually graduate to a traditional ERP system, they're just not ready yet.

Also, I don't find Google Spreadsheet to be a compelling tool for anything mission critical.
I'd really like to see this technique applied to remastering e.g. songs from vinyl records.

Similar to that project to colorize old photos with a GAN, but in audio form. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18456527
Yup, good science shows that potassium is far more important than people seem to generally realize but people have been so busy demonizing salt for so long that it's sunk into the collective consciousness of all those people who don't care to keep up on the good quality science being done in the area of nutrition lately. (There's a lot of crappy "studies" being done in this area which are unfortunately diluting the facts). Potassium is also the link between high vegetable intake and proven health benefits, not necessarily the vegetables themselves and you can get that potassium in other ways without having to eat like a cow every day.
or sync 3 times and then pull the plug

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSyn...
There's an app for Android called SoundAbout, which can reroute audio. Not sure how it works, but maybe something similar is possible for Krisp? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodslink....
Wes Hayward is an awesome guy. His "Introduction to RF Design" may be of interest:
https://www.alibris.com/Introduction-to-Radio-Frequency-Desi...
Raspberry Pii
Stuff like this is why I keep standing up for free speech, even if I find what the other person is saying to be reprehensible.

Breaching the wall of freedom of speech will almost invariably lead to these kinds of prosecutions over time - people will eventually use speech laws to regulate political opponents even.
I have looked into it. I don't have kids, but I would never allow them access to autoplay videos on youtube. Given my knowledge of Google, Youtube, and their overall ineptitude in this regard. Just because something from them is marketed "for kids", doesn't mean it's necessarily good.

I still blame the parents, especially after Elsagate. It takes some mental gymnastics to allow children to watch random videos on a site where anyone can upload anything, and a site run by a company that thinks algorithms can work by themselves to filter content correctly. There are other platforms that have content for kids. Youtube never was a correct option, unless you yourself download videos beforehand to ensure their quality.

Please don't blindly trust things just because they say "it's aimed at children". Its still up to you, the parent/guardian, to actually make sure that it's acceptable content. Trusting an internet titan of a company to actually care or get it right is an enormously stupid idea, in my opinion.
I've used AT a couple times but not recently. It was useful and solid.

I have to assume the $1.1B is based on more API usage and/or their backed as a broader servive.

I think AT is useful but none the less not everyone is ready, willing and able to use such a tool. I certainly wish them well. I'm still overwhelmed by that $1.1B. Just me?
WebAuthn is supposed to replace this right? I hope Google will implement this soon
As a salesforce user, the price from essentials to premium is $50 a month, time a years worth, times the number of employees. My $240/year zap handles all the tasks, or as close to it, that premium offers. I'm saving THOUSANDS of dollars and my SF rep is hating me right now.

Plus Zapier support has been phenomenal, albeit slow as fuck using email, they are persistent and knowledgeable.
> 5. Smart people sometimes see in-depth thinking and reflection as the solution to every problem. Bright people are accustomed to succeeding through their thinking skills, but can sometimes overlook when a different approach would be more beneficial.

This really resonated with me.

One of the "problems" with over thinking things and "figuring out all the potential problems" is that when presenting the ideas/concepts/solutions one doesn't leave enough room for response by the target audience. You end up with responses like "well - you're really smart - you seem to have thought of everything". Often we really do want and need the audience to have a chance to respond, poke holes, describe what they find to be useful / not useful.
Everyone is using Kubernetes, yes. Few are using Kubernetes for high scale production workloads. This will change within the next 2-3 years, of course, but there is a massive amounts of inertia at many of the companies that you've mentioned from moving away from traditional server based workloads.
SQRL is not finished yet. Steve has said he will do an SN episode on it when its finished, soon(tm).
double-edged sword - bug Apple enough and you might get support, or bought..
It's fixed now. Thanks for pointing to it.
Here's some conjecture: The people that were driven to be healthy in the past were about as healthy as the health-obsessed people today. And the people in the past who didn't care defaulted into a lifestyle and eating habits that, based on what was marketed and available to them, left them looking and being average from a weight and health context.

Now, they've similarly "defaulted" into the lifestyle and eating habits that are available to them, but those are worse for their health.
Curious, where do you work? I’ve not come across anyone else using RPIs at work.
The product is novel and interesting - it's in a way an 'obvious' spin on an old classic. It works well.

As soon I tried it, my immediate thought was how on freaking earth, Google nor MS with their billions haven't been doing this long ago. Their products haven't changed much in a while, do they have anyone running product experiments?

That said, my company is full of languishing, unmaintained spreadsheets, like a big mess cobble of data ... I wonder how this might spread to the corporate world.
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A Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet
to be clear i think we can basically agree on the fundamentals: the FFIEC guidelines where two or more of the three basic auth factors are used in combination (biometrics, usernames, and passwords are independent) and our argument is really about the best way to help everyone else who can only see 2 categories. this was fun.
I love it when I learn something new from a joke.
I susoect that's where the growth is / will be. Care to share a repo or two on anything you've done using AT? tia
Nah, just leave. Tomorrow morning. Unless you need a few days to download a few internal documents that you believe the world should see.

If you work at Facebook, I'm reasonably certain you (including family) won't starve. By delaying you will also risk losing the courage of conviction. Because anger dulls over time.

Delaying also diminishes the effect of leaving, because the causality is no longer obvious. Imagine the power a mass exodus would have! With the significance the workforce has in this sector, it would instantly become the most significant motivation to behave ethically beyond the minimum required by law.
Not sure about Silicon Valley, but Steve Gibson is well known in the security community. He has been working on this for years now, and has had beta testers for the past year I believe.

SQRL (as a whole deliverable package) is not finished yet though.
Letter to an Aspiring Doctor
How Indie Making and Product Hunt Changed My Life – Hacker Noon
Boredom is part of living a sedentary life. Not the human condition.
In what ways are these private equivalents better than their public counterparts, especially in the US?
It's true that avocado, papaya, pineapple, and other classically tropical fruits were very cheap. However I found carrots, onions, green onions, garlic, etc were quite expensive at the KTA.

But, I was only a visitor- did not bargain-hunt- and I am only an anecdote of one.
A dream product for new parents working from home :)
How is Comet different from long polling? It's not clear to me. The article only mentions COMET in the context of a Python server, and the Wikipedia page isn't much help

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
Looks fantastic, I just signed up to try it out.

Small ux thing; the nav bar on top are different for every subdomain. Probably easier to navigate if the elements are in fixed positions.
Disaster Capitalism: Consumer products for a changing planet
Great book - I love that one, anyone who creates should read it (code, writing, art, marketing) - I agree!

Agree that it's a meditation/mantra-like book that can be read monthly to refocus.
Its not just that - being successful in high school is very different than being successful in the real world.

High School is a very structured environment, where success is easily and narrowly defined - in addition following the rules alone can often lead to significant success alone.

In the real world, bucking the system may be (and often is) a requirement for success.
Wrestlemania is a one day event.

Anyways, straight from the horse's mouth: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2043389/Hulk-H...
Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker
History is that when one one uses bleeding edge; good support and/or reliability is relatively rare. Whether it must be that way or if it's just a bad industry habit can be debated. But, if one looks at the history of most very-new tech, it quite often is not reliable regardless of cause. Therefore, you should probably not assume the newest incarnation will not have this problem. I don't have any solid study, but watching the industry for many decades has shown me this pattern. Here is a common saying that I didn't invent: "Never buy version 1.0". (Wow, I got a -3 above. That hurts.)
> SourceKit-LSP is built on top of sourcekitd 23 and clangd 23 for high-fidelity language support, and provides a powerful source code index as well as cross-language support.

That's pretty much been Apple's motto for a while: need language support for anything other than compiling the language, like IDEs or documentation generation? Why not add it directly into the compiler? This has pros and cons, but personally I like the direction Microsoft has gone: rewrite everything in JavaScript (actually TypeScript) so that it's super portable and more easily embeddable.
The only clear thing is your bias. People on the left also blame Kochs for insane consipiracies and people on the right criticize Soros for the money he spends on politics.

Which you get exposed to depends on your echo chamber. Echo chambers don't share the rational arguments of their opposition because nobody wants to think the outgroup has a point.
I think nowdays they also compete with Notion. Their features start to overlap a lot.
The tl;dr for a more technically-minded person:

It's a database primarily operated upon using a spreadsheet interface. You can create different representations (literally Views) of your data / rows. You can add custom logic "blocks" to rows / entries / tables that, for example, send a text message to a customer in the table.

You can arrive at Airtable as a product from first principles by basically just saying: most applications are CRUD apps atop a database with some custom callouts to external APIs. What if the database was super easy for a non-technical person to manage, we could provide data insertion / retrieval in a few standardized views, and there were integrations for the most popular 3rd party services upon record creation / editing / etc.?

You're not going to build a brand new consumer app on Airtable, but all of the backoffice and internal crap we write over and over and over again... it's a really good option for simplifying those processes and is accessible to non-developers.
That’s really impressive in such short time...

I think they have managed to come up with a product that appeals to everyone while giving a lot of freedom to non tech users.

There has been a lot of attempts to make « coding product » for « non coder » but ultimately DataTable is probably the most convenient way to do it as the majority of workforce is used to excel or Google Spreadheet...

Personally I love their pricing and the concept but I found the UI super heavy and not that much intuitive .
Oh cool thanks for the roadmap, but do you have a way to inform us on what kind of monetization path you're going for?
where is the catch?
Some new housing developments in wildland-urban interfaces are built and maintained such that it's considered safer to "shelter-in-place" than evacuate in some circumstances.

Here's a document explaining Rancho Santa Fe's approach (PDF): https://www.rsf-fire.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/SIP_for_...

Some of the requirements:

* Boxed or Heavy Timber Eaves

* Non‐Combustible (Class‐A) Roofing

* Fire Sprinklers

* Ember‐Resistant Vents

* Landscaping

* Roadway Width

* Defensible Space

* Spark Arrestors

* Tempered Windows

* Water Supply
You basically sound like Tucker Carlson, change every instance of "Koch" with "Soros" and you have the B block. Thanks for helping to prove my point. Every side needs a boogeyman, reality is too hard to comprehend.
Unpaid overtime definitely conflicts with labour law. There is also a maximum amount of hours you are technically allowed to work on a day, which is ten. Sixty hours also is the absolute weekly maximum with 48 hours being the regular maximum.
However, if you do not report these hours no one will ever know.
This has always been my gut feeling about these deals but happen to know of any research highlighting the observed results?
Web interfaces are used by half the population of the planet. Any command you run in a shell can be represented by a URL, an HTML tag or a form. URLs and HTML have editable text representations, and they also have semantics, standard composition rules and generic UI.

Any "recipe" you're getting is likely something you get from a web page to begin with. That can be a tool for composition and automation on it own.
Facebook hired firm with 'in-house fake news shop' to combat PR crisis
If the unit tests are tautologies then they aren't testing the right things, and if they are integration tests then they aren't actually unit tests.

I personally run my unit tests every time to confirm my assumptions that the unit of code under test hasn't changed. I also assume all code I write will inevitably be changed in the future because business requirements change and there's always room for improvement. Actually can't think of a single piece of code I've written (apart from code I've thrown out) that didn't eventually need to be rewritten. The benefit of running unit tests is less than the benefit of running integration tests, but the cost of running them is also significantly less. Current project I'm working on has 10x as many unit tests as integration tests and they run 100x faster.

My workflow is usually run my unit tests for the code I'm working on constantly, and when I think things are working run the entire test suite to verify everything works well together. Thats my workflow whether or not I'm doing TDD.
I've met someone who I'd call 10×. I've worked with him. He once wrote a usable spreadsheet, with a fine set of formulae and an entirely plausible UI, in an evening and a night.

His code had major issues, but that's not to say that he couldn't write software. He could, in a manner completely different from me. Amazingly well, yet frustrating.

Above a certain level, one developer isn't universally better than another. It's not linear any more.

He's a CS professor now.
Free VPN Apps: Chinese Ownership, Secretive Companies and Weak Privacy
> No one is claiming you can fireproof a house;

the quoted line "A house can be thirty feet from an entire forest on fire and never burn down." says exactly that.
Good luck to them. Although I don't feel a spreadsheet is the most flexible representation of a "database", it's probably useful for their audience - non-dev knowledge workers. If they could bake in GDPR compliance tools, they'd probably be able to capture some enterprise customers.
Any formal verification of you Algo ?
Consensus algos are hard to implement correctly.
Just to be clear: it only requires ONE key to be present. Supporting multiple keys is for BACKUP, not additional layers of security (if you were thinking of distributing two keys, one to each person, to make it required for both parties to be present to auth).
Daytime TV is at least somewhat regulated by the FCC. Youtube is not, to my knowledge.

> This is basically the all-American argument of "sure, the advertising is a complete lie but it's the consumer's fault for being gullible".

No, it's your fault for believing advertising in the first place. I only judge youtube through my personal knowledge and experience of using it for the last 6+ years.

Just because someone, or a PR team, says "it's for kids!" does NOT mean it's quality programming or acceptable content. That is your responsibility to determine, as a parent or guardian. Do not blame youtube when you know that it is a website where anyone can upload anything. And it's run by a company that thinks ML algorithms can filter videos adequately.

No, this is lazy parenting, just blindly trusting a corporation to actually do things right, when they're not even regulated adequately.

Nothing is stopping you from downloading videos beforehand, or finding better content platforms or content producers, like PBS. This is you throwing up your hands in the air and wanting to shift blame to a corporation when you didn't take the time or effort to screen things before putting your kids in front of a screen + opaque algorithm.
Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Mein Kampf. The Communist Manifesto. The Sayings of Chairman Mao. Even The Jungle by Sinclair Lewis.

Going back a bit further, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Took a few clicks to find the referenced paper as PDF,

So here it is:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Greg_Hornby/publication...
> he's rich and Jewish

i find this amusing. some of the right (those who aren't pro-israel) DO believe in social justice when it applies jews (who do in fact make up a majority of the top 1%), and the left believes in social justice when it applies to whites.

you should at least be able to discuss both sides without "racist!", "cuck!", or in this case, "antisemitism!". I don't use any social media so maybe there's something i'm not picking up on.
I think Steve mentioned Yubikey was looking at implementing SQRL once it was complete
I have several pis and never lost a card except for two I broke because I opened the case without taking them out first.
That's exactly it thank you. None of that matters in the new car is an iphone.
The only edge the germans have is the manufacturing capacity, experience and an established network.

The car of the future is in the software...so the infotainment is the main interface. Are the germans known for being good at UX ? Not really right. They have already lost the game.