skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading several of these I lost my data stories, one thing that seems to popup over and over is RAID. For me, it is not worth using RAID other than RAID 1 (Mirroring). My data and my time are far more valuable than the extra storage gained. With RAID 1, I can take any working drive, mount it and instantly access it. In addition, there are fewer moving parts and fewer areas for screwups. Just say no to fancy RAID.
Tumblr already gives you the choice to login via password or via a link sent to your inbox, although i have to admit i have only used this once to try it out - i am simply used to my password manager filling out the form in one click and i dont like to switch to my e-mail program everytime i log into something.
I find it interesting that this ex-NSA operative casually explains her job was probing China computer systems and then assessing what data can be stolen from China. But then publicly the USA point fingers at Huawei or Chinese government from doing the same.

Same also UAE vs the USA. If the NSA is doing it, why wouldn't any Middle East country be able to hack other citizens/companies/governments? Sounds like a band of thieves bad-mouthing other thieves
How many .com domain names are unused?
These are all great questions. However, it is important to understand why you're asking some of these questions. For example:

- Runway left and when was the last raise: are important because you'd like to know when the company will run out of cash, but more importantly perhaps is to understand whether there's a dilution hit on the horizon so you can negotiate accordingly.

- Equity and the vesting schedule details..: if a startup company doesn't answer or provide you these details when you ask, then you might want to reconsider joining them. Getting 10K or 20K options might seem like a lot, but without knowing how many shares are authorized and issued you don't know how much equity you're really getting.
Amazon was pretty clearly trying to drastically expand its markets early on and should have been a warning bell to incumbents in other industries. For example, they bought local Seattle area Egghead Software and used that as a beachhead into the supply chain for retail boxed software. They bought all kinds of stores going out of business. For a while, you could even see other brands sell their stuff using Amazon as their main portal. Target did similar buying Mervyns for access to certain brands that it didn’t have for so long. Funny enough, Target used to use Amazon as it’s e-commerce storefront.
It's just an extremely nebulous role and completely different from company to company, which means you could be perceived as great in one co and terrible in another. I find it hard to measure my own real value.
Wisp seems to override the reader too (so no transpiler needed) https://www.draketo.de/proj/wisp/src/94bae1032ef07e441a942c5...

I agree about the extra dependency and indirection; although the syntaxes (syntaxen?) are equivalent, so examples can be translated automatically if copy/pasted.

> They're there if you want them, though.

Yep, although as I wrote on my blog:

"Whilst the parenthesis-heavy format of s-expressions is not necessary, it usually crops up in anything discussing Lisp and its derivatives, simply because it's much more popular than these alternatives. To me, that mostly indicates that concerns about "too many parentheses" are really a non-issue, despite being made by many who are new to the format."
Use a carbon zinc dry cell for things like that, they won't leak like other alkaline battery types. Bit lower capacity so you'll have to replace them more often but they'll not lead to destruction of the device either.
The Things Network Stack for LoRaWAN
Directional stuff can be tricky.

Just use a rubberducky antenna (a stick - heck, just a piece of wire), and measure relative intensities in a few points on the map. That will give you an idea where the epicenter is.

Then walk through that area while keeping an eye on the intensity. I betcha you will bump right into the culprit.
Someone stole 415-867-5309 from me by forging the port paperwork. My carrier refused to do a port back.

I filed an FTC complaint and they couldn’t have cared less.

Phones are a broken system.
then don't buy an alkaline battery?
I have close second hand knowledge of this. As far as I know, while misappropriation of all kinds, from sketchy to outright theft, was rampant and often condoned (e.g., at Brezhnev times), secret information was a different kettle of fish: losing it was not taken lightly.
Bush voters got what they wanted. Nader and Stein voters did not.

As far as registered Dems voting habitually R.. yeah, that happens, you should see the south.
Yes, that's what I'm using. You don't have to be a business to use it.
> Journalists routinely manipulate their stories to tell the story they want to tell, and right now it’s “Facebook is evil.”

Could you point to something that was reported in the main-stream press about a Facebook incident that was untrue?
Yeah, RTL-SDR is surprisingly broadband for it's cost. They're truly a marvel of cost/features.
Dropbox solves that to a certain degree, too, and provides cross OS sync for the files I care about most.

Honestly though, low effort is very important for me. After all, any solution is simply reducing the odds, not completely eliminating them.
or if you really need higher capacity, a lithium battery.
There's a great book about this, Everything is Obvious (Once You Know The Answer) about how many scientific studies come up with obvious-seeming findings, but if they'd found the opposite, that would have seemed obvious to us too..
Is it not the definition of a JVM language?
1 and 3 are very important points.

2, Price competition likely was less important; in Austria (and I think, Germany) there exists the "Buchpreisbindung", the price of books is mandated, no seller must offer a lower price; also, tax was always included, from day one.

They still won big, very early, very fast. I remember that an employee of a (now defunct) bookstore told me "please order via Amazon, you'll get the book faster, and I cannot offer any added value".
Unless you're using a private tracker with a minimum ratio requirement you don't need to seed to download something with bittorrent.
TIL, thank you. Just so I understand, you're looking for workarounds like [1]?

[1] https://codepen.io/osublake/pen/YXoEQe
There has been efforts for more than a decade to introduce a streamlined tax system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamlined_Sales_Tax_Project), a framework that all states could adopt for their tax purposes. The intent was to make it easy for states to tax as desired, while using a simple framework that would make it easier for companies choosing to do inter-state business, and easier for online companies to implement.

A number of the larger companies had expressed a willingness over the years of implementing a sales tax, provided the states could clean up their tax codes to make it straightforward. A number of the states have tax codes that are so insanely complex for companies operating outside of the state that it becomes a near nightmare to correctly turn in to a computer program, for example Hawaii which doesn't have a sales tax but has a General Excise Tax.

Getting states to be willing to completely overhaul their tax system is an extremely hard battle.

edit: added link to the SST Project wiki page.
Just as "make a bookstore" isn't the key to success, I don't believe you can say "pivot a lot" or "trial and error" is the key to success either. Plenty of startups pivot and run out of runway.

So what then is the secret sauce?
Not quite. Produce one message, have arbitrary <n> consumers all read that exact message.
Consciousness Studies
(On a much smaller scale) - I had a plasma ball toy as a kid, the kind you put your finger on and the electricity arcs to your finger. One day I broke the glass housing. Curious what would happen, I plugged it in - the radio in the kitchen AND the TV in the living room both simultaneously wouldn't run when the broken plasma bulb was plugged in. I did this several times as a prank on unsuspecting family members and then the unit burned out/wouldn't turn on. I still don't know how dangerous this was to do(if at all).
Two is one; one is none is more of a military slogan. Backups should follow the 3-2-1 mantra, fullstop:

3 copies, on 2 different media, and 1 offsite.
Linux Fu: Easier File Watching
A lot of hand tool craftsmen would disagree with you. Chris Schwarz, Paul Sellers...
I don’t disagree. I am talking even smaller scale though. A lot of people would risk being deemed a poor performer and getting fired if they did things correctly. Because what they would be delivering wouldn’t be valued. There needs to be a path where you can join an organization, take a course, go to a conference, get a certificate or whatever so people can differentiate. I essentially think those influential in this area are overestimating “will” over “way” in “if there’s a will, there’s a way”. Today, with information proliferation, if there’s a way people will come to you. Maybe it could be as simple as a six hour work day. That isn’t somehthing most companies would do without thinking about it.
Show HN: Gather – Web app that quickly and securely copies your photos/videos
Java made some fundamental design decisions at its inception which look like fairly bad ones from today's perspective. It also introduced flawed versions of features like generics later. It also has some pretty poorly designed core libraries. What about it do you consider cool? I find it hard to think of anything I'd want to take from Java if designing a new language today. Even its bad design decisions have mostly been done better by other later languages like C#.
MeWe's "controversy" is that it's a hive of fascist, white nationalist, rascist, antivaxxer, lunatic conspiracy theory, and other activity, apparently with the full awareness and implicit if not explicit endorsement of the CEO, Mark Weinstein.

I've raised this issue with several researchers into online / computational propaganda (one well-known researcher's response began "Holy moly"), and listed advisors of MeWe, who've described the situation as "troubling".

See:

https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/a1jqsy/mewe_a_tri...
I think there are two main reasons.

1. Internal process: the budget/process for promotion and pay raises are probably relatively fixed for mid to large companies, so there isn't much room for managers to navigate even if he/she champions the salary bump.

2. More cynically, there is also friction for an employee to leave their current position (interview, potentially relocate, risk of new job being bad fit, etc). And this friction manifests as the pay gap between market rate and salary. As a corollary to this, for an employee with a competing offer, this friction is removed and the company is forced to re-evaluate the pay. But there may not be anything the manager can do. See #1.
This might be close to what you are looking for. Human Curated is their goal - https://find.xyz/about
This does not start the car. Starting is a fairly important step.
True, this is a good point. The key to startup success is probably the same as the key to winning at Poker: win more than you lose :) Although I guess my point was just that I don't think Bezos thought that being a book salesman would make him a billionaire (as the article implies).
Yeah, you probably want to avoid alkaline, and use a NiMH or lithium primary. E.g. the CR123 lithiums are usually rated for 10 year shelf life.
but he's trying to become more popular to a broader audience

Not so much that, but to avoid repercussions in his real life. There are topics being discussed that are real sacred cows, and even if his conclusions are "correct", sometimes one is considered evil just for daring to question the conventional values. (indeed, that's much of what the "culture war" thread is about)

Since his writing is just a hobby, he doesn't want fallout from that to impact his real professional career.
Not to be a grammar Nazi, but I believe the word you're looking for is definitely. I wouldn't have normally picked it out, but I did see you use it like that in the article as well.

It was a good read! Thanks for taking your time to write it up.
Medical boards don't train residents at all. And board certification isn't even required to practice medicine; it's entirely optional. You're complaining about the wrong problem.

Residents are trained in teaching hospitals, most of which are non-profit. So VC/PE/HF funding isn't applicable. The federal government provides the majority of funding for residency slots and there is a hard cap.

Teaching hospitals certainly could fund more resident slots themselves but they generally choose to spend their money on other priorities like new MRI machines or free care for indigent patients or shiny new buildings named for major donors. Hospital budgeting decisions are made by business executives and BoD members just like any enterprise; they aren't controlled by the AMA or medical boards.

Training residents isn't as profitable as you think; there are huge overhead expenses for supervision, insurance, equipment, and support staff. But if you don't believe me then feel free to get VC funding, found a new for-profit teaching hospital, obtain AGCME accreditation, and hire a thousand residents. I expect you'll find the economics don't work but maybe you'll disrupt the industry and make a fortune?
UK Airports Embrace Anti-Drone Tech
"Nihilism is the view that there are no moral facts, that nothing is right or wrong, or morally good or bad. Relativism is the view that moral statements are true or false only relative to some standard or other, that things are right or wrong relative to Catholic morality, say, and different things are right or wrong relative to Confucian morality, but nothing is right or wrong simpliciter."[1]

I am a relativist, but not a nihilist.

[1]http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0195147790.001...
Assuming you are a regular person, and that you do not have the US Government out to get you, put your money in an FDIC (or equivalent) insured bank account. The financial system is pretty good at making sure that even with these hacks and breaches, the actual depositors don't actually lose money. Other alternatives such as hoarding gold, digging a hole in your backyard and burying cash, buying cryptocurrencies has a higher chance of resulting in your losing your money than if you just put it in a bank account.
> 100% coverage doesn't mean much

That's absolutely right. 100% coverage doesn't say much. In fact, by itself it's a pretty meaningless measure of code quality. But the top-down idea still holds. In practice bugs are more likely to happen at the seams between components, and therefore it's where one should test first, not last. It of course depends on the type of the project but I believe it's true for the majority of projects out there.
Stuff Elon says
I think that's a great point - it's less about checking every single one of these boxes and more about knowing what you're getting into.
The alt-right, conspiracy, white nationalist, fascist, Nazi, anti-vaxxer, and related content dominate the publicly visible groups under MeWe's topics.

See: https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/a1jqsy/mewe_a_tri...
I made a SVG shape in Vectr for a typographic logo I was creating (not a designer). The SVG included some text, for which I used one of the Google fonts included in Vectr. When I exported it, the graphic was 400KB or something ridiculous.

I put it into SVGOMg, and it quickly identified the font as the culprit. I removed the font and the file size went to 0.6KB.

Does Illustrator include the file size of the font when it exports to SVG?
The number of times I've said "oh I bet this works" just to be wrong when I wrote the tests is countless. For me it's more about having small well-defined interfaces with very strong tests

Moreover, tests that don't break are useless
I had the opposite experience. The best Product culture / PMs I've worked with was at FB by a wide margin.
> “I don’t think Americans should be doing this to other Americans,” she told Reuters. “I’m a spy, I get that. I’m an intelligence officer, but I’m not a bad one.”

I’m not sure if the article is cherry picking quotes to make Stroud sound horrible, but I’m very concerned by the viewpoint she espouses. It’s ok for Americans to target 16 year olds on Twitter, but not other Americans? This makes her a “good spy”?
But he didn't mean it for himself, because he of course doesn't want to be a victim of this "new world" that he made up to legitimize his little evil empire.
It’s because the PM role is largely bullshit.
The "we" being used aims to articulate that a particular trend is visible in society in general; it does not include everyone, and it may not even include the reader. This kind of phrasing in the most general sense is sometimes necessary to firstly avoid looking patronizing and secondly to show that the author considers themselves so humble as to be part of the group under analysis. The trend may be at least partly inherited from critical theory.
Money. Lots of it.
> Had to install a cell booster with the antenna up on the roof.

Where can I find such a thing?
Pretty impactful work for an intern! One thing I would have liked to see, both from a process and communication standpoint, is leading with some stats on how much faster the vectorized loops are in isolation from the surrounding engine.

It's always good practice to dig into a deep project like this with some napkin estimates of how much you stand to gain, and how much overhead you can afford to spend setting yourself up for the faster computation. (Not to mention how much of your own time is merited!)
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Java is by far the most popular JVM language - probably by a factor of at least 10.
Fuck "secret questions."

I don't remember if i answered "88 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme," "1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme," Cutlass Supreme," "'88 Cutlass Supreme," "cutlass supreme," "1988 Cutlass Supreme," "Oldsmobile" or any other variation or misspelling. I don't remember if i had to tweek my answer to fulfill your dumb requirements (my favorite teacher has a special character in her name! Or the answer is 3 characters long and you have a minimum of four! My elementary school is numbered) I remember what street I lived on in middle school NOW, but I'll probably forget it in five years, I routinely forget much more relevant things. On top of that maybe I just don't want to tell every website I use who my childhood crush was. There's also the problem of most "secret questions" that are available being irrelevant for X% of the population. (ex. loners and people who didn't have a stable home life... they rarely include stuff like "who was your foster mom when you were 8?" Even the international crowd could have trouble with most questions.)

I'm old enough and have enough online accounts (I have 246 accounts saved in my password manager) that i now just write "fuck you" for all the answers and put 'all answers fuck you' in my password manager. Because these questions stress me out way too much and I'm constantly bombarded with them. Answering them becomes a major pain point when everyone wants them. I've completely lost it with the damn "[not so] secret questions."
It isn't ethical to exploit children who have stupid parents.
"If I end up not being successful at this role in 6 months, why will that have happened? What will have gone wrong and what can we do now to prevent that?"
I tried to read Guns, Germs and Steel several years ago, as it was popular, and required by a collage class I was taking. I finished maybe a third of the book before it became clear the author had lost the plot entirely, and all my independent reading on the subject seemed to indicate the author was at best ambitious with his conclusions; At worst, actively spreading misinformation.
The “progressive secular government” was a despotic dictatorship without a free press, where political opponents of Reza were assassinated, and rule was maintained through the military. The progress was progress for the wealthy. Yes, there was foreign interference before that; but it wasn’t better before that either.
The premise wasn't that OP doesn't work with Java. OP's premise was that they won't even use applications that use Java. Which is basically everything.
I get that, and frankly I've worked with startups in the past that failed at a lot of these because I felt the culture and people were good even if there were lots of rough edges.

The questions just give you data, choice is still yours. But at least it will be an informed choice.
What to expect from tomorrow’s big net neutrality court hearing
> I find it interesting that this ex-NSA operative casually explains her job was probing China computer systems and then assessing what data can be stolen from China

Yes, that's literally what a signals intelligence service is about.

> But then publicly the USA point fingers at Huawei or Chinese government from doing the same.

Uh, yeah, countries have always done espionage and punished espionage committed against them, and, particularly, vilified entities that are overtly something other than an intelligence service that are caught acting as an agent of hostile intelligence services.

> If the NSA is doing it, why wouldn't any Middle East country be able to hack other citizens/companies/governments?

They are clearly able to do it.
Did you get very far with other enterprise stuff like Sharepoint?
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19048897
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Stating that a country should not exist vs stating a country should be wiped off the map are drastically different things.

It's long been known that Iran doesn't recognize Israel as a country, just like Israel doesn't recognize Palestine, so there should be no surprise here.

I really don't understand why others really think the people of Iran have some overarching goal of attacking Israel and the US versus just trying to live their lives. What will that accomplish them?

Iran is a republic and must answer to it's people, which is why they participate in the international community by e.g. following the Non Proliferation Treaty and making trade deals with the rest of the international community. At the end of the day they don't want to be isolated and straddled with hyper inflation from sanctions just like most countries.
You get a more complex (and slower) build. Poorer editor support. It may be hard to upgrade Java version (ie. going from 8 to 11). More string for developers to hang in. I wouldn't use it.
Awesome work. Really cool!

I have a hobby project to write an analytics DB that uses ISPC for vectorized execution. Currently not much (sums are real easy) but I really wonder if it could reduce the effort to vectorize these sorts of things.
In Rust, using the newtype pattern is fairly common, but doesn't have explicit support. It's typically done as a single-member tuple.

Maybe support will be added later?
There's a remarkable array of ways you can get a crude semiconductor junction. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_bolt_effect
The history goes back further, to "Politics is the mind killer", a classic post from Eliezer Yudkowsky on lesswrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i...

But politics exists, much real stuff happens there, and also, it's great entertainment. It's also great training, if you don't succumb to bad thinking. It's better doing in company of people who try to be civil and use logic, even if it usually barely works.

Resolving this tension is part of Scott's writing from very early on. This is not just image clean-up, it's dealing with a difficult situation.